- a failure while building the response (a non-finite number included) is a 500 inside the
envelope, never a 422 or a render crash outside it
- an engine ValueError keeps its message but is released and raised unchained, like an OOM
- the prompt is built (and the model's own validation run) before the forward
- the row cap is counted before any ordering is built
- /health reads a device name cached at load, so it makes no driver call off the inference thread
torch keeps CUDA state per host thread (cuBLAS handles and workspaces), partly outside the
per-process VRAM cap. Scoring on anyio's threadpool let 40 threads each create it: measured on
fv-ml1 GPU 3, +252 MiB outside the cap and +326 MiB inside, which pushed the process past the
10,300 MiB GPU 1 budget. Load, warm-up and every call now run on the same single thread.
Contract, service and tests (fake engine, no GPU). Scores through the checkpoint's own
inference.py (DecisionEngine.predict, sha256-pinned); maps semif decisions onto Jev choice
questions, packs /decide/shared into calls of at most 16, runs orderings in waves, and keeps
semif's error mapping, admission, body limit and hard VRAM cap. Deltas from semif-serve are
listed in the contract.
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