diff --git a/src/LLMProviders/embeddingManager.ts b/src/LLMProviders/embeddingManager.ts
index 8f43a03b..70c64123 100644
--- a/src/LLMProviders/embeddingManager.ts
+++ b/src/LLMProviders/embeddingManager.ts
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ import { CustomModel } from "@/aiParams";
 import { EmbeddingModelProviders } from "@/constants";
 import { getDecryptedKey } from "@/encryptionService";
 import { CustomError } from "@/error";
-import { safeFetch } from "@/utils";
 import { getSettings, subscribeToSettingsChange } from "@/settings/model";
+import { safeFetch } from "@/utils";
 import { CohereEmbeddings } from "@langchain/cohere";
 import { Embeddings } from "@langchain/core/embeddings";
 import { GoogleGenerativeAIEmbeddings } from "@langchain/google-genai";
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ const EMBEDDING_PROVIDER_CONSTRUCTORS = {
   [EmbeddingModelProviders.GOOGLE]: GoogleGenerativeAIEmbeddings,
   [EmbeddingModelProviders.AZURE_OPENAI]: OpenAIEmbeddings,
   [EmbeddingModelProviders.OLLAMA]: OllamaEmbeddings,
+  [EmbeddingModelProviders.LM_STUDIO]: OpenAIEmbeddings,
   [EmbeddingModelProviders.OPENAI_FORMAT]: OpenAIEmbeddings,
 } as const;
 
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ export default class EmbeddingManager {
     [EmbeddingModelProviders.GOOGLE]: () => getSettings().googleApiKey,
     [EmbeddingModelProviders.AZURE_OPENAI]: () => getSettings().azureOpenAIApiKey,
     [EmbeddingModelProviders.OLLAMA]: () => "default-key",
+    [EmbeddingModelProviders.LM_STUDIO]: () => "default-key",
     [EmbeddingModelProviders.OPENAI_FORMAT]: () => "",
   };
 
@@ -196,6 +198,14 @@ export default class EmbeddingManager {
         model: modelName,
         truncate: true,
       },
+      [EmbeddingModelProviders.LM_STUDIO]: {
+        modelName,
+        openAIApiKey: getDecryptedKey(customModel.apiKey || "default-key"),
+        configuration: {
+          baseURL: customModel.baseUrl || "http://localhost:1234/v1",
+          fetch: customModel.enableCors ? safeFetch : undefined,
+        },
+      },
       [EmbeddingModelProviders.OPENAI_FORMAT]: {
         modelName,
         openAIApiKey: getDecryptedKey(customModel.apiKey || ""),
diff --git a/src/constants.ts b/src/constants.ts
index b74889c8..fa36c0d9 100644
--- a/src/constants.ts
+++ b/src/constants.ts
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ export enum EmbeddingModelProviders {
   GOOGLE = "google",
   AZURE_OPENAI = "azure_openai",
   OLLAMA = "ollama",
+  LM_STUDIO = "lm-studio",
   OPENAI_FORMAT = "3rd party (openai-format)",
   // HUGGINGFACE = "huggingface",
   // VOYAGEAI = "voyageai",
diff --git a/src/settings/components/QASettings.tsx b/src/settings/components/QASettings.tsx
index 6afd974b..1a2d2509 100644
--- a/src/settings/components/QASettings.tsx
+++ b/src/settings/components/QASettings.tsx
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ const QASettings: React.FC<QASettingsProps> = ({ vectorStoreManager }) => {
     if (modelKey !== settings.embeddingModelKey) {
       new RebuildIndexConfirmModal(app, async () => {
         updateSetting("embeddingModelKey", modelKey);
-        await vectorStoreManager.indexVaultToVectorStore(true);
       }).open();
     }
   };
@@ -119,7 +118,7 @@ const QASettings: React.FC<QASettingsProps> = ({ vectorStoreManager }) => {
       <br />
       <SliderComponent
         name="Max Sources"
-        description="Copilot goes through your vault to find relevant blocks and passes the top N blocks to the LLM. Default for N is 3. Increase if you want more sources included in the answer generation step."
+        description="Copilot goes through your vault to find relevant blocks and passes the top N blocks to the LLM. Default for N is 3. Increase if you want more sources included in the answer generation step. WARNING: more sources significantly degrades answer quality if the chat model is weak!"
         min={1}
         max={30}
         step={1}