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huggingface-local-modelsPurpose, usage and source
Use to select models to run locally with llama.cpp and GGUF on CPU, Mac Metal, CUDA, or ROCm. Covers finding GGUFs, quant selection, running servers, exact GGUF file lookup, conversion, and OpenAI-compatible local serving.
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- huggingface/skills
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- 2026-10-30
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License: Apache-2.0
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The purpose and workflow passages below are upstream material, organized and translated for reading. They are distinct from the separately labeled Codez editorial analysis.
What this Skill does
Use to select models to run locally with llama.cpp and GGUF on CPU, Mac Metal, CUDA, or ROCm. Covers finding GGUFs, quant selection, running servers, exact GGUF file lookup, conversion, and OpenAI-compatible local serving.
How the upstream workflow works
Default Workflow
Search the Hub with apps=llama.cpp. Prefer the exact HF local-app snippet and quant recommendation when it is visible. Confirm exact .gguf filenames with https://huggingface.co/api/models//tree/main?recursive=true. Launch with llama-cli -hf : or llama-server -hf :.
Hugging Face Local Models
Search the Hugging Face Hub for llama.cpp-compatible GGUF repos, choose the right quant, and launch the model with llama-cli or llama-server.
Quant Choice
Prefer the exact quant that HF marks as compatible on the ?local-app=llama.cpp page. Keep repo-native labels such as UD-Q4_K_M instead of normalizing them.
brew install llama.cpp
winget install llama.cppRequirements and setup
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