provider-integration

Agent Building

Adds new AI providers to claude-council, configures provider API settings, troubleshoots provider connections, and documents the provider script interface. Covers creating provider shell scripts, setting API keys, and validating connectivity. Triggers on "add provider", "new AI agent", "provider not working", "API configuration", or "extend council".

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Adding AI Providers to Claude Council

Provider Script Interface

Each provider is a shell script in scripts/providers/ that:

Accepts a prompt as the first argument
Outputs the AI response to stdout
Exits 0 on success, non-zero on failure

Quick Start

Create scripts/providers/{name}.sh (see api-patterns.md for templates)
chmod +x scripts/providers/{name}.sh
Set {NAME}_API_KEY environment variable
Test: ./scripts/providers/{name}.sh "Hello"

Current Providers

Provider	API Key Variable	Default Model
Gemini	`GEMINI_API_KEY`	gemini-3.1-pro-preview
OpenAI	`OPENAI_API_KEY`	gpt-5.5-pro
Grok	`XAI_API_KEY` (or `GROK_API_KEY`)	grok-4.20-reasoning
Perplexity	`PERPLEXITY_API_KEY`	sonar-reasoning-pro

Troubleshooting

Not discovered: Check API key is set and script is executable
API errors: Verify key, check rate limits, confirm model name
Parse fails: Add echo "$RESPONSE" to debug, check response format

Reference

For API patterns and code templates, see api-patterns.md in this directory.