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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.
Passed 22 of 23 test cases with the skill, and 5 of 23 without it.
and 27 more in the full report
18 fixed4 passed either way0 still failing1 broke
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One of 18 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
What is the required API key variable and default model configuration for Google Gemini provider scripts in Claude Council? Output a concise specification.
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| Specifies GEMINI_API_KEY as the environment variable. | Passed | Passed |
| Specifies gemini-flash-latest as the default model. | Missed | Passed |
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
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-flash-latest |
| OpenAI | OPENAI_API_KEY | gpt-6-astra |
| Grok | XAI_API_KEY (or GROK_API_KEY) | grok-latest |
| Perplexity | PERPLEXITY_API_KEY | sonar-reasoning-pro |
| 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 is the exception: claude is on every user's PATH, so it has no discovery arm and 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.
echo "$RESPONSE" to debug, check response formatFor API patterns and code templates, see api-patterns.md in this directory.
test cases passed, vs 5 / 23 without
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