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Built-in Proxy Strategies

Besides the nodes and proxy groups you define under proxies, your rules can also reference these special built-in outbound names directly — no extra configuration needed.

Built-in Outbounds

DIRECT

Direct connection — traffic bypasses every proxy and goes straight out.

REJECT

Reject — blocks the connection's outbound traffic, commonly used to block ad domains.

REJECT-DROP

Reject — unlike REJECT, this silently drops the request without sending back any response.

PASS

Pass. When PASS is matched, the current rule branch is treated as already matched and skipped, moving on to match the rules after it. If PASS is matched inside a SUB-RULE, it jumps straight out of that sub-rule and back to the main rules, without continuing to match the remaining rules in that same sub-rules block.

PASS-RULE

Pass, similar to PASS, except that when matched inside a SUB-RULE, it doesn't jump out of the sub-rule — it only skips the currently matched rule branch and keeps matching later rules within that same sub-rules block.

COMPATIBLE

Compatible. Automatically falls back to this strategy when a proxy group can't find any available node — equivalent to DIRECT. It's also the default value of a proxy group's empty-fallback field.