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LocalRouter by Raven

Point any OpenAI app at your Claude subscription.

LocalRouter is an OpenAI-compatible proxy that drives the real claude CLI — so Continue, litellm, LangChain, or your own client run on your Claude Max/Pro plan. No API key. No code changes.

$ brew install localrouter
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Runs locally, single-user. It uses your Claude Code usage quota and is ToS-adjacent — here's why that's the allowed path.

It drives the real CLI. It never touches your token.

Anthropic bans extracting subscription OAuth tokens for third-party clients. Spawning the genuine claude CLI — which authenticates itself — is allowed. LocalRouter takes the second path, and strips Claude Code's agent context from every call.

Raw agent call
~161K
tokens per request · about $0.92
Context-isolated
~183
tokens per request · about $0.0006

Same answer, OAuth intact, ~880× fewer tokens. LocalRouter never reads ~/.claude; the CLI does the auth, LocalRouter just speaks OpenAI on top.

Measured, not marketed.

Every number below is real, aggregated from opt-out anonymous telemetry. When there's nothing yet, it says so.

1
Installs reporting in
732
Tokens served
$0.0071
API dollars saved

Model and token counts only — never prompts or content. Opt out with DO_NOT_TRACK=1.

Speaks OpenAI. Runs where you work.

Drop-in OpenAI endpoint

Point any OpenAI-compatible client at http://localhost:8083/v1 with any key value. Streaming and non-streaming both work.

Model & effort, per request

Switch between sonnet, opus, and haiku live from the menu bar — no restart, applied on the next call.

Local and private

Binds 127.0.0.1 only. Nothing leaves your machine except anonymous, opt-out counts — no prompts, no responses, no IPs.

Live dashboard

Watch requests, the queue, cost, and login state as they happen. Menu-bar app on macOS, tray on Windows and Linux — both self-update.

Install in one line.

Needs the claude CLI installed and logged in — LocalRouter drives it, it doesn't bundle it.

macOS · Linux 
$ brew tap ravencloak-org/localrouter
$ brew trust ravencloak-org/localrouter  # one-time
$ brew install localrouter          # headless core
$ brew install --cask localrouter   # menu-bar app
Linux · macOS 
$ nix run github:ravencloak-org/LocalRouter          # run
$ nix profile add github:ravencloak-org/LocalRouter  # install

The honest version

This is ToS-adjacent, and it is not flat-rate: it spends your Claude Code usage quota, and a real Anthropic API key is the boring-safe path. It's built for local, single-user use.

What makes it defensible is the one thing it refuses to do — it never extracts your OAuth token. It drives the genuine CLI and speaks OpenAI on top. See ADR-0002.