Provider Integration
Adds new AI providers to claude-council, configures provider API settings...
Install
npx skills add hex/claude-council --skill provider-integration -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- hex/claude-council916
- Category
- AI and agents
- Updated
- 3d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Lightabout 575 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Adds new AI providers to claude-council, configures provider API settings, troubleshoots provider connections, and documents the provider script interface. Covers creating provider shell scripts, setting API keys, and validating connectivity. Triggers on "add provider", "new AI agent", "provider not working", "API configuration", or "extend council".
Adding AI Providers to Claude Council
Provider Script Interface
Each provider is a shell script in scripts/providers/ that:
- Accepts a prompt as the first argument
- Outputs the AI response to stdout
- Exits 0 on success, non-zero on failure
Quick Start
- Create
scripts/providers/{name}.sh(seeapi-patterns.mdfor templates) chmod +x scripts/providers/{name}.sh- Set
{NAME}_API_KEYenvironment variable - Test:
./scripts/providers/{name}.sh "Hello"
Current Providers
| Provider | API Key Variable | Default Model |
|---|---|---|
| Gemini | GEMINI_API_KEY | gemini-flash-latest |
| OpenAI | OPENAI_API_KEY | gpt-6-astra |
| Grok | XAI_API_KEY (or GROK_API_KEY) | grok-latest |
| Perplexity | PERPLEXITY_API_KEY | low (Agent API preset) |
| Kimi | KIMI_API_KEY | kimi-k3 |
| Ollama | none (local) | first model ollama list shows |
| OpenRouter | OPENROUTER_API_KEY | anthropic/claude-fable-5.1 (or one seat per OPENROUTER_MODELS entry) |
CLI providers (codex, antigravity, grok-cli, kimi-cli, cursor-cli) need no key: they are discovered when their binary is on PATH and use that CLI's own login. claude-cli, copilot-cli and opencode are the exceptions: claude is on every user's PATH, each copilot question spends a premium request, and each opencode question bills whichever provider it is logged in to, so none has a discovery arm and each joins only when named in --providers or COUNCIL_PROVIDERS. See scripts/providers/kimi-cli.sh and cursor-cli.sh for the headless-run pattern: a read-only mode, a JSON output format the answer is parsed from, --model only on an explicit *_CLI_MODEL override, and run_with_deadline in place of the API providers' retry. A CLI that times out or fails reports through cli_failure_message in scripts/lib/cli-stderr.sh: the timeout, or the last 500 bytes of the CLI's stderr with colour codes stripped.
