Making Local LLMs Use Tools — Even When They Weren't Designed For It
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Most local LLM UIs let you chat. Some let you tweak parameters. But what if the model could actually do things — browse the web, read files, execute code, generate images — autonomously? That's Agent Mode in Locally Uncensored v2.1. And the hardest part wasn't the tools themselves — it was making it work with models that were never designed for tool calling. The Tool Calling Problem with Local Models OpenAI and Anthropic have native function calling baked into their APIs. You send t