LLMs in LM Studio can now grab images from the internet and look at them/show you

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA / 3/25/2026

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Key Points

  • A developer has released LM Studio plugins that let local LLMs fetch images from the web and use them for vision-based analysis within the chat workflow.
  • The setup is designed to be “1-click” via LM Studio’s plugin support, requiring a vision-capable model (e.g., Qwen 3.5 vision variants).
  • Updated Duck-Duck-Go and “visit website” style plugins can handle images by generating thumbnails for chat embedding to reduce clutter while still using full-resolution images for analysis when available.
  • The plugins can guide the LLM to either embed images directly or present them as a markdown gallery/table when users request many images, enabling more flexible multimodal responses.
  • The post shares example plugin links and prompt/template guidance intended to minimize tool-call errors and improve generation behavior (sampling and repetition controls).
LLMs in LM Studio can now grab images from the internet and look at them/show you

Soo, I made a plugin that allows LLMs inside LM Studio to feed images from the web into themselves for analysis. They will chain the tools depending on the task.

No MCP/APIs/Registration — these are simple scripts that can be installed in 1-click from the LM Studio website. (Yes, LM Studio has plugin support!). All you need is a model with Vision (Qwen 3.5 9b / 27b are both great)

I also updated the Duck-Duck-Go and Visit Website plugins to be able to work with images; and added some extra:

  • The tools automatically fetch images and convert them into smaller thumb files for chat embedding (to avoid clutter).
  • The analysis tool will then use full-resolution images for analysis if possible.
  • The plugins guide the LLM to embed images if needed, or to use a markdown table gallery, if user explicitly wants alot of images.

You can see few examples of this in the screenshots.

Links:
https://lmstudio.ai/vadimfedenko/analyze-images
https://lmstudio.ai/vadimfedenko/duck-duck-go-reworked
https://lmstudio.ai/vadimfedenko/visit-website-reworked

In case anyone needs it, my Jinja Prompt Template: Pastebin (fixed the problem with tool call errors for me)
My Qwen 3.5 settings (basically, official Qwen recommendation):
Temperature: 1
Top K sampling: 20
Repeat Penalty: 1
Presence Penalty: 1.9 (I think this one is important, fixed repetition problems for me, always gets out of loop)
Top P sampling: 0.95
Min P sampling: 0

System Prompt:
You are a capable, thoughtful, and precise assistant. Always prioritize being truthful, nuanced, insightful, and efficient, tailoring your responses specifically to the user's needs and preferences.

Research before answering the questions: use both reasoning and tool calls to synthesize a proper conclusion.

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