The leader adds the picture and 3D presets a node fits, unless told not to

A customer's portal had no Images or 3D pages: nobody had written a
definition for either, on a cluster whose V100 runs both. The leading
control plane now adds flux-schnell and triposr, on demand, once a node
has a card that fits one, the cluster installs ComfyUI, and the catalog
makes nothing of that kind. presets.auto (a live setting, on by default)
turns it off; a preset somebody removes is recorded as declined and not
added back until added again by hand. Each addition is in the audit log.

GET /api/v1/presets says how each preset stands, the ComfyUI the cluster
installs, and why one is not added; POST /api/v1/presets/{name} adds one
(setting engines.comfyui where there is none); PUT /api/v1/presets/auto
switches it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -26,6 +26,18 @@ APIs change between minors without a deprecation period.
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Added
+
+- **Picture and 3D models by themselves**: once a node has a card that fits
+  flux-schnell or triposr and the catalog makes nothing of that kind, the
+  leading control plane adds the preset on demand — so a new cluster's
+  portal has its Images and 3D pages without a definition written — where
+  the cluster installs ComfyUI. `presets.auto` turns it off; a preset
+  somebody removes is not added back. `GET /api/v1/presets` says how each
+  stands and why one is not added; `POST /api/v1/presets/{name}` adds one
+  (and sets `engines.comfyui` if the cluster has none); `PUT
+  /api/v1/presets/auto`. Each automatic addition is in the audit log.
+
 ## v0.14.4 — 2026-10-13
 
 Any ComfyUI workflow as a job, with typed inputs; picture and 3D models

docs/admin-api.openapi.json

@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@
     {
       "name": "plan"
     },
+    {
+      "name": "presets"
+    },
     {
       "name": "projects"
     },
@@ -3651,6 +3654,116 @@
         }
       }
     },
+    "/api/v1/presets": {
+      "get": {
+        "operationId": "getPresets",
+        "summary": "The models that come with llmgw: whether each fits this cluster, is in the catalog, was declined",
+        "tags": [
+          "presets"
+        ],
+        "responses": {
+          "200": {
+            "description": "OK",
+            "content": {
+              "application/json": {
+                "schema": {
+                  "$ref": "#/components/schemas/PresetsView"
+                }
+              }
+            }
+          },
+          "401": {
+            "$ref": "#/components/responses/Unauthorized"
+          },
+          "default": {
+            "$ref": "#/components/responses/Error"
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    "/api/v1/presets/auto": {
+      "put": {
+        "operationId": "putPresetsAuto",
+        "summary": "Turn on or off the adding of presets when a node fits them",
+        "tags": [
+          "presets"
+        ],
+        "parameters": [
+          {
+            "$ref": "#/components/parameters/Actor"
+          }
+        ],
+        "requestBody": {
+          "required": true,
+          "content": {
+            "application/json": {
+              "schema": {
+                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/PresetsAutoRequest"
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        "responses": {
+          "200": {
+            "description": "OK",
+            "content": {
+              "application/json": {
+                "schema": {
+                  "$ref": "#/components/schemas/PresetsView"
+                }
+              }
+            }
+          },
+          "401": {
+            "$ref": "#/components/responses/Unauthorized"
+          },
+          "default": {
+            "$ref": "#/components/responses/Error"
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    "/api/v1/presets/{name}": {
+      "post": {
+        "operationId": "postPresetsName",
+        "summary": "Add a preset to the catalog, and clear its decline",
+        "tags": [
+          "presets"
+        ],
+        "parameters": [
+          {
+            "name": "name",
+            "in": "path",
+            "required": true,
+            "description": "The preset's name, as `llmgw ctl model presets` lists it.",
+            "schema": {
+              "type": "string"
+            }
+          },
+          {
+            "$ref": "#/components/parameters/Actor"
+          }
+        ],
+        "responses": {
+          "200": {
+            "description": "OK",
+            "content": {
+              "application/json": {
+                "schema": {
+                  "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ModelAdded"
+                }
+              }
+            }
+          },
+          "401": {
+            "$ref": "#/components/responses/Unauthorized"
+          },
+          "default": {
+            "$ref": "#/components/responses/Error"
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    },
     "/api/v1/projects": {
       "post": {
         "operationId": "postProjects",
@@ -7481,6 +7594,85 @@
           }
         }
       },
+      "PresetView": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "description": "PresetView is one preset as it stands in this cluster.",
+        "properties": {
+          "name": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "makes": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "description": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "card": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "licence": {
+            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/catalog.License"
+          },
+          "fits": {
+            "type": "boolean",
+            "description": "Fits is whether some node has a card that meets the preset's need; FitsClasses names those classes."
+          },
+          "fits_classes": {
+            "type": "array",
+            "items": {
+              "type": "string"
+            }
+          },
+          "in_catalog": {
+            "type": "boolean"
+          },
+          "added_by": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "AddedBy is \"auto\" when the leader added it, who did otherwise, \"\" when it was not added as a preset; AddedAt is when."
+          },
+          "added_at": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "format": "date-time"
+          },
+          "declined": {
+            "type": "boolean",
+            "description": "Declined is whether somebody removed it after it was added, so it is not added again by itself; adding it again clears that."
+          },
+          "blocked": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "Blocked is why the leader does not add it by itself — presets.auto off, no ComfyUI, no card that fits, declined, another model already making the same — empty when it would or has."
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "PresetsAutoRequest": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "description": "PresetsAutoRequest turns the automatic adding of presets on or off.",
+        "properties": {
+          "on": {
+            "type": "boolean"
+          }
+        }
+      },
+      "PresetsView": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "description": "PresetsView is the models that come with llmgw, and whether the leader adds them by itself.",
+        "properties": {
+          "auto": {
+            "type": "boolean",
+            "description": "Auto is whether a preset is added when a node fits it and the catalog has no model that makes what it makes (presets.auto)."
+          },
+          "comfyui": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "ComfyUI is engines.comfyui as it stands: the version the nodes install, \"\" for none — in which case adding a preset sets it, and the control planes start again on that."
+          },
+          "presets": {
+            "type": "array",
+            "items": {
+              "$ref": "#/components/schemas/PresetView"
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      },
       "ProjectView": {
         "type": "object",
         "description": "ProjectView is a project, with how many people and keys are in it.",

docs/reference.md

@@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ rather than repeated.
 | `match_ratio` | `float64` | [Prefix](#prefix) |
 | `balance_abs` | `float64` | [Prefix](#prefix) |
 | `balance_rel` | `float64` | [Prefix](#prefix) |
+| `auto` | `bool` | [PresetSettings](#presetsettings) |
 | `source` | `string` | [PreviousOrigin](#previousorigin) |
 | `revision` | `string` | [PreviousOrigin](#previousorigin) |
 | `files` | `[]OriginFile` | [PreviousOrigin](#previousorigin) |
@@ -344,6 +345,7 @@ rather than repeated.
 | `mail` | `mail.Config` | [Server](#server) |
 | `serving` | `ServingSettings` | [Server](#server) |
 | `firewall` | `FirewallSettings` | [Server](#server) |
+| `presets` | `PresetSettings` | [Server](#server) |
 | `agents` | `AgentSettings` | [Server](#server) |
 | `firewall_networks` | `[]string` | [Server](#server) |
 | `backup_recipients` | `[]string` | [Server](#server) |
@@ -2158,6 +2160,20 @@ before affinity is abandoned.
 
 `float64`
 
+## PresetSettings
+
+### `auto`
+
+`bool`
+
+Auto has the leading control plane add a picture model (flux-schnell)
+and a 3D model (triposr) by itself, on demand, once a node has a card
+that fits one and the catalog has no model that makes the same kind of
+thing — so a new cluster's portal has its pictures and 3D pages
+without anybody writing a definition. Only where the cluster already
+installs ComfyUI (engines.comfyui). A preset somebody removed is not
+added again by itself. In force on the leader within a minute.
+
 ## PreviousOrigin
 
 ### `source`
@@ -2960,6 +2976,14 @@ Firewall turns llmgw's firewall on every machine on or off.
 
 Takes a [FirewallSettings](#firewallsettings) block.
 
+### `presets`
+
+`PresetSettings`
+
+Presets is how the models that come with llmgw reach the catalog.
+
+Takes a [PresetSettings](#presetsettings) block.
+
 ### `agents`
 
 `AgentSettings`

internal/cli/clustersettings.go

@@ -243,6 +243,8 @@ var liveSettings = []string{
 	"firewall", "firewall_networks",
 	// Sent to the nodes' agents as they change.
 	"agents",
+	// Read by the leader's presets pass each time it runs.
+	"presets",
 	// Read by server init, node add and backups, not by the server.
 	"backup_recipients", "backup_copy_to",
 }

internal/cli/server.go

@@ -465,6 +465,14 @@ func newServerCmd() *cobra.Command {
 					}
 					api.SetModels(svc)
 					catalogSvc = svc
+					// The models that come with llmgw: added by the leader
+					// when a node fits one and the catalog makes nothing of
+					// its kind, unless somebody removed it or turned it off.
+					api.SetPresets(st, func() adminapi.PresetConfig {
+						c := current.Load()
+						return adminapi.PresetConfig{Auto: c.Presets.Auto, ComfyUI: c.Engines[catalog.EngineComfyUI]}
+					})
+					go runPresetsPass(ctx, api, admin.Leadership(), log)
 					// And the mirror page, so a model that has just been
 					// fetched can be served without writing YAML by hand.
 					rt.SetCatalogAdmin(svc)
@@ -1281,3 +1289,32 @@ func embedder(replay func(ctx context.Context, path, model string, body []byte)
 		return res.Data[0].Embedding, nil
 	}
 }
+
+// presetsEvery is how often the leader looks for presets to add; the first
+// look waits as long, for the nodes to have registered their cards.
+const presetsEvery = time.Minute
+
+// runPresetsPass has the leader add the presets a node fits and the catalog
+// lacks, now and then.
+func runPresetsPass(ctx context.Context, api *adminapi.API, lead *control.Leadership, log *slog.Logger) {
+	t := time.NewTicker(presetsEvery)
+	defer t.Stop()
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return
+		case <-t.C:
+		}
+		if lead != nil && !lead.IsLeader() {
+			continue
+		}
+		added, err := api.PresetsPass(ctx)
+		for _, name := range added {
+			log.Info("added a preset by itself: a node fits it and the catalog made nothing of its kind",
+				"model", name, "off_switch", "presets.auto")
+		}
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Warn("could not add a preset", "err", err)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/config/config.go

@@ -158,6 +158,9 @@ type Server struct {
 	// Firewall turns llmgw's firewall on every machine on or off.
 	Firewall FirewallSettings `koanf:"firewall"`
 
+	// Presets is how the models that come with llmgw reach the catalog.
+	Presets PresetSettings `koanf:"presets"`
+
 	// Agents are the nodes' agent settings: agent.yaml's keys but those an
 	// agent needs to start, for every node (default) and for one
 	// (nodes.<id>). Sent to the agents as they change; an agent whose
@@ -795,6 +798,7 @@ func Default() Server {
 		MaxConnections: 10_000,
 		Mirror:         Mirror{UpdateCheck: 6 * time.Hour},
 		Firewall:       FirewallSettings{Enabled: true},
+		Presets:        PresetSettings{Auto: true},
 		Control: Control{
 			Interval:         5 * time.Second,
 			BaseBackoff:      10 * time.Second,

internal/config/presets.go

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package config
+
+// PresetSettings is how the models that come with llmgw reach the catalog.
+type PresetSettings struct {
+	// Auto has the leading control plane add a picture model (flux-schnell)
+	// and a 3D model (triposr) by itself, on demand, once a node has a card
+	// that fits one and the catalog has no model that makes the same kind of
+	// thing — so a new cluster's portal has its pictures and 3D pages
+	// without anybody writing a definition. Only where the cluster already
+	// installs ComfyUI (engines.comfyui). A preset somebody removed is not
+	// added again by itself. In force on the leader within a minute.
+	Auto bool `koanf:"auto"`
+}

internal/control/adminapi/api.go

@@ -81,11 +81,15 @@ type API struct {
 	// revoke records a removed node, so its certificate is refused.
 	revoke func(ctx context.Context, nodeID string, at time.Time) error
 
-	models   Models
-	capacity Capacity
-	usage    Usage
-	quotas   Quotas
-	ctl      *control.Controller
+	models Models
+	// presets keeps what became of each preset, presetCfg reads the
+	// settings in force; nil without a store.
+	presets   PresetStore
+	presetCfg func() PresetConfig
+	capacity  Capacity
+	usage     Usage
+	quotas    Quotas
+	ctl       *control.Controller
 }
 
 // New builds the API over a controller.
@@ -166,6 +170,7 @@ func (a *API) Register(mux Mux) {
 		}
 		writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, t)
 	})
+	a.registerPresets(mux)
 	mux.HandleFunc("GET /api/v1/models", a.listModels)
 	mux.HandleFunc("GET /api/v1/replicas", a.listReplicas)
 	// Listing is a read and deleting is a separate verb, so a mistyped
@@ -1229,6 +1234,8 @@ func (a *API) removeModel(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		writeError(w, http.StatusBadRequest, err.Error())
 		return
 	}
+	// A preset removed is one the leader must not put back by itself.
+	a.presetDeclined(r.Context(), name, actorOf(r))
 	writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, Removed{Removed: name})
 }
 

internal/control/adminapi/presets.go

@@ -0,0 +1,353 @@
+package adminapi
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/agent/discovery"
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/agent/provision"
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/control/catalog"
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/settings"
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/store"
+)
+
+// PresetsView is the models that come with llmgw, and whether the leader adds
+// them by itself.
+type PresetsView struct {
+	// Auto is whether a preset is added when a node fits it and the catalog
+	// has no model that makes what it makes (presets.auto).
+	Auto bool `json:"auto"`
+	// ComfyUI is engines.comfyui as it stands: the version the nodes
+	// install, "" for none — in which case adding a preset sets it, and the
+	// control planes start again on that.
+	ComfyUI string       `json:"comfyui"`
+	Presets []PresetView `json:"presets"`
+}
+
+// PresetView is one preset as it stands in this cluster.
+type PresetView struct {
+	Name        string          `json:"name"`
+	Makes       string          `json:"makes"`
+	Description string          `json:"description"`
+	Card        string          `json:"card"`
+	Licence     catalog.License `json:"licence"`
+	// Fits is whether some node has a card that meets the preset's need;
+	// FitsClasses names those classes.
+	Fits        bool     `json:"fits"`
+	FitsClasses []string `json:"fits_classes,omitempty"`
+	InCatalog   bool     `json:"in_catalog"`
+	// AddedBy is "auto" when the leader added it, who did otherwise, ""
+	// when it was not added as a preset; AddedAt is when.
+	AddedBy string    `json:"added_by,omitempty"`
+	AddedAt time.Time `json:"added_at,omitzero"`
+	// Declined is whether somebody removed it after it was added, so it is
+	// not added again by itself; adding it again clears that.
+	Declined bool `json:"declined"`
+	// Blocked is why the leader does not add it by itself — presets.auto
+	// off, no ComfyUI, no card that fits, declined, another model already
+	// making the same — empty when it would or has.
+	Blocked string `json:"blocked,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// PresetsAutoRequest turns the automatic adding of presets on or off.
+type PresetsAutoRequest struct {
+	On bool `json:"on"`
+}
+
+// errPresetsUnavailable is a control plane without the store presets are
+// kept in.
+var errPresetsUnavailable = errors.New("this control plane has no store, so presets cannot be added here")
+
+// PresetStore keeps what became of each preset, and the audit log the
+// leader writes its own additions to.
+type PresetStore interface {
+	PresetStates(ctx context.Context) (map[string]store.PresetState, error)
+	PresetAdded(ctx context.Context, name, by string, at time.Time) error
+	PresetDeclined(ctx context.Context, name, by string, at time.Time) error
+	WriteAudit(ctx context.Context, e store.AuditEvent) error
+}
+
+// PresetConfig is what the presets read of the settings in force.
+type PresetConfig struct {
+	// Auto is presets.auto.
+	Auto bool
+	// ComfyUI is engines.comfyui: the version the nodes install, empty for
+	// none.
+	ComfyUI string
+}
+
+// SetPresets enables the presets: where what became of them is kept, and
+// the settings in force.
+func (a *API) SetPresets(st PresetStore, cfg func() PresetConfig) {
+	a.presets, a.presetCfg = st, cfg
+}
+
+// Presets is the presets as they stand in this cluster.
+func (a *API) Presets(ctx context.Context) (PresetsView, error) {
+	if a.presets == nil || a.presetCfg == nil {
+		return PresetsView{}, errPresetsUnavailable
+	}
+	states, err := a.presets.PresetStates(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return PresetsView{}, err
+	}
+	cfg := a.presetCfg()
+	cat := a.ctl.Catalog()
+	kinds := a.gpuKinds()
+	out := PresetsView{Auto: cfg.Auto, ComfyUI: cfg.ComfyUI}
+	for _, p := range catalog.Presets() {
+		v := PresetView{Name: p.Model.Name, Makes: p.Makes, Description: p.Model.Description,
+			Card: presetCard(p.Model), FitsClasses: presetFits(p.Model, kinds)}
+		if p.Model.License != nil {
+			v.Licence = *p.Model.License
+		}
+		v.Fits = len(v.FitsClasses) > 0
+		_, v.InCatalog = cat.Resolve(p.Model.Name)
+		if st, ok := states[p.Model.Name]; ok {
+			v.AddedBy, v.AddedAt, v.Declined = st.AddedBy, st.AddedAt, st.Declined
+		}
+		v.Blocked = presetBlocked(p, v, cfg, cat)
+		out.Presets = append(out.Presets, v)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// AddPreset adds the preset of that name, and clears its decline. A cluster
+// that installs no ComfyUI yet is set to (engines.comfyui), as `llmgw ctl
+// model add` does; that change starts the control planes again.
+func (a *API) AddPreset(ctx context.Context, name, by string) error {
+	if a.presets == nil || a.presetCfg == nil || a.models == nil {
+		return errPresetsUnavailable
+	}
+	p, ok := catalog.PresetNamed(name)
+	if !ok {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: %q (there are %s)", errNoSuchPreset, name, strings.Join(catalog.PresetNames(), ", "))
+	}
+	if _, in := a.ctl.Catalog().Resolve(name); in {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s is already in the catalog", name)
+	}
+	if a.presetCfg().ComfyUI == "" {
+		if err := a.setComfyUI(ctx, by); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	if err := a.models.Add(ctx, p.Model, by); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return a.presets.PresetAdded(ctx, name, by, time.Now())
+}
+
+// SetAutoPresets turns presets.auto on or off.
+func (a *API) SetAutoPresets(ctx context.Context, on bool, by string) error {
+	if a.presets == nil {
+		return errPresetsUnavailable
+	}
+	note := "presets added by themselves: " + map[bool]string{true: "on", false: "off"}[on]
+	return a.editSettings(ctx, []string{"presets", "auto"}, strconv.FormatBool(on), by, note)
+}
+
+// PresetsPass adds, as "auto", each preset a node fits whose kind of model
+// the catalog has none of: run by the leader, now and then. It adds nothing
+// with presets.auto off, where the cluster installs no ComfyUI, or a preset
+// somebody declined. It says what it added.
+func (a *API) PresetsPass(ctx context.Context) ([]string, error) {
+	v, err := a.Presets(ctx)
+	if err != nil || !v.Auto {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	var added []string
+	for _, pv := range v.Presets {
+		if pv.Blocked != "" || pv.InCatalog {
+			continue
+		}
+		p, _ := catalog.PresetNamed(pv.Name)
+		if err := a.models.Add(ctx, p.Model, store.PresetAdder); err != nil {
+			return added, fmt.Errorf("adding %s: %w", pv.Name, err)
+		}
+		now := time.Now()
+		if err := a.presets.PresetAdded(ctx, pv.Name, store.PresetAdder, now); err != nil {
+			return added, err
+		}
+		_ = a.presets.WriteAudit(ctx, store.AuditEvent{At: now, Actor: store.PresetAdder, Source: "presets",
+			Action: "add preset", Target: pv.Name, Status: http.StatusOK,
+			Detail: fmt.Sprintf("%s, on demand: a node has %s (%s) and the catalog made no %s",
+				pv.Name, strings.Join(pv.FitsClasses, ", "), pv.Card, pv.Makes)})
+		added = append(added, pv.Name)
+	}
+	return added, nil
+}
+
+// presetDeclined records a preset's name removed from the catalog, so the
+// leader does not put it back.
+func (a *API) presetDeclined(ctx context.Context, name, by string) {
+	if a.presets == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	if _, ok := catalog.PresetNamed(name); ok {
+		_ = a.presets.PresetDeclined(ctx, name, by, time.Now())
+	}
+}
+
+// presetBlocked is why the leader would not add a preset by itself, empty
+// when it would (or has).
+func presetBlocked(p catalog.Preset, v PresetView, cfg PresetConfig, cat *catalog.Catalog) string {
+	switch {
+	case v.InCatalog:
+		return ""
+	case v.Declined:
+		return "removed from the catalog after it was added; add it again to undo"
+	case !cfg.Auto:
+		return "presets.auto is off"
+	case cfg.ComfyUI == "":
+		return "the cluster installs no ComfyUI (engines.comfyui); adding it by hand sets that"
+	case !v.Fits:
+		return "no node has a card it needs (" + v.Card + ")"
+	}
+	for _, m := range cat.Models() {
+		if p.Makes == catalog.OutputPictures && m.MakesImages() || p.Makes == catalog.OutputMeshes && m.MakesMeshes() {
+			return "the catalog has " + m.Name + ", which makes " + p.Makes + " already"
+		}
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+// presetCard is what a preset needs of a card, as people read it.
+func presetCard(m catalog.Model) string {
+	var needs []string
+	for _, pr := range m.Profiles {
+		switch {
+		case pr.GPU != nil:
+			needs = append(needs, pr.GPU.String())
+		case pr.GPUClass != "":
+			needs = append(needs, pr.GPUClass)
+		}
+	}
+	return strings.Join(needs, " or ")
+}
+
+// presetFits are the classes of card in the cluster one of the preset's
+// profiles can run on.
+func presetFits(m catalog.Model, kinds []catalog.GPUKind) []string {
+	var out []string
+	for _, k := range kinds {
+		for _, pr := range m.Profiles {
+			if pr.GPU != nil && pr.GPU.Fits(k) || pr.GPU == nil && pr.GPUClass == k.Class {
+				out = append(out, k.Class)
+				break
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// gpuKinds are the kinds of card the cluster's nodes have.
+func (a *API) gpuKinds() []catalog.GPUKind {
+	var gpus []discovery.GPU
+	for _, n := range a.ctl.Nodes() {
+		gpus = append(gpus, n.GPUs...)
+	}
+	return catalog.GPUKinds(gpus)
+}
+
+// setComfyUI has the nodes install the ComfyUI this release knows.
+func (a *API) setComfyUI(ctx context.Context, by string) error {
+	if a.settings != nil {
+		cur, err := a.settings.Store.ClusterSettings(ctx)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if doc, err := settings.FromBytes("settings", []byte(cur.Body)); err == nil {
+			if n := doc.Node([]string{"engines", catalog.EngineComfyUI}); n != nil && n.Value == "" {
+				return errors.New("engines.comfyui is set to none, so the nodes install no ComfyUI: " +
+					"set a version (llmgw ctl config set engines.comfyui " + provision.ComfyUIVersion() + ")")
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return a.editSettings(ctx, []string{"engines", catalog.EngineComfyUI}, provision.ComfyUIVersion(), by,
+		"ComfyUI for the presets")
+}
+
+// editSettings sets one key of the cluster's settings, as a new version.
+func (a *API) editSettings(ctx context.Context, path []string, value, by, note string) error {
+	if a.settings == nil {
+		return errors.New("this control plane keeps no cluster settings")
+	}
+	cur, err := a.settings.Store.ClusterSettings(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	doc, err := settings.FromBytes("settings", []byte(cur.Body))
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if n := doc.Node(path); n != nil && n.Value == value {
+		return nil
+	}
+	if err := doc.SetYAML(path, value); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	b, err := doc.Bytes()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if err := a.settings.Check(b); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	_, err = a.settings.Store.PutClusterSettings(ctx, cur.Version, string(b), by, note)
+	return err
+}
+
+func (a *API) registerPresets(mux Mux) {
+	mux.HandleFunc("GET /api/v1/presets", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		v, err := a.Presets(r.Context())
+		if err != nil {
+			writeError(w, presetStatus(err), err.Error())
+			return
+		}
+		writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, v)
+	})
+	mux.HandleFunc("POST /api/v1/presets/{name}", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		if err := a.AddPreset(r.Context(), r.PathValue("name"), actorOf(r)); err != nil {
+			writeError(w, presetStatus(err), err.Error())
+			return
+		}
+		writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, ModelAdded{Added: r.PathValue("name")})
+	})
+	mux.HandleFunc("PUT /api/v1/presets/auto", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		var req PresetsAutoRequest
+		if err := json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&req); err != nil {
+			writeError(w, http.StatusBadRequest, err.Error())
+			return
+		}
+		if err := a.SetAutoPresets(r.Context(), req.On, actorOf(r)); err != nil {
+			writeError(w, presetStatus(err), err.Error())
+			return
+		}
+		v, err := a.Presets(r.Context())
+		if err != nil {
+			writeError(w, presetStatus(err), err.Error())
+			return
+		}
+		writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, v)
+	})
+}
+
+// errNoSuchPreset is a name no preset has.
+var errNoSuchPreset = errors.New("no preset of that name")
+
+func presetStatus(err error) int {
+	switch {
+	case errors.Is(err, errPresetsUnavailable):
+		return http.StatusNotImplemented
+	case errors.Is(err, errNoSuchPreset):
+		return http.StatusNotFound
+	default:
+		return http.StatusBadRequest
+	}
+}

internal/control/adminapi/presets_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+package adminapi
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/agent/discovery"
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/control/catalog"
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/control/inventory"
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/store"
+)
+
+func v100Node(id string) inventory.Node {
+	return inventory.Node{ID: id, State: inventory.Ready, AgentVersion: "v1", GPUs: []discovery.GPU{{
+		Index: 0, Name: "Tesla V100-SXM2-32GB", MemoryTotalMB: 32768, ComputeCapability: "7.0"}}}
+}
+
+func presetsAPI(t *testing.T, models []catalog.Model, cfg PresetConfig, nodes ...inventory.Node) (*API, *fakeModels, *store.DB) {
+	t.Helper()
+	a, _ := setup(t, models, nodes...)
+	st, err := store.OpenSQLite(t.Context(), filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "p.db"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = st.Close() })
+	fm := &fakeModels{}
+	a.SetModels(fm)
+	a.SetPresets(st, func() PresetConfig { return cfg })
+	a.SetSettings(&Settings{Store: st, Check: func([]byte) error { return nil }})
+	return a, fm, st
+}
+
+func TestTheLeaderAddsThePresetsANodeFitsAndNoOtherWhere(t *testing.T) {
+	// A customer's portal had no pictures or 3D pages: nobody had written a
+	// definition for either, on a cluster with a V100 that runs both.
+	a, fm, st := presetsAPI(t, testModels(), PresetConfig{Auto: true, ComfyUI: "0.39.2"}, v100Node("p-g3"))
+	added, err := a.PresetsPass(t.Context())
+	if err != nil || !slices.Equal(added, []string{"flux-schnell", "triposr"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("added %v %v", added, err)
+	}
+	if !slices.Equal(fm.actors, []string{store.PresetAdder, store.PresetAdder}) {
+		t.Errorf("added by %v", fm.actors)
+	}
+	states, _ := st.PresetStates(t.Context())
+	if states["triposr"].AddedBy != store.PresetAdder || states["triposr"].AddedAt.IsZero() {
+		t.Errorf("state %+v", states["triposr"])
+	}
+	events, _ := st.AuditEvents(t.Context(), store.AuditFilter{Limit: 10})
+	if len(events) != 2 || events[0].Actor != store.PresetAdder || !strings.Contains(events[0].Detail, "v100-32g") {
+		t.Errorf("audit %+v", events)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAPresetIsNotAddedByItselfWhereItShouldNotBe(t *testing.T) {
+	picture := catalog.Model{Name: "sdxl", Source: "/w/sdxl.safetensors", ComfyUI: &catalog.ComfyUI{Workflow: "flux-schnell"},
+		Profiles: []catalog.Profile{{Name: "p", Engine: catalog.EngineComfyUI, GPUClass: "v100-32g", TP: 1}}}
+	cases := []struct {
+		name   string
+		models []catalog.Model
+		cfg    PresetConfig
+		nodes  []inventory.Node
+		want   map[string]string // preset -> part of why it is not added
+	}{
+		{"auto off", testModels(), PresetConfig{Auto: false, ComfyUI: "0.39.2"}, []inventory.Node{v100Node("g")},
+			map[string]string{"flux-schnell": "presets.auto is off", "triposr": "presets.auto is off"}},
+		{"no ComfyUI", testModels(), PresetConfig{Auto: true}, []inventory.Node{v100Node("g")},
+			map[string]string{"triposr": "engines.comfyui"}},
+		{"no card", testModels(), PresetConfig{Auto: true, ComfyUI: "0.39.2"}, nil,
+			map[string]string{"triposr": "no node has a card"}},
+		{"a picture model already", append(testModels(), picture), PresetConfig{Auto: true, ComfyUI: "0.39.2"},
+			[]inventory.Node{v100Node("g")}, map[string]string{"flux-schnell": "sdxl"}},
+	}
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			a, fm, _ := presetsAPI(t, c.models, c.cfg, c.nodes...)
+			v, err := a.Presets(t.Context())
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			if v.ComfyUI != c.cfg.ComfyUI {
+				t.Errorf("comfyui %q", v.ComfyUI)
+			}
+			for _, p := range v.Presets {
+				if why, ok := c.want[p.Name]; ok && !strings.Contains(p.Blocked, why) {
+					t.Errorf("%s blocked %q, want it to say %q", p.Name, p.Blocked, why)
+				}
+			}
+			_, _ = a.PresetsPass(t.Context())
+			for _, m := range fm.added {
+				if _, blocked := c.want[m.Name]; blocked {
+					t.Errorf("%s was added", m.Name)
+				}
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAPresetRemovedStaysOutUntilAddedAgain(t *testing.T) {
+	a, fm, _ := presetsAPI(t, testModels(), PresetConfig{Auto: true, ComfyUI: "0.39.2"}, v100Node("g"))
+	if code := call(t, a, http.MethodDelete, "/api/v1/models/triposr", "", nil); code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("remove %d", code)
+	}
+	var v PresetsView
+	call(t, a, http.MethodGet, "/api/v1/presets", "", &v)
+	i := slices.IndexFunc(v.Presets, func(p PresetView) bool { return p.Name == "triposr" })
+	if i < 0 || !v.Presets[i].Declined || !strings.Contains(v.Presets[i].Blocked, "removed") {
+		t.Fatalf("after removal %+v", v.Presets)
+	}
+	added, _ := a.PresetsPass(t.Context())
+	if slices.Contains(added, "triposr") {
+		t.Error("a removed preset was added back by itself")
+	}
+	if code := call(t, a, http.MethodPost, "/api/v1/presets/triposr", "", nil); code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("add again %d", code)
+	}
+	if fm.added[len(fm.added)-1].Name != "triposr" {
+		t.Error("adding it again did not add it")
+	}
+	call(t, a, http.MethodGet, "/api/v1/presets", "", &v)
+	i = slices.IndexFunc(v.Presets, func(p PresetView) bool { return p.Name == "triposr" })
+	if v.Presets[i].Declined {
+		t.Error("adding it again left it declined")
+	}
+	if code := call(t, a, http.MethodPost, "/api/v1/presets/nope", "", nil); code != http.StatusNotFound {
+		t.Errorf("unknown preset %d", code)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestPresetsAutoIsTheClusterSetting(t *testing.T) {
+	a, _, st := presetsAPI(t, testModels(), PresetConfig{Auto: true, ComfyUI: "0.39.2"})
+	if code := call(t, a, http.MethodPut, "/api/v1/presets/auto", `{"on":false}`, nil); code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("put %d", code)
+	}
+	cur, _ := st.ClusterSettings(t.Context())
+	if !strings.Contains(cur.Body, "auto: false") {
+		t.Errorf("settings %q", cur.Body)
+	}
+}

internal/control/adminapi/routes.go

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ type Param struct {
 // before them and their name.
 var PathParams = map[string]string{
 	"models/{name}":     "The model's name in the catalog.",
+	"presets/{name}":    "The preset's name, as `llmgw ctl model presets` lists it.",
 	"nodes/{id}":        "The node's ID, as `llmgw ctl nodes` lists it.",
 	"jobs/{id}":         "The job's ID, as starting it answered.",
 	"runs/{id}":         "The quality run's ID, as starting it answered.",
@@ -136,6 +137,12 @@ var Routes = []Route{
 		Request: CollectRequest{}, OptionalBody: true, Response: []CollectResult{}},
 
 	// The catalog.
+	{Method: "GET", Path: "/api/v1/presets", Summary: "The models that come with llmgw: whether each fits this cluster, is in the catalog, was declined",
+		Response: PresetsView{}},
+	{Method: "POST", Path: "/api/v1/presets/{name}", Summary: "Add a preset to the catalog, and clear its decline",
+		Response: ModelAdded{}},
+	{Method: "PUT", Path: "/api/v1/presets/auto", Summary: "Turn on or off the adding of presets when a node fits them",
+		Request: PresetsAutoRequest{}, Response: PresetsView{}},
 	{Method: "GET", Path: "/api/v1/models", Summary: "Every model, with its replicas and state",
 		Response: []ModelView{}},
 	{Method: "POST", Path: "/api/v1/models", Summary: "Add a model to the catalog",

internal/docgen/reference_gen.go

@@ -313,6 +313,9 @@ var Reference = []Block{
 		{Key: "balance_abs", Type: "float64", Doc: "", Nested: ""},
 		{Key: "balance_rel", Type: "float64", Doc: "", Nested: ""},
 	}},
+	{Package: "config", Name: "PresetSettings", Title: "PresetSettings", Doc: "", Fields: []Field{
+		{Key: "auto", Type: "bool", Doc: "Auto has the leading control plane add a picture model (flux-schnell)\nand a 3D model (triposr) by itself, on demand, once a node has a card\nthat fits one and the catalog has no model that makes the same kind of\nthing — so a new cluster's portal has its pictures and 3D pages\nwithout anybody writing a definition. Only where the cluster already\ninstalls ComfyUI (engines.comfyui). A preset somebody removed is not\nadded again by itself. In force on the leader within a minute.", Nested: ""},
+	}},
 	{Package: "catalog", Name: "PreviousOrigin", Title: "PreviousOrigin", Doc: "", Fields: []Field{
 		{Key: "source", Type: "string", Doc: "", Nested: ""},
 		{Key: "revision", Type: "string", Doc: "", Nested: ""},
@@ -438,6 +441,7 @@ var Reference = []Block{
 		{Key: "mail", Type: "mail.Config", Doc: "Mail is where the gateway's few emails go out from: a link to set a\nforgotten password. Unset, none is sent and people ask an operator.", Nested: "mail.Config"},
 		{Key: "serving", Type: "ServingSettings", Doc: "Serving stops and starts the whole cluster's service (llmgw stop, llmgw\nstart).", Nested: "config.ServingSettings"},
 		{Key: "firewall", Type: "FirewallSettings", Doc: "Firewall turns llmgw's firewall on every machine on or off.", Nested: "config.FirewallSettings"},
+		{Key: "presets", Type: "PresetSettings", Doc: "Presets is how the models that come with llmgw reach the catalog.", Nested: "config.PresetSettings"},
 		{Key: "agents", Type: "AgentSettings", Doc: "Agents are the nodes' agent settings: agent.yaml's keys but those an\nagent needs to start, for every node (default) and for one\n(nodes.<id>). Sent to the agents as they change; an agent whose\nsettings changed starts again on them, its engines serving\nthroughout.", Nested: "config.AgentSettings"},
 		{Key: "firewall_networks", Type: "[]string", Doc: "FirewallNetworks are networks, besides those each machine reaches the\ncluster on, that llmgw's internal ports answer: a monitoring host on\nanother subnet, nodes behind a router. Written into every machine's\nfirewall by `server init`, `node add` and `server add`.", Nested: ""},
 		{Key: "backup_recipients", Type: "[]string", Doc: "BackupRecipients encrypt every archive `llmgw server backup` writes, to\nwhoever holds one of their keys: age recipients (age1…) or SSH public\nkeys (ssh-ed25519 …, ssh-rsa …), as `age` takes them. An archive holds\nthe certificate authority's key and every secret in the store, and is\ncopied off the machine; encrypted, the copy is safe wherever it lands.\nEmpty writes archives unencrypted, readable by root only.", Nested: ""},

internal/docgen/render.go

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ var Sources = []string{
 	"internal/config/oidc.go",
 	"internal/config/firewall.go",
 	"internal/config/serving.go",
+	"internal/config/presets.go",
 	"internal/config/agents.go",
 	"internal/mail/mail.go",
 	"internal/notify/notify.go",

internal/store/copy.go

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ var copyOrder = []string{
 	"memberships",
 	// After users, which it points at.
 	"user_excluded_licences",
+	"preset_state",
 	"api_keys",
 	"key_claims",
 	"sessions",

internal/store/migrations/postgres/0047_preset_state.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+-- Ported from the SQLite migration of the same number.
+-- The models that come with llmgw, as they stand in this cluster: who added
+-- one and when ("auto" for the leader), and whether somebody removed it
+-- since, so that the leader does not add it back by itself.
+CREATE TABLE preset_state (
+  name        TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
+  added_by    TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
+  added_at    BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
+  declined    BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
+  declined_by TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
+  declined_at BIGINT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
+);

internal/store/migrations/sqlite/0047_preset_state.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+-- The models that come with llmgw, as they stand in this cluster: who added
+-- one and when ("auto" for the leader), and whether somebody removed it
+-- since, so that the leader does not add it back by itself.
+CREATE TABLE preset_state (
+  name        TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
+  added_by    TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
+  added_at    INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
+  declined    INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
+  declined_by TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
+  declined_at INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
+);

internal/store/presets.go

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+package store
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// PresetState is one preset as it stands in this cluster.
+type PresetState struct {
+	Name string
+	// AddedBy is "auto" when the leader added it, who did otherwise.
+	AddedBy string
+	AddedAt time.Time
+	// Declined is somebody removing it after it was added: the leader does
+	// not add it back by itself.
+	Declined   bool
+	DeclinedBy string
+	DeclinedAt time.Time
+}
+
+// PresetAdder is the AddedBy of a preset the leader added by itself.
+const PresetAdder = "auto"
+
+// PresetStates is every preset that was ever added or declined, by name.
+func (s *DB) PresetStates(ctx context.Context) (map[string]PresetState, error) {
+	rows, err := s.db.QueryContext(ctx,
+		`SELECT name, added_by, added_at, declined, declined_by, declined_at FROM preset_state`)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = rows.Close() }()
+	out := map[string]PresetState{}
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var p PresetState
+		var added, declinedAt int64
+		var declined int
+		if err := rows.Scan(&p.Name, &p.AddedBy, &added, &declined, &p.DeclinedBy, &declinedAt); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		p.AddedAt, p.Declined, p.DeclinedAt = presetTime(added), declined != 0, presetTime(declinedAt)
+		out[p.Name] = p
+	}
+	return out, rows.Err()
+}
+
+// PresetAdded records a preset added, by whom, and clears its decline.
+func (s *DB) PresetAdded(ctx context.Context, name, by string, at time.Time) error {
+	_, err := s.db.ExecContext(ctx,
+		`INSERT INTO preset_state (name, added_by, added_at, declined, declined_by, declined_at) VALUES (?, ?, ?, 0, '', 0)
+		 ON CONFLICT (name) DO UPDATE SET added_by = excluded.added_by, added_at = excluded.added_at,
+		   declined = 0, declined_by = '', declined_at = 0`,
+		name, by, at.UnixMilli())
+	return err
+}
+
+// PresetDeclined records a preset removed after it was added, so the leader
+// does not add it back.
+func (s *DB) PresetDeclined(ctx context.Context, name, by string, at time.Time) error {
+	_, err := s.db.ExecContext(ctx,
+		`INSERT INTO preset_state (name, declined, declined_by, declined_at) VALUES (?, 1, ?, ?)
+		 ON CONFLICT (name) DO UPDATE SET declined = 1, declined_by = excluded.declined_by, declined_at = excluded.declined_at`,
+		name, by, at.UnixMilli())
+	return err
+}
+
+// presetTime is a stored instant, zero for none.
+func presetTime(ms int64) time.Time {
+	if ms == 0 {
+		return time.Time{}
+	}
+	return fromMillis(ms)
+}

internal/store/presets_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package store
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func TestAPresetDeclinedStaysSoUntilAddedAgain(t *testing.T) {
+	db := openDB(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	at := time.Date(2026, 10, 13, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	if err := db.PresetAdded(ctx, "triposr", PresetAdder, at); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := db.PresetDeclined(ctx, "triposr", "ops@example.com", at.Add(time.Hour)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// Removed before it was ever added as a preset: declined all the same.
+	if err := db.PresetDeclined(ctx, "flux-schnell", "ops@example.com", at); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	got, err := db.PresetStates(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if p := got["triposr"]; p.AddedBy != PresetAdder || !p.AddedAt.Equal(at) || !p.Declined || p.DeclinedBy != "ops@example.com" {
+		t.Errorf("triposr %+v", p)
+	}
+	if p := got["flux-schnell"]; !p.Declined || p.AddedBy != "" || !p.AddedAt.IsZero() {
+		t.Errorf("flux %+v", p)
+	}
+	if err := db.PresetAdded(ctx, "triposr", "ops@example.com", at.Add(2*time.Hour)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	got, _ = db.PresetStates(ctx)
+	if p := got["triposr"]; p.Declined || p.AddedBy != "ops@example.com" || !p.DeclinedAt.IsZero() {
+		t.Errorf("added again, %+v", p)
+	}
+}