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If you already work in ChatGPT, Claude or Claude Code, connect it to Hiveku. It can then look things up in your account and do the work there, such as adding a contact or checking your rankings, from its own chat. Each app gets its own key, which you can take back at any time. This guide makes a key for an office ChatGPT on Northwind’s account and shows the steps for connecting it.

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Choose how your AI works with Hiveku

Click Settings at the bottom of the left rail, then API & Connectors under Developer. There are two addresses to connect to, and the same key works for both:
  • Direct tools: your AI uses Hiveku’s tools itself, one at a time. Best when you know what you want done.
  • Chief of staff: your AI talks to your account’s chief of staff, who handles the request or passes it to the right department.
LLM Connectors: Direct tools, Hands-on, with its address, outlined; and Chief of staff, Conversational, with its address, outlined; each with a copy button

Two ways to connect

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Make a key

1

Name the key

Below the list of keys, click Create Another Key (or Create API Key for your first). Under Key Name, say which app it is for, such as Office ChatGPT.
2

Choose what it may do

Under Access, Full access lets the app read and change things. Read-only lets it look but never change anything, which is the safer choice for someone outside your team.Tool profile only matters for command-line apps such as Claude Code: it narrows the list of tools they see. Leave it on Full.
Key Name Office ChatGPT, outlined; Access, Read-only chosen, outlined; Tool profile Full (all tools); and Generate Key, outlined

A read-only key for the office ChatGPT

3

Generate it and copy it

Click Generate Key. The key is shown once, at the top of Setup Instructions: copy it with the button next to it and keep it somewhere safe.

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Connect your app

Under Setup Instructions, open your app, such as ChatGPT, Claude (claude.ai), Claude Desktop or Claude Code, and follow its steps. Each one has the address to paste, with a copy button.
Setup Instructions: Your API Key, copy now, shown only once, outlined, with the key hidden; Claude (claude.ai); and ChatGPT opened, outlined, with seven steps and the address to paste

The steps for ChatGPT (the key is hidden here)

For ChatGPT, you turn on developer mode in ChatGPT’s settings, add a connector named Hiveku with the address shown, and paste your key on the Hiveku sign-in page that opens. Then switch the connector on in any chat.

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Good to know

  • Every key is listed with the app’s name, who connected it and when it was last used. The bin on a key turns it off at once; the app loses access.
  • More than one account? Each account has its own addresses. Switch to the other account, make a key there and connect it as a second connector.
  • Using another AI app? Copy primer gives a short introduction to paste into your first message, so the app knows its way around Hiveku.
  • More detail: see LLM connectors and Claude Code setup.