Baked installs had two failure modes: anything installed into $HOME
at build time is shadowed by the container-home bind mount at runtime,
and system-wide installs are root-owned, so the tools' own update
commands (pi update, claude update, opencode upgrade) failed with an
unwritable install path. With pi releasing new versions almost daily,
the only remedy, a full image rebuild that also deleted every
container, was too heavy for that cadence.
Now each tool is installed at runtime into the persistent container
home by its official installer (no sudo), the same way the Docker
image itself is built on first use. Self-updates work inside the
container and survive image rebuilds and container recreation. The
image shrinks to a plain Arch base, and agent-container update no
longer removes containers, so sudo-installed project dependencies
survive it too.
docker exec now attaches a TTY only when stdin is one, so scripted
runs like 'pi -p' work without a terminal.
- Install @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent globally via npm in the
image so it survives the home directory bind mount
- Add pi subcommand forwarding PI_* and provider key prefixes
- Add pi shell wrapper alias
- Build with --network host so image builds work on hosts where the
Docker bridge network cannot create veth pairs
Replace hardcoded env var lists with prefix-based forwarding (OPENCODE_*,
ANTHROPIC_*, CLAUDE_*) so new env vars are picked up automatically.
Run tools through bash -l inside the container so that .bashrc, .bash_profile,
and .profile from container-home are sourced. Seed container-home with default
shell config from /etc/skel on first run if the files don't already exist.
Use --network host so that web interfaces (e.g. opencode web) are
accessible from the host. Suppress Python tracebacks when the tool
exits with a non-zero code. Ignore SIGTSTP to prevent Ctrl+Z from
leaving orphaned containers. Rename force-cleanup to purge.
Merge the two separate container projects into a single image and
management script. Both OpenCode and Claude Code are installed in the
same Arch Linux image and share one persistent $HOME directory, which
enables the opencode-claude-bridge plugin to read Claude CLI credentials
from within OpenCode.
Subcommands: opencode, claude, update, force-cleanup.
