Works with Zed

Zed, running on your Mac

ToolPiper is a Zed language model provider, alongside the other local runtimes Zed already speaks to.

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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. Select ToolPiper in the Zed assistant model picker.
{
  "language_models": {
    "toolpiper": { "api_url": "http://localhost:9998/v1" }
  }
}

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