> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://gomodel-docs-aws-gateway-benchmark.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Technical Philosophy

> The engineering ideas that shape how GoModel is designed and maintained.

## Postel's Law

Be conservative in what you send, and liberal in what you accept.

As an AI gateway, GoModel sits between clients and providers that do not always
behave the same way. We want strict, predictable behavior on our side without
becoming brittle when the outside world is messy.

## Good defaults

GoModel should be useful with minimal setup.

Defaults are not filler. They are part of the product. A gateway should start
fast, work locally, and make the obvious path easy before asking users to learn
every knob.

## Twelve-Factor influence

We are broadly aligned with the
[Twelve-Factor App](https://12factor.net/).

Not as blind doctrine, but as a useful baseline for building software that is
portable, operationally clear, and easy to run across environments.