Getting Started in 5 Minutes

1Sovereign Installation

Selixes is packaged containerized for 100% data sovereign deployments. Spin up the gateway on your local system or private cloud metal using Docker:

docker run -d -p 4000:4000 --name apishield-gateway apishield/gateway:latest

22-Line SDK Reroute

Selixes is fully coordinate compatible with standard OpenAI SDK structures. Swap the `baseURL` and `apiKey` to point your existing application to the proxy gateway:

import OpenAI from 'openai';

// Selixes integration takes exactly 2 lines:
const openai = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.API_SHIELD_GATEWAY_KEY, // 1. Secure gateway key
  baseURL: 'http://localhost:4000/v1'          // 2. Swapped Base URL coordinate
});

3Dispatch Your First Budget Request

Pass transaction cost caps, timeout limits, and connection concurrency budgets directly through standard HTTP request headers:

const response = await openai.chat.completions.create({
  model: 'gpt-4o',
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Extract details from CSV invoices' }],
  headers: {
    'x-apishield-session-id': 'session_crm_batch_02',
    'x-apishield-max-session-cost': '0.15', // trip gate if spend exceeds $0.15
    'x-apishield-timeout': '5000'           // failover standby if OpenAI takes > 5s
  }
});

4Access the Observability Dashboard

Open your browser and navigate to `http://localhost:3000` to review active transactions, inspect provider decision chains, audit security policies, and copy weekly resiliency logs directly into Slack or Teams.