Zentrola open-sourced for team AI coding key and permission management

On October 1, 2026, a report from the Chinese site 开源中国 (OSChina) said a developer has open-sourced a tool called Zentrola that manages API keys and model permissions for teams sharing AI coding tools such as Codex and Claude Code.

According to the report, using an AI coding tool alone is simple: apply for an API key, paste it into Codex or Claude Code, and start working. Once the user becomes a team, that simple setup turns into a management problem. Zentrola is aimed at exactly those situations: whether the real API key should be handed out to every person, which models a new member should be allowed to use, how to revoke access after someone leaves, and whether everyone needs to be told to make temporary changes when an upstream provider has an outage.

The report does not name the open-source license, does not link to a repository, and does not list the models or version numbers the tool supports. It also offers no developments after the release itself. The verifiable information currently stops at the open-sourcing of Zentrola and the specific management scenarios it targets.