AIN — AI Node Plugin for OpenClaw

Bridges the AIN provider registry, intelligent routing engine, and execution layer into the OpenClaw ecosystem.

What it does

• Provider bridging — All AIN-configured providers (LM Studio, Ollama, OpenAI, vLLM, etc.) are automatically exposed to OpenClaw as ain:<name> providers
• LLM tools — Two agent tools: ain_run (prompt execution with routing, structured output, fallback chains) and ain_classify (task type and complexity classification)
• Routing hook — before_model_resolve hook uses AIN's intelligent routing engine to automatically select the best model for each task based on policies and task classification

Installation

npm install openclaw-plugin-ain

Requires @felipematos/ain-cli (installed as a dependency).

Configuration

In your OpenClaw config:

{
  "plugins": {
    "ain": {
      "enableRouting": true,
      "routingPolicy": "local-first",
      "exposeTools": true
    }
  }
}

Options

Option	Type	Default	Description
configPath	string	~/.ain/config.yaml	Path to AIN config file
enableRouting	boolean	true	Enable intelligent model routing
routingPolicy	string	—	Named routing policy from AIN policies.yaml
exposeTools	boolean	true	Expose ain_run and ain_classify tools to agents

Tools

ain_run

Execute an LLM prompt through AIN's execution engine with full support for routing, structured output, and fallback chains.

Parameters:

• prompt (string, required) — The prompt to execute
• provider (string) — Provider name
• model (string) — Model ID or alias
• jsonMode (boolean) — Request JSON output
• schema (object) — JSON Schema for output validation
• system (string) — System prompt
• temperature (number) — Sampling temperature

Returns: { output, provider, model, usage, parsedOutput }

ain_classify

Classify a prompt's task type and estimate its complexity.

Parameters:

• prompt (string, required) — The prompt to classify

Returns: { taskType, complexity }

Task types: classification, extraction, generation, reasoning, unknown Complexity: low, medium, high

Routing

When enableRouting is true, the plugin registers a before_model_resolve hook that analyzes incoming prompts and selects the optimal model based on:

• Task classification (classification/extraction → fast tier, generation → general tier, reasoning → reasoning tier)
• Routing policies defined in ~/.ain/policies.yaml
• Model tags and tier configuration

Requirements

• Node.js >= 18
• AIN configured with at least one provider (ain config init && ain providers add ...)
• OpenClaw >= 1.0.0

License

MIT