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Simon Willison llm CLI

Universal Terminal LLM Swiss Army Knife

Overview & Capability

Lightweight command-line tool and Python library for running prompts against dozens of cloud and local models, managing embeddings, and piping data.

Key Highlights

  • Extensive plugin ecosystem for Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama, and Groq
  • Store and query full prompt/response history in local SQLite
  • Pipe stdin/stdout for instant shell script automation
Robbie's Independent Take Verified: 2026-10-11

Excellent candidate for local execution with zero cloud lock-in. For 7B-8B parameter models, budget at least 8 GB of unified memory or VRAM (Q4_K_M quantization). For 32B-70B models, aim for 24 GB+ to maintain interactive throughput without CPU offload penalties.

Alternatives & Replaces

  • Custom curl API wrappers