Local Agentic Programming on the Cheap: Claude Code + Ollama + Gemma4

This article builds the full stack: Ollama serving Gemma 4 locally, the Modelfile that prevents context window failures in agentic sessions, the settings.json that wires Claude Code to the local endpoint, a verification script that confirms everything is working before you use it on real code, and an honest rundown of what breaks and how to fix it.