OpenAI Account Credentials

Use OpenAI Account Credentials to establish a secure and authenticated connection between HCL UnO Agentic AI Builder and the OpenAI API. These credentials are essential for enabling AI agents to interact with OpenAI models for natural language processing and generation tasks.

Before you begin

Ensure you have the following prerequisites in place before setting up OpenAI credentials:

  • OpenAI Account: You must have an active OpenAI account.
  • API Key: Generate a valid API key from the OpenAI dashboard: https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys
Table 1. Mandatory fields
Option Description
Credential Name

A user-defined unique name for this OpenAI credential. This is used to reference the credential in agent configurations.

API Key

Your secret API key generated from the OpenAI platform. This authenticates and authorizes requests to OpenAI services.

Table 2. Optional fields
Options Description
Base URL

The base URL of the OpenAI API. Use this field if you're using a proxy or custom endpoint. Leave blank to use the default OpenAI endpoint.

Discover Models When selected, the system automatically retrieves and displays the latest available LLM models from OpenAI in the LLM Name dropdown. When not selected, the system uses the predefined, static list of models bundled with the product, and newly released OpenAI models will not appear in the dropdown.