char-rp -> TheDrummer Magidonia-24B-v4.3 Q6_K (Magistral prose, ~65 tok/s,
zero refusal, tight POV) via llama.cpp (:8016).
char-rp-reasoning -> ArliAI QwQ-32B-RpR-v4 Q5_K_M (abliterated managed reasoning,
~52 tok/s, reasoning surfaces in reasoning_content) via llama.cpp (:8018).
- New canonical stack stacks/char-rp-gguf/ (llama-server x2, GPU0-pinned, ~86/97G
co-resident with gen). GGUF sidesteps the vLLM-NVFP4 + Mistral-tokenizer traps that
killed the Angel serve. Never Ollama.
- Best-of-breed per seat: no single dense 24-32B is both an elite non-thinking prose
seat AND a clean managed-reasoning seat on llama.cpp (Magidonia [THINK] boundary is
loose; Cydonia-R1 <think> runs away; QwQ is template-managed). Pantheon-Reasoning-27B
stays rejected (re-censors in <think>; RpR-v4 abliterated reasoning is the fix).
- Gateway rewired: char-rp->:8016, char-rp-reasoning->:8018, Mistral/QwQ samplers,
dropped the Qwen enable_thinking kwarg. One-model Magidonia fallback documented.
- Retired the ms32-24b-angel stack.
comfy-dev's explicit-over-implicit call: arbo now sends train_id, so the
worker no longer derives the loras/trained/{train_id}/ namespace from
output_dir.parent (which coupled it to arbo's handoff layout). train_id is
optional + path-safe-validated; when present it wins, else the path
derivation remains as the fallback. Wired through TrainRequest ->
validate_request -> published_relative_path -> _publish_lora. 18 tests green.
On a train reaching succeeded, IN ADDITION to output/{name}.safetensors
(unchanged download source), COPY it into ComfyUI's loras search path at
/storetank/arbo/models/loras/trained/{train_id}/{name}.safetensors and
return published_lora_name (the ComfyUI-relative LoraLoader string) in the
terminal GET /train/{id} payload (arbo Phase 2 auto-registration, §4.1/§7).
- Copy not move; a publish failure NEVER fails the train (keeps succeeded,
omits published_lora_name, logs the reason to the tailable run log).
- INV-T7-safe: a copy to a fixed computed path, no new free-form args.
- train_id derived from the handoff layout (output_dir.parent.name).
- Provisions loras/trained/ (arbotrain 2775, group-write per the Phase-1
lesson; world-readable/traversable for ComfyUI) via the deploy playbook.
- ComfyUI verified to resolve nested loras subfolders (no flat fallback).
- Pure path helper unit-tested; 16 tests green.
The first real arbo train 422'd: SDXL checkpoints live at
/storetank/arbo/models/checkpoints/ (the 2026-06-13 move to the 1.8TB
/storetank volume), which wasn't in ALLOWED_MODEL_ROOTS — the old roots
predated the move (/worktank/models is gone, /worktank/comfyui host path
is empty; ComfyUI mounts /storetank/arbo/models -> /basedir/models inside
its container). Allowlist /storetank/arbo/models (llmuser-readable,
world-readable tree), drop the two stale roots. Regression test added (15 green).
comfy-dev cross-check: Sindra v1/v2 used alpha=dim/2 (0.5 LoRA scaling),
which produced the validated likeness; the initial alpha=dim (1.0) was a
stronger, unvalidated default. Align the default to the proven value
(operator/per-request can still override). Tests updated (14 green).
Host service (runs as llmuser, owns /opt/fluxgym + GPU access) that runs
sd-scripts SDXL LoRA training on demand for arbo — the infra-ops half of the
in-arbo LoRA training Phase 1 ownership split (vh/arbo
docs/contracts/in-arbo-lora-training-phase1.contract.md §4.1/§2).
- Fixed-invocation only (INV-T7): bounded params -> one sd-scripts command
shape; every param range/allowlist/path-containment checked before spawn;
bad request = 422, never a silent downgrade. 14 unit tests green.
- Thin supervisor: never imports torch; subprocesses the fluxgym venv's
accelerate. 1-job-at-a-time (arbo lease is the serializer, 409 is backstop).
Durable job records + boot reconciliation (§4.3).
- API: POST /train, GET /train/{id}[/log], POST /train/{id}/cancel,
GET /gpu-status (per-device VRAM + tts_on_3090 co-OOM signal), GET /healthz.
- Wire-shape (§7 resolved with comfy-dev): shared /worktank/arbo/train handoff
(group arbotrain, setgid 2770); worker binds 0.0.0.0:8203, arbo reaches via
host.docker.internal:host-gateway (reachability proven on 172.20.0.1:8203);
device-aware TTS steering via /gpu-status.
Deployed to irv-ml1 via playbooks/deploy-lora-training-worker.yaml (elway,
idempotent); systemd unit active; /healthz + /gpu-status verified live.
- gen := AEON dual NVFP4 serves (vLLM 0.24 + LiteLLM v1.91.0); reasoning-trace bug
was the LiteLLM shared-config mutation, fixed durably via distinct -thinking served-names.
- Worldtree personal character/thoughtful-character repointed to char-rp/char-rp-reasoning.
- LitBench-RM torn down, comfyui restored on irv-ml1.
New stacks/qwen36-27b-aeon: two co-located vLLM serves on ana-ml2 GPU0 —
gen (:8015, MTP off) and an RP seat (:8016, native MTP) — dense Qwen3.6-27B
(qwen3_5 GDN-hybrid, uncensored/abliterated), ModelOpt-NVFP4, multimodal,
256K context, depends_on-sequenced util split (~0.50/0.45). Each serve
carries a base + `-thinking` served-name so the `-reasoning` gateway records
target distinct LiteLLM deployments — otherwise a thinking-off request mutates
the shared litellm_params and clobbers enable_thinking (the shared-config
footgun that silently disabled char-rp-reasoning).
Gateway (stacks/litellm/conf/config.yaml): gen / gen-reasoning /
summarizer-large -> AEON :8015; char-rp / char-rp-reasoning added -> RP seat
:8016 (Qwen-RP sampler recs); gen-reasoning -> `-thinking`, char-rp-reasoning
-> `-rp-thinking`. Retired qwen3.5-122-a10b[-reasoning] + qwen-large[-reasoning]
(qwopus displaced; those named a 122B that no longer serves gen).
Probed live vs z.ai 2026-07-05: glm-5.2 = 1,048,576-token (1M) input context,
131,072 (128K) max output; no gateway-side cap (pure z.ai passthrough). Comment-only,
no runtime effect.
R30 b15-b17 removed mood.decay_rate/mood.stale_hours from canonical (OCEAN
wall-clock OU replaced per-turn decay); deployed /opt/worldtree*/config
bind-mounts still carry them, harmless (CharacterSchema.mood is dict[str,Any]).
Tracked as an opportunistic edit-only/no-restart cleanup to restore byte-identity;
noted new optional mood.tau_base (unset->derived). Config-delta acked to worldtree-dev.
Records Vuong's 2026-07-02 call closing the granite-efficacy thread: no
intermediate real-efficacy granite spike (uninterpretable proxy — arch
gap + abliteration axis), efficacy validated on the real T1 run. Notes
the LitBench-less data/judge WIRING check as the correct pre-T1 de-risk
IF one is ever wanted, and that infra's remaining owed item is the queued
swappable-LoRA-on-NVFP4 load test (gated on the first T1 adapter).
The granite-8b harness spike proved the TRL SFT->DPO->eval seam (incl. the
in-loop HoldoutEvaluator base-vs-adapter leg) runs end-to-end, but used a
12-row/12-pair synthetic writing fixture — NOT the E-RP corpus — so the
~0 anti-slop delta (-0.002) is the expected null, not an efficacy signal.
Adapter reaped; nothing to A/B. Real behaviour-shift efficacy is a T1-run
question. Sharpen both the T1 in-flight bullet and the Recent-decisions
entry so 'green' no longer reads as efficacy-validated.
Displaced qwopus-122B on ana-ml2 GPU0:8013 with robbatt/Qwen3.6-40B-Deckard-NVFP4
(stock vLLM 0.23.0, loaded clean: hybrid attn + multimodal + fp4_gemm all green).
Repointed the 5 role aliases (gen, gen-reasoning, qwen-large, qwen-large-reasoning,
summarizer-large); added the qwen3.6-40b-deckard true-name record; left the true
names qwen3.5-122-a10b[-reasoning] to 404 (no-false-alias). Operator-directed
trial-by-fleet-traffic; revert path in the config banner + live backup
config.yaml.bak-pre-deckard-20260701-001036.
Add §9 "PFI LiteLLM Gateway — Deployed Sampling Defaults": the live fleet
sampling table (granite/qwen/judges/GLM) with provenance, overrideable-default
semantics, the GLM API-accepted-subset caveat, and the research-confirmed temp-0
rationale for granite + image-judge. Accepts the dvalin-smithy-dev recommendations
as deployed. §§1-8 vendor reference left intact.
dvalin evidence pass: IBM canonical is temp 0; greedy-loop risk is an
open-ended-generation phenomenon, not summ/classify; temp 0.1 reduces
classification reproducibility without fixing loops (use repetition/presence
penalty if loops appear). image-judge stays 0 (Qwen judge card + W&B judge
practice = temp 0 for reproducibility; NVFP4-needs-0.1 unsupported). Both
gateway temps now 0, vendor-canonical.
Operator call: avoid pure-greedy rigidity/loop-risk on granite summ/classify
while staying near-deterministic; matches the house nonzero-temp-floor lean.
image-judge held at temp 0 (scoring reproducibility) pending operator review.
- granite-4.1-8b (+ summarizer/classifier): temperature 0 (IBM vendor-canonical
"temp 0 for inferencing"; top_p/top_k no-ops at temp 0, omitted). Deterministic
baseline for summ/classify; creative callers override.
- GLM family (z.ai cloud): temperature + top_p 0.95 only (the ONLY params z.ai
chat API accepts per its OpenAPI schema; top_k/min_p/penalties absent -> not set).
temp 1.0 for glm-5.1/5.2/5-turbo/4.7 + gen-frontier; temp 0.6 for glm-4.5-air.
Matches z.ai API defaults -> explicit-over-implicit, future-proofs vs vendor drift.
Round-2 dvalin-researched (provenance-labeled), verified live, granite+glm smoked 200.
Embeddings/rerankers excluded (no sampling). Fleet-wide canonical-defaults sweep complete.
The abliterated/NVFP4 Qwopus 122B "gen" model (+ qwen-large / summarizer-large
aliases) had no repetition control in its sampling defaults, causing degenerate
repetition loops. Add presence_penalty: 1.0 (Qwen-documented anti-repetition
lever, range 0-2) to all 7 qwen3.5-122-a10b gateway records. Overrideable
default; bake into the vLLM serving def once the value is validated.
Native-allocator expandable segments to cut Qwen-Image-Edit fragmentation
OOMs on the A6000 (a ~2 GB alloc failing with 1.75 GB free while 45 GB sat
allocated + reserved-but-unallocated). Cache-preserving — packs better
without unloading the checkpoint, so no edit-latency hit. Paired with the
existing --disable-cuda-malloc (incompatible with cudaMallocAsync).
Deployed + recreated on irv-ml1; verified env present, PyTorch reads it,
container healthy. comfy-dev request 2026-06-25.
Langfuse's ClickHouse member spewed ~94 GB of unrotated logs and filled ana-docker's
root disk (took the fleet host to 100%, 28/48 containers unhealthy). Its trace UI was
redundant with LiteLLM's native logging — store_prompts_in_spend_logs:true already
captures full prompts/responses/tokens/cost/latency at :4000/ui — and nothing used its
unique trace-grouping/eval features (it only received flat gateway success_callbacks).
Removed the callbacks (gateway observability stays fully native) and tore down the
6-container langfuse stack + volumes on ana-docker. Re-add the callbacks if it returns.
Capability aliases for the PAID frontier tier, mirroring glm-5.2 / glm-5.2-
reasoning (thinking off / on) → openai/glm-5.2 @ z.ai. Worldtree binds these for
a frontier-grade generation/reasoning capability so the backing frontier model
can be swapped gateway-side (operator jump-started WT's request). PAID: only
all-proxy-models / explicitly-scoped keys reach them; the free all-agents-local
key stays fenced off z.ai spend. Verified both resolve + route to GLM 5.2.
llama-swap (ana-ml2:9292) is decommissioned (:9292 confirmed down), so the
catch-all wildcard routed every unmatched / typo'd / stale model name to a DEAD
backend, surfacing a misleading "Connection error" instead of a clean
"model not found". This is the exact footgun that silently swallowed Worldtree's
defunct model names (mistral-small-4 etc.) instead of erroring. Removed (operator
call) so unknown models now 404 loudly. Verified: gateway healthy post-restart,
a bogus model name now returns a clean not-found error, real aliases (gen) still
serve. Re-add explicit per-model entries if a swappable zoo ever returns.
Stand up the gateway-side capability aliases for the role→capability model
indirection (worldtree-dev's transparent-swap direction; operator: no wt-
prefix, reuse the existing summarizer/classifier/gen alias convention).
- chat-judge -> selene-1-mini-8b (mode chat) — WT selene-judgment role.
- reranker -> qwen3-reranker (mode rerank) — generic name for the cap.
- scalar-judge -> Skywork-Reward-V2 via a pass_through_endpoint to ana-ml2:8003
(LiteLLM has no reward/pooling MODE, so it's a passthrough, gateway-key-gated;
consumers hit /scalar-judge/<route> e.g. /score|/pooling|/classify).
Deliberately NO generic `embedding` alias: embedding vectors are model-specific
(not swap-transparent), so that capability stays `qwen3-embedding` — the model-
specific name is the guardrail against treating it as freely swappable. Verified
all three live (chat-judge 200, reranker present, scalar-judge passthrough 200
returning a Skywork reward). Deployed + gateway health-gated.
Empirical follow-up to the streaming /tts smoke test on the 3090. OmniVoice
is diffusion: a ~fixed per-call overhead (~1.5s at 32 steps, ~0.7s at 16)
dominates regardless of chunk length, so the upstream-claimed 40x RTF does
NOT hold here (measured ~2.8x/32-step, ~5.6x/16-step) and the chatterbox-
tuned scheduler over-chunks and starves.
- Streaming /tts defaults to num_step=16 (TTFA ~1.5s -> ~0.7s); batch
/v1/audio/speech stays num_step=32 for quality. Per-request override intact.
- Scheduler prior raised to rtf_prior=20 (env OMNIVOICE_STREAM_RTF_PRIOR,
wired through compose + .env.example) so it packs whole-text-minus-first-
sentence into a few chunks: validated ~3 chunks, no starvation, total wall
~= one-shot, less per-chunk silence padding.
- Docs corrected: the "sub-second / 40x" claims were wrong; streaming has a
diffusion TTFA floor (~0.7s) and wins mainly on long replies. chatterbox-
fast (autoregressive, ~0.5s TTFA) stays the lowest-latency front-end;
OmniVoice is the multilingual / voice-design complement.
Add a live-consumer streaming path and text sanitation to the OmniVoice
wrapper, so it can front speech-to-speech chat engines (not just the
asset-engine's batch WAV use).
- POST /tts: chunked 24 kHz mono s16le PCM (or open-ended WAV), driven by
the adaptive buffer-ratchet scheduler. Emits the first sentence
immediately, then ratchets chunk size up on OmniVoice's ~40x realtime
headroom -> sub-second time-to-first-audio. Wire-compatible with
chatterbox-fast /tts (both 24 kHz mono PCM). Batch /v1/audio/speech is
unchanged for asset/file callers.
- scheduler.py: VENDORED byte-faithful copy of chatterbox-fast's pure-
Python (torch-free) scheduler, pinned to commit 7631462 (v0.1.0/v0.1.1).
Vendor-copy over a shared package (operator call 2026-06-19): the module
has no GPU deps, so reuse it without dragging chatterbox-fast's torch
tree into this image. Promote to a shared package only on a 3rd consumer
or real drift.
- sanitize.py: language-safe TTS sanitizer run on both endpoints. Strips
markdown, <think> blocks, HTML, and model control tokens; deliberately
SKIPS the fork's English-only number/phone normalization that would
corrupt OmniVoice's 600-language input. Preserves [laughter]-style tags.
- Refactor: shared GenParams base for SpeechRequest + TTSStreamRequest;
single GEN_LOCK serializes generation (single-stream interactive).
- Dockerfile/playbook: copy + upload the two new modules; build-time
`import app` smoke; correct stale "Gradio demo / no FastAPI" comments.
9 Recent decisions + 6 Tried-and-abandoned (dates [2026-06-14]/[2026-06-15]) moved
non-destructively to archival-memory.md, each stamped _Archived 2026-06-19._. Kept
the active [2026-06-14] 'migrate ALL infra access to Claude-specific credentials'
standing directive. Back-ref counts: Recent decisions 79->88, Tried-and-abandoned
70->76. persistent-memory.md 397->363 lines.
Stands up tools/gateway-chat.html as a permanent URL on ana-docker (http://10.250.50.70:8091)
via a tiny nginx:alpine static container (no GPU, no DB). conf/index.html is a deployed
mirror of tools/gateway-chat.html (re-sync one-liner in README). Homepage tile + tnet per
convention. The enhanced tool (auto-discovers /v1/models, system prompts, streaming +
reasoning, image upload for vision) is now always-on for smoking new gateway models.
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