Claude Code pointed at the Ollama already installed on every GPU node. Ollama
has served a native Anthropic-compatible /v1/messages since v0.14, so this is
an env contract rather than a translation layer — the fourth variation on the
same idea as agent-glm and agent-kimi.
The route is NOT the egress proxy, and that is the design. `egress` speaks
CONNECT, takes a destination from the guest, resolves it and decides; every one
of those powers is a liability, which is why it refuses non-443 ports and IP
literals after a unit test caught them being bypassed. Routing a local model
through it would have meant relaxing both.
`local_model` is the opposite shape: there is no destination in the protocol.
fcagent listens on guest 127.0.0.1:11434 and pumps to vsock 9003; the node
splices that onto its own 127.0.0.1:11434 and copies bytes. A compromised guest
cannot redirect it because there is nothing to redirect — it is a pipe, not a
proxy, and strictly narrower than anything an allow-list could express. The
bytes never touch a network, so there is no wire for TLS to protect, and Ollama
stays bound to loopback rather than being exposed on the tailnet.
The socket is bound only for a backend declared to use a local model, so a
`local-ornith` VM reaches the forge through egress and nothing else, while every
other backend's guest port simply refuses. Both halves have negative controls.
`scripts/fleet-model-setup.sh` exists because of one measurement: stock
ornith:9b reported input_tokens=2050 for a 48000-word prompt and answered as
though nothing had been dropped. Ollama's default window is ~2K whatever the
model card says, and it truncates silently — the exact failure an agent turn
would hit and never report. The script pins num_ctx=131072 into a derived tag
and then PROVES both the window and tool calling before declaring success.
Verified on architect: ~65536 words -> 65604 input tokens, stop_reason=tool_use.
Placement needs no new capability key: building the rootfs only on GPU nodes
means `nodes::online_for_backend`'s existing `rootfs @> ["local-ornith"]`
predicate does the affinity, so morpheus never offers the backend.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
