A reference Claude enterprise architecture includes:

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API gateway, secrets manager, policy layer, observability, eval service, and model routing — Gateway + secrets + policy + evals + routing — not API keys in the browser.

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Browser holding the master API key

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No gateway, direct internet from every microservice with duplicated keys

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Single global mutable prompt with no review

A reference Claude enterprise architecture includes:

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