Eek it's a tiny rust LLM proxy in ~1k loc
Tiny, like a mouse, key-brokering proxy for LLM providers I wrote this while looking for a lightweight version of litellm, and after much frustration at all of the npm projects with huge blankets (quilts, even) of dependencies. Eek! isn't the most comprehensive solution, but it will get you quick access to open models without the need to worry about auditing thousands and thousands of lines of code. Eek! is configurable using TOML/ENV and limited to chat/completions, messages, and responses with upstream requests over TLS.
- ▪Tiny, like a mouse, key-brokering proxy for LLM providers I wrote this while looking for a lightweight version of litellm, and after much frustration at all of the npm projects with huge blankets (quilts, even) of dependencies.
- ▪Eek! isn't the most comprehensive solution, but it will get you quick access to open models without the need to worry about auditing thousands and thousands of lines of code.
- ▪Eek! is configurable using TOML/ENV and limited to chat/completions, messages, and responses with upstream requests over TLS.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 3,373 of its stories.
Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/Liana64/eek |
| Publication time | Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:20:58 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-03T14:25:42.951Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-03T14:25:42.951Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | CLsUcY7xHxHv · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Tiny, like a mouse, key-brokering proxy for LLM providers I wrote this while looking for a lightweight version of litellm, and after much frustration at all of the npm projects with huge blankets (quilts, even) of dependencies. Eek! isn't the most comprehensive solution, but it will get you quick access to open models without the need to worry about auditing thousands and thousands of lines of code. Eek! is configurable using TOML/ENV and limited to chat/completions, messages, and responses with upstream requests over TLS. Inbound requests to the proxy are cleartext, so deploy on kubernetes with TLS-terminating ingress! There are no retries, rate limits, budgets, load balancing, or metrics. Bodies cap at 32MB, connections at 4096, and stalled upstream connections die on idle timeout.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.