The need Claude Code is a powerful coding agent in the terminal, but by default it relies on a paid Claude account or API billing. I wanted to use it without depending on a single paid provider: running a model locally to keep my code on my machine, and falling back to free cloud models when a small local model is not enough. What we will build Claude Code installed in the terminal. Ollama installed on Windows. Claude Code linked to a local LLM through Ollama. An alternative wi...