Bring your own key
Your memory system.
Your key. Your machine.
The lab calls Claude directly from your browser using your own Anthropic key. The key never touches a chanio server. Your archive lives in this browser only. Compute stays rented; storage comes home.
Don't want a key? You don't need one. Start free on the homepage — it works with the AI you already pay for — or run chanio on your iPhone with Apple Intelligence. This Lab is only for power users who want chanio to run the model itself.
Bounded exposure. When you create a key at console.anthropic.com/settings/keys, set a $5 spending cap on it. Worst case, that's your total exposure. /lab calls run ~$0.01–0.05 each on Sonnet — $5 covers months of use.