clode: Claude Code, everywhere

When your OS isn't popular or your computer isn't recent, how do you run Claude Code?

Download clode for your potato, then do this once:

mv clode-* clode && chmod +x clode
./clode fetch && ./clode build

Do this as many times as necessary until you believe it:

./quaude

Have fun.

What? How'd that work?!?

This repo contains no Anthropic code, only a tool that does these things by request:

1. Fetch upstream claude (nearest match for your OS and arch)
2. Extract its embedded JavaScript
3. Rebase Bun-specific calls onto Node equivalents
4. Back Node API with (mostly) txiki.js
5. Compile to QuickJS-NG bytecode
6. Write native quaude

(If your computer's Node-compatible and you want that runtime instead, clode build --naude writes naude, replacing steps 4 and 5 with an embedded Node interpreter.)

Runtime dependencies

• bash for basic tool use
• bfs >= 3.x (built with Oniguruma)
• ugrep >= 7.5.0

Updating

Run clode fetch and clode build again.

Beware

Some features are at least temporarily missing: computer-use, image/sharp, audio capture, runtime TypeScript, MSAL, and perhaps other Bun.* stubs.

clode is a hilarious hack that will inevitably stop working. It attempts to be reasonably robust against many failure modes, but can't possibly defend against all of them. Run quaude on your weird computer while you still can.