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