The OpenAI SDK rejects api_key=None, so all three client sites now
fall back to a PLACEHOLDER_API_KEY ("not-required") when the entry has
no key, letting an unauthenticated LiteLLM/proxy endpoint be configured
with the API key field left blank.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01739Seac5eMAfNwFeiwV5r4