I tried a Claude Code alternative that's local, open source, and completely free - how it works

I was curious if Block's Goose agent, paired with Ollama and the Qwen3-coder model, could really replace Claude Code. Here's how I got started.

Forget Google Search: I found a search tool that doesn't track me or push AI - and it gets better

Forget Google Search: I found a search tool that doesn't track me or push AI - and it gets better ...