SolonCode ships with no model. That is a deliberate product choice, not an omission: no bundled provider, no default key, no telemetry-backed endpoint you did not ask for. The upside is you can point it at DeepSeek, a local Ollama box, or an air-gapped corporate gateway with equal ease. The downside is that installing the binary does not give you a working assistant. You have to wire a model up first, and that is where most first-time users stall.
This is the follow-up to getting SolonCode installed. Here we get one model connected and stable — meaning it survives long tool-calling sessions, weak networks, and multi-file refactors without mysterious mid-task failures.
Start with the Web settings page, not the JSON file
You can hand-edit settings.json. You should not, at least not on day one. The settings page validates your input and gives you a Test connection button, which is the single most useful debugging affordance in the whole product.
soloncode web # default port 4808
