Reach out

Models & web search

Brigade is model-agnostic. Connect several providers at once, switch with /model, and Brigade carries your context across the switch. Web search is pluggable and auto-selected by what you have configured.

Providers out of the box#

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, Groq, Cerebras, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, Ollama (local), and Custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints — Together, Fireworks, vLLM, LM Studio, on-prem gateways, anything that speaks /v1/chat/completions.

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$ brigade onboard                                    # add a provider interactively$ brigade config set agents.defaults.provider openrouter# in-chat: /provider to add one mid-session, /model to switch

Sign in with a subscription — no API key#

Don't want to manage API keys, consoles, and billing? Use the subscription you already pay for. Brigade signs in to Claude Pro / Max, ChatGPT Plus / Pro, or GitHub Copilot over OAuth — no key, no quota juggling.

  • Browser sign-in. brigade login opens the OAuth flow for Claude Pro/Max, ChatGPT Plus/Pro, or Copilot and seals the credential locally (also offered inside brigade onboard).
  • Reuse a CLI login you already have. Already signed into the Claude Code or Codex CLI on this machine? brigade onboard offers “Reuse this machine's login” — one keystroke, no browser, no re-auth.
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$ brigade login                 # browser sign-in: Claude / ChatGPT / Copilot$ brigade login claude-code     # straight to Claude Pro / Max$ brigade onboard               # full wizard — also reuses your Claude Code / Codex login

Prefer keys? They still work. Either way the credential is sealed on your own machine, never leaves it, and is auto-refreshed when the provider supports it — see Security.

🩸 B³ — Brigade Bloody Benchmark#

Three B's. One bloody command. Your whole crew — live to the world.

B³ · Brigade · Bloody · Benchmark

Why the name? The three B's are the pitch. Brigade — your crew of agents. Bloody — you shove it out into the open with no safety net: a blood-red tunnel straight to the wild. Benchmark — because the real measure of a crew was never a lab. It's the open world, with strangers hammering it for real. Survive that, and it works.

Mechanically: brigade bloody benchmark drags your localhost gateway into daylight — HTTPS at the edge, no account, no setup. It defaults to an anonymous Cloudflare quick-tunnel, but the providers are pluggable and fully open-source: bore, frp, sish, or your own self-hosted relay — no proprietary cloud required. A private access key is minted and handled for you: you never see it, and strangers just bleed out on a 401. Too squeamish for the name? It also answers to the polite brigade expose.

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$ brigade bloody benchmark           # 🩸 your gateway, public, in one command$ brigade expose                     # ...the same thing, politely named$ brigade expose --provider bore     # self-hostable OSS tunnel (your own relay)$ brigade expose --open              # no key — wide open to anyone with the URL$ brigade expose status              # is it live? (the key stays hidden)$ brigade expose stop                # patch the wound

🩸 It's a real, open door

The tunnel hands your whole crew to anyone holding the link. The access key is auto-generated and kept out of sight, but treat the URL like a password — and brigade expose stop(or Ctrl-C) when you're done. New in v1.9.0.

Switching mid-conversation#

Switching models keeps the thread. When you change model or provider, Brigade carries the full transcript onto the new model — it is the same session — and:

  • Re-anchors your thinking level to what the target supports: preserved when it can reason, forced off for a non-reasoning model, bumped for a reasoning-only one.
  • Sanitizes provider-specific reasoning blocks the next provider would otherwise reject.
  • Works mid-turn (abort the in-flight run and replay your last message on the new model) or next-turn.

This is what makes /model and /provider switches seamless.

Web search#

The web_search tool is pluggable and auto-selects a provider based on what you have configured:

  • Keyed — Tavily, Brave, Exa, Perplexity, Firecrawl, SearXNG.
  • Keyless — DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, Hacker News, arXiv, GitHub, npm, and local Ollama.

Web tools (web_search, fetch_url, browser) are open to any caller — see Tools.

Local-only is a first-class option

With Ollama or a custom endpoint, requests stay on your network and the keyless search providers keep you off the hosted ones — so you can run an entirely local crew.