RunPod vLLM + Claude Code bridge Two things are being solved together here, and it's worth being clear about which is which: 1. Getting a model running on RunPod. Straightforward — pick a GPU, start a vLLM container, wait for health. 2. Getting Claude Code to actually talk to it. Not straightforward — Claude Code speaks Anthropic's Messages API ( , content blocks, SSE events). vLLM speaks OpenAI's . Nothing bridges these two by default. lets Claude Code point at any server that implements the Messages API shape — so a small translation proxy in the middle is what makes "point Claude Code at m…