Mlx Vlm plugin for Grok Build
MLX-VLM is a package for inference and fine-tuning of Vision Language Models (VLMs) on your Mac using MLX.
How to install Mlx Vlm in Grok Build
1. Add this repo as a plugin marketplace in Grok Build (once per computer):
grok plugin marketplace add Blaizzy/mlx-vlm2. Install the plugin:
grok plugin install mlx-vlm-skills@Blaizzy/mlx-vlm --trustReview before you trust it. --trust lets this plugin's hooks, MCP servers and scripts run code on your computer. It's a community repo that neither xAI nor GrokStacks has reviewed, so read its code first.
Then start a new Grok session, or press r in /plugins, to load it.
Inside Grok Build: type /plugins, open the Marketplace tab, press a and add Blaizzy/mlx-vlm, then select mlx-vlm-skills and press i.
Command format: Grok Build's plugin guide
What we checked: on Oct 18, 2026 it installed with grok 1.0.62 and Grok found 8 skills. That's an install check only: we haven't run it in a live Grok session.
What it contains
Skills (8)
add-new-model— Use this skill when the user wants to add or port a new model architecture to MLX-VLM — mapping a Hugging Face model_type to a new file under mlx_vlm/models, writing the ModelConfig, matching layer/weight names, reusing a similar existing mbenchmarking— Use this skill when the user wants to benchmark an MLX-VLM change and present the numbers in a PR — fork-vs-main A/B comparisons, isolated-module micro-benchmarks, median-of-N timing with warmup, peak-memory reporting, correctness checks, pcli-inference— Use this skill when the user wants to run or debug MLX-VLM inference from the command line, including uv run mlx_vlm.generate, image/audio/video inputs, local model paths, Hugging Face model IDs, deterministic repro commands, and CLI errorscontributing— Use this skill when the user wants to contribute to MLX-VLM — opening a PR, where model code/config/tests go, backward-compatible config args, running the test suite, code formatting and the pre-commit hooks (black, clang-format), and PR exconvert-quantize— Use this skill when the user wants to convert a Hugging Face model to MLX or quantize/dequantize one with mlx_vlm.convert, including bits and group size, quant modes (affine, mxfp4, nvfp4, mxfp8), RTN vs AWQ, mixed-bit recipes, dtype casts,hf-cache-models— Use this skill when the user wants to list, inspect, or report cached, custom, or loaded MLX-VLM models through the server's model discovery endpoint.reproducible-github-issues— Use this skill when the user wants to create, improve, or triage a reproducible GitHub issue for MLX-VLM, including bug reports from CLI inference, server inference, model loading, processors, media inputs, dependency setup, crashes, wrongserver-inference— Use this skill when the user wants to run or debug MLX-VLM server inference, including uv run mlx_vlm.server, /v1/models, /v1/chat/completions, /v1/responses, streaming, OpenAI-compatible clients, health checks, metrics, model unload/reload
About this listing
Mlx Vlm is a community plugin on GitHub by Blaizzy, written as a Claude Code plugin that Grok Build installs. We install-checked it in Grok; we haven't run it in a live session or reviewed its code. When we installed it, Grok found 8 skills. Its license is MIT. We checked commit 73d366ecf923. It's one of 409 listings in the Development category on GrokStacks.
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Mlx Vlm FAQ
How do I install Mlx Vlm in Grok Build?
Add the repo as a marketplace with grok plugin marketplace add Blaizzy/mlx-vlm, then run grok plugin install mlx-vlm-skills@Blaizzy/mlx-vlm --trust. Then start a new Grok session, or press r in /plugins, to load it.
Is Mlx Vlm an official Grok Build plugin?
No. Mlx Vlm is a community plugin on GitHub by Blaizzy, not in xAI's official Grok Build marketplace. We checked that it installs and what Grok loads from it, but haven't run it in a live Grok session or reviewed its code.
What does Mlx Vlm include?
According to what Grok loaded in our install check, Mlx Vlm includes 8 skills: add-new-model, benchmarking, cli-inference, contributing, convert-quantize, hf-cache-models….
Details
- Type
- Plugin
- Category
- Development
- Source
- Community Claude Code plugin, installs in Grok
- License
- MIT
- Author
- Blaizzy
- Keywords
- apple-silicon, florence2, idefics, llava, llm, local-ai, mlx, molmo, paligemma, pixtral, vision-framework, vision-language-model
- Source repo
- https://github.com/Blaizzy/mlx-vlm
- Checked commit
73d366ecf923- Checked by GrokStacks
- Install-checked in Grok Build on Oct 18, 2026; not run in a live session
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