diff --git a/docker-compose.macmini.yml b/docker-compose.macmini.yml
index c7a0b689f..874cea160 100644
--- a/docker-compose.macmini.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.macmini.yml
@@ -952,10 +952,24 @@ services:
     depends_on:
       redis:
         condition: service_healthy
+    # Ollama lives on the Windows GPU box at 192.168.178.11:11434, but
+    # Colima containers can't reach the LAN range — the entire
+    # 192.168.178.0/24 subnet gets synthesized RST from inside any
+    # container, even though the macOS host routes there fine. The
+    # gpu-proxy LaunchAgent on the Mac Mini host (com.mana.gpu-proxy,
+    # see /Users/mana/gpu-proxy.py) bridges 127.0.0.1:13434 → GPU
+    # box's 11434, so we go through host.docker.internal:13434 to
+    # reach Ollama. Without this hop the local mana-llm starts
+    # cleanly but reports an empty model list and every chat
+    # completion fails with "All connection attempts failed", which
+    # cascades into voice quick-add silently degrading to its no-LLM
+    # fallback for everyone hitting the local stack.
+    extra_hosts:
+      - "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"
     environment:
       PORT: 3025
       LOG_LEVEL: info
-      OLLAMA_URL: ${OLLAMA_URL:-http://192.168.178.11:11434}
+      OLLAMA_URL: ${OLLAMA_URL:-http://host.docker.internal:13434}
       OLLAMA_DEFAULT_MODEL: ${OLLAMA_MODEL:-gemma3:12b}
       OLLAMA_TIMEOUT: 120
       REDIS_URL: redis://redis:6379