That’s how I run Claude in an isolated container while mounting a host volume from my development machine.

Dockerfile

FROM golang:1.24
RUN apt update \
 && apt install -y \
     curl \
     git \
     gnupg2 \
     iproute2 \
     lsof \
     neovim \
     net-tools \
     npm \
     python3 \
     tmux \
     wget \
     zsh
RUN npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
WORKDIR /vol

Makefile

NAME:=claudecomputing
TAG:=dev

build:
	@docker buildx build -t ${NAME}:${TAG} .

run: build
	@mkdir -p vol
	@docker run \
	  --name ${NAME} \
	  --detach \
	  --rm \
	  --volume $(shell pwd)/vol:/vol \
	  ${NAME}:${TAG} \
	  sleep infinity

shell:
	@docker exec -it ${NAME} zsh

stop:
	@docker stop ${NAME}