diff --git a/agent/provider.go b/agent/provider.go
index 6ce4f8a..005f542 100644
--- a/agent/provider.go
+++ b/agent/provider.go
@@ -203,7 +203,9 @@ func compactionConfig(windowTokens int) *compaction.Config {
 //	ARTEX_LLM_PROXY    = proxy URL        (optional; http/https/socks5)
 //	ANTHROPIC_API_KEY / OPENAI_API_KEY         = credentials (unused for ollama)
 func FromEnv() (Config, bool) {
-	prov := os.Getenv("ARTEX_LLM_PROVIDER")
+	// Case- and space-insensitive: "Ollama" used to miss every case below and
+	// fall through to anthropic, sending ANTHROPIC_API_KEY to the Ollama base URL.
+	prov := strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("ARTEX_LLM_PROVIDER")))
 	anthKey := os.Getenv("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY")
 	oaiKey := os.Getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")
 
diff --git a/agent/provider_env_test.go b/agent/provider_env_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6d58003
--- /dev/null
+++ b/agent/provider_env_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package agent
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/Autumn-27/norma/llm"
+)
+
+// ARTEX_LLM_PROVIDER is matched regardless of case and surrounding spaces. A
+// miss used to fall through to anthropic: "Ollama" then sent ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
+// to the Ollama base URL.
+func TestFromEnvProviderIsCaseInsensitive(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY", "sk-ant-secret")
+	t.Setenv("OPENAI_API_KEY", "sk-oai")
+	t.Setenv("ARTEX_LLM_BASE_URL", "")
+	t.Setenv("ARTEX_LLM_MODEL", "")
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		env  string
+		want llm.Format
+		key  string
+	}{
+		{"Ollama", FormatOllama, ""},
+		{" OLLAMA ", FormatOllama, ""},
+		{"OpenAI", llm.FormatOpenAI, "sk-oai"},
+		{"OpenAI-Responses", llm.FormatOpenAIResponses, "sk-oai"},
+		{"Anthropic", llm.FormatAnthropic, "sk-ant-secret"},
+	} {
+		t.Setenv("ARTEX_LLM_PROVIDER", tc.env)
+		c, ok := FromEnv()
+		if !ok {
+			t.Fatalf("%q: FromEnv returned ok=false", tc.env)
+		}
+		if c.Format != tc.want || c.APIKey != tc.key {
+			t.Fatalf("%q: format=%v key=%q, want format=%v key=%q", tc.env, c.Format, c.APIKey, tc.want, tc.key)
+		}
+	}
+}