MCP server for Ollama - exposes all Ollama SDK functionality through MCP tools
Ollama mcp mcp server connects Ollama MCP to AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. MCP server for Ollama - exposes all Ollama SDK functionality through MCP tools.
An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that exposes the complete Ollama SDK as MCP tools, enabling seamless integration between your local LLM models and MCP-compatible applications like Claude Desktop and Cline.
Once connected, the assistant can call these 4 tools directly:
ollama_web_search — Search the web with customizable result limits (requires OLLAMA_API_KEY)ollama_web_fetch — Fetch and parse web page content (requires OLLAMA_API_KEY)Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverSetup — The Setup tool exposed by this serverThe server is distributed via npm as ollama-mcp, so most clients can run it without a manual build step. Add it to your MCP client's configuration and restart the client to pick it up — the copy-paste configs for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are on this page.
Before the server will start you need to supply 2 environment variables: OLLAMA_HOST, OLLAMA_API_KEY. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.
Developer-tool servers are usually the first ones people connect, because they turn "help me with this code" into an assistant that can actually read the repo and act on it. Ollama MCP sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — ollama_web_search, ollama_web_fetch, Prerequisites among others — tells you what it is really for. Worth comparing against the other developer tools servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| ollama_web_search | Search the web with customizable result limits (requires OLLAMA_API_KEY) |
| ollama_web_fetch | Fetch and parse web page content (requires OLLAMA_API_KEY) |
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Setup | The Setup tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"ollama": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "ollama-mcp"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| OLLAMA_HOST | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Optional |
| OLLAMA_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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