About Openclaude
Openclaude is an open source coding agent that runs in the terminal and talks to almost any model. It is not a chatbot wrapper or an editor plugin. The agent reads files, searches code, edits, and runs shell commands, while every change stays reviewable.
Model choice is the central idea. A provider is wired up once with a command and can be switched mid session. The site lists OpenAI, Gemini, Codex, Grok, Ollama, LM Studio, GitHub Models, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, Groq, Mistral, NVIDIA NIM and others, plus Bedrock, Vertex and any OpenAI compatible endpoint, with more than 200 models supported. It includes MCP servers and skills, a non interactive print mode with JSON and streaming JSON output, tool allowlists and budgets, per repository profiles, and sessions that can be resumed, branched and rewound. Background tasks, worktree isolation and remote control from a phone are also described. An optional pixel art companion character sits beside the prompt for fun.
It suits developers who want a terminal agent that is not tied to a single vendor, including those running local models. Installation is a single npm command on macOS, Linux or Windows and requires Node.js 22 or newer.
The site lists a price of zero and publishes no paid plans. Any model usage is billed by whichever provider the user connects.