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vh c54ab13d3c 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.
2026-06-01 00:58:56 -07:00
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