openrouter-ai-models-guide

openrouter-ai-models-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nirholas/three.ws. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,353 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to OpenRouter, one API that can send requests to many AI model providers. It covers choosing models, pricing, routing, fallbacks, and API integration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare models, route tasks to suitable providers, create fallback chains, and connect AI applications to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and other models.
Why use it?
Using several AI providers normally means learning and maintaining separate APIs. OpenRouter provides a common entry point and supports choosing or switching models for different tasks.

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Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to compare models, route tasks to suitable providers, create fallback chains, and connect AI applications to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and other models.

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npx skills add nirholas/three.ws --skill openrouter-ai-models-guide
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Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,353 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 117
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 34
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00064 $0.01353
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00541
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00135

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c5a9c3605c74, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

openrouter-ai-models-guide scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1mo ago.

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Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
data/skills/general/openrouter-ai-models-guide/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenRouter AI Models Guide

OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ AI models. This guide covers model selection, pricing, routing, and integration with SperaxOS.

What Is OpenRouter?

A single API endpoint that routes requests to 200+ models:

Your App → OpenRouter API → Model Provider
                              ├── OpenAI (GPT-4, o1, o3)
                              ├── Anthropic (Claude 4, Sonnet, Haiku)
                              ├── Google (Gemini 2.5, Pro, Flash)
                              ├── Meta (Llama 4, Maverick)
                              ├── Mistral (Large, Medium)
                              ├── DeepSeek (V3, R1)
                              └── 50+ more providers

Quick Start

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Model Selection Guide

By Task

Task Recommended Model Why
Complex reasoning claude-sonnet-4, o3 Best logical reasoning
Coding claude-sonnet-4, deepseek-v3 Best code generation
Creative writing claude-sonnet-4, gpt-4o Most creative output
Fast responses gemini-flash, claude-haiku Lowest latency
Long context gemini-pro-2.5 (1M), claude-sonnet-4 (200K) Largest context windows
DeFi analysis claude-sonnet-4, gpt-4o Best structured data handling
Vision/images gpt-4o, gemini-pro Best image understanding
JSON output claude-sonnet-4, gpt-4o Most reliable structured output
Budget deepseek-v3, llama-4 Cheapest per token

By Price (per 1M tokens)

Tier Input Output Models
Free $0 $0 Selected models with limits
Budget $0.10-0.50 $0.30-1.50 DeepSeek, Llama, Gemma
Standard $1-5 $3-15 GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, Gemini Pro
Premium $10-15 $30-60 o3, Claude Opus

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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. 1mo ago First seen · 161 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A c5a9c3605c74

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openrouter-ai-models-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository nirholas/three.ws (244 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,353 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.