diff --git a/lib/ai/ollama.js b/lib/ai/ollama.js
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+export class OllamaError extends Error {
+  constructor(status, body) { super(`ollama ${status}: ${body}`); this.status = status; }
+}
+
+export async function embedText(text, { model = 'nomic-embed-text', timeoutMs = 60_000 } = {}) {
+  const url = (process.env.OLLAMA_URL || 'http://192.168.1.185:11434') + '/api/embeddings';
+  const res = await fetch(url, {
+    method: 'POST',
+    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+    body: JSON.stringify({ model, prompt: text }),
+    signal: AbortSignal.timeout(timeoutMs)
+  });
+  if (!res.ok) throw new OllamaError(res.status, await res.text());
+  const j = await res.json();
+  return j.embedding;
+}
+
+export function padTo(vector, dim) {
+  if (vector.length === dim) return vector;
+  if (vector.length > dim) return vector.slice(0, dim);
+  const out = vector.slice();
+  while (out.length < dim) out.push(0);
+  return out;
+}
diff --git a/tests/ai/ollama.test.js b/tests/ai/ollama.test.js
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+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest';
+import { embedText, padTo, OllamaError } from '../../lib/ai/ollama.js';
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  global.fetch = vi.fn(async () => new Response(
+    JSON.stringify({ embedding: new Array(768).fill(0.1) }),
+    { status: 200, headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' }}
+  ));
+});
+afterEach(() => vi.restoreAllMocks());
+
+describe('ollama.embedText', () => {
+  it('returns 768-dim vector', async () => {
+    const v = await embedText('hello');
+    expect(v).toHaveLength(768);
+    expect(v[0]).toBeCloseTo(0.1, 5);
+  });
+
+  it('throws OllamaError on non-200', async () => {
+    global.fetch = vi.fn(async () => new Response('boom', { status: 502 }));
+    await expect(embedText('x')).rejects.toThrow(OllamaError);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('padTo', () => {
+  it('pads short vectors with zeros', () => {
+    const v = padTo([1, 2, 3], 5);
+    expect(v).toEqual([1, 2, 3, 0, 0]);
+  });
+  it('truncates long vectors', () => {
+    expect(padTo([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 3)).toEqual([1, 2, 3]);
+  });
+  it('returns same on exact length', () => {
+    expect(padTo([1, 2], 2)).toEqual([1, 2]);
+  });
+});