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Claude Desktop ​

Claude Desktop can be routed through Corveil for environments that want a desktop chat UI with unified logging and budgets.

Mode ​

Direct mode (recommended). Use Corveil's virtual API key as the Anthropic-compatible key.

1. Configure the API endpoint ​

Claude Desktop reads the same environment variables as Claude Code on startup. Launch the app with these set:

bash
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://your-corveil-host"
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="sk-citadel-your-key-here"
open -a "Claude"

For Windows, set the same variables via Settings > System > Environment Variables and relaunch Claude.

Notes ​

  • This is a community-supported configuration — behaviour may change across Claude Desktop releases
  • If Claude Desktop doesn't pick up the override, fall back to Claude Code or the Anthropic SDK