API Key Setup

Domain: Installation & Setup

Motivation

API key setup configures how dsh authenticates to the DeepSeek provider. The dsh-llm-deepseek-api-key plugin resolves the key per request, with apiKeyEnv defaulting to DEEPSEEK_API_KEY. A developer cares because a missing key fails with MISSING_CREDENTIAL and a malformed one with INVALID_CREDENTIAL.

Concrete Example

Configure apiKeyEnv: DEEPSEEK_API_KEY in the llm-deepseek entry; the plugin sends it as x-api-key per request.

Analogy

Like the secret code on a keycard that every door check reads freshly.