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+# heretic2-nvfp4-quant — fast char-rp-reasoning seat (NVFP4 + MTP)
+
+Local NVFP4 quant of **NEO-CODE = Heretic2-Thinking** (Qwen3.6-27B) with the
+Qwen3.6 **MTP head grafted back**, for a ~2.5–4× faster vLLM/MTP
+`char-rp-reasoning` seat (buys reasoning-budget headroom → better GM planning
+inside soong's latency window). R36 fast-seat spike, 2026-07-14.
+
+Fleet-first **local** NVFP4 quant — every other fleet NVFP4 model is *pulled*
+pre-quantized; Heretic2 has none published, so we quantize it.
+
+## Fire sequence
+1. **`graft_mtp.py`** — graft the 15 base-Qwen3.6 MTP tensors into Heretic2 BF16.
+   CPU-only, no GPU window. (Heretic2's finetune dropped the head; config declares
+   `mtp_num_hidden_layers=1` but ships 0 `mtp.*` tensors — verified.)
+2. **`quant_nvfp4.py`** — llm-compressor NVFP4, Linear only; **GDN/vision/lm-head/
+   norms/MTP kept BF16** (robbatt deckard-nvfp4 recipe + MTP). NEEDS a freed
+   Blackwell GPU (~55 GB) + an llmcompressor env (run in a vLLM container:
+   `pip install llmcompressor` on `vllm/vllm-openai:v0.24.0`).
+   - baseline: `--calib-mode text --calib neuralmagic/calibration` (AEON control)
+   - production: `--calib-mode chat --calib <512-row mix>` (brokkr/Dvalin) — rows
+     rendered via `apply_chat_template(enable_thinking=True)` so the forward-pass
+     sees the qwen3_coder tool-call XML = the seat's native activations.
+3. **serve** (pantheon-27b-mtp-nvfp4 pattern): `vllm --quantization compressed-tensors
+   --speculative-config '{"method":"qwen3_5_mtp","num_speculative_tokens":3}'
+   --reasoning-parser qwen3 --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --enable-auto-tool-choice`.
+4. **P00 acceptance** (brokkr): soong 9-tool k5 rig on the quant — must hold
+   ~0.967 / perfect `attach_tool`. This is the **authoritative #355 check, NOT KL**
+   (KL can pass while the structured-tool path regresses).
+
+## Gates
+- **GPU window** — both ana-ml2 Blackwell GPUs run ~full; NVFP4 is Blackwell-only
+  (irv-ml1's Ampere can't). The ~30–60 min quant needs a brief off-peak window
+  freeing a GPU. *Operator's call.*
+- **Production calib** — brokkr/Dvalin assembling the 512-row mix; the tool-call-XML
+  slice (128 rows, 53 `attach_tool`) is ready. The AEON-baseline is fireable now.
+
+## Artifacts (on ana-ml2)
+- Heretic2 BF16 (target): `/tank/aimodels/huggingface/hub/models--DavidAU--Qwen3.6-27B-Heretic2-Uncensored-Finetune-Thinking`
+- base Qwen3.6-27B (MTP source): `/tank/aimodels/huggingface/hub/models--Qwen--Qwen3.6-27B` (15 mtp.* tensors, shards 13+15)
+- AEON-baseline calib: `neuralmagic/calibration` (HF)
+- `soong-tools-v0.3.13.json` — live 9-tool schema (structure source-of-truth;
+  **calib uses the PREFIXED `bifrost.soong-lab.*` runtime names** the seat emits)
+- `extract_soong_tools.py` — how that schema was pulled from the deployed backend
+
+## Serve target
+Replaces the current llama.cpp GGUF `char-rp-reasoning` seat (~59.5 tok/s) once
+P00 passes. Deckard stays staged as rollback; the GGUF seat is the fallback until
+the NVFP4 seat is validated + cut over.
diff --git a/services/heretic2-nvfp4-quant/graft_mtp.py b/services/heretic2-nvfp4-quant/graft_mtp.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Graft the Qwen3.6-27B MTP (multi-token-prediction) head into Heretic2-Thinking.
+
+DavidAU's Heretic2-Uncensored-Finetune-Thinking finetune dropped the MTP head
+(config declares mtp_num_hidden_layers=1 but ships ZERO mtp.* weight tensors),
+so the base Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B's 15 MTP tensors must be grafted back in BF16
+before NVFP4 quantization — this is what lets the served seat use `qwen3_5_mtp`
+speculative decoding (n=3), the pantheon-27b-mtp-nvfp4 pattern proven on our
+Blackwell. (R36 fast-seat spike, brokkr calib spec 2026-07-14.)
+
+CPU-only safetensors surgery — no GPU / no quant-window needed. Space-efficient:
+symlinks Heretic2's large shards, adds one small model-mtp.safetensors, and
+writes a merged index. Idempotent-ish: refuses to clobber a non-empty OUT_DIR.
+
+Usage (on ana-ml2):
+    python3 graft_mtp.py \
+        --heretic2 /tank/aimodels/huggingface/hub/models--DavidAU--Qwen3.6-27B-Heretic2-Uncensored-Finetune-Thinking/snapshots/<hash> \
+        --base     /tank/aimodels/huggingface/hub/models--Qwen--Qwen3.6-27B/snapshots/<hash> \
+        --out      /tank/aimodels/heretic2-mtp-bf16
+"""
+import argparse
+import json
+import os
+import shutil
+import sys
+
+import torch
+from safetensors import safe_open
+from safetensors.torch import save_file
+
+MTP_SHARD = "model-mtp.safetensors"
+# MTP-related config keys we ensure are present on the grafted model (copied from
+# base if Heretic2's config is missing any).
+MTP_CFG_KEYS = ("mtp_num_hidden_layers", "mtp_use_dedicated_embeddings")
+
+
+def _is_mtp(name: str) -> bool:
+    n = name.lower()
+    return n.startswith("mtp.") or "mtp." in n or "nextn" in n
+
+
+def _tensor_nbytes(t: torch.Tensor) -> int:
+    return t.numel() * t.element_size()
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    ap.add_argument("--heretic2", required=True, help="Heretic2 BF16 snapshot dir (quant target)")
+    ap.add_argument("--base", required=True, help="Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B snapshot dir (MTP source)")
+    ap.add_argument("--out", required=True, help="output dir for the grafted BF16 model")
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    her, base, out = args.heretic2, args.base, args.out
+    for d in (her, base):
+        if not os.path.isfile(os.path.join(d, "model.safetensors.index.json")):
+            print(f"ERROR: no index.json in {d}", file=sys.stderr)
+            return 2
+    if os.path.isdir(out) and os.listdir(out):
+        print(f"ERROR: {out} exists and is non-empty — refusing to clobber", file=sys.stderr)
+        return 2
+    os.makedirs(out, exist_ok=True)
+
+    her_idx = json.load(open(os.path.join(her, "model.safetensors.index.json")))
+    base_idx = json.load(open(os.path.join(base, "model.safetensors.index.json")))
+
+    # sanity: Heretic2 must NOT already have MTP weights; base MUST.
+    her_mtp = [k for k in her_idx["weight_map"] if _is_mtp(k)]
+    base_mtp = [k for k in base_idx["weight_map"] if _is_mtp(k)]
+    if her_mtp:
+        print(f"ERROR: Heretic2 already has {len(her_mtp)} mtp tensors — graft not needed", file=sys.stderr)
+        return 2
+    if not base_mtp:
+        print("ERROR: base has no mtp tensors — wrong source model", file=sys.stderr)
+        return 2
+    print(f"grafting {len(base_mtp)} MTP tensors from base into Heretic2 ({len(her_idx['weight_map'])} tensors)")
+
+    # 1) stage Heretic2: symlink big shards, copy everything else.
+    for fn in sorted(os.listdir(her)):
+        src = os.path.join(her, fn)
+        if not os.path.isfile(src):
+            continue
+        dst = os.path.join(out, fn)
+        if fn.endswith(".safetensors"):
+            os.symlink(os.path.realpath(src), dst)
+        elif fn != "model.safetensors.index.json":  # index rewritten below
+            shutil.copy2(src, dst)
+
+    # 2) pull the MTP tensors out of base's shards into one new shard (BF16 preserved).
+    base_mtp_shards = sorted({base_idx["weight_map"][k] for k in base_mtp})
+    mtp_tensors = {}
+    for shard in base_mtp_shards:
+        with safe_open(os.path.join(base, shard), framework="pt") as f:
+            for name in f.keys():
+                if _is_mtp(name):
+                    mtp_tensors[name] = f.get_tensor(name)
+    assert len(mtp_tensors) == len(base_mtp), f"expected {len(base_mtp)} mtp tensors, got {len(mtp_tensors)}"
+    dtypes = {str(t.dtype) for t in mtp_tensors.values()}
+    print(f"  extracted {len(mtp_tensors)} mtp tensors, dtypes={dtypes}")
+    save_file(mtp_tensors, os.path.join(out, MTP_SHARD), metadata={"format": "pt"})
+
+    # 3) merged index: Heretic2 weight_map + the mtp tensors -> the new shard.
+    new_map = dict(her_idx["weight_map"])
+    added_bytes = 0
+    for name, t in mtp_tensors.items():
+        new_map[name] = MTP_SHARD
+        added_bytes += _tensor_nbytes(t)
+    meta = dict(her_idx.get("metadata", {}))
+    if "total_size" in meta:
+        meta["total_size"] = int(meta["total_size"]) + added_bytes
+    out_idx = {"metadata": meta, "weight_map": new_map}
+    json.dump(out_idx, open(os.path.join(out, "model.safetensors.index.json"), "w"), indent=2)
+
+    # 4) ensure config has complete MTP config (copy from base if Heretic2 lacks a key).
+    cfg_path = os.path.join(out, "config.json")
+    cfg = json.load(open(cfg_path))
+    base_cfg = json.load(open(os.path.join(base, "config.json")))
+
+    def _get(d, k):
+        return d.get(k, d.get("text_config", {}).get(k))
+
+    changed = []
+    for k in MTP_CFG_KEYS:
+        if _get(cfg, k) is None and _get(base_cfg, k) is not None:
+            cfg[k] = _get(base_cfg, k)
+            changed.append(k)
+    if changed:
+        json.dump(cfg, open(cfg_path, "w"), indent=2)
+    print(f"  config MTP keys filled from base: {changed or 'none (already complete)'}")
+
+    total = len(new_map)
+    print(f"DONE -> {out}")
+    print(f"  total tensors: {total} (Heretic2 {len(her_idx['weight_map'])} + MTP {len(mtp_tensors)})")
+    print(f"  new shard: {MTP_SHARD} (+{added_bytes/1e9:.2f} GB)")
+    print("  next: NVFP4 quant (quant_nvfp4.py) — keeps mtp.*/GDN/vision/lm-head/norms in BF16")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())
diff --git a/services/heretic2-nvfp4-quant/quant_nvfp4.py b/services/heretic2-nvfp4-quant/quant_nvfp4.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""NVFP4 quantize the MTP-grafted Heretic2 model (llm-compressor / compressed-tensors).
+
+Runs AFTER graft_mtp.py. Uses the fleet-proven compressed-tensors NVFP4 path
+(the pantheon-27b-mtp-nvfp4 serving pattern already works on our Blackwell) with
+the ignore-list from robbatt's on-fleet deckard-nvfp4 recipe PLUS the MTP head:
+keep GDN/linear-attn, vision tower, lm-head, all norms, AND mtp.* in BF16;
+NVFP4 only the dense Linear layers. (R36 fast-seat spike, brokkr calib spec.)
+
+⚠️ NEEDS: (a) an env with llmcompressor + a CUDA torch (run inside a vLLM
+container: `pip install llmcompressor` on vllm/vllm-openai:v0.24.0), (b) a freed
+Blackwell GPU (~55 GB — both ana-ml2 GPUs are normally full; needs an off-peak
+window). API validated against llm-compressor at run time — treat the exact
+symbol names as first-draft until a dry import confirms them.
+
+Two calib modes (brokkr's two artifacts):
+  --calib-mode text   : AEON-baseline control (neuralmagic/calibration LLM split)
+  --calib-mode chat   : production 512-row mix (JSONL rows {messages, tools});
+                        each row rendered via apply_chat_template(enable_thinking=True)
+                        so the forward-pass sees the qwen3_coder tool-call XML =
+                        the seat's native activations (the #355-preservation point).
+
+Usage:
+    python3 quant_nvfp4.py --model /tank/aimodels/heretic2-mtp-bf16 \
+        --calib-mode text  --calib neuralmagic/calibration --num-samples 160 \
+        --out /tank/aimodels/heretic2-mtp-nvfp4-baseline
+    python3 quant_nvfp4.py --model /tank/aimodels/heretic2-mtp-bf16 \
+        --calib-mode chat  --calib /path/to/production_calib_512.jsonl \
+        --out /tank/aimodels/heretic2-mtp-nvfp4-prod
+"""
+import argparse
+import json
+import sys
+
+# Ignore list = robbatt deckard-nvfp4 recipe + MTP head (brokkr: keep mtp.* BF16).
+# Keeps in BF16: lm-head, embeddings, vision tower, GDN/linear-attn, all norms, MTP.
+IGNORE = [
+    "lm_head",
+    "re:.*embed_tokens$",
+    "re:visual.*",
+    "re:model.visual.*",
+    "re:.*linear_attn.*",
+    "re:.*norm.*",
+    "re:.*q_norm.*",
+    "re:.*k_norm.*",
+    "re:mtp.*",          # MTP head stays BF16 for the qwen3_5_mtp spec-decode head
+]
+
+
+def load_calib_text(name, tokenizer, n, seqlen):
+    from datasets import load_dataset
+    ds = load_dataset(name, split="train").shuffle(seed=42).select(range(n))
+    col = "text" if "text" in ds.column_names else ds.column_names[0]
+    return [tokenizer(x[col], truncation=True, max_length=seqlen) for x in ds]
+
+
+def load_calib_chat(path, tokenizer, seqlen):
+    """Render {messages, tools} JSONL rows through the chat template with thinking on.
+    The assistant tool_calls (OpenAI form) serialize to qwen3_coder XML here, so the
+    calibration forward-pass sees the EXACT tool-call token distribution the seat emits."""
+    rows = [json.loads(l) for l in open(path) if l.strip()]
+    out = []
+    for r in rows:
+        text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
+            r["messages"], tools=r.get("tools"),
+            tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=False, enable_thinking=True,
+        )
+        out.append(tokenizer(text, truncation=True, max_length=seqlen))
+    return out
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    ap.add_argument("--model", required=True, help="grafted BF16 model dir (graft_mtp.py output)")
+    ap.add_argument("--calib-mode", choices=["text", "chat"], required=True)
+    ap.add_argument("--calib", required=True, help="HF dataset name (text) or JSONL path (chat)")
+    ap.add_argument("--out", required=True)
+    ap.add_argument("--num-samples", type=int, default=512)
+    ap.add_argument("--seqlen", type=int, default=8192)
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
+    from llmcompressor import oneshot
+    from llmcompressor.modifiers.quantization import QuantizationModifier
+
+    print(f"loading grafted model: {args.model}")
+    model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+        args.model, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto", trust_remote_code=True,
+    )
+    tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(args.model, trust_remote_code=True)
+
+    print(f"building calibration ({args.calib_mode}, {args.num_samples} samples, seq {args.seqlen})")
+    if args.calib_mode == "text":
+        calib = load_calib_text(args.calib, tok, args.num_samples, args.seqlen)
+    else:
+        calib = load_calib_chat(args.calib, tok, args.seqlen)
+    print(f"  {len(calib)} calibration rows")
+
+    recipe = QuantizationModifier(targets="Linear", scheme="NVFP4", ignore=IGNORE)
+
+    print("running NVFP4 oneshot (Linear-only; GDN/vision/lm-head/norms/MTP kept BF16)")
+    oneshot(
+        model=model, dataset=calib, recipe=recipe,
+        max_seq_length=args.seqlen, num_calibration_samples=len(calib),
+    )
+
+    print(f"saving -> {args.out}")
+    model.save_pretrained(args.out, save_compressed=True)
+    tok.save_pretrained(args.out)
+    print("DONE. serve: vllm --quantization compressed-tensors "
+          "--speculative-config '{\"method\":\"qwen3_5_mtp\",\"num_speculative_tokens\":3}' "
+          "--reasoning-parser qwen3 --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --enable-auto-tool-choice")
+    print("NEXT: ping brokkr -> P00 rig (soong 9-tool k5); acceptance = hold ~0.967/perfect attach_tool")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())