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What is Claude Code

Claude Code is Anthropic’s official AI coding assistant for your terminal and IDE. You can configure it to use PipeLLM as your API endpoint.

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Configuration

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Terminal

Set the API base URL in your environment: 
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="your-pipellm-api-key"
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://api.pipellm.com"
Then run Claude Code normally: 
claude

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VS Code

  1. Open VS Code Settings (JSON)
  2. Add the following configuration:
{
  "claude.apiKey": "your-pipellm-api-key",
  "claude.apiBaseUrl": "https://api.pipellm.com"
}

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JetBrains IDEs

  1. Open Settings → Tools → Claude
  2. Set API Key: Your PipeLLM API key
  3. Set API Base URL: https://api.pipellm.com

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Supported Models

Claude Code works with all Claude models supported by PipeLLM:
  • claude-3-7-sonnet-latest (recommended)
  • claude-sonnet-4-5-latest
  • claude-3-5-haiku-latest

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More Resources

Claude Code Documentation

Official Claude Code setup and usage guide