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Slm Gate — Development skill for Claude Code

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Decoupled local-SLM pre-processing and routing layer for MCP and cloud LLMs.

How to install Slm Gate

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open zenithfoundry/slm-gate and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Slm Gate does

Decoupled local-SLM pre-processing and routing layer for MCP and cloud LLMs. Intercepts, distills, and routes prompts locally with Ollama to cut token costs and protect monthly quota.

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README

small-language-model-gate

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[!NOTE] **Related project — Tech-Lead-Stack:** An agent-agnostic library of Markdown "skills" plus an MCP server that turns Claude, Gemini, or GPT into a full software-delivery team (planning, building, review, security, release), organized around a nine-phase lifecycle. Its self-correcting Reflexion loop grades implementation plans against four engineering pillars before any code is written.

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What is slm-gate?
Prerequisites & Hardware Sizing
How It Operates: Choosing Your Integration Layer
Step-by-Step Setup Walkthrough
Configuration Setup Guide
Verification & Day-to-Day Use
Architecture & Advanced Features

1. What is slm-gate?

`small-language-model-gate` (CLI shortname: **`slm-gate`**) is a **local AI pre-processing and routing layer** that sits in front of your AI coding assistant and quietly does