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CodeCobra is far more useful once it can see your actual system. So the first thing it asks a new account for is a connection — before any projects, before any settings. It takes about a minute.
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Your Odoo address and login

Enter the web address you use to reach Odoo, your login, and either your password or an Odoo API key.An API key is the better choice: you can scope it, and you can revoke it without changing your own password. Generate one in Odoo under Preferences → Account Security → New API Key.
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Pick the database — if you're asked

CodeCobra checks which databases your server exposes. Most installations run one, in which case it detects it and moves on without asking.You’ll only see this step if your server hosts several, or if it keeps its database list private and needs you to type the name.
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Confirm the version

CodeCobra reads the Odoo version from the server and shows you what it found. Confirm it’s right — the version determines how any code it writes is built.
That’s it. You land in a chat, connected, and can ask your first question straight away.

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What it does with the connection

Nothing you haven’t asked for. On a new connection CodeCobra can read your data to answer questions; changing anything is a separate, deliberate step. The connection is stored encrypted and can never be read back — see Security.
Not ready to connect a production system? Point it at a staging or test database instead. You can add more environments later, and choose per chat which one CodeCobra is allowed to touch.

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If it can’t connect

You can save a connection that doesn’t test cleanly and fix it later, so a temporarily unreachable server doesn’t block you from setting up.

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Skipping it

You can dismiss the setup and connect later from any project’s settings. CodeCobra still works — it can answer general Odoo questions and write code — but it can’t tell you anything about your system until it has a connection.

Connect more environments

Adding production, staging and test connections to a project, and setting what each one is allowed to do.