Your model provider account

Ropenode never holds a model credential — for either provider.

It launches the official claude or codex binary as a subprocess. That binary authenticates itself, the same way it does when you run it in a terminal. Ropenode does not read your API key or session token, does not store it, does not proxy it, and never calls Anthropic's or OpenAI's API directly.

That boundary also means:

• your usage is billed to you by Anthropic or OpenAI, at their price, with no markup;
• Ropenode has no way to see, cache or resell your prompts or the agent's outputs;
• if you cancel Ropenode, your Claude and ChatGPT accounts are entirely unaffected.

You need your own subscription with at least one provider. Ropenode is the cockpit, not the fuel.