nc://apinex

APInex: Claude over the Messages wire and the OpenAI-compatible vendors and free tier on one key. A Nodecode rewrite of Apinex-AI/hermes-provider-apinex by Apinex-AI.

APInex is a gateway with two wires at one host, and one key for both. With this cell, /models offers it twice: apinex carries the Claude family (including its free Claude models) over the Anthropic Messages API, and apinex-openai carries GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, GLM, Qwen, Kimi, Grok and the Free tier over the OpenAI-compatible chat API. Both answer at https://api.apinex.bond/v1, the first at /messages and the second at /chat/completions.

A turn on either goes out with the model's own id, the context window and vision flag the original's capability matrix gave it, and the key from APINEX_API_KEY. The model list is the one the plugin bundled, split by the same rule its fetch_models() applied: a picker never offers a media, embedding or speech model, nor a roster entry that takes no tools.

Get it

Tell the agent "add the apinex cell", or run nodecode add nc://apinex.

Set it up

Make a key at https://apinex.bond/register, then save it with /connect (pick APInex) or set it in the environment:

export APINEX_API_KEY=sk-apx-...

A key saved with /connect wins over the variable. The variable is the same one the original plugin read, so a Hermes setup carries over unchanged.

Optional: the section takes the gateway's base, for a relay or a mirror.

{
  "apinex": {
    "base_url": "https://api.apinex.bond/v1"
  }
}

Use it

Pick APInex in /models, or name a model directly:

• apinex/claude-sonnet-5.5, apinex/claude-opus-5.5, apinex/claude-fable-5.1
• apinex/free/claude-sonnet-4.6
• apinex-openai/free/glm-5.3-flash, apinex-openai/free/gemini-3.8-flash, apinex-openai/gpt-6.1-sol, apinex-openai/grok-4.7

Both providers read APINEX_API_KEY and nothing else: a turn on either never picks up ANTHROPIC_API_KEY or OPENAI_API_KEY from the environment.

MIT licensed, like the plugin it is rewritten from. See NOTICE.