# Dendrite

Dendrite is an OpenAI-compatible, standard-tier distributed inference router.

- Human/agent instructions: /agent-instructions.md
- Machine-readable service card: /.well-known/dendrite-agent.json
- OpenAPI description: /openapi.json
- Provider discovery: GET /v1/providers with a client bearer token
- Inference: POST /v1/chat/completions with a client bearer token
- Liveness: GET /healthz
- Provider WebSocket: /ws/provider with a separate provider bearer token

Important limits: coordinator-plaintext only; provider operators may observe
plaintext; exact model matching; request-level routing to one provider; no
automatic failover; no client-sealed mode; no attestation; no confidential
inference; no tensor, layer, KV-cache, or VRAM splitting across machines.