free-claude-code: a local proxy that intercepts Claude Code traffic and reroutes it to free models

Description

Watching your Anthropic API bill skyrocket from terminal AI agents? free-claude-code is a drop-in proxy layer. A local FastAPI server intercepts Claude Code traffic and routes it to free or local backends. NVIDIA NIM's free tier, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, LM Studio, Ollama. Dynamically translates responses back into Anthropic's exact SSE format. No patching, no forking. Change two environment variables and your AI coding assistant runs free. https://github.com/Alishahryar1/free-claude-code #github #opensource