v0.15.2: changelog and README

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A served model can be moved to more cards, or fewer
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@@ -34,7 +34,11 @@ jobs:
        run: go vet ./...

      - name: Test with the race detector
-        run: go test -race ./...
+        # Under the job's limit, so a package that hangs panics with the
+        # test it was in and where every goroutine waited, rather than the
+        # job ending at its deadline with nothing said: from 2026-10-15 every
+        # run did, printing nothing after internal/release.
+        run: go test -race -timeout 12m ./...

      - name: Build
        run: go build ./...
@@ -9,3 +9,5 @@ coverage.out
 /terraform-provider-llmgw/terraform-provider-llmgw
 /terraform-provider-llmgw/examples/.terraform*
 /terraform-provider-llmgw/examples/terraform.tfstate*
+# What a development server run from the checkout writes beside it.
+/secrets/
@@ -15,6 +15,66 @@ Conventions this codebase keeps, which every item here must keep too:
 - `go test ./...`, `go vet ./...` and `govulncheck ./...` pass. No release is
  cut and nothing is deployed to the PoC cluster without being told to.

+## Open, in order (2026-10-20)
+
+What is left, most needed first. The detail is in the item each names.
+
+**Now: what goes wrong where it is installed.**
+1. ~~**J8**~~: done 2026-10-20. `ctl guard judge check`, and init times the judge. Left of **J3**: its load test
+   against judges on the control plane, which was stopped half way. Judges on a 4-core node of their own refused
+   0/60 at 2 at once, 13/60 at 4 and 42/60 at 10.
+2. ~~**I2 P2**~~: done 2026-10-20: the guardrails both ways, a rate per caller and server, a breaker. A portal page
+   for the servers is left, with P3 (stdio, per-person OAuth).
+3. **K**: fixes from the fabric test the operator runs with docs/large-models.md.
+
+**Soon: the customer's experience, and HA.**
+4. ~~**C24**~~: done 2026-10-21. The store's, catalog's and mirror's errors, percent signs, footer times and stale
+   forms are in the page's language. Left: the /docs documents, and a language kept per person (cookie only today).
+5. **J4**: the model mirror on more than one machine. Code done 2026-10-29: mirrors kept in step (`mirror serve
+   --peer`, removals carried), `mirror.peers` and failover in the control plane, nodes given the file on a mirror that
+   answers, `mirror add-peer` and the setup's second mirror. Tried 2026-10-29 on two VMs:
+   - `add-peer` set the second up over ssh;
+   - a file came across in ~30 s, checksum matching;
+   - a version added on the second while the first was off reached the first when it came back;
+   - one removed on the first while the second was off was removed there when it came back, not copied back.
+
+   Left: the same with a control plane and a node, a model served while the first mirror is off. That part (failover
+   in the control plane, the node given the other mirror's file) is so far tried only in tests.
+6. **F5**: large imports limited by the embedding engine's slots. (M)
+
+**From Kong** (section L): L1–L5 and L9 done (v0.15.0); left of L4 is routing by cost between outside
+providers, of L5 cache-write and audio prices. L6 and L7 are llmgw-80's; L8 (A2A) when asked.
+
+**Models we can trust** (section M, 2026-10-25): M1 done (pickles refused; the explorer lists only what this
+cluster's hardware holds, with CPU and GPU tok/s). Next M2 (every download pinned and checked against Hugging
+Face), then M5 (engines without the internet), M3, M4, M6.
+
+**Governance.**
+7. **C1**: a tenant-admin role, and forms hidden from viewers.
+8. **Audit before and after**: what a change changed, and changes made with the CLI recorded too.
+
+**When there is room.**
+9. ~~**I1**~~: done 2026-10-25 (in memory, not pgvector); left: the 40-rewordings run on the PoC.
+10. **H1**: tried on the PoC.
+11. **C4**: Parquet, and a scheduled push for usage export.
+
+**When needed.**
+12. **H5**: licences in video and audio. 13. **H3**: replicas shared, the catalog side. 14. **J7**: nginx in front
+of several control planes. 15. **J6**: rate limits per process (a note).
+
+**Done since 2026-10-16:**
+- J1, J5, I3, I4, J2.
+- Active Directory and Entra ID, tried against a Samba DC, with the console's Sign-in screen.
+- J3's code.
+- K's code and docs/large-models.md.
+- I2 P1 and the cluster's own read-only MCP server (llmgw:admin).
+- The node console's Overview; a node's page showing its version and the models on each GPU.
+
+**Not code, the operator's to decide or do:**
+- Where Alertmanager sends (its receiver is "none"): with a judge down, nobody hears.
+- The fabric test for K.
+- The PoC runs a dev build of main (v0.15.0-7-ga583359) on its control planes and nodes, the mirror v0.15.0.
+
 ---

 ## A. Security — do first
@@ -386,10 +446,9 @@ portal is not done — the page shows; the console and ctl change.
   tenant-admin / billing; `ctl audit`. Depends on A5 for a real actor.
 2. **Done (branch `features-c`):** OIDC sign-in (`auth.oidc`, PKCE,
   verified email, roles and memberships from groups, `no_passwords`) and
-   SCIM 2.0 (`/scim/v2` Users and Groups). Left: the sign-in cookie is
-   signed with a per-process key, so with two control planes behind a
-   balancer the callback must reach the one that started it (sticky
-   sessions) until the key comes from the store. **OIDC/SSO login (M), then SCIM (M).** `internal/account/service.go`,
+   SCIM 2.0 (`/scim/v2` Users and Groups). The sign-in cookie's key comes
+   from the store (2026-10-10), so a callback may reach either control
+   plane behind a balancer. **OIDC/SSO login (M), then SCIM (M).** `internal/account/service.go`,
   `internal/web/account.go`; map IdP groups to org/team/admin.
 3. **Done (branch `features-c`):** key lifetime limits (gateway, org, team,
   project), `keys rotate --overlap`, kinds and expiry in `keys list`.
@@ -405,8 +464,9 @@ portal is not done — the page shows; the console and ctl change.
   lost, budget spent, update available; signed JSON or Slack; retries,
   hourly de-duplication), `ctl notify test`, Alertmanager receiver
   templates. Left: `server init` and the console do not yet ask for a
-   receiver — the templates are filled in by hand; each control plane sends
-   budget events on its own, so two behind a balancer may both send one.
+   receiver — the templates are filled in by hand. Events are claimed in
+   the store before they are sent (2026-10-10), so two control planes send
+   each once.
   **Alerting out of the box (S).** `deploy/monitoring/alertmanager.yml`
   ships `receiver: none`; add Slack/email/webhook/PagerDuty receiver
   templates driven by `server init` or the console; llmgw-native webhooks
@@ -1065,9 +1125,740 @@ training yet; quality gating of a published adapter is by hand (ctl eval).

 ---

+### F5. Large imports (M) — measured 2026-10-09, open
+The metallurgy corpus (2,314 files, 108,779 chunks, bge-m3 on the one
+GPU) went in at about 25 chunks/s, the same over a phone hotspot and the
+LAN. The engine's slots were the limit: llama.cpp `--parallel 4` embeds
+four texts per pass, while llmgw-kb sends 32 a request from 6 workers. The
+usage rows show 4.6 s a request on average, 1.8 s of it in the gateway's
+queue and 0.04 s in the guard. The GPU sat at 18–50% and the store machine
+at a third of its CPUs.
+- An embedding model's profile with many slots by default (`--parallel`
+  32–64, `--ctx-size` to match, `--batch-size`/`--ubatch-size` at least the
+  longest chunk), or `ctl model serve` choosing that for a model with
+  `capabilities.embeddings`. With the default 512, one 516-token chunk failed.
+- Embedding on the gateway's side of a document PUT, so the client sends
+  text only: today an embeddings answer is ~21 KB of JSON a chunk, and
+  the text and vector go up again (~11 KB).
+- The store next: HNSW inserts took half of one of pg01's two cores; at a
+  million chunks the vectors alone outgrow its 4 GB. halfvec (pgvector ≥
+  0.7) and a larger store machine.
+- Done: a batch of embeddings checked text by text against the context
+  (branch `embeddings-batch`); it was refused as one over-long prompt.
+- Done: `query_prefix` on an embedding model, before questions only.
+- Qwen3-Embedding-4B on the RTX 6000 (2026-10-09): llama.cpp Q8 1,575
+  tok/s as first set up (32k cache, 16 slots), 2,700 with a 16k cache,
+  FlashAttention and ubatch 1–2k; f16 no better. vLLM fp16 (`--runner
+  pooling`) 6,200 direct, 4,700–4,900 through the gateway in the import,
+  and its vectors match llama.cpp's (cosine 0.9995). The 103,579 chunks
+  took 3 h. Done (2026-10-10, branch `admission-bulk`): a source per
+  profile, so an embedding model's GPU profile runs vLLM and its CPU
+  profile llama.cpp; a band's own `queue_ttl` for bulk imports, and
+  `Retry-After` on a busy refusal, which is what had turned passages away
+  (llmgw-kb retries only what says when to).
+- Retrieval on 40 questions written from the corpus, document in the top
+  5: bge-m3 31/40 (Turkish questions 13/21), Qwen3-Embedding-4B 37/40
+  (18/21), with its query prefix 36/40 and first place 31/40 instead of
+  28 (MRR 0.738 → 0.789 → 0.838). Next: translating the question with the
+  chat model, and a reranker.
+
+## G. Jobs: 3D generation through ComfyUI (2026-10-10)
+
+A request for a 3D model takes minutes on the one 24 GB card, and the card has to be
+emptied of the chat model first. That is not a request to hold a socket for
+— `internal/router/activate.go:46` already says so — it is a job: queued,
+answered with an id, asked after, its result downloaded. The job machinery
+is built first and tested without a GPU; the ComfyUI generalisation and the
+custom-node install come after. Decided 2026-10-10: a `jobs` table of its
+own rather than a one-line batch (the JSONL shape would be artificial and
+has nowhere for progress), and progress is shown, not just a status.
+
+Which models (decided 2026-10-10): the assets go into a game sold on
+Steam, worldwide, the EU included, so the licence of the output decides
+before the quality does. Hunyuan3D (every version) is out: Tencent's
+licence excludes the EU, UK and South Korea, and whether a game shipped
+there with its outputs is "use in the Territory" is not a question to
+leave to a court. In, in this order: **TRELLIS.2** shape (MIT; the best
+geometry; its own texture baking goes through nvdiffrec and nvdiffrast,
+both under NVIDIA's non-commercial source licence, so that stage is not
+run), **Step1X-3D** (Apache 2.0, StepFun; shape and texture in one, the
+EU-safe textured path — its ComfyUI node and VRAM need are to be
+checked), **Direct3D-S2** (MIT, DreamTech; high-detail shape, has a
+ComfyUI node) if TRELLIS.2's detail falls short. Not in: TripoSR and
+InstantMesh (permissive but superseded), Stable Fast 3D (Stability's
+community licence, revenue-capped; served all the same since 2026-10-10
+at the user's request, see G3), SAM 3D Objects (Meta's own licence,
+to be read before it is considered). Steam's disclosure form (changed
+2026-01-16) lists pre-generated 3D models as content that must be
+declared on the store page: the licence notice G3 writes into the GLB is
+what the studio answers that form from.
+
+### G1. Jobs: store, worker, endpoints (M) — done 2026-10-10 (branch `jobs-g1`)
+Built as written, with two choices: a job found running after its gateway
+died is run again from the start (the prompt id column is there for G2 to
+follow the same work instead), and the request is validated at the door
+only as far as costs nothing — key, model, allowlist, the request's shape
+— with limits, guardrails and admission applied when the worker replays it,
+said as the job's error. The result file's `content_type` is the job's; the
+files endpoint still serves every file as an octet stream.
+- Store: `jobs` (id, owner key/principal, kind, model, status, input
+  (JSON), progress (JSON: queue position, percent, step), result file id,
+  error, created/started/finished, lease owner/until), migrations for
+  sqlite and postgres beside `internal/store/batches.go`, whose
+  claim/renew/release lease pattern is copied, not shared: a job is one
+  unit of work, a batch is many lines.
+- Worker: `internal/router/jobworker.go` after `batchworker.go`. Any
+  gateway on the store claims a queued job, asks for the model with
+  `activator.Want` and waits as long as it takes (no `ActivationWait`
+  bound: nobody is holding a connection), runs it, stores the output
+  through the files store, writes usage and price, marks it done. A
+  gateway that dies mid-job loses its lease and another one picks it up;
+  the ComfyUI prompt id is in the job row so the second gateway asks
+  after the same work rather than queueing it again.
+- Endpoints: `POST /v1/3d/generations` validates like any inference
+  request (key, allowlist, limits, admission, guardrails on the prompt),
+  writes the job, answers 202 with `{id, status: "queued"}`;
+  `GET /v1/3d/generations/{id}` returns status, progress and, when done,
+  `output_file_id` and the usage; `POST .../{id}/cancel`; the file comes
+  from `GET /v1/files/{id}/content`. Owner-scoped like batches. Results
+  are kept for the batch files' retention and deleted with them: a
+  departure from `images.go`'s "kept nowhere", because a mesh is a
+  download, not a JSON field; the retention is the bound.
+- Done when: a job survives the gateway that took it being killed, a
+  cancelled job leaves ComfyUI's queue (`comfy.Client.cancel`), two
+  gateways never both run one job (test with the lease), and the usage
+  row carries the job's price.
+
+### G2. Progress from ComfyUI (S, after G1) — done 2026-10-10 (branch `jobs-3d`)
+Built as written: the gate's websocket under its own client id, the
+client_id of every /prompt rewritten, /progress/{prompt_id} on the gate,
+the router reading it and /queue into the job (only into a job of the same
+key). Left: a node that reports no steps (TripoSR's) shows its name and no
+percent; a vanished replica is said by the job failing, not by progress.
+The gate (`internal/comfy/gate.go`) passes seven paths and no websocket.
+Rather than open `/ws`, the gate subscribes to ComfyUI's own `/ws` once,
+with `golang.org/x/net/websocket` (already a dependency), under a client
+id of its own, and rewrites the `client_id` of every `/prompt` it
+forwards to that one. It keeps the last `executing`, `progress`
+(value/max/node) and `execution_error` message per prompt id and serves
+them at `GET /progress/{prompt_id}` on the gate; the router polls that
+beside `/history` and `/queue` and writes queue position, percent and the
+current node's class into the job's progress. The gate's buffer is
+bounded (the last N prompts) and the websocket reconnects. Done when a
+3D job shows "queued, 2 ahead" then "running 40%, step 12/30" in
+`ctl jobs` and on the account page, and a job whose replica vanished
+says so within one poll.
+
+### G3. ComfyUI beyond pictures: 3D models and custom nodes (M, after G1) — done 2026-10-10 (branch `jobs-3d`), with TripoSR
+Built: output kinds, image upload through the gate, every output list
+fetched, OBJ to GLB, licence in /v1/models, the job and the GLB, per_mesh
+and usage.meshes (migration 0045), custom nodes cloned at their commit by
+the gate with packages beside the replica (a node's named packages at its
+range, the rest at ComfyUI's versions). Not as written: the model. On the
+PoC's Turing card TRELLIS.2 cannot run — it needs Meta's gated DINOv3,
+its published background remover (RMBG-2.0) is non-commercial, and its
+sparse attention and Direct3D-S2's need flash-attention (Ampere and
+newer). TripoSR (MIT) proves the chain on cuda01: a .glb from a picture
+in about 30 s. Left: background removal before TripoSR (BiRefNet, MIT,
+as a node), TRELLIS.2 or Direct3D-S2 on an Ampere card with an ungated
+encoder, a missing node refusing the replica by name.
+Added 2026-10-10 at the user's request, beside the order above: **Stable
+Fast 3D** as `sf3d` (Stability AI Community License: free under US$1 M
+annual revenue, an enterprise licence above, "Powered by Stability AI"),
+the textured mesh that runs on Turing: about 1 s a mesh warm in fp16,
+UV-mapped GLB with its texture, 18 GB of the card at peak. Its weights are
+gated, so they were fetched once with the user's token into
+/srv/llmgw-comfy/stable-fast-3d and linked into the engine user's
+Hugging Face cache, which its loader node reads by repository name; no
+token is on the machine at runtime. Its own save node returns the GLB as
+base64, which the gate cannot fetch, so `LLMGWSaveMesh` writes the file;
+`LLMGWPrepareForMesh` now also gives the object's mask. Left: its two
+CUDA extensions (texture_baker, uv_unwrapper) are not on PyPI, so they
+were built on cuda01 and installed into the engine's venv by hand; a
+custom node's requirements need a way to name a local build, or the
+engine install must carry them, before a customer site gets this. And
+rembg's default session now fetches BRIA RMBG-2.0 (non-commercial):
+every workflow must name its rembg model (ours say u2net).
+- Catalog: a model makes `pictures` or `meshes` (`MakesImages` becomes an
+  output kind; `ServesComfyUI` stays). 3D weight folders in the gate's
+  `modelFolders`; the workflow's placeholders gain `image` (the input
+  picture, base64 in the request, written to the replica's `input/` by
+  the gate through a new `POST /upload/image` the gate allows — or a
+  base64-loading node, whichever TRELLIS.2's wrapper wants).
+- `comfy.Client.fetch` reads every output key, not `images` only, and
+  fetches each file named by `/view`; `Image` becomes `Artifact` with its
+  content type (model/gltf-binary, application/octet-stream for .obj).
+- Custom nodes: a model (or the engine config) names git repositories
+  and a pip requirements list; the agent's provision step clones them
+  into the replica's `custom_nodes/` (the gate's `--base-directory` is
+  where ComfyUI looks, not the install directory) and installs the
+  requirements into the engine's venv with the same PyTorch index and
+  lock discipline as A8. A replica with a missing node refuses to start
+  with the node's name in the error rather than ComfyUI's traceback.
+- Licence of the output (decided 2026-10-10: it matters). A catalog model
+  carries `license: {name, url, notice}`; a job's answer, `/v1/models`
+  and the portal page show it beside the result, and the mesh's GLB
+  `asset.extras` carries the notice too, since the file travels without
+  the API. What was checked on 2026-10-10: TRELLIS.2 weights are MIT and
+  its outputs free, but its texture baking depends on nvdiffrast, whose
+  NVIDIA Source Code License is non-commercial — a commercial service
+  must render textures another way or skip that stage. Hunyuan3D 2.0 and
+  2.1 claim no rights in outputs, but the licence excludes the EU, UK and
+  South Korea, needs Tencent's permission above 1 M monthly active users,
+  forbids using outputs to train other models, and asks for "Powered by
+  Tencent Hunyuan"; the notice ships with any distribution. TripoSR is
+  MIT, InstantMesh Apache 2.0. Every one of them trained on Objaverse,
+  some of whose objects are CC-BY-NC: a provenance question no licence
+  text settles, to be said in the notice rather than hidden.
+- Pricing: `per_image` stays; `per_mesh` beside it in `accounting.Price`,
+  `Outcome.Meshes`, the usage sums and exports (as eaea671 did for
+  pictures).
+- Done when: TRELLIS.2 on cuda01 with `scaling: {min: 0,
+  idle_timeout: 10m}` makes a .glb from a picture through G1's endpoint
+  with nvdiffrast and nvdiffrec not installed in its venv (the licence
+  is kept by the install, not by a note), the GLB carries the MIT
+  notice,
+  the card is free again after the idle timeout, and the same request
+  against flux-schnell is refused as "makes pictures, not meshes".
+
+### G4. Portal and console (S, after G2) — done 2026-10-10 (branch `jobs-3d`)
+Built: /3d with model-viewer served from the gateway, progress, download
+and licence; `ctl 3d list|get|cancel` over /api/v1/client-jobs (ctl jobs
+was taken by the control plane's own work). Left: the console's Jobs view.
+A 3D page beside `/images` (upload a picture, watch progress, download
+the .glb, a viewer with `<model-viewer>` from the allowed CDNs), `ctl
+jobs list|get|cancel`, the console's Jobs view. The page sends down the
+same path as the API, like `imagesSend` does.
+
+## H. ComfyUI as a platform (written 2026-10-11)
+
+G made one model at a time work: flux for pictures, TripoSR and SF3D for
+meshes, each with its own endpoint, its own request shape and its own
+replica. The user's direction (2026-10-11): llmgw is a generic platform,
+and should serve whatever ComfyUI can run — pictures, edits, video,
+audio, meshes, upscaling, segmentation — as data in the catalog rather
+than code per model. Two decisions shape everything below:
+
+- **The licence is metadata, not a filter.** llmgw does not leave a
+  model out because of its licence. The licence travels with the model
+  and with every file it makes; what a site will not serve is that
+  site's policy (H6). The game studio's EU constraint is one such policy,
+  not a decision the code makes for everyone.
+- **The install fits the hardware.** The PoC has one Turing card; other
+  sites will have Ampere, Ada and Hopper. A catalog entry must be
+  writable once and placed sensibly anywhere: fp16 on Turing, bf16 or
+  fp8 where the card has them, flash-attention models only where it
+  runs, CUDA extensions built for the card that runs them (H2, H4).
+
+The first set of models proves the structure at its corners rather than
+by licence: Qwen-Image-Edit (several weight files, two pictures in),
+Wan 2.2 small (video out, a long job), ACE-Step (audio out), SF3D (a
+package not on PyPI, gated weights), Hunyuan3D (a licence that excludes
+the EU, which H6 must be able to say no to).
+
+### H1. A workflow says what it takes and makes (M) — built 2026-10-11, not yet tried on the PoC
+Built as written, with three choices: a run answers with one file, the
+first of its output kind (several outputs as one zip is left); the
+workflow's placeholders are checked against the inputs when a run is
+served, since the catalog never reads the workflow file; and video,
+audio and files count as nothing in usage until a per-run price exists
+(per_image and per_mesh still count pictures and meshes).
+- Catalog: `comfyui.inputs` — a list of `{name, type, required, default,
+  min, max, choices, max_mb, doc}`, type one of text, int, float, bool,
+  choice, image, mask, audio, video, file. Each is a placeholder of the
+  same name in the workflow. The template's own placeholders are checked
+  against the list when the catalog is built: one the workflow uses that
+  no input or built-in names is refused there, not at the first request.
+- `comfyui.output` gains `video`, `audio` and `files` beside `pictures`
+  and `meshes`; `files` takes whatever the workflow saves. `comfy.Image`
+  becomes `comfy.File` and `typeByName` knows mp4, webm, gif, wav, flac,
+  mp3, ogg.
+- Endpoint: `POST /v1/workflows/runs` with `{model, inputs: {...}}`, a
+  job like G1's (`GET /v1/workflows/runs[/{id}]`, `.../cancel`). A file
+  input is base64, a data URL, or a `file-…` id from `/v1/files` for
+  what is too big to send inline (video, long audio). Files go into the
+  replica's input directory through the gate's `/upload/image`, which
+  ComfyUI uses for any file. `/v1/images/generations` and
+  `/v1/3d/generations` stay as they are, as fixed shapes over the same
+  machinery.
+- The models list (`/v1/models`) gives each ComfyUI model its inputs and
+  output kind, so a client can build a form without reading the catalog.
+- Done when: the existing flux, triposr and sf3d entries work unchanged,
+  and one model with a picture and a text input (Qwen-Image-Edit) runs
+  through `/v1/workflows/runs` with a 400 for a missing required input
+  before any job is written.
+
+### H2. Profiles that fit the hardware (M) — built 2026-10-11
+Built as written. A profile by need is left out of placement until the
+cluster's cards are known: with no class, placement would have read it as
+a CPU profile. A profile's own `source` is loaded under its own file name
+by the workflow's `{{checkpoint}}`.
+- A profile may say `gpu: {min_compute_capability, min_memory_gb}` in
+  place of `gpu_class`. When the reconciler places a model, such a
+  profile stands for every GPU class in the cluster that meets it, at
+  the profile's priority: the catalog function that turns profiles into
+  placement's view takes the cluster's classes (class, compute
+  capability, memory) and returns one concrete profile per class that
+  fits, named `<profile>@<class>`. Placement itself is unchanged: it
+  still sees exact classes, and a tensor-parallel group still never
+  mixes them.
+- A ComfyUI profile may carry its own `comfyui` block (workflow, nodes,
+  checkpoint) over the model's: the fp8 workflow on compute 8.9 and up,
+  the fp16 one on 7.5. A Turing card is not an error, it is the profile
+  that fits it.
+- Done when: one catalog entry with an "ampere+" profile (min 8.0) and a
+  "turing" fallback places the fallback on cuda01, and the same entry,
+  in a test with an A100 in the inventory, places the other.
+
+### H3. Environments: which models can share a replica (S, the catalog side)
+- `comfyui.environment: <name>` puts a model in a named environment.
+  Models in one environment must agree on every custom node they both
+  name (same repository, same commit) and their requirements must
+  resolve together; the catalog refuses an environment that cannot, with
+  both models' names. Models with no environment are each their own, as
+  today.
+- `Catalog.Environments()` returns each environment with its models and
+  the union of their nodes: what one replica of it must install.
+- Placement and eviction of a replica that serves every model of its
+  environment (so flux, SF3D and Qwen-Image-Edit stop handing the card to
+  each other with a 30 s cold start each time) is the other session's
+  work (llmgw-b7), built on this.
+
+### H4. Custom nodes with packages that are built, not downloaded (S) — built 2026-10-11
+Built as written, with `uv build --no-build-isolation` against ComfyUI's
+Python, the card's capability asked of torch in the replica (so
+CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES is the card it will run on), and wheels kept under
+the engines' cache by commit, `sm<arch>` and directory. Also
+`comfyui.huggingface_repo`: a node that loads its weights by repository
+name (SF3D's) finds them in the engines' Hugging Face cache, linked by the
+gate, so no token is on the node.
+- `nodes[].build: [subdir, ...]`: directories of the node's repository
+  that are Python packages with C++/CUDA extensions (SF3D's texture_baker
+  and uv_unwrapper). The gate builds each as a wheel with the engine's
+  Python, `TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST` set from the compute capability of the
+  card it runs on, and installs it into the replica's own `site` like
+  any other requirement. Built wheels are kept under the engine's home by
+  node commit, subdirectory and architecture, so the second replica on
+  the same kind of card does not build again.
+- A node needing nvcc on a node without it refuses the replica with that
+  said, not with a compiler's traceback.
+- Done when: SF3D runs on cuda01 with nothing installed into the engine's
+  venv by hand (the hand install of 2026-10-10 removed first).
+
+### H5. Licence on every output (S) — done 2026-10-14: the whole licence in GLB asset.extras and PNG iTXt; video and audio not yet
+- `License` gains `id` (SPDX where there is one, else a lowercase name:
+  stability-community, tencent-hunyuan-community), `commercial` (unset is
+  not said), `excluded_regions` (ISO 3166 codes, `EU` for the union),
+  `revenue_cap_usd` and `attribution` ("Powered by Stability AI"). All
+  optional but the name. Done 2026-10-11 in the catalog, so H6 can match
+  on `id`.
+- Written into the file where the format has a place for it: glTF
+  `asset.extras.license` (as now), PNG an `iTXt` chunk named `license`
+  (the workflow's own text chunks are still stripped), MP4/WebM and the
+  audio formats in their metadata where ffmpeg is at hand on the router,
+  otherwise beside it in the job's answer only — said in the docs.
+
+### H6. Licence choices (S) — done 2026-10-11 (4bbac08), live on the PoC
+The user asked (2026-10-11) for the choice to be a person's: on their
+profile they pick the licences they will not use, and their keys and
+portal session neither see those models in `/v1/models` nor may call
+them (403, saying which licence). Matched on `license.id`, and on
+`commercial` / `excluded_regions` where a choice is put that way. Its
+store table is migration 0046. A site-wide or team-wide default can sit
+on top of it later.
+
+### H7. A job worker per model, not one for all (S) — done 2026-10-14: one job per model at a time, eight in all
+The worker runs one job at a time: a job waiting for the card holds up a
+job for another model that could run now (seen on the PoC, 2026-10-10).
+Jobs are claimed and run concurrently up to a limit per model (or per
+environment, after H3) and a cluster-wide cap, with the lease and
+leader-only rules of G1 kept.
+
+### H8. Presets that add themselves (S) — done 2026-10-13 (v0.14.5)
+flux-schnell and triposr come with llmgw (`ctl model add <preset>`), and
+the leader adds them on demand where a node fits one, the cluster installs
+ComfyUI and the catalog makes nothing of that kind (`presets.auto`); a
+preset removed is declined and not added back. The cluster page and the
+console show and add them.
+
+### H9. Small things learned on the PoC (2026-10-14)
+- Done: `albedo_match` on sf3d (its delighting made dark objects light);
+  `on_demand.evict_after_idle` / `min_lifetime` as live settings; an
+  upgrade that leaves nodes behind says which; `ctl model serve` serves an
+  embedding model for embedding; refreshes wait while a form is filled in.
+- Done 2026-10-15: llmgw's `/mcp` with picture, 3D, VLM and workflow tools,
+  so a client needs no server of its own (asked by the game team); the
+  shared ComfyUI replica (H3's placement side).
+- Done 2026-10-16 (v0.14.6, v0.14.7): setup lists every part with what it
+  is and its settings; three machines each run the control plane, with a
+  floating address (VRRP id from the address); a lost store primary costs no
+  request (3 s connect per member, keepalive and TCP_USER_TIMEOUT, Patroni
+  ttl 20, a standby leaves the lease alone a round after the store returns);
+  a new leader waits for its judge within the budget; a judge is asked again
+  on another machine at half its budget; init sizes the judge (2 GB, no
+  prompt cache, two cores, one judge on up to four cores on one machine).
+
+## I. What other gateways do that llmgw does not (written 2026-10-16)
+
+From a comparison with Bifrost (maximhq/bifrost, Apache 2.0, Go), with
+LiteLLM and Portkey in mind. Bifrost routes to 23+ cloud providers and runs
+no model; llmgw runs the models, so most of Bifrost is either in llmgw
+already (keys, budgets, fallbacks, guardrails, tracing, SSO, HA — the last
+three paid in Bifrost) or does not apply. These four are worth taking for
+a site that runs its own models. Left until a customer asks: native
+Azure/Anthropic/Bedrock/Vertex adapters, request hooks a customer plugs in,
+routing by what a request holds. Not taken: a realtime (WebSocket audio)
+API, prompt management, an `npx` install.
+
+### I1. Answers to similar questions, not only the same one (M) — done 2026-10-25
+`keys cache --similar`, `router.cache.embedding_model`, `internal/router/similar.go`. Changed
+from the plan: the vectors are in the gateway's memory beside the exact answers, not a pgvector
+table. The exact cache keeps answer text out of the store on purpose (data.md), and a table of
+answers would undo that; it also works on SQLite. The usage row marks a similar hit as a hit
+(no column of its own). Open: the 40-rewordings and eval-suite runs on the PoC.
+The original item follows.
+The answer cache (`internal/router/cache.go`, C17) answers a request whose
+body is the same byte for byte. A help desk asked "how do I reset my
+password" in forty wordings asks the model forty times.
+- Per project, off by default, beside the exact cache: `llmgw keys cache
+  --project P --similar 0.95` (the cosine similarity a question must reach;
+  higher is stricter). The exact cache is asked first.
+- The question embedded by a model the operator names
+  (`router.cache.embedding_model`, an embedding model in the catalog), into a
+  pgvector table per project with the answer, the model and the TTL; the
+  store's halfvec and text index work from F applies. SQLite stores keep the
+  exact cache only.
+- What counts as the question: the last user turn, with the system prompt
+  and the earlier turns hashed and required to match exactly — a similar
+  question in another conversation is not the same question. Tools,
+  `response_format` and the sampling settings also exact.
+- Said: `x-llmgw-cache: similar` with the similarity, and the usage row
+  says so; guardrails judge the request before a hit, as for the exact
+  cache. A project with `no_store` gets neither.
+- Done when: forty rewordings of one question on the PoC cost one model call
+  and 39 lookups, and an eval suite run with the cache on scores within a
+  point of the run with it off.
+
+### I2. MCP gateway: the customer's tool servers behind llmgw (L)
+P1 done 2026-10-20: HTTP servers registered (`ctl mcp`, `/api/v1/mcp/servers`,
+store `mcp_servers`), tools as `server.tool` in `/mcp`, `allowed_tools`
+grants in the tree (deny by default), credentials in the store or by
+reference, the caller named in `X-Llmgw-*` headers, time and size bounds,
+progress passed on, audit (Source `mcp`) and metrics. Left: P2, the
+guardrails both ways, a per-tool rate limit, a breaker, and a portal page;
+P3, stdio servers and per-person OAuth. The "done when" with Claude Code
+against a real server is still to try.
+`/mcp` serves llmgw's own tools. An agent inside a company also wants Jira,
+the file server, a database — each an MCP server, each today configured
+in every client with its own credentials and nobody seeing what was called.
+- Servers registered once, by an administrator: `llmgw ctl mcp add jira
+  --url https://… --header-file /etc/llmgw/secrets/jira` (HTTP transport;
+  stdio servers run on the control plane under their own user, like an
+  engine). Their credentials stay on the control plane, never in a client.
+- `/mcp` lists every server's tools, prefixed by its name (`jira.search`),
+  filtered by what the key may use: an allowlist per org, team, project or
+  key, by server or by tool, in the tenancy tree as model allowlists are.
+- Each call goes to the audit log — who, which tool, the arguments' size,
+  the outcome and how long — and through the guardrails both ways (a tool's
+  answer is prompt input). A per-tool rate limit.
+- Later, if it earns it: Bifrost's "code mode" (the tools as one typed API
+  the model writes code against), which cuts the tokens of a long tool list.
+- Done when: Claude Code given only llmgw's `/mcp` reaches a test MCP server
+  through it, a key without the grant does not see the server's tools, and
+  every call is in `ctl audit`.
+
+### I3. What llmgw adds to a request, measured (S) — done 2026-10-16
+`llmgw ctl bench overhead` (`internal/cli/bench_overhead.go`): an instant
+engine and the gateway in one process, four modes (direct, bare, auth, auth
+and guard patterns) at rising rates. On an Apple M5 the gateway added
+0.05–0.42 ms at p50 and at most 0.49 ms at p99, in the README.
+`TestTheGatewaysOverheadIsMeasured` runs a second of it in CI with no bound
+asserted. Left: the CPU figure is rough with everything in one process; a
+gateway in a process of its own would measure it properly. The original
+item follows.
+
+Bifrost's headline is "11 µs at 5k RPS" (its own figure, and its own pages
+disagree with it). llmgw has none, so any question about its overhead is
+answered with a guess.
+- `llmgw ctl bench --overhead`: the same load through the gateway and straight
+  at a `sim-engine` (`internal/cli/simengine.go`) that answers at once, at
+  rising request rates, with auth, accounting and the guardrails' pattern
+  checks on and off. Reports the added latency at p50/p99 and the gateway's
+  CPU per thousand requests.
+- On the PoC the CPU is oversubscribed (pve1, 28 threads for ~125 vCPUs):
+  report it as a ratio and record the host's load beside it, and repeat on
+  an idle machine before a figure goes into the README.
+- Done when: the README states the overhead, with how it was measured, and
+  CI runs the short version so a change that doubles it is seen.
+
+### I4. Several keys for one outside provider (S) — done 2026-10-17
+`external.api_key_files` (`catalog.ExternalKey`: file, weight), one endpoint
+each in `control.externalEndpoints`, 401 retried on another key and
+`external_key_refused` notified (`router.keyRefused`). With one key a 401 is
+still the client's. `TestAKeyAtItsLimitOrRefusedIsPassedOverForAnother`. The
+original item follows.
+
+An external model has one `api_key_file` (`internal/control/control.go`,
+where external endpoints are made). A provider's limit is per key; one key
+answering 429 makes the whole fallback answer 429.
+- `api_key_files: [a, b, c]`, each with an optional `weight`: one endpoint
+  per key (`external:<model>#<n>`), so the router's scoring, retries and
+  breakers work per key as they already do per replica. A key answering 429
+  or 401 is passed over while its breaker is open; a 401 also notifies
+  (`external_key_refused`).
+- The usage row says which key answered (by its index, never the key).
+- Done when: with two keys and one returning 429, every request is answered
+  by the other, and the console shows the one breaker open.
+
+## J. Found testing HA and single-machine installs (written 2026-10-16)
+
+Three VMs installed as HA from the setup screens, a fourth as a judge node,
+a fifth as a single 4-core, 8 GB machine; machines powered off under load.
+
+### J1. A restart refused for room another restart was giving back (S) — done 2026-10-16
+Not a wait for ever, as first written: on the 4-core VM the judge's restart
+was *refused* ("fits on no node even with this replica stopped") because the
+starter, restarted at the same time to reserve fewer cores, still held its
+old ones. Once refused, nothing tried again, so the judges kept their old
+figures. Two fixes in `internal/control/reconciler`:
+- a restart whose replacement fits once other restarts under way have gone
+  (queued, retiring or draining) waits for them, up to DrainGrace, instead
+  of being refused (`fitsAfterRestarts`, restart.go);
+- a drained replica counts a retiring one that still answers as serving, so
+  one restart after another no longer leaves the first's drained replica,
+  and the room it holds, waiting out its grace (reconciler.go).
+`TestARestartWaitsForRoomAnotherRestartWillGiveBack` is the 4-core case.
+
+### J2. A judge the leader adds is sized as init's is (S)
+When a policy names a judge the catalog lacks, the leader serves it itself
+(`internal/cli/judgekeeper.go` via `knownJudge.serveRequest` in
+`judges_known.go`, through modelserve). That judge reserves 3 GB (the
+weights, an 8192-token KV cache and a fixed gigabyte), no cores, and runs
+with llama.cpp's prompt cache, which grew one to 3.2 GB. init's judge
+(`guardModel` in `internal/cli/serverinit_cluster.go`) reserves 2 GB and
+its cores and runs with `--cache-ram 0`.
+- `modelserve` gives a guard model `--cache-ram 0`, and the keeper's
+  request the same memory and cores rule as `cpuPlan`.
+- Done when: a judge removed from the catalog comes back with the same
+  figures init would have given it.
+
+### J3. HA setup puts the judges on nodes of their own (S)
+Under load on a 4-core control plane that was also a node, 38 of 60
+requests were refused for want of a judgment. With the judges on a node of
+their own (4 cores, 32 GB, two cores each) the same test refused 2.
+- The HA setup offers a judge node or two: machines given like the store's,
+  added as nodes with a label (`llmgw.role: judge`), and the judge's
+  profile selects that label.
+- Done when: the setup installs the judges on the machines given for them,
+  and the load test above refuses no more than it did by hand.
+
+### J4. The model mirror on more than one machine (M)
+In an HA install the mirror stays on the first machine. While it is down,
+models the nodes already have keep serving and new ones wait for it.
+- A second mirror kept in step (each machine of the store, or one more), the
+  control planes and nodes given both, the first that answers used.
+- Done when: with the first machine powered off, a model added then is
+  fetched and served.
+
+### J5. An upgrade corrects an earlier install's judge (S) — done 2026-10-16
+Built in the judge keeper (`internal/cli/judgekeeper.go`, `refit`), on the
+leader: a judge whose entry is exactly what init before v0.14.7 wrote is
+given 2 GB, `--cache-ram 0` and cores by init's rule (`refitCores`: up to
+four for one judge, two each for more), through `modelsvc.SetProfiles`,
+and its ready replicas are restarted (after J1). Its replica count is left
+as it is. One that differs is left alone and said once in the log. The
+original item follows.
+
+v0.14.6 and earlier installed two judges reserving no cores or one, with
+2 or 4 GB and the prompt cache on. On fewer than eight cores every judgment
+missed its 5 s budget and every request was refused. v0.14.7's notes say
+how to fix it by hand (`ctl model resources`, then `ctl restart`).
+- On upgrade, or on `server init` run again, a judge whose profile is still
+  exactly what an earlier init wrote is moved to today's figures and
+  restarted (after J1). One changed by hand is left alone and named.
+- Done when: a v0.14.6 single-machine install upgraded to it judges within
+  budget without anything typed.
+
+### J6. Rate limits per process (note)
+Rate limits are counted in each control plane's memory. A failover starts
+every key's minute afresh. Documented in install.md; worth a shared count in
+the store only if a customer's limits must hold across a failover.
+
+### J7. nginx in front of several control planes (S)
+`deploy/proxy/Caddyfile` sends to whichever control plane answers `/leader`.
+nginx's open-source build has no active health checks, so its `upstream`
+block would send to standbys and to a lost leader alike.
+- nginx.conf: the floating address as its one upstream, and why; or the
+  `max_fails` passive approach with what it costs.
+
+### J8. A judge budget that fits the machine (S)
+A judgment takes 2.3 s on four cores and 4.2 on two, against the 5 s
+default: two cores are close to it, and a busy machine passes it.
+- At install, after the judge is up, time three judgments. If the slowest is
+  more than half the budget, say so in the plan's closing text with the
+  choices (more cores, a GPU judge, a longer `latency_budget`, `fail:
+  open`). The budget itself is not changed without being asked.
+- Done when: an install on a machine too slow for its judge says so before
+  its first refused request.
+
+## L. Taken from Kong's AI Gateway (written 2026-10-25)
+
+From a look at Kong AI Gateway 3.9–3.16 and 2.x. Kong's open source stops at
+3.9, and only six of its AI plugins are open (proxy, prompt template,
+decorator, regex prompt guard, request and response transformer); the rest
+is Enterprise or Konnect. So nothing of Kong is embedded: the two meet over
+plain OpenAI/Anthropic HTTP, and these are the ideas worth taking. Not taken:
+prompt compression (Kong ships it as a private LLMLingua sidecar, its benefit
+unshown), prompt templates and decorators (no one has asked), Konnect's
+entity model. MCP items are llmgw-80's (I2); they are listed for it.
+
+### L1. Traces in the OpenTelemetry GenAI conventions (S) — done 2026-10-25
+`gen_ai.*` on the `inference` and `upstream` spans (`internal/router/trace.go`):
+operation, request and response model, max_tokens, temperature, top_p, the
+session as conversation id, input/output/cached tokens, the engine as
+provider. Never prompt or answer text (`TestTracesSpeakTheGenAIConventionsAndHoldNoText`).
+Prometheus already counted tokens by direction, cached apart. Left: the MCP
+calls' spans as `gen_ai.tool.*`, once /mcp is traced at all.
+
+### L2. Redacted personal data put back in the answer (S) — done 2026-10-25
+`restore: true` (`guard.Rules.Restore`), `Verdict.Restore`, `internal/router/restore.go`
+ahead of the output filter. The original item follows.
+The guardrails rewrite personal data as `[KIND_n]` (`internal/guard/gate.go`,
+`placeholders`), the same value always the same placeholder. A model that
+answers "Dear [PERSON_1]" leaves it so. Kong's sanitizer restores.
+- Per policy, `restore: true`: the placeholders of one request kept in memory
+  for its life, and swapped back in the answer, streamed too (a placeholder
+  split across two chunks held until it is whole).
+- Only into the answer to the request that held them; never stored, never in
+  usage rows or traces.
+- Done when: "write to Ayşe Yılmaz at ayse@example.com" through an enforce
+  policy reaches the model as placeholders and the client reads the real name
+  and address back.
+
+### L3. A guardrail that is someone else's service (S) — done 2026-10-25
+`guard.Service` (`internal/guard/service.go`), policy `services`, asked
+before the judge on input and once on the whole answer. The original item follows.
+Customers may be required to use one: Azure Content Safety, Lakera, NeMo
+Guardrails, an in-house classifier. Kong's AI Custom Guardrail is a
+templated HTTP call with an expression for "block".
+- A detector kind `http`: URL, headers from secret files, a body template
+  with the text, a JSON path that says blocked and one that says why;
+  timeout and `fail` as the judge's. Checked on input, output or both.
+- Done when: a policy with an `http` detector against a test service blocks
+  what it says to, and a service that does not answer is treated as `fail`
+  says.
+
+### L4. Routing by latency and by cost, and failover by priority (M) — latency done 2026-10-25
+`endpoint.Registry.ObserveTTFT`, `scheduler.Latency()` in `chat`. Failover in tiers is
+what `fallbacks` already does (local, then an outside model when no room). Left:
+routing by cost between several outside providers. The original item follows.
+The scorers (`internal/router/scheduler/scorers.go`) know sessions, queues
+and KV cache. Kong also balances by measured latency, by tokens or cost
+used, and in priority tiers.
+- A `latency` scorer: a moving average of time to first token per endpoint.
+- Fallbacks in tiers: local replicas first, then an outside provider, with
+  the tier said in the usage row.
+- Done when: with two replicas of one model, one on a slower card, `latency`
+  sends most of the traffic to the faster and the slower still gets some.
+
+### L5. Prices by kind and by cache (S–M) — done 2026-10-25
+`cached_per_1k`, charged on the answer's `cached_tokens`. A budget in money was already
+there (`keys limits --budget`). Not done: cache-write and audio/video token prices —
+no engine llmgw runs reports them, and no provider it reaches is billed by them yet.
+The original item follows.
+`catalog` prices are per million input/output tokens and per picture/mesh.
+Kong prices cached reads and cache writes apart, and audio, image and video
+tokens apart, and limits by cost.
+- Price fields for cached input and by modality; the usage row's cost from
+  them; a budget limit in money as well as tokens (`keys limits --cost`).
+- Done when: a request with 90% cached prompt costs what the cached rate says.
+
+### L6. REST APIs as MCP tools (M) — for llmgw-80, beside I2
+Kong turns OpenAPI operations into MCP tools. A company with an internal
+REST API and no MCP server could offer it to agents through `/mcp`:
+`llmgw ctl mcp add hr --openapi https://hr.internal/openapi.json`, each
+operation a tool, under the same grants, audit, guardrails and rate as I2.
+
+### L7. MCP sign-in by the MCP spec (M) — for llmgw-80, part of I2 P3
+Kong's MCP OAuth2: llmgw's `/mcp` as an OAuth 2.1 resource server (protected
+resource metadata, tokens checked by JWKS against the company's identity
+provider), and a token exchanged for a short-lived one per upstream server
+rather than one long-lived secret.
+
+### L8. A2A (S, when asked)
+Agent-to-agent traffic through the gateway: agent cards' URLs rewritten to
+llmgw's, calls audited and traced. The standard is young; wait for a
+customer.
+
+### L9. llmgw behind Kong, written down (S) — done 2026-10-25
+docs/kong.md, tried with kong:3.9: plain route and ai-proxy, keys passed on;
+Kong 3.9 counts no completion tokens of a stream. The original item follows.
+A customer that already runs Kong puts llmgw behind it: `ai-proxy` with
+`provider: openai` and `upstream_url` at llmgw (3.9, open source), or a plain
+route. A page in docs/ with the configuration, tried against Kong 3.9 in a
+container, and what Kong's token accounting sees.
+
+## M. Models from Hugging Face we can trust (written 2026-10-25)
+
+The user asked how we know a model fetched from Hugging Face is safe. Two
+questions: whether its files can run code on our machines, which we can
+close, and whether the model itself was trained to misbehave, which no scan
+proves — only who published it, an eval before it serves, and the
+guardrails narrow that. What existed: `--trust-remote-code` refused, no
+repository Python fetched, ComfyUI nodes pinned to a commit, engines
+hash-pinned and run as `llmgw-engine`, mirror versions pinned to a commit
+and never overwritten. What did not: everything below.
+
+### M1. Weights in a pickle format refused (S) — done 2026-10-25
+`.bin`, `.pt`, `.pth`, `.ckpt`, `.pkl` run code as they are loaded, which 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 being
+added or given such a source is refused; vLLM and SGLang downloading a model
+by its id are given `--load-format safetensors`. The explorer hides a repository with neither GGUF nor safetensors
+(under "runs here", ticked by default) and does not offer a repository's
+pickle files. `allow_pickle: true` on a model lets it through, on purpose. On the
+PoC, `triposr` (`hf:stabilityai/TripoSR/model.ckpt`) is the one model that
+needs it.
+
+### M2. Every download pinned and checked against Hugging Face (M)
+- `hf:org/repo/file` follows `main` and is checked by nothing; a bare
+  `org/repo` given to vLLM is downloaded by vLLM, of whatever `main` is.
+  Both: resolve to the commit when the model is added, keep it in the
+  catalog's origin, and fetch that commit only (`--revision` for vLLM).
+- The sha256 Hugging Face publishes for each LFS file compared on every
+  path, and a file that differs removed: `mirror add`, the manager, the
+  node's `hf:` and http sources, mirror set files with no sha recorded.
+- Done when: a file changed on Hugging Face after a model was added is
+  refused by the node with both checksums named.
+
+### M3. Hugging Face's own scan (S)
+Hugging Face scans every file (pickle imports, ClamAV, partners' scanners)
+and marks a file unsafe. Ask for it with the repository listing; refuse an
+unsafe file, show the result on the mirror page and in the catalog's origin.
+The API field has to be confirmed first.
+
+### M4. Publishers we trust, and the rest asked about (S)
+An allow-list of organisations in the cluster's settings (Qwen, meta-llama,
+mistralai, google, microsoft, …). A model from anyone else is added only by
+an admin who says so, and who said it is kept in the origin. The PoC already
+serves four community models whose training nobody here checked.
+
+### M5. Engines without the internet (M)
+The firewall is inbound only, so an engine that was made to run code can
+send what it reads anywhere. With weights from the mirror the engines need
+no egress: an nft output rule for the engine user (allow the mirror, the
+cluster, loopback), systemd hardening of the agent's engines
+(`NoNewPrivileges`, `ProtectSystem`, private /tmp). Agent itself still root.
+
+### M6. An eval before a new model serves (S)
+`eval` and `canary` exist; make a new model from an untrusted publisher
+(M4) serve only after its eval suite passes, so a model trained to answer
+wrongly on a trigger has at least been asked the suite.
+
 ## D. Facts worth knowing before starting

- Admin API: `127.0.0.1:9090`, no auth, `ctlClient` in `internal/cli/ctl.go`.
+- Admin API: `127.0.0.1:9090`, behind the token in
+  `/var/lib/llmgw/admin-token` (A5), `ctlClient` in `internal/cli/ctl.go`.
  Metrics on `:9091` with `/prometheus/targets` beside them.
 - Store: `internal/store`, migrations under `internal/store/migrations/{sqlite,postgres}`;
  the PoC runs PostgreSQL under Patroni.
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Releases track the roadmap phases; see [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md).
 | v0.1.0 | 0 | Skeleton and sim-engine | released |
 | v0.2.0 | 1 | Static router (filter/score/pick, streaming proxy) | released |
 | v0.3.0 | 1.5 | Admission control (priority bands) | released |
-| v0.4.0 | 2 | Agent: GPU/IB discovery, engine supervision | released |
+| v0.4.0 | 2 | Agent: GPU/IB discovery, engine supervision | released as part of v0.5.0 |
 | v0.5.0 | 3 | Control plane: catalog, placement, reconciler, ctl | released |
 | v0.6.0 | 4 | Multi-node placement and fabric awareness | released |
 | v0.7.0 | — | Conversations, agent memory, disk management | released |
@@ -40,8 +40,9 @@ Releases track the roadmap phases; see [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md).
 | v0.11.0 | — | High availability from setup, the setup and console screens, usage sums and per-tenant alerts | released |
 | v0.12.0 | — | The cluster's settings in the store, in force when changed; the firewall switch; wipe | released |
 | v0.13.0 | — | The whole system stopped and started from one command; Qwen3Guard judges, on a GPU and CPUs together | released |
-| v0.14.0 | — | Knowledge bases: documents from people's own machines, kept apart per tenant, answered from | released (v0.14.1: adapters, the tree over the API, the firewall on every machine) |
-| v1.0.0 | 5 | Tenancy, prefix affinity, benchmarking | planned |
+| v0.14.0 | — | Knowledge bases: documents from people's own machines, kept apart per tenant, answered from | released (v0.14.1: adapters, the tree over the API, the firewall on every machine; v0.14.2: pictures from ComfyUI; v0.14.3: 3D models as jobs; v0.14.4: any ComfyUI workflow as a job, presets, licences; v0.14.5: picture and 3D models that add themselves; v0.14.6: setup that explains every part and lets it be chosen, the gateway on all three HA machines; v0.14.7: the judge sized for its machine; v0.14.8: sign-in with Active Directory, several keys for one outside provider; v0.14.9: sign-in set up from the console, a node's console that shows the machine) |
+| v0.15.0 | — | The company's MCP tools and VS Code through the gateway; guardrails that ask outside services and put redacted values back; answers to similar questions | released (v0.15.1: Strata, a 125B model of experts on one card; a second mirror kept in step; pickled weights refused; a served model's context changed; v0.15.2: a served model moved to more cards) |
+| v1.0.0 | 5 | What phase 5 has left: precise KV routing proven on vLLM, the block cost picker, defragmentation across NVLink domains, prefill/decode disaggregation | planned |

 As of v0.6.0 a cluster runs unattended: agents report their hardware, the
 control plane places replicas — including ones larger than a single machine —
@@ -50,6 +51,46 @@ budgets and rate limits decide who may use any of it.

 Since v0.11.0 (each release's detail is in [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md)):

+- **Setup that explains, and high availability that is whole** (v0.14.6).
+  `sudo llmgw` lists the parts of an install, each with what it is for and
+  what is missing without it, and every one can be turned off or set: the
+  starter model and its context, the mirror's directory, the judge's
+  categories and what it does when it does not answer, limits, the
+  portal's language, pictures and 3D. With three machines each runs the
+  control plane, with a floating address on the leader, and any one can
+  be lost: on three VMs, cutting the store primary's power lost no
+  request. One ComfyUI serves an environment's models, pictures, 3D and
+  workflows are MCP tools, and `/v1/messages` gives a model's reasoning as
+  thinking blocks.
+- **Picture and 3D models that add themselves** (v0.14.5). Where a node's
+  card fits flux-schnell or triposr and the catalog makes nothing of that
+  kind, the leader adds it on demand, so a new cluster's portal has its
+  Images and 3D pages; the cluster page and the console show each preset
+  and add it by hand, and `presets.auto` turns it off. Stable Fast 3D's
+  colours can be brought to the picture's (`albedo_match`), and every mesh
+  carries its whole licence.
+- **Any ComfyUI workflow, and models by name** (v0.14.4). `POST
+  /v1/workflows/runs` runs a ComfyUI model's workflow as a job, its inputs
+  (text, numbers, choices, images, masks, audio, video, files) declared in
+  the catalog and listed in `/v1/models`. `llmgw ctl model add triposr` or
+  `flux-schnell` adds a tested model with no YAML; a profile may name the
+  card it needs instead of a class, and ComfyUI now installs on V100s. A
+  licence carries what a machine can match, and a person can leave
+  licences out on the profile page so no key of theirs reaches such a
+  model. A 3D job waiting for the one card says what holds it and for
+  about how long.
+- **3D models as jobs** (v0.14.3). `POST /v1/3d/generations` answers with a
+  job, asked after until its mesh is ready to download. ComfyUI makes it on
+  the cluster's own cards, TripoSR being the tested model. The job says how
+  far along it is, the model's licence is written into the GLB, and
+  `per_mesh` prices it. People make them at `/3d` on the portal; `llmgw ctl
+  3d` shows every owner's jobs. A model profile may also load weights of
+  its own, and an admission band may wait longer than the rest, for bulk
+  work.
+- **Pictures from ComfyUI** (v0.14.2). `POST /v1/images/generations` is made
+  by ComfyUI, behind a gate that demands the replica's key, as an engine the
+  agents install from its source checked against a digest. `per_image`
+  prices it, and people make pictures at `/images` on the portal.
 - **Adapters, and the tenancy tree over the API** (v0.14.1). `llmgw ctl
  kb dataset` and `llmgw ctl train` make a LoRA adapter from a collection
  on a node's spare GPU memory, kept on the mirror and seen only by its
@@ -143,6 +184,8 @@ Every page is also in the binary: `llmgw docs`, or **Manual** in the console.
  cluster that exists
 - [docs/kubernetes.md](docs/kubernetes.md) — the control plane on
  Kubernetes with the Helm chart, and why GPU nodes stay outside it
+- [docs/kong.md](docs/kong.md) — llmgw behind Kong Gateway, or Kong behind
+  llmgw: the configuration, what Kong counts, and which to choose
 - [docs/fabrics.md](docs/fabrics.md) — InfiniBand fabrics and NVLink: what
  llmgw needs of them, checking a node with `llmgw doctor`, and what to look at
  when a replica spanning nodes will not run
@@ -217,6 +260,33 @@ Add `--json` to any command for machine-readable output.
 says nothing about which of six constraints bit, so it prints every candidate
 considered and the reason it was rejected.

+## What llmgw adds to a request
+
+Measured with `llmgw ctl bench overhead`. It starts an engine that answers
+at once and a gateway in front of it, in one process on loopback. It sends
+the same load straight to the engine and through the gateway, and reports
+what the gateway added. Run on an Apple M5 (10 CPUs, load about 2) on
+2026-10-16, 10 s a step, 72,000 requests with none failed:
+
+| Through the gateway | added at p50 | added at p99 |
+|---|---|---|
+| bare | 0.06–0.24 ms | 0.10–0.33 ms |
+| with authentication and usage accounting | 0.05–0.32 ms | 0.09–0.37 ms |
+| with the guardrails' pattern checks as well | 0.10–0.42 ms | 0.15–0.49 ms |
+
+The range is across 100 to 2,000 requests a second. The overhead was
+*lowest* at 2,000, most likely because a busier processor keeps its cores
+awake. The guardrails' judge model is not in these figures: a judgment
+takes seconds on CPUs (see [install.md](docs/install.md)) and is a model's
+time, not the gateway's.
+
+The command also prints the gateway's CPU per thousand requests. Gateway,
+engine and load share one process there, so that figure is rough (0.04 to
+0.65 s per thousand in the run above); the latency is the one to quote.
+Figures from a VM on a busy host move with the host: run it where you will
+deploy, and keep the load it prints beside the result. CI runs a one-second
+version on every change (`TestTheGatewaysOverheadIsMeasured`).
+
 ## Running the router

 ```sh
@@ -244,8 +314,9 @@ within 1.24x of idle while 500 concurrent batch requests run, against 58x with
 admission off.

 Routing profiles select how endpoints are scored: `chat` favours session
-affinity, `batch` favours the shortest queue, `long-context` favours free KV
-cache. Pick one per model in the config, or per request with the
+affinity and the replica that has been answering soonest (its time to first
+token, smoothed), `batch` favours the shortest queue, `long-context` favours
+free KV cache. Pick one per model in the config, or per request with the
 `x-llmgw-profile` header.

 ## sim-engine
@@ -1206,9 +1206,12 @@ type Host struct {
 	CpuFlags []string `protobuf:"bytes,5,rep,name=cpu_flags,json=cpuFlags,proto3" json:"cpu_flags,omitempty"`
 	// nvidia_driver is the driver version, empty when there is none. A card
 	// without a driver is not a GPU anything can use.
-	NvidiaDriver  string `protobuf:"bytes,6,opt,name=nvidia_driver,json=nvidiaDriver,proto3" json:"nvidia_driver,omitempty"`
-	unknownFields protoimpl.UnknownFields
-	sizeCache     protoimpl.SizeCache
+	NvidiaDriver string `protobuf:"bytes,6,opt,name=nvidia_driver,json=nvidiaDriver,proto3" json:"nvidia_driver,omitempty"`
+	// mem_bandwidth_gbs is how fast the memory reads, in GB/s, measured when
+	// the agent started: what decides a model's speed on the CPU. 0 unknown.
+	MemBandwidthGbs float64 `protobuf:"fixed64,7,opt,name=mem_bandwidth_gbs,json=memBandwidthGbs,proto3" json:"mem_bandwidth_gbs,omitempty"`
+	unknownFields   protoimpl.UnknownFields
+	sizeCache       protoimpl.SizeCache
 }

 func (x *Host) Reset() {
@@ -1283,6 +1286,13 @@ func (x *Host) GetNvidiaDriver() string {
 	return ""
 }

+func (x *Host) GetMemBandwidthGbs() float64 {
+	if x != nil {
+		return x.MemBandwidthGbs
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
 // Storage is one filesystem a node keeps weights on.
 //
 // Per filesystem rather than per configured directory: free space belongs to
@@ -1579,7 +1589,14 @@ type GPU struct {
 	// is then 1000 + 100 × card + device, uuid the instance's (MIG-…), and
 	// memory the instance's share; utilization_percent stays zero, because no
 	// driver measures it per instance.
-	Mig           *MIGDevice `protobuf:"bytes,22,opt,name=mig,proto3" json:"mig,omitempty"`
+	Mig *MIGDevice `protobuf:"bytes,22,opt,name=mig,proto3" json:"mig,omitempty"`
+	// How the card is linked to its host: the fastest generation card and
+	// slot allow together, the card's own fastest, and the lanes in use and
+	// the card's most. Zero when the driver did not say.
+	PcieGen       int32 `protobuf:"varint,23,opt,name=pcie_gen,json=pcieGen,proto3" json:"pcie_gen,omitempty"`
+	PcieGpuGen    int32 `protobuf:"varint,24,opt,name=pcie_gpu_gen,json=pcieGpuGen,proto3" json:"pcie_gpu_gen,omitempty"`
+	PcieWidth     int32 `protobuf:"varint,25,opt,name=pcie_width,json=pcieWidth,proto3" json:"pcie_width,omitempty"`
+	PcieWidthMax  int32 `protobuf:"varint,26,opt,name=pcie_width_max,json=pcieWidthMax,proto3" json:"pcie_width_max,omitempty"`
 	unknownFields protoimpl.UnknownFields
 	sizeCache     protoimpl.SizeCache
 }
@@ -1768,6 +1785,34 @@ func (x *GPU) GetMig() *MIGDevice {
 	return nil
 }

+func (x *GPU) GetPcieGen() int32 {
+	if x != nil {
+		return x.PcieGen
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+func (x *GPU) GetPcieGpuGen() int32 {
+	if x != nil {
+		return x.PcieGpuGen
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+func (x *GPU) GetPcieWidth() int32 {
+	if x != nil {
+		return x.PcieWidth
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+func (x *GPU) GetPcieWidthMax() int32 {
+	if x != nil {
+		return x.PcieWidthMax
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
 // MIGDevice is which card a MIG instance is carved from, and how.
 type MIGDevice struct {
 	state       protoimpl.MessageState `protogen:"open.v1"`
@@ -2943,8 +2988,12 @@ type Heartbeat struct {
 	// is not handed out. Empty from an agent that does not measure it, or from
 	// one that could not this time.
 	GpuForeignMemoryMb []int32 `protobuf:"varint,19,rep,packed,name=gpu_foreign_memory_mb,json=gpuForeignMemoryMb,proto3" json:"gpu_foreign_memory_mb,omitempty"`
-	unknownFields      protoimpl.UnknownFields
-	sizeCache          protoimpl.SizeCache
+	// mem_bandwidth_gbs is how fast the node's memory reads, in GB/s, once
+	// the agent has measured it — in the background after it starts, so a
+	// registration usually has none yet. 0 means not measured.
+	MemBandwidthGbs float64 `protobuf:"fixed64,20,opt,name=mem_bandwidth_gbs,json=memBandwidthGbs,proto3" json:"mem_bandwidth_gbs,omitempty"`
+	unknownFields   protoimpl.UnknownFields
+	sizeCache       protoimpl.SizeCache
 }

 func (x *Heartbeat) Reset() {
@@ -3110,6 +3159,13 @@ func (x *Heartbeat) GetGpuForeignMemoryMb() []int32 {
 	return nil
 }

+func (x *Heartbeat) GetMemBandwidthGbs() float64 {
+	if x != nil {
+		return x.MemBandwidthGbs
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
 // Provision is the software a node should have: which engines, at which
 // versions. Nothing more.
 //
@@ -3790,7 +3846,10 @@ type EngineProfile struct {
 	Adapters []*LoraAdapter `protobuf:"bytes,12,rep,name=adapters,proto3" json:"adapters,omitempty"`
 	// kv_events has a vLLM engine publish its KV cache events to the agent, for
 	// the router's precise index.
-	KvEvents      bool `protobuf:"varint,13,opt,name=kv_events,json=kvEvents,proto3" json:"kv_events,omitempty"`
+	KvEvents bool `protobuf:"varint,13,opt,name=kv_events,json=kvEvents,proto3" json:"kv_events,omitempty"`
+	// allow_pickle lets the node fetch weights in a pickle format, which run
+	// code when loaded: the catalog's allow_pickle, set on purpose.
+	AllowPickle   bool `protobuf:"varint,14,opt,name=allow_pickle,json=allowPickle,proto3" json:"allow_pickle,omitempty"`
 	unknownFields protoimpl.UnknownFields
 	sizeCache     protoimpl.SizeCache
 }
@@ -3916,6 +3975,13 @@ func (x *EngineProfile) GetKvEvents() bool {
 	return false
 }

+func (x *EngineProfile) GetAllowPickle() bool {
+	if x != nil {
+		return x.AllowPickle
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
 // RemoveWeights deletes cached model files a node no longer needs.
 //
 // The paths are computed by the control plane from the catalog, but the agent
@@ -5180,7 +5246,7 @@ const file_llmgw_v1_agent_proto_rawDesc = "" +
 	"\x05value\x18\x02 \x01(\tR\x05value:\x028\x01\x1aA\n" +
 	"\x13EngineVersionsEntry\x12\x10\n" +
 	"\x03key\x18\x01 \x01(\tR\x03key\x12\x14\n" +
-	"\x05value\x18\x02 \x01(\tR\x05value:\x028\x01\"\xb1\x01\n" +
+	"\x05value\x18\x02 \x01(\tR\x05value:\x028\x01\"\xdd\x01\n" +
 	"\x04Host\x12\x13\n" +
 	"\x05os_id\x18\x01 \x01(\tR\x04osId\x12\x1d\n" +
 	"\n" +
@@ -5189,7 +5255,8 @@ const file_llmgw_v1_agent_proto_rawDesc = "" +
 	"osCodename\x12\x12\n" +
 	"\x04arch\x18\x04 \x01(\tR\x04arch\x12\x1b\n" +
 	"\tcpu_flags\x18\x05 \x03(\tR\bcpuFlags\x12#\n" +
-	"\rnvidia_driver\x18\x06 \x01(\tR\fnvidiaDriver\"u\n" +
+	"\rnvidia_driver\x18\x06 \x01(\tR\fnvidiaDriver\x12*\n" +
+	"\x11mem_bandwidth_gbs\x18\a \x01(\x01R\x0fmemBandwidthGbs\"u\n" +
 	"\aStorage\x12\x12\n" +
 	"\x04path\x18\x01 \x01(\tR\x04path\x12\x1d\n" +
 	"\n" +
@@ -5219,7 +5286,7 @@ const file_llmgw_v1_agent_proto_rawDesc = "" +
 	"leaderPort\x12\x1d\n" +
 	"\n" +
 	"profile_fp\x18\x0f \x01(\tR\tprofileFp\x12+\n" +
-	"\acompute\x18\x10 \x01(\v2\x11.llmgw.v1.ComputeR\acompute\"\xca\x06\n" +
+	"\acompute\x18\x10 \x01(\v2\x11.llmgw.v1.ComputeR\acompute\"\xcc\a\n" +
 	"\x03GPU\x12\x14\n" +
 	"\x05index\x18\x01 \x01(\x05R\x05index\x12\x12\n" +
 	"\x04uuid\x18\x02 \x01(\tR\x04uuid\x12\x12\n" +
@@ -5245,7 +5312,13 @@ const file_llmgw_v1_agent_proto_rawDesc = "" +
 	"\fcluster_uuid\x18\x13 \x01(\tR\vclusterUuid\x12\x1b\n" +
 	"\tclique_id\x18\x14 \x01(\tR\bcliqueId\x12)\n" +
 	"\x10fabric_bandwidth\x18\x15 \x01(\tR\x0ffabricBandwidth\x12%\n" +
-	"\x03mig\x18\x16 \x01(\v2\x13.llmgw.v1.MIGDeviceR\x03mig\x1a;\n" +
+	"\x03mig\x18\x16 \x01(\v2\x13.llmgw.v1.MIGDeviceR\x03mig\x12\x19\n" +
+	"\bpcie_gen\x18\x17 \x01(\x05R\apcieGen\x12 \n" +
+	"\fpcie_gpu_gen\x18\x18 \x01(\x05R\n" +
+	"pcieGpuGen\x12\x1d\n" +
+	"\n" +
+	"pcie_width\x18\x19 \x01(\x05R\tpcieWidth\x12$\n" +
+	"\x0epcie_width_max\x18\x1a \x01(\x05R\fpcieWidthMax\x1a;\n" +
 	"\rNicPathsEntry\x12\x10\n" +
 	"\x03key\x18\x01 \x01(\tR\x03key\x12\x14\n" +
 	"\x05value\x18\x02 \x01(\tR\x05value:\x028\x01\"\x84\x02\n" +
@@ -5361,7 +5434,7 @@ const file_llmgw_v1_agent_proto_rawDesc = "" +
 	"\x06status\x18\x03 \x01(\tR\x06status\x12!\n" +
 	"\fcluster_uuid\x18\x04 \x01(\tR\vclusterUuid\x12\x1b\n" +
 	"\tclique_id\x18\x05 \x01(\tR\bcliqueId\x12\x1c\n" +
-	"\tbandwidth\x18\x06 \x01(\tR\tbandwidth\"\xa9\a\n" +
+	"\tbandwidth\x18\x06 \x01(\tR\tbandwidth\"\xd5\a\n" +
 	"\tHeartbeat\x12\x17\n" +
 	"\anode_id\x18\x01 \x01(\tR\x06nodeId\x12+\n" +
 	"\x12gpu_memory_used_mb\x18\x02 \x03(\x05R\x0fgpuMemoryUsedMb\x12!\n" +
@@ -5383,7 +5456,8 @@ const file_llmgw_v1_agent_proto_rawDesc = "" +
 	"gpu_fabric\x18\x10 \x03(\v2\x18.llmgw.v1.GPUFabricStateR\tgpuFabric\x12\"\n" +
 	"\x04imex\x18\x11 \x01(\v2\x0e.llmgw.v1.IMEXR\x04imex\x12\x1b\n" +
 	"\tcpu_count\x18\x12 \x01(\x05R\bcpuCount\x121\n" +
-	"\x15gpu_foreign_memory_mb\x18\x13 \x03(\x05R\x12gpuForeignMemoryMb\x1aA\n" +
+	"\x15gpu_foreign_memory_mb\x18\x13 \x03(\x05R\x12gpuForeignMemoryMb\x12*\n" +
+	"\x11mem_bandwidth_gbs\x18\x14 \x01(\x01R\x0fmemBandwidthGbs\x1aA\n" +
 	"\x13EngineVersionsEntry\x12\x10\n" +
 	"\x03key\x18\x01 \x01(\tR\x03key\x12\x14\n" +
 	"\x05value\x18\x02 \x01(\tR\x05value:\x028\x01\";\n" +
@@ -5462,7 +5536,7 @@ const file_llmgw_v1_agent_proto_rawDesc = "" +
 	"profile_fp\x18\x0f \x01(\tR\tprofileFp\x12\x17\n" +
 	"\aapi_key\x18\x10 \x01(\tR\x06apiKey\x12\x1f\n" +
 	"\vcpu_threads\x18\x11 \x01(\x05R\n" +
-	"cpuThreads\"\xcd\x03\n" +
+	"cpuThreads\"\xf0\x03\n" +
 	"\rEngineProfile\x12\x12\n" +
 	"\x04name\x18\x01 \x01(\tR\x04name\x12\x16\n" +
 	"\x06engine\x18\x02 \x01(\tR\x06engine\x12\x1b\n" +
@@ -5478,7 +5552,8 @@ const file_llmgw_v1_agent_proto_rawDesc = "" +
 	" \x01(\tR\tmodelPath\x12*\n" +
 	"\x11served_model_name\x18\v \x01(\tR\x0fservedModelName\x121\n" +
 	"\badapters\x18\f \x03(\v2\x15.llmgw.v1.LoraAdapterR\badapters\x12\x1b\n" +
-	"\tkv_events\x18\r \x01(\bR\bkvEvents\x1a6\n" +
+	"\tkv_events\x18\r \x01(\bR\bkvEvents\x12!\n" +
+	"\fallow_pickle\x18\x0e \x01(\bR\vallowPickle\x1a6\n" +
 	"\bEnvEntry\x12\x10\n" +
 	"\x03key\x18\x01 \x01(\tR\x03key\x12\x14\n" +
 	"\x05value\x18\x02 \x01(\tR\x05value:\x028\x01\"%\n" +
@@ -238,6 +238,9 @@ message Host {
  // nvidia_driver is the driver version, empty when there is none. A card
  // without a driver is not a GPU anything can use.
  string nvidia_driver = 6;
+  // mem_bandwidth_gbs is how fast the memory reads, in GB/s, measured when
+  // the agent started: what decides a model's speed on the CPU. 0 unknown.
+  double mem_bandwidth_gbs = 7;
 }

 // Storage is one filesystem a node keeps weights on.
@@ -334,6 +337,13 @@ message GPU {
  // memory the instance's share; utilization_percent stays zero, because no
  // driver measures it per instance.
  MIGDevice mig = 22;
+  // How the card is linked to its host: the fastest generation card and
+  // slot allow together, the card's own fastest, and the lanes in use and
+  // the card's most. Zero when the driver did not say.
+  int32 pcie_gen = 23;
+  int32 pcie_gpu_gen = 24;
+  int32 pcie_width = 25;
+  int32 pcie_width_max = 26;
 }

 // MIGDevice is which card a MIG instance is carved from, and how.
@@ -588,6 +598,11 @@ message Heartbeat {
  // is not handed out. Empty from an agent that does not measure it, or from
  // one that could not this time.
  repeated int32 gpu_foreign_memory_mb = 19;
+
+  // mem_bandwidth_gbs is how fast the node's memory reads, in GB/s, once
+  // the agent has measured it — in the background after it starts, so a
+  // registration usually has none yet. 0 means not measured.
+  double mem_bandwidth_gbs = 20;
 }

 // Provision is the software a node should have: which engines, at which
@@ -749,6 +764,9 @@ message EngineProfile {
  // kv_events has a vLLM engine publish its KV cache events to the agent, for
  // the router's precise index.
  bool kv_events = 13;
+  // allow_pickle lets the node fetch weights in a pickle format, which run
+  // code when loaded: the catalog's allow_pickle, set on purpose.
+  bool allow_pickle = 14;
 }

 // RemoveWeights deletes cached model files a node no longer needs.
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Two control planes
+# More than one control plane

 llmgw handles the hard half of this itself: only one control plane places work,
 and agents find whichever one is leading. What it does not do is move client
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ nothing in front of the two had moved.
 So something has to. The options, in the order most people should consider
 them:

-**A load balancer you already run.** Health-check `/ready` on each control
+**A load balancer you already run.** Health-check `/leader` on each control
 plane and send traffic to whichever answers. This is the right answer if you
 have one, and it needs nothing else from this directory.

@@ -50,25 +50,50 @@ in whatever your resolvers actually honour rather than what you set, which on
 a bad day is minutes. Fine for a cluster people use interactively, wrong for
 one an agent is driving.

-## Check `/ready`, not `/health`
+## Check `/leader`, not `/health`

 This is the one thing to get right, and the obvious choice is the wrong one.

-`/health` says the process is up. It says nothing about whether it can serve,
+`/health` says the process is up. It says nothing about whether it leads,
 and a standby is exactly that case: alive, answering, and holding no endpoints
 at all — its reconciler placed nothing and it has no agent streams to adopt
-from. A load balancer checking `/health` would send it half the traffic, and
-half the traffic would be a 503.
+from. A standby passes client requests on to the leader, so traffic sent to
+one still works — until the leader is the machine that was lost, and there
+is nobody to pass them to.
+
+`/leader` is 200 on the control plane that leads and 503 on a standby. It is
+what keepalived follows for the floating address, and what a load balancer
+should send traffic by: to the one machine that answers 200.
+
+`/ready` is narrower: 200 only when this process has somewhere to send a
+request, so 503 on a standby and also on a leader with no model running yet.
+Checking it takes the portal and the admin pages away with the models — on a
+new cluster with no node yet, nobody can sign in to add one. Use it to stop
+sending inference only, if your load balancer can tell the paths apart.

-`/ready` says this process has somewhere to send a request. It is 503 on a
-standby, 503 on a leader whose replicas have all failed, and 200 when there is
-something to serve — which is the question a load balancer is actually asking.
 Both are open, because a load balancer has no key.

-During a failover neither passes for about the length of the lease handover:
+During a failover nothing passes for about the length of the lease handover:
 three seconds when the leader is stopped cleanly, up to the lease TTL when it
-is not. That gap is real and there is no way to have it both ways — traffic
-cannot go to a control plane that has nothing to route to.
+is not. A proxy that waits that long for a healthy machine rather than
+failing at once (Caddy's `lb_try_duration`) hides it from clients.
+
+**Caddy**, in front of three control planes — the end of
+[deploy/proxy/Caddyfile](../proxy/Caddyfile) has it with the rest of the
+settings:
+
+```
+reverse_proxy 10.0.0.157:8080 10.0.0.158:8080 10.0.0.159:8080 {
+	lb_policy first
+	health_uri /leader
+	health_interval 2s
+	lb_try_duration 15s
+	flush_interval -1
+}
+```
+
+With a floating address the address already follows the leader: give Caddy
+that one address instead.

 Not the admin port, for a different reason: it serves pprof, and pprof can
 dump the process heap, where API keys sit in plaintext.
@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ vrrp_instance llmgw {
    # MASTER on the machine you would rather serve; BACKUP on the other.
    state MASTER
    interface eth0
-    # Any number both machines agree on and nothing else on the segment uses.
+    # Any number both machines agree on and nothing else on the segment uses:
+    # another cluster's keepalived with the same one reads as an invalid
+    # password. `llmgw server add --vip` derives one from the address.
    virtual_router_id 51
    # The higher one wins while both are healthy. The weight above is enough
    # to invert this when the preferred machine's gateway is not answering.
@@ -21,11 +21,18 @@ scrape_configs:
  # The control plane's dedicated metrics port. Not its admin listener: that one
  # is loopback because it also serves pprof, and pprof can dump the heap where
  # API keys sit in plaintext.
+  #
+  # Every control plane, one line each: the leader moves on restarts and the
+  # router's metrics are the leading one's, so scraping one alone leaves gaps
+  # — and alerts on them — whenever another leads.
  - job_name: llmgw
    static_configs:
      - targets: ['10.0.0.140:9091']
        labels:
-          instance: control-plane
+          instance: control-plane-140
+      # - targets: ['10.0.0.150:9091']
+      #   labels:
+      #     instance: control-plane-150

  # Every machine of the cluster, for its node exporter: network and disk
  # traffic, filesystems, CPU time. The control plane lists them — nodes,
@@ -33,10 +40,15 @@ scrape_configs:
  # nothing edited here, and each carries its llmgw id as the node label.
  # `llmgw node add` installs the exporter; on a machine added before that,
  # apt-get install prometheus-node-exporter.
+  # Asked of every control plane too: a standby lists only the control
+  # planes and the store, and they label every machine alike, so the same
+  # target from two of them is scraped once.
  - job_name: nodes
    http_sd_configs:
      - url: http://10.0.0.140:9091/prometheus/targets
        refresh_interval: 1m
+      # - url: http://10.0.0.150:9091/prometheus/targets
+      #   refresh_interval: 1m

  - job_name: prometheus
    static_configs:
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ llm.example.com {
 		max_size 32MB
 	}

+	# One control plane. With more than one, see the end of this file.
 	reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8080 {
 		# Tokens are written the moment they are generated. Without this a
 		# streamed reply can arrive in bursts, and a client measuring time to
@@ -39,3 +40,36 @@ llm.example.com {
 	# Access log to stderr, which under systemd is the journal.
 	log
 }
+
+# More than one control plane (server init --standbys, server add): one of
+# them leads, the others stand by. Name them all and send to the one that
+# leads — /leader is 200 there and 503 on a standby. Not /ready: that is 503
+# on a leader with no model running yet, and would take the portal away with
+# it. A standby would pass a request on to the leader anyway, but not while
+# there is none, and the hop is for nothing.
+#
+# With a floating address (--vip) the address already follows the leader:
+# give reverse_proxy that one address instead, and keep the rest as above.
+#
+# llm.example.com {
+# 	request_body {
+# 		max_size 32MB
+# 	}
+# 	reverse_proxy 10.0.0.157:8080 10.0.0.158:8080 10.0.0.159:8080 {
+# 		# The first that is healthy: the leader, whichever it is.
+# 		lb_policy first
+# 		health_uri /leader
+# 		health_interval 2s
+# 		health_timeout 2s
+# 		# While leadership moves — a few seconds when a leader is lost —
+# 		# none is healthy; a request waits that long for one rather than
+# 		# failing at once.
+# 		lb_try_duration 15s
+# 		lb_try_interval 250ms
+# 		flush_interval -1
+# 		transport http {
+# 			response_header_timeout 15m
+# 		}
+# 	}
+# 	log
+# }
@@ -96,6 +96,12 @@ func titleOf(src, path string) string {
 //go:embed docs/admin-api.openapi.json
 var AdminOpenAPI []byte

+// ClientOpenAPI is the client API described in OpenAPI 3.1, generated from
+// internal/clientapi's route table and served at /v1/openapi.json.
+//
+//go:embed docs/client-api.openapi.json
+var ClientOpenAPI []byte
+
 // EvalSuites are the example quality suites under deploy/eval, which the
 // control plane runs by name when its eval directory has none of the name.
 //
@@ -38,6 +38,14 @@ export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://llm.example.com
 export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=$LLMGW_API_KEY
 ```

+### The API described
+
+Every endpoint is described in OpenAPI 3.1 at `/v1/openapi.json`. It needs
+no key, so a client generator can be pointed at it. `/docs/api` shows it in
+Swagger UI, where *Authorize* takes a key and *Try it out* sends a request to
+the gateway. People with a part in running the gateway also find the admin
+API's document there.
+
 ## A first request

 ### curl
@@ -526,6 +534,73 @@ curl https://llm.example.com/mcp \
  -d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "tools/list"}'
 ```

+**Pictures, 3D models, vision and workflows.** Where the gateway has the
+models for them, the same server offers more tools — only those it has a
+model for:
+
+| Tool | Does |
+|---|---|
+| `generate_image` | A picture from a prompt. `style` adds what a picture for a mesh wants: `concept` (one object, three-quarter view, grey background), `side` (an exact side view), `texture` (a seamless tile) or `none`. Answers the PNG's `file_id`, `url` and `seed`, with a 512 px preview to look at. |
+| `generate_mesh` | A GLB from a picture — `image` is a `file-…` id (a `generate_image` result, say), a data URL or base64 — or from a `prompt`, for which a concept picture is made first. `seed`, `resolution`, `texture_resolution`, and any other input the model's workflow declares in `inputs`. Answers the GLB's `file_id`, `url` and licence. |
+| `review_images` | Asks a vision model about one to four pictures (each shrunk to 1280 px on its long side); `json_schema` makes it answer that JSON. |
+| `run_workflow` | Runs a ComfyUI workflow from the inputs its catalog entry declares, and answers its result file. |
+| `job_status` | Where a mesh or a workflow run stands, and its file when done; `wait_seconds` waits for it. |
+| `gateway_status` | The picture, 3D, vision and workflow models, whether each is loaded on a GPU now, a workflow's inputs, and your last jobs. |
+
+Each tool makes its request of the gateway under your key, so your
+allowlist, limits, left-out licences and budget apply, and it is charged
+and listed like any other request. What it makes is kept as your file for
+as long as job results are: fetch it from `url` with the same key (`curl -H
+"Authorization: Bearer $LLMGW_API_KEY" -o rock.glb <url>`). A tool server
+over HTTP cannot write to your disk, so an agent that needs the file
+locally — to import it in Blender — fetches it, or goes through a small
+local bridge that does.
+
+A picture can be uploaded once and named by its id after: `POST /v1/files`
+with `purpose=vision` (or `user_data`) keeps it, for as long as job results
+are kept, as a file of yours that `generate_mesh`, `review_images` and a
+workflow's file inputs take as `file-…`. A call is at most 64 MB.
+
+A model that is not loaded is waited for: a picture or a look at one whose
+model is starting, or waiting for another to give up the GPU, waits as a
+mesh does, saying so, rather than failing with "model loading".
+
+A mesh takes from half a minute to a few minutes. A client that takes the
+answer as a stream (`Accept: text/event-stream`, as Claude Code does) is
+answered that way: `notifications/progress` for the call's
+`progressToken` while it runs — queued, waiting for the GPU, the node and
+its percent — then the result, and the call waits up to ten minutes. One
+answered in one piece waits 50 seconds; a job not done by then is answered
+with its `job_id`, to ask after with `job_status`. `wait_seconds` (up to
+900) sets either.
+
+```
+claude mcp add --transport http llmgw https://llm.example.com/mcp \
+  --header "Authorization: Bearer $LLMGW_API_KEY"
+```
+
+**Your company's tools.** Where an administrator has registered the
+company's own MCP servers (Jira, a file server, a database) and your key is
+granted their tools, the same `/mcp` lists them too, each as `server.tool`
+(`jira.search`). Give your agent only llmgw's `/mcp` and your key: the
+servers' own credentials stay with llmgw. A tool your key is not granted is
+not listed, and calling it by name is refused. Each call is in the audit
+log under your key: which tool, the size of what was sent, how it ended and
+how long it took, never what it said.
+
+### Licences you leave out
+
+A model's licence is in `/v1/models` (`license`: its `id`, `name`, whether
+it allows commercial use and the regions it grants nothing in). On your
+profile page, under **Licences**, you can leave licences out: one by one,
+every licence that forbids commercial use, or every licence that grants
+nothing in a region you name (`EU` for the union). The rules cover models
+added later too. From then on those models are not listed to your keys and
+a request for one is refused with 403 and the code `licence_excluded`,
+naming the choice that left it out — on every key you own and on the
+portal's pages, whatever a key's own allowlist says. A change reaches keys
+already in use within a minute.
+
 ### Headers llmgw sends back

 | Header | Says |
@@ -545,9 +620,10 @@ its usual exception with the gateway's message in it. The ones worth knowing:
 |---|---|
 | 400 | Besides a malformed request: a prompt too long for the model, or a guardrail policy refused it (the code `content_policy_violation`). |
 | 401 | No key, a mistyped one, or one that was revoked or has expired. |
-| 403 | The key may not use that model. |
+| 403 | The key may not use that model; with the code `licence_excluded`, its licence is one you left out on your profile page. |
 | 429 | A rate limit or budget of the key, its project or its team was reached. `Retry-After` says when to try again, and is absent when waiting will not help — a spent monthly budget. |
-| 503 | No model of that name is served (the message lists the ones that are), the model is still loading, or every replica is busy and the request waited as long as it may. The SDKs retry by themselves; a name that is not served will not start to be. |
+| 503 | No model of that name is served (the message lists the ones that are), the model is still loading, or every replica is busy and the queue is full. The SDKs retry by themselves; a name that is not served will not start to be. |
+| 504 | Every replica was busy for as long as the key's band may wait. `Retry-After` says when to send it again. |

 ## Priority

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@

 `sudo llmgw`, with nothing after it, on a machine llmgw runs on. On a machine
 with nothing installed it opens the setup screens; on a control plane, the
-console described here; on a node, the node's own console, which edits
-`agent.yaml`. Everything on these screens can also be done by command — each
+console described here; on a node, the node's own console, which shows
+what runs on that machine and edits `agent.yaml`. Everything on these screens can also be done by command — each
 screen says which — so a script never needs them and a person never needs
 to remember the commands.

@@ -173,6 +173,23 @@ search…** as an administrator, or **Delete…** it. People
 fill collections from their own machines with `llmgw-kb`
 ([knowledge.md](knowledge.md)). Off on a SQLite store, and says why.

+**MCP servers** lists the company's own MCP servers that agents reach through
+the gateway's `/mcp`, their tools named `server.tool`: whether each is on,
+who has been granted its tools, its rate per caller, the names of the
+credentials it is sent (never their values) and its address. **A** adds one:
+its name, which is its tools' prefix, its address, and a bearer token or
+another header, kept sealed in the store. On a row: **Test, and list its
+tools**, with its credential, as a call would; **Grant its tools to…** a
+team, project, organization, person or key — all of them, `jira.*`, or some
+by name — beside whatever else that level is granted, and saying when a
+level above keeps them out of reach; **Revoke** a grant;
+**Change…** its address, timeout or rate; **Replace its credential…**;
+**Turn off** (its tools are listed nowhere and every call refused) or on;
+**Remove…**. A server's tools are seen nowhere until granted. The screen
+also says how a person points an agent at the gateway, with a key of their
+own from `/profile/keys`. `llmgw ctl mcp` does the same from a shell, and
+the web page **MCP servers** (`/admin/mcp`, administrators only) in a browser.
+
 **Mirror** is what the model mirror holds, one row for each version of each
 model — a file, or the set of files a model of several is: shards, a vision
 projector, a config and tokenizer — with how far its download has got and
@@ -246,6 +263,28 @@ long a key made there may live, and is the expiry of one made without any
 Limits are requests and tokens a minute, a budget per day or month, and the
 models allowed. Each level only narrows what is above it.

+**Sign-in** — how people get in besides a password kept here: single
+sign-on, Active Directory and provisioning, each on or off, with the
+directory's last sync (how many people, accounts kept in step, suspended,
+reinstated).
+- **E** sets up Entra ID. Give the tenant ID, the client ID and secret,
+  and the groups for administrators and operators. A provider other than
+  Entra takes its issuer URL in place of the tenant. The form shows the
+  redirect address to register.
+- **D** sets up Active Directory: the servers, where people are, the
+  service account and its password, the domain's CA certificate as a PEM
+  file on this machine, the group whose members may sign in, and groups
+  for roles and teams.
+- Before it is kept, the directory is tried from the control plane: each
+  server reached and bound, how many people may sign in, how many are in
+  each group. If any step fails, nothing is kept and the steps are shown.
+  **T** tries the settings in force.
+- On the provisioning row, Enter makes a SCIM token, shown once.
+- The password, the client secret and the token are kept in the store,
+  sealed by the master key when one is set. The settings name them as
+  `store:auth/…`, so each control plane has them with no file put on it.
+  The CA is written into the settings themselves.
+
 **Guardrails…** on a row lists the guardrail policies server.yaml defines.
 Each policy is marked in one of three ways:

@@ -335,5 +374,18 @@ to restart it.

 ## The node's console

-On a node, `sudo llmgw` opens `agent.yaml` in the same settings view, and the
-manual. The cluster is watched and changed from a control plane.
+On a node, `sudo llmgw` opens on **Overview**: what this machine is doing, read
+on the machine itself, so it works without an admin token and while the control
+plane is out of reach. Refreshed every three seconds, it shows
+
+- llmgw-agent's state and since when, and the version of llmgw;
+- each control plane the agent dials, from `agent.yaml` and the list the
+  leader last sent, and whether it can be reached;
+- each GPU: how busy, its memory, its heat, and the models on it;
+- the engines running here, from the agent's own records: replica, model,
+  engine, GPUs, port, whether the process is still there, and for how long;
+- the free space where weights and engines are kept;
+- the agent's warnings and errors of the last hour.
+
+Below it, `agent.yaml` in the same settings view, and the manual. The cluster
+is watched and changed from a control plane.
@@ -72,7 +72,9 @@ each answer that may be reused, as the client got it, and a hash of the
 request it answers, in the gateway process's memory — never in the store,
 never on disk — for the project's TTL or until pushed out by newer ones
 (`router.cache.max_bytes`), and gone with a restart. Never under a `no_store`
-policy. Forgetting a person does not reach into it; the answers age out by
+policy. A project that reuses answers to similar questions (`--similar`)
+also has each question's last user message embedded, and the vector kept
+beside its answer, in the same memory and for as long. Forgetting a person does not reach into it; the answers age out by
 the TTL. The store keeps only the setting, and a usage record's mark that it
 was answered from the cache.

@@ -91,6 +91,21 @@ guard:
  value is the same placeholder throughout a request).
 - **`block`** stops it.

+**Putting them back.** With `restore: true` in a policy's `input`, the
+values a request had redacted are put back in its answer: the model reads
+"write to [PERSON_1] at [EMAIL_1]", the client reads the name and address
+it sent. Streamed answers too — a placeholder split across two events is
+held until it is whole. Only that request's own values, only into its
+answer; the map is kept in memory for the request and nowhere else. The
+output rules then read the answer as the client will, so a policy that
+redacts personal data in answers still does.
+
+```yaml
+input:
+  pii: {email: redact, phone: redact}
+  restore: true
+```
+
 **Shapes.**

 - `system_prompt` is put first.
@@ -258,6 +273,47 @@ themselves.
    context rather than overflowing it and going unjudged.
 - **Cache:** the same text is not asked about twice within five minutes.

+## An outside service
+
+A site required to use a particular guardrail — Azure Content Safety,
+Lakera Guard, NeMo Guardrails, a classifier of its own — names it in a
+policy's `services`. It is asked over HTTP beside the patterns and before
+the judge; its "unsafe" blocks or flags like theirs, and a service that does
+not answer is what the policy's `fail` says.
+
+```yaml
+policies:
+  strict:
+    fail: closed
+    services:
+      - name: lakera
+        url: https://api.lakera.ai/v2/guard
+        header_files: {Authorization: /etc/llmgw/secrets/lakera}   # "Bearer …", read each call
+        body: '{"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": {{json .Text}}}]}'
+        blocked: flagged                 # where the answer says unsafe
+        reason: breakdown.0.detector_type
+        on: both                         # input, output or both
+        action: block                    # or flag
+        timeout: 2s
+```
+
+`body` is a template given `.Text` (`{{json .Text}}` writes it as a JSON
+string; empty sends `{"input": …}`). `blocked` and `reason` are dotted paths
+into the JSON answer, numbers for list items; true, a number above zero, a
+non-empty list or a string other than "false" is unsafe. On input the
+service reads the latest user turn as the model will, with what `redact`
+took out still out; on output the whole answer, once, at its end, as the
+client reads it — with `restore`, the values put back. Being at the end, a
+service can stop a streamed answer only where it is held back
+(`stream: buffer_all`): released a sentence at a time, the client has read
+it by then, and what the service finds ends the stream with
+`content_filter`, flags it and is recorded. The rule recorded is
+`service:<name>:<reason>`. The service is told the text only, never who
+sent it. Under `fail: open`, the default, a service that cannot be asked
+lets the text through — and a caller can make it fail, sending what it
+refuses to read; give `fail: closed` where the service must decide. Of an
+answer asked for with `n` above 1, the service reads the first.
+
 ## Where a policy applies

 `guard.default` applies everywhere. Others are attached to a part of the
@@ -89,13 +89,36 @@ CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -o llmgw ./cmd/llmgw

 **The short way is the screens.** On the machine that will be the control
 plane, run `sudo llmgw` with nothing after it. With nothing installed it asks
-whether this is one machine or three for high availability; for three, it asks
-for the other two — address, user, and an ssh key, the ssh agent, or a
-password, and the sudo password if sudo asks for one; or, for a machine
-nothing may log into, a join code to run there with `sudo llmgw join <code>`,
-which dials out to this one on port 7444 — checks all three before
-installing anything (system, room, clock, ports, internet, whether they reach
-one another), shows the plan, and installs. Passwords are held in memory for
+whether this is one machine or three for high availability, then lists what
+an install is made of, each part with what it is for and what is missing
+without it:
+
+| Part | | Its settings (Enter) |
+|---|---|---|
+| Control plane | always | the administrator, other names for the certificate, the portal's language, the sign-up form |
+| Store | always | SQLite or PostgreSQL on this machine; with three machines, PostgreSQL under Patroni on the other two |
+| Control plane on all three | three machines, on | a floating address for whichever leads |
+| Model mirror | on | here, and in which directory, or on another machine |
+| This machine as a node | on for one machine | |
+| Starter model | on for one machine | which: Qwen2.5 0.5B, 1.5B or 3B, Qwen3 4B, 8B or 14B, or any GGUF on Hugging Face; its context |
+| Pictures and 3D | off | |
+| Guardrails' judge | on | refuse or serve flagged when it does not answer; copies; how long it is waited for; what it refuses |
+| Firewall | on | |
+| Notifications | off | the webhooks |
+| Limits and keys | always | requests and tokens a minute; the longest a key lives |
+| Taking turns on a card | always | how long an on-demand model goes unused, and is safe after loading |
+| Offline bundle | off | the bundle and its sha256 |
+
+Space turns a part on or off; Enter opens its settings, which say more. What
+cannot go together is said before anything is done — a starter model with no
+mirror to fetch it into — and closing the message opens the setting that is
+wrong. For three machines it then asks for the other two — address, user, and
+an ssh key, the ssh agent, or a password, and the sudo password if sudo asks
+for one; or, for a machine nothing may log into, a join code to run there
+with `sudo llmgw join <code>`, which dials out to this one on port 7444 —
+checks all three before installing anything (system, room, clock, ports,
+internet, whether they reach one another). Last it shows the plan, part by
+part, what is left out and what that costs, and installs. Passwords are held in memory for
 the run only; a sudo password lets the user sudo without one until the install
 finishes, and is then taken back. At the end it shows the administrator's
 password and the command that does the same from a script.
@@ -129,15 +152,24 @@ That is the whole step. In order, it:
   `nvidia-smi` finds any, on CPU otherwise — and waits for it to install its
   engine
 9. closes llmgw's internal ports to everything but the cluster's networks
-10. fetches Qwen3Guard-Gen 0.6B, the guardrails' judge, and runs two
-    replicas on the CPUs of nodes with room — this one, or the first that
-    join ([guardrails.md](guardrails.md#a-judge-model) has one on a GPU too)
+10. fetches Qwen3Guard-Gen 0.6B, the guardrails' judge, and runs it on
+    CPUs: one replica on up to four cores when this machine is the only
+    node, two on two cores each on the nodes of a larger cluster ([guardrails.md](guardrails.md#a-judge-model) has one on a GPU too)
 11. fetches Qwen2.5 0.5B into the mirror and serves it on this node, so the
    first thing anyone opens `/chat` to find is a model that answers. A
    machine without room for it is told so within two minutes, and why.

 `--no-mirror` and `--no-node` leave out 7 and 8, `--no-firewall` 9,
-`--no-guard-model` 10 and `--no-model` 11. An NVIDIA card with no working
+`--no-guard-model` 10 and `--no-model` 11. Every setting the screens ask for
+is a flag too, and the plan shows the command with them: `--starter qwen3-8b`
+(or `hf:<owner>/<repo>/<file>.gguf`) and `--starter-context`, `--mirror-dir`,
+`--judge-fail open`, `--judge-categories`, `--judge-replicas`,
+`--judge-budget`, `--language tr`, `--signup-open`, `--default-rpm`,
+`--default-tpm`, `--max-key-ttl`, `--media` (pictures and 3D: ComfyUI on the
+nodes, and `presets.auto`), `--evict-after-idle` and `--min-lifetime`. They
+go into `server.yaml` as init writes it, and become the cluster's first
+settings when it starts; a `server.yaml` already there is never overwritten,
+so run again they change nothing — the settings page does. An NVIDIA card with no working
 driver is reported rather than silently ignored; install the driver and run
 init again to serve on it.

@@ -155,15 +187,43 @@ demonstration one:
 | Requests | every key limited (60 a minute, 200 000 tokens a minute) and priced, so budgets bind |
 | Guardrails | the `baseline` policy on every request: secrets in prompts and answers refused, card numbers masked, injection attempts recorded, and the judge refusing violence, crime, weapons, child abuse, privacy violations, hate, self-harm and sexual content, in prompts and answers |

-The judge runs as two replicas, each on a CPU — about half a second for a
-short text on any CPU with AVX2 — and reads a streamed answer every 600
-characters. The policy fails **closed**: a request the judge cannot read
-within 5 seconds is refused with 503 rather than served unjudged, and
-`judge_unavailable` goes to the notification webhooks. Two replicas are what
-make that bearable; on one small machine, or a VM without AVX2 (see
+The judge runs on CPUs. A judgment of about 280 tokens took 2.3 s on four
+cores, 4.2 s on two and 8.0 s on one (a 4-core VM). It also reads a
+streamed answer every 600 characters. The policy fails **closed**: a request
+the judge cannot read within 5 seconds is refused with 503 rather than
+served unjudged, and `judge_unavailable` goes to the notification webhooks.
+So a judge gets cores of its own: on one machine one replica on up to four,
+and on a larger cluster two replicas of two cores each, spread over its nodes
+so that losing one leaves the other. On a machine of fewer than four cores,
+a busy one, or a VM without AVX2 (see
 [step 6](#6-setting-the-nodes-cpu-model-if-it-is-a-vm)), the judge is the
-first thing to fail, so `fail: open` — serve it, recorded as flagged — or
-`--no-guard-model` is the choice there. Defamation, specialized advice,
+first thing to fail. The choices there are a longer `latency_budget`,
+`fail: open` (serve the request, recorded as flagged), the judge on a GPU,
+or `--no-guard-model`.
+
+init times the judge once it is up. If a judgment takes more than half the
+wait, or more than the wait when several come at once, it says so before the
+next steps, with what to do. The wait itself is not changed without being
+asked. `llmgw ctl guard judge check` does the same at any time:
+
+```
+qwen3guard-0.6b, 2 replica(s) ready, a request waits 5.0 s for it
+  alone:    2.4, 2.3, 2.3 s
+  4 at once: slowest 6.1 s; about 0.7 judgments a second, so about 0.3 requests a second with short answers
+tight: a busy moment passes the budget
+```
+
+In a three-machine install the judges are better on machines of their own.
+On a 4-core control plane that was also a node, 38 of 60 requests under load
+were refused for want of a judgment. With the judges on a node of their own
+(4 cores, two judges of two cores each), 2 were refused. The setup screen asks
+for up to two **judge machines** after the store's two, or give
+`--judge-node user@host` to `server init`, once for each. Each is added as a
+node labelled `llmgw.role: judge`, and the judge's profile selects that
+label, so the judges run only there and nothing else does. Four cores and
+8 GB are enough for two judges.
+
+Defamation, specialized advice,
 intellectual property and elections are left out of what it refuses: they
 catch too much ordinary work. [guardrails.md](guardrails.md) has the rest.

@@ -331,7 +391,11 @@ by itself. Three things are worth knowing before you edit it:
 - `default_rpm`, `default_tpm` and `default_price` are what make limits and
  budgets mean anything. Without a price every request costs zero and a budget
  never binds; without the defaults, a project created without limits is
-  metered by nothing at all.
+  metered by nothing at all. A price may set `cached_per_1k` beside
+  `prompt_per_1k`: the prompt tokens the engine or provider read from its
+  cache (the answer's `cached_tokens`) are charged at it, the rest at the
+  prompt rate. A provider that bills cached reads at a tenth is
+  `{prompt_per_1k: 2500, cached_per_1k: 250, completion_per_1k: 10000}`.
 - `control.enabled: true` is what makes this a control plane while its catalog
  is empty. Without it, a file with no models is refused as having nothing to
  serve.
@@ -812,6 +876,27 @@ Nothing to do here if you built the mirror in step 3 — the agent fetches what
 model's `source` names, and that source is your mirror. This section is for the
 arrangements where the files are already on the machine.

+**Weights in a pickle format are refused.** `.bin`, `.pt`, `.pth`, `.ckpt` and
+`.pkl` are Python pickles, and loading one runs whatever it holds, as the
+engine's user, on the node — which is how the malicious models found on Hugging
+Face work. A model whose source is one, or a mirror version holding one, is
+refused when it is added and by the node before it fetches anything; vLLM and
+SGLang given a model by its Hugging Face id read only its safetensors. Take the
+repository's safetensors or GGUF. A model that has no other form, and whose
+files were checked, can say so:
+
+```yaml
+- name: triposr
+  source: http://mirror:8081/triposr/<rev>/model.ckpt
+  allow_pickle: true
+```
+
+A local path is judged by its name as any source is; a local directory is
+not looked into. What an engine downloads itself by a Hugging Face id, past
+the node — an adapter given by its id, a TensorRT-LLM model's — is refused
+when the model is added, unless it says `allow_pickle`: mirror its
+safetensors and give that instead.
+
 Put them where the node can read them. `scp`, a shared filesystem, or the
 engine's own downloader are all valid, and which you want depends on how many
 nodes you have.
@@ -970,6 +1055,27 @@ A node with no location is placed as before, as a rack of its own.
 See [facility-aware-placement.md](facility-aware-placement.md) for power caps
 and holds.

+### A card in the wrong slot
+
+An x16 card in a slot wired x8 or x4, behind a riser, or in a slot of an
+older PCIe generation than the card's, links slower than it was built to and
+works otherwise. A model on the card still decodes at the card's own memory
+speed, but it loads slower, a replica split over several cards by PCIe is
+slower, and so is anything that spills to the host. Each card's agent reads
+how its link stands — the fastest generation card and slot allow together,
+and the lanes in use — against what the card could do, and the node says so
+among its warnings (the dashboard, the console's Nodes, `llmgw doctor`):
+
+```
+GPU 1 (NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3) linked at x8 of its x16 lanes: 31.5 GB/s where it
+could have 63.0. Check the slot (wired fewer lanes, or an older generation), a
+riser, or the BIOS's PCIe setting
+```
+
+The generation a card reports now drops while it idles, to save power; what is
+compared is the fastest it may reach, which does not. `lspci -vv -s BUS-ID`
+shows the same: `LnkCap` is the card's, `LnkSta` the link's.
+
 ## 6. Setting the node's CPU model, if it is a VM

 Proxmox defaults a VM to `kvm64`, which hides AVX, AVX2, FMA and even SSE4.2
@@ -1038,6 +1144,27 @@ qwen2.5-coder-3b-instruct  yes      1/1       ready    coder
 No restart, and it survives one: models added this way are stored, while
 anything in `server.yaml` is declarative and returns on every start.

+A profile may load weights of its own. An embedding model, for example, can
+be served by vLLM from its repository on a card and by llama.cpp from a GGUF
+on CPUs, as one model:
+
+```yaml
+name: qwen3-embed-4b
+source: Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-4B          # what a profile loads unless it says
+capabilities: { embeddings: true }
+profiles:
+  - name: gpu
+    engine: vllm
+    gpu_class: 6000-24g
+    args: ["--runner", "pooling"]
+  - name: cpu
+    engine: llamacpp
+    source: hf:Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-4B-GGUF/Qwen3-Embedding-4B-Q8_0.gguf
+```
+
+Updates and canaries move the model's `source`; a profile with its own keeps
+it.
+
 ### Models that load when someone asks

 A cluster with more models than GPUs can hold every model in its catalog and
@@ -1266,10 +1393,185 @@ catalog, and a key rotated in the file is used within seconds. A model whose key
 file cannot be read is not offered. Everything else applies as to any model:
 prices and budgets, rate limits, usage records, and key allowlists.

+A provider's limits are per key. With several keys, one answering 429 need not
+hold up the model: give them all, each with an optional weight (its share
+against the others'), in place of `api_key_file`:
+
+```yaml
+  external:
+    url: https://api.openai.com
+    model: gpt-4o-mini
+    api_key_files:
+      - {file: /etc/llmgw/secrets/openai-1.key, weight: 2}
+      - {file: /etc/llmgw/secrets/openai-2.key}
+```
+
+Each key is an endpoint of its own, `external:cloud-mini#1`, `#2`. A key that
+answers 429 is passed over while its breaker is open, and the request goes to
+another. One that answers 401 (revoked, expired, mistyped) is passed over too,
+and `external_key_refused` goes to the notification webhooks, naming the
+endpoint and never the key. The usage records say which key answered by the
+same name. A key whose file cannot be read is left out, and the others stay.
+
 **Its prompts leave the cluster.** Decide who may send them: a key or project
 whose allowlist leaves the external model out cannot reach it, as a fallback or
 by name. The cluster page and `ctl models` mark it `external`.

+### Pictures from ComfyUI
+
+Clients ask for pictures at OpenAI's `/v1/images/generations`. llmgw has them
+made by ComfyUI: it fills a ComfyUI workflow with the request, queues it,
+waits, and sends the pictures back as `b64_json`.
+
+**On the cluster's own cards.** Use engine `comfyui`. The model is placed on a
+GPU node like any other, started when asked for, and stopped when unused.
+
+**The short way: a preset.** Some models come with llmgw, with their
+workflow, custom nodes, packages and licence already found and tried:
+
+```
+llmgw ctl model presets
+llmgw ctl model add flux-schnell     # pictures, Apache 2.0, a card of 24 GB, Volta or newer
+llmgw ctl model add triposr          # 3D models from a picture, MIT, a card of 8 GB
+```
+
+A preset's profile says the card it needs, not a class, so it places on
+whatever cards the site has. When the cluster's settings name no ComfyUI,
+adding one sets `engines.comfyui` to the version this release installs, and
+every node with an NVIDIA GPU installs it; a cluster that names a version,
+or `""` for none, keeps it; the control planes then start again on that
+setting, standbys first.
+
+They also come by themselves. Once a node has a card that fits one, and the
+catalog has nothing that makes what it makes, the leader adds it, on demand —
+where the cluster already installs ComfyUI; it never sets `engines.comfyui`
+by itself. A preset somebody removes stays out until it is added again.
+`llmgw ctl model presets auto off` (the setting `presets.auto`) stops it.
+
+The cluster page on the portal has a **Pictures and 3D models** card under
+the models: each preset, the classes of card here it fits, whether it is in
+the catalog and who added it, why the leader has not, an **Add** button (one
+that would also install ComfyUI says so first) and the switch for adding
+them by themselves. In the console, the models screen shows the same: **A**
+adds one, **P** turns adding them by themselves on or off.
+`llmgw ctl model presets` prints it. The rest of this section is for a model
+of your own.
+
+The node must offer the engine. Ask for it in the cluster's settings, and every
+node with an NVIDIA GPU installs it:
+
+```
+llmgw ctl config set engines.comfyui 0.39.2
+```
+
+The agent fetches ComfyUI's source from GitHub and checks it against the
+digest llmgw holds for that version. GitHub publishes none for a tag's archive,
+so a version llmgw does not know is refused. The agent then builds a Python
+environment beside the source, under `/opt/llmgw/engines/comfyui/`. Its
+dependencies are resolved as PyPI stood the day after the release. torch comes
+from PyPI (CUDA 13), from PyTorch's CUDA 12.9 build where the driver is older
+than 580, or from its CUDA 12.6 build on cards older than Turing (a V100):
+torch's CUDA 12.8 and newer builds have no kernels for them. The install is
+checked on the node's GPU, and takes about 10 GB.
+`engine_overrides` can keep it off nodes that should not have it.
+
+Alternatively, install ComfyUI by hand. You need a directory with `main.py` and
+its environment in `.venv`, readable by the user engines run as
+(`llmgw-engine`). Name it in that node's `agent.yaml`; a node with one named
+there is not given the installed one:
+
+```yaml
+engines:
+  comfyui:
+    dir: /opt/comfyui            # python: defaults to /opt/comfyui/.venv/bin/python
+```
+
+Then add the model:
+
+```yaml
+- name: flux-schnell
+  source: hf:Comfy-Org/flux1-schnell/flux1-schnell-fp8.safetensors
+  comfyui:
+    workflow: flux-schnell       # or flux-dev, or a JSON file
+  scaling: {min: 0, max: 1, idle_timeout: 15m}
+  profiles:
+    - name: gpu
+      engine: comfyui
+      gpu_class: 6000-24g
+      tp: 1
+```
+
+The source is fetched as for any model. It can be one file, such as the
+single-file checkpoints the built-in workflows load. It can also be a mirror
+set (a URL ending in `/`) for a model in several files, such as a diffusion
+model, its text encoders and its VAE. ComfyUI sees every file of a set by its
+own name, so a workflow of your own can load each one. A set must name the
+file that `{{checkpoint}}` stands for in `comfyui.checkpoint`. A single file
+is named by its own file name.
+
+ComfyUI asks nobody for a key. The agent therefore starts it behind a gate
+(`llmgw comfyui-gate`). ComfyUI listens on the node's loopback only. The gate
+listens on the replica's port, demands the replica's key, and lets through only
+what the router asks: queueing, waiting, fetching a picture and cancelling.
+Uploads and node installs are refused. Each replica has its own directory,
+`~llmgw-engine/comfyui/REPLICA`, and ComfyUI's output can be read with `llmgw
+ctl logs NODE --source SHARD`. A profile's `args` go to `main.py`.
+`--disable-smart-memory` frees the card between pictures, at the cost of loading
+the model again for each one.
+
+**On a ComfyUI server outside the cluster.** Make it an external model with
+`api: comfyui`:
+
+```yaml
+- name: flux-schnell
+  source: external
+  external:
+    url: http://10.0.0.147:8188                  # ComfyUI, started with --listen
+    model: flux1-schnell-fp8.safetensors         # the checkpoint, as ComfyUI lists it
+    api: comfyui
+    workflow: flux-schnell                       # or flux-dev, or a JSON file
+```
+
+Like any external model, its requests count as leaving the cluster.
+
+`flux-schnell` (the default) and `flux-dev` are built in. They suit the
+single-file FLUX checkpoints that ComfyUI loads with `CheckpointLoaderSimple`.
+For any other model, export the workflow from ComfyUI with **Save (API)** and
+name the file. In the file, put placeholders where the request's values go:
+
+- `{{prompt}}` and `{{negative_prompt}}` are the prompts.
+- `{{width}}` and `{{height}}` are the size.
+- `{{n}}` is the batch size.
+- `{{seed}}` is the seed.
+- `{{steps|4}}` and `{{guidance|3.5}}` take the value after the `|` when the
+  request leaves them out.
+- `{{checkpoint}}` is the `model` above.
+
+A request is OpenAI's: `prompt`, `n` (at most 4), `size` (each side a multiple
+of 16, from 256 to 2048) and `response_format: b64_json`. Beyond those, it may
+send `seed`, `steps`, `negative_prompt` and `guidance`. The seed used comes
+back in `x-llmgw-seed`. `url` is not offered, because pictures are kept
+nowhere. ComfyUI also writes the workflow into each PNG; llmgw strips it
+before the picture is sent.
+
+Requests for pictures pass the same checks as any other request: keys,
+allowlists, limits, admission, and the guardrails on the prompt. A client that
+leaves takes its workflow off the ComfyUI queue.
+
+Each request's usage row records how many pictures it made (`llmgw ctl request
+ID` shows them). A picture's price is set with `per_image`, in micro-units like
+the other prices, and is charged on top of the prompt's tokens:
+
+```yaml
+auth:
+  pricing:
+    flux-schnell: {prompt_per_1k: 0, per_image: 20000}
+```
+
+An external ComfyUI on a card that llmgw also places models on should be
+started with `--disable-smart-memory`. Without it, ComfyUI keeps the model on
+the card after each picture, and llmgw sees that memory as somebody else's.
+
 ### Federating clusters

 Another llmgw cluster — another site, another team's GPUs — can be a provider
@@ -1327,6 +1629,55 @@ Not yet: models declared in server.yaml cannot name a peer's model as a
 fallback (the catalog in the file is checked before the peers are read), and
 a peer behind a private CA needs that CA in the system's trust store.

+### Changing a served model's context
+
+How much one request may use is set when a model is served. To change it
+afterwards:
+
+```
+llmgw ctl model context qwen-7b 32768             # tokens a request
+llmgw ctl model context qwen-7b 32768 --slots 4   # llama.cpp: four at once
+```
+
+The catalog, the engine's arguments (`--ctx-size` and `--parallel` for
+llama.cpp, `--max-model-len` for vLLM, `--context-length` for SGLang) and
+the memory its KV cache takes change together. A context longer than the
+model was trained for is refused, and so is one its cards cannot hold — with
+the figures, so you know how far to go. Its replicas are then started again on
+it, one by one, a new one ready before the old one stops. The console has the
+same under a model's menu, Context length…. A model declared in the cluster's
+settings is changed there (`llmgw ctl config edit`).
+
+### Moving a served model to more cards
+
+How many cards of one node each replica uses can be changed while the model
+is served:
+
+```
+llmgw ctl model gpus qwen3-coder-30b 2              # two cards a replica
+llmgw ctl model gpus llama-70b 4 --profile h100     # the model has several profiles on cards
+llmgw ctl model gpus qwen3-coder-30b 2 --in-place   # no room beside the running replica
+```
+
+vLLM, SGLang and TensorRT-LLM spread the model by tensor parallel (`tp`),
+which needs the count to divide the model's KV heads or be divided by them:
+a model with 8 splits 2, 4, 8 or 16 ways, not 3 or 12. llama.cpp has no
+tensor parallel; it splits the layers over the cards (`gpus_per_node`), and
+a `--tensor-split` written for the old cards is dropped. ComfyUI and Strata
+run on one card. A count no node has is refused, and so is one whose cards
+would not hold the weights and the context — with the figures; fewer cards
+with a long context may need `llmgw ctl model context` first.
+
+Its replicas are then started again on it, each new one ready beside the old
+before the old stops. That needs the cards free beside it: on a node of two
+cards with the model on one, two do not fit until it is gone, and the command
+says so. `--in-place` stops each replica first and starts its replacement on
+the cards it held and the free ones, and the model does not answer while the
+new one loads — a model with several replicas keeps answering on the others.
+A replica spread over several nodes is laid out by hand, with a fabric
+(`nodes`, `gpus_per_node` in the profile). The console has the same under a
+model's menu, GPUs….
+
 ### Trying new weights on some of the traffic first

 When a model's repository publishes new weights, `llmgw ctl model update`
@@ -1550,6 +1901,7 @@ and accounting exactly as an API call does.
 | `POST /v1/audio/transcriptions`, `/v1/audio/translations` | the multipart form passed through as it came, to an engine that serves speech to text: vLLM with Whisper |
 | `POST /v1/moderations` | answered by the guardrails' judge model (`role: guard`): `flagged`, and the judge's own categories |
 | `/v1/files`, `/v1/batches` | batches; see [Batches](#batches) |
+| `/v1/3d/generations` | 3D models, as jobs asked after; see [Jobs](#jobs-3d-models) |
 | `GET /v1/models` | the models this key may use |

 ## Watching it
@@ -1650,6 +2002,23 @@ same event about the same thing is sent at most once an hour, so a budget that
 refuses a thousand requests is one message. `llmgw ctl notify test` sends a
 test event to each webhook and says how each answered.

+Setup asks for them: **Notification webhooks** on its first page, or
+`--webhook` to `llmgw server init`, as often as there are webhooks:
+
+```
+sudo llmgw server init --admin ops@example.com \
+  --webhook https://hooks.slack.com/services/… \
+  --webhook json:https://ops.example.com/llmgw
+```
+
+An address of Slack's, or one with `/hooks/` in it (Mattermost, Rocket.Chat)
+or ending in `/slack`, is sent Slack's `{"text": …}`; any other the event as
+JSON; `slack:` or `json:` in front says which. They are added to the
+cluster's settings beside any already there — run again, nothing is added
+twice — and once the control plane runs on them, each is sent a test, whose
+answer setup prints. Events to choose and a signing secret are set in the
+settings afterwards (`llmgw ctl config edit`).
+
 ### Tracing

 Metrics say that a model took four minutes to start; a trace says where they
@@ -1683,6 +2052,18 @@ So "why did qwen take four minutes to start" is one trace: find `replica start`
 with `llmgw.model` = qwen, and the node's spans beneath it say whether the
 time went to the download, the launch or the engine loading.

+An inference request and each `upstream` attempt also carry the
+[OpenTelemetry GenAI conventions](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/gen-ai/),
+so a tool that reads them — Grafana, Jaeger, Langfuse, Arize Phoenix — shows
+llmgw's calls as model calls without a dashboard made for llmgw:
+`gen_ai.operation.name` (`chat`, `text_completion`, `embeddings`),
+`gen_ai.request.model`, `gen_ai.request.max_tokens`, `temperature` and `top_p`
+when the client set them, `gen_ai.conversation.id` (the session),
+`gen_ai.response.model`, and `gen_ai.usage.input_tokens`, `output_tokens` and
+`cache_read.input_tokens`. On an `upstream` span `gen_ai.provider.name` is the
+engine that answered (`vllm`, `llamacpp`, `external`, …). What was asked and
+what was answered are never in a span.
+
 A node follows the control plane's decision: a start the control plane kept is
 traced on the node whatever the agent's own `sample_ratio`, and one it sampled
 out is not; the agent's ratio decides only for what arrives with no trace, as
@@ -1847,8 +2228,10 @@ llmgw keys cache --project Acme/ml/train --off
 - **Policies still apply:** the limits are checked and the guardrails judge
  the request before the cache is looked in, and the output policy judges a
  reused answer as it would a new one. A request continuing a stored
-  conversation, or under a `no_store` policy, is never answered from the
-  cache nor kept in it.
+  conversation, under a `no_store` policy, or whose redacted values are put
+  back in its answer (`restore: true`) is never answered from the cache nor
+  kept in it: redacted, two callers' requests read the same, and the answer
+  has the first caller's values in it.
 - **What a hit costs:** nothing. It is recorded as a request — status 200,
  the model, the key, the rate limit's count — with no tokens and no cost,
  marked as a cache hit (`llmgw ctl request <id>` says so), so it spends no
@@ -1868,8 +2251,46 @@ router:
    max_entry_bytes: 2097152 # 2 MB
 ```

-`llmgw_cache_requests_total{model,result}` counts hits, misses and
-bypasses, `llmgw_cache_bytes` and `llmgw_cache_entries` what is held. The
+### Similar questions
+
+A help desk asked "how do I reset my password" in forty wordings asks the
+model forty times under the exact cache. `--similar` also gives a chat
+question the answer to one like it:
+
+```
+llmgw keys cache --project Acme/support/desk --ttl 24h --similar 0.95
+```
+
+```yaml
+router:
+  cache:
+    embedding_model: bge-m3   # an embedding model in the catalog
+```
+
+- **What is compared:** the last user message, embedded by
+  `router.cache.embedding_model`, against the questions already answered
+  in the same conversation — the same system prompt, the same earlier turns,
+  tools, `response_format` and sampling settings, the same model and
+  project. A like question in another conversation, after a tool's result,
+  or with a picture, a sound or a file in it, is not taken for this one. The exact cache is asked first, and an
+  exact hit embeds nothing.
+- **How alike:** the cosine similarity of the two embeddings, at least the
+  project's `--similar`. 0.95 is strict; below 0.9 different questions start
+  to meet. A question that differs only in a number or a name ("2+2" and
+  "2+3") can be closer than that, so a project whose questions turn on
+  figures should not use it. A question over 2,000 characters is reused only
+  when it is the same.
+- **Said:** `x-llmgw-cache: similar`, with `x-llmgw-cache-similarity`
+  and `Age`. Recorded and charged as a hit. The same rules as a hit decide
+  which answers are reused and kept; guardrails judge the request before.
+- **The embedding** is asked of the model by the gateway on its own account,
+  as a judge is, within 2 seconds; every miss waits for it. Without the
+  model, or when it does not answer, only the same request is reused. The
+  vectors are kept in memory with their answers and counted in
+  `router.cache.max_bytes`.
+
+`llmgw_cache_requests_total{model,result}` counts hits, similar hits, misses
+and bypasses, `llmgw_cache_bytes` and `llmgw_cache_entries` what is held. The
 console has it as **Cache answers…** on a project.

 ## Batches
@@ -1908,6 +2329,143 @@ Each line of the file is `{"custom_id": …, "method": "POST", "url":
  or past their retention — a project under a guardrails policy with
  `no_store` is refused it.

+## Jobs: 3D models
+
+A 3D model from a picture takes minutes on a card that first has to be
+emptied of whatever else was on it. No client should hold a connection for
+that, so it is a job: queued, answered with an id, asked after, its result
+downloaded.
+
+```
+curl http://gateway:8080/v1/3d/generations -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLMGW_API_KEY" \
+  -d '{"model": "trellis2", "image": "<base64>"}'
+# → 202 {"id": "job_…", "status": "queued", …}
+curl http://gateway:8080/v1/3d/generations/job_… -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLMGW_API_KEY"
+# → {"status": "completed", "output_file_id": "file-…", "content_type": "model/gltf-binary", "usage": {…}}
+curl http://gateway:8080/v1/files/file-…/content -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLMGW_API_KEY" -o model.glb
+curl -X POST http://gateway:8080/v1/3d/generations/job_…/cancel -H "Authorization: Bearer $LLMGW_API_KEY"
+```
+
+- **Status:** `queued`, `running`, `completed`, `failed` (with `error`),
+  `cancelling`, `cancelled`, `expired` (not finished within 24 h).
+  `progress` carries what the engine said of the work so far, once it says
+  anything; `GET /v1/3d/generations` lists the caller's jobs. While the
+  model waits for another on-demand model to give up the card,
+  `progress` is `{"state":"waiting_gpu","held_by":"flux-schnell","eta_seconds":N}`:
+  N is when the holder is stopped (idle and old enough to evict, or at its
+  idle timeout) plus how long the model's last start took, and is left out
+  when that is not known. A request made directly gets the same as a 503
+  with `X-Llmgw-Waiting-For`, `X-Llmgw-Eta-Seconds` and `Retry-After`.
+- **Refused at the door:** no key, a model that is not there or not in the
+  key's allowlist, a request the model cannot serve. Refused when served,
+  and said as the job's error: a spent budget, the guardrails, a model
+  that will not come up.
+- **How it is served:** the request is kept as it was sent and replayed by
+  whichever gateway holds the job's lease, through the same path a
+  client's request takes — limits, admission in the key's band, guardrails,
+  accounting — by the leading control plane, since a standby has nothing
+  to send it to. A model said to fit nowhere is asked for again for five
+  minutes before that is the job's error: an agent re-registering says so
+  for a few seconds. It is one usage record under the job's id, tagged
+  `job=<id>`, charged like any request; `GET` shows the usage once it is
+  done. A model still loading, a rate limit or a full queue is waited out
+  for as long as the job has: nobody is holding a connection, which is the
+  point.
+- **Surviving a restart:** a gateway that stops hands its jobs to another
+  within two minutes; a job it was running is run again from the start.
+- **What it keeps:** the request as sent, and the result as a file owned
+  by the key's project, kept `router.batch.retain_days` (30) like a batch's
+  files; the job's record goes with it. A project under a `no_store`
+  policy is refused jobs, as it is batches.
+
+A request may also send `seed` and `resolution` (the model's own grid, a
+multiple of 32 from 64 to 2048). The picture should show one object on a
+plain background: the model makes a mesh of what it sees, background
+included.
+
+### A model that makes them
+
+A 3D model is made by a ComfyUI model whose `comfyui.output` is `meshes`
+(see [Pictures from ComfyUI](#pictures-from-comfyui) for engine `comfyui`).
+Its workflow is a JSON file in ComfyUI's API format: `{{image}}` is the
+uploaded picture, which a `LoadImage` node reads; `{{seed}}`,
+`{{resolution|256}}` and `{{checkpoint}}` are as for pictures. The node that
+saves the mesh may save a GLB or an OBJ; an OBJ leaves the gateway as a GLB,
+vertex colours kept.
+
+TripoSR (MIT), on any card of 8 GB, comes with llmgw: `llmgw ctl model add
+triposr`. What that adds is this entry, and its workflow is built in:
+
+```yaml
+- name: triposr
+  source: hf:stabilityai/TripoSR/model.ckpt
+  allow_pickle: true               # published as this checkpoint only
+  comfyui:
+    workflow: triposr              # built in; a model of your own names a JSON file on every control plane
+    output: meshes
+    nodes:
+      - repo: https://github.com/flowtyone/ComfyUI-Flowty-TripoSR
+        commit: a0c94ac60a7cc062604f61aeeea6d0d493521de3
+        requirements: [omegaconf, trimesh, scikit-image, imageio,
+                       "transformers>=4.50.3,<5", "huggingface-hub<1", tokenizers,
+                       rembg, onnxruntime]
+  license:
+    id: MIT
+    name: MIT
+    commercial: true
+    url: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/TripoSR/blob/main/LICENSE
+    notice: "Made with TripoSR (Stability AI and Tripo AI, MIT). ..."
+  scaling: {min: 0, max: 1, idle_timeout: 10m}
+  profiles:
+    - {name: gpu, engine: comfyui, tp: 1, gpu: {min_compute_capability: 7.0, min_memory_gb: 8}}
+```
+
+```json
+{
+  "1": {"class_type": "LoadImage", "inputs": {"image": "{{image}}"}},
+  "5": {"class_type": "LLMGWPrepareForMesh", "inputs": {"image": ["1", 0], "mask": ["1", 1],
+        "foreground_ratio": 0.85, "background": 0.5, "remove_background": "auto", "rembg_model": "u2net"}},
+  "2": {"class_type": "TripoSRModelLoader", "inputs": {"model": "{{checkpoint}}", "chunk_size": 8192}},
+  "3": {"class_type": "TripoSRSampler", "inputs": {"model": ["2", 0], "reference_image": ["5", 0],
+        "geometry_resolution": "{{resolution|256}}", "threshold": 25.0}},
+  "4": {"class_type": "TripoSRViewer", "inputs": {"mesh": ["3", 0]}}
+}
+```
+
+`LLMGWPrepareForMesh` comes with the gate: it cuts the object out — by the
+picture's alpha, or by rembg where it has none — and centres it on a plain
+background, without which the background becomes geometry.
+
+- **Custom nodes** are named by https repository and full commit (a branch
+  is refused: it moves). The gate puts each in the replica's own
+  `custom_nodes` and installs its `requirements` beside the replica, never
+  into ComfyUI's environment. A package named there is installed at the
+  range named; every other one at the version ComfyUI already runs. A
+  package named is first on ComfyUI's path, so its range must suit ComfyUI
+  as well. TripoSR's checkpoint loads with transformers 4, which ComfyUI's
+  `>=4.50.3` allows.
+- **Progress:** the gate listens to ComfyUI's websocket and the router
+  writes what it hears into the job: `{"state": "queued", "ahead": 2}`,
+  then `{"state": "running", "node_class": "KSampler", "step": 12,
+  "steps": 30, "percent": 40}` for a node that counts its steps, and
+  `done` at the end.
+- **Licence:** a model's `license` is shown in `/v1/models`, in the job and
+  on the portal, and written into the GLB's `asset.extras.license`, since
+  the file travels without the API. Choose the model for its licence before
+  its quality when what it makes is shipped. TRELLIS.2 needs Meta's gated
+  DINOv3 and, as published, a background remover under a non-commercial
+  licence; Hunyuan3D's licence excludes the EU, the UK and South Korea.
+- **Price:** `per_mesh` in `auth.pricing`, beside `per_image`; each usage
+  row says how many meshes it made (`meshes`).
+- **Cards:** the strongest models today (TRELLIS.2, Direct3D-S2) need
+  flash-attention, which runs on Ampere and newer. A Turing card such as
+  the RTX 6000 runs TripoSR.
+
+People make them at `/3d` on the portal: they choose a picture and watch
+the job, and the mesh is shown in a viewer (model-viewer, served from the
+gateway) with a download link and the licence. `llmgw ctl 3d list`, `get`
+and `cancel` show and stop every owner's jobs.
+
 ## Conversations across models

 Off everywhere until a project asks. llmgw otherwise stores no message content
@@ -1989,6 +2547,56 @@ Without authentication, `threads.store` and `threads.retain_hours` in
 `server.yaml` keep both conversations and notes in one shared pool. That is for
 one trusted machine only; see [development.md](development.md).

+## Three machines, each a control plane
+
+The screens' three machines are high availability for the gateway as well as
+the store: the two database machines are made control planes too, standing
+by while the first leads — what `server add`, below, does for one machine.
+By command, `--standbys` with `--patroni`, and `--vip` for the floating
+address:
+
+```
+sudo --preserve-env=SSH_AUTH_SOCK llmgw server init --admin you@example.com \
+    --patroni ubuntu@10.0.0.6 --patroni ubuntu@10.0.0.7 \
+    --standbys --vip 10.0.0.160/24 --no-node --no-model
+```
+
+| Machine | Runs |
+|---|---|
+| the first | control plane, leading at first; model mirror; etcd |
+| the other two | control plane, standing by; PostgreSQL under Patroni; etcd |
+
+etcd votes on all three and PostgreSQL is on two, so any one machine can be
+lost: a standby leads within seconds, Patroni promotes the standby database
+if it was the primary, and the floating address follows whichever leads. The
+mirror's management API answers the three control planes' addresses, not
+only its own machine's, so a standby that comes to lead can still fetch and
+add models.
+
+**A second mirror.** The mirror is on the first machine, and without a
+second one, models the nodes already have keep serving while that machine
+is down, and new ones wait for it. With a second, the cluster carries on.
+- **Setting it up:** the screens offer one on either database machine
+  ("A second mirror"); by command, `--second-mirror 1` (or `2`). For an
+  install that has one mirror, run this on the mirror's machine:
+
+  ```
+  sudo llmgw mirror add-peer ubuntu@10.0.0.7 --control-plane 10.0.0.5 --control-plane 10.0.0.6 --control-plane 10.0.0.7
+  ```
+- **Kept in step:** each mirror reads the other every thirty seconds and
+  copies what it lacks, keeping a copy only if its checksum matches.
+  - A model removed from one is removed from the other, even if that one
+    was down at the time and comes back later.
+  - A model added again after it was removed stands on both.
+  - Neither mirror leads.
+- **Control planes:** they name both (`mirror.peers` in the cluster's
+  settings) and send the mirror's management calls to the first that
+  answers.
+- **Nodes:** while the mirror a model's address names is down, a node is
+  given the same file on the other.
+- **Disk:** the second machine needs room for every model, as the first
+  does.
+
 ## Two control planes

 Once the store is replicated (`server init --patroni`, above), one command on
@@ -2005,8 +2613,12 @@ and lets it into the store; it starts there as a standby. Every node is told
 of it within half a minute and fails over to it without being touched.
 `--vip` keeps a floating address on whichever control plane leads, with
 keepalived on both: that is the address to give clients, or a proxy in front.
-Without it, put a load balancer in front that checks `/ready` — not
-`/health`, which is 200 on a standby that would refuse every request.
+Without it, put a proxy in front that sends to whichever answers `/leader`
+with 200 — not `/health`, which is 200 on a standby too, and not `/ready`,
+which is 503 on a leader with no model yet and would take the portal away
+with it. The end of [deploy/proxy/Caddyfile](../deploy/proxy/Caddyfile) has
+Caddy doing that for three control planes, and
+[deploy/ha/](../deploy/ha/README.md#check-leader-not-health) why.

 - **What a failover costs.** Measured on the reference cluster, stopping the
  leader: the standby led within five seconds, every node had moved to it
@@ -2067,6 +2679,89 @@ the same files and keys as `locales/en/`, and its `_meta.*` entries saying how
 it writes numbers and dates. The tests refuse a catalogue that lacks a key a
 page uses.

+## The company's MCP servers
+
+llmgw's `/mcp` can serve the company's own MCP servers beside its own tools.
+Each server, a ticket system, a file server or a database, is registered once.
+Its credentials stay on the control planes, and people's agents are given only
+`/mcp` and their llmgw key.
+
+```
+llmgw ctl mcp add jira --url https://jira.internal/mcp \
+    --description "Acme Jira" --secret-file Authorization=/root/jira-token
+llmgw ctl mcp test jira          # its tools, asked with its credentials
+llmgw keys limits --scope team --id Acme/support --tools 'jira.*'
+```
+
+- **Credentials:**
+  - `--secret-file NAME=FILE` reads a header's value once and keeps it in
+    the store, sealed by the master key, so no file has to be on each
+    control plane.
+  - `--header-ref NAME=REF` reads it at each call from a file, `env:`,
+    `vault:` or `store:` instead.
+  - `--header NAME=VALUE` is for what is not secret.
+- **Who may call what:** tools are named `server.tool` and granted as
+  patterns (`jira.*`, `db.query`) at any level of the tenancy tree, as
+  models are.
+  - A level that names any narrows what is above it: a tool is seen where
+    every level above that names tools names it too. A team under an
+    organization that names `hr.*` sees no `jira.*` whatever the team is
+    given, until the organization names it as well.
+  - Unlike models, **none granted anywhere is none**: a tool reaches into a
+    company system, so it is granted, never assumed.
+  - `keys limits --tools` writes a level's list whole, every server's
+    together; an empty list (`--tools ''`) closes the level to every tool.
+    The console's **MCP servers** screen and the `/admin/mcp` page grant
+    and take back one server's tools: a level given its first list starts
+    from the nearest list above it, so it keeps what it saw; one left
+    naming none goes back to naming none, or stays closed when a level
+    above names tools, so taking one server away opens it to no other. They
+    say when a level above keeps the granted tools out of reach.
+- **The server is told who calls:** `X-Llmgw-Key`, and `X-Llmgw-User` and
+  `X-Llmgw-Project` where there are some. It is called with llmgw's
+  credentials, never the caller's key.
+- **Bounds:** a call has 60 seconds (`--timeout`) and an answer 4 MB. A
+  server's progress is passed on to a client that takes a stream. `--rate N`
+  allows each caller N calls a minute to a server's tools.
+- **Guardrails, both ways:** the caller's policies read a tool's answer as
+  the prompt it becomes.
+  - An instruction planted in a ticket is caught as a pasted one would be
+    (`injection: block`).
+  - Personal data is redacted or refused as the policy says. A refused
+    answer does not reach the agent.
+  - The arguments are read before they leave, so a secret pasted into one
+    does not reach the company system.
+- **A server that keeps failing:** five calls failing in a row take a server
+  out for a minute. Its tools leave the list, and a call is answered at once.
+- **Record:** every call is in `llmgw ctl audit`, with its arguments' size
+  and a digest, never their text. `llmgw_mcp_tool_calls_total` and
+  `llmgw_mcp_tool_call_seconds` count them by server, tool and outcome.
+- **Changes:** a server added, changed or removed on one control plane is
+  served by every one within half a minute; its tool list is read again
+  every five minutes. `--disabled` keeps a server but serves none of its
+  tools.
+
+**This cluster's own, read only.** `llmgw ctl mcp add llmgw --url
+llmgw:admin` registers the cluster itself as a server: tools that say what
+`llmgw ctl` does, and change nothing. It is answered in the control plane's
+own process, with no address and no token to give.
+
+| Tool | Says |
+|---|---|
+| `llmgw.cluster_status` | control planes, store, nodes, models against what they asked for, GPUs, what is unhealthy |
+| `llmgw.list_nodes` | each node's state, GPUs, load, fabrics, agent version and engines |
+| `llmgw.list_models` | each model's replicas ready against wanted, profiles, why one is parked |
+| `llmgw.list_replicas` | each replica's shards: node, GPUs, state (`model` for one model's) |
+| `llmgw.explain_placement` | why a model is not placed, node by node |
+| `llmgw.node_logs` | a node's last agent log lines, or an engine's (`source`) |
+
+Grant it as any other: `llmgw keys limits --scope key --id KEY-ID --tools
+'llmgw.*'`. It is the same as an administrator's view, so grant it to the
+people who would have `ctl`.
+
+Servers over HTTP only for now (the streamable HTTP transport). A server
+that runs as a local process (stdio) is planned.
+
 ## Single sign-on

 People can sign in through your identity provider — Keycloak, Entra ID,
@@ -2074,8 +2769,10 @@ Google, Okta, Authentik, anything that speaks OpenID Connect.

 1. Register a client there with the redirect address
   `https://<gateway>/login/oidc/callback`.
-2. Put its secret in a file only root reads.
-3. Add to `server.yaml`:
+2. Put its secret in a file the llmgw user reads, on every control plane.
+3. Add this to the cluster's settings with `llmgw ctl config edit`. On a
+   cluster with a store, `auth` is the cluster's: the same block in
+   `server.yaml` is not read, and the log says so.

 ```yaml
 auth:
@@ -2124,6 +2821,99 @@ and point it at `https://<gateway>/scim/v2` with that token as the bearer.
  join and leave them. Membership in a group is removed when someone leaves
  it.

+### Entra ID
+
+The console sets this up: `sudo llmgw`, People → Sign-in, **E**. What
+follows is what it writes, and what to do in Entra.
+
+Entra ID is an OpenID Connect provider like the others, with two things to
+set in the app registration:
+
+1. **Redirect URI:** under Authentication, add a Web platform with
+   `https://<gateway>/login/oidc/callback`. The issuer is
+   `https://login.microsoftonline.com/<tenant-id>/v2.0`.
+2. **Groups in the token:** under Token configuration, add a groups claim.
+   Choose **Groups assigned to the application**, and assign the groups you
+   map in `roles` and `memberships` to the enterprise application. Entra
+   sends groups by object id unless you choose to emit names
+   (`sAMAccountName` for groups synced from AD), so write them the same way
+   in the mapping.
+
+Entra leaves the groups out of the token for someone in more than 200 of
+them and sends a pointer to Graph instead. llmgw then keeps that person's
+role and memberships as they were, rather than reading it as no groups, and
+logs an error saying so. "Groups assigned to the application" avoids this.
+So does SCIM below, which Entra also speaks: in the enterprise application
+under Provisioning, set the tenant URL to `https://<gateway>/scim/v2` and
+the secret token to the contents of `auth.scim.token_file`.
+
+## Active Directory
+
+With an on-premises Active Directory, people sign in on the gateway's own
+form with their AD username (`ada`, `CORP\ada`, `ada@corp.example`) and
+password. The gateway checks them with the domain controllers over LDAPS.
+
+The console sets this up and tries it first: `sudo llmgw`, People →
+Sign-in, **D**. It keeps the service account's password in the store
+(`bind_password_file: store:auth/ldap-bind`) and writes the CA into the
+settings (`ca:`), so nothing has to be copied to each control plane.
+By hand it is this block in the cluster's settings (`llmgw ctl config
+edit`), where files it names must then be on every control plane:
+
+```yaml
+auth:
+  enabled: true
+  ldap:
+    urls: [ldaps://dc1.corp.example, ldaps://dc2.corp.example]   # tried in order
+    ca_file: /etc/llmgw/corp-ca.pem         # the domain's CA, when not in the system's
+    bind_dn: CN=svc-llmgw,OU=Service,DC=corp,DC=example
+    bind_password_file: /etc/llmgw/secrets/ldap-bind   # root-only
+    base_dn: OU=Staff,DC=corp,DC=example    # where people are
+    user_filter: (memberOf:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=CN=llmgw-users,OU=Groups,DC=corp,DC=example)
+    label: Acme                             # "Sign in with your Acme account"
+    create_accounts: true
+    roles:                                  # by group CN or full DN; nested groups count
+      admin: [llmgw-admins]
+      operator: [llmgw-ops]
+    memberships:
+      ml-engineers: "team:Acme/ml"
+    sync_interval: 15m                      # negative turns the sync off
+```
+
+- **Service account:** an ordinary domain user is enough: it only reads.
+  It finds the person and reads their groups. The person's password is
+  checked by binding as them, and is never stored.
+- **Encryption:** `ldaps://`, or `ldap://` with `start_tls: true`.
+  Plaintext LDAP is refused, since passwords would cross the network.
+- **Certificate:** the domain controller's certificate must name it in
+  its subject alternative names: a name in the CN only is refused, as are
+  certificates with a negative serial number. Samba's own autogenerated
+  certificate is both, so a Samba DC needs one from a CA (`tls certfile`
+  in smb.conf). A CA file a control plane cannot read turns directory
+  sign-in off on that control plane, said in its log. Local accounts still
+  sign in.
+- **Who may sign in:** enabled user objects under `base_dn` that match
+  `user_filter`. The example admits members of `llmgw-users`, nested groups
+  included.
+- **Accounts:** an account is tied to the person's `objectGUID`, so a changed
+  mail or name is still the same account. An account that already exists
+  with the person's mail is taken over. Without `create_accounts`, only
+  people who already have an account can sign in. Local accounts, such as
+  the administrator `server init` made, keep signing in with their own
+  password.
+- **Sync:** every `sync_interval` the leader reads the directory.
+  - Someone disabled or deleted in AD is suspended and their sessions
+    end.
+  - When they are enabled again they are reinstated. An account an
+    administrator suspended by hand stays suspended.
+  - Roles follow groups, and memberships the directory gave are taken away
+    when the person leaves the group.
+  - A sync that would suspend more than half of the directory's accounts is
+    refused and logged, rather than locking everyone out over a wrong
+    `base_dn` or filter.
+- **Passwords:** a person's password is changed in AD. The gateway sends no
+  reset link for these accounts.
+
 ## Secrets in Vault

 Every setting that names a file holding a secret — the store's `@address`,
@@ -2695,6 +3485,8 @@ requests. On a slow model, set `timeouts.generation` higher.

 - `docs/choosing-models.md` — which models to run and how many, if the answer
  to "we have GPUs, now what" is not already obvious
+- `docs/large-models.md` — a model on several cards or several nodes: how it
+  is split, what each way needs of a card, and bringing one up on a fabric
 - `docs/data.md` — what is stored and what leaves the machine, for the review
  that happens before this is allowed near anyone's documents
 - `docs/reference.md` — every configuration key, generated from the source, so
@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ is available to everyone who may use them.
  A collection stays with the model it was made with: vectors from two
  models cannot be compared.

+  Some embedding models are trained with an instruction before the
+  question and none before the documents. Give it as the entry's
+  `query_prefix`; llmgw puts it before questions only. For
+  Qwen3-Embedding:
+
+  ```yaml
+  query_prefix: "Instruct: Given a web search query, retrieve relevant passages that answer the query\nQuery: "
+  ```
+
  With pgvector 0.7 or later a collection's index is kept at half
  precision (`halfvec`), which halves its memory and takes models of up to
  4000 dimensions; with an older pgvector the limit is 2000. A collection
@@ -137,6 +146,24 @@ Rules that apply:
 - Every document added or removed is in the audit log (`llmgw ctl audit`),
  by name. The text is never recorded.

+### A large import
+
+A few thousand documents ask the embedding model for far more than it can
+answer at once. Give the key that sends them a band of its own, below the
+people's, that may wait for room for minutes rather than the 30 seconds the
+others wait:
+
+```sh
+llmgw ctl config set router.admission.bands '[{name: gold, priority: 300, saturation_ceiling: 0.85},
+  {name: bronze, priority: 100, saturation_ceiling: 0.3}, {name: bulk, priority: 50, saturation_ceiling: 0.3, queue_ttl: 5m}]'
+llmgw keys create import --project Acme/docs --band bulk
+```
+
+The people's questions then go first, and the import waits behind them. A
+request that waits as long as its band allows is answered 504 with
+`Retry-After`, and `llmgw-kb` sends it again rather than counting the
+passage as failed. It gives up after 15 minutes.
+
 ## For everyone: `llmgw-kb`

 ### Get it
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+# llmgw and Kong
+
+For a site that already runs Kong. The two meet over plain HTTP: Kong in
+front of llmgw, as one more API it governs, or Kong behind llmgw, as an
+OpenAI-compatible provider. Nothing of either is built into the other.
+
+Tried with Kong Gateway 3.9 (`kong:3.9`, the last open-source release; 3.10
+and later need a Kong licence) in DB-less mode, in front of llmgw.
+
+## Kong in front of llmgw
+
+Two ways, both tried.
+
+**A plain route.** Kong forwards the request as it came. Tried with chat
+completions, streamed and not; llmgw's other APIs — Anthropic's
+`/v1/messages`, `/v1/responses`, embeddings, pictures — go the same way,
+since Kong does not read them. Kong adds its own authentication, rate limits
+and logging; llmgw still checks the key, the budget and the guardrails.
+
+```yaml
+_format_version: "3.0"
+services:
+- name: llmgw
+  url: https://llm.example.com          # llmgw's client port
+  routes:
+  - name: llmgw
+    paths: [/llmgw]                      # /llmgw/v1/chat/completions → /v1/chat/completions
+```
+
+**Kong's `ai-proxy` plugin**, for Kong's own token statistics on a chat
+route. llmgw is an OpenAI provider whose `upstream_url` is llmgw:
+
+```yaml
+services:
+- name: llmgw-chat
+  url: https://llm.example.com
+  routes:
+  - name: chat
+    paths: [/chat]
+  plugins:
+  - name: ai-proxy
+    config:
+      route_type: llm/v1/chat
+      logging: {log_statistics: true, log_payloads: false}
+      model:
+        provider: openai
+        name: qwen-coder                 # a model llmgw serves
+        options:
+          upstream_url: https://llm.example.com/v1/chat/completions
+```
+
+**Keys.** Without an `auth` block, `ai-proxy` passes the client's
+`Authorization` header on: each team keeps its own llmgw key, and llmgw's
+budgets, limits, guardrails and usage stay per team. With
+`auth: {header_name: Authorization, header_value: "Bearer sk-llmgw-…"}` Kong
+sends one key of its own instead, and llmgw sees every caller as that key —
+then budgets per team are Kong's to keep.
+
+**What Kong counts.** For a whole answer Kong reads llmgw's `usage` and
+records prompt and completion tokens as llmgw did. For a streamed answer
+Kong 3.9 records an estimate of the prompt tokens and no completion tokens,
+even with `stream_options.include_usage` set — the usage chunk reaches it
+and is not read. llmgw's own accounting counts both; use its usage export
+(`llmgw ctl usage export`) or `/admin/usage` for figures to bill by.
+
+**Timeouts.** A long answer from a model still loading outlasts Kong's
+60-second defaults: set the service's `read_timeout` to the time a model may
+take to start, as for nginx in [install.md](install.md).
+
+## Kong behind llmgw
+
+Not tried here. Kong's AI routes speak OpenAI's API, so llmgw reaches models Kong fronts as
+it reaches any provider: a model whose source is `external`.
+
+```yaml
+- name: kong-gpt
+  source: external
+  external:
+    url: https://kong.example.com/openai     # Kong's route, without /v1
+    model: gpt-4o-mini
+    api_key_file: /etc/llmgw/secrets/kong-consumer.key
+```
+
+The key is the one Kong's own authentication asks of a consumer. As a
+fallback (`fallbacks: [kong-gpt]`) it is used only when the cluster has no
+room.
+
+## Which to choose
+
+Kong in front when the site's API policy says every API goes through Kong:
+llmgw is then one more upstream, and its per-team accounting still holds
+when each team keeps its own key. Kong behind when the site already reaches
+outside providers through Kong and llmgw should too. llmgw does not need
+Kong for anything it does itself — keys, budgets, guardrails, routing to
+its own replicas.
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+# Large models: several cards, several nodes
+
+A model too big for one card runs on several. llmgw chooses how from the
+model's own figures and the cluster as it is; this page is the rules it
+follows, the commands, and what to look at when a first one is brought up
+on new hardware.
+
+## How a model is split
+
+In order, the first that fits:
+
+1. **One card.** Nothing to split.
+2. **Several cards of one node, tensor parallel.** Every layer is cut
+   across the cards, so they talk for every token: they must be on one
+   NVLink domain. The agent reads `nvidia-smi topo -m` and gives a replica
+   the cards with the most NVLink between them
+   ([install.md](install.md#nvlink-if-your-gpus-have-it)).
+3. **Several nodes, pipeline parallel between them.** Each node holds a
+   run of layers on all its cards (tensor parallel inside it), and only a
+   layer's output crosses to the next node. The nodes must share one
+   InfiniBand or RoCE fabric: a replica never spans two, and never a node
+   with none. Any number of nodes, not only two or four.
+
+The plan takes the fewest cards, then the fewest nodes, then the better
+precision up to eight bits.
+
+**Tensor width and the KV heads.** The cards split the model's KV heads
+among them, or past their number each card holds a copy of one. So the
+width divides the KV heads or is a multiple of them: a model with 8 KV
+heads runs 2, 4, 8 or 16 wide, not 12. Qwen3-235B has 4 and runs on 8.
+
+**Mixture of experts.** A model of experts (Qwen3-235B-A22B, DeepSeek-V3,
+Llama 4, Mixtral) on more than one card is served with vLLM's
+`--enable-expert-parallel`: each card holds whole experts rather than a
+slice of every one, which is less traffic per token. It is read from
+`config.json` (`num_experts`, `n_routed_experts`, `num_local_experts`).
+
+**When it does not fit.** A smaller precision first: an FP8 or AWQ
+repository of the same model, or a GGUF quantisation on llama.cpp if one
+node's cards hold it. Then more nodes. `llmgw ctl model plan REPO
+--precision bf16,fp8` shows each precision's fit from the model's config.
+
+## What a way needs
+
+Each way the plan offers says what a replica needs of each card, part by
+part, and of all its cards together:
+
+```
+$ llmgw ctl model plan meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct --format safetensors --context 32768
+FILE      SIZE    BEST WAY        A CARD   OF     ALL CARDS  NOW
+original  131 GB  4 × h100-80g    37.4 GB  72 GB  150 GB     free
+
+Best: original on 4 × h100-80g: 37.4 GB a card (weights 32.9 + context 2.5 + engine 2.0) of 72 usable; 150 GB on 4 cards.
+The context costs 0.31 GB per 1000 tokens, the whole model (--context to plan another).
+```
+
+- **weights:** the files, divided over the cards.
+- **context:** the KV cache for the context planned, divided likewise.
+- **engine:** the engine's own: 2 GB and a fiftieth of the weights for vLLM.
+- **usable:** 90% of a card; the rest is the driver's and fragmentation's.
+
+The console's **Serve a model** shows the same for every way a file runs.
+A context longer than planned is checked against it before anything is
+fetched.
+
+## Serving one
+
+Without flags the plan's best way is taken:
+
+```
+llmgw ctl model serve Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507-FP8 --format safetensors --context-length 32768
+```
+
+Or a way given by hand, for instance two nodes of eight:
+
+```
+llmgw ctl model serve meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct --format safetensors \
+    --gpu-class h100-80g --gpus 8 --nodes 2 --env NCCL_DEBUG=INFO
+```
+
+`--gpus` is the cards on each node and `--nodes` the nodes. The pipeline
+is the nodes and the tensor width the cards of each.
+
+`--env KEY=VALUE` goes into the engine's environment on every node:
+`NCCL_DEBUG=INFO` while bringing a cluster up, `NCCL_IB_*` to steer it.
+Only the variables engines are tuned with are taken. llmgw already sets
+these:
+- `NCCL_IB_HCA` to the fabric's adapters;
+- `NCCL_IB_GID_INDEX` on RoCE;
+- `NCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME` to the management network;
+- for an NVLink domain spanning nodes, `NCCL_MNNVL_ENABLE`.
+
+The job's first step says what it needs of each card. The weights then
+come to the mirror once and from it to each node. The startup timeout (20
+minutes unless the profile's `startup_timeout` says otherwise) runs from
+when a node's download last moved. So a model of hundreds of gigabytes is
+not failed while it is still arriving, and one whose download stops is
+failed that long after.
+
+## Watching it come up
+
+| What | Where |
+|---|---|
+| The replica and its shards, one per node, each with its download | `llmgw ctl replicas` |
+| Why it is not placed | `llmgw ctl explain-placement MODEL` |
+| A node's engine output (NCCL's lines with `NCCL_DEBUG=INFO`) | `llmgw ctl logs NODE --source SHARD` |
+| The bandwidth between two nodes, rail by rail | `llmgw ctl fabric-test NODE NODE` |
+| Each node's GPUs, NVLink and adapters | `llmgw doctor` on the node; its page under /admin |
+| Every step of a start, across nodes | the `replica start` trace ([install.md](install.md)) |
+
+With `NCCL_DEBUG=INFO`, NCCL says which transport it took between nodes:
+`NET/IB` is the fabric. `NET/Socket` means it fell back to TCP, and the
+model will run, slowly.
+
+## Bringing it up on new hardware
+
+A first run on a fabric, in order. Each step is worth its output if
+something goes wrong.
+
+1. **The nodes.** Add each with its fabric:
+   `llmgw node add host --fabric ib-a:mlx5_0,mlx5_1`. Then
+   `llmgw ctl nodes` shows every node ready, on `ib-a`.
+2. **The fabric.** `llmgw ctl fabric-test node1 node2`: each rail at its
+   rated speed (a 400 Gb/s rail near 45 GB/s).
+3. **One node, several cards.** A dense 70B at bf16 on four or eight
+   cards of one node, by the plan:
+   `llmgw ctl model serve meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct --format safetensors`.
+   Ready, then a question answered.
+4. **Two nodes.** The same model forced over two:
+   `--gpu-class CLASS --gpus 8 --nodes 2 --env NCCL_DEBUG=INFO`, under
+   another `--name`. Ready, answering, and `NET/IB` in both shards' logs.
+5. **Experts.** A mixture-of-experts model on one node's eight cards,
+   for instance `Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507-FP8`: its profile
+   carries `--enable-expert-parallel` (`llmgw ctl models`, or its
+   definition from the admin API).
+6. **A node lost.** With the two-node replica serving, stop one node's
+   agent (`systemctl stop llmgw-agent`): the replica fails and is placed
+   again once the node is back or another has room. Nothing is left
+   holding cards.
+
+For each, worth keeping:
+- the time from serve to ready;
+- tokens a second from `llmgw ctl bench`;
+- the plan's per-card figure against what `nvidia-smi` shows once loaded;
+- anything it said that was wrong.
@@ -54,10 +54,20 @@ on the page that creates it and never again.

 ### Connecting an editor

-The account page's **Connect your editor** makes a key for Continue, Codex or
-Cline and shows what the tool needs with that key, this gateway's address and a
-model already in it:
+The account page's **Connect your editor** makes a key for VS Code, Continue,
+Codex or Cline and shows what the tool needs with that key, this gateway's
+address and a model already in it:

+- **VS Code** — llmgw's own extension, downloaded from the gateway at
+  `/setup/vscode/llmgw.vsix` with this gateway's address already in it. It
+  offers every chat model the key may use to VS Code itself: the chat's model
+  picker, agent mode, and any extension that asks VS Code for a language model
+  (Cline's "VS Code LM API" provider among them), with no setup of their own.
+  **llmgw: Sign In** in VS Code opens this page with VS Code chosen; the page's
+  **Open in VS Code** link hands the key back, and the extension keeps it in
+  VS Code's secret storage. A link the extension did not ask for is confirmed
+  first, with the gateway's address shown, since it decides where code is sent.
+  **llmgw: Enter API Key** takes a pasted one instead.
 - **Continue** — an assistant file of its own, `~/.continue/assistants/llmgw.yaml`,
  so their `config.yaml` is not touched.
 - **Codex** — a provider and a profile in `~/.codex/config.toml`, run with
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ explains every choice.

 | | |
 |---|---|
-| **A control plane** | One machine, or three for high availability (the store replicated, either one able to take over). Linux, x86-64 or ARM64: Debian 12, Ubuntu 22.04+ or RHEL 10. No GPU needed; 2 GB RAM, 20 GB disk each — 8 GB RAM when it is also a node running the starter model and the two judges. |
+| **A control plane** | One machine, or three for high availability (the store replicated, either one able to take over). Linux, x86-64 or ARM64: Debian 12, Ubuntu 22.04+ or RHEL 10. No GPU needed; 2 GB RAM, 20 GB disk each — 12 GB RAM when it is also a node running the starter model and the two judges, which setup checks before it installs anything; four cores or more, or the judges on machines of their own, keep a judgment within its wait. |
 | **GPU nodes** (optional to start) | The same Linux, with the NVIDIA driver installed. vLLM needs driver 525 or newer and a Turing GPU or newer; a V100 gets an older vLLM. |
 | **root** | on the control plane. On the other two of a three-machine setup, `sudo` (its password is asked for if it needs one); on nodes, `sudo` without a password. |
 | **SSH** | from the control plane to the other machines. The setup screens take a key, the ssh agent or a password; `node add` uses ssh keys. A machine nothing may log into joins with a code instead (`llmgw join`). |
@@ -146,7 +146,35 @@ agent is stopped.
 ## 4. Add a model

 Open `/admin/mirror` and choose **Explore models**. It lists what is popular on
-Hugging Face, showing only what your nodes can run.
+Hugging Face, showing only what your nodes can run: judged by the cluster as it
+is now — the largest card and its compute capability, the most memory on one
+node — so a model too big for them, in a form those cards lack (FP8 needs 8.9),
+or in neither GGUF nor safetensors is left out, and the page says how many.
+Without GPUs it lists GGUF only. Untick **only what these nodes can run** to
+see everything. On a model's page a file too big for the cluster is shown
+without a **Fetch** button, with what it would need.
+
+The **CPU tok/s** column is about how fast one reply would come on the CPU of
+the fastest node whose memory holds the model at Q4_K_M; a model's page gives
+it for each GGUF file by its own size. Every node's agent measures how fast its
+memory reads when it starts (it is in the agent's log as `memory_gbs`), and a
+token on a CPU reads every weight once: the estimate is that speed over the
+model's size — for a model of experts named like `30B-A3B`, its active part.
+On the test cluster it came within 15% of what llama.cpp measured. Several
+replies at once share the reads and each is slower.
+
+**GPU tok/s** is the same on the cards, for the layout this cluster would
+give the model — the fewest cards that hold it, of each class, the fastest of
+those; its tooltip says which ("2× h100-80g, NVLink, vLLM", "2 nodes × 1×
+a100-80g over ib0 (InfiniBand 200 Gb/s), vLLM"). A card's memory bandwidth is
+known from its model name (an H100 SXM and an H100 PCIe differ by half); a card
+not in the table gets no figure. Tensor parallel across a node's cards divides
+what each reads, and adds two all-reduces a layer, short over NVLink and
+longer over PCIe; llama.cpp across cards splits by layer, so the cards take
+turns and a reply is no faster than on one; a pipeline across nodes takes turns
+too, and adds a hop over the fabric for each node. One card's figures were
+measured on the test cluster's RTX 6000; tensor parallel and the fabric are
+from what NCCL is known to take, not measured here.

 1. Click a model to read its card.
 2. Pick one of its files, usually a `q4_k_m` for a first try, and click
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/charmbracelet/x/ansi v0.11.6
 	github.com/coreos/go-oidc/v3 v3.21.0
 	github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 v4.1.4
+	github.com/go-ldap/ldap/v3 v3.4.15
 	github.com/go-zeromq/zmq4 v0.17.0
 	github.com/jackc/pgx/v5 v5.11.0
 	github.com/knadh/koanf/parsers/yaml v1.1.1
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ require (
 	golang.org/x/net v0.59.0
 	golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.37.0
 	golang.org/x/sync v0.23.0
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0
 	golang.org/x/term v0.46.0
 	golang.org/x/text v0.42.0
 	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.36.12
@@ -44,6 +46,7 @@ require (
 require (
 	filippo.io/edwards25519 v1.2.0 // indirect
 	filippo.io/hpke v0.4.0 // indirect
+	github.com/Azure/go-ntlmssp v0.1.1 // indirect
 	github.com/aymanbagabas/go-osc52/v2 v2.0.1 // indirect
 	github.com/beorn7/perks v1.0.1 // indirect
 	github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v5 v5.0.3 // indirect
@@ -56,6 +59,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/dustin/go-humanize v1.0.1 // indirect
 	github.com/erikgeiser/coninput v0.0.0-20211004153227-1c3628e74d0f // indirect
 	github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify v1.9.0 // indirect
+	github.com/go-asn1-ber/asn1-ber v1.5.8 // indirect
 	github.com/go-logr/logr v1.4.4 // indirect
 	github.com/go-logr/stdr v1.2.2 // indirect
 	github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2 v2.5.0 // indirect
@@ -88,7 +92,6 @@ require (
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace v1.46.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric v1.46.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/proto/otlp v1.11.0 // indirect
-	golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0 // indirect
 	google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api v0.0.0-20260819154853-08b0e4226688 // indirect
 	google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc v0.0.0-20260819154853-08b0e4226688 // indirect
 	google.golang.org/grpc v1.83.1 // indirect
@@ -8,8 +8,12 @@ filippo.io/edwards25519 v1.2.0 h1:crnVqOiS4jqYleHd9vaKZ+HKtHfllngJIiOpNpoJsjo=
 filippo.io/edwards25519 v1.2.0/go.mod h1:xzAOLCNug/yB62zG1bQ8uziwrIqIuxhctzJT18Q77mc=
 filippo.io/hpke v0.4.0 h1:p575VVQ6ted4pL+it6M00V/f2qTZITO0zgmdKCkd5+A=
 filippo.io/hpke v0.4.0/go.mod h1:EmAN849/P3qdeK+PCMkDpDm83vRHM5cDipBJ8xbQLVY=
+github.com/Azure/go-ntlmssp v0.1.1 h1:l+FM/EEMb0U9QZE7mKNEDw5Mu3mFiaa2GKOoTSsNDPw=
+github.com/Azure/go-ntlmssp v0.1.1/go.mod h1:NYqdhxd/8aAct/s4qSYZEerdPuH1liG2/X9DiVTbhpk=
 github.com/NVIDIA/go-nvml v0.13.4-0 h1:o3jp9u2x1R9ShFE3v+Aesp55XOSIQFMJz/VGNUcJaNE=
 github.com/NVIDIA/go-nvml v0.13.4-0/go.mod h1:id63qwpoDWpFXwnwM6psDCSqW4BmNu6mWpr4YeQtPGo=
+github.com/alexbrainman/sspi v0.0.0-20250919150558-7d374ff0d59e h1:4dAU9FXIyQktpoUAgOJK3OTFc/xug0PCXYCqU0FgDKI=
+github.com/alexbrainman/sspi v0.0.0-20250919150558-7d374ff0d59e/go.mod h1:cEWa1LVoE5KvSD9ONXsZrj0z6KqySlCCNKHlLzbqAt4=
 github.com/aymanbagabas/go-osc52/v2 v2.0.1 h1:HwpRHbFMcZLEVr42D4p7XBqjyuxQH5SMiErDT4WkJ2k=
 github.com/aymanbagabas/go-osc52/v2 v2.0.1/go.mod h1:uYgXzlJ7ZpABp8OJ+exZzJJhRNQ2ASbcXHWsFqH8hp8=
 github.com/beorn7/perks v1.0.1 h1:VlbKKnNfV8bJzeqoa4cOKqO6bYr3WgKZxO8Z16+hsOM=
@@ -46,8 +50,12 @@ github.com/erikgeiser/coninput v0.0.0-20211004153227-1c3628e74d0f h1:Y/CXytFA4m6
 github.com/erikgeiser/coninput v0.0.0-20211004153227-1c3628e74d0f/go.mod h1:vw97MGsxSvLiUE2X8qFplwetxpGLQrlU1Q9AUEIzCaM=
 github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify v1.9.0 h1:2Ml+OJNzbYCTzsxtv8vKSFD9PbJjmhYF14k/jKC7S9k=
 github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify v1.9.0/go.mod h1:8jBTzvmWwFyi3Pb8djgCCO5IBqzKJ/Jwo8TRcHyHii0=
+github.com/go-asn1-ber/asn1-ber v1.5.8 h1:H9AZkK22UOmfX8J84ubyaZxKJZ3FMHVwn8swoMML7iQ=
+github.com/go-asn1-ber/asn1-ber v1.5.8/go.mod h1:hEBeB/ic+5LoWskz+yKT7vGhhPYkProFKoKdwZRWMe0=
 github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 v4.1.4 h1:moDMcTHmvE6Groj34emNPLs/qtYXRVcd6S7NHbHz3kA=
 github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 v4.1.4/go.mod h1:x4oUasVrzR7071A4TnHLGSPpNOm2a21K9Kf04k1rs08=
+github.com/go-ldap/ldap/v3 v3.4.15 h1:eRB4f4Ecn1POL1mO86+uUDlecmyWsdiJwh60bAUS4UY=
+github.com/go-ldap/ldap/v3 v3.4.15/go.mod h1:jeD0c98EdZQCKKKKe4kTWs5aCf6y+j8KuYsYLznZSQk=
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@@ -69,6 +77,8 @@ github.com/google/uuid v1.6.0 h1:NIvaJDMOsjHA8n1jAhLSgzrAzy1Hgr+hNrb57e+94F0=
 github.com/google/uuid v1.6.0/go.mod h1:TIyPZe4MgqvfeYDBFedMoGGpEw/LqOeaOT+nhxU+yHo=
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+github.com/hashicorp/go-uuid v1.0.3 h1:2gKiV6YVmrJ1i2CKKa9obLvRieoRGviZFL26PcT/Co8=
+github.com/hashicorp/go-uuid v1.0.3/go.mod h1:6SBZvOh/SIDV7/2o3Jml5SYk/TvGqwFJ/bN7x4byOro=
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@@ -81,6 +91,18 @@ github.com/jackc/pgx/v5 v5.11.0 h1:IzBBtyK9AHqf98cctWFifYSci2hgQR/cd56wB4p+ogg=
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+github.com/jcmturner/aescts/v2 v2.0.0 h1:9YKLH6ey7H4eDBXW8khjYslgyqG2xZikXP0EQFKrle8=
+github.com/jcmturner/aescts/v2 v2.0.0/go.mod h1:AiaICIRyfYg35RUkr8yESTqvSy7csK90qZ5xfvvsoNs=
+github.com/jcmturner/dnsutils/v2 v2.0.0 h1:lltnkeZGL0wILNvrNiVCR6Ro5PGU/SeBvVO/8c/iPbo=
+github.com/jcmturner/dnsutils/v2 v2.0.0/go.mod h1:b0TnjGOvI/n42bZa+hmXL+kFJZsFT7G4t3HTlQ184QM=
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+github.com/jcmturner/goidentity/v6 v6.0.1 h1:VKnZd2oEIMorCTsFBnJWbExfNN7yZr3EhJAxwOkZg6o=
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@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+package account
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/store"
+)
+
+type fakeDirectory struct {
+	asked []string
+	u     store.User
+	err   error
+}
+
+func (f *fakeDirectory) SignIn(_ context.Context, login, _ string) (store.User, error) {
+	f.asked = append(f.asked, login)
+	return f.u, f.err
+}
+
+// With a directory, a name the store has no password for is the
+// directory's to check; an account with a password here — the
+// administrator init made — is still checked here, so a directory that is
+// down locks nobody out.
+func TestPasswordsKeptElsewhereAreTheDirectorysToCheck(t *testing.T) {
+	svc, st := newService(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	hash, _ := HashPassword("local-secret")
+	admin := store.User{ID: "usr-admin", Email: "admin@example.com", Name: "a", PasswordHash: hash,
+		State: store.UserActive, CreatedAt: time.Now()}
+	ada := store.User{ID: "usr-ada", Email: "ada@corp.example", Name: "Ada", PasswordHash: "!ldap",
+		State: store.UserActive, CreatedAt: time.Now()}
+	for _, u := range []store.User{admin, ada} {
+		if err := st.CreateUser(ctx, u); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	dir := &fakeDirectory{u: ada}
+	svc.SetDirectory(dir)
+
+	if _, _, err := svc.SignIn(ctx, "admin@example.com", "local-secret"); err != nil || len(dir.asked) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("the local administrator: %v, directory asked %v", err, dir.asked)
+	}
+	// A name, not an address, and an account kept by the directory.
+	for _, login := range []string{`CORP\ada`, "ada@corp.example"} {
+		if tok, _, err := svc.SignIn(ctx, login, "ad-secret"); err != nil || tok == "" {
+			t.Errorf("%s: %v", login, err)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(dir.asked) != 2 || dir.asked[0] != `CORP\ada` {
+		t.Errorf("the directory was asked %v", dir.asked)
+	}
+	dir.err = ErrBadCredentials
+	if _, _, err := svc.SignIn(ctx, "ada", "wrong"); !errors.Is(err, ErrBadCredentials) {
+		t.Errorf("a password the directory refused: %v", err)
+	}
+	// A reset link would give a directory's account a password here.
+	if _, _, err := svc.RequestReset(ctx, st, "ada@corp.example"); !errors.Is(err, ErrNoReset) {
+		t.Errorf("a directory's account was sent a reset link: %v", err)
+	}
+}
@@ -80,8 +80,26 @@ type Service struct {

 	mu       sync.Mutex
 	attempts map[string]*attemptWindow
+
+	// dir checks the passwords of accounts this store keeps none for.
+	dir Directory
 }

+// Directory checks a password against an outside directory — Active
+// Directory over LDAP — and answers the account to sign in: made or kept in
+// step with the directory. Its errors are this package's ErrBadCredentials
+// and ErrSuspended for the person's own, and anything else for the
+// directory's.
+type Directory interface {
+	SignIn(ctx context.Context, login, password string) (store.User, error)
+}
+
+// SetDirectory has passwords for accounts with none here, and names that are
+// not addresses, checked by the directory. An account with a password here
+// — the administrator init made — is still checked here, so a directory that
+// is down locks nobody out.
+func (s *Service) SetDirectory(d Directory) { s.dir = d }
+
 type attemptWindow struct {
 	count int
 	since time.Time
@@ -137,6 +155,7 @@ func (s *Service) SignUp(ctx context.Context, email, name, password string) erro
 // SignIn checks a password and opens a session, returning the session token and
 // the CSRF token that must accompany the forms in it.
 func (s *Service) SignIn(ctx context.Context, email, password string) (token, csrf string, err error) {
+	login := strings.TrimSpace(email)
 	email = store.NormalizeEmail(email)
 	// Counted per address and the client trying it, so somebody guessing
 	// from elsewhere cannot lock the owner out of their own account; and per
@@ -151,6 +170,15 @@ func (s *Service) SignIn(ctx context.Context, email, password string) (token, cs
 	}

 	u, err := s.store.UserByEmail(ctx, email)
+	// No password kept here — the directory's, or nobody's — and a
+	// directory to ask: it decides.
+	if s.dir != nil && (errors.Is(err, store.ErrNotFound) || (err == nil && strings.HasPrefix(u.PasswordHash, "!"))) {
+		if u, err = s.dir.SignIn(ctx, login, password); err != nil {
+			return "", "", err
+		}
+		s.clearAttempts(byClient)
+		return s.open(ctx, u)
+	}
 	if errors.Is(err, store.ErrNotFound) {
 		// Verify anyway, against a hash that cannot match. Returning early here
 		// would let a stopwatch enumerate every account on the system.
@@ -180,7 +208,11 @@ func (s *Service) SignIn(ctx context.Context, email, password string) (token, cs
 	case store.UserSuspended:
 		return "", "", ErrSuspended
 	}
+	return s.open(ctx, u)
+}

+// open makes a session for a person whose password was right.
+func (s *Service) open(ctx context.Context, u store.User) (token, csrf string, err error) {
 	if token, err = store.NewSessionToken(); err != nil {
 		return "", "", err
 	}
@@ -402,7 +434,10 @@ func (s *Service) RequestReset(ctx context.Context, rs ResetStore, email string)
 		return "", store.User{}, ErrTooManyTries
 	}
 	u, err := rs.UserByEmail(ctx, email)
-	if err != nil || u.PasswordHash == "" || u.State != store.UserActive {
+	// An account whose password is kept elsewhere — "!oidc", "!scim",
+	// "!ldap" — gets no link: setting one here would give it a second way
+	// in that its directory knows nothing of, and outlives its leaving.
+	if err != nil || u.PasswordHash == "" || strings.HasPrefix(u.PasswordHash, "!") || u.State != store.UserActive {
 		return "", store.User{}, ErrNoReset
 	}
 	token, err := rs.CreatePasswordReset(ctx, u.ID, ResetLinkTTL)
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ func (a *Accountant) Record(res Reservation, u store.Usage) {
 	if u.ServedModel != "" && u.ServedModel != u.Model && a.pricing != nil {
 		price = a.pricing.For(u.ServedModel)
 	}
-	u.CostMicros = price.Cost(u.PromptTokens, u.CompletionTokens)
+	u.CostMicros = price.Cost(u.PromptTokens, u.CachedTokens, u.CompletionTokens, u.Images, u.Meshes)
 	for _, b := range res.Budgets {
 		a.budgets.Add(b.Counter, b.Period, u.CostMicros)
 	}
@@ -39,17 +39,44 @@ func TestCostRoundsUpSoSmallRequestsAreNotFree(t *testing.T) {
 	// Rounding down would make a stream of tiny requests cost nothing, which is
 	// exactly the traffic shape a quota exists to bound.
 	p := Price{PromptPer1k: 1000, CompletionPer1k: 3000}
-	if got := p.Cost(1, 0); got != 1 {
+	if got := p.Cost(1, 0, 0, 0, 0); got != 1 {
 		t.Errorf("one prompt token cost %d", got)
 	}
-	if got := p.Cost(1000, 1000); got != 4000 {
+	if got := p.Cost(1000, 0, 1000, 0, 0); got != 4000 {
 		t.Errorf("a thousand of each cost %d, want 4000", got)
 	}
-	if got := p.Cost(0, 0); got != 0 {
+	if got := p.Cost(0, 0, 0, 0, 0); got != 0 {
 		t.Errorf("an empty request cost %d", got)
 	}
 }

+func TestACachedPromptCostsTheCachedRate(t *testing.T) {
+	p := Price{PromptPer1k: 1000, CachedPer1k: 100, CompletionPer1k: 3000}
+	// 10,000 prompt tokens of which 9,000 were read from the cache: 1,000 at
+	// the prompt rate and 9,000 at the cached one.
+	if got, want := p.Cost(10000, 9000, 0, 0, 0), int64(1000+900); got != want {
+		t.Errorf("a 90%% cached prompt cost %d, want %d", got, want)
+	}
+	// More cached than prompt is an engine's miscount, not a refund.
+	if got := p.Cost(100, 500, 0, 0, 0); got != 10 {
+		t.Errorf("cached beyond the prompt cost %d, want 10", got)
+	}
+	// No cached rate: cached tokens cost what any prompt token does.
+	if got := (Price{PromptPer1k: 1000}).Cost(10000, 9000, 0, 0, 0); got != 10000 {
+		t.Errorf("without a cached rate a cached prompt cost %d, want 10000", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAPictureCostsItsPriceOnTopOfItsPrompt(t *testing.T) {
+	p := Price{PromptPer1k: 1000, PerImage: 50000}
+	if got := p.Cost(20, 0, 0, 3, 0); got != 20+150000 {
+		t.Errorf("three pictures from a 20-token prompt cost %d", got)
+	}
+	if (Price{PerImage: 1}).Zero() {
+		t.Error("a model priced per picture reads as free, and would pass a spent budget")
+	}
+}
+
 func TestZeroPricedModelsStayAvailableWhenTheBudgetIsSpent(t *testing.T) {
 	// This is what makes budget fallback work: a key with nothing left can
 	// still be served something that costs nothing.
@@ -18,6 +18,18 @@ import (
 type Price struct {
 	PromptPer1k     int64 `koanf:"prompt_per_1k"`
 	CompletionPer1k int64 `koanf:"completion_per_1k"`
+	// CachedPer1k is what a prompt token costs that the engine or provider
+	// read from its cache instead of computing: the part of prompt_tokens
+	// the answer counts as cached_tokens. Zero charges those at
+	// PromptPer1k, as before there was a rate for them.
+	CachedPer1k int64 `koanf:"cached_per_1k"`
+	// PerImage is what one picture costs, for a model that makes them: a
+	// picture's cost is the card's time, which its prompt's few tokens do
+	// not measure.
+	PerImage int64 `koanf:"per_image"`
+	// PerMesh is what one 3D model costs: minutes of a card, which no
+	// token count measures.
+	PerMesh int64 `koanf:"per_mesh"`
 }

 // Zero reports whether this model spends nothing.
@@ -25,14 +37,26 @@ type Price struct {
 // It matters beyond arithmetic: a zero-cost model stays available to a key
 // whose budget is spent, which is what makes the plan's budget fallback work
 // (§7.7).
-func (p Price) Zero() bool { return p.PromptPer1k == 0 && p.CompletionPer1k == 0 }
+func (p Price) Zero() bool {
+	return p.PromptPer1k == 0 && p.CompletionPer1k == 0 && p.CachedPer1k == 0 && p.PerImage == 0 && p.PerMesh == 0
+}

 // Cost computes what a request spent, rounding up.
 //
 // Up rather than to nearest: rounding down would make a stream of tiny requests
 // free, which is exactly the shape of traffic a quota exists to bound.
-func (p Price) Cost(promptTokens, completionTokens int64) int64 {
-	return divUp(promptTokens*p.PromptPer1k, 1000) + divUp(completionTokens*p.CompletionPer1k, 1000)
+//
+// cachedTokens are counted within promptTokens, as OpenAI's usage counts
+// them, and are charged at the cached rate instead of the prompt rate.
+func (p Price) Cost(promptTokens, cachedTokens, completionTokens, images, meshes int64) int64 {
+	cachedTokens = min(max(cachedTokens, 0), max(promptTokens, 0))
+	cachedRate := p.CachedPer1k
+	if cachedRate == 0 {
+		cachedRate = p.PromptPer1k
+	}
+	return divUp((promptTokens-cachedTokens)*p.PromptPer1k+cachedTokens*cachedRate, 1000) +
+		divUp(completionTokens*p.CompletionPer1k, 1000) +
+		max(images, 0)*p.PerImage + max(meshes, 0)*p.PerMesh
 }

 func divUp(n, d int64) int64 {
@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@ import (
 	"crypto/sha256"
 	"crypto/tls"
 	"encoding/hex"
+	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"log/slog"
 	"maps"
+	"math"
 	"math/rand/v2"
 	"net"
 	"net/http"
@@ -391,8 +393,11 @@ func (a *Agent) settleAdopted(sh *supervisor.Shard, o supervisor.Orphan) {
 		_ = a.sup.Stop(ctx, o.ShardID)
 		return
 	}
-	// What it computes on, for one started before the agent kept that.
-	if a.sup.ComputeOf(o.ShardID) == nil {
+	// What it computes on, for one started before the agent kept that — or
+	// kept as the CPU for a GPU placement by an agent that did not follow
+	// an engine into a process group of its own, which the check above has
+	// just found on its GPUs.
+	if c := a.sup.ComputeOf(o.ShardID); c == nil || (len(o.Spec.GPUIndices) > 0 && c.Backend == "CPU") {
 		if c, ok := a.gpuCompute(ctx, o.Spec.GPUIndices, sh.Status().PID); ok {
 			a.sup.SetCompute(o.ShardID, c)
 		}
@@ -512,6 +517,7 @@ func (a *Agent) scan(ctx context.Context) error {
 	inv, err := discovery.Discover(ctx, opts, a.log)
 	host := discovery.DiscoverHost()
 	host.MinComputeCapability = discovery.MinComputeCapability(inv.GPUs)
+	host.MemBandwidthGBs = a.memBandwidth()
 	a.mu.Lock()
 	a.inv = inv
 	a.prov.Host = host
@@ -568,6 +574,9 @@ func (a *Agent) session(ctx context.Context, server string) error {
 	reg.Host = &llmgwv1.Host{
 		OsId: h.OSID, OsVersion: h.OSVersion, OsCodename: h.OSCodename,
 		Arch: h.Arch, CpuFlags: h.CPUFlags, NvidiaDriver: h.NVIDIADriver,
+		// What is measured by now, not what the startup scan found before
+		// the measurement ended: a reconnect would otherwise say 0.
+		MemBandwidthGbs: a.memBandwidth(),
 	}

 	if err := stream.Send(&llmgwv1.AgentMessage{
@@ -665,6 +674,7 @@ func (a *Agent) heartbeat() *llmgwv1.AgentMessage {
 	// without anybody restarting anything.
 	hb.MemoryTotalMb = int64(discovery.MemoryTotalMB())
 	hb.CpuCount = int32(runtime.NumCPU())
+	hb.MemBandwidthGbs = a.memBandwidth()

 	a.reprobeEngines()
 	a.mu.Lock()
@@ -1123,7 +1133,7 @@ func (a *Agent) startShard(ctx context.Context, m *llmgwv1.StartShard, out chan<
 			},
 		})
 	})
-	if path, err := a.weights().Ensure(ctx, spec.Profile.ModelPath); err != nil {
+	if path, err := a.weights().Ensure(ctx, spec.Profile.ModelPath, spec.Profile.AllowPickle); err != nil {
 		stop()
 		report(supervisor.Failed, err.Error(), nil)
 		return
@@ -1131,11 +1141,36 @@ func (a *Agent) startShard(ctx context.Context, m *llmgwv1.StartShard, out chan<
 		stop()
 		spec.Profile.ModelPath = path
 	}
+	// A shared ComfyUI replica's members' weights, each fetched like the
+	// model's, and handed to the gate where they landed.
+	if raw := spec.Profile.Env[engines.SharedModelsEnv]; raw != "" {
+		var ms []map[string]string
+		if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(raw), &ms); err != nil {
+			report(supervisor.Failed, "the shared replica's models are not readable: "+err.Error(), nil)
+			return
+		}
+		for i, m := range ms {
+			stop := a.watchFetch(m["source"], func(p weights.Progress) {
+				send(&llmgwv1.ShardStatus{State: agentsvc.StateToWire(supervisor.Starting),
+					Fetch: &llmgwv1.FetchProgress{Source: p.Source, BytesDone: p.BytesDone, BytesTotal: p.BytesTotal}})
+			})
+			path, err := a.weights().Ensure(ctx, m["source"], m["allow_pickle"] == "true")
+			stop()
+			if err != nil {
+				report(supervisor.Failed, fmt.Sprintf("model %s: %v", m["name"], err), nil)
+				return
+			}
+			ms[i]["path"] = path
+		}
+		b, _ := json.Marshal(ms)
+		spec.Profile.Env = maps.Clone(spec.Profile.Env)
+		spec.Profile.Env[engines.SharedModelsEnv] = string(b)
+	}
 	// Adapters are fetched like the model, and before the engine starts: it
 	// loads them at start, and one missing is a replica that answers for the
 	// base model under the adapter's name.
 	for i, ad := range spec.Profile.Adapters {
-		path, err := a.weights().Ensure(ctx, ad.Path)
+		path, err := a.weights().Ensure(ctx, ad.Path, spec.Profile.AllowPickle)
 		if err != nil {
 			report(supervisor.Failed, fmt.Sprintf("adapter %s: %v", ad.Name, err), nil)
 			return
@@ -1391,11 +1426,14 @@ func Client(cfg tlsconf.Config, timeout time.Duration) (*http.Client, error) {
 // off — is never closed: nothing sends the FIN, and the agent's heartbeats sit
 // in the socket's buffer until the kernel gives up retransmitting, fifteen
 // minutes later. Found by switching off a leader: the standby took over in 14
-// seconds and the node stayed with the dead one. An HTTP/2 ping after ten
-// quiet seconds, given five to answer, finds it in a quarter of a minute.
+// seconds and the node stayed with the dead one. An HTTP/2 ping after five
+// quiet seconds, given three to answer, finds it in eight: by the time the
+// standby leads, as it does within the lease's ten seconds, the node is on
+// its way to it. At fifteen, with the lease at fifteen too, the new leader
+// went without its nodes, and so its judges, for half a minute.
 const (
-	streamIdle = 10 * time.Second
-	streamPing = 5 * time.Second
+	streamIdle = 5 * time.Second
+	streamPing = 3 * time.Second
 )

 // localizeSpec fills in what only this node knows.
@@ -1476,18 +1514,25 @@ func ResolveManagement(c Config) (addr, iface string) {
 // shard computes on as soon as that is known: an adopted engine's is found
 // after registration, which carried what was known then.
 func (a *Agent) reportCompute(ctx context.Context, out chan<- *llmgwv1.AgentMessage) {
-	sent := map[string]bool{}
+	// What was sent for each shard, so a compute that changes is sent again:
+	// an adopted shard's kept one is sent at once, and adopting it may then
+	// find it was kept wrong.
+	sent := map[string]string{}
 	t := time.NewTicker(5 * time.Second)
 	defer t.Stop()
 	for range 60 {
 		for _, st := range a.sup.Statuses() {
-			if st.State.Terminal() || sent[st.ID] {
+			if st.State.Terminal() {
 				continue
 			}
 			c := a.sup.ComputeOf(st.ID)
 			if c == nil {
 				continue
 			}
+			said := fmt.Sprint(*c)
+			if sent[st.ID] == said {
+				continue
+			}
 			sh, err := a.sup.Get(st.ID)
 			if err != nil {
 				continue
@@ -1498,7 +1543,7 @@ func (a *Agent) reportCompute(ctx context.Context, out chan<- *llmgwv1.AgentMess
 			}}}
 			select {
 			case out <- msg:
-				sent[st.ID] = true
+				sent[st.ID] = said
 			case <-ctx.Done():
 				return
 			}
@@ -1510,3 +1555,38 @@ func (a *Agent) reportCompute(ctx context.Context, out chan<- *llmgwv1.AgentMess
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// memBandwidth is the node's memory read rate in GB/s, 0 until measured.
+// Measured in the background, the first time it is asked for: it reads half
+// a gigabyte, which must not hold up an agent reaching its control plane,
+// and the heartbeat carries it when it is known. Not at once but after a
+// minute or so, chosen at random, and again every hour, keeping the best:
+// VMs on one host that all restart together measure each other, and read a
+// third less than any of them gets alone. Once a process rather than an
+// agent, so tests running many agents in one read it once.
+func (a *Agent) memBandwidth() float64 {
+	bwOnce.Do(func() {
+		go func() {
+			time.Sleep(bandwidthDelay())
+			for {
+				if bw := measureBandwidth(); bw > math.Float64frombits(bwBits.Load()) {
+					bwBits.Store(math.Float64bits(bw))
+					a.log.Info("this node's memory", "read_gbs", math.Round(bw*10)/10)
+				}
+				time.Sleep(time.Hour)
+			}
+		}()
+	})
+	return math.Float64frombits(bwBits.Load())
+}
+
+// bandwidthDelay is how long an agent waits before measuring, so agents
+// started together measure apart.
+var bandwidthDelay = func() time.Duration { return 10*time.Second + rand.N(110*time.Second) }
+
+var (
+	bwOnce sync.Once
+	bwBits atomic.Uint64
+	// measureBandwidth is replaced in tests, which have no use for it.
+	measureBandwidth = discovery.MeasureMemoryBandwidth
+)
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ func TestAShardWithMissingWeightsFailsBeforeLaunching(t *testing.T) {
 	// nobody is watching — so it is caught here, where the message can say
 	// what is actually wrong.
 	a := &Agent{cfg: Config{WeightsCache: t.TempDir()}, log: slog.New(slog.DiscardHandler)}
-	_, err := a.weights().Ensure(t.Context(), filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "not-there.gguf"))
+	_, err := a.weights().Ensure(t.Context(), filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "not-there.gguf"), false)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("a missing weights file was accepted")
 	}
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ type GPU struct {
 	// memory the instance's share. Utilisation stays unreported, because no
 	// driver measures it per instance.
 	MIG *MIGDevice `json:"mig,omitempty"`
+	// PCIe is how the card is linked to its host, zero when not read.
+	PCIe PCIeLink `json:"pcie,omitempty"`
 }

 // GPUHealth records conditions that make a GPU unsafe to schedule onto.
@@ -67,10 +67,23 @@ func DiscoverGPUsNVML(_ context.Context) ([]GPU, error) {
 		if major, minor, ret := dev.GetCudaComputeCapability(); ret == nvml.SUCCESS {
 			g.ComputeCapability = fmt.Sprintf("%d.%d", major, minor)
 		}
+		if v, ret := dev.GetMaxPcieLinkGeneration(); ret == nvml.SUCCESS {
+			g.PCIe.Gen = v
+		}
+		if v, ret := dev.GetGpuMaxPcieLinkGeneration(); ret == nvml.SUCCESS {
+			g.PCIe.GPUGen = v
+		}
+		if v, ret := dev.GetCurrPcieLinkWidth(); ret == nvml.SUCCESS {
+			g.PCIe.Width = v
+		}
+		if v, ret := dev.GetMaxPcieLinkWidth(); ret == nvml.SUCCESS {
+			g.PCIe.WidthMax = v
+		}
 		if pci, ret := dev.GetPciInfo(); ret == nvml.SUCCESS {
 			g.PCIBusID = busIDString(pci.BusId[:])
 			byBusID[normalizeBusID(g.PCIBusID)] = i
 		}
+		g.PCIe = withSysfs(g.PCIe, "/sys/bus/pci/devices", g.PCIBusID)
 		if t, ret := dev.GetTemperature(nvml.TEMPERATURE_GPU); ret == nvml.SUCCESS {
 			g.Health.TemperatureC = int(t)
 		}
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ func DiscoverGPUsSMI(ctx context.Context, binary string) ([]GPU, error) {
 	if err != nil || len(cards) == 0 {
 		return cards, err
 	}
+	readPCIe(ctx, binary, cards)
 	// The query lists whole cards, MIG mode or not. A card in MIG mode is
 	// replaced by its instances, which only -L names and only the full
 	// report sizes; asked only when some card could be in MIG mode, since
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package discovery
 import (
 	"bufio"
 	"os"
+	"regexp"
 	"runtime"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
@@ -30,6 +31,10 @@ type Host struct {
 	// MinComputeCapability is the oldest GPU's, 0 when there are none or it
 	// is not known. Not read here but from the GPU inventory, by the agent.
 	MinComputeCapability float64 `json:"min_compute_capability,omitempty"`
+	// MemBandwidthGBs is how fast the memory reads, in GB/s, 0 when not
+	// measured: what decides a model's speed on the CPU. Not read here but
+	// measured by the agent when it starts (MeasureMemoryBandwidth).
+	MemBandwidthGBs float64 `json:"mem_bandwidth_gbs,omitempty"`
 }

 // Family is the packaging family: "deb", "rpm", or "" when neither is known.
@@ -142,17 +147,29 @@ func cpuFlagsFrom(path string) []string {
 // nvidiaDriverFrom reads the loaded kernel module's version, which exists
 // exactly when a driver is loaded — unlike nvidia-smi, which can be installed
 // on a machine whose module failed to load.
+var driverVersion = regexp.MustCompile(`^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?$`)
+
 func nvidiaDriverFrom(path string) string {
 	b, err := os.ReadFile(path) //nolint:gosec // a fixed system path
 	if err != nil {
 		return ""
 	}
-	// "NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  570.86.15  Thu ..."
+	// "NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  570.86.15  Thu ...", or
+	// for the open module, the default since 560, "NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel
+	// Module for x86_64  580.82.07  Release Build ...": the first version
+	// after "Module", not the word after it. Read as "for", the driver was
+	// unknown, and every build was tried whatever driver it needs.
 	fields := strings.Fields(string(b))
 	for i, f := range fields {
-		if f == "Module" && i+1 < len(fields) {
-			return fields[i+1]
+		if f != "Module" {
+			continue
 		}
+		for _, v := range fields[i+1:] {
+			if driverVersion.MatchString(v) {
+				return v
+			}
+		}
+		return ""
 	}
 	return ""
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package discovery
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestNVIDIADriverFrom(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct{ text, want string }{
+		{"NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  570.86.15  Thu Jan 23 21:30:38 UTC 2025\nGCC version:  gcc version 12.2.0\n", "570.86.15"},
+		{"NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Module for x86_64  580.82.07  Release Build  (dvs-builder@U16-I3-B03-4-3)  Wed Aug 27 00:51:12 UTC 2025\n", "580.82.07"},
+		{"NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Module for aarch64  580.95.05  Release Build\n", "580.95.05"},
+		{"NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  535.54  Mon\n", "535.54"},
+		{"something else\n", ""},
+	} {
+		p := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "version")
+		if err := os.WriteFile(p, []byte(tc.text), 0o600); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if got := nvidiaDriverFrom(p); got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("%q: got %q, want %q", tc.text, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+package discovery
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"runtime"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// How fast this machine reads its memory, which on a CPU is what decides how
+// fast a model answers: every token of a reply reads all the weights it uses
+// once, so a node that reads 40 GB/s writes a 4 GB model's tokens about ten
+// times a second, whatever its core count. Measured once when the agent
+// starts, in a fraction of a second, by every CPU summing a share of a buffer
+// too large for any cache — a VM sharing its host's memory with others gets
+// its share, which is the number that matters for it.
+
+// bandwidthBuffer is what is read at most; the least is eight times the
+// processor's last cache, and never under minBuffer. Smaller, it would be
+// the cache that was measured — some hold a gigabyte — and the figure kept
+// would be too high.
+const (
+	bandwidthBuffer = 2 << 30
+	minBuffer       = 256 << 20
+)
+
+// MeasureMemoryBandwidth is the memory's read rate in GB/s, the best of a
+// few passes; 0 when the machine has too little free memory to measure.
+func MeasureMemoryBandwidth() float64 {
+	size := int64(bandwidthBuffer)
+	// Never more than a quarter of what is free: a node already holding
+	// models must not be pushed into swap by a measurement. Without room
+	// for a buffer past the cache, none is measured: the hourly retry
+	// measures it when there is.
+	if avail := memAvailable("/proc/meminfo"); avail > 0 {
+		size = min(size, avail/4)
+	}
+	if size < max(minBuffer, 8*lastCacheBytes("/sys/devices/system/cpu")) {
+		return 0
+	}
+	buf := make([]uint64, size/8)
+	for i := range buf {
+		buf[i] = uint64(i)
+	}
+	workers := runtime.NumCPU()
+	chunk := (len(buf) + workers - 1) / workers
+	best := 0.0
+	for pass := 0; pass < 4; pass++ {
+		var wg sync.WaitGroup
+		start := time.Now()
+		for w := 0; w < workers; w++ {
+			lo, hi := w*chunk, min((w+1)*chunk, len(buf))
+			if lo >= hi {
+				continue
+			}
+			wg.Add(1)
+			go func(part []uint64) {
+				defer wg.Done()
+				sink(sum(part))
+			}(buf[lo:hi])
+		}
+		wg.Wait()
+		if s := time.Since(start).Seconds(); s > 0 {
+			best = max(best, float64(size)/s/1e9)
+		}
+	}
+	return best
+}
+
+// sum reads every word, eight at a time so the loop is not what limits it.
+func sum(p []uint64) uint64 {
+	var a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h uint64
+	i := 0
+	for ; i+8 <= len(p); i += 8 {
+		a += p[i]
+		b += p[i+1]
+		c += p[i+2]
+		d += p[i+3]
+		e += p[i+4]
+		f += p[i+5]
+		g += p[i+6]
+		h += p[i+7]
+	}
+	for ; i < len(p); i++ {
+		a += p[i]
+	}
+	return a + b + c + d + e + f + g + h
+}
+
+// sinkValue keeps the sums alive, so the reads are not optimised away.
+var sinkValue struct {
+	sync.Mutex
+	v uint64
+}
+
+func sink(v uint64) {
+	sinkValue.Lock()
+	sinkValue.v += v
+	sinkValue.Unlock()
+}
+
+// memAvailable is MemAvailable in bytes, 0 when unknown.
+func memAvailable(path string) int64 {
+	f, err := os.Open(path) //nolint:gosec // a fixed system path
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0
+	}
+	defer f.Close()
+	sc := bufio.NewScanner(f)
+	for sc.Scan() {
+		fields := strings.Fields(sc.Text())
+		if len(fields) >= 2 && fields[0] == "MemAvailable:" {
+			kb, _ := strconv.ParseInt(fields[1], 10, 64)
+			return kb << 10
+		}
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+// lastCacheBytes is the largest cache any CPU reports, 0 when unknown.
+func lastCacheBytes(root string) int64 {
+	paths, _ := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(root, "cpu*", "cache", "index*", "size"))
+	var most int64
+	for _, p := range paths {
+		b, err := os.ReadFile(p) //nolint:gosec // under /sys
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		v := strings.TrimSpace(string(b))
+		mult := int64(1)
+		switch {
+		case strings.HasSuffix(v, "K"):
+			mult, v = 1<<10, strings.TrimSuffix(v, "K")
+		case strings.HasSuffix(v, "M"):
+			mult, v = 1<<20, strings.TrimSuffix(v, "M")
+		}
+		if n, err := strconv.ParseInt(v, 10, 64); err == nil {
+			most = max(most, n*mult)
+		}
+	}
+	return most
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+package discovery
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestMemoryBandwidthIsMeasured(t *testing.T) {
+	if testing.Short() {
+		t.Skip("reads half a gigabyte")
+	}
+	bw := MeasureMemoryBandwidth()
+	// Any machine running this reads more than a gigabyte a second and less
+	// than a few terabytes.
+	if bw < 1 || bw > 5000 {
+		t.Errorf("measured %.1f GB/s", bw)
+	}
+	t.Logf("%.1f GB/s", bw)
+}
+
+func TestTheLastCacheIsReadFromSys(t *testing.T) {
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	for path, size := range map[string]string{"cpu0/cache/index0/size": "48K", "cpu0/cache/index3/size": "96M"} {
+		p := filepath.Join(root, path)
+		_ = os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(p), 0o755)
+		_ = os.WriteFile(p, []byte(size+"\n"), 0o644)
+	}
+	if got := lastCacheBytes(root); got != 96<<20 {
+		t.Errorf("%d", got)
+	}
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+package discovery
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/csv"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// A card in the wrong slot: an x16 card in a slot wired x8 or x4, behind a
+// riser, or in a slot of an older PCIe generation than the card's, links
+// slower than it was built to, and nothing says so. A model on the card
+// still decodes at the card's own memory speed, but it loads slower, a
+// tensor-parallel replica over PCIe is slower, and so is anything that
+// spills to the host. The driver says how the link stands and what the
+// card could do; the difference is reported where the node's warnings are.
+
+// PCIeLink is how a card is linked to its host.
+type PCIeLink struct {
+	// Gen is the fastest generation the card and the slot together allow —
+	// not the current one, which drops while the card idles, to save power.
+	// GPUGen is the card's own fastest, 0 when the driver does not say.
+	Gen    int `json:"gen,omitempty"`
+	GPUGen int `json:"gpu_gen,omitempty"`
+	// Width is the lanes in use now, WidthMax the card's most.
+	Width    int `json:"width,omitempty"`
+	WidthMax int `json:"width_max,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// laneGBs is one lane's usable rate in GB/s, by generation.
+var laneGBs = map[int]float64{1: 0.25, 2: 0.5, 3: 0.985, 4: 1.969, 5: 3.938, 6: 7.877}
+
+// GBs is what a link of gen and width carries, in GB/s each way.
+func pcieGBs(gen, width int) float64 { return laneGBs[gen] * float64(width) }
+
+// Problem says how a card's link falls short of what the card could do,
+// empty when it does not or the driver did not say.
+func (p PCIeLink) Problem() string {
+	gen := p.Gen
+	if p.GPUGen > 0 && gen == 0 {
+		gen = p.GPUGen
+	}
+	slowGen := p.GPUGen > 0 && p.Gen > 0 && p.Gen < p.GPUGen
+	narrow := p.WidthMax > 0 && p.Width > 0 && p.Width < p.WidthMax
+	if !slowGen && !narrow {
+		return ""
+	}
+	could := pcieGBs(max(p.GPUGen, gen), p.WidthMax)
+	has := pcieGBs(gen, p.Width)
+	var why []string
+	if narrow {
+		why = append(why, fmt.Sprintf("x%d of its x%d lanes", p.Width, p.WidthMax))
+	}
+	if slowGen {
+		why = append(why, fmt.Sprintf("PCIe Gen%d of its Gen%d", p.Gen, p.GPUGen))
+	}
+	return fmt.Sprintf("linked at %s: %.1f GB/s where it could have %.1f. "+
+		"Check the slot (wired fewer lanes, or an older generation), a riser, or the BIOS's PCIe setting",
+		strings.Join(why, " and "), has, could)
+}
+
+// pcieFields are asked apart from the rest, and the card's own fastest
+// generation apart again: a driver that does not know a field refuses the
+// whole query, and these must not cost a node its cards.
+var pcieFields = [][]string{
+	{"index", "pcie.link.gen.max", "pcie.link.width.current", "pcie.link.width.max", "pcie.link.gen.gpumax"},
+	{"index", "pcie.link.gen.max", "pcie.link.width.current", "pcie.link.width.max"},
+}
+
+// readPCIe fills each card's link from nvidia-smi, leaving it empty when
+// the driver says nothing of it.
+func readPCIe(ctx context.Context, binary string, cards []GPU) {
+	for _, fields := range pcieFields {
+		out, err := exec.CommandContext(ctx, binary, "--query-gpu="+strings.Join(fields, ","),
+			"--format=csv,noheader,nounits").Output()
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		links := parsePCIe(string(out))
+		for i := range cards {
+			if l, ok := links[cards[i].Index]; ok && cards[i].MIG == nil {
+				cards[i].PCIe = l
+			}
+		}
+		break
+	}
+	for i := range cards {
+		if cards[i].MIG == nil {
+			cards[i].PCIe = withSysfs(cards[i].PCIe, "/sys/bus/pci/devices", cards[i].PCIBusID)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// withSysfs takes the card's own lane count, and its own fastest
+// generation, from the kernel: the driver's width.max is what card and slot
+// allow together, so a x16 card in a slot wired x8 reads x8 of x8 there,
+// while the device's max_link_width is the card's, 16.
+func withSysfs(l PCIeLink, root, busID string) PCIeLink {
+	dev := sysfsBusID(busID)
+	if dev == "" {
+		return l
+	}
+	read := func(name string) string {
+		b, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(root, dev, name)) //nolint:gosec // under /sys
+		if err != nil {
+			return ""
+		}
+		return strings.TrimSpace(string(b))
+	}
+	if n, err := strconv.Atoi(read("max_link_width")); err == nil && n > 0 {
+		l.WidthMax = n
+	}
+	if n, err := strconv.Atoi(read("current_link_width")); err == nil && n > 0 {
+		l.Width = n
+	}
+	if g := genOfSpeed(read("max_link_speed")); g > 0 && l.GPUGen == 0 {
+		l.GPUGen = g
+	}
+	return l
+}
+
+// sysfsBusID is nvidia-smi's 00000000:3B:00.0 as the kernel names it,
+// 0000:3b:00.0.
+func sysfsBusID(id string) string {
+	id = strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(id))
+	dom, rest, ok := strings.Cut(id, ":")
+	if !ok || len(dom) < 4 {
+		return ""
+	}
+	return dom[len(dom)-4:] + ":" + rest
+}
+
+// genOfSpeed is the PCIe generation of a link speed as sysfs writes it.
+func genOfSpeed(s string) int {
+	switch {
+	case strings.HasPrefix(s, "2.5 GT/s"):
+		return 1
+	case strings.HasPrefix(s, "5.0 GT/s"), strings.HasPrefix(s, "5 GT/s"):
+		return 2
+	case strings.HasPrefix(s, "8.0 GT/s"), strings.HasPrefix(s, "8 GT/s"):
+		return 3
+	case strings.HasPrefix(s, "16.0 GT/s"), strings.HasPrefix(s, "16 GT/s"):
+		return 4
+	case strings.HasPrefix(s, "32.0 GT/s"), strings.HasPrefix(s, "32 GT/s"):
+		return 5
+	case strings.HasPrefix(s, "64.0 GT/s"), strings.HasPrefix(s, "64 GT/s"):
+		return 6
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+func parsePCIe(out string) map[int]PCIeLink {
+	r := csv.NewReader(strings.NewReader(out))
+	r.TrimLeadingSpace = true
+	r.FieldsPerRecord = -1
+	rows, _ := r.ReadAll()
+	num := func(s string) int {
+		n, _ := strconv.Atoi(strings.TrimSpace(s))
+		return n
+	}
+	links := map[int]PCIeLink{}
+	for _, row := range rows {
+		if len(row) < 4 {
+			continue
+		}
+		idx, err := strconv.Atoi(strings.TrimSpace(row[0]))
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		l := PCIeLink{Gen: num(row[1]), Width: num(row[2]), WidthMax: num(row[3])}
+		if len(row) > 4 {
+			l.GPUGen = num(row[4])
+		}
+		links[idx] = l
+	}
+	return links
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package discovery
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestACardInTheWrongSlotIsSaidSo(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		link PCIeLink
+		want string // empty: nothing to say
+	}{
+		// The PoC's Quadro RTX 6000, idle: current Gen1, but its fastest is 3,
+		// as the card's is, on all 16 lanes. Nothing wrong.
+		{PCIeLink{Gen: 3, GPUGen: 3, Width: 16, WidthMax: 16}, ""},
+		// An x16 card in a slot wired x8.
+		{PCIeLink{Gen: 4, GPUGen: 4, Width: 8, WidthMax: 16}, "x8 of its x16 lanes: 15.8 GB/s where it could have 31.5"},
+		// A Gen5 card in a Gen4 slot.
+		{PCIeLink{Gen: 4, GPUGen: 5, Width: 16, WidthMax: 16}, "PCIe Gen4 of its Gen5: 31.5 GB/s where it could have 63.0"},
+		// Both, behind a riser.
+		{PCIeLink{Gen: 3, GPUGen: 4, Width: 4, WidthMax: 16}, "x4 of its x16 lanes and PCIe Gen3 of its Gen4"},
+		// A driver that says nothing.
+		{PCIeLink{}, ""},
+	} {
+		got := c.link.Problem()
+		if (c.want == "") != (got == "") || !strings.Contains(got, c.want) {
+			t.Errorf("%+v: %q, want %q", c.link, got, c.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTheLinkIsReadFromNvidiaSMI(t *testing.T) {
+	links := parsePCIe("0, 3, 16, 16, 3\n1, 4, 8, 16, [N/A]\n")
+	if links[0] != (PCIeLink{Gen: 3, GPUGen: 3, Width: 16, WidthMax: 16}) || links[1] != (PCIeLink{Gen: 4, Width: 8, WidthMax: 16}) {
+		t.Errorf("%+v", links)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTheCardsOwnLanesComeFromTheKernel(t *testing.T) {
+	// The driver says x8 of x8 for a x16 card in a slot wired x8; the
+	// device's own max_link_width says 16.
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	dev := filepath.Join(root, "0000:3b:00.0")
+	_ = os.MkdirAll(dev, 0o755)
+	for f, v := range map[string]string{"max_link_width": "16", "current_link_width": "8", "max_link_speed": "16.0 GT/s PCIe"} {
+		_ = os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dev, f), []byte(v+"\n"), 0o644)
+	}
+	l := withSysfs(PCIeLink{Gen: 4, Width: 8, WidthMax: 8}, root, "00000000:3B:00.0")
+	if l.WidthMax != 16 || l.Width != 8 || l.GPUGen != 4 || !strings.Contains(l.Problem(), "x8 of its x16") {
+		t.Errorf("%+v: %q", l, l.Problem())
+	}
+}
@@ -74,6 +74,13 @@ func NewSensorSampler() *SensorSampler {
 	return &SensorSampler{sys: "/sys", smi: runSMI, now: time.Now}
 }

+// SampleGPUs reads every card's heat, power and how busy it is now, without
+// a sampler's ten seconds of memory: for a screen that asks every few seconds
+// and wants what it asked for. Nil on a machine without nvidia-smi or a card.
+func SampleGPUs(ctx context.Context) []GPUSensor {
+	return (&SensorSampler{smi: runSMI}).gpus(ctx)
+}
+
 func runSMI(ctx context.Context, fields string) ([]byte, error) {
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 5*time.Second)
 	defer cancel()
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+package engines
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"net"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"regexp"
+	"strconv"
+	"sync/atomic"
+)
+
+// ComfyUIConfig locates a ComfyUI installation.
+type ComfyUIConfig struct {
+	// Dir is ComfyUI's directory, where main.py is. Readable by the user
+	// engines run as.
+	Dir string `koanf:"dir"`
+	// Python is the interpreter of its environment; Dir's .venv when unset.
+	Python string `koanf:"python"`
+}
+
+// ComfyUI runs ComfyUI as an engine, behind llmgw's gate (llmgw
+// comfyui-gate): ComfyUI asks for no key, so it listens on the loopback and
+// the gate, which does, on the replica's port. Its replicas make pictures
+// for /v1/images/generations.
+type ComfyUI struct {
+	cfg       ComfyUIConfig
+	installed atomic.Pointer[string]
+}
+
+// Name identifies the engine in the catalog.
+func (*ComfyUI) Name() string { return "comfyui" }
+
+// HealthPath is the gate's, which answers once ComfyUI does.
+func (*ComfyUI) HealthPath() string { return "/health" }
+
+// MetricsPath is empty: ComfyUI publishes no metrics, and the router reads
+// none from it.
+func (*ComfyUI) MetricsPath() string { return "" }
+
+// ServesHTTP is true: a ComfyUI replica is one process on one node.
+func (*ComfyUI) ServesHTTP(ShardSpec) bool { return true }
+
+// UseInstalled points the engine at the environment the agent installed:
+// its interpreter, with ComfyUI's code beside its bin, in comfyui/.
+func (c *ComfyUI) UseInstalled(python string) { c.installed.Store(&python) }
+
+// Configured reports whether the configuration names a ComfyUI.
+func (c *ComfyUI) Configured() bool { return c.cfg.Dir != "" }
+
+func (c *ComfyUI) dir() string {
+	if p := c.installed.Load(); p != nil {
+		return filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(filepath.Dir(*p)), "comfyui")
+	}
+	return c.cfg.Dir
+}
+
+func (c *ComfyUI) python() string {
+	if p := c.installed.Load(); p != nil {
+		return *p
+	}
+	if c.cfg.Python != "" {
+		return c.cfg.Python
+	}
+	return filepath.Join(c.cfg.Dir, ".venv", "bin", "python")
+}
+
+var comfyVersion = regexp.MustCompile(`__version__\s*=\s*"([^"]+)"`)
+
+// Probe reports ComfyUI's version, from the file its build writes it to:
+// importing ComfyUI to ask would load torch and look for cards.
+func (c *ComfyUI) Probe(context.Context) (string, error) {
+	dir := c.dir()
+	if dir == "" {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("no ComfyUI directory is configured")
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, "main.py")); err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s is not ComfyUI: %w", dir, err)
+	}
+	b, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, "comfyui_version.py"))
+	if err != nil {
+		return Unknown, nil //nolint:nilerr // installed, of a version it does not say
+	}
+	if m := comfyVersion.FindSubmatch(b); m != nil {
+		return string(m[1]), nil
+	}
+	return Unknown, nil
+}
+
+// Validate checks the profile: one card, on one node. ComfyUI runs a
+// workflow on one device and has no tensor parallelism to spread it by.
+func (*ComfyUI) Validate(p Profile, gpus []GPUInfo) error {
+	if p.Nodes > 1 || p.TP > 1 || p.PP > 1 || p.GPUsPerNode > 1 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("profile %q: ComfyUI runs on one GPU of one node", p.Name)
+	}
+	return validateCommon(p, gpus)
+}
+
+// Commands is the gate, which starts ComfyUI itself.
+func (c *ComfyUI) Commands(s ShardSpec) ([]Command, error) {
+	dir := c.dir()
+	if dir == "" {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("comfyui: no ComfyUI directory is configured (engines.comfyui.dir)")
+	}
+	bin, err := os.Executable()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	p := s.Profile
+	args := []string{"comfyui-gate",
+		"--listen", net.JoinHostPort(s.Host(), strconv.Itoa(s.HTTPPort)),
+		"--model", p.ServedModelName,
+		"--weights", p.ModelPath,
+		// Relative to where engines run — their user's home — so it is
+		// theirs to write.
+		"--state", filepath.Join("comfyui", s.ReplicaID),
+		"--python", c.python(),
+		"--comfyui", dir,
+		"--",
+	}
+	args = append(args, p.Args...)
+	env := baseEnv(s)
+	if s.APIKey != "" {
+		env["LLMGW_ENGINE_KEY"] = s.APIKey
+	}
+	// A model's custom nodes and the repository a node loads its weights by,
+	// which only the catalog sets — a profile's env may not name them — and
+	// so taken before baseEnv drops them. Without the repository the gate
+	// links no Hugging Face cache, and sf3d's node went to the network for
+	// its gated repository and was refused with a 401.
+	for _, k := range []string{comfyNodesEnv, comfyHFRepoEnv, SharedModelsEnv} {
+		if v := p.Env[k]; v != "" {
+			env[k] = v
+		}
+	}
+	return []Command{{Name: "comfyui", Path: bin, Args: args, Env: materializeEnv(env)}}, nil
+}
+
+// comfyNodesEnv is the custom nodes the catalog gives a ComfyUI model, as
+// JSON; catalog.NodesEnv and comfy.NodesEnv by the same name.
+const comfyNodesEnv = "LLMGW_COMFYUI_NODES"
+
+// comfyHFRepoEnv is the repository a custom node loads the weights by name
+// from; catalog.HFRepoEnv and comfy.HFRepoEnv by the same name.
+const comfyHFRepoEnv = "LLMGW_COMFYUI_HF_REPO"
+
+// SharedModelsEnv is a shared replica's members — name, source, and the
+// path the agent fetched it to — as JSON; catalog.SharedModelsEnv and
+// comfy.SharedModelsEnv by the same name.
+const SharedModelsEnv = "LLMGW_COMFYUI_MODELS"
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+package engines
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestComfyUIRunsBehindTheGateWithItsKeyOutOfSight(t *testing.T) {
+	c := &ComfyUI{cfg: ComfyUIConfig{Dir: "/opt/comfyui"}}
+	cmds, err := c.Commands(ShardSpec{
+		ReplicaID: "r-flux-1", HTTPPort: 8100, BindAddr: "10.0.0.147", APIKey: "sekret", GPUIndices: []int{0},
+		Profile: Profile{Name: "p", Engine: "comfyui", ModelPath: "/w/flux.safetensors", ServedModelName: "flux",
+			Args: []string{"--disable-smart-memory"}},
+	})
+	if err != nil || len(cmds) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("%v %v", cmds, err)
+	}
+	args := strings.Join(cmds[0].Args, " ")
+	for _, want := range []string{"comfyui-gate", "--listen 10.0.0.147:8100", "--model flux", "--weights /w/flux.safetensors",
+		"--state comfyui/r-flux-1", "--python /opt/comfyui/.venv/bin/python", "--comfyui /opt/comfyui", "-- --disable-smart-memory"} {
+		if !strings.Contains(args, want) {
+			t.Errorf("%q not in %q", want, args)
+		}
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(args, "sekret") {
+		t.Error("the key is on the command line, where every user can read it")
+	}
+	if !slices.Contains(cmds[0].Env, "LLMGW_ENGINE_KEY=sekret") || !slices.Contains(cmds[0].Env, "CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0") {
+		t.Error("the key or the card is not in the environment")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTheGateIsToldTheNodesAndTheRepositoryTheCatalogGives(t *testing.T) {
+	// The repository was dropped on the way: sf3d's node went to the network
+	// for its gated repository, with no cache linked, and got a 401.
+	c := &ComfyUI{cfg: ComfyUIConfig{Dir: "/opt/comfyui"}}
+	cmds, err := c.Commands(ShardSpec{
+		ReplicaID: "r-sf3d-1", HTTPPort: 8100, BindAddr: "10.0.0.147", GPUIndices: []int{0},
+		Profile: Profile{Name: "p", Engine: "comfyui", ModelPath: "/w/sf3d/", ServedModelName: "sf3d",
+			Env: map[string]string{comfyNodesEnv: `[{"repo":"x"}]`, comfyHFRepoEnv: "stabilityai/stable-fast-3d"}},
+	})
+	if err != nil || len(cmds) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("%v %v", cmds, err)
+	}
+	for _, want := range []string{comfyNodesEnv + `=[{"repo":"x"}]`, comfyHFRepoEnv + "=stabilityai/stable-fast-3d"} {
+		if !slices.Contains(cmds[0].Env, want) {
+			t.Errorf("%q not in the gate's environment", want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestComfyUIRunsOnOneCard(t *testing.T) {
+	c := &ComfyUI{}
+	if err := c.Validate(Profile{Name: "p", ModelPath: "/w", TP: 2}, h100(2)); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a two-card ComfyUI profile was accepted")
+	}
+	if err := c.Validate(Profile{Name: "p", ModelPath: "/w", TP: 1}, h100(1)); err != nil {
+		t.Error(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := c.Commands(ShardSpec{Profile: Profile{ModelPath: "/w"}}); err == nil {
+		t.Error("commands without a ComfyUI directory")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestComfyUIIsOfferedByTheVersionItsBuildWrote(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	c := &ComfyUI{cfg: ComfyUIConfig{Dir: dir}}
+	if _, err := c.Probe(t.Context()); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a directory without main.py passed for ComfyUI")
+	}
+	_ = os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "main.py"), nil, 0o644)
+	_ = os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "comfyui_version.py"), []byte("__version__ = \"0.39.2\"\n"), 0o644)
+	if v, err := c.Probe(t.Context()); err != nil || v != "0.39.2" {
+		t.Errorf("%q %v", v, err)
+	}
+	if got := NewRegistry(Config{ComfyUI: ComfyUIConfig{Dir: dir}}).ProbeConfigured(t.Context()); got["comfyui"] != "0.39.2" {
+		t.Errorf("a configured ComfyUI is reported as %v", got)
+	}
+	if err := UnsafeArgs("comfyui", []string{"--enable-manager"}); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a profile may install ComfyUI nodes")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAnInstalledComfyUIIsFoundBesideItsInterpreter(t *testing.T) {
+	c := &ComfyUI{cfg: ComfyUIConfig{Dir: "/opt/by-hand"}}
+	c.UseInstalled("/opt/llmgw/engines/comfyui/0.39.2-cu13/bin/python")
+	cmds, err := c.Commands(ShardSpec{ReplicaID: "r", HTTPPort: 1, Profile: Profile{ModelPath: "/w", ServedModelName: "m"}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	args := strings.Join(cmds[0].Args, " ")
+	if !strings.Contains(args, "--python /opt/llmgw/engines/comfyui/0.39.2-cu13/bin/python") ||
+		!strings.Contains(args, "--comfyui /opt/llmgw/engines/comfyui/0.39.2-cu13/comfyui") {
+		t.Errorf("the installed ComfyUI is not what runs: %s", args)
+	}
+}
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ type Profile struct {
 	// KVEvents has the engine publish its KV cache events to the agent,
 	// for the router's precise index. vLLM only.
 	KVEvents bool `json:"kv_events,omitempty"`
+	// AllowPickle lets the node fetch weights in a pickle format, which run
+	// code when loaded; the catalog's allow_pickle.
+	AllowPickle bool `json:"allow_pickle,omitempty"`
 }

 // ShardSpec is one shard of one replica on this node.
@@ -214,6 +217,8 @@ func NewRegistry(cfg Config) *Registry {
 	r.Add(&LlamaCpp{cfg: cfg.LlamaCpp})
 	r.Add(&TRTLLM{cfg: cfg.TRTLLM})
 	r.Add(&Sim{cfg: cfg.Sim})
+	r.Add(&ComfyUI{cfg: cfg.ComfyUI})
+	r.Add(&Strata{cfg: cfg.Strata})
 	return r
 }

@@ -262,6 +267,11 @@ type Config struct {
 	// offers it only when its interpreter is named here.
 	TRTLLM TRTLLMConfig `koanf:"trtllm"`
 	Sim    SimConfig    `koanf:"sim"`
+	// ComfyUI makes pictures; offered by a node whose ComfyUI is named here.
+	ComfyUI ComfyUIConfig `koanf:"comfyui"`
+	// Strata serves a few mixture-of-experts models from RAM and one card;
+	// offered by a node whose Strata is named here, or that installed it.
+	Strata StrataConfig `koanf:"strata"`
 }

 // --- shared helpers ---
@@ -477,14 +477,14 @@ func TestValidateRequiresModelPath(t *testing.T) {

 func TestRegistry(t *testing.T) {
 	r := NewRegistry(Config{})
-	if got := r.Names(); !slices.Equal(got, []string{"llamacpp", "sglang", "sim", "trtllm", "vllm"}) {
+	if got := r.Names(); !slices.Equal(got, []string{"comfyui", "llamacpp", "sglang", "sim", "strata", "trtllm", "vllm"}) {
 		t.Errorf("registry contents: %v", got)
 	}
 	if _, err := r.Get("vllm"); err != nil {
 		t.Errorf("vllm missing: %v", err)
 	}
 	err := func() error { _, err := r.Get("nope"); return err }()
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "llamacpp, sglang, sim, trtllm, vllm") {
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "llamacpp, sglang, sim, strata, trtllm, vllm") {
 		t.Errorf("an unknown engine should list what is available: %v", err)
 	}
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+package engines
+
+import (
+	"slices"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestAModelDownloadedByTheEngineIsReadAsSafetensorsOnly(t *testing.T) {
+	for path, want := range map[string]bool{
+		"Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct":    true,
+		"/var/lib/llmgw/weights/abc/": false, "./local": false,
+		"http://m/q/v/": false, "q.gguf": false,
+	} {
+		got := slices.Contains(safetensorsOnly(Profile{ModelPath: path}), "safetensors")
+		if got != want {
+			t.Errorf("%q: safetensors only = %v, want %v", path, got, want)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(safetensorsOnly(Profile{ModelPath: "Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct", AllowPickle: true})) != 0 {
+		t.Error("allow_pickle still forced safetensors")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAForbiddenFlagIsKnownHoweverItIsSpelled(t *testing.T) {
+	for engine, args := range map[string][]string{
+		"vllm":   {"--trust_remote_code"},
+		"sglang": {"--load-format", "pt"},
+	} {
+		if UnsafeArgs(engine, args) == nil {
+			t.Errorf("%s %v was let through", engine, args)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, a := range [][]string{{"--load_format", "pt"}, {"--trust-remote"}, {"--load-form=pt"}} {
+		if UnsafeArgs("vllm", a) == nil {
+			t.Errorf("vllm %v was let through", a)
+		}
+	}
+	// What is not one of them, nor the start of one, still passes.
+	for _, a := range [][]string{{"--max-model-len", "8192"}, {"--tokenizer-mode", "mistral"}, {"--gpu-memory-utilization=0.9"}} {
+		if err := UnsafeArgs("vllm", a); err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("vllm %v was refused: %v", a, err)
+		}
+	}
+	// Short flags are matched as written; llama.cpp takes no abbreviations,
+	// so its --chat-template is not taken for --chat-template-file.
+	for _, a := range [][]string{{"-m", "x"}, {"-hf", "o/r"}, {"-mu", "http://x"}} {
+		if UnsafeArgs("llamacpp", a) == nil {
+			t.Errorf("llamacpp %v was let through", a)
+		}
+	}
+	if err := UnsafeArgs("llamacpp", []string{"--chat-template", "chatml"}); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("llama.cpp's own --chat-template was refused: %v", err)
+	}
+	// ComfyUI's argparse reads --li as --listen.
+	if UnsafeArgs("comfyui", []string{"--li", "0.0.0.0"}) == nil {
+		t.Error("comfyui --li was let through")
+	}
+}
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ func (g *SGLang) serverCommand(s ShardSpec) (Command, error) {
 	if p.ServedModelName != "" {
 		args = append(args, "--served-model-name", p.ServedModelName)
 	}
+	args = append(args, safetensorsOnly(p)...)
 	if s.NNodes > 1 {
 		args = append(args,
 			"--nnodes", strconv.Itoa(s.NNodes),
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+package engines
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"net"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strconv"
+	"sync/atomic"
+)
+
+// StrataConfig locates a Strata installation.
+type StrataConfig struct {
+	// Dir is Strata's source directory, where setup.py and serve/ are.
+	Dir string `koanf:"dir"`
+	// Python is the interpreter of its environment; Dir's .venv when unset.
+	Python string `koanf:"python"`
+	// Engine is the directory of its prebuilt engine, where the strata
+	// binary and the CUDA libraries it ships are; Dir's engine/ when unset.
+	Engine string `koanf:"engine"`
+}
+
+// Strata runs Strata (github.com/Niko1221/Strata): a mixture-of-experts
+// engine that keeps a model's experts in RAM and the ones used most in VRAM,
+// so a 125B model serves from one 24 GB card. It runs a few model families
+// only, each prepared from its GGUF files by Strata's own setup, so the agent
+// starts llmgw strata-serve, which prepares the model and then becomes
+// Strata's server.
+type Strata struct {
+	cfg       StrataConfig
+	installed atomic.Pointer[string]
+}
+
+// Name identifies the engine in the catalog.
+func (*Strata) Name() string { return "strata" }
+
+// HealthPath answers 200 only once the model is loaded.
+func (*Strata) HealthPath() string { return "/health" }
+
+// MetricsPath is Strata's Prometheus text, in vLLM's names; its /metrics is
+// JSON for its own monitor unless asked for this format.
+func (*Strata) MetricsPath() string { return "/metrics?format=prometheus" }
+
+// ServesHTTP is true: a Strata replica is one process on one node.
+func (*Strata) ServesHTTP(ShardSpec) bool { return true }
+
+// UseInstalled points the engine at the environment the agent installed:
+// its interpreter, with Strata's code beside its bin in strata/ and the
+// engine in strata-engine/.
+func (s *Strata) UseInstalled(python string) { s.installed.Store(&python) }
+
+// Configured reports whether the configuration names a Strata.
+func (s *Strata) Configured() bool { return s.cfg.Dir != "" }
+
+// StrataSourceDir and StrataEngineDir are where an installed environment
+// keeps Strata's code and its prebuilt engine, beside bin/.
+const (
+	StrataSourceDir = "strata"
+	StrataEngineDir = "strata-engine"
+)
+
+func (s *Strata) env() string {
+	if p := s.installed.Load(); p != nil {
+		return filepath.Dir(filepath.Dir(*p))
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+func (s *Strata) dir() string {
+	if e := s.env(); e != "" {
+		return filepath.Join(e, StrataSourceDir)
+	}
+	return s.cfg.Dir
+}
+
+func (s *Strata) engineDir() string {
+	if e := s.env(); e != "" {
+		return filepath.Join(e, StrataEngineDir)
+	}
+	if s.cfg.Engine != "" {
+		return s.cfg.Engine
+	}
+	return filepath.Join(s.cfg.Dir, "engine")
+}
+
+func (s *Strata) python() string {
+	if p := s.installed.Load(); p != nil {
+		return *p
+	}
+	if s.cfg.Python != "" {
+		return s.cfg.Python
+	}
+	return filepath.Join(s.cfg.Dir, ".venv", "bin", "python")
+}
+
+// Validate checks the profile: one card, on one node. Strata splits a model
+// over a node's cards by layer, but that is not driven from here yet.
+func (*Strata) Validate(p Profile, gpus []GPUInfo) error {
+	if p.Nodes > 1 || p.TP > 1 || p.PP > 1 || p.GPUsPerNode > 1 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("profile %q: strata runs on one GPU of one node", p.Name)
+	}
+	if err := requireComputeCapability(p, gpus, 7.0, "strata"); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return validateCommon(p, gpus)
+}
+
+// Commands is llmgw strata-serve, which prepares the model with Strata's
+// setup and then execs Strata's server.
+func (s *Strata) Commands(sh ShardSpec) ([]Command, error) {
+	dir := s.dir()
+	if dir == "" {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("strata: no Strata directory is configured (engines.strata.dir)")
+	}
+	bin, err := os.Executable()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	p := sh.Profile
+	args := []string{"strata-serve",
+		"--listen", net.JoinHostPort(sh.Host(), strconv.Itoa(sh.HTTPPort)),
+		"--model", p.ServedModelName,
+		"--weights", p.ModelPath,
+		// Relative to where engines run — their user's home — so they are
+		// theirs to write. The data is shared by the node's replicas: a
+		// prepared model and its draft layer are gigabytes, the same for
+		// every replica of it.
+		"--state", filepath.Join("strata", sh.ReplicaID),
+		"--data", filepath.Join("strata", "data"),
+		"--python", s.python(),
+		"--strata", dir,
+		"--engine", s.engineDir(),
+		"--",
+	}
+	args = append(args, p.Args...)
+	env := baseEnv(sh)
+	if sh.APIKey != "" {
+		// Strata's server reads its key from here, and strata-serve passes
+		// it on in the environment: not on a command line every user on the
+		// node can read.
+		env["STRATA_API_KEY"] = sh.APIKey
+	}
+	return []Command{{Name: "strata", Path: bin, Args: args, Env: materializeEnv(env)}}, nil
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+package engines
+
+import (
+	"path/filepath"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestStrataStartsStrataServeWithTheKeyInTheEnvironment(t *testing.T) {
+	s := &Strata{}
+	s.UseInstalled("/opt/llmgw/engines/strata/0.2.7-cuda13/bin/python")
+	spec := ShardSpec{
+		ReplicaID: "r1", HTTPPort: 18090, BindAddr: "10.0.0.147", GPUIndices: []int{0},
+		APIKey: "secret-key",
+		Profile: Profile{Name: "p", Engine: "strata", TP: 1, ModelPath: "/var/lib/llmgw/models/q38",
+			ServedModelName: "qwen3.8-flash-next", Args: []string{"--family", "qwen", "--size", "IQ2_XS"}},
+	}
+	cmds, err := s.Commands(spec)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	c := cmds[0]
+	args := strings.Join(c.Args, " ")
+	env := "/opt/llmgw/engines/strata/0.2.7-cuda13"
+	for _, want := range []string{
+		"strata-serve", "--listen 10.0.0.147:18090", "--model qwen3.8-flash-next",
+		"--weights /var/lib/llmgw/models/q38", "--state " + filepath.Join("strata", "r1"),
+		"--python " + env + "/bin/python", "--strata " + env + "/strata", "--engine " + env + "/strata-engine",
+		"-- --family qwen --size IQ2_XS",
+	} {
+		if !strings.Contains(args, want) {
+			t.Errorf("args lack %q: %s", want, args)
+		}
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(args, "secret-key") {
+		t.Error("the key is on the command line, which every user on the node can read")
+	}
+	if !slices.Contains(c.Env, "STRATA_API_KEY=secret-key") {
+		t.Error("the key is not in the environment, where Strata's server reads it")
+	}
+	if !slices.Contains(c.Env, "CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0") {
+		t.Error("the shard is not pinned to its GPU")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestStrataRunsOnOneCard(t *testing.T) {
+	s := &Strata{}
+	p := Profile{Name: "p", Engine: "strata", TP: 1, GPUsPerNode: 2, ModelPath: "/m"}
+	if err := s.Validate(p, nil); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a two-card profile was accepted")
+	}
+	p.GPUsPerNode = 1
+	if err := s.Validate(p, []GPUInfo{{Name: "Quadro RTX 6000", ComputeCapability: "7.5"}}); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("one Turing card was refused: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestStrataSetupFlagsThatMoveFilesAreRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, bad := range []string{"--gguf-dir", "--gguf", "--data-dir=/etc", "--model", "--mod", "--feed", "--host", "--gpus"} {
+		if err := UnsafeArgs("strata", []string{bad, "x"}); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("%s was accepted", bad)
+		}
+	}
+	if err := UnsafeArgs("strata", []string{"--family", "qwen", "--size", "IQ2_XS", "--context", "32768",
+		"--parallel", "2", "--vram-reserve-mib", "2048", "--vision", "no"}); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("an ordinary profile was refused: %v", err)
+	}
+}
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package engines

 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"os"
 	"strings"
 )

@@ -101,6 +102,13 @@ var flagsNever = map[string]map[string]string{
 		"--hf-token": "is a credential", "--alias": "is set by the agent",
 		"--model-draft": "loads a file", "-md": "loads a file",
 		"--prompt-cache": "writes a file", "--logdir": "writes files",
+		// The short spellings of the same.
+		"-mm": "loads a file; the projector is fetched with the model", "--mmproj-url": "downloads a file",
+		"-mmu": "downloads a file", "-hfr": "downloads a model", "-hff": "downloads a model",
+		"--hf-repo-draft": "downloads a model", "-hfd": "downloads a model", "-hfrd": "downloads a model",
+		"--hf-repo-v": "downloads a model", "-hfv": "downloads a model", "--hf-file-v": "downloads a model",
+		"-hffv": "downloads a model", "-hft": "is a credential", "-jf": "reads a file", "-a": "is set by the agent",
+		"--model-vocoder": "loads a file", "-mv": "loads a file",
 	},
 	"vllm": {
 		"--download-dir": "writes files", "--tokenizer": "reads another repository or path",
@@ -118,6 +126,36 @@ var flagsNever = map[string]map[string]string{
 		"--file-storage-path": "writes files", "--log-requests": "logs prompts",
 		"--model-path": "is the model's source, set by the agent", "--served-model-name": "is set by the agent",
 		"--lora-paths": "loads files", "--download-dir": "writes files",
+		"--load-format": "changes how weights are loaded, some ways running code",
+	},
+	// ComfyUI's main.py, behind the gate that sets where it listens and
+	// where its files are.
+	"comfyui": {
+		"--listen": "is set by the agent", "--base-directory": "is set by the agent",
+		"--extra-model-paths-config": "is set by the agent",
+		"--output-directory":         "writes files", "--temp-directory": "writes files",
+		"--input-directory": "reads files", "--user-directory": "writes files",
+		"--database-url": "writes a database elsewhere", "--front-end-root": "serves a directory",
+		"--enable-cors-header": "lets other sites' pages call it",
+		"--enable-manager":     "installs nodes, which run Python",
+		"--tls-keyfile":        "reads a file", "--tls-certfile": "reads a file",
+		"--comfy-api-base": "sends work to another service",
+	},
+	// Strata's setup.py, which a profile's arguments go to: llmgw
+	// strata-serve sets where the model is, where its files go and where
+	// the server listens, and the engine is the one the agent installed.
+	// Its own --model, the size, is spelt --size in a profile, since
+	// --model is the source everywhere else.
+	"strata": {
+		"--gguf-dir": "is the model's source, set by the agent", "--models-dir": "is set by the agent",
+		"--data-dir": "is set by the agent", "--move-data": "moves files", "--set-default-data-dir": "writes settings",
+		"--feed": "downloads an engine", "--prebuilt": "loads an engine", "--build": "compiles an engine",
+		"--update": "downloads an engine", "--rollback-engine": "changes the engine",
+		"--dsv41-package": "loads a file", "--inspect": "reads another repository or path",
+		"--source": "downloads from elsewhere", "--setup": "is not for a server",
+		"--browser": "opens a browser", "--gpu": "is set by the agent", "--gpus": "is set by the agent",
+		"--gpu-roles": "is set by the agent", "--backend": "is set by the agent",
+		"--experimental-speed-projection": "changes what the model refuses",
 	},
 	// trtllm-serve spells its flags with underscores, so the shared list's
 	// hyphenated names do not reach them.
@@ -150,14 +188,43 @@ var flagsNever = map[string]map[string]string{
 // unsafeFlag is why an engine may not be given a flag, or "".
 func unsafeFlag(engine, flag, _ string) string {
 	name, _, _ := strings.Cut(flag, "=")
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(name, "-") {
+		return ""
+	}
+	// Written as the engine would read it: vLLM takes --load_format for
+	// --load-format, TensorRT-LLM the other way round. Short flags (-m,
+	// -hf) are matched as written.
+	norm := func(f string) string {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(f, "--") {
+			return "--" + strings.ReplaceAll(f[2:], "_", "-")
+		}
+		return f
+	}
+	given := norm(name)
+	// argparse also takes any unambiguous beginning of a long flag for the
+	// flag — --trust-remote is --trust-remote-code, --li is ComfyUI's
+	// --listen — so for the engines that parse with it, a beginning of a
+	// refused flag is refused. llama.cpp and TensorRT-LLM take no such
+	// thing, and --chat-template there is a flag of its own.
+	abbreviates := argparseEngines[engine] && strings.HasPrefix(given, "--") && len(given) >= 4
 	for _, set := range []string{"", engine} {
-		if why, ok := flagsNever[set][name]; ok && why != "" {
-			return why
+		for never, why := range flagsNever[set] {
+			if why == "" {
+				continue
+			}
+			n := norm(never)
+			if n == given || (abbreviates && strings.HasPrefix(n, "--") && strings.HasPrefix(n, given)) {
+				return why
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	return ""
 }

+// argparseEngines read their flags with Python's argparse, which takes a
+// long flag's beginning for the flag.
+var argparseEngines = map[string]bool{"vllm": true, "sglang": true, "comfyui": true, "strata": true}
+
 // UnsafeArgs refuses the first of a profile's arguments an engine may not be
 // given, saying why.
 func UnsafeArgs(engine string, args []string) error {
@@ -172,3 +239,29 @@ func UnsafeArgs(engine string, args []string) error {
 	}
 	return nil
 }
+
+// safetensorsOnly has vLLM or SGLang read only safetensors from a model it
+// downloads itself, by its Hugging Face id: left to choose, either takes
+// the repository's pickle files (pytorch_model.bin) when it has no
+// safetensors, and loading those runs whatever they hold. A path was
+// fetched by the agent, which checked it, or put there by the operator.
+func safetensorsOnly(p Profile) []string {
+	if p.AllowPickle || !hubID(p.ModelPath) {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return []string{"--load-format", "safetensors"}
+}
+
+// hubID reports whether a model path is a Hugging Face id, org/name, rather
+// than a file or directory.
+func hubID(s string) bool {
+	if s == "" || strings.HasPrefix(s, "/") || strings.HasPrefix(s, ".") || strings.Contains(s, "://") {
+		return false
+	}
+	// org/name:Q4_K_M is a GGUF in a repository, which vLLM reads as one.
+	if strings.Count(s, "/") != 1 || strings.Contains(s, ":") {
+		return false
+	}
+	_, err := os.Stat(s)
+	return err != nil
+}
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ func (v *VLLM) serverCommand(s ShardSpec) (Command, error) {
 	if p.ServedModelName != "" {
 		args = append(args, "--served-model-name", p.ServedModelName)
 	}
+	args = append(args, safetensorsOnly(p)...)

 	env := baseEnv(s)

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ var (
 	gpuProcesses = discovery.GPUProcesses
 	gpuMemory    = discovery.GPUMemoryByProcess
 	processGroup = pgidOf
+	parentOf     = ppidOf
 	// gpuCheckWait is how long a shard has, once it answers, to show up on
 	// its GPUs: the weights are on them by then, but nvidia-smi can lag.
 	gpuCheckWait = 15 * time.Second
@@ -116,19 +117,44 @@ func (a *Agent) foreignGPUMemory(ctx context.Context, shards []int) (foreign, us
 	return foreign, used
 }

-// holds reports whether any of pids is the shard's process or in its group:
-// an engine that computes in a child process is still the shard.
+// holds reports whether any of pids is the shard's process, in its group,
+// or a process it started: an engine that computes in a child process is
+// still the shard, and Strata's server starts its engine in a group of the
+// engine's own.
 func holds(pids []int, pid, group int) bool {
 	for _, p := range pids {
-		if p == pid || (group > 0 && processGroup(p) == group) {
+		if p == pid || (group > 0 && processGroup(p) == group) || descends(p, pid) {
 			return true
 		}
 	}
 	return false
 }

+// descends reports whether process p was started, at any remove, by pid.
+func descends(p, pid int) bool {
+	// Bounded: a chain this deep is no engine's, and a /proc read racing an
+	// exit must not loop.
+	for range 16 {
+		p = parentOf(p)
+		switch {
+		case p == pid:
+			return true
+		case p <= 1:
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
 // pgidOf reads a process's group from /proc; zero when it cannot.
-func pgidOf(pid int) int {
+func pgidOf(pid int) int { return statField(pid, 2) }
+
+// ppidOf reads a process's parent from /proc; zero when it cannot.
+func ppidOf(pid int) int { return statField(pid, 1) }
+
+// statField is one of the numbers after the command name in /proc's stat
+// line: 1 is the parent, 2 the group.
+func statField(pid, field int) int {
 	b, err := os.ReadFile("/proc/" + strconv.Itoa(pid) + "/stat")
 	if err != nil {
 		return 0
@@ -141,10 +167,10 @@ func pgidOf(pid int) int {
 		return 0
 	}
 	f := strings.Fields(s[i+1:])
-	if len(f) < 3 {
+	if len(f) <= field {
 		return 0
 	}
-	n, _ := strconv.Atoi(f[2])
+	n, _ := strconv.Atoi(f[field])
 	return n
 }

@@ -123,6 +123,30 @@ func TestForeignGPUMemoryLeavesOutTheAgentsOwnShards(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

+func TestAnEngineStartedInAGroupOfItsOwnIsStillTheShards(t *testing.T) {
+	// cuda01: Strata's server (259709) starts its engine (261072) in a
+	// group of the engine's own, and the engine holds the card. It read as
+	// a shard on the CPU, and as 22 GB of somebody else's memory.
+	oldMem, oldGroup, oldParent := gpuMemory, processGroup, parentOf
+	t.Cleanup(func() { gpuMemory, processGroup, parentOf = oldMem, oldGroup, oldParent })
+	processGroup = func(pid int) int { return pid }
+	parentOf = func(pid int) int {
+		return map[int]int{261072: 259709, 259709: 258734, 258734: 1, 999: 1}[pid]
+	}
+	gpuMemory = func(context.Context, string) ([]discovery.GPUMemory, error) {
+		return []discovery.GPUMemory{{Index: 0, UsedMB: 23000,
+			Procs: []discovery.GPUProcess{{PID: 261072, UsedMB: 22226}, {PID: 999, UsedMB: 700}}}}, nil
+	}
+	a := &Agent{log: slog.Default()}
+	if c, ok := a.gpuCompute(context.Background(), []int{0}, 259709); !ok || c.Backend != "CUDA" ||
+		len(c.Devices) != 1 || c.Devices[0] != "GPU 0: 21.7 GB" {
+		t.Errorf("the engine's child on GPU 0: %+v %v", c, ok)
+	}
+	if foreign, _ := a.foreignGPUMemory(context.Background(), []int{259709}); !slices.Equal(foreign, []int32{774}) {
+		t.Errorf("foreign %v; want only what the other process and nobody holds, [774]", foreign)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestLlamaCppsOwnWordOnTheCPUIsEnoughToRefuse(t *testing.T) {
 	eng := fallbackEngine{}
 	// Without nvidia-smi to ask, the engine's own output says it.
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package agent
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
+	// Half a gigabyte read per test binary, and contending with the tests
+	// for the CPUs: these never look at the figure.
+	measureBandwidth = func() float64 { return 0 }
+	bandwidthDelay = func() time.Duration { return 0 }
+	os.Exit(m.Run())
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
+package provision
+
+import (
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/agent/discovery"
+)
+
+// comfyuiSource is a ComfyUI release archive as GitHub makes one, and the
+// recipe pointed at it.
+func comfyuiSource(t *testing.T, in *Installer, rel *release, digest string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	archive := tarGz(t, map[string]string{
+		"ComfyUI-0.39.2/main.py":            "print('comfy')\n",
+		"ComfyUI-0.39.2/comfyui_version.py": "__version__ = \"0.39.2\"\n",
+		"ComfyUI-0.39.2/requirements.txt": "comfyui-frontend-package==1.53.10\ntorch\ntorchvision\n" +
+			"numpy>=1.25.0\n\n#non essential dependencies:\nkornia>=0.7.1\n",
+	}, nil)
+	rel.assets["v0.39.2.tar.gz"] = archive
+	sum := sha256.Sum256(archive)
+	if digest == "" {
+		digest = hex.EncodeToString(sum[:])
+	}
+	old := comfyuiReleases
+	comfyuiReleases = map[string]struct {
+		sha256    string
+		published string
+	}{"0.39.2": {digest, "2026-10-07T21:58:07Z"}}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { comfyuiReleases = old })
+}
+
+var turingNode = discovery.Host{OSID: "ubuntu", OSVersion: "24.04", Arch: "amd64",
+	NVIDIADriver: "580.82.07", MinComputeCapability: 7.5}
+
+func TestComfyUIIsInstalledFromItsSourceCheckedAgainstTheRecipe(t *testing.T) {
+	sys := &fakePython{fakeSystem: fakeSystem{installed: map[string]bool{}}}
+	in, rel := pythonInstaller(t, turingNode, sys)
+	comfyuiSource(t, in, rel, "")
+
+	got := in.Converge(t.Context(), []Want{{Engine: "comfyui", Version: "0.39.2"}})
+	if got[0].State != Ready {
+		t.Fatalf("not ready: %+v", got[0])
+	}
+	dir := filepath.Join(in.Root, "comfyui", "0.39.2-cu13")
+	if got[0].Binary != filepath.Join(dir, "bin", "python") {
+		t.Errorf("binary %s, want the environment's interpreter", got[0].Binary)
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, "comfyui", "main.py")); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("ComfyUI's code is not beside the interpreter: %v", err)
+	}
+	all := strings.Join(sys.commands, "\n")
+	for _, want := range []string{
+		// Not PyPI's date, which ComfyUI has none of: the recipe's, a day on.
+		"--exclude-newer 2026-10-08T21:58:07Z",
+		"comfyui-frontend-package==1.53.10", "numpy>=1.25.0", "kornia>=0.7.1", "torch",
+		"--require-hashes",
+	} {
+		if !strings.Contains(all, want) {
+			t.Errorf("no %q in:\n%s", want, all)
+		}
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(all, "/pypi/") {
+		t.Error("PyPI was asked when ComfyUI was published")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestComfyUIOnAnOlderDriverTakesPyTorchsCUDA12Torch(t *testing.T) {
+	sys := &fakePython{fakeSystem: fakeSystem{installed: map[string]bool{}}}
+	host := turingNode
+	host.NVIDIADriver = "550.163.01"
+	in, rel := pythonInstaller(t, host, sys)
+	comfyuiSource(t, in, rel, "")
+	got := in.Converge(t.Context(), []Want{{Engine: "comfyui", Version: "0.39.2"}})
+	if got[0].State != Ready || got[0].Variant != "cu129" {
+		t.Fatalf("got %+v", got[0])
+	}
+	var project string
+	for _, c := range sys.commands {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(c, "pyproject: ") {
+			project = c
+		}
+	}
+	// torch from PyTorch's index alone, named once, as the build names it.
+	if !strings.Contains(project, `torch = { index = "extra" }`) || strings.Count(project, `"torch"`) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("torch is not from PyTorch's index alone:\n%s", project)
+	}
+}
+
+// A V100 on driver 580: CUDA 13 runs on the driver, but neither its torch
+// nor CUDA 12.9's has kernels for Volta. Tried in turn, each was installed,
+// 10 GB at a time, and failed on the card.
+func TestComfyUIOnAVoltaTakesPyTorchsCUDA126Torch(t *testing.T) {
+	sys := &fakePython{fakeSystem: fakeSystem{installed: map[string]bool{}}}
+	host := turingNode
+	host.MinComputeCapability = 7.0
+	in, rel := pythonInstaller(t, host, sys)
+	comfyuiSource(t, in, rel, "")
+	got := in.Converge(t.Context(), []Want{{Engine: "comfyui", Version: "0.39.2"}})
+	if got[0].State != Ready || got[0].Variant != "cu126" {
+		t.Fatalf("got %+v", got[0])
+	}
+	all := strings.Join(sys.commands, "\n")
+	if !strings.Contains(all, pytorchCU126) || strings.Contains(all, pytorchCU129) {
+		t.Errorf("torch is not CUDA 12.6's:\n%s", all)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestComfyUIWhoseSourceIsNotTheOneTheRecipeNamesIsNotInstalled(t *testing.T) {
+	sys := &fakePython{fakeSystem: fakeSystem{installed: map[string]bool{}}}
+	in, rel := pythonInstaller(t, turingNode, sys)
+	comfyuiSource(t, in, rel, strings.Repeat("ab", 32))
+	got := in.Converge(t.Context(), []Want{{Engine: "comfyui", Version: "0.39.2"}})
+	if got[0].State != Failed || !strings.Contains(got[0].Detail, "does not match") {
+		t.Fatalf("got %s %q", got[0].State, got[0].Detail)
+	}
+	for _, c := range sys.commands {
+		if strings.Contains(c, "pip install") {
+			t.Errorf("installed from a source that did not match: %s", c)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestComfyUIIsInstalledOnlyWhereItCanRun(t *testing.T) {
+	sys := &fakePython{fakeSystem: fakeSystem{installed: map[string]bool{}}}
+	in, _ := pythonInstaller(t, ubuntu, sys)
+	if got := in.Converge(t.Context(), []Want{{Engine: "comfyui", Version: "0.39.2"}}); got[0].State != Skipped {
+		t.Errorf("a node with no GPU: %+v", got[0])
+	}
+	in, _ = pythonInstaller(t, turingNode, sys)
+	got := in.Converge(t.Context(), []Want{{Engine: "comfyui", Version: "0.1.0"}})
+	if got[0].State != Unsupported || !strings.Contains(got[0].Detail, "knows the source digest of ComfyUI 0.39.2") {
+		t.Errorf("a version without a digest: %s %q", got[0].State, got[0].Detail)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestARequirementsFileIsReadForPackagesAndNothingElse(t *testing.T) {
+	got, err := requirementsIn("torch\ntorchvision>=0.20\nPillow\n# a comment\naiohttp>=3.11 # inline\n", pytorchPackages)
+	if err != nil || strings.Join(got, ",") != "Pillow,aiohttp>=3.11" {
+		t.Errorf("%v %v", got, err)
+	}
+	for _, bad := range []string{"-r other.txt", "--index-url https://evil", "x @ https://evil/x.whl", "-e ."} {
+		if _, err := requirementsIn(bad+"\n", nil); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("%q was accepted", bad)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// A card every build runs on keeps the order it had: a Turing node's
+// installed cu13 is still the first found, and is not installed again
+// because a build for older cards was added after it.
+func TestComfyUIBuildsAreTriedBestFirst(t *testing.T) {
+	variants := func(h discovery.Host) string {
+		builds, err := comfyuiCandidates("0.39.2", "", h)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err.Error()
+		}
+		var v []string
+		for _, b := range builds {
+			v = append(v, b.Variant)
+		}
+		return strings.Join(v, ",")
+	}
+	volta := turingNode
+	volta.MinComputeCapability = 7.0
+	older := turingNode
+	older.NVIDIADriver = "550.163.01"
+	for h, want := range map[*discovery.Host]string{&turingNode: "cu13,cu129,cu126", &volta: "cu126", &older: "cu129,cu126"} {
+		if got := variants(*h); got != want {
+			t.Errorf("cc %.1f driver %s: %s, want %s", h.MinComputeCapability, h.NVIDIADriver, got, want)
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ func (in *Installer) one(ctx context.Context, w Want) Status {
 		}
 		return st
 	}
-	if w.Offline != nil && recipe.Repo == "" {
+	if w.Offline != nil && (recipe.Repo == "" || builds[0].Python != "") {
 		// Said, not attempted: uv would spend minutes failing to reach PyPI,
 		// and the failure would read like a network fault rather than the
 		// design of an offline site.
@@ -66,12 +66,17 @@ func (in *Installer) installPython(ctx context.Context, r Recipe, w Want, b Buil
 		return fmt.Errorf("installing uv, which installs %s: %s", w.Engine, uv.Detail)
 	}

-	in.progress(st, "asking PyPI when %s %s was published", r.PyPI, w.Version)
-	published, err := in.published(ctx, r.PyPI, w.Version)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
+	var asOf string
+	if !b.AsOf.IsZero() {
+		asOf = b.AsOf.UTC().Format(time.RFC3339)
+	} else {
+		in.progress(st, "asking PyPI when %s %s was published", r.PyPI, w.Version)
+		published, err := in.published(ctx, r.PyPI, w.Version)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		asOf = published.Add(24 * time.Hour).UTC().Format(time.RFC3339)
 	}
-	asOf := published.Add(24 * time.Hour).UTC().Format(time.RFC3339)

 	cache := filepath.Join(in.root(), ".uv-cache")
 	env := []string{
@@ -96,7 +101,19 @@ func (in *Installer) installPython(ctx context.Context, r Recipe, w Want, b Buil
 	}
 	python := filepath.Join(tmp, "bin", "python")

-	reqs := b.Requirements
+	reqs := slices.Clone(b.Requirements)
+	if b.Source != nil {
+		more, err := in.unpackSource(ctx, w, b, tmp, st)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		reqs = append(reqs, more...)
+	}
+	if len(b.Assets) > 0 {
+		if err := in.unpackAssets(ctx, r, w, b, tmp, st); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
 	if b.Wheel != nil {
 		// The engine from its GitHub release, pinned to the digest GitHub
 		// publishes for the file: the same trust as an archive, and uv
@@ -320,3 +337,110 @@ func (in *Installer) gpuCheck(ctx context.Context, python string, w Want, b Buil
 	}
 	return nil
 }
+
+// unpackSource fetches an engine's source archive, checks it against the
+// digest the recipe holds, puts its code in the environment, and returns the
+// requirements its requirements file names — less the packages a second
+// index gives, which the build names itself.
+func (in *Installer) unpackSource(ctx context.Context, w Want, b Build, env string, st *Status) ([]string, error) {
+	src := b.Source
+	url := src.URL
+	if strings.HasPrefix(url, "/") {
+		url = strings.TrimSuffix(in.downloadBase(), "/") + url
+	}
+	scratch := env + ".source"
+	_ = os.RemoveAll(scratch)
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(scratch, 0o755); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer os.RemoveAll(scratch) //nolint:errcheck // scratch
+	archive := filepath.Join(scratch, "source.tar.gz")
+	name := w.Engine + " " + w.Version + "'s source"
+	if err := in.download(ctx, url, name, archive, src.SHA256, st); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	in.progress(st, "unpacking %s", name)
+	if err := untarGz(archive, scratch); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unpacking %s: %w", name, err)
+	}
+	dst := filepath.Join(env, src.Dir)
+	if err := os.Rename(filepath.Join(scratch, src.Top), dst); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s has no %s at its top: %w", name, src.Top, err)
+	}
+	if src.Requirements == "" {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	f, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dst, src.Requirements))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", name, err)
+	}
+	return requirementsIn(string(f), b.IndexPackages)
+}
+
+// unpackAssets fetches a Python engine's release binaries, each checked
+// against the digest GitHub publishes for it, and unpacks them into the
+// environment's AssetDir.
+func (in *Installer) unpackAssets(ctx context.Context, r Recipe, w Want, b Build, env string, st *Status) error {
+	tag := b.AssetTag
+	if tag == "" {
+		tag = w.Version
+	}
+	in.progress(st, "asking GitHub for the checksums of %s %s", r.Repo, tag)
+	sums, err := in.checksums(ctx, r.Repo, tag)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	dst := filepath.Join(env, b.AssetDir)
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(dst, 0o755); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	for _, asset := range b.Assets {
+		want, ok := sums[asset]
+		if !ok {
+			// Refused rather than installed unchecked: this is a binary that
+			// will run on every node.
+			return fmt.Errorf("%s %s publishes no checksum for %s, so it cannot be verified", r.Repo, tag, asset)
+		}
+		url := strings.TrimSuffix(in.downloadBase(), "/") + "/" + r.Repo + "/releases/download/" + tag + "/" + asset
+		archive := filepath.Join(env+".source", asset)
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(archive), 0o755); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if err := in.download(ctx, url, asset, archive, want, st); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		in.progress(st, "unpacking %s", asset)
+		err := untarGz(archive, dst)
+		_ = os.RemoveAll(filepath.Dir(archive))
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("unpacking %s: %w", asset, err)
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// requirementsIn reads a requirements file's lines. Options (-r, -e, --index-url
+// and the like) are refused: they would fetch from somewhere other than PyPI,
+// or install what the lock never saw.
+func requirementsIn(text string, skip []string) ([]string, error) {
+	var out []string
+	for _, line := range strings.Split(text, "\n") {
+		line, _, _ = strings.Cut(line, "#")
+		line = strings.TrimSpace(line)
+		if line == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if strings.HasPrefix(line, "-") || strings.Contains(line, "://") || strings.Contains(line, " @ ") {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("the requirements name %q, which is not a package from PyPI", line)
+		}
+		name := strings.ToLower(line)
+		if i := strings.IndexAny(name, "<>=!~;[ "); i >= 0 {
+			name = name[:i]
+		}
+		if slices.Contains(skip, name) {
+			continue
+		}
+		out = append(out, line)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ func (f *fakePython) run(ctx context.Context, env []string, name string, args ..
 			return []byte("error: Hash mismatch for torch\n"), errExit
 		}
 		venv := filepath.Dir(filepath.Dir(args[slices.Index(args, "--python")+1]))
+		_ = os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(venv, "bin", "python"), []byte("#!/bin/sh\n"), 0o755)
 		return nil, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(venv, "bin", "vllm"), []byte("#!/bin/sh\n"), 0o755)
 	case strings.HasSuffix(name, "/bin/vllm") && args[0] == "--version":
 		return []byte("0.30.0\n"), nil
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
+	"time"

 	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/agent/discovery"
 )
@@ -68,12 +69,36 @@ type Build struct {
 	// Note says why this build, when it is not the plain one: shown beside
 	// it wherever the installation is.
 	Note string
+	// Source, for a Python engine that is not on PyPI, is its own code: an
+	// archive pinned by its digest, unpacked into the environment, whose
+	// requirements file is installed with Requirements. AsOf is then the
+	// date its dependencies are resolved as of — the day after its version
+	// was published, which PyPI cannot be asked for.
+	Source *Source
+	AsOf   time.Time
+	// AssetTag and AssetDir, for a Python engine that also ships a binary
+	// in its releases, are the release tag Assets are taken from, checked
+	// against the digests GitHub publishes, and the directory in the
+	// environment they are unpacked into.
+	AssetTag, AssetDir string
 	// FreeGB is the disk space the installation needs before it starts: a
 	// Python engine is several gigabytes, and one that fills the disk halfway
 	// leaves the node worse off than one that never began.
 	FreeGB int
 }

+// Source is an engine's code as an archive.
+type Source struct {
+	// URL is fetched as is; SHA256 is what it must hash to, written into
+	// the recipe because a project's source archives come with no published
+	// digest of their own.
+	URL, SHA256 string
+	// Top is the archive's one top directory, put in the environment as Dir.
+	Top, Dir string
+	// Requirements is the requirements file, in Dir.
+	Requirements string
+}
+
 // Wheel is a package published as a GitHub release asset: the asset whose
 // name starts with Prefix and ends with Suffix.
 type Wheel struct {
@@ -104,6 +129,8 @@ var Recipes = map[string]Recipe{
 	"llamacpp": {Repo: "ggml-org/llama.cpp", Candidates: llamaCppCandidates},
 	"vllm":     {PyPI: "vllm", Candidates: vllmCandidates},
 	"sglang":   {PyPI: "sglang", Candidates: sglangCandidates},
+	"comfyui":  {Candidates: comfyuiCandidates},
+	"strata":   {Repo: StrataRepo, Candidates: strataCandidates},
 	"uv":       {Repo: "astral-sh/uv", Candidates: uvCandidates},
 }

@@ -151,6 +178,9 @@ func Builds(engine, version, arch string) ([]Build, error) {
 			continue
 		}
 		for _, b := range bs {
+			if b.Python != "" {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s is a Python environment from PyPI, which an offline bundle does not carry", engine)
+			}
 			if !seen[b.Variant] {
 				seen[b.Variant] = true
 				out = append(out, b)
@@ -556,3 +586,175 @@ func orUnknown(s string) string {
 	}
 	return s
 }
+
+// --- ComfyUI ---
+
+// comfyuiReleases are the ComfyUI versions this agent installs: each source
+// archive's digest, taken when it was added here and confirmed from a second
+// machine, and when the version was published. GitHub publishes no digest
+// for a tag's archive, so a version not listed is refused rather than
+// installed unchecked.
+var comfyuiReleases = map[string]struct {
+	sha256    string
+	published string
+}{
+	"0.39.2": {"1d655e22cf546700fc1d6d2536e27701695c5832a51f63bb16c41866ac09be0b", "2026-10-07T21:58:07Z"},
+}
+
+// ComfyUIVersion is the newest ComfyUI this agent installs: what a cluster
+// is set to when a model first needs it.
+func ComfyUIVersion() string {
+	newest := ""
+	for v := range comfyuiReleases {
+		if newest == "" || versionBefore(newest, v) {
+			newest = v
+		}
+	}
+	return newest
+}
+
+// ComfyUIRepo is where ComfyUI's source is published.
+const ComfyUIRepo = "Comfy-Org/ComfyUI"
+
+// comfyuiDir is where ComfyUI's code is put in its environment: main.py is
+// <environment>/comfyui/main.py, beside bin/python.
+const comfyuiDir = "comfyui"
+
+// pytorchCU126 is PyTorch's CUDA 12.6 build: the last that carries kernels
+// for Volta and Pascal. From torch 2.8 its CUDA 12.8 and 12.9 builds start
+// at Turing (7.5), as CUDA 13 does, so a V100 has no torch but this one.
+const pytorchCU126 = "https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu126"
+
+// comfyuiCandidates are the ComfyUI builds for a machine: its source, in a
+// Python environment with the torch for the node's driver and cards —
+// PyPI's, built for CUDA 13; PyTorch's CUDA 12.9 build for a driver CUDA 13
+// does not run on; and its CUDA 12.6 build for cards older than Turing.
+func comfyuiCandidates(version, variant string, h discovery.Host) ([]Build, error) {
+	if _, err := gpuArch("ComfyUI", h); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	rel, ok := comfyuiReleases[version]
+	if !ok {
+		known := make([]string, 0, len(comfyuiReleases))
+		for v := range comfyuiReleases {
+			known = append(known, v)
+		}
+		slices.Sort(known)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("this agent knows the source digest of ComfyUI %s, not of %s; "+
+			"install that one by hand and name it in agent.yaml (engines.comfyui.dir)",
+			strings.Join(known, ", "), version)
+	}
+	published, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, rel.published)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	build := func(variant string) Build {
+		return Build{
+			Variant: variant,
+			Python:  pythonForEngines,
+			Source: &Source{
+				URL:    "/" + ComfyUIRepo + "/archive/refs/tags/v" + version + ".tar.gz",
+				SHA256: rel.sha256, Top: "ComfyUI-" + version, Dir: comfyuiDir,
+				Requirements: "requirements.txt",
+			},
+			AsOf: published.Add(24 * time.Hour),
+			// ComfyUI is started as a script, so what the agent is given is
+			// the environment's interpreter; the proof is importing what it
+			// imports first, from where its code is.
+			Binary: "python",
+			VersionArgs: []string{"-c", `import os, sys, torch, aiohttp, safetensors
+d = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.executable))), "` + comfyuiDir + `")
+assert os.path.isfile(os.path.join(d, "main.py")), d + " has no main.py"
+print("comfyui version", "` + version + `", "on torch", torch.__version__)`},
+			Packages: compilerPackages,
+			FreeGB:   15,
+			GPUCheck: true,
+		}
+	}
+	cu129 := build("cu129")
+	cu129.ExtraIndex, cu129.IndexPackages = pytorchCU129, pytorchPackages
+	cu126 := build("cu126")
+	cu126.ExtraIndex, cu126.IndexPackages = pytorchCU126, pytorchPackages
+	return pick("ComfyUI "+version, variant, []candidate{
+		{build("cu13"), gpuNeeds{minDriverForCUDA13, 7.5}, "ComfyUI " + version + " on CUDA 13's torch"},
+		{cu129, gpuNeeds{minDriverForCUDA12, 7.5}, "ComfyUI " + version + " on CUDA 12.9's torch"},
+		{cu126, gpuNeeds{minDriverForCUDA12, 5.0}, "ComfyUI " + version + " on CUDA 12.6's torch"},
+	}, h)
+}
+
+// --- Strata ---
+
+// StrataRepo is where Strata is published: its source, and in each release
+// the prebuilt engine for each CUDA.
+const StrataRepo = "Niko1221/Strata"
+
+// strataReleases are the Strata versions this agent installs: the source
+// archive's digest, taken when it was added here and confirmed from a second
+// machine, when the version was published, and the engine its release
+// carries, whose files GitHub publishes digests for.
+var strataReleases = map[string]struct {
+	sha256    string
+	published string
+	engine    string
+}{
+	"0.2.7": {"41ae861478f5e5d9506864f97dfb5dd7cfe6b83193300e2b0d4f04c0380e3af9", "2026-10-27T14:54:42Z", "0.1.52"},
+}
+
+// strataCandidates are the Strata builds for a machine: its source, in a
+// Python environment, with the prebuilt engine for the node's driver and
+// cards — built for CUDA 13, Turing to Blackwell; or for CUDA 12.9, Pascal
+// to Ada, which is what a V100, or a driver older than 580, gets.
+func strataCandidates(version, variant string, h discovery.Host) ([]Build, error) {
+	if _, err := gpuArch("Strata", h); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if h.Arch != "amd64" {
+		return nil, NotHere{"Strata publishes its Linux CUDA engine for x86-64 only"}
+	}
+	rel, ok := strataReleases[version]
+	if !ok {
+		known := make([]string, 0, len(strataReleases))
+		for v := range strataReleases {
+			known = append(known, v)
+		}
+		slices.Sort(known)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("this agent knows the source digest of Strata %s, not of %s; "+
+			"install that one by hand and name it in agent.yaml (engines.strata.dir)",
+			strings.Join(known, ", "), version)
+	}
+	published, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, rel.published)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	build := func(cuda string) Build {
+		return Build{
+			Variant: cuda,
+			Python:  pythonForEngines,
+			Source: &Source{
+				URL:    "/" + StrataRepo + "/archive/refs/tags/v" + version + ".tar.gz",
+				SHA256: rel.sha256, Top: "Strata-" + version, Dir: "strata",
+				Requirements: "requirements.txt",
+			},
+			AsOf:     published.Add(24 * time.Hour),
+			Assets:   []string{"strata-engine-" + rel.engine + "-linux-x86_64-cuda-" + cuda + ".tar.gz"},
+			AssetTag: "v" + version,
+			AssetDir: "strata-engine",
+			// Strata is started as a script, so what the agent is given is
+			// the environment's interpreter; the proof is importing what its
+			// server needs, and finding its engine beside it.
+			Binary: "python",
+			VersionArgs: []string{"-c", `import os, sys, numpy, jinja2, regex
+e = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.executable)))
+for f in ("strata/setup.py", "strata/serve/server.py", "strata-engine/strata"):
+    assert os.path.isfile(os.path.join(e, f)), f + " is missing"
+print("strata version", "` + version + `", "engine", "` + rel.engine + `")`},
+			FreeGB: 5,
+		}
+	}
+	return pick("Strata "+version, variant, []candidate{
+		{build("cuda13"), gpuNeeds{minDriverForCUDA13, 7.5}, "Strata " + version + " built for CUDA 13"},
+		// 12.9 rather than 12: its machine code is for 6.0 to 8.9 and its
+		// PTX was compiled by 12.9, so the driver must be 575.
+		{build("cuda12"), gpuNeeds{575, 6.0}, "Strata " + version + " built for CUDA 12.9"},
+	}, h)
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+package provision
+
+import (
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/agent/discovery"
+)
+
+// strataRelease is Strata's source archive as GitHub makes one, and its
+// release's engine for CUDA 13, with the recipe pointed at the archive.
+func strataRelease(t *testing.T, rel *release) {
+	t.Helper()
+	archive := tarGz(t, map[string]string{
+		"Strata-0.2.7/setup.py":         "print('setup')\n",
+		"Strata-0.2.7/serve/server.py":  "print('server')\n",
+		"Strata-0.2.7/requirements.txt": "numpy==2.5.3; python_version >= \"3.12\"\njinja2==3.1.6\n",
+	}, nil)
+	rel.assets["v0.2.7.tar.gz"] = archive
+	sum := sha256.Sum256(archive)
+	engine := tarGz(t, map[string]string{"strata": "\x7fELF", "libcudart.so.13": "lib"}, nil)
+	name := "strata-engine-0.1.52-linux-x86_64-cuda-cuda13.tar.gz"
+	rel.assets[name] = engine
+	esum := sha256.Sum256(engine)
+	rel.digests[name] = "sha256:" + hex.EncodeToString(esum[:])
+
+	old := strataReleases
+	strataReleases = map[string]struct {
+		sha256    string
+		published string
+		engine    string
+	}{"0.2.7": {hex.EncodeToString(sum[:]), "2026-10-27T14:54:42Z", "0.1.52"}}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { strataReleases = old })
+}
+
+func TestStrataIsInstalledWithItsEngineBesideItsCode(t *testing.T) {
+	sys := &fakePython{fakeSystem: fakeSystem{installed: map[string]bool{}}}
+	in, rel := pythonInstaller(t, turingNode, sys)
+	strataRelease(t, rel)
+
+	got := in.Converge(t.Context(), []Want{{Engine: "strata", Version: "0.2.7"}})
+	if got[0].State != Ready {
+		t.Fatalf("not ready: %+v", got[0])
+	}
+	dir := filepath.Join(in.Root, "strata", "0.2.7-cuda13")
+	if got[0].Binary != filepath.Join(dir, "bin", "python") {
+		t.Errorf("binary %s, want the environment's interpreter", got[0].Binary)
+	}
+	for _, f := range []string{"strata/setup.py", "strata/serve/server.py", "strata-engine/strata", "strata-engine/libcudart.so.13"} {
+		if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, f)); err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("%s is not in the environment: %v", f, err)
+		}
+	}
+	all := strings.Join(sys.commands, "\n")
+	for _, want := range []string{"--exclude-newer 2026-10-28T14:54:42Z", "jinja2==3.1.6"} {
+		if !strings.Contains(all, want) {
+			t.Errorf("the installation never used %q:\n%s", want, all)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestStrataRefusesAnEngineWhoseDigestDoesNotMatch(t *testing.T) {
+	sys := &fakePython{fakeSystem: fakeSystem{installed: map[string]bool{}}}
+	in, rel := pythonInstaller(t, turingNode, sys)
+	strataRelease(t, rel)
+	rel.digests["strata-engine-0.1.52-linux-x86_64-cuda-cuda13.tar.gz"] = "sha256:" + strings.Repeat("0", 64)
+
+	got := in.Converge(t.Context(), []Want{{Engine: "strata", Version: "0.2.7", Variant: "cuda13"}})
+	if got[0].State != Failed || !strings.Contains(got[0].Detail, "does not match the checksum") {
+		t.Fatalf("an engine that does not match its digest was not refused: %+v", got[0])
+	}
+}
+
+func TestStrataPicksTheEngineForTheCardsAndDriver(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name string
+		host discovery.Host
+		want []string
+		err  string
+	}{
+		{"turing on 580", turingNode, []string{"cuda13", "cuda12"}, ""},
+		{"volta", discovery.Host{Arch: "amd64", NVIDIADriver: "580.82.07", MinComputeCapability: 7.0}, []string{"cuda12"}, ""},
+		{"driver 575", discovery.Host{Arch: "amd64", NVIDIADriver: "575.51.03", MinComputeCapability: 8.6}, []string{"cuda12"}, ""},
+		{"driver 570", discovery.Host{Arch: "amd64", NVIDIADriver: "570.86.10", MinComputeCapability: 8.6}, nil, "575"},
+		{"no gpu", discovery.Host{Arch: "amd64"}, nil, "no"},
+		{"arm", discovery.Host{Arch: "arm64", NVIDIADriver: "580.82.07", MinComputeCapability: 9.0}, nil, "x86-64"},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			bs, err := strataCandidates("0.2.7", "", tc.host)
+			if tc.err != "" {
+				if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), tc.err) {
+					t.Fatalf("got %v, %v; want an error saying %q", bs, err, tc.err)
+				}
+				return
+			}
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			var got []string
+			for _, b := range bs {
+				got = append(got, b.Variant)
+			}
+			if strings.Join(got, ",") != strings.Join(tc.want, ",") {
+				t.Errorf("builds %v, want %v", got, tc.want)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestStrataIsNotInAnOfflineBundle(t *testing.T) {
+	if _, err := Builds("strata", "0.2.7", "amd64"); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("an offline bundle would carry Strata, which needs PyPI")
+	}
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+package supervisor
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// An engine's output goes to a file of its own, not to a pipe of the
+// agent's. A pipe has one reader, and that reader is the agent that
+// started the engine: when that agent restarts, the engine it left running
+// — and adopts a moment later — writes to a pipe nobody reads, and its next
+// write past the pipe's buffer fails with EPIPE. A Python engine's progress
+// bar then raises, and takes the request it was reporting on with it. A
+// file has no reader to lose: the engine appends to it, every agent reads
+// it, and the output from before a restart is there for the one after.
+
+// maxOutputBytes bounds one process's file: past it the file is emptied and
+// the process goes on appending to it. A progress bar rewriting itself for
+// an hour would otherwise fill the disk.
+const maxOutputBytes = 64 << 20
+
+// outputPath is where a shard's process writes.
+func (s *Supervisor) outputPath(shardID, name string) string {
+	if name != "" {
+		return filepath.Join(s.cfg.WorkDir, "shard-"+shardID+"."+name+".log")
+	}
+	return filepath.Join(s.cfg.WorkDir, "shard-"+shardID+".log")
+}
+
+// openOutput is the file a process is started with: new, for a process
+// that is new.
+func (s *Supervisor) openOutput(shardID, name string) (*os.File, error) {
+	return os.OpenFile(s.outputPath(shardID, name), os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY|os.O_APPEND|os.O_TRUNC, 0o600) //nolint:gosec // the agent's own directory
+}
+
+// follow reads a process's file into the shard's log as it is written,
+// until the shard's output is stopped and the file has been read to its
+// end. A file an earlier agent began is read from the start, so the output
+// from before a restart is in the log too.
+func (s *Supervisor) follow(sh *Shard, path, name string) {
+	defer sh.outDone.Done()
+	f, err := os.Open(path) //nolint:gosec // the agent's own directory
+	if err != nil {
+		sh.logs.add("[" + name + "] output unavailable: " + err.Error())
+		return
+	}
+	defer f.Close()
+	var offset int64
+	var rest []byte
+	buf := make([]byte, 64<<10)
+	read := func() {
+		for {
+			st, err := f.Stat()
+			if err != nil {
+				return
+			}
+			if st.Size() < offset {
+				// Emptied, by this agent or another: begin again.
+				offset, rest = 0, nil
+			}
+			if st.Size() > maxOutputBytes {
+				_ = os.Truncate(path, 0)
+				offset, rest = 0, nil
+				continue
+			}
+			n, err := f.ReadAt(buf, offset)
+			if n > 0 {
+				offset += int64(n)
+				rest = append(rest, buf[:n]...)
+				for {
+					i := bytes.IndexByte(rest, '\n')
+					if i < 0 {
+						break
+					}
+					s.addLine(sh, name, rest[:i])
+					rest = rest[i+1:]
+				}
+				// A progress bar is a line rewritten with \r and never ended:
+				// its latest state is what is wanted, not a line a megabyte
+				// long. Kept, as llama.cpp and tqdm write them.
+				if len(rest) > 1<<20 {
+					s.addLine(sh, name, rest)
+					rest = nil
+				}
+			}
+			if err != nil || n == 0 {
+				return
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	t := time.NewTicker(200 * time.Millisecond)
+	defer t.Stop()
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-sh.outStop:
+			read()
+			if len(rest) > 0 {
+				s.addLine(sh, name, rest)
+			}
+			return
+		case <-t.C:
+			read()
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func (s *Supervisor) addLine(sh *Shard, name string, b []byte) {
+	// The last state of a line rewritten with \r, as a terminal would show.
+	if i := bytes.LastIndexByte(b, '\r'); i >= 0 {
+		b = b[i+1:]
+	}
+	line := string(b)
+	if name != "" {
+		// Prefixed so the two processes of a Ray shard stay distinguishable
+		// in a single log tail.
+		line = "[" + name + "] " + line
+	}
+	sh.logs.add(line)
+	s.log.Debug("engine", "shard", sh.ID, "line", line)
+}
+
+// removeOutput drops a shard's files once nothing writes to them.
+func (s *Supervisor) removeOutput(shardID string) {
+	matches, _ := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(s.cfg.WorkDir, "shard-"+shardID+".*log"))
+	for _, m := range matches {
+		_ = os.Remove(m)
+	}
+	_ = os.Remove(s.outputPath(shardID, ""))
+}
+
+// stopOutput has every follower read what is left and stop. Called once
+// the process has ended, before the shard is done, so what it wrote last
+// is in the log by the time anyone reads the log for why it ended.
+func (s *Supervisor) stopOutput(sh *Shard) {
+	sh.outOnce.Do(func() { close(sh.outStop) })
+	sh.outDone.Wait()
+}
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 package supervisor

 import (
-	"bufio"
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
-	"io"
 	"log/slog"
 	"net"
 	"os"
@@ -104,6 +102,12 @@ type Shard struct {
 	ID   string
 	Spec engines.ShardSpec

+	// outStop ends the followers of the processes' output files, and
+	// outDone is their having read to the end.
+	outStop chan struct{}
+	outOnce sync.Once
+	outDone sync.WaitGroup
+
 	mu       sync.Mutex
 	state    State
 	pid      int
@@ -248,6 +252,7 @@ func (s *Supervisor) Start(ctx context.Context, id string, spec engines.ShardSpe
 		logs:    newRingBuffer(s.cfg.LogLines),
 		started: time.Now(),
 		done:    make(chan struct{}),
+		outStop: make(chan struct{}),
 	}
 	s.shards[id] = sh
 	s.mu.Unlock()
@@ -315,14 +320,15 @@ func (s *Supervisor) launch(ctx context.Context, sh *Shard, cmds []engines.Comma
 	// CommandContext kills only the leader, so replace that with a group kill.
 	c.Cancel = func() error { return killGroup(c.Process.Pid, syscall.SIGKILL) }

-	stdout, err := c.StdoutPipe()
+	out, err := s.openOutput(sh.ID, "")
 	if err != nil {
 		cancel()
 		return err
 	}
-	c.Stderr = c.Stdout.(io.Writer) // interleave, as the engine writes them
-
-	if err := c.Start(); err != nil {
+	c.Stdout, c.Stderr = out, out // interleaved, as the engine writes them
+	err = c.Start()
+	out.Close() // the process holds its own
+	if err != nil {
 		cancel()
 		return fmt.Errorf("starting %s: %w", cmd.Path, err)
 	}
@@ -339,7 +345,8 @@ func (s *Supervisor) launch(ctx context.Context, sh *Shard, cmds []engines.Comma
 			"shard", sh.ID, "err", err)
 	}

-	go s.pump(sh, stdout, cmd.Name)
+	sh.outDone.Add(1)
+	go s.follow(sh, s.outputPath(sh.ID, ""), cmd.Name)
 	go s.wait(sh)
 	return nil
 }
@@ -353,16 +360,18 @@ func (s *Supervisor) spawn(ctx context.Context, sh *Shard, c engines.Command) (*
 	s.dropTo(proc)
 	proc.Cancel = func() error { return killGroup(proc.Process.Pid, syscall.SIGKILL) }

-	stdout, err := proc.StdoutPipe()
+	out, err := s.openOutput(sh.ID, c.Name)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	proc.Stderr = proc.Stdout.(io.Writer)
-
-	if err := proc.Start(); err != nil {
+	proc.Stdout, proc.Stderr = out, out
+	err = proc.Start()
+	out.Close()
+	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("starting %s: %w", c.Path, err)
 	}
-	go s.pump(sh, stdout, c.Name)
+	sh.outDone.Add(1)
+	go s.follow(sh, s.outputPath(sh.ID, c.Name), c.Name)
 	// Reaped so it does not become a zombie; its exit does not end the shard.
 	go func() { _ = proc.Wait() }()
 	return proc, nil
@@ -395,24 +404,6 @@ func waitForPort(ctx context.Context, addr string, timeout time.Duration) (err e
 }

 // pump copies a process's output into the ring buffer and the log.
-func (s *Supervisor) pump(sh *Shard, r io.Reader, name string) {
-	sc := bufio.NewScanner(r)
-	// Engine tracebacks and progress bars produce long lines; the default
-	// 64 KiB limit truncates them exactly when they matter.
-	sc.Buffer(make([]byte, 0, 64<<10), 1<<20)
-
-	for sc.Scan() {
-		line := sc.Text()
-		if name != "" {
-			// Prefixed so the two processes of a Ray shard stay distinguishable
-			// in a single log tail.
-			line = "[" + name + "] " + line
-		}
-		sh.logs.add(line)
-		s.log.Debug("engine", "shard", sh.ID, "line", line)
-	}
-}
-
 // wait reaps the process and records why it ended.
 func (s *Supervisor) wait(sh *Shard) {
 	defer close(sh.done)
@@ -440,6 +431,7 @@ func (s *Supervisor) wait(sh *Shard) {
 	final, code := sh.state, sh.exitCode
 	sh.mu.Unlock()

+	s.stopOutput(sh)
 	s.removeState(sh)
 	if final == Failed {
 		s.log.Error("shard failed", "shard", sh.ID, "exit_code", code, "err", err,
@@ -760,6 +752,7 @@ func (s *Supervisor) writeState(sh *Shard) error {

 func (s *Supervisor) removeState(sh *Shard) {
 	_ = os.Remove(s.statePath(sh.ID))
+	s.removeOutput(sh.ID)
 }

 // Orphan is an engine process left behind by a previous agent.
@@ -838,15 +831,18 @@ func (s *Supervisor) Adopt(o Orphan) (*Shard, error) {
 		logs:    newRingBuffer(s.cfg.LogLines),
 		started: o.StartedAt,
 		done:    make(chan struct{}),
+		outStop: make(chan struct{}),
 		adopted: true,
 		cmdline: o.Cmdline,
 	}
 	s.shards[o.ShardID] = sh
 	s.mu.Unlock()

-	// Output is gone with the previous agent; say so rather than presenting an
-	// empty log as if the engine had been silent.
-	sh.logs.add("[adopted from a previous agent; earlier output is not available]")
+	// Its output file is read from the start: what it wrote under the
+	// previous agent is there, and what it writes now goes on arriving.
+	sh.logs.add("[adopted from a previous agent]")
+	sh.outDone.Add(1)
+	go s.follow(sh, s.outputPath(sh.ID, ""), "")

 	go s.poll(sh)
 	return sh, nil
@@ -874,6 +870,7 @@ func (s *Supervisor) poll(sh *Shard) {
 		}
 		sh.mu.Unlock()

+		s.stopOutput(sh)
 		s.removeState(sh)
 		s.log.Info("adopted shard exited", "shard", sh.ID, "expected", expected)
 		return
@@ -900,6 +897,7 @@ func (s *Supervisor) KillOrphan(o Orphan) error {
 	}
 	// An already-missing state file is success: the previous agent may have
 	// reaped the process itself between the scan and this call.
+	s.removeOutput(o.ShardID)
 	if err := os.Remove(s.statePath(o.ShardID)); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package supervisor

 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"context"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
@@ -905,3 +906,78 @@ func TestAnAdoptedShardsComputeIsKeptWithoutCrashing(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("lost: %+v", again)
 	}
 }
+
+func TestAnAdoptedEngineGoesOnWritingAndItsEarlierOutputIsKept(t *testing.T) {
+	// An engine's output went to a pipe of the agent's. The agent that
+	// restarted and adopted the engine left that pipe with no reader, and
+	// the engine's next write past the pipe's buffer failed with EPIPE —
+	// which, in a Python engine, raised inside whatever was being reported
+	// on and failed the request. Output goes to a file now: a reader is not
+	// something a file can lose, and the lines from before the restart are
+	// there for the agent after it.
+	s, _ := newSupervisor(t)
+	// 256 KiB at once outgrows a pipe's buffer; a reader gone means EPIPE.
+	sh, err := s.Start(t.Context(), "a", engines.ShardSpec{ReplicaID: "r"},
+		shellCommand(`echo before-restart; sleep 1; head -c 262144 /dev/zero | tr '\0' x; echo; echo after-restart-done; sleep 30`))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	eventually(t, 3*time.Second, "the first line was never captured", func() bool {
+		return strings.Contains(strings.Join(sh.Logs(10), "\n"), "before-restart")
+	})
+	// The agent goes away without stopping the engine: nothing reads the
+	// output between here and the adoption.
+	pid := sh.Status().PID
+	sh.outOnce.Do(func() { close(sh.outStop) })
+	sh.outDone.Wait()
+
+	s2, err := New(Config{WorkDir: s.cfg.WorkDir, StopTimeout: 3 * time.Second, LogLines: 64},
+		&scriptedHealth{}, slog.New(slog.DiscardHandler))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	orphans, _ := s2.FindOrphans()
+	adopted, err := s2.Adopt(orphans[0])
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	eventually(t, 5*time.Second, "the engine's output after the restart never arrived: "+strings.Join(adopted.Logs(5), " | "), func() bool {
+		return strings.Contains(strings.Join(adopted.Logs(64), "\n"), "after-restart-done")
+	})
+	if !strings.Contains(strings.Join(adopted.Logs(64), "\n"), "before-restart") {
+		t.Error("the output from before the restart is not in the adopted log")
+	}
+	if !processAlive(pid) {
+		t.Fatal("the engine died writing output nobody was reading")
+	}
+	if err := s2.Stop(t.Context(), "a"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(s2.outputPath("a", "")); !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
+		t.Errorf("the output file was not removed with the shard: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAnOutputFileIsEmptiedPastItsBound(t *testing.T) {
+	s, _ := newSupervisor(t)
+	path := s.outputPath("a", "")
+	// A file already past the bound, as a long-running engine leaves one.
+	big, _ := os.OpenFile(path, os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY, 0o644)
+	_, _ = big.Write(bytes.Repeat([]byte("x"), maxOutputBytes+1))
+	big.Close()
+	sh := &Shard{ID: "a", logs: newRingBuffer(8), done: make(chan struct{}), outStop: make(chan struct{})}
+	sh.outDone.Add(1)
+	go s.follow(sh, path, "")
+	time.Sleep(300 * time.Millisecond)
+	f, _ := os.OpenFile(path, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_APPEND, 0o644)
+	_, _ = f.WriteString("still here\n")
+	f.Close()
+	s.stopOutput(sh)
+	st, _ := os.Stat(path)
+	if st.Size() > 1024 {
+		t.Errorf("the file was not emptied: %d bytes", st.Size())
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(strings.Join(sh.Logs(8), "\n"), "still here") {
+		t.Errorf("a line written after the file was emptied was lost: %v", sh.Logs(8))
+	}
+}
@@ -90,14 +90,20 @@ var ErrNotLocal = errors.New("the weights are not on this node and the source sa
 // already cached, downloaded, or downloaded by another shard this one waited
 // for — since that is most of the difference between a replica that starts
 // in a minute and one that takes an hour.
-func (f *Fetcher) Ensure(ctx context.Context, source string) (path string, err error) {
+//
+// A source in a pickle format, or a set with such a file in it, is refused
+// before anything is fetched unless allowPickle; see Pickled.
+func (f *Fetcher) Ensure(ctx context.Context, source string, allowPickle bool) (path string, err error) {
 	ctx, span := obs.Tracer(tracerName).Start(ctx, "fetch weights",
 		trace.WithAttributes(attribute.String("llmgw.weights.source", redact(source))))
 	defer func() {
 		span.SetAttributes(attribute.String("llmgw.weights.path", path))
 		obs.End(span, err)
 	}()
-	return f.ensure(ctx, source)
+	if !allowPickle && !IsSet(source) && Pickled(source) {
+		return "", refusePickle(source)
+	}
+	return f.ensure(ctx, source, allowPickle)
 }

 // tracerName names the spans this package opens.
@@ -119,7 +125,7 @@ func redact(source string) string {
 	return u.String()
 }

-func (f *Fetcher) ensure(ctx context.Context, source string) (string, error) {
+func (f *Fetcher) ensure(ctx context.Context, source string, allowPickle bool) (string, error) {
 	if source == "" {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("no source given")
 	}
@@ -127,7 +133,7 @@ func (f *Fetcher) ensure(ctx context.Context, source string) (string, error) {
 	// file, and a set has to be handled before any of it.
 	if IsSet(source) {
 		outcome(ctx, "set")
-		return f.ensureSet(ctx, source)
+		return f.ensureSet(ctx, source, allowPickle)
 	}
 	if !isRemote(source) {
 		if !isPath(source) {
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ func TestALocalPathIsUsedNeverCopied(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	f := &Fetcher{CacheDir: t.TempDir()}

-	got, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), path)
+	got, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), path, false)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ func TestAMissingLocalPathSaysWhatIsWrong(t *testing.T) {
 	// The commonest setup mistake, and "no such file" from an engine twenty
 	// minutes into a load is a poor way to learn it.
 	f := &Fetcher{CacheDir: t.TempDir()}
-	_, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "absent.gguf"))
+	_, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "absent.gguf"), false)
 	if !errors.Is(err, ErrNotLocal) {
 		t.Fatalf("err = %v, want ErrNotLocal", err)
 	}
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ func TestARemoteFileIsFetchedOnceAndReused(t *testing.T) {
 	srv := serveBytes(t, []byte("the weights"), &hits)
 	f := &Fetcher{CacheDir: t.TempDir()}

-	first, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/model.gguf")
+	first, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/model.gguf", false)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ func TestARemoteFileIsFetchedOnceAndReused(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("fetched content = %q, err %v", body, err)
 	}

-	second, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/model.gguf")
+	second, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/model.gguf", false)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ func TestConcurrentRequestsProduceOneDownload(t *testing.T) {
 		wg.Add(1)
 		go func() {
 			defer wg.Done()
-			paths[i], errs[i] = f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/model.gguf")
+			paths[i], errs[i] = f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/model.gguf", false)
 		}()
 	}
 	wg.Wait()
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ func TestAPartialDownloadIsNeverVisibleAsTheModel(t *testing.T) {

 	cache := t.TempDir()
 	f := &Fetcher{CacheDir: cache}
-	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/model.gguf"); err == nil {
+	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/model.gguf", false); err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("a truncated download was reported as success")
 	}
 	entries, _ := os.ReadDir(cache)
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ func TestAnInterruptedDownloadResumes(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}

-	got, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/model.gguf")
+	got, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/model.gguf", false)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ func TestProgressIsReportedWithAPercentage(t *testing.T) {
 		CacheDir:   t.TempDir(),
 		OnProgress: func(p Progress) { seen = append(seen, p) },
 	}
-	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/model.gguf"); err != nil {
+	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/model.gguf", false); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	if len(seen) == 0 {
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ func TestPercentIsUnknownRatherThanZeroWithoutATotal(t *testing.T) {

 func TestNoCacheDirectoryIsAClearRefusal(t *testing.T) {
 	f := &Fetcher{}
-	_, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), "https://example.invalid/model.gguf")
+	_, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), "https://example.invalid/model.gguf", false)
 	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "cache directory") {
 		t.Errorf("err = %v, want a complaint about the cache directory", err)
 	}
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ func TestABareModelIdIsLeftToTheEngine(t *testing.T) {
 		"Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct",
 		"meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct",
 	} {
-		got, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), id)
+		got, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), id, false)
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Errorf("%s was refused: %v", id, err)
 		}
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ func TestAnAbsolutePathThatIsMissingIsStillAnError(t *testing.T) {
 	// The other half: an operator writing a path means a file, and a missing
 	// one should be said plainly rather than handed to an engine.
 	f := &Fetcher{CacheDir: t.TempDir()}
-	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), "/models/definitely-not-here.gguf"); !errors.Is(err, ErrNotLocal) {
+	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), "/models/definitely-not-here.gguf", false); !errors.Is(err, ErrNotLocal) {
 		t.Errorf("err = %v, want ErrNotLocal", err)
 	}
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+package weights
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"path"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// Weights in Python's pickle format are a program as much as a file: loading
+// one runs whatever it says, as the engine's user, on the node. That is how
+// the malicious models found on Hugging Face work, and nothing in the file's
+// name or size says so. safetensors and GGUF are only tensors and are read,
+// never run, so those are what a node fetches unless the catalog says
+// otherwise for a model, with allow_pickle, on purpose.
+
+// pickleExts are the extensions of PyTorch's pickle formats, and of pickle
+// itself. A .bin beside safetensors is the same model in pickle form.
+var pickleExts = []string{".bin", ".pt", ".pt2", ".pth", ".ckpt", ".pkl", ".pickle"}
+
+// Pickled reports whether a file name or URL is in a pickle format.
+func Pickled(name string) bool {
+	// A query or a fragment is not the file's name, on a URL or an hf:
+	// source alike: model.bin?download=true is still model.bin.
+	if i := strings.IndexAny(name, "?#"); i >= 0 {
+		name = name[:i]
+	}
+	ext := strings.ToLower(path.Ext(name))
+	for _, e := range pickleExts {
+		if ext == e {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// ErrPickle is a source refused for being in a pickle format.
+var ErrPickle = errors.New("weights in a pickle format run code when they are loaded")
+
+func refusePickle(name string) error {
+	return fmt.Errorf("%w: %s is refused; use the model's safetensors or GGUF, or set allow_pickle: true "+
+		"on the model if it was checked and has no other form", ErrPickle, redact(name))
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+package weights
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestPickleFormatsAreKnownByTheirNames(t *testing.T) {
+	for name, want := range map[string]bool{
+		"pytorch_model.bin": true, "model.ckpt": true, "x.PT": true, "w.pth": true, "a.pkl": true,
+		"https://h/r/resolve/main/model.ckpt?download=true": true,
+		"hf:o/r/model.bin?download=true":                    true, "hf:o/r/model.ckpt#x": true, "m.pt2": true,
+		"model.safetensors": false, "m-Q4_K_M.gguf": false, "Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct": false,
+		"config.json": false, "": false,
+	} {
+		if got := Pickled(name); got != want {
+			t.Errorf("Pickled(%q) = %v, want %v", name, got, want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAPickleFileIsRefusedBeforeItIsFetched(t *testing.T) {
+	var hits atomic.Int64
+	srv := serveBytes(t, []byte("not really a pickle"), &hits)
+	f := &Fetcher{CacheDir: t.TempDir()}
+
+	_, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/model.ckpt", false)
+	if !errors.Is(err, ErrPickle) {
+		t.Fatalf("a .ckpt was not refused: %v", err)
+	}
+	if hits.Load() != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("the refused file was fetched %d times", hits.Load())
+	}
+	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/model.ckpt", true); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("allowed, the .ckpt was still refused: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestASetWithAPickleFileIsRefusedWhole(t *testing.T) {
+	f, srv, hits := mirrorOf(t, map[string]string{
+		"pytorch_model.bin": "pickle",
+		"config.json":       "{}",
+	})
+	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/", false); !errors.Is(err, ErrPickle) {
+		t.Fatalf("a set holding pytorch_model.bin was not refused: %v", err)
+	}
+	if *hits != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("%d files of the refused set were fetched", *hits)
+	}
+	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/", true); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("allowed, the set was still refused: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestASetAlreadyHereIsLookedAtAgain(t *testing.T) {
+	// Fetched once for a model that allowed pickles, or before they were
+	// refused: another asking for it without leave is refused all the same.
+	f, srv, _ := mirrorOf(t, map[string]string{"pytorch_model.bin": "pickle", "config.json": "{}"})
+	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/", true); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/", false); !errors.Is(err, ErrPickle) {
+		t.Errorf("a set already on the node was not looked at: %v", err)
+	}
+}
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ type manifest struct {
 // The whole set or nothing. A directory with three of four shards in it loads
 // as a broken model rather than failing to load, so a partial set is left
 // unfinished under its temporary name and the next attempt starts again.
-func (f *Fetcher) ensureSet(ctx context.Context, source string) (string, error) {
+func (f *Fetcher) ensureSet(ctx context.Context, source string, allowPickle bool) (string, error) {
 	dir, err := f.cachePath(strings.TrimSuffix(source, "/"))
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
@@ -56,6 +56,16 @@ func (f *Fetcher) ensureSet(ctx context.Context, source string) (string, error)
 	// exactly the failure the marker exists to prevent.
 	done := filepath.Join(dir, ".complete")
 	if _, err := os.Stat(done); err == nil {
+		// Already here, maybe fetched for a model that allowed pickles, or
+		// before they were refused: looked at again, not trusted.
+		if !allowPickle {
+			entries, _ := os.ReadDir(dir)
+			for _, e := range entries {
+				if Pickled(e.Name()) {
+					return "", refusePickle(source + e.Name())
+				}
+			}
+		}
 		return dir, nil
 	}

@@ -66,6 +76,15 @@ func (f *Fetcher) ensureSet(ctx context.Context, source string) (string, error)
 	if len(m.Files) == 0 {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s holds no files", source)
 	}
+	// Refused whole rather than skipped: an engine given the directory
+	// loads the pickle when there is no safetensors beside it.
+	if !allowPickle {
+		for _, file := range m.Files {
+			if Pickled(file.Name) {
+				return "", refusePickle(source + file.Name)
+			}
+		}
+	}

 	if err := os.MkdirAll(dir, 0o755); err != nil {
 		return "", err
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ func TestASetIsFetchedIntoOneDirectory(t *testing.T) {
 		"config.json":                      "{}",
 	})

-	got, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/")
+	got, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/", false)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -74,11 +74,11 @@ func TestASetIsFetchedIntoOneDirectory(t *testing.T) {
 func TestAFinishedSetIsNotFetchedAgain(t *testing.T) {
 	f, srv, hits := mirrorOf(t, map[string]string{"a.gguf": "aaaa", "b.gguf": "bb"})

-	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/"); err != nil {
+	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/", false); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	after := *hits
-	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/"); err != nil {
+	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/", false); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	if *hits != after {
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ func TestAHalfFetchedSetIsNotTreatedAsFinished(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}

-	got, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/")
+	got, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/", false)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ func TestAFileAlreadyThereAtTheRightSizeIsNotRefetched(t *testing.T) {
 	_ = os.MkdirAll(dir, 0o755)
 	_ = os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "a.gguf"), []byte("aaaa"), 0o644)

-	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/"); err != nil {
+	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/", false); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	// Resuming a set means not paying for the shards that already landed.
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ func TestAFilenameThatEscapesTheDirectoryIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	defer srv.Close()
 	f := &Fetcher{CacheDir: t.TempDir()}

-	_, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/")
+	_, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/", false)
 	// The mirror is a place an operator copies files into by hand, so what it
 	// reports is not automatically safe to join onto a path.
 	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "offered a file named") {
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ func TestADirectoryListingIsNotAManifest(t *testing.T) {
 	defer srv.Close()
 	f := &Fetcher{CacheDir: t.TempDir()}

-	_, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/")
+	_, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/", false)
 	// "invalid character '<'" sends somebody looking at the wrong thing.
 	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "has to be a mirror version") {
 		t.Errorf("the reason should name the cause, got %v", err)
@@ -182,12 +182,12 @@ func TestASetFileThatDoesNotMatchTheMirrorsChecksumIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	}))
 	t.Cleanup(srv.Close)
 	f := &Fetcher{CacheDir: t.TempDir()}
-	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/"); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "sha256") {
+	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/", false); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "sha256") {
 		t.Fatalf("a damaged shard was accepted: %v", err)
 	}
 	served = good
 	// The size differs, so it is fetched again; this time it matches.
-	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/"); err != nil {
+	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/", false); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("the shard as mirrored: %v", err)
 	}
 }
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ func TestASetStillDownloadingOnTheMirrorSaysSo(t *testing.T) {
 	}))
 	t.Cleanup(srv.Close)
 	f := &Fetcher{CacheDir: t.TempDir()}
-	_, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/")
+	_, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), srv.URL+"/m/v/", false)
 	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "not complete on the mirror yet") ||
 		!strings.Contains(err.Error(), "model-00002-of-00002") {
 		t.Fatalf("got %v", err)
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ func TestAFetchSaysInItsTraceWhetherItDownloadedAndHowMuch(t *testing.T) {
 	f := &Fetcher{CacheDir: t.TempDir()}
 	src := strings.Replace(srv.URL, "http://", "http://user:secret@", 1) + "/m/model.gguf?token=hunter2"

-	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), src); err != nil {
+	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), src, false); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	fetch := rec.One(t, [16]byte{}, "fetch weights")
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ func TestAFetchSaysInItsTraceWhetherItDownloadedAndHowMuch(t *testing.T) {
 	}

 	// The second start on this node finds it here.
-	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), src); err != nil {
+	if _, err := f.Ensure(t.Context(), src, false); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	again := rec.Named("fetch weights")
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import (
 	"time"

 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/store"
 )

 func newAnswerCacheCmd(open opener) *cobra.Command {
@@ -12,6 +14,7 @@ func newAnswerCacheCmd(open opener) *cobra.Command {
 		project   string
 		ttl       time.Duration
 		anyAnswer bool
+		similar   float64
 		off       bool
 	)
 	cmd := &cobra.Command{
@@ -28,15 +31,25 @@ func newAnswerCacheCmd(open opener) *cobra.Command {
 			"a request continuing a stored conversation or under a guardrails no_store\n" +
 			"policy. The guardrails judge a reused answer as they judge any other.\n\n" +
 			"Off for every project until this is run. Without --ttl or --off, says how\n" +
-			"it stands. The answers are held in memory, router.cache bounds how much.",
+			"it stands. The answers are held in memory, router.cache bounds how much.\n\n" +
+			"--similar also answers a chat question that is like one already answered:\n" +
+			"its last user message embedded by router.cache.embedding_model, and given\n" +
+			"the answer whose question reaches that cosine similarity (0.95 is strict,\n" +
+			"0.9 looser), as x-llmgw-cache: similar. The system prompt, the earlier\n" +
+			"turns, tools and the sampling settings must still be the same.",
 		Example: "  llmgw keys cache --project Acme/ml/train --ttl 1h\n" +
 			"  llmgw keys cache --project Acme/ml/eval --ttl 24h --any\n" +
+			"  llmgw keys cache --project Acme/support/desk --ttl 24h --similar 0.95\n" +
 			"  llmgw keys cache --project Acme/ml/train --off",
 		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
 		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
 			switch {
-			case off && (ttl != 0 || anyAnswer):
-				return fmt.Errorf("--off, or --ttl with --any: not both")
+			case off && (ttl != 0 || anyAnswer || similar != 0):
+				return fmt.Errorf("--off, or --ttl with --any or --similar: not both")
+			case similar < 0 || similar > 1:
+				return fmt.Errorf("--similar is a cosine similarity between 0 and 1, like 0.95")
+			case similar != 0 && ttl == 0:
+				return fmt.Errorf("--similar goes with --ttl: say how long answers are reused")
 			case ttl < 0:
 				return fmt.Errorf("--ttl is how long an answer is reused, like 1h")
 			case ttl > 0 && ttl < time.Second:
@@ -54,7 +67,7 @@ func newAnswerCacheCmd(open opener) *cobra.Command {
 				return err
 			}
 			if off || ttl > 0 {
-				if err := s.SetAnswerCache(cmd.Context(), p.ID, ttl, anyAnswer); err != nil {
+				if err := s.SetAnswerCache(cmd.Context(), p.ID, store.AnswerCache{TTL: ttl, Any: anyAnswer, Similar: similar}); err != nil {
 					return err
 				}
 			}
@@ -71,6 +84,9 @@ func newAnswerCacheCmd(open opener) *cobra.Command {
 				fmt.Fprintf(cmd.OutOrStdout(), "%s reuses answers for %s: those asked at temperature 0 or with a seed, "+
 					"and embeddings, rerank and score.\n", p.Path, c.TTL)
 			}
+			if c.TTL > 0 && c.Similar > 0 {
+				fmt.Fprintf(cmd.OutOrStdout(), "Chat questions reaching %.2f similarity to one answered get its answer too.\n", c.Similar)
+			}
 			if off || ttl > 0 {
 				fmt.Fprintln(cmd.OutOrStdout(), "Gateways see the change within 30 seconds.")
 			}
@@ -80,6 +96,7 @@ func newAnswerCacheCmd(open opener) *cobra.Command {
 	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&project, "project", "", "project: id, path or unique name")
 	cmd.Flags().DurationVar(&ttl, "ttl", 0, "how long an answer is reused, like 1h")
 	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&anyAnswer, "any", false, "reuse sampled answers too, not only reproducible ones")
+	cmd.Flags().Float64Var(&similar, "similar", 0, "also answer chat questions this similar to one answered, like 0.95")
 	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&off, "off", false, "stop reusing answers for this project")
 	return cmd
 }
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ func newBenchCmd(client func() *ctlClient, asJSON *bool) *cobra.Command {
 	f.DurationVar(&cfg.SLO.TPOTp99, "tpot-p99", cfg.SLO.TPOTp99, "per-output-token target")
 	f.BoolVar(&save, "save", false,
 		"record the capacity against the model and profile, so the number outlives this terminal")
+	cmd.AddCommand(newBenchOverheadCmd(asJSON))
 	return cmd
 }

@@ -0,0 +1,421 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"log/slog"
+	"net"
+	"net/http"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"runtime"
+	"slices"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"syscall"
+	"text/tabwriter"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/config"
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/guard"
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/router"
+	storepkg "gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/store"
+)
+
+// What llmgw adds to a request, measured: the same load straight at an
+// engine that answers at once, and through the gateway in front of it —
+// bare, with authentication and usage accounting, and with the guardrails'
+// pattern checks besides. The engine's own time is the same on both paths,
+// so what differs is the gateway's.
+//
+// Everything runs in this process, on loopback: no cluster, no GPU, and the
+// numbers are this machine's. On a machine shared with other work (a VM on
+// an oversubscribed host) they move with it; compare modes run together,
+// not figures from different runs.
+
+// overheadMode is one way a request reaches the engine.
+type overheadMode struct {
+	name        string
+	gateway     bool
+	auth, guard bool
+}
+
+var overheadModes = []overheadMode{
+	{name: "direct"},
+	{name: "gateway", gateway: true},
+	{name: "gateway+auth", gateway: true, auth: true},
+	{name: "gateway+auth+guard", gateway: true, auth: true, guard: true},
+}
+
+// overheadStep is one mode at one request rate.
+type overheadStep struct {
+	Mode     string        `json:"mode"`
+	Rate     int           `json:"rate"`
+	Sent     int           `json:"sent"`
+	Failed   int           `json:"failed"`
+	P50      time.Duration `json:"p50"`
+	P99      time.Duration `json:"p99"`
+	AddedP50 time.Duration `json:"added_p50"`
+	AddedP99 time.Duration `json:"added_p99"`
+	// CPUPer1k is the process's CPU time per thousand requests beyond what
+	// the direct mode spent at the same rate: the gateway's.
+	CPUPer1k time.Duration `json:"cpu_per_1k"`
+	cpu      time.Duration
+}
+
+func newBenchOverheadCmd(asJSON *bool) *cobra.Command {
+	var (
+		rates []int
+		each  time.Duration
+	)
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "overhead",
+		Short: "Measure what the gateway adds to a request, against an engine that answers at once",
+		Long: "Runs an engine that answers at once and a gateway in front of it, in this\n" +
+			"process on loopback, and sends the same load at each rate straight to the\n" +
+			"engine and through the gateway: bare, with authentication and usage\n" +
+			"accounting, and with the guardrails' pattern checks too. Reports each\n" +
+			"request's latency at p50 and p99, what the gateway added to it, and the\n" +
+			"gateway's CPU time per thousand requests.\n\n" +
+			"Needs no cluster. The figures are this machine's: on one shared with other\n" +
+			"work they move with it, so compare the modes of one run, and note the\n" +
+			"machine's load beside any figure you keep.",
+		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
+			steps, err := runOverhead(cmd.Context(), rates, each)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			if *asJSON {
+				return json.NewEncoder(cmd.OutOrStdout()).Encode(steps)
+			}
+			printOverhead(cmd.OutOrStdout(), steps)
+			return nil
+		},
+	}
+	f := cmd.Flags()
+	f.IntSliceVar(&rates, "rates", []int{100, 500, 1000, 2000}, "requests a second to send, one step each")
+	f.DurationVar(&each, "each", 3*time.Second, "how long each step sends for")
+	return cmd
+}
+
+func printOverhead(w io.Writer, steps []overheadStep) {
+	tw := tabwriter.NewWriter(w, 0, 0, 2, ' ', 0)
+	fmt.Fprintln(tw, "MODE\tRATE/S\tSENT\tFAILED\tP50\tP99\t+P50\t+P99\tCPU/1K REQ")
+	for _, s := range steps {
+		added := func(d time.Duration) string {
+			if s.Mode == "direct" {
+				return "-"
+			}
+			return msOf(d)
+		}
+		cpu := "-"
+		if s.Mode != "direct" {
+			cpu = msOf(s.CPUPer1k)
+		}
+		fmt.Fprintf(tw, "%s\t%d\t%d\t%d\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n", s.Mode, s.Rate, s.Sent, s.Failed,
+			msOf(s.P50), msOf(s.P99), added(s.AddedP50), added(s.AddedP99), cpu)
+	}
+	_ = tw.Flush()
+	fmt.Fprintf(w, "\n%d CPUs, %s. Loopback, in one process: the figures are this machine's.\n",
+		runtime.NumCPU(), loadAverage())
+}
+
+func msOf(d time.Duration) string { return fmt.Sprintf("%.2fms", float64(d)/float64(time.Millisecond)) }
+
+// loadAverage is the machine's, where it can be read, to keep beside the
+// figures.
+func loadAverage() string {
+	if b, err := os.ReadFile("/proc/loadavg"); err == nil {
+		if f := strings.Fields(string(b)); len(f) >= 3 {
+			return "load " + strings.Join(f[:3], " ")
+		}
+	}
+	// macOS: "{ 1.23 1.10 0.98 }".
+	if b, err := exec.Command("sysctl", "-n", "vm.loadavg").Output(); err == nil {
+		if f := strings.Fields(strings.Trim(strings.TrimSpace(string(b)), "{}")); len(f) >= 3 {
+			return "load " + strings.Join(f[:3], " ")
+		}
+	}
+	return "load not read"
+}
+
+// runOverhead measures every mode at every rate.
+func runOverhead(ctx context.Context, rates []int, each time.Duration) ([]overheadStep, error) {
+	engine, err := instantEngine()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer engine.Close()
+	dir, err := os.MkdirTemp("", "llmgw-overhead-")
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer os.RemoveAll(dir)
+
+	type target struct {
+		url, key string
+		stop     func()
+	}
+	targets := map[string]target{}
+	defer func() {
+		for _, t := range targets {
+			if t.stop != nil {
+				t.stop()
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+	for _, m := range overheadModes {
+		if !m.gateway {
+			targets[m.name] = target{url: engine.URL}
+			continue
+		}
+		url, key, stop, err := overheadGateway(ctx, engine.URL, filepath.Join(dir, m.name+".db"), m)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", m.name, err)
+		}
+		targets[m.name] = target{url: url, key: key, stop: stop}
+	}
+
+	client := &http.Client{Transport: &http.Transport{MaxIdleConns: 1024, MaxIdleConnsPerHost: 1024}, Timeout: 30 * time.Second}
+	var out []overheadStep
+	for _, rate := range rates {
+		var direct overheadStep
+		for _, m := range overheadModes {
+			t := targets[m.name]
+			s := loadStep(ctx, client, t.url, t.key, rate, each)
+			s.Mode = m.name
+			if m.name == "direct" {
+				direct = s
+			} else {
+				s.AddedP50, s.AddedP99 = max(0, s.P50-direct.P50), max(0, s.P99-direct.P99)
+				if s.Sent > 0 {
+					s.CPUPer1k = max(0, s.cpu-direct.cpu) * 1000 / time.Duration(s.Sent)
+				}
+			}
+			out = append(out, s)
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// loadStep sends rate requests a second for d, each in its own goroutine,
+// and measures each one's latency and the process's CPU meanwhile.
+func loadStep(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, url, key string, rate int, d time.Duration) overheadStep {
+	s := overheadStep{Rate: rate}
+	body := []byte(`{"model":"bench","max_tokens":8,"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"What is the capital of France?"}]}`)
+	var (
+		mu    sync.Mutex
+		lat   []time.Duration
+		wg    sync.WaitGroup
+		total = int(float64(rate) * d.Seconds())
+	)
+	interval := time.Second / time.Duration(max(rate, 1))
+	cpu0 := processCPU()
+	start := time.Now()
+	for i := range total {
+		if ctx.Err() != nil {
+			break
+		}
+		if wait := time.Until(start.Add(time.Duration(i) * interval)); wait > 0 {
+			time.Sleep(wait)
+		}
+		wg.Add(1)
+		go func() {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			req, _ := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPost, url+"/v1/chat/completions", bytes.NewReader(body))
+			req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+			if key != "" {
+				req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+key)
+			}
+			t := time.Now()
+			resp, err := client.Do(req)
+			ok := err == nil && resp.StatusCode == http.StatusOK
+			if resp != nil {
+				_, _ = io.Copy(io.Discard, resp.Body)
+				resp.Body.Close()
+			}
+			el := time.Since(t)
+			mu.Lock()
+			s.Sent++
+			if ok {
+				lat = append(lat, el)
+			} else {
+				s.Failed++
+			}
+			mu.Unlock()
+		}()
+	}
+	wg.Wait()
+	s.cpu = processCPU() - cpu0
+	s.P50, s.P99 = percentile(lat, 0.50), percentile(lat, 0.99)
+	return s
+}
+
+func percentile(ds []time.Duration, p float64) time.Duration {
+	if len(ds) == 0 {
+		return 0
+	}
+	ds = slices.Clone(ds)
+	sort.Slice(ds, func(i, j int) bool { return ds[i] < ds[j] })
+	i := int(p * float64(len(ds)-1))
+	return ds[i]
+}
+
+// processCPU is the CPU time this process has used, user and system.
+func processCPU() time.Duration {
+	var ru syscall.Rusage
+	if err := syscall.Getrusage(syscall.RUSAGE_SELF, &ru); err != nil {
+		return 0
+	}
+	return time.Duration(ru.Utime.Nano() + ru.Stime.Nano())
+}
+
+// instantEngine is an OpenAI-compatible engine that answers at once, with
+// the metrics the router scrapes.
+func instantEngine() (*httpServer, error) {
+	mux := http.NewServeMux()
+	mux.HandleFunc("GET /metrics", func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
+		fmt.Fprint(w, "# TYPE vllm:num_requests_running gauge\nvllm:num_requests_running 0\n"+
+			"# TYPE vllm:num_requests_waiting gauge\nvllm:num_requests_waiting 0\n"+
+			"# TYPE vllm:kv_cache_usage_perc gauge\nvllm:kv_cache_usage_perc 0.1\n")
+	})
+	mux.HandleFunc("GET /health", func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) { w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK) })
+	mux.HandleFunc("POST /v1/chat/completions", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		_, _ = io.Copy(io.Discard, r.Body)
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		fmt.Fprint(w, `{"id":"b","object":"chat.completion","model":"bench","choices":[{"index":0,"message":{"role":"assistant","content":"Paris."},"finish_reason":"stop"}],"usage":{"prompt_tokens":14,"completion_tokens":2,"total_tokens":16}}`)
+	})
+	return serveLoopback(mux)
+}
+
+// httpServer is a handler served on a loopback port.
+type httpServer struct {
+	URL string
+	srv *http.Server
+}
+
+func (s *httpServer) Close() { _ = s.srv.Close() }
+
+func serveLoopback(h http.Handler) (*httpServer, error) {
+	ln, err := net.Listen("tcp", "127.0.0.1:0")
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	srv := &http.Server{Handler: h, ReadHeaderTimeout: 10 * time.Second}
+	go func() { _ = srv.Serve(ln) }()
+	return &httpServer{URL: "http://" + ln.Addr().String(), srv: srv}, nil
+}
+
+// overheadGateway starts a gateway in front of the engine as the mode asks,
+// and returns its address and, with auth, a key.
+func overheadGateway(ctx context.Context, engineURL, storePath string, m overheadMode) (string, string, func(), error) {
+	cfg := config.Default()
+	cfg.Listen = "127.0.0.1:0"
+	cfg.Router.ScrapeInterval = 200 * time.Millisecond
+	cfg.Endpoints = []config.Endpoint{{ID: "bench", URL: engineURL, Models: []string{"bench"}}}
+	key := ""
+	if m.auth {
+		var err error
+		if key, err = overheadKey(ctx, storePath); err != nil {
+			return "", "", nil, err
+		}
+		cfg.Auth.Enabled, cfg.Auth.Store = true, storePath
+		// Limits would measure themselves refusing: off.
+		cfg.Auth.DefaultRPM, cfg.Auth.DefaultTPM = 0, 0
+	}
+	rt, err := router.New(cfg, slog.New(slog.DiscardHandler))
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", "", nil, err
+	}
+	if m.guard {
+		g, err := baselineGuard()
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", "", nil, err
+		}
+		rt.SetGuard(g)
+	}
+	rctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
+	rt.Start(rctx)
+	srv, err := serveLoopback(rt.Handler())
+	if err != nil {
+		cancel()
+		return "", "", nil, err
+	}
+	stop := func() { srv.Close(); cancel(); rt.Stop() }
+	// Ready once a request goes through: the endpoint is scraped first.
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(10 * time.Second)
+	for {
+		body := `{"model":"bench","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}]}`
+		req, _ := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPost, srv.URL+"/v1/chat/completions", strings.NewReader(body))
+		req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		if key != "" {
+			req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+key)
+		}
+		resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
+		if err == nil {
+			_, _ = io.Copy(io.Discard, resp.Body)
+			resp.Body.Close()
+			if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusOK {
+				return srv.URL, key, stop, nil
+			}
+		}
+		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
+			stop()
+			status := "no answer"
+			if err == nil {
+				status = resp.Status
+			}
+			return "", "", nil, fmt.Errorf("the gateway did not serve within 10s (%s)", status)
+		}
+		time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+}
+
+// overheadKey makes a store with one project and a key in it.
+func overheadKey(ctx context.Context, path string) (string, error) {
+	st, err := storepkg.Open(ctx, path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	defer st.Close()
+	org, err := st.CreateOrg(ctx, "bench")
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	team, err := st.CreateTeam(ctx, org, "bench")
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	project, err := st.CreateProject(ctx, team, "bench")
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	secret, k, err := storepkg.NewKey("key-bench", "bench", project)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	k.CreatedAt = time.Now()
+	return secret, st.CreateKey(ctx, k)
+}
+
+// baselineGuard is the policy init installs, without its judge: the pattern
+// checks every request passes.
+func baselineGuard() (guard.Guard, error) {
+	m, err := config.Parse([]byte(guardSection(false)))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	cfg, err := config.FromMap(m)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return guard.NewGate(cfg.Guard, nil, slog.New(slog.DiscardHandler))
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// The short version, so CI sees the gateway's overhead on every change: every
+// mode answers every request, and what the gateway adds is measured, not
+// guessed. No bound is asserted on it, as CI's machines vary; the table is
+// in the test's log.
+func TestTheGatewaysOverheadIsMeasured(t *testing.T) {
+	steps, err := runOverhead(t.Context(), []int{50}, time.Second)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(steps) != len(overheadModes) {
+		t.Fatalf("%d steps for %d modes", len(steps), len(overheadModes))
+	}
+	for _, s := range steps {
+		if s.Sent == 0 || s.Failed > 0 || s.P50 <= 0 || s.P99 < s.P50 {
+			t.Errorf("%s: sent %d failed %d p50 %s p99 %s", s.Mode, s.Sent, s.Failed, s.P50, s.P99)
+		}
+	}
+	var b bytes.Buffer
+	printOverhead(&b, steps)
+	if !strings.Contains(b.String(), "gateway+auth+guard") {
+		t.Errorf("table:\n%s", b.String())
+	}
+	t.Logf("\n%s", b.String())
+}
@@ -243,6 +243,10 @@ 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",
+	// Handed to the reconciler as they change.
+	"on_demand",
 	// Read by server init, node add and backups, not by the server.
 	"backup_recipients", "backup_copy_to",
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"os/signal"
+	"syscall"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/comfy"
+)
+
+// comfyKeyEnv carries the replica's key to the gate: the environment, which
+// only the engine's user and root can read, rather than the command line,
+// which every user on the node can.
+const comfyKeyEnv = "LLMGW_ENGINE_KEY"
+
+func newComfyUIGateCmd() *cobra.Command {
+	var cfg comfy.GateConfig
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:    "comfyui-gate [flags] [-- main.py flags]",
+		Short:  "Run ComfyUI as an engine: behind a key, on the loopback (started by the agent)",
+		Hidden: true,
+		Long: "Started by the node agent for a replica whose engine is comfyui. ComfyUI asks\n" +
+			"nobody for a key, so it listens on the loopback only and this gate on the\n" +
+			"replica's port, letting through, with the replica's key, only what the router\n" +
+			"asks of it. It also lays the fetched weights out where ComfyUI looks for them.",
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+			ctx, stop := signal.NotifyContext(cmd.Context(), syscall.SIGINT, syscall.SIGTERM)
+			defer stop()
+			cfg.Key = os.Getenv(comfyKeyEnv)
+			_ = os.Unsetenv(comfyKeyEnv)
+			cfg.Args = args
+			cfg.Log = logger()
+			return comfy.RunGate(ctx, cfg)
+		},
+	}
+	f := cmd.Flags()
+	f.StringVar(&cfg.Listen, "listen", "", "the replica's address")
+	f.StringVar(&cfg.Model, "model", "", "the model's name, for /v1/models")
+	f.StringVar(&cfg.Weights, "weights", "", "the fetched weights: a file or a directory")
+	f.StringVar(&cfg.State, "state", "", "the replica's own directory")
+	f.StringVar(&cfg.Python, "python", "python3", "the interpreter of ComfyUI's environment")
+	f.StringVar(&cfg.Dir, "comfyui", "", "ComfyUI's directory, where main.py is")
+	for _, n := range []string{"listen", "weights", "state", "comfyui"} {
+		_ = cmd.MarkFlagRequired(n)
+	}
+	return cmd
+}
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ func newCtlCmd() *cobra.Command {
 		newRetryCmd(client),
 		newUpgradeCmd(client),
 		newJobsCmd(client, &asJSON),
+		newMeshJobsCmd(client, &asJSON),
 		newEngineCheckCmd(),
 		newEngineBuildCmd(client),
 		newToolCheckCmd(client),
@@ -185,6 +186,7 @@ func newCtlCmd() *cobra.Command {
 		newCapacityCmd(client, &asJSON),
 		newQuotaCmd(client, &asJSON),
 		newGuardCmd(client, &asJSON),
+		newMCPCmd(client, &asJSON),
 		newKBCmd(client, &asJSON),
 		newTrainCmd(client, &asJSON),
 		newConfigCmd(client, &asJSON),
@@ -331,6 +333,9 @@ func modelStatus(m adminapi.ModelView) string {
 		return "stopped"
 	case m.Ready >= m.Min && m.Min > 0:
 		return "ready"
+	case m.Min == 0 && m.Ready > 0 && m.Ready >= m.Total:
+		// Asked for, and up until it goes unused for long enough.
+		return "ready (on demand)"
 	case m.Total > m.Ready:
 		return "starting"
 	default:
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/url"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/control/adminapi"
+)
+
+// newMeshJobsCmd is the 3D models clients asked for, as jobs: every owner's,
+// what each is doing, and a way to stop one. (ctl jobs is the control
+// plane's own work, serving and updating models.)
+func newMeshJobsCmd(client func() *ctlClient, asJSON *bool) *cobra.Command {
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "3d",
+		Short: "3D models clients asked for: the jobs, how far along each is, and stopping one",
+	}
+	var status string
+	var limit int
+	list := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "list",
+		Short: "Every owner's 3D jobs, newest first",
+		Args:  cobra.NoArgs,
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
+			q := url.Values{}
+			if status != "" {
+				q.Set("status", status)
+			}
+			if limit > 0 {
+				q.Set("limit", fmt.Sprint(limit))
+			}
+			var jobs []adminapi.JobView
+			if err := client().get(cmd.Context(), "/api/v1/client-jobs?"+q.Encode(), &jobs); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			if *asJSON {
+				return emitJSON(jobs)
+			}
+			if len(jobs) == 0 {
+				fmt.Fprintln(cmd.OutOrStdout(), "no 3D jobs")
+				return nil
+			}
+			w := tabTo(cmd.OutOrStdout())
+			fmt.Fprintln(w, "JOB\tMODEL\tSTATUS\tPROGRESS\tOWNER\tASKED")
+			for _, j := range jobs {
+				fmt.Fprintf(w, "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s ago\n", j.ID, j.Model, j.Status, progressText(j),
+					j.Owner, time.Since(j.CreatedAt).Round(time.Second))
+			}
+			return w.Flush()
+		},
+	}
+	list.Flags().StringVar(&status, "status", "", "only jobs in this status: queued, running, completed, failed…")
+	list.Flags().IntVar(&limit, "limit", 0, "the most jobs to show (50)")
+	get := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "get JOB",
+		Short: "One 3D job: its status, progress, result or error",
+		Args:  cobra.ExactArgs(1),
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+			var j adminapi.JobView
+			if err := client().get(cmd.Context(), "/api/v1/client-jobs/"+url.PathEscape(args[0]), &j); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			if *asJSON {
+				return emitJSON(j)
+			}
+			out := cmd.OutOrStdout()
+			fmt.Fprintf(out, "job       %s\nmodel     %s\nstatus    %s\n", j.ID, j.Model, j.Status)
+			if p := progressText(j); p != "" {
+				fmt.Fprintf(out, "progress  %s\n", p)
+			}
+			fmt.Fprintf(out, "owner     %s (key %s)\nasked     %s\n", j.Owner, j.KeyID, j.CreatedAt.UTC().Format(time.RFC3339))
+			if j.FinishedAt != nil && j.StartedAt != nil {
+				fmt.Fprintf(out, "took      %s\n", j.FinishedAt.Sub(*j.StartedAt).Round(time.Second))
+			}
+			if j.OutputFileID != "" {
+				fmt.Fprintf(out, "result    %s (%s)\n", j.OutputFileID, j.ContentType)
+			}
+			if j.Error != "" {
+				fmt.Fprintf(out, "error     %s\n", j.Error)
+			}
+			return nil
+		},
+	}
+	cancel := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "cancel JOB",
+		Short: "Stop a 3D job, in the engine's queue too",
+		Args:  cobra.ExactArgs(1),
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+			var j adminapi.JobView
+			if err := client().post(cmd.Context(), "/api/v1/client-jobs/"+url.PathEscape(args[0])+"/cancel", nil, &j); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			fmt.Fprintf(cmd.OutOrStdout(), "%s is %s\n", j.ID, j.Status)
+			return nil
+		},
+	}
+	cmd.AddCommand(list, get, cancel)
+	return cmd
+}
+
+// progressText is a job's progress as a person reads it.
+func progressText(j adminapi.JobView) string {
+	if len(j.Progress) == 0 {
+		return ""
+	}
+	var p struct {
+		State     string `json:"state"`
+		Ahead     int    `json:"ahead"`
+		NodeClass string `json:"node_class"`
+		Step      int    `json:"step"`
+		Steps     int    `json:"steps"`
+		Percent   int    `json:"percent"`
+	}
+	if json.Unmarshal(j.Progress, &p) != nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+	switch {
+	case p.State == "queued" && p.Ahead > 0:
+		return fmt.Sprintf("queued, %d ahead", p.Ahead)
+	case p.State == "running" && p.Steps > 0:
+		return fmt.Sprintf("running %d%%, %s step %d/%d", p.Percent, p.NodeClass, p.Step, p.Steps)
+	case p.State == "running" && p.NodeClass != "":
+		return "running " + p.NodeClass
+	}
+	return p.State
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,201 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/control/adminapi"
+)
+
+func newMCPCmd(client func() *ctlClient, asJSON *bool) *cobra.Command {
+	c := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "mcp",
+		Short: "The company's own MCP servers, served through llmgw's /mcp",
+		Long: "An MCP server registered here — Jira, a file server, a database — is served\n" +
+			"through llmgw's /mcp beside llmgw's own tools, its tools named SERVER.tool.\n" +
+			"Its credentials stay on the control planes: a client gives only its llmgw\n" +
+			"key. A key sees and calls only the tools granted it, as patterns, with\n" +
+			"`llmgw keys limits --tools 'jira.*'` at any level of the tenancy tree;\n" +
+			"none granted anywhere is none. Every call is in `llmgw ctl audit`.",
+	}
+	c.AddCommand(newMCPAddCmd(client, asJSON), newMCPListCmd(client, asJSON), newMCPRemoveCmd(client),
+		newMCPTestCmd(client, asJSON))
+	return c
+}
+
+func newMCPAddCmd(client func() *ctlClient, asJSON *bool) *cobra.Command {
+	var req adminapi.MCPServerRequest
+	var headers, refs, secretFiles []string
+	var bearerFile string
+	var disabled bool
+	c := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "add NAME --url URL",
+		Short: "Register an MCP server, or change one",
+		Example: "  llmgw ctl mcp add jira --url https://jira.internal/mcp --bearer-file /root/jira-token\n" +
+			"  llmgw ctl mcp add llmgw --url llmgw:admin --description \"this cluster, read only\"\n" +
+			"  llmgw ctl mcp add wiki --url https://wiki.internal/mcp --header-ref Authorization=vault:secret/mcp/wiki#token\n" +
+			"  llmgw ctl mcp add jira --disabled      # off, kept",
+		Args: cobra.ExactArgs(1),
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+			var err error
+			if req.Headers, err = pairs(headers, "--header"); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			if req.HeaderRefs, err = pairs(refs, "--header-ref"); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			files, err := pairs(secretFiles, "--secret-file")
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			// A secret read here and kept in the store, sealed: the file
+			// need not be on every control plane, and is not read again.
+			for header, file := range files {
+				b, err := os.ReadFile(file) //nolint:gosec // a file the operator names
+				if err != nil {
+					return err
+				}
+				if req.Secrets == nil {
+					req.Secrets = map[string]string{}
+				}
+				req.Secrets[header] = strings.TrimSpace(string(b))
+			}
+			if bearerFile != "" {
+				b, err := os.ReadFile(bearerFile) //nolint:gosec // a file the operator names
+				if err != nil {
+					return err
+				}
+				if req.Secrets == nil {
+					req.Secrets = map[string]string{}
+				}
+				req.Secrets["Authorization"] = "Bearer " + strings.TrimSpace(string(b))
+			}
+			if cmd.Flags().Changed("disabled") {
+				on := !disabled
+				req.Enabled = &on
+			}
+			body, _ := json.Marshal(req)
+			var v adminapi.MCPServerView
+			if err := client().put(cmd.Context(), "/api/v1/mcp/servers/"+args[0], body, &v); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			if *asJSON {
+				return json.NewEncoder(cmd.OutOrStdout()).Encode(v)
+			}
+			state := "on"
+			if !v.Enabled {
+				state = "off"
+			}
+			fmt.Fprintf(cmd.OutOrStdout(), "%s: %s, %s. Its tools are %s.TOOL in /mcp, to keys granted them "+
+				"(llmgw keys limits --tools '%s.*'). Check it: llmgw ctl mcp test %s\n", v.Name, v.URL, state, v.Name, v.Name, v.Name)
+			return nil
+		},
+	}
+	f := c.Flags()
+	f.StringVar(&req.URL, "url", "", "the server's streamable HTTP address, https://…/mcp; llmgw:admin for this cluster, read only")
+	f.StringVar(&req.Description, "description", "", "what it is, shown beside its tools")
+	f.StringArrayVar(&headers, "header", nil, "NAME=VALUE sent as written, for what is not secret; repeatable")
+	f.StringArrayVar(&refs, "header-ref", nil, "NAME=REF read at each call: a file on every control plane, env:, vault: or store:; repeatable")
+	f.StringArrayVar(&secretFiles, "secret-file", nil, "NAME=FILE read now and kept in the store, sealed: a token; repeatable")
+	f.StringVar(&bearerFile, "bearer-file", "", "a token FILE, read now and kept sealed, sent as Authorization: Bearer")
+	f.BoolVar(&disabled, "disabled", false, "keep it but serve none of its tools")
+	f.IntVar(&req.TimeoutSeconds, "timeout", 0, "seconds one call may take (default 60)")
+	f.IntVar(&req.RatePerMinute, "rate", 0, "calls a minute each caller may make to its tools (default: no bound; -1 takes one away)")
+	return c
+}
+
+func newMCPListCmd(client func() *ctlClient, asJSON *bool) *cobra.Command {
+	return &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "list",
+		Short: "The MCP servers /mcp serves",
+		Args:  cobra.NoArgs,
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
+			var list []adminapi.MCPServerView
+			if err := client().get(cmd.Context(), "/api/v1/mcp/servers", &list); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			if *asJSON {
+				return json.NewEncoder(cmd.OutOrStdout()).Encode(list)
+			}
+			if len(list) == 0 {
+				fmt.Fprintln(cmd.OutOrStdout(), "no MCP servers; add one: llmgw ctl mcp add NAME --url URL")
+				return nil
+			}
+			w := tabTo(cmd.OutOrStdout())
+			fmt.Fprintln(w, "NAME\tSTATE\tURL\tCREDENTIALS\tDESCRIPTION")
+			for _, s := range list {
+				state := "on"
+				if !s.Enabled {
+					state = "off"
+				}
+				var creds []string
+				for h := range s.HeaderRefs {
+					creds = append(creds, h)
+				}
+				fmt.Fprintf(w, "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n", s.Name, state, s.URL, dash(strings.Join(creds, ",")), s.Description)
+			}
+			return w.Flush()
+		},
+	}
+}
+
+func newMCPRemoveCmd(client func() *ctlClient) *cobra.Command {
+	return &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "remove NAME",
+		Short: "Remove an MCP server: its tools leave /mcp",
+		Args:  cobra.ExactArgs(1),
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+			if err := client().delete(cmd.Context(), "/api/v1/mcp/servers/"+args[0], nil); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			fmt.Fprintf(cmd.OutOrStdout(), "%s removed; its tools leave /mcp within half a minute\n", args[0])
+			return nil
+		},
+	}
+}
+
+func newMCPTestCmd(client func() *ctlClient, asJSON *bool) *cobra.Command {
+	return &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "test NAME",
+		Short: "Ask an MCP server for its tools, with its credentials, as /mcp would",
+		Args:  cobra.ExactArgs(1),
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+			var v adminapi.MCPTestView
+			if err := client().post(cmd.Context(), "/api/v1/mcp/servers/"+args[0]+"/test", nil, &v); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			if *asJSON {
+				return json.NewEncoder(cmd.OutOrStdout()).Encode(v)
+			}
+			if !v.OK {
+				return errors.New(args[0] + " did not answer: " + v.Error)
+			}
+			fmt.Fprintf(cmd.OutOrStdout(), "%s answers with %d tool(s):\n", args[0], len(v.Tools))
+			for _, t := range v.Tools {
+				fmt.Fprintln(cmd.OutOrStdout(), "  "+t)
+			}
+			return nil
+		},
+	}
+}
+
+// pairs reads NAME=VALUE flags.
+func pairs(list []string, flag string) (map[string]string, error) {
+	if len(list) == 0 {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	out := map[string]string{}
+	for _, p := range list {
+		k, v, ok := strings.Cut(p, "=")
+		if !ok || strings.TrimSpace(k) == "" {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s %q is not NAME=VALUE", flag, p)
+		}
+		out[strings.TrimSpace(k)] = v
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
@@ -56,6 +56,12 @@ func newRequestCmd(client func() *ctlClient, asJSON *bool) *cobra.Command {
 			fmt.Fprintf(out, "status    %d\n", v.Status)
 			fmt.Fprintf(out, "time      %d ms total: %d queued, %d to the first token\n", v.LatencyMs, v.QueueMs, v.TTFTMs)
 			fmt.Fprintf(out, "tokens    %d in, %d out\n", v.PromptTokens, v.CompletionTokens)
+			if v.Images > 0 {
+				fmt.Fprintf(out, "images    %d\n", v.Images)
+			}
+			if v.Meshes > 0 {
+				fmt.Fprintf(out, "meshes    %d\n", v.Meshes)
+			}
 			if v.CacheHit {
 				fmt.Fprintf(out, "cache     answered from the project's answer cache: nothing generated, nothing charged\n")
 			}
@@ -268,6 +268,26 @@ func upgradeNodes(ctx context.Context, out io.Writer, client func() *ctlClient,
 	}
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "%d node(s) upgraded to %s in %s, %d already on it\n",
 		done, v, time.Since(start).Round(time.Second), skipped)
+	// Checked at the end, against what the control plane says now: a node
+	// that is not on the version is said by name, and the command fails. A
+	// site's nodes stayed a release behind with nothing printed to say so.
+	if len(nodes) == 0 {
+		fmt.Fprintln(out, "This control plane has no nodes registered, so none were upgraded.")
+	}
+	var now []adminapi.NodeView
+	if err := client().get(ctx, "/api/v1/nodes", &now); err == nil {
+		var behind []string
+		for _, n := range now {
+			if (len(only) == 0 || slices.Contains(only, n.ID)) && n.AgentVersion != v {
+				behind = append(behind, fmt.Sprintf("%s (%s, %s)", n.ID, orUnknown(n.AgentVersion), n.State))
+			}
+		}
+		if len(behind) > 0 {
+			slices.Sort(behind)
+			return fmt.Errorf("not on %s: %s\nrun this again to try them, or `llmgw ctl logs NODE` for why",
+				v, strings.Join(behind, ", "))
+		}
+	}
 	// The one machine this does not reach. Said every time, because it is
 	// exactly the kind of thing that stays three versions behind unnoticed.
 	fmt.Fprintf(out, "The model mirror's host is not upgraded by this; on it, run:\n"+
@@ -150,3 +150,54 @@ func TestABinaryInstalledByHandIsNotAServerRunningIt(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func TestAnUpgradeThatFindsNoNodesSaysSo(t *testing.T) {
+	// A site's nodes stayed a release behind with nothing printed to say
+	// that none had been reached.
+	f := &fakeFleet{versions: map[string]string{}}
+	srv := f.server(t)
+	var out bytes.Buffer
+	if err := upgradeNodes(t.Context(), &out, func() *ctlClient { return newCtlClient(srv.URL) }, "v1.0.1", nil, time.Second, 1); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(out.String(), "no nodes registered") {
+		t.Errorf("output:\n%s", out.String())
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAnUpgradeFailsNamingANodeLeftBehind(t *testing.T) {
+	// A node that joins, or comes back on its old binary, while the waves
+	// run is found at the end rather than passed over.
+	f := &fakeFleet{versions: map[string]string{"a": "v1.0.0"}}
+	srv := f.server(t)
+	late := func() *ctlClient {
+		f.mu.Lock()
+		if len(f.told) == 1 {
+			f.versions["late"] = "v1.0.0"
+		}
+		f.mu.Unlock()
+		return newCtlClient(srv.URL)
+	}
+	var out bytes.Buffer
+	err := upgradeNodes(t.Context(), &out, late, "v1.0.1", nil, 5*time.Second, 1)
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "late (v1.0.0, ready)") {
+		t.Errorf("err %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestUpgradingAControlPlaneAloneSaysItsNodesWereNot(t *testing.T) {
+	f := &fakeFleet{versions: map[string]string{"p-g1": "v1.0.0", "p-g3": "v1.0.1"}}
+	srv := f.server(t)
+	var out bytes.Buffer
+	nodesLeftBehind(t.Context(), &out, newCtlClient(srv.URL), "v1.0.1")
+	if !strings.Contains(out.String(), "1 of 2 node(s) are not on v1.0.1") ||
+		!strings.Contains(out.String(), "ctl upgrade v1.0.1 --skip-control-plane") {
+		t.Errorf("output:\n%s", out.String())
+	}
+	out.Reset()
+	f.versions["p-g1"] = "v1.0.1"
+	nodesLeftBehind(t.Context(), &out, newCtlClient(srv.URL), "v1.0.1")
+	if out.Len() != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("said something with every node on the version: %s", out.String())
+	}
+}
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package cli

 import (
+	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ func newGuardJudgeCmd(client func() *ctlClient, asJSON *bool) *cobra.Command {
 			"then fetches and serves by itself: " + knownJudgeNames() + ".",
 	}
 	c.AddCommand(newGuardJudgeStatusCmd(client, asJSON), newGuardJudgeEnableCmd(client),
-		newGuardJudgeUseCmd(client), newGuardJudgeAskCmd(client, asJSON))
+		newGuardJudgeUseCmd(client), newGuardJudgeAskCmd(client, asJSON), newGuardJudgeCheckCmd(client, asJSON))
 	return c
 }

@@ -383,3 +384,70 @@ func newGuardJudgeAskCmd(client func() *ctlClient, asJSON *bool) *cobra.Command
 	c.Flags().StringVar(&answer, "answer", "", "an assistant's reply to TEXT, judged as output is")
 	return c
 }
+
+func newGuardJudgeCheckCmd(client func() *ctlClient, asJSON *bool) *cobra.Command {
+	var model string
+	var burst int
+	c := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "check",
+		Short: "How a judge keeps up: a judgment alone and among others, against the time a request waits",
+		Long: "Times three judgments of a prompt of about 280 tokens, one after another, then\n" +
+			"a burst of them at once (two for each ready replica unless --burst says),\n" +
+			"and sets both against the policies' latency budget. A judgment past the\n" +
+			"budget is refused under fail: closed; past half of it alone, or past it\n" +
+			"among others, a busy moment refuses requests. Each request is judged once\n" +
+			"for its prompt and again every 600 characters of its answer.",
+		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
+			v, err := checkJudge(cmd.Context(), client(), model, burst)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			if *asJSON {
+				return emitJSON(v)
+			}
+			fmt.Fprint(cmd.OutOrStdout(), judgeCheckText(v))
+			return nil
+		},
+	}
+	c.Flags().StringVar(&model, "model", "", "the judge (default: the one the policies ask)")
+	c.Flags().IntVar(&burst, "burst", 0, "judgments at once (default: two for each ready replica)")
+	return c
+}
+
+func checkJudge(ctx context.Context, c *ctlClient, model string, burst int) (adminapi.JudgeCheckView, error) {
+	body, _ := json.Marshal(adminapi.JudgeCheckRequest{Model: model, Burst: burst})
+	var v adminapi.JudgeCheckView
+	err := c.patient(3*time.Minute).post(ctx, "/api/v1/guard/judges/check", body, &v)
+	return v, err
+}
+
+// judgeCheckText says a check in a few lines, and what to do when it is not
+// fine.
+func judgeCheckText(v adminapi.JudgeCheckView) string {
+	var b strings.Builder
+	took := make([]string, len(v.TookMs))
+	for i, t := range v.TookMs {
+		took[i] = fmt.Sprintf("%.1f", float64(t)/1000)
+	}
+	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "%s, %d replica(s) ready, a request waits %.1f s for it\n", v.Model, v.Ready, float64(v.BudgetMs)/1000)
+	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "  alone:    %s s\n", strings.Join(took, ", "))
+	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "  %d at once: slowest %.1f s", v.Burst, float64(v.BurstSlowestMs)/1000)
+	if v.BurstFailed > 0 {
+		fmt.Fprintf(&b, ", %d gave no verdict", v.BurstFailed)
+	}
+	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "; about %.1f judgments a second, so about %.1f requests a second with short answers\n",
+		v.PerSecond, v.PerSecond/2)
+	switch v.Verdict {
+	case "ok":
+		b.WriteString("ok: well inside the budget\n")
+	case "tight":
+		b.WriteString("tight: a busy moment passes the budget\n")
+	default:
+		b.WriteString("slow: a judgment alone passes the budget\n")
+	}
+	for _, a := range v.Advice {
+		b.WriteString("  - " + a + "\n")
+	}
+	return b.String()
+}
@@ -32,12 +32,34 @@ type judgeKeeper struct {
 	// tried is when each judge was last asked for, so one that cannot be
 	// fetched is not asked for again on every look.
 	tried map[string]time.Time
+	// grace is how long after its first look the keeper serves no judge
+	// itself: init adds its own judge just after the control plane starts,
+	// sized and placed as the install says, and one the leader added first
+	// was what init then kept. Zero waits for nothing.
+	grace time.Duration
+	first time.Time
+
+	// What refitting an earlier install's judge needs: the catalog to change
+	// its profile in, the replicas to restart, and the nodes' CPUs. Any nil
+	// leaves judges as they are.
+	profiles interface {
+		SetProfiles(ctx context.Context, name string, profiles []catalog.Profile, by string) (catalog.Model, error)
+	}
+	restart  func(ids ...string) error
+	replicas func(model string) []string
+	nodeCPUs func() []int
+	// looked is each judge already refitted or found changed by hand, so
+	// each is said once.
+	looked map[string]bool
 }

 // judgeRetry is how long a judge whose serving failed waits before it is
 // asked for again.
 const judgeRetry = 10 * time.Minute

+// judgeGrace is the keeper's grace on a control plane just started.
+const judgeGrace = 10 * time.Minute
+
 func (k *judgeKeeper) run(ctx context.Context, every time.Duration) {
 	t := time.NewTicker(every)
 	defer t.Stop()
@@ -69,6 +91,13 @@ func (k *judgeKeeper) check() {
 	have := map[string]bool{}
 	for _, m := range k.models() {
 		have[m.Name] = true
+		k.refit(m)
+	}
+	if k.first.IsZero() {
+		k.first = now()
+	}
+	if now().Sub(k.first) < k.grace {
+		return
 	}
 	busy := map[string]bool{}
 	for _, j := range k.serve.Jobs() {
@@ -96,6 +125,15 @@ func (k *judgeKeeper) check() {
 		}
 		k.tried[name] = now()
 		var opts judgeServeOptions
+		if !kj.GPU {
+			// The cores init would give the same number of judges.
+			var cpus []int
+			if k.nodeCPUs != nil {
+				cpus = k.nodeCPUs()
+			}
+			opts.Replicas = 2
+			opts.Cores = refitCores(opts.Replicas, cpus)
+		}
 		if kj.GPU {
 			if opts.GPUClass = roomiestGPUClass(k.gpus()); opts.GPUClass == "" {
 				k.log.Warn("a policy names a judge that runs on a GPU, and this cluster has none",
@@ -105,6 +143,8 @@ func (k *judgeKeeper) check() {
 		}
 		req := kj.serveRequest(opts)
 		req.By = "llmgw (a guard policy names it)"
+		// init, or an operator, may add it while this fetches: theirs stays.
+		req.IfAbsent = true
 		job, err := k.serve.Start(req)
 		if err != nil {
 			k.log.Error("could not start serving a judge a policy names", "judge", name, "err", err)
@@ -114,3 +154,88 @@ func (k *judgeKeeper) check() {
 			"judge", name, "repo", kj.Repo, "file", kj.File, "job", job.ID)
 	}
 }
+
+// refit moves a judge an earlier `server init` installed to what init
+// installs now, and restarts its replicas onto it. Those judges reserved no
+// cores or one, 2 or 4 GB, and ran llama.cpp's prompt cache: on fewer than
+// eight cores every judgment missed its 5 s budget and fail: closed refused
+// every request, until fixed by hand. A judge whose profile differs in any
+// other way was set by somebody, and is left as it is, said once.
+func (k *judgeKeeper) refit(m catalog.Model) {
+	if k.profiles == nil || k.restart == nil || k.replicas == nil || m.Name != defaultJudge || !m.IsGuard() {
+		return
+	}
+	if k.looked == nil {
+		k.looked = map[string]bool{}
+	}
+	if k.looked[m.Name] {
+		return
+	}
+	k.looked[m.Name] = true
+	if !earlierInitJudge(m) {
+		if len(m.Profiles) != 1 || !slices.Contains(m.Profiles[0].Args, "--cache-ram") {
+			k.log.Info("the judge's profile is not one init wrote; left as it is",
+				"judge", m.Name, "see", "llmgw ctl model resources "+m.Name)
+		}
+		return
+	}
+	var cpus []int
+	if k.nodeCPUs != nil {
+		cpus = k.nodeCPUs()
+	}
+	p := m.Profiles[0]
+	p.MinMemoryGB = judgeMemoryGB
+	p.CPUCores = refitCores(m.Scaling.Min, cpus)
+	p.Args = []string{"--ctx-size", "8192", "--cache-ram", "0"}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 30*time.Second)
+	defer cancel()
+	if _, err := k.profiles.SetProfiles(ctx, m.Name, []catalog.Profile{p}, "llmgw (the judge an earlier init installed)"); err != nil {
+		k.log.Warn("could not refit the judge an earlier init installed", "judge", m.Name, "err", err)
+		k.looked[m.Name] = false
+		return
+	}
+	ids := k.replicas(m.Name)
+	if len(ids) > 0 {
+		if err := k.restart(ids...); err != nil {
+			k.log.Warn("refitted the judge, but could not restart it", "judge", m.Name, "err", err)
+		}
+	}
+	k.log.Info("refitted the judge an earlier init installed", "judge", m.Name,
+		"memory_gb", p.MinMemoryGB, "cpu_cores", p.CPUCores, "replicas_restarted", len(ids))
+}
+
+// earlierInitJudge is whether a judge's entry is exactly what `server init`
+// before v0.14.7 wrote: one llama.cpp profile on CPUs, an 8192 context and
+// no other args, 2 or 4 GB, none to two cores.
+func earlierInitJudge(m catalog.Model) bool {
+	if len(m.Profiles) != 1 {
+		return false
+	}
+	p := m.Profiles[0]
+	return p.Name == "cpu" && p.Engine == "llamacpp" && p.GPUClass == "" && p.GPU == nil &&
+		len(p.NodeSelector) == 0 && slices.Equal(p.Args, []string{"--ctx-size", "8192"}) &&
+		(p.MinMemoryGB == 2 || p.MinMemoryGB == 4) && p.CPUCores >= 0 && p.CPUCores <= 2
+}
+
+// refitCores is a judge replica's cores by init's rule: up to four for the
+// one judge of a cluster, two each where there are more, fewer where the
+// smallest node cannot hold them all.
+func refitCores(replicas int, cpus []int) int {
+	smallest := 0
+	for _, c := range cpus {
+		if c > 0 && (smallest == 0 || c < smallest) {
+			smallest = c
+		}
+	}
+	if replicas <= 1 {
+		if smallest == 0 {
+			return judgeCores
+		}
+		return min(smallest, judgeCoresAlone)
+	}
+	cores := judgeCores
+	if len(cpus) == 1 && smallest > 0 && replicas*cores > smallest {
+		cores = max(1, smallest/replicas)
+	}
+	return cores
+}
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package cli

 import (
+	"context"
 	"errors"
 	"log/slog"
 	"slices"
@@ -51,7 +52,8 @@ func TestAJudgeAPolicyNamesIsFetchedWhenTheCatalogLacksIt(t *testing.T) {
 	// The GPU judge alone: the CPU one is there, and one llmgw does not know
 	// is not guessed at.
 	if len(fs.started) != 1 || fs.started[0].Name != "qwen3guard-4b" || fs.started[0].GPUClass != "6000-24g" ||
-		fs.started[0].Class != catalog.ClassStandard || fs.started[0].GuardFormat != "qwen3guard" || fs.started[0].CPU {
+		fs.started[0].Class != catalog.ClassStandard || fs.started[0].GuardFormat != "qwen3guard" || fs.started[0].CPU ||
+		!fs.started[0].IfAbsent {
 		t.Fatalf("started %+v", fs.started)
 	}

@@ -90,8 +92,12 @@ func TestAJudgeAPolicyNamesIsFetchedWhenTheCatalogLacksIt(t *testing.T) {
 	lib = guard.Config{Policies: map[string]guard.Policy{"b": {Judge: &guard.JudgePolicy{Model: "qwen3guard-0.6b", Input: "block"}}}}
 	inCatalog = nil
 	k.gpus = func() []adminapi.ClassUse { return nil }
+	k.nodeCPUs = func() []int { return []int{8, 4} }
 	k.check()
-	if last := fs.started[len(fs.started)-1]; last.Name != "qwen3guard-0.6b" || !last.CPU || last.Replicas != 2 {
+	// Sized as init sizes its two judges: 2 GB, and two cores each on a
+	// cluster whose smallest node has four.
+	if last := fs.started[len(fs.started)-1]; last.Name != "qwen3guard-0.6b" || !last.CPU || last.Replicas != 2 ||
+		last.MemoryGB != judgeMemoryGB || last.CPUCores != refitCores(2, []int{8, 4}) || last.CPUCores == 0 {
 		t.Errorf("CPU judge: %+v", last)
 	}
 	fs.err = errors.New("the mirror is down")
@@ -124,3 +130,108 @@ func TestCategoriesFollowTheJudges(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("no categories (every one counts) became %v", got)
 	}
 }
+
+type fakeProfiles struct {
+	set map[string][]catalog.Profile
+}
+
+func (f *fakeProfiles) SetProfiles(_ context.Context, name string, ps []catalog.Profile, _ string) (catalog.Model, error) {
+	if f.set == nil {
+		f.set = map[string][]catalog.Profile{}
+	}
+	f.set[name] = ps
+	return catalog.Model{Name: name, Profiles: ps}, nil
+}
+
+// A judge that v0.14.6 or earlier's init installed is moved to today's
+// figures, once, and its replicas restarted onto them; one somebody changed
+// is left alone.
+func TestAnEarlierInstallsJudgeIsRefittedOnce(t *testing.T) {
+	lib := guard.Config{Policies: map[string]guard.Policy{
+		"baseline": {Judge: &guard.JudgePolicy{Model: "qwen3guard-0.6b", Input: "block"}},
+	}}
+	earlier := guardModel("http://10.0.0.5:8081/qwen3guard-0.6b/guard/g.gguf", 2, 1, nil)
+	earlier.Profiles[0].MinMemoryGB, earlier.Profiles[0].Args = 4, []string{"--ctx-size", "8192"}
+	inCatalog := []catalog.Model{earlier}
+	fp := &fakeProfiles{}
+	var restarted []string
+	k := &judgeKeeper{
+		library:  func() guard.Config { return lib },
+		models:   func() []catalog.Model { return inCatalog },
+		serve:    &fakeServe{},
+		log:      slog.New(slog.DiscardHandler),
+		profiles: fp,
+		restart:  func(ids ...string) error { restarted = append(restarted, ids...); return nil },
+		replicas: func(string) []string { return []string{"j-1", "j-2"} },
+		nodeCPUs: func() []int { return []int{4} },
+	}
+	k.check()
+	got := fp.set["qwen3guard-0.6b"]
+	if len(got) != 1 || got[0].MinMemoryGB != 2 || got[0].CPUCores != 2 || !slices.Contains(got[0].Args, "--cache-ram") {
+		t.Fatalf("refitted to %+v", got)
+	}
+	if !slices.Equal(restarted, []string{"j-1", "j-2"}) {
+		t.Errorf("restarted %v", restarted)
+	}
+	k.check()
+	if len(restarted) != 2 {
+		t.Error("refitted twice")
+	}
+
+	// Changed by somebody: an extra arg. Left as it is.
+	mine := guardModel("http://x/g.gguf", 2, 3, nil)
+	mine.Profiles[0].Args = []string{"--ctx-size", "16384"}
+	inCatalog = []catalog.Model{mine}
+	fp.set, k.looked = nil, nil
+	k.check()
+	if fp.set != nil {
+		t.Errorf("a judge set by hand was changed: %+v", fp.set)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAJudgeIsRefittedToTheCoresInitWouldGive(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		replicas int
+		cpus     []int
+		want     int
+	}{
+		{1, []int{4}, 4},
+		{1, []int{2}, 2},
+		{1, []int{16}, 4},
+		{2, []int{4}, 2},
+		{2, []int{2}, 1},
+		{2, []int{4, 32}, 2},
+		{2, nil, 2},
+	} {
+		if got := refitCores(c.replicas, c.cpus); got != c.want {
+			t.Errorf("%d judges on %v: %d cores, want %d", c.replicas, c.cpus, got, c.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Just after the control plane starts, the judge init is adding is left to
+// init: the keeper serves one itself only after its grace.
+func TestTheKeeperLeavesAJustStartedInstallsJudgeToInit(t *testing.T) {
+	lib := guard.Config{Policies: map[string]guard.Policy{"b": {Judge: &guard.JudgePolicy{Model: "qwen3guard-0.6b", Input: "block"}}}}
+	now := time.Date(2026, 10, 19, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	fs := &fakeServe{}
+	k := &judgeKeeper{
+		library: func() guard.Config { return lib },
+		models:  func() []catalog.Model { return nil },
+		serve:   fs, grace: judgeGrace,
+		gpus: func() []adminapi.ClassUse { return nil },
+		log:  slog.New(slog.DiscardHandler),
+		now:  func() time.Time { return now },
+	}
+	k.check()
+	now = now.Add(judgeGrace / 2)
+	k.check()
+	if len(fs.started) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("served within its grace: %+v", fs.started)
+	}
+	now = now.Add(judgeGrace)
+	k.check()
+	if len(fs.started) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("never served after its grace: %d", len(fs.started))
+	}
+}
@@ -142,7 +142,9 @@ func (k knownJudge) serveRequest(o judgeServeOptions) modelserve.Request {
 		}
 		return req
 	}
-	req.CPU, req.CPUCores = true, o.Cores
+	// Sized as init sizes its judge: the memory it measured to need with
+	// no prompt cache, and the cores its rule gives.
+	req.CPU, req.CPUCores, req.MemoryGB = true, o.Cores, judgeMemoryGB
 	if req.Replicas == 0 {
 		req.Replicas = 2
 	}
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"math"
+	"path"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"text/tabwriter"
@@ -301,7 +302,8 @@ func newLimitsCmd(open opener) *cobra.Command {
 	var perMember bool
 	var rpm, tpm int
 	var budget float64
-	var models []string
+	var models, tools []string
+	var replace bool

 	cmd := &cobra.Command{
 		Use:   "limits",
@@ -357,7 +359,19 @@ func newLimitsCmd(open opener) *cobra.Command {
 					return errors.New("--per-member is for --scope org, team or project")
 				}
 			}
+			// Only what is given changes: setting a tool grant must not
+			// clear the scope's rate or budget. --replace writes the row
+			// whole, a flag not given then no limit, as the console's
+			// form does with every field it shows.
 			l := store.Limits{Scope: level, ScopeID: scopeID}
+			if !replace {
+				switch cur, err := s.LimitsFor(cmd.Context(), level, scopeID); {
+				case err == nil:
+					l = cur
+				case !errors.Is(err, store.ErrNotFound):
+					return err
+				}
+			}
 			if cmd.Flags().Changed("rpm") {
 				l.RPM = &rpm
 			}
@@ -379,6 +393,14 @@ func newLimitsCmd(open opener) *cobra.Command {
 				}
 				l.AllowedModels = models
 			}
+			if cmd.Flags().Changed("tools") {
+				for _, p := range tools {
+					if _, err := path.Match(p, "x.y"); err != nil {
+						return fmt.Errorf("--tools %q is not a pattern: %w", p, err)
+					}
+				}
+				l.AllowedTools = tools
+			}
 			if err := s.PutLimits(cmd.Context(), l); err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
@@ -395,6 +417,10 @@ func newLimitsCmd(open opener) *cobra.Command {
 	cmd.Flags().Float64Var(&budget, "budget", 0, "budget per period, in whole units as the quotas page shows them")
 	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&period, "period", "month", "day | month")
 	cmd.Flags().StringSliceVar(&models, "models", nil, "allowed models; empty allows none")
+	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&replace, "replace", false,
+		"write every limit at the scope: one not given is then no limit there (default: only what is given changes)")
+	cmd.Flags().StringSliceVar(&tools, "tools", nil,
+		"the company MCP servers' tools granted here, as patterns: jira.*,db.query; none granted anywhere is none")
 	return cmd
 }

@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ func newMirrorCmd() *cobra.Command {
 		newMirrorRemoveCmd(&dir),
 		newMirrorServeCmd(&dir),
 		newMirrorInitCmd(&dir),
+		newMirrorAddPeerCmd(&dir),
 	)
 	return c
 }
@@ -255,6 +256,7 @@ func newMirrorServeCmd(dir *string) *cobra.Command {
 	var tlsc tlsconf.Config
 	var allow, clients []string
 	var allowPrivate bool
+	var peers []string

 	c := &cobra.Command{
 		Use:   "serve",
@@ -317,6 +319,21 @@ func newMirrorServeCmd(dir *string) *cobra.Command {
 				ReadTimeout: time.Minute,
 			})

+			// Another mirror kept in step with this one, each copying what
+			// the other has: the cluster's models while one machine is down.
+			if len(peers) > 0 {
+				p := &mirror.Peers{M: mgr, Log: log}
+				for _, addr := range peers {
+					c, err := mirror.NewClient(addr, tlsc, 30*time.Second)
+					if err != nil {
+						return fmt.Errorf("--peer %s: %w", addr, err)
+					}
+					p.Clients = append(p.Clients, c)
+				}
+				go p.Run(cmd.Context())
+				fmt.Fprintf(out, "kept in step with %s, every %s\n", strings.Join(peers, ", "), mirror.PeerInterval)
+			}
+
 			errs := make(chan error, 2)
 			go func() { errs <- fmt.Errorf("serving weights: %w", files.ListenAndServe()) }()
 			fmt.Fprintf(out, "serving %s on %s\n", *dir, listen)
@@ -343,6 +360,9 @@ func newMirrorServeCmd(dir *string) *cobra.Command {
 		},
 	}
 	c.Flags().StringVar(&listen, "listen", ":8081", "address to serve the weights on")
+	c.Flags().StringArrayVar(&peers, "peer", nil,
+		"another mirror's management API to keep in step with, each copying what the other has; repeatable. "+
+			"Give each the other's address in --api-allow (or its certificate in --api-client)")
 	c.Flags().StringVar(&apiListen, "api-listen", ":8082", "address to serve the management API on")
 	c.Flags().StringVar(&base, "base", "http://localhost:8081",
 		"the address nodes use to reach this mirror, as it should appear in catalog sources")
@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"net"
+	"os"
+	"regexp"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/onboard"
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/settings"
+)
+
+// A second mirror, so models can still be added and fetched while the first
+// machine is down. Set up from the machine of the first, which it is kept in
+// step with: the first is told of it, it of the first, and the control
+// planes of both.
+
+func newMirrorAddPeerCmd(dir *string) *cobra.Command {
+	var controlPlanes []string
+	var base string
+	cmd := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "add-peer [user@]host",
+		Short: "Set up a second mirror on another machine, kept in step with this one",
+		Long: `Run on the machine of the cluster's mirror, as root. It logs in to HOST with
+ssh, installs llmgw there if it is not, and sets up a mirror that keeps in
+step with this one: each copies what the other holds, checksum checked, and
+a model removed from one is removed from the other. This mirror is told of
+it, and the cluster's settings name it (mirror.peers), so while either
+machine is down the control planes use the other and nodes fetch from it.
+
+HOST needs room for every model this mirror holds: it copies them all.`,
+		Example: "  sudo llmgw mirror add-peer ubuntu@10.0.0.12 --control-plane 10.0.0.10 --control-plane 10.0.0.12",
+		Args:    cobra.ExactArgs(1),
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+			if os.Geteuid() != 0 {
+				return errors.New("add-peer changes this mirror's service and the cluster's settings: run it as root")
+			}
+			user, host, ok := strings.Cut(args[0], "@")
+			if !ok {
+				user, host = os.Getenv("SUDO_USER"), args[0]
+			}
+			return addMirrorPeer(cmd.Context(), cmd.OutOrStdout(), &onboard.SSH{Addr: host, User: user}, host,
+				*dir, base, controlPlanes, "/etc/llmgw/server.yaml")
+		},
+	}
+	cmd.Flags().StringArrayVar(&controlPlanes, "control-plane", nil,
+		"address of a control plane that manages the mirrors; repeatable (default: this machine)")
+	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&base, "base", "", "the address nodes fetch from on HOST (default: http://HOST:8081)")
+	return cmd
+}
+
+// addMirrorPeer sets up a mirror on a machine reached by remote, kept in
+// step with the one on this machine.
+func addMirrorPeer(ctx context.Context, out io.Writer, remote onboard.Remote, host, dir, base string,
+	controlPlanes []string, configPath string,
+) error {
+	ip, err := ipv4Of(host)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	here := primaryAddr()
+	if len(controlPlanes) == 0 {
+		controlPlanes = []string{here}
+	}
+	if base == "" {
+		base = "http://" + net.JoinHostPort(ip, "8081")
+	}
+	thisAPI := "http://" + net.JoinHostPort(here, "8082")
+	peerAPI := "http://" + net.JoinHostPort(ip, "8082")
+
+	// llmgw there, the same as here, when it has none.
+	if _, err := remote.Run(ctx, "command -v llmgw >/dev/null", nil); err != nil {
+		exe, err := os.Executable()
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		bin, err := os.ReadFile(exe) //nolint:gosec // this program
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		fmt.Fprintf(out, "  ..    llmgw to %s\n", host)
+		if _, err := remote.Run(ctx, "sudo install -m 755 /dev/stdin /usr/local/bin/llmgw", bin); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("installing llmgw on %s: %w", host, err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// The mirror there: its management API for the control planes and this
+	// mirror, which reads it; kept in step with this one.
+	allow := append([]string{}, controlPlanes...)
+	if !slices.Contains(allow, here) {
+		allow = append(allow, here)
+	}
+	script := "sudo llmgw mirror init --dir " + shellQuote(dir) + " --base " + shellQuote(base) + " --peer " + shellQuote(thisAPI)
+	for _, a := range allow {
+		script += " --control-plane " + shellQuote(a)
+	}
+	fmt.Fprintf(out, "  ..    the mirror on %s\n", host)
+	if b, err := remote.Run(ctx, script, nil); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("the mirror on %s: %w\n%s", host, err, b)
+	}
+
+	// This mirror told of it, and to let it read this one's API.
+	changed, err := addToMirrorUnit(mirrorUnitPath, peerAPI, ip)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if changed {
+		in := &serverInit{out: out}
+		if err := in.systemctl(ctx, "daemon-reload"); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if err := in.systemctl(ctx, "restart", "llmgw-mirror"); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	fmt.Fprintf(out, "  ok    this mirror keeps in step with %s\n", peerAPI)
+
+	// The control planes told of both.
+	if err := addMirrorPeerSetting(configPath, peerAPI); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	fmt.Fprintf(out, "  ok    mirror.peers names %s; the control planes use it while this one is down\n", peerAPI)
+	return nil
+}
+
+// addToMirrorUnit adds a peer and the address allowed to read this mirror's
+// API to its systemd unit, and says whether it changed.
+func addToMirrorUnit(path, peer, allow string) (bool, error) {
+	b, err := os.ReadFile(path) //nolint:gosec // the mirror's unit
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, fmt.Errorf("this machine has no mirror to keep in step (%s): run add-peer on the mirror's machine", path)
+	}
+	unit := string(b)
+	re := regexp.MustCompile(`(?m)^ExecStart=.*$`)
+	line := re.FindString(unit)
+	if line == "" {
+		return false, fmt.Errorf("%s has no ExecStart", path)
+	}
+	next := line
+	if !strings.Contains(next, "--peer "+peer) {
+		next += " --peer " + peer
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(next, "--api-allow "+allow+" ") && !strings.HasSuffix(next, "--api-allow "+allow) &&
+		strings.Contains(next, "--api-listen :") {
+		next += " --api-allow " + allow
+	}
+	if next == line {
+		return false, nil
+	}
+	return true, os.WriteFile(path, []byte(strings.Replace(unit, line, next, 1)), 0o644)
+}
+
+// addMirrorPeerSetting names a peer in mirror.peers: in the cluster's
+// settings when the store holds them, else in server.yaml.
+func addMirrorPeerSetting(path, peer string) error {
+	add := func(doc *settings.Doc) error {
+		var peers []string
+		if n := doc.Node([]string{"mirror", "peers"}); n != nil {
+			_ = n.Decode(&peers)
+		}
+		if slices.Contains(peers, peer) {
+			return nil
+		}
+		list := "[" + strings.Join(append(peers, peer), ", ") + "]"
+		return doc.SetYAML([]string{"mirror", "peers"}, list)
+	}
+	changed, err := changeStoredSettings(path, "a second mirror (llmgw mirror add-peer)", add)
+	if err != nil || changed {
+		return err
+	}
+	doc, err := settings.Open(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if err := add(doc); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	_, err = doc.Save(nil)
+	return err
+}
+
+// ensureSecondMirror sets up the mirror kept in step with this machine's on
+// the store machine chosen, reached as the store's setup reached it.
+func (in *serverInit) ensureSecondMirror(ctx context.Context) error {
+	if !in.standbys {
+		return errors.New("it needs --standbys: without them this mirror's API answers this machine alone, which the second cannot read")
+	}
+	i := in.secondMirror - 1
+	if i < 0 || i >= len(in.patroniNodes) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("there is no database machine %d to put it on", in.secondMirror)
+	}
+	if in.noMirror || in.mirrorURL != "" {
+		return errors.New("it keeps in step with a mirror on this machine, and there is none")
+	}
+	n := in.patroniNodes[i]
+	fmt.Fprintf(in.out, "  ..    a second mirror on %s\n", n.Name)
+	if err := addMirrorPeer(ctx, in.out, n.Remote, n.IP, in.mirrorRoot(), "", in.mirrorAllow(), in.configPath()); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	in.done("a second mirror on %s (%s), kept in step with this one", n.Name, n.IP)
+	return nil
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestAPeerIsAddedToTheMirrorsUnitOnce(t *testing.T) {
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "llmgw-mirror.service")
+	unit := mirrorUnitFor("/srv/models", ":8082", "http://10.0.0.10:8081", []string{"10.0.0.10"}, nil, "test")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(unit), 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	changed, err := addToMirrorUnit(path, "http://10.0.0.12:8082", "10.0.0.12")
+	if err != nil || !changed {
+		t.Fatalf("changed %v %v", changed, err)
+	}
+	b, _ := os.ReadFile(path)
+	if !strings.Contains(string(b), "--peer http://10.0.0.12:8082") || !strings.Contains(string(b), "--api-allow 10.0.0.12") {
+		t.Errorf("unit:\n%s", b)
+	}
+	if changed, _ := addToMirrorUnit(path, "http://10.0.0.12:8082", "10.0.0.12"); changed {
+		t.Error("added twice")
+	}
+	// A mirror whose API is on loopback alone is not opened by the back door.
+	lo := mirrorUnitFor("/srv/models", "127.0.0.1:8082", "http://10.0.0.10:8081", nil, nil, "test")
+	_ = os.WriteFile(path, []byte(lo), 0o644)
+	_, _ = addToMirrorUnit(path, "http://10.0.0.12:8082", "10.0.0.12")
+	if b, _ := os.ReadFile(path); strings.Contains(string(b), "--api-allow") {
+		t.Errorf("a loopback mirror was opened:\n%s", b)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestASecondMirrorIsNamedInTheSettings(t *testing.T) {
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "server.yaml")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte("listen: \":8080\"\nmirror:\n  api: http://10.0.0.10:8082\n"), 0o600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for range 2 {
+		if err := addMirrorPeerSetting(path, "http://10.0.0.12:8082"); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	b, _ := os.ReadFile(path)
+	if strings.Count(string(b), "10.0.0.12:8082") != 1 || !strings.Contains(string(b), "peers") {
+		t.Errorf("server.yaml:\n%s", b)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTheSetupOffersASecondMirrorOnAStoreMachine(t *testing.T) {
+	in := newDefaultServerInit()
+	f := newInstallForm(&in, "ctl", []string{"10.0.0.5"}, true)
+	f.secondMirror.Choice = 1
+	if !f.secondMirror.Show() {
+		t.Fatal("not offered with the mirror on this machine")
+	}
+	f.mirrorWhere.Choice = 1
+	if f.secondMirror.Show() {
+		t.Error("offered with the mirror elsewhere")
+	}
+	f.mirrorWhere.Choice = 0
+	in.secondMirror = 1
+	in.patroni = []string{"ubuntu@10.0.0.11", "ubuntu@10.0.0.12"}
+	if got := strings.Join(in.initFlags(), " "); !strings.Contains(got, "--second-mirror 1") {
+		t.Errorf("flags %s", got)
+	}
+	// Without standbys this mirror answers itself alone: the second could not read it.
+	in.standbys = false
+	if err := in.ensureSecondMirror(t.Context()); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "standbys") {
+		t.Errorf("without standbys: %v", err)
+	}
+}
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import (
 func newMirrorInitCmd(dir *string) *cobra.Command {
 	var (
 		controlPlanes []string
+		peers         []string
 		base          string
 		noFirewall    bool
 	)
@@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ Safe to run again: it changes only what differs.`,
 			if _, err := parseAllow(controlPlanes); err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
-			if err := mirrorInit(cmd.Context(), cmd.OutOrStdout(), *dir, base, controlPlanes); err != nil {
+			if err := mirrorInit(cmd.Context(), cmd.OutOrStdout(), *dir, base, controlPlanes, peers); err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
 			if !noFirewall {
@@ -80,6 +81,9 @@ Safe to run again: it changes only what differs.`,
 	}
 	cmd.Flags().StringArrayVar(&controlPlanes, "control-plane", nil,
 		"address of the control plane that manages this mirror; repeatable")
+	cmd.Flags().StringArrayVar(&peers, "peer", nil,
+		"another mirror's management API to keep in step with, http://host:8082; repeatable. "+
+			"Its machine must be among --control-plane, to read this one")
 	cmd.Flags().BoolVar(&noFirewall, "no-firewall", false,
 		"leave the firewall alone, instead of keeping the mirror's ports to the cluster's networks")
 	cmd.Flags().StringVar(&base, "base", "",
@@ -87,7 +91,7 @@ Safe to run again: it changes only what differs.`,
 	return cmd
 }

-func mirrorInit(ctx context.Context, out io.Writer, dir, base string, controlPlanes []string) error {
+func mirrorInit(ctx context.Context, out io.Writer, dir, base string, controlPlanes, peers []string) error {
 	in := &serverInit{user: "llmgw", stateDir: "/var/lib/llmgw", out: out}
 	if err := in.ensureUser(ctx); err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -105,7 +109,7 @@ func mirrorInit(ctx context.Context, out io.Writer, dir, base string, controlPla
 		}
 		base = "http://" + net.JoinHostPort(addr, "8081")
 	}
-	unit := mirrorUnitFor(dir, ":8082", base, controlPlanes,
+	unit := mirrorUnitFor(dir, ":8082", base, controlPlanes, peers,
 		"'llmgw mirror init'. Bytes on :8081 for every node; the\n# management API on :8082, for the control plane only.")
 	changed, err := in.writeUnit(mirrorUnitPath, unit)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package cli
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"net/url"
 	"os"
 	"os/user"
 	"slices"
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ import (

 	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/control/adminapi"
 	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/control/catalog"
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/control/modelserve"
 	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/sourcecheck"
 )

@@ -32,7 +34,7 @@ func newModelCmd(client func() *ctlClient, asJSON *bool) *cobra.Command {
 		Use:   "model",
 		Short: "Add or remove models while the cluster is running",
 	}
-	c.AddCommand(newModelAddCmd(client), newModelRemoveCmd(client), newModelPlanCmd(client),
+	c.AddCommand(newModelContextCmd(client), newModelGPUsCmd(client), newModelAddCmd(client), newModelPresetsCmd(client, asJSON), newModelRemoveCmd(client), newModelPlanCmd(client),
 		newResourcesCmd(client), newClassCmd(client), newOwnerCmd(client),
 		newTargetCmd(client, asJSON), newAdaptersCmd(client),
 		newModelServeCmd(client), newModelUpdatesCmd(client, asJSON), newModelUpdateCmd(client),
@@ -46,49 +48,74 @@ func newModelAddCmd(client func() *ctlClient) *cobra.Command {
 	var path string
 	var skipCheck bool
 	c := &cobra.Command{
-		Use:   "add -f <file.yaml>",
-		Short: "Add a model from a definition file",
-		Long: "The definition is the same YAML a model takes in server.yaml, so an\n" +
+		Use:   "add PRESET | -f <file.yaml>",
+		Short: "Add a model that comes with llmgw, or one from a definition file",
+		Long: "A preset is a model that comes with llmgw, its workflow, nodes and licence\n" +
+			"already found and tried: " + strings.Join(catalog.PresetNames(), ", ") + " (llmgw ctl model presets).\n" +
+			"Adding a ComfyUI one also has the nodes install ComfyUI, when the cluster\n" +
+			"has not been told otherwise.\n\n" +
+			"A definition is the same YAML a model takes in server.yaml, so an\n" +
 			"entry can be moved between the two by copying it.\n\n" +
 			"The catalog is rebuilt and validated before anything is written, so a\n" +
 			"definition that collides with an existing name, or names a fallback that\n" +
 			"does not exist, is refused rather than stored and then ignored on every\n" +
 			"start. Once accepted it takes effect on the reconciler's next pass — no\n" +
 			"restart — and survives one.",
-		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
-		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
-			if path == "" {
-				return fmt.Errorf("--file is required: the model definition, as YAML")
-			}
-			// Read by koanf, the same parser and the same tags that read
-			// server.yaml — so an entry can be moved between the two by copying
-			// it, and a field that works in one cannot silently mean nothing in
-			// the other.
-			k := koanf.New(".")
-			if err := k.Load(file.Provider(path), yaml.Parser()); err != nil {
-				return fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", path, err)
-			}
+		Example: "  llmgw ctl model add triposr\n" +
+			"  llmgw ctl model add -f qwen.yaml",
+		Args: cobra.MaximumNArgs(1),
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 			var m catalog.Model
-			if err := k.UnmarshalWithConf("", &m, koanf.UnmarshalConf{Tag: "koanf"}); err != nil {
-				return fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", path, err)
-			}
-			if m.Name == "" {
-				return fmt.Errorf("%s: the definition has no name", path)
+			switch {
+			case len(args) == 1 && path != "":
+				return fmt.Errorf("a preset or a file, not both")
+			case len(args) == 1:
+				p, ok := catalog.PresetNamed(args[0])
+				if !ok {
+					return fmt.Errorf("no preset %q: there are %s; any other model is added from a file (-f)",
+						args[0], strings.Join(catalog.PresetNames(), ", "))
+				}
+				// The control plane adds it, and keeps that it was added as
+				// a preset, by whom; one from before it could is sent the
+				// entry, as it was then.
+				var res adminapi.ModelAdded
+				err := client().post(cmd.Context(), "/api/v1/presets/"+url.PathEscape(p.Model.Name), []byte("{}"), &res)
+				if err == nil {
+					fmt.Fprintf(cmd.OutOrStdout(),
+						"%s added, and ComfyUI with it where the cluster had none. It is placed on the next\n"+
+							"reconcile pass and loads when first asked for; watch it with:\n  llmgw ctl models\n", p.Model.Name)
+					return nil
+				}
+				if !olderControlPlane(err) {
+					return err
+				}
+				m = p.Model
+			case path == "":
+				return fmt.Errorf("a preset (%s) or --file, the model definition as YAML",
+					strings.Join(catalog.PresetNames(), ", "))
+			default:
+				var err error
+				if m, err = readModelFile(path); err != nil {
+					return err
+				}
 			}

 			// Before the catalog is touched, because a source that does not
 			// resolve is otherwise discovered by a replica failing to start
 			// minutes later on a node — with an error naming the node rather
 			// than the typo.
+			// Every source the model's profiles load, not the model's alone.
 			if !skipCheck {
-				size, err := sourcecheck.Check(cmd.Context(), m.Source)
-				if err != nil {
-					return fmt.Errorf("%w\n  Pass --no-source-check to add it anyway, "+
-						"which is right when the mirror is not up yet or the nodes "+
-						"reach it by an address this machine does not.", err)
-				}
-				if _, isURL := sourcecheck.HTTPSource(m.Source); isURL {
-					fmt.Fprintln(cmd.OutOrStdout(), sourceNote(m.Source, size))
+				for _, src := range m.WeightSources() {
+					size, err := sourcecheck.Check(cmd.Context(), src)
+					if err != nil {
+						return fmt.Errorf("%w\n  Pass --no-source-check to add it anyway, "+
+							"which is right when the mirror is not up yet or the nodes "+
+							"reach it by an address this machine does not.", err)
+					}
+					if _, isURL := sourcecheck.HTTPSource(src); isURL {
+						fmt.Fprintln(cmd.OutOrStdout(), sourceNote(src, size))
+					}
 				}
 			}

@@ -104,6 +131,9 @@ func newModelAddCmd(client func() *ctlClient) *cobra.Command {
 			fmt.Fprintf(cmd.OutOrStdout(),
 				"%s added. It will be placed on the next reconcile pass; watch it with:\n"+
 					"  llmgw ctl models\n", m.Name)
+			if m.ServesComfyUI() && !m.IsExternal() {
+				return ensureComfyUI(cmd, client, m.Name)
+			}
 			return nil
 		},
 	}
@@ -113,6 +143,25 @@ func newModelAddCmd(client func() *ctlClient) *cobra.Command {
 	return c
 }

+// readModelFile reads a model's definition. By koanf, the same parser and
+// the same tags that read server.yaml — so an entry can be moved between the
+// two by copying it, and a field that works in one cannot silently mean
+// nothing in the other.
+func readModelFile(path string) (catalog.Model, error) {
+	var m catalog.Model
+	k := koanf.New(".")
+	if err := k.Load(file.Provider(path), yaml.Parser()); err != nil {
+		return m, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", path, err)
+	}
+	if err := k.UnmarshalWithConf("", &m, koanf.UnmarshalConf{Tag: "koanf"}); err != nil {
+		return m, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", path, err)
+	}
+	if m.Name == "" {
+		return m, fmt.Errorf("%s: the definition has no name", path)
+	}
+	return m, nil
+}
+
 func newModelRemoveCmd(client func() *ctlClient) *cobra.Command {
 	return &cobra.Command{
 		Use:   "remove <name>",
@@ -338,3 +387,112 @@ func newAdaptersCmd(client func() *ctlClient) *cobra.Command {
 	c.Flags().StringArrayVar(&remove, "remove", nil, "an adapter's name; repeatable")
 	return c
 }
+
+func newModelContextCmd(client func() *ctlClient) *cobra.Command {
+	var slots int
+	c := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "context <model> <tokens>",
+		Short: "Change how much one request to a served model may use",
+		Long: "The context lives in three places: the catalog (what a request may use, and\n" +
+			"what it may answer), the engine's arguments (llama.cpp's --ctx-size and\n" +
+			"--parallel, vLLM's --max-model-len), and the memory the KV cache takes. This\n" +
+			"changes all three together. It refuses more than the model was trained for,\n" +
+			"and a context its cards would not hold, saying what each would need. Its\n" +
+			"replicas are then started again on it, each new one before the old stops.\n\n" +
+			"--slots is how many requests a llama.cpp replica answers at once; its pool is\n" +
+			"slots × tokens. Left out, it keeps what it has.",
+		Example: "  llmgw ctl model context qwen3-coder-30b 65536\n" +
+			"  llmgw ctl model context qwen2.5-7b 16384 --slots 4",
+		Args: cobra.ExactArgs(2),
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+			tokens, err := strconv.Atoi(args[1])
+			if err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("the context is a whole number of tokens, not %q", args[1])
+			}
+			body, _ := json.Marshal(modelserve.ContextRequest{Tokens: tokens, Slots: slots})
+			var v modelserve.ContextChange
+			if err := client().patient(time.Minute).post(cmd.Context(), "/api/v1/models/"+args[0]+"/context", body, &v); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			out := cmd.OutOrStdout()
+			fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s: %d → %d tokens a request, answers up to %d", v.Model, v.Before, v.After, v.MaxOutput)
+			if v.Trained > 0 {
+				fmt.Fprintf(out, " (trained for %d)", v.Trained)
+			}
+			fmt.Fprintln(out)
+			for _, p := range v.Profiles {
+				line := "  " + p.Profile + " (" + p.Engine + "): " + strings.Join(p.Args, " ")
+				switch {
+				case p.Before != "" && p.After != "":
+					line += "; " + p.Before + " → " + p.After
+				case p.After != "":
+					line += "; " + p.After
+				}
+				fmt.Fprintln(out, line)
+			}
+			if v.Note != "" {
+				fmt.Fprintln(out, "  note: "+v.Note)
+			}
+			if v.Restarted > 0 {
+				fmt.Fprintf(out, "%d replica(s) started again on it, each new one before the old stops: llmgw ctl replicas --model %s\n", v.Restarted, v.Model)
+			}
+			return nil
+		},
+	}
+	c.Flags().IntVar(&slots, "slots", 0, "llama.cpp: requests a replica answers at once (default: as it is)")
+	return c
+}
+
+func newModelGPUsCmd(client func() *ctlClient) *cobra.Command {
+	var profile string
+	var inPlace bool
+	c := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "gpus <model> <cards>",
+		Short: "Spread a served model over more cards, or fewer",
+		Long: "How many cards of one node each replica uses. vLLM, SGLang and TensorRT-LLM\n" +
+			"spread the model by tensor parallel, which needs the count to divide the\n" +
+			"model's KV heads or be divided by them; llama.cpp splits its layers over the\n" +
+			"cards. It refuses a count a node does not have, and one whose cards would not\n" +
+			"hold the model and its context, saying what each would need. Its replicas are\n" +
+			"then started again on it, each new one beside the old before it stops.\n\n" +
+			"With no node free enough beside the running replicas — a node of two cards,\n" +
+			"the model on one — --in-place stops each replica first: the model does not\n" +
+			"answer while the new one loads.\n\n" +
+			"--profile names the profile for a model with more than one on cards.",
+		Example: "  llmgw ctl model gpus qwen3-coder-30b 2\n" +
+			"  llmgw ctl model gpus llama-70b 4 --profile h100 --in-place",
+		Args: cobra.ExactArgs(2),
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+			n, err := strconv.Atoi(args[1])
+			if err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("the cards are a whole number, not %q", args[1])
+			}
+			body, _ := json.Marshal(modelserve.GPUsRequest{GPUs: n, Profile: profile, InPlace: inPlace})
+			var v modelserve.GPUsChange
+			if err := client().patient(time.Minute).post(cmd.Context(), "/api/v1/models/"+args[0]+"/gpus", body, &v); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			out := cmd.OutOrStdout()
+			fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s: %d → %d %s card(s) a replica (%s, %s)\n", v.Model, v.Before, v.After, v.Class, v.Profile, v.Engine)
+			if v.PerCard != "" {
+				fmt.Fprintln(out, "  "+v.PerCard)
+			}
+			if len(v.Args) > 0 {
+				fmt.Fprintln(out, "  args: "+strings.Join(v.Args, " "))
+			}
+			if v.Note != "" {
+				fmt.Fprintln(out, "  note: "+v.Note)
+			}
+			switch {
+			case v.Restarted > 0 && v.InPlace:
+				fmt.Fprintf(out, "%d replica(s) stopped and started again on it, one by one: llmgw ctl replicas --model %s\n", v.Restarted, v.Model)
+			case v.Restarted > 0:
+				fmt.Fprintf(out, "%d replica(s) started again on it, each new one before the old stops: llmgw ctl replicas --model %s\n", v.Restarted, v.Model)
+			}
+			return nil
+		},
+	}
+	c.Flags().StringVar(&profile, "profile", "", "the profile to change, for a model with several on cards")
+	c.Flags().BoolVar(&inPlace, "in-place", false, "stop each replica before its replacement starts, when there is no room beside it")
+	return c
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
+
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/agent/provision"
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/control/adminapi"
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/control/catalog"
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/settings"
+)
+
+func newModelPresetsCmd(client func() *ctlClient, asJSON *bool) *cobra.Command {
+	c := &cobra.Command{
+		Use:   "presets",
+		Short: "The models that come with llmgw: whether each fits and is here",
+		Long: "Each is a catalog entry whose workflow, custom nodes, packages and licence\n" +
+			"were found and tried, and whose profile says the card it needs rather than\n" +
+			"a class, so it places on any site's cards. Add one with\n" +
+			"`llmgw ctl model add NAME`.\n\n" +
+			"While presets.auto is on, the leader adds one by itself when a card fits it\n" +
+			"and the catalog has nothing that makes what it makes; one somebody removed\n" +
+			"is not added again by itself.",
+		Args: cobra.NoArgs,
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
+			var v adminapi.PresetsView
+			err := client().get(cmd.Context(), "/api/v1/presets", &v)
+			if err != nil && !olderControlPlane(err) {
+				return err
+			}
+			if *asJSON && err == nil {
+				return emitJSON(v)
+			}
+			w := tabTo(cmd.OutOrStdout())
+			if err != nil {
+				// A control plane from before it kept them: what this
+				// release has, with nothing about the cluster.
+				fmt.Fprintln(w, "NAME\tMAKES\tCARD\tLICENCE\tWHAT IT IS FOR")
+				for _, p := range catalog.Presets() {
+					fmt.Fprintf(w, "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n", p.Model.Name, p.Makes, presetCard(p.Model),
+						presetLicence(p.Model), p.Model.Description)
+				}
+				return w.Flush()
+			}
+			fmt.Fprintln(w, "NAME\tMAKES\tCARD\tLICENCE\tFITS\tHERE\tWHAT IT IS FOR")
+			for _, p := range v.Presets {
+				fmt.Fprintf(w, "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n", p.Name, p.Makes, p.Card, licenceText(p.Licence),
+					orDash(strings.Join(p.FitsClasses, ",")), presetState(p), p.Description)
+			}
+			if err := w.Flush(); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			if v.Auto {
+				fmt.Fprintln(cmd.OutOrStdout(), "\nAdded by themselves where a card fits (presets.auto); "+
+					"llmgw ctl model presets auto off stops it.")
+			} else {
+				fmt.Fprintln(cmd.OutOrStdout(), "\nNot added by themselves; llmgw ctl model presets auto on starts it.")
+			}
+			return nil
+		},
+	}
+	c.AddCommand(&cobra.Command{
+		Use:       "auto on|off",
+		Short:     "Whether the leader adds a preset by itself where a card fits it",
+		Args:      cobra.ExactArgs(1),
+		ValidArgs: []string{"on", "off"},
+		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
+			if args[0] != "on" && args[0] != "off" {
+				return fmt.Errorf("on or off, not %q", args[0])
+			}
+			body, _ := json.Marshal(adminapi.PresetsAutoRequest{On: args[0] == "on"})
+			var v adminapi.PresetsView
+			if err := client().put(cmd.Context(), "/api/v1/presets/auto", body, &v); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			if v.Auto {
+				fmt.Fprintln(cmd.OutOrStdout(), "Presets are added by themselves where a card fits.")
+			} else {
+				fmt.Fprintln(cmd.OutOrStdout(), "Presets are no longer added by themselves.")
+			}
+			return nil
+		},
+	})
+	return c
+}
+
+// olderControlPlane is an error from a control plane that has no such path:
+// one from before it was added.
+func olderControlPlane(err error) bool {
+	s := err.Error()
+	return strings.Contains(s, "answered with a page") || strings.HasPrefix(s, "404 Not Found: 404 page not found")
+}
+
+func presetState(p adminapi.PresetView) string {
+	switch {
+	case p.InCatalog && p.AddedBy == "auto":
+		return "added by itself"
+	case p.InCatalog && p.AddedBy != "":
+		return "added by " + p.AddedBy
+	case p.InCatalog:
+		return "here"
+	case p.Declined:
+		return "removed; stays out"
+	}
+	return "—"
+}
+
+func licenceText(l catalog.License) string {
+	if l.Commercial != nil && !*l.Commercial {
+		return l.Name + ", not commercial"
+	}
+	return l.Name
+}
+
+func presetCard(m catalog.Model) string {
+	if len(m.Profiles) == 0 || m.Profiles[0].GPU == nil {
+		return "—"
+	}
+	return m.Profiles[0].GPU.String()
+}
+
+func presetLicence(m catalog.Model) string {
+	if m.License == nil {
+		return "—"
+	}
+	l := m.License.Name
+	if c := m.License.Commercial; c != nil && !*c {
+		l += ", not commercial"
+	}
+	return l
+}
+
+// ensureComfyUI has the nodes install ComfyUI for a model that needs it,
+// unless the cluster names a version already, or none on purpose.
+func ensureComfyUI(cmd *cobra.Command, client func() *ctlClient, model string) error {
+	out := cmd.OutOrStdout()
+	path := []string{"engines", catalog.EngineComfyUI}
+	var cur adminapi.SettingsView
+	if err := client().get(cmd.Context(), "/api/v1/settings", &cur); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	doc, err := settings.FromBytes("settings", []byte(cur.Body))
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	version := provision.ComfyUIVersion()
+	if n := doc.Node(path); n != nil {
+		if n.Value == "" {
+			fmt.Fprintf(out, "engines.comfyui is set to none, so the nodes install no ComfyUI for it: set a version "+
+				"(llmgw ctl config set engines.comfyui %s) or name one installed by hand in agent.yaml\n", version)
+		}
+		return nil
+	}
+	fmt.Fprintf(out, "Nodes with an NVIDIA GPU install ComfyUI %s for it, about 10 GB each:\n", version)
+	if err := doc.SetYAML(path, version); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	b, err := doc.Bytes()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return putSettings(cmd, client, cur, b, "ComfyUI for "+model)
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+package cli
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/control/adminapi"
+	"gitea.mynodes.xyz/ilker/llmgw/internal/control/catalog"
+)
+
+// presetAdmin is an admin API holding settings, which records the models
+// added and the settings put.
+type presetAdmin struct {
+	// api is a control plane that adds presets itself; without it, one
+	// from before, which answers their paths with a 404.
+	api      bool
+	byAPI    []string
+	mu       sync.Mutex
+	settings string
+	added    []catalog.Model
+	put      []string
+}
+
+func (a *presetAdmin) client(t *testing.T) func() *ctlClient {
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		a.mu.Lock()
+		defer a.mu.Unlock()
+		body, _ := io.ReadAll(r.Body)
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		switch {
+		case a.api && r.Method == http.MethodPost && strings.HasPrefix(r.URL.Path, "/api/v1/presets/"):
+			name := strings.TrimPrefix(r.URL.Path, "/api/v1/presets/")
+			a.byAPI = append(a.byAPI, name)
+			_ = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(adminapi.ModelAdded{Added: name})
+		case r.Method == http.MethodPost && r.URL.Path == "/api/v1/models":
+			var m catalog.Model
+			_ = json.Unmarshal(body, &m)
+			a.added = append(a.added, m)
+			_ = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(map[string]string{"name": m.Name})
+		case r.Method == http.MethodGet && r.URL.Path == "/api/v1/settings":
+			_ = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(adminapi.SettingsView{Version: 1, Body: a.settings})
+		case r.Method == http.MethodPut && r.URL.Path == "/api/v1/settings":
+			var req adminapi.SettingsRequest
+			_ = json.Unmarshal(body, &req)
+			a.put = append(a.put, req.Body)
+			a.settings = req.Body
+			_ = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(adminapi.SettingsView{Version: 2, Body: req.Body})
+		default:
+			http.NotFound(w, r)
+		}
+	}))
+	t.Cleanup(srv.Close)
+	return func() *ctlClient { return newCtlClient(strings.TrimPrefix(srv.URL, "http://"), "") }
+}
+
+func runModelAdd(t *testing.T, client func() *ctlClient, args ...string) (string, error) {
+	t.Helper()
+	cmd := newModelAddCmd(client)
+	var out bytes.Buffer
+	cmd.SetOut(&out)
+	cmd.SetErr(&out)
+	cmd.SetArgs(append(args, "--no-source-check"))
+	err := cmd.ExecuteContext(t.Context())
+	return out.String(), err
+}
+
+func TestAPresetIsAddedByTheControlPlane(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &presetAdmin{api: true}
+	out, err := runModelAdd(t, a.client(t), "triposr")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("%v\n%s", err, out)
+	}
+	if len(a.byAPI) != 1 || a.byAPI[0] != "triposr" || len(a.added) != 0 || len(a.put) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("by the API %v; sent the entry %v; settings %v", a.byAPI, a.added, a.put)
+	}
+}
+
+// A control plane from before presets were its own is sent the entry, and
+// ComfyUI set beside it, as the release that brought presets did.
+func TestAPresetIsAddedByNameAndHasTheNodesInstallComfyUI(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &presetAdmin{settings: "router:\n  retries: 2\n"}
+	out, err := runModelAdd(t, a.client(t), "triposr")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("%v\n%s", err, out)
+	}
+	if len(a.added) != 1 || a.added[0].Name != "triposr" || a.added[0].ComfyUI.Workflow != "triposr" {
+		t.Fatalf("added %+v", a.added)
+	}
+	if len(a.put) != 1 || !strings.Contains(a.put[0], "comfyui: 0.39.2") || !strings.Contains(a.put[0], "retries: 2") {
+		t.Fatalf("settings put %q", a.put)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(out, "install ComfyUI 0.39.2") {
+		t.Errorf("not said:\n%s", out)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAClusterThatNamesItsComfyUIKeepsIt(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, settings := range []string{"engines:\n  comfyui: 0.38.0\n", "engines:\n  comfyui: \"\"\n"} {
+		a := &presetAdmin{settings: settings}
+		out, err := runModelAdd(t, a.client(t), "flux-schnell")
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%v\n%s", err, out)
+		}
+		if len(a.put) != 0 {
+			t.Errorf("%q: settings changed to %q", settings, a.put)
+		}
+		if none := strings.Contains(settings, `""`); none != strings.Contains(out, "set to none") {
+			t.Errorf("%q: %s", settings, out)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAnUnknownPresetNamesTheOnesThereAre(t *testing.T) {
+	a := &presetAdmin{}
+	_, err := runModelAdd(t, a.client(t), "sdxl")
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "flux-schnell, triposr") || len(a.added) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("%v, added %v", err, a.added)
+	}
+	if _, err := runModelAdd(t, a.client(t), "triposr", "-f", "x.yaml"); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a preset and a file were both taken")
+	}
+}
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ func newModelServeCmd(client func() *ctlClient) *cobra.Command {
 	f.StringVar(&req.Quant, "quant", "", "the quantisation to serve (default: the one that suits the cluster best)")
 	f.StringVar(&req.File, "file", "", "the file to serve, instead of choosing by --quant")
 	f.StringVar(&req.Projector, "projector", "", "a vision model's mmproj file, fetched and loaded beside it")
+	f.BoolVar(&req.Embeddings, "embeddings", false, "serve it as an embedding model (its GGUF header says so for most): "+
+		"--embedding, 32 slots of 1024 tokens unless --ctx-pool or --context-length says otherwise")
 	f.StringVar(&req.Format, "format", "gguf", "gguf, run by llama.cpp, or safetensors: the original weights, run by vLLM on GPUs")
 	f.BoolVar(&req.CPU, "cpu", false, "run it on the CPU, whatever the plan says")
 	f.StringVar(&req.GPUClass, "gpu-class", "", "run it on GPUs of this class, whatever the plan says")
@@ -67,6 +69,8 @@ func newModelServeCmd(client func() *ctlClient) *cobra.Command {
 	f.IntVar(&req.Nodes, "nodes", 0, "with --gpu-class: the nodes one replica spans, over a fabric (vLLM only)")
 	f.IntVar(&req.TP, "tp", 0, "the older name of --gpus")
 	_ = f.MarkHidden("tp")
+	f.StringToStringVar(&req.Env, "env", nil,
+		"KEY=VALUE in the engine's environment on every node, e.g. NCCL_DEBUG=INFO; repeatable")
 	f.BoolVar(&req.Fallbacks, "fallbacks", false, "also add the next best ways to run it, used when the first is busy")
 	f.BoolVar(&detach, "detach", false, "start it and return: it runs on the control plane; `llmgw ctl jobs` follows it")
 	f.StringVar(&req.Name, "name", "", "the catalog name (default: from the repository)")
@@ -291,14 +291,14 @@ func planFiles(cmd *cobra.Command, client func() *ctlClient, repo, format string
 	}
 	fmt.Fprintln(out)
 	w := tabTo(out)
-	fmt.Fprintln(w, "FILE\tSIZE\tBEST WAY\tHOLDS\tOF\tNOW")
+	fmt.Fprintln(w, "FILE\tSIZE\tBEST WAY\tA CARD\tOF\tALL CARDS\tNOW")
 	for _, a := range p.Artifacts {
 		name := a.Name
 		if a.Shards > 1 && a.Format == "gguf" {
 			name += fmt.Sprintf(" (%d parts)", a.Shards)
 		}
 		if a.Best == nil {
-			fmt.Fprintf(w, "%s\t%s\tfits nowhere\t\t\t\n", name, bytesShort(a.Bytes))
+			fmt.Fprintf(w, "%s\t%s\tfits nowhere\t\t\t\t\n", name, bytesShort(a.Bytes))
 			continue
 		}
 		b := a.Best
@@ -306,11 +306,11 @@ func planFiles(cmd *cobra.Command, client func() *ctlClient, repo, format string
 		if b.FreeNow {
 			now = "free"
 		}
-		holds := fmt.Sprintf("%.1f GB a card", b.NeedGB)
+		holds, all := fmt.Sprintf("%.1f GB", b.NeedGB), fmt.Sprintf("%.0f GB", b.TotalGB())
 		if b.CPU {
-			holds = fmt.Sprintf("%.1f GB of RAM", b.NeedGB)
+			holds, all = fmt.Sprintf("%.1f GB of RAM", b.NeedGB), "-"
 		}
-		fmt.Fprintf(w, "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%.0f GB\t%s\n", name, bytesShort(a.Bytes), b.Label(), holds, b.HaveGB, now)
+		fmt.Fprintf(w, "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%.0f GB\t%s\t%s\n", name, bytesShort(a.Bytes), b.Label(), holds, b.HaveGB, all, now)
 	}
 	_ = w.Flush()
 	rec, ok := p.Recommended()
@@ -318,7 +318,11 @@ func planFiles(cmd *cobra.Command, client func() *ctlClient, repo, format string
 		fmt.Fprintln(out, "\nNo file fits this cluster as it is: a smaller context (--context), or more memory.")
 		return errDoesNotFit
 	}
-	fmt.Fprintf(out, "\nBest: %s on %s.\n", rec.Artifact, rec.Label())
+	fmt.Fprintf(out, "\nBest: %s on %s: %s.\n", rec.Artifact, rec.Label(), rec.MemoryText())
+	if p.KVBytesPerToken > 0 {
+		fmt.Fprintf(out, "The context costs %.2f GB per 1000 tokens, the whole model (--context to plan another).\n",
+			modelplan.GB(p.KVBytesPerToken*1000))
+	}
 	if len(p.Options) > 1 {
 		fmt.Fprintln(out, "\nEvery way, best first:")
 		w = tabTo(out)
@@ -327,7 +331,7 @@ func planFiles(cmd *cobra.Command, client func() *ctlClient, repo, format string
 			if o.FreeNow {
 				now = "free"
 			}
-			fmt.Fprintf(w, "  %s\t%s\t%.1f of %.0f GB\t%d host(s)\t%s\n", o.Artifact, o.Label(), o.NeedGB, o.HaveGB, o.Hosts, now)
+			fmt.Fprintf(w, "  %s\t%s\t%s\t%d host(s)\t%s\n", o.Artifact, o.Label(), o.MemoryText(), o.Hosts, now)
 		}
 		_ = w.Flush()
 	}
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ func (na *nodeAdd) prepare() error {
 	}
 	// Where the mirror serves model files, for the node to be asked to reach.
 	if cfg, err := loadEffectiveConfig(na.serverCfg); err == nil && cfg.Mirror.API != "" {
-		if mc, err := mirror.NewClient(cfg.Mirror.API, cfg.Mirror.TLS, 5*time.Second); err == nil {
+		if mc, err := mirror.NewFailoverClient(append([]string{cfg.Mirror.API}, cfg.Mirror.Peers...), cfg.Mirror.TLS, 5*time.Second); err == nil {
 			ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)
 			if list, err := mc.List(ctx); err == nil {
 				o.MirrorBase = list.Base