A tool for configuring OpenClaw to use free AI models available through OpenRouter, an AI model service.

Use it when switching OpenClaw to free models, setting ranked fallbacks, or reducing AI costs; it requires an OpenRouter API key and the FreeRide command-line tool.

It selects a primary model and backup models so rate limits are less likely to interrupt use, while preserving existing configuration.

freeride — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by CraftOS-dev: A tool for configuring OpenClaw to use free AI…

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/craftos-dev/craftbot/free-ride

Any agent

npx skills add CraftOS-dev/CraftBot --skill free-ride

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CraftOS-dev/CraftBot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 943 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00063	$0.00943
Opus 5	$0.00032	$0.00472
Sonnet 5	$0.00013	$0.00189
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00094

Measured 4d ago against content hash 06e07f2a2ca0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

freeride scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (main.py, setup.py, watcher.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

freeride — 94% identical, 12 lines differ

skills/free-ride/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

FreeRide - Free AI for OpenClaw

What This Skill Does

Configures OpenClaw to use free AI models from OpenRouter. Sets the best free model as primary, adds ranked fallbacks so rate limits don't interrupt the user, and preserves existing config.

Prerequisites

Before running any FreeRide command, ensure:

OPENROUTER_API_KEY is set. Check with echo $OPENROUTER_API_KEY. If empty, the user must get a free key at https://openrouter.ai/keys and set it:
```
export OPENROUTER_API_KEY="sk-or-v1-..."
# Or persist it:
openclaw config set env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY "sk-or-v1-..."
```
The freeride CLI is installed. Check with which freeride. If not found:
```
cd ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/free-ride
pip install -e .
```

Primary Workflow

When the user wants free AI, run these steps in order:

# Step 1: Configure best free model + fallbacks
freeride auto

# Step 2: Restart gateway so OpenClaw picks up the changes
openclaw gateway restart

That's it. The user now has free AI with automatic fallback switching.

Verify by telling the user to send /status to check the active model.

Commands Reference

Command	When to use it
`freeride auto`	User wants free AI set up (most common)
`freeride auto -f`	User wants fallbacks but wants to keep their current primary model
`freeride auto -c 10`	User wants more fallbacks (default is 5)
`freeride list`	User wants to see available free models
`freeride list -n 30`	User wants to see all free models
`freeride switch <model>`	User wants a specific model (e.g. `freeride switch qwen3-coder`)
`freeride switch <model> -f`	Add specific model as fallback only
`freeride status`	Check current FreeRide configuration
`freeride fallbacks`	Update only the fallback models
`freeride refresh`	Force refresh the cached model list

After any command that changes config, always run openclaw gateway restart.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

4d ago First seen · 91 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 06e07f2a2ca0

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freeride is a skill published in the GitHub repository CraftOS-dev/CraftBot (376 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 943 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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