Four Places to Run Claude Code — and What Each One Silently Drops
A cloud session clones your repo into a fresh Anthropic VM — so your personal skills, agents and every MCP server you added with `claude mcp add` are simply not there. Surface choice isn't a UI preference, it's a capability choice. Here's the decision rule by task shape, plus the commit that makes your setup portable.
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Four Places to Run Claude Code — and What Each One Silently Drops — A cloud session clones your repo into a fresh Anthropic VM — so your personal skills, agents and every MCP server you added with `claude mcp add` are simply not there. Surface choice isn't a UI preference, it's a capability choice. Here's the decision rule by task shape, plus the commit that makes your setup portable.
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