Provider presets now carry an explicit auth strategy so Anthropic-compatible services can choose the right Claude Code environment shape instead of relying on one global variable. The desktop editor exposes the same strategy, keeps settings.json previews in sync, and applies the strategy to connection tests as well as runtime env sync.
Constraint: Third-party Anthropic-compatible providers do not agree on ANTHROPIC_API_KEY versus ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN.
Rejected: Force all third-party providers onto one env var | breaks providers that require bearer auth, dual variables, or dummy local auth.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Add new provider presets with explicit authStrategy; do not infer auth behavior from model names alone.
Tested: bun test src/server/__tests__/providers.test.ts src/server/__tests__/providers-real.test.ts src/server/__tests__/provider-presets.test.ts src/server/__tests__/conversation-service.test.ts
Tested: cd desktop && bun run lint
Tested: ALLOW_CLI_CORE_CHANGE=1 bun run quality:pr
Tested: bun run quality:gate --mode baseline --allow-live --provider-model minimax:main:minimax-main
Tested: agent-browser provider edit flow on http://127.0.0.1:19811
Not-tested: Live successful calls for every third-party provider with real credentials.
Teach provider presets and saved providers to carry per-model context windows so auto-compact uses provider-specific limits instead of a blanket fallback. The desktop provider form now keeps these limits in an advanced context section and syncs the generated settings preview with model changes.
Constraint: Third-party provider APIs do not consistently expose machine-readable model context windows.
Rejected: Keep a single 100K/200K fallback | modern provider windows vary from 128K to 1M+ and the fallback caused late or early compaction.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Do not change provider compact thresholds without re-running real provider long-context checks.
Tested: bun test src/services/compact/autoCompact.test.ts; bun test src/server/__tests__/provider-presets.test.ts src/server/__tests__/providers.test.ts src/server/__tests__/providers-real.test.ts; bun run check:server; bun run check:desktop; bun run check:policy; bun run check:native; MiniMax/Kimi/DeepSeek live long-context probes; agent-browser provider form flow.
Not-tested: quality:pr policy gate still requires explicit allow-cli-core-change for CLI core edits.
Add a protocol-translating reverse proxy that allows using OpenAI-compatible
API providers (DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Groq, etc.) with Claude Code.
The proxy intercepts Anthropic Messages API requests from the CLI, transforms
them to OpenAI Chat Completions or Responses API format, forwards to the
upstream provider, and transforms streaming/non-streaming responses back.
Key features:
- Request transform: Anthropic Messages → OpenAI Chat/Responses
- Response transform: OpenAI → Anthropic (streaming SSE + non-streaming)
- Provider-agnostic reasoning support (reasoning_content, thinking_blocks,
reasoning fields from DeepSeek, OpenAI o-series, GLM-5, Groq, etc.)
- Event queue pattern for correct Anthropic SSE event ordering
- Two-step test: ① connectivity check ② full proxy pipeline validation
- Desktop UI: API format selector, two-step test results display
- License attribution for cc-switch (MIT, Jason Young)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implement a full Provider management layer compatible with Claude Code's settings.json protocol.
- ProviderService: CRUD + activation + settings.json sync + HTTP connectivity test
- Provider REST API: 8 endpoints (list, get, create, update, delete, activate, test)
- API key masking in GET responses (sk-a****xyz)
- Models API refactored to read from active Provider dynamically
- 42 unit tests + 6 real-config integration tests, all passing
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
