ClawRelay drops Mac-native LLM failover proxy

This is exactly the kind of small-bore infrastructure product AI developers actually need: it treats flaky model vendors and endpoint churn as a routing problem instead of forcing every client to reconfigure itself. The OpenAI-compatible shim is the key move, because it lets existing editors, SDKs, and local tools inherit failover with almost no integration work.

• –Provider priority plus automatic fallback gives solo devs and small teams a lightweight resilience layer without standing up their own gateway stack
• –Native Swift, macOS Keychain storage, built-in logs, and no Docker or Node dependency make it much more approachable than rolling a custom proxy
• –LAN binding and optional API key auth push it beyond localhost into a simple shared endpoint for home labs and small internal setups
• –One-command openClaw integration suggests the product is aiming at the growing agent tooling ecosystem, not just chat UIs
• –The main limitation is platform scope: today it is a Mac utility, so broader adoption will depend on whether the developer ships a more durable public product surface beyond Reddit, TestFlight, and the App Store