LMStudio newbie. Giving it .zip files?

Posted by Smashy404@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 5 comments

Excuse my ignorance, but I was hoping that having an LLM running on my own local machine would give me more options than using a Claude/ChatGPT subscription, not less. My goal is being able to drop .zip files from GitHub into the LMStudio chat and have the AI open it and then analyse the program in the .zip file. I do this all the time in Claude/ChatGPT through my browser sessions, but I'm struggling to find a way of doing this in LMStudio on my own machine. Thanks for any advice.

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AgeNo5720@reddit

i dont know much about lm studio but i'm pretty sure there's a plugin system. maybe try to find a plugin for zip files

Smashy404@reddit (OP)

Thank you for your help. I've actually come up with a solution (should anyone else have this query). I explained what I wanted to ChatGPT and it wrote an MCP zip tool from scratch for me. I stipulated that the MCP zip tool should only have access to one folder on my machine (Windows 11), but that I am happy for the LLM to both read and write to that folder. Using Qwen3.5-27b it has just extracted the .zip file I put inside that folder and analysed all of the files from it.

Best-Strength-7603@reddit

can u share that mcp thing here?

Just ask your AI to write one mate.

how should i call that exactly? coz i dont think MCP will say it anything

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