Claude Code on HPC

Claude Code is an AI-assistant for software engineering tasks that runs directly in the terminal to write, edit and analyze code. You can link it to UVA RC GenAI.

Installing Claude Code

First, you’ll need to install claude code into your home account on a login node with the following:

curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

once the above command is finished running, run the following to add ~/.local/bin to your path:

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

Claude Code with UVA RC GenAI

Set these environment variables:

export API_KEY="<your_api_key>"
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://open-webui.rc.virginia.edu/api"
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=$API_KEY
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=""
export CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS=4096

Then launch with: claude --model 'Kimi K2.5'

claude will run in whatever directory it’s launched in.