Providers

Source: https://pi.dev/docs/latest/providers

Reviewed against Pi 0.99.2 and the package versions listed in ../SKILL.md on 2026-09-30.

Pi supports subscription providers via OAuth and API-key providers via environment variables or ~/.pi/agent/auth.json. Built-in catalogs ship with Pi; configured providers may refresh newer catalogs and cache them in ~/.pi/agent/models-store.json for offline use.

Subscription Providers

Run /login to choose the provider and one of its supported methods. Pi 0.99 adds Sign in with ChatGPT on openai; openai-codex remains a legacy provider. Other methods include Claude, GitHub Copilot, Meta Muse, xAI, OpenRouter, and Radius. /logout clears credentials. Tokens live in auth.json and auto-refresh.

• OpenAI Sign in with ChatGPT supersedes the legacy Codex login; check current account entitlements in the login flow.
• Claude: use the login flow offered by the installed provider and confirm current account eligibility and billing with Anthropic; subscription entitlement is not guaranteed by a successful token exchange.
• GitHub Copilot: Enter for github.com, or enter a GitHub Enterprise Server domain. "Model not supported" is fixed by enabling the model in VS Code Copilot Chat.
• xAI: /login xai → Use a subscription; XAI_API_KEY remains available under Use an API key.
• OpenRouter: /login openrouter → Sign in with OpenRouter runs a PKCE flow that mints a user-controlled API key billed from OpenRouter credits (it does not expire automatically). On remote/headless machines (e.g. over SSH) the browser cannot reach the loopback callback — paste the final redirect URL or the authorization code into the login prompt instead.
• Radius: a dynamic pi-messages gateway. /login radius stores OAuth tokens; the catalog refreshes independently into models-store.json. Custom Radius gateways can be declared in models.json with "oauth": "radius" plus a gateway baseUrl.

API Key Providers

Set an environment variable before startup, or store a key with /login.

qwen-token-plan-individual uses the same international endpoint and QWEN_TOKEN_PLAN_API_KEY as qwen-token-plan, but limits the picker to models documented for Individual subscriptions; the older provider keeps its broader catalog for backward compatibility. With auth.json, store the credential under the provider you select — the environment variable is shared by both international providers.

Authoritative source: packages/ai/src/providers/ and packages/coding-agent/docs/providers.md in earendil-works/pi.

Auth File

~/.pi/agent/auth.json is created with 0600 permissions and takes priority over environment variables.

{
  "anthropic": { "type": "api_key", "key": "sk-ant-..." },
  "openai": { "type": "api_key", "key": "sk-..." }
}

An API-key credential can carry provider-scoped environment values in an env object. These are used before process environment variables when resolving the credential key, provider/model headers, and provider configuration such as Cloudflare account IDs, Azure settings, Vertex project/location, Bedrock settings, PI_CACHE_RETENTION, and HTTP_PROXY/HTTPS_PROXY:

{
  "cloudflare-ai-gateway": {
    "type": "api_key",
    "key": "$CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY",
    "env": {
      "CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY": "...",
      "CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID": "account-id",
      "CLOUDFLARE_GATEWAY_ID": "gateway-id"
    }
  }
}

OAuth credentials are also stored here after /login and managed automatically.

Key Resolution Syntax

{ "type": "api_key", "key": "!op read 'op://vault/item/credential'" }
{ "type": "api_key", "key": "$MY_API_KEY" }
{ "type": "api_key", "key": "${KEY_PREFIX}_${KEY_SUFFIX}" }
{ "type": "api_key", "key": "$$literal-dollar" }
{ "type": "api_key", "key": "$!literal-bang" }

A leading ! executes the whole value as a command and uses stdout (cached for the process lifetime). $VAR/${VAR} interpolate, including inside larger literals; $FOO_BAR is the variable FOO_BAR, so use ${FOO}_BAR when BAR is literal. Missing variables leave the value unresolved. Plain uppercase strings such as MY_API_KEY are literals.

Cloud Providers

Azure OpenAI: AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY plus AZURE_OPENAI_BASE_URL (*.ai.azure.com, *.cognitiveservices.azure.com, or *.openai.azure.com; root endpoints auto-normalize to /openai/v1) or AZURE_OPENAI_RESOURCE_NAME. Optional AZURE_OPENAI_API_VERSION and AZURE_OPENAI_DEPLOYMENT_NAME_MAP=gpt-4=my-gpt4,....

Amazon Bedrock: /login amazon-bedrock for an API key, or ambient AWS credentials — AWS_PROFILE, IAM keys (AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID/AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY), or AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK. Region resolves from AWS_REGION, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION, AWS profile/SDK configuration, then the provider fallback; set it explicitly for reproducibility. ECS task roles (AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_*) and IRSA (AWS_WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN_FILE) are supported. Prompt caching is automatic for Claude models whose ID contains a recognizable model name; for application inference profiles set AWS_BEDROCK_FORCE_CACHE=1. Proxy support: AWS_ENDPOINT_URL_BEDROCK_RUNTIME, AWS_BEDROCK_SKIP_AUTH=1, AWS_BEDROCK_FORCE_HTTP1=1.

Cloudflare AI Gateway: CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY, CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID, CLOUDFLARE_GATEWAY_ID. Routes to OpenAI (/openai, native IDs), Anthropic (/anthropic, native IDs), and Workers AI (Unified API /compat, workers-ai/@cf/... IDs). The Cloudflare token is sent as cf-aig-authorization. Upstream auth modes: Workers AI, unified billing, stored BYOK, or inline BYOK (needs an extra upstream Authorization header). Prefer unified billing or stored BYOK.

Cloudflare Workers AI: CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY + CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID. Pi sets x-session-affinity for prefix-caching discounts.

Google Vertex AI: GOOGLE_CLOUD_API_KEY or Application Default Credentials (gcloud auth application-default login) plus GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT and GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION, or GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS pointing at a service-account key.

llama.cpp: /login llama.cpp, manage models with /llama, select with /model — see references/llama-cpp.md.

Custom Providers

Via models.json for anything speaking a supported API (references/models.md); via extensions for custom APIs or OAuth flows (references/custom-provider.md).

Resolution Order

1. CLI --api-key
2. auth.json entry (API key or OAuth token)
3. Configured API key from models.json
4. Provider environment variables or ambient cloud credentials

Native provider extensions can supply their own auth resolution. Anthropic also supports ANTHROPIC_OAUTH_TOKEN, ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN, and (without a key/token) workload identity federation through ANTHROPIC_FEDERATION_RULE_ID, ANTHROPIC_ORGANIZATION_ID, and ANTHROPIC_IDENTITY_TOKEN_FILE; optional service-account/workspace IDs pass through. Keep identity-token files refreshed.