diff --git a/internal/gateway/desktop_test.go b/internal/gateway/desktop_test.go
index b97a0e09..cd81a19c 100644
--- a/internal/gateway/desktop_test.go
+++ b/internal/gateway/desktop_test.go
@@ -38,6 +38,16 @@ func TestAnthropicPrefixedModel(t *testing.T) {
 	if rec.Code != 200 {
 		t.Fatalf("HEAD /api/hello: %d", rec.Code)
 	}
+	req := httptest.NewRequest("GET", "/v1/models", nil)
+	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", Token+"-claude-desktop")
+	rec = httptest.NewRecorder()
+	New().Handler().ServeHTTP(rec, req)
+	if !strings.Contains(rec.Body.String(), `"id":"anthropic/fake/m1"`) {
+		t.Fatalf("Claude Desktop's list: %s", rec.Body)
+	}
+	if claudeLooking("devin/claude-opus-5-5") != "devin/claude-opus-5-5" {
+		t.Fatal("a Claude id was prefixed")
+	}
 	if got := unprefixed("claude-sonnet-4-5"); got != "claude-sonnet-4-5" {
 		t.Fatalf("unprefixed changed %q", got)
 	}
diff --git a/internal/gateway/gateway.go b/internal/gateway/gateway.go
index 32b7c49e..3e5ec1e6 100644
--- a/internal/gateway/gateway.go
+++ b/internal/gateway/gateway.go
@@ -302,8 +302,13 @@ func catalogFor(r *http.Request) []provider.Entry {
 
 func (s *Server) models(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	data := []map[string]any{}
+	desktop := agentOf(r) == "claude-desktop"
 	for _, e := range catalogFor(r) {
-		data = append(data, modelObject(e))
+		m := modelObject(e)
+		if desktop {
+			m["id"] = claudeLooking(e.ID)
+		}
+		data = append(data, m)
 	}
 	out := map[string]any{"object": "list", "data": data, "has_more": false}
 	if len(data) > 0 {
@@ -327,7 +332,8 @@ func (s *Server) model(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 // front of it. Claude Desktop, pointed at a third-party gateway, takes only
 // models whose id says claude, sonnet, opus, haiku or anthropic, so any of
 // magpie's is asked for there as anthropic/<its id>. An id that is magpie's
-// as it stands (a provider named anthropic) is left alone.
+// as it stands (a provider named anthropic) is left alone. With the key
+// magpie-claude-desktop, /v1/models lists them so.
 func unprefixed(id string) string {
 	rest, ok := strings.CutPrefix(id, "anthropic/")
 	if !ok || rest == "" {
@@ -342,6 +348,20 @@ func unprefixed(id string) string {
 	return rest
 }
 
+// claudeLooking is a model's id as Claude Desktop is shown it, to the key
+// magpie-claude-desktop: it takes only an id that says claude, sonnet, opus,
+// haiku or anthropic, so any other is put after anthropic/ (unprefixed
+// serves it again).
+func claudeLooking(id string) string {
+	l := strings.ToLower(id)
+	for _, w := range []string{"claude", "sonnet", "opus", "haiku", "anthropic"} {
+		if strings.Contains(l, w) {
+			return id
+		}
+	}
+	return "anthropic/" + id
+}
+
 // countTokens answers Anthropic's count_tokens: through the provider when
 // it implements counting, else a rough estimate. A failed connection or
 // limited key yields to the next key; other failures reach the client.