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Claude Failover — AI skill for Claude Code

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Backup brain for Claude Code.

How to install Claude Failover

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open nicedreamzapp/claude-failover and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Claude Failover does

Backup brain for Claude Code. When your Claude Max plan hits its limit or Claude is down, flip one command and your claude -p agents keep running on a local mlx-lm model. Default Claude. Local only when needed.

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README

claude-failover

**A backup brain for Claude Code. When your Claude Max plan hits its limit, your tokens are exhausted, or Claude is down — flip one command and your `claude -p` agents keep running on a local LLM. Default to Claude. Local only when you need it.**

Built for people who **like** Claude and want to keep using it as primary, but don't want a usage cap or an Anthropic outage to halt every script that depends on `claude -p`.

This is **NOT** "ditch Claude and run everything local." For that, see [claude-code-local](https://github.com/nicedreamzapp/claude-code-local) — that project replaces Claude entirely with a local model. This project is the opposite angle: **Claude stays primary**, local is just there for the day you need it.

When you'd want this

You're on Claude Max ($100/mo SDK credit, or any tier with a usage cap) and you sometimes hit it mid-month
You run headless claude -p scripts (cron jobs, agents, watchers, custom tooling) and don't want them to die during an Anthropic outage
You want to run lower-stakes work locally to preserve your Claude budget for the work that actually needs Claude's quality
You have an Apple Silicon Mac with enough RAM to run an MLX model (8 GB minimum for a 7B-class model, 32+ GB for 30B class)

How it works

┌─────────────────────┐
│ Your script         │
│ subprocess.run([    │       reads ~/.local/state/llm-backend
│   "agent-llm",      │ ─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│   "-p", prompt      │                                          │
│ ])                  │                                          │
└─────────────────────┘                                          │
                                                                 ▼
                                          ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
                                          │ flag = "claude"  →  exec real `claude -p`│
                                          │ flag = "local"   →  POST to loca