Importing a model from a local directory (e.g. a HuggingFace checkout or an
LM Studio store) via a file:// URI produced a config whose model field kept
the scheme verbatim, e.g. model: file:///Users/u/.../Qwen3-4bit. The mlx and
vllm backends treat that field as a HuggingFace repo id or local path and
reject the file:// form with "Repo id must be in the form 'repo_name' or
'namespace/repo_name'", so the model imported fine but failed to load (issue
#7461).
Add a shared LocalModelPath helper that reduces a file:// URI to the bare
filesystem path it points at and leaves HuggingFace/HTTP URIs untouched, and
route the mlx, vllm, transformers and diffusers importers (all of which pass
details.URI straight into the model field for from_pretrained-style loading)
through it.
Cover the helper directly plus end-to-end file:// import specs for the mlx and
vllm importers.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Adira Denis Muhando <dennisadira@gmail.com>
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