mlx-here

A command that opens a chat with a small local language model, grounded in the current folder, its instructions, and related notes in a wiki.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to ask project-specific questions, retrieve information from the folder's wiki, or switch between MLX and Apple's on-device model.
Why use it?
It gives the chat context about the project and lets you resume conversations later, reducing the need to repeat background information.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/esaruoho/apple/mlx-here
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/esaruoho/apple
Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 302 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00055 $0.00302
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00030

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5e85e1e47f14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mlx-here scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/mlx-here.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Open a knowledge-armed chat with the Mini's on-device LLM, grounded in the Apple skill and the current folder.

Use Bash to execute (one call):

/Users/esaruoho/work/apple/bin/mlx-here $ARGUMENTS

Notes:

  • MLX/Qwen3-4B brain by default (over Tailscale); --fm switches to Apple FoundationModels (over Syncthing). --quiet mutes the spoken reply.
  • Arming = skill.md identity + this folder's context + per-turn retrieval from wiki/ (135 pages) via convey.knows.retrieve — the same engine that grounds Convey's "What would Bearden say" roundtable personas.
  • Equivalent to fm-chat --mlx --apple --cwd "$PWD". mlx-chat is the same tool.
  • In-chat: /reset, /system TEXT, /history, /exit. Resume later with the printed fm-chat --resume <id>.
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 25 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 5e85e1e47f14

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mlx-here is a command published in the GitHub repository esaruoho/apple (11 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 302 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.