# venice-text-routing

Routes prompts to Venice text models based on privacy tiers, modality, context limits, and cost. Helps local agents offload heavy or sensitive prompts to the right cloud model.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 160
- Author: veniceai
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/veniceai/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/venice-text-routing/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/venice-text-routing

## What it does

This skill defines routing logic for local agents. The agent evaluates whether a task needs local handling or an escalation to Venice. When escalating, it identifies the lowest-cost model that satisfies privacy, context, and capability requirements.

Routing decisions read from a local cache file at `snapshots/text-routing.json`. The agent does not call `/models` on every prompt. When this snapshot is absent or older than 30 days, run `python scripts/refresh_routing.py` to rebuild it. The update script uses public endpoints and runs without an API key.

E2EE mode introduces hard trade-offs. Venice turns off web search, system prompts, and file uploads, returning HTTP 400 on file attachments. Function calling is also unavailable in E2EE sessions.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-text-routing -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-text-routing -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-text-routing -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install veniceai/skills venice-text-routing
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/venice-text-routing/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-text-routing -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/veniceai/skills --path skills/venice-text-routing
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add veniceai/skills --skill venice-text-routing -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/veniceai/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/venice-text-routing/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Route prompts to Venice models by context size and cost
- Enforce TEE or client-side E2EE privacy for sensitive workloads
- Escalate complex prompts from local agents to remote models
- Validate hardware enclave claims via public attestation endpoints

## Example prompts
- Pick the cheapest Venice model with TEE support for this confidential prompt
- Route this request requiring image input and large context to a Venice text model
- Refresh the local Venice routing snapshot using refresh_routing.py

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: venice-text-routing
description: Route a prompt to the right Venice text model based on privacy tier (anonymized / private / TEE / E2EE), modality (vision / audio / video input), capability (reasoning, reasoning effort, code, function calling, X search, large context, structured output), uncensored needs, and cost. Use when a local agent (Claude Code, Hermes, NanoClaw, Codex CLI, etc.) needs to decide whether to handle a prompt locally or escalate to Venice, and if escalating, which Venice text model to call. Sits one level above venice-models (model discovery) and before venice-chat (the call surface).
---

# Venice Text-Model Routing

This skill encodes the *decision logic* for "which Venice text model do I call?" — the routing layer that sits above [`venice-chat`](../venice-chat/SKILL.md) (the call surface) and consumes [`venice-models`](../venice-models/SKILL.md) (the discovery API).

Primary use case: a **local agent** receives a prompt, decides whether the local model can handle it, and — if not — picks the cheapest Venice model that satisfies the privacy / modality / capability requirements.

## Snapshot freshness

> Before applying the matrix below, read [`snapshots/text-routing.json`](snapshots/text-routing.json). If the file is missing, **or `snapshot_date` is older than 30 days**, run `python scripts/refresh_routing.py` to regenerate it from `GET /models?type=text` + `GET /models/traits?type=text`. Otherwise trust the cached file — do **not** hit `/models` on every routing decision.

`refresh_routing.py` rewrites both [`snapshots/text-routing.json`](snapshots/text-routing.json) and [`routing-matrix.md`](routing-matrix.md). Both endpoints are public, so no key is needed; `VENICE_API_KEY` / `--api-key` is optional and tailors the result to that key (a `modelPrivacy`-restricted key sees a filtered catalog). Run it once on first install, then ~monthly (CI nightly is also fine).

In the snapshot, each model's `privacy` label is `e2ee` when `supportsE2EE` is true, `tee` when only `supportsTeeAttestation` is true, and otherwise the model's own `private` / `anonymized` value (every TEE/E2EE model is `private` in `/models`, so treat `tee` and `e2ee` as private too); `tier` is bucketed by **input** price only; `beta_access` mirrors `model_spec.beta` (only listed to beta-access keys, so it is always `false` in the shipped keyless snapshot) and `beta_status` mirrors `model_spec.betaModel` (callable, but may change or disappear).
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