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Anthropic Claude Code: Working settings.json and API key configuration guide

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This guide provides a working configuration for Claude Code, an AI development tool, focusing on its settings.json file and how it interacts with API keys and base URLs. It details how Claude Code prioritizes configuration values from various sources, including shell variables and multiple settings files, to avoid common errors like login screens or incorrect model responses. The post specifically addresses the use of ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN for connecting to gateways like AIHubMix, and clarifies the precedence between these and other API key variables. AI

IMPACT Provides developers with a practical guide to configuring AI development tools, streamlining integration with LLM gateways.

RANK_REASON The item is a technical guide for configuring a specific tool, Claude Code, rather than a release of a new model or significant research.

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Anthropic Claude Code: Working settings.json and API key configuration guide

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  1. dev.to — Anthropic tag TIER_1 English(EN) · AIHubMix ·

    Claude Code settings.json for an LLM Gateway: A Working Setup and What Each Error Means

    <p>Claude Code can pick up the same variable from your shell, from up to four settings files and from VS Code's settings. Point it at a gateway in one place, leave an old value in another, and you get a login screen, a model error or a 401 that doesn't match the key you just past…

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