BitRouter

BitRouter is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by bitrouter in bitrouter.

223 stars15 forkson bitrouter/bitrouterAdded 2026/09/04Repository updated 2026/09/04

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Install in seconds

Install BitRouter

Copy BitRouter into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/bitrouter/bitrouter/tree/main/skills/bitrouter ~/.claude/skills/bitrouter

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/bitrouter/bitrouter.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/bitrouter/SKILL.md in bitrouter/bitrouter
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/bitrouter
Collection: One of 3 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2970 skills

What BitRouter does

BitRouter routes OpenAI- or Anthropic-shaped requests through a self-hosted local proxy on 127.0.0.1:4356. Use it to install, configure, launch, and troubleshoot provider routing for coding agents.

BitRouter is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. BitRouter comes from a repository tagged acp, agent-guardrails, agent-harness, agent-observability and ai-agent.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

BitRouter

BitRouter is a Rust daemon the user self-hosts at http://127.0.0.1:4356, routing OpenAI- or Anthropic-shaped requests to any provider, driven entirely from the bitrouter CLI. No BitRouter account is required to run it — where the tokens are actually bought is a provider choice made in §4, not a different way of deploying.

Activate in one pass

Work top to bottom, probing before asking — on a machine that has used BitRouter before, most of these steps are already done.

1. Probe

bitrouter --version          # not found -> step 2
bitrouter status             # prints `running: no` when no daemon is reachable
bitrouter providers list     # ID  MODELS  ACTIVE  API_BASE

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands BitRouter provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/v1

Frequently asked about BitRouter

What else does bitrouter publish alongside BitRouter?
BitRouter is one of 3 skills that DirSkills catalogs from bitrouter/bitrouter, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Evaluating BitRouter Routes and Run BitRouter Benchmark. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way BitRouter does, and is maintained by bitrouter in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the bitrouter/bitrouter page.
How does BitRouter compare to other AI Engineering skills?
BitRouter ranks #2547 by stars among the 2970 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of BitRouter against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.