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.
log.md drops 466 lines of per-swap ledger prose (1,169 lines out, 703 back) and
keeps the causal stories: why the host went down, why a knob resets at boot, why
a stale drop-in served a different model for 24 minutes, why the RAM was the
fault. Date sections are unchanged (65 before, 65 after) -- this is compression
inside sections, not deletion of days.
Every number the compression would have orphaned was ported to its owner first,
and a census of the deleted lines against the whole vault is what found them:
- frank-zealot: the two boots that priced non-KV (20,190/KV 12,800 => 7,390
without the projector; 22,972/KV 14,113 => 8,859 with it, so the vision tower
costs ~1.4 GiB for a 918 MB file), the 1,153 MiB-free 3-slot boot that made
the seam price non-KV at 9 GiB, and the f16 wall's own figures (fit 33,198 vs
23,558 free on a 25,088.00 MiB KV request).
- frank-archon: the pool-cut-is-headroom-not-arena law (2.75 GiB/rank bought
zero slots; d(reserve) = d(arena) = +248 slots; 14.87 GiB / 6,496 slots
against a 398,658-token pool), the MNBT compile-RANGE vs SEQS+1 law, and the
2 x 196,919 prefix-cache proof (393,837 tokens resident above the pool's
386,904; 94.1/102.3/117.6 t/s, acceptance 0.7284/0.7525).
- frank-dragoon: the KL arm of the 2026-10-17 A/B (mean 0.155 / median 0.057,
top-1 agreement 85.1 %) joins the PPL and NIAH figures already on the era row.
- Payload and Disk Reclaim: the 121 GB layer census lesson -- a huge image layer
can be the engine image, not a payload.
Also fixes a wikilink the rewrite had hard-wrapped across two lines, which the
link checker reads as a target that does not exist.
New seam: 'one page per live LLM endpoint'. The live set is derived from
scripts/ (an endpoint has both an env and a unit), and any <endpoint>-*.md page
in the vault fails it -- the enforcement of the one-page-per-endpoint law, so a
re-created era page cannot pass tests.
Every payload swap a live endpoint has ever run is now one row in that
endpoint's Eras table, with its rollback path in the same row. No per-attempt
page, no per-swap ledger, nowhere else.
- Added: LLM/frank-archon.md (radiance, 2x R9700 TP=2), LLM/frank-dragoon.md
(halogen flash-server, 19 eras), LLM/frank-zealot.md (llama.cpp PrismML fork
on the 3090). Each carries Current shape, Eras, Laws, wire contract, files.
- Deleted: 45 per-payload runbooks -- the frank-dragoon line (11 including the
pre-name halogen/kingjones/kairic/CIRU/eemin/agentionai/dflash2 pages and the
benchmark page), the frank-zealot line (llama.cpp/vLLM/ik_llama/SGLang eras),
the frank-archon line (vLLM/FreeToken/R9V/llama.cpp/radiance eras), plus
frank-medium, frank-npu and the ubatch/PCIe one-offs that owned nothing.
- Rewired: every wikilink and markdown-path reference to a folded page points
at the endpoint page instead; the three Research see-also lists and the
ubatch sweep's runbook link included. No anchored links existed in the set.
- Regenerated both index pages as pure locators -- one row, one clause, no
numbers -- so the docs_completeness locator law holds for all 153 pages.
tests/docs_completeness.bats green: index links every page, no unresolved
links. The pages moved to .AGENTTRASH/20261018-doc-dedupe/LLM/ (gitignored,
and git history holds every byte).
Frank