Agents Can Bypass LLM Gateways, Undermining Control-Plane Claims

LLM gateways like LiteLLM and Portkey only govern traffic that passes through them; agents with credentials and network access can bypass them and call model APIs directly, so traffic control is not path governance.

2026-09-09 ~ 2026-09-09 · 2 related posts

• Is an LLM gateway a control plane if agents can just bypass it? — Arc_bong · 2026-09-09

1 near-duplicate retellings: Arc_bong