Offload cheap work from your AI agent to a local Ollama model, at zero cloud cost.
Connect Runs on your machine
claude mcp add ollama-handoff -e OLLAMA_URL=<OLLAMA_URL> -e OLLAMA_DEFAULT_MODEL=<OLLAMA_DEFAULT_MODEL> -e OLLAMA_NUM_CTX=<OLLAMA_NUM_CTX> -e OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE=<OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE> -e OLLAMA_TIMEOUT_S=<OLLAMA_TIMEOUT_S> -- uvx ollama-handoff==0.1.2{
"mcpServers": {
"ollama-handoff": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"ollama-handoff==0.1.2"
],
"env": {
"OLLAMA_URL": "<OLLAMA_URL>",
"OLLAMA_DEFAULT_MODEL": "<OLLAMA_DEFAULT_MODEL>",
"OLLAMA_NUM_CTX": "<OLLAMA_NUM_CTX>",
"OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE": "<OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE>",
"OLLAMA_TIMEOUT_S": "<OLLAMA_TIMEOUT_S>"
}
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"ollama-handoff": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"ollama-handoff==0.1.2"
],
"env": {
"OLLAMA_URL": "<OLLAMA_URL>",
"OLLAMA_DEFAULT_MODEL": "<OLLAMA_DEFAULT_MODEL>",
"OLLAMA_NUM_CTX": "<OLLAMA_NUM_CTX>",
"OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE": "<OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE>",
"OLLAMA_TIMEOUT_S": "<OLLAMA_TIMEOUT_S>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"ollama-handoff": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"ollama-handoff==0.1.2"
],
"env": {
"OLLAMA_URL": "<OLLAMA_URL>",
"OLLAMA_DEFAULT_MODEL": "<OLLAMA_DEFAULT_MODEL>",
"OLLAMA_NUM_CTX": "<OLLAMA_NUM_CTX>",
"OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE": "<OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE>",
"OLLAMA_TIMEOUT_S": "<OLLAMA_TIMEOUT_S>"
}
}
}
}Replace the values in angle brackets with your own. Keys stay on your machine; we never see them.
Tools
This server runs locally, so its tools are listed by your MCP client once it starts.
Environment variables
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
OLLAMA_URLOptional | Base URL of the Ollama server. |
OLLAMA_DEFAULT_MODELOptional | Default model used for handoffs. |
OLLAMA_NUM_CTXOptional | Context window in tokens. |
OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVEOptional | How long to keep the model resident in VRAM. |
OLLAMA_TIMEOUT_SOptional | Per-request timeout in seconds. |
Details
| Package | [email protected] (PYPI, stdio) |
| First published | 23 Jun 2026 |
| Last updated | 23 Jun 2026 |
| Registry name | io.github.Michael-WhiteCapData/ollama-handoff |
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