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Claude Code (the agent scaffolding) only works with the Claude API, I think? That’s at least a bit of a moat.

cursor-cli, codex, aider should all be roughly drop in replacements that can use non-Anthropic models

I also like Charm Crush.

Not really… https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router

I have a Frankenstein of a setup with this one. I use ZAI (GLM-4.6) for the base models, then Gemini's free tier for the search and image recognition. CCR intercepts the requests from Claude Code and sends them to each model/provider automatically.

I got annoyed at CCRs bloat and flakiness tho and replicated it in like 50 lines of Python. (Well, I asked Frankenstein to build it for me, obviously... what a time to be alive.)

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