little-coder OpenRouter Advisor

External little-coder extension loaded with LITTLE_CODER_EXTRA_EXTENSIONS. It keeps the local model primary and uses OpenRouter only for optional advisory critique, recovery steering, and explicit review requests.

Usage

export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=...
export LITTLE_CODER_EXTRA_EXTENSIONS=/Users/matthewgold/code/little-coder-openrouter-advisor
export LITTLE_CODER_ADVISOR_MODEL=~openai/gpt-latest
little-coder --model llamacpp/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Environment

• OPENROUTER_API_KEY - required for advisor calls. Accepts any OpenAI-compatible key.
• LITTLE_CODER_ADVISOR_MODEL - defaults to ~openai/gpt-latest.
• LITTLE_CODER_ADVISOR_BASE_URL - defaults to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1. Replace with your choice of OpenAI-compatible url.
• LITTLE_CODER_ADVISOR_ENABLED - defaults to enabled unless set to 0, false, no, or off.
• LITTLE_CODER_ADVISOR_TIMEOUT_MS - defaults to 60000.

No API keys are written to disk. Error messages redact bearer tokens and known key-like strings before being returned to the model/UI.