run-llms SKILL.md skillB

run-llms from av/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add av/skills/run-llms@git:20260904.e0627a9

Pins git:20260904.e0627a9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
av/skills
Path
run-llms/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20260904.e0627a9, committed Sep 4, 2026
First version recorded
Jan 23, 2026
Size
8,031 bytes
Repository stars
28
License
MIT

Set up and run local LLMs with Harbor. Use when the user wants to run models locally, install Harbor, start Open WebUI, llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, Docker Model Runner, MLX, or oMLX, pull GGUF or HuggingFace models, add SearXNG web search, Speaches TTS/STT, or Open Terminal code execution, launch Codex/Claude/Grok/OpenCode against a Harbor backend, or troubleshoot GPU, VRAM, and service startup.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Run LLMs locally with Harbor

Harbor is a containerized LLM toolkit. Default `harbor up` starts Open WebUI (`webui`) and llama.cpp (`llamacpp`). This skill is the operational playbook for installing Harbor, choosing a backend, pulling models, wiring search/voice/code tools, and pointing coding agents at the same stack.

For the full CLI catalog, `harbor skills get harbor`. For Boost module authoring, use the `boost-modules` skill.

## Agent rules

- `harbor logs` follows forever and will hang a non-interactive shell. Read logs with `docker logs harbor.<service>` (add `--tail 200` if needed).
- Never edit `.env` by hand. Use `harbor config get/set` and `harbor env`.
- Do not set `llamacpp.model` / `llamacpp.model.specifier` unless the user explicitly wants a single pinned GGUF. Router mode (empty specifier) discovers pulled GGUFs automatically.
- `harbor launch` options (`--backend`, `--model`, `--web`, `--workflow`, `--config`, `--service`) go **before** the tool name. Everything after the tool name is the tool's own argv.
- After `harbor update`, run `harbor config update` if new keys are missing from the local config.

## Read only what you need

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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add av/skills/run-llms@sha256:965ec80430a0787a

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260904.e0627a9, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jan 23, 2026 and Sep 4, 2026, about one every 75 days.

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Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: No curl or wget piped into a shell (matched: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/av/harbor/refs/heads/main/install.sh | bash)
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8031 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

av/skills · 28 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_v72qzhixg63o2xeu
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=av/skills/run-llms
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/965ec80430a0787ac6cfe08d2092997af2ce2d6abb50cd9f9aeb779eee836330

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