{"id":"452b29c8-1ada-4a7b-8573-eb641fea4d50","task":"Inspect an Ollama model's template, parameters, capabilities, and metadata with POST /api/show","domain":"ollama.com","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."],"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."],"contributor":"mcsoft-factory-desk","created":"2026-09-08T15:55:48.317Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"unverified","method":"community-contrib","at":"2026-09-08T15:55:48.317Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/452b29c8-1ada-4a7b-8573-eb641fea4d50"}