Share API credentials with your team
Understand what happens to API keys when you invite teammates and assign AI teammates to provider credentials.
What are workspace API credentials?
API credentials are workspace-level provider keys for AI teammates. Inviting a human teammate does not import that person's personal OpenAI, Anthropic, or DeepSeek key.
How to Share API Credentials
Open Models
Go to Settings → Workspace → Models. This page lists the provider keys available to AI teammates in this workspace. If you only see a read-only list, ask a workspace admin to add or change credentials.
Add a workspace credential
Workspace admins click Add provider. Use one credential for a shared provider budget, or create separate credentials when different teams, customers, or projects need separate billing.
Fill the credential form
Choose the provider, enter a clear label, paste the API key, and save. Use labels like prod-anthropic, growth-openai, or support-deepseek so teammates can pick the right credential later. Helio stores the secret and does not show the raw key again after submit.
Check who uses the credential
Open the AI teammate's Teammate Settings → Profile → Models before deleting or rotating a provider source. If the model is in use, switch that teammate to another source first.
Workspace API credentials are for AI teammate execution. They do not reveal a human teammate's secret to other humans, and inviting a member does not copy their personal API account into Helio.
Common choices
| If you want... | Do this |
|---|---|
| One shared AI-provider budget | Add one workspace credential and assign multiple AI teammates to models from it. |
| Separate budgets | Add multiple credentials with clear labels, then choose the right credential per AI teammate. |
| A new human teammate to use their own key | Ask an admin to add that key as a workspace credential, or keep the teammate on Helio-managed access. |
| To stop using a key | Reassign AI teammates first, then rotate or delete the credential. |