Meet Switchyard: A Rust Proxy and Library That Routes and Translates LLM Traffic Across OpenAI and Anthropic APIs

NVIDIA has released Switchyard, an Apache-2.0 Rust proxy and library for LLM traffic. It decodes requests into provider-neutral types, routes them with passthrough, random, LLM-classifier, or stage-router algorithms, and translates responses back into the client's format, so Claude Code or Codex CLI can run against vLLM, NIM, or Ollama unchanged. The project is pre-alpha and not for production.…