This MCP server enables Claude Desktop to communicate with Ollama LLM server, allowing you to use Ollama models directly through the Claude interface.
Follow these simple steps to get the MCP server up and running:
Clone the repository to your local machine
git clone https://github.com/username/mcp-server-ollama.git
cd mcp-server-ollama
Create your environment configuration file
cp .env.example .env
Edit the .env
file with your preferred text editor to configure as needed
Install the required dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
To use this MCP server with Claude Desktop, you'll need to edit the Claude Desktop configuration file:
Locate or create the claude_desktop_config.json
file
Add the following content to the file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"ollama-server": {
"command": "python",
"args": ["-m", "src.mcp_server.server"],
"env": {
"PYTHONPATH": "path-to-mcp-server"
}
}
}
}
Replace path-to-mcp-server
with the absolute path to the MCP server repository on your system
Once configured, Claude Desktop will automatically start the MCP server when needed. This allows you to:
The server runs in the background and handles the communication protocol between Claude Desktop and your Ollama installation.
To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:
claude mcp add-json "ollama-server" '{"command":"python","args":["-m","src.mcp_server.server"],"env":{"PYTHONPATH":"path-to-mcp-server"}}'
See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.
There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json
file so that it is available in all of your projects.
If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json
file.
To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".
When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json
file will be opened and you can add your server like this:
{
"mcpServers": {
"ollama-server": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"-m",
"src.mcp_server.server"
],
"env": {
"PYTHONPATH": "path-to-mcp-server"
}
}
}
}
To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json
file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.
Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.
The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.
You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.
To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:
1. Find your configuration file:
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
2. Add this to your configuration file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"ollama-server": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"-m",
"src.mcp_server.server"
],
"env": {
"PYTHONPATH": "path-to-mcp-server"
}
}
}
}
3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect