Venice.Ai Router Openclaw
PassAudited by ClawScan on May 1, 2026.
Overview
This appears to be a coherent Venice.ai model-routing skill, but it uses a paid API key and may send prompts to Venice or proxied external model providers unless privacy settings are constrained.
Before installing, protect the Venice API key, set `VENICE_PRIVATE_ONLY=true` for confidential data, and consider `VENICE_DAILY_BUDGET`, `VENICE_SESSION_BUDGET`, or `VENICE_MAX_TIER` to control costs. Be aware that web search, conversation history, and tool-schema options may send additional context to the provider.
Findings (3)
Artifact-based informational review of SKILL.md, metadata, install specs, static scan signals, and capability signals. ClawScan does not execute the skill or run runtime probes.
Anyone using this skill with your API key can consume Venice.ai quota or generate billable API usage.
The skill requires a Venice.ai API credential, which is expected for the integration but grants account/API usage authority and may incur costs.
requires:\n bins: ["python3"]\n env: ["VENICE_API_KEY"]\n primaryEnv: VENICE_API_KEY
Use a dedicated API key if possible, protect the key in environment/config files, and set Venice budget or tier limits before broad agent use.
Sensitive prompts may be processed outside Venice-hosted private models unless private-only routing is enabled.
The artifacts disclose that some requests may cross from Venice to external model providers, even though identity is stripped.
**Anonymized**: Request is proxied to external provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI) with user identity stripped
Use `--private-only` or `VENICE_PRIVATE_ONLY=true` for confidential data, and review the selected model privacy label before sending sensitive prompts.
A user could overestimate the default privacy posture if they do not notice that private-only routing is optional.
The privacy claim is qualified to private models; because the router also supports anonymized external-provider models, users should not assume every automatic route has zero retention.
Venice offers **true privacy** with zero data retention on private models. Your conversations stay yours.
Treat privacy as setting- and model-dependent; enable private-only mode for sensitive work and avoid relying on broad marketing language alone.