Adversarial review of the campaign pipeline. Correctness: rechunk-kld-corpus.py wrote
each window as text and asserted only lengths, so a KLD reference could score a
different token sequence than the corpus holds — every window is now re-encoded and
the tool refuses on mismatch; make-calib-corpus.py no longer crashes on a .json that
is not a content-keyed JSONL, and its KLD cursor advanced by 2 per fragment (half the
pool unused). Silent waste: calib-push.py now aborts when the tap sealed nothing or
no prompt was accepted, instead of re-pushing 10M tokens per round; div-by-zero gone,
served model id parameterised. Races: run-qwen38-bf16.sh restore() removes the rig
container before starting production (today's orphan held the GPUs while the service
reported active), the calib tap dir is proven writable, the score ro-guard resolves
paths; convert-qwen38-w5nl64.sh refuses a missing --arm value, an existing
qwen38-convert-<arm> container, and a zero-exit convert that wrote no artifact.
stack-qwen38-official-fp8.py: bare asserts in verify() (skipped under -O) and a
non-128-lane PLE HD that only warned are hard failures. Speed: fragment token counts
computed once, KLD scored positions accumulated instead of a second full re-encode.
Tests: 576 ok / 0 fail.
One template (every routed expert at five bits, E4M3 scales in 64-groups, the
top level rotated through the 128-wide Hadamard chosen by GPTQ against CALIB)
plus a driver that generates the per-arm expert row, so the other 60 lines can
never drift between arms: control (cd=3), cd=6, and act_order=1 with NO cd= -
libquant refuses the pair (lq_registry.cpp:105), so the AoA arm is its own
sweep, not a fourth column.
The header carries the campaign's order (fetch -> build reference -> one drained
window for the calibration tap and the KLD reference -> trash the bf16 container
-> imatrix -> arms -> fetch the FP8 anchor last -> gate -> trio edit), because
that sequence is point-of-use for whoever runs it next, and the disk sequencing
is forced: 754 GiB free does not hold checkpoint + reference + three arms.
Gates that bite before 5h13m of convert time is spent: the BF16 reference still
occupying the volume, a recording too thin to be a calibration (converting
uncalibrated is silently worse and only whispers on stderr), an imatrix outside
the mounted campaign dir, an arm that already exists, a protected derivation
that cannot land its target, and a destination that cannot hold the output. Each
arm runs --plan-only first so the engine's own fit check bills at plan time; the
served container's argv shape is what the arms declare.
Frank