I Built the Best Free Claude Code for Local AI

⚡ Build AI agents inside Oracle Fusion with Claude Code, Codex or VS Code. Free templates and sample apps: https://www.oracle.com/applications/fusion-ai/ This free local coding agent runs open models on your own hardware with no API costs or setup. 🚀 Agentic Labs — exclusive AI coding courses, live Q&As, workshops & deep dives: https://skool.com/agentic-labs 🎁 Free RAMP course + all the resources from my videos: https://skool.com/leonvanzyl Most coding agents are built for big cloud models. Claude Code eats 34,000 tokens before you type a word, which hurts when your local model only has 128,000 to work with. So I built Smol Coder, a free open source coding agent made for local models. It finds your Ollama and LM Studio models by itself, so there is nothing to configure. I install it with one command, pull Qwen 3.8 and build a working browser game in minutes. Then the same local model builds a Minecraft clone with animals and crafting, working for 20 minutes without a single restart. The trick is where the plan comes from, and it costs nothing. Resources Mentioned 🧩 Smol Coder on GitHub, leave a star if it helps: https://github.com/leonvanzyl/smolcoder Install with: npm install -g smolcoder@latest 🦙 Ollama: https://ollama.com 🧩 Oracle Fusion AI Studio GitHub repo with templates and sample apps: https://github.com/oracle/fusion-ai-studio ▶️ Watch next: Qwen 3.8 + DeepSeek Harness Is My New Free Claude Code: https://youtu.be/N7Hkqznvc7I ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 Free Local LLM for Coding 2:25 Install Smol Coder 2:49 Qwen 3.8 27B Local Setup 4:04 Ollama and LM Studio Models 5:28 Smol Coder Web UI 7:04 Sponsor Oracle AI Agent Studio 8:21 First Build and Compaction Plan 10:17 Minecraft Clone With Local LLM Connect X: https://x.com/leonvz TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@leonvanzylofficial Business & sponsorships: leon@cognaitiv.ai