PR #1635: fix(docker): install Claude Code with native installer

• Repository: link-assistant/hive-mind
• Author: konard
• State: closed | merged: True
• Link: https://github.com/link-assistant/hive-mind/pull/1635

Description (problem / solution / changelog)

Summary

Fixes #1633 by replacing bun install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code in both Docker images with Anthropic's native Claude Code installer, followed by an immediate claude --version verification.

Root cause

@anthropic-ai/claude-code depends on a package postinstall script plus platform-native optional dependencies to put the real Claude Code binary in place. Bun 1.3.11 installs the wrapper but blocks that dependency postinstall by default, exits 0, and leaves claude failing at runtime with claude native binary not installed.

Changes

• Updated Dockerfile and coolify/Dockerfile to install Claude Code via https://claude.ai/install.sh and verify the CLI during image build.
• Kept Bun for the other AI CLI packages that were not part of this failure.
• Added tests/test-claude-code-install-method.mjs and included it in npm test so the Bun install path is not reintroduced.
• Added the requested case study and downloaded data under docs/case-studies/issue-1633/.
• Created upstream Claude Code report: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/50203
• Stabilized a merged-main flaky limits-display timing assertion so npm test passes after merging origin/main.
• Added a patch changeset.

Reproduction

Before the fix, an isolated Bun install reproduces the issue:

HOME=/tmp/issue-1633-bun-home \
BUN_INSTALL=/tmp/issue-1633-bun-home/.bun \
bun install -g @anthropic-ai/[email protected]

HOME=/tmp/issue-1633-bun-home \
BUN_INSTALL=/tmp/issue-1633-bun-home/.bun \
PATH=/tmp/issue-1633-bun-home/.bun/bin:$PATH \
claude --version

Observed: Blocked 1 postinstall during install, then Error: claude native binary not installed.

The native installer was verified in an isolated HOME and produced 2.1.113 (Claude Code).

Test plan

• node tests/test-claude-code-install-method.mjs
• node tests/limits-display.test.mjs
• npm test
• npm run lint
• npx prettier --check package.json tests/test-claude-code-install-method.mjs tests/limits-display.test.mjs docs/case-studies/issue-1633/README.md docs/case-studies/issue-1633/research-sources.json docs/case-studies/issue-1633/upstream-anthropic-issue.md .changeset/native-claude-installer.md
• git diff --check

Docker build was not run locally because docker is not installed in this container; the install behavior is covered by the isolated native-installer smoke run saved in the case study.

Changed files

• .changeset/native-claude-installer.md (added, +5/-0)
• Dockerfile (modified, +8/-2)
• coolify/Dockerfile (modified, +8/-2)
• docs/case-studies/issue-1633/README.md (added, +144/-0)
• docs/case-studies/issue-1633/data/anthropics-claude-code-bun-issues.json (added, +12/-0)
• docs/case-studies/issue-1633/data/anthropics-claude-code-repo.json (added, +1/-0)
• docs/case-studies/issue-1633/data/bun-claude-code-postinstall-issues.json (added, +1/-0)
• docs/case-studies/issue-1633/data/claude-code-2.1.113-npm-view.json (added, +21/-0)
• docs/case-studies/issue-1633/data/issue-1633-comments.json (added, +1/-0)
• docs/case-studies/issue-1633/data/issue-1633.json (added, +12/-0)
• docs/case-studies/issue-1633/data/linked-solve-log.txt (added, +1462/-0)
• docs/case-studies/issue-1633/data/pr-1632-report-comment-4271462091.json (added, +35/-0)
• docs/case-studies/issue-1633/data/pr-1632.json (added, +30/-0)
• docs/case-studies/issue-1633/data/upstream-anthropic-issue-url.txt (added, +1/-0)
• docs/case-studies/issue-1633/research-sources.json (added, +22/-0)
• docs/case-studies/issue-1633/upstream-anthropic-issue.md (added, +78/-0)
• package.json (modified, +1/-1)
• tests/limits-display.test.mjs (modified, +43/-9)
• tests/test-claude-code-install-method.mjs (added, +19/-0)