1.5.3

Local AI providers: Ollama and LM Studio

Nodus can now use models running on your own machine, right next to the cloud providers.

Added

• Ollama and LM Studio as configurable providers in Settings → Providers. Set the server address (IP and port), test the connection, and load the models installed on your machine.
• Loaded models show their metadata inline — parameter size, quantization, context length and on-disk size — and LM Studio marks which models are already loaded in memory.
• An optional access token per local provider, for instances secured behind one, stored encrypted at rest like every other key. Neither provider requires a key by default.
• Local models can be starred as favorites and used anywhere a cloud model can be used — chat, summaries, deep research, immersion, writing, and more. They also appear as an embeddings provider (e.g. Ollama's nomic-embed-text); switching the embedding model re-embeds the corpus offline.

Notes

• Ollama runs on http://localhost:11434 and LM Studio on http://localhost:1234 by default; both addresses are editable, including a LAN IP for a remote host.
• Small local models may produce lower-quality structured output during deep scans; Nodus already repairs and retries, so scans degrade gracefully.