OllamaSharp provides .NET bindings for the Ollama API, enabling seamless integration with local or remote Ollama instances for .NET developers. It offers a user-friendly interface to all Ollama API endpoints, including chat, embeddings, model management, and multi-modal capabilities, with real-time streaming and progress reporting.

How It Works

The library wraps each Ollama API endpoint in awaitable methods, supporting response streaming for interactive applications. It includes a Chat class for managing conversational history and tool calls, and integrates with Microsoft's Microsoft.Extensions.AI library, implementing IChatClient and IEmbeddingGenerator for cross-provider AI development.

Quick Start & Requirements

• Install via NuGet: Install-Package OllamaSharp
• Requires .NET.
• Demo application included in the repository.
• Official documentation and usage examples are available.

Highlighted Details

• Full coverage of Ollama API endpoints.
• Real-time response streaming and progress reporting.
• Integration with Microsoft.Extensions.AI for unified AI development.
• Support for multi-modal vision models.

Maintenance & Community

• Actively maintained, with significant contributions noted from mili-tan for API synchronization.
• Credits the Ollama project for icon and name.

Licensing & Compatibility

• No explicit license mentioned in the README.
• Compatible with .NET applications, including those using Microsoft.Extensions.AI.

Limitations & Caveats

The README does not specify the license, which may impact commercial use or closed-source linking. While OllamaApiClient implements IChatClient and IEmbeddingGenerator, these abstractions do not expose the full Ollama API specification.