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Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 e23732fbbb Replicas counted per profile: seven on cards and four on CPUs under one name
A profile's replicas, set on any of a model's profiles, is how many of its
replicas run there; the scaling becomes the sum. The reconciler starts the
ones short of their profile before stopping the ones over, so a change of
split never runs fewer. ctl model replicas sets them, adding a profile on
CPUs to a GGUF model; the router already fills the higher-priority pool
first, which the CPU profile is put below.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 09:21:50 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 6403e61f4b How fast a model answers on the CPU, before it is served
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Each agent measures one core's memory rate beside the whole machine's; the
estimate takes a replica's threads at about one core's rate each, up to the
machine's, calibrated by llama-bench on the PoC. The serve form shows it
beside a card's, warns when slow, and asks for the CPU on purpose when a
reply would take minutes; ctl model plan, the console and serve jobs say
it too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-03 08:52:15 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 540b518fde Rate limits counted across the control planes with router.active_active
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Each router's per-counter request and token counts, this minute's and the
last, ride the standby's two-second exchange with the leader. The leader
answers each standby with everyone else's sum, its own included, and puts
the standbys' sum in force on its own router; each limiter adds the
others' counts to its sliding window.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-01 17:30:08 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 8b7eefef16 Standbys that answer the client API themselves, behind router.active_active
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A standby follows the leader's Ready replicas over the agent port, every
two seconds, and reports back the replicas its router used and the
on-demand models it was asked for. No engine keys travel: every control
plane derives them from the cluster secret. Budgets are raised to the
store's every 30 s. Unheard from the leader for a minute, a standby
passes /v1 on as before. Off by default.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-01 13:47:47 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 31f440ab6e A served model's longest answer changed in place, and Strata's context
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max_output on POST /api/v1/models/{name}/context, --max-output on ctl model
context, and a field in the console's Context length… form. Alone it changes
only the catalog's limit, which the router holds max_tokens to, and starts no
replica again; with a context it is set with it, never past it.

Strata's context is now changed like the others', through its setup's
--context, which writes the engine's start script at each start. Neither
needs a model removed and added again any more.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-11-01 00:15:38 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 f4b34dbf11 FreeToken, an engine for models larger than the card
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FreeToken (FlashML-org/FreeToken) serves mixture-of-experts models several
times a card's size from one card, experts in RAM, from Hugging Face
safetensors checkpoints. Installed like vLLM, from PyPI by uv, on every node
it runs on: compute capability 8.0+, driver 580+, x86-64, and the CUDA 13
toolkit it compiles kernels with. Older cards are passed over: on cuda01's
Quadro RTX 6000 (7.5) 0.2.1 had no kernel image for the first prefill, and
in fp16 hit an illegal memory access on its first request.

ft serve gets the model, address, card and served name; the key goes in
FREETOKEN_API_KEY. Flags that read files or fetch are refused, as are
FREETOKEN_ variables naming paths or the agent's own settings. ctl model
context sets --max-seq-len-override.

Readiness now also waits for an engine whose /health answers 200 while its
body says "loading", as FreeToken's does from the moment its HTTP server is up.

FreeToken is followed release by release: a weekly workflow fails when PyPI
has a version newer than DefaultEngines installs (scripts/engine_releases.py).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-31 22:10:05 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 c866b3a8ee How much of each GPU works, beside whether anything does
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The busy figure is nvidia-smi's utilization.gpu: the share of time any
kernel ran, which a kernel on one SM fills. On cuda01 decode read 92% busy
while the SMs had work 69% of the time and issued on 18% of their cycles.

Busy is now said to be that, and beside it: each card's draw against its
power limit (efficiency table, fleet and node charts, the console's GPU
work chart), and where the profiling counters can be read, SMs active, SM
occupancy, tensor cores and DRAM (llmgw_gpu_*_active_percent), from NVML's
GPM on Hopper and later or a dcgm-exporter on the node
(discovery.dcgm_exporter). The GPU map colours by work by default and keeps
busy as a mode. A MIG instance is never published with its card's profile.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-31 20:11:26 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 812eb8aac1 Regenerate the admin API document for the fetch phase
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-30 15:07:16 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 845de8eef4 The mirror page's Strata tab; Strata's ready-made packs served with Strata fetching them, strata-ple named
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-30 12:06:46 +01:00
Ilker Manap d6f8f433f4 CHANGELOG: one list
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2026-10-30 10:39:30 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 b8ed368e31 Weights from Hugging Face pinned to a commit and checked against the sha256 it published
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-30 07:33:15 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 cacaa35c3f The gateway embeds the documents llmgw-kb sends as text
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 21:56:05 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 59187cdae5 A model can be stopped and kept, or removed with its files from the mirror and the nodes
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 20:45:48 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 0033a530c7 mirror add-peer on a mirror machine of its own says what to run on a control plane
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 18:30:30 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 e1cff0d4e3 A served model can be moved to more cards, or fewer
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llmgw ctl model gpus MODEL N [--profile P] [--in-place],
POST /api/v1/models/{name}/gpus and the console's GPUs…: how many cards of
one node each replica uses. Tensor parallel for vLLM, SGLang and
TensorRT-LLM, held to the model's KV heads (modelplan.SplitsHeads, now one
rule for the planner and this); the layers split for llama.cpp, its old
--tensor-split dropped. Refused for a count no node has, for cards that
would not hold the weights and the context, and for engines on one card.
The replicas start again beside the old ones; with no room beside them the
command says so, and --in-place stops each first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 16:40:49 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 986981ac81 A served model's context can be changed, engine and memory with it
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ctl model context MODEL TOKENS [--slots N], POST /api/v1/models/{name}/context
and the console's Context length…: the catalog, the engine's arguments and
the KV memory change together, refused past the trained context or what the
cards hold, then the replicas restart one by one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 15:50:04 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 c0d5194ea0 Strata runs as an engine: a 125B MoE on one card
Strata (github.com/Niko1221/Strata) keeps a mixture-of-experts model's
experts in RAM and the ones used most in VRAM; on cuda01's RTX 6000 it
serves Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 125B at 70-87 tokens a second to one client.

- engines/strata.go: the adapter. The agent starts llmgw strata-serve,
  which runs Strata's setup the way its desktop app does
  (STRATA_CONTROL_INSTALL: installs nothing, writes only under the
  replica's and the node's directories) on the fetched GGUF files, points
  the configuration it writes at the installed engine, and execs Strata's
  server. The key goes in STRATA_API_KEY, never on a command line.
- A profile's args go to setup: --family, --size (setup's --model, which
  is the source everywhere else), --context, --parallel, ... Flags that
  move files or pick the engine or GPU are refused.
- provision: the source pinned by digest in a Python environment, and the
  release's prebuilt engine unpacked beside it, checked against the digest
  GitHub publishes: CUDA 13 (7.5+, driver 580) or CUDA 12.9 (6.0-8.9,
  driver 575). Python builds can now carry release assets.
- Metrics are vLLM's names under /metrics/prometheus.
- The catalog wants one card and a family, and a directory, not one .gguf.

Opt-in: not in DefaultEngines.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 15:09:13 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 1c16f2337d A second mirror: llmgw mirror add-peer, and on a store machine at setup
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mirror add-peer, run on the mirror's machine, sets up a mirror on
another over ssh, kept in step with this one: llmgw there if it has
none, mirror init --peer, this mirror told of it and allowed to be read
by it, and mirror.peers in the cluster's settings. The setup screens
offer one on either database machine, as server init --second-mirror.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 13:43:27 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 8a76a53afb The control plane uses whichever mirror answers
mirror.peers names the mirrors kept in step with mirror.api. The
mirror's management calls go to the first that can be reached, and
each mirror is asked every fifteen seconds whether it answers: a shard
is sent its model's and adapters' address on one that does while the
mirror the catalog names is down.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 13:43:27 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 ecf5545a7a VS Code's sign-in keeps its place; recordings checked for secrets
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From review.
- /profile asked before signing in keeps its query for ten minutes, and
  the sign-in (password or OIDC) returns to it: VS Code's sign-in state
  came back lost, and the confirmation came every time. Only /profile is
  ever returned to.
- The extension keeps an https gateway at https when a link names it by
  plain http (a proxy ending TLS unannounced), so the key is never sent in
  the clear. The install command says --force, since dev builds share a
  version and VS Code kept the old one.
- Every frame of every install recording is checked for a key, a
  password or a private key, not only the page.
- The admin API document again matches the API: f94d902's
  MCPServerRequest.clear was not in it.
- CHANGELOG for this round's fixes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 11:40:19 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 258591b3f2 What an engine downloads by a Hugging Face id is asked about too
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From review. An adapter given by its id is downloaded by vLLM itself, and
a TensorRT-LLM model by its id by TensorRT-LLM, past the node's check and
not held to safetensors: a model with either is refused when it is added,
unless it says allow_pickle, with how to mirror its safetensors instead.
vLLM's own model by id stays allowed: the agent gives it --load-format
safetensors. A test holds every preset to its own pickle check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 11:06:11 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 5eac62d556 Guardrail services merged the stricter way; the request log keeps no restored value
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From review.
- A service two policies name is asked the stricter way of the two, both
  directions and block over flag, rather than as the first one says.
- A service answering null where it says unsafe gave no answer, not safe.
- With restore: true, the kept answer had the request's redacted values in
  it beside the redacted request; they are taken out again before it is
  kept.
- guardrails.md says what fail: open lets through, and that of n answers a
  service reads the first.
- The similar cache's embedding failures are logged once a minute, not per
  request; the page's test reads the gateway's local MCP handler under its
  lock; org/name:Q4_K_M is not taken for a Hugging Face id to read as
  safetensors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 11:03:57 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 721705b29d A card in the wrong PCIe slot is said so
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At the user's asking: we know what a card's link could be, so a card
linked slower is reported. Each agent reads, apart from the GPU query so
that a driver not knowing a field costs nothing else, the fastest PCIe
generation card and slot allow together, the card's own, and the lanes in
use and the card's most (nvidia-smi; NVML in the nvml build). The current
generation is not compared: it drops while a card idles. A card on fewer
lanes, or a slot of an older generation, is a node warning with the GB/s
it carries against what it could — on the dashboard, the console and in
llmgw doctor, which points at lspci's LnkCap and LnkSta. MIG instances are
said of their card. GPU proto fields 23-26.

The PoC's Quadro RTX 6000 reads Gen3 of Gen3, x16 of x16, idle at Gen1:
nothing to say.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 08:49:16 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 54c6b66cb9 Fixes from review: the similar cache, restore, outside services, latency
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- The similar-question cache embeds a question as its project would: a
  project kept in the cluster has external fallbacks refused, and an
  embedding model outside the cluster is not asked at all. The vectors are
  compared outside the cache's lock. The question's bound is in characters.
- The restorer puts values back in streamed tool calls' arguments (escaped
  for the JSON they are), completions' text and reasoning, each held across
  events on its own, and releases a held tail with the finish event. A
  whole answer is walked as JSON, so a value with a quote no longer breaks
  tool-call arguments.
- An outside guardrail service reads the user's turn as redacted, and a
  streamed answer once rather than at the finish chunk and again at the
  end. guardrails.md says it can stop a stream only under buffer_all.
- A replica's smoothed time to first token is forgotten after five minutes
  without an answer: one found slow and then given nothing was never tried
  again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-29 08:15:43 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 fd94265e08 Pickles refused however they come; a string temperature passes again
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From review. A mirror set already on the node is looked at again, not
trusted for having been fetched once; Pickled cuts a query or a fragment
from any source, hf: too; .pt2 is a pickle. The flag check reads a flag as
the engine does: underscores as dashes and any beginning of a refused flag
as that flag, since argparse takes --trust-remote for --trust-remote-code;
SGLang refuses --load-format, which would undo the agent's safetensors.

TripoSR's preset says allow_pickle: without it the preset could not be
added and the presets pass failed on it each time. A shared ComfyUI
environment's hidden entry takes its first member's allow_pickle, as it
takes its source.

The GenAI trace attributes made temperature and top_p typed fields of the
request's parse, so "0.7" as a string was a 400; they are read loosely,
as they are read only for the trace.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-28 22:19:06 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 44451bacd9 Granting or taking back a server's tools leaves the rest as it was
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A tool is seen where every level above that names tools names it (store
Effective.AllowsTool). The console and /admin/mcp wrote a level's list as
given, so a team that saw its organization's hr.* through having no list
was given jira.* and then saw neither; and revoking a level's last server
left [] in the store, closed to every tool, shown nowhere.

store.GrantTools and RevokeTools now do both screens' work: a level's first
list starts from the nearest list above it; taking a server away leaves the
others, and a level left naming nothing goes back to no list, or stays
closed when a level above names tools, so it opens to nothing it was kept
from. GrantTools says which levels above still keep the granted tools out
of reach, and both screens say so. The page shows closed levels and member
scopes by name, and offers no revoke for a * grant it would not change. The
console calls the store instead of keys limits with a list built from what
it had loaded, which overwrote changes made since. Found in review.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-28 22:11:07 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 7a04248148 A reused answer never carries another caller's values
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With restore: true and the answer cache on, alice's "write to
alice@example.com" and bob's "write to bob@example.com" redact to the
same request, and bob was given the answer kept for alice, her address put
back in it. A request with restore values is now never looked up in the
cache nor kept in it.

The similar-question cache compared the last message's text and blanked
its parts: two pictures asked about in the same words were one question.
A last message with any part that is not text is now reused only when the
request is the same.

Found in review; both tests fail without the fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-28 22:03:32 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 03d3bcfd2d The company's MCP servers on a web page
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/admin/mcp, for administrators only, since a server's credential reaches
whatever it guards: each server's state, who has been granted its tools,
its rate, the headers it is sent by name with the sealed ones marked, and
its address; adding one with a bearer token or another header kept in the
store; testing it with its credential and listing its tools; granting them
to a team, project, org, person or key, written into that level's limits
beside its other grants and its rate and budget; revoking; changing;
replacing the credential; turning off and on; removing; and how a person
points an agent at the gateway's /mcp with a key of their own. English and
Turkish. The secret's field is named so the audit line redacts it.

The admin API's server merge and test are package functions now,
adminapi.MCPServerFrom and adminapi.TestMCPServer, shared by both.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-28 19:26:51 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 98c45ed28b The company's MCP servers in the console
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A screen beside Knowledge: each server's state, who has been granted its
tools (read from the store's limits), its rate, the names of the headers
it is sent but never their values, and its address. A adds one, with a
bearer token or another header sent once and kept sealed. On a row: test
it and list its tools; grant them to a team, project, org, person or key,
merged with what else that level is granted, since keys limits --tools
writes the list whole; revoke; change; replace the credential; turn off or
on; remove. The screen also says how an agent is pointed at /mcp with a
person's own key.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-28 13:23:25 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 f2c6f12cfb How fast a model would answer on the cards, as this cluster would lay it out
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For each layout modelplan.Options offers here — one card, tensor parallel
across a node's cards, llama.cpp's layer split, a pipeline across nodes on
a fabric — modelplan.GPUTokensPerSecond gives one reply's speed: the bytes
a token reads over each card's bandwidth, by its model name (a table, SXM
and PCIe apart), plus two all-reduces a layer for tensor parallel (8 us on
NVLink, 25 us and up on PCIe), turns between cards for a layer split, and
a hop per node over InfiniBand or RoCE for a pipeline. The explorer and a
repository's files show the fastest, with the layout; mixed classes are
judged class by class, FP8 on 8.9 cards only.

Calibrated on cuda01's Quadro RTX 6000 (672 GB/s): qwen3-vl-8b Q8, 8.7 GB,
62.1 tok/s measured, 59 estimated; Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B Q4_K_M, 18.6 GB,
144 measured, which says a model of experts reads 1.6 times its active
share (ActiveShare now does, on the CPU too). Tensor parallel and fabrics
are not measured here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-28 00:19:36 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 84444e71c8 How fast a model would answer on a CPU, before it is fetched
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Each agent measures its node's memory read rate when it starts: every CPU
sums a share of a buffer past any cache, a tenth of free memory at most,
the best of four passes, in a fraction of a second; reported in Host
(mem_bandwidth_gbs) and NodeView. A token on a CPU reads every weight it
uses once, so one reply's speed is about that rate over those bytes:
modelplan.CPUTokensPerSecond, 0.68 of the measured rate plus 5 ms a token,
calibrated on the PoC against llama.cpp's predicted_per_second (node01
24.9 GB/s, qwen2.5-1.5b: 14.5 measured, 14.7 estimated; node05 41.9 GB/s,
qwen2.5-14b: 3.3 and 3.2). A model of experts named …-A3B reads its active
part (ActiveShare).

The explorer shows it as CPU tok/s, at Q4_K_M on the fastest node that
holds the model; a repository's page gives it for each GGUF by its size.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-27 00:09:47 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 2a45068461 The explorer lists what this cluster's hardware holds
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Judged by the nodes as they are now, through modelplan.Options, the
planner that serving a model uses: GGUF at Q4_K_M from the parameter count,
safetensors at the size the registry's dtype breakdown gives (packed AWQ,
GPTQ and MXFP4 at four bits), FP8 only where a card has compute capability
8.9, MLX safetensors never. A picture model is judged against one card. A
cluster with cards asks the registry for safetensors too, a hundred at a
time; one without asks for GGUF only. The page says what it judged by: the
largest card, its capability, the most RAM on one node.

On a repository's page a file set no node holds is marked with what it
needs, against what the best node offers, and has no Fetch button.

Tried against the PoC's seven nodes and Hugging Face's trending hundred:
63 shown, the rest too big for one 24 GB Turing card or FP8.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-26 18:30:16 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 4466d2d15a Weights that run code are refused
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Python pickles (.bin, .pt, .pth, .ckpt, .pkl) run whatever they hold when
loaded, as the engine's user, on the node; that is how the malicious models
found on Hugging Face work. The node refuses such a source, or a mirror set
holding one, before fetching anything. A model added with one, or given
one, is refused, while one already in the catalog still loads and is
refused by its node with the same words. vLLM and SGLang downloading a
model by its id get --load-format safetensors. The mirror page marks the
file. allow_pickle: true on a model lets it through on purpose, carried to
the node in EngineProfile.allow_pickle.

BACKLOG M lists the rest: checksums against Hugging Face on every path,
its own scan, trusted publishers, engines without the internet, an eval
before an untrusted model serves.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-25 23:17:22 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 3a3db8cd20 Answers to similar questions, not only the same one
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llmgw keys cache --similar 0.95 also gives a chat question the answer to
one like it: the last user message embedded by router.cache.embedding_model
(asked on the gateway's account, as a judge is, within 2 s), compared by
cosine with the questions answered in the same conversation — system
prompt, earlier turns, tools and sampling the same. The exact cache is
asked first; an exact hit embeds nothing. Said as x-llmgw-cache: similar
with x-llmgw-cache-similarity, charged as a hit.

The vectors live with their answers in the gateway's memory, counted in
max_bytes and evicted with them, not in a pgvector table as BACKLOG I1
planned: the cache keeps answer text out of the store on purpose. A
question over 2,000 characters is reused only when the same. Migration
0051 holds the setting. BACKLOG I1.

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2026-10-25 17:47:11 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 ed0d1ec0ad A cached prompt costs the cached rate
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cached_per_1k in a price charges the prompt tokens the answer counts as
cached_tokens at their own rate; zero keeps charging them as prompt tokens.
The count reaches the cost and not a column: CostMicros holds what it
changed. Cached beyond the prompt is clamped, an engine's miscount rather
than a refund. BACKLOG L5.

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2026-10-25 17:15:48 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 0b37796067 llmgw and Kong, written down after trying Kong 3.9 in front
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docs/kong.md: a plain route or ai-proxy with llmgw as the upstream, the
client's llmgw key passed on so per-team budgets hold, Kong as a provider
behind llmgw, and Kong 3.9's streamed answers counted without completion
tokens. Closes BACKLOG L9.

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2026-10-25 16:55:22 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 9e7de57816 The reference describes a guardrail policy's services
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2026-10-25 16:50:58 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 783dc9e9f6 A guardrail policy can ask someone else's service
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A site may be required to use a particular guardrail: Azure Content Safety,
Lakera, NeMo, a classifier of its own. A policy's services asks one over
HTTP — a body template given the text, header values from files read each
call, dotted paths to where the answer says unsafe and why — on input,
output or both, to block or flag. On input it reads the latest user turn
before the judge; on output the whole answer once at its end. A service
that does not answer is what the policy's fail says. It is told the text
only, never who sent it.

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2026-10-25 16:49:56 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 81685ecd75 A request's redacted values are put back in its answer
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With restore: true on a guardrail policy's input, what redact rewrote as
placeholders comes back in the answer: the model reads "[EMAIL_1]", the
client reads the address it sent. A streamed placeholder split across
events is held until it is whole, and what is held is sent at the end.
The swap runs before the output filter, so the output rules judge the
answer as the client reads it and a placeholder they make of a value the
model invented is never taken for the request's own. The map lives in the
Verdict for the request only; nothing stores, logs or traces it.

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2026-10-25 16:41:53 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 d110968243 A machine too small for the models it would serve is said so first
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A control plane that is also a node, serving the starter model and two
judges, needs about 10.5 GB: 3.5 for itself, 2 for the starter, 2 for each
judge, and one more because the scheduler counts whole gigabytes. On 8 GB
the install did every step and then had nowhere to run the starter. The
setup's checks now fail this machine's memory and name what it would serve,
and server init refuses before it installs anything, naming the flags that
leave those models off it. quick-install.md said 8 GB; it says 12.

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2026-10-25 16:19:00 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 06baa38858 Traces say model calls in the OpenTelemetry GenAI conventions
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An inference request and each attempt at an engine carry gen_ai.*: the
operation, the requested and answering model, max_tokens, temperature and
top_p when the client set them, the session as the conversation id, the
input, output and cached tokens, and on an attempt the engine that answered.
A customer's Grafana, Jaeger or Langfuse then shows llmgw's calls as model
calls. No prompt or answer text is ever put in a span, and a test says so.

BACKLOG gains section L: what is worth taking from Kong's AI Gateway, of
which this is the first.

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2026-10-25 12:59:20 +01:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 38dfe268c9 VS Code gets the gateway's models from an extension the gateway serves
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llmgw's own extension for VS Code, plain JavaScript with no dependencies,
packed into a .vsix by the binary at /setup/vscode/llmgw.vsix with the
serving gateway's address in it, so it needs no build, no Node and no
marketplace. It registers llmgw as a language-model provider: the chat's
model picker, agent mode and any extension that asks VS Code for a model
get every chat model the key may use, sized and with tool and vision
capabilities as the catalog says, streamed, tool calls both ways.

VS Code is a tool on the account page's Connect your editor: a key, the
install command, and an Open in VS Code link that hands the key to the
extension's secret storage. The extension's Sign In opens the page with a
state of its own; a link without it is confirmed, the gateway named, since
it decides where code is sent.

Tested in VS Code 1.138 against the PoC: 27 models listed, an answer from
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct, and qwen3-coder-30b calling a tool and using its
result (internal/vscodeext/e2e).

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2026-10-24 01:39:50 +02:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 3a4488b41e The company's MCP tools under the guardrails, a rate and a breaker
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A tool's answer is read by the caller's policies as the prompt it
becomes, so an instruction planted in a ticket is withheld and personal
data redacted; its arguments are read before they leave. ctl mcp add
--rate bounds each caller's calls a minute to a server (migration 0050),
and five failures in a row take a server out for a minute, its tools
off the list.

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2026-10-20 23:00:22 +02:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 85f135311e How fast the judge is, measured, and said at install
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ctl guard judge check, and POST /api/v1/guard/judges/check, time three
judgments of a 280-token prompt, then a burst at once, against the
policies' wait: ok, tight or slow, about how many requests a second can
be judged, and what to do. server init runs it once the judge is up and
says a machine too slow before the next steps; the wait is not changed
without asking. BACKLOG reordered by what goes wrong where installed.

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2026-10-20 22:35:19 +02:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 4eb49d0e4c The cluster as a read-only MCP server, llmgw:admin
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Its tools say what llmgw ctl does: cluster_status, list_nodes,
list_models, list_replicas, explain_placement, node_logs; none changes
anything. The admin API serves it at POST /api/v1/mcp, and the gateway
answers a server registered as llmgw:admin in its own process, so no
token is kept and each control plane serves it. ctl mcp add takes
--bearer-file for a token sent as Authorization: Bearer.

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2026-10-20 17:18:28 +02:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 4453f469e1 Company MCP servers are registered with ctl mcp, and tools granted with keys limits --tools
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llmgw ctl mcp add|list|remove|test and /api/v1/mcp/servers keep the
servers; a token given with --secret-file is kept in the store, sealed,
and named by reference. keys limits --tools, and the console's limits
form, grant tools as patterns. Documented in install.md and clients.md.

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2026-10-20 12:50:55 +02:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 8ffde2b80c A big model's download no longer runs out its startup timeout
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The startup timeout runs from when a node's download last moved, so a
model of hundreds of gigabytes on a slow mirror is not failed while it
arrives. ctl model serve --env sets engine variables (NCCL_DEBUG=INFO)
on every node, and a layout given by hand keeps expert parallelism for a
model of experts. docs/large-models.md: how a model is split, what each
way needs of a card, and a checklist for bringing one up on a fabric.

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2026-10-20 09:45:31 +02:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 4fe9b46451 A plan for a big model: experts spread, any number of nodes, memory said
A mixture-of-experts model on more than one card is served with vLLM's
--enable-expert-parallel; config.json's experts are read by any of their
names, and a model that also reads pictures is sized by its text_config.
Tensor parallelism past the KV heads is allowed when it is a multiple of
them (Qwen3-235B, four KV heads, runs on eight cards), which the plan
had refused. Several nodes are offered in any number, not only powers of
two. Each way says what it needs of a card, part by part, and of all its
cards; the serve form checks a context longer than planned still fits.

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2026-10-20 08:45:33 +02:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 51ca09287f A three-machine install can give the judges machines of their own
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The setup screen asks for up to two judge machines after the store's
two, and server init takes --judge-node for each. Each is added as a
node labelled llmgw.role: judge, and the judge's profile selects that
label, with cores by init's rule over those machines. A judge beside a
busy control plane refused 38 of 60 requests under load; alone, 2.

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2026-10-19 17:45:00 +02:00
Ilker ManapandClaude Opus 5.5 8b122aae09 A judge the leader serves by itself is sized as init's is
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A judge a policy names and the catalog lacked was served with 3 GB, no
cores and llama.cpp's prompt cache; on a busy node its judgments missed
their budget and fail: closed refused the requests. It now gets init's
2 GB and cores, and every judge modelserve serves runs with
--cache-ram 0.

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2026-10-19 16:32:04 +02:00