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Patchboard developer resources

Patchboard Router, Gateway, Agents API, OpenAPI, framework guides, MCP, CLI, and machine-readable discovery resources in one place.

Choose the right Patchboard surface

Router, Gateway and Agents API are three different jobs

Router is Patchboard’s hosted STT, LLM, and TTS data plane at router.patchboard.online. Gateway is the open customer-side runtime in the PatchboardAI/gateway repository; it keeps BYOK credentials in your process and integrates natively with LiveKit and Pipecat. The separate hosted Agents API at api.patchboard.online owns agents, sessions, phone numbers, and calls. They solve different jobs and do not share an OpenAI-compatible facade.

Router quickstart

The native Router docs show model discovery, STT, LLM, and TTS calls with typed request and response bodies.

OpenAPI

The canonical Router HTTP contract is served without authentication at router.patchboard.online/openapi.json.

Gateway integrations

Use the public LiveKit and Pipecat guides for the customer-side Gateway runtime and its native adapters.

Changes

The Patchboard changelog also publishes JSON Feed and RSS representations.

Versioning

The API versioning and deprecation policy defines compatible v1 changes, RFC 9745 deprecation signals, a minimum 90-day Sunset window, typed errors, and rate-limit fields.

Call Router directly

A typed contract, not a hostname swap

Every Router request sends Authorization: Bearer $PATCHBOARD_API_KEY. Every POST also sends an Idempotency-Key. Use GET /v1/models to discover currently routable models and their capabilities. Use routing: { mode: "auto", objective: "balanced" } for managed selection, or provide an explicit provider and model. Router is a native contract, not a hostname replacement for an OpenAI SDK.

Connect an agent

A read-only MCP server, no auth required

The public Patchboard Docs MCP server is a read-only Streamable HTTP endpoint at patchboard.online/.well-known/mcp. It requires no authentication: initialize the connection, list resources, read patchboard://docs/index, and then open the matching documentation resource rather than guessing a page or tool name. Account data and write tools remain on the protected operational MCP endpoint at mcp.patchboard.online/mcp, using OAuth or a Patchboard bearer key.

Agent index

llms.txt explains when to use Patchboard and lists the exact Markdown representation for every canonical page.

Whole corpus

llms-full.txt contains the complete public site text in one file for retrieval and offline context.

Agent skill

The Patchboard get-started skill is for governed voice-front-desk tasks with explicit approval gates before purchases or calls to a human.

Use the official CLI

First-party packages on npm

Use npx @patchboard/mcp-calls init for the disclosed agent-call setup flow, or npx @patchboard/mcp as a local stdio bridge when an MCP client cannot connect to Streamable HTTP directly.

Router quickstart · MCP
claude mcp add --transport http patchboard https://mcp.patchboard.online/mcp
The Patchboard CLI guide links both registry packages and explains which interface fits each job.