lmux-anthropic

Anthropic provider for lmux. Talks to the Anthropic Messages API directly over httpx.

Supports chat completions and streaming.

Part of the lmux ecosystem: standardized interface, cost tracking on every response, and registry-based routing across providers.

Auth

Set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in your environment. The default AnthropicEnvAuthProvider reads it automatically.

from lmux_anthropic import AnthropicProvider

provider = AnthropicProvider()

Usage

Chat

from lmux import UserMessage

response = provider.chat("claude-sonnet-4-20250514", [UserMessage(content="Hello")])
print(response.content)
print(response.cost)

Streaming

for chunk in provider.chat_stream("claude-sonnet-4-20250514", [UserMessage(content="Hello")]):
    if chunk.delta:
        print(chunk.delta, end="")

Tool continuations

Extended thinking and redacted thinking blocks must be returned unmodified when a tool result continues the assistant turn. lmux-anthropic preserves the native ordered blocks in response.continuation; use to_assistant_message() to keep them with the normalized response:

from lmux import ToolMessage

response = provider.chat(model, messages, tools=tools, reasoning_effort="high")
messages.append(response.to_assistant_message())
messages.append(ToolMessage(content=tool_result, tool_call_id=response.tool_calls[0].id))

Continuations are scoped to the Anthropic API surface that produced them, including Vertex AI, Microsoft Foundry, and Amazon Bedrock. A matching continuation is replayed exactly; other providers ignore it and use the normalized content and tool calls.

Async

All methods have async variants: achat, achat_stream.

Registry

Use with the lmux registry to route across multiple providers:

from lmux import Registry

registry = Registry()
registry.register("anthropic", provider)
response = registry.chat("anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514", messages)

Provider Params

from lmux_anthropic import AnthropicParams

response = provider.chat(
    "claude-sonnet-4-20250514",
    messages,
    provider_params=AnthropicParams(inference_geo="us"),
)

For manual thinking, an integer budget_tokens raises the default max_tokens when needed. An explicit max_tokens is preserved instead, along with the provider-specific thinking configuration. Ensure those explicit values are compatible with the deployed model; manual thinking normally requires budget_tokens < max_tokens, except when interleaved thinking applies.

Prompt Caching

Two ways to opt in:

• Top-level (auto-placement): pass cache_control via AnthropicParams (above) to cache the full rendered prefix.
• Explicit breakpoints: place CachePointContent parts in UserMessage content. A cache point marks the end of the stable prefix; it attaches cache_control to the preceding content block. A cache point with no preceding block in its message applies to whatever came before it: the prior message's last block, or the system text seen so far (system text after the marker stays outside the cached prefix). A marker with nothing cacheable before it is dropped, and when two markers resolve to the same block the first one wins.

from lmux import CachePointContent, TextContent, UserMessage

messages = [
    UserMessage(content=[TextContent(text=big_stable_context), CachePointContent(ttl="1h")]),
    UserMessage(content="What changed since yesterday?"),
]

Cache reads/writes are reported on response.usage (cache_read_tokens, cache_creation_tokens, and the per-TTL cache_creation_tokens_by_ttl breakdown) and priced into response.cost, including the 2x write rate for ttl="1h".

Claude on Vertex AI

Requires the vertex extra, which pulls in google-auth:

uv add "lmux-anthropic[vertex]"

AnthropicVertexProvider serves Claude through GCP Vertex AI with the same chat/streaming interface:

from lmux_anthropic import AnthropicVertexProvider

provider = AnthropicVertexProvider(project_id="my-project", region="global")
response = provider.chat("claude-sonnet-4-5@20250929", [UserMessage(content="Hello")])
print(response.provider)  # "anthropic-vertex"
print(response.cost)

project_id falls back to the ANTHROPIC_VERTEX_PROJECT_ID environment variable, then to the project resolved by the auth provider (e.g. the gcloud default project under ADC, or the service account key file's project). region falls back to CLOUD_ML_REGION; a request without a region raises at first call. region accepts "global", a multi-region ("us", "eu"), or a specific region ("us-east5", ...). Model IDs use Vertex's @-versioned format (claude-sonnet-4-5@20250929) or plain names for newer models (claude-opus-4-6).

Vertex Auth

Application Default Credentials by default; a service account file is also supported:

from lmux_anthropic import AnthropicVertexServiceAccountAuthProvider

provider = AnthropicVertexProvider(
    project_id="my-project",
    region="global",
    auth=AnthropicVertexServiceAccountAuthProvider(service_account_file="/path/to/key.json"),
)

Any AuthProvider that returns google.auth Credentials works — either bare, or as a (credentials, project_id) tuple so the provider can infer the project.

Vertex Params Caveat

AnthropicParams.service_tier and AnthropicParams.inference_geo are Anthropic-API-only: the Vertex provider drops them from outgoing requests, and the inference_geo US cost multiplier never applies.

Claude in Microsoft Foundry

No extra needed — AnthropicFoundryProvider ships with the base package and serves Claude through a Foundry resource with the same chat/streaming interface:

from lmux_anthropic import AnthropicFoundryProvider

provider = AnthropicFoundryProvider(resource="example-resource")
response = provider.chat("claude-sonnet-4-6", [UserMessage(content="Hello")])
print(response.provider)  # "anthropic-foundry"
print(response.cost)

resource and the mutually exclusive base_url fall back to the ANTHROPIC_FOUNDRY_RESOURCE and ANTHROPIC_FOUNDRY_BASE_URL environment variables. Model IDs are Foundry deployment names, which default to the plain model IDs (claude-sonnet-4-6, ...). Foundry bills Anthropic's standard API pricing through the Microsoft Marketplace, so costs come from the same pricing table with no multiplier.

reasoning_effort can select the correct thinking mode only when the deployment name contains a recognizable Claude model ID. For an opaque custom deployment name, configure the thinking mode explicitly for the deployed model:

from lmux_anthropic import AnthropicParams

response = provider.chat(
    "claude-prod",
    [UserMessage(content="Hello")],
    provider_params=AnthropicParams(thinking={"type": "enabled", "budget_tokens": 8192}),
)

Use {"type": "adaptive"} instead when the deployment targets a model that requires adaptive thinking.

Foundry Auth

The default AnthropicFoundryEnvAuthProvider reads an API key from ANTHROPIC_FOUNDRY_API_KEY. For Microsoft Entra ID, wrap a bearer-token provider:

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential, get_bearer_token_provider
from lmux_anthropic import AnthropicFoundryProvider, AnthropicFoundryTokenAuthProvider

token_provider = get_bearer_token_provider(
    DefaultAzureCredential(), "https://cognitiveservices.azure.com/.default"
)
provider = AnthropicFoundryProvider(
    resource="example-resource",
    auth=AnthropicFoundryTokenAuthProvider(token_provider=token_provider),
)

Any AuthProvider that returns an API key string or a () -> str token-provider callable works.

Foundry Params Caveat

Same as Vertex: service_tier and inference_geo are dropped from outgoing requests, and the inference_geo US cost multiplier never applies.

Claude on Amazon Bedrock

Requires the bedrock extra, which pulls in boto3 (for the AWS credential chain) and the shared lmux-bedrock-shared internals:

uv add "lmux-anthropic[bedrock]"

AnthropicBedrockProvider serves Claude through Bedrock's native Anthropic Messages API (InvokeModel / InvokeModelWithResponseStream) with the same chat/streaming interface — distinct from lmux-aws-bedrock, which speaks Bedrock's normalized Converse API across all vendors. Use this one when you want Claude on Bedrock with the exact first-party Messages semantics (thinking config, cache_control, output_config all pass through unchanged):

from lmux_anthropic import AnthropicBedrockProvider

provider = AnthropicBedrockProvider(region="us-east-1")
response = provider.chat("anthropic.claude-opus-4-8", [UserMessage(content="Hello")])
print(response.provider)  # "anthropic-bedrock"
print(response.cost)

Model IDs are the Bedrock forms — a bare model ID (anthropic.claude-opus-4-8) or a cross-region inference-profile ID (us.anthropic.claude-opus-4-8, eu.anthropic.…). region falls back to the resolved AWS session's region, then us-east-1. endpoint_url overrides the endpoint; use_fips=True selects the FIPS 140-3 endpoint.

Pricing comes from the generated Bedrock table (shared with lmux-aws-bedrock via lmux-bedrock-shared), keyed by the request's Bedrock ID — so a us.-profile request is billed at its regional rate, no multiplier involved.

Bedrock Auth

Two modes, resolved once on first use:

• Bearer token — set AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK and the request carries Authorization: Bearer <token>; nothing is signed.
• SigV4 — otherwise AWS credentials are resolved through boto3 (env vars, profile, SSO, instance metadata) and every request is signed. The default AnthropicBedrockEnvAuthProvider uses boto3's default credential chain; AnthropicBedrockSessionAuthProvider takes explicit region_name/profile_name/keys:

from lmux_anthropic import AnthropicBedrockProvider, AnthropicBedrockSessionAuthProvider

provider = AnthropicBedrockProvider(
    auth=AnthropicBedrockSessionAuthProvider(profile_name="prod", region_name="us-east-1"),
)

Bedrock Params Caveat

Same as Vertex/Foundry: service_tier and inference_geo are dropped from outgoing requests, and the inference_geo US cost multiplier never applies.

Constructor Options

AnthropicProvider(
    auth=...,               # AuthProvider[str], default: AnthropicEnvAuthProvider()
    base_url=...,           # Optional base URL override
    timeout=...,            # Request timeout in seconds
    max_retries=...,        # Max retry attempts
    default_max_tokens=..., # Default max tokens (default: 4096)
    default_headers=...,    # Optional headers included with every request
    transport=...,          # Optional httpx.BaseTransport for the sync client (proxies, testing)
    async_transport=...,    # Optional httpx.AsyncBaseTransport for the async client
)

default_headers is also accepted by AnthropicVertexProvider, AnthropicFoundryProvider, and AnthropicBedrockProvider. It is useful for gateway authentication, tracing, and routing. Provider-managed authentication, API-version, and content-type headers take precedence over caller values, case-insensitively. Bedrock custom headers are included in the SigV4 signature.