Claude Code
HARNESSES / ANTHROPIC MESSAGES

Claude Code

Connect Claude Code directly to dheeX’s Anthropic-compatible API.

Export your dheeX API key as DHEEX_API_KEY, then launch Claude Code with these settings:

Terminal
ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://api.dheex.com \
ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN="$DHEEX_API_KEY" \
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY= \
ANTHROPIC_MODEL=deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 \
ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL=deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 \
ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL=deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 \
ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL=deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 \
CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL=deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 \
CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_CONTEXT_TOKENS=1048576 \
CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS=16384 \
CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC=1 \
claude --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017

Leave /v1 out of the base URL: Claude Code adds /v1/messages and /v1/messages/count_tokens. Replace the model ID everywhere if your key uses another model. No local adapter or separate adapter credential is needed.

Run /status to confirm the dheeX base URL. Ask Claude Code to read a file and summarize it, then check your dheeX usage. Tool and Claude-specific feature support depends on the selected model.

Claude Code gateway setup