How to Configure Anthropic Claude Models with Continue

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Get an API key from the Anthropic Console

Configuration

YAML

config.yaml

name: My Config
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1

models:
  - name: <MODEL_NAME>
    provider: anthropic
    model: <MODEL_ID>
    apiKey: <YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>

JSON (Deprecated)

config.json

{
  "models": [
    {
      "title": "<MODEL_NAME>",
      "provider": "anthropic",
      "model": "<MODEL_ID>",
      "apiKey": "<YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>"
    }
  ]
}

Check out a more advanced configuration here

How to Enable Prompt Caching with Claude

Anthropic supports prompt caching with Claude, which allows Claude models to cache system messages and conversation history between requests to improve performance and reduce costs.

To enable caching of the system message and the turn-by-turn conversation, update your model configuration as follows:

YAML

config.yaml

name: My Config
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1

models:
  - name: <MODEL_NAME>
    provider: anthropic
    model: <MODEL_ID>
    apiKey: <YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>
    roles:
      - chat
    defaultCompletionOptions:
      promptCaching: true

JSON (Deprecated)

config.json

{
  "models": [
    {
      "cacheBehavior": {
        "cacheSystemMessage": true,
        "cacheConversation": true
      },
      "title": "<MODEL_NAME>",
      "provider": "anthropic",
      "model": "<MODEL_ID>",
      "defaultCompletionOptions": {
        "promptCaching": true
      },
      "apiKey": "<YOUR_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY>"
    }
  ]
}