Happy New Year, Happy New News: Claude Code Goes (Almost) Local

Happy New Year. And yes — Happy New News. While most of us were still easing back into work mode, Ollama quietly shipped an update that lets Claude Code run against local models. Not Claude’s own models, to be clear, but local or self-hosted LLMs that speak the same API language. It’s one of those updates that looks small on the surface. A compatibility tweak. A few environment variables. Nothing flashy. ...

January 24, 2026 · 3 min