Authentication

Swelog stores every credential in your operating system’s credential store

• Keychain on macOS
• Credential Manager on Windows
• Secret Service on Linux

Credential	Used by	How it is obtained
GitHub token	swelog fetch github	Prompted on first use
OpenAI API key	swelog summarize with "llm": "openAi"	Prompted on first use
OpenRouter API key	swelog summarize with "llm": "openRouter"	Prompted on first use
Anthropic API key	swelog summarize with "llm": "anthropic"	Prompted on first use
Linear authorization	swelog fetch linear	Browser OAuth on first use
Google Calendar authorization	swelog fetch google-calendar	Browser OAuth on first use

Inspecting stored credentials

Review what is stored. This does not print the values, only how the credential is resolved.

swelog auth status

Clearing a credential

If a credential is revoked or rejected, clear it and run the command again to enter a new one. Every authorization error names this command:

swelog auth clear github
swelog auth clear --all

swelog auth clear accepts github, open-ai, open-router, anthropic, linear, and google-calendar.

Environment variable overrides

GITHUB_TOKEN, OPENAI_API_KEY, OPENROUTER_API_KEY, and ANTHROPIC_API_KEY take precedence over the keyring when set. When one of these is set, swelog auth status reports it instead of the stored value.

Linear and Google Calendar are authorized through the browser and have no environment variable override.