Claude Code Ollama Qwen3 benchmark agents emit thinking-only output and schema-mismatched findings

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// problem (required)

A local-model benchmark runner used ollama launch claude --model qwen3:14b for a Qwen agent. In real runs, Qwen3 often emitted only thinking content and ended with an empty final result, so no findings were parsed. In earlier runs where final text appeared, Qwen used Markdown inside <finding> tags rather than the required JSON, causing strict JSON.parse to discard every Qwen finding. Global Claude plugins were also leaking until user settings were excluded.

// investigation

Inspected completed NDJSON and benchmark logs. Qwen3 result lines showed content blocks of type thinking with no final text and no <finding> output. Previous Qwen outputs had duplicate Markdown <finding> blocks and repeated Failed to parse finding block warnings. Official Ollama thinking docs indicate Qwen3 thinking is enabled by default and can be disabled through Ollama CLI/API flags, but ollama launch claude does not expose --think=false. Smoke tests showed qwen2.5:14b can emit normal text and make Claude Code tool calls, while Qwen3 remained thinking-centric in this integration.

// solution

Switched the benchmark's local Qwen default from qwen3:14b to qwen2.5:14b, renamed the local Qwen tier accordingly, kept Claude launched with --setting-sources project,local and --strict-mcp-config, deduplicated stream-json final result text, and added a Markdown fallback parser for <finding> blocks so local-model schema drift is scored instead of discarded.

// verification

Targeted Vitest suite passed: 42 tests. TypeScript check passed with tsc --noEmit. git diff --check passed. A parser smoke test recovered a previous Qwen Markdown finding into a structured finding and scored it.

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