Clean up a TV stick and flash Linux using Claude Code

The author used Claude Code to wipe a cheap Android TV stick (Allwinner H618) infected with malware and safely flash Armbian. Using a Builder/Auditor architecture where Sonnet writes and Opus audits, they successfully completed a mainline Linux port without a serial console.

Reddit r/ClaudeCode/u/Personal-Conflict952

Claude Code CLISonnetOpusGit BashKali WSL2usbipd-winActivity LauncherArmbian+1

Added 2026-10-31 · originally published 2026-10-30

Steps

1Set up the Claude Code CLI, Git Bash, Kali WSL2, and usbipd-win on Windows, and pass the TV stick's USB through to WSL.
2Establish rules for Claude: use Sonnet to write code and Opus to audit it, requiring an audit pass and manual confirmation before every hardware write.
3Open hidden developer options via Activity Launcher, run root adbd on TCP 5555, block egress using iptables on the laptop hotspot, and get a full eMMC backup.
4Analyze the backup for malware and backdoors (such as remote command systems and UPX-packed Go backdoors) and decide to completely replace Android with Armbian.
5Use the LED light and reset timing as a debugger, flash U-Boot environment overrides via FEL for blink testing, or boot a lightweight Linux into RAM to enable the HDMI console and eMMC flasher.
6Run the build and audit loop, fix potential bricking risks such as device trees and partition backup verification, and finally write to eMMC and verify the flash results.

Copy-ready prompt

Please help me analyze and refactor a hardware firmware flashing task. I will use a main agent for overall planning and conversation with me, generate a Sonnet sub-agent as the builder (responsible for writing configurations, scripts, and images), and use an independent Opus sub-agent as the auditor (responsible only for reading and writing audit reports). Before performing any irreversible write or modification to the hardware, the task must pass an audit and I must explicitly say "go" before proceeding. Please help me create the first-phase read-only diagnostics and environment backup plan. [Enter your hardware device info and specific goal here, for example: DQ10 Android TV stick / Allwinner H618]

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