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Use your own Claude Code or Codex in PandaStudio's chat
If you have Claude Code or OpenAI's Codex installed and signed in on your computer, PandaStudio's chat can use it to edit your video, on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for.
PandaStudio 2.0 adds two options to the model menu in the chat: Claude (your Claude Code) and ChatGPT (your Codex). Pick one and PandaStudio runs the Claude Code or Codex already installed on your computer, signed in with your own account, so the editing runs on your existing Claude Pro or Max or ChatGPT plan with nothing extra to pay us. PandaStudio never sees or stores your sign-in. In the chat it can only use PandaStudio's editing tools: no terminal, no files and no web, and it asks you before deleting anything. You need to set it up once on each computer: install the tool and sign in, as below.
In the app
- 1Install Claude Code from claude.com/claude-code (on a Mac: curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash). For Codex, run npm install -g @openai/codex, or brew install codex on a Mac. On a Mac, the ChatGPT desktop app already includes Codex.
- 2Sign in once in a terminal: run claude auth login for Claude Code, or codex login for Codex, and finish the sign-in in your browser.
- 3In PandaStudio, open the AI tab and choose Claude (your Claude Code) or ChatGPT (your Codex) in the model menu.
- 4If it isn't ready yet, PandaStudio shows what's missing and the exact command to run. Fix it and press Check again.
- 5Ask for your edit in plain language, for example: edit my video.
Ask the AI
Open the AI chat in the editor and say any of these. The agent does the edits for you.
Examples
Signed out or expired
If the chat says Claude Code or Codex isn't signed in, or its sign-in expired, sign in again in a terminal, then send your message again:
claude auth login
For Codex, run codex login instead. If PandaStudio says the version is too old, run claude update (or npm install -g @openai/codex@latest).