lemonade
Lemonade helps users discover and run local AI apps by serving optimized LLMs right from their own GPUs and NPUs. Join our discord: https://discord.gg/5xXzkMu8Zk
Install / Use
claude mcp add lemonade-sdk -- npx -y github:lemonade-sdk/lemonadeIf the server publishes to npm under a different name, use that package instead — check the repo README.
MCP Server
Model Context Protocol server
Quality Score
Category
CommunicationSupported Platforms
Our assessment of lemonade
lemonade scores 96/100 on our quality scale, 26th of 396 Communication skills we index (top 7%).
Its MCP Server is 23 KB long, well organised into 22 sections with 8 code examples: a thorough specification that gives an agent plenty to work with.
With 6,118 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated today, so lemonade is actively maintained.
- Our last check on 2026-10-21 found the source still online.
- It is released under the Apache-2.0 license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
- Its trust signals score 100/100, with no cautions. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
Safety scan
No issues foundOur scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. An AI review of the same text found nothing harmful.
AI review by kimi-k2.7-code on 2026-09-24. Automated pattern scan on 2026-09-24. It catches known dangerous patterns, not every risk — read a skill before letting an agent act on it.
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Frequently asked questions
- How do I install lemonade?
- Run
claude mcp add lemonade-sdk -- npx -y github:lemonade-sdk/lemonade. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does lemonade work with?
- It is written for Claude Code, Claude Desktop and Zed, as a MCP Server file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is lemonade safe to use?
- Our scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. An AI review of the same text found nothing harmful. It is Apache-2.0-licensed and scores 100/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is lemonade still maintained?
- The repository was last updated today, so lemonade is actively maintained.
Skill content
View source on GitHub🍋 Lemonade: Refreshingly fast local AI
<p align="center"> <a href="https://discord.gg/5xXzkMu8Zk"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Discord-7289DA?logo=discord&logoColor=white" alt="Discord" /></a> <a href="https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade/blob/main/docs/dev/contribute.md" title="Contribution Guide"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/PRs-welcome-brightgreen.svg" alt="PRs Welcome" /></a> <a href="https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade/releases/latest" title="Download the latest release"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/lemonade-sdk/lemonade?include_prereleases" alt="Latest Release" /></a> <a href="https://tooomm.github.io/github-release-stats/?username=lemonade-sdk&repository=lemonade"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/lemonade-sdk/lemonade/total.svg" alt="GitHub downloads" /></a> <a href="https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade/issues"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/github/issues/lemonade-sdk/lemonade" alt="GitHub issues" /></a> <a href="https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade/blob/main/LICENSE"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache-yellow.svg" alt="License: Apache" /></a> <a href="https://star-history.com/#lemonade-sdk/lemonade"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Star%20History-View-brightgreen" alt="Star History Chart" /></a> </p> <p align="center"> <img src="https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/assets/blob/main/docs/banner_02.png?raw=true" alt="Lemonade Banner" /> </p> <h3 align="center"> <a href="https://lemonade-server.ai/docs/guide/install/">Download</a> | <a href="https://lemonade-server.ai/docs/">Documentation</a> | <a href="https://discord.gg/5xXzkMu8Zk">Discord</a> </h3>Lemonade is the local AI server that gives you the same capabilities as cloud APIs, except 100% free and private. Use the latest models for chat, coding, speech, and image generation on your own NPU and GPU.
Lemonade comes in two flavors:
- Lemonade Server installs a service you can connect to hundreds of great apps using standard OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama APIs.
- Embeddable Lemonade is a portable binary you can package into your own application to give it multi-modal local AI that auto-optimizes for your user’s PC.
This project is built by the community for every PC, with optimizations by AMD engineers to get the most from Ryzen AI, Radeon, and Strix Halo PCs.
Getting Started
- Install: Windows · Linux · macOS · Docker · Source
- Get Models: Browse and download with the Model Manager
- Generate: Try models with the built-in interfaces for chat, image gen, speech gen, and more
- Mobile: Take your lemonade to go: iOS · Android · Source
- Connect: Use Lemonade with your favorite apps:
Supported Platforms
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Using the CLI
To run and chat with Gemma:
lemonade run Gemma-4-E2B-it-GGUF
To code with Lemonade models:
lemonade launch claude
Multi-modality:
# image gen
lemonade run SDXL-Turbo
# speech gen
lemonade run kokoro-v1
# transcription
lemonade run Whisper-Large-v3-Turbo
To see available models and download them:
lemonade list
lemonade pull Gemma-4-E2B-it-GGUF
To manage model aliases for environment-independent naming and active-standby failover:
lemonade alias add production-llm Gemma-4-E2B-it-GGUF
lemonade alias list
# Instant active-standby failover to a different model target
lemonade alias add production-llm Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF
lemonade alias remove production-llm
To see the backends available on your PC:
lemonade backends
For hybrid setups, Lemonade can also route to any OpenAI-compatible cloud provider (Fireworks, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Together, …) alongside local models — see Cloud Offload. (Experimental.)
Model Library
<img align="right" src="https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/assets/blob/main/docs/model_manager_02.png?raw=true" alt="Model Manager" width="280" />Lemonade supports a wide variety of LLMs (GGUF, FLM, and ONNX), whisper, stable diffusion, etc. models across CPU, GPU, and NPU.
Use lemonade pull or the built-in Model Manager to download models. Custom GGUF/ONNX models can be pulled from Hugging Face or ModelScope, with their source retained for future updates.
Supported Configurations
Lemonade supports multiple inference engines for LLM, speech, TTS, and image generation, and each has its own backend and hardware requirements.
<!-- BEGIN GENERATED: backends-matrix --> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Modality</th> <th>Engine</th> <th>Backend</th> <th>Device</th> <th>OS</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td rowspan="11"><strong>Text generation</strong></td> <td rowspan="6"><code>llamacpp</code></td> <td><code>system</code></td> <td><code>x86_64</code>/ARM64 CPU, GPU</td> <td>Linux</td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>metal</code></td> <td>Apple Silicon GPU</td> <td>macOS</td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>cuda</code></td> <td>NVIDIA GPUs (Turing or newer)**</td> <td>Windows, Linux</td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>vulkan</code></td> <td><code>x86_64</code> CPU, AMD iGPU, AMD dGPU; ARM64 CPU/GPU (Linux)</td> <td>Windows, Linux</td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>rocm</code></td> <td>AMD GPUs supported by ROCm</td> <td>Windows, Linux</td> </tr> <tr> <td><code>cpu</code></td> <td><code>x86_64</code> CPU; ARM64 CPU (Linux)</td> <td>Windows, Linux</td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="1">Truncated for display — read the full file on GitHub.
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