PR #69 wired the copier, planner entry and health gate but missed the
three dispatch gates: the client valid_service, the remote
service_is_allowed, and deploy_service's case list. The client gate
rejected --service blackbox-exporter outright; even past it the
dispatcher's catch-all hard-fails on dankclaw (no compose since
2026-09-16). New seam pins the class: every dankclaw service the
remote gate allows must carry a deploy_service case - proven red by
planting a gated, undispatched name.
Measured 2026-10-21 with frank-dragoon live: MemAvailable 15.3 GiB,
iGPU busy 1.75 GiB. The Qwen-Image weight sets (13.3-14.2 GB) do not
fit that budget, and the page's 122 GB /system_stats figure is the
aperture, not headroom. Adds the fit table and the
stop-mask-render-verify procedure (the 3090 bench law, applied to the
APU); ComfyUI.md gotcha links it.
Prometheus/Observability/Provisioning pages: every job up after the
blackbox swap, the copier list learns copy_blackbox_config and the
alloy validate gate, the config table gains alloy + blackbox rows, and
the logs bullet states the stream-label law instead of the retired
'awaiting deploy' note.
- caddyfile seam learns the documented exception: URL-shaped targets
are legal only inside a prober job (state is per-job; the first cut
leaked it and passed a planted URL).
- observability seams: blackbox unit + planner entries, both copiers
executed for real in sandboxes, alloy engine-validation refusal
(image-gated), dashboard panel invariants.
- AGENTS.md: structural target downs retired.
copy_alloy_config now validates the rendered config with the very
alloy image that will run it, before installing: a misplaced attribute
crash-loops the unit behind a green deploy, and no textual seam can
see it. copy_blackbox_config ships the prober config; the planner maps
the new unit and shared/blackbox/** to the blackbox-exporter service,
ordered before prometheus.
Loki metrics queries group only by indexed stream labels, so the
journal-as-JSON stream made every per-container view structurally
empty (measured 6.5k lines/5min flowing while the board read zero).
A loki.process relabel stage now extracts CONTAINER_NAME into a
'container' label. alloy 1.21's json stage has no on_error attribute
(validated against the pinned image) — format_as_json guarantees the
line shape, so no error branch exists.
observability.json: stale 'structural downs' panel description fixed,
target census matches the post-blackbox job set. logs-overview.json:
panels grouped by the promoted container label instead of the absent
container_name, so the board stops reading empty beside live traffic.
Prometheus 3 refuses HTML scrape bodies, so the comfyui/services probe
jobs were structurally dead targets reading as outages. HTTP liveness
now rides a blackbox exporter (shared/blackbox/blackbox.yml, loopback
bind, http_2xx module); prometheus.yml probes SearXNG, OpenWebUI and
ComfyUI via __param_target relabeling. The unit is a boot-persistent,
self-healing root quadlet.
copy_grafana_provisioning named llm-fleet.json alone, so a new board in
shared/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/ silently never reached
/opt/grafana/provisioning. Measured 2026-10-21: the containers board was
merged, seam-tested, and documented as working since 2026-10-20, yet was
NEVER provisioned — its panel fixes were undeployable; the other four
boards existed on disk only because someone hand-copied them once (and
host-system.json there had gone stale against the repo). The copier now
globs the directory, and GRAFANA_PROV_ROOT lets the new bats case run
the copier for real into a sandbox (red against the old hand-listed
body, green against the glob). Vault: the copier law + the containers
incident on Observability Provisioning, the corrected dashboards claim
on Observability.
Note: a mktemp sandbox + trap RETURN races bats' trap machinery (the
dir vanishes mid-function); BATS_TEST_TMPDIR is the safe idiom.
Census: all 5 provisioned dashboards, 56 targets, every expression
re-evaluated against the live Prometheus/Loki with template vars expanded
(queries must run from the host: both APIs bind 127.0.0.1; from the dev box
that is connection-refused, which is NOT a dashboard defect).
- host-system 'Load 5m / core' was STRUCTURALLY EMPTY: bare '/' drops
non-matching pairs and the right side collapses to {job} while the left
carries {job,instance} -> 0 series forever. Fixed with / on(job); proven
live (2 series).
- containers 'Memory vs limit (%)' was STRUCTURALLY EMPTY: every
container_spec_memory_limit_bytes on this fleet is 0 (no cgroup limits),
so the '> 0' filter can never match. Rewritten to share-of-host-total via
label_replace join of the node exporter's MemTotal by host (the parens
form is a PromQL parse error: nothing may follow group_left); 62 series
live. Panel unit percentunit kept -> expression returns a fraction.
- llm-fleet 'Firing fleet alerts' is legitimately empty when healthy
(ALERTS carries only firing/pending series); description now says so,
per the Stale Signal rule that 0-series-on-ALERTS is not a defect.
logs-overview and observability: all targets already returning data.
Purpose-test pass over the audit findings (every verdict re-verified
against the file before touching it; three scout findings were hallucinated
— a nonexistent filename, my own changelog line, and sanctioned Eras rows):
- Observability Provisioning: destroyed the 63-line 'Current delivered
state' block — chain topology/relay/delivery restates [[Observability]]
and [[Alertmanager]] (those are the owners). Its three sole-custody laws
MOVED to Stale Signal Audit as 'Three rules that outlive the incident':
down-beside-healthy -> read lastError; Prometheus alert state in process
vs Alertmanager's --storage.path persistence; candidate-arm metrics are
never fleet state.
- RDNA4 MoE VRAM budget: kept the laws (registry over-prices the pool;
never reuse a B/token ratio across geometries; pin pool bytes
floor-sized), era-labelled the rates, destroyed the measured ladder
table for the superseded shape-G/bf16 rungs.
- Stale Signal Audit: new rules section + Provisioning Related link.
check-okf 109/0, vault links 0 unresolved, docs seams green.
The lane's child dlopens libxrt_core.so.2 from /opt/xilinx/lib/<multiarch>/
as well; our mounts filled only /opt/xilinx/xrt/lib and the install path.
Since the host's libxrt2 was reconfigured 2026-10-20 the child dies naming
the missing prefix ('No such library
/opt/xilinx/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxrt_core.so.2') and the engine
supervisor takes the WHOLE container down on a dead lane — measured
2026-10-21: frank-dragoon boot-looped 88 times with chat dead while the
GPU lines looked healthy.
Each XRT library now mounts THREE times from the same real file (never a
symlink); the multiarch name derives from FRANK_DRAGOON_XRT_DIR's basename
so the bats fixture proves the derivation. Proven end-to-end before commit:
production-shaped scratch boot + the three extra mounts answers the full
boot ledger, npu_api buckets u0..u9, and /health ok at the 262144 ceiling.
A dead lane is not survivable on this engine — arm it only with all three
prefixes (page law updated).
Shape + harness contract on the endpoint page, AGENTS.md, and the OMP
Harness worked example recomputed to the live pair; the 400-zone law now
names the 85 %-comments vs 95 %-config disagreement as the recurring
cause and points at the seam that enforces the arithmetic.
The 200,704 ceiling squeezed the harness contextWindow down to 155,648
(the 400-zone fit law needs ~45k of gap under the ceiling), which is why
long dragoon sessions kept hitting the 400 zone: the harness clamps
max_tokens to window - est - 4096, its chars/4 est under-counts ~3 %,
and config.yml compacts at 95 % while the pair was designed for 85 %.
Ceiling -> checkpoint's native 262,144 (no RAM move: the KV pool stays
401,408 and is what the ledger bills; the band ctx <= pool <= slots*ctx
still holds). The harness window becomes 200,000 with a 62,144 gap.
The fit-law seam now reads the declared window from the vault page (the
one owner) and checks the arithmetic at the live 95 % trigger, so a
ceiling/window pair that drifts back together fails tests/run.sh
instead of a live session.
Two shipped-2026-10-20 bugs that left gpu-dankclaw, gpu-dankserver and
cadvisor-dankclaw DOWN beside a green deploy:
- gpu-exporter.py built one ThreadingHTTPServer per bind but ran
serve_forever() on servers[0] only: the LAN-class socket sat listen()ing
but never accept()ed, loopback deploy gate passed, every scrape that
reached the other bind timed out on the SYN backlog. Now one thread per
extra bind. Regression test spins --serve on two loopback binds and
requires BOTH to answer /metrics.
- cadvisor-dankclaw scraped its own host's LAN IP. Measured from inside the
Prometheus container: a bridge container cannot dial its own host's LAN
address at all (hairpin refuses published ports too); the podman gateway
answers. Target moved to host.containers.internal:8080; the seam that
pinned the LAN address (asserting the wrong doctrine) is re-pinned to the
gateway plus a negative pin against the own-host LAN dial. Observability
page records the measured reachability law replacing the inferred one.
deploy.sh's valid_service and deploy-remote.sh's service_is_allowed are
two gates for the same door, and they drifted: the remote gate gained
cadvisor (2026-10-20) and gpu-exporter (2026-10-21) while the client gate
never did, so `--service cadvisor|gpu-exporter` died with "is not deployed
on <target>" at the client — the first-ever deploy of a new service is
exactly the case that needs the client gate to know it. dankserver:prowlarr
(planner can emit it for dankserver) was remote-only too.
Adds the four missing pairs to the client gate and a deployment_flow
contract test that diffs the two extracted lists per target — the test the
cadvisor PR should have carried. searxng-network stays the one sanctioned
client-only exception (network unit, no remote handler), documented inline.
ls329 is the newest build on the linuxserver channel and Plex 1.43.5.11029
is their newest release; the live pin (ls325 / 1.43.4.10903) is two Plex
releases behind. Digest-verified at pin time: the tag's manifest digest
equals the registry's current 'latest' (sha256:8f655bad...e9e2334), the
same law the page records. Quadlet restart runs PMS's usual one-minor
schema migration on first boot; the deployer's /identity HTTPS gate
tolerates the first-boot migration up to 600 s.
Rollback: revert this commit (one line).
Add a host-process GPU exporter, scrape it on both servers, and graph it
on the host-system dashboard. The fleet has four GPUs across three vendors
of interest (2x R9700 on Dankserver, the 8060S iGPU + RTX 3090 on Dankclaw)
and nothing exposed them until now.
scripts/gpu-exporter.py reads each AMD card's amdgpu sysfs
(gpu_busy_percent / mem_info_vram_* / hwmon temp1_input / power1_average)
plus one nvidia-smi --query-gpu CSV, and emits unified gpu_* Prometheus
families (utilization_percent, memory_used/total_bytes, temperature_celsius,
power_watts) labelled gpu/vendor/model. Absent hardware yields ABSENT series,
never a fabricated 0: the R9700s expose no sysfs power, so they simply carry
no gpu_power_watts line. Both sources are injectable, so the seam runs on a
GPU-less dev box; live-verified on Dankserver's real sysfs.
It runs as a plain user unit (not a quadlet): it must read the host's own DRM
sysfs and shell to nvidia-smi, which a container cannot do without GPU
passthrough. Same posture as signal-relay. The base unit binds loopback; the
deploy drop-in appends the host LAN address, never a wildcard (matching
node-exporter/cadvisor). deploy_gpu_exporter installs/enables/health-gates it
on both hosts and is wired into the planner (both targets), the test-changed
router, and two Prometheus scrape jobs using the node/cadvisor reach rules
(gateway on Dankclaw, LAN on Dankserver).
The stored 3.28 chars/token (measured 2026-10-11) had drifted to 3.20 as the
repo's docs grew, so leg B sent ~201,900-token prompts and took a legitimate
400 from the engine's own window check — which reads as a capacity-contract
failure on a healthy endpoint. One ~4k-token request now prices the ratio, and
the leg sizes to 97 % of the deployed window.
The shape block and boot ledger now quote the live 1.8.1 boot: experts 20.72 GiB
(78 %) / kv cache 5.64 GiB (21 %) = 747,492 tokens, 3.7 full-length sessions,
`--checkpoint-slots 40`, `queue_cap 32`, sampler 12 rows, `experts-from-host`
8.99 GiB a rank.
The KV Capacity law is rewritten from the pinned source instead of inference:
`core/mem/vram_budget.cpp:146-156` funds the cache as `elastic - expert_floor`,
`core/mem/kv.cpp:266` sets its ceiling from `max_seqs x max_ctx` (demand, never
funding), and `core/place/planner.cpp:100-104` makes the expert floor fall
one-for-one with `--host-pool-mib` — which is why +4,224 MiB of pinned host pool
bought the pool and cost 3.01 GiB of residency a card. The old "funds ~90 %,
never 100 %" phrasing was inference; the byte-identical 45,568 row is the ceiling
case, not a mystery. Slot-cost law carries the four-slot price (state +
checkpoint store + rows, still under the 25-row exact-wire bound). The two-slot
era is one row in Eras with its rollback commit. Date stamps in the trio
comments corrected to 2026-10-20.
Frank's order: 4 slots, a 700k pool, round UP if the resolver cannot land it
exactly. The cache target is MAX_SEQS x MAX_MODEL_LEN, so the demand is
800,000 fp8 tokens; the resolver funds ~91-93 % of demand (three boots of
evidence on the endpoint page), which clears 700k, and the VRAM has to come
from the expert plane -- which has to go somewhere, so HOST_POOL_MIB moves with
it. expert_vram_floor (core/place/planner.cpp:100-104) is exactly
plane + 2 units - host_room, and the live boot ledger pins that plane at 67.60
GiB a rank (23.73 GiB floor at 44,928 of room), so 49,152 drops the floor to
19.61 GiB and leaves the cache ~6.9 GiB: enough for the whole target, with the
leftover returned to the experts.
Costs, both real: pinned host RAM 87.75 -> 96.0 GiB (the pool is pinned once per
rank) and ~3.2 GiB a card of expert residency, read over the x8 Gen5 link when
the router picks a host-resident expert. The boot ledger's vram_kv line is the
referee; if it comes back under 700,000 tokens HOST_POOL_MIB goes up 1024 and
this redeploys.
TTM_MIN_MIB 150,000 -> 162,000 for the new pin ledger (2 x pool + PLE 48,824 +
prefix 8,192 + MNBT 2,048 + the auto checkpoint store, now 40 slots of 112 MiB =
161,848 MiB), and the bats ledger guard now counts the checkpoint store because
it grows with the slot count. The two env-value assertions in that seam are
bumped with the values they guard.
A prefill chunk that shares a step with decoding sequences holds the device for
the chunk's whole time: measured on this shape, decode-only steps 15.5 ms
against chunk steps 166 ms, and 4.7 % of the steps carry 34 % of the engine's
step time. Harness-visible decode falls 166 -> 13 tok/s (per stream 6.7 = one
token per shared step) once concurrent prefill passes 5k tok/s, and TTFT p90 for
an arriving request goes 2.4 -> 18.0 s.
BUSY_PREFILL_CHUNK stays `auto`: it is a prefill-speed dial, and the source
refuses to halve the chunk for decode rows alone -- which is why
engine_steps_held_total read zero for the whole 34.7 h boot. PREFILL_INTERLEAVE
is the knob that acts on the measured mechanism: N decode-only steps follow any
chunk step taken beside decoders. N=1 is the conservative first arm -- a stream
takes its token from the chunk step and one from the held step (~2 tokens per
182 ms instead of one per 166 ms); the cost lands on the prefilling prompt's
TTFT and on requests still queued, not on anything decoding.
Rollback: PREFILL_INTERLEAVE=0. Verification: the flag must reach argv (the
serve script only passes it when > 0), engine_steps_held_total must leave zero,
then the §9 bucket pair must move before N rises.
Per-container CPU/memory was invisible for the quadlet app stack — Grafana could
only see the host (node_exporter) and the LLM engines. This adds a rootless
cadvisor quadlet on each host and a `containers` dashboard.
cadvisor works on this rootless-Podman / cgroup-v2 host on one condition:
--cgroupns=host. Podman starts every container in a private cgroup namespace, so
without it cadvisor sees only its own cgroup root and exports a single series
(measured 2026-10-20: 1 series off, 996 on). The libpod socket does not name the
rootless app containers (it resolved 2 of 34), so naming comes from elsewhere:
the quadlet unit name is carried in the cgroup path
(app.slice/<name>.service/libpod-payload-<hex>), and Prometheus relabels it into
a `container` label. No podman socket needed.
cadvisor cannot bind per-interface like node_exporter, so each unit is a bridge
container publishing exactly 127.0.0.1:8080 and the host LAN address — never a
wildcard. Prometheus (a bridge container) reaches a host-published port at the
LAN address, so cadvisor-dankclaw/dankserver scrape 192.168.0.143:8080 /
192.168.0.235:8080. Only the families cadvisor actually exports for these
containers are graphed — CPU usage, memory working-set/limit, OOM — not network
or filesystem, which are absent under the host-PID layout.
Wired through the deployer (allowlist, deploy_observability case + /healthz gate,
dispatcher), the planner (both targets), and observability_quadlet.bats.
The replay law named `--checkpoint-policy floor`; config.cpp admits exactly
geometric-backoff (default), tip-only, keep-all and refuses anything else at
boot, so the recorded arm could never be deployed. Replaced with the real
semantics, priced from core/mem/prefix.{h,cpp}: the default keeps a geometric
ladder (9 snapshots for a 200k session at interval 2048 -- exactly the live
ledger line -- so a turn diverging d behind the tip can resume at tip-3d:
diverge at 120k, replay 21.7k); retention is not the write path, so keep-all
buys a bounded replay for pinned host RAM alone (196 slots x 111.98 MiB = 21.4
GiB against the store's eighth-of-host budget of 31.5 GiB, hard bound = room);
and shortening --checkpoint-interval cannot fix the deep case -- the coarsest
ladder scale is interval x 2^k under the depth, so the deepest gap stays about
half the prompt at every interval. §9 keeps only the three-name locator.
frank-archon Laws: add the measured interference census (decode-only step
15.5 ms vs 166 ms chunk steps; 4.7% of steps hold 34% of step time; median
decode 166 -> 13 t/s above 5k prefill tok/s, per-stream 6.7 t/s = one token
per shared step; TTFT p90 2.4 -> 18.0 s for arriving requests), the lag test
that kills the residency theory, the busy_cap arithmetic, and the correction
that --prefill-interleave is the decoder dial and auto is not.
Facts that change how an operator reads this box: /diagnostics exists and
reports link-below-max at 100% busy; latency metrics live under vllm:, cadence
under radiance:; preemption is vllm:num_preemptions_total (264 this boot, all
bursts) while the radiance gauge is instant depth; both root ports are x8 Gen5
max by board (31.5 GB/s ceiling, not 64); DDR is back at 4800 MT/s while the
4600 corruption fix is recorded -- verify before blaming garbage tokens.
§9 (LLM Performance Diagnosis): method corrected to the phase-ratio counters,
dead 1.0.13 numbers destroyed, four PromQL traps added (metric prefix, 1 s EMA
gauges vs 15 s scrape, counter resets across builds, 2-minute mean diluting the
chunk), instruments that cannot be reached from Prometheus, and the knob list
priced from the pinned 1.8.1 source instead of the stale guide.
The env comment claimed BUSY_PREFILL_CHUNK=auto protects decode rows; the 1.8.1
source (core/sched/scheduler.cpp busy_cap) reserves 1+spec rows per decoding
sequence and 1/8 of the budget per waiting request, and refuses to shrink the
chunk for decoders alone -- auto is a prefill-speed dial. The interleave comment
carried a 512 that is not this build's auto value (0 until the held-step
counter asks; 64 in help mode). The serve header still described three decode
slots; MAX_SEQS has been 2 since the 2026-10-19 reslice. No behavior change.
Audit of all 12 e2e specs for the 'green-but-vacuous' class that broke
Grafana's SSO. The suite is otherwise sound (incident-driven, leakage-based);
two real coverage gaps surfaced:
- notebook.franksdank.cloud (open-notebook, deployed 2026-10-19) was a guarded
vhost in NEITHER the 13-/14- GUARDED lists NOR any dedicated spec. A broken
upstream would stay invisible - the exact 17-hermes class. Added to the 14-
guard audit (unauth -> authentik gate, 'Open Notebook' leak marker) plus a
new 21- that proves authenticated reachability to open-notebook's own login
through the guard chain, with a positive app marker.
- prometheus.franksdank.cloud was only ever asserted '<500 and not a login
wall' (13-/11-), which a 404 also passes. New 22- adds the app-is-really-
there proof 20- gives Grafana: SSO handoff + its own /api/v1/status/buildinfo
answers {status:success}.
Both specs wired into the standard project (playwright testMatch), which the
e2e_scaffold bats gate enforces. Verified live against the fleet; full bats
suite green.
llm-fleet.json already owns LLM capacity+spec-decode. These three cover the
domains that had NO dashboard:
- host-system: node_exporter CPU/Load/Mem/Disk/Net/Uptime/FS/FDs for both
Dankclaw and Dankserver (templated by job node-dankclaw|node-dankserver)
- logs-overview: Loki volume + per-container error rate + a sample log panel;
container is parsed from the JSON line at query time (journal streams have
no container_name stream label)
- observability: the stack's own health - Prometheus target up/down + scrape
interval drift + samples/s + TSDB, Loki ingest/discard, Grafana CPU/mem.
Panel queries verified live against Prometheus/Loki; provisioned dashboards
confirmed via /api/search. Alertmanager is running but NOT scraped by
Prometheus - noted in the dashboard, no empty panels built on it.
The login lands once authentik emits the email claim (the IdP fix); Grafana needs
no USE_ID_TOKEN toggle, and dropping it also avoids a *_TOKEN false-positive in
the literal-secret seam. Correct the two SSO notes accordingly.
The Authentik SSO button returned "Server Error" (500): the grafana provider had
a NULL authorization_flow and the authorize view crashed building a None flow
planner. After that, the login failed with "InternalError" — no email claim
reached Grafana, so it fell back to GET <api_url>/emails, which authentik 404s.
Unit env: request authentik real scopes (openid email profile, not the GitLab
user:email that crashes the authorize view); standard userinfo API_URL with no
?api=1 (Grafana v13 turns ?api=1 into a /emails 403); email/sub/preferred_username
attribute paths; ALLOW_SIGN_UP=true since the Anubis->Authentik guard fronts the
callback. scripts/authentik-grafana-sso-fix.sh idempotently re-applies the two
IdP-side causes (NULL authorization_flow; grafana-email-scope returning a bare
string instead of {"email":..}). Verified end to end: RP login lands on / and
/api/user answers 200 with the real email, user provisioned as Viewer.
The vault claimed the fork property-mapping evaluator was broken and userinfo
returned only sub, so email could never reach Grafana (outcome unverified). That
was a misdiagnosis: the real causes were the NULL authorization_flow (the
NoneType.slug crash) and the email scope mapping returning a bare string rather
than a dict. Record the four verified causes and fixes, point to the repair
script and the new landing spec, and drop the unverified caveat.
13-sso proves an authenticated session reaches Grafana login page but never
follows the OAuth button, so the relying-party login could be dead (500, or an
email-claim gap bouncing to /login) while the suite stayed green. Spec 20 drives
/login/generic_oauth through the real Anubis+authentik round-trip and asserts a
live session (/api/user 200 with a non-empty email). Wire 20- into the standard
project (qa-e2e session).
The Authentik SSO button returned "Server Error" (500) because the grafana
provider authorization_flow was NULL and the authorize view crashed building a
None flow planner. After that, the login failed with "InternalError": no email
claim reached Grafana, so it fell back to GET <api_url>/emails, which authentik
404s.
Unit env: request authentik real scopes (openid email profile, not the GitLab
user:email that crashes the authorize view); read claims from the id_token
(USE_ID_TOKEN=true) and drop ?api=1 from the API URL (Grafana v13 turns it into
a /emails 404); pin email/sub/preferred_username attribute paths; allow
first-login provisioning since the Anubis->Authentik guard fronts the callback.
scripts/authentik-grafana-sso-fix.sh idempotently re-applies the two IdP-side
causes (NULL authorization_flow; the grafana-email-scope mapping that returned
a bare string instead of {"email":..}). Verified end to end: RP login lands on /
and /api/user answers 200 with the real email, user provisioned as Viewer.
Alloy page rewritten to the shipped root design (why root, the two
mounts that make it work, deploy-pending status); Observability current
state marks the log pipeline fixed-in-code, awaiting deploy.
The seams encoded alloy-as-rootless (default.target, dankclaw_default,
loki:3100 by name, 0.0.0.0+PublishPort UI, After=loki.service). Update
them to the root/system/host shape and add a test pinning the
load-bearing properties: Network=host, the /etc/machine-id mount, the
journal mounts, loopback UI, and the system-install + root-mirror
deploy path.
A rootless Alloy shipped zero lines: the journal files are
root:systemd-journal 0640 (other::---) and a rootless container carries no
supplementary groups, so sd_journal_open sees an empty view silently; the
rootless quadlet container logs also live in user-1000.journal, not the
ctr.log paths the old config tailed.
As root, one loki.source.journal reads system.journal + user-*.journal
and carries both. Network=host because Loki publishes 127.0.0.1:3100 and
no bridge container can reach the host loopback; the UI binds loopback
directly (no PublishPort). The /etc/machine-id mount is load-bearing —
sd_journal finds the journal dir by the local machine id; without it the
source reads 0 lines, health green.
deploy_alloy routes around the rootless loop: build rootless, mirror the
image into the root store (a root build fails on DNS in the build
container), retire the old rootless alloy unit, install to
/etc/containers/systemd. Validated with a throwaway root probe: 31,825
lines read, 26,966 pushed to Loki in 20s, zero drops.
AGENTS.md: the rule set is now two groups (llm-fleet + vllm-fleet) and a
Loki datasource is provisioned beside Prometheus.
Observability.md: current-state census refreshed (three LLM targets up,
two rule groups, Loki datasource); logs still carry no data.
Alloy.md: replace the 'wrong glob' theory with the proven cause - a
rootless container cannot read the 0640 systemd-journal files (a rootless
busybox read returns DENIED), and rootless quadlet logs land in the user
journal the system-only source never reads. Closing it is a
permission/architecture decision, not a config glob.
Adds shared/grafana/provisioning/datasources/loki.yml at http://loki:3100
so logs are readable through Grafana Explore. Loki ships no web UI of its
own and the guarded vhost serves only the API; this is the human surface.
radiance exports vllm:* metrics (verified on the live endpoint), not
llamacpp:*: nothing in llm-fleet could ever see frank-archon. Add a
vllm-fleet group - 1 recording + 4 alert (queueing, prefix-cache
collapse, preemption, p95 time-to-first-token) keyed to vllm:*.
Split the observability seam so llm-fleet rules bind llamacpp:* and
vllm-fleet rules bind vllm:*, and neither may evaluate the other's
namespace. Drops the retired no-metrics-for-archon doctrine the seam
still asserted and the vacuous namespace grep.
The Text-to-speech section recorded audio.tts base_url host.containers.internal
and voice narrator1. Re-keyed the live config DB 2026-10-20: voice wilwheaton
(narrator1 retired), api_base_url the canonical host LAN IP 192.168.0.143:7772.
7772 is published so host.containers.internal also reaches it, but the LAN IP
matches this page's own on-host law. Browser-kokoro example voice updated to the
current pack; the dated 2026-10-18 verification is left as history.
Frank replaced the narrator1/2/3 packs with cloned character voices
(wilwheaton, vaati, dr.kern, garrickhagon, jeffhays). The three narrator
slots are now carried by real packs: narrator1=wilwheaton, narrator2=vaati,
narrator3=dr.kern.
- frank-tts.env DEFAULT_VOICE narrator1 -> wilwheaton (a voice-less request
400'd on the dead name; wilwheaton is narrator1's successor).
- Docs: correct the /health census and the podcast-speaker references in
Frank TTS.md and Open Notebook.md to the live packs. Dated 2026-10-18/19
measurement logs are left as history.
Open Notebook's live dank-duo speaker profile was repointed over REST
(Frank->wilwheaton, Comrade->vaati) - app-side, not in this commit.
Bats fixtures keep narrator1 as a self-contained sample pack; untouched.
open-notebook has no user accounts upstream (PasswordAuthMiddleware = one
shared password; SurrealDB has no user/account/owner table — verified in the
running image). One shared password = one shared workspace; the guard chain
gates access but cannot partition data, and Authentik identity is never
consumed. Multi-user is approved-but-unbuilt upstream (#712, post-v2); OIDC
declined (#607). So move the homepage card from the user grid to the admin
tier and add the single-tenant boundary to the vault page. Fix the card's
stale 'frank-zealot' -> frank-archon. Update the seam's incidental category
pin to the new intentional value. Password rotated on the host (not repo).
The login-session lifetime (raised to days=7 on 2026-10-20) is owned by the
default-authentication-login stage's session_duration, not a global setting and
not SESSION_COOKIE_AGE. Authentik exposes no SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST, so the
window is absolute. session_duration is a STRING idiom; a timedelta stores a form
timedelta_from_string rejects, crashing login. Add scripts/authentik-set-login-session-duration.sh
that validates the form before writing (DB state, not repo-managed, re-run after
a blueprint re-import). Trim the page back under the OKF 500-line cap. tests/run.sh green.
Point the mattpocock-lineage skills (triage, to-tickets, to-spec,
wayfinder) at repo facts instead of a parallel docs/ tree: Gitea is the
issue tracker (credential-safe curl shape, token-only writes), the five
canonical triage roles keep their default label strings (created on the
tracker today), and GLOSSARY.md/docs/adr/ stay lazy with this vault
owning operational facts. AGENTS.md gains the ## Agent skills pointer
block; indices regenerated.
The 2026-10-19 write-up inferred a host restart from FTL's 16:25 start line. It was wrong: uptime -s reads 2026-10-18 01:24 (two days up) and the user journal shows 'Stopping pihole.service' at 16:25:23 with StartedAt 16:25:27 — a plain container restart inside the open-notebook deploy window. That moves where the verification belongs: after every pihole restart, not just after a reboot.
open-notebook resolves frank-dragoon-halogen to 10.89.1.39, GET :8731/v1/models answers, and the engine logs the app's POST /v1/embeddings 200. That makes the 2026-10-19 dial census a pre-move record: pasta's forwarding rule is unchanged, the endpoint was moved out of pasta, so the 'menu is frank-tts + frank-archon' line is now past tense. Frontmatter date was still 2026-09-02 against October content; bumped.
The 2026-10-19 reboot left every franksdank.cloud name NXDOMAIN for LAN clients while external names kept answering from cache; the file was mounted and readable and dns.hosts was intact, and 'pihole restartdns reload' restored every name in seconds. Mechanism not established. Instrument and remedy now on the owner page, plus a failure-mode row for the FTL rate-limit case seen beside it (10.0.2.x = a pasta container's forwarder).
open-notebook's embedding default now points at qwen3-embedding-0.6b on frank-dragoon's XDNA2 lane, proven through the app's own paths (model test 1024 dims, worker 'Successfully embedded', vector search ranking two unrelated notes 0.659/0.292 and 0.906/0.318). Records the two app-side traps: defaults store the model ID and a name is accepted then fails in the worker, and POST /api/embed 500s on an upstream RecordID typing bug after the vector is already written. frank-dragoon's lane section moves from 'off until the mount fix' to armed-and-serving with the boot-ledger contract and the measured idle RSS; the page's stale 'not on dankclaw_default' reachability claims are retired.
The armed boot reached the engine and died in its own preflight:
halogen npu: /dev/accel/accel0 is here, but this process cannot open it
(crw-rw---- nobody:nogroup).
The node is root:render 0660 and a rootless container maps exactly one uid/gid,
so `render` is unmapped inside it and `--group-add keep-groups` — the vendor's
advice, and the ComfyUI pattern for /dev/kfd — cannot grant a group the
namespace does not map. Measured 2026-10-19 from a `dank` shell already in
`render`: without the flag denied, with the flag denied, with the udev mode
0666 the open succeeds (OPEN_OK). Same wall 99-comfyui-gpu-access.rules already
solved for the GPU compute nodes, so the accel node gets its counterpart:
dankclaw/udev/98-halogen-npu-access.rules — KERNEL=="accel[0-9]*",
SUBSYSTEM=="accel", MODE="0666"
The deployer installs the rule, reloads rules, re-triggers the node and only
then checks the mode; the serve script refuses any node that is not
other-writable, naming the rule, so this cannot return as a crash loop (189
restarts while chat was down is the failure mode being closed).
Both checks read the permission bit directly: `[ -o FILE ]` is not
"other-writable" — it means "exists" and `-o` doubles as the OR operator inside
test, which is why the first cut of the gate refused everything.
Dragoon seam: 33 -> 35 tests. The fixture node is 0666 like the installed one,
a 0660 node is refused with the rule named and nothing rendered, and the rule
file's shape plus the deployer's install/trigger are asserted.
The containment gate added in #44 parsed scripts/frank-dragoon.env through a
$CHECKOUT variable that does not exist in deploy-remote.sh, so the very next
deploy died at `set -u` before it touched the unit:
./scripts/deploy-remote.sh: line 1445: CHECKOUT: unbound variable
deploy-remote.sh runs from the checkout root and every other path in that block
is a parity-twin default (LLM_DRAGOON_CKPT/_VISION/_TOK_DIR), so the payload dir
gets the same treatment: LLM_DRAGOON_MODEL_DIR, defaulted to the deployed path,
compared directly. The seam now asserts that twin against the env file next to
the NPU twins it already checks, and the containment comparison itself is
verified both ways (inside accepted; the old outside path and a shared-prefix
sibling both refused).
frank-dragoon's lane section: the staging dir must live inside the payload dir
(the image ships no /models, so a nested :ro bind has no mountpoint to land on),
the entrypoint's rejection of HALOGEN_NPU_DIR, and the fabric-clock paragraph
corrected — the vendor's root host unit is installed and reports `held (manual)`
as of today, so "nothing is held" is retired along with the hand-write it
replaced.
dankclaw-iommu-translation-off: the deferred `pp_dpm_fclk` pin is no longer
deferred; the fact is owned by [[frank-dragoon]] and this page links it.
The lane's first boot died at container init, not at the engine:
runc create failed: ... create mountpoint for /models/npu mount:
mkdirat .../merged/models/npu: read-only file system
The image ships no /models, and the serve script binds the payload dir
there read-only, so a nested `-v $NPU_DIR:/models/npu:ro` had to create
its own mountpoint underneath a read-only parent — impossible. The
engine's own entrypoint confirms the container path is fixed: it rejects
HALOGEN_NPU_DIR outright ("our NPU models live under /models/npu/<id>/").
Fix is the mount shape, not the engine: FRANK_DRAGOON_NPU_DIR now lives
inside FRANK_DRAGOON_MODEL_DIR, so the payload's single read-only mount
puts the files at /models/npu/<id>/ by itself and the nested bind is
gone. Verified on the running container: after the move, `podman exec
frank-dragoon-halogen ls /models/npu/qwen3-embedding-0.6b` answers with
the staged tree while the lane is still armed off.
Both gates refuse the old shape by name (serve + deployer parity) so a
future payload swap that moves the model dir cannot reintroduce a crash
that lands after the deployer has already stopped the running unit.
The 2026-10-19 legs table blamed the frank-dragoon refusal on a root/rootless
netavark rule-set split. It is not that: the container is rootless (the root
unit's User=dank runs podman run), it is on pasta, and pasta installs no DNAT
for rootless-bridge traffic while refusing a second network outright. The
gateway alias does reach it (200) and is link-local, which is the same dead end
the Open Notebook URL guard hit. Measured with the move onto the bridge now in
the deployer, including the /proc/net/tcp line that shows 8730 is loopback-bound
and so stays private after the move.
Co-Authored-By: omp <omp@dankclaw>
An endpoint on podman's rootless default (pasta) has no address another
container can use, measured on 2026-10-19 from inside open-notebook:
- 192.168.0.143:7770 connection refused (pasta forwards the
published port in the host netns; no netavark
DNAT exists for traffic arriving from a
rootless bridge)
- host.containers.internal:7770 200, but the alias resolves to 169.254.1.2 —
link-local, which open-notebook's URL guard
refuses to store
- frank-dragoon-halogen:8731 name unknown: different netns
- --network pasta --network dankclaw_default
"cannot set multiple networks without bridge
network mode" — pasta cannot be added to
So reaching the NPU endpoints from an app container means moving the container
onto dankclaw_default (FRANK_DRAGOON_NETWORK; empty keeps today's shape). This
is not an exposure change: the engine's unauthenticated token port binds the
container's own loopback (/proc/net/tcp: 127.0.0.1:8730 against 0.0.0.0:8731),
so only the API port becomes name-resolvable — the same trust the published
7770 already carries on the LAN. The deployer refuses a network that does not
exist rather than starting a unit that restart-loops on it.
Co-Authored-By: omp <omp@dankclaw>
halogen-flash-server already ships an NPU path on the pin we run: for each
model named in HALOGEN_NPU_MODELS it loads the vendor's precompiled AIE
programs (XDNA2 executes only AIE-compiled graphs) and answers them on
/v1/embeddings inside the SAME container behind port 7770. That gives the
fleet an in-house embedding endpoint without touching the iGPU trunk.
The lane is opt-in and one line wide: HALOGEN_NPU_MODELS blank is the
pre-lane endpoint byte for byte (no device, no mounts, no engine env).
The three host preconditions the vendor names are gated in the serve script
and mirrored in the deployer (the 2026-10-01 twin law), each refused by name:
- the staged model files. /models is read-only and HALOGEN_DOWNLOAD stays
unset so the container opens no outbound connection at boot, so
scripts/download-frank-dragoon-npu.sh stages them from the pinned
revision with the catalog's own byte counts and sha256s (the engine
re-checks both at boot);
- the distro XRT's libxrt_coreutil/libxrt_core/libxrt_driver_xdna, each
mounted twice — where the image looks for XRT and at its own path —
because those libraries find each other where they were installed and
an /opt/xilinx/xrt of symlinks dangles inside the container;
- the GPU fabric clock HELD. On Strix Halo the iGPU and the NPU co-running
hang the machine (and corrupt NPU results) while FCLK changes speed, and
halogen refuses to start in that state; it cannot read host sysfs from
inside, so the hold is proven host-side. dankclaw/host/ carries the
vendor's halogen-fabric-clock{,.service} verbatim at tag v0.16.2 (sha256
a3a4f7f4e0142e71… / 5f9f1cc4c85a1c02…); the deployer installs, enables
and gates it only while the lane is named, and releases the clock plus
drops the boot hook when it is not.
After health, the deployer's lane gate is a real embedding through
/v1/embeddings — a 200 on /health proves nothing about the NPU programs.
Planner: dankclaw/host/halogen-fabric-clock* re-dispatches frank-dragoon
(the deployer installs it); dankclaw/host/grub and the fetch script plan
nothing.
Seam: 11 new tests — the off arm really renders nothing lane-specific, the
on arm renders the device/mounts/env, every missing precondition refuses by
name, the deployer twins and the host unit shape are pinned.
Co-Authored-By: omp <omp@dankclaw>
- frank-dragoon: measured the response_format contract. json_schema and json_object answer
schema-valid JSON at temperature 0 and draw a 400 at any sampled temperature, and because
the sampler default is server-side an absent temperature is sampled. The page claimed
"response_format is unsupported", which sends the next agent past a working feature.
- frank-dragoon: new "The NPU lane" section. The pinned 0.16.2 image already ships the
five-program AIE catalog including qwen3-embedding-0.6b, so /v1/embeddings is one env var
plus the accel device, the distro-XRT mount and the fabric-clock hold; embeddinggemma-2
needs 0.18.3+, the stock-kernel-driver memory-budget fix 0.18.8+. Host census recorded:
no /opt/xilinx/xrt, distro XRT 1:2.21.75 with libxrt_driver_xdna, clocks unheld.
- Open Notebook: scriptwriter probe verdict — greedy-only, and open-notebook's model record
is {credential, name, provider, type} with no per-row config, so it cannot ask for greedy;
frank-archon stays the writer. The embedding gap now has a named door instead of "build a
new llama.cpp slot".
- Frank TTS: "the NPU is not a door at all" was too broad. It is not a door for the TTS
family; halogen's precompiled catalog is a door on the same device.
- System Specs: NPU runtime row corrected to the distro XRT actually installed, and the
stale "frank-zealot serves 27B" line retired in favour of [[frank-zealot]] as sole owner.
Tests: ./tests/run.sh, 455 passed.
The page described an undeployed service whose scriptwriter was going to be
frank-zealot. Both halves are now false, and the reason is worth more than the
correction.
- Status, ports, coordinates: deployed 2026-10-19, guarded vhost, API published
on loopback only. The first episode is the proof: 747 s of speech in 301 s of
wall clock (2.5x real time, knobs at 1), download route 200 with the bearer
and 401 without.
- New section for the guard chain: provider-before-route, one upstream because
the image rewrites /api/* itself, and the API_URL law — autodetect appends
:5055, which is seerr's port on this host, so an unset API_URL yields a UI
that loads and an app that cannot call itself.
- Provisioned records table (credentials, model rows, dank-duo, dank-daily) and
the two contract traps measured on the live API: generate takes profile
NAMES, and the fleet has no /v1/embeddings, so every note save fails its
embed_note command while renders from content work fine.
- Why frank-archon writes the scripts: frank-zealot is reachable from this
netns only at 169.254.1.2, and open-notebook's URL guard refuses to store a
link-local base URL with no override. Census lands on [[Container Network
Namespaces]], which also gains the root-vs-rootless publish rule — a
root-published port is invisible to a rootless container, so "publish the
port" was the wrong remedy as written there.
- Frank TTS: the request's model field is ignored; only voice selects a pack.
Tests: ./tests/run.sh, 455 passed.
The service came up internal-only: UI on the LAN at 8502, API at 5056, both
published on every interface, with only its own shared password in front. That
put the episode library outside the fleet's auth chain and one port scan away
from anything on the network.
- Caddy: guarded vhost notebook.franksdank.cloud (Anubis -> Authentik; provider
notebook-proxy, internal_host caddy:8017) plus the post-auth route to the
published UI port. One upstream is enough, because the image's own Next.js
layer rewrites /api/* to the FastAPI beside it — so the API needs no outward
face at all, and 5056 moves to loopback, where only the deployer's health gate
dials it.
- scripts/open-notebook.env: API_URL and CORS_ORIGINS become the single guarded
origin. Left to itself the app auto-detects <host>:5055, the port seerr holds
on this host; a LAN-origin API_URL would also take the browser around the
guard chain, where its authenticated session does not ride.
- addn-hosts: the LAN A record. The homepage card goes live and links the vhost.
- Seam: the API origin is derived from whatever the Caddyfile routes to 8502, so
renaming the vhost moves the test instead of leaving it blessing a stale name,
and a new test proves the vhost hands the WHOLE request to Anubis.
podman wraps a bare HealthCmd as CMD-SHELL (measured on Dankclaw's podman 5.7:
--health-cmd "/surreal is-ready" stores {"Test":["CMD-SHELL","/surreal is-ready"]}),
and the pinned SurrealDB v2 image is distroless — no /bin/sh, not even `ls`.
So the probe could never run: every 30 s interval exited 1 in ~30 ms with empty
output while the database was listening and answering, and open-notebook's first
deploy died at the gate ("did not become healthy in 90s"). The hand-check
`podman exec … /surreal is-ready` printed OK, which is why the old comment
believed the probe worked.
The JSON array survives the Quadlet generator (--health-cmd "[\"/surreal\",\"is-ready\"]")
and stores ["CMD","/surreal","is-ready"], which execs directly: a throwaway
instance of the pinned digest went healthy on that form. The seam is re-pinned
to the shell-free contract; the old assertion forbade quotes in any HealthCmd,
which is what pinned the broken shape.
The refusal message still named "the /data state dir"; /data left with the
prefix disk tier. The serve script mounts /models ro, the rad-tune cache and the
chat template only, and tests/frank_archon_unit.bats asserts no :/data mount
exists, so the line an operator reads at the moment a boot refuses pointed at a
mount that is gone.
Text only. The guard still refuses: the block was run standalone with the
variable unset and every neighbour set - it prints the new message and exits 1.
bash -n clean, ./tests/run.sh green (454 tests).
The t/s ladder and the TTFT delta triple measure a configuration neither
deployed nor compared; per the purpose test they are dead weight. What survives
is the knob pricing (halving the shared chunk costs roughly a fifth of prefill
throughput), the long-prompt-only shape of the span win, and the method. Run-on
now names the era the census was taken in.
The endpoint moved to radiance 1.8.1 with MAX_SEQS=2 and the
--vram-weights-mib/--vram-kv-mib pair removed (PR #30); env, serve script and
bats carried the new shape while the page and the AGENTS.md block still
described the 1.0.13 3-slot era, so every point-of-use number was wrong.
Re-derived from the live checkout and the 2026-10-19 11:10 boot ledger, not
from the stale pre-#31 draft: runtime block (digest, version oracle, the two
CLI breaks that are boot refusals), shape table (demand-signal rows, derived
VRAM split, restored spec/batch row, host-only prefix tier, step sharing),
container contract (no /data mount), the measured 2-slot ledger, a new Eras row
for the retired 1.0.13 era whose rollback is a digest plus a trio rewrite, and
the laws: pool sizing and the per-card budget re-scoped to the pair era, a new
resolver law (funds ~90% of the worst case, host RAM below a slab step is inert,
MAX_SEQS is a demand signal), the sludge law marked measured-at-3-slots with the
fix ordered-not-verified, the knob-availability law flipped, and the slots law
now pricing the third slot in KV (4.20 -> 2.76 GiB).
`systemctl status` said `2x262144 slots over one 524288 pool, unquantized f16
K+V, MTP off` — three payload eras and two reslices out of date, and still
wrong about the thing that decides whether the endpoint can be trusted (the KV
dtype and whether the drafter is armed). It now quotes the env: 3x200704 over
one 602112 pool, f16 K + q8_0 V, MTP armed, adapter, Q8_0 vision.
Touching the unit selects the service in the planner, so this deliberately does
NOT come with a deploy: the hub is serving live conversations. The revision
marker stays behind until the next real frank-zealot change.
Before/after on the two probe prompts (both opened `I cannot provide…`; neither
now carries a marker — one ran to its 2048-token cap, the other finished at
1930), the residual `Important Disclaimer` heading named for what it is (style,
not the circuit), and the same-boot proof that chat/tools/vision still answer.
Provenance now points at the boot ledger: the fork prints every
`prism.abliterate.*` key at each start, so the PTQ1_0-vs-PQ2_0 mismatch is
visible to anyone who boots the service — the page links that instrument
instead of restating it.
- Shape table: an Adapter row (bytes, sha, what it edits, and the PTQ1_0
provenance asymmetry), the fetch line now names both fetchers, the flag list
carries --lora-scaled.
- One paragraph: the adapter changes behaviour, not the budget equation, and the
probe that proves it must budget >= 2048 tokens because the thinking channel
eats a short budget whole and returns empty content with finish_reason=length.
- Eras: the new era's rollback is one env line on a file already loaded.
- Laws: provenance is metadata, not a gate (tensor names, not hashes; an
embedding rank would crash, which is why the publisher left token_embd alone);
the fork pin now has a third reason, since older builds refuse the adapter with
`unsupported prism.hadamard.version: 2`. Base-alignment law updated: the 9B
refusal escape hatch was a fetch, and it has now been taken.
- AGENTS.md: topology payload cell and the zealot operator block.
Frank ordered the adapter; this adds it to the shape as one knob and one flag.
- `LORA_FILE` / `LORA_SCALE` in the env, `--lora-scaled <file>:<scale>` as ONE
argv token so a scale can never reach the engine without its adapter. The
rollback follows the mmproj convention exactly: `LORA_FILE=` (explicitly
empty) drops the flag entirely, no rebuild, and `LORA_SCALE=0` is the card's
own "inert but present" value.
- New fetcher `scripts/download-frank-zealot-uncensored-lora.sh`: `-f`, byte
count, sha256, `--verify-only`, idempotent. The file is NOT LFS (a plain git
object), so the pinned sha is the content hash, not an LFS oid.
- The deployer gates on the adapter beside the pack and the projector, and its
error names the ADAPTER's fetcher — sending an operator to the bonsai9 script
for a 3 MB file is how a payload ships without it.
- Seam: path+scale pinned as one token, the scale knob including 0, absence on
the empty opt-out, a refusal to boot on a missing adapter, and the env ↔
deployer anti-drift pair extended to LORA_FILE/LLM_ZEALOT_LORA. 454/454.
Provenance, stated where it will be read: the adapter's own metadata names
`Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-PTQ1_0.gguf` (3561df7a…) as the pack the direction was
fitted against. This endpoint serves the PQ2_0+MTP+Q8_0 packing (c79fcdfa…),
which is not that file and is not on this host. The loader matches tensor names,
not hashes, so it applies — and build 10777 is the build the card verified on —
but the strength is calibrated on a sibling quantization. The proof is therefore
the refusal probe against the live endpoint, captured before and after, and not
the card's table.
The cutover PR merged the runtime; this carries the surface that has to be
true afterwards.
- Engine page: the shape is now `--device Vulkan0` on the gfx1151 as a
co-tenant beside frank-dragoon; the registry/thread/streaming laws gain a
fourth — the device law — whose numbers stay in the verdict report, and the
deploy record gets the cutover steps including the `glslc` configure gate.
The CPU-era arm/rollback prose keeps the qualitative argument and drops the
dead numbers per the purpose test.
- Endpoint page: "Where the engine computes" now says iGPU + co-tenancy, and
states the NPU verdict in one paragraph instead of a research tour.
- Quadlet comment: it claimed supplementary groups are what grant render
access. On this host the udev rule world-writes the render nodes and the
container's `id` shows no groups at all, so keep-groups is belt-and-braces;
the RSS note now matches the device shape instead of the CPU trial.
- Verdict report: gate 2 (contention) recorded as measured after the cutover,
and the build-stage prediction corrected — the package is `glslc`, not
`libvulkan-dev glslang-dev`.
- index.md regenerated (one description changed).
The NPU path is a dead end for this payload (verdict:
report/tts-npu-spike-verdict-2026-10-19.md); the iGPU is the accelerator that
exists on this box today, and it is already shared with frank-dragoon.
- Containerfile.engine: -DGGML_VULKAN=ON, plus the three packages the door
needs to configure — libvulkan-dev, spirv-headers, and glslc, which Ubuntu's
glslang-tools does NOT ship (find_package(Vulkan COMPONENTS glslc REQUIRED)
fails without it) — and libvulkan1 + mesa-vulkan-drivers (the RADV ICD) at
runtime. No NVIDIA ICD on purpose: one Vulkan device in the enumeration is
what makes the NAME Vulkan0 safe to write down.
- tts-engine-start.sh: QWENTTS_DEVICE -> --device, default Vulkan0. A value
that is set but EMPTY passes no flag at all, which is the CPU rollback; that
is why the default is written as an -v test and not with :=, because := also
fires on an empty value and would silently undo the rollback.
- quadlet: AddDevice=/dev/dri + GroupAdd=keep-groups (a rootless container that
drops its supplementary groups enumerates no render device). The node is not
named: this host is hybrid, renderD128 is the NVIDIA card and renderD129 the
amdgpu iGPU.
- env: QWENTTS_DEVICE=Vulkan0 plus the device law in the header, including the
rollback line.
- tests: the two CPU-only assertions now assert the Vulkan shape, and a new one
pins the rollback (empty device => no --device in argv). 451/451 green.
Measured before writing any of it: the configure in the digest-pinned base
answers "Found Vulkan: ... found components: glslc" and "Including Vulkan
backend"; gate 1 (RADV GFX1151 visible to a rootless container off this base)
is recorded in the verdict report.
Two conflicts, both from the 2026-10-19 vault compaction on main:
* frontmatter description — main shortened it to satisfy OKF DESC
(max 120 chars); this branch's longer wording would have failed the
seam. Kept main's shape and folded the new §9 in by naming
step-shape attribution instead of profiler attribution.
* the Related bullet for [[vLLM Porting and Compile Triage]] — that
page was destroyed on main, so the link is dropped rather than
resurrected; this branch's [[frank-archon]] row is kept.
Index rows regenerated with scripts/gen-vault-index.py.
The trial's quadlet line said AddDevice=/dev/dri/renderD128. Resolved the nodes by
driver instead of assuming: on this hybrid host renderD128 -> nvidia and
renderD129 -> amdgpu, so the guess pointed the engine at the wrong card. Also
records the gate-1 command that works (vulkaninfo --text; --batch prints help and
exits 1) and the probe script path.
vulkaninfo inside the engine's own base image (ubuntu:24.04 + mesa-vulkan-drivers
vulkan-tools, --device /dev/dri, rootless) reports Radeon 8060S Graphics (RADV
GFX1151) / driver radv / API 1.4.318 with two heaps: heap 0 host-visible 38.67 GiB
(budget 32.58) and heap 1 DEVICE_LOCAL 77.33 GiB (budget 65.16) with frank-dragoon
loaded. ggml's Vulkan backend asks for DEVICE_LOCAL, so the ~4 GiB the TTS engine
needs lands in the 65 GiB budget: memory is not the constraint, and the 2 GiB DRM
carve-out never enters the picture. Both heaps are GTT — the same host RAM, so the
budget is a ceiling on mappings, not free silicon memory.
Traps recorded: vulkaninfo --batch is not a flag in Ubuntu 24.04's vulkan-tools
(prints help, exits 1; use --text), and the container has no NVIDIA ICD, so Vulkan
device 0 happens to be the iGPU — select by name, not index.
Probe: /home/dank/spikes/npu-tts/vk_probe.sh on Dankclaw. Enumeration only; no
allocation, no compute, production untouched.
The overnight spike settled whether frank-tts can run on the Strix Halo NPU.
It cannot, and the wall is the loader, not the silicon: AMD's own Linux
runtime opens /dev/accel/accel0, succeeds at the GEM ioctls, then declines
the NuTTS-Air graph without emitting a single log line — and the one run that
did load has never reproduced. The accelerator that does exist is the gfx1151
iGPU behind -DGGML_VULKAN=ON, a flag our own Containerfile.engine writes OFF,
and Frank set the target shape to co-tenancy: the engine resident beside
frank-dragoon, not a handover.
- report/tts-npu-spike-verdict-2026-10-19.md owns the measured result: the
exoneration chain, the two arms' real-time bars (12.5 codes/s deployed vs
50.00 for NuTTS-Air), the 65,536-entry speech-token census (ids
151,671-217,206), the host gates (rootless cannot read accel0; dpkg-deb the
vendor XRT, never dpkg -i), the iGPU census (18,523 of 116,733 MiB GTT in
use, 17 GiB host RAM available, GTT pages are host pages), the two gates
that decide co-tenancy (RADV heap for an APU tenant; dragoon's TTFT with a
synthesis in flight), and the five-file change surface for the trial.
- report/npu-tts-runtime-landscape-2026-10-19.md and
report/qwen3-tts-payload-portability-2026-10-19.md are the research slices;
both now point at the verdict page instead of ending in loose ends.
- The vault page gains "Where the engine computes", so an operator doing a TTS
task learns the NPU is a closed door without re-walking it.
No fleet change: frank-tts / frank-tts-engine still serve narrator1-3 on CPU.
tests: ./tests/run.sh 450/450 green.
FRANK_ARCHON_MAX_SEQS 3 -> 2. At 1.8.1 the budget resolver sizes the KV cache
from the cache bound (--max-model-len x --max-num-seqs), --gpu-headroom-mib and
--host-pool-mib, and the shipped CLI has no KV-size flag (the
--vram-weights-mib/--vram-kv-mib pair was removed at 1.3.0). The live boot
ledger reads that cache at 4.20 GiB = 556,348 tokens = 2.8 sessions at 200,000,
so a third full-height conversation is refused while /health answers green and
the harness advertises capacity the engine cannot honour. Two slots is what the
shape actually serves at the full window; a slot costs KV, never decode, and the
fused TP all-reduce drops from 9 rows to 2 x (1 + spec) = 6, still inside
wht6's 25-row bit-exact bound.
FRANK_ARCHON_HOST_POOL_MIB back to 44928 and FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB back to
150000, reverting PR #30. That raise bought cache the resolver never hands out:
the two boot ledgers differ in exactly one line -- host_pool 44.47 -> 45.09 GiB
-- while vram_weights (25.81 GiB) and vram_kv (4.20 GiB / 556,348 tokens, both
ranks) are byte-identical, so the extra 640 MiB sat unclaimed in the host pool
while the TTM floor moved out from under the preflight's arithmetic. The
compute-bound cap on --host-pool-mib is unchanged either way (45,568 -> 22,222
MiB of experts either side of the 22,222 clamp).
The bats seam pins the new contract: MAX_SEQS=2, pool 44,928, and the ledger
floor that computes to 148,920 MiB at that pool against the 150,000 minimum.
*Documentation Policy* rewritten: a page earns its bytes only if it changes what
the reader does next. Measurements are disposable — a rate for anything not
running and not being compared is destroyed, not filed in an Eras row or a
technique page. "It is the only copy" is explicitly NOT a reason to keep a fact.
`log.md` retired from the policy; the Runbook Index no longer promises a page per
retired endpoint (rollback is a commit, not a document).
*Key Lessons Learned* purged of the dead: the dual-R9700 board-swap narrative and
the layer-split/x4-pair experiment laws (no live endpoint uses either), the QSA
patch note and the retired Kairic/FastMTP traps, and the throughput figures inside
the laws that survive — the law stays, the number goes. Two lessons added, both
from this campaign's own failures: a verdict is a lead, the scout's and the tool's
alike; and never let a census decide what to keep, because a tool can say where a
fact lives but not whether anything needs it.
997 → 820 lines.
The vault was 155 pages / 31,210 lines, most of it measurement ledgers for
payloads that no longer run. A throughput figure for a runtime nobody operates is
not a record: AI moves faster than the vault, so the number is wrong before
anyone reads it, and a wrong number in a runbook gets believed. Per the new
purpose test in `AGENTS.md` → *Documentation Policy*, it is destroyed.
Gone (`.AGENTTRASH/20261019-destruction/`, KILL-LIST.txt is the manifest):
- the `frank-medium` endpoint and its five era pages, `frank-npu`, FastFlowLM,
the ikllama/kingjones/dealign/frank-redo eras, the ling/swift15/freetoken/ubatch
campaign pages, qwen3.8 spec-matrix and strix-optimizations, the two
"Running Qwen3.6 …" pages;
- the whole `Pipeline Parallelism/` folder (no live script passes a pipeline flag)
and the multi-device/x4-pair/hybrid/offload experiment pages;
- every vLLM page — no vLLM endpoint exists on this fleet;
- `LLM/deployment.md` (`Architecture/Deployment Flow.md` is the test-referenced
owner) and the external surveys (SGLang, Lemonade, llama.cpp forks/diff,
self-hosted app census, the TTS survey) that were obsolete by construction;
- `log.md`, 2,380 lines. Git holds the chronology; a causal law belongs to the
page that owns the thing it governs, never to a diary.
Survivors: 101 pages, 17,542 lines, 0 OKF violations, 0 unresolved links. Eras
tables keep the window, payload, runtime, reason and rollback pointer; the rate
columns are blanked. The live shapes stay verbatim — those numbers are what the
deployer and `models.yml` consume.
Point-of-use enforcement needs hands, not advice:
- `destroy-vault.py` — moves the pages on a kill list to `.AGENTTRASH/` and then
deletes every reference to them from the survivors, including the whole line
when the dead link was the line's only content. Stems are seeded from the trash
so the pass is re-runnable; `pathlib.Path.stem` is NOT used to compare link
targets, because it strips the real suffix off names like `sd.cpp`.
- `axe-measurements.py` — deletes bench/throughput ledger sections and rate rows,
blanks any table cell that reports a rate, and folds Eras older than the current
one into a single row that says the numbers were destroyed and that rollback is
a commit. Never touches a shape number or a Law/Wire/Rollback section.
- `repair-damage.py` — fixes the two artifacts those passes can leave (a list
marker that lost its space, a table separator left without its header).
- `restore-punctuation.py` — restores a line whose only difference from HEAD is
stripped trailing punctuation. Written after `repair-damage.py`'s first version
matched every wrapped prose line ending in a comma and deleted 660 of them: the
rule is now `… see .` only, and the incident is recorded in its docstring.
- `gen-vault-index.py` — never walks into `.AGENTTRASH/`, and sweeps rows whose
page cell is empty (a description left nameless by a destruction).
Full suite: 451 tests pass.
The 1.8.1 boot resolved the budget resolver to 4.20 GiB of cache a card —
556,348 tokens, 2.8 sessions at full height — so three concurrent
full-height requests are refused with a 400 at admission: the endpoint's
3-slot contract is broken by the cutover, silently, because /health and
every shorter conversation still answer.
The resolver gives the expert plane whatever the pinned host pool cannot
hold and the cache the rest, so the pool is the lever: +640 MiB a rank
moves that much expert demand into host RAM and the cache wins it back.
Tokens scale with the GiB won (8.11 KiB/token at fp8), so ~0.63 GiB buys
~44,000 tokens — 600,000 with margin — at ~2.5% off the expert slab.
TTM floor moves with the pool (2 x pool + 48,824 + prefix + MNBT =
150,200 MiB computed by the ledger test).
Verified by the boot ledger's `kv:` line and the probe's capacity leg,
not by this arithmetic.
The decode stall is step contention (measured: 18.7 ms decode-only steps
against 317 ms steps that carry a prefill chunk, decode at 13 t/s median
while prefill runs), and the two engine knobs that fix it arrived after this
endpoint's pin. Moving to 1.8.1 (2026-10-18) brings both, and brings two CLI
breaks with them:
- --vram-weights-mib / --vram-kv-mib were REMOVED at 1.3.0. The per-card
split between the expert slab and the KV pool is now derived by the
engine's budget resolver from --gpu-headroom-mib, the cache bound
(--max-model-len, --max-num-seqs) and --host-pool-mib, and the cache may
lend idle blocks to the expert slab. The slab size and the pool's token
count are boot-ledger lines from here on, so the capacity contract
(3 x 200,000 fp8) is verified live by the probe's capacity leg instead of
computed from an env number.
- The prefix cache has no disk tier any more: --prefix-cache-dir and
--prefix-cache-disk-mib are refusals and --prefix-cache-host-mib is
--prefix-cache-mib. 64 GiB of parked KV on NVMe becomes re-prefill, so
prefix_hit_rate is the thing to watch after this boot.
env: image re-pinned to the 1.8.1 digest; the pair and the disk tier dropped;
FRANK_ARCHON_PREFIX_CACHE_MIB replaces the host/disk pair; new
FRANK_ARCHON_BUSY_PREFILL_CHUNK=auto (explicit, because auto vs off is the
difference between decode waiting one chunk and waiting a whole step) and
FRANK_ARCHON_PREFILL_INTERLEAVE=0 (opt-in through a guarded argv array).
serve: argv follows the new CLI, /data mount and the pre-created kvcache path
go with the disk tier, and the retired env keys are no longer required (they
would abort ExecStart). autoresearch-frank-archon.sh takes the same CLI, with
a cold prefill now coming from --prefix-cache-mib 0 instead of a per-run disk
directory. run-swift15-bf16.sh is untouched: it pins its own engines by design.
tests: the two budget-arithmetic seams asserted knobs that no longer exist and
are replaced by one seam that asserts the retired knobs are ABSENT from env and
argv - a stale line is a boot refusal, not a no-op. The container-contract seam
now asserts the tune mount and the absence of /data.
`scripts/port-census.py` built its corpus from the new directory, so each page
under test was held by itself: every era page reported 0 orphan lines. With the
corpus excluding the file under test, each candidate holds 14-63 sole-record
lines, so no era page is padding and none was trashed.
Deletions of restatement only:
- Multi-Node Runtimes.md (-257): restated launch material owned by
Qwen3.8 PP Deployment.md; index rows and two Related bullets repointed.
- log.md: 66 headings folded into 35 dated entries (one entry per date, newest
first), titled headings kept as `date — Title` per the spec's wording, and 78
lines of transient deploy chatter dropped where every fact token in the line
is held by an owner page (preserved in .AGENTTRASH/20261019-log-transient/).
- Authentic: the 5-page split reverted (-93); the parent carries
`okf-exempt: length` and the three stub pages stay deleted.
check-okf.py accepts `## YYYY-MM-DD — Title`; port-census.py excludes the file
under test and gained a docstring note about the trap. One-off compaction tool
moved to ~/.AGENTTRASH. Full suite: 451 tests pass, 0 OKF violations,
155 pages, 0 unresolved links.
`Multi-Node Runtimes.md` (+257) restated launch material that
[[Qwen3.8 PP Deployment]] (build target, two-process RPC table, cache-prune
cron), [[Sample Script Set]] (runnable scripts), [[Ethernet Bandwidth Math]]
and [[Expected Performance]] already own, and mixed-vendor numbers owned by
[[x4-pair-experiment]]. Consolidation means the facts end up in ONE place, not
that a new page is written beside the old owners: the four stubs it replaced
were frontmatter-only (9 lines each) and needed no successor. Page trashed,
three inbound links repointed at the real owners.
main moved under this campaign — PR #25/#26 resliced the RTX 3090 endpoint.
The frontmatter conflict is resolved in favour of the live shape, confirmed
by re-probe the same day: `--ctx-size 602112 --parallel 3` (3 × 200,704),
`--cache-type-k f16 --cache-type-v q8_0`, `--spec-type draft-mtp`, `--jinja
--reasoning auto`, `--metrics`. The 262,144 figures that remain on the page
are era rows and the checkpoint's trained window, not the live shape.
log.md's 2026-10-19 fleet-state bullet now records both probes and the law
this taught: a docs pass that reports live shapes must re-probe before
writing the number, because main moving mid-campaign makes the first probe
stale.
The ROCmFPX row said "single card, pinned at 36e9acd": `36e9acd` is the
SHA that `scripts/build-rocmfpx.sh` pins for the *build*, and the era page
records the deployed commit as `c49ebdb` running a 2× R9700 `-sm layer`
split over `ROCm0,ROCm1` at 131,072 × 1 slot with draft-MTP pinned to
`ROCm1`. The 2026-09-20 row skipped a payload generation: the same day the
endpoint swapped MXFP4 → FP8 E4M3 128×128 ([[frank-medium-model-swap]])
before MXFP6 arrived on 09-21. Both cells now quote the era pages.
- frank-archon KV dtype law: `bf16|fp8` is a **radiance** restriction. Stock
vLLM advertises `auto|fp8|fp8_e5m2|fp8_e4m3` (docs.vllm.ai engine args), and
even there the advertised set is not the usable set — several accepted
values crash engine init at the attention layer's own dtype check
(vllm-project/vllm#42587). The page stated the restriction as if upstream
had it.
- Open Notebook: re-censused 2026-10-19 — no unit file, no installed quadlet,
no container. The page already said NOT deployed; it now says what was
checked, so the claim is re-checkable instead of remembered.
Four bullets in Key Lessons Learned carried narrative a vault page owns: the
2026-09-20 board swap ([[Dual-R9700-Cooperation]]), the `--override-tensor`
gate ([[Llama Cpp Multi-Device Splits]]), the x4 link budget
([[x4-pair-experiment]]), and the silent-RAM incident plus the Prometheus
`--metrics` law ([[frank-archon]], [[frank-zealot]]). Each keeps its law, its
numbers and its error strings; the causal narration that duplicated a page is
what went. The RAM bullet linked to [[log]] — the incident is owned by
[[frank-archon]], so the link now names the owner.
A hyphen or a trailing period inside a word was enough to make it a tracked
token, so `long-standing`, `deployed:` and `cleaned.` were reported as lost
facts while real identifiers hid behind them. Require a digit, dot, slash,
colon, `--`, two hyphens (`frank-tts-engine`) or ALL-CAPS in the stripped
word. The census of the log rewrite went from 979 noisy lines to a set whose
unheld tokens are all fact-shaped.
Structural repair:
- 13 pages were the same document twice (each exactly 2x its HEAD size),
a second frontmatter block whose closing fence had been glued onto a body
line by a frontmatter rewrite that re-read its own output. Un-doubled by
cutting at the second frontmatter and keeping the copy whose body is a
superset; the orphan census reports 0 lost tokens against HEAD.
- log.md: one entry per date, bare `## YYYY-MM-DD` headings, newest first —
66 dated headings merged into 34, titles demoted to bold leads, every
content line verified present. The file had been descending at the head
and ascending at the tail.
Ownership moves:
- New `LLM/frank-medium.md` is the locator for the retired Dankserver
endpoint: era windows quoted from each era page's own banner, no numbers
restated, and the two unresolved date conflicts recorded instead of
silently resolved. `frank-archon.md` links to it instead of restating the
pre-rename window.
- The four Pipeline-Parallelism stubs (frontmatter only, no body) are gone;
`Multi-Node Runtimes.md` owns runtime construction, launch, mixed-vendor
verdicts and cross-split spec decode, and the four links that pointed at
the stubs were repointed at it or at the drafter page.
- Authentik's three stub pages fold into `Authentik.md`, with the process
detail and the outpost reference split out so the parent stays under the
length hint.
Verified corrections (host census + live probe, 2026-10-19):
- The MXFP4 checkpoint two pages called the "on-disk rollback" is gone:
/home/dank/models/ holds StillDeadcode, rad and tpl.jinja. Stated once, on
the era page that owns that payload; the swap page now links to it.
- frank-medium-radiance-mxfp4: the 4.24/7 accept rate belongs to the DFlash2
arm measured on the FP8 target, not to the MXFP4 era; the 3-family soak run
census is kept once (155 requests) instead of twice (~120 and 155).
- Fleet shapes re-confirmed against the live endpoints before touching any
page: 3x200000 fp8 KV, 2x200704, 2x262144.
Index rows are regenerated, not hand-carved. Net -1,849 vault lines.
Add scripts/check-okf.py: enforces the OKF v0.1 hard rules the repo had
been carrying by convention — parseable frontmatter with type/title/
description/timestamp, description shape (length, not-equals-title, no
restated quantity), the reserved-name and index.md rules, log.md's date
heading shape (bare ISO date, one entry per date, newest first), the
500-line hint, and the doubled-page signature (a second `type:` key in
the body). Citations are reported as a soft tally, not a failure. The
500-line ceiling is escapable two ways, both explainable: `okf-exempt:
length` in a page's own frontmatter, and pages derived as one-per-
endpoint — live endpoints from scripts/, retired-endpoint era pages from
their tag (AGENTS.md lets a campaign ledger live on the page that
measured it).
scripts/gen-vault-index.py: sibling-presence was tested as a bare stem
substring, so a page whose name is a prefix of another page's name
(`frank-medium` inside `frank-medium-rocmfpx`) silently never got an
index row. Test the wikilink form instead.
scripts/check-vault-links.py: `.AGENTTRASH` is deleted-but-held state,
not vault content. It is now excluded from both the scan set and the
target index, so a live link into the trash reads as unresolved instead
of resolved.
tests/docs_completeness.bats: the same exclusion in both page walks —
trashed pages need no index row, and a trashed page must not satisfy the
docs requirement for a live compose service. Adds the OKF conformance
and index-freshness tests.
scripts/port-census.py: the port-before-cut orphan census used to prove
a merge lost no fact, kept so the next collapse can re-run it.
Live step-shape census on frank-archon (radiance 1.0.13, boot of 2026-10-15):
decode-only steps run 18.7 ms, prefill+mixed steps 317 ms — 60 % of engine
wall-clock inside 8 % of the steps — and a day of Prometheus shows decode at
13.3 t/s median while prefill runs >=1000 t/s against 106-240 t/s when it does
not. The lag test says the penalty is confined to the prefill window: no
lingering expert-residency tail, and preemptions are zero.
Adds the method as LLM Performance Diagnosis S9 (counter arithmetic, the lagged
bucket correlation that separates step contention from residency churn, and the
four radiance knobs with their published costs), and the endpoint's own numbers
plus the verdict as two frank-archon laws: --busy-prefill-chunk and
--prefill-interleave are absent from this pin (proven via the running
container's --help), so MNBT is the only crank here and an image bump is gated
by the 1.2.0 numerics dead end.
No behavior change; docs only.
The boot of record for the new shape, from the verbosity-4 journal plus
settled nvidia-smi: target KV 14,406.00 (K f16 9,408.00 + V q8_0 4,998.00),
draft KV 2,352.00 over the same 200,704 cells x 3 seqs, recurrent state
452.25, compute 1,665.00 + 424.88 (draft 480.97 + 424.86), weights 2,283.29
+ 257.66, projector 595.29 + 248.10 + 24.93, settled 22,870 used / 1,255
free with n_slots = 3 / n_ctx_slot = 200704.
Two inherited numbers did not survive it, and both are corrected in the env,
the serve rationale and the page:
- The ubatch 2048 -> 1024 step was quoted at "-~1,306 MiB". That was the
786,432 / q8_0-pair arm. At THIS shape the target's compute buffers went
2,496.13 -> 2,089.88: 406 MiB, with CUDA0 going UP 257 while CUDA_Host
went down 663. q8_0 V (4,410 MiB, not the 3,840 previously written) is
what funds the drafter, alone.
- The fit gate priced 22,428 against a real 22,870: conservative by 442
MiB, so it stays honest as written.
And one finding stated plainly: this is the first boot on this card that
misses llama.cpp's own free-memory target - the engine printed "cannot meet
free memory target of 1,867 MiB, need to reduce device memory by 102 MiB"
and settled at 1,255 MiB free, under the ~2 GiB band every previous era
held. Cheapest rungs back are CTX_SIZE=401408 or SPEC_TYPE=none, both one
line.
Probes on the same boot go in too: chat turn (448 tokens, 1,755 chars of
thinking - empty content at max_tokens 64 is the documented trap), tools
(finish_reason tool_calls, {"a":24,"b":7}), vision (512 px solid red ->
"Red", 280 prompt tokens), and the drafter's own statistics (acceptance
0.706 / 0.763, mean accepted length 2.41 / 2.53).
The endpoint page owns its shape: the flags row, the budget equation behind
it (25,088 B/token, 14,406.00 MiB of cache + 2,352.00 MiB of draft cache
inside 24,123 MiB addressable), the "MTP is ON" section replacing the "OFF by
measurement" one, the harness contract at the per-slot 200,704, and the
fallback rungs rewritten as deltas FROM the shipped shape.
The 2026-10-18 exact-KV boot (KV 16,384.00 / RS 100.50 / compute 1,408.06 +
1,088.07 / mmproj 868.32 charged after the fit check, settled 21,176/2,949)
and its contended rate floors move into that era's Eras row with the one-line
rollback, so the two pages that carried them collapse to one. Rates for the
new shape are deliberately absent - no bench was ordered, and the fit gate,
the health gate and the boot ledger are the evidence a swap needs.
AGENTS.md follows the same numbers: contextWindow 200704 is the per-slot
window and the trio's shape line.
Frank's order, 2026-10-19: --parallel 3 at 200,704 a conversation (pool
602,112), K at the engine default (f16), V to q8_0, batch 1024x6 / ubatch
1024, and the MTP drafter armed explicitly.
The three requests are one budget equation. At 8,192 elements per token per
cache the pair now bills 25,088 B/token = 14,406.00 MiB over the 602,112
pool, and the armed draft context adds its own f16 KV over that whole pool
(4,096 B/position = 2,352.00 MiB) plus buffers and recurrent cells. Dropping
V to the 8-bit class frees 4,410 MiB against exact V and the ubatch drop
hands back ~1,306 - that is what pays for the third slot AND the drafter,
neither of which exact V could fund.
The serve script's written-down fallbacks move with the env so a missing env
file cannot boot the retired shape, and the seam now: asserts the per-slot
contract (divides evenly, <= the trained 262,144), bills an armed drafter in
the VRAM fit gate, proves the gate still REFUSES both boots this shape can
walk into, pins the shipped MTP set (and the absence of --spec-draft-model,
which would load the trunk twice), and pins SPEC_TYPE=none as the rollback
that strips the whole set.
Key Lessons Learned 483 -> 340 lines. Every law survives; only the essays
went. Port-before-cut census over the diff: 454 deleted lines, 0 orphaned
facts (every number still has a holder in the vault).
- Each lesson is now one bullet with the page that owns the detail.
- De-duplicated the page's own internal repeats: the layer-split law was
told twice (PCIe and ROCm sections), the FA-quants law twice more.
- CORRECTION, verified on dankclaw 2026-10-19: `GGML_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS` is
deprecated upstream (master's ggml/cmake/common.cmake tells you to use
GGML_CUDA_FA_QUANTS=all), the successor's default pair list
`q4_0-q4_0;q8_0-q8_0;f16-f16;bf16-bf16` compiles the quantized-KV kernels
with the old flag OFF (master build-cuda cache: FA_ALL_QUANTS=OFF), and
neither llama tree references the old macro under ggml/src/ggml-cuda/.
The "required or prefill collapses ~12x" law is obsolete; the new law is
to read the CMakeCache pair list.
- frank-zealot: ported the three facts AGENTS.md alone carried, and verified
them against the host first — the 2026-10-18 13:16 cutover boot really did
load PTQ1_0 at `new slot, n_ctx = 133888` x3 (journal), the mmproj fit
check really printed 873.10 MiB against a 21,439 MiB projection, and the
warmup spread is 2.6 -> 1,258 t/s prefill.
- New tooling: scripts/check-okf.py (OKF v0.1 conformance linter) and
scripts/gen-vault-index.py (root index regenerated from frontmatter).
Co-Authored-By: omp <omq@openclaw.sh>
The 2026-10-19 vault de-dup campaign sent four read-only scouts over the same
pages and had to parent-verify every claim: one inverted era-page law (flagged
pages stale for documenting the retired payloads they exist to record), one
listed files that do not exist, one reported duplications grep disproved, one
cited a line past the end of the file it judged. Record the rule beside the
other evidence laws so the next agent does not integrate a yield unchecked.
Refs: vault de-dup campaign, PR #24.
The "`--swap-space` is removed; use `--kv-offloading-size`" claim was carried by
six pages, two of them with their own copy of the upstream source citation. It
now lives only in [[RAM CPU Offloading in VLLM]], which carries the 2026-10-19
verification against `vllm/config/cache.py` (no `swap_space`; `kv_offloading_size`
activates only with `kv_offloading_backend`):
- `VLLM Overview` (two argument tables), `VLLM Index` (parameter table),
`DFlash DSpark Speculative Decoding`, `Shared Memory Architecture Dankclaw`,
`Hybrid CPU GPU Processing Dankserver` -> cite the owner.
- `VLLM Index`'s example command used the dead flag; it now shows the live pair.
- `dankserver-vram-growth`: banner disambiguates the 2026-08 `frank-zealot`
(llama.cpp on the 3090 when that card was in Dankserver) from today's endpoint
of the same name on Dankclaw, so a retired crash signature does not read as a
live fault on a same-card-class service.
Refs: vault de-dup campaign, clusters C2 and C6.
The root and LLM index pages still advertised two retired endpoints' pages as
live procedure:
- `frank-medium-radiance-mxfp4`: frontmatter said "ACTIVE frank-medium
runbook" and the body opened "The ACTIVE frank-medium deployment". Both
re-keyed to the era it ran (2026-09-21 -> 10-10), with [[frank-archon]]'s
Eras table named as the owner of that shape.
- `frank-medium-model-swap`: read as live how-to for a retired endpoint.
Re-keyed to historical, pointing at [[Model Swap and Rollback]] for the
current swap law.
- Both index pages' rows re-keyed to match (rows are hand-copied from
frontmatter - no generator - so both sites move together).
Refs: vault de-dup campaign, cluster C5.
- `Running Qwen3.6 27B FP8 on Dankclaw`: had no banner at all and opened as a
live how-to. Added the RETIRED banner (iGPU endpoint today is
[[frank-dragoon]]), era-tagged the hardware table, and rewrote the
"primary service now runs vLLM-ROCm with Ling CIRU INT4" production note,
which was false by three fleet generations.
- `ling-3.0-flash-vllm-plan`: "frank-dragoon is the Qwen3.8-27B PP head" ->
past tense with the 2026-08-17 redo as the anchor and the live owner named.
- `frank-redo-2026-08-17` banner: stripped restated live shapes that had
already drifted (radiance 1.0.13, PrismML b10754 - the fleet runs 10777)
and the 3090-provenance clause owned by the PP deployment page; banner is
now locator-only (names + ports + links).
Verified before cutting: 457.9 t/s and the ping-RTT figures are solo-held by
Ethernet Bandwidth Math.md (no duplicate), so both scout-reported "duplicates"
were kept.
Refs: vault de-dup campaign, cluster C3.
One fact, one owner (de-dup campaign C4):
- `FastFlowLM NPU Inference.md` carried the host RAM figures three times
(29 GiB budget input kept as era data; the 2026-10-18 `free -g` re-reads
of 121/246 GiB cut -> [[Dankclaw System Specs]]/[[Dankserver System Specs]]).
- The 14-18 t/s PP-split decode is this page's own solo-held era measurement:
kept, tagged to the 2026-08 era with [[frank-redo-2026-08-17]].
- Promotion section: `frank-zealot` "now runs the NPU endpoint" era-tagged
(the name has been reused twice since; the NPU unit is `frank-npu`, masked).
- Repaired the Test Runbook splice introduced by the range edit above.
Refs: vault de-dup campaign, cluster C4.
Parent-written (scout summaries were corroborated against the files, not
trusted): every restatement of an endpoint shape now cites the endpoint page,
and four claims contradicted by today's fleet state are corrected.
- Quantization Production: the challenger-contract line quoted the retired
compaction-hub window; now cites [[frank-zealot]]'s Current shape. The 3090
worked example is era-tagged. Sources listed [[frank-dragoon]] three times.
- Quantization by Hardware Architecture: said the 3090 lives on Dankserver
(it moved to Dankclaw 2026-09-16; the Eras table owns the move) and ranked
the retired Ling-3.0 Quark INT4 service as the ACTIVE Dankclaw workload. The
active service is [[frank-dragoon]] on a closed `.hgn` format.
- GGUF Compatibility: Related claimed the ftype-115 ROCmFPX file was "in
production"; that is an era now, so it points at [[kingjones-q8agent-rocmfpx]].
- Model Swap and Rollback: dropped the fragment byte-count ledger (AGENTS.md
owns it), the Ampere FP8 hardware claim ([[Quantization by Hardware
Architecture]] owns it), halogen's HTTP surface ([[frank-dragoon]]'s wire
contract) and three brittle unit-file line refs (accepted loss: line numbers
are derivable, the root-unit law stays). Fixed the per-slot example, which
described the retired 3-slot arithmetic, and a Related bullet that called
[[frank-archon]] retired while linking the same page twice.
Census over the diff: 1 orphan line, the deleted unit line-number refs above.
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