How I fixed silent Ollama failures in my local AI assistant

Neo-AI is an offline assistant with episodic memory, running entirely on-device using Ollama, SQLite, and LanceDB — no cloud, no data leaks.

The Failure

While testing before a release, the CLI showed a generic "An error occurred." I opened the log file and found the real error:

ERROR: Failed to connect to Ollama. Please check that Ollama is downloaded, running and accessible.