Models

RepoLens never ships a key. You connect the providers you want in Options, and scans run on your credentials — stored only in your browser, never uploaded, never included in a settings export.

Two kinds of providers

Five first-class providers have polished sign-in (OAuth where available) and form the default fallback chain:

Nous  →  Gemini  →  OpenRouter  →  Grok  →  Anthropic

Whichever is highest in that order and connected is your primary; the rest are automatic fallbacks. Each has a model dropdown, with ★ marking the recommended pick.

New here? Connect any one provider and accept the ★ default — it's tuned to work well out of the box. Come back to fine-tune later.

Why no "Sign in with Claude"? Anthropic locks Claude Pro/Max subscription tokens to its own Claude Code app and, as of 2026, prohibits subscription sign-in in third-party tools — so RepoLens connects Claude with a Console API key (sk-ant-api…) only. (The OpenAI card does offer ChatGPT sign-in, because OpenAI supports it — see below.)

Bring any model

Under Options → More model providers, RepoLens speaks any OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible endpoint — so you're not limited to the five above:

• OpenAI · DeepSeek · Groq · NVIDIA NIM · Kimi (Moonshot) · Zhipu GLM · Qwen (Aliyun) · Xiaomi MiMo · Volcengine Ark · Ollama Cloud · MiniMax
• OpenAI — Sign in with ChatGPT — the OpenAI card has a one-click ChatGPT login (the same OAuth the Codex CLI uses), so you can connect without pasting a key. It mints a working key from your account behind the scenes — which needs API access on your ChatGPT plan; if that isn't included, RepoLens says so and you can paste an API key instead.
• Azure OpenAI — point at your resource endpoint and deployment.
• Ollama (Local) — runs on localhost, no key needed. The simplest way to scan fully offline.
• Custom — any other OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible server. Paste the URL, pick the protocol, done.

Every provider keeps its own key, so switching between them never loses your other settings. Each card has:

• a model picker (plus a free-form Custom… for any model id),
• an optional endpoint override (handy for a proxy or a regional gateway),
• and two self-tests — Test connection checks the endpoint answers, Test function asks the model to follow a tiny instruction so you know it actually works.

Connect just one and you're done. Any provider you connect — first-class or compatible — joins the fallback chain automatically, so a single key (or a local Ollama) is enough to start scanning.

What about the Claude Code / Codex / Grok CLIs? RepoLens can't run those binaries — a browser extension is sandboxed and can't launch a local process. But it does perform the same OAuth logins they use: Anthropic's sign-in is the Claude Code login, Sign in with ChatGPT on the OpenAI card is the Codex login, and xAI's is the Grok CLI login. So you get the CLIs' sign-in convenience without the binary. For a truly local, keyless model, point at Ollama over plain HTTP.

Models per scan part

A scan isn't one call — it's eight distinct parts (Core scan, Deep Dive, Framework Lens, SKTPG, Versus, Synergies, Combinator, Re-tag). Not sure what these are? See The Scan. You can point each one at a different provider and model:

Core scan → Claude Opus 4.8 for the deep judgment. Re-tag → a cheap, fast model, because it's bulk work. Deep Dive → whatever you like.

Set it all in Options → Models per scan part — and the compatible providers above show up here too. Each part defaults to "Default (smart fallback)", so you only configure what you care about.

It can't dead-end

A per-part pick is a preferred first try, not a hard requirement. If that provider errors or isn't connected, the part falls through to the full chain. So a routed part always has a working model — you can be aggressive with your picks without risking a broken scan.