Originally published on DevToolHub . Every Ollama install runs a local HTTP server on port 11434 , and that server is the real interface to the models. The ollama run command is a thin client on top of it. Once you know the two main endpoints, the streaming format, and the options object, you can wire a local model into any application. There is also an OpenAI-compatible route, so existing code that talks to OpenAI can point at Ollama with a base-URL change. How the Ollam...