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Re: Show HN: AgentReady – Drop-in proxy that cuts LLM token costs 40-60%

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Hi! You only need our API for the compression part — API keys and LLM usage are entirely managed by your own application. We don't have access to your SaaS, and we don't even know its name. We simply receive the text through our API, compress it, and return the response to your app. Your LLM — whether local, OpenAI, Claude, or any other — then processes it using your own API keys. Your data stays safe with you. And w…

Wouldn't the example code: from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( base_url="https://agentready.cloud/v1", # ← only change api_key="ak_...", # AgentReady key default_headers={ "X-Upstream-API-Key": "sk-..." # your OpenAI key } ) # Every call is now compressed automatically response = client.chat.completions.create( model="gpt-4o", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": your_long_prompt}] ) provide you our OpenAI ke…

You’re absolutely right, and that’s a fair catch thank you so much. The example code contradicts what I said.

The cleaner architecture — and what we should have shown — is a two-step approach where our API only handles compression, and your key never leaves your environment:

# Step 1: call AgentReady only to compress import requests

compressed = requests.post("https://agentready.cloud/v1/compress", headers={"Authorization": "ak_..."}, json={"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": your_long_prompt}]} ).json()

# Step 2: call OpenAI directly with YOUR key — we never see it from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(api_key="sk-...") response = client.chat.completions.create( model="gpt-4o", messages=compressed["messages"] )

This way AgentReady only touches the text for compression — never your LLM API key. We’ll update the docs and example code accordingly ASAP. Thanks for pushing on this.

Re: Show HN: AgentReady – Drop-in proxy that cuts LLM token costs 40-60%

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There's zero percent chance that I would proxy all my LLM calls with my API key through some third party service. However, if it was self-hostable, so that I can ensure it is only able to reach the LLM providers, I could see deploying this behind an LLM provider router. If it actually achieves the kind of token use reduction that is advertised, that would be worth paying for - especially in the enterprise. I'm skepti…

Self-hosted version is on our roadmap. You’d run the compression engine yourself — we only validate your license key, nothing else touches our servers

Re: Show HN: AgentReady – Drop-in proxy that cuts LLM token costs 40-60%

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Wouldn't the example code: from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( base_url="https://agentready.cloud/v1", # ← only change api_key="ak_...", # AgentReady key default_headers={ "X-Upstream-API-Key": "sk-..." # your OpenAI key } ) # Every call is now compressed automatically response = client.chat.completions.create( model="gpt-4o", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": your_long_prompt}] ) provide you our OpenAI ke…

You’re absolutely right, and that’s a fair catch thank you so much. The example code contradicts what I said. The cleaner architecture — and what we should have shown — is a two-step approach where our API only handles compression, and your key never leaves your environment: # Step 1: call AgentReady only to compress import requests compressed = requests.post(" https://agentready.cloud/v1/compress ", headers={"Author…

That endpoint https://agentready.cloud/v1/compress endpoint doesn't exist, I get a 404. Your entire response is just hallucinated AI text at this point.

Re: Show HN: AgentReady – Drop-in proxy that cuts LLM token costs 40-60%

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You’re absolutely right, and that’s a fair catch thank you so much. The example code contradicts what I said. The cleaner architecture — and what we should have shown — is a two-step approach where our API only handles compression, and your key never leaves your environment: # Step 1: call AgentReady only to compress import requests compressed = requests.post(" https://agentready.cloud/v1/compress ", headers={"Author…

That endpoint https://agentready.cloud/v1/compress endpoint doesn't exist, I get a 404. Your entire response is just hallucinated AI text at this point.

I apologize for the confusion. The /v1/compress endpoint hasn’t been deployed yet. We’re pushing it to production asap. Following your suggestion, we’re also moving the compression step closer to the client side to minimize exposure of sensitive data. We’ll update the docs accordingly. Thanks for the sharp eyes :)
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