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Free Claude Code and the Identity Question

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What Free Claude Code Actually Proves About Coding Agents The story going around is that Free Claude Code works because an extension accepts a fake identity. It does not. It works because Claude Code was built to read two environment variables, ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN , and to s…

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  1. 2026-09-03 19:34 · DEV Community — AI
    Free Claude Code and the Identity Question

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