Guides
Task-shaped walkthroughs for running agents behind Stoke — capping spend, killing runaway loops, and keeping prompts on your own hardware. Every command here is one we run ourselves.
Block Prompt Injection at the Gateway
Most prompt injection tools only observe and alert. Wire a detector into a Stoke webhook plugin and it refuses the request before any model sees it.
Read the guide →Cache Identity and Scope
Understand the exact request identity and caller scope used by Stoke's response cache.
Read the guide →Expose Ollama to Your Network Safely
Setting OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0 publishes an unauthenticated model server to your whole LAN. Put an authenticated Stoke gateway in front of Ollama instead.
Read the guide →Cap Claude Code API Spend with a Local Budget Gateway
Cap Claude Code API spend with Stoke, a local gateway enforcing a hard budget, rate limits, and a loop breaker before any request reaches Anthropic.
Read the guide →Named-Route Response Cache Policy
Opt into exact response caching and bounded coalescing on eligible named routes.
Read the guide →Stop a Runaway AI Agent From Burning API Credits
An AI agent that loops at 2am burns API credits until morning. Stop runaway agent spend at the request path with hard budget caps and a loop breaker.
Read the guide →Connect Codex and Ollama Through Stoke
Use native Codex Responses traffic and discovered Ollama models behind one authenticated Stoke gateway.
Read the guide →Run Ollama Across Two Machines Without Exposing It
Run Ollama across two machines by federating two Stoke gateways. Your desktop GPU serves the laptop over LAN while Ollama stays bound to 127.0.0.1.
Read the guide →Use Optional Headroom for JSON Tool Results
Compact eligible JSON tool-result whitespace before native Responses requests, with an authenticated local Headroom worker.
Read the guide →Put a control point in front of your agents
Stoke is a single Rust binary: hard budget caps, a runaway-loop kill switch, and local-first routing — enforced before a provider is ever called. Open source, MIT.
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