Ye you can just run it in a folder, and ask it to look around, it can execute bash commands, do anything that Claude Code can do. it will read all the codebase if it has to

Typically I'd use tools for that as context will be finite, but I hear it does a decent job at tool calling too so should see solid perf there.

8b was very bad at tool calling. 30b does an "ok" job but requires the wrapper to do a lot of job, like for example the model will be very random, either have multiple tool_call ags, or have multiple tool calls in one tag inconsistant. but "handle-able"