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On a seedbox with a current platform version, the system commands codex, claude and gemini start on your AI credits by themselves when ~/.virsilipasKey holds your key and you have not set the tool up with an account of your own. There is nothing to configure. In a terminal the first line says so, for example:

Codex is using your Pulsed Media AI credits (~/.virsilipasKey). To change: PMSS_VIRSILIPAS=off codex, or codex login.

All three use the model default. Scripts and cron jobs that run these commands use the credits too; they just do not print the line.

Through the credits, the model provider does not learn who you are: requests go on with our account, from our server, among every other customer's requests, and the credit service does not keep your prompts. What the tool puts in a request, your code included, still reaches the provider. For codex and gemini, the main models also have a second provider behind them if the first one fails before the answer starts. Requests from claude go to the first provider only. More in Privacy and safety when using AI credits.

Your own setup always wins

A tool leaves the credits alone when you have set it up yourself, for example:

• Codex: you logged in with codex login, OPENAI_API_KEY is set, or you chose a model or provider in ~/.codex/config.toml or on the command line.
• Claude Code: you logged in with /login, an ANTHROPIC_ key or address variable is set, or you passed --model or --settings.
• Gemini CLI: GEMINI_API_KEY or GOOGLE_API_KEY is set, you chose a sign-in method in its settings, or you passed -m.

Turning it off

• For one run: PMSS_VIRSILIPAS=off claude (the same works for codex and gemini).
• For good: add export PMSS_VIRSILIPAS=off to ~/.bashrc.user and open a new shell. Cron jobs do not read that file, so a script that must not use credits needs the line itself.
• To use your own account: printf '%s' "$OPENAI_API_KEY" | codex login --with-api-key for Codex; PMSS_VIRSILIPAS=off claude and then /login for Claude Code; your own GEMINI_API_KEY in ~/.bashrc.user for Gemini CLI.

A bigger model

Claude Code takes another model by name: ANTHROPIC_MODEL=large claude. For Codex and Gemini CLI, use the manual settings on the wiki.

If the line does not appear and the tool asks you to sign in, your server may not have this yet, or your key file is missing. The full guide, including manual settings that work on every server: AI Coding Tools on PMSS.