Ollama works locally, but my coding-agent integration does not

I’m running Ollama on an M4 Pro Mac with 48 GB unified memory and testing local coding models for repository work. Direct Ollama inference is fine. Qwen3.8 27B-MLX runs well enough for me, and the local endpoint is http://127.0.0.1:11434. The trouble starts when the model is used through an agent with file and shell tools. The same read-only task produced very different results: - Claude Code + Qwen3.8 completed it accurately - Codex + Qwen3.8 stayed in “Working” and never returned a usable answer - Codex also showed model metadata and catalog warnings for the custom model name Has anyone made Ollama plus a custom Qwen model reliable for tool-using coding agents? I’d especially like to hear about model templates, thinking/tool-call compatibility, context limits, and whether you use a proxy or adapter between Ollama and the agent. submitted by /u/UkrMalt [link] [comments]

Source: r/ollama | 2026-08-16