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AgentsCoding agentsAnthropic 13 May 2026 r/ClaudeAI

PSA: an API key in .env silently switches Claude Code to API billing

The brief

A user lost $187 because Claude Code read ANTHROPIC_API_KEY from a project .env meant for another server and silently billed the API instead of the subscription.

Key points

  1. Anthropic confirmed this is intentional behavior.
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