OpenRouter MCP Server

What the code does

We read the source, 19 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

    return subprocess.run(command, capture_output=True, text=True, check=False)

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

claude mcp add mcp-openrouter -- uvx mcp-openrouter

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-openrouter": {
      "args": [
        "mcp-openrouter"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.mcp-openrouter]
command = "uvx"
args = ["mcp-openrouter"]

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-openrouter": {
      "args": [
        "mcp-openrouter"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-openrouter": {
      "args": [
        "mcp-openrouter"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: OPENROUTER_API_KEY (OpenRouter API key used to authenticate tool requests.), DEFAULT_TEXT_MODEL (Default model slug for chat tool calls when no model is provided.), DEFAULT_IMAGE_MODEL (Default model slug for image generation tool calls.), DEFAULT_CODE_MODEL (Default model slug for code-oriented tasks.), DEFAULT_VISION_MODEL (Default model slug for vision-capable tool calls.), DEFAULT_EMBEDDING_MODEL (Default model slug for embedding tool calls when no model is provided.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.