Open-source Cowork orchestrator falls back to local models when Claude rate-limits
Less_Release_1977 · reddit · 2026-11-15
Cowork (MIT, slashman413/cowork) is a self-hosted MCP server + dark web dashboard bridging cloud coding agent CLIs (Claude Code, Codex) with local open-weights models.
- Fallback chains: tasks run on Claude Code first; on 429 quota or network errors they fail over to local Hermes 3 or Qwen 2.5 32B/72B via Ollama/vLLM, passing intermediate code diffs and context so the local model finishes the job.
- Multi-machine clusters: a GPU box runs remote-agent-client.mjs, registers models over LAN/Tailscale, and pulls inference jobs automatically.
- Live hardware telemetry (CPU, VRAM, temps, memory) alongside active task runs.
- No database: plain JSON files and Markdown logs under inbox/ and artifacts/<task-id>/, greppable with unix tools.
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