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OPENAI_API_BASE and OPENAI_API_KEY. Prefix the catalog id with openai/.

The two facts, in Aider’s names

terminal
export OPENAI_API_BASE=https://api.conifer.build/v1
export OPENAI_API_KEY=$CONIFER_API_KEY
aider --model openai/claude-haiku-4-5

Aider still reads OPENAI_API_BASE, not OPENAI_BASE_URL. The openai/ prefix selects Aider’s OpenAI client. The rest of the id is the catalog model.

terminal
aider --model openai/claude-haiku-4-5 \
      --openai-api-base https://api.conifer.build/v1 \
      --openai-api-key "$CONIFER_API_KEY"