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

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

I tested local AI on my M1 Mac, expecting magic - and got a reality check instead

At random, I chose glm-4.7-flash, from the Chinese AI startup Z.ai. Weighing in at 30 billion "parameters," or neural weights, GLM-4.7-flash would be a "small" large language model by today's ...
GitHub

Alibaba Cloud Ops MCP Server

Alibaba Cloud Ops MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides seamless integration with Alibaba Cloud APIs, enabling AI assistants to operate resources on Alibaba Cloud, ...
IEEE

Secure kNN for Distributed Cloud Environment Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Abstract: Privacy-preserving k-nearest neighbor (PPkNN) classification for multiple clouds enables categorizing queried data into a class in keeping with data privacy ...
Unite.AI

An Introduction To Vertex AI

Given the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence, one of the biggest hurdles tech leaders often come across is ...
IEEE

An Advanced Algorithm for Accurate Retrieval of Liquid Water Cloud Properties Using Spaceborne Radar

Abstract: Low cloud microphysical properties, including liquid water content (LWC), cloud effective radius (CER), and cloud optical thickness (COT), are fundamental to climate modeling and weather ...
GitHub

A Python-based AI agent that replicates Cursor's coding assistant capabilities, enabling function calling, code generation, and intelligent coding assistance with Claude ...

read_file: Read file contents with flexible line range control edit_file: Make precise edits to files with clear instructions Supports complete file replacement ...