A Toaster Can Log In Now, Apparently
You’re SSH’d into a box with no display. No X11, no Wayland, $DISPLAY unset, as browser-capable as a toaster. Claude Code, running against your LLM gateway, needs a fresh JWT, and the script backing its apiKeyHelper is about to try to webbrowser.open() a URL into a void where a browser should be. It doesn’t. It notices the void, shrugs, and prints a six-character code to your terminal instead — with instructions to go type it into a browser on some other device. Your phone. Your laptop. Whatever’s within arm’s reach that isn’t the toaster you’re SSH’d into. You do that, tap approve, and the headless box — the one that, and I cannot stress this enough, has no browser and never will — gets a real, human-approved OAuth login anyway. ...