Claude Code Local

Hit your limit? Keep going.

Claude Code, running on your own computer when your Claude usage runs out. Same tools, same project, no API key.

Mac and Linux. Windows is one PowerShell line. On a Mac, Linux or Windows, type exit in Claude Code, then keep going, and the same conversation carries on.

How-to guides and docs: nicedreamzapp.github.io/claude-code-local

Agent-12 score for the model setup picks on a 96 GB Mac, Qwen 3.8 27B: 12/12 easy, 7/8 hard.
Scored in Agent-12's own harness, not inside Claude Code. How the models compare

🧠⚡ Claude Code Local

Claude Code, running on your own Mac. No cloud. No API key. No waiting.

Your Mac's chip runs the AI · Claude Code works exactly like it always does · nothing leaves your computer

Now on Linux and Windows too, same Claude Code, same privacy, your own machine doing the work. Phones are next.

In one sentence: a small Python server (proxy/server.py) runs open AI models on your Mac's chip with Apple's MLX and answers Claude Code in Anthropic's own API format, so Claude Code works with no cloud model and no API key.

Ran out of Claude usage or hit a rate limit mid-task? Start here,
it takes one command to keep working on a local model.

Other things I built that go with it are in the local-first family.

Matt Macosko wrote the glue that makes local models usable inside Claude Code. The pieces in this repo:

- ⚡ proxy/server.py: the MLX server. Speaks the Anthropic Messages API with streaming, turns each model's own tool-call format (Gemma 4, Qwen, Llama JSON) into Claude Code tool calls, repairs garbled tool JSON, and reuses the prompt cache between turns so long sessions don't re-read everything.
- 🧪 scripts/test_parse_tool_calls.py and scripts/test_mlx_server.py: tests for the tool-call parser (no model needed) and…