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Twigpine/openclaude

openclaude is a terminal-first coding-agent CLI that runs against cloud APIs and local model backends, including OpenAI-compatible APIs, Gemini, GitHub Models, and Ollama. It provides prompts, tools, agents, MCP, slash commands, and streaming output in a single CLI.

Project overview

It replaces per-provider tooling and separate workflows with one CLI spanning both cloud APIs and local model backends, and no paid service is required to use it.

Project type: AI Agent · AI Coding
Use cases: Coding & Development
Deployment: Refer to project documentation
License: License pending

Best for

Developers who want a single terminal-based coding-agent CLI that works across cloud APIs and local model backends instead of per-provider tooling.

Key capabilities

Runs a coding-agent CLI against cloud and local providers including OpenAI-compatible APIs, Gemini, GitHub Models, Ollama, and many others.
Bash, file read/write/edit, grep, glob, agents, tasks, MCP, slash commands, and streaming output.

Limitations and risks

openclaude supports multiple providers, but behavior is not identical across all of them; verify the provider you plan to use before relying on consistent behavior.
Cloud API providers and the Exa web search service (default free tier; optional paid API key) involve external services; using local backends can avoid cloud APIs, but external usage is optional rather than absent.
The documented interaction mode is a command-line interface; other interaction modes are not documented.
GPU requirements and telemetry practices are not documented; evaluate them before adoption.

Getting started

Install globally with npm, set environment variables for your chosen provider, then launch. Example first run: `npm install -g @gitlawb/openclaude@latest`, then `export CLAUDE_CODE_USE_OPENAI=1 OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:11434/v1 OPENAI_MODEL=qwen2.5-coder:7b`, then run `openclaude`. Setup difficulty is easy: a single npm global install plus environment variables.

Evidence and sources

README: OpenClaude is an open-source coding-agent CLI for cloud and local model providers.
README: npm install -g @gitlawb/openclaude@latest
README: One CLI across cloud APIs and local model backends — no per-provider tooling
README: **Tool-driven coding workflows**: Bash, file read/write/edit, grep, glob, agents, tasks, MCP, and slash commands
README: export OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:11434/v1 export OPENAI_MODEL=qwen2.5-coder:7b

Source updated at: 2026-10-06T18:28:47Z

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