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How to Turn Ollama Into an AI Agent That Can Use Tools (Free and Local)

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Ollama runs AI models on your computer, but on its own it can only chat. Here's how to turn it into a local AI agent that can search the web, work with your files, and run tasks, with no code and no API bills.
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