Hysen Labsclaw-code
An agent-managed museum exhibit, built in Rust with Gajae-Code / LazyCodex — developed and maintained with no human intervention.
Claw Code, a Rust agent harness that calls itself an exhibit
Claw Code is the public Rust implementation of a claw CLI agent harness. Its README opens by saying the project is not serious production software but an agent-managed museum exhibit.
The framing
The README starts with a warning, not a pitch. Claw Code is not the serious production project here. It is closer to a museum exhibit than a product, a crustacean-run artifact kept alive by clawed gajaes, swept and labeled by agents, and maintained automatically by harnesses. For actual work, the README points to LazyCodex or Gajae-Code. This repository is the strange little fossil, and it knows it.
What the repository holds
The canonical implementation lives in the rust directory, and this repository is the current source of truth. Around it sit USAGE.md for usage, PARITY.md for the Rust port's parity status, ROADMAP.md for the active roadmap, and PHILOSOPHY.md for intent. A companion Python and reference workspace under src and tests exists for audit helpers and is not the primary runtime surface.
A warning about the package name
The README is blunt about crates.io: cargo install claw-code installs the wrong thing. The published crate is a deprecated stub that puts a claw-code-deprecated.exe in place, not the claw binary. The repository is build-from-source only. Either build it here or install the upstream binary, which lands as agent.exe on Windows and agent on Unix.
Windows setup and first checks
PowerShell is a supported path on Windows. Install Rust first, verify it is on PATH, then clone and build in PowerShell, Git Bash, or WSL. The MINGW64 prompt is expected, not a broken install. After building, claw doctor is the first health check; it validates the API key, model access, and tool configuration. Auth needs an API key, and a Claude subscription login is not a supported path.
The disclaimer
The repository makes its boundaries explicit. It does not claim ownership of the original Claude Code source material, and it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or maintained by Anthropic. It also notes that no ACP or Zed daemon ships yet; claw acp serve is currently a discoverability alias that returns status with exit code 0, with real ACP support tracked separately in the roadmap.
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