I wanted something like Claude Code — but completely offline, on any laptop, with nothing installed on the host machine. So I built code-stick . What it is A CLI that turns any USB drive into a portable, self-contained AI coding agent. You get file editing, multi-step tasks, and tool use — running entirely on the stick against a local model. No internet. No installs. Nothing left on the host when you unplug. How it works Run this once on your own machine: npx code-stick install Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Pick a model — Qwen2.5-Coder, DeepSeek-Coder, CodeGemma, or Phi-3. It downloads everything onto the USB: opencode + Ollama pre-built binaries for all five targets Model weights in a USB-local Ollama store Three launchers at the root: start-windows.bat, start-mac.command, start-linux.sh From that point on, plug into any Windows, macOS, or Linux laptop, double-click the matching launcher, and you get a full coding agent running at 127.0.0.1.…