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Coding Agents Handbook

Install Claude

This page gets you from zero to a working agent on our repos.

Install Claude Code

Section titled “Install Claude Code”
Terminal window
# Windows (PowerShell)
irm https://claude.com/install.ps1 | iex

Authentication

Section titled “Authentication”

You’ll get assigned a Claude Team seat from IT. If you don’t have one, file a ticket via FreshService.

Pointing it at our code

Section titled “Pointing it at our code”

  1. Clone the Alastri repo and check out the branch you need.

  2. Open a terminal in the repo root and run claude.

  3. If it’s your first time, you’ll need to pick a theme and log in with your Claude account.

Section titled “Recommended local config”

Once you’ve run Claude Code once, it’ll create a settings.json file in the following path:

%userprofile%\.claude\settings.json

Replacing the spinner verbs

Section titled “Replacing the spinner verbs”

Claude shows playful status words like ‘Bamboozling’ while it works. To replace them with something plainer, add a spinnerVerbs key to your settings.json:

{
  "spinnerVerbs": {
    "mode": "replace",
    "verbs": ["Working"]
  }
}