Building reliable AI agents with ModelRoute

AI agents are only as reliable as the infrastructure they run on. If your agent calls an AI model and the provider goes down, the agent fails. If the response format changes, the agent breaks. If the billing overruns, the agent stops.

ModelRoute solves these problems at the infrastructure level.

Webhook-driven execution

Agents shouldn't poll. They should react. ModelRoute's async-first architecture means your agent submits an execution and receives results via HMAC-signed webhook. No polling loops. No timeout hacks.

# Agent submits work
resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.modelroute.ai/v1/executions",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer mr_key"},
    json={
        "model": "text-generation-standard",
        "input": {"prompt": "Analyze this document..."},
        "webhook_url": "https://my-agent.com/hooks/mr"
    }
)
# Agent continues other work immediately

Canonical error handling

When a provider returns an error, ModelRoute normalizes it to one of 12 canonical codes. Your agent doesn't need provider-specific error handling:

• `RATE_LIMITED` → retry with backoff
• `MODEL_OVERLOADED` → retry or use a different model
• `CONTENT_MODERATION_REJECTED` → adjust input
• `INSUFFICIENT_BALANCE` → alert the user

Same codes, every provider, every time.

Automatic resilience

ModelRoute has circuit breakers and per-provider bulkheads built in. If a provider starts failing, the circuit breaker trips and requests are routed elsewhere. Your agent never sees the outage.

File management

Agents that work with images, videos, or documents need file handling. Upload files to ModelRoute once. We handle provider-specific format requirements (presigned URLs, base64, passthrough). Output files are re-hosted on our CDN with opaque references.

Your agent deals with `file_<uuid>` references, not raw provider URLs that expire.

Getting started

1. Create an account and get an API key 2. Set up a webhook endpoint in your agent 3. Submit executions via POST /api/v1/executions 4. Process results in your webhook handler

That's it. No SDKs to install. No provider credentials to manage. Just HTTP.