codeaashu/free-claude-code — reverse-engineered prompt

Build me a small local proxy so I can use Claude Code in the terminal and in the VS Code extension without needing an Anthropic API key. I want it to look like the normal Claude API to the client, but actually send requests to free or local providers like NVIDIA NIM, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, LM Studio, or llama.cpp.

Please keep setup simple with a .env file and just a couple of env vars to point Claude Code at the proxy. Let me map Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku style requests to different models, support thinking style responses and tool calls, and add smart rate limiting plus a few local shortcuts for trivial requests so it saves quota and feels fast.

If it fits, include optional access protection with a shared token, and a Discord or Telegram bot mode for remote coding sessions with saved context and progress updates. Make it easy to run locally and test, and look up current docs online if you need to.