The sampler sent the key given for --target, which for the gateway is a
client's, so llama.cpp and TensorRT-LLM refused every read and the run
reported an idle engine. The engine key now comes from the admin API for the
replica at --metrics' address, or --metrics-key; unreadable metrics stop the
run before any load, and a step that read none shows why.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>