free-claude-code Trends on GitHub at 11.7K Stars — Transparent Proxy Routes Claude Code CLI Through NVIDIA NIM, OpenRouter, and Local LLMs Without API Key

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A proxy layer that sits between Claude Code and alternative LLM providers, forwarding standard Anthropic API requests to NVIDIA NIM (40 req/min free), OpenRouter free-tier models, or local inference via Ollama, LM Studio, and llama.cpp. Works in the terminal, as a VSCode extension, and through Discord. For developers who want to experiment with Claude Code's agentic workflow without committing to Anthropic billing, this is the fastest onramp — though quality will obviously depend on the backing model's capabilities.