LLC: lightweight OpenWebUI alt - now with chat converter + custom tool calls
Summary
LLC, a lightweight alternative to OpenWebUI for running local LLMs, updates to v0.6 with a chat converter to import OpenWebUI history and custom tool calls for user-defined tools.
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