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Credentials stay on the host in `~/.nemoclaw/credentials.json`. The sandbox only sees the routed `inference.local` endpoint, not your raw provider key.

Local Ollama is supported in the standard onboarding flow. Local vLLM remains experimental, and local host-routed inference on macOS still depends on OpenShell host-routing support in addition to the local service itself being reachable on the host.
Local Ollama is supported in the standard onboarding flow. On Linux Docker hosts, Ollama must listen on `0.0.0.0:11434` so sandboxes can reach `http://host.openshell.internal:11434`; a loopback-only `127.0.0.1:11434` bind will fail validation. Local vLLM remains experimental, and local host-routed inference on macOS still depends on OpenShell host-routing support in addition to the local service itself being reachable on the host.

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- it warms the model
- it validates the model before continuing

On Linux hosts that run NemoClaw with Docker, the sandbox reaches Ollama through `http://host.openshell.internal:11434`, not the host shell's `localhost` socket.
If Ollama is already running, make sure it listens on `0.0.0.0:11434` instead of `127.0.0.1:11434`.
For example:

```console
$ OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0:11434 ollama serve
```

If Ollama only binds loopback, NemoClaw can detect it on the host but the sandbox-side validation step fails because containers cannot reach it.

## Experimental Local Providers

The following local providers require `NEMOCLAW_EXPERIMENTAL=1`:
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