Getting started

2026-08-31

Run a model

tempo9 --gguf ~/models/qwen3-8b-q4ks.gguf

That is the whole setup. There is no configuration file, no daemon to install, and no model conversion step — Tempo9 loads GGUF directly.

The server listens on http://127.0.0.1:11435, loopback only. The wildcard address is never bound, so nothing off this machine can reach it.

First request

curl http://127.0.0.1:11435/v1/chat/completions \
  -d '{"model":"local","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}]}'

No API key is required and none is checked. That is safe only because of the loopback bind — see Limits before you put it behind a tunnel or a reverse proxy.

If you already use Ollama

You do not need to download anything:

tempo9 --list-ollama
tempo9 --ollama qwen3:8b

See Ollama models for how that works and what it does not touch.

Where to go next