Strands Decider — Bring Your Own Key

Strands Decider is self-hosted: there is no hosted API, no account, and no key console. You run strands-decider serve on your own hardware, and the saved key is a passthrough — the server defines no auth and ignores whatever you store.

Get your API key

1. Install the server: pip install strands-decider (docs).
2. Start it: strands-decider serve StrandsAgents/strands-decider-2B-hobson-v19 --port 8000.
3. In AnyRouter, add a Strands Decider key with any placeholder value — the serve does not read it.

Gotchas

Requests route to the documented default serve origin (http://localhost:8000); a live call only succeeds while your strands-decider serve process is running and reachable at that origin. AnyRouter runs a live validation call before storing the key, so a serve that is not up and frontable yet will fail validation.

Add it to AnyRouter

1. Go to Dashboard → BYOK.
2. Find Strands Decider under Available and click Add key.
3. Paste your key into the API key field.

• Create key: Strands Decider console
• Default base URL (editable on the key form): http://localhost:8000/v1

4. Click Save. AnyRouter runs a live validation call against Strands Decider before storing the key — if it fails, the dialog shows the upstream error and the key isn't saved.

Related

• BYOK Provider Setup Guide — the full provider list and the general flow
• Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) — routing precedence, load balancing, and costs
• Free-tier aggregation — combine free tiers behind one preset