model-failover

model-failover is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kayzaa/k.i.t.-bot. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,581 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of model-failover, MIT.

An AI service manager that switches between AI providers when one reaches a limit, has an outage, or cannot process requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for rotating among providers, applying fallback order, handling rate limits, and managing model costs and availability.
Why use it?
It helps trading decisions continue when an AI provider fails or becomes unavailable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: positional $N argument; built for openclaw.

Good fit It is for rotating among providers, applying fallback order, handling rate limits, and managing model costs and availability.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kayzaa/k.i.t.-bot/model-failover
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 kayzaa/k.i.t.-bot --skill model-failover
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kayzaa/k.i.t.-bot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,581 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00000 $0.01581
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00790
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00158

Measured 7d ago against content hash 8bbf24e894c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

model-failover 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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to model-failover — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/model-failover/SKILL.md · 220 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 220 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill #85: Model Failover Manager

Enterprise-grade AI provider rotation, cooldowns, and automatic failover for K.I.T.'s trading decisions.

Why Model Failover?

AI providers have rate limits, outages, and billing issues. K.I.T. needs:

  • 24/7 uptime for autonomous trading
  • Automatic recovery from provider failures
  • Cost optimization across providers
  • Quality maintenance when switching models

Features

Multi-Provider Support

Provider Models Rate Limit Handling
Anthropic Claude Opus, Sonnet, Haiku Per-minute, per-day
OpenAI GPT-4o, GPT-4-turbo, o1 TPM, RPM
Google Gemini 2.0, 1.5 Pro Per-minute
xAI Grok 2 Per-minute
DeepSeek DeepSeek V3, R1 Per-minute
Groq Llama, Mixtral Per-minute, free tier
OpenRouter All models Aggregated
Local Ollama, vLLM No limits

Failover Strategies

1. Round-Robin Rotation Distributes load across providers:

Request 1 → Anthropic
Request 2 → OpenAI
Request 3 → Google
Request 4 → Anthropic (back to start)

2. Priority Cascade Falls back through priority order:

Primary:   Claude Opus 4
Fallback1: GPT-4o
Fallback2: Gemini 2.0
Fallback3: Local Ollama (never fails)

3. Cost-Optimized Routes to cheapest available provider:

Simple queries → Haiku ($0.25/1M)
Complex analysis → Sonnet ($3/1M)
Critical decisions → Opus ($15/1M)

4. Latency-Optimized Tracks response times and routes to fastest:

Groq:     ~200ms (when available)
Anthropic: ~800ms
OpenAI:   ~1200ms

Cooldown System

Exponential backoff for failures:

1st failure:  1 minute cooldown
2nd failure:  5 minutes
3rd failure:  25 minutes
4th+ failure: 1 hour (cap)

Separate handling for:

  • Rate limits: Standard cooldown + retry
  • Auth errors: Immediate failover, longer cooldown
  • Billing issues: 5-hour initial backoff, doubles each time
  • Timeouts: Shorter cooldown (30 seconds)

Read the full file on GitHub · 220 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 220 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8bbf24e894c1

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model-failover is a skill published in the GitHub repository kayzaa/k.i.t.-bot (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,581 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to model-failover, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.