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DimensionLmOffload routine tasks from Claude Code to local or cloud LLMs to save token spend.MartinLoop MCP ServerAn independent control layer that gives AI coding agents budgets, brakes, and receipts
FMRS52 / 100 · D79 / 100 · B
Reliability6 / 2012 / 20
Security and permissions9 / 2018 / 20
Maintenance9 / 2016 / 20
Documentation15 / 2018 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2015 / 20
Best for
  • Developers using Claude Code for large refactors who want to reduce token bills.
  • Users with a local GPU server who want to leverage local models for repetitive tasks.
  • Those needing to offload bounded, well-defined tasks from Claude to a cheaper model.
  • Developers familiar with MCP and OpenAI-compatible APIs.
  • Engineering teams scaling AI coding agents while controlling spend
  • Platform teams that need auditable, rollback-aware agent execution records
  • Organizations using multiple agents (Claude, Codex, Gemini) under one governed flow
Not for
  • Tasks requiring strong reasoning or tool access should stay on Claude.
  • Latency-sensitive interactive scenarios, as local inference can be 3-30x slower than frontier models.
  • Users who do not need an MCP server but want to call LLM APIs directly.
  • Users not using Claude Code or Claude Desktop as an MCP client.
  • Developers who just want a simple code-completion helper without run governance
  • Teams unwilling to accept local JSONL run records with HMAC signing
  • Environments without a supported adapter (Claude/Codex/Gemini CLIs, direct provider, or verifier-only)
Required permissions
  • Read local files on the system (when using the code_task_files tool).
  • Create and read a local SQLite database file (~/.houtini-lm/model-cache.db).
  • Make network requests to the LLM endpoint (local or cloud).
  • Run Node.js processes.
  • Read/write access to the configured repo root (writable scope restrictable via --allow-path/--deny-path)
  • Ability to invoke the chosen agent CLI (Claude/Codex/Gemini, etc.) and its underlying model account
  • Local disk writes for run records, receipts, and share outputs (share/run-receipt., etc.)
  • Execution of user-configured verifier commands (e.g. npm test)
Risks and side effects
  • Sending code or data to a local or cloud LLM may lead to information leakage, especially with cloud APIs.
  • Running untrusted code on local models may introduce security vulnerabilities.
  • Over-reliance on local models may degrade output quality because local models can be less capable.
  • The MCP server may inadvertently expose local file system paths, so use code_task_files with caution.
  • Token savings may be overestimated, as local inference can take more time or resources.
  • Verifier commands are executed; poorly chosen verifier commands carry security risk despite preflight policy checks
  • Cost and token figures may be estimates (labeled with provenance) and should not be treated as settled accounting
  • Receipt integrity must be verified before use as trustworthy evidence; missing rollback evidence is flagged as EVIDENCE_BOUNDARY
  • Policy defaults come from martin.config.yaml and can be overridden by CLI flags; misconfiguration can loosen safety boundaries
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Claude CodeClaude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Continue
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