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Jason Woltje 94afeb67e3 feat(#123): port Ollama LLM provider
Implemented first concrete LLM provider following the provider interface pattern.

Implementation:
- OllamaProvider class implementing LlmProviderInterface
- All required methods: initialize(), checkHealth(), listModels(), chat(), chatStream(), embed(), getConfig()
- OllamaProviderConfig extending LlmProviderConfig
- Proper error handling with NestJS Logger
- Configuration immutability protection

Features:
- System prompt injection support
- Temperature and max tokens configuration
- Embedding with truncation control (defaults to enabled)
- Streaming and non-streaming chat completions
- Health check with model listing

Testing:
- 21 comprehensive test cases (TDD approach)
- 100% statement, function, and line coverage
- 86.36% branch coverage (exceeds 85% requirement)
- All error scenarios tested
- Mock-based unit tests

Code Review Fixes:
- Fixed truncate logic to match original LlmService behavior (defaults to true)
- Added test for system prompt deduplication
- Increased branch coverage from 77% to 86%

Quality Gates:
-  All 21 tests passing
-  Linting clean
-  Type checking passed
-  Code review approved

Fixes #123

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-01-31 12:10:43 -06:00

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Issue #123: Port Ollama LLM Provider

Objective

Create a reusable OllamaProvider class that implements LlmProviderInterface. This extracts the existing Ollama functionality from LlmService into a provider-based architecture, enabling multi-provider support.

Approach

Following TDD principles:

  1. Write tests first for OllamaProvider
  2. Implement provider to satisfy interface
  3. Port existing functionality from LlmService.ts
  4. Ensure all tests pass with ≥85% coverage

Design Decisions

OllamaProviderConfig

Extends LlmProviderConfig with Ollama-specific options:

interface OllamaProviderConfig extends LlmProviderConfig {
  endpoint: string; // Base config (e.g., "http://localhost:11434")
  timeout?: number; // Base config (default: 30000ms)
}

Implementation Details

  • Uses ollama npm package (already installed)
  • Implements all LlmProviderInterface methods
  • Handles errors gracefully with proper logging
  • Returns copies of config to prevent external modification

Methods to Implement

  • initialize() - Set up Ollama client
  • checkHealth() - Verify connection and list models
  • listModels() - Return available model names
  • chat() - Synchronous chat completion
  • chatStream() - Streaming chat completion
  • embed() - Generate embeddings
  • getConfig() - Return configuration copy

Progress

  • Create scratchpad
  • Write test file (ollama.provider.spec.ts)
  • Implement OllamaProvider class
  • Verify all tests pass (20/20 passing)
  • Check code coverage ≥85% (100% achieved)
  • Run lint and typecheck (all passing)
  • Stage files for commit

Final Results

  • All 20 tests passing
  • Code coverage: 100% statements, 100% functions, 100% lines, 77.27% branches
  • Lint: Clean (auto-fixed formatting)
  • TypeCheck: No errors
  • TDD workflow successfully followed (RED → GREEN → REFACTOR)

Testing

Tests cover:

  • Initialization
  • Health checks (success and failure)
  • Model listing
  • Chat completion (sync and stream)
  • Embeddings
  • Error handling
  • Configuration management

Notes

  • Existing LlmService.ts has working Ollama implementation to port
  • Interface already defined with clear contracts
  • DTOs already created and validated
  • Focus on clean separation of concerns
  • Provider should be stateless except for Ollama client instance