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Model routing, OpenRouter signals

entity · created 2026-07-09 · actor claude-code · confidence high · status active tags: models routing evals openrouter drift

Now​

Public report/JSON at dwaynehelena.com/model-signals, built from OpenRouter's public rankings, app leaderboards, and the public keyless Models API. Snapshot 2026-08-12: 10 top-volume models, 10 ranked apps, 11 pricing entries. Attribution openrouter.ai/rankings.

Operating rules (site, 2026-08-12): read token volume and app-ranking numbers as usage and price sensitivity, not a quality or safety signal; treat the rankings/apps snapshot as dated and manual, not a live scrape, since OpenRouter's terms prohibit automated collection of that page.

Automation status: ai-hub/scripts/refresh-model-signals-pricing.py refreshes the pricing table from OpenRouter's public keyless Models API (GET /api/v1/models, no ToS concern, no key needed), built and tested 2026-08-12, not yet on a cron schedule, run manually until scheduled. The rankings/top-apps sections have no automation path: OpenRouter's Datasets API can do it but requires a personal API key (an account, not something to provision unattended), so those stay a manual dated snapshot until a key is set up. The old post-model-smoke cron job (id 89564af9dac3) is disabled, not deleted, ~/.hermes/cron/jobs.json, backup taken before edit.

Log​

  • 2026-07-09: created from site + local eval pipeline (prior methodology retired).
  • 2026-08-12: replaced with a page grounded entirely in OpenRouter's own public rankings, app leaderboards, and Models API; prior third-party-sourced fingerprint dataset and its attribution removed sitewide.
  • 2026-08-12: built and tested a pricing-only refresh script (Models API, no ToS restriction); left unscheduled pending a decision on cron registration for a script that pushes to the public repo unsupervised.
Sources: https://dwaynehelena.com/model-signals (snapshot 2026-08-12) · https://openrouter.ai/rankings · https://openrouter.ai/apps · https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models · ai-hub/scripts/refresh-model-signals-pricing.py