* don't require pulling stubs for cloud models
This is a first in a series of PRs that will better integrate Ollama's
cloud into the API and CLI. Previously we used to have a layer of
indirection where you'd first have to pull a "stub" model that contains
a reference to a cloud model. With this change, you don't have to pull
first, you can just use a cloud model in various routes like `/api/chat`
and `/api/show`. This change respects
<https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/14221>, so if cloud is disabled,
these models won't be accessible.
There's also a new, simpler pass-through proxy that doesn't convert the
requests ahead of hitting the cloud models, which they themselves
already support various formats (e.g., `v1/chat/completions` or Open
Responses, etc.). This will help prevent issues caused by double
converting (e.g., `v1/chat/completions` converted to `api/chat` on the
client, then calling cloud and converting back to a
`v1/chat/completions` response instead of the cloud model handling the
original `v1/chat/completions` request first).
There's now a notion of "source tags", which can be mixed with existing
tags. So instead of having different formats like`gpt-oss:20b-cloud` vs.
`kimi-k2.5:cloud` (`-cloud` suffix vs. `:cloud`), you can now specify
cloud by simply appending `:cloud`. This PR doesn't change model
resolution yet, but sets us up to allow for things like omitting the
non-source tag, which would make something like `ollama run
gpt-oss:cloud` work the same way that `ollama run gpt-oss` already works
today.
More detailed changes:
- Added a shared model selector parser in `types/modelselector`:
- supports `:cloud` and `:local`
- accepts source tags in any position
- supports legacy `:<tag>-cloud`
- rejects conflicting source tags
- Integrated selector handling across server inference/show routes:
- `GenerateHandler`, `ChatHandler`, `EmbedHandler`,
`EmbeddingsHandler`, `ShowHandler`
- Added explicit-cloud passthrough proxy for ollama.com:
- same-endpoint forwarding for `/api/*`, `/v1/*`, and `/v1/messages`
- normalizes `model` (and `name` for `/api/show`) before forwarding
- forwards request headers except hop-by-hop/proxy-managed headers
- uses bounded response-header timeout
- handles auth failures in a friendly way
- Preserved cloud-disable behavior (`OLLAMA_NO_CLOUD`)
- Updated create flow to support `FROM ...:cloud` model sources (though
this flow uses the legacy proxy still, supporting Modelfile overrides
is more complicated with the direct proxy approach)
- Updated CLI/TUI/config cloud detection to use shared selector logic
- Updated CLI preflight behavior so explicit cloud requests do not
auto-pull local stubs
What's next?
- Cloud discovery/listing and cache-backed `ollama ls` / `/api/tags`
- Modelfile overlay support for virtual cloud models on OpenAI/Anthropic
request families
- Recommender/default-selection behavior for ambiguous model families
- Fully remove the legacy flow
Fixes: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/13801
* consolidate pull logic into confirmAndPull helper
pullIfNeeded and ShowOrPull shared identical confirm-and-pull logic.
Extract confirmAndPull to eliminate the duplication.
* skip local existence checks for cloud models
ModelExists and the TUI's modelExists both check the local model list,
which causes cloud models to appear missing. Return true early for
explicit cloud models so the TUI displays them beside the integration
name and skips re-prompting the model picker on relaunch.
* support optionally pulling stubs for newly-style names
We now normalize names like `<family>:<size>:cloud` into legacy-style
names like `<family>:<size>-cloud` for pulling and deleting (this also
supports stripping `:local`). Support for pulling cloud models is
temporary, once we integrate properly into `/api/tags` we won't need
this anymore.
* Fix server alias syncing
* Update cmd/cmd.go
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* address comments
* improve some naming
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The "(local)" qualifier is unnecessary since there's only one Ollama
provider. Existing configs with the old name are migrated automatically;
custom names are left unchanged.
The Codex runner was not setting OPENAI_BASE_URL or OPENAI_API_KEY, this prevents Codex from sending requests to api.openai.com instead of the local Ollama server. This mirrors the approach used by the Claude runner.
Codex v0.98.0 sends zstd-compressed request bodies to the /v1/responses endpoint. Add decompression support in ResponsesMiddleware with an 8MB max decompressed size limit to prevent resource exhaustion.
* add ability to disable cloud
Users can now easily opt-out of cloud inference and web search by
setting
```
"disable_ollama_cloud": true
```
in their `~/.ollama/server.json` settings file. After a setting update,
the server must be restarted.
Alternatively, setting the environment variable `OLLAMA_NO_CLOUD=1` will
also disable cloud features. While users previously were able to avoid
cloud models by not pulling or `ollama run`ing them, this gives them an
easy way to enforce that decision. Any attempt to run a cloud model when
cloud is disabled will fail.
The app's old "airplane mode" setting, which did a similar thing for
hiding cloud models within the app is now unified with this new cloud
disabled mode. That setting has been replaced with a "Cloud" toggle,
which behind the scenes edits `server.json` and then restarts the
server.
* gate cloud models across TUI and launch flows when cloud is disabled
Block cloud models from being selected, launched, or written to
integration configs when cloud mode is turned off:
- TUI main menu: open model picker instead of launching with a
disabled cloud model
- cmd.go: add IsCloudModelDisabled checks for all Selection* paths
- LaunchCmd: filter cloud models from saved Editor configs before
launch, fall through to picker if none remain
- Editor Run() methods (droid, opencode, openclaw): filter cloud
models before calling Edit() and persist the cleaned list
- Export SaveIntegration, remove SaveIntegrationModel wrapper that
was accumulating models instead of replacing them
* rename saveIntegration to SaveIntegration in config.go and tests
* cmd/config: add --model guarding and empty model list fixes
* Update docs/faq.mdx
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* Update internal/cloud/policy.go
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* Update internal/cloud/policy.go
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* Update server/routes.go
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* Revert "Update internal/cloud/policy.go"
This reverts commit 8bff8615f9.
Since this error shows up in other integrations, we want it to be
prefixed with Ollama
* rename cloud status
* more status renaming
* fix tests that weren't updated after rename
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Set ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL, ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL,
ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL, and CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL when
launching Claude Code so all model tiers route through Ollama.
When trying to use cloud model with OLLAMA_HOST="ollama.com" while not signed in a helpful error message is displayed when the user is not signed in telling them they must sign in to use cloud models. This should be the same experience for models which specify a remote instance.
When a browser is available open it to the connect URL automatically when running the `ollama signin` command. Browser is not opened in any other unauthorized scenario.
When launching OpenClaw without prior onboarding, run the onboarding
wizard instead of going straight to gateway. This ensures proper
gateway configuration (mode, token, etc.) before first use.
- Add onboarded() to check for wizard.lastRunAt marker in config
- Run onboard with --auth-choice skip --gateway-token ollama for fresh installs
- Existing installs (onboarding completed) run gateway directly
- Fix panic in ollama show for image gen models (safe type assertion)
- Add vision capability for Flux2KleinPipeline models at create time
- Flatten transparent PNG images onto white background for better results
Move the unload check (empty prompt + KeepAlive=0) before the image
generation model dispatch in GenerateHandler. This prevents models like
flux from being loaded into memory just to be immediately unloaded when
running `ollama rm`.
Also fix a bug in DeleteHandler where `args[0]` was used instead of
`arg` in the delete loop, causing only the first model to be unloaded
when deleting multiple models.
