What you saw
Why it happened
The built-in local provider tiles (Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp) route tolocalhost. On a self-hosted install that’s your machine, which is the whole point. On Manifest Cloud, localhost is our server, which has no model running on it and no route back to your laptop.
Rather than dial an address that can’t be yours, Manifest stops the request here.
How to fix it
Pick whichever fits:- Self-host
- Custom provider
Local providers work as designed on a self-hosted install, and your prompts
never leave your network. See Self-hosted for the one-line
Docker install.