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Model Context Protocol support

oterm has support for Anthropic's open-source Model Context Protocol. While Ollama does not yet directly support the protocol, oterm attempts to bridge MCP servers with Ollama.

To add an MCP server to oterm, simply add the server shim to oterm's config.json. For example for the git MCP server you would add something like the following to the mcpServers section of the oterm configuration file:

{
  ...
  "mcpServers": {
    "git": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--rm",
        "-i",
        "--mount",
        "type=bind,src=/Users/ggozad/dev/open-source/oterm,dst=/oterm",
        "mcp/git"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Supported MCP Features

Tools

By transforming MCP tools into Ollama tools oterm provides full support.

Note

A lot of the smaller LLMs are not as capable with tools as larger ones you might be used to. If you experience issues with tools, try reducing the number of tools you attach to a chat, increase the context size, or use a larger LLM.

oterm using the git MCP server to access its own repo.

Prompts

oterm supports MCP prompts. Use the "Use MCP prompt" command to invoke a form with the prompt. Submitting will insert the prompt messages into the chat.

oterm displaying a test MCP prompt.