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# DGR-062: Certify a dynamic real 10+ stage V4 scenario

- **Status / triage:** specification only; `ready-for-human`; `passes: false`
- **Execution mode:** `HITL`
- **Milestone:** `M4`
- **Dependencies:** `DGR-053`, `DGR-060`, `DGR-061`
- **Blocks (derived):** `DGR-067`, `DGR-070`
- **Labels:** `area:deepseek-v4`, `area:scale`, `area:hardware`, `type:certification`, `priority:p1`, `gate:hitl`, `ready-for-human`
- **Evidence class:** `real-hardware`
- **Hardware:** `required`
- **Model:** `deepseek-v4-flash`
- **Upstream:** `yes`

## Objective / description

Fresh Ralph session: read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md`, source issue `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/062-certify-a-dynamic-real-10-stage-v4-scenario.md`, and evidence READMEs for dependencies (DGR-053, DGR-060, DGR-061) before changing code. Inspect live source/tests rather than trusting legacy pass states. Objective: Demonstrate that a large real route can be dynamically selected and usefully execute V4.

## Acceptance criteria

- [ ] Run one real 10+-stage V4 certification scenario; stage count, quant, and split remain scenario metadata only.
- [ ] Every selected stage proves real work, exact compatible identity, local state ownership, and bounded resources.
- [ ] Record end-to-end and per-stage TTFT, prefill/decode, seam cost, queueing, memory, failures, and cleanup.
- [ ] Inject at least one incompatible or degraded candidate and verify dynamic exclusion/reselection.
- [ ] The scenario must meet its pre-locked usefulness threshold or remain failed evidence.
- [ ] Applicable shared quality gates in `prd.json` pass, and the evidence handoff records exact commands/results, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff.

## Shared quality gates

- Targeted deterministic tests pass; Python changes also pass `python -m compileall packages tests`.
- `git diff --check` passes.
- Default tests are model-download-free, API-credit-free, and GPU-free.
- Evidence README records exact changed files, commands/results, limitations, and dependency handoff; no fabricated evidence or inherited completion credit.
- Native changes pass focused out-of-tree CMake build and CTest; patch changes verify clean apply/check/reverse against the exact llama.cpp pin.
- Runs are opt-in and record exact artifact/split hashes, runtime/upstream pin, backend/driver, hardware, network, commands, and raw metrics. Model artifacts use configured mounted-drive storage and never `/home`.
- Preserve existing Transformers behavior and backend-agnostic Tracker routing/load balancing/billing/relay semantics unless an explicit versioned contract says otherwise. One scoped story commit is expected during execution, but this specification-materialization change is not committed.

## Evidence handoff

Write and verify `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-062/README.md`. Until every criterion and applicable gate has real evidence, this story remains `passes: false`. Legacy evidence is provenance only, not completion credit.
