Claude Container — DevOps skill for Claude Code

Claude Code Development Container

A secure Docker container for running [Claude Code](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@anthropic-ai/claude-code) (Anthropic's agentic coding tool) in isolation, with [awesome-claude-skills](https://github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills) pre-installed.

Features

• Claude Code v2.0.64 - Specific version pinned for stability
• Browser OAuth - Click the URL to log in with your Claude.ai account
• Non-root execution - Runs as unprivileged node user (UID 1000)
• Host isolation - The container runs as an unprivileged user and cannot escalate to root. However, it has full read/write access to the mounted workspace directory
• awesome-claude-skills - 24+ pre-installed skills from ComposioHQ
• Persistent config - Authentication and settings survive container restarts
• Dev tools included - git, gh CLI, fzf, zsh, Python 3, and more

Prerequisites

• Docker 20.10+
• Make
• A Claude.ai account (or Anthropic API key)

Quick Start

# 1. Build the container
make build

# 2. Run Claude Code
make run

# 3. Click the authentication URL that appears
# 4. Log in with your Claude.ai account
# 5. Start coding!

With API Key

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-xxx make run-api

Commands

Command	Description
make build	Build the Docker image
make run	Run Claude Code (browser authentication)
make run-api	Run with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable
make shell	Start a zsh shell in the container
make skills	List available Claude Code skills
make update-skills	Update skills from GitHub
make version	Show installed Claude Code version
make clean	Remove the Docker image
make purge	Remove image and all data volumes
make help	Show help message

Security Model

This container provides isolation through Docker's security features