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.






