Ollama Is Now an Official Provider for OpenClaw

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-03-16 · Open on X

Topics: AI Agents, Tool Use & MCP, AI Dev Tools & Productivity · Level: beginner

Summary

Ollama is now an official model provider for the OpenClaw agent. You can run OpenClaw on local Ollama models and use it from your chat app.

Ollama · tool · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Open-source tool for downloading and running LLMs on your own machine with minimal setup.
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OpenClaw · tool · github.com · free
An open-source, self-hostable personal AI agent that can run on local or hosted LLMs.
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Peter Steinberger (@steipete) · person · x.com · free
Developer thanked for helping with and reviewing the Ollama integration.
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Run 'openclaw onboard --auth-choice ollama' to use local Ollama models with OpenClaw.