Topic 8 — OpenRouter Python integration patterns for the `agents-sdk/` fleet. Cover: (1) auth header pattern + `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` env var loading; (2) drop-in vs custom-client integration — does the `anthropic-python` SDK accept an OpenRouter `base_url` override or is the OpenAI-compatible `/v1/chat/completions` endpoint required (and what does that mean for existing `claude_agent_sdk` calls in `agents-sdk/agents/`); (3) recommended retry/timeout + cost-tracking middleware patterns; (4) HybridRouter analogue — how to route a task to OpenRouter on Anthropic rate-limit or quota exhaustion. Cite the OpenRouter Quickstart + Python SDK docs at https://openrouter.ai/docs/quickstart and 2025-2026 community implementations on GitHub. — done 2026-05-12 02:54 → [[20_projects/research/2026-05-12-topic-8-openrouter-python-integration-patterns-for-the-agent]]

Topic 9 — OpenRouter free-tier models that support OpenAI-format tool calling reliably in 2026. Output a ranked table with: model name + provider, daily request quota / context window, tool-call accuracy (community-reported), known quirks/breakages (JSON-mode failures, schema-strict parsing issues, retry behavior). Should answer: "which OpenRouter free model can replace Qwen3-14B-on-Ollama for headless tool-using agents when the Mac Mini is unreachable." Cite OpenRouter docs + Hacker News / Reddit / r/LocalLLaMA threads with dates. — done 2026-05-13 02:53 → [[20_projects/research/2026-05-13-topic-9-openrouter-free-tier-models-that-support-openai-form]]

Topic 10 — OpenRouter automatic routing + provider preference config: how the `provider` field (allow_fallbacks, sort by price/throughput/latency, require_parameters) works in practice, what the recommended config is for cost-capped personal agentic workflows (~$5/day across ~14 agents), and how to hard-cap spend per request and per day. Cite OpenRouter routing docs + 2025-2026 case studies. — done 2026-05-14 02:53 → [[20_projects/research/2026-05-14-topic-10-openrouter-automatic-routing-provider-preference-co]]

Topic 11 — OpenRouter image-generation models for the `creative-studio/` workflows: catalog what image-gen endpoints OpenRouter exposes in 2026 (Closed-source models, latest open aourced models, FLUX, SDXL, Imagen variants, Stable Diffusion forks), the API shape (POST body + response format — URL vs base64), per-image costs across the catalog, and which model best fits four specific use cases: (a) Game Boy-style pixel art for `16bitfit-battle-mode`, (b) cinematic stills for Remotion video projects, (c) Disney style pencil test animation art, and (d) watercolor art. Cite OpenRouter Models API at https://openrouter.ai/docs/api-reference/models/get-models. — done 2026-05-15 02:46 → [[20_projects/research/2026-05-15-topic-11-openrouter-image-generation-models-for-the-creative]]

Topic 12 — OpenRouter vs direct-provider economics for a personal autonomous-agent fleet running ~14 agents on macOS launchd (daily-driver, vault-synthesizer, knowledge-lint, deep-researcher, etc.). For each tier of model (frontier, mid, cheap, free), compare $/M-token + per-request markup between OpenRouter and the direct provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google AI Studio). Identify the break-even point where OpenRouter's unified billing + automatic fallback wins despite the markup, and the inverse cases where direct is clearly cheaper. Cite OpenRouter pricing pages + 2025-2026 community cost-benchmark posts. — done 2026-05-16 02:46 → [[20_projects/research/2026-05-16-topic-12-openrouter-vs-direct-provider-economics-for-a-perso]]

Topic 1a — MCP / SDK toolkit survey: catalog mcp-cli, mcp-bridge, mcp-proxy, third-party MCP gateways (e.g., MCP-Hub patterns), and Anthropic Agent SDK features added since 0.1.63 (current pin) that bear on headless tool access. For each: license, last-commit recency, open-issue velocity, headless-friendliness. Output a comparison table ranked by headless-friendliness for personal autonomous agent fleets running on macOS launchd. — done 2026-05-05 16:02 (LDR — superseded, do not cite) → [[20_projects/research/2026-05-05-topic-1a-mcp-sdk-toolkit-survey-catalog-mcp-cli-mcp-bridge-m]] · re-run 2026-05-06 16:14 via Gemini DR (canonical version) → [[20_projects/research/2026-05-06-topic-1a-mcp-sdk-toolkit-survey-catalog-mcp-cli-mcp-bridge-m]]

Topic 1b — CLI-driven agentic-workflow repo audit + pinning patterns + Gemini CLI extensions: evaluate https://github.com/jackwener/OpenCLI.git and https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli.git for license, maintenance signal, security-review surface (does the repo execute model-output as code?), and fit for invocation from a Python wrapper script per the gemini-image-gen skill pattern. Catalog Gemini CLI extensions from https://geminicli.com/extensions/ for research / agentic-workflow / data-tooling relevance — including any Deep Research extension. Document patterns for pinning/vendoring third-party CLI repos (git submodule pinned to commit SHA, pip install git+url@sha, vendored-copy approach used by last30days/scripts/lib/vendor/bird-search/) so a repo update doesn't break a personal workflow. — done 2026-05-06 15:58 via Gemini DR (LDR timed out at 02:45; canonical example for the routing rule above) → [[20_projects/research/2026-05-06-topic-1b-cli-driven-agentic-workflow-repo-audit-pinning-patt]]

Topic 3 — Open-source model tool-calling (Qwen3-14B, Phi-4, Gemma 4 OpenAI-format function calling; bypass-MCP vs in-process MCP vs OS-model MCP patterns). Compare what works today on Mac Mini Ollama / MBP LM Studio, what's broken, and 2025-2026 community recipes. Identify which model+pattern combo gives the best headless tool-calling reliability for a 14B-class local model. — done 2026-05-07 02:55 → [[20_projects/research/2026-05-07-topic-3-open-source-model-tool-calling-qwen3-14b-phi-4-gemma]]

Topic 5 — Local MCP gateway patterns: a single long-running process that holds OAuth tokens once and serves multiple agents/clients via stdio MCP. Survey 2025-2026 community projects implementing this pattern (mcp-bridge, mcp-proxy, etc.), evaluate their token-refresh / multi-tenant / scope-isolation behavior, and recommend a setup recipe for a personal agent fleet (~14 agents) needing shared OAuth access to Slack, Google, GitHub. — done 2026-05-08 16:12 (manual via Gemini DR Web UI; routed off LDR per v3.26.3 routing rule — compound 8-axis survey) → [[20_projects/research/2026-05-08-topic-5-open-source-mcp-gateways-for-headless-macOS-agent-fleet]]

Topic 7 — Daily Driver cost-benefit (external lens). Across published case studies of personal autonomous-agent fleets in 2025–2026, what ROI is reported for adding read-only access to Slack/Calendar/Gmail vs. retaining manual handoff? Cite specific blog posts / Hacker News threads / GitHub READMEs documenting time-saved estimates and any common failure modes. — done 2026-05-08 15:43 (manual via Gemini DR Web UI; routed off LDR per v3.26.3 routing rule — multi-source synthesis is compound) → [[20_projects/research/2026-05-08-topic-7-AI-assistant-integration-ROI-research]]

What are the practical differences between Ollama Modelfile SYSTEM prompts and runtime system messages for Qwen3? — done 2026-05-03 10:52 → [[20_projects/research/2026-05-03-what-are-the-practical-differences-between-ollama-modelfile]]

What are the key differences between Apple's MLX and GGUF formats for 14B LLMs in 2026? — done 2026-04-26 09:56 → [[20_projects/research/2026-04-26-what-are-the-key-differences-between-apples-mlx-and-gguf-for]]