# Seam: the frank-zealot llama.cpp root unit on dankclaw. # frank-zealot is the RTX 3090 endpoint; since 2026-10-18 it serves # prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-gguf at PQ2_0 — the ternary Bonsai-2-9B, a # qwen35 hybrid with 32 layers (8 full-attention + 24 Gated DeltaNet) and the # MTP draft head INSIDE the file — via the PrismML fork build of llama.cpp # (vendor build 10777, the minimum that pairs MTP with a quantized V cache), # the ONLY loader that registers the payload's custom tensor type 142 and # honours its prism.hadamard.* metadata: THREE 262,144-token conversations # (--ctx-size 786432 --parallel 3), q8_0 K + q8_0 V under flash attention (f16 # KV would bill 26,112 MiB of a 24,123 MiB card), the publisher's own Q8_0 # vision projector (the BF16 one can crash on concurrent images), and MTP OFF # — measured, not because the head is missing: the draft context bills f16 KV # over the whole pool and halves decode at this shape. Log verbosity 4 ships so # the VRAM-fit forensics land in the journal. # This seam runs the serve script against a stub engine and asserts on the # argv it actually execs, so what is pinned is the command the operator gets. load helpers UNIT="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/frank-zealot.service" SERVE="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/serve-frank-zealot.sh" ENV_FILE="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/frank-zealot.env" REMOTE_DEPLOY="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/deploy-remote.sh" ENV_LARGE="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/frank-dragoon.env" setup() { STAGE="$(mktemp -d)" RUNTIME_DIR="$STAGE/llama" MODEL_DIR="$STAGE/models" mkdir -p "$RUNTIME_DIR/bin" "$MODEL_DIR" cat > "$RUNTIME_DIR/bin/llama-server" <<'STUB' #!/usr/bin/env bash printf '%s\n' "$@" STUB chmod +x "$RUNTIME_DIR/bin/llama-server" "$RUNTIME_DIR/bin" 2>/dev/null || chmod +x "$RUNTIME_DIR/bin/llama-server" # The stub payload files carry the SAME basenames as the shipped env, so # the seam exercises the real paths, and a payload rename moves one file # (the env) instead of silently forking the test's filename constants. MODEL_STUB="$(basename "$(sed -nE 's/^MODEL_FILE=(.+)$/\1/p' "$ENV_FILE")")" MM_STUB="$(basename "$(sed -nE 's/^MMPROJ_FILE=(.+)$/\1/p' "$ENV_FILE")")" DRAFT_STUB="draft-assistant.gguf" touch "$MODEL_DIR/$MODEL_STUB" "$MODEL_DIR/$MM_STUB" "$MODEL_DIR/$DRAFT_STUB" } teardown() { rm -rf "$STAGE" } # serve_argv [env-file] — run the serve script and capture the engine's # argv, one token per line, in $output. serve_argv() { local envf="${1:-$STAGE/test.env}" cat > "$envf" <= 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" 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" } @test "the deployer gates on exactly the payload paths the env file ships" { # Anti-drift: the deploy handler checks files by its own defaults. If # those ever differ from what the unit actually loads, a green deploy # would be gating on a file nobody reads — and a missing projector would # ship a blind endpoint. local env_v dep_v path pair for pair in "MODEL_FILE LLM_ZEALOT_MODEL_FILE" "MMPROJ_FILE LLM_ZEALOT_MMPROJ"; do env_v="${pair%% *}" dep_v="${pair##* }" path="$(sed -nE "s/^${env_v}=(.+)$/\1/p" "$ENV_FILE")" grep -qF -- "${dep_v}=\"\${${dep_v}:-${path}}\"" "$REMOTE_DEPLOY" done } @test "three conversations share the pool at a 262144 window each" { serve_argv [ "$status" -eq 0 ] [ "$(argv_value --alias)" = "frank-zealot" ] [ "$(argv_value --port)" = "7771" ] [ "$(argv_value --host)" = "0.0.0.0" ] [ "$(argv_value --model)" = "$MODEL_DIR/$MODEL_STUB" ] [ "$(argv_value --n-gpu-layers)" -gt 0 ] # llama.cpp divides --ctx-size across slots, so the observable contract # is the per-slot window. The 9B swap exists precisely so every # conversation gets the model's TRAINED 262,144 (the 27B had to be cut to # 200,704 to fund two), and the harness contextWindow must quote 262144 — # the pool and the slot count are neither, and a longer prompt is a 400. # Three is also the ceiling: a fourth slot would push each window under the # fleet's worst-case compaction input, which is this endpoint's job. [ "$(argv_value --parallel)" -eq 3 ] [ "$(argv_value --ctx-size)" -eq 786432 ] local pool slots pool="$(argv_value --ctx-size)"; slots="$(argv_value --parallel)" [ $((pool % slots)) -eq 0 ] [ $((pool / slots)) -eq 262144 ] } @test "the KV dtype pair follows the env file and flash-attn stays pinned on" { # Asserted against the env rather than a literal so a retune moves one # file, not two. The shipped pair is q8_0/q8_0: this payload bills # 8 full-attention layers × 4 KV heads × 256 dim = 8,192 elements per token # per cache, so f16/f16 would need 26,112 MiB of the 24,123 MiB card while # q8_0 bills 17,408 B/token = 13,056.00 MiB at the 786,432 pool — the # ledger said exactly that, and it is the referee. The 24 DeltaNet layers # bill a fixed recurrent state per slot (452.25 MiB for three cells), which # is why pool arithmetic alone under-prices the shape. flash-attn is not # decoration: quantized V is only legal with it, and it must stay explicit # so a future quant swap cannot silently fall back. local env_k env_v env_k="$(sed -nE 's/^CACHE_TYPE_K=(.+)$/\1/p' "$ENV_FILE")" env_v="$(sed -nE 's/^CACHE_TYPE_V=(.+)$/\1/p' "$ENV_FILE")" serve_argv [ "$status" -eq 0 ] [ "$(argv_value --cache-type-k)" = "$env_k" ] [ "$(argv_value --cache-type-v)" = "$env_v" ] [ "$(argv_value --flash-attn)" = "on" ] } @test "log verbosity follows the env file" { serve_argv [ "$status" -eq 0 ] # The shipped 4 (debug) is what makes VRAM-fit forensics possible from # the journal (KV layout, buffer sizes, graph capture) — the only way to # prove the q8_0 KV contract and the draft-KV bill from a log. [ "$(argv_value --log-verbosity)" = "4" ] # And an env that names no verbosity still ships an explicit value: the # serve script's written-down default is 4 too, never a blank. sed -i '/^VERBOSITY=/d' "$STAGE/test.env" run_stage [ "$status" -eq 0 ] [ "$(argv_value --log-verbosity)" = "4" ] } @test "the Prometheus metrics endpoint is served unless opted out" { # Output contract, not a config read: what matters to the operator is that # the engine is exec'd with --metrics, because llama.cpp answers 501 on # /metrics without it and the fleet scrape then reports the endpoint DOWN # (the oldest retained sample of this target's scrape, 2026-10-11, is a 0). serve_argv [ "$status" -eq 0 ] grep -qxF -- '--metrics' <<<"$output" # And the opt-out must be real: METRICS=0 ships no /metrics at all. sed -i 's/^METRICS=.*/METRICS=0/' "$STAGE/test.env" run_stage [ "$status" -eq 0 ] ! grep -qxF -- '--metrics' <<<"$output" } @test "the compute-buffer pair follows the env file and stays self-consistent" { # The contract is: whatever rung the repo carries is the rung the engine # is exec'd with — the number a benchmark attributes a prefill rate to # must be a repo value, never an engine default nobody wrote down. # Asserted against the env rather than a literal so a retune moves one # file, not two. local env_batch env_ubatch env_batch="$(sed -nE 's/^BATCH_SIZE=([0-9]+)$/\1/p' "$ENV_FILE")" env_ubatch="$(sed -nE 's/^UBATCH_SIZE=([0-9]+)$/\1/p' "$ENV_FILE")" serve_argv [ "$status" -eq 0 ] [ "$(argv_value --batch-size)" = "$env_batch" ] [ "$(argv_value --ubatch-size)" = "$env_ubatch" ] # llama.cpp refuses ubatch > batch, so a retune that inverts the pair has # to fail here instead of at boot on a live endpoint. [ "$env_batch" -ge "$env_ubatch" ] # And an env that names neither flag still ships an explicit pair: the # serve script's fallbacks are written-down values, not blanks the engine # fills in silently. sed -i '/^BATCH_SIZE=/d;/^UBATCH_SIZE=/d' "$STAGE/test.env" run_stage [ "$status" -eq 0 ] argv_value --batch-size | grep -qE '^[0-9]+$' argv_value --ubatch-size | grep -qE '^[0-9]+$' } @test "speculation is off: no drafter flag reaches the argv" { # Frank, 2026-10-18: this file DOES carry the MTP head (the boot arms prove # it loads and drafts, acceptance 0.798/0.617 per position, mean accepted # length 2.41) and it is still off, because the draft context bills its own # f16 KV over the WHOLE pool — 4,096 B/position × 786,432 = 3,072 MiB plus # buffers — and at --ubatch-size 2048 that squeeze halves decode: 167.2 → # 109.2 t/s. The MTP arm is SPEC_TYPE=draft-mtp + UBATCH_SIZE=1024 (213.5 # t/s), documented in frank-zealot.env. The flags move as a set: # SPEC_TYPE=none strips --spec-type, --spec-draft-n-max AND # --spec-draft-model together, so a no-spec boot cannot carry half a spec # pair (the ROCmFPX-era baseline arm segfaulted at load doing that). serve_argv [ "$status" -eq 0 ] ! grep -qxF -- '--spec-type' <<<"$output" ! grep -qxF -- '--spec-draft-n-max' <<<"$output" ! grep -qxF -- '--spec-draft-model' <<<"$output" grep -qE '^SPEC_TYPE=none$' "$ENV_FILE" } @test "naming a drafter ships the MTP set, with or without a separate draft file" { # The documented MTP arm (frank-zealot.env): SPEC_TYPE=draft-mtp ALONE is # legal here because the head is IN the checkpoint and the draft context # rides the main model's weights — so --spec-draft-model must NOT appear, # or the trunk would be loaded twice. serve_argv { echo 'SPEC_TYPE=draft-mtp' echo 'SPEC_DRAFT_N_MAX=2' } >> "$STAGE/test.env" run_stage [ "$status" -eq 0 ] [ "$(argv_value --spec-type)" = "draft-mtp" ] [ "$(argv_value --spec-draft-n-max)" = "2" ] ! grep -qxF -- '--spec-draft-model' <<<"$output" # And an external drafter still reaches the engine as a complete set — the # pair the ROCmFPX-era crash was about. echo "SPEC_DRAFT_FILE=$MODEL_DIR/$DRAFT_STUB" >> "$STAGE/test.env" run_stage [ "$status" -eq 0 ] [ "$(argv_value --spec-draft-model)" = "$MODEL_DIR/$DRAFT_STUB" ] } @test "vision ships by default and MMPROJ_FILE empty opts out of the image path" { # The Bonsai-2 text file carries no vision tensors — the publisher's Q8_0 # projector argument IS the vision capability: no flag, no eyes. Q8_0 (not # BF16) is the publisher's own requirement for concurrent image requests, # which is what --parallel 3 means in practice. serve_argv [ "$status" -eq 0 ] [ "$(argv_value --mmproj)" = "$MODEL_DIR/$MM_STUB" ] # The documented opt-out must reach the engine as ABSENCE of the flag, # not as an argument pointing at an empty string. sed -i 's|^MMPROJ_FILE=.*|MMPROJ_FILE=|' "$STAGE/test.env" run env FRANK_ZEALOT_ENV_FILE="$STAGE/test.env" nvidia-modprobe=true bash "$SERVE" [ "$status" -eq 0 ] ! grep -qxF -- '--mmproj' <<<"$output" } @test "the card sampler's only non-metadata term reaches the argv" { # general.sampling.* (temperature / top_p / top_k / min_p / repeat_penalty) # rides in the checkpoint and the engine reads it itself; presence penalty # is the ONE recipe value with no GGUF metadata key, so it must reach argv # or the recipe is silently incomplete. Distinctive value first: proof the # flag is wired to the env and not merely to the script's default. serve_argv { echo 'PRESENCE_PENALTY=0.5'; } >> "$STAGE/test.env" run_stage [ "$status" -eq 0 ] [ "$(argv_value --presence-penalty)" = "0.5" ] # The shipped recipe value reaches the engine too. local pp pp="$(sed -nE 's/^PRESENCE_PENALTY=(.+)$/\1/p' "$ENV_FILE")" sed -i "s/^PRESENCE_PENALTY=.*/PRESENCE_PENALTY=$pp/" "$STAGE/test.env" run_stage [ "$status" -eq 0 ] [ "$(argv_value --presence-penalty)" = "$pp" ] # The documented opt-out is absence of the flag, not an empty argument — # which is why the default uses ${VAR=default}, not ${VAR:=default}. sed -i "s/^PRESENCE_PENALTY=.*/PRESENCE_PENALTY=/" "$STAGE/test.env" run_stage [ "$status" -eq 0 ] ! grep -qxF -- '--presence-penalty' <<<"$output" } @test "the fleet reasoning contract reaches the argv" { serve_argv [ "$status" -eq 0 ] # deepseek format = thinking lands in reasoning_content, the field the # harness reads on this endpoint; --jinja is what makes # chat_template_kwargs reach the template at all. [ "$(argv_value --reasoning-format)" = "deepseek" ] argv_value --jinja >/dev/null grep -qxF -- '--jinja' <<<"$output" } @test "the serve script refuses a missing runtime, GGUF or projector" { rm -f "$MODEL_DIR/$MM_STUB" serve_argv [ "$status" -ne 0 ] [[ "$output" == *"frank-zealot: missing"* ]] rm -f "$RUNTIME_DIR/bin/llama-server" serve_argv [ "$status" -ne 0 ] [[ "$output" == *"frank-zealot: missing"* ]] } @test "the deploy handler gates on binary, GGUF and projector, then MainPID-hardens health" { grep -q 'deploy_llm_zealot' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY" grep -q 'LLM_ZEALOT_RUNTIME' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY" grep -q 'LLM_ZEALOT_MODEL_FILE' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY" grep -q 'LLM_ZEALOT_MMPROJ' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY" grep -q 'relink_unit frank-zealot' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY" grep -q 'systemctl enable frank-zealot.service' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY" grep -q '127.0.0.1:7771/health' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY" grep -q 'frank-zealot.service has no MainPID' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY" } @test "the two endpoints keep separate ports and the large handler never pkills llama-server" { # frank-dragoon's sweeps must not take down frank-zealot, whose # process is llama-server on the SAME host. grep -q '^LISTEN_PORT=7771$' "$ENV_FILE" local large large="$(sed -n '/^deploy_llm_dragoon() {/,/^}/p' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY")" ! grep -q 'pkill -x llama-server' <<<"$large" }