Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code

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Running Google Gemma 4 Locally With LM Studio’s New Headless CLI & Claude Code

LM Studio 0.4.0 introduced llmster and the lms CLI. Here is how I set up Gemma 4 26B for local inference on macOS that can be used with Claude Code.

George Liu
Using Claude Code seems like a popular frontend currently, I wonder how long until Anthropic releases an update to make it a little to a lot less turn-key? They've been very clear that they aren't exactly champions of this stuff being used outside of very specific ways.

Is it not about the same as using OpenCode?

And is running a local model with Claude Code actually usable for any practical work compared to the hosted Anthropic models?