Ollama Handoff MCP Server

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Ollama Handoff runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 115 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 23 Jun 2026.

Offload cheap work from your AI agent to a local Ollama model, at zero cloud cost.

Installs per day peak 35 · avg 17 · +6% w/w

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115

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23 Jun 2026

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0 releases in 90 days

MIT

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Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Ollama Handoff every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add ollama-handoff -- uvx ollama-handoff

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ollama-handoff": {
      "args": [
        "ollama-handoff"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.ollama-handoff]
command = "uvx"
args = ["ollama-handoff"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ollama-handoff": {
      "args": [
        "ollama-handoff"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ollama-handoff": {
      "args": [
        "ollama-handoff"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: OLLAMA_URL (Base URL of the Ollama server.), OLLAMA_DEFAULT_MODEL (Default model used for handoffs.), OLLAMA_NUM_CTX (Context window in tokens.), OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE (How long to keep the model resident in VRAM.), OLLAMA_TIMEOUT_S (Per-request timeout in seconds.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Ollama Handoff — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Ollama Handoff?

Ollama Handoff runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package ollama-handoff was installed 115 times last week.

How do I connect Ollama Handoff?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls ollama-handoff straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Ollama Handoff?

The pypi package ollama-handoff was installed 115 times in the last week. Week over week that is +6%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Ollama Handoff open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 3 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.