# add-provider

Turns a new AI provider in ClaudeBar into a single JSON definition. Useful when a vendor has to be wired up without touching Swift.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1557
- Author: tddworks
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/tddworks/ClaudeBar/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/add-provider/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
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## What it does

A provider here is data. You drop one file at `Modules/Providers/Resources/Providers/<id>.json`, and the app picks it up on its own: `ProviderCatalog.detect()` reads every definition in the bundle plus anything in `~/.claudebar/providers` and `~/.claudebar/extensions`. Nothing registers it, and no Swift line names it.

Each definition answers three questions once: who the provider is (`profile`), how an account signs in (`settings`, `accounts`), and where usage comes from (`dataSources`). Every data source carries three closed sums — `credential` for the key's location, `fetch` for the request, `mapping` for reading the reply. One `Provider` class and one `DataSource` type run all of them. A `<id>-*.js` mapping script sits beside the JSON only when no rule can parse the format, a TUI screen being the obvious case.

Golden tests live in `Modules/Providers/Tests/<Name>DefinitionTests.swift` and come with every definition. When the language itself falls short — a new setting kind, case or worker — that counts as a design change: write it into TARGET_ARCHITECTURE and CANONICAL_MODEL, get the user's confirmation, then code. Workers take their names from a protocol, format or place (`JSONRPCFetcher`, `OAuth2Refresher`), never from a vendor.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tddworks/ClaudeBar --skill add-provider -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/add-provider/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/add-provider/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tddworks/ClaudeBar --skill add-provider -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/add-provider/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tddworks/ClaudeBar --skill add-provider -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/add-provider/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install tddworks/ClaudeBar add-provider
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/add-provider/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tddworks/ClaudeBar --skill add-provider -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/tddworks/ClaudeBar --path .claude/skills/add-provider
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/add-provider/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add tddworks/ClaudeBar --skill add-provider -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/tddworks/ClaudeBar/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/add-provider/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- add a new AI provider to ClaudeBar with one JSON file
- keep an old saved key working after a settings change
- describe sign-in through a CLI's login file
- update a definition after the vendor changes its CLI, API or file format
- set a provider's name, symbol, colour and icon

## Example prompts
- Add the Acme provider to ClaudeBar: the key sits in an environment variable and usage comes from its HTTP API
- The vendor changed its login file format — update the provider definition and its tests
- Create a definition for a new provider and write golden tests under `Modules/Providers/Tests/`

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---
name: add-provider
description: |
  Add an AI provider to ClaudeBar as a JSON definition run by the one generic
  Provider and DataSource. Use this skill when:
  (1) Adding a new AI assistant provider (like Antigravity, Cursor, etc.)
  (2) A provider needs a setting, an added account, or an old saved key kept working
  (3) A provider's CLI, API or file format changed and its definition must follow
  (4) User asks "how do I add a new provider" or "create a provider for X"
---

# Add a Provider to ClaudeBar

A provider is **data**: one file, `Modules/Providers/Resources/Providers/<id>.json`.
**The app finds it** — `ProviderCatalog.detect()` reads every definition in the
bundle (and in `~/.claudebar/providers`, `~/.claudebar/extensions`) and makes
each on one shared `Engine` ([TARGET_ARCHITECTURE §10](../../../docs/architecture/TARGET_ARCHITECTURE.md#10--a-definition-on-disk-is-a-provider)).
There is no registration step and no Swift line that names it.
It is an abstraction layer that answers three questions, each once: **who the
provider is** (`profile`), **how an account is signed in** (`settings`, and
`accounts` when the vendor keeps a login in a folder), and **how to get its
usage** (`dataSources`: where the key is, how to fetch, how to read the
answer). One
`Provider` class and one `DataSource` type run every definition. **You write
no Swift for a vendor**: no `XxxProvider`, no `XxxUsageProbe`, no
`XxxCredentialLoader`.

> Read first: [TARGET_ARCHITECTURE.md](../../../docs/architecture/TARGET_ARCHITECTURE.md)
> (how a definition runs), [MODULAR_DESIGN.md](../../../docs/architecture/MODULAR_DESIGN.md)
> (which module a file goes in), and [CANONICAL_MODEL.md](../../../docs/architecture/CANONICAL_MODEL.md)
> (the words). Every built-in provider is a definition, so there is a worked
> example for most shapes: an API key with a region (`minimax.json`), a CLI's login
> file renewed by OAuth (`grok.json`) or by the CLI itself (`gemini.json`), a TUI
> (`kimi.json`), a browser session over several requests (`alibaba.json`), an app's
> local server (`antigravity.json`), cloud metrics priced into money (`bedrock.json`).
> Their tests are in `Modules/Providers/Tests/`.

**The docs are the source of truth** ([AGENTS.md](../../../AGENTS.md#design-docs-are-the-source-of-truth)).
A provider that fits the definition language needs no design change. One that needs the
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