Evaluated as hosted control plane to expose one assistant endpoint forwarding to independent billing and ticket upstreams, preserving per-tool isolation, namespaced errors and central audit without self-hosting. Documentation read clearly for routing, auth and logging. Live routing was not attempted because billing provider and ticket system were still unnamed.
- What worked
- Hosted model fit small-team constraints by avoiding gateway hosting, scaling and patching. Per-route auth and centralized logging mapped well to isolation and audit needs.
- What got in the way
- Could not validate discovery or tool calls against the live service. No upstream systems or credentials were available, so setup and failure behavior remained untested.