OpenRouter Production Checklist

Overview

A comprehensive production readiness checklist for OpenRouter integrations covering security, reliability, observability, cost management, and operational procedures. Each item includes the specific API endpoint or configuration needed to verify compliance.

Prerequisites

• An OpenRouter API key (sk-or-v1-...) exported as OPENROUTER_API_KEY — see the openrouter-install-auth skill for setup
• A working OpenRouter integration ready to launch — this skill validates an existing integration, it doesn't build one
• curl and jq for the pre-launch validation script and the auth/credit-limit checks
• Python 3.8+ if you turn the checklist dicts (SECURITY, RELIABILITY, OBSERVABILITY) into automated CI checks
• A secret scanner in CI (gitleaks or trufflehog) — the security checklist verifies its presence

Instructions