catalog: remove Sesame CSM stack — open csm-1b verified not deploy-worthy

Tear down the parked CSM stack (status: down, never successfully built).
Bring-up attempts failed at the image build: upstream
phildougherty/sesame_csm_openai pins no huggingface_hub version, which now
resolves to 1.17.0 where the `huggingface-cli` the Dockerfile relies on has
been removed (replaced by `hf`). Building would require vendoring + patching
the upstream Dockerfile.

Deep-research verdict (primary + community sourced) confirmed it isn't worth
that: the acclaimed Maya/Miles demo runs a fine-tuned, larger CSM variant
Sesame never open-sourced; the open csm-1b is the un-fine-tuned 1B base
(only the smallest of 1B/3B/8B shipped, no newer checkpoint as of mid-2026).
Ships no usable voices, can't generate text, English-only, can't stream
real-time out of the box; absent from current TTS leaderboards and dominated
by Kokoro/Dia2/Fish-S2/IndexTTS for narration.

Removes: stacks/csm/, playbooks/deploy-csm.yaml, the csm catalog service +
reproducibility_audit entries. Host state (compose dir, /worktank/csm) torn
down on irv-ml1; no container/image existed.
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the single-model-per-endpoint rationale + both-start-together caveat).
Image local/dia:v2. Verified end-to-end 2026-05-31.
- id: csm
name: Sesame CSM (conversational)
description: >
Sesame's Conversational Speech Model (CSM-1B) — context-aware speech
(Llama backbone + Mimi codec). Usable as plain TTS, but its edge is
cross-turn prosody for voice agents, not narration.
category: tts
version: 1
status: down
host: irv-ml1
lifecycle:
stack: csm
vram_gb: 8
gpu_device_id: 0
endpoint: http://10.100.79.3:8201/v1/audio/speech
method: POST
content_type: application/json
model:
id: sesame/csm-1b
revision: null
image: local/csm:v1
fields:
- name: model
type: select
options: [csm-1b]
default: csm-1b
- name: input
type: textarea
label: Text
required: true
max_length: 5000
default: "Hello from Sesame." # canonical: sesame/csm-1b model card
- name: voice
type: select
label: Voice
default: alloy
description: >
alloy | echo | fable | onyx | nova | shimmer, or a cloned voice ID.
- name: response_format
type: select
options: [mp3, opus, aac, flac, wav]
default: mp3
- name: speed
type: slider
min: 0.5
max: 2.0
step: 0.05
default: 1.0
- name: temperature
type: slider
min: 0.0
max: 1.0
step: 0.05
default: 0.8
description: Sampling temperature — higher = more variation.
- name: topk
type: number
required: false
description: Top-k sampling cutoff (1100); no canonical default — wrapper's internal default applies if omitted.
- name: max_audio_length_ms
type: number
required: false
default: 90000
description: Max generated audio length in milliseconds.
response:
type: audio
mime_from_field: response_format
reproducibility:
seedable: false
deterministic: false
notes: >
⚠️ No seed param and temperature-sampled → output varies run-to-run.
Per this contract that is normally a fix-before-adding bug; catalogued
by operator direction. asset-engine "regenerate/fork" will NOT
reproduce a prior CSM take. Clean fix = upstream seed support.
estimated_latency:
cold_start_s: 12
warm_per_unit: "~realtime on the 3090"
license: "Sesame CSM license (gated, non-OSI); MIT (wrapper)"
license_warning: |
sesame/csm-1b is GATED under Sesame's own (non-OSI) license — accept
terms on HF and review before any commercial/redistribution use. Host
needs CSM_HF_TOKEN set before first start.
notes: |
Conversational speech model — context-aware prosody for voice agents,
not a narration reader. Fields read from the phildougherty wrapper
README/API (2026-05-31); confirm against live OpenAPI at deploy.
Deployed to irv-ml1 but PARKED; gated-model token required before
first start. Because it is non-deterministic, when started it belongs
at status: experimental (not ready). Pin CSM_SHA before build.
- id: zonos
name: Zonos-v0.1 TTS
description: >
@@ -1881,11 +1790,6 @@ reproducibility_audit:
model_deterministic: false
image_tag_mutable: false
notes: "Dia2 1B streaming; same determinism story as dia2-2b. local/dia:v2."
- service: csm
seedable: false
model_deterministic: false
image_tag_mutable: false
notes: "⚠️ No seed + temperature-sampled → non-reproducible. Catalogued experimental by operator direction; upstream seed support is the fix. Gated Sesame license."
- service: zonos
seedable: true
model_deterministic: true
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# Sesame CSM stack tunables. Copy to `.env` on irv-ml1 before deploying.
# ── build pin ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# SHA of phildougherty/sesame_csm_openai. Use the FULL 40-char SHA;
# `main` works but is NOT reproducible — pin before relying on it.
# https://github.com/phildougherty/sesame_csm_openai/commits/main
CSM_SHA=main
# Local image tag — bump to force a fresh layer build.
CSM_TAG=v1
# ── network ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Host port. Container listens on 8000 internally.
# Reserved on irv-ml1: 8188 ComfyUI, 8190 CosyVoice, 8191 Qwen3-TTS,
# 8192 IndexTTS-2, 8193 Kokoro, 8194 VibeVoice, 8195 Fish-S2,
# 8196 Chatterbox, 8197 Voxtral, 8198 Kyutai, 8199 Zonos, 8200 Dia,
# 8765 Parakeet. 8201 picked here.
CSM_PORT=8201
# Bind address. 0.0.0.0 exposes on all interfaces (incl. the WG tunnel
# interface 10.100.79.3); 127.0.0.1 restricts to local-only.
CSM_BIND=0.0.0.0
# ── runtime / GPU ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Devices visible inside the container. "0" pins to the RTX 3090
# (24 GB) — CSM-1B (~8 GB) fits; use "1" for the A6000.
CSM_GPU_DEVICES=0
# Optional HF device_map for multi-GPU: auto | balanced | sequential.
# Leave empty for single-GPU (the common case here).
CSM_DEVICE_MAP=
# ── secrets ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# REQUIRED. sesame/csm-1b is a GATED model: accept its license at
# https://huggingface.co/sesame/csm-1b
# then paste a HF token (read scope) here. Without it, first-boot model
# download 401s. This file is .env.example (committed) — put the REAL
# token only in the .env on the host, which is gitignored.
CSM_HF_TOKEN=
# ── persistent storage on the host ───────────────────────────────────
# Voices dir — cloned/custom voice samples the wrapper serves by ID.
# Included in restic (clones need the original sample to recreate).
CSM_VOICES_DIR=/worktank/csm/voices
# HuggingFace cache — csm-1b + Llama-3.2-1B tokenizer + Mimi land here
# on first start. Bind-mounted to survive recreate. Excluded from restic
# (regenerable from HF, given the token + license acceptance).
CSM_CACHE_DIR=/worktank/csm/cache
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# Sesame CSM
Sesame's **Conversational Speech Model** (the engine behind the
"Maya/Miles" demo) — a context-aware speech generator (Llama backbone +
Mimi audio codec) — served via
[phildougherty/sesame_csm_openai](https://github.com/phildougherty/sesame_csm_openai),
an OpenAI-compat wrapper.
**Server:** irv-ml1 (Irvine, WireGuard-only)
**Port:** 8201 (container listens on 8000)
**GPUs:** pins to device 0 (RTX 3090) by default; ~8 GB VRAM
**Image:** `local/csm:v1` — built locally from a pinned git SHA of the
wrapper via docker buildx's git URL context
**Upstream wrapper:** [phildougherty/sesame_csm_openai](https://github.com/phildougherty/sesame_csm_openai) (MIT)
**Upstream model:** [sesame/csm-1b](https://huggingface.co/sesame/csm-1b)
(**gated** — Sesame's own license) + `unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B` tokenizer + Mimi codec
## Why this stack exists — and what it is *not*
CSM is a **conversational** speech model, not a plain reader. It
conditions on prior conversation turns (text **and** audio) to choose
prosody and tone — it's designed to be the **speech layer of a voice
agent**, where a separate LLM produces the words and CSM voices them
with context-aware delivery.
- As **pure TTS** it works standalone (OpenAI-compat
`POST /v1/audio/speech`, voices `alloy/echo/fable/onyx/nova/shimmer`
plus cloned IDs).
- Its real edge — contextual prosody across turns — only pays off in
**interactive / voice-agent** use, not monologue narration. For
skaldsong's *reader*, the emotive single-voice engines (Fish S2-Pro,
IndexTTS-2) and Dia (dialogue) remain the better fits; CSM is here for
voice-agent experiments.
## ⚠️ Gated model — token required before first boot
`sesame/csm-1b` is gated. Before deploying:
1. Accept the license at <https://huggingface.co/sesame/csm-1b>.
2. Put a HF token (read scope) in `CSM_HF_TOKEN` in the host `.env`
(never in `.env.example`).
Without it the first-boot model download 401s.
## Deploy
```bash
# from this workstation (irv-ml1 is WG-only — routes via ana-wg):
scripts/deploy-stack.sh irv-ml1 csm
# then on irv-ml1, first run builds from the pinned SHA:
# docker compose up -d --build
```
First boot pulls csm-1b + the Llama-3.2-1B tokenizer + Mimi into
`CSM_CACHE_DIR`; the 600 s `start_period` covers it.
## Notes
- **Pin `CSM_SHA`** to a full 40-char commit before relying on this —
`.env.example` ships `main`, which is not reproducible.
- The wrapper can also serve Dia-1.6B, but we run Dia from its own
[`dia`](../dia/) stack — keep this one CSM-only to avoid overlap.
- Endpoints: `/v1/audio/speech` (OpenAI-compat), `/v1/audio/voices`,
`/v1/audio/models`. No dedicated `/health` route — the healthcheck
probes `/v1/audio/voices` (only answers once the model is loaded).
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# Sesame CSM-1B (Conversational Speech Model) served via
# phildougherty/sesame_csm_openai — an OpenAI-compat wrapper around
# Sesame's context-aware speech model (Llama backbone + Mimi codec).
#
# Why this stack exists alongside the other TTS:
# * CSM is a CONVERSATIONAL speech layer, not a plain reader — it
# conditions on prior turns (text + audio) to pick prosody, built
# for voice-AGENT turn-taking. As pure TTS it works standalone;
# its differentiator only pays off in interactive/agent use.
# * OpenAI-compat /v1/audio/speech with 6 standard voices
# (alloy/echo/fable/onyx/nova/shimmer) + cloned voice IDs.
# * ~8 GB VRAM; fits the 3090 (device 0) or A6000 (device 1).
#
# NOTE: sesame/csm-1b is a GATED model — you must accept its license at
# https://huggingface.co/sesame/csm-1b and supply CSM_HF_TOKEN in .env
# before first boot, or the model download 401s.
#
# Image built locally from the upstream wrapper via buildx git-context.
# All tunables live in .env — edit that, not this file.
services:
csm:
image: local/csm:${CSM_TAG}
build:
context: https://github.com/phildougherty/sesame_csm_openai.git#${CSM_SHA}
dockerfile: Dockerfile
container_name: csm
restart: unless-stopped
runtime: nvidia
ports:
- "${CSM_BIND:-0.0.0.0}:${CSM_PORT}:8000"
environment:
- NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=${CSM_GPU_DEVICES:-0}
- NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=compute,utility
# Required: gated-model access token (accept the csm-1b license on
# HF first). Set the real value in .env, NEVER here.
- HF_TOKEN=${CSM_HF_TOKEN}
- HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1
- HF_HOME=/app/hf_cache
# Optional multi-GPU split: auto | balanced | sequential.
- CSM_DEVICE_MAP=${CSM_DEVICE_MAP:-}
volumes:
- ${CSM_VOICES_DIR}:/app/voices
- ${CSM_CACHE_DIR}:/app/hf_cache
healthcheck:
# The wrapper exposes no /health route; GET /v1/audio/voices
# returns the voice list only once the model is loaded, so it
# doubles as liveness + ready. python urllib (no curl in image),
# bound to 127.0.0.1 (uvicorn is IPv4-only).
test: ["CMD-SHELL", "python3 -c \"import urllib.request,sys; urllib.request.urlopen('http://127.0.0.1:8000/v1/audio/voices', timeout=5); sys.exit(0)\""]
interval: 30s
timeout: 10s
retries: 3
# First boot pulls csm-1b + the Llama-3.2-1B tokenizer + Mimi —
# gated download, generous deadline.
start_period: 600s
labels:
- homepage.group=AI Systems
- homepage.name=Sesame CSM
- homepage.icon=mdi-account-voice-outline
- homepage.description=Conversational speech model — context-aware voice-agent TTS (irv-ml1)
- homepage.href=http://10.100.79.3:${CSM_PORT}