Fixed
fastwas picking the largest local model. The local candidate list is
sorted largest-first and every tier took the first entry, so tier was
ignored entirely for Ollama — "fast" selected a 19 GB 32B, the slowest model
on the machine. Sinceverify,summarise,classifyandextractall
ask for the fast tier, every bulk operation was running on the biggest model
available. Tier now maps to size locally.
Added
llm-sidecar models --suggest— what to pull, scored against your memory.
The advisor could only rank models you already had, which is no help when
you have none; that path now prints suggestions and anollama pullline.llm-sidecar modelsshows which models are loaded in RAM.ollama listand
ollama psanswer different questions and the difference confuses people.
Install with: pipx install llm-sidecar