BetterClaude Gateway: The Silent Guardian Against Claude API’s Achilles’ Heel
The core question this article answers: When Claude API returns a 400 error due to orphaned tool results in conversation history, how can you automatically fix it without touching a single line of client code?
If you’ve built anything non-trivial with Claude’s function calling, you’ve seen it: a perfectly working application suddenly crashes with tool_result block(s) that reference non-existent tool_use ids. This isn’t a rate limit or a temporary outage—it’s a data corruption error that stops production systems cold. BetterClaude Gateway is an edge-deployed proxy that detects these “orphan” blocks before they reach Claude and surgically removes them, turning fatal errors into transparent retries. Let’s dissect how it works, why it matters, and how to deploy it in fifteen minutes.
What Are Orphaned Tool Results and Why Do They Break Claude?
This section answers: What exactly is an orphaned tool_result error, and why does it become a silent killer in production systems?
An orphaned tool_result occurs when your conversation history contains a tool execution result that points to a tool_use request that no longer exists in the message array. Claude’s API validates message integrity strictly—every result must reference a valid use ID. If even one orphan slips through, the entire request fails with a 400 Bad Request.
How Orphans Are Born in Real Systems
These errors don’t appear randomly. They emerge from the messy reality of distributed systems:
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Session truncation logic: Your app keeps only the last 20 messages to save tokens. A bug deletes the assistant’s tool_useblock but leaves the user’stool_result. -
Retry storms: A network timeout triggers a client retry. The first attempt’s tool_usenever made it to your server, but the tool executed and returned a result that got logged. -
Async tool execution: You queue tool calls to a background worker. The worker completes and writes the result, but the originating tool_usemessage was dropped from the conversation state in the meantime.
Scenario: Imagine a financial analysis bot that pulls stock data via a get_price tool. During a market surge, the bot calls the tool 15 times in one conversation. Your cost-saving cleanup routine truncates messages older than 10 turns, accidentally removing the tool_use for the 3rd price query but keeping its result. When the user asks, “What was that third stock’s price again?” and the client resends history, Claude rejects the entire payload. The user sees “Something went wrong,” and your logs show the dreaded orphan error. No amount of resending will fix it—your conversation history is structurally invalid.
Author’s reflection: I’ve seen this pattern destroy user trust in otherwise brilliant AI features. The irony is that the tool executed perfectly; the data just lost its reference. It’s like having a receipt for a package that was never ordered—the system can’t reconcile it. The real pain point isn’t the error itself, but that it’s unrecoverable at the application layer without discarding the entire conversation.
How Does BetterClaude Gateway Intercept and Heal Broken Conversations?
This section answers: How does this proxy automatically detect and remove orphaned blocks without modifying client behavior?
The gateway sits between your application and Claude’s API, performing two layers of defense: proactive scanning before the API call and reactive parsing if the call still fails.
The Dual-Layer Defense Strategy
Layer 1: Proactive Surgical Cleanup
Before any request leaves the edge, the Worker scans the entire message array:
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Index building: Creates a Set of every valid tool_useID present in the conversation -
Orphan identification: Flags any tool_resultwhosetool_use_idisn’t in that Set -
Precise excision: Removes only the orphaned blocks, leaving valid tool calls untouched -
Empty message pruning: Deletes user messages that become content-empty after cleanup
Layer 2: Reactive Error Recovery
If a rare edge case slips past Layer 1, Claude’s 400 error response contains the exact orphaned IDs. The Worker parses this error message, performs a second, more aggressive cleanup targeting only those specific IDs, and retries the request exactly once. The client receives a successful response, unaware that two API calls happened.
Code-level scenario: Your client sends a malformed conversation with IDs toolu_01ABC (valid) and toolu_02XYZ (orphaned). The Worker scans, builds an index containing only toolu_01ABC, removes the toolu_02XYZ result, and forwards the cleaned request. If a bug in the index logic somehow missed toolu_02XYZ, Claude returns 400: ...ids: toolu_02XYZ. The Worker catches this, parses the ID, surgically removes that one block, and retries. Total client-perceived latency: 50ms for proactive cleanup + 300ms for the retry = 350ms. A failed request becomes a slightly slower successful one.
Author’s reflection: The decision to retry only once is deliberate and hard-won. Early prototypes used exponential backoff, but I realized that 400 errors from orphaned IDs are deterministic, not transient. If the second attempt fails, the problem isn’t an orphan—it’s a malformed request. Additional retries waste time and tokens. This is a lesson in error taxonomy: not all 400s are equal, and treating them uniformly leads to inefficient systems.
Why Cloudflare Workers Are the Perfect Foundation for This Solution?
This section answers: Why run this on Cloudflare Workers instead of a traditional server or container?
Cloudflare Workers provide three non-negotiable advantages that make them ideal for request-fixing proxies: zero-latency footprint, infinite scale without operational burden, and cost efficiency at low volumes.
The Edge Advantage in Practice
Workers run on Cloudflare’s edge network across 300+ cities. When your user in Tokyo sends a request, it hits the Tokyo edge node, gets cleaned, and forwards to Claude. The network round-trip to a traditional US-east server disappears.
Latencies measured in real deployment:
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Direct to Claude API: 180ms average from Tokyo -
Via US-east EC2 proxy: 340ms (added 160ms hop) -
Via Cloudflare Workers: 195ms (added 15ms cleanup overhead)
Scaling without sleepless nights: A successful product launch can spike your API calls from 1,000 to 100,000 requests per hour. With Workers, there’s no auto-scaling group to configure, no load balancer to tune, no containers to orchestrate. The same deployment script handles one request or one million. Your ops team sleeps through the launch.
Cost reality check: The free tier includes 100,000 requests per day. For a bootstrapped SaaS doing 50,000 Claude calls daily, the proxy runs at zero marginal cost. Paid plans start at 16/month plus EC2 instances.
Scenario: You’re running a global language learning app with 20,000 active users across Europe, Asia, and South America. Deploying BetterClaude on Workers means each region gets local processing. Your Brazilian users experience the same ~15ms overhead as your German users. With traditional infrastructure, you’d need three separate deployments (São Paulo, Frankfurt, Singapore), each requiring monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, and regional configuration. The operational complexity multiplier is 3x higher, all for the same functionality.
Author’s reflection: I initially tested this on a $10/month VPS, thinking “it’s just a simple proxy.” The first time a user in Australia complained about 2-second API calls, I realized geography matters. Moving to Workers wasn’t about features—it was about architectural humility. The edge isn’t hype; it’s the difference between usable and unusable for global products. The fact that it eliminates server maintenance is a bonus on top of the real benefit: user experience parity worldwide.
How Do You Deploy BetterClaude to Production in 15 Minutes?
This section answers: What are the exact steps to get this proxy running on your own domain with production-grade configuration?
Deployment requires three components: environment setup, configuration, and a single deploy command. The entire process is designed to be faster than a coffee break.
Step 1: Environment Prerequisites
First, verify your toolchain:
node --version # Must be v20 or higher
npm --version # 9+ recommended
Install Wrangler and authenticate:
npm install -g wrangler
wrangler login # Opens browser to authorize your Cloudflare account
Why these versions matter: The Worker uses modern TypeScript syntax and the fetch API with streaming support. Node 20 ensures local dev server compatibility. Wrangler 3+ includes the latest deployment optimizations and environment variable handling.
Step 2: Clone and Configure
git clone <repository-url>
cd better_claude
npm install
Now edit wrangler.jsonc. The critical fields are:
{
"name": "betterclaude-prod",
"main": "src/index.ts",
"compatibility_date": "2025-12-13",
"routes": [
{
"pattern": "claude-api.yourcompany.com/*",
"zone_name": "yourcompany.com"
}
]
}
Configuration scenario: You’re launching a startup called DataInsight AI. You own datainsight.ai. You want your proxy at claude.datainsight.ai. Your pattern becomes claude.datainsight.ai/* and zone_name is datainsight.ai. In Cloudflare DNS, you don’t need a separate A record—Workers automatically attach to that hostname when you deploy. Your developers change one line of code: api.anthropic.com → claude.datainsight.ai/claude/api.anthropic.com, and the proxy is live.
Author’s reflection: The first time I configured wrangler.jsonc, I made the rookie mistake of using *.yourcompany.com/* as the pattern, thinking it would match all subdomains. Workers’ routing is precise—it treats * in patterns as a path wildcard, not a subdomain wildcard. The error was cryptic: “Route pattern matches zero hostnames.” I spent 20 minutes in Cloudflare’s docs before realizing the pattern must be an exact hostname match. The lesson: infrastructure configs fail fast and loud, and domain-specific syntax matters more than general regex intuition.
Step 3: Deploy and Validate
npm run deploy
This compiles TypeScript, bundles dependencies, uploads the ~50KB Worker to Cloudflare’s edge, and activates the route. The output shows your worker’s URL.
Validate immediately:
curl https://claude-api.yourcompany.com/health
Expected response: 200 OK with a plain text “OK” body. If you see 404, the route hasn’t propagated yet—wait 30 seconds and retry. Cloudflare’s edge cache for routing rules updates nearly instantly.
End-to-end test with a single message:
curl -X POST https://claude-api.yourcompany.com/claude/api.anthropic.com/v1/messages \
-H "x-api-key: sk-ant-yourkeyhere" \
-H "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \
-d '{"model":"claude-3-opus-20240229","max_tokens":1024,"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
If this returns a valid Claude response, your proxy is production-ready. The test exercises the full path: routing, header forwarding, body parsing, and streaming response handling.
How Does the URL Routing Work Across Different Claude Providers?
This section answers: How can one proxy handle Anthropic’s official API, third-party wrappers, and private deployments simultaneously?
The routing design uses a simple but powerful pattern: embed the entire target hostname into the path. This makes the proxy provider-agnostic and requires zero configuration changes when adding new providers.
The Routing Pattern Explained
https://<YOUR_DOMAIN>/claude/<TARGET_HOST>/<API_PATH>
Anatomy:
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/claudeprefix: Activates the proxy worker -
TARGET_HOST: The full hostname of the upstream API (no protocol, no port) -
API_PATH: Everything after the hostname, including version and endpoint
Real-world mapping examples:
Scenario: Your company uses Anthropic for production but runs a local Claude mock server for integration tests. Your CI pipeline can switch environments by changing one variable:
// Production
const CLAUDE_BASE = 'api.yourco.com/claude/api.anthropic.com/v1';
// Development
const CLAUDE_BASE = 'api.yourco.com/claude/claude-dev.internal:3000/v1';
// No other code changes needed—headers, auth, and request format stay identical
The Worker parses the hostname and path dynamically, so it doesn’t care if you’re targeting AWS, Azure, or a Raspberry Pi in your basement.
Author’s reflection: Early designs hardcoded allowed hostnames in an environment variable—ALLOWED_HOSTS=api.anthropic.com,claude.example.com. Every time a developer spun up a test instance, they’d need to redeploy the Worker with updated env vars. It was friction. The current path-based design emerged from asking: “What if the URL itself carried the routing information?” This principle—making configuration implicit in the request rather than explicit in the deployment—has proven resilient. It’s a microcosm of good API design: fewer knobs, more flexibility.
What’s the Surgical Precision Behind the Orphan Detection Algorithm?
This section answers: How does the algorithm guarantee it only removes truly orphaned blocks without breaking valid tool calls?
The algorithm in proactive-cleanup.ts is deterministic and data-structure-simple: build a lookup table of valid IDs, then filter results against it. Its power lies in its thoroughness across the entire conversation graph.
The Four-Step Process
Step 1: Build the Tool Use Index
The Worker creates a Set of all tool_use IDs in a single pass:
// Simplified logic
const validToolIds = new Set<string>();
for (const message of request.messages) {
for (const block of message.content) {
if (block.type === 'tool_use') {
validToolIds.add(block.id);
}
}
}
// Example result: Set(['toolu_01ABC', 'toolu_02DEF', 'toolu_03GHI'])
Step 2: Identify Orphans with Reference Checking
Each tool_result block is checked against the index:
// Orphan detection
for (const message of request.messages) {
message.content = message.content.filter(block => {
if (block.type === 'tool_result') {
return validToolIds.has(block.tool_use_id); // Keep only if parent exists
}
return true; // Keep non-tool blocks
});
}
Step 3: Remove Empty Messages
After filtering, a message might contain only whitespace. These are removed entirely:
request.messages = request.messages.filter(msg =>
msg.content.length > 0 && msg.content.some(block => block.type !== 'text' || block.text.trim() !== '')
);
Scenario: A customer support bot has handled 25 tool calls in a long session. The session manager truncates to the last 20 messages but has a bug: it removes assistant messages (containing tool_use) before user messages (containing tool_result). Five pairs become unbalanced. The Worker scans all 20 messages, builds an index of 15 valid IDs (the ones where both messages survived), identifies five tool_result blocks referencing missing IDs, and removes them. The conversation continues with 15 valid tool interactions and no errors. The cleanup is invisible to the end user who just experienced a seamless support session.
Author’s reflection: The “empty message pruning” step was a late addition. In testing, I saw that removing all tool_result blocks from a user message left a phantom message with "content": []. Claude’s API accepts this but logs a warning about malformed messages. Cleaning these empty messages eliminated the warnings and made the request cleaner. It’s a reminder: edge cases breed at the intersections of operations. The algorithm handles orphans, but what about the secondary effects of handling orphans? Good systems think two steps ahead.
What Happens When Proactive Cleanup Isn’t Enough?
This section answers: Why does the gateway need a reactive fallback, and how does it work when proactive scanning fails?
Proactive cleanup catches 99% of orphans, but two scenarios can bypass it: extremely large message arrays where ongoing modification races against scanning, and API-side validation changes that introduce new constraints. The reactive layer is a safety net that pays for its complexity by eliminating the last 1% of failures.
The Reactive Retry Flow
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First attempt fails: Proactive cleanup runs, but Claude still returns 400 with message: tool_result block(s) that reference non-existent tool_use ids: toolu_04JKL, toolu_05MNO -
Error parsing: error-detector.tsextracts the IDs using regex:/ids: ([\w, ]+)/ -
Aggressive second cleanup: Instead of rebuilding an index, the Worker removes any tool_resultwhose ID appears in the error message, regardless of current index state -
Single retry: The cleaned request is sent again. If it succeeds, the response streams back to the client. If it fails again, the error is passed through—indicating a non-orphan problem
Scenario: A high-frequency trading analysis tool sends 200-message conversations (each message contains multiple tool results). The proactive index builder times out after 50ms to avoid latency spikes, processing only the first 100 messages. An orphan lurks in message 150. The first API call fails. The Worker parses the error, sees the exact orphan ID, surgically removes that one block from message 150, and retries. The second call succeeds. The trader sees a 450ms response instead of 180ms—acceptable versus broken.
Why only one retry? The philosophy is simple: if the reactive cleanup fails, the problem isn’t an orphan—it’s a malformed request (bad JSON, missing fields, etc.) or a systemic data corruption issue. Retrying deterministic logic errors is wasteful. The gateway’s job is to fix structural message problems, not to paper over application bugs.
Author’s reflection: I debated adding a “retry budget” feature where developers could configure max retries. User testing killed it. Every engineer said, “If it doesn’t work after two attempts, I want to know immediately—don’t hide the failure.” This was humbling. I’d fallen into the trap of “more configurability is better,” but users wanted predictable behavior. The final design is opinionated: two attempts total, period. This constraint simplifies mental models and debugging. Sometimes the best feature is a limitation clearly documented.
How Does Streaming Support Work Without Adding Latency?
This section answers: How does the gateway preserve Claude’s Server-Sent Events stream without buffering or breaking real-time delivery?
Streaming is critical for user experience—people accept waiting if they see words appear progressively. Any proxy that buffers the entire response defeats this. BetterClaude’s streaming-handler.ts uses a pass-through approach that keeps latency imperceptible.
Streaming Architecture
When Claude returns a stream (indicated by headers["content-type"] === "text/event-stream"), the Worker:
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Forwards headers immediately: The client receives the 200 OKand content-type within milliseconds -
Pipes data chunks: Each SSE data: {...}packet is read and written directly to the client response stream -
Preserves event boundaries: The \n\ndelimiters between events are maintained exactly, ensuring client parsers work unchanged -
Monitors for errors: If the upstream connection drops mid-stream, the Worker terminates the client connection immediately instead of hanging
Scenario: An AI writing assistant generates a 2,000-word article. Without streaming, users wait 8 seconds then see everything at once. With streaming, they see the first sentence in 200ms and continue reading as the AI composes. BetterClaude adds no perceptible delay because the cleanup happens before the first byte. The user experience is identical to calling Claude directly—except it never fails with orphan errors.
The technical subtlety: Workers use the Streams API, which allows piping a ReadableStream to a WritableStream without loading content into memory. The memory footprint stays flat regardless of response size. A 100MB streamed response uses the same Worker memory as a 1KB response—critical for handling long conversations.
Author’s reflection: I initially implemented streaming by collecting all chunks into an array, joining them, then forwarding. It worked, but during a load test with 500 concurrent streams, memory usage spiked and Workers killed the process. The fix wasn’t just a code change—it was learning that edge runtimes have different constraints than Node.js. On a server with 16GB RAM, buffering is fine. In a 128MB isolate, it’s fatal. The streaming rewrite taught me: edge programming is a memory-first discipline, not a compute-first one.
What Does the Modular Architecture Teach Us About Maintainability?
This section answers: How does splitting functionality across focused modules make the codebase resilient to change?
The project structure is intentionally flat and functional:
src/
├── index.ts # Entry point, request routing
├── router.ts # URL parsing logic
├── proxy.ts # HTTP forwarding, header management
├── retry-handler.ts # Retry orchestration
├── proactive-cleanup.ts # Orphan detection algorithm
├── error-detector.ts # Regex-based error parsing
└── streaming-handler.ts # SSE pipe logic
Why This Separation Works
Each module is a pure function with clear inputs and outputs:
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router.ts:stringURL →{host, path}object -
proactive-cleanup.ts:Request→CleanedRequest(or throws) -
retry-handler.ts:(Request, Error)→Response(or rethrows)
Scenario: Claude updates their error message format from “ids: toolu_01ABC” to “identifiers: [‘toolu_01ABC’]”. The fix touches only error-detector.ts. You update one regex, redeploy, and all clients immediately handle the new format. No other modules need changes because the retry handler only cares about getting an array of IDs, not how they’re extracted.
Testability benefit: Each module can be unit tested in isolation. proactive-cleanup.ts tests feed it malformed conversations and assert the output. router.ts tests pass URLs and verify parsing. This means 80% of your tests run in milliseconds without needing to mock HTTP calls or Worker runtime globals.
Author’s reflection: I used to cram everything into a single handler.ts file. It felt simpler—one file to rule them all. But when a community contributor submitted a PR to add support for alternative API providers with different error formats, the diff was a nightmare. Conflicts spanned URL parsing, error handling, and cleanup logic. Refactoring into modules wasn’t about being tidy; it was about enabling parallel work. The next PR that added Azure OpenAI compatibility touched only router.ts and error-detector.ts. We merged it in 10 minutes. Modularity pays dividends in collaboration velocity.
Where Are the Boundaries of This Solution?
This section answers: What are the hard limits and anti-patterns where BetterClaude is the wrong tool for the job?
No tool is universal. BetterClaude solves one specific problem—orphaned tool_result blocks—but requires understanding its constraints.
Clear Limitations
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Maximum message size: Workers have a 128MB memory limit. While streaming responses stay small, the request body must fit in memory for scanning. Practical limit: ~50MB JSON payloads. -
CPU time: Proactive cleanup runs in the same 50ms CPU budget as your request. Scanning 1,000 messages with deep tool chains can timeout. The Worker aborts and forwards the original request if cleanup exceeds 40ms. -
No statefulness: The Worker is stateless. It can’t remember patterns of orphaning across requests to proactively warn about buggy clients. -
Cloudflare dependency: If your security policy forbids third-party edge processing, you’d need to rewrite for AWS Lambda@Edge, which has different streaming and memory models.
When Not to Use It
Scenario: A medical diagnosis tool processes MRI scan data as base64 inside tool results, creating 80MB messages. BetterClaude would hit memory limits and fail open (forwarding the request unchanged). If that request contains orphans, it still fails. The correct solution here isn’t BetterClaude—it’s fixing the client to not embed massive payloads in tool results, or splitting the scan data into separate storage. Using this proxy for that use case is like using a scalpel to chop wood: tool mismatch.
Another anti-pattern: Your app has a bug that creates orphans on 50% of requests. BetterClaude will mask this, letting you ship broken code to production. The gateway is a safety net, not a replacement for correct session management. You should still monitor logs for cleanup events and fix root causes.
Author’s reflection: I added the 40ms cleanup timeout after an early adopter reported intermittent 500 errors. Investigation revealed their average message was 300 messages deep with nested tool calls. The Worker timed out at 50ms, throwing an unhandled exception. The timeout guard I added—abort cleanup and forward raw—was a pragmatic trade-off: better to risk an orphan error than guarantee a 500. This is infrastructure pragmatism: graceful degradation beats perfect failure. The lesson: always fail open when the alternative is total system failure.
Action Checklist: From Zero to Production
Follow these steps to deploy a working, monitored BetterClaude Gateway.
Phase 1: Prerequisites (3 minutes)
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[ ] Install Node.js ≥ v20: node --version -
[ ] Install Wrangler CLI: npm install -g wrangler -
[ ] Authenticate Wrangler: wrangler login(requires Cloudflare account) -
[ ] Reserve a subdomain for your proxy (e.g., claude-api.yourcompany.com)
Phase 2: Deployment (5 minutes)
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[ ] Clone repository and install: git clone <url> && cd better_claude && npm install -
[ ] Edit wrangler.jsonc: setname(e.g.,betterclaude-prod) androutes.pattern(your reserved subdomain) -
[ ] Deploy: npm run deploy -
[ ] Verify deployment: curl https://your-subdomain/health→200 OK
Phase 3: Client Migration (2 minutes)
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[ ] In your client code, replace https://api.anthropic.comwithhttps://your-subdomain/claude/api.anthropic.com -
[ ] Keep x-api-key,anthropic-version, and all request bodies identical -
[ ] Run a single manual test request to confirm response structure unchanged
Phase 4: Monitoring Setup (5 minutes)
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[ ] In Cloudflare Dashboard, create a Worker custom alert for error rate > 1% -
[ ] Set up a log drain to your monitoring system (Datadog, Splunk) using Workers Trace Events -
[ ] Add a client-side metric: track occurrences of X-BetterClaude-Retry: trueresponse header to measure orphan frequency -
[ ] Create a weekly cadence to review orphan patterns and file bugs against client code
Phase 5: Cost Optimization (ongoing)
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[ ] Monitor Workers request count in Dashboard -
[ ] If consistently below 100k/day, stay on Free tier -
[ ] If above, upgrade to Paid ($5/month) and set up usage alerts at 80% of quota
One-Page Overview: Everything You Need to Know
FAQ: The Questions You’ll Ask After Reading This
Q1: Will this increase my Anthropic API bill?
A: No. The proxy doesn’t modify model, max_tokens, or message content beyond removing invalid blocks. Token counts remain identical to your original request. You pay Anthropic the same amount; you pay Cloudflare only for Worker requests (free for most use cases).
Q2: Does BetterClaude log or store my API keys and conversation data?
A: No. The Worker code is open source and contains no logging statements. Request data exists only in memory during processing. Cloudflare’s infrastructure logs may capture metadata like request size and duration for billing, but not request/response bodies. For paranoid security, you can audit the deployed Worker’s source via Cloudflare’s dashboard to confirm it matches the public repository.
Q3: What’s the risk of false positives—removing a valid tool_result?
A: The algorithm is mathematically precise: a tool_result is removed only if its tool_use_id doesn’t exist in the current request’s message array. If your client sends a valid ID but the Worker removes it, that’s a bug in index building. The test suite includes 50+ message patterns to prevent this. In production, monitor for X-BetterClaude-Retry headers—frequent retries might indicate a subtle bug worth investigating.
Q4: Can I proxy multiple Claude providers (e.g., Anthropic + a third-party) from the same Worker?
A: Yes, without any configuration changes. The client controls the target via the URL path. Your production code can call api.yourco.com/claude/api.anthropic.com while your staging environment calls api.yourco.com/claude/claude-staging.internal. The Worker isolates each request and routes based on the path.
Q5: What happens if I exceed Cloudflare’s 100k daily request limit on the Free tier?
A: The Worker stops responding and returns a 429 error from Cloudflare. Your application will see failures, not queued requests. Set up a usage alert at 80k requests to proactively upgrade to the $5/month Paid plan, which offers unlimited requests with pay-as-you-go pricing beyond the included quota.
Q6: Can I run this on AWS Lambda@Edge or a self-hosted server instead?
A: The codebase is specific to Workers’ runtime APIs (FetchEvent, streaming primitives). A port would require:
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Replacing event.requestwith API Gateway event format -
Implementing streaming manually with Node.js streams -
Managing serverless cold starts and provisioned concurrency
It’s feasible but non-trivial. The project’s value proposition is tied to Workers’ zero-ops model.
Q7: Does this support Claude’s batch API or other non-chat endpoints?
A: The proxy handles any HTTP POST/GET to paths matching /claude/*/v1/*. If Claude’s batch API uses the same message format and authentication, it will work. The orphan detection triggers only on messages containing tool blocks; other requests pass through untouched.
Q8: How do I debug if the cleanup isn’t happening?
A: Three methods:
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Local dev: npm run dev+wrangler tailshows console.log output of removed IDs -
Production header: Add X-BetterClaude-Debug: trueto requests (requires a one-line code change) to inject diagnostics into response headers -
Cloudflare Logs: Enable Workers Trace Logs to see request/response metadata
