I built Trooper as a fallback proxy. Claude hits quota → falls back to Ollama. Useful but passive. It sat in the background, invisible, doing its job silently.
Today it became something different.
The Original Problem
When you're building with LLMs, quota hits are inevitable. Claude's free tier is generous until it isn't. A mid-session 429 kills your context, your workflow, your train of thought.
Trooper solved that. Point your app at http://localhost:3000 instead of the Claude API. When Claude fails, Trooper catches it, preserves the full session context via a 3-layer compaction system (Anchor + SITREP + Tail), and continues on local Ollama. Your app never knows anything happened.
