A 9B local model handled photo mapping and approval-gated deletes

In a test running Qwen 3.5 9B through Ollama, the model read EXIF sidecar files for three photos, organized their capture times, cameras, and GPS locations into a table, and placed all three locations on a map. When asked to clean up the files, it used real deletion tools, but every delete operation stopped for human approval because the tool was marked as destructive. The multi-step work and file access happened entirely on the local computer.

The smaller Qwen 3.5 4B model chose the correct tools but struggled to assemble the final result, sometimes producing fake inline maps or ending without an answer. The 9B model completed the same requests cleanly. The test used Spring AI Playground, an open-source desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux that runs locally with Ollama and can start it automatically.

It can also search an index for the tools it needs instead of loading all 115 tool descriptions at once, and it supports connecting to, inspecting, and testing MCP servers.