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About Ollama MCP

Ollama MCP is a Model Context Protocol server that exposes the full Ollama SDK as MCP tools, letting AI-powered applications orchestrate local large language models through a standardized interface. It bridges MCP-compatible clients like Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Cline with Ollama's locally running models, so you can manage, query, and chain LLM operations without writing custom integration code. The server provides 14 comprehensive tools covering model management (pull, push, list, delete, copy), inference (chat, generate, embeddings), and system operations (version check, running models). It includes a hot-swap architecture with automatic tool discovery, meaning new Ollama capabilities are exposed as MCP tools without server restarts. The TypeScript implementation uses Zod validation for type safety and maintains 96 percent test coverage with zero external dependencies. Ollama MCP also includes web tools with built-in search and fetch capabilities, complete with intelligent retry logic for rate-limited requests. It supports Ollama Cloud models alongside local instances, so you can mix cloud-hosted and local models in the same workflow. This makes it practical for teams that want to keep sensitive data on local hardware while offloading less critical tasks to cloud models.