How to setup llm-assistant

The llm-assistant uses a configuration file called llm-assistant-config.toml to execute its commands. It looks for this file in two different ways.

Lookup mechanism

The llm-assistant will first check if there is any configuration file in the current working directory. If such file does not exist, then it will backtrack the folder hierarchy, starting from the working directory, searching for a configuration file. If arriving at the root of the hierarchy no configuration file is found, then it checks the contents of the environment variable LLM_ASSISTANT_CONFIGURATION_FOLDER.

Local configuration file

An alternative way to configure llm-assistant is by creating the llm-assistant-config.toml in the same directory llm-assistant is executed. To do that, run

llm-assistant setup init

Environment variable configuration

You should set the environment variable LLM_ASSISTANT_CONFIGURATION_FOLDER to point to a directory where the configuration files will be stored.

export LLM_ASSISTANT_CONFIGURATION_FOLDER="~/.config/llm-assistant"

Next, you should run:

llm-assistant setup init --env

This creates the file ${LLM_ASSISTANT_CONFIGURATION_FOLDER}/llm-assistant-config.toml which contains settings regarding which LLM to use and which prompt repository to use.

After that, you can always run llm-assistant setup to print the information contained in the configuration file.

Tip

In both cases, you can use the flag --force to reset an existing configuration file.