Do I need an API key or an account?+
No. Leverage hires from the seat your MCP host already has, through sampling; from the agent CLIs already signed in on your PATH; from Ollama; and from free routes. The live page on this site needs nothing at all. A RocketRide key is optional on your own machine: with it, cloud workers run as pipelines; without it they are called directly, and the mission log says which happened.
Is $0.00 real, or a rounded estimate?+
It is the settled paid spend from the run’s own ledger. A paid model under a $0 budget is removed from the auction before scoring, and the budget governor reserves headroom atomically before any paid call, so four concurrent workers cannot each see the last five cents and all proceed. Both are asserted in tests/invariants.test.ts. The one estimate on the site, frontier-equivalent cost, is labelled estimated everywhere it appears.
Does RocketRide actually do the work?+
Every worker whose cost class is free runs as a RocketRide pipeline: webhook → llm_openai_api → response, with the auction’s chosen model patched into the LLM node at deploy time. That is how model selection becomes model execution. In mission LVR-bda3ba68, 3 of 6 workers ran that way and finished 3 of the 4 tasks. In LVR-719a8c22 every worker did, through the hosted pool. Credits are read from billing before and after each run.
The rate limit in the recorded run, is it real?+
Injected, and labelled INJECTED in the event stream, in Mission Control and in the docs, because a demonstration of recovery should not depend on luck. A genuine 429 from pool:auto/coding:free appears independently in the capability probe, and two genuine test failures in the same run were handed off the same way.
Will it use my ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription?+
Not by driving a logged-in browser session. Those plans have no API, and automating their web UI is against their terms and puts your credentials in the loop. Inside Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, Leverage borrows the host’s own model through MCP sampling: the same model, legitimately, with no password or token ever handled.
Can I point it at my own repository?+
Yes: npm run mission -- --repo=/your/repo --goal="...". A planner model reads the repository and its tests and proposes the task graph; the compiler rejects cycles, dangling edges, escaping paths and tasks with no check, and a rejected plan fails the mission with the reason rather than falling back silently. Mission LVR-31eacf88 on this site was planned that way.
What has it been proven on?+
Every number on this page comes from a mission that ran inside this deployment: JavaScript and TypeScript repositories with their own test suites, a mission RocketRide executed, a mission a hosted pool served, and a mission whose plan a model wrote. Small local models fail often, and the handoff machinery exists because they do: every replacement recorded here happened during a real run, with the checkpoint and the resumed task in the log.