pi/packages/coding-agent/docs/providers.md

Provider Authentication

Most hosted providers support one or both of these authentication methods:

• Sign in through a browser or device flow backed by OAuth.
• Provide an API key.

Use /login [provider] to see the methods supported by a provider. Amazon Bedrock and Google Vertex AI can also use ambient cloud credentials.

Authenticate interactively

Run /login and select a provider. Pi guides you through its OAuth or API-key flow and saves the resulting credential in auth.json.

On a remote or headless machine, an OAuth callback may not reach the local process. When prompted, paste the final redirect URL or authorization code back into Pi.

Run /logout and select a provider to remove its stored credential. This does not unset environment variables, remove authentication from models.json, or revoke the credential at the provider.

auth.json can contain API keys and OAuth tokens. Keep it private and do not commit it.

Radius authentication uses its gateway catalog and caches refreshed model metadata for later offline startup. A custom Radius gateway configured in models.json uses its own catalog rather than inheriting the public radius.pi.dev catalog.

Use an API key from the environment

Environment variables are useful in CI and anywhere Pi should not store the key. Set the variable before starting Pi:

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...
pi

This table covers providers with a single primary API-key variable. Providers that need additional configuration or support ambient credentials are covered under Cloud providers.

Provider	Environment variable
Anthropic	ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
Ant Ling	ANT_LING_API_KEY
OpenAI	OPENAI_API_KEY
DeepSeek	DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
NVIDIA NIM	NVIDIA_API_KEY
Google Gemini	GEMINI_API_KEY
GitHub Copilot	COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN
Mistral	MISTRAL_API_KEY
Groq	GROQ_API_KEY
Cerebras	CEREBRAS_API_KEY
xAI	XAI_API_KEY
OpenRouter	OPENROUTER_API_KEY
Vercel AI Gateway	AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY
ZAI Coding Plan (Global)	ZAI_API_KEY
ZAI Coding Plan (China)	ZAI_CODING_CN_API_KEY
OpenCode Zen and Go	OPENCODE_API_KEY
Radius	RADIUS_API_KEY
TypeSafe (classifier models)	TYPESAFE_API_KEY
Hugging Face	HF_TOKEN
Fireworks	FIREWORKS_API_KEY
Together AI	TOGETHER_API_KEY
Baseten	BASETEN_API_KEY
Kimi For Coding	KIMI_API_KEY
Meta	META_API_KEY
MiniMax	MINIMAX_API_KEY
MiniMax (China)	MINIMAX_CN_API_KEY
Moonshot AI (Global and China)	MOONSHOT_API_KEY
Qwen Token Plan and Individual	QWEN_TOKEN_PLAN_API_KEY
Qwen Token Plan (China)	QWEN_TOKEN_PLAN_CN_API_KEY
Xiaomi MiMo	XIAOMI_API_KEY
Xiaomi MiMo Token Plan (China)	XIAOMI_TOKEN_PLAN_CN_API_KEY
Xiaomi MiMo Token Plan (Amsterdam)	XIAOMI_TOKEN_PLAN_AMS_API_KEY
Xiaomi MiMo Token Plan (Singapore)	XIAOMI_TOKEN_PLAN_SGP_API_KEY

Anthropic also recognizes ANTHROPIC_OAUTH_TOKEN as an API credential and ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN as bearer authentication.

Load an API key from a command

To use a secret manager without writing the resolved key to disk, set a provider's key in auth.json to a command prefixed with !:

{
  "anthropic": {
    "type": "api_key",
    "key": "!security find-generic-password -ws 'anthropic'"
  }
}

Pi runs the command when the key is first needed and caches its standard output for the process lifetime. Empty output, a timeout, or a nonzero exit leaves the key unresolved until Pi restarts.

Cloud Providers

The providers below need additional settings or can use credentials supplied by their cloud platform.

A stored API-key credential can include an env object. Its values take priority over the process environment for that provider:

{
  "cloudflare-workers-ai": {
    "type": "api_key",
    "key": "...",
    "env": {
      "CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID": "account-id"
    }
  }
}

Azure OpenAI

Set an API key plus either a base URL or resource name:

export AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY=...
export AZURE_OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://your-resource.ai.azure.com
# Or:
export AZURE_OPENAI_RESOURCE_NAME=your-resource

Resource root URLs under ai.azure.com, cognitiveservices.azure.com, and openai.azure.com are normalized to the OpenAI API path.

Amazon Bedrock

Bedrock can use a bearer token or an ambient AWS credential source:

# Named profile
export AWS_PROFILE=your-profile

# IAM keys
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIA...
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=...
# Required for temporary credentials
export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=...

# Bedrock bearer token
export AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK=...

# Region, when not supplied by the profile or AWS SDK configuration
export AWS_REGION=us-west-2
# AWS_DEFAULT_REGION is also supported

Pi also supports ECS task credentials and IRSA through the standard AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_* and AWS_WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN_FILE variables.

Cloudflare AI Gateway

The gateway requires a token, account ID, and gateway ID:

export CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY=...
export CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID=...
export CLOUDFLARE_GATEWAY_ID=...

The account and gateway IDs can come from the process environment or the credential's env object in auth.json.

CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY authenticates Pi to the gateway. Upstream access can use Cloudflare unified billing, credentials stored in the gateway, or an Authorization header configured for the provider in models.json.

Cloudflare Workers AI

Workers AI requires a token and account ID:

export CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY=...
export CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID=...

The account ID can also be stored in the credential's env object.

Google Vertex AI

Use a Google Cloud API key:

export GOOGLE_CLOUD_API_KEY=...

To use Application Default Credentials, configure a project and location:

export GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT=your-project
# GCLOUD_PROJECT is also supported
export GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION=us-central1

Then authenticate:

gcloud auth application-default login

To use a service-account key file instead, set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS along with the project and location.