Runcrate

Use Runcrate models with Docker Agent.

Overview

Runcrate is a GPU cloud that also serves open models (DeepSeek, GLM, Qwen, gpt-oss and others) through an OpenAI-compatible API. Docker Agent includes built-in support for Runcrate as an alias provider.

Some open models come with a limited free allowance for GitHub accounts at least 30 days old. Once the allowance is used up, or when free capacity is busy, requests from a workspace with credit are billed to that credit. See Runcrate's free inference terms for the current models, limits and prices.

Setup

1. Create a Runcrate API key

2. Set the environment variable:

   export RUNCRATE_API_KEY=your-api-key
   

Usage

Inline Syntax

Use a Runcrate model by prefixing its model ID with runcrate/:

agents:
  root:
    model: runcrate/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
    description: Assistant using Runcrate
    instruction: You are a helpful assistant.

Docker Agent splits only the first slash, so model IDs that include an organization prefix are preserved.

Named Model

For more control over parameters:

models:
  runcrate_glm:
    provider: runcrate
    model: zai-org/GLM-5.3
    temperature: 0.7
    max_tokens: 8192

agents:
  root:
    model: runcrate_glm
    description: Assistant using Runcrate
    instruction: You are a helpful assistant.

Available Models

Some chat model IDs Runcrate serves:

Model IDs are case-sensitive. The live /v1/models endpoint lists current IDs; it also lists image, video, speech and embedding models, which this chat provider does not use.

Runcrate is not in the models.dev catalog. Docker Agent does not import metadata from Runcrate's model list, so it has no catalog-derived pricing or context limits for these models. Attachment capabilities conservatively fall back to text-only; image and PDF attachments are dropped, with a warning logged once per model.

If you have verified that your chosen model accepts a particular attachment type, set models.<name>.capabilities to override detection. See Attachment Capability Overrides for all supported flags.

How It Works

Runcrate is implemented as a built-in alias in Docker Agent:

• API Type: OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions (openai_chatcompletions)
• Base URL: https://api.runcrate.ai/v1
• Token Variable: RUNCRATE_API_KEY

Because Runcrate serves open-weight models whose chat templates can reject multiple leading system messages, Docker Agent coalesces its per-source system messages into one.

Example: Code Assistant

agents:
  coder:
    model: runcrate/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
    description: Code assistant using Runcrate
    instruction: |
      You are an expert programmer.
      Write clean code and follow language best practices.
    toolsets:
      - type: filesystem
      - type: shell
      - type: think