clode: Claude Code, everywhere

Claude Code ships binaries for a handful of popular platforms. What about everyone else?

This repo, that's what.

Download clode for your system, then run clode fetch and clode build to:

1. Fetch upstream claude (Linux-x64, not that it matters)
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

quaude is claude under QuickJS. Run it on your weird computer. Have fun.

(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
• rg

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.