Hand Claude Code a gateway token, not an API key - #185
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An API key is consent-gated: the CLI stops and asks whether to trust the key it found in its environment, which in a workload nobody is there to answer. ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN is the variable meant for a proxy standing in front of the vendor and carries no such prompt. The value is unused either way. The proxy authorizes the workload's OpenZiti identity, not anything sent in a header.
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Platform-mode workloads stop on first run with:
agyndwrites that variable into~/.claude/settings.jsonto satisfy the CLI's demand for a credential. But an API key is consent-gated: the CLI records approvals incustomApiKeyResponsesand blocks until someone answers — and in a workload nobody is there to. Suppressing one prompt bought another.ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKENsatisfies the same requirement (ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN, CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN, or WIF env vars required) and is the variable meant for a gateway in front of the vendor — the CLI refers to it as "the gateway token provided via ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN". OnlyANTHROPIC_API_KEYis consent-gated.The value is unused either way: the LLM Proxy authorizes the workload's OpenZiti identity, not a header. Native mode is unaffected — it sets neither.