Bring your own key
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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.

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.