free-ride

free-ride is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from djblack1209-coder/OpenClaw-Bot. It costs 65 tokens per session (672 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A fallback route to free AI models through OpenRouter, a service that provides access to models from different companies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choose from a ranked list of free models for general chat, coding, multilingual work, long documents, or more complex reasoning.
Why use it?
It provides another option when a main model API is rate-limited, unavailable, or too costly for a low-priority task.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Choose from a ranked list of free models for general chat, coding, multilingual work, long documents, or more complex reasoning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/djblack1209-coder/openclaw-bot/free-ride
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.

Any agent
npx skills add djblack1209-coder/OpenClaw-Bot --skill free-ride
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/djblack1209-coder/OpenClaw-Bot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 672 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00065 $0.00672
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00336
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00067

Measured 8d ago against content hash d1d502603069, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

free-ride 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 8d ago.

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.

apps/openclaw/skills/free-ride/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Free Ride — OpenRouter Free Model Fallback

Use OpenRouter's free model tier as a fallback when paid APIs are unavailable or for low-priority tasks.

Setup

  1. Get a free API key at https://openrouter.ai/keys
  2. Add to your environment (already configured in ~/.openclaw/.env):
    OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-or-v1-xxxxx
    
    Status: CONFIGURED

Free Models (ranked by capability, March 2026)

Model Context Speed Best For
deepseek/deepseek-chat:free 128k Fast General chat, Chinese
google/gemma-3-27b-it:free 96k Fast Reasoning, multilingual
mistralai/mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct:free 96k Fast Code, instruction following
qwen/qwen3-32b:free 40k Medium Chinese, general
meta-llama/llama-4-scout:free 512k Medium Long context
google/gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25:free 1M Slow Complex reasoning

OpenRouter Config for OpenClaw

Add as a provider in openclaw.json (manual edit recommended):

{
  "models": {
    "providers": {
      "openrouter_free": {
        "baseUrl": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
        "apiKey": "YOUR_OPENROUTER_KEY",
        "api": "openai-completions",
        "models": [
          {
            "id": "deepseek/deepseek-chat:free",
            "name": "DeepSeek Chat (Free)",
            "api": "openai-completions",
            "reasoning": false,
            "input": ["text"],
            "cost": {"input": 0, "output": 0, "cacheRead": 0, "cacheWrite": 0},
            "contextWindow": 131072,
            "maxTokens": 8192
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

Usage Strategy

  • Add openrouter_free/deepseek-chat:free as a fallback in agent model config
  • Use for: background cron tasks, routine scans, simple classification
  • Don't use for: complex reasoning, code generation, production-critical tasks
  • Rate limits apply per model — spread load across multiple free models

Warning

Do NOT let OpenClaw auto-install this skill's config changes. Edit openclaw.json manually or use a coding agent to avoid breaking your existing provider setup.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 70 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A d1d502603069

Subscribe to this mod's changes

free-ride is a skill published in the GitHub repository djblack1209-coder/OpenClaw-Bot (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 672 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 2026-08-31.

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