A lot of older third-party Claude model routes have become unreliable. I tested a narrower path on Windows: Claude Code through cc-switch to DeepSeek. Important boundary first: cc-switch is not a Claude jailbreak, and it is not a universal adapter for every coding agent. It mainly helps with the Claude Code provider route. Codex cannot use this path directly. What cc-switch actually solves It reduces manual config drift. Instead of hand-editing model name, base URL, and API key every time, you keep them as named providers and switch between them. The package I used: npm install -g @ adithya-13/cc-switch Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Windows traps Two details mattered in my test. First, PowerShell may block the npm-generated .ps1 shim. When that happens, try: cmd /c cc-switch Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Second, do not save the provider JSON config with a BOM. I hit a JSON parsing failure that disappeared after saving the config as UTF-8 without BOM.…