Most of Orbit now works without an account: only the live integrations need a key

What shipped

• •Less is locked: when 0.24.0 added the account step, it gated every tool. That was heavier than it needed to be. From 0.24.1, everything that runs on your own machine works without a key: the sample-size, LTV, RFM and retention calculators, the email and MJML builders, template and component work, lifecycle diagrams, subject-line and preheader scoring, deliverability and accessibility checks, and all 62 skills. Open Orbit and use them straight away.
• •A key is only for going out to a service: the Activation Key is now asked for at the moment Orbit actually connects to an external account: reading or writing in Braze, pushing or pulling a Stripo email, importing a Figma design, or generating a brand image with AI. If you don't reach for one of those, you'll never see the prompt. And tools that do both, like composing an email locally before pushing it to Stripo, let you do the local part without a key and only ask when you push.
• •Fixed: a key that wouldn't take after pasting. Some people pasted a valid key and still saw Orbit report it as not activated. Orbit reads the key when its background server starts, and opening a new chat reuses the same one, so the key never got picked up. The fix: fully quit Claude Desktop (Cmd+Q, not just closing the window) and reopen it. The activation message now says this plainly.
• •The setup check now shows your key: run a setup check and you'll see your Activation Key listed alongside your other connections, so you can confirm in one place whether it reached Orbit and whether it's been validated.