Write local-usage docs for Claude Code CLI, Kimi CLI, and OpenCode CLI

Resolves wayfinder ticket #6. Covers the two server endpoints (Anthropic
shim vs OpenAI-compatible), exact config for all three CLIs, and surfaces
the shared Qwen3.8-27B tool-calling risk plus OpenCode's own documented
local-backend brittleness up front rather than burying it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- llama.cpp OpenAI-compatible API: http://localhost:8080/v1
- llama.cpp Anthropic Messages API (for Claude Code CLI): http://localhost:8080/v1/messages
Pointing Claude Code CLI or Kimi CLI at the local endpoint is documented separately — see [issue #6](https://git.arthurerlich.de/haylan/LLM-Server/issues/6) once resolved.
Pointing Claude Code CLI, Kimi CLI, or OpenCode CLI at the local endpoint: see [`docs/coding-cli-setup.md`](docs/coding-cli-setup.md).
**Known risk**: Qwen3.8-27B's tool-calling reliability against llama.cpp's Anthropic shim is not yet verified (open upstream parser bugs against its model lineage) — see `docs/research/qwen3.8-27b-tool-calling.md`.
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# Pointing a coding-agent CLI at this stack
This stack's llama.cpp server exposes two endpoints once `docker compose up` is running (see `docker-compose.yml`):
- **OpenAI-compatible**: `http://localhost:8080/v1` (or `${LLAMA_PORT}` if you changed it in `.env`)
- **Anthropic Messages API shim**: `http://localhost:8080` (adds `/v1/messages`)
Both serve the same model — `Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf` — behind whichever wire format the client speaks.
> **Read this before relying on it for real work.** Qwen3.8-27B's tool-calling has **documented, open llama.cpp upstream bugs** (parser fails on text before `<tool_call>`, tool calls emitted as inert XML inside thinking blocks — see `docs/research/qwen3.8-27b-tool-calling.md`). Every setup below inherits this risk identically, regardless of which CLI or wire format you use. Don't trust it for unattended multi-step agentic work until you've run the smoke test in [issue #5](https://git.arthurerlich.de/haylan/LLM-Server/issues/5).
## Claude Code CLI
Claude Code speaks the **Anthropic Messages API** — point it at the shim, not the OpenAI-compatible endpoint:
```bash
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=local # value is unchecked by llama.cpp, but the client requires it set
claude
```
Requires llama.cpp's `--jinja` flag (already set in `docker-compose.yml`) — without it, tool-use requests fail outright.
## Kimi CLI
Kimi CLI speaks plain **OpenAI Chat Completions** — no shim needed. Configure a provider block in its config file (`config.toml`):
```toml
[providers.openai]
type = "openai"
base_url = "http://localhost:8080/v1"
api_key = "local"
```
If Kimi CLI's response parsing gets confused by Qwen's `<think>...</think>` reasoning tags, check its `reasoning_key` setting — it's configurable for non-standard local server responses.
## OpenCode CLI
Confirmed project: **`anomalyco/opencode`** (renamed from `sst/opencode` — don't confuse with the unrelated `opencode-ai/opencode` Go TUI). Docs: https://opencode.ai/docs/
**Install**:
```bash
curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/install | bash
```
**Config** (`opencode.json`, project root or `~/.config/opencode/opencode.json`):
```json
{
"$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
"provider": {
"llamacpp": {
"npm": "@ai-sdk/openai-compatible",
"name": "llama.cpp (local)",
"options": {
"baseURL": "http://localhost:8080/v1",
"apiKey": "sk-local-not-checked"
},
"models": {
"qwen3.8-27b": {
"name": "Qwen3.8-27B",
"limit": { "context": 65536, "output": 8192 }
}
}
}
}
}
```
Set `limit.context` to match whatever `LLAMA_CTX_SIZE` this stack is actually running with (`.env`), not a value assumed from the model card — OpenCode uses it for its own context-management bookkeeping, not the server.
Select the model with `llamacpp/qwen3.8-27b`.
**OpenCode-specific risks** (on top of the shared Qwen3.8-27B tool-calling risk above):
- Requires llama.cpp's `--jinja` flag (already set) — without it, OpenCode's unconditional tool-call scaffolding gets a 500.
- [anomalyco/opencode#20669](https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/20669) (closed as "not planned" — a live, unfixed risk): OpenCode's `bash` tool crashes if the model omits the optional `description` field on a tool call; some local backends return `finish_reason: tool_calls` with an empty array, which can hang the agent loop instead of stopping cleanly.
- Thinking-mode handling (`options.reasoningEffort`) is undocumented for models that emit inline `<think>` tags rather than a native reasoning API field — expect no effect from that config on this model; untested.
## Summary
| CLI | Wire format | Endpoint | Config |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Anthropic Messages | `http://localhost:8080` | `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` env var |
| Kimi CLI | OpenAI Chat Completions | `http://localhost:8080/v1` | `config.toml` provider block |
| OpenCode | OpenAI Chat Completions | `http://localhost:8080/v1` | `opencode.json` provider block |
Further reading: `docs/research/qwen3.8-27b-tool-calling.md`, `docs/research/opencode-cli-setup.md`.