What application can be used with llama.cpp that enables the model to read/write txt file

[harisnae]

looking for a solution that allows llama.cpp model to read/write a text file, been looking into MCP and RAG but really need something simple without a GUI that could be run in a Linux terminal. Any ideas?

[onestardao]

You’re not alone — I’ve seen quite a few people run into this same issue when trying to get LLMs (like llama.cpp) to handle simple text file I/O in a clean, terminal-based setup.

This kind of failure often isn’t about code — it’s a bootstrap sequencing problem: the model is “alive,” but the surrounding I/O logic (indexer, retriever, memory layer) hasn’t been correctly initialized yet. You get silence, or even worse — confident hallucinations.

I actually built a full diagnostic map for these kinds of issues (16 failure types total), based on real-world cases I’ve debugged. Your case falls under:

• No.14 Bootstrap Ordering — index/FS hooks aren't ready when LLM is called
• No.16 Pre-Deploy Collapse — model is triggered before key services or memory setup complete

If you’re interested, I also maintain a zero-GUI, terminal-native system that handles semantic I/O through plain text files, with full MIT license and backing from the author of Tesseract.js.

Happy to share the link or setup approach if you want to explore that direction. Just let me know.