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Use AxForge with Claude Code

Claude Code is Anthropic's coding agent for the terminal. It speaks the Anthropic Messages API, and AxForge serves that too, so it points straight at us. One settings file does it.

Set it up

1. Install Claude Code

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

2. Point it at AxForge

   Create the file ~/.claude/settings.json (on Windows %USERPROFILE%\.claude\settings.json) with your key in it:

   {
     "env": {
       "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "https://api.axforge.ai",
       "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN": "orx_live_your_key_here",
       "ANTHROPIC_MODEL": "glm-5.3-flash",
       "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL": "mimo-v2.6-flash",
       "CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_CONTEXT_TOKENS": "262144"
     }
   }

   The base URL has no /v1: Claude Code adds /v1/messages itself. The last line tells it how much our models can read at once.

3. Start it in your project

   cd my-project
   claude

   The header names the model, glm-5.3-flash, and API Usage Billing: it is running on your AxForge key, not an Anthropic login.

   

4. Give it a task

   Ask in plain words. It reads your files, changes them and tells you what it did.

   

The settings

All three models work with Claude Code (tried 2026-10-17). glm-5.3-flash plans before it acts (the task above took 33 seconds), qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4 is the everyday default and reads images, mimo-v2.6-flash is the fastest. Which model for what.

Only for one terminal

The same settings as environment variables, instead of the file:

export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.axforge.ai
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN="$AXFORGE_API_KEY"
export ANTHROPIC_MODEL=glm-5.3-flash
export ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL=mimo-v2.6-flash
export CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_CONTEXT_TOKENS=262144
claude

$env:ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL = "https://api.axforge.ai"
$env:ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN = $env:AXFORGE_API_KEY
$env:ANTHROPIC_MODEL = "glm-5.3-flash"
$env:ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL = "mimo-v2.6-flash"
$env:CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_CONTEXT_TOKENS = "262144"
claude

The Claude Code extension for VS Code reads the same ~/.claude/settings.json.

Check that it works

The header says API Usage Billing and the model you set, and a task gets done. The calls show in the console under API Keys → Recent calls within a minute.

When it does not work