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MCP in LM Studio

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227 points yags | 3 comments | 25 Jun 25 17:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.699s | source
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api ◴[25 Jun 25 18:51 UTC] No.44380675[source]▶
I wish LM Studio had a pure daemon mode. It's better than ollama in a lot of ways but I'd rather be able to use BoltAI as the UI, as well as use it from Zed and VSCode and aider.

What I like about ollama is that it provides a self-hosted AI provider that can be used by a variety of things. LM Studio has that too, but you have to have the whole big chonky Electron UI running. Its UI is powerful but a lot less nice than e.g. BoltAI for casual use.

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SparkyMcUnicorn ◴[25 Jun 25 19:01 UTC] No.44380769[source]▶
There's a "headless" checkbox in settings->developer
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1. diggan ◴[25 Jun 25 21:45 UTC] No.44382096[source]▶
Still, you need to install and run the AppImage at least once to enable the "lms" cli which can later be used. Would be nice with a completely GUI-less installation/use method too.
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2. t1amat ◴[26 Jun 25 00:08 UTC] No.44383010[source]▶
The UI is the product. If you just want the engine, use mlx-omni-server (for MLX) or llama-swap (for GGUF) and huggingface-cli (for model downloads).
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3. diggan ◴[26 Jun 25 11:19 UTC] No.44386253[source]▶
Those don't offer the same features as LM Studio itself does, even when you don't consider the UI. If there was a "LM Engine" CLI I could install, then yeah, but there isn't, hence the need to run the UI once to get "the engine".