Maintainer
A project steward who can register public GitHub projects, create compute keys, and spend donated compute on model usage.
A maintainer is a project steward who can register or claim a public GitHub project in opub. Once the project has donated compute, a maintainer can create compute keys and use them for model token usage.
In opub, maintainers turn donor support into useful project work. They choose dollar limits, keep one-time key secrets in their local tool setup, and decide which coding agents or model workflows fit the project.
Maintainer access is tied to project stewardship, not donor identity. A maintainer spends from the project balance through a compute key, while opub records provider-reported spend in the project ledger.
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All termsCompute key
A maintainer-created key with a dollar limit reserved from a project's donated compute balance.
maintainers compute keys 2 aliasesDonated compute
Project funding that becomes a dollar balance maintainers can spend on model tokens.
donations balance 3 aliasesProject balance
The dollar balance a project can use for maintainer-created compute keys and provider-reported token spend.
balance donations