# gaze-proxy
[](https://crates.io/crates/gaze-proxy)
[](https://docs.rs/gaze-proxy)
[](https://github.com/CertaMesh/gaze#license)
`gaze-proxy` is the feature-gated HTTP proxy runtime for LLM SDK base-URL swaps.
It preserves each provider's native wire shape and uses adapters only to locate
PII-bearing fields before calling the supplied `gaze::Pipeline`.
## Cargo
```toml
[dependencies]
gaze-proxy = "0.11.3"
```
## Quickstart
```bash
cargo install gaze-cli --version 0.11.3
gaze proxy start
```
Then point SDKs at the daemon:
```bash
export OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8787/v1
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8787
export GEMINI_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8787
```
The default config is written to `~/.config/gaze/proxy.toml` and includes:
```toml
bind = "127.0.0.1:8787"
session_ttl = "30m"
rulepack = "core"
[adapters.openai]
upstream = "https://api.openai.com/"
[adapters.anthropic]
upstream = "https://api.anthropic.com/"
[adapters.gemini]
upstream = "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/"
```
## Providers
- OpenAI: `POST /v1/chat/completions`, `/v1/completions`, `/v1/responses`
- Anthropic: `POST /v1/messages`
- Gemini: `POST /v1beta/models/*:{generateContent,streamGenerateContent,countTokens}`
Each adapter walks text, tool-call, tool-result, and function argument surfaces
in that provider's native JSON. The proxy does not transcode requests.
## Daemon Commands
```bash
gaze proxy serve
gaze proxy start
gaze proxy status
gaze proxy stop
gaze proxy restart
```
Pidfiles live under the platform local-data directory, never `/tmp`. Stale
pidfiles are revalidated with process liveness checks and cleaned before start.
`gaze proxy logs --follow` is also available for local daemon inspection.
## Security Notes
Authentication headers are forwarded unchanged. The proxy does not own provider
API keys and does not add an auth boundary around the local listener. Bind to
loopback unless you are deliberately placing it behind a separate local access
control layer.