John C

Thanks for the helpful article. Please consider adding this to Step 4, or the Troubleshooting section:

Known issue for fresh install, claude doesn’t honor ~/.claude/settings.json:
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/13827

Workarounds:

• Temporarily set the environment variables in your shell before running claude:
  export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://your-litellm-endpoint"
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN="your-token"
claude

• Manually edit ~/.claude.json after the first run, and set "hasCompletedOnboarding": true to bypass the login prompt.