Put LM Studio to Work

You already run open-weight models in LM Studio's chat window. Now you want them to do real work: answer from your own documents, use tools, keep running in the background, and power the other apps you use every day, without sending your data to a cloud service. This book picks up where the chat window stops. You set LM Studio up for work with Developer mode, saved presets and per-model defaults. You attach your own documents and learn when the model reads them in full and when it retrieves only the relevant parts. You give models tools through the Model Context Protocol, add your first server, and keep control of what those tools can reach. Then you move beyond the window. You drive LM Studio from the lms command line, keep a model server running in the background, and learn what the local server's three families of endpoints are for. You lock it down with authentication and API tokens before you share it on a network, and you connect other apps to it, including coding assistants that LM Studio documents by name. Every step uses LM Studio's own names for settings and commands, and every chapter is clear about what stays on your machine and what does not.