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  **Bring your own key** refers, in this channel's captured material, to the
  model-choice approach in which a platform's users can supply their own key —
  their own access credential to an AI model — instead of relying solely on the
  platform's built-in model arrangement. It is discussed as part of how
  companies think about competition and model choice in AI coding tools.
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# bring your own key

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/bring-your-own-key-044d648db937

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**Bring your own key** refers, in this channel's captured material, to the model-choice approach in which a platform's users can supply their own key — their own access credential to an AI model — instead of relying solely on the platform's built-in model arrangement. It is discussed as part of how companies think about competition and model choice in AI coding tools.

In this channel's material, **bring your own key** comes up in the context of *model choice*: the idea that a platform lets people supply their own access to a model rather than being locked to one provider's default. It appears alongside GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's broader discussion of how GitHub thinks about competition and model choice in the AI coding space — the same conversation in which Copilot's evolution from autocomplete into an autonomous coding agent is explored.