Butterbase AI Gateway

by butterbase-ai

Butterbase AI Gateway is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by butterbase-ai in butterbase-skills.

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Install Butterbase AI Gateway

Copy Butterbase AI Gateway 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/butterbase-ai/butterbase-skills/tree/main/skills/ai ~/.claude/skills/ai

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/butterbase-ai/butterbase-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/ai/SKILL.md in butterbase-ai/butterbase-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ai
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Butterbase AI Gateway does

Butterbase AI Gateway lets agents call an app's AI gateway for chat completions, embeddings, model listing, config updates, and usage reporting. Use it to manage defaults, BYOK keys, and token or cost usage.

Butterbase AI Gateway is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Butterbase AI Gateway comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, backend-as-a-service, butterbase and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Butterbase AI Gateway

Every app has an LLM gateway with chat, embeddings, model listing, configuration, and usage reporting. One umbrella tool: manage_ai.

Action	What it does	Returns
`chat`	Synchronous chat completion (no streaming)	OpenAI-shaped `{ choices: [...] }`
`embed`	Vector embeddings for string or string[]	OpenAI-shaped `{ data: [{ embedding: [...] }] }`
`list_models`	Available models with capabilities	`{ models: AiModel[] }`
`get_config`	Current AI config (default model, BYOK key flag, etc.)	`AiConfig`
`update_config`	Set defaults, allowed models, max tokens, BYOK	`AiConfig`
`get_usage`	Token + cost aggregate over a window	usage record

1. Chat

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

Frequently asked about Butterbase AI Gateway

What else does butterbase-ai publish alongside Butterbase AI Gateway?
Butterbase AI Gateway is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from butterbase-ai/butterbase-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Auth Setup, Build App and Butterbase Agents. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Butterbase AI Gateway does, and is maintained by butterbase-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the butterbase-ai/butterbase-skills page.
How does Butterbase AI Gateway compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Butterbase AI Gateway ranks #2086 by stars among the 3670 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 Butterbase AI Gateway against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.