# SHAI — OpenAI (ChatGPT)

> The tenant's own OpenAI key. Used only for the routed half of a run — extraction, summarising, classification, first drafts, checks — never for the orchestrator, which runs only Claude (the Agent SDK does not route to other vendors).

Canonical page: /integrations/openai-chatgpt

## How SHAI connects to it
SHAI talks to it directly, with the key you paste. It is one of the tools SHAI has written up — what it costs, why it matters, what breaks without it — as `openai-api-key` in the tool guide.

## What it needs
a key you paste, in Setup or on /connections.

## Where that was read
docs/tools/tools.json (openai-api-key), verified 2026-09-16.

Connect it: /connections?tool=openai-chatgpt