Claude Code

Route Anthropic's official CLI through BeansAI with two environment variables.

Overview

Claude Code reads ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN from its settings.json. Point them at BeansAI and every Claude model in our catalog works — no SDK changes, no proxy.

Installation

shell

npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

Configuration

Write these two files. Replace sk-beans-... with your actual key.

~/.claude/settings.json

{
  "env": {
    "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN": "sk-beans-...",
    "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "https://api.beansai.dev",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS": "64000",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC": "1"
  },
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}

macOS / Linux

bash

# 1. Install Claude Code
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

# 2. Configure
mkdir -p ~/.claude
cat > ~/.claude/settings.json <<'EOF'
{
  "env": {
    "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN": "sk-beans-...",
    "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "https://api.beansai.dev",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS": "64000",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC": "1"
  },
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}
EOF

# 3. Launch
claude

Windows (PowerShell)

powershell

# 1. Install
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

# 2. Configure
$dir = "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude"
if (!(Test-Path $dir)) { New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $dir -Force | Out-Null }
@"
{
  "env": {
    "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN": "sk-beans-...",
    "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "https://api.beansai.dev",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS": "64000",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC": "1"
  },
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}
"@ | Set-Content "$dir\settings.json" -Encoding UTF8

# 3. Launch
claude

Basic usage

Run claude in any project directory. Switch models inline with /model claude-sonnet-4-6. The CLI respects rate limits and cost tracking from BeansAI.

Tips

Use CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS=64000to unlock Opus's full output window.
Set CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC=1 to skip Anthropic telemetry entirely — traffic goes only to BeansAI.
Keep separate settings files per project with --settings ./claude.json.