Installing Claude Code on Windows

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We will learn today how to install Claude Code on Windows.

Claude Code is a tool developed by Anthropic that acts as an intelligent agent for programmers. It’s not an AI model itself, but rather a CLI/Interface that communicates with advanced language models, such as those from the Claude family, to help you generate, review and improve your code.

claudio --model llama3-13b "Create a Python function to sum two numbers"

This asks the model to generate Python code automatically.

If you point Claude Code to a local model with Ollama, you can use it completely offline and without paying tokens to Anthropic.

We will:

 irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex

Add Claude Code to PATH in Windows

  1. Copy the path where Claude is located:
C:\Users\user\.local\bin
  1. Open the settings panel:
  • Press Win + S, type “Environment Variables” → Edit System Environment Variables.
  • In the Properties of the system window, click on “Variables”.
  1. Edit the PATH variable for your user:
  • Find Path → Edit → New → paste:
C:\Users\user\.local\bin
  • Accept all the dialogs to save the changes.

Restart PowerShell

  • Close all windows of PowerShell or CMD and open a new one.
  • This ensures that Windows reads the new variable PATH.

Test Claude Code

In PowerShell:

claude --help
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