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       Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM
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       Author : npace12
       Score  : 80 points
       Date   : 2025-03-04 13:35 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | Daviey wrote:
       | License could be an interesting challenge and compatibility.
       | 
       | https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/LICENSE....
       | and https://github.com/dnakov/anon-kode/blob/main/LICENSE.md
        
         | npace12 wrote:
         | Yeah, hopefully they'd let it slide
        
         | paulgb wrote:
         | I'm holding off on using it until the IDFK license is OSI
         | approved.
        
         | npace12 wrote:
         | Cross fingers :)
         | 
         | https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/249#issueco...
        
         | ai-christianson wrote:
         | If you want one that was shipped 3 months earlier, is true FOSS
         | (Apache 2.0,), and can even work reasonably with
         | qwen-32b-coder-instruct, check https://github.com/ai-
         | christianson/RA.Aid
         | 
         | Disclaimer: am maintainer
         | 
         | If you try it and have feedback, I'm very curious to hear it.
        
           | 999900000999 wrote:
           | Can I give your money ?
           | 
           | I'll try it out tonight.
           | 
           | Does running it inside of VS Code sandbox this ? Claude keeps
           | failing when every it tries to run a shell directory.
        
           | tinco wrote:
           | Nice! Could you maybe share some cool things that you've used
           | it for? I love that your demo is it adding a feature to
           | itself. We did the exact same thing for our OSS autonomous
           | agent:
           | 
           | https://github.com/bosun-ai/kwaak
           | 
           | Disclaimer: built by my co-founder (and some contributors!)
           | 
           | We opted to have the agent execute its tasks in docker
           | containers fully in parallel to the developer's environment.
           | This way the developer can have the agent work on something
           | while doing something else themselves.
           | 
           | You can check out a list of merge requests it made and got
           | merged here: https://github.com/SwabbieBosun?tab=overview&fro
           | m=2025-02-01...
        
       | koakuma-chan wrote:
       | > Fixes your spaghetti code
       | 
       | > Explains wtf that function does
       | 
       | > Runs tests and other bullshit
       | 
       | Love it
        
         | dartos wrote:
         | Are there examples of LLMs fixing spaghetti code in the wild?
        
           | koakuma-chan wrote:
           | If your spaghetti code is written in React, Claude Code might
           | be able to do it given enough time, and at the cost of a few
           | million tokens.
        
       | pizzalife wrote:
       | Cool project! Though I'd advise dialing down the edge factor.
        
         | simonw wrote:
         | Yeah, "Terminal-based AI coding retard" is unnecessary.
        
           | DrammBA wrote:
           | README is now less retarded as per author:
           | https://github.com/dnakov/anon-
           | kode/commit/320265694838fb2ae...
        
       | npace12 wrote:
       | The interesting part, to me, is that claude-code is made by
       | people who know their models well. Having the same tool work with
       | other models lets us get a better feel of how to make better
       | coding agents
        
       | tasn wrote:
       | Congrats on the launch!
       | 
       | As someone who is ignorant and not following all of the recent
       | releases. Isn't Claude-code a proprietary version of
       | https://aider.chat/ in the first place?
        
         | dimfeld wrote:
         | Claude Code works similarly to Aider in that they both run in
         | the terminal and write code using LLMs, but it shares no code
         | with Aider as far as I know. Aider is written in Python and
         | Claude Code in Javascript, among other reasons to think that it
         | is not derived from Aider.
         | 
         | The tools also work very differently when you're actually using
         | them, with Claude Code doing more of an agent loop and having
         | very different methods of putting together the context to pass
         | to the model.
        
           | anacrolix wrote:
           | I've struggled to get both to do anything useful. that said
           | Claude code is consistent and doesn't error a lot
        
         | jillesvangurp wrote:
         | > Isn't Claude-code a proprietary version of
         | https://aider.chat/ in the first place?
         | 
         | It might be; but aider is Apache 2 licensed and I don't think
         | Anthropic would be able to change the license. But either way,
         | these tools are simple enough that it's not hard to replicate
         | what they do. So simple that it's kind of pointless for
         | Anthropic to get proprietary and protective about the whole
         | thing. The moat they have is with the model quality.
         | 
         | I saw a very similar tool demoed at the local Kotlin meetup in
         | Berlin just one day after Anthropic announced claude code that
         | also uses the Claude API.
         | 
         | https://github.com/xemantic/claudine
         | 
         | Kotlin might not be everybody's cup of tea but actually seems
         | to be an effective tool for the job. The level of simplicity of
         | the code base is what I found the most shocking. There's almost
         | nothing to it. It's tiny bits of code needed to read/write
         | files and execute commands and a very simple loop where it
         | interacts with claude via a simple REST API. You can read
         | through the code base (a couple of hundred lines of Kotlin) in
         | a few minutes and get a feel for what it does. We had some fun
         | trying to get the tool to improve itself during the meetup. It
         | worked pretty well.
         | 
         | Probably, the most complex thing of the whole code base is the
         | system prompt used to orchestrate the whole thing. That looks
         | like some thought went into it and there are probably a few
         | gotchas that are yet to be addressed. But even that is doable.
         | A determined person could probably replicate what this does in
         | a day or so from scratch. Probably a lot faster if you use one
         | of these tools to build the next one. This isn't rocket
         | science.
         | 
         | I'm guessing we'll be seeing a lot of tools like this in the
         | next few months. It will be interesting to see what refinements
         | people come up with. I think most of the innovation is going to
         | be in giving these agents better/smarter tools to work with.
         | For example, there's a lot of stuff encapsulated in IDEs that
         | it probably a lot easier to use than trying to do the same
         | thing with random cli commands.
        
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