Using GPT Pilot with OpenAI

Note: This article is for using GPT Pilot locally via the terminal. For info on how to use your own API key via the Pythagora VS Code extension, read this article.

0 - Be sure to first follow the steps in How to start using GPT Pilot from the GPT Pilot README to setup GPT Pilot via the terminal.

1 - Go to the OpenAI website and get an API key.

2 - If you haven't already, in your cloned GPT Pilot repo, make a copy of the example-config.json file and name it config.json.

3 - Edit the new config.json file's llm section and also remove the other providers that you're not using:

"llm": {
  "openai": {
    "base_url": "https://api.openai.com/v1/",
    "api_key": "sk-your-api-key",

4 - Update the models section of the config.json file for OpenAI (if not already set as openai by default). Note: This is example code, you'll need to double-check the official OpenAI documentation for the most recent model info:

"agent": {
    "default": {
      "provider": "openai",
      "model": "gpt-4o-2024-05-13",
      "temperature": 0.5
    },

5 - Remove any commented out code from the config.json file.

6 - After making changes to your config.json file, if you're using the VS Code extension, you will need to restart VS Code for the changes to be reflected in the settings page.

7 - That's it!