Claude AI on a Yacy peer, works in shell, without a web browser. I started it with this command:
/root/.local/share/claude/versions/2.1.224 “Explain what yacy is in one paragraph.”
That started an interactive session.
Claude can summarize web pages.
That worked well. A few observations:
- Thinking is not done on on the local machine, but in Anthropic’s cloud.
- All prompts are sent to Anthropic, but I did not create an account, so they might not know who I am.
- Requests to summarize web pages are also sent to Anthropic. They download the web page on their end and summarize it. The local machine is not used to download the page or to think, so we have to trust that Anthropic is using the real, live content, and is telling the truth about what it sees.
The local copy of the web page (such as that stored by Yacy) is not used. - There is a Read tool that could force Claude to look at local, cached files. I have not yet tried that.