rollback frank-default-large to v3 CIRU ActiveFPX PromptForge (operator decision 2026-08-22)

Restores the script pair verbatim from 132e147. v3 settings: PromptForge
m2048_fused_tail1476 full-W8 views, Output-K8 draft proxy, BF16 mmproj
vision, TEMPERATURE 0.7 / TOP_P 0.95, batch 4096/4096, ctxcp 16, reasoning
on/deepseek, no-mmap. Runtime: build-promptforge llama-server + v3 model
files in /home/dank/models/CIRU-Qwen3.8-27B-ActiveFPX-v3. Kairic Edge
files remain on the machine for rollback (docs/kairic-edge.md).

scripts/frank-default-large.env

@@ -1,39 +1,40 @@
-# Tunables for frank-default-large (Kairic Edge llama.cpp, dankclaw,
-# Strix Halo gfx1151).
+# Tunables for frank-default-large (CIRU llama.cpp, dankclaw, Strix Halo
+# gfx1151).
 #
-# Runtime: the llama-server built from the pinned ciru-ai/ROCmFPX tag
-# kairic-edge-qwen38-27b-v1 (Kairic Edge IU4 lane: PromptForge + Dual
-# View + native RDNA 3.5 IU4 matrix compute), built against the private
-# TheRock ROCm 7.15 SDK kept in the retired ling3-ciru venv.
-# Model: jcbtc/Qwen3.8-27B-IU4-Kairic-Edge, four-artifact payload
-# (GGUF + FFN/GDN/GDN-Output .pfs sidecars, 26.05 GiB total). Alias
-# frank-default-large, port 52625. See docs/kairic-edge.md.
+# Runtime: the PromptForge llama-server built from ciru-ai/ROCmFPX tag
+# qwen3.8-activefpx-promptforge-v2.3 plus the v3 output-K8 runtime patch
+# serving jcbtc/Qwen3.8-27B-CIRU-ActiveFPX-PromptForge (v3). v3 tensor
+# allocation (FFN-equalized, late-Q6 writers, full-Q8 output) with the
+# full-W8 PromptForge companions, the Output-K8 draft proxy, and the BF16
+# vision projector. Alias frank-default-large, port 52625.
 #
-# This runtime replaced the retired v3 CIRU ActiveFPX PromptForge
-# service. The v3 model files remain in
-# /home/dank/models/CIRU-Qwen3.8-27B-ActiveFPX-v3/ and the v3 binary in
-# /home/dank/ciru-qwen38/ROCmFPX/build-promptforge/ for rollback.
+# This runtime replaced the retired vLLM service that previously occupied
+# this slot. See docs/ciru-activefpx-promptforge.md.
 #
-# WARNING: do not name any variable TEMP, HOST, or GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE. The
-# ROCm HIP runtime reads those bare env vars (2026-08-13 TEMP incident).
+# WARNING: do not name any variable TEMP, HOST, or GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE. The ROCm
+# HIP runtime reads those bare env vars (see the 2026-08-13 TEMP incident).
 # llama.cpp reads --host/--port/--temp as CLI flags, never as env vars.
 
-# Kairic Edge llama-server binary (pinned tag build; see
-# docs/kairic-edge.md for the build runbook and binary identity).
-LLAMA_BIN=/home/dank/ciru-qwen38/ROCmFPX-kairic/build-kairic/bin/llama-server
+# CIRU llama-server binary (ROCmFPX v2.3 + v3 output-K8 patch build, see
+# docs/ciru runtime page). Built against the private TheRock ROCm 7.15 SDK
+# kept in the retired ling3-ciru venv. ROCm 7.15 is required for the
+# advertised Strix Halo performance; the system ROCm 7.2.4 selects
+# slower/fallback kernels.
+LLAMA_BIN=/home/dank/ciru-qwen38/ROCmFPX/build-promptforge/bin/llama-server
 
-# Model files (Kairic Edge four-artifact payload). The sidecars are
-# accelerator-specific prepacked copies of selected weights; they are
-# required, not optional.
-MODEL_DIR=/home/dank/models/Kairic-Qwen3.8-27B-IU4-Edge
-MODEL_FILE=Qwen3.8-27B-IU4-Kairic-Edge.gguf
-FFN_PFS=Qwen3.8-27B-Kairic-IU4-FFN.pfs
-GDN_PFS=Qwen3.8-27B-Kairic-IU4-GDN.pfs
-GDN_OUTPUT_PFS=Qwen3.8-27B-Kairic-IU4-GDN-Output.pfs
+# Model files (v3). The five-file payload (GGUF + FFN/GDN .pfs + Output-K8
+# proxy + BF16 vision projector) is the full v3 configuration. The v3 files
+# live in a separate directory so the v2 artifacts stay for rollback.
+MODEL_DIR=/home/dank/models/CIRU-Qwen3.8-27B-ActiveFPX-v3
+MODEL_FILE=Qwen3.8-27B-CIRU-ActiveFPX-PromptForge-v3-Q8-FFNEQ-LateQ6.gguf
+FFN_PFS=Qwen3.8-27B-CIRU-ActiveFPX-PromptForge-FFN.pfs
+GDN_PFS=Qwen3.8-27B-CIRU-ActiveFPX-PromptForge-GDN.pfs
+OUTPUT_K8_PFS=Qwen3.8-27B-CIRU-ActiveFPX-PromptForge-Output-K8.pfs
+MMPROJ_FILE=Qwen3.8-27B-mmproj-BF16.mmproj
 
-# ROCm 7.15 SDK paths (inside the retired ling3-ciru venv). The serve
-# script exports ROCM_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH from these so the 7.15
-# libraries precede any system ROCm 7.2.4.
+# ROCm 7.15 SDK paths (inside the retired ling3-ciru venv). The serve script
+# exports ROCM_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH from these so the 7.15 libraries
+# precede any system ROCm 7.2.4.
 ROCM_DEVEL=/home/dank/ling3-ciru/Ling-3.0-Flash-CIRU-int4-Strix-native/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/_rocm_sdk_devel
 ROCM_LIB=/home/dank/ling3-ciru/Ling-3.0-Flash-CIRU-int4-Strix-native/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/_rocm_sdk_libraries
 ROCM_CORE=/home/dank/ling3-ciru/Ling-3.0-Flash-CIRU-int4-Strix-native/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/_rocm_sdk_core
@@ -42,54 +43,38 @@ ALIAS=frank-default-large
 BIND_ADDR=0.0.0.0
 LISTEN_PORT=52625
 
-# Serving: the qualified Kairic profile (pinned runner defaults). Full
-# native 262144 context, 1 slot, batch 2048 / ubatch 512, 16 target /
-# 32 batch threads, f16 target and draft KV, 32 context checkpoints,
-# 8192 MiB prompt cache with idle-slot persistence. Context checkpoints
-# are required for this hybrid recurrent model; do not remove CTX_CHECKPOINTS
-# while the prompt cache is enabled.
+# Serving: full native 262144 context (n_ctx_train), 1 slot (user request
+# 2026-08-19: parallel slots degraded performance). -c is the TOTAL
+# context; with PARALLEL=1 it equals the per-slot context. Concurrent
+# requests queue on the single slot; the server never preempts a running
+# generation. f16 KV, context checkpoints, prompt cache, native MTP
+# depth-4. The Strix Halo is unified memory; rocm-smi reports the 64 GiB
+# budget. KV at 262144 x 64 KiB/cell is ~16 GiB.
 CTX_SIZE=262144
 PARALLEL=1
-# Batch profile: the pinned runner's qualified sizes (2048/512). Benchmarks
-# on 2026-08-22: ubatch 512 gives the fastest prefill at every depth
-# (524/485/323 t/s at 8k/16k/64k vs 266/258/203 for ubatch 4096) with no
-# decode difference. Do not raise ubatch without re-benching prefill.
-BATCH_SIZE=2048
-UBATCH_SIZE=512
-TARGET_THREADS=16
-BATCH_THREADS=32
+BATCH_SIZE=4096
+UBATCH_SIZE=4096
 CACHE_TYPE_K=f16
 CACHE_TYPE_V=f16
-CTX_CHECKPOINTS=32
+CTX_CHECKPOINTS=16
 CACHE_RAM=8192
 
-# Native MTP draft (depth 4, p_min 0, backend sampling) — the pinned
-# runner's explicit MTP4.
+# Native MTP draft (depth-4, p_min 0, backend sampling). The qualified v3
+# profile drives the draft via the Output-K8 proxy; the CPU argmax fast
+# path and IU4/ngram lanes are disabled in the serve script.
 SPEC_DRAFT_N_MAX=4
 SPEC_DRAFT_N_MIN=0
 SPEC_DRAFT_P_MIN=0.0
 SPEC_DRAFT_P_SPLIT=0.10
 
-# Sampling: the pinned runner keeps the deterministic evaluation
-# profile (temp 0 / top-p 1 / top-k 0 / min-p 0) as the server default.
-# Clients override per request; the model card recommends Qwen live
-# values for ordinary chat (temp 0.7, top-p 0.8, top-k 20, min-p 0,
-# presence_penalty 1.5).
-#
-# Reasoning: the qualified profile runs reasoning off, but production
-# chat runs --reasoning on --reasoning-format deepseek (thinking goes to
-# message.reasoning_content, matching the retired v3 service) with
-# --reasoning-budget -1 (unrestricted) and chat_template_kwargs
-# preserve_thinking=true (preserve thinking tokens across turns).
-#
-# FASTGREEDY mode: set to 1 for fast-greedy benchmark (card's default profile)
-# FASTGREEDY=0: production chat config (reasoning on, argmax off)
-# FASTGREEDY=1: reasoning off, deterministic sampler, argmax fastpath off
-#   (compatible mode). Mirrors the card's 'compatible mode' profile — the
-#   same as production minus reasoning. Non-greedy requests work fine.
-# 2026-08-22: flipped to 1 for real (operator decision).
-FASTGREEDY=1
+# Sampling (model card defaults).
+TEMPERATURE=0.7
+TOP_P=0.95
 
-# For fast-greedy bench: set FASTGREEDY=1 above. This flips to: reasoning off,
-# argmax fastpath=1, sampling defaults. Deploy with
-# FASTGREEDY=1 ./deploy.sh dankclaw to test the fast-greedy profile.
+# Thinking enabled (user request, 2026-08-18). deepseek format moves the
+# <think> reasoning into message.reasoning_content (OpenAI-compatible);
+# none would leave the thought tags unparsed in content.
+REASONING=on
+REASONING_FORMAT=deepseek
+
+VERBOSITY=4