ollama-model-prompting

ollama-model-prompting is a skill for Claude Code from darrylmorley/ollama-plugin-cc. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,515 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for choosing and prompting Ollama models, which are AI models that can run on your computer or through a cloud service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when selecting a model or shaping prompts for Ollama review and rescue commands.
Why use it?
It helps match a model to tasks such as code review or recovering from a failed edit, while accounting for available computer memory.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the ollama plugin — 3 skills, 12 commands, 1 agent, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when selecting a model or shaping prompts for Ollama review and rescue commands.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/darrylmorley/ollama-plugin-cc/ollama-model-prompting
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add darrylmorley/ollama-plugin-cc --skill ollama-model-prompting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darrylmorley/ollama-plugin-cc

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.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,515 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00023 $0.01515
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00758
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00303
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00152

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9d08c7fe3c20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ollama-model-prompting 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 11d 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-model-prompting/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ollama Model Prompting

Reference this skill when deciding which model to use and how to shape prompts for open-weight models.


Empirically battle-tested. See docs/MODELS.md for the full results table, finding-count caveat, and reproducer.

Use case First choice Notes
Cloud, anything qwen3-coder-next:cloud Fastest tested anywhere (6–9 s per command).
Cloud, alt glm-5.1:cloud Reliable structured output; clean rescue.
Local all-rounder gpt-oss:20b Fastest local; reliable JSON; ~14 GB.
Local rescue gemma4:26b Most resourceful when apply_patch rejects.
VRAM-constrained qwen3.5:9b 6.6 GB; works on every command.
Stop-review gate only qwen3.5:9b or gpt-oss:20b Either handles the single-line ALLOW/BLOCK format.

Select via --model <name> on any companion command. Falls back to OLLAMA_PLUGIN_DEFAULT_MODEL if set, otherwise the companion will error and prompt you to run /ollama:setup.

Models known to drift on the review JSON schema (use rescue-only or avoid): qwen3.6:27b-coding-nvfp4, batiai/qwen3.6-27b:q6, kimi-k2.6:cloud (review only — adversarial works).


Tool-Calling Support Matrix

Tool calling is required for the agentic rescue flow (default). Use --emit-patch to force patch-emit mode, which works without tool calling.

Model family Tool calling Notes
Llama 3.1+ / Llama 4+ Reliable Native tool-call support since 3.1
Llama 3.2 3B/1B Unreliable Too small; output format degrades
Qwen 2.5 / Qwen 3+ Reliable Solid tool-call format across sizes
Qwen 2.5/3 Coder Reliable Same base; code context does not hurt tool calls
DeepSeek-Coder-V2+ / DeepSeek-V2+ Reliable Strong reasoning; good tool adherence
DeepSeek-R1 (distills) Unreliable Thinking tokens interfere with JSON/tool output
Mistral 7B Unreliable v0.2 and earlier lack native tool-call format
Mistral Large / Nemo / Small Reliable Larger Mistral variants support tool calls
GPT-OSS (20B/120B) Reliable OpenAI open-weight; native tool-call format
Gemma 3+ Reliable Tool-call support added from Gemma 3 onward
Gemma 2 9B/27B Partial Tool-call-like output but not standard format
GLM 4+ Reliable Strong instruction-following and tool format
Kimi K2+ Reliable Cloud-hosted via Ollama; reliable tool calls
Command-R / Command-R+ Reliable Cohere; designed for tool use and RAG
Granite 3 Reliable IBM; native tool-call schema
Phi-3 / Phi-4 Unreliable Small; JSON adherence inconsistent

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 100 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 9d08c7fe3c20

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ollama-model-prompting is a skill published in the GitHub repository darrylmorley/ollama-plugin-cc (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,515 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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