Bay Run — find, prove, and serve the right task-specialist model

Agents don't need one giant model for everything — they need the right small specialist for each narrow job (embeddings, reranking, classification, extraction, transcription), proven on their data, served instantly. Bay Run is that loop — OpenAI-compatible and MCP-native:

discover → eval → serve (over a catalog of 147K models, mirrored-first)

• Live: https://bay-run-mvp-zfmlsu2yla-uc.a.run.app

• Remote MCP: https://bay-run-mvp-zfmlsu2yla-uc.a.run.app/mcp/ (streamable-HTTP; add to any MCP client)

• Public demo token (rate-limited, try instantly): bayrun-demo-AS4XgfRmTHgNXRlpuP19zKeMxbcShyvP

⭐ Flagship showcase — the Semantic Intent-Router

flagship/ is the headline proof of the thesis. Every agent framework routes each user message to the right handler — usually with a $$ frontier-LLM call. The flagship does the same routing with a 33M-param open embedder Bay Run picks + serves (thenlper/gte-small, proven on labeled intents by a live bake-off): 95.8% routing accuracy on unseen messages, ~140 ms warm, ~14× cheaper than a GPT-4o-mini intent call — every number captured from the live service.

git clone https://github.com/barneywohl/bay-run && cd bay-run/flagship
pip install -r requirements.txt && python router_demo.py

See flagship/README.md for the scorecard + cost table, and flagship/more-specialists.md for four more agent sub-tasks (RAG rerank, multilingual routing, dedup, semantic cache), each with a verified-servable tiny specialist.

Related MCP server: agentforge

Runnable demo — the whole loop in one command

demo/ is a self-contained killer demo: it routes support tickets with a 22M-param open embedder picked by a bake-off on labeled data — ~26× cheaper than a GPT-4o-mini classification baseline, at equal-or-lower latency, open weights, no lock-in. Every number is captured from the live service.

git clone https://github.com/barneywohl/bay-run && cd bay-run/demo
pip install -r requirements.txt
python demo.py          # ships with the public demo token; runs discover → eval → serve → cost live

• demo/README.md — the captured scorecard, latencies, and cost table.

• demo/mcp-quickstart.md — give your agent the tools in one command.

• demo/firecrawl-to-bay-run.md — scrape with Firecrawl, run the specialist here.

• demo/wrappers/ — drop-in LangChain / LlamaIndex / OpenAI-Agents adapters.

30-second try

curl -s https://bay-run-mvp-zfmlsu2yla-uc.a.run.app/v1/discover -H "authorization: Bearer bayrun-demo-AS4XgfRmTHgNXRlpuP19zKeMxbcShyvP" -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"multilingual sentence embeddings","kind":"embedding","limit":5}'

Point any OpenAI client at it

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://bay-run-mvp-zfmlsu2yla-uc.a.run.app/v1", api_key="bayrun-demo-AS4XgfRmTHgNXRlpuP19zKeMxbcShyvP")
client.embeddings.create(model="BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5", input=["hello"])

MCP (agent-callable)

Add the remote server https://bay-run-mvp-zfmlsu2yla-uc.a.run.app/mcp/ to your MCP client (Bearer auth). 7 tools: find_specialist_for_task (discover→eval→serve on your labeled data), route (runtime auto-router — no examples, picks a specialist per-request), discover_models, eval_models, embed, rerank, extract (HTML/text → schema-guided JSON).

Served from a content-addressed, quarantine-gated mirror. Neutral — it helps you pick the model that wins on your data, not sell you one. Backend is closed; this repo is the public manifest + connector.