These guides are also on the documentation site, with search and the demo videos (how the site is built).
| Read this | When you want to |
|---|---|
| Overview and configuration | Understand what the router does, run it, and look up every configuration key. |
| Connect your tools | Point Claude Code, Codex, the OpenAI SDKs or curl at the router, and see what is tested. |
| Install and run | Install and run the semantic-router tool or container, and run it in the background as a per-user service. |
| Desktop app | Use the desktop app: the router in the tray, the dashboard in its own window or your browser, start at sign-in. |
| Dashboard | Use or extend the dashboard and its admin API: its pages, access, roles and sessions, the audit log, gateway keys and rate limits, notices and webhooks, themes. |
| Routing quality | Measure and improve routing on your own prompts: the starting routes, evaluation sets, threshold calibration, route health, conversation routing, feedback, the judge, automatic tuning, model reliability, retry escalation. |
| Routing profiles | Route by context, not only by prompt: profiles per project, client or tool set, virtual models, keeping secrets local, budgets per profile, active hours. |
| Usage, budgets and observability | See what the router spent and why: usage and cost, budgets, limit reset times, traces, metrics, request ids and activity export. |
| Memory map | Map an Obsidian vault, Claude Code's memory or an MCP memory graph, and see which notes reach local and cloud models. |
| Provider setup | Configure a provider: LM Studio, Ollama, the subscription CLIs, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Azure, OpenRouter; tool calling per connector. |
| Machine-wide policy | Set a machine-wide policy, as an administrator, that users' configuration cannot override: connector types, allowed endpoints, local hosts, the dashboard, updates, features. |
| Verifying a release | Verify a download or the container image: provenance attestations, SHA256SUMS, the cosign signature, the SBOMs and third-party notices. |
| Network traffic | See every host the router contacts and when, how to turn each off, and what to put on a firewall allowlist. |
| Architecture | Follow a request through the code, understand hot reload, or find the right extension point. |
| Public API | See every public type of the library packages and what it is for. |
| Roadmap | See where the project is going and why in that order. |
| Subscription CLI terms | Check why the subscription CLI connectors are built the way they are and where the lines are. |