12 API keys · 12 skills · one toolkit

Build the ultimate creative toolkit.

Q: What is a skill?

A folder with one SKILL.md file that teaches an agent like Claude Code or Codex one job. Ours are a page each: which key to read, the call to make and what comes back. The agent opens a skill when your request matches its description, so you just ask for the thing.

Q: Is it safe to keep API keys in environment variables?

Safer than pasting them into chats, code or a project's .env that ends up in git. Cap a key's spending where the service lets you (OpenRouter, ElevenLabs and kie.ai all do), give each key the smallest role that works, and carry them between machines encrypted with bro --export-env.

A dozen API keys turn one agent into a whole studio: writer, director, composer, voice actor, 3D artist, researcher and publicist. Tick the ones you want and take your toolkit in one go: a skill for every key, a ready keys.env, and how long each sign-up really takes.

By James GreeneUpdated November 2, 2026Every key tested on our own accounts

1 Tick the keys you want

Not sure which? Start from what you want to make:

2 Get your toolkit

Nothing ticked yet, so here are all 12

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The keys in your toolkit: what each one gives you, how long it takes to get, what it costs to start, and where to get it
Platform and key name	What it gives you	Time to a key	To start	Get it
Apify	Ready-made scrapers for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Google	2 minNo card	$5 a month free	Get key Skill
Thousands of ready-made scrapers. Pull the top TikToks for a hashtag, a rival's Instagram, YouTube comments or Google results, straight into clean JSON. Sign-up The free plan has $5 of usage every month and asks for no card. Price Then $19 a month; most scrapers charge per result Sign up Docs
ElevenLabs	Voice-overs that breathe, sound effects from a sentence, and instrumentals	2 minNo card	10,000 credits a month	Get key Skill
The voice department. Narration and character voices that breathe, sound effects from a single sentence, and instrumentals up to ten minutes long. Sign-up The free plan gives 10,000 credits a month with no card. Sound effects and music need a paid plan or a $5 top-up. Price Speech $0.08 per 1,000 characters, music $0.15 a minute Sign up Docs
Hugging Face	Open models to run on your own GPU, or call in the cloud	2 minNo card	Free to download	Get key Skill
Where open models live. Download the weights and run them on your own GPU for nothing, or call open image and chat models in the cloud with the same token. Sign-up A free account and a token take two minutes. Downloads are free; cloud runs need credits. Price Providers' prices, no markup. PRO is $9 a month Sign up Docs
OpenRouter	Almost every model on one key: words, images and Veo, Kling and Seedance video	2 minNo card	Free models	Get key Skill
One key and one bill for almost every model there is. Claude, GPT, Gemini and Muse for words, plus 61 image models and 31 video models, Veo, Kling and Seedance among them. Sign-up Sign in and the free models work at once. Add credits by card or crypto when you want the big ones. Price Each model's own price, plus 5.5% when you buy credits Sign up Docs
ClaudeAnthropic	Scripts, captions and rewrites that sound like a person wrote them	5 minCard and credits	Pay as you go	Get key Skill
The writer in the room. Scripts, captions, outlines and rewrites that sound like a person wrote them, and the planning that holds a big project together. Sign-up Sign in, add a card and buy credits before the first call works. Price Opus 5.5: $4 in, $20 out per million tokens Sign up Docs
kie.ai	Suno songs with vocals, Veo and Kling video and Flux images, on one balance	5 minCard top-up	Top up, no plan	Get key Skill
Veo and Kling for video, Suno for full songs with vocals, Flux for images, all on one balance of credits that never expire. Sign-up Sign in and top up. No subscription, and unused credits stay put. Price Credits about half a cent each; every model lists its price Sign up Docs
Tripo	A sentence or a sketch in, a textured 3D model out, rigged to move	5 minCard, from $1	From $1	Get key Skill
Type a sentence or drop in a drawing and get a textured 3D model back. It rigs characters too, so they can walk, wave and dance. Sign-up The API has its own site, separate from the Tripo app. Sign in there and buy credits from $1. Price $0.01 a credit; a textured model is 20 to 30 Sign up Docs
AdaptlyPost	One call posts or schedules to X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and 9 more	10 minNo card, link your socials	7-day trial	Get key Skill
Write once, post everywhere. One call publishes or schedules to X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky and six more networks. Sign-up A 7-day trial with no card, then a paid plan. You connect each social account in the app once. Price From $19 a month Sign up Docs
Cloudflare	Any web page as clean Markdown, read by a real browser, plus quick images	10 minNo card, build a token	Free every day	Get key Skill
A real browser in the cloud. Turn any page, even one built entirely in JavaScript, into clean Markdown your agent can read. Workers AI adds quick Flux images. Sign-up The account is free, but you build the token yourself, picking each permission, and the calls want your account id. Price 10 browser minutes and 10,000 AI neurons a day, free Sign up Docs
MuseMeta	Reads a whole book or a long video in one go, and makes one-cent images	10 minCard, Meta sign-in	Pay as you go	Get key Skill
Meta's new model, with a million tokens of memory. Hand Muse Wonder a whole book, a long video or a stack of recordings in one go. Muse Image makes pictures for about a cent each. Sign-up Sign in through Meta's single sign-on, set up billing, and check your country is covered. Wonder is still in preview. Price Wonder: $4 in, $20 out per million tokens. Images $0.01 Sign up Docs
OpenAI	GPT Image 2.5 for pictures that follow a brief, plus transcripts and GPT-6	20 minCard and a photo ID	Prepaid, $5 minimum	Get key Skill
GPT Image 2.5 for pictures that follow a detailed brief, transcripts of anything you recorded, and GPT-6 for words. Its video API, Sora, closed in September. Sign-up Prepay at least $5, then verify your organization with a government ID before the image models will answer. Price GPT-6 Astra: $10 in, $50 out per million tokens Sign up Docs
AzureMicrosoft	Speech, Azure OpenAI, GPUs, storage and hosting behind one sign-in	1 hourCard, phone, terminal	$200 credit for 30 days	Get keys Skill
The heavy machinery. Speech, Azure OpenAI, storage, GPUs and hosting, all behind one service principal your agent signs in as. Sign-up A card and a phone to open the account, then a service principal made on the command line with the right role. Four values, not one key. Price Pay as you go after the credit Values `AZURE_CLIENT_IDAZURE_CLIENT_SECRETAZURE_TENANT_IDAZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID` Sign up Docs

Plug it in, once.

Save the keys, install the skills, then just ask for the thing: a jingle, a clip, a post. Your agent picks the skill and the key.

Save your keys

Paste each key into the keys.env you copied above (or the full one), then load it for every program and agent with bro:

$ bro --env keys.env --save

No bro? Set them one at a time. New terminals pick them up.

PowerShell

PS> setx OPENROUTER_API_KEY "paste-your-key"

Terminal

$ echo 'export OPENROUTER_API_KEY="paste-your-key"' >> ~/.zshrc

Install the skills

Twelve folders with one SKILL.md in each. Unzip them into Claude Code's skills folder, or swap .claude for .codex:

PowerShell

PS> iwr https://jamesgreene.com/api-keys/creative-skills.zip -OutFile $env:TEMP\skills.zip; Expand-Archive $env:TEMP\skills.zip $HOME\.claude\skills -Force

Terminal

$ curl -fsSL https://jamesgreene.com/api-keys/creative-skills.zip -o /tmp/skills.zip && unzip -o /tmp/skills.zip -d ~/.claude/skills

Name them like this.

Every skill here reads these exact names, and so do our own tools. Pick a scheme once and never rename a key again.

The company, spelled out, then _API_KEY: KIE_AI_API_KEY, TRIPO_3D_API_KEY, ADAPTLY_POST_API_KEY. In a list of forty variables, a name you can read beats a short one.
Keep the names a provider's own tools already read: HF_TOKEN, and the four AZURE_ values the Azure SDKs pick up with no code at all.
Keys live in your user environment, not a project's .env. Every agent shares one set, and none of them ends up in git.

Questions.

Which API key should I get first?

OpenRouter. One key covers writing, pictures and video, the free models work before you pay a cent, and the specialists can come later: ElevenLabs for voice, Apify for research, AdaptlyPost for posting.

Which of these are free to start?

OpenRouter's free models, Apify ($5 of usage a month), ElevenLabs (10,000 credits a month), Hugging Face downloads and Cloudflare's daily allowance cost nothing to try. AdaptlyPost has a 7-day trial and Azure gives $200 of credit for 30 days. Claude, OpenAI, Muse, kie.ai and Tripo are pay as you go.

What is a skill?

A folder with one SKILL.md file that teaches an agent like Claude Code or Codex one job. Ours are a page each: which key to read, the call to make and what comes back. The agent opens a skill when your request matches its description, so you just ask for the thing.

Is it safe to keep API keys in environment variables?

Safer than pasting them into chats, code or a project's .env that ends up in git. Cap a key's spending where the service lets you (OpenRouter, ElevenLabs and kie.ai all do), give each key the smallest role that works, and carry them between machines encrypted with bro --export-env.

Why does OpenAI want a photo ID?

Text only needs prepaid credits. The image models also need organization verification, a government ID check through OpenAI's partner. It takes minutes when it works, and a failed check can't always be retried. OpenRouter sells the same GPT Image models with no ID check.

Can I use these keys without writing code?

Yes. JustImagine takes an OpenRouter key and puts every image and video model in one gallery app, and bro hands your keys to Claude Code, Codex, Pi and omp, so with the skills installed you just ask.

Will the model names go stale?

Yes, month by month. Every skill shows how to list the current models, so an agent can check before it calls. We checked every name on this page on November 2, 2026.

Give every agent your toolkit.

bro loads one env file into every Claude Code, Codex, Pi and omp session, encrypts it for your next machine, and runs Claude Code on Muse or any OpenRouter model.

Windows macOS Linux iOS Android

PowerShell

PS> irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JustSuperHuman/bro-cli/main/install.ps1 | iex

Terminal

$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JustSuperHuman/bro-cli/main/install.sh | sh

Then run bro and press Alt N to start an agent.

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