Compute Ladder

by open-gitagent

Compute Ladder is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by open-gitagent in opengap.

2.9K stars346 forkson open-gitagent/opengapAdded 2026/08/17Repository updated 2026/07/02

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Install Compute Ladder

Copy Compute Ladder 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/open-gitagent/opengap/tree/main/examples/jason-my-claw-is-the-law-deebee-4567b4/skills/compute-ladder ~/.claude/skills/compute-ladder

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/open-gitagent/opengap.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: examples/jason-my-claw-is-the-law-deebee-4567b4/skills/compute-ladder/SKILL.md in open-gitagent/opengap
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/compute-ladder
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Compute Ladder does

Compute Ladder organizes model selection by provider health, using Tier 0 local models for most tasks and paid models only as break-glass. It triggers fallback on 429, timeout, or stream death—never on perceived task difficulty.

Compute Ladder is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Compute Ladder comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-framework, agent-skills, agents and assistant.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Compute Ladder

Tier Definitions

Tier 0 — Local (never dies, zero cost)
  ollama/qwen3-coder:latest    primary, MoE, 128 TPS, 64k ctx
  ollama/gpt-oss:20b           fallback, 32k ctx HARD LIMIT

Tier 1 — Fast Free Cloud (up to 2100 TPS)
  cerebras/qwen-3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507   235B MoE, fast free
  cerebras/llama3.1-8b                      8B, ultra-fast light tasks

Tier 2 — Free Cloud (normal latency)
  openrouter/z-ai/glm-4.5-air
  openrouter/qwen/qwen3-coder

Tier 3 — Free Cloud Deep Reasoning
  openrouter/nousresearch/hermes-3-llama-3.1-405b:free

Tier 4 — Break-Glass (paid, restricted use)
  openrouter/anthropic/claude-opus-4.6  [narco-check and audit ONLY]

Fallback Rules

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

Frequently asked about Compute Ladder

What else does open-gitagent publish alongside Compute Ladder?
Compute Ladder is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from open-gitagent/opengap, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Code Review, Create Agent and Document Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Compute Ladder does, and is maintained by open-gitagent in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the open-gitagent/opengap page.
How does Compute Ladder compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Compute Ladder ranks #698 by stars among the 2451 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 Compute Ladder against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.