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AI models & keys (Settings > AI models & keys in Xpander Chat) is where you set up access to your company’s AI models from your own coding tools and scripts. Every call made with your key runs as you: on the models your organization enabled for you, within your budgets, and in your usage. The page starts with your Gateway address, with a copy button. On a self-hosted install, open AI models & keys in your organization’s own Xpander Chat.

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API keys

  1. Under API keys, choose Create key (Create your first key when you have none).
  2. Enter a Name, such as My laptop. Create one key per computer and coding tool, so you can revoke one without touching the others.
  3. Pick when it Expires: 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, 1 year or Never. Your organization may allow less, and the form says how long.
  4. Choose Create key, then copy it. It is Shown only once.
The list shows each key’s Name, Last used and Expires. Revoke stops a key at once; anything using it gets 401 from then on. You don’t always need to create a key yourself: Copy setup command under Connect a client creates one for that coding tool and computer, named after them, such as Claude Code on macOS.

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Connect a client

AI models and keys settings with the gateway address, API keys, Connect a client cards and the setup command

AI models and keys: your gateway address, your API keys, and one-click setup for each coding tool.

Pick Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode or Your own code:
  • For Claude Code, Codex CLI and OpenCode, pick your system and choose Copy setup command, paste it in your terminal and press Enter. Your coding tool starts connected and keeps the connection for every new terminal.
  • For Your own code, choose Copy prompt and paste it into the coding agent you use in your project, which connects your project’s OpenAI or Anthropic SDK calls.
  • Set up manually shows the settings files and commands instead.
Every option, with the files it writes, is on Connect your tools.

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Available models

Available models lists the models your organization enabled for you, grouped by provider. Copy a model ID with its copy button and use it as the model in your coding tool. Shortcuts your admin set up lists the aliases your admins defined, which you can use the same way. A model missing from the list is off for you; ask an organization admin for access. On a Hybrid install, a model whose provider has no key stored in xpander is shown with No key for this provider is stored in xpander, so tools on your computer can’t use these models.

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Your Claude plan

When your organization lets you use your own Claude plan, the page shows any limit your plan has reached and when it resets, and When my Claude plan hits its limit: Continue on company models or Pause.

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Your spend

Usage (Settings > Usage) shows what your calls and the agent runs you started cost today, this week or this month, with your spending limit when one applies.