`
```
llama model --help
```
usage: llama model [-h] {download,list,prompt-format,describe} ...
Work with llama models
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
model_subcommands:
{download,list,prompt-format,describe}
You can use the describe command to know more about a model:
```
llama model describe -m Llama3.2-3B-Instruct
```
### 2.3 Describe
+-----------------------------+----------------------------------+
| Model | Llama3.2-3B-Instruct |
+-----------------------------+----------------------------------+
| Hugging Face ID | meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct |
+-----------------------------+----------------------------------+
| Description | Llama 3.2 3b instruct model |
+-----------------------------+----------------------------------+
| Context Length | 128K tokens |
+-----------------------------+----------------------------------+
| Weights format | bf16 |
+-----------------------------+----------------------------------+
| Model params.json | { |
| | "dim": 3072, |
| | "n_layers": 28, |
| | "n_heads": 24, |
| | "n_kv_heads": 8, |
| | "vocab_size": 128256, |
| | "ffn_dim_multiplier": 1.0, |
| | "multiple_of": 256, |
| | "norm_eps": 1e-05, |
| | "rope_theta": 500000.0, |
| | "use_scaled_rope": true |
| | } |
+-----------------------------+----------------------------------+
| Recommended sampling params | { |
| | "strategy": "top_p", |
| | "temperature": 1.0, |
| | "top_p": 0.9, |
| | "top_k": 0 |
| | } |
+-----------------------------+----------------------------------+
### 2.4 Prompt Format
You can even run `llama model prompt-format` see all of the templates and their tokens:
```
llama model prompt-format -m Llama3.2-3B-Instruct
```
You will be shown a Markdown formatted description of the model interface and how prompts / messages are formatted for various scenarios.
**NOTE**: Outputs in terminal are color printed to show special tokens.
## Step 3: Building, and Configuring Llama Stack Distributions
- Please see our [Getting Started](getting_started.md) guide for more details on how to build and start a Llama Stack distribution.
### Step 3.1 Build
In the following steps, imagine we'll be working with a `Llama3.1-8B-Instruct` model. We will name our build `8b-instruct` to help us remember the config. We will start build our distribution (in the form of a Conda environment, or Docker image). In this step, we will specify:
- `name`: the name for our distribution (e.g. `8b-instruct`)
- `image_type`: our build image type (`conda | docker`)
- `distribution_spec`: our distribution specs for specifying API providers
- `description`: a short description of the configurations for the distribution
- `providers`: specifies the underlying implementation for serving each API endpoint
- `image_type`: `conda` | `docker` to specify whether to build the distribution in the form of Docker image or Conda environment.
At the end of build command, we will generate `-build.yaml` file storing the build configurations.
After this step is complete, a file named `-build.yaml` will be generated and saved at the output file path specified at the end of the command.
#### Building from scratch
- For a new user, we could start off with running `llama stack build` which will allow you to a interactively enter wizard where you will be prompted to enter build configurations.
```
llama stack build
```
Running the command above will allow you to fill in the configuration to build your Llama Stack distribution, you will see the following outputs.
```
> Enter an unique name for identifying your Llama Stack build distribution (e.g. my-local-stack): my-local-llama-stack
> Enter the image type you want your distribution to be built with (docker or conda): conda
Llama Stack is composed of several APIs working together. Let's configure the providers (implementations) you want to use for these APIs.
> Enter the API provider for the inference API: (default=meta-reference): meta-reference
> Enter the API provider for the safety API: (default=meta-reference): meta-reference
> Enter the API provider for the agents API: (default=meta-reference): meta-reference
> Enter the API provider for the memory API: (default=meta-reference): meta-reference
> Enter the API provider for the telemetry API: (default=meta-reference): meta-reference
> (Optional) Enter a short description for your Llama Stack distribution:
Build spec configuration saved at ~/.conda/envs/llamastack-my-local-llama-stack/my-local-llama-stack-build.yaml
```
#### Building from templates
- To build from alternative API providers, we provide distribution templates for users to get started building a distribution backed by different providers.
The following command will allow you to see the available templates and their corresponding providers.
```
llama stack build --list-templates
```
You may then pick a template to build your distribution with providers fitted to your liking.
```
llama stack build --template local-tgi --name my-tgi-stack
```
```
$ llama stack build --template local-tgi --name my-tgi-stack
...
...
Build spec configuration saved at ~/.conda/envs/llamastack-my-tgi-stack/my-tgi-stack-build.yaml
You may now run `llama stack configure my-tgi-stack` or `llama stack configure ~/.conda/envs/llamastack-my-tgi-stack/my-tgi-stack-build.yaml`
```
#### Building from config file
- In addition to templates, you may customize the build to your liking through editing config files and build from config files with the following command.
- The config file will be of contents like the ones in `llama_stack/distributions/templates/`.
```
$ cat llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-ollama-build.yaml
name: local-ollama
distribution_spec:
description: Like local, but use ollama for running LLM inference
providers:
inference: remote::ollama
memory: meta-reference
safety: meta-reference
agents: meta-reference
telemetry: meta-reference
image_type: conda
```
```
llama stack build --config llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-ollama-build.yaml
```
#### How to build distribution with Docker image
To build a docker image, you may start off from a template and use the `--image-type docker` flag to specify `docker` as the build image type.
```
llama stack build --template local --image-type docker --name docker-0
```
Alternatively, you may use a config file and set `image_type` to `docker` in our `-build.yaml` file, and run `llama stack build -build.yaml`. The `-build.yaml` will be of contents like:
```
name: local-docker-example
distribution_spec:
description: Use code from `llama_stack` itself to serve all llama stack APIs
docker_image: null
providers:
inference: meta-reference
memory: meta-reference-faiss
safety: meta-reference
agentic_system: meta-reference
telemetry: console
image_type: docker
```
The following command allows you to build a Docker image with the name ``
```
llama stack build --config -build.yaml
Dockerfile created successfully in /tmp/tmp.I0ifS2c46A/DockerfileFROM python:3.10-slim
WORKDIR /app
...
...
You can run it with: podman run -p 8000:8000 llamastack-docker-local
Build spec configuration saved at ~/.llama/distributions/docker/docker-local-build.yaml
```
### Step 3.2 Configure
After our distribution is built (either in form of docker or conda environment), we will run the following command to
```
llama stack configure [ | | ]
```
- For `conda` environments: would be the generated build spec saved from Step 1.
- For `docker` images downloaded from Dockerhub, you could also use as the argument.
- Run `docker images` to check list of available images on your machine.
```
$ llama stack configure ~/.llama/distributions/conda/8b-instruct-build.yaml
Configuring API: inference (meta-reference)
Enter value for model (existing: Llama3.1-8B-Instruct) (required):
Enter value for quantization (optional):
Enter value for torch_seed (optional):
Enter value for max_seq_len (existing: 4096) (required):
Enter value for max_batch_size (existing: 1) (required):
Configuring API: memory (meta-reference-faiss)
Configuring API: safety (meta-reference)
Do you want to configure llama_guard_shield? (y/n): y
Entering sub-configuration for llama_guard_shield:
Enter value for model (default: Llama-Guard-3-1B) (required):
Enter value for excluded_categories (default: []) (required):
Enter value for disable_input_check (default: False) (required):
Enter value for disable_output_check (default: False) (required):
Do you want to configure prompt_guard_shield? (y/n): y
Entering sub-configuration for prompt_guard_shield:
Enter value for model (default: Prompt-Guard-86M) (required):
Configuring API: agentic_system (meta-reference)
Enter value for brave_search_api_key (optional):
Enter value for bing_search_api_key (optional):
Enter value for wolfram_api_key (optional):
Configuring API: telemetry (console)
YAML configuration has been written to ~/.llama/builds/conda/8b-instruct-run.yaml
```
After this step is successful, you should be able to find a run configuration spec in `~/.llama/builds/conda/8b-instruct-run.yaml` with the following contents. You may edit this file to change the settings.
As you can see, we did basic configuration above and configured:
- inference to run on model `Llama3.1-8B-Instruct` (obtained from `llama model list`)
- Llama Guard safety shield with model `Llama-Guard-3-1B`
- Prompt Guard safety shield with model `Prompt-Guard-86M`
For how these configurations are stored as yaml, checkout the file printed at the end of the configuration.
Note that all configurations as well as models are stored in `~/.llama`
### Step 3.3 Run
Now, let's start the Llama Stack Distribution Server. You will need the YAML configuration file which was written out at the end by the `llama stack configure` step.
```
llama stack run ~/.llama/builds/conda/8b-instruct-run.yaml
```
You should see the Llama Stack server start and print the APIs that it is supporting
```
$ llama stack run ~/.llama/builds/local/conda/8b-instruct.yaml
> initializing model parallel with size 1
> initializing ddp with size 1
> initializing pipeline with size 1
Loaded in 19.28 seconds
NCCL version 2.20.5+cuda12.4
Finished model load YES READY
Serving POST /inference/batch_chat_completion
Serving POST /inference/batch_completion
Serving POST /inference/chat_completion
Serving POST /inference/completion
Serving POST /safety/run_shield
Serving POST /agentic_system/memory_bank/attach
Serving POST /agentic_system/create
Serving POST /agentic_system/session/create
Serving POST /agentic_system/turn/create
Serving POST /agentic_system/delete
Serving POST /agentic_system/session/delete
Serving POST /agentic_system/memory_bank/detach
Serving POST /agentic_system/session/get
Serving POST /agentic_system/step/get
Serving POST /agentic_system/turn/get
Listening on :::5000
INFO: Started server process [453333]
INFO: Waiting for application startup.
INFO: Application startup complete.
INFO: Uvicorn running on http://[::]:5000 (Press CTRL+C to quit)
```
> [!NOTE]
> Configuration is in `~/.llama/builds/local/conda/8b-instruct-run.yaml`. Feel free to increase `max_seq_len`.
> [!IMPORTANT]
> The "local" distribution inference server currently only supports CUDA. It will not work on Apple Silicon machines.
> [!TIP]
> You might need to use the flag `--disable-ipv6` to Disable IPv6 support
This server is running a Llama model locally.
### Step 3.4 Test with Client
Once the server is setup, we can test it with a client to see the example outputs.
```
cd /path/to/llama-stack
conda activate # any environment containing the llama-stack pip package will work
python -m llama_stack.apis.inference.client localhost 5000
```
This will run the chat completion client and query the distribution’s /inference/chat_completion API.
Here is an example output:
```
User>hello world, write me a 2 sentence poem about the moon
Assistant> Here's a 2-sentence poem about the moon:
The moon glows softly in the midnight sky,
A beacon of wonder, as it passes by.
```
Similarly you can test safety (if you configured llama-guard and/or prompt-guard shields) by:
```
python -m llama_stack.apis.safety.client localhost 5000
```
You can find more example scripts with client SDKs to talk with the Llama Stack server in our [llama-stack-apps](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack-apps/tree/main/examples) repo.