Adding SynaptoRoute, an open-source local semantic routing engine designed to replace slow LLM API routing calls in agentic systems.

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SynaptoRoute solves a critical bottleneck in modern agentic frameworks: the latency and token cost of using LLMs for simple intent routing. While traditional local semantic routers suffer from linear O(N) memory degradation during live hot-reloading (due to eager numpy array reallocation), SynaptoRoute utilizes an O(1) lazy mask-replacement architecture and async dynamic batching to achieve stable, sub-3ms routing under heavy concurrency.

How It Differs

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Unlike general-purpose vector databases or heavier semantic routers, SynaptoRoute is hyper-optimized as a lightweight, production-ready microservice. It uses a bounded asyncio.Queue to gracefully shed extreme DDoS loads without OOM crashing, and ships with an offline ML optimizer (fit_thresholds) to compute perfect cosine similarity boundaries based on labeled data. It operates entirely locally using INT8 quantized ONNX models via FastEmbed.