diff --git a/apps/mana/apps/web/src/hooks.server.ts b/apps/mana/apps/web/src/hooks.server.ts
index ae1c86f50..d1f46cb49 100644
--- a/apps/mana/apps/web/src/hooks.server.ts
+++ b/apps/mana/apps/web/src/hooks.server.ts
@@ -108,6 +108,14 @@ window.__PUBLIC_GLITCHTIP_DSN__ = ${JSON.stringify(PUBLIC_GLITCHTIP_DSN)};
 			PUBLIC_MANA_LLM_URL_CLIENT,
 			PUBLIC_MANA_EVENTS_URL_CLIENT,
 			'wss://sync.mana.how',
+			// @mana/local-llm (WebLLM) downloads model weights + config from
+			// the mlc-ai HuggingFace repos and the WebGPU model library WASM
+			// from the binary-mlc-llm-libs GitHub raw host.
+			'https://huggingface.co',
+			'https://*.huggingface.co',
+			'https://cdn-lfs.huggingface.co',
+			'https://cdn-lfs-us-1.huggingface.co',
+			'https://raw.githubusercontent.com',
 			// Allow all localhost ports in development
 			...(isDev ? ['http://localhost:*', 'ws://localhost:*'] : []),
 		].filter(Boolean),
diff --git a/packages/local-llm/src/models.ts b/packages/local-llm/src/models.ts
index 812a1d8ec..200219a1a 100644
--- a/packages/local-llm/src/models.ts
+++ b/packages/local-llm/src/models.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,20 @@ export const MODELS = {
 		downloadSizeMb: 400,
 		ramUsageMb: 800,
 	},
+	/** Google Gemma 2 — strong general-purpose model, similar size class to Qwen 1.5B */
+	'gemma-2-2b': {
+		modelId: 'gemma-2-2b-it-q4f16_1-MLC',
+		displayName: 'Gemma 2 2B',
+		downloadSizeMb: 1400,
+		ramUsageMb: 2200,
+	},
+	/** Google Gemma 2 9B — much higher quality, needs a beefy GPU (~6GB VRAM) */
+	'gemma-2-9b': {
+		modelId: 'gemma-2-9b-it-q4f16_1-MLC',
+		displayName: 'Gemma 2 9B',
+		downloadSizeMb: 5300,
+		ramUsageMb: 6500,
+	},
 } as const satisfies Record<string, ModelConfig>;
 
 export type ModelKey = keyof typeof MODELS;