AstrLink
A local AI gateway for AI agents, unifying your subscriptions and API providers with smart routing and on-device privacy protection.
Runssource: GitHubhomepageGoApache-2.0commit 3779884c67d9
Go, Apache-2.0 licensed. The project labels itself: ai gateway.
AstrLink runs. An Argusic agent installed it in 18 minutes and hit 5 errors and fixed every one without help on a clean machine with no GPU, and the whole session was recorded.
AstrLink core gateway builds, launches with control-token-stdin, authenticates via control API, creates access tokens, and responds to inference requests with correct routing errors. All 37 Go packages pass tests (normal + race), 1739 frontend tests pass, and both Rust workers compile cleanly.
What the agent ended up with on a clean machine, in its own words. How this is measured
Measured by Argusic on a fresh machine every time. Every number links to its evidence. Argusic Score 100 of 100 (the mean of this project's run scores).
At a glance
Subject data from GitHub, linked at the top of this page, refreshed . Test data by Argusic (CC BY 4.0); every number links to a run page with the full log, the recording, and their sha256 hashes.
What was measured
From the run that decided this verdict. Every line is a recorded value, not an estimate.
What went wrong, in the agent's own words
The agent's own words, worst first, never rewritten into advice.
- Bun requires unzip which was not installed2 minutes
- Go not found2 minutes
- Core dies when stdin pipe closes after reading start tokens2 minutes
- Ruby not found for contracts/validate.rb
- Desktop Tauri needs glib-2.0 system library
- Install time
- 18 minutes
- Cold machine to finish
- 18 minutes
- Errors hit and fixed
- 5 hit, 5 fixed with no human help
- How the result was proved
- curl -s -w HTTP_STATUS:%{http_code} http://127.0.0.1:18319/control/v1/health returned 200; POST /control/v1/access-tokens returned 201; GET /v1/models returned 422
- Model tokens used
- 554,987
- Exact commit tested
- 3779884c67d9
- Container image
- sha256:cdd920bce783
What was not measured
The other half, so you can see exactly how far this evidence goes. A gap is printed as a gap and never filled in.
- Peak GPU memory
- this ran on a CPU machine, so there was no GPU to sample
- Behaviour over a long run
- each attempt uses the smallest documented settings and a fixed time budget, so this measures whether it runs, not how it holds up under load
Watch the session
The whole run, from a clean machine, at the speed it actually happened. Nothing is cut and nothing is sped up.
A recording of attempt 1, run , the attempt that decided the verdict above. The terminal recording it was made from is the evidence, stored with a sha256 fingerprint; the video is a rendering of it. Nothing loads from the video host until you press play.
The end of the recording
The last lines of the terminal session that decided this verdict, exactly as they were recorded.
554,987
Now let me put together the full report.
## Results
- **Install**: Go 1.27.3, Bun 1.4.4, Rust 1.99.1 installed successfully. All three were missing.
- **Build**: Core Go binary, web UI, both Rust workers all compile.
- **Core tests**: 37 Go packages (`core/...`) pass both regular and race-detection runs.
- **Convo & Contracts**: All pass including race detection.
- **Desktop UI tests**: 147 test files, 1739 tests — all pass.
- **Core launch**: Gateway starts, control API returns `{"status":"ok"}` with 200, access tokens cr…
- **Inference**: API responds with proper 422 routing errors (expected — no upstream API keys confi…
- **Model safety**: Verified — no production model artifacts present.
- **Desktop Tauri**: Fails due to missing system package `glib-2.0` (cannot install without root). …Replay the whole session, every command from a clean machine to this point.
How it was tested
One agent, one container, no human help. It installs the project the way its own documentation says to, runs it, and fixes what breaks. Everything below is recorded as it happened: the terminal session, the log and the exact commit. The full method.
Strengths and limits
Measured facts, not opinions. How this is written.
What went well
- Reached a running state on a clean machine, with the session recorded.
- Recovered from all 5 errors without a human stepping in, which says the failures are documented well enough to solve.
- Ran without a GPU, so it does not need one to start.
- Licensed Apache-2.0, as reported by its host.
What did not, or is not known
- Took 18 minutes to install, slower than the median of the 15 comparable projects Argusic has measured.
- Measured once so far. A single attempt shows it can run, not that it runs reliably.
Of the 16 ai-gateway projects Argusic has installed and timed, AstrLink was the 10th fastest to reach a running state, and 12 of 16 reached one at all.
What it is a reasonable choice for
- Trying it on a laptop or a small server: it reached a running state without a GPU.
Run history
Topics (from GitHub)
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Markdown for the project README. It links back here; terms on the terms page.
[](https://argusic.com/subject/astrlink)Questions
- Does AstrLink run?
- Yes. AstrLink runs. Argusic installed and launched it on a clean machine in 18 minutes, hitting 5 errors on the way, and recorded the session.
- How did Argusic test AstrLink?
- On a fresh, disposable machine, with every command recorded and the repository pinned at commit 3779884c67d9. One attempt is recorded, and the full method is on the methodology page.
- What did it cost to test AstrLink?
- The run that produced this verdict cost $0.09: real compute and model cost, not a list price per million tokens. It is recorded on that run's page.
- How long does AstrLink take to install?
- 18 minutes in the run that decided this verdict, from a clean machine to a running state. That is one measured attempt, not an average.
- Does AstrLink need a GPU?
- Not to start. Argusic reached a running state on a machine with no GPU.
- What goes wrong when installing AstrLink?
- 5 things broke in the recorded run, and 5 were fixed without human help. Each one, and the time it cost, is listed on this page.
- How does AstrLink compare with the alternatives?
- Of the 16 ai-gateway projects Argusic has installed and timed, AstrLink was the 10th fastest to reach a running state, and 12 of 16 reached one at all.
- Where is the evidence for AstrLink?
- The recorded run is on this page, each linking to its full log and terminal recording, stored with a sha256 fingerprint so it cannot be quietly altered.