InferenceHosted Inference

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OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions route for OpenClaw, Hermes, and LangChain Deep Agents Code. NemoClaw keeps the sandbox on https://inference.local/v1 and sends upstream traffic through a host adapter.

Credential

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY in the host shell before onboarding. Valid OpenRouter keys begin with sk-or-. NemoClaw validates that the key is non-empty and uses the expected prefix.

Model Choices

OpenRouter uses the same catalog-backed picker and featured model list as NVIDIA Endpoints. You can also enter any OpenRouter model ID manually. NemoClaw validates manual entries with OpenRouter before continuing.

Onboard

Run the onboarding wizard and select OpenRouter.

$nemoclaw onboard

NemoClaw registers the openrouter-api provider through the OpenShell openai profile.

Host Adapter

NemoClaw starts or reuses a local host adapter on port 11437 by default. It registers OpenShell with OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://host.openshell.internal:11437/v1.

The adapter accepts only the OpenShell bearer credential bound during setup and forwards requests to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1. It adds the default HTTP-Referer and X-OpenRouter-Title attribution headers. The adapter does not store the API key.

The adapter exposes a host health endpoint and writes logs to ~/.nemoclaw/openrouter-runtime-adapter.log. Set NEMOCLAW_OPENROUTER_RUNTIME_ADAPTER_PORT before onboarding to use a different host port.

Validation

Host-side catalog, model, and smoke validation use /v1/chat/completions only. NemoClaw skips the Responses API probe and uses managed Chat Completions at runtime.