/ask-openrouter

name: ask-openrouter
description: Ask a single configured OpenRouter model for a second opinion. Advisory only. Single-shot or multi-turn.
allowed-tools: mcp__deliberation-openrouter__openrouter, mcp__deliberation-openrouter__openrouter-reply, mcp__deliberation-openrouter__openrouter-list, Read, Bash
timeout: 660000

Ask OpenRouter

Delegate a question to one configured OpenRouter delegate (advisory only; OpenRouter cannot edit files).

Input

`$ARGUMENTS` is `[alias] <question>`. If the first whitespace-delimited token matches a configured alias (see `openrouter-list`), it selects that delegate and the rest is the question. Otherwise the whole string is the question and the `openrouter-default` delegate is used.

Workflow

1. Call `mcp__deliberation-openrouter__openrouter-list`. If the tool is unavailable, tell the user OpenRouter is not configured (add models to `~/.config/deliberation/config.json` - the canonical path, Windows `%APPDATA%\deliberation\config.json` - then run `/deliberation:setup`) and stop. 2. Parse `$ARGUMENTS`: if the first token equals a delegate `alias`, use it; else use no alias (the bridge falls back to `openrouter-default`; if `defaultModelSet` is false in the list output, tell the user to pass an explicit alias and stop). 3. Identify the expert role from the question via `~/.claude/rules/deliberation/triggers.md` (default Architect). Then load that expert's prompt: 1. Glob `~/.claude/plugins/cache/*/deliberation/*/prompts/[expert].md` and pick the match with the highest semver version segment (the segment immediately after `deliberation/`, parsed as semver - not lexical compare). 2. If no match is found, abort with: `Error: deliberation plugin cache missing for expert "[Expert]". Run /plugin install deliberation or /reload-plugins.` 4. Build the 7-section delegation prompt per `~/.claude/rules/deliberation/delegation-format.md`. If the question references local files, attach them with `files: [{ path: "...", mode: "auto" }]` (text-inline; `{ dir: "..." }` also supported). 5. Print: `OpenRouter (<alias-or-default>) working (typical 30-60s)...` where `<alias-or-default>` is the selected alias, or `openrouter-default` when no alias was given. 6. Call:

   mcp__deliberation-openrouter__openrouter({
     prompt: "[7-section prompt]",
     "developer-instructions": "[expert prompt]",
     alias: "[selected alias, omit to use openrouter-default]",
     sandbox: "read-only",
     cwd: "[repo root]",
     files: [ /* optional text-inline files */ ]
   })

7. On `result.isError`, report the `errorKind` (`model-not-allowed` => bad alias; `auth` => the env var named by `apiKeyEnv` is empty; `config` => a hard config failure, fix `config.json`). A single bad model entry no longer breaks the whole config: this single-shot call still works as long as the requested alias is valid. To see which entries the bridge skipped (and their `suggestedAlias` repairs), run `mcp__deliberation-openrouter__openrouter-list` and check `invalidModels`, then either hand-edit `config.json` or run `/ask-all` or `/consensus`, which offer a Fix & proceed prompt. 8. Synthesize the answer; never paste raw output. For a follow-up turn, reuse the returned `threadId` via `mcp__deliberation-openrouter__openrouter-reply`.

Rules

• Advisory only - OpenRouter has no filesystem access; route implementation tasks to

Codex/Gemini.

• Single delegate per call. For parallel multi-model opinions use `/ask-all`.
• **Serial prep is correct here** - `openrouter-list` (step 1) MUST run before the expert-prompt `Glob` (step 3): alias-stripping consumes the list, the stripped question determines the expert, and the expert determines the `Glob` target. This is a genuine data dependency, so the two reads CANNOT be merged into one parallel block (unlike `/ask-all`). Do not "optimize" them together. See `rules/deliberation/orchestration.md` Step 5.5.