API keys reveal their vendor: auto-configuring models with one paste
vista8 · x · 2026-09-25
The author notes that API keys from different model providers carry recognizable patterns, so pasting a key could theoretically auto-detect the vendor and configure everything without manual model selection.
He plans to use this simple configuration interaction in his Obsidian Agent plugin.
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