# CLI Proxy API

> MIT local OpenAI/Claude/Gemini-compatible API in front of coding CLIs

**Category:** AI Agents  
**Pricing:** open-source  
**URL:** https://github.com/router-for-me/CLIProxyAPI  
**GitHub:** https://github.com/router-for-me/CLIProxyAPI  
**Added:** 2026-09-25

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## The Hook

CLIProxyAPI wraps Antigravity, Codex, Claude Code, Grok Build, and similar CLIs as a local OpenAI/Gemini/Claude/Codex-compatible API so other clients can call those sessions like an endpoint.

## What's Good

MIT (router-for-me/CLIProxyAPI). Multi-account round-robin, management UI ecosystem, desktop helpers (EasyCLIProxyAPI). Hot weekly trending — useful when a tool only speaks OpenAI-HTTP but your seats live in vendor CLIs.

## The Catch

Vs Antigravity CLI / Gemini CLI / Codex themselves: this is a proxy/aggregator in front of those CLIs, not a new coding agent. Multi-account CLI quota pooling often conflicts with vendor Terms — treat ToS/ban risk as first-class, not a footnote. Extreme star velocity is discovery noise; run only on machines you control.

## Verdict

MIT CLI→API bridge when you need OpenAI-shaped local access to coding-CLI seats — only if you accept the vendor ToS risk.