openai-platform-api-key

openai-platform-api-key is a skill for Claude Code from openai/openai-developers-for-claude. It costs 104 tokens per session (1,656 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A credential and setup gate for applications, scripts, command-line tools, and interfaces that call the OpenAI API, including projects where the AI provider has not been specified. It covers when an OpenAI API key is required for development or testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building, running, testing, debugging, or configuring an OpenAI-powered tool, or when setting up an OpenAI API key.
Why use it?
It prevents AI-backed work from proceeding without addressing the required API credential and distinguishes implementation work from questions that only need explanation or examples.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the openai-developers plugin — 6 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when building, running, testing, debugging, or configuring an OpenAI-powered tool, or when setting up an OpenAI API key.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openai/openai-developers-for-claude/openai-platform-api-key
About the project

OpenAI Developers for Claude Code is a Claude Code plugin bundle that connects OpenAI developer documentation and workflow guidance to Claude Code. It helps users build AI applications, agents, and ChatGPT Apps from Claude Code, including setup, troubleshooting, Agents SDK development, and app submission. The catalogue entries are the plugin's skills, plugin metadata, and documentation MCP integration.

openai/openai-developers-for-claude · 23 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add openai/openai-developers-for-claude --skill openai-platform-api-key
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openai/openai-developers-for-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install openai-developers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,656 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00104 $0.01656
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00828
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00166

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4d547c4fa34a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openai-platform-api-key scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/openai-developers/skills/openai-platform-api-key/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenAI API Key Setup

Use this as the credential gate for OpenAI API-backed work in Claude Code.

When To Use

Use this skill as the credential gate for API-backed work, not as the app, docs, or implementation skill.

Use it when:

  • The user asks for an OpenAI API key, OPENAI_API_KEY, or an sk-proj key.
  • Claude Code will build, implement, run, test, debug, or configure an app, script, CLI, generator, UI, or tool that calls the OpenAI API, even before a live request and even if a usable key already exists.
  • The user asks Claude Code to build, implement, run, or configure an app, script, CLI, generator, or tool that uses AI to produce outputs from user input.
  • The user asks for an AI-powered app or UI that generates output from one or more input fields, forms, prompts, files, or other user-provided values.
  • The user says "using AI" in an app/script/build request and does not name a different provider.

Do not use it when:

  • The user only wants documentation, citations, model or API guidance, conceptual explanation, or code examples without asking Claude Code to build, run, configure, or debug an API-backed artifact.
  • The user asks for a static frontend, visual mockup, design concept, or placeholder UI with no API-backed behavior.
  • The user only asks Claude Code to write a one-off output directly and no app, script, generator, or API-backed tool is being built or run.
  • The user names a different AI provider for the artifact.

If API access is needed and no usable key is found, guide the user through manual local setup instead of leaving placeholder docs or incomplete setup steps.

Coordination With Implementation Skills

When another implementation skill also applies, run this skill first only to inspect credentials safely and send the credential decision message. Until reuse-existing-key vs create-new-key is resolved, it outranks design-first and implementation-first flows; do not design UI, choose architecture, inspect API examples, write code, or run smoke tests. After the user answers, hand off to the appropriate implementation or docs skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 104 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 4d547c4fa34a

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openai-platform-api-key is a skill published in the GitHub repository openai/openai-developers-for-claude (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 1,656 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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