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ADR 0092 — One OpenAI Key Runs Every Default Feature

Status: Accepted · Date: 2026-09-29

Context

  • On 2026-09-29 Allen set the goal that each person runs Jarvis with one API key. Asked which provider that key is, he chose “OpenAI 先行” over “either OpenAI or Anthropic”, knowing that someone with only an Anthropic key cannot chat for now.
  • Every model call Jarvis makes by default goes to api.openai.com with OPENAI_API_KEY: conversation (gpt-6-luna, with thinking on request), the work state, screen reading and history summaries (gpt-6-luna), the daily report (gpt-6-sol), dictation polish (gpt-5.4-mini) and live voice (gpt-live-1) (config/jarvis.yaml presets). llm.provider accepts anthropic, but no preset uses it; moving the daily report and work state to Claude would mean re-tuning their prompts and evaluating them with paid calls.
  • The spoken answer is not OpenAI: setup’s reply_voice feature is on only with MINIMAX_API_KEY (jarvis/runtime/setup.py:191), and the voices first run offers are MiniMax voice ids. Web search is registered only when a Tavily or Exa key is present (config/jarvis.yaml, tools.web).
  • First run asks for an OpenAI key, then offers a MiniMax key for the voice and a Tavily key for web search (KEY_ENVS, jarvis/runtime/setup.py:38-42; desktop/resonance/src/firstRun/firstRun.ts).
  • The agent stars, the notch’s approvals and the Agents window run on the owner’s own Claude Code and Codex logins, not on a Jarvis key (ADR 0049, ADR 0073).

Decision

Every feature that is on by default runs on one OpenAI API key alone. Any other provider’s key only moves a feature to that provider or turns on a feature that is off by default, and first run asks for the OpenAI key and no other.

An Anthropic key as the one key is a later decision; the anthropic code path stays, unoffered.

Alternatives rejected

  • Either OpenAI or Anthropic — the daily report and the work state would need prompts re-tuned and re-evaluated on Claude with paid calls before either provider could keep the one-key promise, and the Realtime voice has no Anthropic counterpart in the code.
  • Keep MiniMax for the spoken answer — every new owner would need a second account and key before Jarvis can answer aloud; without it reply_voice is off.

Consequences

  • The spoken answer needs an OpenAI speech path, and first run’s voices need OpenAI voices; MiniMax becomes a choice in settings.
  • Everything the default features send goes to one provider, OpenAI; the spec’s egress chapter lists what.
  • An owner who pays only for Claude, as a Claude Code subscriber may, has to open an OpenAI account to use anything beyond the agent features.
  • One key is one bill, and Jarvis has no spend cap yet (release inventory 改15).

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