After previously tinkering with putting Claude Science into a Docker container, I’ve been using it relatively intensively over the past two weeks (connected to DeepSeek, not the original Anthropic version, of course), so I want to talk about its advantages and limitations.

I recently worked on a small project: putting the Linux version of Claude Science into a Docker container, paired with an API Bridge so it can run through third-party API backends without needing to hold an Anthropic API Key directly.

The process was more eventful than expected—also quite interesting. Here’s a record of it.