Using Downsizing with Qoder

Why Qoder isn't supported yet

Qoder ships a "Bring Your Own Key" (BYOK) feature in its IDE, CLI, and JetBrains plugin, but it is not an open custom-endpoint mechanism. Both Qoder's Custom Models docs and the CLI /model reference describe a fixed, curated list of providers — Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, DeepSeek, Z.ai, Kimi, MiniMax, and Xiaomi MIMO — selected from a dropdown, each wired to that provider's own hosted API. There is no "custom base URL" or generic OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible provider option, and Qoder does not honor ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL / ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN-style environment overrides the way Claude Code and several Claude Code forks do.

Because Downsizing isn't one of the six providers on that list, there is no supported way to route Qoder's model traffic through Downsizing today — not via a config file Downsizing could template, and not via an environment variable.

Why there's no supported path

Qoder has no generic OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible custom provider option in its Models settings panel, no plain on-disk config file that could be safely templated (Qoder does persist some settings to ~/.qoder/settings.json, but not custom base URLs or API keys — those live behind the curated provider dropdown), and no environment-variable passthrough (Qoder is not Claude-Code-derived and does not read ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL). So ds link qoderisn't offered.

Get notified

If Qoder adds an open custom-endpoint or environment-variable override to its BYOK support, we'll add first-class ds link qoder support the same day. In the meantime you can use Downsizing with any of the currently supported tools, including Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, and Kilo Code.