Authentication options on behalf of a user

[elmstedt]

OpenAI's "bring your own key" policy

Thanks for checking. For security purposes, users are not permitted to share their API keys with others, including via bring-your-own-key applications. We will work to make this clearer in our documentation; we are also considering technical solutions that may allow users to authenticate with a service without sharing their actual API key.

He later goes on to clarify that if the key remains locally on the user’s machine that would be acceptable.