afi

AFI - AI Gateway

AFI is a self-hostable LLM gateway with a control plane (configuration, identity, snapshots) and a data plane (high-performance inference). The data plane serves requests from immutable configuration snapshots — it never queries the config database on the hot path.

Prerequisites

Quick start (Docker Compose)

export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-..."   # optional but needed for chat
make quickstart

Then open http://localhost:3000 (admin@afi.local / admin) or call the gateway:

curl -s http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-project-local-dev-token-12345" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"gpt-4o-mini","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"ping"}]}'

Guide: docs/guides/quick-start.md. Host-based Go workflow: docs/development/local-dev.md.

Components

Common commands

make quickstart         # full stack via Docker Compose
make build              # bin/controlplane, bin/gateway, bin/afi
make test               # unit tests (preferred quality bar)
make verify             # smoke against a running local stack
make seed               # CLI: seed local data + publish snapshot
make snapshot-publish
make doc-serve          # http://localhost:4321

Architecture (short)

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flowchart LR
  UI[Platform UI / CLI] --> CP[Control Plane] --> SS[(Snapshot Store)]
  Clients --> GW[Gateway] --> PA[Provider adapters]
  SS -.->|watch / hot reload| GW

  classDef node fill:#ffffff,stroke:#111111,color:#111111,stroke-width:2px
  classDef store fill:#f5f5f5,stroke:#111111,color:#111111,stroke-width:2px
  class UI,CP,Clients,GW,PA node
  class SS store

See docs/development/architecture.md.