What is provider-switch?

A configuration tool for switching an AI coding agent to alternative API providers, the services that supply its language models.

Configuring DeepSeek, Z.ai/GLM, Qwen, MiniMax, or OpenRouter as an API provider.

It helps change which provider handles model requests when another service is needed.

provider-switch — Skill for Claude Code by kochetkov-ma

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 kochetkov-ma/claude-brewcode --skill provider-switch

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kochetkov-ma/claude-brewcode

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install brewtools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 3 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 5,765 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 2 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00035	$0.05765
Opus 5.5	$0.00014	$0.02306
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.01153
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00577

Measured 10d ago against content hash f80420eee8a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

provider-switch scanned grade B with 2 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 11 executable files (scripts/check-status.sh, scripts/detect-mode.sh, scripts/provider-alias.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.

Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

| curl -s -K - -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -X POST "https://api.z.ai/api/anthropic/v1/messages" -H "content-type: application/json" -H "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" -d '{"model":"glm-5.2","max_tokens":5,"messages":[

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Identifies the model answering this ALIAS-launched session via 5 questions, no curl/scripts. BASE not set → print and stop:

brewtools/skills/provider-switch/SKILL.md · 444 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 444 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

[DICT: P=Phase, PRV=provider, EXEC=EXECUTE using Bash tool, AUQ=AskUserQuestion, REF=references, ALIAS=shell alias, CFG=configured, BASE=ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, MOD=ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL]

Provider Switch

Claude Code alt API providers, each an isolated ALIAS in ~/.zshrc: DeepSeek V4 (priority default, 1M ctx, native Anthropic endpoint; recommend first), Z.ai/GLM, Qwen/DashScope, MiniMax, OpenRouter.

Prompt contract

$ARGUMENTS is one free-form RU/EN prompt; mode tokens and flags may sit anywhere in it.

Mode: an explicit mode token wins outright; else the most distinct whole-word keyword hits (mode table in P1 below). Tie with a destructive mode -> AskUserQuestion; with status -> status; of two mutating modes -> the keyword that comes first. No hit or empty -> status.
Scope: prose that is not a mode/provider name is still input: take the provider or scope from it.
Ask: at most ONE AskUserQuestion (max 4 questions) to resolve mode and scope, before any work, only when the answer changes what gets written. status itself is read-only and asks nothing.

Print once, before the first action (labels literal, values in the conversation language):

PLAN — brewtools:provider-switch
INPUT:  <arguments verbatim, or "(empty)">
MODE:   <resolved> — <explicit | matched keyword: X | default>
SCOPE:  <resolved paths / target / level / flags>
DO:     <2-5 imperative bullets>
RESULT: <what the user ends up holding>

Robustness Rules (MANDATORY)

Rule	Scope
Every Bash call: `&& echo "OK ..." \|\| echo "FAILED ..."`	ALL
On FAILED: stop phase, report error, !=retry blindly	ALL
Max 3 AUQ per phase	ALL
!=write secrets anywhere except ~/.zshrc	ALL
!=ask for, receive, repeat or compose a key value (no AUQ, prompt or Bash line with it): the user places it out of band, `scripts/read-secret.sh` moves it. CC 2.1.296 has no masked input: AUQ answers land in the transcript; `sensitive` `userConfig` never reaches skill content	ALL
!=commit ~/.zshrc changes	ALL
~/.zshrc comments: ENGLISH only	ALL writes

Read the full file on GitHub · 444 lines

Files

What ships with it

20 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.

10d ago Changed · +1 lines f80420eee8a2
14d ago Changed · -127 lines e54aa4665c0f
26d ago Changed · +13 lines dc02c86f3fb4
1mo ago First seen · 557 lines · 35 tokens per session scan B 16cf0a12bb7e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

provider-switch is a skill published in the GitHub repository kochetkov-ma/claude-brewcode (38 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 5,765 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (sends data to an external url, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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