The Ollama MCP Bridge is a TypeScript application that enables local language models running on Ollama to access the same tools and capabilities as Claude by connecting them to Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. It provides a bridge layer that translates between Ollama model outputs and MCP's JSON-RPC protocol, routing tool requests to various MCP servers including filesystem operations, web search, GitHub interactions, Gmail/Drive integration, memory storage, and image generation. This allows open-source models to leverage external tools and APIs through a unified interface, solving the problem of capability parity between local and cloud-based LLMs.
claude mcp add --transport stdio patruff-ollama-mcp-bridge uvx ollama-mcp-bridge