autogen/dotnet/website/articles/Consume-LLM-server-from-LM-Studio.md
## Consume LLM server from LM Studio You can use @AutoGen.LMStudio.LMStudioAgent from `AutoGen.LMStudio` package to consume openai-like API from LMStudio local server.  ### What's LM Studio [LM Studio](https://lmstudio.ai/) is an app that allows you to deploy and inference hundreds of thousands of open-source language model on your local machine. It provides an in-app chat ui plus an openai-like API to interact with the language model programmatically.  ### Installation - Install LM studio if you haven't done so. You can find the installation guide [here](https://lmstudio.ai/) - Add `AutoGen.LMStudio` to your project. ```xml <ItemGroup>     <PackageReference Include="AutoGen.LMStudio" Version="AUTOGEN_LMSTUDIO_VERSION" /> </ItemGroup> ```  ### Usage The following code shows how to use `LMStudioAgent` to write a piece of C# code to calculate 100th of fibonacci. Before running the code, make sure you have local server from LM Studio running on `localhost:1234`.  [!code-csharp[](../../sample/AutoGen.BasicSamples/Example08_LMStudio.cs?name=lmstudio_using_statements)] [!code-csharp[](../../sample/AutoGen.BasicSamples/Example08_LMStudio.cs?name=lmstudio_example_1)] 