Manages free AI models from OpenRouter for OpenClaw. Automatically ranks models by quality, configures fallbacks for rate-limit handling, and updates openclaw.json. Use when the user mentions free AI, OpenRouter, model switching, rate limits, or wants to reduce AI costs.
Teach Claude to detect, wire, and troubleshoot FreeRide — a local OpenAI-compatible gateway routing across free-tier providers (OpenRouter, Groq, NVIDIA NIM, Cloudflare Workers AI, HuggingFace).
Anything we did not write. Aider's config is a flat YAML; the bind helper must read → patch only openai-api-base and openai-api-key → write back, keeping all other top-level keys. Categories users commonly customize (do NOT clobber): model, weak-model, editor-model, edit-format, auto-commits, lint-cmd, test-cmd, read…
Agent "claude-code" from Shaivpidadi/FreeRideV3, covering using claude code with freeride, tl;dr, install (once), any time you want free models available alongside claude and what freeride run claude actually does.
Use this skill when the user has FreeRide installed (binary at /.local/bin/freeride, gateway on http://localhost:11343) or asks how to route their AI workloads across free-tier providers. FreeRide is "Ollama for free cloud inference" — a local OpenAI-compatible gateway that routes across OpenRouter, Groq, NVIDIA NIM…