hoosh

AI inference gateway for Rust.

Multi-provider LLM routing, local model serving, speech-to-text, and token budget management — in a single crate. OpenAI-compatible HTTP API. Built on ai-hwaccel for hardware-aware model placement.

Name: Hoosh (Persian: هوش) — intelligence, the word for AI. Extracted from the AGNOS LLM gateway as a standalone, reusable engine.

What it does

hoosh is the inference backend — it routes, caches, rate-limits, and budget-tracks LLM requests across providers. It is not a model trainer (that's Synapse) or a model file manager. Applications build their AI features on top of hoosh.

Architecture

Clients (tarang, daimon, agnoshi, consumer apps)
    │
    ▼
Auth ──▶ Rate Limiter ──▶ Router (priority, round-robin, lowest-latency)
                              │
    ┌─────────────────────────┤
    │                         │
    ▼                         ▼
Local backends            Remote APIs (TLS pinned / mTLS)
(Ollama, llama.cpp, …)   (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, …)
    │                         │
    └────────┬────────────────┘
             ▼
    Cache ◀── Budget ◀── Cost Tracker
             │
    Metrics ◀── Audit Log ◀── Event Bus (majra)

See docs/architecture/overview.md for the full architecture document.

Quick start

As a library

[dependencies]
hoosh = "1.3"

use hoosh::{HooshClient, InferenceRequest};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
    let client = HooshClient::new("http://localhost:8088");

    let response = client.infer(&InferenceRequest {
        model: "llama3".into(),
        prompt: "Explain Rust ownership in one sentence.".into(),
        ..Default::default()
    }).await?;

    println!("{}", response.text);
    Ok(())
}

As a server

# Start the gateway
hoosh serve --port 8088

# One-shot inference
hoosh infer --model llama3 "What is Rust?"

# List models across all providers
hoosh models

# System info (hardware, providers)
hoosh info

OpenAI-compatible API

curl http://localhost:8088/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "llama3",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Features

# Minimal: just Ollama + llama.cpp for local inference
hoosh = { version = "1.3", default-features = false, features = ["ollama", "llamacpp"] }

# With speech-to-text
hoosh = { version = "1.3", features = ["whisper"] }

# With full MCP tool integration
hoosh = { version = "1.3", features = ["tools-full"] }

Key types

HooshClient

HTTP client for downstream consumers. Speaks the OpenAI-compatible API.

let client = hoosh::HooshClient::new("http://localhost:8088");
let healthy = client.health().await?;
let models = client.list_models().await?;

InferenceRequest / InferenceResponse

use hoosh::{InferenceRequest, InferenceResponse};

let req = InferenceRequest {
    model: "claude-sonnet-4-20250514".into(),
    prompt: "Summarise this document.".into(),
    system: Some("You are a technical writer.".into()),
    max_tokens: Some(500),
    temperature: Some(0.3),
    stream: false,
    ..Default::default()
};

Router

Provider selection with model pattern matching:

use hoosh::router::{Router, ProviderRoute, RoutingStrategy};
use hoosh::ProviderType;

let routes = vec![
    ProviderRoute {
        provider: ProviderType::Ollama,
        priority: 1,
        model_patterns: vec!["llama*".into(), "mistral*".into()],
        enabled: true,
        base_url: "http://localhost:11434".into(),
        api_key: None,
        max_tokens_limit: None,
        rate_limit_rpm: None,
        tls_config: None,
    },
];
let router = Router::new(routes, RoutingStrategy::Priority);
let selected = router.select("llama3"); // → Ollama

TokenBudget

Per-agent token accounting:

use hoosh::{TokenBudget, TokenPool};

let mut budget = TokenBudget::new();
budget.add_pool(TokenPool::new("agent-123", 50_000));

// Before inference: reserve estimated tokens
budget.reserve("agent-123", 2000);

// After inference: report actual usage
budget.report("agent-123", 2000, 1847);

Dependencies

Who uses this

Roadmap

Full details: docs/development/roadmap.md

Building from source

git clone https://github.com/MacCracken/hoosh.git
cd hoosh

# Build (all default providers, no whisper)
cargo build

# Build with whisper support (requires whisper.cpp system lib)
cargo build --features whisper

# Run tests
cargo test

# Run all CI checks locally
make check

Binary size (release, x86-64 Linux, stripped + LTO)

Release profile: strip = true, lto = true, codegen-units = 1, opt-level = "s", panic = "abort".

Versioning

Pre-1.0 releases use 0.D.M (day.month) SemVer — e.g. 0.20.3 = March 20th. Post-1.0 follows standard SemVer.

The VERSION file is the single source of truth. Use ./scripts/version-bump.sh <version> to update.

License

GPL-3.0-only. See LICENSE for details.

Contributing

1. Fork and create a feature branch
2. Run make check (fmt + clippy + test + audit)
3. Open a PR against main