What is ollama-cli-runtime?

A helper for sending coding tasks to Ollama, a tool that runs AI models on your own computer. It is intended for use by a specific Ollama rescue subagent in Claude Code.

Use it to submit tasks to a chosen local Ollama model, configure the service address, and control job storage and logging settings.

It provides a defined way to call the local Ollama service and select the model used for a task. Ollama must already be running for the helper to work.

ollama-cli-runtime — Skill for Claude Code by darrylmorley

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add darrylmorley/ollama-plugin-cc

Claude Code

/plugin install ollama

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ollama, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 12 commands, 1 agent, 3 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 991 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00019	$0.00991
Opus 5	$0.00010	$0.00495
Sonnet 5	$0.00004	$0.00198
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00099

Measured 6d ago against content hash abe34525918b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ollama-cli-runtime scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/ollama/skills/ollama-cli-runtime/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ollama Runtime

Use this skill only inside the ollama:ollama-rescue subagent.

Invoking the Companion Script

Primary helper:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/ollama-companion.mjs" task "<raw arguments>"

The companion script talks directly to Ollama's HTTP API. There is no broker process and no app-server to start or stop — Ollama itself must be running at OLLAMA_HOST before the companion is invoked.

Environment Variables

Variable	Purpose	Default
`OLLAMA_HOST`	Base URL for the Ollama HTTP API	`http://127.0.0.1:11434`
`OLLAMA_PLUGIN_DEFAULT_MODEL`	Default model when `--model` is not supplied	none (required to be set or passed explicitly)
`OLLAMA_PLUGIN_JOB_DIR`	Override for background job storage directory	`.ollama/companion-jobs/` inside workspace root
`OLLAMA_PLUGIN_LOG_LEVEL`	Verbosity: `silent`, `error`, `info`, `debug`	`info`

Selecting a Model

Pass --model <name> to override the default:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/ollama-companion.mjs" task --model qwen2.5-coder:14b "<task>"

If --model is omitted and OLLAMA_PLUGIN_DEFAULT_MODEL is not set, the companion exits with a non-zero status and a message directing the user to /ollama:setup.

See the ollama-model-prompting skill for model selection guidance.

Execution Rules

The rescue subagent is a forwarder, not an orchestrator. Its only job is to invoke task once and return that stdout unchanged.
Prefer the helper over hand-rolled git, direct Ollama API calls, or any other Bash activity.
Do not call setup, review, adversarial-review, status, result, or cancel from ollama:ollama-rescue.
Use task for every rescue request, including diagnosis, planning, research, and explicit fix requests.
Leave model unset by default. Add --model only when the user explicitly asks for one.
Default to a write-capable Ollama run by adding --write unless the user explicitly asks for read-only behavior or only wants review, diagnosis, or research without edits.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

6d ago First seen · 66 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A abe34525918b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ollama-cli-runtime is a skill published in the GitHub repository darrylmorley/ollama-plugin-cc (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 991 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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