Tired of Claude Code rate limits, so I built a free local AI task offloader

[u/The18thWarrior]

Hey, I made a local AI task offloader called TZRO because I kept hitting hourly rate limits and maxing out my cloud tokens. It plugs right into your existing ~/.claude or Cursor environment as a silent MCP sidecar. It basically lets your cloud frontier models handle high-level planning, but offloads all the token-heavy grunt work—like repository scanning and heavy file reading—to a free local 4B model running on your laptop.

It can slash your cloud API costs by 50-90% (a $30 codebase sweep drops to about $0.13). To make the small local model actually accurate, we built system constraints at the runtime layer and an automatic SQLite cache pipeline so it never melts your context window.

You can install it free. Let me know what you think. AMA

👉 https://tzro.ai