cline-reason-proxy

OpenAI-compatible local proxy in front of Cline (api.cline.bot).

Cline VS Code streams delta.reasoning + include_reasoning. Hermes / OpenAI clients expect delta.reasoning_content. This proxy:

• injects include_reasoning: true
• copies reasoning / reasoning_details → reasoning_content
• unwraps {data, success} envelopes
• round-robins Cline sk_ keys
• serves a settings UI at / (API key, reasoning effort, models)

Default model: z-ai/glm-5.3-flash (free Cline flash). Old picker names still remap.

Windows

python proxy.py

Settings: http://127.0.0.1:20129/

OpenAI:

base_url: http://127.0.0.1:20129/v1
Authorization: Bearer <api_key from config.json>
model: z-ai/glm-5.3-flash

Upstream keys: active provider=cline rows in %APPDATA%\9router\db\data.sqlite.

WSL2 cannot use 127.0.0.1 (that is the VM). Use the Windows vEthernet IP:

ip route | awk '/^default/{print $3}'
# then http://<that-ip>:20129/v1

Ubuntu / Linux / WSL (native)

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y python3
git clone https://github.com/kevinnft/cline-reason-proxy.git
cd cline-reason-proxy
chmod +x run.sh

Cline keys (pick one):

1. cp keys.example.json keys.json and put sk_… values
2. export CLINE_API_KEYS='sk_aaa,sk_bbb'
3. 9router sqlite at ~/.9router/db/data.sqlite or NINE_ROUTER_DB=/path/to/data.sqlite

./run.sh

Then open http://127.0.0.1:20129/

Do not prefix Cline API keys with workos: — that 401s (sk_ keys are Bearer as-is).

Files that must stay local

config.json and keys.json are gitignored. Copy the *.example.json files.

Auth split

Hop	Key
Client → proxy	one api_key in config.json
Proxy → Cline	pool of sk_ keys (round-robin + failover on 401/402/429/5xx, up to 8)