Ollama Provider

Ollama Provider

The Ollama provider connects Swixter to a local Ollama instance for running models locally.

Configuration

swixter claude create my-ollama-profile \
  --provider ollama \
  --base-url http://localhost:11434/v1 \
  --model llama3

Provider Details

Field	Value
Provider ID	ollama
Wire API	chat
Default Base URL	http://localhost:11434/v1
Env Key	OLLAMA_API_KEY

Setup

1. Install Ollama: https://ollama.com
2. Pull a model: ollama pull llama3
3. Create a Swixter profile:

swixter claude create local \
  --provider ollama \
  --base-url http://localhost:11434/v1 \
  --model llama3

Base URL

Ollama typically runs on port 11434. The API path is /v1 for OpenAI-compatible endpoints:

http://localhost:11434/v1

If you’re running Ollama on a different machine, update the base URL:

swixter claude create remote-ollama \
  --provider ollama \
  --base-url http://192.168.1.100:11434/v1

API Key

Ollama doesn’t require an API key by default. Swixter uses OLLAMA_API_KEY as the environment variable name for compatibility, but you can leave it empty or set a placeholder.

Compatibility

• Compatible with Claude Code, Codex, and Continue.dev
• wire_api: "chat" type works with all coders
• For Codex, the env_key defaults to OLLAMA_API_KEY

Custom env_key for Codex

swixter codex create ollama-codex \
  --provider ollama \
  --env-key MY_CUSTOM_KEY