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55To use Anthropic's Claude API directly as the inference provider, set [`inferenceProvider`](/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/configuration#inferenceprovider) to `anthropic` and choose how users authenticate, as described in [Choose an authentication approach](#choose-an-authentication-approach). This is the first-party path: inference goes straight to Anthropic rather than to a Claude deployment on Google Cloud's Agent Platform, Amazon Bedrock, or Microsoft Foundry.
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8 When `inferenceProvider` is `anthropic`, inference traffic goes to Anthropic's API endpoints rather than staying within your cloud provider. The data-residency and compliance statements on these pages do not apply to this option.
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9> When `inferenceProvider` is `anthropic`, inference traffic goes to Anthropic's API endpoints rather than staying within your cloud provider. The data-residency and compliance statements on these pages do not apply to this option.
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2323| Setting | Type | Availability | Default | Description |
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25| <span id="inferenceanthropicapikey" />Claude API key<br />`inferenceAnthropicApiKey` | `string` | MDM + Bootstrap<br />Added in 1.8089.0 | — | Leave blank to sign in with your browser, or to supply the key via a credential helper. |
25| Claude API key `inferenceAnthropicApiKey` | `string` | MDM + Bootstrap Added in 1.8089.0 | — | Leave blank to sign in with your browser, or to supply the key via a credential helper. |
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