Hi - author of the post. Yes it does! The "build a search agent" example can be used with a local model. I'd recommend trying qwen3 or gpt-oss

Very cool, thank you!

Looking forward to try it with a few shell scripts (via the llm-ollama extension for the amazing Python ‘llm’) or Raycast (the lack of web search support for Ollama has been one of my biggest reasons for preferring cloud-hosted models).

Since we shipped web search with gpt-oss in the Ollama app I've personally been using that a lot more especially for research heavy tasks that I can shoot off. Plus with a 5090 or the new macs it's super fast.

Huh, I was pretty sure I used it before, but maybe I’m confusing it with some other python-llm backend.

Is https://ollama.com/blog/tool-support not it?

It depends on the model. Deepseek-R1 says it supports tool use, but the system prompt template does not have the tool-include callouts. YMMV