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Hi everyone! Personally had issues with context size and Ollama, and saw several other cases. So I've extended tool calling warning with information about context size. Updated this one for Ollama and Ramalama.

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After, for Ollama:
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Note: Ollama docs poorly explain how to set this variable in the desktop app. I'm using systemd and cli but I guess most of the users will go for UI. There will be a reference by now, but it's not really useful. Need to contribute to their docs too 🥲

After, for Ramalama:
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and small change in Ramalama example:

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If you wan't to change something I'm happy to help!

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Also, the context size increases VRAM usage, so there is a LLM-Model-VRAM-Calculator that estimates how much space is required for a model and its context mentioned in #1817

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Also I think we need to edit "(e.g. DeepSeek-R1)" 'cause DeepSeek-R1 already supports tool calling although it didn't before

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thanks for this, yeah there are so many little permutations and variables, this makes sense to me (I never could remember how to set the size).

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michaelneale commented Jul 18, 2025

deepseek-r1 works on openrouter at least with tool calling (the ones I have tried) and I think it may on ollama now but haven't tried it, so yeah.

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angiejones commented Jul 20, 2025

i want to fix this up a bit before merging

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jjjuk commented Jul 20, 2025

i want to fix this up a bit before merging

Ok, which model is the example of a popular model that doesn't support tool calling? I suggest gemma3 for this one.

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angiejones commented Jul 24, 2025

thanks so much for this!

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jjjuk commented Jul 24, 2025

@angiejones Wait I didn't change the example! Haha

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@angiejones we need to change this part:

As an alternative, you can use a custom DeepSeek-r1 model we've made specifically for Goose.

Need your review to decide what to do with this part. Just delete this?

@angiejones angiejones changed the title docs: Tool calling support and Context size warning docs: local LLMs context size warning Jul 24, 2025
@angiejones angiejones changed the title docs: local LLMs context size warning docs: local LLMs context size tip Jul 24, 2025
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angiejones commented Jul 24, 2025

@angiejones we need to change this part:

As an alternative, you can use a custom DeepSeek-r1 model we've made specifically for Goose.

Need your review to decide what to do with this part. Just delete this?

how come delete?

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want to split the warning into two

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Merge branch 'main' of github.com:block/goose into dkatz/goose-compact2
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* 'main' of github.com:block/goose:
  Adds the `WaitingForUserInput` state (#3620)
  docs: update extensions library (#3612)
  Fixing grants path (#3632)
  docs: June 2024 Community All-Stars Spotlight (#3631)
  grant program (#3630)
  Lifei/sub recipe desktop temp (#3576)
  docs: local LLMs context size tip (#3454)
  fix: Handle non-default base path for OpenAI compatible model fetching (#3566)
  Goose security updates (#3579)
  fix: multi-tool calls in streamed openai-compatible responses (#3609)
  feat: subagent turn count, simple agent loop (#3597)
  feat: subagent independent extension manager (#3596)
  Improve session history loading resiliency (#3588)
  Added logging and changed default route case to not redirect to home when there is an invalid route (#3610)
  fix: chat sidebar layout overlapping content occasionally (#3590)
  fix: loading shared sessions (#3607)
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