[r/LocalLLaMA] Sorting hat - A cute, lightweight cli to give images and other files good filenames using local VLMs

Summary

A new lightweight command-line interface (CLI) tool called "Sorting Hat" has been developed to intelligently rename image and other files using local Vision-Language Models (VLMs). It supports Qwen3.5 models (0.8b, 9b, 27b) via llama.cpp and is also compatible with OpenAI-compatible APIs. The tool aims to provide meaningful filenames based on image content, offering a reasoning trace during the process.

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