Show HN: First Claude Code client for Ollama local models

Just to clarify the background a bit. This project wasn’t planned as a big standalone release at first. On January 16, Ollama added support for an Anthropic-compatible API, and I was curious how far this could be pushed in practice. I decided to try plugging local Ollama models directly into a Claude Code-style workflow and see if it would actually work end to end.

Here is the release note from Ollama that made this possible: https://ollama.com/blog/claude

Technically, what I do is pretty straightforward:

- Detect which local models are available in Ollama.

- When internet access is unavailable, the client automatically switches to Ollama-backed local models instead of remote ones.

- From the user’s perspective, it is the same Claude Code flow, just backed by local inference.

In practice, the best-performing model so far has been qwen3-coder:30b. I also tested glm-4.7-flash, which was released very recently, but it struggles with reliably following tool-calling instructions, so it is not usable for this workflow yet.

Show HN: First Claude Code client for Ollama local models
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this is cool. not sure it is the first claude code style coding agent that runs against Ollama models though. goose, opencode and others have been able to do that a while no?

The Anthropic API was already supported by llama.cpp (The project Ollama ripped off and typically lags in features by 3-6 months), which already works perfectly fine with Claude Code by setting a simple environment variable.

And they reference that announcement and related information in the second line.

siderailing here - but got one that _actually_ works?

in particular i´d like to call claude-models - in openai-schema hosted by a reseller - with some proxy that offers anthropic format to my claude --- but it seems like nothing gets to fully line things up (double-translated tool names for example)

reseller is abacus.ai - tried BerriAI/litellm, musistudio/claude-code-router, ziozzang/claude2openai-proxy, 1rgs/claude-code-proxy, fuergaosi233/claude-code-proxy,