October 17, 2026 — Void API has published a provider-authored preflight guide and a free Russian-language OpenCode configuration and token-budget worksheet for independent developers evaluating an OpenAI-compatible API. The worksheet does not ask for an API key and runs on a separate HTTP-only marketing site; users should never submit secrets there.
The guide separates three checks that are easy to confuse: whether a key can see a model, whether a plain Chat Completions request succeeds, and whether the features required by a coding client actually work. It explains why public model catalogs and authenticated model lists should be checked separately, and why a small response is not an end-to-end agent test.
A dated update records a minimal two-request tool-result round trip on the gateway ID gpt-6.1-sol. The first response returned a forced add_numbers call with arguments 2 and 3; the test client supplied the result 5, and the second response returned exactly 5. Both requests returned HTTP 200, with 213 total reported tokens. Monetary cost was not measured.
This narrow result does not establish OpenCode or gptel end-to-end compatibility, automatic tool selection, streaming, other models, or provider superiority. No independent review or customer endorsement is claimed.
Developers can read the original guide at https://voidapitech.mataroa.blog/blog/before-connecting-a-coding-agent-a-three-step-api-preflight/ and use its limited preflight before granting filesystem or shell permissions. The optional worksheet is at http://81.85.72.227/; canonical service information is at https://void-api.tech/.
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