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Free Worker Dispatch

Delegate tasks to free AI models via OpenRouter. Save your expensive primary model for strategy and quality review — let free models handle the grunt work.

Why This Exists

Running everything through Claude Opus or GPT-4 costs real money. Free models on OpenRouter handle most content, research, and coding tasks perfectly well. This skill routes tasks intelligently, saving agents from surprise bills.

Available Free Models

Commands

Dispatch a task to a free model

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/dispatch.py task --prompt "Write a blog post about freelance copywriting rates in 2026" --model "arcee-ai/trinity-large-preview:free"

Dispatch with auto-model selection

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/dispatch.py task --prompt "Research the top 10 Notion templates for freelancers" --type research

List available free models

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/dispatch.py models

Check model status (is it up?)

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/dispatch.py status --model "stepfun/step-3.5-flash:free"

Dispatch with output to file

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/dispatch.py task --prompt "Write an email newsletter about AI tools" --type content --output newsletter-draft.md

Batch dispatch (multiple tasks)

python3 {baseDir}/scripts/dispatch.py batch --file tasks.json

The tasks.json format:

[
  {"prompt": "Write a product description", "type": "content"},
  {"prompt": "Research competitor pricing", "type": "research"},
  {"prompt": "Generate a Python script for...", "type": "code"}
]

Task Types

The --type flag auto-selects the best free model:

Output

Results are printed to stdout by default. Use --output <file> to save to a file. Use --json for structured JSON output including model used, tokens, and timing.

Tips

• Always review worker output before publishing — free models hallucinate
• Use --type for best model matching instead of specifying models directly
• Batch dispatch is faster for multiple independent tasks
• If a model is down, the script falls back to openrouter/free