waybarrios/vllm-mlx
OpenAI and Anthropic compatible server for Apple Silicon. Run LLMs and vision-language models (Llama, Qwen-VL, LLaVA) with continuous batching, MCP tool calling, and multimodal support. Native MLX backend, 400+ tok/s. Works with Claude Code.
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Should you contribute to waybarrios/vllm-mlx?
waybarrios/vllm-mlx has a FoundDev health score of 88/100, which puts it in the active-and-maintained tier. The maintainer team is shipping recently, issues are being closed, and a PR you open this week has a realistic chance of being reviewed.
Last push was 0 days ago — that signals an actively maintained project. New issues are likely to get a maintainer response within days. The project is written primarily in Python, so prior Python experience will shorten ramp-up.
Licensed under Apache-2.0, a standard OSI-approved license — safe to contribute to under normal employer IP policies.
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