
Add Ollama Provider
Route a NanoClaw agent group to a local Ollama model instead of the Anthropic API.
Install
npx skills add nanocoai/nanoclaw --skill add-ollama-provider -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- nanocoai/nanoclaw31.1k
- Category
- AI and agents
- Updated
- 5d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Lightabout 1,442 tokens
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What it does
Route a NanoClaw agent group to a local Ollama model instead of the Anthropic API. Ollama speaks the Anthropic API natively (v1/messages), so no provider code changes are needed, just env var overrides and a model setting. Use when the user wants to run their agent locally, cut API costs, or experiment with open-weight models. See docs/ollama.md for background.
Add Ollama Provider
Routes an agent group to a local Ollama instance instead of the Anthropic API.
See docs/ollama.md for how this works and the tradeoffs involved.
Prerequisites
- Ollama is installed and running on the host, verify:
curl -s http://localhost:11434/api/tags - A model is pulled, e.g.
ollama pull gemma4orollama pull qwen3-coder - The agent group already exists, run
/init-first-agentfirst if needed
1. Check source support
The feature requires two fields in ContainerConfig (env and blockedHosts) and their
corresponding wiring in container-runner.ts. Check if already present:
grep -c 'blockedHosts' src/container-config.ts src/container-runner.ts
If either count is 0, apply the changes in steps 1a and 1b. Otherwise skip to step 2.
1a. Extend ContainerConfig
In src/container-config.ts, add to the ContainerConfig interface:
env?: Record<string, string>;
blockedHosts?: string[];
And in readContainerConfig, add inside the returned object:
env: raw.env,
blockedHosts: raw.blockedHosts,
1b. Wire into container-runner
In src/container-runner.ts, after the NANOCLAW_MCP_SERVERS block, add:
// Per-agent-group env overrides, applied last to win over OneCLI values.
if (containerConfig.env) {
for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(containerConfig.env)) {
args.push('-e', `${key}=${value}`);
}
}
// Blocked hosts: resolve to 0.0.0.0 so they are unreachable inside the container.
if (containerConfig.blockedHosts) {
for (const host of containerConfig.blockedHosts) {
args.push('--add-host', `${host}:0.0.0.0`);
}
}
1c. Fix home directory permissions (if not already done)
The container may run as your host uid (not uid 1000). Check the Dockerfile:
grep 'chmod.*home/node' container/Dockerfile

