First Claude Code client for Ollama local models

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First Claude Code client for Ollama local models

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Jan. 22, 2026

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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/claudeTechnically, 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.

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