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I Tried Needle2 for Local Tool Calling. I Ended Up With llama.cpp + Granite

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I’ve been working on a small experiment around a semantic shell. The basic idea is that the user types something like: copy report.pdf to backup and a small local model maps that to a known tool: filesystem.copy The shell then takes over. It validates arguments, asks for missing ones, shows confirm…

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  1. 2026-09-01 19:35 · DEV Community — AI
    I Tried Needle2 for Local Tool Calling. I Ended Up With llama.cpp + Granite

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