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Setup Lmstudio VSCode — AI skill for Claude Code

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Set up a fully local coding model in VS Code on an Apple Silicon Mac (LM Studio MLX engine, no admin), with auto-compaction configured so long sessions do not jam.

How to install Setup Lmstudio VSCode

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/romalonz-lm-studio-vscode-setup-lmstudio-vscode/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/romalonz-lm-studio-vscode-setup-lmstudio-vscode && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/romalonz/lm-studio-vscode/HEAD/commands/setup-lmstudio-vscode.md -o ~/.claude/skills/romalonz-lm-studio-vscode-setup-lmstudio-vscode/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Setup Lmstudio VSCode does

description: Set up a fully local coding model in VS Code on an Apple Silicon Mac (LM Studio MLX engine, no admin), with auto-compaction configured so long sessions do not jam.

Set up LM Studio + VS Code

Invoke the `setup-lmstudio-vscode` skill and walk the user through it interactively.

Confirm before the ~16 GB model download and before editing their VS Code settings. On a Mac with less than 24 GB of memory, recommend a smaller model (a 12-14B MLX 4-bit) instead of the 27B default

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