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OpsPilot has two separate AI modes. AI Providers means you supply an API key or a sign-in and the AI lives in OpsPilot's own panel. AI Assistants means an app you already pay for — Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, VS Code Copilot Chat — connects to OpsPilot over MCP and drives it from there.

AI Providers AI Assistants
What it is You supply an API key or sign-in You connect an app you already pay for
Who drives OpsPilot's own AI panel Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, VS Code Copilot
Cost model Pay per request, or free with a local model Covered by your existing subscription
Offline capable Yes, with Ollama or self-hosted No — those apps are cloud services
Approval gate Yes Yes, identical
Redaction Yes Yes, same profiles

Whichever mode a proposal arrives through, it enters the same approval queue, gets the same risk tier, and its context passes through the same redaction layer first.

Use Providers when you want the AI inside OpsPilot, or when you need a deployment that never reaches the internet. Use Assistants when you would rather work in a chat app you already have open, or drive the estate from your phone. Both at once is fine — they are independent settings, not a choice.

Pages in this section

  • AI Providers — the ten built-in providers, how to enter a credential, test it and switch model per session.
  • Offline with Ollama — the four steps that make OpsPilot work with no route to the internet at all, and what to expect from a local model.
  • Self-hosted & enterprise — Azure OpenAI in your own tenancy, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint you already run.
  • AI Assistants (MCP) — the four assistants, the six tools they get, and how the safety model applies to them.
  • Remote & mobile operation — the ChatGPT Web/Work tunnel, and what works well from a phone.
  • Using the AI panel — the day-to-day task: ask, read the proposal, then approve or dismiss.
  • What gets sent — exactly what a provider or an assistant receives, and what never leaves the machine.

Private or VPN-only is not air-gapped

With a cloud provider your workstation still reaches the internet, even though your servers do not. That is private or VPN-only operation. Only a local or self-hosted model closes the loop entirely.

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