💻 I came across OpenClaude-Portable and I like the idea mostly because it reduces repeated setup.
It packages an AI coding agent into a self-contained folder and supports 9 providers, including Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama and LM Studio.
Settings, API keys and sessions stay inside the project directory.
Cloud providers still need internet, but with Ollama or another local provider the coding workflow can stay local once configured.
It supports Windows, Linux and macOS. 💾
To me, the interesting part is not “coding from a flash drive”. It is being able to move the whole agent environment between machines.
Has anyone here tried doing this from a USB SSD in a real workflow?
I have used an agent to try some test projects (this was about a year ago). I found that while the code did work for the most part, the agent overall produced code that was overly complex for what the initial brief asked of it. And that complexity made the code difficult to extend with even simple features.
I don’t use one anymore because I figured that, for my job, maintainability is critical and I don’t mind that the code takes me overall longer to write if it is well planned out and extendable.
Edit: I still would not use op’s code since 1. It’s not something I need, and 2. I don’t trust it.