New lib/ai/local-discovery.ts: one /api/tags query against the loopback
addresses Ollama binds to (127.0.0.1/localhost), no follow-up /api/show
round trips needed — the tags response already carries capabilities, size,
and parameter_size, enough to recommend a default model. Picks the
smallest non-"thinking" chat-capable model for the fastest first response
("Connect" pre-fills provider+baseUrl+model in one click), and separately
surfaces the largest as a "higher quality" alternative.
New banner in ai-assistant-settings.tsx: fires when Local isn't yet
configured, offers one-click Connect or a persisted "Not now" dismissal.
13 new unit tests using this machine's actual Ollama /api/tags response
(11 real installed models — qwen2.5:32b, llama3.2, deepseek-r1 x2,
gemma4 x3, hermes3, qwen3, qwen3.5, nomic-embed-text) as literal fixtures,
per the explicit instruction to use this machine as the test case:
confirms exactly one query is required, the heuristic recommends
llama3.2:latest (fastest) / qwen2.5:32b (largest) on this real fleet,
never recommends an embedding-only model, and degrades correctly when a
candidate base URL is unreachable.
Full QA gate: tsc clean, eslint clean, 2498/2498 tests passing, build clean.
Also live-verified in a real browser session against this machine's real
Ollama — the banner rendered with exactly these two model names.
Bernd Rodler
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