CheapTokens Skills

What this is

CheapTokens Skills is the agent skill pack for using CheapTokens/Venice credits. It teaches agents how to route model calls through CheapTokens keys and the Venice API surface.

Status: public support repo for CheapTokens. This is not the CheapTokens app itself; the production product lives in cheaptokens-audit/ / 0xatd/cheaptokens.

Agent skills for discounted Venice.ai credits.

This repo bundles:

CheapTokens router skill — key detection, Same-Day and Prepaid status handling, discounted-credit routing, direct Venice spend, and attribution.
Synced Venice API skills — official Venice endpoint skills mirrored from veniceai/skills, so agents know the full Venice model surface.

CheapTokens keys are Venice API keys. The point of this pack is to make that obvious and useful: agents can buy or receive discounted Same-Day credits or Prepaid API Keys from CheapTokens.ai, then use the full Venice API across text, code, image, video, music, audio, transcription, embeddings, search/scrape, characters, and more.

Install / add to an agent

Use the whole repo if your runtime supports skill directories, or copy only the skill files you want.

CheapTokens router only

Raw URL:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xatd/cheaptokens-skills/main/skills/cheaptokens/SKILL.md

CheapTokens-hosted URL:

https://cheaptokens.ai/SKILL.md

OpenClaw example:

mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills/cheaptokens
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xatd/cheaptokens-skills/main/skills/cheaptokens/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.openclaw/skills/cheaptokens/SKILL.md

Full CheapTokens + Venice skill pack

git clone https://github.com/0xatd/cheaptokens-skills.git
# Then point your agent runtime at ./cheaptokens-skills/skills

For Hermes, Claude Code, Codex-style harnesses, Cursor, Cline, OpenCode, OpenClaw, and similar runtimes, save the skill files wherever that runtime loads skills or persistent agent instructions.

What the CheapTokens skill does

The CheapTokens skill lets an agent use a CheapTokens/Venice API key across Venice's model surface:

text and coding via /chat/completions
image generation/editing/upscale/background removal
video generation/transcription
music and long-form audio
text-to-speech
speech-to-text
embeddings
document parsing, web scrape/search, characters, and other Venice utilities

It handles:

CheapTokens key detection and status checks
Same-Day expiry awareness and Prepaid balance/runway handling
Venice live model discovery
task-to-endpoint routing
direct Venice API calls using the provided key
attribution so users can verify when credits were actually spent
honest fallback when the key is expired, exhausted, or unsupported

Relationship to Venice skills

This is not a fork of veniceai/skills.

It is a CheapTokens-branded skill pack that vendors/syncs Venice's public MIT-licensed skills and adds the CheapTokens router skill on top.

Mental model:

CheapTokens skill = key detection, credit expiry, spend routing, attribution
Venice skills     = deeper Venice endpoint expertise and edge cases

For most text/coding tasks, the CheapTokens skill is enough by itself. For advanced image, video, audio, music, transcription, model traits, or provider-specific errors, install the full pack.

Synced Venice source

Venice skills are synced from:

https://github.com/veniceai/skills

See:

Update command:

scripts/update-venice-skills.sh

Validate the local skill pack before publishing a sync:

node scripts/validate-skills.mjs

CI runs the same manifest check and verifies the Venice sync script parses as shell.

Repo layout

skills/
  cheaptokens/                  # CheapTokens router skill
  venice-api-overview/           # Synced from veniceai/skills
  venice-chat/
  venice-models/
  venice-image-generate/
  venice-video/
  ...
scripts/update-venice-skills.sh
vendor/VENICE-SKILLS-SOURCE.txt
vendor/VENICE-SKILLS-LICENSE
skills.json

License

MIT.

The CheapTokens skill and repo scaffolding are © CheapTokens.ai. Synced Venice skills are © Venice.ai and distributed under MIT; see vendor/VENICE-SKILLS-LICENSE.

Cheaptokens Skills

README