# Alephant

> Use this tool when you need to manage and control AI costs for coding assistants, as Alephant enables governance and budget enforcement across multiple providers and models. It solves problems of cost overrun and API credential management by routing requests through a secure, bring-your-own-key configuration. With Alephant, teams can input custom budgets and policies, and receive transparent, per-request routing decisions as output.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/alephant  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/alephant

## Description

Alephant enables AI cost control and governance for coding assistants by routing requests through bring-your-own-key configuration across 50+ providers and 320+ models. Teams can enforce usage budgets and provider policies without centralizing API credentials, with transparent per-request routing decisions.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.64
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-01

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** api-integration
- **Updated:** 2026-09-01

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/alephant)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/alephantai/alephant-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "alephant"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/alephant` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/alephant/pull`

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