diff --git a/scripts/serve-frank-large.sh b/scripts/serve-frank-large.sh
index 594772f..9625b3d 100755
--- a/scripts/serve-frank-large.sh
+++ b/scripts/serve-frank-large.sh
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ fi
 : "${NGL:=999}"
 : "${CPU_MOE:=on}"
 : "${FLASH_ATTN:=on}"
+: "${TEMPERATURE:=0.0}"
+: "${REASONING:=on}"
+: "${REASONING_FORMAT:=deepseek}"
+: "${REASONING_BUDGET:=-1}"
+: "${CACHE_RAM:=8192}"
+: "${SLOT_SAVE_PATH:=$SCRIPT_DIR/slot-state}"
 # Hard guard: on this host CUDA pinned host memory strands the co-tenants
 # (measured 2026-09-15: a default-policy start tried to page-lock 108.12 GiB,
 # evicted every co-tenant into swap and starved sshd into unreachability