Use Anthropic

The Anthropic provider routes supported agents to the native Anthropic Messages API through OpenShell. The provider uses the anthropic-messages protocol.

Credential

Set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in the host shell before onboarding. NemoClaw keeps the credential on the host and uses provider-aware validation during retries.

Model Choices

The onboarding wizard offers these curated model IDs.

• claude-sonnet-4-6.
• claude-haiku-4-5.
• claude-opus-4-6.

Onboard

Run the onboarding wizard and select Anthropic.

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nemohermes onboard

Select a model when the wizard prompts you. NemoClaw validates the selected provider and model before creating the sandbox.

Validation

NemoClaw uses provider-aware validation during credential retries. The wizard retries transient upstream failures before it reports a provider failure.

Related Topics

• Choose a Model compares the curated Claude models by task fit.
• Set Up an Anthropic-Compatible Endpoint covers custom gateways and proxies instead of the native Anthropic provider.
• Understand Provider Validation describes provider validation behavior.