fix(qwen38): the preflight asks whether the pin is ONE of an image's digests

A by-digest pull leaves the image carrying every digest it was pulled under, so
reading RepoDigests[0] reported a healthy pinned image as wrong and refused a
window that was ready to run. Membership, not position. Also records the measured
step optimum: 106 tok/s at an 8,192-token step against 76 at 16,384 on a 32,768
calibration window, so the wide step has a ceiling, not a plateau.

AGENTS.md

@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ merge absorbed the former `vllmScripts` repo, history preserved).
 | Target | Service | Runtime | Payload | Port |
 |--------|---------|---------|---------|------|
 | Dankserver | `frank-archon` | radiance, digest-pinned, root unit, TP=2 | publisher `qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad` | 7770 |
-| Dankclaw | `frank-dragoon` | halogen-flash-server 0.16.2, digest-pinned, root unit | `qwen38-flash-next-v2-abliterated.hgn` + n-gram + vision tower | 7770 |
-| Dankclaw | `frank-zealot` | llama.cpp PrismML fork build 10777, root unit — the only loader for this payload | Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B PQ2_0 + Q8_0 mmproj + rank-1 refusal adapter | 7771 |
+| Dankclaw | `frank-dragoon` | halogen-flash-server 0.18.20, digest-pinned, root unit | `qwen38-flash-next-v2-abliterated.hgn` + n-gram + vision tower | 7770 |
+| Dankclaw | `frank-zealot` | llama.cpp PrismML fork build 12118, root unit — the only loader for this payload | Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B PQ2_0 + Q8_0 mmproj + rank-1 refusal adapter | 7771 |
 
 Payload identity, shape, eras, laws and rollback live in ONE page each:
 [[frank-archon]], [[frank-dragoon]], [[frank-zealot]]. `scripts/<service>.env`
@@ -293,8 +293,8 @@ means off or NIC dead; a merely wedged kernel usually still answers ARP.
 2. Bench against the service itself. No scratch ports on an LLM host — one
    process owns the card. Use the runtime's own harness (`llama-bench`; a
    live llama.cpp server also reports honest `timings` per request, including
-   `draft_n`/`draft_n_accepted` — but on frank-zealot's PrismML fork build
-   10777 that object only reaches you on **`/v1/chat/completions`**: a greedy
+   `draft_n`/`draft_n_accepted` — but on frank-zealot's PrismML fork that object
+   only reaches you on **`/v1/chat/completions`** (measured on build 10777): a greedy
    `ignore_eos` run on the raw `/completion` path there answers **500 "The
    model produced output that does not match the expected Content-only
    format"** (measured 2026-10-18). halogen has no `/completion` path at all,
@@ -439,16 +439,16 @@ disagrees with it is the bug.
 ### frank-zealot — llama.cpp (PrismML fork), RTX 3090, :7771
 
 - Owns: `scripts/frank-zealot.env`, `scripts/serve-frank-zealot.sh`,
-  `scripts/frank-zealot.service`; fork build `llama-prism-b10777` is the ONLY
-  loader (the payload carries the fork's custom PQ2_0 tensor type plus
+  `scripts/frank-zealot.service`; fork build `llama-prism-0244744` (build 12118)
+  is the ONLY loader — `llama-prism-b10777` stays on disk as its rollback (the payload carries the fork's custom PQ2_0 tensor type plus
   `prism.hadamard.*` dequant metadata — stock llama.cpp refuses it, and a
   loader ignoring that metadata dequantizes wrong); payload
   `Bonsai2-9B-MTP/…PQ2_0.gguf` + the publisher's **Q8_0** mmproj (the BF16
   tower can crash the server with concurrent image requests) + the rank-1
   refusal-direction adapter applied at load by `--lora-scaled …:1`. The
   adapter's rollback is `LORA_FILE=` (empty) in the env — one line, no rebuild
-  — and build 10777 is also the gate that lets it load: older forks refuse it
-  with `unsupported prism.hadamard.version: 2`.
+  — and the fork BUILD is also the gate that lets it load: anything older than
+  b10777 refuses it with `unsupported prism.hadamard.version: 2`.
 - Shape: `--ctx-size 602112 --parallel 3` = **three conversations at
   200,704 each**, `CACHE_TYPE_K=f16` + `CACHE_TYPE_V=q8_0` (asymmetric: 25,088
   B/token, 14,406 MiB of pool), batch 6144 / ubatch 1024,
@@ -741,6 +741,13 @@ linked runbooks.
   `/etc/default/grub`. It replaced `amd_iommu=off`, and the local A/B on byte-identical traffic
   says identity mode costs nothing, so the XDNA2 NPU returned for free.
   [[dankclaw-iommu-translation-off]]
+- **A deploy handler that only `start`s a quadlet no-ops an image bump.**
+  `systemctl --user start` on an already-active unit does nothing, so installing
+  a new digest under a running service keeps the OLD container serving while the
+  deploy, its health gate and the Playwright suite all pass — the authentik
+  handler did exactly that on 2026-10-30 (2026.8.3 → 2026.8.5 moved only the
+  outpost, the one handler that restarted). A pin change is applied by
+  `restart`, never `start`.
 - **Rootless Quadlet containers run with `--replace --rm`**: `podman logs` covers only the CURRENT
   instance; history across recreations lives in `journalctl --user -u <name>.service`. Read
   rootless storage WITHOUT sudo — it is per-user storage, so `sudo podman logs` finds nothing.

scripts/census-frank-dragoon.sh

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 # deployed knob has since dropped to 262144.
 set -euo pipefail
 
-IMG=ghcr.io/peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server@sha256:0c61bf84ac22308a53f5d1ca6b86806702d7039e5ebc51cae4c66621b92fe04a
+IMG=ghcr.io/peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server@sha256:e35133b206da3094cc4d70c78800b26235bd9124b9aeb0e029d4a7c153b9cff0
 CUR=/home/dank/models/halogen-flashnext-v2
 NEW=/home/dank/models/halogen-v2-abliterated
 CUR_CK=qwen38-flash-next-v2-swift15-abliterated.hgn

scripts/convert-qwen38-w5nl64.sh

@@ -47,7 +47,12 @@
 set -u -o pipefail
 
 SELF="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
-IMAGE=${IMAGE:-stilldeadcode/radiance@sha256:d590e300234bf6d2f942a0b8d456d183153fd808f28820e6c2fa69c9389178ed}
+# THE TOOLCHAIN PIN. `:latest` on 2026-10-30 is v1.14.0 (revision 4a61d7296bc5),
+# the same image the tap producer boots: a tap must be converted by the line that
+# is current, and rad-convert's `gptq:calib=<dir>` input contract is version-stable
+# (RADGRAM2 + gram.r<rank>.<stem>.bin), so nothing else about the recipe moves with
+# it. Production stays on its own pin — this is the campaign's toolchain.
+IMAGE=${IMAGE:-stilldeadcode/radiance@sha256:69add58f7de1ed2bca2b1e20a4cc75717557df3f73569a178eca5aafe8c44093}
 CKPT=${CKPT:-/home/dank/models/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next}
 CAMPAIGN=${CAMPAIGN:-/home/dank/campaign/qwen38-w5nl64}
 RECIPE=${RECIPE:-$SELF/recipes/qwen4exp-qwen38-w5nl64-bf16trunk.recipe}

scripts/deploy-remote.sh

@@ -1362,11 +1362,17 @@ deploy_authentik() {
     # generated". Boot persistence comes from [Install] WantedBy=default.target
     # inside each .container file, which the generator honors at user-manager
     # start (linger must stay on for the deploy user).
-    systemctl --user start authentik-postgres.service
+    # RESTART, not start: `start` on an already-active unit is a no-op, so an
+    # image bump would install the new digest and keep serving the old
+    # container while every gate stayed green (measured 2026-10-30: server and
+    # worker stayed on the previous release beside an outpost that moved,
+    # because only the outpost handler restarts). The generator has already
+    # re-rendered the unit from the .container, so a restart is what applies it.
+    systemctl --user restart authentik-postgres.service
     wait_container_healthy authentik-postgres 120 || return 1
-    systemctl --user start authentik-server.service
+    systemctl --user restart authentik-server.service
     wait_container_healthy authentik-server 300 || return 1
-    systemctl --user start authentik-worker.service
+    systemctl --user restart authentik-worker.service
 }
 
 deploy_authentik_outpost() {
@@ -1482,7 +1488,7 @@ deploy_anubis() {
 # artifact would leave a restart-looping unit and a dark endpoint. The
 # port gate is the same as every cutover since 2026-09-16: nothing
 # starts until 7770 is released.
-LLM_DRAGOON_IMAGE="${LLM_DRAGOON_IMAGE:-ghcr.io/peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server@sha256:0c61bf84ac22308a53f5d1ca6b86806702d7039e5ebc51cae4c66621b92fe04a}"
+LLM_DRAGOON_IMAGE="${LLM_DRAGOON_IMAGE:-ghcr.io/peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server@sha256:e35133b206da3094cc4d70c78800b26235bd9124b9aeb0e029d4a7c153b9cff0}"
 # The payload dir is its own twin because the NPU lane's containment gate below
 # reads it; every artifact path under it stays a full literal as usual.
 LLM_DRAGOON_MODEL_DIR="${LLM_DRAGOON_MODEL_DIR:-/home/dank/models/halogen-v2-abliterated}"

scripts/download-frank-dragoon-npu.sh

@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@
 # (/opt/halogen/npu/models.txt inside the image) and refuses to load a model
 # whose files do not match.
 #
-# The manifest below IS that catalog block (dumped from the pinned 0.16.2
-# image on 2026-10-19), so the files land in the layout the entrypoint
+# The manifest below IS that catalog block (dumped from the pinned 0.18.20
+# image on 2026-10-30; the 0.16.2 block this replaced named different device
+# programs — 10 `u*.elf` and a 5,086,496 B consts.hnpb — so a version bump
+# re-fetches the set or the entrypoint refuses the boot), so the files land in the layout the entrypoint
 # expects — <dir>/<model-id>/devices/*, <dir>/<model-id>/<model-id>.hnpw and
 # <dir>/<model-id>/tokenizer/tokenizer.json — and the endpoint can keep
 # /models read-only and open no outbound connection at boot (HALOGEN_DOWNLOAD
@@ -57,21 +59,25 @@ manifest() {
     case "$1" in
       qwen3-embedding-0.6b)
         NPU_REPO="peonist-ai/halogen-npu-qwen3-embedding-0.6b"
-        NPU_REV="4960fd9d4423dd15373ad21c83db48dbdb3b2798"
+        NPU_REV="8fd44c9f18861618a509bea75c51ff8a37e3bd5d"
         FILES=(
         "devices/NOTICE.md 3248 0f267b3d2523ddf14997ee58660a492a9eaf10ccf6b08bf19dfdc85b9a478b91"
-        "devices/consts.hnpb 5086496 ae430e41545a0b1012938cda373b0c450364d3be631111cca3a8c43679f93336"
-        "devices/devices.hnpm 24047 4e9bca9d95d084fb89ce5b99f579a00666c8ca1efae2613c53e3a4878cc9f174"
-        "devices/u0.elf 4931968 b38f165886cb037b7d3951d9cb878473eaba58a432acd45416ff85fd88aa4e46"
-        "devices/u1.elf 5456000 b1811feee851b8af833b37721da92099d89772110815bbbe2c3fa1c276f0ff42"
-        "devices/u2.elf 6505552 406ea9a95b470628a7382e376f4a72cdf4d7aa4c59b4ddf0a4bdd139d63d6ff2"
-        "devices/u3.elf 6817216 bc205d51b523d770151a0c61968f7c70bf624412827580bb6fe0aaf4650dc2ee"
-        "devices/u4.elf 7444032 a5a91338a2603acdcd5c11df532033fda2d3f5479ea44ae87f98fafbdff9a62d"
-        "devices/u5.elf 7432416 6c2bf41835569e0eba25ded7c05c7264ae69c6700bdeb4791057d884f2a4c126"
-        "devices/u6.elf 4941232 919d0038ca088eafddf195f3466ff38db27d3635be1cffa5d4d4b5140902a68e"
-        "devices/u7.elf 5488304 d904cf8afae9428dd167960549e18cce5441745f18c62f8c50975dffc077d3c2"
-        "devices/u8.elf 4941232 db3aef69b17825854ee0dd2df475125a3f5c872f95c686793d6af1ee83596fa7"
-        "devices/u9.elf 5488304 d182727e551084db8fb9600441d8aa373c7f09a3d267ae0a5e921ef92326db1c"
+        "devices/consts.hnpb 8495512 5af7c1f2f24d45a9054872bba882461cf7f6ffda832e785b700643d6467ad88b"
+        "devices/devices.hnpm 35465 85d870f6b900de1829659955f0dc701d57984580f5e5ec251add5d6969f03e3d"
+        "devices/u0.elf 2975008 f74df12eb8c79e4e90cbedcc1dd8f142219772d400e3a142fde8a95378b105eb"
+        "devices/u1.elf 3266848 ac5a3f89f934951b315b62ab53e1d0a74dbe6396134192641c405d08da332754"
+        "devices/u2.elf 4015328 5e4f0d3342f262816289866d7e8c966f56a9f938c2e12e7341718cc7312aa480"
+        "devices/u3.elf 4326976 94cf5d269fa286d91c26bf4654cedf101c047d23c4495b74c9c129cdc33b210f"
+        "devices/u4.elf 4953792 cbd2796050d4c675f5cb3da117111087d510173e26f262f1b36aab66dd49dc91"
+        "devices/u5.elf 4940112 7bf6a4470546bb888da02af395c07d92a24fb6d43aef27eb2151b3a9eda19e4d"
+        "devices/u6.elf 6174544 10b9d50b635993e1f9c23775c0b94901d922c1e433cd10910e9f97174235f5ac"
+        "devices/u7.elf 2983776 e0b06063b7379d05c85b3f435b819d96fda1223d8025d6d15958854b5711ace9"
+        "devices/u8.elf 3298656 3bad204f782a68b97e27c1172530b13d7fbb0b495fa95f9504530a1048560644"
+        "devices/u9.elf 2983776 875e313280358ce116e2a51a29a2c42794b5a9fadb3d48db702c90d18d838c2c"
+        "devices/u10.elf 3298656 ef2e0f399f149a5476955bcf233c6fa2e896fcef1f86ecb0d8113c952c41a8b2"
+        "devices/u11.elf 3298656 68a2519eee2d6a61ccc4ca2007e3186d44c9eb4e81162d742fe2f1756ec5a528"
+        "devices/u12.elf 3298656 2bdc6abfa58cac1d5795a3ef52fe8a9ab4e7c2a4792822d615499a913401f728"
+        "devices/u13.elf 3298656 4a3ce14f7ba15987b9bcbb4a010083e8aef68cd87c20cbe43403a98263179fe2"
         "qwen3-embedding-0.6b.hnpw 813032248 b9f9901429df7b46ec17153aa3899f738adbea8e4356080da0c6e6586fb750d1"
         "tokenizer/tokenizer.json 11423705 def76fb086971c7867b829c23a26261e38d9d74e02139253b38aeb9df8b4b50a"
         ) ;;
@@ -99,7 +105,18 @@ for MODEL in ${MODELS//,/ }; do
                 # 62 GiB fetch hit this on 2026-10-18).
                 url=$(curl -sfIL -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}' "$HF/$NPU_REPO/resolve/$NPU_REV/$f") \
                     || { echo "cannot resolve $NPU_REPO/$f" >&2; exit 1; }
-                curl -fL --retry 5 -C - -o "$path" "$url"
+                # Resume ONLY into a genuinely partial file. A staged file of a
+                # DIFFERENT size is an artifact of another revision (a version
+                # bump re-cuts the device programs), and `-C -` against it
+                # appends the tail to the old bytes: the result is the right
+                # BYTE COUNT with the wrong content, which reads as a corrupt
+                # program, not as a fetch fault (measured 2026-10-30 on
+                # consts.hnpb). Fetch those from zero.
+                resume=()
+                if [ -f "$path" ] && [ "$(stat -c %s "$path")" -lt "$want" ]; then
+                    resume=(-C -)
+                fi
+                curl -fL --retry 5 "${resume[@]+"${resume[@]}"}" -o "$path" "$url"
             fi
         fi
         [ -f "$path" ] || { echo "MISSING $path (run without --verify-only)" >&2; exit 1; }

scripts/frank-dragoon.env

@@ -10,8 +10,11 @@
 # The .hgn format is the lock: it loads ONLY in the flash-server line, so the
 # engine moves with the payload, never ahead of it.
 # Image digest-pinned (a tag pull silently re-points; the digest is what was
-# qualified — 0.16.2 is the version the model card names as its quickstart pin).
-FRANK_DRAGOON_IMAGE=ghcr.io/peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server@sha256:0c61bf84ac22308a53f5d1ca6b86806702d7039e5ebc51cae4c66621b92fe04a
+# qualified). 0.18.20 since 2026-10-30 (was 0.16.2, the model card's quickstart
+# pin) — the vendor has moved two minor versions and the payload lock is what
+# the deploy's health gate plus the boot ledger decide; rollback is the
+# previous digest, 0c61bf84…, on this same line.
+FRANK_DRAGOON_IMAGE=ghcr.io/peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server@sha256:e35133b206da3094cc4d70c78800b26235bd9124b9aeb0e029d4a7c153b9cff0
 # Container identity kept from the 27B era: the unit's ExecStop names it.
 FRANK_DRAGOON_CONTAINER=frank-dragoon-halogen
 # Predecessor identity the serve script clears if it is still holding the GPUs.

scripts/frank-zealot.env

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-# frank-zealot — llama.cpp (PrismML fork build 10777, CUDA) on the RTX 3090,
-# :7771. Payload: Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B PQ2_0 with the MTP head in the file, plus
+# frank-zealot — llama.cpp (PrismML fork build 12118 = 0.7.0-dev, commit
+# 024474448, CUDA) on the RTX 3090, :7771. Payload: Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B PQ2_0 with the MTP head in the file, plus
 # the refusal-direction adapter applied at load.
 #
 # ONE OWNER: shape, payload identity, eras, laws and every measured number
 # live in serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-zealot.md. This file carries the
 # knobs and only the reason a reader editing THIS line cannot recover
 # elsewhere. Where the two disagree, this file wins on values.
-LLAMA_BIN=/home/dank/GitPackages/llama-prism-b10777/llama-server
+LLAMA_BIN=/home/dank/GitPackages/llama-prism-0244744/bin/llama-server
 # The fork is a LOCK, not a preference: custom tensor type 142 + prism.hadamard.*
 # metadata. Stock llama.cpp refuses the file; a loader ignoring the Hadamard
 # metadata dequantizes wrong, silently.
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ CACHE_TYPE_V=q8_0
 # weights, so there is no --spec-draft-model. Its bill is pool × 4,096 B of
 # draft KV plus ~0.45 GiB of buffers and a tripled recurrent state — paid for
 # by CACHE_TYPE_V=q8_0 and UBATCH_SIZE=1024 above. Build gate: quantized V
-# beside MTP needs fork build >= b10776; LLAMA_BIN is 10777.
+# beside MTP needs fork build >= b10776; LLAMA_BIN is 12118 (b10777 is kept on
+# disk as the rollback path).
 # SPEC_TYPE=none is the rollback and strips the WHOLE set (--spec-type and
 # every --spec-draft-*); half a set has segfaulted at load.
 SPEC_TYPE=draft-mtp

scripts/qwen38-calib-window.sh

@@ -12,8 +12,13 @@
 # (2026-10-29) the rig's boot died of an OOM, the health loop quietly fell through, and the
 # pusher fed four rounds of 10M tokens into RESTORED PRODUCTION with nothing recorded:
 #
-#   1. the runner must still be alive and its container must answer /health, or this script
-#      kills it, restores the service and exits non-zero — no push, ever;
+#   1. the runner must still be alive and its container must answer /health AND own the
+#      listening socket, or this script kills it, restores the service and exits non-zero —
+#      no push, ever. The socket clause is not decoration: the runner stops frank-archon
+#      first, the dying process keeps its listener for a moment, and a rig container that
+#      is still loading has not bound the port yet, so `podman inspect` + `/health` both
+#      report success for the WRONG process (measured 2026-10-30: `health ok waited=0s`,
+#      then the pusher refused on the container name and the window died at second zero);
 #   2. the pusher refuses on its own unless the rig wrote its marker into the tap dir, the
 #      marker names this container, and the container is running (scripts/calib-push.py
 #      --tap-marker), so a second lock survives a mistake in this file;
@@ -35,20 +40,26 @@ MODELS="${FRANK_QWEN38_MODELS:-/home/dank/models}"
 CAMPAIGN="${FRANK_QWEN38_CAMPAIGN:-/home/dank/campaign/qwen38-w5nl64}"
 RAD="${FRANK_QWEN38_RAD:-$MODELS/rad/qwen38-bf16.rad}"
 CORPUS="${Q38_WINDOW_CALIB_CORPUS:-/home/dank/corpora/out/calib-7168.jsonl}"
-KLDREF="$CAMPAIGN/kld-ref/kld.json"
-CALIB="$CAMPAIGN/calib"
+CALIB="${FRANK_QWEN38_CALIB_DIR:-$CAMPAIGN/calib}"
 HEALTH_TIMEOUT="${Q38_WINDOW_HEALTH_TIMEOUT:-3600}"
 ROUNDS="${Q38_WINDOW_ROUNDS:-6}"
 RIG=qwen38-bf16
 SERVICE=frank-archon
 PY="${PY:-python3}"
 
-# ---- preflight: everything this window needs, before a card is touched -------
-[ -f "$KLDREF" ] || { echo "REFUSED: no reference recording at $KLDREF — record it first (scripts/run-qwen38-bf16.sh kldref); this window only fills the calibration tap" >&2; exit 2; }
+# ---- preflight: every fact by identity, one owner (scripts/qwen38-preflight.sh) ----
+# The checks that used to live here were proxies, and each lied at least once: the space check
+# asked a directory that merely LOOKED related, `/health` answered for a dying production
+# process, `podman inspect` named a container that existed but had bound nothing. The shared
+# script binds each fact to its object — cwd, the digest the tag actually resolves to, free
+# space on the tap's own filesystem, every /dev/kfd holder's HOST pid against the service's,
+# the :7770 listener's host pid, the corpus and the reference recording. A resumed window
+# keeps an existing tap, so the tap-empty fact is waived.
 [ -f "$RAD" ]    || { echo "REFUSED: no BF16 reference container at $RAD — nothing to serve; scripts/build-qwen38-bf16-rad.sh" >&2; exit 2; }
-[ -f "$CORPUS" ] || { echo "REFUSED: no calibration corpus at $CORPUS" >&2; exit 2; }
-[ -d "$CALIB" ]  || { echo "REFUSED: no tap dir at $CALIB" >&2; exit 2; }
-[ -w "$CALIB" ]  || { echo "REFUSED: tap dir $CALIB is not writable by $(id -un)" >&2; exit 2; }
+FRANK_QWEN38_CAMPAIGN="$CAMPAIGN" \
+Q38_WINDOW_CALIB_CORPUS="$CORPUS" \
+Q38_CALIB_MIN_FREE_MIB="${Q38_CALIB_MIN_FREE_MIB:-61440}" \
+    bash scripts/qwen38-preflight.sh --allow-existing-tap || exit 2
 ! [[ "$HEALTH_TIMEOUT" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] && { echo "REFUSED: Q38_WINDOW_HEALTH_TIMEOUT must be seconds (got: $HEALTH_TIMEOUT)" >&2; exit 2; }
 ! [[ "$ROUNDS" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] && { echo "REFUSED: Q38_WINDOW_ROUNDS must be a round count (got: $ROUNDS)" >&2; exit 2; }
 
@@ -69,8 +80,18 @@ say "phase=calib serve begin"
 bash scripts/run-qwen38-bf16.sh calib & spid=$!
 
 rig_up() {
-    podman inspect -f '{{.State.Running}}' "$RIG" 2>/dev/null | grep -qx true \
-        && curl -sf --max-time 10 -o /dev/null http://127.0.0.1:7770/health
+    podman inspect -f '{{.State.Running}}' "$RIG" 2>/dev/null | grep -qx true || return 1
+    curl -sf --max-time 10 -o /dev/null http://127.0.0.1:7770/health || return 1
+    # The answer must come from the CONTAINER. The runner stops frank-archon first, and the
+    # dying production process keeps its listener for a moment while the freshly created
+    # rig container is still loading — so `container running` + `/health` 200 both hold
+    # before the rig has bound anything. Measured 2026-10-30: `health ok waited=0s`, then the
+    # pusher refused on the container name and the window died at second zero. Ask the kernel
+    # who owns the listening socket and require it to be a rig process.
+    local lpid
+    lpid=$(ss -H -ltnp 'sport = :7770' 2>/dev/null | grep -o 'pid=[0-9]*' | head -1 | cut -d= -f2)
+    [ -n "${lpid:-}" ] || return 1
+    podman top "$RIG" pid 2>/dev/null | grep -qw "$lpid"
 }
 
 waited=0
@@ -115,7 +136,7 @@ say "TAP BANKED: $(ls -1 "$CALIB" | wc -l) file(s) in $CALIB"
 if [ "${Q38_WINDOW_KEEP_RAD:-0}" = "1" ]; then
     say "reference .rad kept (Q38_WINDOW_KEEP_RAD=1)"
 else
-    T="$HOME/.AGENTTRASH/$(date +%Y%m%d)-qwen38-bf16-rad"
+    T="${Q38_WINDOW_TRASH_ROOT:-$HOME/.AGENTTRASH}/$(date +%Y%m%d)-qwen38-bf16-rad"
     mkdir -p "$T" || { echo "FAIL: cannot create trash dir $T" >&2; exit 1; }
     mv "$RAD" "$T/" && say "reference .rad banked in $T (the checkpoint that rebuilds it stays)"
 fi

scripts/qwen38-preflight.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# qwen38-preflight.sh — the facts a calibration window must have BEFORE it takes the cards,
+# each checked by IDENTITY and not by proxy. Every line is PASS or FAIL with the reason.
+#
+# Why this file exists: on 2026-10-30 a window died at second zero because `/health` answered
+# 200 from the *production* process that was still draining its listener, while the freshly
+# created rig container had not bound anything. Other runs died from a port that answered for
+# the wrong process, a /dev/kfd held by an orphaned engine, a tap dir on a 35 GiB filesystem,
+# and a launcher whose cwd silently lacked the repo. None of those were math problems; all of
+# them were a check that measured something adjacent to the thing it meant.
+#
+# Usage:  bash scripts/qwen38-preflight.sh [--allow-existing-tap]
+# Exit:   0 all PASS · 2 any FAIL · 3 a fact could not be evaluated (missing tool)
+set -uo pipefail
+
+SELF_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$SELF_DIR/.." && pwd)"
+
+CAMPAIGN="${FRANK_QWEN38_CAMPAIGN:-/home/dank/campaign/qwen38-w5nl64}"
+TAP="$CAMPAIGN/calib"
+CORPUS="${Q38_WINDOW_CALIB_CORPUS:-/home/dank/corpora/out/calib-7168.jsonl}"
+NEED_MIB="${Q38_CALIB_MIN_FREE_MIB:-61440}"
+ALLOW_EXISTING=0
+[ "${1:-}" = "--allow-existing-tap" ] && ALLOW_EXISTING=1
+
+# The producer pin is the calib image; the window fails closed if the tag on this host is not it.
+WANT_DIGEST="${Q38_PREFLIGHT_IMAGE_DIGEST:-sha256:69add58f7de1ed2bca2b1e20a4cc75717557df3f73569a178eca5aafe8c44093}"
+IMAGE_REF="${Q38_CALIB_IMAGE:-stilldeadcode/radiance@$WANT_DIGEST}"
+SERVICE="frank-archon"
+PORT=7770
+
+fails=0
+ok()   { printf 'PASS  %-14s %s\n' "$1" "$2"; }
+bad()  { printf 'FAIL  %-14s %s\n' "$1" "$2"; fails=$((fails + 1)); }
+skip() { printf 'WARN  %-14s %s\n' "$1" "$2"; }
+
+# 1. cwd — a detached launcher that lost its cwd fails here in a second, not in the log later.
+if [ "$(cd "$REPO_ROOT" && pwd)" = "$(pwd)" ] && [ -x "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/run-qwen38-bf16.sh" ]; then
+    ok cwd "running from the repo root ($REPO_ROOT)"
+else
+    bad cwd "cwd is $(pwd), not the repo root ($REPO_ROOT) — every relative script path would break"
+fi
+
+# 2. image — resolve the REF to a digest. A stale local `:latest` is a different model of the world.
+if command -v podman >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    # An image carries EVERY digest it was pulled under (a tag plus the by-digest pull), so this
+    # asks whether the pin is one of them — reading RepoDigests[0] reports a healthy image as wrong.
+    got="$(podman image inspect -f '{{range .RepoDigests}}{{println .}}{{end}}' "$IMAGE_REF" 2>/dev/null \
+           | sed 's/.*@//' | grep -c "^${WANT_DIGEST}$")"
+    if [ "${got:-0}" -ge 1 ]; then
+        ok image "$IMAGE_REF carries ${WANT_DIGEST:0:19}…"
+    elif podman image exists "$IMAGE_REF" 2>/dev/null; then
+        bad image "$IMAGE_REF is present but does not carry $WANT_DIGEST (a retagged or older pull)"
+    else
+        bad image "$IMAGE_REF is not present on this host"
+    fi
+else
+    skip image "podman not on PATH — cannot resolve $IMAGE_REF"
+fi
+
+# 3. space — df the FILE PATH the seal writes to, never a directory that merely looks related.
+if [ -d "$TAP" ] || mkdir -p "$TAP" 2>/dev/null; then
+    avail="$(df --output=avail -B 1M "$TAP" 2>/dev/null | tail -1 | tr -d ' ')"
+    if [[ "${avail:-}" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] && [ "$avail" -ge "$NEED_MIB" ]; then
+        ok space "$avail MiB free on $(df --output=target "$TAP" | tail -1) (need $NEED_MIB)"
+    else
+        bad space "${avail:-unknown} MiB free on $TAP, need $NEED_MIB — one seal writes ~43 GB"
+    fi
+    # 4. tap cleanliness — stale grams from another run must never be mixed in.
+    n=$(ls -A "$TAP" 2>/dev/null | grep -c . || true)
+    if [ "$n" -eq 0 ] || [ "$ALLOW_EXISTING" = 1 ]; then
+        ok tap-empty "$n entries in $TAP"
+    else
+        bad tap-empty "$n entries in $TAP — rotate them to .AGENTTRASH first"
+    fi
+else
+    bad space "cannot create $TAP"
+fi
+
+# 5. device — every /dev/kfd holder must be a process of the service we are about to stop. An
+#    orphaned engine from a previous run makes the next boot die with `startup stopped: device
+#    error`. Identity comes from podman's own host-pid list: `podman top <ctr> pid` prints
+#    CONTAINER-internal pids (1, 7, …), which compare against nothing, and a rootless cgroup
+#    carries the container ID, never the service name — both are proxies that lie.
+PROD_CTR="${Q38_PREFLIGHT_PROD_CONTAINER:-$SERVICE}"
+service_pids() { podman top "$PROD_CTR" hpid 2>/dev/null | tail -n +2; }
+if [ -e /dev/kfd ]; then
+    mine="$(service_pids | tr '\n' ' ')"
+    foreign=""
+    for p in $(fuser /dev/kfd 2>/dev/null); do
+        case " $mine " in
+            *" $p "*) : ;;                                          # the service we will stop
+            *) foreign="$foreign $p:$(cat /proc/$p/comm 2>/dev/null)" ;;
+        esac
+    done
+    if [ -z "$foreign" ]; then
+        ok device "no foreign /dev/kfd holders"
+    else
+        bad device "foreign holders:$foreign — kill by pid, never by pattern"
+    fi
+else
+    skip device "/dev/kfd absent — not an AMD host?"
+fi
+
+# 6. port — a listener on :7770 must be a process of the service we stop, never an unknown one.
+lpid="$(ss -H -ltnp "sport = :$PORT" 2>/dev/null | grep -o 'pid=[0-9]*' | head -1 | cut -d= -f2)"
+if [ -z "${lpid:-}" ]; then
+    ok port ":$PORT is free"
+else
+    mine="$(service_pids | tr '\n' ' ')"
+    case " $mine " in
+        *" $lpid "*) ok port ":$PORT is held by $SERVICE (host pid $lpid) — the window stops it" ;;
+        *)           bad port ":$PORT is held by host pid $lpid ($(cat /proc/$lpid/comm 2>/dev/null)), not $SERVICE" ;;
+    esac
+fi
+
+# 7. corpus — the push source must exist and be the re-chunked file the window documents.
+if [ -s "$CORPUS" ]; then
+    ok corpus "$(wc -l < "$CORPUS") prompts in $CORPUS"
+else
+    bad corpus "$CORPUS is missing or empty"
+fi
+
+# 8. reference — the KL gate has nothing to compare against without it.
+if [ -s "$CAMPAIGN/kld-ref/kld.json" ]; then
+    ok reference "$(du -h "$CAMPAIGN/kld-ref/kld.json" | cut -f1) kld.json present"
+else
+    bad reference "$CAMPAIGN/kld-ref/kld.json is missing"
+fi
+
+echo
+if [ "$fails" -gt 0 ]; then
+    echo "PREFLIGHT FAILED: $fails fact(s). The window must not take the cards."
+    exit 2
+fi
+echo "PREFLIGHT PASSED: every fact checked by identity."

scripts/run-qwen38-bf16.sh

@@ -28,10 +28,18 @@
 #                     (RADIANCE_CALIB_DIR + RADIANCE_CALIB_TOKENS=12000000). A
 #                     separate driver — scripts/calib-push.py --port 7770
 #                     --container qwen38-bf16 --corpus
-#                     /home/dank/corpora/out/calib.jsonl — pushes the corpus; at
-#                     12M pooled positions the engine writes the Grams and the
-#                     tap switches itself off (calib-push prints TAP_DONE). Stop
-#                     this script after that; the trap brings frank-archon back.
+#                     /home/dank/corpora/out/calib-7168.jsonl — pushes the corpus;
+#                     at the floor the engine writes the Grams and the tap switches
+#                     itself off (calib-push prints TAP_DONE). Stop this script
+#                     after that; the trap brings frank-archon back. THE FLOOR IS
+#                     THE CAMPAIGN'S RULE (12 M tokens, Frank 2026-10-30): the
+#                     served iq4r this arm competes with was calibrated on a 10 M-
+#                     token set, so the arm is calibrated at least as deeply. One
+#                     round of the re-chunked corpus is ~9.31 M tokens, so sealing
+#                     takes round 1 plus part of round 2 — a round that seals
+#                     nothing is NORMAL (the floor is pooled), and the pusher's
+#                     round_verdict treats a flat round as "continue", never as a
+#                     failure. One seal writes ~40 GiB.
 #
 # Shape: the vendor's bf16 calibration lines — expert_tiered placement with the
 # weights disk tier, deterministic (the resident set pinned to the loader's plan,
@@ -113,6 +121,18 @@ SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
 # shellcheck disable=SC1091
 source "$SCRIPT_DIR/frank-archon.env"
 IMAGE="${FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE:?FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE must name the radiance image}"
+# THE CALIBRATION PIN: the LATEST radiance, pinned by digest because a tag is a
+# moving target and a tap must name the producer that wrote it. `:latest` on
+# 2026-10-30 resolves to v1.14.0 (revision 4a61d7296bc5), and on that image a
+# calib boot prints the arming line — "recorded passes: off, the program
+# accumulates calibration Grams (gram_accum)" — where the production pin
+# (1.8.1) prints nothing of the kind: a 17-hour run on 1.8.1 wrote ZERO bytes
+# into the tap dir while /health, /stats and the push all looked healthy
+# (measured 2026-10-30). The tap code is identical in both trees' sources, so
+# the shipped 1.8.1 build is what drops it; do not spend another window on it.
+# Any other image must be named deliberately with --image.
+CALIB_IMAGE="${Q38_CALIB_IMAGE:-stilldeadcode/radiance@sha256:69add58f7de1ed2bca2b1e20a4cc75717557df3f73569a178eca5aafe8c44093}"
+IMAGE_EXPLICIT=0
 
 MODE=""
 POS=()
@@ -122,7 +142,7 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
         kldref|calib|score) MODE="$1" ;;
         --dry-run)          DRY=1 ;;
         --image)            [ "$#" -ge 2 ] || { echo "--image needs a reference" >&2; exit 2; }
-                            IMAGE="$2"; shift ;;
+                            IMAGE="$2"; IMAGE_EXPLICIT=1; shift ;;
         *)
             # score's two positional arguments, and nothing else may be bare.
             if [ "$MODE" = score ] && [ "${#POS[@]}" -lt 2 ]; then
@@ -152,7 +172,7 @@ TEMPLATE="$SCRIPT_DIR/qwen38-froggeric-v22.5.jinja"
 LOG_DIR="${FRANK_QWEN38_LOG_DIR:-/home/dank/logs}"
 LOG="$LOG_DIR/qwen38_bf16_${MODE}.log"
 KLD_REF_DIR="$CAMPAIGN/kld-ref"
-CALIB_DIR="$CAMPAIGN/calib"
+CALIB_DIR="${FRANK_QWEN38_CALIB_DIR:-$CAMPAIGN/calib}"
 C=qwen38-bf16
 SERVICE=frank-archon
 # The card split, taken from the file that owns it instead of a private pair:
@@ -314,6 +334,21 @@ case "$MODE" in
     # buys throughput with the expert slab, so price it like any other
     # VRAM knob. The slots follow frank-archon.env's FRANK_ARCHON_MAX_SEQS
     # through MAX_SEQS, exactly as kldref and score do.
+    [ "$IMAGE_EXPLICIT" = 1 ] || IMAGE="$CALIB_IMAGE"
+    # ONE TAP SEAL WRITES ~40 GiB. Measured 2026-10-30: a 8,192-token floor wrote
+    # 39.4 GiB into the tap dir within seconds; pointed at a 37 GiB root it filled
+    # the filesystem to zero, after which every write came back short ("calibration
+    # cannot write", "write was short") and the system itself began refusing
+    # writes. The room is demanded up front, on the tap's own filesystem.
+    if [ "$DRY" != 1 ]; then
+        avail_mib=$(df --output=avail -B 1M "$CALIB_DIR" 2>/dev/null | tail -1 | tr -d ' ')
+        [[ "$avail_mib" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] || avail_mib=0
+        need_mib="${Q38_CALIB_MIN_FREE_MIB:-61440}"
+        if [ "$avail_mib" -lt "$need_mib" ]; then
+            echo "REFUSED: tap dir $CALIB_DIR has ${avail_mib} MiB free; one seal writes ~40 GiB and this run needs ${need_mib} MiB (Q38_CALIB_MIN_FREE_MIB overrides)" >&2
+            exit 2
+        fi
+    fi
     ARGS+=(--model "$MODEL_IN" --port 7770
            --max-num-seqs "$CALIB_SEQS" --max-num-batched-tokens "$CALIB_MNBT")
     # The tap is only real if this directory exists and the engine can write it:
@@ -417,6 +452,19 @@ cp -f "$TEMPLATE" "$TPL" || {
 # where the service reported `active` while its engine starved on the rig's VRAM.
 restore() {
     podman rm -f "$C" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+    # Removing the container does NOT kill its engine. Measured 2026-10-30: a rig
+    # radiance kept /dev/kfd after `podman rm -f`, production's
+    # ar_oneshot_2rank_wht6 init then failed `device error`, the engine exited 0,
+    # and Restart=always looped it 100 times with /health never answering. The
+    # service is stopped for the whole run, so any radiance still holding the
+    # device here is an orphan — kill it BY PID (pkill -f matches the caller's
+    # own command line, which is how a session gets killed instead of the orphan).
+    for p in $(fuser /dev/kfd 2>/dev/null); do
+        if [ "$(cat "/proc/$p/comm" 2>/dev/null)" = radiance ]; then
+            echo "restore: killing orphaned radiance pid $p still holding /dev/kfd" >&2
+            kill -9 "$p" 2>/dev/null || true
+        fi
+    done
     sudo systemctl start "$SERVICE" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
 }
 trap restore EXIT

scripts/serve-frank-dragoon.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# serve-frank-dragoon.sh — frank-dragoon endpoint: halogen-flash-server 0.16.2
+# serve-frank-dragoon.sh — frank-dragoon endpoint: halogen-flash-server 0.18.20
 # (closed-source engine, image ghcr.io/peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server,
 # digest-pinned in frank-dragoon.env) serving Quat3rnion's NATIVE v2
 # conversion (2026-10-11) of the abliterated Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on Dankclaw's

scripts/serve-frank-zealot.sh

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # Serve prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-gguf (PQ2_0 ternary quant WITH the MTP head
 # in the file) as frank-zealot on Dankclaw's RTX 3090 via llama.cpp (PrismML
-# vendor build 10777, CUDA sm_86).
+# vendor build 12118 (0.7.0-dev, commit 024474448), CUDA sm_86).
 #
 # 2026-10-18 (Frank): Bonsai-2 27B PQ2_0 → the 9B MTP export, then the same
 # evening TWO 262,144-token conversations (--ctx-size 524288 --parallel 2) over
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ if [[ -f "$ENV_FILE" ]]; then
 fi
 
 # --- defaults (used when the env file does not set them) -------------------
-: "${LLAMA_BIN:=/home/dank/GitPackages/llama-prism-b10777/llama-server}"
+: "${LLAMA_BIN:=/home/dank/GitPackages/llama-prism-0244744/bin/llama-server}"
 : "${MODEL_FILE:=/home/dank/models/Bonsai2-9B-MTP/Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-PQ2_0-MTP-Q8_0.gguf}"
 : "${ALIAS:=frank-zealot}"
 : "${BIND_ADDR:=0.0.0.0}"
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ fi
 # above are what pay for it. The draft cache dtype IS a further knob
 # (--spec-draft-type-k / --spec-draft-type-v, both default f16 — verified in this
 # build's --help) and stays at its default here. Card gate: quantized V alongside
-# MTP needs fork build >= prism-b10776, which is why LLAMA_BIN is the 10777
+# MTP needs fork build >= prism-b10776; LLAMA_BIN is 12118 (b10777 kept as rollback)
 # prebuilt; the type-142 loader lock keeps it pinned regardless.
 # SPEC_TYPE=none is the rollback and strips the whole set (flags move together).
 : "${SPEC_TYPE:=draft-mtp}"

serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/Dankclaw System Specs.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ timestamp: 2026-09-03
 
 ## Server Overview
 
-Dankclaw is an AMD APU + RTX 3090 inference host. It ran CIRU ROCmFPX llama.cpp inference through 2026-08-22 ([[frank-dragoon]], retired). The host runs Ubuntu 26.04 with an AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 Strix Halo APU. The APU uses unified memory — CPU and GPU share the same physical RAM pool. Today it serves [[frank-dragoon]] (halogen-flash-server 0.16.2 on the iGPU, port 7770) and [[frank-zealot]] (llama.cpp PrismML fork on the RTX 3090, port 7771).
+Dankclaw is an AMD APU + RTX 3090 inference host. It ran CIRU ROCmFPX llama.cpp inference through 2026-08-22 ([[frank-dragoon]], retired). The host runs Ubuntu 26.04 with an AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 Strix Halo APU. The APU uses unified memory — CPU and GPU share the same physical RAM pool. Today it serves [[frank-dragoon]] (halogen-flash-server 0.18.20 on the iGPU, port 7770) and [[frank-zealot]] (llama.cpp PrismML fork on the RTX 3090, port 7771).
 ## Hardware Specifications
 
 ### CPU
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ cable between claw and server is required for 10G.
 
 - Unified memory eliminates separate VRAM limits. The GPU uses system RAM.
 - The GPU budget is the GTT aperture: ~114 GiB (`mem_info_gtt_total` in `/sys/class/drm/card1/device/` = 122,402,963,456 B; `card1` is the amdgpu iGPU, `PCI_ID=1002:1586`; `llama-server --list-devices` reports 116,732 MiB). rocm-smi's smaller SVM/dedicated carve-out is **not** the budget — the 2026-08 "64 GiB rocm-smi" lesson is stale. Do not use `free` or `dmidecode` for the GPU budget.
-- The active services are `frank-dragoon` on 7770 — **halogen-flash-server 0.16.2** serving the native v2 abliterated `.hgn` in a rootless podman container ([[frank-dragoon]]) — and `frank-zealot` on 7771 ([[frank-zealot]]). The gufo v0.1.1 / UD-Q8_K_XL runtime this page once described is retired (2026-09-28 → 10-01, [[frank-dragoon]]); the gufo build tree is still on disk at `/home/dank/GitPackages/gufo-v0.1.1/`.
+- The active services are `frank-dragoon` on 7770 — **halogen-flash-server 0.18.20** serving the native v2 abliterated `.hgn` in a rootless podman container ([[frank-dragoon]]) — and `frank-zealot` on 7771 ([[frank-zealot]]). The gufo v0.1.1 / UD-Q8_K_XL runtime this page once described is retired (2026-09-28 → 10-01, [[frank-dragoon]]); the gufo build tree is still on disk at `/home/dank/GitPackages/gufo-v0.1.1/`.
 - The gufo-era note that the active runtime links against the host ROCm (`/opt/rocm` → `/etc/alternatives/rocm` → 7.2.4) through its RPATH belongs to that retired source build. The serving runtimes do not depend on the host ROCm that way: halogen runs inside its digest-pinned image, and `frank-zealot` is a CUDA build on the 3090. The retired CIRU venv's TheRock 7.15 SDK (`LD_LIBRARY_PATH`) was never in the serving path either.
 - The retired vLLM venvs (`/home/dank/vllm-venv`, `/home/dank/vllm-vk-venv`) were moved to `/home/dank/.AGENTTRASH/` on 2026-08-18.
 - 424 GB free on `/` (`df -h`, 2026-10-18) is ample for model storage.

serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-archon.md

@@ -571,6 +571,29 @@ vllm-radiance era (this table opens on 09-26; the era page claims 10-10).
   of falling through its health wait. All three exist because on 2026-10-29 the unguarded chain's
   rig boot died of an OOM, the health loop expired without failing, and the pusher fed four rounds
   of 10M tokens into **restored production** — 86 minutes of live prefill that recorded nothing.
+- **A calibration step has an OPTIMUM, and it is not the widest step that boots.** The tap's cost is
+  expert re-reads per document (a 7,168-token document cut into four 2,048-token steps re-streams
+  each layer's routed expert union four times), which argues for the widest step — but the measured
+  curve turns over: at the 32,768 calibration window one 2-way prefill of the same document ran
+  **106 tok/s at an 8,192-token step and 76 tok/s at 16,384**, with the computed activation arena
+  growing 3.39 → 4.50 GiB, so the wider step pays more compute than it saves in reads. The
+  200,000-window `QSA score plane` refusal that made the wide step look impossible is an artifact of
+  serving the production window: the same 16,384-token step needs a 512 MiB plane at 32,768.
+  `Q38_CALIB_MNBT` is the only knob — the KL modes keep production's step, because their numbers are
+  only comparable at one shape.
+- **A container that exists, a port that answers, and a `/health` 200 are three different claims —
+  bind identity before believing any of them.** Measured 2026-10-30: `podman inspect` named the rig
+  while the port still belonged to the *dying* production process (`health ok waited=0s`, window dead
+  at second zero), and the identity check written to catch that compared two different number spaces:
+  `podman top <ctr> pid` prints **container-internal** pids (`1`, `7`), never host pids, and a rootless
+  cgroup carries the container ID rather than the service name — so both "matches" can only ever fail.
+  The binding is `podman top <ctr> hpid` against the listener from
+  `ss -H -ltnp 'sport = :7770'`, and `fuser /dev/kfd` likewise resolved through podman.
+  `scripts/qwen38-preflight.sh` owns those facts now (cwd, the digest a tag actually resolves to,
+  free space on the tap's **own** filesystem, stale grams, every GPU holder and the listener by host
+  pid), prints `PASS`/`FAIL` per fact, and `qwen38-calib-window.sh` calls it before a card is touched.
+  Corollary for every ad-hoc driver: a detached launcher that loses its cwd fails with
+  `No such file or directory` in a log nobody reads — assert cwd, and never bypass the orchestrator.
 - **The n-gram table's pin is what starves a rig boot, and the tier is a knob.** On the BF16 payload
   the table is 95.37 GiB, `--ngram-placement ram` pins it, and the calibration boot died at
   `startup stopped: out of memory` with 230.22 GiB pinned of 246.07 GiB and 8.06 GiB available —

serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-dragoon.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 type: reference
-title: "frank-dragoon on Dankclaw — halogen-flash-server 0.16.2, native v2 abliterated Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (canonical)"
+title: "frank-dragoon on Dankclaw — halogen-flash-server 0.18.20, native v2 abliterated Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (canonical)"
 description: "The iGPU endpoint: live shape, every era with its rollback path, the laws it paid for, and the files that own it."
 tags:
   - llm
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ tags:
   - gfx1151
   - halogen
   - endpoint
-timestamp: 2026-10-21
+timestamp: 2026-10-30
 ---
 
-# frank-dragoon — halogen-flash-server 0.16.2, native v2 abliterated (Dankclaw iGPU)
+# frank-dragoon — halogen-flash-server 0.18.20, native v2 abliterated (Dankclaw iGPU)
 
 Strix Halo (gfx1151) endpoint `http://192.168.0.143:7770`, served id `frank-dragoon`: a podman container
 under a root `User=dank` unit. Live shape since 2026-10-17, pool raised to 401,408 on 2026-10-18
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ flags and nothing else. Payload `/home/dank/models/halogen-v2-abliterated/`, ver
 | `qwen38-flash-next-vision.hgn` | 897,916,416 | `d62e0ae5…` | peonist `@e053f488`, hardlinked — vision ON |
 | `tokenizer/` (6 flat files) | ~22 MB | `tokenizer.json` LFS | peonist `@e053f488`, hardlinked |
 
-Image `ghcr.io/peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server@sha256:0c61bf84ac22308a53f5d1ca6b86806702d7039e5ebc51cae4c66621b92fe04a`
-(0.16.2, closed source), container `frank-dragoon-halogen`, published `7770:8731`; the engine's
+Image `ghcr.io/peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server@sha256:e35133b206da3094cc4d70c78800b26235bd9124b9aeb0e029d4a7c153b9cff0`
+(0.18.20, closed source), container `frank-dragoon-halogen`, published `7770:8731`; the engine's
 unauthenticated token port 8730 stays on container loopback. Engine stdout →
 `/home/dank/logs/frank_dragoon.log`, **not** the journal.
 
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ rollback plan — recoverable only until the trash is purged.
 
 | Window | Payload | Runtime | Shape | Replaced because | Rollback |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-30 → | same v2 abliterated `.hgn` trio (payload untouched) | flash-server **0.18.20** `e35133b2…` | unchanged (2 slots, 262,144 ceiling, pool 401,408, MTP always-on) | vendor moved two minor versions past the 0.16.2 quickstart pin; the payload lock **held** — the same boot served chat, a `tool_calls` turn, vision ("Red", 132 prompt tokens) and `/v1/embeddings`, with the NPU lane's 19-file set verified against the new catalog | env line back to `0c61bf84…` + redeploy |
 | 2026-10-06 → 10-17 | Swift1.5 abliterated v2 `.hgn` r2 66,687,678,464 B `9c880b8b…` + same trio | flash-server 0.16.2, same digest | 2 slots, ctx 262,144, pool 524,288 (14.6 GiB), MTP always-on | — | `/home/dank/models/halogen-flashnext-v2/` + `scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh` |
 | 2026-10-05 → 10-06 | peonist `halogen-qwen3.8-27b` `qwen3.8-27b-p1w4d-d2.hgn` 35,865,565,184 B `274c3fc7…` | halogen 0.1.4 `sha256:dc0a39a0…` | 1 slot × 200,700, DFlash2 drafter, `HALOGEN_CACHE_MB=16384`, text-only, censored base | flash-server v2 restored vision, abliteration and MTP | `/home/dank/models/halogen-qwen3.8-27b/` + `scripts/download-frank-dragoon-halogen.sh`; 0.1.4 digest still in podman storage |
 | 2026-10-03 → 10-05 | kingjones777 Uncensored `Q6_0_ROCMFPX_AGENT.gguf` 24,856,607,008 B `e966deb3…` + `mtp-Q4_0` `051a1764…` + BF16 mmproj | `kingjones30/ROCmFPX` @ `36e9acd` (`scripts/build-rocmfpx.sh`) | 1 × 262,144 f16 KV, `draft-mtp` n-max 4, vision on | — | `/home/dank/models/kingjones-Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-ROCmFP4-STRIX-MTP/` + `/home/dank/GitPackages/kingjones-ROCmFPX/build` + `download-frank-dragoon-kingjones-uncensored.sh` |
@@ -190,9 +191,11 @@ created it — earlier topologies in .
 
 ## Contract (wire)
 
-- Live: `/v1/models`, `/health`, `/metrics`, POST `/v1/chat/completions`; `404`: `/ping`, `/props`
-  `/completion`, `/tokenize`. **No `Server-Timing` header and no `/completion` timing object** — measure
-  wall-clock plus `usage.prompt_tokens`.
+- Live: `/v1/models`, `/health`, `/metrics`, `/props` (model_alias, total_slots, chat_template),
+  POST `/v1/chat/completions`, POST `/v1/embeddings` when the NPU lane is armed; `404`: `/ping`,
+  `/completion`; `/tokenize` answers **405 to a GET** (the route exists and wants POST). **No
+  `Server-Timing` header and no `/completion` timing object** — measure wall-clock plus
+  `usage.prompt_tokens`.
 - Thinking lands in `reasoning_content` and **counts against `max_tokens`**: a budget that dies
   mid-thought returns `finish_reason: "length"` with empty `content`, so clients read both fields; size
   vision probes at ≥512 tokens or the model looks blind. Budget for the base reasoning long: 1,476
@@ -232,11 +235,15 @@ created it — earlier topologies in .
 XDNA2 executes only vendor-precompiled AIE partition programs — that is the wall the TTS attempt died at
 ([[Frank TTS]]) — and flash-server ships those programs. `HALOGEN_NPU_MODELS=<names>` starts a second engine **in the
 same container behind the same port**, and a request picks one by its `model`; leave the variable out and the server
-is exactly what runs today. The pinned 0.16.2 image already carries the five-program catalog
-(`/opt/halogen/npu/models.txt`: `decider-0.8b`, `qwen3-embedding-0.6b`, `qwen3-reranker-0.6b`, `qwen3guard-gen-0.6b`,
-`qwen3.5-2b`) and `docs/NPU.md` at tag `v0.16.2` documents it, so **`/v1/embeddings` is one env var and three mounts
-away — no runtime bump needed.** Wider catalog: `qwen3-embedding-4b` and `decider-4b` from 0.17.4, `embeddinggemma-2`
-(text ≤ 8,192 tokens, pictures and audio in one vector space) and `wemm-embedding-4b` from 0.18.3.
+is exactly what runs today. The pinned 0.18.20 image carries an 18-model catalog
+(`/opt/halogen/npu/models.txt`: `decider-0.8b`, `decider-4b`, `qwen3-embedding-0.6b`, `qwen3-embedding-4b`,
+`qwen3-reranker-0.6b`, `qwen3-reranker-4b`, `qwen3guard-gen-0.6b`, `qwen3guard-stream-0.6b`,
+`embeddinggemma-2`, `wemm-embedding-4b`, `qwen3.5-2b`, `flux2-klein-4b`, `qwen3-asr-0.6b`, `qwen3-asr-1.7b`,
+`d3-lite`, `d3-nano`, `qwen3-tts-0.6b-customvoice`, `qwen3-tts-1.7b-customvoice`), so **`/v1/embeddings` is one
+env var and three mounts away — no runtime bump needed.** The catalog is **not** version-stable: 0.18.20
+re-cut `qwen3-embedding-0.6b`'s device programs (14 `u*.elf` + an 8,495,512 B `consts.hnpb`, where 0.16.2
+had 10 and 5,086,496 B) and the entrypoint verifies size+sha256 per file before it starts, so **an engine
+bump re-fetches the staged set** — `scripts/download-frank-dragoon-npu.sh` carries the catalog block to do it.
 
 Embedding contract on that lane: `POST /v1/embeddings`, `model: "qwen3-embedding-0.6b"`, `input` a list of **texts**
 (not token ids), 1024 unit-length floats back, the Qwen instruct prefix goes inside the string
@@ -282,7 +289,7 @@ lane is **armed and serving** since 2026-10-19 (`HALOGEN_NPU_MODELS=qwen3-embedd
    unset, so the container opens no outbound connection; `scripts/download-frank-dragoon-npu.sh` pins every file by
    size and sha256 against the catalog and the payload mount carries the tree in.
 
-Armed, the boot ledger reads (`/home/dank/logs/frank_dragoon.log`, 2026-10-19): the GPU fabric clock is held at its top level (2000 MHz) **before** the NPU starts; `/dev/accel/accel0` is `crw-rw-rw- nobody:nogroup` under driver `amdxdna` with the distro XRT and its NPU plugin; the program arrives as `15 files checked against this image's record`; then `npu_api: qwen3-embedding-0.6b (embeddings) on the NPU engine at 127.0.0.1:8740 (buckets u0…u9; inputs up to 4096 tokens)` and `up to 64 passes queued … up to 7200 s`. Callers never see `:8740` — the lane answers on the same `:8731` as the Flash model and a request picks the engine by its `model` field, so `/v1/models` lists `frank-dragoon` **and** `qwen3-embedding-0.6b`. The fleet's consumer is open-notebook's embedding default ([[Open Notebook]]); that page owns the app-side shapes (the URL guard, defaults-by-id, the `/api/embed` 500 that still writes the vector).
+Armed, the boot ledger reads (`/home/dank/logs/frank_dragoon.log`, 2026-10-19): the GPU fabric clock is held at its top level (2000 MHz) **before** the NPU starts; `/dev/accel/accel0` is `crw-rw-rw- nobody:nogroup` under driver `amdxdna` with the distro XRT and its NPU plugin; the program arrives as `19 files checked against this image's record`; then `npu_api: qwen3-embedding-0.6b (embeddings) on the NPU engine at 127.0.0.1:8740 (buckets u0, u1, u10, u11, u12, u13, u2, u3, u4, u5, u6, u7, u8, u9; inputs up to 4096 tokens)` and `up to 64 passes queued … up to 7200 s`. Callers never see `:8740` — the lane answers on the same `:8731` as the Flash model and a request picks the engine by its `model` field, so `/v1/models` lists `frank-dragoon` **and** `qwen3-embedding-0.6b`. The fleet's consumer is open-notebook's embedding default ([[Open Notebook]]); that page owns the app-side shapes (the URL guard, defaults-by-id, the `/api/embed` 500 that still writes the vector).
 
 Price: the programs and their weights sit in host RAM beside the locked weights ("a few GB in all" for the default
 set; ~1.1 GiB for `embeddinggemma-2`), and **the Flash model decodes slower while the NPU works** — same memory bus,

serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-zealot.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 type: reference
-title: "frank-zealot on Dankclaw — llama.cpp (PrismML fork 10777), Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B PQ2_0-MTP + refusal adapter, 3 × 200704, f16 K + q8_0 V, MTP armed"
+title: "frank-zealot on Dankclaw — llama.cpp (PrismML fork 12118), Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B PQ2_0-MTP + refusal adapter, 3 × 200704, f16 K + q8_0 V, MTP armed"
 description: "The RTX 3090 endpoint: live shape exactly as the env ships it, every era with its rollback path, and its card laws."
 tags:
   - llm
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ is the bug.
 | Projector | `…/Bonsai2-9B-MTP/Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-mmproj-Q8_0.gguf` — 624,229,664 B, sha256 `e0cb6f6988cea323…` — **Q8_0 is mandatory**, not a preference (see Contract) |
 | Adapter | `…/Bonsai2-9B-MTP/Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-Uncensored-LoRA.gguf` — **3,155,424 B**, sha256 `861b9c099fb5cd81…` — a rank-1 refusal-direction LoRA (`adapter.type lora`, 128 tensors, every transformer layer, embedding untouched), applied at load by `--lora-scaled <file>:1`. Its metadata names `Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-PTQ1_0.gguf` (`3561df7a…`) as the pack it was fitted against — **not this packing, and not on this host**; see Laws |
 | Fetch | `scripts/download-frank-zealot-bonsai9.sh [DEST]` (payload + projector) · `scripts/download-frank-zealot-uncensored-lora.sh [DEST]` (the adapter) — both `--verify-only`-able, `-f`, byte count and sha256 per file |
-| Runtime | `/home/dank/GitPackages/llama-prism-b10777/llama-server` — PrismML **fork**, `0.2.0-dev (build 10777, commit e3de71522)`; the only loader for this payload |
+| Runtime | `/home/dank/GitPackages/llama-prism-0244744/bin/llama-server` — PrismML **fork**, `0.7.0-dev (build 12118, commit 024474448)`; the only loader for this payload |
 | Trio | `scripts/frank-zealot.service` (root, relinked, `User=dank`, `Restart=on-failure`, `RestartSec=10`, `LimitMEMLOCK=infinity`, `TimeoutStopSec=180`) · `scripts/frank-zealot.env` · `scripts/serve-frank-zealot.sh` |
 | Address / alias | `BIND_ADDR=0.0.0.0`, `LISTEN_PORT=7771`, `ALIAS=frank-zealot` (a flag, not a fact) |
 | Flags | `--ctx-size 602112 --parallel 3` ⇒ 200,704 per slot · `--cache-type-k f16 --cache-type-v q8_0` (asymmetric, **14,406.00 MiB**) · `--flash-attn on` · `--batch-size 6144 --ubatch-size 1024` · `--n-gpu-layers 99` · `--jinja --reasoning auto --reasoning-format deepseek` · `--metrics` · `--mmproj` · **`--lora-scaled Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-Uncensored-LoRA.gguf:1`** · `--log-verbosity 4` · `--presence-penalty 1.0` · **`--spec-type draft-mtp`** with `--spec-draft-n-max 2 --spec-draft-n-min 0 --spec-draft-p-min 0` |
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ with 448 completion tokens (at `max_tokens: 64` the same request returns EMPTY c
 
 | Window | Payload | Runtime | Shape | Replaced because | Rollback |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-30 → | same 9B MTP file, Q8_0 mmproj and refusal adapter (payload untouched) | PrismML fork **12118** (`0.7.0-dev`, `024474448`) | unchanged (3 × 200,704; f16 K + q8_0 V; MTP depth 2) | fork rebuilt from `origin/prism`; the payload gate held — 202 `pq2_0` tensors and 202 Hadamard-folded weights loaded, MTP drafting engaged, chat/tools/vision answered | `LLAMA_BIN` back to `llama-prism-b10777/llama-server` (kept on disk) + redeploy |
 | 2026-10-19 → | the same 9B MTP file and projector, **plus** `Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-Uncensored-LoRA.gguf` (3,155,424 B `861b9c09…`) applied by `--lora-scaled …:1` | PrismML fork 10777 (its verified build) | — (shape unchanged; the adapter is behaviour) | Frank ordered the refusal direction removed on this endpoint | one env line — `LORA_FILE=` (or `LORA_SCALE=0`) — and redeploy; the plain pack is the same file it already loads |
 | 2026-10-18 21:06 → 2026-10-19 | the same 9B MTP file and projector | PrismML fork 10777 | — | Frank ordered the third conversation back AND the drafter armed, and exact V funds neither: it bills 18,816 MiB at the pool that pays for the third slot, leaving nothing for the draft's 2,352 | one line each — `CTX_SIZE=524288 PARALLEL=2 CACHE_TYPE_V=f16 BATCH_SIZE=4096 UBATCH_SIZE=2048 SPEC_TYPE=none` — and redeploy; no payload move |
 | 2026-10-18 13:19 → same evening (the boot `68afc6d` replaced) | the same 9B MTP file and projector | PrismML fork 10777 | — | Frank ordered unquantized KV, and that pool cannot survive it: 24,576 MiB of f16 cache > 24,123 addressable | one env line — `CTX_SIZE=786432 PARALLEL=3 CACHE_TYPE_K/V=q8_0` — and redeploy; no payload move |
@@ -201,7 +202,14 @@ with 448 completion tokens (at `max_tokens: 64` the same request returns EMPTY c
 - `serve-frank-zealot.sh` is a direct `ExecStart`, so a missing shebang is a `203/EXEC` boot loop at `Mem peak: 1.9M` with the GPU untouched: `head -1` is a deploy check.
 - `No CUDA GPUs are available` ⇒ `nvidia-modprobe -u -c=0`; KV spilled into unified memory halves decode silently, so re-read `nvidia-smi` after any shape change.
 - **An adapter's provenance is metadata, not a gate.** Its GGUF carries `prism.abliterate.base_gguf = Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-PTQ1_0.gguf` and that pack's sha256; the endpoint applies the file to the PQ2_0+MTP packing anyway, because the loader matches **tensor names, not hashes**. So an adapter's effect is only ever proven behaviourally (a refusal probe against the live endpoint), never by the card, and an adapter whose rank landed on `token_embd` would be a crash rather than a degradation — the publisher leaves the embedding untouched for exactly that reason.
-- **The fork pin now has a third reason.** The payload's custom type 142, the b10776 floor that pairs MTP with a quantized V, and now this: older PrismML builds (e.g. `prism-b10709`) refuse the adapter outright with `unsupported prism.hadamard.version: 2`, so a runtime that can load the pack can still be unable to carry the adapter.
+- **A fork rebuild needs an install RPATH and a bin/lib-aware `LLAMA_BIN`.** `cmake --install` strips the
+  build-tree rpath, so the installed `llama-server` dies on `libllama-server-impl.so` unless the configure
+  carries `-DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH='$ORIGIN;$ORIGIN/../lib'`; the installed layout is `bin/` + `lib/`, not the
+  flat directory b10777 shipped, so the env's `LLAMA_BIN` has to name `…/bin/llama-server`. Build 12118 was
+  made from `origin/prism` with the 10777 configure (Release, `GGML_CUDA=ON`, `sm_86`,
+  `CMAKE_CUDA_HOST_COMPILER=/usr/bin/gcc-13`, Ninja) — gcc 15 is the box default and nvcc 12.4 rejects it.
+- **The fork pin now has a third reason.** The payload's custom type 142, the b10776 floor that pairs MTP with a quantized V, and now this: older PrismML builds (e.g. `prism-b10709`) refuse the adapter outright with `unsupported prism.hadamard.version: 2`, so a runtime that can load the pack can still be unable to carry the adapter. Build 12118 clears all
+three.
 
 ## Contract
 

tests/frank_dragoon_unit.bats

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bats
 # Seam: frank-dragoon serves Quat3rnion's NATIVE v2 conversion (2026-10-11)
 # of the abliterated Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (a .hgn flash-server payload) on the
-# Strix Halo iGPU through the halogen-flash-server CONTAINER (0.16.2,
+# Strix Halo iGPU through the halogen-flash-server CONTAINER (0.18.20,
 # digest-pinned), driven by the root unit's serve script — 2 slots over ONE
 # 401,408-position KV pool at the native 262,144 ceiling, MTP head always on (HALOGEN_SPEC_ADAPT=0)
 # and the vision tower mounted. 2026-10-17 cutover from the Swift1.5-finetune

tests/frank_zealot_unit.bats

@@ -126,11 +126,22 @@ run_stage() {
 @test "the shipped env points at the fork runtime, the MTP pair and the refusal adapter" {
     # The payload path IS the endpoint's identity, and the runtime is part of
     # it here: the file's custom tensor type 142 + prism.hadamard.* metadata
-    # make the PrismML build the only loader, and this build must be >= b10776
+    # make the PrismML build the only loader, and that build must be >= b10776
     # because MTP beside q8_0 V is illegal below it. A retarget that moves the
-    # model but leaves the old build behind ships an endpoint that cannot load
-    # (type 142) or cannot run the documented MTP arm (the build gate).
-    grep -qE '^LLAMA_BIN=/home/dank/GitPackages/llama-prism-b10777/llama-server$' "$ENV_FILE"
+    # model but leaves a stock llama.cpp behind ships an endpoint that cannot
+    # load (type 142) or cannot run the documented MTP arm (the build gate).
+    #
+    # Assert the fork FAMILY, not the directory one rebuild happens to install:
+    # a literal path turns every runtime move into a test edit, and the suite
+    # runs on a box that has no /home/dank at all, so existence cannot be
+    # checked here either.
+    local bin
+    bin="$(sed -n 's/^LLAMA_BIN=//p' "$ENV_FILE")"
+    if [[ ! "$bin" =~ ^/home/dank/GitPackages/llama-prism-[^/]+/llama-server$ ]] &&
+       [[ ! "$bin" =~ ^/home/dank/GitPackages/llama-prism-[^/]+/bin/llama-server$ ]]; then
+        echo "LLAMA_BIN does not name a PrismML fork build: '$bin'" >&2
+        return 1
+    fi
     grep -qE '^MODEL_FILE=/home/dank/models/Bonsai2-9B-MTP/Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-PQ2_0-MTP-Q8_0\.gguf$' "$ENV_FILE"
     grep -qE '^MMPROJ_FILE=/home/dank/models/Bonsai2-9B-MTP/Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-mmproj-Q8_0\.gguf$' "$ENV_FILE"
     grep -qE '^LORA_FILE=/home/dank/models/Bonsai2-9B-MTP/Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-Uncensored-LoRA\.gguf$' "$ENV_FILE"

tests/qwen38_campaign.bats

@@ -673,26 +673,44 @@ PY
 
 window_fixture() {
     D="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/win"
-    mkdir -p "$D/campaign/kld-ref" "$D/campaign/calib" "$D/rad" "$D/corpora"
+    mkdir -p "$D/campaign/kld-ref" "$D/campaign/calib" "$D/rad" "$D/corpora" "$D/bin"
     echo '{}' > "$D/campaign/kld-ref/kld.json"
     : > "$D/rad/qwen38-bf16.rad"
-    : > "$D/corpora/calib.jsonl"
+    echo "{\"p\":1}" > "$D/corpora/calib.jsonl"
+    # the window's preflight resolves the image digest through podman and asks about the
+    # port/device by host pid; these stubs answer for a quiet host
+    cat > "$D/bin/podman" <<'EOS'
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+case "${1:-}" in
+    image) echo "sha256:69add58f7de1ed2bca2b1e20a4cc75717557df3f73569a178eca5aafe8c44093" ;;
+esac
+EOS
+    printf '#!/usr/bin/env bash\nexit 0\n' > "$D/bin/ss"
+    printf '#!/usr/bin/env bash\nexit 0\n' > "$D/bin/fuser"
+    chmod +x "$D/bin/podman" "$D/bin/ss" "$D/bin/fuser"
     echo "$D"
 }
 
 @test "the calibration window refuses before touching a card without a reference recording" {
-    D="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/win-less"
-    mkdir -p "$D/campaign/calib"
-    run env FRANK_QWEN38_CAMPAIGN="$D/campaign" bash "$WINDOW"
+    D="$(window_fixture)"
+    mv "$D/campaign/kld-ref/kld.json" "$D/campaign/kld-ref/kld.json.absent"
+    run env PATH="$D/bin:$PATH" \
+        FRANK_QWEN38_CAMPAIGN="$D/campaign" \
+        FRANK_QWEN38_RAD="$D/rad/qwen38-bf16.rad" \
+        Q38_WINDOW_CALIB_CORPUS="$D/corpora/calib.jsonl" \
+        Q38_CALIB_MIN_FREE_MIB=1 bash "$WINDOW"
     [ "$status" -eq 2 ]
-    [[ "$output" == *"no reference recording"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"FAIL  reference"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"must not take the cards"* ]]
 }
 
 @test "the calibration window's dry run prints the gated plan, including what it would bank" {
     D="$(window_fixture)"
-    run env FRANK_QWEN38_CAMPAIGN="$D/campaign" \
+    run env PATH="$D/bin:$PATH" \
+        FRANK_QWEN38_CAMPAIGN="$D/campaign" \
         FRANK_QWEN38_RAD="$D/rad/qwen38-bf16.rad" \
-        Q38_WINDOW_CALIB_CORPUS="$D/corpora/calib.jsonl" bash "$WINDOW" --dry-run
+        Q38_WINDOW_CALIB_CORPUS="$D/corpora/calib.jsonl" \
+        Q38_CALIB_MIN_FREE_MIB=1 bash "$WINDOW" --dry-run
     [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
     [[ "$output" == *"run-qwen38-bf16.sh calib"* ]]
     [[ "$output" == *"else kill the rig"* ]]
@@ -731,3 +749,190 @@ PY
     [ "$status" -eq 2 ]
     [[ "$output" == *"Q38_CALIB_MNBT must be a number"* ]]
 }
+
+# ---- the window must not mistake a dying production socket for the rig -------
+# 2026-10-30: the runner stopped frank-archon, the rig container was still loading,
+# and /health answered 200 from the production process draining its listener. The
+# window logged `health ok waited=0s`, the pusher refused on the container name, and
+# a 12M window died at second zero. The gate must prove the LISTENER is in the rig.
+
+tap_window_fixture() {
+    export W="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/window"
+    mkdir -p "$W/scripts" "$W/campaign/calib" "$W/campaign/kld-ref" "$W/models/rad" "$W/corpora" "$W/bin"
+    cp "$BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/../scripts/qwen38-calib-window.sh" "$W/scripts/"
+    cp "$BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/../scripts/qwen38-preflight.sh" "$W/scripts/"
+    echo "{}" > "$W/campaign/kld-ref/kld.json"
+    : > "$W/models/rad/qwen38-bf16.rad"
+    echo "{\"p\":1}" > "$W/corpora/calib.jsonl"
+    # a gram so the empty-tap check passes on the positive path
+    : > "$W/campaign/calib/gram.r0.blk.0.ffn_down_exps.0.bin"
+
+    cat > "$W/scripts/run-qwen38-bf16.sh" <<'EOS'
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+[ -n "${STUB_RIG_MARKER:-}" ] && : > "$STUB_RIG_MARKER"
+sleep "${STUB_RIG_SLEEP:-3}"
+exit 0
+EOS
+    cat > "$W/bin/py" <<'EOS'
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+[ -n "${STUB_PUSH_SENTINEL:-}" ] && : > "$STUB_PUSH_SENTINEL"
+exit 0
+EOS
+    cat > "$W/bin/podman" <<'EOS'
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+case "${1:-}" in
+    inspect) echo true ;;
+    # the PREFLIGHT asks who owns :7770 (production, per LISTEN_PID); the WINDOW asks which
+    # pids belong to the rig (RIG_PID). Both stubs are the same binary, so keep them apart.
+    image)   echo "sha256:69add58f7de1ed2bca2b1e20a4cc75717557df3f73569a178eca5aafe8c44093" ;;
+    top)     echo PID
+             # the WINDOW asks "which pids are the rig's", the PREFLIGHT asks "which are
+             # production's". One stub, two answers: that separation IS the identity lesson.
+             case "${2:-}" in
+                 qwen38-bf16) echo "${RIG_PID:-424242}" ;;
+                 *)           echo "${LISTEN_PID:-424242}" ;;
+             esac ;;
+    *)       : ;;
+esac
+EOS
+    printf '#!/usr/bin/env bash\nexit 0\n' > "$W/bin/fuser"
+    cat > "$W/bin/ss" <<'EOS'
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+echo "LISTEN 0 4096 *:7770 *:* users:((\"radiance\",pid=${LISTEN_PID:-424242},fd=9))"
+EOS
+    cat > "$W/bin/curl" <<'EOS'
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+exit 0
+EOS
+    chmod +x "$W/scripts/run-qwen38-bf16.sh" "$W/bin/py" "$W/bin/podman" "$W/bin/ss" "$W/bin/curl" "$W/bin/fuser"
+}
+
+tap_window_env() {
+    env PATH="$W/bin:$PATH" \
+        FRANK_QWEN38_CAMPAIGN="$W/campaign" \
+        FRANK_QWEN38_RAD="$W/models/rad/qwen38-bf16.rad" \
+        Q38_WINDOW_CALIB_CORPUS="$W/corpora/calib.jsonl" \
+        Q38_CALIB_MIN_FREE_MIB=1 \
+        Q38_WINDOW_HEALTH_TIMEOUT=1 \
+        PY="$W/bin/py" \
+        STUB_RIG_MARKER="$W/rig.marker" \
+        STUB_RIG_SLEEP=0 \
+        STUB_PUSH_SENTINEL="$W/push.ran" \
+        bash "$W/scripts/qwen38-calib-window.sh"
+}
+
+@test "a health answer from a listener outside the rig is not the rig: no push, window fails" {
+    tap_window_fixture
+    # health 200, container "running", but the listener pid belongs to production
+    export LISTEN_PID=999999 RIG_PID=424242
+    run tap_window_env
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [ -z "$(ls "$W/push.ran" 2>/dev/null)" ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"before it ever answered /health"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "when the listener is inside the rig the window proceeds and banks the tap" {
+    tap_window_fixture
+    export LISTEN_PID=424242 RIG_PID=424242
+    run tap_window_env
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [ -e "$W/push.ran" ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"TAP BANKED"* ]]
+}
+
+# ---- the preflight: every fact by IDENTITY, and it must fail loudly -------------------------
+# Each case here is a lie that cost a real window on 2026-10-30.
+
+preflight_fixture() {
+    export PF="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/pf"
+    mkdir -p "$PF/campaign/calib" "$PF/campaign/kld-ref" "$PF/bin"
+    echo '{}' > "$PF/campaign/kld-ref/kld.json"
+    echo '{"p":1}' > "$PF/corpus.jsonl"
+    cat > "$PF/bin/podman" <<'EOS'
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+case "$1" in
+  image) # an image carries every digest it was pulled under; the pin is one of them
+         printf '%s\n' "docker.io/stilldeadcode/radiance@sha256:4beb81eea874e3e308fbffbe1a9402a2f845c19e68ea612ba949b43bd5cb7cb0"
+         printf '%s\n' "docker.io/stilldeadcode/radiance@${STUB_IMAGE_DIGEST:-sha256:69add58f7de1ed2bca2b1e20a4cc75717557df3f73569a178eca5aafe8c44093}" ;;
+  top)   echo HPID; echo "${STUB_PROD_PIDS:-4242}" ;;
+esac
+EOS
+    cat > "$PF/bin/ss" <<'EOS'
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+[ -n "${STUB_LISTENER_PID:-}" ] && echo "LISTEN 0 4096 *:7770 *:* users:((\"x\",pid=${STUB_LISTENER_PID},fd=9))"
+exit 0
+EOS
+    cat > "$PF/bin/fuser" <<'EOS'
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+[ -n "${STUB_KFD_PID:-}" ] && echo "${STUB_KFD_PID}"
+exit 0
+EOS
+    chmod +x "$PF/bin/podman" "$PF/bin/ss" "$PF/bin/fuser"
+}
+
+run_preflight() {
+    ( cd "$BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/.." && env PATH="$PF/bin:$PATH" \
+        FRANK_QWEN38_CAMPAIGN="$PF/campaign" \
+        Q38_WINDOW_CALIB_CORPUS="$PF/corpus.jsonl" \
+        Q38_CALIB_MIN_FREE_MIB=1 \
+        bash scripts/qwen38-preflight.sh "$@" )
+}
+
+@test "preflight passes when every fact is true, and says so" {
+    preflight_fixture
+    run run_preflight
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"PREFLIGHT PASSED"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"carries sha256:69add58f"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "preflight accepts the service's own process on the port, not just any answer" {
+    preflight_fixture
+    export STUB_PROD_PIDS=4242 STUB_LISTENER_PID=4242 STUB_KFD_PID=4242
+    run run_preflight
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"held by frank-archon (host pid 4242)"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "preflight fails when the tag resolves to a different digest" {
+    preflight_fixture
+    export STUB_IMAGE_DIGEST="sha256:deadbeefdeadbeef"
+    run run_preflight
+    [ "$status" -eq 2 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"does not carry sha256:69add58f"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "preflight fails when :7770 belongs to a host pid the service does not own" {
+    preflight_fixture
+    export STUB_LISTENER_PID=999999
+    run run_preflight
+    [ "$status" -eq 2 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *":7770 is held by host pid 999999"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "preflight fails when another process holds the GPU" {
+    preflight_fixture
+    export STUB_KFD_PID=999998
+    run run_preflight
+    [ "$status" -eq 2 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"foreign holders:"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "preflight fails when the tap dir already holds grams from another run" {
+    preflight_fixture
+    : > "$PF/campaign/calib/gram.r0.blk.0.ffn_down_exps.0.bin"
+    run run_preflight
+    [ "$status" -eq 2 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"rotate them to .AGENTTRASH"* ]]
+    run run_preflight --allow-existing-tap
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+}
+
+@test "preflight fails when the launcher is not in the repo root" {
+    preflight_fixture
+    run env PATH="$PF/bin:$PATH" FRANK_QWEN38_CAMPAIGN="$PF/campaign" \
+        Q38_WINDOW_CALIB_CORPUS="$PF/corpus.jsonl" Q38_CALIB_MIN_FREE_MIB=1 \
+        bash -c "cd /tmp && bash '$BATS_TEST_DIRNAME/../scripts/qwen38-preflight.sh'"
+    [ "$status" -eq 2 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"not the repo root"* ]]
+}

tests/qwen38_reference.bats

@@ -157,12 +157,15 @@ flag_value() {
     [[ "$output" != *"--vram-kv-mib"* ]]
 }
 
-@test "the calib dry run opens the tap at 12M tokens and serves on 7770" {
+@test "the calib dry run opens the tap at the 12M floor, on the latest pin, and serves on 7770" {
     run bash "$RUNNER" calib --dry-run
     [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
     flat="$(oneline)"
     [[ "$flat" == *"-e RADIANCE_CALIB_TOKENS=12000000"* ]]
     [[ "$flat" == *"-e RADIANCE_CALIB_DIR=/data/calib"* ]]
+    # the tap producer is the campaign's own pin (latest radiance), not production's
+    [[ "$flat" == *"radiance@sha256:69add58f"* ]]
+    [[ "$flat" != *"radiance@sha256:d590e300"* ]]
     [[ "$flat" == *"--port 7770"* ]]
     [[ "$flat" == *":/data/calib "* ]]
     # calib serves; it does not record