maclocal-api: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

maclocal-api CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from scouzi1966/maclocal-api. It costs 4,520 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project guide for MacLocal API, an Apple Silicon server that runs local AI models and exposes an interface compatible with OpenAI API clients.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on the AFM command-line tool, HTTP routes, model backends, compatibility libraries, or the AFMKit dependency.
Why use it?
It clarifies the boundary between the local HTTP server and the separately maintained model runtimes, reducing the risk of changing or duplicating provider code in the wrong place.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; built for openclaw.

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CLAUDE.md · 302 lines

How it starts

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Claude Code Reference for MacLocal API

Project Overview

AFM (Apple Foundation Models) is an OpenAI-compatible API server for local LLM inference on Apple Silicon. It supports two backends:

  • MLX (afm mlx): Uses mlx-swift-lm for MLX-format models from Hugging Face
  • Apple Foundation Models (afm without subcommand): Uses Apple's on-device models (macOS 26+)

The server exposes /v1/chat/completions and /v1/models endpoints compatible with OpenAI API clients.

Project Structure

The package vends a maclocal-api aggregate library (AFMKit), the Vapor HTTP layer (AFMServer), compatibility libraries, and the afm executable. Stable provider contracts and runtimes come from the standalone AFMKit package at an immutable revision. AFMServer remains local and adapts those provider facades into OpenAI-compatible HTTP responses.

Sources/
├── AFMKit/                   # maclocal-api aggregate facade and services
├── AFMServer/                # Vapor routes, HTTP lifecycle, metrics, files
├── AFMCLI/                   # executable entry point and commands
├── AFMKitFoundationModels/   # macOS 26 Apple service compatibility
└── AFMKitFoundationModels27/ # facade over AFMKit macOS 27 products
vendor/
└── llama.cpp/                # WebUI source
Scripts/
├── check-afmkit-consumer-boundary.sh
└── build-from-scratch.sh     # clean immutable consumer build

Provider source ownership

AFMKit is the only source of truth for MLX, mlx-c, mlx-swift-lm, xgrammar, DwarfStar, and their AFM adaptations. maclocal-api consumes one exact AFMKit version and must not vendor, fork, patch, or compile a second provider tree. Use MACLOCAL_AFMKIT_WORKSPACE_PATH for reversible paired development, validate both repositories, then publish and pin one new AFMKit version.

DwarfStar dependency boundary

AFMKit owns the canonical DwarfStar and xgrammar dependencies, their C/C++ bridges, and provider regressions. maclocal-api consumes those products only through its resolved AFMKit dependency. Scripts/swiftpm-reliable.sh validates and fingerprints that checkout so Xcode cannot reuse products compiled from a different provider revision.

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maclocal-api CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository scouzi1966/maclocal-api (348 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,520 tokens to every session, about $0.0181 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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