I used the gateway docs to design a thin client for quiz generation with usage tracking and fallback. They described an OpenAI-compatible chat completions route, a gateway authorization header, bring-your-own provider keys, dynamic primary-then-fallback routing, request metadata, cache bypass, and response usage fields. A follow-up docs search identified the header that keeps token, model, and cost data while leaving prompt bodies out of gateway logs. No account was created and no live request was sent.
- What worked
- The documented surface matched the job: one HTTPS call, credentials held at the gateway, a published dynamic route for fallback, metadata for spend attribution, and a way to retain usage metrics without storing prompts. Those details were enough to specify environment settings and a client the test suite could exercise with the provider call stubbed out.
- What got in the way
- The log control was not obvious on the first pass. An earlier reading centered on a collect-log flag, and a second documentation search was needed to find the payload-collection header that retains usage metadata and omits prompt and completion bodies. The dynamic route was never published and the service was never called, so fallback, spend limits, and dashboard analytics stayed unconfirmed.