Radial app

AI accounts & provider terms

Radial doesn't sell AI. You bring the coding agent you already use (Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor) and Radial launches the official tool, in a real terminal, under your own login. This page explains exactly what that means for your account with each provider.

How Radial uses your agent

• Radial spawns the official CLI you installed: claude, codex, or cursor-agent. It never bundles, modifies, or substitutes the provider's software.
• Auth stays inside the provider's own tool. You sign in through the CLI itself, exactly as you would in any terminal. Radial never reads, stores, or forwards your tokens, and there is no "log in with Claude" (or ChatGPT, or Cursor) inside Radial.
• Nothing routes through Radial's servers. Your prompts and code go from the CLI on your Mac straight to the provider, the same as running the tool yourself.
• AI runs only when you ask. Every AI feature in Radial is an explicit action: typing to an agent, or clicking a clearly marked AI button (draft a commit message, suggest SEO text, write alt text, enhance a project rule). Background work like auto-save commits and publishing is fully deterministic and never calls an agent, so Radial never spends your plan's usage without you.

Anthropic (Claude Code)

Does using Claude Code inside Radial follow Anthropic's terms? Yes, by design. In Radial you are using Claude Code itself: the official app, its own interface, its own sign-in, its own permission prompts. Running it inside Radial's terminal is the same as running it inside any terminal app.

What Anthropic's terms restrict is different: third-party tools that take a Claude subscription's OAuth token and call Claude directly with their own interface. Radial never touches your token, never offers its own Claude login, and never proxies your requests. Both subscription sign-in (through the CLI) and an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY work. See Anthropic's Claude Code legal & compliance page for the authoritative language.

OpenAI (Codex)

Does using Codex inside Radial follow OpenAI's terms? Radial launches the official open-source Codex CLI you installed, signed in with your own ChatGPT plan or API key. Radial doesn't fork or modify the CLI, doesn't pool accounts, and doesn't resell OpenAI access; your usage is governed by your own plan and rate limits, per OpenAI's Codex plan guidance.

Cursor

Does using Cursor inside Radial follow Cursor's terms? Radial launches the official cursor-agent CLI under your own Cursor account. Driving the CLI from other software is a documented part of Cursor's product (scripts, CI, and custom client integrations), and Radial doesn't reproduce, modify, or resell any part of the service.

What Radial never does

• Sell, meter, or proxy access to any AI provider.
• Share one AI account across multiple users or machines.
• Extract, store, or transmit your provider tokens.
• Run agent prompts in the background against your quota.