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## Use a different helper path on Windows

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4545Keep secrets out of the arguments. The arguments appear in the diagnostic report and are visible to other processes on the device, so have the helper fetch any secret itself.
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47## Use a different helper path on Windows
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49When one configuration serves both Windows devices and macOS or Linux devices, set `inferenceCredentialHelper` to the macOS and Linux path and [`inferenceCredentialHelperWindows`](/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/configuration#inferencecredentialhelperwindows) to the Windows path, for example `C:\Program Files\Corp\cred-helper.exe`. Windows devices run that executable with the same arguments, timeout, cache time, and environment variables as the main helper, and macOS and Linux devices ignore the key. A [bootstrap server](/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/bootstrap) can deliver it under the same [user-consent rule](/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/bootstrap#keys-that-require-user-consent) as the helper path; in the nested response format, set `commandWindows` next to `command` in `inference.credential`.
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4751## When the helper runs
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4953Claude Desktop sets the `CLAUDE_HELPER_CONTEXT` environment variable on every invocation so the script can decide whether interactive authentication (opening a browser, prompting for a device code) is appropriate.
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