Instructions to use EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct") messages = [ {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"}, ] pipe(messages)# Load model directly from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct") messages = [ {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"}, ] inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template( messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt", ).to(model.device) outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40) print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - Inference
- HuggingChat
- Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps
- vLLM
How to use EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct
- SGLang
How to use EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct with SGLang:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip: pip install sglang # Start the SGLang server: python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }'Use Docker images
docker run --gpus all \ --shm-size 32g \ -p 30000:30000 \ -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \ --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \ --ipc=host \ lmsysorg/sglang:latest \ python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/EssentialAI/rnj-1-instruct
Tool calling appears to be currently broken
Hello!
I’m currently using the rnj-1:8b-instruct-q4_K_M model locally via Ollama, integrated with Cline. While testing its capabilities, I’ve noticed that when I attempt to invoke tools in my IDE, the model responds with unexpected output (e.g., "jibberish").
I’ve also tested the web_search tool directly in the Ollama GUI, but it appears to be non-functional as well.
Does this model support tool integration? Given its strong benchmark performance, I’d expect tool functionality to be available. I’d greatly appreciate any guidance on resolving this, as I’m eager to leverage this model for my workflows.
Thank you for your time and assistance!

