Read a remote model row
Models installed on another device appear in Stored under that device’s name.
- Loaded or available state.
- Provider and runtime.
- Quantization, size, and context length.
- Measured generation speed.
- An eye icon for usable image input.
- A tool icon for reported native tool calling.
A sleeping or unreachable Mac is shown once at the device level. Its individual models are not presented as if they were currently usable.
Configure before using
Press the model row to open its settings. Sampling, context length, stop sequences, prompt caching, reasoning, and other portable inference choices can follow the session to the Mac.
The Mac keeps control of hardware-specific choices such as model paths, GPU offload, thread count, and device-dependent loading policy.
Press Use to load the model on the Mac and switch Chat to it. The route is chosen during this activation instead of waiting for the first message.
Tools run where your data is
Constellation sends the selected model the tools currently allowed by the requesting device. When the model asks to use one, that device executes it and returns the result.
This design lets a model running on the Mac use a dataset or PDF indexed on the requesting device without copying the entire library to the Mac. Only context or tool results needed for the active conversation travel through the selected route.
- Web Search.
- Python.
- Memory.
- Calculator and Unit Converter.
- Dataset search and retrieval.
- PDF navigation.
- Calendar.
- Chart rendering.
- Selected MCP tools.
Send photos to a vision model
When the remote model row shows the eye icon, attach a photo as you would for a local vision model. Photo input works across Local Network, Private Link, Direct, Noema Bridge, and Cloud Relay.
For a GGUF model, the Mac must have the required multimodal projector. A repository may describe the family as multimodal even when the downloaded weights do not include that projector. In that case Noema treats the installation as text-only and does not show the eye icon.
Download a copy instead
Long-press or open the model row’s context menu and choose Download to this device. Downloading creates a local installation; it is different from using the Mac’s existing copy through Constellation.