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Freeride

Manages free AI models from OpenRouter for OpenClaw. Automatically ranks models by quality, configures fallbacks for rate-limit handling, and updates openclaw.json. Use when the user mentions free AI, OpenRouter, model switching, rate limits, or wants to reduce AI costs.

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Manages free AI models from OpenRouter for OpenClaw. Automatically ranks models by quality, configures fallbacks for rate-limit handling, and updates openclaw.json. Use when the user mentions free AI, OpenRouter, model switching, rate limits, or wants to reduce AI costs.

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Requirements

Target platform
OpenClaw
Install method
Manual import
Extraction
Extract archive
Prerequisites
OpenClaw
Primary doc
SKILL.md

Package facts

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Package format
ZIP package
Source platform
Tencent SkillHub
What's included
requirements.txt, README.md, setup.py, SKILL.md, watcher.py, main.py

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Release facts

Source
Tencent SkillHub
Verification
Indexed source record
Version
1.0.5

Documentation

ClawHub primary doc Primary doc: SKILL.md 7 sections Open source page

What This Skill Does

Configures OpenClaw to use free AI models from OpenRouter. Sets the best free model as primary, adds ranked fallbacks so rate limits don't interrupt the user, and preserves existing config.

Prerequisites

Before running any FreeRide command, ensure: OPENROUTER_API_KEY is set. Check with echo $OPENROUTER_API_KEY. If empty, the user must get a free key at https://openrouter.ai/keys and set it: export OPENROUTER_API_KEY="sk-or-v1-..." # Or persist it: openclaw config set env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY "sk-or-v1-..." The freeride CLI is installed. Check with which freeride. If not found: cd ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/free-ride pip install -e .

Primary Workflow

When the user wants free AI, run these steps in order: # Step 1: Configure best free model + fallbacks freeride auto # Step 2: Restart gateway so OpenClaw picks up the changes openclaw gateway restart That's it. The user now has free AI with automatic fallback switching. Verify by telling the user to send /status to check the active model.

Commands Reference

CommandWhen to use itfreeride autoUser wants free AI set up (most common)freeride auto -fUser wants fallbacks but wants to keep their current primary modelfreeride auto -c 10User wants more fallbacks (default is 5)freeride listUser wants to see available free modelsfreeride list -n 30User wants to see all free modelsfreeride switch <model>User wants a specific model (e.g. freeride switch qwen3-coder)freeride switch <model> -fAdd specific model as fallback onlyfreeride statusCheck current FreeRide configurationfreeride fallbacksUpdate only the fallback modelsfreeride refreshForce refresh the cached model list After any command that changes config, always run openclaw gateway restart.

What It Writes to Config

FreeRide updates only these keys in ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json: agents.defaults.model.primary β€” e.g. openrouter/qwen/qwen3-coder:free agents.defaults.model.fallbacks β€” e.g. ["openrouter/free", "nvidia/nemotron:free", ...] agents.defaults.models β€” allowlist so /model command shows the free models Everything else (gateway, channels, plugins, env, customInstructions, named agents) is preserved. The first fallback is always openrouter/free β€” OpenRouter's smart router that auto-picks the best available model based on the request.

Watcher (Optional)

For auto-rotation when rate limited, the user can run: freeride-watcher --daemon # Continuous monitoring freeride-watcher --rotate # Force rotate now freeride-watcher --status # Check rotation history

Troubleshooting

ProblemFixfreeride: command not foundcd ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/free-ride && pip install -e .OPENROUTER_API_KEY not setUser needs a key from https://openrouter.ai/keysChanges not taking effectopenclaw gateway restart then /new for fresh sessionAgent shows 0 tokensCheck freeride status β€” primary should be openrouter/<provider>/<model>:free

Category context

Agent frameworks, memory systems, reasoning layers, and model-native orchestration.

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Package contents

Included in package
3 Scripts2 Docs1 Files
  • SKILL.md Primary doc
  • README.md Docs
  • main.py Scripts
  • setup.py Scripts
  • watcher.py Scripts
  • requirements.txt Files