What I Was Looking For Claude Code supports Bedrock through an environment variable—set CLAUDE_CODE_USE_BEDROCK=1 and go. But Claude Desktop is a different story. Anthropic’s docs say Desktop connects to their API directly, and if you want Bedrock or Vertex, use the CLI. I wanted to know if that was the whole picture. So I unpacked the app. Claude Desktop ships as an Electron app, and the application code lives in /Applications/Claude.

The Question I wanted to know if I could delegate work to an LLM the way I’d delegate to a person. Not “ask it a question and get a response” delegation—actual structural delegation. Write a ticket, assign it, walk away, get a pull request back. The kind of handoff where you define the work, set the constraints, and trust the process to produce a result. Most LLM tooling right now is interactive.

Memory What is Claude Code memory? It’s the system by which you provide persistent instructions to the model across sessions. You write rules in files called CLAUDE.md at various levels of your project, and Claude Code assembles them into a block of text that gets included in every interaction. If you’ve spent any time configuring this system, you’ve probably noticed something odd. Claude follows your rules for a while, then quietly stops.