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Chat Ollama — AI skill for Claude Code

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ChatOllama is an open source agentic app for running AI agents across local and hosted models.

How to install Chat Ollama

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open sugarforever/chat-ollama and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Chat Ollama does

ChatOllama is an open source agentic app for running AI agents across local and hosted models.

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README

ChatOllama

ChatOllama is an open-source agentic app for running AI agents with hosted or local models. The primary user entry point today is the installable `chatollama-agent` command-line app.

Install

Requires Node.js 24 or newer.

npm install --global chatollama-agent
chatollama-agent

Configure a provider

Set the API key for any provider you want to use before starting the CLI. These are the provider credentials recognized by the current release:

Provider	Environment variable
OpenAI	`OPENAI_API_KEY`
Anthropic	`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`
Google Gemini	`GEMINI_API_KEY`, falling back to `GOOGLE_GENERATIVE_AI_API_KEY`
DeepSeek	`DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`
OpenRouter	`OPENROUTER_API_KEY`
Ollama (OpenAI-compatible)	`OLLAMA_API_KEY` (optional; defaults to the non-secret value `ollama`)

For example:

export OPENAI_API_KEY='replace-with-your-key'
chatollama-agent

The CLI also recognizes these explicit startup overrides:

Variable	Purpose
`AGENT_PROVIDER`	Select `openai`, `anthropic`, `google`, `deepseek`, `openrouter`, or `ollama`
`AGENT_MODEL`	Select the model ID
`AGENT_BASE_URL`	Override the selected provider's API endpoint
`AGENT_API_KEY`	Override the