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Config Claude Desktop with DeepSeek

UPDATE: Add a system environment variable using name “NODE_ENV” with value “production” and restart Claude Desktop. Now you can directly add only DeepSeek models to the model list without need to manually modify the config json file mentioned in this post: deepseek-v4-pro deepseek-v4-flash ====================================== To use DeekSeek v4 in Claude Desktop, enable Developer mode in Claude Desktop first. Top left conor main menue –> Help –> Troubleshooting –> Enable Developer Mode.