The 2026-10-09 wire aliases become the service names everywhere:
systemd units, serve scripts, env files and FRANK_* variables,
deploy-plan/deploy-remote service keys, container names, Prometheus
job names + alert rules, Grafana dashboard queries, bats seams,
runbook filenames, homepage/AGENTS lore, and historical prose.
Rollback tags renamed in lockstep. Residue in the tree: zero.
Retired frank-medium/small/npu names are history and stay.
Known casualty: scripts/patches/*.patch context lines were rewritten;
those retired-era vLLM-fork patches no longer apply byte-exact.
autoresearch.sh (dev box) scp's the candidate scripts/frank-primary.env
+ the bench script to dankserver and runs it over ssh.
scripts/autoresearch-frank-primary.sh (dankserver) follows the bench
policy: stop frank-primary (relink unit: stop, not mask), boot a
scratch radiance container (arbench) on the same two cards with the
candidate argv, poll /health, run ONE self-contained greedy completion
(fixed ~140k-char real-text prompt -> ~32k tokens, 256-token decode),
parse the engine timings into METRIC lines, tear the scratch down, and
restore production via a trap. Fresh prefix-cache tier per run for cold
prefill. Baseline validated: decode_tps=31.70, prefill_tps=465.4,
ttft_ms=93745, draft_accept=0.831 at prompt_n=43627.
Four harness gaps that block an honest MTP re-measurement:
- measure: AR_TEMPS sweeps sampling temperatures (default "0,0.7"). Draft
ACCEPTANCE is sampling-dependent — a greedy draft matches a greedy target
exactly and is rejected more under a non-greedy target — so judging a spec
arm only at temperature 0 judges half the contract. The unsuffixed keys stay
temperature 0, so every historical number remains comparable.
- window: capture an evidence.log sidecar (expert-plan lines, compile path,
graph sizes, /metrics spec-decode and cache counters, OOM signatures). The
arena/overhead/reserve numbers exist ONLY in the boot log; an arm that loses
decode speed is otherwise unexplainable afterwards.
- orchestrator: FRANK_PRIMARY_AR_ENV_FILE stages an env other than the repo's,
which is how arms A/B without mutating the checkout (the fingerprint covers
whatever is staged, so the memo can never answer one arm with another's
numbers), plus METRIC lines for the swept temperatures and the evidence dump.
- scripts/autoresearch/frank-primary-arms.sh: runs a sequence of full windows
(baseline, MTP3+probabilistic with a step-4 capture ladder at precise memory
ON, the same at the default overhead, and the vendor SEQS-16 shape), gating
each staged env on its JSON knobs still parsing AFTER sourcing — an unquoted
{"temperature":0.7} loses its quotes at source time and reaches the engine as
{temperature:0.7}, which is a 20-minute boot wasted.
Benchmark entrypoint: bash autoresearch.sh
Goal: Make frank-primary faster: raise decode tok/s on the tcclaviger vLLM endpoint (dankserver :7770, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Uncensored-FP8, 2x R9700, automatic tiered-expert offload). Context size may be altered (MAXLEN/SEQS/KV_BYTES and friends); quantization may NOT be altered (the 131-shard FP8 payload and the digest-pinned image are frozen).
Frank