brokkr-smithy corrected H02's incumbent naming: qwen3.6-35-a3b-heretic was retired
from the gateway roster on 2026-08-15 and is not what Skaldsong would call today.
Verified against the gateway and the seat itself -- alias `gen` resolves to
hosted_vllm/qwen3.8-27b-uncensored on ana-ml2:8015, container vllm-gen, 262,144
ctx. The arm targets that.
24 records, style-prompted on the same prompts and sampler as the other arms.
Alias resolved at run start AND end and confirmed stable across the run, per the
fleet rule that an artefact records the backing model rather than the alias.
Two things recorded rather than glossed:
The harness is NOT matched to the other arms and the artefact says so. Base and
adapted arms are local transformers on gx10; the incumbent is a served NVFP4 27B
reached over the gateway, and it is an instruct model receiving a style
instruction where the others are base models receiving none. That asymmetry is the
comparison H02 asks for -- prompted imitation against trained voice -- but it must
not be reported as if the harnesses were identical.
The gateway echoes the ALIAS in each response's `model` field, so a row read on
its own would have recorded "gen" as provenance -- the same class of mistake that
inflated an exposure count 4.7x on this fleet. Rows now carry
alias_echoed_by_gateway beside backing_model_resolved and its date, and the
generator was fixed at source rather than only in the emitted file.
Sanity: median 392 completion tokens, zero records opening with markdown or
meta-commentary, output reads as continuation prose. The style prompt was written
to be a fair incumbent rather than a strawman, since this arm is what the adapter
must beat.
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