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lms - Command Line Tool for LM Studio

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Installation

lms ships with LM Studio 0.2.22 and newer.

If you have trouble running the command, try running npx lmstudio install-cli to add it to path.

To check if the bootstrapping was successful, run the following in a 👉 new terminal window 👈:

lms

Usage

You can use lms --help to see a list of all available subcommands.

For details about each subcommand, run lms <subcommand> --help.

Here are some frequently used commands:

• lms status - To check the status of LM Studio.
• lms server start - To start the local API server.
• lms server stop - To stop the local API server.
• lms ls - To list all downloaded models.
• lms ls --json - To list all downloaded models in machine-readable JSON format.
• lms ps - To list all loaded models available for inferencing.
• lms ps --json - To list all loaded models available for inferencing in machine-readable JSON format.
• lms load - To load a model
• lms load <model path> -y - To load a model with maximum GPU acceleration without confirmation
• lms unload <model identifier> - To unload a model
• lms unload --all - To unload all models
• lms create - To create a new project with LM Studio SDK
• lms log stream - To stream logs from LM Studio

Contributing

The CLI is part of the lmstudio.js monorepo and cannot be built standalone.

Building and Testing the CLI

# Clone and build the entire monorepo
git clone https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/lmstudio-js.git --recursive
cd lmstudio-js
npm install
npm run build

# Test your CLI changes
node publish/cli/dist/index.js <subcommand>

Example:

node publish/cli/dist/index.js --help
node publish/cli/dist/index.js status

See CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.