Setting up AI (Providers & Keys)

Liza uses AI in two places: the AI assistant (chat/analysis in the project context) and the coding agents (Claude Code tab).

Your own AI access required

There is currently no hosted Liza AI. You use your own AI access – stored as an API key, centrally for the organization or personally per user. The most common choices are Claude and Mistral.

Supported providers

• Claude (Anthropic)
• Mistral
• Also possible: ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), Perplexity (research)

Create a key at the respective provider (e.g. console.anthropic.com for Claude, console.mistral.ai for Mistral) and store it in Liza.

Organization: central keys (Admin)

Settings → Organization → AI (Einstellungen → Organisation → KI)

• Store the providers' central API keys (e.g. Claude, Mistral). Assigned members then use AI without a key of their own – the organization's key is used.
  • Either enable it for all members or assign it to specific people (under Settings → Users (Einstellungen → Nutzer)).
• Provider usage: optional cost tracking per provider.

Personal: your own keys

Settings → Personal → AI & Connections (Einstellungen → Persönlich → KI & Verbindungen)

Four tabs:

Tab	Purpose
My AI Keys (Meine KI-Keys)	One key of your own per provider – applies everywhere (assistant + coding agent)
Coding Agent (Coding-Agent)	Set up coding agents (Desktop only) – see Agents
Liza Access (Liza-Zugang)	API keys & MCP for programmatic access (developers)
Usage (Verbrauch)	Your AI token usage

Precedence: Your personal key takes precedence over the org key. On the desktop it is also stored locally, encrypted (Keychain), so the coding agent can use it without a server.

Web vs. Desktop

	Web (Browser)	Desktop app
AI assistant (with your own access)	✅	✅
Personal/org AI keys	✅	✅ (+ local Keychain)
Coding agents (Claude Code)	❌	✅
Edit local files	❌	✅

The coding agents run only in the desktop app, because they edit files locally.