How to Run Claude Code With Local Models Using Ollama hackernoon.com

Ollama is a locally deployed AI model runner that lets you download and run large language models on your own machine. It provides a command-line interface and an API, supports open models such as Mistral and Gemma, and uses quantization to make models run efficiently on consumer hardware. A model file allows you to customise base models, system prompts, and parameters (temperature, top-p, top-k). Running models locally gives you offline capability and protects sensitive data.