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LM Studio Quick Tutorial

List Installed Models​

lms ls

Load a Model​

lms load qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Load a Model with Custom Context Length​

lms load qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b -c 90000

View Loaded Models​

lms ps

Example:

IDENTIFIER              MODEL                   STATUS    SIZE        CONTEXT
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b    qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b    IDLE      22.07 GB    90000

Unload a Model​

lms unload qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Unload All Models​

lms unload --all

Start the API Server​

lms server start

Check API Server Status​

lms server status

Watch API Requests​

lms log stream

Typical Workflow​

# Load model with 90k context
lms load qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b -c 90000

# Verify model is loaded
lms ps

# Start API server
lms server start

# Watch requests from Hermes
lms log stream

# Unload model when finished
lms unload qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b