Plugin hooks

Plugins use plugin hooks to customize LLM’s behavior. These hooks are powered by the Pluggy plugin system.

Each plugin can implement one or more hooks using the @hookimpl decorator against one of the hook function names described on this page.

LLM imitates the Datasette plugin system. The Datasette plugin documentation describes how plugins work.

register_commands(cli)

This hook adds new commands to the llm CLI tool - for example llm extra-command.

This example plugin adds a new hello-world command that prints “Hello world!”:

from llm import hookimpl
import click

@hookimpl
def register_commands(cli):
    @cli.command(name="hello-world")
    def hello_world():
        "Print hello world"
        click.echo("Hello world!")

This new command will be added to llm --help and can be run using llm hello-world.

register_models(register)

This hook can be used to register one or more additional models.

import llm

@llm.hookimpl
def register_models(register):
    register(HelloWorld())

class HelloWorld(llm.Model):
    model_id = "helloworld"

    def execute(self, prompt, stream, response):
        return ["hello world"]

Writing a plugin to support a new model describes how to use this hook in detail.