OpenRouter Model Availability

Overview

OpenRouter's /api/v1/models endpoint is the source of truth for model availability. Models can be temporarily unavailable, have degraded performance, or be permanently removed. This skill covers querying model status, building health probes, tracking availability over time, and automating failover.

Prerequisites

• An OpenRouter API key exported as OPENROUTER_API_KEY for live probes (the catalog query itself needs no auth) — see the openrouter-install-auth skill for setup
• curl and jq for the catalog status queries and the cron monitoring script
• Python 3.8+ with the OpenAI SDK and requests (pip install openai requests) for the health-check service
• A small credit balance — each max_tokens: 1 probe costs roughly $0.0001

Instructions