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openrouter-model-routing
Implement intelligent model routing to optimize cost, quality, and latency on OpenRouter. Use when building multi-model systems or optimizing spend across task types. Triggers: 'openrouter routing', 'model routing', 'route to model', 'model selection openrouter'.
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# OpenRouter Model Routing
## Overview
OpenRouter gives you access to 100+ models through one API. The key to cost efficiency is routing each request to the right model based on task complexity, required capabilities, cost budget, and latency requirements. This skill covers task-based routing, complexity classification, cost-aware selection, and OpenRouter's native routing features.
## Prerequisites
- An OpenRouter API key exported as `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` — see the `openrouter-install-auth` skill for setup
- Python 3.8+ with the OpenAI SDK and `requests` (`pip install openai requests`)
- A rough inventory of your task mix (classification, summarization, code generation, deep reasoning, ...) to seed the `TASK_ROUTING` table
- Credits sized for the tiers you route to — the premium tier (`openai/o1`) runs $15/$60 per 1M tokens, 250x the budget tier
## Instructions
