WorkBuddy2API-Hub

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A gateway that pools Tencent WorkBuddy accounts from the Chinese and international versions and serves them as an OpenAI-compatible API for Codex, Claude Code and other clients.

Adopt it when

Not recommended for any business use; it exists to reuse consumer AI accounts outside their intended client.

Watch out

It violates Tencent's terms, accounts can be banned, and the author moved it to low-frequency maintenance two months after it was created.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

Python and JavaScript

How established

New: started 1 month ago, latest release v1.10.11.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-06 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: WorkBuddy2API-Hub → CPython → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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