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Connect your Claude account

Cantila connects to Claude two ways. The MCP server lets Claude drive Cantila from the outside. This page is the other direction: linking your own claude.ai account so the Chat Deploy assistant's reasoning runs on your Claude subscription instead of Cantila's.

Connecting an account is optional. Skip it and Chat Deploy keeps working on Cantila's built-in assistant — see the built-in assistant below.

Why connect one

The Chat Deploy assistant reasons about your project — detecting the stack, inferring environment variables, generating build configuration, running tool calls. That reasoning costs model tokens. You choose who pays for them:

  • Connect your account — the assistant runs on your claude.ai subscription. Reasoning is billed by Anthropic against your plan, not by Cantila.
  • Don't connect one — Cantila's built-in assistant handles the reasoning, billed through platform usage credits on your Cantila bill.

Either way the deploys, databases, domains, and the rest of the platform behave identically. The only difference is whose model does the thinking.

Connect via OAuth

Open Console → Settings and find Claude account. Choose Connect.

  1. Cantila redirects you to claude.ai's authorization screen.
  2. Review the access Cantila requests and approve.
  3. claude.ai sends you back to the Console. The status flips to Connected.

That's it — the next Chat Deploy thread reasons on your subscription. No key to copy or paste; the link is established by OAuth.

Connecting your account changes only where the assistant's reasoning runs. It does not give Cantila access to your Claude chat history or any other claude.ai data.

The built-in assistant

If you never connect an account, Chat Deploy uses Cantila's built-in assistant. Nothing to set up — open Console → Chat Deploy and start a thread. The reasoning is billed as platform usage credits, which show up on your billing page alongside compute and storage.

This is the default. Connect an account later if and when you'd rather run on your own subscription — the switch takes effect on your next thread.

Revoke anytime

The link is revocable. From Console → Settings → Claude account, choose Disconnect. Cantila drops the connection and the Chat Deploy assistant falls back to the built-in assistant on your next thread. You can also revoke Cantila's access from your claude.ai account settings.

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