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More model providers recognised, each with its own auth-skip variable

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More model providers are accepted, each with an environment variable to skip its auth step.

CLAUDE_CODE_SKIP_MANTLE_AUTHCLAUDE_CODE_SKIP_ANTHROPIC_GOOGLE_CLOUD_AUTH
What

The provider setting now accepts first_party, bedrock, vertex, foundry, anthropic_aws, anthropic_google_cloud, mantle and gateway. A matching list of environment variables lets you skip the auth step for a provider, including CLAUDE_CODE_SKIP_MANTLE_AUTH and CLAUDE_CODE_SKIP_ANTHROPIC_GOOGLE_CLOUD_AUTH.

Details
  • All entries other than first_party are optional in the schema.
Evidence

CLAUDE_CODE_SKIP_ANTHROPIC_GOOGLE_CLOUD_AUTH

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Related

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