diff --git a/scripts/frank-default-small.env b/scripts/frank-default-small.env
index d125081..da9239c 100644
--- a/scripts/frank-default-small.env
+++ b/scripts/frank-default-small.env
@@ -5,23 +5,23 @@
 # frank-default-large (the PP head). Keep the resident footprint small
 # enough that the head keeps its headroom.
 #
-# 2026-08-16: gemma4-it:e4b chosen as the default after the 4-model bakeoff
-# (12.2 t/s decode, 582 t/s 8k prefill, 4/4 vision, 32k ctx, small
-# footprint). Swap FLM_MODEL for qwen3.5:9b, gpt-oss:20b, or
-# qwen3.6-moe:35b-a3b to change the served model. gpt-oss:20b is capped at
-# 8k context and has no vision; 35b-a3b needs ~29 GiB resident (do not run
-# alongside the PP head at full load).
+# 2026-08-16: qwen3.6-moe:35b-a3b chosen after the 4-model bakeoff and the
+# user's model swap (was gemma4-it:e4b). Swap FLM_MODEL back to gemma4-it:e4b
+# to restore the lighter footprint. gpt-oss:20b is capped at 8k context and
+# has no vision.
 
-FLM_MODEL=gemma4-it:e4b
+FLM_MODEL=qwen3.6-moe:35b-a3b
 FLM_HOST=0.0.0.0
 FLM_PORT=52625
-# Power mode: turbo. Measured decode is bandwidth-bound (turbo ~= performance
-# for this model), but the user requested turbo; it may help prefill.
+# Power mode: turbo. Measured decode ~13.1 t/s on the 35B-A3B at 262k ctx.
 FLM_PMODE=turbo
-# Load the ASR model (Whisper-V3-Turbo-NPU2) alongside Gemma4. Exposes
+# Load the ASR model (Whisper-V3-Turbo-NPU2) alongside the LLM. Exposes
 # /v1/audio/transcriptions. Adds ~1 GiB to the resident footprint.
 FLM_ASR=1
-# Maximum context length. Gemma4 natively supports 128K; the NPU budget
-# (~15 GiB minus the 9.1 GiB footprint) fits 131072. Verified 2026-08-16:
-# loads, KV cache allocates to ~115k, decode ~12 t/s, 13 GiB headroom.
-FLM_CTX_LEN=131072
+# Maximum context length. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B native max is 262144 (extensible
+# to ~1M via RoPE/YaRN, which FLM does not serve). Verified 2026-08-16:
+# loads at -c 262144 with turbo+asr; KV occupancy 0.0687% at ~180 tokens;
+# decode 13.1 t/s; PP head unaffected on 7770. The box runs at ~70 MiB free
+# RAM while this loads (footprint 24.3 GiB + Whisper) — the user plans a
+# BIOS RAM/VRAM reallocation for headroom.
+FLM_CTX_LEN=262144