Why third-party support in Apple's fm CLI? A bet Apple is teasing its own model service

gregbarbosa · x · 2026-09-20

Puzzled by why Apple added third-party provider support to the fm CLI in macOS 27.2, the author speculates Apple is ramping up to eventually serve models to developers like frontier labs do, with this lightweight agent harness as the long-term teaser toward that goal.

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