Teaching Kimi to Speak Claude Code: A Field Guide to Tool-Format Translation
Every utility that translates tool-calling formats between LLM providers — LiteLLM, Bifrost, Portkey, claude-code-router, Vercel AI SDK, first-party /anthropic endpoints — what each one actually does, and the three failure classes none of them have solved. Plus the conclusion I arrived at: stop adapting context downward to each model, and build a harness that orchestrates harnesses instead.