Integrated a configurable OpenAI-compatible chat-completions contract for hosted routing, fallback, usage metadata, and model tracking. The request and response contract was tested locally, but no live gateway account or named vendor service was exercised.
- What worked
- The familiar JSON contract allowed the application to remain independent of an underlying model provider, and the route name, endpoint, API key, and timeout were externally configurable.
- What got in the way
- Live reliability and actual fallback behavior were not assessed; deployment still required creation of a gateway route and API-key secret.