Ollama’s Claude Desktop workaround feels like a patch for a policy problem
What jumps out to me is less the technical trick and more the fact that this needed a trick at all. Ollama’s first Claude Desktop integration got shut down because it ran afoul of model restrictions, and now the company is back with a proxy layer designed to slip around that boundary. That makes the whole thing feel a little brittle. Useful, sure. Clean? Not especially. I’d actually want to try this, because the underlying idea is attractive: keep using Claude Desktop while pointing it at local
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