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Get Started Free →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".
.claude/skills/hex-provider-integration/SKILL.md| Test case | Without → With | Effect | Δ tokens | Δ turns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| case-01 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -31% | 0% |
| case-03 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -39% | 0% |
| case-04 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -60% | 0% |
| case-05 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -77% | 0% |
| case-06 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -56% | 0% |
Each provider is a shell script in scripts/providers/ that:
scripts/providers/{name}.sh (see api-patterns.md for templates)chmod +x scripts/providers/{name}.sh{NAME}_API_KEY environment variable./scripts/providers/{name}.sh "Hello"| Provider | API Key Variable | Default Model | |----------|------------------|---------------| | Gemini | GEMINI_API_KEY | gemini-3.1-pro-preview | | OpenAI | OPENAI_API_KEY | gpt-5.6-sol | | Grok | XAI_API_KEY (or GROK_API_KEY) | grok-4.5 | | Perplexity | PERPLEXITY_API_KEY | sonar-reasoning-pro | | Kimi | KIMI_API_KEY | kimi-k3 | | Ollama | none (local) | first model ollama list shows |
echo "$RESPONSE" to debug, check response formatFor API patterns and code templates, see api-patterns.md in this directory.
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