gguf

gguf is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from graniet/kheish. It costs 42 tokens per session (3,289 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gguf-quantization, Apache-2.0.

A file format and model-compression guide for running language models with llama.cpp, a tool for local model inference. It covers smaller 2–8-bit versions suited to CPUs, Apple Silicon, and GPUs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare and run local language models, choose a compression level, and deploy them on laptops, desktops, or Apple Silicon Macs.
Why use it?
It helps run models on consumer computers with less memory and without requiring an NVIDIA GPU.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to prepare and run local language models, choose a compression level, and deploy them on laptops, desktops, or Apple Silicon Macs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/graniet/kheish/gguf
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.

Any agent
npx skills add graniet/kheish --skill gguf
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/graniet/kheish

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,289 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00042 $0.03289
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.01644
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00658
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00329

Measured 9d ago against content hash 057f5af7b819, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gguf 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to gguf-quantization — 32 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/mlops/inference/gguf/SKILL.md · 452 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 452 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kheish Compatibility

This skill is repo-local and stays inactive until explicitly activated.

When the original instructions refer to legacy tool names, use these Kheish mappings:

  • terminal => bash
  • web_extract => web_fetch, plus web_search when discovery is needed
  • search_files => grep_search and glob_search
  • browser_* tools require a browser-capable surfaced tool or MCP; if none is available, use the closest available surface and say so explicitly

When the instructions mention local helper files, resolve them from ${KHEISH_SKILL_DIR}.

GGUF - Quantization Format for llama.cpp

The GGUF (GPT-Generated Unified Format) is the standard file format for llama.cpp, enabling efficient inference on CPUs, Apple Silicon, and GPUs with flexible quantization options.

When to use GGUF

Use GGUF when:

  • Deploying on consumer hardware (laptops, desktops)
  • Running on Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3) with Metal acceleration
  • Need CPU inference without GPU requirements
  • Want flexible quantization (Q2_K to Q8_0)
  • Using local AI tools (LM Studio, Ollama, text-generation-webui)

Key advantages:

  • Universal hardware: CPU, Apple Silicon, NVIDIA, AMD support
  • No Python runtime: Pure C/C++ inference
  • Flexible quantization: 2-8 bit with various methods (K-quants)
  • Ecosystem support: LM Studio, Ollama, koboldcpp, and more
  • imatrix: Importance matrix for better low-bit quality

Use alternatives instead:

  • AWQ/GPTQ: Maximum accuracy with calibration on NVIDIA GPUs
  • HQQ: Fast calibration-free quantization for HuggingFace
  • bitsandbytes: Simple integration with transformers library
  • TensorRT-LLM: Production NVIDIA deployment with maximum speed

Quick start

Installation

# Clone llama.cpp
git clone https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp
cd llama.cpp

# Build (CPU)
make

# Build with CUDA (NVIDIA)
make GGML_CUDA=1

# Build with Metal (Apple Silicon)
make GGML_METAL=1

# Install Python bindings (optional)
pip install llama-cpp-python

Read the full file on GitHub · 452 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 452 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 057f5af7b819

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gguf is a skill published in the GitHub repository graniet/kheish (227 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 3,289 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to gguf-quantization, differing in 32 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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