Add an account
Open Settings → AI Accounts and choose Add Claude account or Add Codex account. If more than one computer is online, pick the one to sign in on. A computer must be online to add an account. Claude:- Choose Open Claude sign-in and sign in to the Claude account you want to add.
- Claude shows a code. Paste it in the box and choose Finish.
- Open the address shown and sign in to ChatGPT.
- Enter the code shown on the page. The page updates when you are done.
A login you already have on your computer
On your own computer, aclaude or codex login you already have in the terminal shows up by itself, as
Claude on or Codex on followed by the machine’s name. It reads Uses this machine’s own login. Removing it
from Brigade leaves the login on your machine.
The runner removes API keys such as ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and OPENAI_API_KEY from what teammates see, so work always
runs on your plan.
Who uses an account
An account lives on one computer, and a thread uses only accounts on the computer it runs on.- On the cloud computer, accounts are the workspace’s. Every member’s threads, routines and triggers there run on them, whoever added them. Each shows who added it. Only that member changes it; they, an owner or an admin can remove it.
- On your own computer, accounts are yours alone. Only your threads use them, and other members can’t see them.
Several accounts
Add as many accounts of each kind as you like. The first one you add for Claude or Codex is your Default; change it with Make default in an account’s menu. When an account runs out of usage in the middle of a turn, the thread carries on with your next account of the same kind on the same computer: Claude to Claude, Codex to Codex. The thread notes the switch, and the teammate picks up from a summary of the thread so far. It never switches from Claude to Codex or back. Brigade tries your accounts in this order: the one picked for the thread, your default, then the oldest. Accounts out of usage go last, the one that resets soonest first.When every account is out
If none of your accounts of that kind has usage left, the thread pauses and opens a ticket under Needs you: Paused: every account has run out of usage, with the time usage resets. To go on:- wait for the reset, then send a message in the thread,
- or upgrade your plan or add an account, then send a message.
Pick an account for a thread
In a new thread, the composer’s + menu has an Account setting when you have more than one usable account for that teammate on that computer. Pick one and it shows as a chip in the composer; remove the chip to go back to your default. Without a pick, the thread uses your default. A thread that has started has no account picker: it changes account only when one runs out.See your usage
Each account on Settings → AI Accounts shows its status (Ready, Sign-in needed, Out of usage until a time) and meters for its limits: 5h, 7d, and 7d Opus or 7d Sonnet when the plan reports them. Hover a meter for the percentage used and when it resets. A meter turns amber from 80%. The Usage row in your avatar menu shows the same at a glance, with See what used it and Manage accounts. Usage appears after a teammate’s next turn. See Usage and limits.Models and accounts
Each teammate has a model, picked on its Profile tab: a Claude model runs on a Claude account, a Codex model on a ChatGPT account. Default uses the account’s own default model for Claude. If you have no ready account of the teammate’s kind on the computer, the composer says so with a link to add one. See Teammates.Manage accounts
Each account’s menu has:- Make default: try this account first.
- Usage is back: clear an out-of-usage mark.
- Sign in again: when its login stopped working. Brigade opens a Sign in again ticket after two failed turns in a row.
- Remove: deletes the login from the computer, which must be online.