Bug Description

Clawdbot fails to use Ollama as a model provider because the auth system requires an API key, even though Ollama doesn't need one.

Error Message

FailoverError: No API key found for provider "ollama". Auth store: /Users/avoges/.clawdbot/agents/main/agent/auth-profiles.json (agentDir: /Users/avoges/.clawdbot/agents/main/agent). Configure auth for this agent (clawdbot agents add <id>) or copy auth-profiles.json from the main agentDir.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Configure Ollama as a provider in clawdbot.json:

"models": {
  "providers": {
    "ollama": {
      "baseUrl": "http://localhost:11434/v1",
      "api": "openai-completions",
      "models": [...]
    }
  }
}

2. Set Ollama model as primary:

"model": {
  "primary": "ollama/qwen3:14b",
  "fallbacks": ["anthropic/claude-opus-4-5"]
}

3. Send a message — Clawdbot immediately falls back to Anthropic because the Ollama auth check fails.

Expected Behavior

Clawdbot should recognize that local/self-hosted providers like Ollama don't require API keys and skip the auth check, or allow a config option like authRequired: false.

Workaround

Manually add a dummy token to auth-profiles.json:

"ollama:local": {
  "type": "token",
  "provider": "ollama",
  "token": "not-required"
}

And add to lastGood:

"ollama": "ollama:local"

Environment

• Clawdbot version: 2026.1.24-3
• Ollama: running locally on port 11434
• macOS (Darwin 25.2.0 arm64)

Suggested Fix

Either:

1. Allow authRequired: false in provider config
2. Auto-detect local providers (localhost URLs) and skip auth
3. Have clawdbot setup prompt for this when configuring Ollama