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AI URI

Original Author: Michael Vorburger.ch
Contributors: YOU, contribute?
Status: Ready to Implement

Introduction

As you know, “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.”

This spec proposes a convention for consistently naming some things related to AI with URIs.

These URIs are independent of any specific programming language, framework, tool, etc.

Perhaps your favorite one could adopt it!

Language Models (LM)

Ollama 🦙

http://localhost:11434?type=ollama&model=gemma3:1b is the URI of the Gemma 3 (1B) large language model running in Ollama, at http://localhost:11434.

The model query parameter of the URI needs to use a model name from https://ollama.com/search.

Google AI 🔮

google://?model=gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17 is the URI of the Gemini 2.5 Flash (Preview 04-17) LLM, used via the Google (Gemini) AI API.

Note that this is a different from the Google Cloud Vertex AI Platform API.

Mock 🦜

mocklm:hello,%20world is the URI of a mock LM which, like a 🦜 parrot, always replies with “hello, world” to any prompt.

We are not aware of any similar LM URI naming scheme. Please add any that you know of here.

ToDo

  1. Add many more URIs
  2. Support (default) “standard” ?topP / topK, temperature, seed etc. query parameters

Support