Quick reference guide

Add an AI provider

By the end your workspace will hold one provider record that every agent can call, with the API key stored once instead of pasted into each agent.

About 5 minutes

Before you start

The Admin role. Providers are the only Admin-only screen in this set, because a provider record holds a live API key.
An API key from the service itself, for example an OpenAI or an Anthropic key. Dave calls the service as you, so the usage and the bill stay on your own account.

The steps

The API Management screen in Dave, reached from the Admin section of the sidebar. A row of four tabs reads Providers, Credentials, API Clients and MCP, with MCP currently open and showing one registration. Providers is the first of the four tabs.

API Management, where the Providers tab lives. This capture has the MCP tab open, so it shows where Providers sits rather than the provider form itself. Demo workspace with example data.

Where to go next

Create the agent that will call it
See how Dave stores credentials

Adapted from the in-product help centre, which stays the fuller reference. For how to raise anything this guide does not cover, see the Support Hub.

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