litellm-setup

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By BerriAI/litellm (GitHub) · coding · 63,102 stars · scanned at commit 8b8ec4e

Set up a self-hosted LiteLLM proxy, the OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway, on this machine, from install through provider keys, config.yaml, a master key, optional Postgres and Admin UI, and a verified chat completion. Use when the user asks to set up LiteLLM, install the LiteLLM proxy, self-host an LLM gateway, or put one endpoint in front of OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Azure, Bedrock, Ollama, or other providers. Not for using the LiteLLM Python SDK inside an app

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Reads your saved credentials, such as SSH keys or .env files

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 1 place.

skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 10Never print a secret. Provider keys, the master key, the salt key, the database URL, and virtual keys live only in `.env`, and `config.yaml` reads them through

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 16 places.

skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 13unset DATABASE_URL DIRECT_URL DATABASE_HOST; export LITELLM_MODE=PRODUCTION; while IFS= read -r line || [ -n "$line" ]; do case "$line" in [A-Za-z_]*=*) export
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 30chmod 600 litellm_config.yaml; grep -qx 'litellm_config.yaml' .gitignore 2>/dev/null || echo 'litellm_config.yaml' >> .gitignore
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 37export LITELLM_MASTER_KEY="$("$(uv tool dir)/litellm/bin/python" -I -c 'import yaml; print(yaml.safe_load(open("litellm_config.yaml"))["general_settings"]["mast

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skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 43uv --version; docker info --format '{{.ServerVersion}}'; docker compose version; curl --version | head -1; openssl version; command -v python3
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 55curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BerriAI/litellm/main/scripts/quickstart.sh -o quickstart.sh
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 63python3 -c 'import json, os, sys; json.dump({"model_name": "gpt-6.1-sol", "litellm_params": {"model": "openai/gpt-6.1-sol", "api_key": os.environ["OPENAI_API_KE
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 75uv tool install --python '>=3.10,<3.15' 'litellm[proxy]'
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 84docker pull docker.litellm.ai/berriai/litellm:main-stable
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 92mkdir -p litellm-proxy && cd litellm-proxy
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 102curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BerriAI/litellm/main/model_prices_and_context_window.json | python3 -c '
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 132grep -q '^LITELLM_SALT_KEY=.' .env || printf 'LITELLM_SALT_KEY=sk-%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" >> .env
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 138tool="$(uv tool dir)/litellm"
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 150export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"; export PATH="$(uv tool dir --bin):$PATH"
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 158docker run -d --name litellm --env-file .env -v "$PWD/config.yaml:/app/config.yaml:ro" -p 127.0.0.1:4000:4000 \
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 165for i in $(seq 1 180); do curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1:4000/health/liveliness >/dev/null 2>&1 && break; alive || break; sleep 1; done
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 176curl -sS http://127.0.0.1:4000/v1/chat/completions \

Sends data to these websites: astral.sh, raw.githubusercontent.com

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 8 places.

skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 46On native Windows, ask the user to run Claude Code inside WSL, since every command here is POSIX shell. Every path needs curl, openssl, and python3, so ask the
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 48Check the port is free with `curl -s -o /dev/null --max-time 2 http://127.0.0.1:4000; echo $?`, which prints `7` (could not connect) only when nothing listens t
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 55curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BerriAI/litellm/main/scripts/quickstart.sh -o quickstart.sh

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skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 64| curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' http://127.0.0.1:4000/model/new \
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 102curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BerriAI/litellm/main/model_prices_and_context_window.json | python3 -c '
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 165for i in $(seq 1 180); do curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1:4000/health/liveliness >/dev/null 2>&1 && break; alive || break; sleep 1; done
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 166curl -sS http://127.0.0.1:4000/health/readiness
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 176curl -sS http://127.0.0.1:4000/v1/chat/completions \

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 2 places.

skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 79With their own Postgres, install `'litellm[proxy,extra_proxy]'` instead, with the same `--python` range, which adds the Prisma client the proxy uses for the dat
skills/litellm-setup/SKILL.md, line 192- To manage the running proxy from a coding agent (keys, teams, users, models, MCP servers), install `npx skills add BerriAI/litellm-skills -g`

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Install

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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'litellm-setup' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'litellm-setup' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named litellm-setup already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8b8ec4e3a64facae7af657ab06bc214dd5bf9060' -- 'skills/litellm-setup' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/litellm-setup' ~/.agents/skills/'litellm-setup' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'litellm-setup' ~/.claude/skills/'litellm-setup' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-11	`8b8ec4e`	69
2026-11-08	`cfddaaf`	69