ECA cannot discover or detect/load Ollama models

[kumarshantanu]

I have Ubuntu 26.04 running on my PC, with Ollama 0.30 that runs fine in the terminal. I have ollama serve running in one terminal to host the API. (I can see the API calls in logs, which appear to have been made by ECA.)

I don't have any ~/.config/eca/config.json file created. When I start VSCode with ECA, I get the following due to which I cannot submit any text:

When I create ~/.config/eca/config.json with the following content

{
  "defaultModel": "ollama/qwen3.6:35b"
}

I still get the same result as above, though I know the model is already downloaded and runs fine in terminal. Summarily, I am unable to use ECA with VSCode due to this.

[ericdallo]

@kumarshantanu I improved this on eca-vscode side, it should work on next release, otherwise LMK!