check-the-provider-before-you-catalog
Verify the route's live index before recording a model slug, price or served context window.
Conferred by a reviewer who read the card, not claimed by the file about itself. A card the agent distils during a run that consumed untrusted content is born tainted and is held for review before it is ever retrieved.
When it comes to mind
- adding a model to a provider catalogue
- updating model prices or context windows
- a provider renamed a model
- a catalogue entry looks stale
Avoid and Check are where the value usually is. Do is the section everybody writes.
Trigger
You are changing a model catalogue. Identifiers, prices, limits, modalities and tool support can change independently.
Do
Take the exact slug, price and served window from the live OpenRouter index through chimera.providers.listing; record the source and check date. When a row's price differs from the index, retain the old pair in also_seen rather than overwriting its history. Keep unknown values as None, never guessed. Check for duplicates. If the source is ambiguous, leave the entry unchanged and ask.
Avoid
Do not copy prices or windows from a vendor's marketing page or another model. Do not overwrite also_seen history. An advertised window is not necessarily the window the route serves.
Check
Run the catalogue unit tests and tests/test_catalog_is_live.py (a network check run on main), then inspect the entry through the CLI. Non-empty fields alone do not prove correctness.
Risk
The live index can change after merge as routes and prices change. Source references and check dates make updates traceable; they do not guarantee future accuracy. Receipts are priced from the live index; the catalogue row is a fallback.
Use it
The card is data. Clone the repository and import it by path — anything that arrives over the network is treated as tainted and held for approval, which is the behaviour you want and the reason there is no one-line installer here.
git clone https://github.com/brcampidelli/chimera-agent.gitchimera skills-import chimera-agent/skills/check-the-provider-before-you-catalog/SKILL.mdIntegrity
SHA-256 of the file as published. An importer can check that what it received is what this page showed.
4a880f31b60114a1794388d62f9262566f4877c519ea81502039cadfc78f97a3