Command-line tool

shimmy

brew/shimmy

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Small local inference server with OpenAI-compatible GGUF endpoints

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

macOS

brew install shimmy

Linux

brew install shimmy

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• Calling other AI models

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