claude-code · Podman

Claude Code is Anthropic's coding agent CLI, packaged to run in a container. This page runs it on Podman with copy-paste examples; every file in this directory is shown below exactly as it exists in the repository.

See the tool overview for image variants, tags, and registries.

Requirements

Docker or a compatible runtime
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY set in your environment (never baked into the image)

Quick start

bash

podman run -it --rm --userns=keep-id:uid=1000,gid=1000 \
  -e ANTHROPIC_API_KEY \
  -v "$PWD:/workspace:Z" \
  ghcr.io/hambn/claude-code:latest claude

Files in this directory

`run.sh`

bash

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Rootless podman. :Z relabels the volume for SELinux hosts.
set -euo pipefail
: "${ANTHROPIC_API_KEY:?set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY}"

podman run -it --rm --userns=keep-id:uid=1000,gid=1000 \
  -e ANTHROPIC_API_KEY \
  -v "$PWD:/workspace:Z" \
  ghcr.io/hambn/claude-code:latest "$@"

More examples

Run it as a systemd user service (quadlet)

Save as ~/.config/containers/systemd/claude-code.container, then run systemctl --user daemon-reload && systemctl --user start claude-code:

ini

[Unit]
Description=claude-code container

[Container]
AutoUpdate=registry
Image=ghcr.io/hambn/claude-code:latest
Volume=%h/workspace:/workspace:Z
Exec=claude
Interactive=true
[Service]
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Rootless with SELinux labeling

:Z relabels the bind mount for container use on SELinux hosts; drop it on non-SELinux systems if you prefer.