FreeTheAi API

FreeTheAi API is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by Free-The-Ai in free-ai.

838 stars120 forkson Free-The-Ai/free-aiAdded 2026/07/14+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/07/29

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Install FreeTheAi API

Copy FreeTheAi API 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/Free-The-Ai/free-ai ~/.claude/skills/free-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/Free-The-Ai/free-ai.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: SKILL.md in Free-The-Ai/free-ai
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/free-ai
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What FreeTheAi API does

Teaches AI agents how to configure apps, SDKs, and chat clients to use FreeTheAi, a free OpenAI-compatible API. Use when a user needs a free API key, custom base URL for OpenAI/Anthropic SDKs, or examples for chat, tools, images, TTS, or STT.

FreeTheAi API is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. FreeTheAi API comes from a repository tagged ai-api, api-gateway, astro, chat-completions and developer-tools.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

FreeTheAi API Skill

Use this skill to configure FreeTheAi for a user or another AI agent. FreeTheAi is an OpenAI-compatible gateway with one key, one base URL, and multiple public model aliases.

What This Skill Does

Teaches an agent how to get a user signed up through Discord.
Shows the exact FreeTheAi base URL and auth pattern.
Gives copy-paste SDK/client setup for common OpenAI-compatible tools.
Explains role-gated models, daily check-in, and common errors.
Prevents agents from inventing keys, endpoints, aliases, or bypasses.

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

Frequently asked about FreeTheAi API

What else does Free-The-Ai publish alongside FreeTheAi API?
FreeTheAi API is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Free-The-Ai/free-ai, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Animation Review, Animation Vocabulary and Design Engineering. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way FreeTheAi API does, and is maintained by Free-The-Ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Free-The-Ai/free-ai page.
How does FreeTheAi API compare to other AI Engineering skills?
FreeTheAi API ranks #1569 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 FreeTheAi API against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.