Herman gives you the key. He uses the Access Manager on his computer.

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For Herman: how to give a key

1

Open the Access Manager

Run tools/access-manager.ps1.
2

Find the person

Look for the row with that person’s name.
3

Tick the LLM box

A window opens and shows the key.
4

Copy the key and send it

The window shows the key one time only.
The server keeps a hash of the key. Nobody can read the key again. Copy the key before you close the window.

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The box does not make a new key

A tick does nothing if the person already holds a key. The window does not open. This is correct behaviour.
Before 20 August 2026 a tick made a new key each time. This stopped every browser and every CLI that held the old key. The person saw an error, but the person did no wrong action.
To make a new key:
1

Untick the box

This deletes the key. The person loses access at once.
2

Tick the box again

This makes a new key.
Tell the person first. The old key stops at step 1.

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To cancel access

Untick the LLM box. The key stops at once. The other keys do not change.

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Who can hold a key

A name that is not in this list gets no key. The script refuses.
A wrong name is more often a spelling mistake than a person. A refusal shows the mistake at once. To add a person, edit PEOPLE in tools/llm-grant.py.