Native WSL2

Open projects that live inside a WSL2 distro and run agents in Linux from Open Free Max, with the right PATH and no IDE-side install.

On Windows, OFM runs agents natively inside your WSL2 distro when a project lives there — node, git and the CLI come from the distro, not Windows.

Opening a WSL project

Use Open a WSL folder from the rail menu and pick the distro + path. OFM lists your installed distros and translates paths transparently (UNC ⇄ Linux), so the file tree, editor and terminal all operate inside Linux.

How the agent is launched

For a WSL target, OFM launches the CLI through a login interactive shell inside the distro:

wsl.exe -d <distro> --cd <linux-path> -- bash -lic '<agent + flags>'

The login shell guarantees the real PATH (nvm, your distro’s node/npm, ~/.local/bin, etc.), so the right CLI version is found — a common failure mode when GUI apps inherit only a minimal PATH. Your per-provider settings are preserved on the WSL side too.

Nothing to install on the IDE side

You don’t install the agent CLI “for OFM”. OFM uses whatever is installed in your distro. The same applies to node and git. Keep your toolchain in Linux; OFM just drives it.

macOS / Linux note

The same login-shell technique is used on macOS ($SHELL -lic) so that apps launched from the Dock/Finder still get your full PATH (homebrew, nvm, ~/.claude/local). You don’t have to configure anything.