This is a terminal user interface (TUI) client for Ollama written in Go. For the uninitiated, Ollama is the popular tool for running local large language models — Llama, Mistral, Phi, Qwen and friends — on your own machine. The official Ollama experience is mostly CLI-driven or routed through a web UI, but tui-ollama-go aims to give you a keyboard-driven, full-screen terminal cockpit for chatting with your local models.

Why is this worth a look?

• Local-first AI workflow: If you live in tmux and care about privacy or offline capability, a snappy TUI is a much better fit than spinning up Electron or a browser tab just to ask a model a question.
• Go means a single static binary: No Python venvs, no Node toolchain. go install and you're done — easy to drop onto a home server, a Raspberry Pi, or a remote box you SSH into.
• The TUI ecosystem in Go is genuinely good: Charm's Bubble Tea / Lip Gloss libraries have made it possible to build polished terminal apps with relatively little code, and this project is a nice example of that wave applied to LLM tooling.
• Hackable surface area: Ollama exposes a simple HTTP API. A small Go client like this is the perfect starting point for someone who wants to learn how to build their own model selector, chat history manager, or RAG frontend.

Who would benefit? Terminal-dwelling developers running Ollama locally; Go programmers curious about Bubble Tea; homelab tinkerers who want a lightweight chat UI for a self-hosted model server; and anyone teaching themselves how the Ollama API actually works under the hood. With zero stars, it could clearly use a few testers and contributors to help it grow.