frank-dragoon: cut the endpoint over to the native v2 abliterated checkpoint

Quat3rnion/halogen-qwen3.8-flash-next-v2-abliterated is now the NATIVE
2026-10-11 v2 conversion of orcarouter's pinned BF16 (66,687,678,432 B,
LFS sha256 b5bd925f...) — 32 bytes smaller than the writer transplant it
used to ship under the same filename. The n-gram table, vision tower and
tokenizer are the stock peonist companions, hardlinked out of the swift15
payload dir: the release publishes only the main file and no source-matched
pair exists, so the engine's own tools are the referee (niah 18/18, ppl
3.968 with mean KL 0.155 against the swift15 logits, 2026-10-17).

Memory saving, per the card: HALOGEN_KV_POOL_POSITIONS 524288 -> 262144,
one pool behind both slots (boot ledger: 7.2 GiB, where the old pool
measured 14.6). HALOGEN_CTX stays 262144 so the per-request ceiling and the
harness contract (contextWindow 217088) do not move; only two MAXIMUM-length
conversations lose the ability to coexist.

Measured against the swift15 boot on identical traffic: cold prefill
+12.6 %, decode 50.0 vs 46.8 t/s, NIAH 18/18 vs 17/18, PPL +2.3 %, thinking
tokens x1.9 (the finetune's reasoning compression is gone), refusals 0/5 on
both.
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# frank-dragoon.env — tunables for the frank-dragoon endpoint on Dankclaw's
# Strix Halo iGPU (gfx1151), host port 7770.
#
# RUNTIME (2026-10-06, Frank): halogen-flash-server 0.16.2 — the
# RUNTIME (2026-10-17, Frank): halogen-flash-server 0.16.2 — the
# closed-source C++/HIP engine (image ghcr.io/peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server,
# digest-pinned below) serving the Quat3rnion ABLITERATED Swift1.5 finetune
# of peonist's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next v2 checkpoint, as a podman container under
# a root unit, driven by scripts/serve-frank-dragoon.sh. This CUTS OVER the
# 2026-10-05 halogen 27B-dense shape (censored base, DFlash2, 31.7 t/s):
# rollback = revert the swap commit's trio; the 27B payload stays on disk at
# /home/dank/models/halogen-qwen3.8-27b/.
# digest-pinned below) serving Quat3rnion/halogen-qwen3.8-flash-next-v2-
# abliterated — the NATIVE v2 conversion (2026-10-11) of orcarouter's pinned
# BF16 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, abliterated — as a podman container under a root
# unit, driven by scripts/serve-frank-dragoon.sh. This CUTS OVER the
# 2026-10-06 Swift1.5-finetune shape; rollback = revert the swap commit and
# redeploy: the swift15 payload stays on disk at
# /home/dank/models/halogen-flashnext-v2/, the 27B-era payload beside it.
#
# MEASURED A/B, both boots on this box, identical battery traffic (engine
# tools with the service stopped, behavior probes against it, 2026-10-17):
# NIAH 18/18 vs 17/18, refusal census 0/5 on both, tool calls and the
# red-PNG vision probe identical, needle hit at both depths of a 21.5k-token
# haystack, decode 50.0 vs 46.8 t/s, cold prefill 1,604 vs 1,425 t/s,
# wikitext-2 PPL 3.968 vs 3.877 (the finetune's edge is gone: +2.3 %) and
# thinking tokens 1,476 vs 784 mean — the finetune compressed reasoning, the
# base thinks ~1.9x longer per answer.
#
# WHY THE RUNTIME MOVED WITH THE MODEL: the payload is .hgn — per its own
# card it "will not load in transformers, vLLM, or llama.cpp" — and the v2
@@ -38,9 +48,16 @@
# engine ceiling absorbs the estimate error with ~7x margin (robust to a
# 10 % under-count). Compaction rides on frank-zealot: input ≈
# threshold − keepRecent(20k) ≈ 170k measured, inside its 200,704 slot.
# HALOGEN_KV_POOL_POSITIONS=524288 = KV_SLOTS(2) x CTX — the explicit
# form of the engine's default, so the seam test can pin the product.
# KV costs ~28 KiB/position (FLAGS.md) => 524,288 x 28 KiB = 14.0 GiB.
# HALOGEN_KV_POOL_POSITIONS=262144 is the card's recommended pool and the
# memory saving of this swap. One budget behind HALOGEN_KV_SLOTS=2 (boot
# ledger: "2 slots over ONE 262144-position KV pool, each request up to
# 262144"), so the per-request ceiling stays HALOGEN_CTX while two
# MAXIMUM-length conversations can no longer coexist — two moderate ones
# can. ~28 KiB/position (FLAGS.md) => 7.2 GiB, and the ledger said exactly
# that: "reserving the KV pool, 262144 positions (about 7.2 GiB)". The
# 2026-10-06 shape's 524,288 cost 14.6 GiB; FLAGS.md law — "RAM the pool
# takes is RAM that table loses" — makes the 7.4 GiB handed back page
# cache for the 47.7 GiB n-gram table, which is what long prompts read.
# HALOGEN_KV_SLOTS=2 restores the w4b-era shape on this box: the MTP
# drafter is NOT slot-locked on this engine (batching and speculation
# coexist — DFlash-era slots>1 law does NOT carry over; the card's own
@@ -48,12 +65,13 @@
# concurrent capacity, not a speculation tax.
# Memory ledger against the box's 121.2 GiB unified (the n-gram table is
# mmap'd page cache beside the checkpoint, not a pinned charge — the
# card's own quickstart arithmetic does not bill it):
# weights ~62 GiB resident + KV 14.0 + arena (HALOGEN_MAX_TOK=8192 =>
# card's own quickstart arithmetic does not bill it, and the boot ledger
# agrees: "mapped 51.2 GB, NOT pinned (Pin::None)"):
# weights ~62 GiB resident + KV 7.2 + arena (HALOGEN_MAX_TOK=8192 =>
# ~8 GiB per FLAGS.md arena formula 3.8+8.4*(MT/16384)) + vision ~2
# = ~86 GiB engine-side; HALOGEN_HOST_RESERVE_GIB=20 keeps the host
# = ~79 GiB engine-side; HALOGEN_HOST_RESERVE_GIB=20 keeps the host
# honest; baseline co-tenancy (frank-zealot, ComfyUI, Caddy/observ)
# ~10-15. ~15 GiB margin. The boot ledger is the referee — read it
# ~10-15. ~25 GiB margin. The boot ledger is the referee — read it
# after deploy and re-size if the engine prints a clamp.
# HALOGEN_SPEC_ADAPT=0 is MANDATORY (card): the default adaptive policy
# turns the MTP head off for whole requests after low acceptance and
@@ -81,6 +99,11 @@
# so the models.yml fold (high->xhigh) still applies.
# * Vision: OpenAI image_url content parts only (the fleet's standard
# contract). >=256 px probe images or the model answers "video".
# * TWO maximum-length conversations no longer share the endpoint: the KV
# pool is one 262,144-position budget behind 2 slots. The PER-REQUEST
# ceiling is unchanged (HALOGEN_CTX), so the harness contract below
# (contextWindow 217088) does not move; only concurrency at full depth
# does, and this endpoint carries the slow + security-reviewer roles.
# * response_format json_object/json_schema unsupported in this line
# (no constrained decoding) — unchanged from the 27B engine.
# * The engine's token protocol has no auth and binds loopback INSIDE
@@ -100,17 +123,25 @@ FRANK_DRAGOON_LEGACY_CONTAINERS=frank-dragoon
# default); the engine port (8730) is never published.
FRANK_DRAGOON_PUBLISH=7770:8731
FRANK_DRAGOON_MODEL_DIR=/home/dank/models/halogen-flashnext-v2
# The checkpoint: Quat3rnion/halogen-swift1.5-qwen3.8-flash-next-v2-abliterated
# qwen38-flash-next-v2-swift15-abliterated.hgn — compacted r2 of the card's
# append-only original (byte-identical live tensors, padding dropped:
# 66,687,678,464 B vs 89,775,868,032 B). LFS sha256 verified at fetch.
FRANK_DRAGOON_CHECKPOINT=qwen38-flash-next-v2-swift15-abliterated.hgn
FRANK_DRAGOON_CHECKPOINT_BYTES=66687678464
FRANK_DRAGOON_CHECKPOINT_SHA256=9c880b8ba48deabfa06172eff1e7572e4fe465e09e97faec6e50c3f6fdcac037
FRANK_DRAGOON_MODEL_DIR=/home/dank/models/halogen-v2-abliterated
# The checkpoint: Quat3rnion/halogen-qwen3.8-flash-next-v2-abliterated
# qwen38-flash-next-v2-abliterated.hgn — the NATIVE 2026-10-11 v2 conversion
# of orcarouter's pinned BF16 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, abliterated. NOT the writer
# transplant this filename used to carry: 66,687,678,432 B where the swift15
# r2 measured 66,687,678,464 B — same filename family, different artifact.
# Hub LFS sha256 verified at fetch by scripts/download-frank-dragoon-v2abl.sh.
FRANK_DRAGOON_CHECKPOINT=qwen38-flash-next-v2-abliterated.hgn
FRANK_DRAGOON_CHECKPOINT_BYTES=66687678432
FRANK_DRAGOON_CHECKPOINT_SHA256=b5bd925fa2b44343be4a2cd328cae6b57ce7ffa2fe2cc56281717377e5a1ce8a
# The n-gram lookup table: REQUIRED (the engine reads it beside the
# checkpoint; the card's quickstart names it explicitly). From
# peonist-ai/halogen-qwen3.8-flash-next @ 5cc17cea.
# The card does NOT establish this stock table as matched to the NATIVE
# conversion and no source-matched table is published, so the engine's own
# tools are the referee: NIAH 18/18 and PPL 3.968 on it (2026-10-17). It is
# HARDLINKED from the swift15 payload dir (a hardlink is a regular file; the
# serve gate refuses symlinks), i.e. byte-identical to the file that era
# served.
FRANK_DRAGOON_NGRAM_TABLE=qwen38-flash-next-ngram.hgn
FRANK_DRAGOON_NGRAM_BYTES=51200246144
FRANK_DRAGOON_NGRAM_SHA256=3450acada94e19aabad88bd49b45eb70304820949c2240fc178067b20ae5dffe
@@ -135,7 +166,7 @@ FRANK_DRAGOON_TOKENIZER_FILES="tokenizer.json chat_template.jinja tokenizer_conf
# model_ids for the :7770 backend MUST name this value.
HALOGEN_MODEL_ID=frank-dragoon
HALOGEN_CTX=262144
HALOGEN_KV_POOL_POSITIONS=524288
HALOGEN_KV_POOL_POSITIONS=262144
HALOGEN_KV_SLOTS=2
HALOGEN_HOST_RESERVE_GIB=20
# Spec decode: MTP head is INSIDE the checkpoint (do NOT set HALOGEN_MTP_HEAD);