Use HIPS Code with HIPS

hi code starts HIPS Code on HIPS models, signed in as you, with no API key to copy: hi sets HIPS up for that session only and leaves HIPS Code's own settings as they are.

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• hi finds hips on your computer, checks that its release is one HIPS has tested on your system, and names its vendor's installer when it is missing.
• The first time, it signs you in: it shows a code and a link, and you approve it in the Console.
• It takes a model fit for coding from your workspace's catalog, or the one you name with --model, and gives HIPS Code HIPS's address and your sign-in through HIPS Code's own credential setting, speaking chat completions.
• It turns off HIPS Code's own telemetry, and whatever would send your session to its vendor, for that session.

Code with HIPS is the overview; Coding agents has every option of hi code.

From the signed list of tested versions of 2026-11-13, 01:44 UTC (sequence 5), joined with the releases built into hi 0.1.0. hi reads the signed list each day, so it may start a newer tested release than this page shows; any other release is refused with the tested ones named.

HIPS Code is not in the per-model agent tests yet: they run Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode with each catalog model. hi code still checks that a model offers tool calls before it starts HIPS Code.

For people who do not use hi. The company's own coding agent; tested first, since the company controls both ends. It has no release yet, so hi code starts it once it has one.

Not tested. When the row is validated, this section states where the tool reads its base URL, key and model (environment, file, flag or UI), and which of those the setup helper uses for a session and for a persistent configuration.

Not tested. When validated: how the tool sends the key, that HIPS accepts it as Authorization: Bearer, and that the helper never prints a secret. The key is read as HIPS_API_KEY and kept on the machine's own secret store or environment.

Not tested. When validated: the backup the helper takes before a persistent change, and the selective undo that restores the previous provider, model mapping and defaults without touching unrelated providers.

• Tool and SDK versions: none tested.
• Configuration surface: not tested.
• Authentication: not tested.
• Model mapping: not tested.
• Streaming: not tested.
• Complete tool-call round trips: not tested.