Hi all, I’ve got a problem. I get a local LLM running with Ollama and Claude Code on Windows 11 pro. I can ask it questions and it percolates, but anytime I ask it to work with my files it fails. How it fails depends on what model I am running, but always with a long delay and then an error about “I’m sorry, but I don’t have access to the tools needed to determine the current working directory. If you need help with something else or have another question, feel free to ask!” Claude Code, without the local LLM, has been accessing files wonderfully for a few days now. It is only with the local it goes wrong. And it is simple things like:
- What is your current working directory? (pwd fails)
- How many files do I have (lots of ls, dir failures) It looks like it is unable to execute any bash command, it tries a bunch of different ways, and all of them fail. One LLM Model just keep going for about 20 minutes. It looks like some LLM’s dont have the ways to talk to claude about getting files, but when I got ones that saw the bash errors, I suspect they were okay. Again, it works under normal Claude, so I am thinking it’s not my actual hardware, none the less I’ve screwed around with setting env variables for git-bash, starting it various ways (from powershell like always, inside git-bash, etc). I’ve tried qlaw, devstral, and a few others. I am just not sure where to go from here… Claude code can access files Claude code + Ollama can’t access files I can observe bash calls failing. Sorry if I missed including anything… I got this far, but not really sure what is wrong Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this! submitted by /u/BillOfTheWebPeople
Originally posted by u/BillOfTheWebPeople on r/ClaudeCode
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