feat(llm-router): unify local ollama routing

__LOCAL_LLMs/dashboard/package.json

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
   "version": "0.1.0",
   "private": true,
   "scripts": {
+    "predev": "corepack pnpm --dir ../.. --filter @bytelyst/llm-router build",
+    "prebuild": "corepack pnpm --dir ../.. --filter @bytelyst/llm-router build",
     "dev": "next dev",
     "build": "next build",
     "start": "next start",

__LOCAL_LLMs/dashboard/src/app/(workspace)/components/ConversationView.tsx

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import { InputBar } from './InputBar';
 import { MessageThread } from './MessageThread';
 import { ContextBar } from './ContextBar';
 import { estimateTokens, getModelContextWindow } from '../../lib/format';
-import { autoDetectDefaults, classifyTask, resolveModel } from '../../lib/router';
+import { autoDetectDefaults } from '../../lib/router';
 import type { ModelDefaults } from '../../lib/types';
 
 interface ConversationViewProps {
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ export function ConversationView({
   const [streaming, setStreaming] = useState(false);
   const [selectedModel, setSelectedModel] = useState(conversation.model || '__auto__');
   const [models, setModels] = useState<string[]>([]);
-  const [runningModels, setRunningModels] = useState<string[]>([]);
   const [showModels, setShowModels] = useState(false);
   const [modelDefaults, setModelDefaults] = useState<ModelDefaults | null>(null);
   const abortRef = useRef<AbortController | null>(null);
@@ -53,9 +52,7 @@ export function ConversationView({
     if (!res.ok) return;
     const data = (await res.json()) as OllamaData;
     const installed = data.models.map(m => m.name);
-    const running = data.running.map(m => m.name);
     setModels(installed);
-    setRunningModels(running);
 
     const stored = localStorage.getItem('llm-model-defaults');
     if (stored) {
@@ -114,15 +111,7 @@ export function ConversationView({
   const onSend = async (text: string) => {
     await ensureModels();
 
-    const routedModel = (() => {
+    const requestedModel = selectedModel !== '__auto__' ? selectedModel : undefined;
-      if (selectedModel !== '__auto__') return selectedModel;
-      const defaults = modelDefaults || autoDetectDefaults(models);
-      const taskType = classifyTask(text);
-      const resolved = resolveModel(taskType, defaults, runningModels, models);
-      return resolved.model;
-    })();
-
-    if (!routedModel) return;
 
     const now = Date.now();
     const userMessage: Message = {
@@ -131,7 +120,7 @@ export function ConversationView({
       role: 'user',
       content: text,
       timestamp: now,
-      model: routedModel,
+      model: requestedModel,
     };
 
     await addMessage(userMessage);
@@ -159,9 +148,7 @@ export function ConversationView({
         method: 'POST',
         headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
         body: JSON.stringify({
-          model: routedModel,
+          model: requestedModel ?? '__auto__',
-          modelDefaults: modelDefaults,
-          taskType: classifyTask(text),
           messages: chatPayload,
         }),
         signal: controller.signal,
@@ -171,6 +158,19 @@ export function ConversationView({
         throw new Error('Failed to stream response');
       }
 
+      const routedModel = res.headers.get('x-by-model') || requestedModel || '';
+      if (!routedModel) {
+        throw new Error('Router did not return a model');
+      }
+      const previousUserModel = userMessage.model;
+      userMessage.model = routedModel;
+      if (routedModel !== previousUserModel) {
+        await updateMessage(userMessage.id, { model: routedModel });
+      }
+      setMessages(prev =>
+        prev.map(message => (message.id === userMessage.id ? userMessage : message))
+      );
+
       const reader = res.body.getReader();
       const decoder = new TextDecoder();
       let buffer = '';
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ export function ConversationView({
           role: 'assistant',
           content: `Error: ${String(err)}`,
           timestamp: Date.now(),
-          model: routedModel,
+          model: requestedModel,
         };
         setMessages(prev => {
           const withoutTemp = prev.filter(m => m.id !== assistantId);

__LOCAL_LLMs/dashboard/src/app/api/ollama/chat/route.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,63 @@
 import { NextRequest } from 'next/server';
 import { OLLAMA_URL } from '../../../lib/ollama-config';
+import {
+  LlmRouter,
+  createLocalOllamaProvider,
+  type ChatCompletionRequest,
+  type RoutePlan,
+} from '../../../lib/llm-router';
+
+interface OllamaTagsResponse {
+  models?: Array<{ name?: string }>;
+}
+
+interface OllamaPsResponse {
+  models?: Array<{ name?: string }>;
+}
+
+async function fetchOllamaJson<T>(path: string): Promise<T> {
+  const response = await fetch(`${OLLAMA_URL}${path}`, {
+    cache: 'no-store',
+    signal: AbortSignal.timeout(5000),
+  });
+
+  if (!response.ok) {
+    throw new Error(`Ollama ${path} failed: ${response.status}`);
+  }
+
+  return (await response.json()) as T;
+}
+
+async function resolvePlan(request: ChatCompletionRequest): Promise<RoutePlan> {
+  const [tags, ps] = await Promise.all([
+    fetchOllamaJson<OllamaTagsResponse>('/api/tags'),
+    fetchOllamaJson<OllamaPsResponse>('/api/ps').catch(() => ({ models: [] })),
+  ]);
+
+  const installedModels = (tags.models ?? [])
+    .map(model => model.name?.trim() || '')
+    .filter(Boolean);
+  const runningModels = new Set(
+    (ps.models ?? []).map(model => model.name?.trim() || '').filter(Boolean)
+  );
+
+  if (installedModels.length === 0) {
+    throw new Error('No local Ollama models installed');
+  }
+
+  // Put currently loaded models first so the router prefers them when scores are equal.
+  const orderedModels = [
+    ...installedModels.filter(model => runningModels.has(model)),
+    ...installedModels.filter(model => !runningModels.has(model)),
+  ];
+
+  const router = new LlmRouter({
+    providers: [createLocalOllamaProvider(orderedModels, `${OLLAMA_URL}/v1`)],
+    maxRetries: 1,
+  });
+
+  return router.plan(request);
+}
 
 export async function POST(request: NextRequest) {
   try {
@@ -13,10 +71,15 @@ export async function POST(request: NextRequest) {
       });
     }
 
+    const plan = await resolvePlan({
+      messages,
+      model: model && model !== '__auto__' ? `local-ollama:${String(model)}` : undefined,
+    });
+
     const response = await fetch(`${OLLAMA_URL}/api/chat`, {
       method: 'POST',
       headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
-      body: JSON.stringify({ model, messages, stream: true }),
+      body: JSON.stringify({ model: plan.model.id, messages, stream: true }),
     });
 
     if (!response.ok || !response.body) {
@@ -31,6 +94,9 @@ export async function POST(request: NextRequest) {
         'Content-Type': 'application/x-ndjson',
         'Transfer-Encoding': 'chunked',
         'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
+        'x-by-provider': plan.provider.name,
+        'x-by-model': plan.model.id,
+        'x-by-category': plan.category,
       },
     });
   } catch (err) {

__LOCAL_LLMs/dashboard/src/app/lib/llm-router.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+export {
+  LlmRouter,
+  createLocalOllamaProvider,
+  classifyPrompt,
+  type ChatCompletionRequest,
+  type PromptCategory,
+  type RoutePlan,
+} from '../../../../../packages/llm-router/dist/index.js';

packages/llm-router/src/__tests__/registry.test.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest';
-import { getAvailableProviders, DEFAULT_PROVIDERS } from '../registry.js';
+import {
+  createLocalOllamaProvider,
+  getAvailableProviders,
+  DEFAULT_PROVIDERS,
+} from '../registry.js';
 import type { ProviderConfig } from '../types.js';
 
 describe('getAvailableProviders', () => {
@@ -8,8 +12,9 @@ describe('getAvailableProviders', () => {
   beforeEach(() => {
     // Save and clear all default provider env vars
     for (const p of DEFAULT_PROVIDERS) {
-      saved[p.apiKeyEnv] = process.env[p.apiKeyEnv];
+      const key = p.apiKeyEnv!;
-      delete process.env[p.apiKeyEnv];
+      saved[key] = process.env[key];
+      delete process.env[key];
     }
   });
 
@@ -68,6 +73,13 @@ describe('getAvailableProviders', () => {
     delete process.env.CUSTOM_TEST_KEY;
   });
 
+  it('includes local providers that do not require API keys', () => {
+    const local = createLocalOllamaProvider(['qwen2.5-coder:7b']);
+    const result = getAvailableProviders([local]);
+    expect(result).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(result[0]!.name).toBe('local-ollama');
+  });
+
   it('DEFAULT_PROVIDERS includes all 4 providers', () => {
     expect(DEFAULT_PROVIDERS).toHaveLength(4);
     const names = DEFAULT_PROVIDERS.map(p => p.name);

packages/llm-router/src/__tests__/router.test.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest';
 import { LlmRouter } from '../router.js';
+import { createLocalOllamaProvider } from '../registry.js';
 import type { ProviderConfig, ChatCompletionResponse } from '../types.js';
 import * as client from '../client.js';
 
@@ -241,6 +242,30 @@ describe('LlmRouter', () => {
     expect(router.getProviders()).toEqual(['test-fast', 'test-quality']);
   });
 
+  it('plans the best provider/model without executing a request', () => {
+    const router = new LlmRouter({ providers: TEST_PROVIDERS });
+    const plan = router.plan({
+      messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Write a TypeScript endpoint with validation' }],
+    });
+
+    expect(plan.provider.name).toBe('test-quality');
+    expect(plan.model.id).toBe('quality-model');
+    expect(plan.category).toBe('code');
+    expect(plan.explicit).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('plans local ollama models without requiring an API key', () => {
+    const router = new LlmRouter({
+      providers: [createLocalOllamaProvider(['qwen2.5-coder:7b', 'llama3.1:8b'])],
+    });
+    const plan = router.plan({
+      messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Refactor this TypeScript function' }],
+    });
+
+    expect(plan.provider.name).toBe('local-ollama');
+    expect(plan.model.id).toBe('qwen2.5-coder:7b');
+  });
+
   it('fires telemetry for explicit model routing', async () => {
     vi.mocked(client.sendChatCompletion).mockResolvedValueOnce({
       response: MOCK_RESPONSE,

packages/llm-router/src/client.ts

@@ -10,17 +10,19 @@ export async function sendChatCompletion(
   request: ChatCompletionRequest,
   timeoutMs: number = 30_000
 ): Promise<{ response: ChatCompletionResponse; latencyMs: number; status: number }> {
-  const apiKey = process.env[provider.apiKeyEnv];
+  const apiKey = provider.apiKeyEnv ? process.env[provider.apiKeyEnv] : null;
-  if (!apiKey) {
+  if (provider.apiKeyEnv && !apiKey) {
     throw new Error(`Missing API key: env var ${provider.apiKeyEnv} is not set`);
   }
 
   const url = `${provider.baseUrl}/chat/completions`;
   const headers: Record<string, string> = {
     'Content-Type': 'application/json',
-    Authorization: `Bearer ${apiKey}`,
     ...provider.extraHeaders,
   };
+  if (apiKey) {
+    headers.Authorization = `Bearer ${apiKey}`;
+  }
 
   const body = JSON.stringify({
     model: modelId,

packages/llm-router/src/index.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 export { LlmRouter } from './router.js';
 export type { TelemetryEntry } from './router.js';
 
-export { DEFAULT_PROVIDERS, getAvailableProviders } from './registry.js';
+export { DEFAULT_PROVIDERS, createLocalOllamaProvider, getAvailableProviders } from './registry.js';
 export { classifyPrompt } from './classifier.js';
 export { HealthTracker } from './health.js';
 export { selectCandidates, pickNext, excludeCandidate, createRoundRobinState } from './selector.js';
@@ -22,4 +22,5 @@ export type {
   ChatCompletionUsage,
   ChatCompletionResponse,
   RouteResult,
+  RoutePlan,
 } from './types.js';

packages/llm-router/src/registry.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import type { ProviderConfig } from './types.js';
+import type { ModelConfig, PromptCategory, ProviderConfig } from './types.js';
 
 /**
  * Default free-tier provider configurations.
@@ -121,6 +121,57 @@ export const DEFAULT_PROVIDERS: ProviderConfig[] = [
   },
 ];
 
+function inferStrengths(modelId: string): PromptCategory[] {
+  const lower = modelId.toLowerCase();
+  const strengths = new Set<PromptCategory>(['general']);
+
+  if (/coder|code|codestral|starcoder|deepseek/.test(lower)) strengths.add('code');
+  if (/r1|reason|think|math/.test(lower)) {
+    strengths.add('reasoning');
+    strengths.add('math');
+  }
+  if (/qwen|llama|mistral|chat/.test(lower)) strengths.add('creative');
+
+  return [...strengths];
+}
+
+function inferContextWindow(modelId: string): number {
+  const lower = modelId.toLowerCase();
+  if (/128k|131072/.test(lower)) return 128_000;
+  if (/64k|65536/.test(lower)) return 64_000;
+  if (/32k|32768|qwen2\.5/.test(lower)) return 32_768;
+  if (/16k|16384/.test(lower)) return 16_384;
+  return 8_192;
+}
+
+function inferSpeedTier(modelId: string): 1 | 2 | 3 {
+  const lower = modelId.toLowerCase();
+  if (/0\.5b|1b|3b|7b|mini|tiny/.test(lower)) return 1;
+  if (/14b|15b|16b|20b|22b|30b|32b/.test(lower)) return 2;
+  return 3;
+}
+
+export function createLocalOllamaProvider(
+  modelIds: string[],
+  baseUrl: string = 'http://localhost:11434/v1'
+): ProviderConfig {
+  const models: ModelConfig[] = modelIds.map(modelId => ({
+    id: modelId,
+    label: modelId,
+    contextWindow: inferContextWindow(modelId),
+    strengths: inferStrengths(modelId),
+    speedTier: inferSpeedTier(modelId),
+  }));
+
+  return {
+    name: 'local-ollama',
+    baseUrl,
+    models,
+    rpmLimit: 0,
+    tpmLimit: 0,
+  };
+}
+
 /**
  * Filter providers to only those with API keys present in env.
  */
@@ -128,6 +179,7 @@ export function getAvailableProviders(
   providers: ProviderConfig[] = DEFAULT_PROVIDERS
 ): ProviderConfig[] {
   return providers.filter(p => {
+    if (!p.apiKeyEnv) return true;
     const key = process.env[p.apiKeyEnv];
     return key !== undefined && key !== '';
   });

packages/llm-router/src/router.ts

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 import type {
   ChatCompletionRequest,
+  PromptCategory,
   RouterConfig,
   ProviderConfig,
   RouteResult,
+  RoutePlan,
   HealthSnapshot,
 } from './types.js';
 import { DEFAULT_PROVIDERS, getAvailableProviders } from './registry.js';
@@ -49,20 +51,14 @@ export class LlmRouter {
   async chat(request: ChatCompletionRequest): Promise<RouteResult> {
     const startTime = Date.now();
 
-    // If user specified a specific provider:model or provider/model, try that first
+    const plan = this.planInternal(request, false);
-    if (request.model && (request.model.includes(':') || request.model.includes('/'))) {
+
-      return this.chatWithExplicitModel(request, startTime);
+    if (plan.explicit) {
+      return this.chatWithExplicitModel(request, startTime, plan);
     }
 
-    // Classify the prompt
+    const category = plan.category as PromptCategory;
-    const classification = classifyPrompt(request.messages);
+    let candidates = selectCandidates(this.providers, category, this.health);
-
-    // Get ranked candidates
-    let candidates = selectCandidates(this.providers, classification.category, this.health);
-
-    if (candidates.length === 0) {
-      throw new Error('No healthy providers available for routing');
-    }
 
     let lastError: Error | null = null;
 
@@ -90,7 +86,7 @@ export class LlmRouter {
             model: model.id,
             attempt,
             latencyMs: result.latencyMs,
-            category: classification.category,
+            category,
           });
 
           candidates = excludeCandidate(candidates, provider.name, model.id);
@@ -110,7 +106,7 @@ export class LlmRouter {
           model: model.id,
           attempt,
           latencyMs: result.latencyMs,
-          category: classification.category,
+          category,
           tokens: result.response.usage?.total_tokens,
         });
 
@@ -137,7 +133,7 @@ export class LlmRouter {
           model: model.id,
           attempt,
           latencyMs: attemptLatency,
-          category: classification.category,
+          category,
           error: lastError.message,
         });
 
@@ -155,33 +151,12 @@ export class LlmRouter {
    */
   private async chatWithExplicitModel(
     request: ChatCompletionRequest,
-    startTime: number
+    startTime: number,
+    plan?: RoutePlan
   ): Promise<RouteResult> {
-    // Support both "provider:model" and "provider/model" separators
+    const resolved = plan ?? this.plan(request);
-    // Use first colon or first slash (whichever comes first) as separator
+    const provider = resolved.provider;
-    const raw = request.model!;
+    const modelId = resolved.model.id;
-    const colonIdx = raw.indexOf(':');
-    const slashIdx = raw.indexOf('/');
-    let sepIdx: number;
-    if (colonIdx === -1 && slashIdx === -1) {
-      sepIdx = -1;
-    } else if (colonIdx === -1) {
-      sepIdx = slashIdx;
-    } else if (slashIdx === -1) {
-      sepIdx = colonIdx;
-    } else {
-      sepIdx = Math.min(colonIdx, slashIdx);
-    }
-
-    const providerName = sepIdx === -1 ? raw : raw.slice(0, sepIdx);
-    const modelId = sepIdx === -1 ? '' : raw.slice(sepIdx + 1);
-
-    const provider = this.providers.find(p => p.name === providerName);
-    if (!provider) {
-      throw new Error(
-        `Provider "${providerName}" not found. Available: ${this.providers.map(p => p.name).join(', ')}`
-      );
-    }
 
     try {
       const result = await sendChatCompletion(provider, modelId, request, this.timeoutMs);
@@ -202,7 +177,7 @@ export class LlmRouter {
           category: 'explicit',
         });
 
-        throw new Error(`Rate limited by ${providerName} for model ${modelId}`);
+        throw new Error(`Rate limited by ${provider.name} for model ${modelId}`);
       }
 
       this.health.record(provider.name, modelId, {
@@ -255,6 +230,88 @@ export class LlmRouter {
     }
   }
 
+  plan(request: ChatCompletionRequest): RoutePlan {
+    return this.planInternal(request, true);
+  }
+
+  private planInternal(request: ChatCompletionRequest, advanceRoundRobin: boolean): RoutePlan {
+    const explicit = this.resolveExplicitModel(request.model);
+    if (explicit) {
+      return {
+        provider: explicit.provider,
+        model: explicit.model,
+        category: 'explicit',
+        explicit: true,
+      };
+    }
+
+    const classification = classifyPrompt(request.messages);
+    const candidates = selectCandidates(this.providers, classification.category, this.health);
+
+    if (candidates.length === 0) {
+      throw new Error('No healthy providers available for routing');
+    }
+
+    const pick = advanceRoundRobin
+      ? pickNext(candidates, this.roundRobinState)
+      : (candidates[0] ?? null);
+    if (!pick) {
+      throw new Error('No provider available for routing');
+    }
+
+    return {
+      provider: pick.provider,
+      model: pick.model,
+      category: classification.category,
+      explicit: false,
+    };
+  }
+
+  private resolveExplicitModel(
+    model?: string
+  ): { provider: ProviderConfig; model: RoutePlan['model'] } | null {
+    if (!model) return null;
+
+    if (model.includes(':') || model.includes('/')) {
+      const { providerName, modelId } = parseExplicitModel(model);
+      const provider = this.providers.find(p => p.name === providerName);
+      if (!provider) {
+        throw new Error(
+          `Provider "${providerName}" not found. Available: ${this.providers.map(p => p.name).join(', ')}`
+        );
+      }
+
+      const matchedModel = provider.models.find(candidate => candidate.id === modelId);
+      if (!matchedModel) {
+        throw new Error(
+          `Model "${modelId}" not found for provider "${providerName}". Available: ${provider.models
+            .map(candidate => candidate.id)
+            .join(', ')}`
+        );
+      }
+
+      return { provider, model: matchedModel };
+    }
+
+    const matches = this.providers.flatMap(provider =>
+      provider.models
+        .filter(candidate => candidate.id === model)
+        .map(candidate => ({ provider, model: candidate }))
+    );
+
+    if (matches.length === 1) {
+      return matches[0]!;
+    }
+
+    if (matches.length > 1) {
+      throw new Error(
+        `Model "${model}" is available on multiple providers. Use provider:model format instead.`
+      );
+    }
+
+    return null;
+  }
+
   /** Get health snapshots for all tracked provider+model pairs. */
   getHealth(): HealthSnapshot[] {
     return this.health.allSnapshots();
@@ -271,6 +328,26 @@ export class LlmRouter {
   }
 }
 
+function parseExplicitModel(raw: string): { providerName: string; modelId: string } {
+  const colonIdx = raw.indexOf(':');
+  const slashIdx = raw.indexOf('/');
+  let sepIdx: number;
+  if (colonIdx === -1 && slashIdx === -1) {
+    sepIdx = -1;
+  } else if (colonIdx === -1) {
+    sepIdx = slashIdx;
+  } else if (slashIdx === -1) {
+    sepIdx = colonIdx;
+  } else {
+    sepIdx = Math.min(colonIdx, slashIdx);
+  }
+
+  return {
+    providerName: sepIdx === -1 ? raw : raw.slice(0, sepIdx),
+    modelId: sepIdx === -1 ? '' : raw.slice(sepIdx + 1),
+  };
+}
+
 // ── Telemetry types ────────────────────────────────────────────
 
 export interface TelemetryEntry {

packages/llm-router/src/types.ts

@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ export interface ProviderConfig {
   name: string;
   /** OpenAI-compatible base URL (e.g. https://api.groq.com/openai/v1) */
   baseUrl: string;
-  /** Environment variable name that holds the API key */
+  /** Environment variable name that holds the API key (omit for local/no-auth providers) */
-  apiKeyEnv: string;
+  apiKeyEnv?: string;
   /** Available models on this provider */
   models: ModelConfig[];
   /** Extra headers to send with every request */
@@ -134,3 +134,10 @@ export interface RouteResult {
   /** How many attempts were made */
   attempts: number;
 }
+
+export interface RoutePlan {
+  provider: ProviderConfig;
+  model: ModelConfig;
+  category: PromptCategory | 'explicit';
+  explicit: boolean;
+}