Tutorial reel
Long-form video tutorials for every part of lilbee, split into two tracks: drive it yourself in the TUI, or put it behind an agent over MCP. Each clip is the demo from the homepage, expanded with a longer caption. Videos are silent; play at your own pace.
Drive it yourself · full terminal app
Getting started
What is lilbee?
Index lilbee's own README, then ask what is lilbee in one sentence? and get a cited answer drawn straight from the source.
First run
The wizard pulls a chat model and an embedder in parallel; you can start using lilbee while they download.
TUI tour
A one-minute sweep through every TUI screen.
Command surface
Ctrl+P for the palette, ? for the cheat sheet, /help for the slash-command catalog.
Ask your library
Chat with cited answers
Ask the Crown Vic manual. Every answer cites a page; inline [N] markers open a source preview at the exact passage.
Add files
/add <path> ingests a file. The Task Center shows live progress; ask once it lands.
Crawl a URL
/crawl <url> fetches a page or a small site into your library, then it's chat with citations like anything else.
Crawl a whole site
Leave recursive crawling on and /crawl follows the links at depth 1 and indexes the whole site. Here it crawls hundreds of Wikipedia pages (fast-forwarded), then asks one multipart question that synthesizes across them, cited, with Qwen3-8B and a reranker.
Models & providers
Model catalog
Browse Hugging Face Hub inside lilbee. Tab between roles, toggle grid / list, search, open model info, pull live.
Use a model from Ollama
Already running Ollama? Point lilbee at it. The catalog labels the model "ollama" with no native models present; index the Crown Victoria manual on camera, then get a cited answer.
Use a model from LM Studio
Same flow with LM Studio: lms ls shows the model, the catalog labels it "lm studio", and lilbee answers from the manual with a citation.
Unsupported architectures, surfaced before the download
lilbee tags GGUFs the bundled llama.cpp can't load with an unsupported pill before you pull. Press f to hide them. Clip searches for gemma-4, an architecture upstream hasn't shipped yet.
Tune it
Settings
Tabbed editor for every knob: Models, Ingest, Generation, Retrieval, Display, Crawling, API-Keys, System.
Put it behind an agent · MCP
Code & docs over MCP
Agent: code (lilbee talking to lilbee)
An agent indexes lilbee's own source through lilbee's MCP server, then answers with src/lilbee/.../file.py:LINE citations.
Agent: PDF
The agent finds cv-manual.pdf, delegates indexing to lilbee-worker, then answers with page citations.
It tunes itself
Agent fine-tunes lilbee mid-conversation
Turn 1 answers in outline. The user asks for source; the agent fine-tunes lilbee's retrieval, re-searches, and answers in full function bodies with file.py:L<start>-L<end> citations. Runs on a local 8B model.
Going big
Agent: live indexing
A coding agent indexes a small Godot 4 subset, then searches and answers method-by-method against the local files.
Agent: Godot codegen against the full class reference
The agent indexes Godot 4's full 810-file class reference, then writes a procedural level generator with every API call backed by a godot-classes/<Class>.xml:line citation. Benchmark vs no-RAG: 4 hallucinated APIs → 0.