I tried a Claude Code rival that's local, open source, and completely free - how it went

I was curious if Block's Goose agent, paired with Ollama and the Qwen3-coder model, could really replace Claude Code. Here's how it worked.

ChatGPT-5.3 Codex & Claude Opus 4.6 Launch Offering Unmatched Coding Speed or Long Recall Depth

Claude Opus 4.6 and ChatGPT 5.3 Codex launch with a 1-million-token window and 25% faster runs, letting you match tasks to ...
GitHub

Drswith/vscode-json-string-code-editor

Choose from auto-detected languages Edit in a new tab with syntax highlighting Press Ctrl+S to save and sync back Note: Language detection is built into the extension and cannot be customized by users ...
IEEE

Real-time Hand Gesture Recognition Using Python and Web Application

Abstract: The recognition and tracking of hand gestures are essential elements in human-computer interaction systems, providing intuitive control and facilitating interaction with a wide range of ...
GitHub

AgentRun: Run AI Generated Code Safely

AgentRun is a Python library that makes it easy to run Python code safely from large language models (LLMs) with a single line of code. Built on top of the Docker Python SDK and RestrictedPython, it ...