Instructions to use prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF")

# pip install -U transformers accelerate
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModel
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF", device_map="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

llama.cpp

How to use prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF with llama.cpp:

Install (macOS, Linux)

curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama serve -hf prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama cli -hf prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Install from WinGet (Windows)

winget install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama serve -hf prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama cli -hf prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Use pre-built binary

# Download pre-built binary from:
# https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./llama-server -hf prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./llama-cli -hf prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Build from source code

git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp.git
cd llama.cpp
cmake -B build
cmake --build build -j --target llama-server llama-cli
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./build/bin/llama-server -hf prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./build/bin/llama-cli -hf prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio
Jan

vLLM

How to use prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M

SGLang

How to use prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Ollama
How to use prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF with Ollama:
```
ollama run hf.co/prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M
```
Unsloth Desktop

How to use prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF with Pi:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Configure the model in Pi

# Install Pi:
npm install -g @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent
# Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json:
{
  "providers": {
    "llama-cpp": {
      "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1",
      "api": "openai-completions",
      "apiKey": "none",
      "models": [
        {
          "id": "prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run Pi

# Start Pi in your project directory:
pi

Docker Model Runner
How to use prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M
```

Lemonade

How to use prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF with Lemonade:

Pull the model

# Download Lemonade from https://lemonade-server.ai/
lemonade pull prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Run and chat with the model

lemonade run user.Smaug-Mini-GGUF-Q4_K_M

List all available models

lemonade list

Hermes Agent

How to use prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF with Hermes Agent:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Configure Hermes

# Install Hermes:
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
hermes setup
# Point Hermes at the local server:
hermes config set model.provider custom
hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1
hermes config set model.default prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Run Hermes

hermes

Atomic Chat

OpenClaw

How to use prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF with OpenClaw:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Configure OpenClaw

# Install OpenClaw:
npm install -g openclaw@latest
# Register the local server and set it as the default model:
openclaw onboard --non-interactive --mode local \
  --auth-choice custom-api-key \
  --custom-base-url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 \
  --custom-model-id "prithivMLmods/Smaug-Mini-GGUF:Q4_K_M" \
  --custom-provider-id llama-cpp \
  --custom-compatibility openai \
  --custom-text-input \
  --accept-risk \
  --skip-health

Run OpenClaw

openclaw agent --local --agent main --message "Hello from Hugging Face"

Smaug-Mini-GGUF

Smaug-Mini is Abacus.AI's agentic finetune of Qwen3.8-27B, trained via on-policy reinforcement learning (GRPO, LoRA-merged into the language trunk only, vision tower left bitwise-identical to the base) over multi-turn, tool-using automation episodes with verified, outcome-based rewards, targeting more reliable end-to-end tool use and automation performance while holding general capabilities at parity with the base model. It retains Qwen3.8-27B's architecture, layout, 262,144-token context, and xhigh/medium/low reasoning-effort interface exactly, functioning as a drop-in replacement, while delivering notable agentic gains — +4.5 on AutomationBench (41.8 vs. 37.3), +17.1 on JobBench (50.5 vs. 33.4), +13.5 on NL2Repo-Bench (55.8 vs. 42.3), and +2.0 overall on LiveBench (76.9 vs. 75.3) — alongside modest improvements on reasoning benchmarks like HLE and IFBench, with GPQA-diamond and MMMU-Pro held essentially at parity. Its key behavioral shift is redistributing deliberation rather than adding it: episodes finish about three steps sooner at roughly unchanged total reasoning volume, and episodes that exhaust their step budget without completing drop from 3.4% to 1.0%. It's served via vLLM with a Qwen3 reasoning parser and tool-call parser (recommended sampling: temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95, reasoning effort xhigh), with the inherited MTP head left untrained against the updated trunk — so speculative decoding via MTP should stay disabled — and is released under Apache 2.0, inherited from Qwen3.8-27B.

Model Files

File Name	Quant Type	File Size	File Link	Description
Smaug-Mini.BF16.gguf	BF16	53.8 GB	Link	Full BF16 weights. Highest quality, largest file size.
Smaug-Mini.Q4_K_M.gguf	Q4_K_M	16.5 GB	Link	Good quality, default size for most use cases, recommended.
Smaug-Mini.Q5_K_M.gguf	Q5_K_M	19.2 GB	Link	High quality, recommended.
Smaug-Mini.mmproj-bf16.gguf	mmproj-bf16	931 MB	Link	Multimodal projection file in BF16 format. Used for vision/language models.