Works with Continue

Continue, running on your Mac

ToolPiper is a Continue provider. The row appears already configured when ToolPiper is running, and is absent when it is not.

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Free, Apple Silicon, signed. The local model runner has no caps and needs no account.

Setup

  1. Install ToolPiper and launch it once. The local API listens on port 9998.
  2. Pick ToolPiper in the model dropdown, or write the config by hand.
models:
  - name: ToolPiper
    provider: toolpiper
    model: gemma-4-12b-it-Q4_K_M

Prompts, responses and files stay on the machine. There is no key to rotate and no per-token cost. Continue talks to ToolPiper over its local OpenAI-compatible API on port 9998.