fix(ollama): preserve tools across agent turns - #13276
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Description
Fix Ollama tool handling in Continue Agent mode.
The Ollama adapter previously attached tool definitions only when the last message had role
user. After a tool call, the next request contains atoolmessage as the latest message, so Continue stopped sending the tool definitions back to Ollama.This caused multi-step agent loops to fall back to textual/XML tool calls instead of structured tool calls, which could stall or break the agent loop.
What changed
user.Testing
The Ollama regression tests were added and run successfully against the patched source.
The fix was also packaged and tested with Continue 2.0.0 in a local VSCodium installation.
The patched installation successfully handled multi-step sequences including:
read → edit → read → verifyand additional sequential tool calls without falling back to raw textual/XML tool syntax.
Scope
Only the Ollama tool-calling path and its regression tests are changed.
No unrelated package/version changes are included.