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bf65d0254d
preetpatel/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-NVFP4 is disqualified on two independent hard
failures, both read directly off the artifacts via HTTP Range requests against the
safetensors header (about a megabyte, not a 20 GB download):
- ZERO mtp tensors. The author's recipe.yaml asks to ignore re:.*mtp.*, but the
written config.json has no mtp ignore entry while re:.*visual.* expanded to 110
explicit ones. That asymmetry is llm-compressor pruning a pattern that matched
nothing, i.e. the MTP head was never loaded. Costs roughly half our decode.
- NVFP4 W4A4, 4-bit activations. Precisely the AEON failure mode: the fidelity
gradient is W4A4 < W4+FP8 < W4+bf16, W4A4 drove ~15-20% stochastic degeneration,
and it collapses past ~30k context. The gen seat serves 262K.
orcarouter/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored checks out as a quant source: stock-Qwen base
rather than a reasoning-compression finetune, Arditi-style single-direction
abliteration, 15 mtp and 333 visual tensors verified present, chat template
byte-identical to the heresy build we are serving, and the gate is already accepted
on our token.
Also records the author's FP8 release as a noted-but-not-recommended third option:
far more traction, but 30.9 GB against NVFP4's 22 GB, and on a zero-sum GPU0 that
+9 GB comes out of the KV pool and breaks 262K context.
And states the imatrix constraint plainly. Our recipe has always requested
imatrix_mse and always silently fallen back to uniform MSE; playbook 3.13 warns
against assuming an imatrix would help before verifying llm-compressor can consume
external importance data at all. The W4A16 portions are data-free by construction
and cannot use it regardless.
docs/
Navigation map for the documentation tree. New session? Read
orientation.md first — it's the narrative overview
of the fleet, backup architecture, governing principles, and gotchas,
and it points at everything else.
Tree
docs/
├── orientation.md # start here — fleet overview + where-to-look guide
├── runbooks/ # ops runbooks (recovery, deployment phases)
│ ├── disaster-recovery.md
│ ├── nh3-prune-ritual.md
│ └── pbs-deployment.md
└── pfi/ # PFI-specific reference (services, models, VMs)
├── docker-stack.md
├── model-list.md
├── proxmox-vms.md
├── recommended-model-settings.md
├── vm-102-matrix-appservice.md
└── vm-102-matrix-synapse.md
What goes where
runbooks/— step-by-step ops procedures. Anything you'd reach for during an incident or while standing up new infrastructure. Examples: disaster recovery (blast-radius tiers + restoration steps), PBS deployment (9-phase rollout). New runbook → new file here.pfi/— PFI-specific reference material that's too narrow for the top-level CLAUDE.md but doesn't change incident response. AI model inventory, recommended inference settings, Matrix bridge config, Proxmox VM map. New stable reference → new file here.- Top-level (
docs/orientation.md,docs/README.md) — narrative guides about the workspace itself, not about specific infra.
Cross-references
- Fleet topology + servers table: top-level
CLAUDE.md. - Open work + recent milestones: top-level
STATUS.md. - Durable cross-session facts:
~/.claude/projects/-home-lkraven-development-eshpfi-management/memory/.
Conventions
- Markdown, GitHub-flavored. CommonMark renders fine in most viewers.
- File names are lowercase-kebab-case, descriptive. No dates in filenames — git history covers that.
- One topic per file. If a file grows past ~500 lines, look for a natural split before adding more.
- No checked-in binaries or checksums. Build/release artifacts belong
in a build pipeline or
tools/, notdocs/.