Coherence-Daddy/use-ollama-to-enhance-claude: Pair Claude Desktop on Anthropic with Claude Code routed through Ollama. Visual walkthrough + copy-paste prompt that cuts your Claude Code bill ~90%. · GitHub

Pair Claude Desktop on Anthropic with Claude Code routed through Ollama in your terminal. Strategy stays on Pro. Heavy footwork runs on a free open-source model. Cut your Claude Code bill ~90%.

A 21-slide visual walkthrough that pairs your Anthropic Claude Desktop app with an Ollama-backed Claude Code terminal session — so the strategic work stays on Pro while the heavy lifting runs on a free open-source model (Gemma, Qwen, DeepSeek, your pick).

• Auto-detects your OS — macOS, Windows + WSL2, Linux
• Copy-paste prompt — drop one block into Claude and it does ~98% of the setup for you
• Verifies both engines side-by-side at the end so you know it actually worked
• Self-contained HTML — no build step, opens in any browser

Claude Pro on the Desktop app is great for thinking, planning, and architecture. Claude Code in the terminal eats quota fast — context-heavy tasks like lints, refactors, file batch ops, and grep-and-replace can burn through your monthly limit in days.

The fix: route Claude Code through Ollama (local or cloud-hosted free model). Two engines, same UX, one bill cut by an order of magnitude.

The hosted version has the full visual deck, OS-aware steps, and the copy-paste prompt:

→ coherencedaddy.com/tutorials/use-ollama-to-enhance-claude

If you want to skip the visuals and let Claude do it all for you:

1. Open prompts/copy-paste-prompt.md
2. Copy the entire file contents
3. Paste into a fresh Claude Desktop / Claude.ai conversation
4. Follow along — it auto-detects your OS, installs everything, configures the router, and verifies both engines

git clone https://github.com/Coherence-Daddy/use-ollama-to-enhance-claude.git
cd use-ollama-to-enhance-claude/presentation
open index.html   # macOS
# or just drag index.html into a browser

Two side-by-side panes. Same UX. One of them is free.

.
├── README.md                          ← this file
├── LICENSE                            ← MIT
├── prompts/
│   └── copy-paste-prompt.md           ← the canonical setup prompt
└── presentation/
    ├── index.html                     ← 21-slide visual walkthrough
    ├── cd-face-coral.png              ← brand asset
    └── copy-paste-prompt.md           ← (mirror of /prompts version, kept beside the deck)

The presentation is the same exact HTML served at coherencedaddy.com/tutorials/use-ollama-to-enhance-claude. Open it locally, host it yourself, or fork it for your own walkthroughs.

claude-code ollama gemma llm-tools cost-optimization agentic-coding anthropic open-source-llm

MIT — see LICENSE. Use it, fork it, ship a YouTube walkthrough of it. No attribution required, but if you do credit it, link to coherencedaddy.com.

Coherence Daddy is a 508(c)(1)(A) faith-driven technology organization on a mission to help humanity be more coherent. We build private, secure self-help tools — and the occasional tutorial that saves you a few hundred bucks on AI bills.

If this saved you a real chunk of money, the kindest thing you can do is ⭐ this repo and share the tutorial link.