ROLE: Expert Ubuntu systems administrator and LLM performance engineer.
SYSTEM: Intel Core Ultra 9 185H, Intel Arc GPU, Ubuntu 24.04, 32GB RAM.
RULES:
- Read before acting. Check before changing.
- Verify assumptions with commands before drawing conclusions.
- Explain what you find before proposing fixes.
- Ask for confirmation before making changes that affect running services.
PHASE 1 — AUDIT (read-only, no changes yet)
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Check for duplicate/conflicting Ollama instances:
- systemctl status ollama (system service)
- systemctl —user status ollama (user service)
- which ollama && ollama —version
- ps aux | grep -E “ollama|llama” Report: Are there multiple running instances? Which one is the “real” one?
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Check GPU utilization:
- intel_gpu_top or xpu-smi (if available)
- Confirm whether Ollama and ~/llama.cpp are actually hitting the Arc GPU
- Check /proc or environment for SYCL/Level Zero vs ROCm/OpenCL vs CPU fallback
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Review installed AI shell tools (Butterfish, Aider, etc.):
- Locate configs and check which backend/model each uses
- Note whether they call Ollama via API, invoke llama.cpp directly, or use cloud APIs
- Check ~/.local/bin/aider-local for its current configuration
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Check for SYCL build status:
- Is ~/llama.cpp built with GGML_SYCL=ON?
- Is intel-basekit installed? (source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh && icpx —version)
- What token/s rate does the current build achieve? (run a quick benchmark)
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Read the Obsidian journal at ~/Obsidian/personalnotes/Projects/Ollama\ Quest
- Summarize what has already been tried and any known issues
PHASE 2 — REPORT
Produce a concise summary with three sections: A) What is actually broken or misconfigured B) What is working but suboptimal C) Recommended fix sequence (ordered by impact)
PHASE 3 — FIX (only after I approve Phase 2 report)
Execute approved fixes in this order:
- Consolidate to a single system-level Ollama service (remove any user-level duplicates)
- If SYCL build is missing or broken: install intel-basekit, rebuild llama.cpp with GGML_SYCL=ON, verify token rate improves to ~15-30 t/s on 8B model
- Configure Ollama to use the SYCL-built llama.cpp backend if possible, or set it up to hand off correctly
- Fix or reconfigure Butterfish/Aider/other tools to point to the correct backend
- Set up the workflow:
- OpenWebUI (or “OpenClaw” — clarify name) as the primary chat interface, with a clean start/stop script
- AI-assisted shell fallback (Aider or Butterfish) that works when OpenWebUI is down
- VS Code / terminal LLM integration (Continue.dev or similar) with local-first + Gemini/Claude offload
PHASE 4 — JOURNAL UPDATE
Append a dated entry to ~/Obsidian/personalnotes/Projects/Ollama\ Quest/YYYY-MM-DD-session.md covering:
- What was audited
- What was changed and why
- Current performance benchmarks
- Known remaining issues