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9router

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Entry point for 9Router — local/remote AI gateway with OpenAI-compatible REST for chat, image, TTS, embeddings, web search, web fetch. Use when the user mentions 9Router, NINEROUTER_URL, or wants AI without writing provider boilerplate. This skill covers setup + indexes capability skills; fetch the relevant capability SKILL.md from the URLs below when needed.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/ahwanulm/AMRouter/blob/HEAD/skills/9router/SKILL.md

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9Router

Local/remote AI gateway exposing OpenAI-compatible REST. One key, many providers, auto-fallback.

Setup

export NINEROUTER_URL="http://localhost:20128"      # or VPS / tunnel URL
export NINEROUTER_KEY="sk-..."                      # from Dashboard → Keys (only if requireApiKey=true)

All requests: ${NINEROUTER_URL}/v1/... with header Authorization: Bearer ${NINEROUTER_KEY} (omit if auth disabled).

Verify: curl $NINEROUTER_URL/api/health → {"ok":true}

Discover models

curl $NINEROUTER_URL/v1/models                  # chat/LLM (default)
curl $NINEROUTER_URL/v1/models/image            # image-gen
curl $NINEROUTER_URL/v1/models/tts              # text-to-speech
curl $NINEROUTER_URL/v1/models/embedding        # embeddings
curl $NINEROUTER_URL/v1/models/web              # web search + fetch (entries have `kind` field)
curl $NINEROUTER_URL/v1/models/stt              # speech-to-text
curl $NINEROUTER_URL/v1/models/image-to-text    # vision

Use data[].id as model field in requests. Combos appear with owned_by:"combo".

Response shape:

{ "object": "list", "data": [
  { "id": "openai/gpt-5", "object": "model", "owned_by": "openai", "created": 1735000000 },
  { "id": "tavily/search", "object": "model", "kind": "webSearch", "owned_by": "tavily", "created": 1735000000 }
]}

Capability skills

When the user needs a specific capability, fetch that skill's SKILL.md from its raw URL:

CapabilityRaw URL
Chat / code-genhttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahwanulm/AMRouter/refs/heads/master/skills/9router-chat/SKILL.md
Image generationhttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahwanulm/AMRouter/refs/heads/master/skills/9router-image/SKILL.md
Text-to-speechhttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahwanulm/AMRouter/refs/heads/master/skills/9router-tts/SKILL.md
Speech-to-texthttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahwanulm/AMRouter/refs/heads/master/skills/9router-stt/SKILL.md
Embeddingshttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahwanulm/AMRouter/refs/heads/master/skills/9router-embeddings/SKILL.md
Web searchhttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahwanulm/AMRouter/refs/heads/master/skills/9router-web-search/SKILL.md
Web fetch (URL → markdown)https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahwanulm/AMRouter/refs/heads/master/skills/9router-web-fetch/SKILL.md
Using superpowers (discipline)https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahwanulm/AMRouter/refs/heads/master/skills/using-superpowers/SKILL.md
Multi-brain (shared memory)https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahwanulm/AMRouter/refs/heads/master/skills/multi-brain/SKILL.md

Errors

  • 401 → set/refresh NINEROUTER_KEY (Dashboard → Keys)
  • 400 Invalid model format → check model exists in /v1/models/<kind>
  • 503 All accounts unavailable → wait retry-after or add another provider account