https://switchgate.ai/blog/ Engineering notes and releases from the SwitchGate gateway: routing, governance, benchmarks and the device agent. en-ca Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://switchgate.ai/blog/runaway-agent-kill-switch/ https://switchgate.ai/blog/runaway-agent-kill-switch/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000 A velocity breaker that stops looping agents before the invoice does: how the kill switch works, what trips it, and why it's on by default. https://switchgate.ai/blog/french-aware-routing/ https://switchgate.ai/blog/french-aware-routing/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000 Detecting francophone traffic at the gateway and sending it to models that genuinely handle it well — the heuristics, the eval set, and the failure modes. https://switchgate.ai/blog/gatebench-airline/ https://switchgate.ai/blog/gatebench-airline/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000 Our agents-and-tools benchmark, run identically across the whole catalog: methodology, the surprising mid-tier, and why we publish effective success rate. https://switchgate.ai/blog/burnable-prepaid-keys/ https://switchgate.ai/blog/burnable-prepaid-keys/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000 Keys with a fixed balance and an expiry you choose: perfect for contractors, classrooms, hackathons and demos. https://switchgate.ai/blog/why-we-host-in-canada/ https://switchgate.ai/blog/why-we-host-in-canada/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000 Canadian privacy law, GDPR adequacy and short hops to both coasts: the case for routing your tokens through Montréal. https://switchgate.ai/blog/zero-credit-cache-hits/ https://switchgate.ai/blog/zero-credit-cache-hits/ Thu, 28 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000 Semantic caching that bills exactly nothing on a hit: how matching works, and the workloads where 30-70% savings are real.