Running Claude Code Offline on an M3 Pro with Qwen3.6
Summary
This article documents how to run Claude Code offline on an Apple M3 Pro using Qwen3.6 in a self-hosted, air-gapped setup. It covers the hardware stack, four fixes that make the local model usable, and how hardware capabilities like memory bandwidth and a 32K context window set performance; it includes step-by-step guidance and notes on memory pressure and session scoping.