Open-Source AI Coding Playbooks.
The best coding agents are going open source. Build a full coding stack on open models and make it yours, code from morning to midnight on a setup you control, and ship real projects on it.
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Local vs Cloud AI Coding: When Local Loses
Are local coding models good enough? For most of your day, yes. The honest map of where local wins, where it loses, and how to decide before you fire a task.
from: Run Claude Code Locally
How to Pick a Local Model for Coding
The best local LLM for coding isn't the leaderboard winner. Pick by tool-call reliability and speed, with a model table and a benchmark you run yourself.
from: Run Claude Code Locally
Run a Local AI Coding Agent Free in 15 Minutes
Build a local AI coding agent on Ollama that edits real code offline. Install, pull qwen2.5-coder, run Codex, ship your first edit with the Wi-Fi off.
from: Run Claude Code Locally
Run Claude Code Locally with Ollama
Point the real Claude Code CLI at a local Ollama model through a LiteLLM proxy. The exact env vars, the config.yaml, and the version you must never install.
from: Run Claude Code Locally
Why Your Local AI Coding Agent Is Slow
Why is Ollama slow for coding? Almost never your hardware. Fix the 52-second tool call with three knobs: model size, quantization, and context length.
from: Run Claude Code Locally
OpenCode Not Working? The 5 Failure Modes
OpenCode not working? The 5 documented failure modes with detection, cause, one-line fix, and prevention. Plus the weekly health-check script that catches them.
from: The opencode Stack
OpenCode Orchestrator + Fixer Routing, Wired
The opencode orchestrator fixer pattern: two models, two slots, one opencode.json. Three task-class routing recipes and an A/B receipt that cuts the bill 10x.
from: The opencode Stack
Self-Host OpenCode With Zero Outbound Tokens
How to self-host OpenCode with a local model and prove zero outbound API tokens with tcpdump. Hardware tiers, the provider config, and the silence receipt.
from: The opencode Stack
Keep OpenCode Under $1 a Day: Cost Dashboard
Build OpenCode token cost tracking that alerts at the $1/day line. The SQLite schema, the parser, the run-rate readout, and the four levers that cut spend.
from: The opencode Stack
Read them in this order. Each one assumes the one before it.
The opencode Stack
10 deployed projects on $10/mo with DeepSeek + Kimi routing
Run Claude Code Locally
Run the real Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode 100% local on Ollama
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