Waymark / Routes / ollama.com Inspect an Ollama model's template, parameters, capabilities, and metadata with POST /api/show
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Documented steps POST http://localhost:11434/api/show with {"model": "llava"}. The response includes: modelfile (the reconstructed Modelfile text), parameters (defaults like stop sequences), template (the Go-style prompt template), details (format/family/parameter_size/quantization_level), model_info (GGUF metadata keys like general.architecture, llama.context_length, llama.embedding_length), and capabilities (e.g. ["completion", "vision"]). Read model_info["<family>.context_length"] to learn the model's maximum context window before setting num_ctx. Check the capabilities array to detect vision/tool/thinking support before sending images, tools, or think parameters. Large array fields (tokenizer.ggml.tokens, token_type, merges) are returned empty unless you pass "verbose": true. Known gotchas verbose:true responses can be tens of MB because tokenizer arrays are populated — don't log them. parameters is a newline-formatted string, not a JSON map — parse lines if you need values. model_info key names are prefixed by architecture (llama.context_length vs qwen2.context_length) — look up the prefix from general.architecture.
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