llm: retire the trio service names — fleet services renamed to frank-archon/frank-dragoon/frank-zealot

The 2026-10-09 wire aliases become the service names everywhere:
systemd units, serve scripts, env files and FRANK_* variables,
deploy-plan/deploy-remote service keys, container names, Prometheus
job names + alert rules, Grafana dashboard queries, bats seams,
runbook filenames, homepage/AGENTS lore, and historical prose.
Rollback tags renamed in lockstep. Residue in the tree: zero.
Retired frank-medium/small/npu names are history and stay.

Known casualty: scripts/patches/*.patch context lines were rewritten;
those retired-era vLLM-fork patches no longer apply byte-exact.

scripts/frank-archon.env

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+# frank-archon.env — radiance (StillDeadcode, Apache-2.0) serving the
+# OFFICIAL Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8 checkpoint at NATIVE precision
+# (modelopt block-FP8 throughout, no requantisation) on BOTH R9700s (TP=2),
+# dankserver :7770.
+#
+# 2026-10-05 cutover from FreeToken (PR #587 ROCm, one card, experts in
+# pinned host RAM; git tag frank-archon-freetoken-pr587-20261005 is the
+# pre-cutover state — its unit/env/serve trio and Dockerfile are all in the
+# tag and rebuildable). Before that: tcclaviger vLLM fork (tag
+# frank-archon-vllm-shapeG-20261003).
+#
+# WHY RADIANCE: the engine is C++/HIP with libr4d kernels built for
+# gfx1201, drives `podman run` directly from the digest-pinned
+# stilldeadcode/radiance image (287 MiB; host needs only the amdgpu driver),
+# and its qwen4exp plugin reads the modelopt FP8 encoding NATIVELY
+# (`X.weight_scale_inv` is the scale plane — checkpoint.h). The PLE n-gram
+# table (51B params, 47.7 GiB) is served from pinned host RAM via io_uring
+# reads — Frank's call: "Native FP8. Experts from ram. Pin the PLE to ram."
+# The 4-bit-codebook publisher shape (qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad,
+# --host-pool-mib 12288) remains the documented fallback if the native
+# container proves unbootable.
+#
+# PAYLOAD: /home/dank/models/rad/qwen4exp-fp8-native.rad — a rad-convert
+# NO-RECIPE pure copy of the official 131-shard checkpoint (every weight
+# keeps its block-FP8 encoding; ~161 GiB). The convert runs against a
+# staging dir whose config.json drops `quantization_config`: the descriptor
+# string is only the plugin SELECTION key (spec §2.4 — exact match, no
+# fallback), and no shipped plugin claims (qwen4exp, "fp8"); the shipped
+# qwen4exp plugin claims (qwen4exp, "") which is what recipe-built
+# containers carry. Per-weight encodings are data, not the descriptor —
+# removing the key changes nothing about what the weights hold. Built by
+# scripts/build-frank-archon-rad.sh (staging + convert + rad-info).
+#
+# SERVING FACTS (docs/GUIDE.md, docs/DOCKER.md, compose/flashnext.yaml):
+# - The HTTP listener binds AFTER the full load (main.cpp: engine.start()
+#   then engine.serve()) — during load the port refuses connections, so a
+#   bare curl /health gate is honest. /health == /ping: 200 JSON while
+#   serving, 503 only while stopping (core/server/admin.cpp:385).
+# - Reasoning: --reasoning-format defaults to auto, emitting thinking in
+#   `reasoning_content` (config.cpp). Tool calls: the qwen3.8 dialect, from
+#   the chat format. Both need no parser flags.
+# - Sampling: the OpenAI endpoint accepts temperature, top_p, top_k, min_p,
+#   typical_p, presence_penalty, frequency_penalty, repetition_penalty,
+#   repeat_last_n, chat_template_kwargs, reasoning_effort,
+#   enable_thinking, preserve_thinking (core/server/oai.cpp:194-205) —
+#   models.yml's extraBody set is fully inside it. Unknown params are
+#   refused (400), which is why nothing unverified rides the wire.
+# - MTP: the official checkpoint carries the mtp.* head (3,101 tensors,
+#   mtp_num_hidden_layers=1) and the plugin probes draft depth 3 — the
+#   publisher's throughput peak for this model. Stated explicitly with
+#   --num-speculative-tokens 3.
+# - The fused TP all-reduce is declared over max-num-seqs x
+#   (1 + --num-speculative-tokens) rows; 3 x 3 = 9 rows fits either wire.
+# Engine pin: Codeberg tag v1.0.13 (commit 53282fa), Docker Hub tag 1.0.13,
+# index digest below. REJECTED UPGRADE: 1.2.0 (sha256:665775ed1d90de6dbb
+# 25558e07fc60d20328f1346f96f3c6e00845eb763f01fa, tag 1.2.0, commit
+# e95d397) was benched 2026-10-06 on this exact shape (fp8-native rad,
+# vram pair, spec 2, seqs 3, 43.6k greedy probe): decode 29.21 t/s and
+# draft acceptance 0.7123 vs the 1.0.13 control's 30.08 and 0.7549.
+# Acceptance on the greedy harness is deterministic (the control
+# reproduced the recorded 0.755 exactly), so the drop is a real numerics
+# change — the 1.2.0 MoE weight-rotation change (92b8aaf) is the named
+# suspect; decode loss tracks the acceptance ratio (0.943 vs 0.945).
+# The vram-pair translation itself is exact (1.2.0 boot ledger took
+# vram_weights 25.46 GiB / vram_kv 3.46 GiB per card byte-identical to
+# the 1.0.13 ledger at EVC 0.82). Re-test 1.2.0+ when the rotation change
+# is untangled; 1.2.0 also REMOVED --expert-vs-cache-ratio in favour of
+# the --vram-weights-mib / --vram-kv-mib pair (core/config.cpp) — this
+# file already uses the pair, which BOTH pins accept (rollback symmetry).
+FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE=stilldeadcode/radiance@sha256:4c3f484564bb2872784e46b0a59cbd71becc9c1e746e301a3596ffae253c322e
+# The .rad container FILE (mounted under /models) and the state dir for the
+# prefix-cache disk tier (mounted rw at /data). The model dir holds ONLY
+# .rad files; the raw HF download and its staging dir live beside it and
+# are never mounted.
+FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_DIR=/home/dank/models/rad
+FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_FILE=qwen4exp-swift15-w4dn8-i8-hc8m.rad
+FRANK_ARCHON_STATE_DIR=/home/dank/radiance-state
+# The state dir's tune/ subdirectory holds rad-tune's kernel-selection
+# cache (the engine's selector reads $RADIANCE_HOME/tune/<machine>.tune
+# at boot; $RADIANCE_HOME defaults to /opt/radiance, in the image, so the
+# cache must ride a host mount — serve script mounts it, see the runbook's
+# "Tuning levers").
+# Container identity is the SERVICE name (Frank's call, 2026-10-05): one
+# name across systemctl and podman ps. The runtime changes; the name does
+# not. The legacy list retires every predecessor identity that could hold
+# the GPUs or the port.
+FRANK_ARCHON_CONTAINER=frank-archon
+FRANK_ARCHON_LEGACY_CONTAINERS="frank-archon-qwen frank-archon-r9v qwen-fp8 glm-probe"
+# Served model id — Protoss name (wire rename 2026-10-09). The container,
+# unit, scripts and this file keep the frank-archon name above; only the
+# alias on the wire moved. Radiance validates the requested model name, so
+# every client (harness, bench scripts, probes) MUST send this value.
+FRANK_ARCHON_SERVED_NAME=frank-archon
+FRANK_ARCHON_PORT=7770
+# Frank's chat-template call: froggeric's fixed Qwen3.8 template (the
+# repo's root chat_template.jinja, vendored here; the checkpoint's own
+# template is baked into the .rad by rad-convert and this overrides it).
+# Radiance derives the reasoning/tool-call reply format from it.
+FRANK_ARCHON_TEMPLATE=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/qwen38-froggeric-v22.5.jinja
+
+# --- engine shape (first-boot conservative; the boot ledger arbitrates) --
+# Tensor parallel: BOTH R9700s. The board swap (2026-09-20, ProArt B850
+# x8/x8 on root ports) made collectives legal on this host; radiance's TP
+# wire is libr4d's own, not RCCL.
+FRANK_ARCHON_TP=2
+# Lossy WHT 6-bit wire for large all-reduces (publisher's production choice:
+# +5.6-6.3% prefill, ~-1.3% 8-stream decode at TP2). min-kb stays the
+# engine default.
+FRANK_ARCHON_TP_WIRE=wht6
+# Decode slots. 2 is Frank's first-boot value ("use parallelism = 2 to
+# start"); raise only after a real-traffic look at slot occupancy and the
+# KV pool's headroom line. The recurrent-state cost scales with it (54
+# MiB/copy/card, 2 copies with speculation).
+FRANK_ARCHON_MAX_SEQS=3
+# Served window. Native is 262,144; 200,000 is the publisher's production
+# value (compose) and what models.yml's contextWindow must quote — a longer
+# prompt is refused by the engine, never truncated.
+FRANK_ARCHON_MAX_MODEL_LEN=200000
+FRANK_ARCHON_PLACEMENT=expert_tiered
+# Pinned host pool for the expert rows that do not fit VRAM. Native FP8
+# experts are 112.8 GiB total (56.4 GiB per rank slice) vs the 4-bit
+# publisher shape's ~29 GiB — this pool is the cost of native precision.
+# The boot ledger prints the pool's coverage ("the pool backs N% of the
+# worst case ... M full-length sessions"); resize from that line, not from
+# arithmetic.
+FRANK_ARCHON_HOST_POOL_MIB=40960
+# VRAM left unclaimed per card (publisher default 96 MiB).
+FRANK_ARCHON_GPU_HEADROOM_MIB=96
+# VRAM split of claimed memory per card, MiB (0 = derive from the card).
+# Engine 1.2.0 REMOVED --expert-vs-cache-ratio; these two knobs replace
+# it. The values transcribe the live 1.0.13 boot ledger at ratio 0.82:
+# vram_weights 25.46 GiB, vram_kv 3.46 GiB per card -> 26071 / 3543.
+# Bracket arms scale the KV term linearly in (1-r) from the 0.82 anchor
+# with weights fixed: ratio 0.90 -> KV 1968, ratio 0.95 -> KV 984. The
+# boot ledger arbitrates; re-derive after any payload change.
+FRANK_ARCHON_VRAM_WEIGHTS_MIB=26071
+FRANK_ARCHON_VRAM_KV_MIB=3543
+# KV cache in FP8 (7.32 KiB/token at this model's 12 full-attention layers,
+# 2 KV heads, 256 head_dim, K+V).
+FRANK_ARCHON_KV_DTYPE=fp8
+# Spec decode: the checkpoint's own MTP head at the publisher's depth-3
+# operating point (probe() returns 3 when mtp_num_hidden_layers > 0; the
+# flag states it so the ledger records the intent).
+FRANK_ARCHON_SPEC_TOKENS=2
+FRANK_ARCHON_MAX_BATCHED_TOKENS=2048
+# Prefix cache tiers (publisher pattern; disk tier sized for 2 slots).
+FRANK_ARCHON_PREFIX_HOST_MIB=4096
+FRANK_ARCHON_PREFIX_DISK_MIB=65536
+# Frank's pin law: the PLE n-gram table (47.7 GiB) serves from pinned host
+# RAM the cards read. `ram` REFUSES the start if the memlock limit is too
+# small — the unit's LimitMEMLOCK=infinity is the other half of this law.
+FRANK_ARCHON_NGRAM_PLACEMENT=ram
+# TTM preflight: the pinned ledger (2 x 40 GiB pools + 47.7 GiB PLE + 4 GiB
+# prefix host) is ~132 GiB. ttm's pages_limit/pages_max cap the GPU-mappable
+# pinned pages; the current cap (32,252,917 pages = ~123 GiB) is BELOW the
+# plan, so the serve script refuses to start until both are raised. This is
+# the floor it enforces (in MiB), with ~8 GiB of margin.
+FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB=140000
+# Escape hatch for boot-ladder experiments. Unset -> no extra argv. Keep
+# multi-flag values as one string; the serve script expands it unquoted on
+# purpose.
+FRANK_ARCHON_EXTRA_ARGS=
+# The .rad's minimum size in MiB (deployer gate; a truncated convert is a
+# guaranteed long-timeout boot instead of a fast failure). The converted
+# container measured 177,109 MiB (1,857,127,997,440 B = 173.0 GiB; the
+# plan-only estimate 172.76 GiB covers the data planes but not the metadata
+# tail) - floor sits just under the payload.
+FRANK_ARCHON_RAD_MIN_MIB=110000