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How to run Kimi K3 in any harness: routing with Baseten Switch
Baseten · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Baseten Switch is a local Mac app that routes requests between open models like Kimi K3 and closed models like Claude, enabling side-by-side comparison.
- Why it matters
- Engineers optimizing AI agent costs and performance should care when testing multiple models within existing coding harnesses like Claude Code or Codex.
- Watch out
- Switch is Mac-only, requires local setup, and routes open model requests to Baseten's servers, so data handling policies depend on Baseten's infrastructure.
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The patterns behind this
- Embedding-based Routing
- Local-Distant Agent Data Protection Pattern
- Agentic SRE (Self-Healing Operations)
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