Agent platform pivots to OpenAI-compatible hosting after users rejected its all-in-one SDK
Pitiful-Surround-285 · reddit · 2026-10-12
An agent hosting platform shares its post-mortem: version 1.0 tried to pull users into its ecosystem with agent pods, workflows, a memory bank and SDKs in three languages, but users already had their own frameworks or hand-rolled loops — they just wanted someone to keep agents running.
Version 2.0 drops all of that and speaks the OpenAI Agents API shape: existing openai-package users only change the base URL, while any model (Claude, Gemini, open-weight, OpenRouter, or user's own key) can sit behind it. The platform now focuses on three things:
- Failure recovery: a failed turn (provider hiccup, machine restart, out of credit) doesn't kill the session; saying "continue" resumes with conversation and files intact, no context rebuild.
- Cost transparency: every model call is logged with cost down to a millionth of a dollar.
- Model fidelity: the chosen model is the model that runs — unavailable means an error, never silent fallback to a different model.
Underneath is the same open-source, token-frugal harness from their earlier post where 100 agents updated their docs. The company makes nothing on tokens: credits are OpenRouter price plus its top-up fee, own-key users pay providers directly, and revenue comes from plans and machine time.
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