Unable to run on Windows.

[chrislondon]

I've installed Claude but when I try and run the app using npm start It says it can't detect Claude. I've added the binary to my system path. I've checked the app is grabbing the system path but it's still not working.

Adding in some debugging code I can see the error in detectClaudeCli() is returning

Error: spawn claude ENOENT
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:285:19)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:483:16)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21) {
  errno: -4058,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'spawn claude',
  path: 'claude',
  spawnargs: [ '--version' ],
  cmd: 'claude --version',
  stdout: '',
  stderr: ''
}

[john-paul-ruf]

I can take look but might be due to the fact they are cutting third party harnesses off from using the Claude CLI. See Openclaw.

I am planning on doing full rewrite of this focusing on using open models like Ollama has. There are some fundamental architecture issues with how it talks to the CLI I want to address. I also want to experiment with swarm and group consensus based writing rather than hero one shots with smarter models.

If you are interested I will keep you in the loop. Maybe you can do some windows testing for me.

[chrislondon]

I was able to get Novel Engine to work on Windows by changing the exec commands to use a shell and by passing the system prompts as a temp file. See this pull request:

#6

[Orinks]

I'm able to get the current release to work on Windows. I'm okay with agent swarms and the like, I want to keep using my oauth though because I can't run local big models.