Claude Code With Ollama Setup

I tried claude-code-router with Ollama and it didn t really work with Ollama due to mismatching input/output formats. Even Claude Code with Anthropic doesn t work well out-of-the box with local (not cloud) models. Instead, at least in my experience, you have to do some more setup to get a useful Claude Code CLI working with Ollama. The below is a from-scratch setup that makes Claude Code run with…