I kept fixing the same problem in three different places. Someone would land on the GitHub repo for my local AI gateway and need a fast answer: what is this thing, what does it support, and how do I start it? Instead, they got the same thing a lot of open-source projects accidentally grow into: a README that wanted to be a landing page, onboarding guide, operator manual, architecture index, and release checklist at the same time. That works for a while. Then every edit makes it worse. The failure mode was boring but expensive The project is CliGate , a local AI gateway that sits between tools like Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, dashboard chat, channel workflows, and upstream model providers.…