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Ollama · Local models, ai prototyping, and private inference from the terminal.

$ brew install ollama

One-liner to try

$ ollama pull llama3.2

Agent pack

Copy into an agent

A markdown-ready setup brief with install, verify, safe starting commands, and guardrails for AI agents.

Open .md

Readiness

Usable with guardrails · 45/100

Verify

ollama --version

Agent URL

/cli/ollama/agent.md

Quick reference

Installbrew install ollama

Verifyollama --version

First commandollama run llama3.2

About

Local models, ai prototyping, and private inference from the terminal. Built by Ollama. Start with `ollama pull llama3.2` and go from there. Runs entirely on your machine.

Example workflow

1. ollama pull llama3.2

2. ollama run llama3.2

3. ollama serve

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