litecoo 2.4.1

Free LLM proxy for Cowork and OpenAI-compatible clients — no litellm, pure httpx routing

litecoo (litecoo v3)

litecoo (formerly litecoo) is a local FastAPI proxy that makes free LLM models (DeepSeek V4, Gemma, Nemotron) behave like Claude for Cowork Desktop and Claude Code. It handles the Anthropic protocol, agentic tool loops, session memory, and built-in tools — all without spending a cent on API calls.

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🚀 System Architecture

graph TD
    Client[Client (Cowork / curl)] --> API[FastAPI Proxy]
    API --> Router[Model Router]
    
    subgraph Core Features
        Router --> Memory[SQLite Session Memory]
        Router --> AgentLoop[Server-Side Agent Loop]
        Router --> RateLimit[Cooldown / Rate Limiting]
    end
    
    subgraph Built-in Tools
        AgentLoop --> Fetch[Web Fetch]
        AgentLoop --> Search[Web Search]
        AgentLoop --> Bash[Bash Command]
        AgentLoop --> FileOps[File Read/Write]
        AgentLoop --> Office[Create PDF/DOCX/PPTX]
    end
    
    Router --> Provider[OpenRouter / DeepSeek / External APIs]

🛠️ Endpoints

Endpoint	Format	Description
POST /v1/messages	Anthropic	For Claude Desktop and Cowork. Handles tool loops and SSE streaming.
POST /v1/chat/completions	OpenAI	For standard OpenAI clients, Claude Code, curl.
GET /v1/models	Standard	Returns the list of available aliases.
GET /v1/sessions/{id}	Internal	Inspect a session's history.
DELETE /v1/sessions/{id}	Internal	Clear a session from SQLite.
GET /v1/cooldowns	Internal	Check rate limit status for each model.
GET /v1/usage	Internal	Review token usage stats.

📦 Built-in Tools

If the client doesn't send its own tool definitions, litecoo automatically injects these tools:

• web_fetch, web_search: DuckDuckGo and basic page scraping.
• bash: Local command execution.
• read_file, write_file: Read and write to disk.
• create_pdf, create_docx, create_pptx, create_xlsx: Generate rich documents.

Add the header X-Agent-Loop: server to let litecoo automatically execute multi-step tools server-side before returning the final text to the client.

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💻 Installation

To run it locally or use it as a library, install directly from source:

python -m venv venv
# On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
# On Mac/Linux: source venv/bin/activate

pip install litecoo

Then run the proxy:

litecoo --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 --env-file .env

🔌 Connecting Clients

Claude Desktop: Settings → Developer → API base URL → http://localhost:8000

Claude Code:

export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8000
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=any-string
claude

⬆️ How to Publish to PyPI

If you are a developer and want to push the latest changes to PyPI, follow these steps:

1. Install build tools:

   pip install build twine
   

2. Build the wheel and source distribution:

   python -m build
   

   This creates a dist/ directory with a .tar.gz and .whl file.

3. Upload to PyPI:

   python -m twine upload dist/*
   

   You will be prompted for your PyPI API token (username __token__).