openclaw - 💡(How to fix) Fix [Bug]: Ollama provider fails after upgrade in Orb VM with “No API key found” error despite local host setup [2 pull requests]

model config


      "ollama": {
        "apiKey": "ollama-local",
        "baseUrl": "http://host.orb.internal:11434",
        "api": "ollama",
        "models": [
          {
            "id": "kimi-k2.5:cloud",
            "name": "kimi-k2.5:cloud",
            "cost": {
              "input": 0,
              "output": 0,
              "cacheRead": 0,
              "cacheWrite": 0
            },
            "contextWindow": 128000,
            "maxTokens": 8192,
            "params": {
              "num_ctx": 128000
            },
            "api": "ollama",
            "reasoning": false,
            "input": [
              "text"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "minimax-m2.5:cloud",
            "name": "minimax-m2.5:cloud",
            "cost": {
              "input": 0,
              "output": 0,
              "cacheRead": 0,
              "cacheWrite": 0
            },
            "contextWindow": 128000,
            "api": "ollama",
            "input": [
              "text"
            ],
            "reasoning": false,
            "maxTokens": 8192,
            "params": {
              "num_ctx": 128000
            }
          },
          {
            "id": "glm-5:cloud",
            "name": "glm-5:cloud",
            "cost": {
              "input": 0,
              "output": 0,
              "cacheWrite": 0,
              "cacheRead": 0
            },
            "contextWindow": 128000,
            "reasoning": false,
            "api": "ollama",
            "params": {
              "num_ctx": 128000
            },
            "input": [
              "text"
            ],
            "maxTokens": 8192
          },
          {
            "id": "qwen3.5:27b",
            "name": "qwen3.5:27b",
            "cost": {
              "input": 0,
              "output": 0,
              "cacheWrite": 0,
              "cacheRead": 0
            },
            "contextWindow": 262144,
            "params": {
              "num_ctx": 262144
            },
            "maxTokens": 8192,
            "reasoning": false,
            "api": "ollama",
            "input": [
              "text"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "glm-4.7-flash:latest",
            "name": "glm-4.7-flash:latest",
            "cost": {
              "input": 0,
              "output": 0,
              "cacheWrite": 0,
              "cacheRead": 0
            },
            "contextWindow": 202752,
            "params": {
              "num_ctx": 202752
            },
            "maxTokens": 8192,
            "input": [
              "text"
            ],
            "reasoning": false
          }
        ]
      },
      "omlx-local-mac": {
        "baseUrl": "http://host.orb.internal:8000/v1",
        "apiKey": "1234",
        "api": "openai-completions",
        "models": [
          {
            "id": "Qwen3.5-27B-4bit",
            "name": "qwen3.5:27B",
            "input": [
              "text"
            ]
          }
        ]
      }

openclaw logs

06:08:29+00:00 error Embedded agent failed before reply: No API key found for provider "ollama". Auth store: /home/nirvanach7/.openclaw/agents/main/agent/auth-profiles.json (agentDir: /home/nirvanach7/.openclaw/agents/main/agent). Configure auth for this agent (openclaw agents add <id>) or copy only portable static auth profiles from the main agentDir. | No API key found for provider "ollama". Auth store: /home/nirvanach7/.openclaw/agents/main/agent/auth-profiles.json (agentDir: /home/nirvanach7/.openclaw/agents/main/agent). Configure auth for this agent (openclaw agents add <id>) or copy only portable static auth profiles from the main agentDir.

auth login


nirvanach7@openclaw:~/.openclaw$  openclaw models auth login --provider ollama

🦞 OpenClaw 2026.5.19 (a185ca2) — Your second brain, except this one actually remembers where you left things.
│
◇  Ollama mode
│  Cloud + Local
│
◇  Ollama base URL
│  http://host.orb.internal:11434
│
◇  Ollama ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                  │
│  Ollama could not be reached at http://host.orb.internal:11434.  │
│  Download it at https://ollama.com/download                      │
│                                                                  │
│  Start Ollama and re-run setup.                                  │
│                                                                  │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
WizardCancelledError: Ollama not reachable
nirvanach7@openclaw:~/.openclaw$ curl http://host.orb.internal:11434
Ollama is running
nirvanach7@openclaw:~/.openclaw$ curl http://host.orb.internal:11434/api/generate -d '{
  "model": "qwen3.5:27b",
  "prompt": "test"
}'
{"model":"qwen3.5:27b","created_at":"2026-05-21T07:46:41.276034Z","response":"","thinking":"Okay","done":false}
{"model":"qwen3.5:27b","created_at":"2026-05-21T07:46:41.423831Z","response":"","thinking":",","done":false}
{"model":"qwen3.5:27b","created_at":"2026-05-21T07:46:41.563806Z","response":"","thinking":" the","done":false}
{"model":"qwen3.5:27b","created_at":"2026-05-21T07:46:41.70267Z","response":"","thinking":" user","done":false}
{"model":"qwen3.5:27b","created_at":"2026-05-21T07:46:41.842449Z","response":"","thinking":" just","done":false}
{"model":"qwen3.5:27b","created_at":"2026-05-21T07:46:41.983375Z","response":"","thinking":" sent","done":false}
^C