Generic skill — method only, zero app facts. This skill is symlinked from
agent-compounds and shared across consuming apps. It contains technique and
patterns, not project specifics. App specifics (project refs, schema names,
domain rules, feature flows, env values) → read this app's
.claude/skills/CORE/SKILL.md (and the AGENTS.md summary it indexes).
Do not add app-specific facts to this file — they belong in CORE.

Multi-Model

Query any AI model from the terminal, or put several models on one question and
land a single synthesized answer. One tool (openrouter), one router.

When to Use

• A task needs one specific non-default model (quality, cost, or capability)
• An important decision benefits from independent perspectives
• A research question where model blind spots matter
• Higher confidence than any single model provides

Two Modes

Direct query — one model, one answer:

openrouter "Your prompt" -m claude --raw

Panel synthesis — several models, one answer, in priority order:

1. OpenRouter Fusion (native panel + judge in one call) — workflows/fusion.md
2. Manual fan-out + you synthesize (fusion unavailable or panel must be
   custom) — the fan-out recipe in workflows/fusion.md, judged with
   references/synthesis-directive.md

Reading Order

• references/openrouter-cli.md — the CLI: configured models, variants,
  discovery, freshness check, flag reference. Read before first use.
• workflows/fusion.md — the panel workflow. Read when synthesizing.
• references/synthesis-directive.md — how to judge panel output. Read with
  the workflow; it is the standard the synthesis answers to.

Prerequisites

export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-or-...   # https://openrouter.ai/keys
openrouter --aliases                  # verify the CLI is on PATH

Defaults

Need	Reach for
General quality work	claude (see catalog for current ID)
Budget / bulk	gemini-flash or gpt-mini
Reasoning / math	o3 or claude --reasoning high
Web-augmented	any model + --web
Vision	direct per-model call (fusion does not take images)
Panel	openrouter/fusion, or the fan-out recipe