frank-primary: swap Dankserver to llama.cpp Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Q8_0

The 2026-09-26 same-day cutover that ended the Lucebox DS4.1 detour:
Dankserver's :7770 endpoint is now unsloth llama.cpp (the b11030-mix
prebuilt, ROCm gfx120X, bundled runtime) serving
unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF at Q8_0 — 175.30 GiB across six sha256-
verified split parts — on both Radeon AI PRO R9700s, as a ROOT unit (the
frank-large shape: no container, no generated unit).

The deployed contract:

- Placement law: layer split -ts 1,1 with -ngl 999; the routed experts
  and the 51B-param n-gram (PLE) table are COMPUTED in host RAM via
  -ot exps=CPU,ngram_embeddings=CPU (the x4-pair measurement: streaming
  over PCIe loses at 3.7 t/s, computing in RAM does not care).
  per_layer_token_embd.weight=CPU is required by the shared MTP head's
  borrow path (a GPU-resident borrow crashes the draft load).
  mmap stays on; --cache-ram 16384.
- Spec chain draft-mtp,ngram-mod: the shared Q8_0 MTP head
  (mtp-...-shared-Q8_0.gguf, 2,786,568,256 B) at depth 2, with the
  draftless ngram-mod matcher chained behind it — the only legal way to
  layer two spec implementations in one process.
- Vision explicit: --mmproj names the BF16 projector (this build never
  autoloads; a server without it comes up healthy and text-only).
- Reasoning: --reasoning-format deepseek → reasoning_content; the
  Qwen3.8 template's {xhigh, medium, low} reasoning_effort gate folded
  by reasoningEffortMap in models.yml.
- One stream, the model's full 262,144 context; greedy server default
  with Qwen-recommended sampling riding compat.extraBody.

The deployer's deploy_llm_primary is rewritten for the root unit: it
gates every artifact at its declared byte count (stat -c %s, never wc -c
— which read the whole 377 GiB lucebox file for minutes on 2026-09-26),
retires the lucebox user quadlet to dated home trash, waits out port
7770, relinks/enables/restarts the root unit and waits up to 1800 s for
/health. The quadlet-era tree under dankserver/frank-primary/ is
archived (dankserver/.AGENTTRASH/20260926-llamacpp-cutover/ on this
box; git history everywhere else) and its planner mapping replaced by
the scripts/ trio.

Observability flips back to the llamacpp namespace: a frank-primary
Prometheus job at 192.168.0.235:7770 (cross-host LAN — the netavark
published-port quirk that forces host.containers.internal for the two
Dankclaw endpoints is same-host only), the LlmEndpointDown runbook
text, and the dashboard description for three llama.cpp endpoints.

Docs: the new runbook (frank-primary-llamacpp-qwen38-flash-next-q8.md),
RETIRED banners on the lucebox and radiance runbooks and their index
entries, the AGENTS.md fleet section rewritten for the root-unit shape,
and the homepage frank-medium card renamed to frank-primary with the
Q8_0 Flash-Next spec (docs.html #models and the modality note updated:
images on frank-primary and frank-small, audio on frank-small only).

models.yml: the dankserver provider is "llamacpp (dankserver)" serving
frank-primary, contextWindow 262144, maxTokens 65536 (compaction-gap
law: 183,501 + 65,536 <= 262,144), input [text, image].

Suite: 346 green (frank_primary_unit.bats rewritten for the root unit —
16 tests pinning the placement law, the shared-head requirement, the
explicit projector, HIP env hygiene (BIND_HOST, never bare HOST), and
the deployer's byte-count gates; the quadlet-era planner and
changed-tests mappings rewritten for the trio; the observability scrape
test asserts three llamacpp jobs again).

Rollback: the lucebox image (localhost/lucebox-rocm:gfx1201) and the
378 GiB payload stay on the host; the Qwen payload stays fetched, so a
re-swap in either direction is a redeploy, not a refetch.
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@@ -79,35 +79,46 @@ scrape_configs:
# this container, not the guarded vhosts: these are machine clients and
# Prometheus cannot solve an Anubis challenge.
#
# One metric namespace: llamacpp:* — frank-large and frank-small, both
# llama.cpp with --metrics and both verified 2026-09-20 to export
# One metric namespace: llamacpp:* — frank-large, frank-small and
# frank-primary, all llama.cpp with /metrics (the family verified from
# /metrics on 2026-09-16 and 2026-09-20) and all exporting
# requests_deferred (the queue depth, the only form llama.cpp shows the
# capacity wall in), spec_decode_num_drafts_total, tokens_predicted_total,
# and the prompt_tokens_cached_total / prompt_tokens_total reuse pair.
#
# frank-large is scraped over host.containers.internal, not its own LAN address:
# this Prometheus is a bridge-networked container (Network=dankclaw_default),
# and on this netavark host a container can only reach the host's LAN IP at a
# PUBLISHED port — a host-process bind like llama-server's 0.0.0.0:7770 is
# refused at 192.168.0.143:7770 while it answers at 169.254.1.2:7770. That is
# frank-large and frank-small are scraped over host.containers.internal,
# not their own LAN addresses: this Prometheus is a bridge-networked
# container (Network=dankclaw_default), and on this netavark host a
# container can only reach the host's LAN IP at a PUBLISHED port — a
# host-process bind like llama-server's 0.0.0.0:7770 is refused at
# 192.168.0.143:7770 while it answers at 169.254.1.2:7770. That is
# why frank-small was red here for days (up{job="frank-small"} == 0,
# "dial tcp 192.168.0.143:7771") even though the endpoint was healthy and
# exporting: the target address was unreachable by construction, not the
# service down. Same host, same rule, so both local endpoints use the gateway.
# (2026-09-26) frank-medium is replaced by frank-primary (lucebox DS4.1),
# which exposes no metrics endpoint (/metrics -> 404), so there is no job
# for it here. The endpoint's liveness is covered by the homepage probe;
# the documented remedy is a blackbox exporter, which is not deployed.
# service down. Same host, same rule, so both local endpoints use the
# gateway.
#
# (2026-09-26) frank-primary is llama.cpp again (the unsloth b11030-mix
# prebuilt serving Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Q8_0) on Dankserver, a DIFFERENT
# machine: the netavark published-port quirk above is same-host only, so
# plain LAN routing reaches 192.168.0.235:7770 and the job returns.
- job_name: "frank-small"
metrics_path: "/metrics"
static_configs:
- targets: ["host.containers.internal:7771"]
labels:
service: frank-small
- job_name: "frank-large"
metrics_path: "/metrics"
static_configs:
- targets: ["host.containers.internal:7770"]
labels:
service: frank-large
- job_name: "frank-primary"
metrics_path: "/metrics"
static_configs:
- targets: ["192.168.0.235:7770"]
labels:
service: frank-primary