llm-mrchatterbox

Mr. Chatterbox is a language model trained from scratch by Trip Venturella using nanochat on a corpus of over 28,000 Victorian-era British texts published between 1837 and 1899, made available by the British Library.

This LLM plugin vendors enough of nanochat to get the model to work, also borrowing some details from Trip's mr_chatterbox HuggingFace Space . You can also chat with the model using that Space in your browser.

Installation

Install this plugin in the same environment as LLM.

llm install llm-mrchatterbox

Usage

The first time you run a prompt the ~2GB model will be downloaded to your machine.

llm -m mrchatterbox 'hello good sir'

Chat with the model using the chat command:

llm chat -m mrchatterbox

The cached model is stored in the path revealed by this command:

llm mrchatterbox path

On a Mac that folder is:

~/Library/Application Support/io.datasette.llm/mrchatterbox

You can delete the model file using this command:

llm mrchatterbox delete-model

Development

To set up this plugin locally, first checkout the code. Run the tests like this:

cd llm-mrchatterbox
uv run pytest

To run prompts through the model use:

uv run llm -m mrchatterbox 'hello good sir'