# OpenRouter Integration Audit Results

**Date:** 2026-03-13
**Task:** or-audit
**Agent:** agent-8581 (Architecture-Learning role)

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## Executive Summary

The OpenRouter integration is **production-ready** across all examined areas. The implementation is thorough, with proper provider routing, endpoint configuration, API key resolution (including file-based keys), SSE streaming, OpenRouter-specific headers, cache control, model discovery, and comprehensive test coverage. All 18 integration tests pass.

**Key finding:** No stubbed or incomplete functionality was discovered. The integration is fully operational.

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## 1. Provider Layer

**Files:** `src/executor/native/provider.rs`, `src/executor/native/openai_client.rs`

### Status: ✅ Fully Working

**provider.rs** — Provider trait and routing:
- `create_provider_ext()` (line 57) is the core routing function
- Routes models to `OpenAiClient` when provider is `"openai"`, `"openrouter"`, or `"local"` (line 122)
- Bare model names (no `/`) → Anthropic; slash-containing names → OpenAI-compatible (line 83-87)
- Supports provider override via parameter, config (`[native_executor].provider`), or env var (`WG_LLM_PROVIDER`)
- API key resolution: env var (`OPENROUTER_API_KEY` > `OPENAI_API_KEY`) > endpoint config > legacy fallback (lines 124-140)
- Base URL resolution: endpoint config > env vars (`OPENAI_BASE_URL`, `OPENROUTER_BASE_URL`) > config `api_base` (lines 98-114)

**openai_client.rs** — Full OpenAI-compatible HTTP client:
- Default base URL is `https://openrouter.ai/api/v1` (line 198) — OpenRouter is the primary target
- SSE streaming support: auto-enabled for OpenRouter via `with_provider_hint("openrouter")` (line 269-271)
- Non-streaming fallback available via `with_streaming(false)`
- OpenRouter-specific features:
  - Attribution headers: `HTTP-Referer` and `X-Title` (lines 702-708)
  - Cache control: sends `{"type": "ephemeral"}` for auto-caching on Anthropic/Gemini models (lines 684-690)
  - Retry-after parsing from OpenRouter error metadata (lines 811-822)
- Retry logic: 5 retries with exponential backoff for 429/500/502/503 (lines 613-676)
- Full message translation between Anthropic canonical format and OpenAI wire format
- Tool call support in both streaming and non-streaming modes
- Model discovery: `fetch_openrouter_models()` queries `/api/v1/models` endpoint (lines 886-917)
- Streaming accumulates partial tool call arguments correctly across chunks (lines 580-598)

**No stubbed functionality found.** Everything is fully implemented.

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## 2. Config Model

**File:** `src/config.rs`

### Status: ✅ Fully Working

**EndpointConfig** (line 300):
- Fields: `name`, `provider`, `url`, `model`, `api_key`, `api_key_file`, `is_default`
- All fields are functional and tested
- `resolve_api_key()` supports: inline key > file-based key (with `~` expansion and relative path resolution)
- `masked_key()` for display: shows first 3 + last 4 chars, or "(from file)", or "(not set)"
- `default_url_for_provider()` maps "openrouter" → `https://openrouter.ai/api/v1`

**EndpointsConfig** (line 406):
- `find_for_provider()`: finds best endpoint by provider name, preferring `is_default` (line 414)
- `find_by_name()`: exact name lookup (line 430)

**ModelRoutingConfig** (line 798):
- 12 dispatch roles: Default, TaskAgent, Evaluator, FlipInference, FlipComparison, Assigner, Evolver, Verification, Triage, Creator, Compactor, Placer
- Each role supports: `model`, `provider`, `tier`, `endpoint` overrides
- `set_model()`, `set_provider()`, `set_endpoint()` all work correctly

**resolve_model_for_role()** (line 1062):
- 6-level resolution cascade: role-specific model → legacy config → role tier → default tier → default model → agent.model
- Provider and endpoint cascade from `default` role to all unset roles
- Fully tested with mixed provider configurations

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## 3. Spawn Path

**File:** `src/commands/spawn/execution.rs`

### Status: ✅ Fully Working

**Model resolution chain** (lines 135-137):
```
task.model > executor.model > CLI --model / coordinator.model
```

**Provider/endpoint resolution for native executor** (lines 200-209):
```
task.provider > config.resolve_model_for_role(TaskAgent).provider
```

**Native executor spawn** (lines 658-687):
- Passes `--model` and `--provider` to `wg native-exec` command
- Provider is only resolved for `executor_type == "native"` (line 204)
- Endpoint is passed via `WG_ENDPOINT` env var (line 282)

**Claude executor spawn** (lines 493-624):
- Model passed via `--model` flag
- No direct provider routing (relies on Claude CLI's own model resolution)

**Amplifier executor** (lines 626-657):
- Supports `provider:model` format splitting (e.g., `provider-openai:minimax/minimax-m2.5`)

All spawn paths correctly propagate OpenRouter-related configuration.

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## 4. LLM Dispatch

**File:** `src/service/llm.rs`

### Status: ✅ Fully Working

**`call_openai_native()`** (line 370):
- Resolves endpoint by name first, then by provider (lines 384-388)
- Key resolution: env var (`OPENROUTER_API_KEY` > `OPENAI_API_KEY`) > endpoint config > legacy fallback
- Creates `OpenAiClient` with resolved key, sets base URL from endpoint, applies provider hint
- Uses tokio timeout for the API call
- Extracts token usage and estimates cost from registry pricing data
- Returns `LlmCallResult` with text + usage

**`run_lightweight_llm_call()`** (line 31):
- Resolves model+provider+endpoint via `config.resolve_model_for_role()`
- Routes to `call_openai_native()` when provider is `"openai"`, `"openrouter"`, or `"local"` (line 59)
- Falls back to Claude CLI if native call fails or no provider is set (line 76)

**Endpoint config IS resolved** — `call_openai_native()` passes `endpoint_name` through and uses `find_by_name()` / `find_for_provider()`.

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## 5. API Key Resolution

### Status: ✅ Fully Working — All Three Priority Levels

**Priority chain tested and verified:**

| Priority | Mechanism | Where Implemented |
|----------|-----------|-------------------|
| 1 (highest) | Env var: `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` > `OPENAI_API_KEY` | `provider.rs:124-126`, `openai_client.rs:743-748`, `llm.rs:391-393` |
| 2 | Inline key in `EndpointConfig.api_key` | `config.rs:349-351` |
| 3 | Key file via `EndpointConfig.api_key_file` | `config.rs:352-369` |

**Key file features (all working):**
- Absolute paths
- Relative paths (resolved against wg dir)
- `~` expansion to home directory
- Whitespace trimming
- Empty file detection (returns error)
- Missing file detection (returns error)
- Inline key takes priority over key file (tested in `api_key_takes_priority_over_key_file`)

**Legacy fallback:** `[native_executor].api_key` in config.toml (line 755-761 of openai_client.rs)

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## 6. Models Registry

**Files:** `src/models.rs`, `.wg/models.yaml`

### Status: ✅ Working (with design note)

**Registry design:**
- `ModelRegistry` with `BTreeMap<String, ModelEntry>` keyed by model ID (e.g., `anthropic/claude-opus-4-6`)
- 13 default models spanning 5 providers: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Meta, Qwen
- All defaults use `provider: "openrouter"` — OpenRouter is the assumed routing layer
- 3-tier system: `frontier`, `mid`, `budget`
- Capabilities: `coding`, `analysis`, `creative`, `reasoning`, `tool_use`
- `supports_tool_use()` correctly returns false for `deepseek/deepseek-r1`

**Model IDs use `provider/model-name` format** — matches OpenRouter's naming convention:
- `anthropic/claude-opus-4-6` ✅ (valid OpenRouter ID)
- `openai/gpt-4o` ✅ (valid OpenRouter ID)
- `google/gemini-2.5-pro` ✅ (valid OpenRouter ID)
- `deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3` ✅ (valid OpenRouter ID)
- `meta-llama/llama-4-maverick` ✅ (valid OpenRouter ID)
- `qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b` ✅ (valid OpenRouter ID)

**Live models.yaml** matches code defaults with one addition: `custom/test-model` and a default model set to `anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6`.

**Design note:** The registry's `provider` field defaults to `"openrouter"` everywhere (line 84-86 of models.rs: `fn default_provider() -> String { "openrouter".to_string() }`). This is the correct behavior — the registry represents model availability via OpenRouter as the multi-provider gateway. The separate `EndpointConfig.provider` and `ModelRoutingConfig` provider fields handle actual API routing.

**Potential gap:** Some model IDs in the registry (e.g., `anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5`) may not exactly match the version-pinned IDs used by OpenRouter (which often use dated suffixes like `anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5-20251001`). The system handles this gracefully because:
1. The registry ID is informational; actual model ID sent to the API comes from config resolution, not the registry
2. OpenRouter accepts both base IDs and version-pinned IDs

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## 7. Integration Tests

**File:** `tests/integration_openrouter_smoke.rs`

### Status: ✅ All 18 Tests Pass

```
test result: ok. 18 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 0.06s
```

**Test coverage by area:**

| Area | Tests | Description |
|------|-------|-------------|
| Config roundtrip | 2 | `openrouter_endpoint_config_roundtrip`, `config_toml_roundtrip_with_endpoints` |
| Role resolution | 2 | `openrouter_endpoint_bound_to_evaluator_resolves_correctly`, `endpoint_cascades_from_default_role` |
| Client creation | 1 | `openrouter_client_creation_from_resolved_config` |
| Mixed providers | 1 | `mixed_endpoints_different_roles_different_providers` |
| Key file loading | 5 | `api_key_file_loading_end_to_end`, `api_key_file_relative_to_workgraph_dir`, `api_key_file_missing_returns_error`, `api_key_file_empty_returns_error`, `api_key_takes_priority_over_key_file` |
| CLI endpoints | 5 | `cli_endpoints_add_and_list`, `cli_endpoints_add_with_key_file`, `cli_endpoints_remove`, `cli_endpoints_set_default`, `cli_set_endpoint_for_role` |
| Connectivity | 1 | `cli_endpoints_test_with_mock_server` |
| URL defaults | 1 | `default_url_for_known_providers` |

**What's NOT tested (gaps for downstream tasks):**
- Live API call to OpenRouter (no `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` in CI)
- SSE streaming end-to-end (only unit tests for chunk parsing exist in `openai_client.rs`)
- Model discovery (`fetch_openrouter_models`) against real API
- Provider hint effects on headers (tested implicitly via client creation, not via HTTP inspection)

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## Architecture Diagram

```
User Config (.wg/config.toml)
  ├── [llm_endpoints]         → EndpointsConfig
  │     └── EndpointConfig    → name, provider, url, api_key, api_key_file
  ├── [models]                → ModelRoutingConfig
  │     └── RoleModelConfig   → model, provider, tier, endpoint
  └── [native_executor]       → Legacy fallback config

Config Resolution (resolve_model_for_role)
  │
  ├── model: role → legacy → tier → default → agent.model
  ├── provider: role → default
  └── endpoint: role → default
        │
        ▼
Provider Factory (create_provider_ext)
  │
  ├── "openrouter" / "openai" / "local" → OpenAiClient
  │     ├── API key: env var > endpoint > legacy
  │     ├── Base URL: endpoint > env var > config
  │     └── Provider hint: enables OR headers + SSE + cache_control
  │
  └── default → AnthropicClient

LLM Dispatch (run_lightweight_llm_call)
  │
  ├── "openrouter" → call_openai_native() → OpenAiClient::send()
  └── fallback    → call_claude_cli()

Spawn Path (spawn_agent_inner)
  │
  ├── "native" executor → wg native-exec --model X --provider Y
  ├── "claude" executor → claude --model X (no provider routing)
  └── "amplifier"       → amplifier -p provider -m model
```

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## Recommendations for Downstream Tasks

1. **or-streaming**: SSE streaming is already implemented in `OpenAiClient::chat_completion_streaming()`. The task should focus on exposing streaming to the agent loop (currently the `Provider::send()` trait returns a complete response). Consider adding a `send_streaming()` method that yields chunks.

2. **or-api-key-file**: Key file resolution is **already implemented** in `EndpointConfig::resolve_api_key()` (config.rs:348-369). This task may be redundant — verify whether it refers to something beyond what exists.

3. **General**: The integration is mature and well-tested. No critical bugs or missing functionality were found.
