chat-router

A provider router for chat-rs that wraps multiple CompletionProvider instances with automatic fallback on transient errors.

Usage

use chat_rs::{
    ChatBuilder,
    claude::ClaudeBuilder,
    gemini::GeminiBuilder,
    router::RouterBuilder,
    types::messages::{self, content},
};

let claude = ClaudeBuilder::new()
    .with_model("claude-sonnet-4-20250514".to_string())
    .build();

let gemini = GeminiBuilder::new()
    .with_model("gemini-2.5-flash".to_string())
    .build();

// Tries Claude first, falls back to Gemini on rate-limit / network errors
let router = RouterBuilder::new()
    .add_provider(claude)
    .add_provider(gemini)
    .build();

let mut chat = ChatBuilder::new()
    .with_model(router)
    .with_max_steps(5)
    .build();

let mut messages = messages::Messages::default();
messages.push(content::from_user(vec!["Hello!"]));

let response = chat.complete(&mut messages).await?;

Fallback Behavior

Providers are tried in the order they are added. On a retryable error (RateLimited, Network), the router advances to the next provider. On a non-retryable error (Provider, InvalidResponse, etc.), the error is returned immediately.

Routing Strategy

The RoutingStrategy trait allows custom provider ordering based on the messages. Implement RoutingStrategy::rank() and pass it to RouterBuilder::with_strategy() to control provider selection. See the router-keyword and router-capability examples.

Circuit Breaker

Enable the optional circuit breaker to automatically skip providers that have failed repeatedly:

use chat_rs::router::{RouterBuilder, CircuitBreakerConfig};

let router = RouterBuilder::new()
    .add_provider(claude)
    .add_provider(gemini)
    .circuit_breaker(CircuitBreakerConfig {
        failure_threshold: 3,                            // open after 3 consecutive failures
        recovery_timeout: std::time::Duration::from_secs(30), // probe again after 30s
    })
    .build();

When a provider's circuit opens, the router skips it until the recovery timeout elapses, then allows a single probe request. A successful probe closes the circuit; a failed probe resets the timer.

Streaming

Enable the stream feature to use StreamRouterBuilder, which wraps providers implementing ChatProvider:

chat-rs = { version = "0.0.13", features = ["router", "claude", "gemini", "stream"] }

Scope

The router supports completions and streaming. Embeddings are not supported — use a single provider directly for those.

Feature Flags

Enable via the root crate:

chat-rs = { version = "0.0.13", features = ["router", "claude", "gemini"] }