Code Stick

code-stick

**Plug in a USB. Get an offline AI coding agent on any laptop.** One stick. Six targets — **Windows (x64 + ARM64), macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel), Linux (x64 + ARM64)**. Zero install on the host.

[](https://www.npmjs.com/package/code-stick) [](./LICENSE) [](https://nodejs.org)


npx code-stick install

Why

You want an AI coding agent that works on:

• Airgapped or restricted machines — banks, defense, hospitals, lab VMs.
• Shared / borrowed laptops — internships, school computers, client sites.
• Spotty wifi — flights, trains, cafes, conferences.
• Privacy-sensitive code — closed-source clients, NDAs, personal projects.

Cloud agents won't work. Installing Ollama + a 5 GB model on every machine you touch won't either. code-stick is the in-between: install once on a USB, then run the agent from the stick on whatever laptop is in front of you. Host stays clean.

Under the hood it's [opencode](https://opencode.ai) (terminal coding agent) talking to [Ollama](https://ollama.com) (local model runner), both pre-built for every target, both serving from the USB on `127.0.0.1:11434`. Quit the agent, the Ollama process dies, the host has no residue.

Install + first launch

npx code-stick install            # auto-detects USB; pick a model interactively

Plug the stick into any supported machine, double-click the launcher for that OS:

• start-windows.bat
• start-mac.command
• start-linux.sh

opencode runs in the terminal talking to a USB-local Ollama on `127.0.0.1:11434`. Quitting opencode kills the Ollama process. Nothing is left behind on the host.

Models

The recommended default is **Qwen2.5-Coder 7B** — fits a 32 GB stick, runs on 8 GB RAM, best all-rounder for code. Other curated options scale up