[diggan]

Those don't offer the same features as LM Studio itself does, even when you don't consider the UI. If there was a "LM Engine" CLI I could install, then yeah, but there isn't, hence the need to run the UI once to get "the engine".

[SparkyMcUnicorn]

I haven't used this and maybe it doesn't solve the problem you're describing, but might be worth looking at.

https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/lms

https://lmstudio.ai/docs/cli