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Simon Willison Blog·Release·5d ago·~1 min read

llm-openrouter 0.6

20th April 2026

llm openrouter refresh

command for refreshing the list of available models without waiting for the cache to expire.

I added this feature so I could try Kimi 2.6 on OpenRouter as soon as it became available there.

Here's its pelican - this time as an HTML page because Kimi chose to include an HTML and JavaScript UI to control the animation. Transcript here.

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