Install the Claude Code / Cursor skill
The modelux skill is a single markdown file that teaches your AI assistant everything it needs to write code against modelux: the proxy API, the Management API, the MCP tool catalog, routing config selectors, both SDKs, and budget / decision-trace conventions.
You don’t have to install it to use it. Agents can fetch it directly from the URL below; install it as a Claude Code / Cursor skill only if you want it to autoload on relevant tasks.
Just read the skill (no install)
The canonical URL:
https://modelux.ai/skill/SKILL.md
Any agent that can fetch a URL (or be handed a URL by the user) can use modelux. Paste the URL into your prompt, or fetch the file once and drop it into context. It’s plain markdown and always up to date.
Install as a Claude Code / Cursor skill
If you’re using Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or Cursor, install the skill once and stop pasting context into every prompt — your assistant autoloads it when a task matches.
One-liner:
curl -fsSL https://modelux.ai/skill/install.sh | sh
This drops the skill at ~/.claude/skills/modelux/SKILL.md. Restart your
agent harness to pick it up.
Override the install location with SKILLS_DIR:
SKILLS_DIR=~/my-custom-skills curl -fsSL https://modelux.ai/skill/install.sh | sh
Manual install
If you’d rather not pipe curl into sh, fetch the file yourself:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/modelux
curl -fsSL https://modelux.ai/skill/SKILL.md -o ~/.claude/skills/modelux/SKILL.md
What it gives your assistant
Once installed, your assistant gains built-in knowledge of:
- The modelux proxy API (
api.modelux.ai/v1) and its OpenAI-compatible request shape - The Management API at
app.modelux.ai/manage/v1and where to fetch the OpenAPI spec - The modelux MCP server and how to manage your account from natural language
- Both SDKs (
@modelux/sdkfor Node,modeluxfor Python) and theirX-Modelux-*extensions - Routing config selectors (
@config-name) and the supported policy types - Budget enforcement responses (
BudgetExceededError, 402 status) - Decision traces and replay experiments
The skill itself is intentionally short — it points your assistant at the canonical, always-up-to-date sources:
/llms-full.txt— every docs page concatenated/openapi.yaml— the Management API spec/docs.json— programmatic doc tree
That way the skill never goes stale: when our docs change, the assistant sees the new docs the next time it fetches.
Companion: connect the MCP server
The skill teaches your assistant what modelux is. The MCP server lets it actually do things — create budgets, run experiments, rotate keys, query analytics. Install both for the full experience.
Source
The skill source lives in the public site repo and is served as a static asset. View it directly: modelux.ai/skill/SKILL.md.