# Quickstart

The easiest way to get started is by cloning an existing model, modifying it, and then running `lms push`.

For example, you can clone the Qwen 3 8B model:

```shell
lms clone qwen/qwen3-8b
```

This will result in a local copy `model.yaml`, `README` and other metadata files. Importantly, this does NOT download the model weights.

```lms_terminal
$ ls
README.md     manifest.json    model.yaml    thumbnail.png
```

## Change the publisher to your user

The first part in the `model:` field should be the username of the publisher. Change it to a username of a user or organization for which you have write access.

```diff
- model: qwen/qwen3-8b
+ model: your-user-here/qwen3-8b
base:
  - key: lmstudio-community/qwen3-8b-gguf
    sources: