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Running AI Completely Offline with CVC + Ollama

Jai Kumar MeenaMarch 7, 20265 min read
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Running AI Completely Offline with CVC + Ollama

The Offline Promise

Some code can't touch the cloud. Proprietary algorithms, classified projects, pre-patent innovations — there are legitimate reasons to keep AI development completely offline.

CVC + Ollama = Zero Cloud

bash
# Install Ollama
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

# Pull a coding model
ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:7b

# Launch CVC with local model
cvc agent --provider ollama --model qwen2.5-coder:7b

Zero API calls. Zero cloud dependencies. Zero data leaves your machine. Full CVC time machine capabilities — all running locally.

Available Local Models

ModelSizeBest For
qwen2.5-coder:7b~4 GBFast development (any modern laptop)
qwen3-coder:30b~18 GBHigh-quality coding (24GB+ GPU)
devstral:24b~14 GBBalanced coding & reasoning
deepseek-r1:8b~5 GBReasoning-focused tasks
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