Connect your AI accounts
Sign in to Claude, Codex and Gemini, add API keys for the other providers, and use several accounts side by side.
Vato runs every agent on your own provider accounts. Everything on this page happens in Settings → Providers.
Check which providers are ready
Under Provider connections, each provider has a row marked Connected or Not connected. If a row needs a command-line tool that isn't installed or signed in, click Open terminal. Vato opens a terminal with the right install or sign-in command.
| Provider | How to connect it |
|---|---|
| Claude, Codex, Gemini | Add an account (see below), or sign in with the provider's own CLI. |
| Cursor | Paste your key into Cursor API key and click Save, or sign in with cursor-agent login. |
| OpenRouter | Paste your key into OpenRouter API key and click Save. |
| Antigravity | Paste a Gemini key into Gemini API key (Antigravity) and click Save. |
| Grok | Install the grok command-line tool, sign in with it, then restart Vato. |
| OpenCode | Install OpenCode. Free models work without an account; run opencode auth login for the others. |
| Vato AI | Nothing to do: it is ready as soon as you are signed in to Vato. |
API keys are stored on this computer. To delete one, click Remove under its field.
Add Claude, Codex or Gemini accounts
The Claude and Codex accounts group lists your saved accounts for Claude, Codex and Gemini. The account your CLI is signed in to is detected automatically and marked Current.
- Click Add account next to the provider.
- Finish the official sign-in in the browser page that opens.
- For Gemini, copy the code Google shows, paste it into Authorization code and click Submit code.
While Vato waits, the button reads Cancel sign-in. Each account you add is kept in its own isolated profile on this computer, so adding one never changes your CLI login.
To manage an account, use the pencil icon to rename it or the trash icon to remove it. You can't remove the Current account: switch the CLI login first.
Use several accounts
In a Claude or Codex conversation, the key button in the message bar opens the account picker for that conversation.
- Automatic: Vato chooses an available account and switches when its quota is reached.
- A saved account: the conversation always uses that account.
- Add: signs in another account without leaving the conversation.
You can't switch accounts while a turn is running. If the provider rejects an account, it shows Disconnected; use Reconnect to sign in again.
Installed CLI or bundled runtime
Claude, Codex and Gemini turns run on the CLI installed on your computer when it is recent enough. Otherwise Vato uses its own copy. The provider row tells you which one is used:
- Installed CLI · version: your own CLI.
- Vato bundled runtime · version: Vato's copy.
When Vato skips your CLI, for example because it is too old, a short warning follows the version. Claude Code needs version 2.1.280 or later, and the Codex CLI version 0.124.0 or later.
Updates, visibility and usage
- Provider updates lists provider tools that Vato can update. Click Update on a row.
- Visible providers sets the order of providers in the model picker. Drag to reorder, or hide the ones you don't use.
Settings → Usage & quotasshows how much of each account's allowance is left.