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5/13/2026

I Tested Privacy-Aware Routing with 4 AI Agents: What Actually Stayed Local
Short summary
A developer tested privacy-aware routing for multi-agent systems using Trooper, a local proxy that routes LLM requests to either Claude (cloud) or Qwen (local) based on data sensitivity. The x_force_local flag keeps credentials and PII on-machine while public queries use Claude. Context compression (Anchor/SITREP/Tail) maintains conversation state across cloud-local routing decisions.
- •Trooper proxy enables per-request privacy routing: credentials/PII stay local, public queries use cloud
- •Context compression (Anchor/SITREP/Tail) maintains conversation state across models
- •Trade-off guidance: local for speed/privacy, cloud for complex reasoning
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