I used Claude yesterday with tbx. I asked Claude to give me information on a topic and create notes on the topic with references in tbx. Amazing! It created 10 notes in tbx, on each aspect of the topic with references.
Thank you for the new version (11.6) of tbx. I have now downloaded it. I understand it connects to Gemini as well.
Connecting tbx to Claude (desktop) was easy.
How do I connect tbx (11.6) to Gemini? Thanks!
Pretty much the same process as connecting to Claude or Claude Code. Remember: quit Tinderbox and Gemini. Then, open Gemini and let it open Tinderbox for you.
Thank you!
Is there a Gemini desktop app or does Tx connects to Gemini on the web?
Thank you!
Did you read Gemini CLI?
A simple Google query shows there is no Desktop Gemini app, so Tinderbox can’t connect to such.
Both Gemini and Claude (Desktop or Terminal) connect to the web. These sort of questions are outside Tinderbox’s remit and can be easily checked online. I don’t say that to be rude, but the AI landscape is evolving rapidly. If you think there is a product, e.g. the fictional Gemini Desktop, the best place to check is with the maker, Google.
The Tinderbox documentation lists the AIs integrated with Tinderbox. This may not be all the AIs available to users.
Whether an AI uses local (user hard drive or LAN locations) or web assets is again something that is the user’s responsibility to look up and validate if in doubt. As a current rule of thumb, unless you know an AI is run locally always assume your data is being shared with the Web. Do not assume! Especially if you are using sensitive personal ofr patient data.
@mwra thank you for the Gemini CLI and the link. This is very helpful! Yes, aware that Claude (and Gemini ) connect to web server and the issues regarding data privacy.
I have llama3.2 (and llama3.3) installed; will try to see whether I can connect tbx to llama3.2. The llama3.3 is large and requires at least 48 GB RAM.
Thank you @eastgate and @mwra for the tips. I managed to now connect from Gemini CLI to tbx 11.6. Awesome, the ‘power’ is amazing! Thank you!
Just for clarity, Gemini typically runs in the terminal. You install it (visit the site for details), start up a terminal session, and type gemini.
@eastgate Thank you! I did it yesterday. It Gemini <> tbx, worked beautifully! Kudos to you for taking tbx to the AI age!
Any luck with connecting tbx to ollama or lmstudio? I was not able to configure tbx as mcp server in ollama and in lmstudio it is crashing always. I assume a phython process as kind of interface to tbx may be needed.
I have no experience with lmstudio yet. Is Tinderbox crashing, or lmstudio? If Tinderbox, send me a crash log or two!
Hi @eastgate, I have send you an email regarding this topic on 1st of March 06:36pm German time. I do not have a crash log available. It looks like Tinderbox was just terminated not crashed. But I am not sure. Also I did not found any kind of MCP log from lmstudio.
I cannot find that email, and I’ve looked high and low. Could you resend it?
Reading between the lines, it looks like LMStudio doesn’t support local MCP servers. But they don’t actually say so!
Done. Following my research it looks like Ollama and LMStudio expecting a running background process as mcp server not a full blown application. Whatever the difference is.