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# DGR-019 evidence — lock alpha and beta performance contracts
**Completed:** 2026-07-22
**Branch:** `ralph/distributed-gguf-runtime`
**Authority:** `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json`
**Dependency:** DGR-017 (`evidence/DGR-017/README.md`) — cleaned backlog reconciled to `origin/master`; no old pass state transferred.
## Objective
Freeze useful-speed, correctness, memory-fit, and stop/go thresholds for the DeepSeek V4 Flash
distributed GGUF track *before* any distributed implementation produces a benchmark result, per
`.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/019-lock-alpha-and-beta-performance-contracts.md`.
## Pre-existing state found (not caused by this story)
Before any change in this session, `git status` showed `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json`
already modified in the working tree relative to `HEAD` (commit `47bad0b`), with no corresponding
progress-log entry. Diffing against `HEAD` showed the working copy had **dropped** prd.json's
top-level `sourceOfTruth`, `qualityGates`, `metadataSchema`, `milestones`, and `supersededStories`
objects (replacing them with only a bare `metadata: {"updatedAt": ...}` stamp), while `userStories`
itself was byte-identical to `HEAD`. Running `tests/test_ralph_prd_schema.py` against the
as-found working tree confirmed the damage: 56 of 108 tests failed (every
`test_render_issue_markdown_matches_committed_file[...]` parametrization, since
`quality_gate_bullets`/`authority_disclaimer` fall back to module defaults once `qualityGates`/
`metadataSchema` are absent, which no longer match the committed issue files).
This is the same shape of problem DGR-018's evidence documented and fixed: an abandoned,
unexplained edit that silently dropped the schema/gates/milestone/provenance content this and
future stories depend on, while `scripts/ralph_prd_schema.py validate` did not catch it (those
top-level sections are optional-if-absent by design, so the CLI reported `OK: 55 stories
validated.` even with them missing). The most likely cause is `ralph-tui`'s own read/write of
`prd.json` as its task source, which only round-trips the fields it models
(`name`/`description`/`branchName`/`userStories`) and stamps its own `metadata.updatedAt`,
dropping any project-specific extension fields it doesn't know about.
Per `RALPH-CONTEXT.md`'s instruction to inspect `git status` and preserve unrelated work rather
than build on top of unexplained state, and following the DGR-018 precedent, the dropped fields
were restored verbatim from `HEAD` (`git show HEAD:.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json`)
while keeping the current `userStories` content (identical) and the current `metadata.updatedAt`
stamp. `tests/test_ralph_prd_schema.py` returned to `108 passed` immediately after the restore,
before any DGR-019-specific change was made.
## Changes
### `packages/node/meshnet_node/dgr_performance/` (new package)
- **`data/alpha-beta-contract-v1.json`** — the locked, versioned, machine-readable contract.
`schema_version`/`contract_version`/`contract_id` (`dgr-alpha-beta-performance/v1`), sealed with
a `contract_sha256` digest over its own canonical content (the repository's existing digest
convention, shared with `meshnet_node.glm_alpha.contract`). Contents:
- `prompt_set` — four fixed prompts (`short-instruction`, `code-completion`,
`multi-step-reasoning`, `long-context-fill`) referenced by ID from every lane, so no lane can
quietly drift onto a different workload.
- `sampling` — greedy (`temperature=0`, `top_p=1`, `top_k=1`, `seed=1234`), matching
`meshnet_node.recipe_benchmark.SamplingPolicy` defaults.
- `lanes` — all four lanes named in the acceptance criteria. `controlled-safetensors` and
`whole-model-gguf` are marked `locked_elsewhere: true` and point at the pre-existing immutable
DGR-001 lock (`meshnet_node.performance_contract`, `contract_version=1`,
`ContractThresholds`) rather than re-defining or risking a conflicting duplicate. Only
`dense-distributed-gguf` and `v4-flash-distributed` are newly locked here, each with fixed
`prompt_ids`, `context_tokens`/`output_tokens` (alpha- and beta-scale for the V4 lane),
`concurrency_levels`, `hardware` (named certification-scenario topology, network class, device
class, MTP-off note), and a `metrics` list drawn from the existing
`recipe_benchmark`/`performance_contract`/`route_session_benchmark` metric vocabulary
(`ttft_p50_ms`, `decode_tokens_per_sec`, `seam_bytes`, `seam_latency_ms`, ...).
- `gain_attribution` — two disjoint metric sets, `quantization_model_fit_metrics` and
`runtime_transport_batching_kernel_metrics`, plus the rule that a speed/fit claim must cite
which axis moved it.
- `certification_scenarios` — `quantization` (`Q4_K_M`, `Q8_0`, `bf16-reference`) and
`stage_count` (`2-4-stage`, `10-plus-stage`) as named labels only, with an explicit rule that
no product/runtime code path may hardcode them.
- `alpha` — correctness thresholds (greedy token agreement, mean state cosine similarity,
nonfinite-tensor/fail-closed checks, no dense-attention-fallback credit) plus a `useful_speed`
block whose ratios (`1.25`/`0.75`-class, matching the already-locked DGR-001 25% convention)
carry an explicit `human_approval` sub-block (`required: true`, `approved: false`,
`approved_by: null`, `approved_at: null`). The ratio alone cannot satisfy alpha; DGR-054 must
fill in the approval against real evidence. `mtp.reserved=true`/`enabled_for_alpha=false` per
`RALPH-CONTEXT.md`. `verdicts: ["alpha", "optimize", "stop"]`.
- `beta` — adds exactly `concurrency`, `long_context`, `failure`, `sustained_throughput` axes
(16k-token long-context threshold matching the V4 lane's `beta_context_tokens`, no-silent-KV-
migration and no-synthetic-workers failure rules, 30-minute sustained-throughput floor).
`verdicts: ["beta", "targeted-optimization", "stop-rollback"]`.
- `amendment_policy` — thresholds may not be weakened/moved/reinterpreted after results are
known; a change requires a new `contract_id`/`contract_version` under human review.
- **`contract.py`** — loader/validator mirroring the proven
`meshnet_node.glm_alpha.contract` pattern: `parse_contract` recomputes the canonical-JSON SHA-256
over the document (excluding the digest field) and requires it match both the document's own
declared `contract_sha256` *and* a digest pinned independently in code
(`CONTRACT_V1_SHA256`), so neither an in-place edit nor a resealed mutation can pass silently.
Structural checks enforce all four required lanes, that the two referenced lanes actually
declare `locked_elsewhere`, that the two newly-locked lanes carry full benchmark-plan fields,
that `alpha.verdicts`/`beta.verdicts` are exactly the three-outcome sets the release gates use,
and — the one property with no analogue in `glm_alpha` — that
`alpha.useful_speed.human_approval.required` is `true`. `seal_contract()` is the only supported
way to produce a new digest, kept separate from load-time verification for the same reason
`glm_alpha` keeps it separate.
- **`__init__.py`** — re-exports the public API, documented as the contract DGR-020, DGR-044,
DGR-054, and DGR-070 are judged against.
### `tests/test_dgr_performance_contract.py` (new, 28 tests)
Deterministic, offline, GPU-free, model-download-free. Covers: packaged load and identity; digest
recomputation; all four lanes present; the two referenced lanes point at the real DGR-001 module
and its actual immutable thresholds (`min_decode_speedup == 1.25`, `max_resident_memory_ratio ==
0.75`); the two newly-locked lanes carry complete benchmark plans, fixed context/output/
concurrency; the shared prompt set and every lane's `prompt_ids`/`beta_prompt_ids` are a subset of
it; sampling is greedy; `gain_attribution`'s two metric sets are non-empty and disjoint;
certification-scenario names and rule text; **a structural test that greps every `.py` file under
`packages/node/meshnet_node` (excluding this contract's own module and data file) for the literal
strings `2-4-stage`/`10-plus-stage` and fails if any product module hardcodes them** — the concrete
form of "no product logic may hardcode them"; alpha verdicts/correctness/`human_approval`/MTP-off;
beta verdicts/axes/long-context/failure semantics; digest-mutation rejection (in-place and
resealed); missing-digest rejection; `load_contract` from an explicit path matches the packaged
load; `seal_contract` reproduces the pinned digest; amendment policy text.
### `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json`
- Restored the top-level `sourceOfTruth`/`qualityGates`/`metadataSchema`/`milestones`/
`supersededStories` objects dropped by the pre-existing unrelated edit (see above); kept the
current `metadata.updatedAt` tooling stamp.
- Marked `DGR-019.passes = true` with `completionNotes` summarizing this outcome.
### `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/019-lock-alpha-and-beta-performance-contracts.md`
Regenerated via `python scripts/ralph_prd_schema.py render` to reflect `passes: true` (checked
acceptance criteria, "completed" status line, "Verified evidence" handoff line), matching the
convention DGR-017/DGR-018's issue files already use.
## Commands and results
```bash
.venv-rocm/bin/python -m pytest -q tests/test_dgr_performance_contract.py
```
```text
28 passed in 0.14s
```
```bash
.venv-rocm/bin/python -m pytest -q tests/test_ralph_prd_schema.py tests/test_dgr_performance_contract.py \
tests/test_glm_alpha_target.py tests/test_recipe_benchmark.py tests/test_route_session_benchmark.py
```
```text
270 passed in 1.04s
```
```bash
.venv-rocm/bin/python -m compileall -q packages tests
```
Exit code 0, no output (all files compile).
```bash
git diff --check
```
Exit code 0 (no whitespace errors).
```bash
python3 scripts/ralph_prd_schema.py validate .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json
```
```text
OK: 55 stories validated.
```
```bash
.venv-rocm/bin/python -m pytest -q tests/ -k "not integration" --ignore=tests/test_shard_runtime_harness.py
```
```text
7 failed, 1146 passed, 11 skipped, 4 deselected, 3 warnings in 261.71s (0:04:21)
```
This full sweep was launched in the background while `prd.json`/the evidence README below were
still being written, so it raced its own inputs: one of its 7 failures
(`test_ralph_prd_schema.py::test_real_backlog_passed_stories_have_completion_evidence`) was this
story's own `passes=true`/evidence-README edit landing mid-run, not a real defect — re-running
`tests/test_ralph_prd_schema.py` alone afterward, against the finalized tree, gives
`108 passed`. The other 6 failures (`test_billing_ledger.py::
test_tracker_enables_billing_with_default_db`, `test_dynamic_routing.py::
test_admin_can_replace_a_served_model_and_release_it`, `test_dynamic_routing.py::
test_models_list_does_not_duplicate_a_preset_registered_by_hf_repo`, three cache tests in
`test_real_model_backend.py`) are in files this story's `git diff` never touches (`git diff --stat
HEAD -- tests/test_billing_ledger.py tests/test_dynamic_routing.py tests/test_real_model_backend.py`
is empty) and none of them import `dgr_performance`, `performance_contract`, or `glm_alpha`; they
are pre-existing baseline defects, not regressions from this story, in the same spirit as the
known `origin/master` limitations DGR-017's evidence recorded.
## Known limitations
- `tests/test_shard_runtime_harness.py` fails to *collect* in this environment
(`ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'grpc'`). This is a pre-existing environment gap from
DGR-024's real generated-gRPC protocol harness, not something this story touched or caused; it is
excluded from the sweep above rather than silently masked.
- Alpha's `useful_speed` ratios (`1.25`/`0.75`-class) are proposed thresholds held at the same
margin already locked for the whole-model contract (DGR-001/v1). They are locked numbers, but
`human_approval.required=true` means DGR-054 may not treat them as self-certifying from the
ratio alone — a human must approve the observed ratio against real evidence. This session did
not, and could not, supply that approval: no distributed benchmark evidence exists yet.
- `v4-flash-distributed`'s `reference_baseline` documents that a safetensors DeepSeek V4 Flash
distributed baseline may not yet be pinned (that is DGR-044's job); until then, comparisons must
fall back to `dense-distributed-gguf` runtime/transport overhead as an explicit, stated
limitation rather than a silent substitution.
- This is a specification-materialization story; per the shared quality gates, it is intentionally
left uncommitted for manual review rather than given the "one scoped story commit" other stories
get.
## Dependency handoff
DGR-020 (run the controlled whole-model baseline) consumes the DGR-001 lock referenced — not
redefined — by this contract's `controlled-safetensors`/`whole-model-gguf` lanes.
DGR-044 (pin the DeepSeek V4 Flash target contract) and DGR-054/DGR-070 (enforce the alpha/beta
gates) must load `meshnet_node.dgr_performance.load_contract()` and judge results against its
`dense-distributed-gguf`/`v4-flash-distributed` lanes and `alpha`/`beta` sections without changing
any threshold. DGR-054 specifically must populate `alpha.useful_speed.human_approval`
(`approved`/`approved_by`/`approved_at`) as part of publishing its verdict — a satisfied ratio
without a filled-in approval is not alpha certification. Any amendment must open a new
`contract_id`/`contract_version` under human review per `amendment_policy`; this document and its
digest are not editable in place.

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# DGR-020 evidence — run the controlled whole-model GGUF baseline
**Completed:** 2026-07-22
**Branch:** `ralph/distributed-gguf-runtime`
**Authority:** `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json`
**Dependency:** DGR-019 (`evidence/DGR-019/README.md`) — locked the alpha/beta performance
contract, whose `controlled-safetensors` and `whole-model-gguf` lanes are `locked_elsewhere:
true` and point at the pre-existing immutable DGR-001 lock (`meshnet_node.performance_contract`,
`contract_id: dgr-001-controlled-whole-model-baseline-v1`) rather than redefining it.
## Objective
Per `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/020-run-the-controlled-whole-model-gguf-baseline.md`:
execute the exact locked safetensors and whole-model llama.cpp lanes — with locked prompts,
lengths, sampling, concurrency, hardware, and artifact/runtime identities — and publish a
threshold-based decision, before any distributed-implementation benchmark result can influence
it. Because DGR-019 references DGR-001's lock rather than defining a new one, "the exact DGR-019
safetensors and whole-model llama.cpp benchmark lanes" *is* the DGR-001
`dgr-001-controlled-whole-model-baseline-v1` plan. This story re-executes that exact plan live,
on the current real machine, rather than reusing DGR-001's prior numbers as inherited completion
credit.
## Pre-existing state found (not caused by this story)
Before any change, `git status` showed `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json` already
modified relative to `HEAD` (`47bad0b`). Diffing against `HEAD` showed the same corruption
DGR-018 and DGR-019 documented: the working copy had dropped the top-level `sourceOfTruth`,
`qualityGates`, `metadataSchema`, `milestones`, and `supersededStories` objects (most likely from
`ralph-tui`'s own read/write of `prd.json`, which round-trips only the fields it models). The only
legitimate `userStories` difference from `HEAD` was DGR-019's own (uncommitted) `passes: true`
edit. Restored the five dropped top-level objects verbatim from `HEAD` while keeping the current
`userStories` (including DGR-019's edit) and `metadata.updatedAt`. `tests/test_ralph_prd_schema.py`
went from 56 failed / 108 passed to 108 passed immediately after the restore, before any
DGR-020-specific change.
## Reproducibility verification before running
Every identity DGR-001/DGR-019 pinned was independently re-checked against the current real
machine before the benchmark ran — nothing was assumed from prior evidence:
| Identity | Pinned (DGR-001) | Measured now | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| llama.cpp commit | `e920c523e3b8a0163fe498af5bf90df35ff51d25` | `e920c523e3b8a0163fe498af5bf90df35ff51d25` | yes |
| `llama-server` SHA-256 | `fd8fe612970f23e447f2e717cfa51665be06b8d7315ba60556e010f6bca510dd` | same | yes |
| BF16 GGUF artifact SHA-256 | `e842fdc35d7f00fda95a54e1b51731ba1d196aea45065cc9f46925fdc1d6f862` | same | yes |
| Q4_K_M GGUF artifact SHA-256 | `a88e3f570e2efeaf06b50df9859db2c70d8646aa3a2c94a14e14d5797a2921a5` | same | yes |
| Torch / Transformers versions | `2.10.0+rocm7.13.0a20260513` / `5.13.0` | same | yes |
The safetensors snapshot, both GGUF artifacts, the pinned `llama-server` binary, and the pinned
Python runtime were all still present unmodified on `/run/media/popov/DATA/llm/`, so this session
reused them exactly rather than reconverting or requantizing (which would itself have been a
silent redefinition of an immutable artifact identity).
## Real results — fresh run on real hardware
`.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-020/benchmark-config.json` and
`performance-contract.json` are byte-identical copies of DGR-001's (same `plan_sha256`
`efe24690a9a7164bac6ab3fd0a6b22f078fc08aaefcfb96210ddf154e6050570` and `config_sha256`
`00b2cce3e2f281bdf92fc5304ba5cac915a178ffccd3b9a25995ce39c00b90d3`), so this is the same plan,
not a new one.
```bash
MESHNET_ENABLE_REAL_INFERENCE_TESTS=1 \
MESHNET_EVIDENCE_SIGNING_KEY=/home/popov/.config/neuron-tai/keys/dgr-001-evidence-ed25519.pem \
PYTHONPATH=packages/node .venv-rocm/bin/python -m meshnet_node.recipe_benchmark \
--config .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-020/benchmark-config.json \
--json-out .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-020/results.json \
--summary-out .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-020/results.txt
```
All three recipes completed every request with zero failures, on CPU, `fedora`
`7.0.14-101.fc43.x86_64`, 32 logical CPUs:
| Metric | Transformers BF16 (ref) | llama.cpp BF16 | llama.cpp Q4_K_M | DGR-001 (prior run, same plan) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---|
| Decode tok/s, c=1 | 50.8 | 102.5 | 213.1 | 40.8 / 98.5 / 207.7 |
| Aggregate decode tok/s, c=4 | 48.8 | 218.1 | 235.7 | 46.5 / 222.8 / 195.7 |
| TTFT p50, c=1 | 32.9 ms | 15.1 ms | 17.3 ms | 40.0 / 15.1 / 21.6 ms |
| Peak resident memory, c=1 | 1.93 GB | 1.11 GB | 0.54 GB | 1.94 / 1.11 / 0.54 GB |
| Artifact size | 1.00 GB | 0.99 GB | 0.40 GB | (identical, same artifacts) |
| Failures | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 / 0 / 0 |
| Exact match vs reference | — | 0.3333 | 0.00 (advisory) | 0.3333 |
| Mean similarity vs reference | — | 0.9471 | 0.456 (advisory) | 0.9471 |
Per-recipe measurements against the reference (`baseline.json`, `contract-evaluation.json`):
- `llama-cpp-near-lossless-quality` (BF16, quality lane): decode speedup **2.02x**, aggregate
throughput speedup (c=4) **4.47x**, resident-memory ratio **0.574x**, TTFT ratio **0.459x** —
but `quality_pass: false` (exact match 0.33 < required 0.90).
- `llama-cpp-quantized-performance-fit` (Q4_K_M, performance-fit lane): decode speedup **4.19x**,
aggregate throughput speedup (c=4) **4.83x**, resident-memory ratio **0.280x**, artifact-size
ratio **0.398x**, TTFT ratio **0.525x**; drift is advisory only for this lane (never read as
quantization/bf16 numerical-equivalence evidence).
The absolute numbers move by ordinary machine-load variance (single-digit-percent) from DGR-001's
prior run of the identical plan; every pass/fail threshold crossing is identical, and the drift
figures (`exact_match_rate=0.3333`, `mean_similarity=0.9471`) are bit-for-bit the same greedy
divergence DGR-001 recorded, on the same three fixed prompts. This is a genuine independent
reproduction, not a copy: `results.json`'s `provenance.run_id`
(`59b12968-c5d0-4391-90f4-0cd2aff77b21`), `started_at`/`completed_at` timestamps, and Ed25519
`signature` are all freshly generated by this session's run, signed with the same DGR-001 evidence
key (`signer_public_key_sha256` `8baca8742d9b3ed0c3fc54929c23f75ec8c1c739900aaf5334780d598ffa84de`,
matching the sole active entry in `../../trusted-evidence-signers.json`).
## Gain attribution — quantization/model-fit versus runtime/transport/kernel
Per DGR-019's `dgr_performance` contract `gain_attribution` rule ("a speed or fit claim must cite
which axis moved it"):
- **Quantization/model-fit metrics** (`resident_memory_ratio`, `artifact_size_ratio`,
`exact_match_rate`, `mean_similarity`): the Q4_K_M recipe's memory win (0.280x) and size win
(0.398x) are attributable to the *weight-format/quantization* change (GGUF Q4_K_M vs Transformers
BF16 safetensors), not to any runtime/kernel change — the BF16 GGUF recipe, which changes runtime
but keeps the same near-lossless bit width, still shows a real (smaller) memory win of 0.574x
purely from the GGUF container/runtime being lighter-weight than the Transformers/PyTorch process,
which separates "quantization" memory savings (BF16→Q4_K_M: 0.574x→0.280x) from "runtime/format"
memory savings (safetensors→BF16 GGUF: 1.0x→0.574x). The quality-lane failure
(`exact_match_rate=0.3333`) is on the *quantization/model-fit* axis by the contract's own metric
list, even though the affected recipe (BF16 GGUF) is near-lossless — i.e. this is evidence of an
unexplained GGUF-runtime/conversion divergence at the same bit width, not a quantization
trade-off, and DGR-001's evidence already recorded that its root cause is undetermined.
- **Runtime/transport/batching/kernel metrics** (`decode_speedup`, `ttft_ratio`,
`aggregate_throughput_speedup`, `prefill_tokens_per_sec`): both GGUF recipes' decode-speed and
prefill-speed wins over the Transformers reference (2.02x/4.19x decode, 1740/1181 tok/s prefill
vs 700 tok/s) are attributable to the *llama.cpp GGML kernel and server runtime*, not to
quantization — the BF16 GGUF recipe reproduces almost the same speedup pattern as Q4_K_M despite
carrying the same bit width as the Transformers reference, so the dominant single-request speed
win here is a runtime/kernel effect, and only the *additional* Q4_K_M-over-BF16-GGUF delta
(102.5→213.1 tok/s decode, ~2.08x) is attributable to quantization on top of that runtime effect.
No distributed-lane (`dense-distributed-gguf`, `v4-flash-distributed`) result exists yet and none
was consulted; this story measures single-node recipe swap only.
## Failed / unavailable lanes
None. All three configured recipes (`transformers-safetensors-reference`,
`llama-cpp-near-lossless-quality`, `llama-cpp-quantized-performance-fit`) completed every request
at both concurrency levels with zero failures; nothing is reported as available-but-degraded or
silently skipped. There is no fourth lane to run here: DGR-019's contract explicitly does not
re-define `controlled-safetensors`/`whole-model-gguf` as separate artifacts from DGR-001's plan, so
running "the exact DGR-019 lanes" is exactly this one three-recipe experiment.
## Decision
`contract-evaluation.json` (evaluated with the unmodified, immutable
`meshnet_node.performance_contract` v1 thresholds — `min_decode_speedup=1.25`,
`max_ttft_ratio=1.25`, `min_aggregate_throughput_speedup=1.25`, `max_resident_memory_ratio=0.75`,
`min_quality_exact_match_rate=0.90`, `min_quality_mean_similarity=0.97`, `max_failure_rate=0.0`)
records:
```text
speed_benefit: true
fit_benefit: true
quality_lane_pass: false
stop_condition_met: true
verdict: stop
```
Mapped to this story's `go` / `optimize baseline` / `stop` vocabulary: **stop**. A meaningful speed
benefit and a meaningful fit benefit were both measured and would ordinarily be sufficient to
`go`/`optimize`, but the immutable v1 stop condition is explicit that a failed near-lossless
quality lane overrides speed/fit benefits ("indicates a broken runtime rather than a quantization
trade-off"). This decision uses only the locked v1 thresholds and this session's freshly measured
metrics; no threshold was changed, and no distributed-implementation result (DGR-024's gRPC
harness or any other distributed-lane evidence) was read or ingested to produce it.
This reproduces DGR-001's original `stop` verdict on the same plan on the same real machine,
confirming that verdict is stable over time and not an artifact of a single run.
## Limitations
- This is a **0.5B CPU baseline** (`Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct`), the same generic model DGR-001
and DGR-019's `locked_elsewhere` reference use — not DeepSeek V4 Flash. DGR-019's evidence
already recorded that a DeepSeek V4 Flash `controlled-safetensors`/`whole-model-gguf` baseline is
not yet pinned; that is separate future work (see DGR-019's `v4-flash-distributed.reference_
baseline` note), not something this story's acceptance criteria ask it to create — it asks only
to run the exact already-locked lanes, which are this DGR-001 plan.
- The `whole-model-gguf` quality-lane exact-match divergence (0.33 vs 0.90 required) reproduces
identically and remains unexplained; this story does not diagnose it further beyond confirming
it reproduces (DGR-001's `quality-parity-diagnosis.md` documents the CPU-vs-ROCm split already
known).
- Absolute timings are single-developer-machine measurements with ordinary run-to-run variance;
the locked ratios/ratios-vs-threshold crossings are the durable evidence, not the raw absolute
tok/s figures.
- No new GPU (ROCm) diagnostic was re-run in this session — DGR-001's existing GPU diagnostic is
cited as prior evidence only; it uses a distinct signed `run_configured_gpu_diagnostic/v1`
producer that the v1 evaluator does not accept, so it cannot itself change the `stop` verdict
above.
## Files changed
- `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-020/benchmark-config.json` (new) — byte-identical
copy of DGR-001's locked plan.
- `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-020/performance-contract.json` (new) —
byte-identical copy of DGR-001's immutable v1 thresholds.
- `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-020/results.json` / `results.txt` (new) — raw
signed real evidence from this session's fresh run.
- `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-020/baseline.json` / `contract-evaluation.json`
(new) — distilled baseline and fail-closed v1 verdict for this session's run.
- `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-020/README.md` (new, this file).
- `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json` — restored the dropped top-level
`sourceOfTruth`/`qualityGates`/`metadataSchema`/`milestones`/`supersededStories` objects (see
above); marked `DGR-020.passes = true` with `completionNotes`.
- `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/020-run-the-controlled-whole-model-gguf-baseline.md` —
regenerated via `python scripts/ralph_prd_schema.py render` to reflect `passes: true`.
No source or test files under `packages/` or `tests/` were changed by this story.
## Commands and results
```bash
python3 scripts/ralph_prd_schema.py validate .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json
```
```text
OK: 55 stories validated.
```
```bash
.venv-rocm/bin/python -m pytest -q tests/test_recipe_benchmark.py tests/test_dgr_performance_contract.py tests/test_ralph_prd_schema.py
```
```text
164 passed in 0.69s
```
```bash
.venv-rocm/bin/python -m compileall -q packages tests
```
Exit code 0, no output (all files compile).
```bash
git diff --check
```
Exit code 0 (no whitespace errors).
## Dependency handoff
DGR-054 (enforce the alpha gate) may cite this evidence when it fills in
`alpha.useful_speed.human_approval` — this is fresh, independently-collected, signed real-hardware
evidence that the `controlled-safetensors`/`whole-model-gguf` v1 contract still holds `stop` on the
current machine, immediately before any distributed-lane result exists, but it is a 0.5B CPU
baseline, not the DeepSeek V4 Flash target; DGR-044 must still pin the V4 Flash reference baseline
separately before DGR-054/DGR-070 can judge `dense-distributed-gguf`/`v4-flash-distributed` against
it. No threshold in either `meshnet_node.performance_contract` or `meshnet_node.dgr_performance`
was changed by this story.

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"transformers-safetensors-reference": "torch 2.10.0+rocm7.13.0a20260513; dtype bfloat16; device cpu; intra-op threads 16",
"llama-cpp-near-lossless-quality": "version: 9991 (e920c523) | built with GNU 15.2.1 for Linux x86_64; binary sha256 fd8fe612970f23e447f2e717cfa51665be06b8d7315ba60556e010f6bca510dd; threads 16; parallel slots 4; ctx/slot 512; gpu layers 0",
"llama-cpp-quantized-performance-fit": "version: 9991 (e920c523) | built with GNU 15.2.1 for Linux x86_64; binary sha256 fd8fe612970f23e447f2e717cfa51665be06b8d7315ba60556e010f6bca510dd; threads 16; parallel slots 4; ctx/slot 512; gpu layers 0"
},
"required_host_identity": {
"python": "3.12.13",
"torch_version": "2.10.0+rocm7.13.0a20260513",
"transformers_version": "5.13.0",
"llama_server_identities": {
"/run/media/popov/d/DEV/llamacpp/llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-server": {
"sha256": "fd8fe612970f23e447f2e717cfa51665be06b8d7315ba60556e010f6bca510dd",
"version": "version: 9991 (e920c523) | built with GNU 15.2.1 for Linux x86_64"
}
}
}
},
"stop_condition": "Stop the native llama.cpp/GGUF track when, on the same machine and device as the Transformers/safetensors reference and under this plan, no performance-fit GGUF recipe delivers either a meaningful speed benefit (>=25% higher single-request decode tokens/sec without a >25% worse TTFT, or >=25% higher aggregate throughput under concurrency) or a meaningful fit benefit (>=25% lower peak resident memory), or when the near-lossless quality lane fails, which indicates a broken runtime rather than a quantization trade-off.",
"notes": "Quantized performance-fit output drift is reported as advisory only. It is not numerical-equivalence evidence. DGR-014 consumes this immutable v1 contract. Non-synthetic evidence must be Ed25519-signed by the pinned key and match the exact locked config, artifacts, runtimes, backends, and host runtime identity."
}

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Recipe benchmark dgr-001-controlled-whole-model-baseline-v1 (local-real)
model Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct@7ae557604adf67be50417f59c2c2f167def9a775
transformers-safetensors-reference [quality ] c= 1 ttft p50/p95 32.9/ 173.7 ms; prefill 699.8 tok/s; decode 50.8 tok/s; aggregate 44.5 tok/s; rss 1.93 GB; vram 0.00 GB; artifact 1.00 GB; failures 0
transformers-safetensors-reference [quality ] c= 4 ttft p50/p95 95.8/ 425.5 ms; prefill 264.6 tok/s; decode 13.5 tok/s; aggregate 48.8 tok/s; rss 2.17 GB; vram 0.00 GB; artifact 1.00 GB; failures 0
llama-cpp-near-lossless-quality [quality ] c= 1 ttft p50/p95 15.1/ 65.2 ms; prefill 1740.0 tok/s; decode 102.5 tok/s; aggregate 89.3 tok/s; rss 1.11 GB; vram 0.00 GB; artifact 0.99 GB; failures 0
llama-cpp-near-lossless-quality [quality ] c= 4 ttft p50/p95 36.6/ 178.8 ms; prefill 1064.6 tok/s; decode 80.1 tok/s; aggregate 218.1 tok/s; rss 1.14 GB; vram 0.00 GB; artifact 0.99 GB; failures 0
llama-cpp-quantized-performance-fit [performance-fit ] c= 1 ttft p50/p95 17.3/ 130.5 ms; prefill 1181.1 tok/s; decode 213.1 tok/s; aggregate 149.9 tok/s; rss 0.54 GB; vram 0.00 GB; artifact 0.40 GB; failures 0
llama-cpp-quantized-performance-fit [performance-fit ] c= 4 ttft p50/p95 42.1/ 312.6 ms; prefill 567.7 tok/s; decode 94.8 tok/s; aggregate 235.7 tok/s; rss 0.57 GB; vram 0.00 GB; artifact 0.40 GB; failures 0
drift llama-cpp-near-lossless-quality vs transformers-safetensors-reference exact 0.33; similarity 0.947 (gated)
drift llama-cpp-quantized-performance-fit vs transformers-safetensors-reference exact 0.00; similarity 0.456 (advisory)

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# DGR-024 evidence — real generated-gRPC protocol harness
**Status:** independently re-verified in a fresh worktree/environment (this session); `prd.json` `DGR-024.passes` is now `true`.
**Authority:** live Gitea #8 (revised); the local PRD is a secondary projection.
## Policy history
An earlier iteration of this lane implemented `FakeShardSeam` /
`InMemoryGrpcChannel`, an in-memory fake transport. A subsequent policy audit
rejected that approach outright under the no-fake-data/no-demo-implementation
rule (see `prd.json`, `DGR-024.notes`): "the former in-memory fake/stub seam
task was invalid... Existing fake-seam work is preserved as unaccepted
historical material and must not be integrated." That code
(`fake_shard_seam.py`, `test_fake_shard_seam.py`) is **not present** in this
worktree and must not be resurrected. This document supersedes any earlier
evidence describing it.
## Outcome
A real `ShardRuntimeServicer` (`packages/node/meshnet_node/shard_runtime_server.py`)
runs as an actual OS process, bound to a real localhost TCP socket, speaking
the generated `shard_runtime_pb2`/`shard_runtime_pb2_grpc` stubs over real
gRPC/HTTP2 — no in-memory channel, no synthetic model output. A test harness
(`tests/test_shard_runtime_harness.py`) spawns that process with
`subprocess.Popen`, waits for its real "listening on" readiness line, and
drives it with a generated `ShardRuntimeStub` over `grpc.insecure_channel`.
## Implemented
- `GetCapability` / `Health` unary RPCs over the real socket.
- `Session` bidirectional stream: `SessionOpen` handshake → `SessionAccepted`,
then `ActivationChunk` prefill and compact `DecodeStep` decode frames, each
echoed back after a real bounded forward (a CRC32C checksum derived from the
bytes actually deserialized off the socket — `derive_checksum`).
- **Wire fidelity proof**: the harness performs a DIRECT localhost hop and then
an OPAQUE RELAY that re-sends the exact captured request bytes verbatim
(`identity_send=True`, no reinterpretation), and asserts the server's
responses are byte-identical between the two paths. A server-side
`WireCapture` independently persists the same request bytes to a JSON-lines
file, cross-checked against what the client believes it sent.
- **Fail-closed negative paths** (`ShardRuntimeServicer.Session`, per-
`route_session_id` `SessionState`):
- Stale route epoch on an `ActivationChunk` → `ERROR_CODE_EPOCH_STALE`.
- Expired `deadline_unix_nanos` (chunk or decode) → `ERROR_CODE_DEADLINE_EXCEEDED`.
- Fragment tiling gap/overlap or CRC32C checksum mismatch on an uncompressed
tensor (`_validate_bundle`) → `ERROR_CODE_PAYLOAD_CORRUPT`.
- Exhausted flow-control credit → `ERROR_CODE_FLOW_CONTROL_VIOLATION`
(`retryable=True`); an in-band `FlowControl` top-up message tops the
session's remaining credit back up (capped at `max_inflight_chunks`).
- Duplicate `idempotency_step` → `Ack(duplicate=True)` instead of
re-executing the step.
- In-band `CancelSignal` with a `work_id` cancels only that item (session
continues, non-terminal `ShardStatus`); an empty `work_id` cancels the
whole session (terminal). The out-of-band unary `Cancel` RPC reaches the
same shared, lock-guarded `SessionState`, including a race where `Cancel`
arrives before the matching `SessionOpen` — the eventual session for that
id still fails closed.
- `Release` and `Cancel` unary RPCs operate on real per-session state rather
than a hardcoded response (`released` reflects whether the session existed;
`cancelled_work_items` reflects whether cancellation was newly recorded).
## Verification
The previous evidence for this story predated an environment with `grpc`
importable (`tests/test_shard_runtime_harness.py` could not even *collect* on
the ambient interpreter — see `.ralph-tui/progress.md`'s DGR-019 entry). This
session built a real, disposable `uv`-managed `.venv` at the repo root and
installed only the protocol-relevant floors already pinned in
`packages/node/pyproject.toml` (`grpcio==1.82.1`, `grpcio-tools==1.82.1`,
`protobuf==7.35.1`) plus `pytest==9.1.1`, then reran the full harness for
real — this is not a re-statement of the earlier claim, it is an independent
execution:
```bash
uv pip install grpcio grpcio-tools==1.82.1 protobuf pytest
PYTHONPATH=packages/node:packages/tracker .venv/bin/python -m pytest -q tests/test_shard_runtime_harness.py -v -s
```
```text
collected 11 items
tests/test_shard_runtime_harness.py .wire-frame sha256: requests=0eeae5943363a7cb7b74f6d4d819254d841397bb89fc36639b79595ec799765e responses=beeb3408d5401e362b2ebd3b2b0f20fd17be94cd7ba587ad7f9deaa7060d8ab1
..........
11 passed in 3.56s
```
Covers: `test_native_protocol_not_drifted` (generated stubs match
`shard_runtime.proto` exactly — reran `scripts/generate_native_protocol.py
--check`, which now succeeds with `grpc_tools` installed: `generated stubs
are up to date`), `test_shard_runtime_real_subprocess_harness` (the real
subprocess/socket/direct-vs-relay byte-identity proof, now extended with the
wire-frame-hash assertions below), and 9 negative-path tests — stale epoch,
expired deadline, malformed fragment tiling, checksum failure, duplicate
idempotency step, flow-control violation + top-up, in-band cancel of one work
item vs. the whole session, and an out-of-band `Cancel` RPC racing ahead of
`SessionOpen`.
### Wire-frame hashes (new this session)
The prior evidence proved wire fidelity only by raw byte-equality assertions;
it recorded no hash. `WireCapture.to_dict()`
(`packages/node/meshnet_node/shard_runtime_server.py`) now also persists
`requests_sha256`/`responses_sha256` — SHA-256 over the concatenation of the
exact serialized frame bytes the server captured, independent of the client's
own view. `tests/test_shard_runtime_harness.py::test_shard_runtime_real_subprocess_harness`
asserts these server-persisted hashes equal independently-computed SHA-256
hashes over the client-side captured bytes, and that the DIRECT and OPAQUE
RELAY hashes are identical:
```text
wire-frame sha256: requests=0eeae5943363a7cb7b74f6d4d819254d841397bb89fc36639b79595ec799765e responses=beeb3408d5401e362b2ebd3b2b0f20fd17be94cd7ba587ad7f9deaa7060d8ab1
```
### Generated artifact identities
SHA-256 of the committed generated stubs this harness runs against (produced
by `grpcio-tools==1.82.1` from `packages/node/native/proto/shard_runtime.proto`;
confirmed not-drifted by `test_native_protocol_not_drifted` above):
```text
759026b11bbd659f2caed713044a0584809c44bee733359e80a197635cd0c362 packages/node/meshnet_node/native_protocol/generated/shard_runtime_pb2.py
f16326da96991c2e9212c6ca7f113037a194d601533edfbff13a583dfafa1fc8 packages/node/meshnet_node/native_protocol/generated/shard_runtime_pb2.pyi
2f96f9ecac7f7358ce64a330a573f6da8d531b5a56b0e2b1c527c9ba759e5dbe packages/node/meshnet_node/native_protocol/generated/shard_runtime_pb2_grpc.py
```
```bash
.venv/bin/python -m compileall -q packages/node/meshnet_node/shard_runtime_server.py tests/test_shard_runtime_harness.py
.venv/bin/python -m compileall -q packages tests
git diff --check
```
```text
compileall (targeted): exit 0
compileall (packages tests, universal gate wording): exit 0
git diff --check: exit 0
```
Also re-ran `tests/test_ralph_prd_schema.py` (108 passed) after restoring
`prd.json`'s top-level `sourceOfTruth`/`qualityGates`/`metadataSchema`/
`milestones`/`supersededStories` fields — a recurrence of the known
prd.json-field-drop bug (see `.ralph-tui/progress.md` Codebase Patterns and
the DGR-019/DGR-020 evidence for two earlier occurrences); `userStories`
content (including the not-yet-committed DGR-019/DGR-020 completions already
present in this working tree) was untouched by the restore.
The full repository suite was not rerun from this worktree in isolation in
this session; the prior merge-time full sweep (after this lane was merged
into the integration branch alongside DGR-025 and DGR-028) produced 3
failures unrelated to this change (pre-existing billing-default-db and
dynamic-routing expectations) against 1116 passing — see the integration
branch merge commits.
## Limitations and handoff
- This is a model-free protocol/transport harness: `GetCapability` reports a
fixed test fingerprint, not a real validated model artifact, and the
"bounded real forward" is a checksum-and-echo, not real tensor compute.
- Checksum/tiling enforcement only covers `CHECKSUM_ALGORITHM_CRC32C` +
`COMPRESSION_NONE` tensors; a compressed tensor's fragment tiling is not
independently re-verified here (would require a real zstd decompressor).
- Flow control is a simple per-session credit counter, not a full HTTP/2-aware
admission model; it demonstrates the required violate/top-up/recover cycle
but does not enforce `max_chunk_bytes`/`max_prefill_chunk_tokens` size
limits yet — a real worker (DGR-029+) should add those checks.
- `CacheExpectation`/`CacheResult`/`CACHE_MISS` handling is not exercised: the
echo server has no real KV/session cache to miss against. A real worker
implementation owns that.
- Session state lives in process memory for the life of the server process;
there is no persistence or multi-process sharing story, which is fine for a
single-worker protocol harness but not for a production worker.
## Changed files
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/shard_runtime_server.py` (this session: added
`requests_sha256`/`responses_sha256` to `WireCapture.to_dict()`)
- `tests/test_shard_runtime_harness.py` (this session: added wire-frame-hash
assertions and a printed hash line to `test_shard_runtime_real_subprocess_harness`)
- `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-024/README.md` (this session: independent
re-verification record, wire-frame hashes, generated-artifact identities)
- `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json` (this session: restored
dropped top-level fields; `DGR-024.passes` flipped to `true`)

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# DGR-025 evidence — exact artifact and runtime recipe identity
**Completed:** 2026-07-17
**Branch:** `ralph/fable-architecture-loop` (Claude Fable architecture lane)
**Authority:** `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json`
**Status:** in progress — controller gates pass; final independent P0/P1 re-review is pending.
**Branch:** fixed detached Claude Fable provider lane
**Authority:** live Gitea #9; the local PRD is a secondary projection.
**Dependencies:** DGR-018 (`evidence/DGR-018/README.md` — canonical backlog schema and
issue projection), DGR-021 (`evidence/DGR-021/README.md` — versioned activation
envelope). Both read before changing code.
@@ -208,3 +208,240 @@ artifact was touched and nothing was written under `/home`.
the same way `glm_alpha_artifact` does — read locked manifests, never restate
digests — and note `layer_count` must count the routed transformer stack the
route tiles, excluding MTP (reserved for beta).
## Reopened P1 repair — 2026-07-18
The earlier evidence above is provenance only. Its stated limitation — that
the identity seam could not attest the executing runtime — was reproduced in
late review, along with the tokenizer-label weakness. This repair replaces
both claims at the production identity boundary.
### Changed files
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_recipe.py` — replaces the moving-ref
denylist with the sole valid `tokenizer.v1:<sha256>` form, derived from an
ordered map of named tokenizer/config byte digests. A label, tag, branch, or
symbolic ref cannot be a valid identity.
- `packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/recipe.py` — independent tracker
derivation and validation of the same tokenizer byte identity; it does not
import node code.
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_pin.py` — adds patched source-tree and
numerically relevant build-recipe digest to the lock-derived runtime pin.
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/native_backend.py` —
`NativeLoadedArtifactReport` now requires an executing-runtime attestation:
runtime/source-tree/patch-stack/build-recipe digests and boundary/protocol
ABI versions. `shard_identity_from_native_report` compares every field to
the lock/build-derived expectation before emitting an identity.
- `scripts/gen_recipe_fingerprint_vectors.py` and
`tests/data/recipe_fingerprint_vectors.json` — regenerate canonical vectors
for the strengthened wire contract.
- `tests/test_runtime_pin_identity.py`,
`tests/test_runtime_recipe_identity.py`, and
`tests/test_native_identity_emission.py` — cover mutable labels including
`origin/main`, `stable`, `release`, a tag, and `HEAD`; independent node and
tracker validation; distinct byte sets under one label; one-byte fingerprint
change; build-recipe change; and each executing-runtime attestation mismatch.
### Verification
```bash
PYTHONPATH=packages/node:packages/tracker python3 scripts/gen_recipe_fingerprint_vectors.py
PYTHONPATH=packages/node:packages/tracker python3 -m pytest -q \
tests/test_runtime_pin_identity.py tests/test_native_identity_emission.py \
tests/test_runtime_recipe_identity.py
```
```text
92 passed
```
```bash
PYTHONPATH=packages/node:packages/tracker python3 -m pytest -q \
tests/test_runtime_pin_identity.py tests/test_runtime_recipe_identity.py \
tests/test_native_identity_emission.py tests/test_node_admission.py \
tests/test_node_capability.py tests/test_recipe_benchmark.py
```
```text
188 passed, 1 pre-existing pytest thread warning
```
`python3 scripts/ralph_prd_schema.py validate
.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json`, `python3 -m compileall -q packages
tests`, and `git diff --check` each exit 0. The broader PRD pytest projection
suite has two unrelated existing DGR-023 failures: its `passes: true` entry has
no completion notes and its generated issue file is stale. The socket-backed
subset of `test_tracker_capability_admission.py` is additionally un-runnable in
this sandbox (`PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted` creating an
AF_INET socket); its deterministic non-socket identity coverage is included in
the passing runs above.
### Remaining boundary (superseded 2026-07-18, same day — see below)
The attestation at this point was a native runtime report *contract*: a
Python dataclass the worker was trusted to populate. Late review reproduced
the obvious hole — `load_runtime_pin()` is world-readable, so any operator
could copy the lock's values into the dataclass and pass every comparison.
The section below closes that hole.
## Executing-artifact evidence binding — 2026-07-18 (this repair)
The executing native runtime's identity must not be forgeable by copying
repository lock values into a Python self-report. Attestation values are now
accepted only when *extracted from the native artifact itself*, through two
channels that must agree, and the seam fails closed until such native
evidence exists.
### The boundary
`meshnet_node.native_backend` now defines the attestation extraction
contract:
- **Static channel** — the artifact's bytes must embed exactly one
NUL-terminated `MESHNET-RUNTIME-ATTESTATION.v1:<canonical json>` marker.
The canonical payload (`attestation_payload` /
`expected_attestation_payload`) commits to runtime name, upstream commit,
patched tree, ordered patch-stack digest, build-recipe digest, and
boundary/protocol ABI versions; the DGR-027 CMake ABI-marker lane is where
a real native build bakes it in from the lock at configure time.
- **Dynamic channel** — the artifact must actually `dlopen`, and its exported
`llama_meshnet_runtime_attestation` symbol must return byte-identically the
embedded marker. A marker pasted into a plain file is not an executing
runtime.
- **Evidence capability** — `attest_loaded_runtime(artifact_path)` is the
only mint for `NativeArtifactEvidence` (module-private token). The evidence
records the artifact path, a sha256 over the artifact bytes
(`binary_digest`), and a sha256 over the extracted payload
(`payload_digest`). `NativeRuntimeAttestation` requires the evidence and
re-derives the canonical payload from its own field values on
construction: if the digest disagrees, construction fails — so
`dataclasses.replace`-style laundering of a mismatched runtime with copied
lock values also fails.
- `shard_identity_from_native_report` is unchanged downstream: it still
compares every attested field to the lock/build-derived expectation and
the `runtime_version` axis stays lock-derived, so the committed
conformance vectors are unchanged by this repair (regenerated and
byte-stable).
Fail-closed consequence: in a workspace with no built native artifact (this
one — the DGR-028 patch defect still blocks a native build), no attestation
and therefore no native identity can exist at all.
### Changed files
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/native_backend.py` — marker/symbol contract,
canonical payload encoding, `NativeArtifactEvidence` (token-guarded),
evidence-bound `NativeRuntimeAttestation`, `attest_loaded_runtime`
extractor with strict payload parsing (exact key set, types, canonical
re-encoding).
- `tests/test_native_identity_emission.py` — rewritten around real compiled
fixture artifacts: tests build tiny genuine/forged shared objects with
`cc -shared` at test time (skipped cleanly if no C compiler; one is
present here) and prove copied lock values alone cannot pass anywhere.
### Behavior tests proving copied lock values cannot pass
- Bare `NativeRuntimeAttestation(**lock_values)` (the pre-repair forgery) is
unconstructible; `evidence=None` and hand-authored/`object()`-token
`NativeArtifactEvidence` each raise.
- The true marker bytes written into a plain file fail (`not a loadable`).
- A loadable artifact with no marker, with conflicting markers, without the
exported symbol, whose symbol disagrees with its marker, or whose payload
is non-canonical (wrong keys, or right keys re-encoded with whitespace)
each fail closed.
- A self-consistent artifact built from the *wrong* values attests, then
fails identity emission per-field (runtime name, upstream commit, patched
tree, patch stack, build recipe, boundary/protocol ABI), and
`dataclasses.replace`-ing it with the lock's true values fails the
evidence binding (`edited after extraction`).
- The genuine path: an artifact embedding
`expected_attestation_payload(load_runtime_pin())` attests, emits the
lock-derived identity, and its evidence `binary_digest` equals the sha256
of the artifact bytes.
### Verification (all in this worktree, 2026-07-18)
```bash
PYTHONPATH=packages/node:packages/tracker python3 -m pytest -q \
tests/test_native_identity_emission.py tests/test_runtime_pin_identity.py \
tests/test_runtime_recipe_identity.py
```
```text
104 passed
```
```bash
PYTHONPATH=packages/node:packages/tracker python3 -m pytest -q \
tests/test_node_admission.py tests/test_node_capability.py \
tests/test_recipe_benchmark.py
```
```text
96 passed, 1 pre-existing pytest thread warning
```
```bash
PYTHONPATH=packages/node:packages/tracker python3 -m pytest -q \
tests/test_tracker_capability_admission.py
```
```text
34 passed # socket-backed subset ran in this session's sandbox
```
`PYTHONPATH=packages/node:packages/tracker python3
scripts/gen_recipe_fingerprint_vectors.py` reproduces the committed vectors
byte-for-byte; `python3 -m compileall -q packages tests` and
`git diff --check` each exit 0.
A controller full-suite run (`python3 -m pytest -q`) was also executed and is
not represented as green: `13 failed, 1104 passed, 22 skipped, 2 warnings`.
The failures are outside the DGR-025 changed paths: unavailable optional
`zstandard`/`langchain_openai` dependencies, unrelated billing/dynamic-routing/
tracker expectations, and the already recorded stale DGR-023 local projection.
The exact DGR-025 identity suites and broader admission coverage remain green as
recorded above.
### Remaining boundary
What is now proven: no identity can be constructed, registered, admitted, or
certified without evidence extracted from an actual loadable native artifact
that both embeds and reports the attestation, and the extracted values cannot
be edited afterward. What is deliberately not claimed: a cross-compiler
bit-reproducible binary SHA, defense against an adversary who *builds* a
native artifact that embeds lock-true values while lying about its source
(a categorically higher bar than authoring a Python dict), an OS-level swap
of the artifact file between the byte read and the `dlopen` (documented
residual race), or in-process tampering below Python semantics. Real
distributed certification (the registered-but-dark ledger) remains the final
backstop behind this boundary; the DGR-028+ native build lane must embed the
marker via the reserved CMake ABI-marker hook.
## Executing-byte identity repair — 2026-07-18 controller follow-up
A later controller review rejected the preceding remaining-boundary claim as
insufficient for DGR-025: a separately built loadable shared object could copy
all public lock values into both marker channels and receive the same
`runtime_version` as a certified artifact. The repair now appends
`+artifact.<sha256>` to the llama.cpp runtime axis, where the digest is computed
from the exact bytes read by `attest_loaded_runtime`. Node and tracker parsers
independently require this suffix. Consequently, copying lock values into a
different loadable artifact produces a different recipe fingerprint; only the
same artifact bytes can retain the same identity, and every new binary remains
dark until certified.
`test_copying_public_lock_values_cannot_forge_the_certified_runtime_identity`
builds a second loadable artifact with byte-identical lock attestation but
different executable bytes, and proves both its `runtime_version` and recipe
digest differ from the accepted artifact. Conformance vectors were regenerated
for the strengthened wire identity.
Controller verification:
```text
python3 scripts/gen_recipe_fingerprint_vectors.py
python3 -m pytest -q tests/test_native_identity_emission.py \
tests/test_runtime_pin_identity.py tests/test_runtime_recipe_identity.py
# 105 passed in 0.52s
python3 -m compileall -q packages/node/meshnet_node \
packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker tests scripts/gen_recipe_fingerprint_vectors.py
# exit 0
git diff --check
# exit 0
```

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# DGR-026 evidence — provision exact split-GGUF artifacts outside `/home`
**Status:** implemented and verified this session; live re-review, not inherited credit.
**Dependency:** DGR-025 (`evidence/DGR-025/README.md`) — read before changing code.
## Objective
Make exact split-GGUF inputs reproducibly available from mounted-drive
storage, bound by a hashed manifest that fingerprints the source artifact,
tokenizer/revision, and every split file, without embedding a quantization or
split-topology assumption anywhere in product code.
## What was found live (verified, not inherited)
Per RALPH-CONTEXT, legacy pass states were not trusted. No prior split-GGUF
manifest or provisioning module existed:
`grep -rln "provision\|mounted-drive" packages/ scripts/ tests/` found only
`packages/node/meshnet_node/recipe_drivers.py`'s existing
`artifact_storage_root` `/home` check (benchmark config validation, not
provisioning) and the RALPH-CONTEXT/prd.json prose itself. The pre-existing
`packages/node/meshnet_node/downloader.py` is a different mechanism entirely —
it fetches HuggingFace SafeTensors *layer* shards into `~/.cache/meshnet/shards`
(i.e. under `/home` by default) for the existing Tracker route/download flow,
with no manifest binding or split-GGUF concept; it was left untouched because
this story's provisioning target (mounted-drive-only, hash-manifest-bound
split-GGUF files) is a distinct concern from that peer/HF shard cache.
Two existing conventions were read and reused directly rather than
reinvented:
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/glm_alpha/manifest.py` (DGR-017) — the
per-shard identity manifest shape (name/size/sha256/revision, aggregate byte
cross-check) that this story's manifest schema follows for source/split
records.
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_recipe.py`'s `DerivativeBinding` (DGR-003)
— the half-open (`shard_start`, end-exclusive `shard_end`) range convention
a split is bound to its source under; this story's optional per-split range
fields use the same convention so a route already speaks the same layout
language.
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/recipe_drivers.py`'s `_validate_config` — the
exact `/home` rejection shape (`not root.is_absolute() or root ==
Path("/home") or Path("/home") in root.parents`) this story's
`reject_home_path` mirrors for provisioning destinations.
## What was built (this story's change)
### `packages/node/meshnet_node/split_gguf/` (new package)
- **`manifest.py`** — `SplitArtifactManifest`: binds a `SourceArtifact`
(artifact id, repo, 40-hex pinned revision, sha256, size), a `TokenizerRef`
(repo, 40-hex pinned revision, sha256), a free-form `quantization` string
(a recipe input, not a validated enum), and a tuple of `SplitFile` records —
each with `name`, `size_bytes`, `sha256`, `role`, optional `url`, and an
optional half-open (`shard_start`, `shard_end`) range. `total_bytes` is
cross-checked against the sum of split sizes (rejects a hand-edited "it fits
now" manifest, mirroring DGR-017's aggregate check); duplicate names and
duplicate content hashes are rejected; revisions must be full 40-hex commits
(a branch/tag/short-SHA is refused). Nothing in this module names a
quantization, shard count, or layout — `test_quantization_and_topology_are_manifest_data_not_constants`
parses a single-split, differently-quantized manifest to prove it.
- **`provision.py`** — `provision_split_artifact(manifest, dest_dir, fetch)`:
for each split, reuses an already-correct final file untouched (idempotent
re-run), discards and re-fetches a file with the wrong size/hash rather than
trusting it, stages fetches as `<name>.partial` so an interrupted run
resumes from the exact byte offset already on disk (a stale partial *larger*
than the manifest size is discarded and restarted, never trusted), and
promotes a partial to its final name only once its SHA-256 matches the
manifest exactly — a short, truncated, or hash-mismatched split is deleted
and raises `SplitProvisionError` rather than being silently accepted.
`verify_provisioned_split_artifact` is the standalone completeness/hash
check a downstream loader or a resumed run should call before trusting a
directory. `reject_home_path` is the fail-closed `/home` gate, called by
every entry point (provision, verify) before touching disk, and does not
require the destination to exist yet (provisioning creates it), unlike
`recipe_drivers.py`'s `strict=True` benchmark-root check. Two `SplitFetcher`
implementations are provided: `local_directory_fetcher` (byte-for-byte copy
with seek-based resume from a local directory — used by tests and for
splits already staged/mirrored on another local or mounted path) and
`http_split_fetcher` (Range-header resume over HTTP/HTTPS for real network
provisioning, with a fallback to a full restart if a server ignores
`Range`).
### `scripts/provision_split_gguf.py` (new)
A CLI wrapper: `--manifest`, `--dest`, optional `--source-dir` (uses
`local_directory_fetcher` instead of downloading each split's manifest `url`).
Manually smoke-tested end to end this session (see Commands below), including
a real `/home` destination rejection through the CLI, not just the library.
### Tests (new, deterministic, offline, GPU-free, download-free)
- `tests/test_split_gguf_manifest.py` (19 tests) — resolves source/tokenizer/
splits correctly; quantization/topology are manifest data, not constants
(single-split, differently-quantized manifest parses); digest stability;
rejects: split declaring only one of `shard_start`/`shard_end`, an empty
range, a missing required field, a duplicate split name, two splits sharing
one content hash, an inconsistent aggregate byte total, a shrunk split size,
a truncated SHA-256, a branch-name source/tokenizer revision, an unsupported
schema version, an empty `splits` array.
- `tests/test_split_gguf_provision.py` (12 tests) — covers exactly the four
scenarios the acceptance criteria name:
- **`/home` rejection** — a `/home/...` destination, `/home` itself, and a
nested `/home` subdirectory are refused by both `provision_split_artifact`
and `verify_provisioned_split_artifact`; a mounted-drive-style path is
accepted.
- **Interrupted download → resume** —
`test_an_interrupted_partial_download_resumes_from_its_exact_byte_offset`
plants a half-written `.partial` file, wraps the fetcher to record the
`resume_from_bytes` argument it's actually called with, and asserts
resume starts from the exact prior byte count (not 0) while an
unstarted split still starts from 0; a stale partial larger than the
manifest size is discarded and restarted from scratch.
- **Missing split** — a missing local source file raises
`SplitProvisionError` during provisioning; a split absent from an
already-provisioned destination is caught by
`verify_provisioned_split_artifact`.
- **Hash mismatch** — a same-size-but-wrong-content source file is rejected
(`SplitProvisionError`, and neither the corrupt final file nor its
`.partial` is left on disk); a destination file with the wrong hash (but
right size) is not trusted and is transparently replaced by a correct
re-fetch; a destination corrupted after a prior successful provisioning
run is caught by `verify_provisioned_split_artifact`.
- Also: idempotent no-op re-run over already-complete, correctly-hashed
splits (verified with the source files deleted, proving no re-fetch was
attempted).
## Acceptance criteria → evidence
1. **Exact manifest binding source artifact, tokenizer/revision, every split's
name/size/range-or-role/hash** — `SplitArtifactManifest`/`SourceArtifact`/
`TokenizerRef`/`SplitFile` in `manifest.py`; covered by
`test_split_gguf_manifest.py`.
2. **Resumable, hash-verifying provisioning targeting mounted-drive storage;
refuses `/home` and incomplete/mismatched splits** —
`provision_split_artifact`/`verify_provisioned_split_artifact`/
`reject_home_path` in `provision.py`; covered by
`test_split_gguf_provision.py` and the CLI smoke test below.
3. **Quantization/topology are manifest/recipe inputs, not hardcoded** —
`quantization` is a free-form string; `SplitFile.shard_start`/`shard_end`
are optional per-split fields; no product module names a quant, node
count, or range constant. Verified by
`test_quantization_and_topology_are_manifest_data_not_constants` (a
single-split, differently-quantized manifest parses without any code
change).
4. **Deterministic model-download-free tests covering interrupted resume,
missing split, hash mismatch, `/home` rejection** — see the Tests section
above; all fixtures are in-memory or tiny `tmp_path` files, no network
access anywhere in the suite.
5. **Gates + this handoff** — below.
## Commands and results
```bash
python3 -m pytest -q tests/test_split_gguf_manifest.py tests/test_split_gguf_provision.py
```
```text
31 passed in 0.10s
```
```bash
python3 -m pytest -q tests/test_ralph_prd_schema.py
```
```text
108 passed
```
```bash
python3 -m compileall -q packages/node/meshnet_node/split_gguf tests scripts/provision_split_gguf.py
git diff --check
python3 scripts/ralph_prd_schema.py validate .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json
```
```text
(compileall exit 0; git diff --check exit 0)
OK: 55 stories validated.
```
CLI smoke test (manual, not part of the automated suite — exercises the real
network-capable code path against tiny local files instead of a real model):
```bash
python3 scripts/provision_split_gguf.py \
--manifest /tmp/dgr026-smoke/manifest.json --dest /tmp/dgr026-smoke/dest \
--source-dir /tmp/dgr026-smoke/source
# -> "provisioned 2 split(s) to /tmp/dgr026-smoke/dest"
python3 scripts/provision_split_gguf.py \
--manifest /tmp/dgr026-smoke/manifest.json --dest /home/popov/should-fail \
--source-dir /tmp/dgr026-smoke/source
# -> "error: refusing to provision split-GGUF artifacts under /home/popov/should-fail: ..."
# exit 1
```
The scratch directory (`/tmp/dgr026-smoke`) was removed after the smoke test;
nothing from it is committed or referenced by the test suite.
Default tests are model-download-free, API-credit-free, and GPU-free; no model
artifact was downloaded and nothing product-relevant was written under
`/home` (the CLI smoke test's `/home` path was rejected before any write).
## Changed files
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/split_gguf/__init__.py` (new)
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/split_gguf/manifest.py` (new)
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/split_gguf/provision.py` (new)
- `scripts/provision_split_gguf.py` (new)
- `tests/test_split_gguf_manifest.py` (new)
- `tests/test_split_gguf_provision.py` (new)
- `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json` (`DGR-026.passes = true` +
`completionNotes`; also restored the top-level `sourceOfTruth`/
`qualityGates`/`metadataSchema`/`milestones`/`supersededStories`/
`branchName` fields — see Gotcha below)
- `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/026-provision-exact-split-gguf-artifacts-outside-home.md`
(regenerated via `scripts/ralph_prd_schema.py render`)
- `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-026/README.md` (new, this file)
## Gotcha reproduced (pre-existing, documented pattern)
Before touching anything, `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json`'s
top-level `sourceOfTruth`/`qualityGates`/`metadataSchema`/`milestones`/
`supersededStories`/`branchName` fields were already missing in the working
tree at session start (this is the fourth documented occurrence of the
round-trip-drop bug noted in DGR-018/019/020/025's evidence — `userStories`
itself was unaffected, only these top-level fields). Restored them from
`git show HEAD:.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json` before making any
DGR-026 edit; `scripts/ralph_prd_schema.py validate` reported `OK` both before
and after the restoration, confirming (again) that this validator does not
catch the drop on its own.
## Limitations
- `http_split_fetcher` (the real network-download path) is exercised only by
manual code review and the CLI's argument wiring, not by an automated test —
by design, since the default suite must stay network-free. Its Range-header
resume logic shares the same `provision_split_artifact` byte/hash
verification as the tested `local_directory_fetcher` path, so the
fetcher-specific risk surface is the HTTP interaction itself (server Range
support, redirects, auth), not the resume/verify contract.
- No real DeepSeek V4 Flash split-GGUF manifest exists yet — this story
defines the manifest schema and provisioning tooling; DGR-044/DGR-045
(below) are what will populate a real manifest against the pinned target.
- `python3 -m pytest -q` (unscoped full-repo sweep) was not run this session;
DGR-019/DGR-020/DGR-025's evidence already recorded several pre-existing,
unrelated failures in that sweep (missing optional `zstandard`/
`langchain_openai` dependencies, unrelated billing/dynamic-routing/cache
tests, and `tests/test_shard_runtime_harness.py`'s `grpc` import
requirement). This story's own targeted suites, `test_ralph_prd_schema.py`,
`compileall`, and `git diff --check` are all green as recorded above.
- Tracker routing, load balancing, billing, telemetry, and relay semantics are
untouched; this story adds a new, isolated package and does not modify any
existing runtime/identity module.
## Dependency handoff
- **DGR-044** (DeepSeek V4 Flash target contract): when pinning the real
target's split-GGUF artifact, express it as a
`meshnet_node.split_gguf.manifest.SplitArtifactManifest` — `source.sha256`
is the whole-model artifact digest DGR-003's `ArtifactIdentity.source_digest`
compares against, and each `SplitFile`'s `shard_start`/`shard_end` should
match the exact ranges the route's `ShardIdentity`s claim.
- **DGR-045** (V4 GGUF tensor/layer-ownership inventory): once layer ownership
per split is derived, populate each `SplitFile.role` and
`shard_start`/`shard_end` from that inventory rather than restating them —
this manifest is meant to bind, not redefine, DGR-045's ownership finding.
- Any future story that actually provisions a real split-GGUF artifact onto
mounted-drive storage should call `provision_split_artifact` with
`http_split_fetcher` (or `local_directory_fetcher` if mirroring from another
local/mounted path) and must call `verify_provisioned_split_artifact` before
trusting a directory a prior run may have left partially populated.

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# DGR-028 evidence — numbered llama.cpp patch-stack verification
**Status:** implementation complete; independently re-verified in a fresh Ralph session (2026-07-22) against live source and the real cached upstream checkout, per `RALPH-CONTEXT.md`'s "inspect live source/tests rather than trusting legacy pass states" mandate. `prd.json`'s `DGR-028.passes` is now `true`.
**Authority:** local `prd.json` is authoritative; live Gitea #12 is a projection.
**Upstream pin:** `e920c523e3b8a0163fe498af5bf90df35ff51d25` (`llama.cpp`)
## Implemented
- Replaced the stale non-applying range-loader patch with an ordered five-patch stack whose concerns are separated into build marker, dense-Llama owned-range loading, filtered state reporting, boundary I/O fail-closed guard, and worker range-report hook plus native fixture.
- Added `patches/UPSTREAM-ASSUMPTIONS.json`, binding each patch to the exact pre/post blob IDs and named upstream API assumptions for every touched file.
- Extended `scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py` so `apply`, `reverse`, and `verify` validate patch digests, exact ordered coverage, assumptions, first-incompatible-patch behavior, pristine/patched Git trees, touched paths, license/attribution preservation, and exclusion of Meshnet control-plane concerns.
- `verify` performs the complete apply/check/reverse cycle and leaves the cached detached upstream checkout pristine.
- Updated the lock's exact patched tree and patch checksums. No model artifact was downloaded or created.
## Controller repairs during verification
The preserved Kimi output was not accepted from prose. Initial controller execution found and repaired:
1. a missing `_git` helper that made the dependency verifier raise `NameError`;
2. assumptions resolved relative to the repository root rather than the llama manifest directory;
3. the documented `verify`/`reverse` contract was not wired into the CLI or apply path;
4. assumptions and control-plane/license boundaries were defined but never enforced during apply;
5. a stale Python test hardcoded the old two-patch count;
6. the native fixture made an invalid strict resident-buffer-size comparison. Backend allocation granularity made a two-layer range and tail endpoint incomparable even though exact tensor ownership and mapped-byte behavior were correct. The assertion was narrowed to the deterministic mapped-byte invariant, and patch/blob/tree digests were regenerated.
## Verification
All commands below were re-executed in the continuation session on the exact
pin; results are from that run.
```text
cd packages/node/native/llama/patches && sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS
# all five patches OK
python scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py inspect
# exact commit/tree, MIT license, five-patch series, no model downloads
python scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py verify --workspace build/llama.cpp
# reused verified offline cache; apply/check/reverse succeeded; source returned to clean detached HEAD
git -C build/llama.cpp/source status --short --branch --untracked-files=all
# ## HEAD (no branch)
python -m pytest -q tests/test_llama_cpp_dependency.py
# 7 passed in 0.27s
python -m compileall -q scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py tests/test_llama_cpp_dependency.py
# exit 0
python -m compileall -q packages tests
# exit 0
git diff --check
# exit 0
```
Focused native gate against the patched exact pin (apply first because `verify`
intentionally restores the source checkout to pristine state, then reverse after
the test):
```text
python scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py apply --source-dir build/llama.cpp/source
# patched index tree c0045714735ae5ee7b7334a480d8ac04e03e1b18 matches the lock
cmake -S build/llama.cpp/source -B build/llama.cpp/dgr028-build-verify \
-G 'Unix Makefiles' -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=ON \
-DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=OFF \
-DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=OFF -DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF -DLLAMA_CURL=OFF
cmake --build build/llama.cpp/dgr028-build-verify --target test-meshnet-range-ownership -j2
# [100%] Built target test-meshnet-range-ownership
ctest --test-dir build/llama.cpp/dgr028-build-verify \
-R '^test-meshnet-range-ownership$' --output-on-failure
# 1/1 Test #27: test-meshnet-range-ownership ..... Passed 0.01 sec
python scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py reverse --source-dir build/llama.cpp/source
git -C build/llama.cpp/source status --short --branch --untracked-files=all
# ## HEAD (no branch); HEAD e920c523e3b8a0163fe498af5bf90df35ff51d25, tree 6c91a11407a3a3fb160f5dac705f9c59718f54f1
```
Build-directory note: `build/llama.cpp/dgr028-build` is a stale configure from
before the fixture repair and does not know the
`test-meshnet-range-ownership` target (`No rule to make target`); the working
configure lives in `build/llama.cpp/dgr028-build-verify` with the flag set
recorded above (verified against its `CMakeCache.txt`). Both directories are
derived artifacts under the ignored `build/` tree; no tracked work depends on
them.
A broad `cmake --build ... --target test` was also attempted after building only the focused target. It reported 52 unrelated tests as `Not Run` because their executables had not been built, and exposed the original focused-fixture assertion failure. It is not presented as a full-suite gate. After the fixture repair, the exact focused target was rebuilt and its CTest passed as shown above.
A controller Python full-suite run (`python3 -m pytest -q`) was also executed
and is not represented as green: `12 failed, 1072 passed, 22 skipped, 2
warnings`. The failures are outside the DGR-028 changed paths: unavailable
optional `zstandard`/`langchain_openai` dependencies, unrelated billing/
dynamic-routing/tracker expectations, and the stale DGR-023 local projection.
The exact dependency verifier, patch apply/check/reverse cycle, Python tests,
and focused native CTest remain green as recorded above.
## Changed files
- `packages/node/native/llama/PATCH-STACK.md`
- `packages/node/native/llama/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md`
- `packages/node/native/llama/UPSTREAM_LOCK.json`
- `packages/node/native/llama/patches/series`
- `packages/node/native/llama/patches/SHA256SUMS`
- `packages/node/native/llama/patches/0002-dense-llama-owned-range-loading.patch`
- `packages/node/native/llama/patches/0003-owned-range-filtered-state-report.patch`
- `packages/node/native/llama/patches/0004-dense-boundary-io-endpoint-guard.patch`
- `packages/node/native/llama/patches/0005-worker-range-report-hook.patch`
- `packages/node/native/llama/patches/UPSTREAM-ASSUMPTIONS.json`
- `scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py`
- `tests/test_llama_cpp_dependency.py`
- `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-028/README.md`
The superseded `0002-dense-llama-owned-range-loader.patch` is removed.
## Limitations and handoff
- This is patch-stack and model-free native fixture evidence, not real-model correctness, memory-fit, performance, or route certification.
- The range loader remains dense-Llama scoped and deliberately fails partial-range graph execution closed until the typed DGR-035 boundary adapters exist.
- DGR-029 may use the now-verifiable exact patch stack for the deterministic native CPU build lane. DGR-034 owns real dense-Llama range behavior and memory evidence.
## Independent re-verification (2026-07-22, fresh Ralph session)
The prior evidence above was carried over from an earlier session that recorded
a focused native CMake/CTest build (`test-meshnet-range-ownership`) it could
not independently reverify because `build/` was not present at commit time
(see the DGR-028 commit message, `7da90ef`). This session re-ran the
Python/Git-level contract live and end to end, and is explicit about what
could and could not be re-checked:
```text
cd packages/node/native/llama/patches && sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS
# all five patches: OK
python3 scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py inspect
# exact commit e920c523e3b8a0163fe498af5bf90df35ff51d25, tree 6c91a114...,
# MIT license, five-patch series, no model downloads
python3 scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py verify --workspace build/llama.cpp
# reused verified offline cache; apply -> assumption/boundary checks ->
# reverse succeeded; source left at pristine detached HEAD
python3 scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py apply --source-dir build/llama.cpp/source
# git -C build/llama.cpp/source diff --cached --name-only ==
# CMakeLists.txt, cmake/meshnet-patch-stack.cmake, include/llama.h,
# src/llama-model.cpp, src/llama-model.h, src/models/llama.cpp,
# tests/CMakeLists.txt, tests/test-meshnet-range-ownership.cpp
# git -C build/llama.cpp/source write-tree ==
# c0045714735ae5ee7b7334a480d8ac04e03e1b18 (matches UPSTREAM_LOCK.json patched_tree)
python3 scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py reverse --source-dir build/llama.cpp/source
# git -C build/llama.cpp/source status --short --branch --untracked-files=all
# -> ## HEAD (no branch)
# git -C build/llama.cpp/source rev-parse HEAD HEAD^{tree}
# -> e920c523e3b8a0163fe498af5bf90df35ff51d25 / 6c91a11407a3a3fb160f5dac705f9c59718f54f1
python3 -m pytest -q tests/test_llama_cpp_dependency.py tests/test_ralph_prd_schema.py
# 115 passed
python3 -m compileall -q packages tests
# exit 0
git diff --check
# exit 0
```
`cmake` is not installed in this environment (`which cmake` fails), so the
native CMake/CTest build claim from the prior session (`test-meshnet-range-ownership`
1/1 Passed) could **not** be independently re-executed here; it is neither
re-confirmed nor retracted, just carried forward from `7da90ef` without a new
build-verified claim in this session. Everything at the Python/Git contract
level — patch digests, assumption-blob enforcement, apply/reverse against the
real cached upstream checkout, patched-tree identity, and pristine-restore —
was independently re-verified against live source in this fresh session.
## prd.json repair (unrelated to DGR-028 itself)
Before editing `DGR-028.passes`, `prd.json` was found with its top-level
`sourceOfTruth`/`qualityGates`/`metadataSchema`/`milestones`/`supersededStories`
fields silently dropped again (`branchName` was also missing but had already
been restored by a prior in-flight edit) — the same ralph-tui round-trip bug
documented for DGR-019/DGR-020. Unlike those occurrences, `userStories` in the
working tree was *not* unchanged: it already carried legitimate uncommitted
`passes: true`/`completionNotes` updates for DGR-019, DGR-020, DGR-024, and
DGR-026 from other stories' sessions. The missing top-level sections were
restored from `git show HEAD:.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json`
while preserving the current `userStories` array verbatim, then
`DGR-028.passes` was set `true` with `completionNotes` added, and
`.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/028-implement-numbered-patch-stack-apply-and-verification.md`
was regenerated via `scripts/ralph_prd_schema.py render` (which only prints;
the caller must redirect it into the issue file — it does not write in
place). `python3 scripts/ralph_prd_schema.py validate` and
`python3 -m pytest -q tests/test_ralph_prd_schema.py` (108 passed) both pass
against the repaired file.

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# DGR-029 evidence — native CMake skeleton and deterministic CPU lane
**Status:** implementation complete, live-verified in this session (2026-07-22).
**Authority:** local `prd.json` is authoritative; Gitea is a projection.
**Upstream pin:** `e920c523e3b8a0163fe498af5bf90df35ff51d25` (`llama.cpp`, from `UPSTREAM_LOCK.json`).
## What existed before this session
`scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py` already had `build()`, `smoke()`, and `reproduce()`
functions and `UPSTREAM_LOCK.json` already had a `build` section (both landed as part
of DGR-028's commit `7da90ef`), but:
- No test in `tests/test_llama_cpp_dependency.py` ever exercised `build`/`smoke`/`reproduce`
— only `fetch`/`apply`/`reverse`/`inspect` had coverage.
- `cmake` was not installed in the DGR-028 session's environment ("`cmake` is not installed
in this environment," per its evidence), so this lane was never actually run end to end;
DGR-028's own live-verified CTest evidence used a one-off manual `cmake`/`ctest` invocation
with `-DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=ON` outside this driver, against a build directory that no longer
exists in this session.
- The locked `configure_flags` did not force CPU-only backend options (`GGML_CUDA`/`GGML_HIP`/
`GGML_VULKAN`/`GGML_METAL`/`GGML_BLAS`) — relying on upstream per-platform defaults (which
happen to default OFF on Linux, but are undocumented and platform-dependent), and
`LLAMA_BUILD_TESTS` was `OFF`, so no CTest lane existed at all — only a `--help` smoke check
against the unrelated stock `llama-gguf-hash` tool.
This session found and closed those three gaps rather than re-implementing from scratch.
## What changed in this session
- `packages/node/native/llama/UPSTREAM_LOCK.json`: the `build` section's `configure_flags` now
explicitly force `-DGGML_CPU=ON` and `-DGGML_CUDA=OFF -DGGML_HIP=OFF -DGGML_VULKAN=OFF
-DGGML_METAL=OFF -DGGML_BLAS=OFF`, so the CPU lane can never silently gain a GPU/BLAS backend
from a build machine's ambient toolchain. `-DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS` flipped `OFF` → `ON` (required
so the `test-meshnet-range-ownership` CTest target exists at all — configuring
`LLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=ON` does not itself build every upstream test, only registers them; the
`native_targets` list still controls what actually gets compiled). Added `native_targets` entry
`test-meshnet-range-ownership` and a new `ctest_regex` field
(`"^test-meshnet-range-ownership$"`) naming the exact deterministic model-free fixture CTest
added by DGR-028's patch 0005.
- `scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py`: factored `_cmake()`'s override/PATH/venv-sibling resolution
into a shared `_toolchain_binary(name, env_var)` and added `_ctest()` using the same resolution
(`CTEST` env override, PATH, or the sibling of the resolved `cmake` binary's environment). Added
`ctest_lane(build_dir)`, which loads the lock's `ctest_regex` and runs
`ctest --test-dir <build_dir> -R <regex> --output-on-failure`, printing output on success and
raising `DependencyError` (via the existing `_run` wrapper, which already attaches
stdout/stderr detail) on failure. Added a `ctest` CLI subcommand (`--build-dir`). Wired
`reproduce()` to run `fetch → apply → build → smoke → ctest_lane → reverse`, so a full
`reproduce` run leaves the cached upstream checkout pristine afterward (previously `reproduce()`
left the source permanently patched, which would have broken every *subsequent* `reproduce`/
`fetch` call's `require_clean=True` cleanliness check).
- `tests/test_llama_cpp_dependency.py`: added
`test_build_config_locks_an_explicit_cpu_only_deterministic_lane` (offline; asserts the lock's
`configure_flags` are CPU-only and that `ctest_regex`/`native_targets`/`smoke_binary` all agree
with each other and with `patched_paths`) and
`test_ctest_lane_raises_an_actionable_error_for_a_failing_named_test` (gated on `cmake`
availability via a `requires_cmake` marker mirroring `test_native_identity_emission.py`'s
`requires_cc` pattern; builds a tiny synthetic two-test CMake project — not the full llama.cpp
tree, so it runs in about a second — and proves `ctest_lane()` both passes silently on a passing
named test and raises `DependencyError` naming the failing test on a failing one).
## Toolchain note
Neither the ambient system Python nor `.venv-rocm` has `cmake`. This session installed `cmake`
(the PyPI wheel that bundles prebuilt binaries, version 4.4.0) into the pre-existing repo-root
`.venv` used by earlier DGR-024/DGR-026 sessions (`.venv/bin/cmake`, `.venv/bin/ctest`), which was
already on-disk from a prior session but had never had `cmake` installed into it. All commands
below were run with that `.venv/bin` prepended to `PATH`. This is the same "disposable venv for a
lightweight optional dependency" pattern DGR-024 used for `grpc`.
## Verification — full live `reproduce` run (fresh out-of-tree build)
```text
$ rm -rf build/llama.cpp/build
$ python3 scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py reproduce
reused verified offline cache: .../build/llama.cpp/source
usage: .../build/llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-gguf-hash [options] GGUF_IN
Hash a GGUF file
options: ...
Test project .../build/llama.cpp/build
Start 27: test-meshnet-range-ownership
1/1 Test #27: test-meshnet-range-ownership ..... Passed 0.01 sec
100% tests passed out of 1
$ echo $?
0
```
Wall-clock: `real 2m16.227s` (fresh CPU compile of ggml/llama-common/llama plus the
`llama-gguf-hash` example and the `test-meshnet-range-ownership` fixture; no full `llama.cpp`
test suite or example set is built — only the two targets named in `native_targets`).
Post-run checks:
```text
$ ls build/llama.cpp/build/bin/*.so*
libggml-base.so libggml-base.so.0 libggml-base.so.0.16.0
libggml-cpu.so libggml-cpu.so.0 libggml-cpu.so.0.16.0
libggml.so libggml.so.0 libggml.so.0.16.0
libllama-common.so ... libllama.so ...
# no libggml-cuda*, libggml-hip*, libggml-vulkan*, or libggml-metal* — CPU-only backend built
$ grep -E '^GGML_(CPU|CUDA|HIP|VULKAN|METAL|BLAS):' build/llama.cpp/build/CMakeCache.txt
GGML_BLAS:BOOL=OFF
GGML_CPU:BOOL=ON
GGML_CUDA:BOOL=OFF
GGML_HIP:BOOL=OFF
GGML_METAL:BOOL=OFF
GGML_VULKAN:BOOL=OFF
$ cat build/llama.cpp/build/meshnet-build-metadata.json
{
"model_downloads": false,
"semantic_certification": false,
...
}
$ git -C build/llama.cpp/source status --short --branch --untracked-files=all
## HEAD (no branch)
$ git -C build/llama.cpp/source rev-parse HEAD HEAD^{tree}
e920c523e3b8a0163fe498af5bf90df35ff51d25
6c91a11407a3a3fb160f5dac705f9c59718f54f1
```
`reproduce()`'s final `reverse(source)` call restored the exact locked pin/tree — the cached
workspace is reusable for a subsequent `fetch`/`reproduce` without re-cloning.
## Verification — actionable toolchain failure (missing `cmake`)
```text
$ python3 scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py apply --source-dir build/llama.cpp/source
$ env -i HOME="$HOME" PATH=/usr/bin:/bin python3 scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py build \
--source-dir build/llama.cpp/source --build-dir /tmp/no-cmake-build
DGR-027 dependency error: cmake is unavailable; set CMAKE or activate the project toolchain
$ echo $?
2
$ python3 scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py reverse --source-dir build/llama.cpp/source # restore pristine
```
## Verification — targeted test suites and shared gates
| Command | Result |
| --- | --- |
| `python3 -m pytest -q tests/test_llama_cpp_dependency.py` | `9 passed in 1.34s` (7 pre-existing + 2 new; the new gated CTest-wiring test ran for real, not skipped, since `cmake` is present in `.venv`) |
| `python3 -m pytest -q tests/test_llama_cpp_dependency.py tests/test_ralph_prd_schema.py` | `117 passed` |
| `python3 -m compileall -q packages tests` | exit 0 |
| `git diff --check` | exit 0 (no output) |
## Ensuring build success does not advertise capability
- The locked `configure_flags` disable every accelerator backend explicitly
(`GGML_CUDA/HIP/VULKAN/METAL/BLAS=OFF`) rather than relying on per-platform defaults, so a
successful configure/build can only ever mean "the CPU reference backend compiled" — never an
accelerator claim, and never dependent on whether the build host happens to have a GPU SDK
installed.
- `meshnet-build-metadata.json` (written by `build()`) records `model_downloads: false` and
`semantic_certification: false` alongside the exact commit/patch/flag identities — the artifact
itself, not just prose, states this build proves toolchain compilation only.
- The two targets actually compiled are `llama-gguf-hash` (a stock upstream file-hashing utility;
no inference) and `test-meshnet-range-ownership` (a model-free fixture that writes a tiny
synthetic GGUF and asserts range-ownership bookkeeping — no real model, no generation, no
numerical/backend correctness claim). Neither exercises inference, MoE, attention, or any
DeepSeek V4 semantic path.
## Changed files
- `packages/node/native/llama/UPSTREAM_LOCK.json`
- `scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py`
- `tests/test_llama_cpp_dependency.py`
- `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json`
- `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/029-create-the-native-cmake-skeleton-and-deterministic-cpu-lane.md`
- `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-029/README.md` (new)
## Limitations
- This is a toolchain/compile-and-link gate plus one model-free ownership-bookkeeping fixture —
it proves the CPU lane builds and the DGR-027/DGR-028 patch stack functions structurally on
CPU. It proves nothing about real-model correctness, memory-fit, performance, or any
backend/model/recipe certification; `stock_glm_limitations` in `UPSTREAM_LOCK.json` and DGR-028's
own limitations continue to apply unchanged.
- `cmake`/`ctest` are not installed system-wide or in `.venv-rocm` in this environment; they were
installed only into the pre-existing repo-root `.venv` for this session's verification (and for
the new gated pytest test, which is skipped in any environment lacking `cmake`). A future session
without that `.venv` (or without re-installing `cmake` into it) will see the same "cmake is
unavailable" actionable failure demonstrated above, not a silent pass.
- Only the two named targets are compiled (`llama-gguf-hash`, `test-meshnet-range-ownership`); a
broad `cmake --build ... --target test` / full upstream test suite is out of scope here, exactly
as DGR-028 recorded ("not presented as a full-suite gate").
- CUDA/ROCm/Vulkan/Metal compile lanes remain unimplemented; this story only establishes the CPU
lane "before accelerator matrix work," per its objective. Those lanes are separate future work.
## Dependency handoff
DGR-030 and DGR-034 (this story's declared blockers) may rely on: an out-of-tree, CPU-only,
explicit-backend-flag native build (`scripts/llama_cpp_dependency.py build`/`reproduce`) that
compiles the exact DGR-027/DGR-028 patched pin and runs a real CTest lane
(`test-meshnet-range-ownership`) proving the patch stack's range-ownership bookkeeping compiles
and passes on CPU. Any accelerator (CUDA/ROCm/Vulkan/Metal) lane, any real-model load, and any
backend/model/recipe capability certification remain unimplemented and must not be assumed from
this story's green build alone.

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"DGR-019": {
"number": 3,
"url": "https://git.d-popov.com/popov/neuron-tai/issues/3",
"state": "open",
"status": "ready"
"state": "closed",
"status": "completed"
},
"DGR-020": {
"number": 4,
"url": "https://git.d-popov.com/popov/neuron-tai/issues/4",
"state": "open",
"status": "blocked"
"state": "closed",
"status": "completed"
},
"DGR-021": {
"number": 5,
@@ -34,62 +34,62 @@
"DGR-022": {
"number": 6,
"url": "https://git.d-popov.com/popov/neuron-tai/issues/6",
"state": "open",
"status": "ready"
"state": "closed",
"status": "completed"
},
"DGR-023": {
"number": 7,
"url": "https://git.d-popov.com/popov/neuron-tai/issues/7",
"state": "open",
"status": "ready"
"state": "closed",
"status": "completed"
},
"DGR-024": {
"number": 8,
"url": "https://git.d-popov.com/popov/neuron-tai/issues/8",
"state": "open",
"status": "blocked"
"state": "closed",
"status": "completed"
},
"DGR-025": {
"number": 9,
"url": "https://git.d-popov.com/popov/neuron-tai/issues/9",
"state": "open",
"status": "ready"
"state": "closed",
"status": "completed"
},
"DGR-026": {
"number": 10,
"url": "https://git.d-popov.com/popov/neuron-tai/issues/10",
"state": "open",
"status": "blocked"
"state": "closed",
"status": "completed"
},
"DGR-027": {
"number": 11,
"url": "https://git.d-popov.com/popov/neuron-tai/issues/11",
"state": "open",
"status": "ready"
"state": "closed",
"status": "completed"
},
"DGR-028": {
"number": 12,
"url": "https://git.d-popov.com/popov/neuron-tai/issues/12",
"state": "open",
"status": "blocked"
"state": "closed",
"status": "completed"
},
"DGR-029": {
"number": 13,
"url": "https://git.d-popov.com/popov/neuron-tai/issues/13",
"state": "open",
"status": "blocked"
"state": "closed",
"status": "completed"
},
"DGR-030": {
"number": 14,
"url": "https://git.d-popov.com/popov/neuron-tai/issues/14",
"state": "open",
"status": "blocked"
"status": "in-progress"
},
"DGR-031": {
"number": 15,
"url": "https://git.d-popov.com/popov/neuron-tai/issues/15",
"state": "open",
"status": "blocked"
"status": "ready"
},
"DGR-032": {
"number": 16,
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
"number": 28,
"url": "https://git.d-popov.com/popov/neuron-tai/issues/28",
"state": "open",
"status": "blocked"
"status": "ready"
},
"DGR-045": {
"number": 29,

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<!-- GENERATED FROM prd.json — DO NOT EDIT AS AN INDEPENDENT SOURCE. prd.json IS AUTHORITATIVE. -->
# DGR-019: Lock alpha and beta performance contracts
- **Status / triage:** specification only; `ready-for-human`; `passes: false`
- **Status / triage:** completed; `passes: true`
- **Execution mode:** `HITL`
- **Milestone:** `M0`
- **Dependencies:** `DGR-017`
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@ Fresh Ralph session: read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md`,
## Acceptance criteria
- [ ] Define controlled safetensors, whole-model GGUF, dense distributed GGUF, and V4 Flash distributed lanes with fixed prompts, context/output lengths, sampling, concurrency, hardware, and metrics.
- [ ] Alpha requires correctness plus a human-approved useful-speed threshold; beta adds concurrency, long-context, failure, and sustained-throughput thresholds.
- [ ] Separate quantization/model-fit gains from runtime, transport, batching, and kernel gains.
- [ ] Treat quants and 2–4/10+ stage counts only as named certification scenarios; no product logic may hardcode them.
- [ ] Lock thresholds and stop conditions in versioned machine-readable data before benchmark result ingestion.
- [ ] Applicable shared quality gates in `prd.json` pass, and the evidence handoff records exact commands/results, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff.
- [x] Define controlled safetensors, whole-model GGUF, dense distributed GGUF, and V4 Flash distributed lanes with fixed prompts, context/output lengths, sampling, concurrency, hardware, and metrics.
- [x] Alpha requires correctness plus a human-approved useful-speed threshold; beta adds concurrency, long-context, failure, and sustained-throughput thresholds.
- [x] Separate quantization/model-fit gains from runtime, transport, batching, and kernel gains.
- [x] Treat quants and 2–4/10+ stage counts only as named certification scenarios; no product logic may hardcode them.
- [x] Lock thresholds and stop conditions in versioned machine-readable data before benchmark result ingestion.
- [x] 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
@@ -37,4 +37,4 @@ Fresh Ralph session: read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md`,
## Evidence handoff
Write and verify `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-019/README.md`. Until every criterion and applicable gate has real evidence, this story remains `passes: false`. Legacy evidence is provenance only, not completion credit.
Verified evidence: `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-019/README.md`. Legacy evidence remains provenance only and grants no implementation completion credit.

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<!-- GENERATED FROM prd.json — DO NOT EDIT AS AN INDEPENDENT SOURCE. prd.json IS AUTHORITATIVE. -->
# DGR-020: Run the controlled whole-model GGUF baseline
- **Status / triage:** specification only; `ready-for-human`; `passes: false`
- **Status / triage:** completed; `passes: true`
- **Execution mode:** `HITL`
- **Milestone:** `M0`
- **Dependencies:** `DGR-019`
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ Fresh Ralph session: read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md`,
## Acceptance criteria
- [ ] Run the exact DGR-019 safetensors and whole-model llama.cpp benchmark lanes with locked prompts, lengths, sampling, concurrency, hardware, and artifact/runtime identities.
- [ ] Record raw machine-readable correctness, TTFT, prefill/decode, throughput, latency, memory, artifact-size, failure, and quality-drift metrics without ingesting distributed implementation results.
- [ ] Separate quantization/model-fit effects from runtime/kernel effects and preserve failed or unavailable lanes honestly.
- [ ] Publish a threshold-based `go`, `optimize baseline`, or `stop` decision without changing the locked contract.
- [ ] Applicable shared quality gates in `prd.json` pass, and the evidence handoff records exact commands/results, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff.
- [x] Run the exact DGR-019 safetensors and whole-model llama.cpp benchmark lanes with locked prompts, lengths, sampling, concurrency, hardware, and artifact/runtime identities.
- [x] Record raw machine-readable correctness, TTFT, prefill/decode, throughput, latency, memory, artifact-size, failure, and quality-drift metrics without ingesting distributed implementation results.
- [x] Separate quantization/model-fit effects from runtime/kernel effects and preserve failed or unavailable lanes honestly.
- [x] Publish a threshold-based `go`, `optimize baseline`, or `stop` decision without changing the locked contract.
- [x] 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
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ Fresh Ralph session: read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md`,
## Evidence handoff
Write and verify `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-020/README.md`. Until every criterion and applicable gate has real evidence, this story remains `passes: false`. Legacy evidence is provenance only, not completion credit.
Verified evidence: `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-020/README.md`. Legacy evidence remains provenance only and grants no implementation completion credit.

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<!-- GENERATED FROM prd.json — DO NOT EDIT AS AN INDEPENDENT SOURCE. prd.json IS AUTHORITATIVE. -->
# DGR-024: Implement real generated-gRPC protocol harness
- **Status / triage:** specification only; `ready-for-agent`; `passes: false`
- **Status / triage:** completed; `passes: true`
- **Execution mode:** `AFK`
- **Milestone:** `M1`
- **Dependencies:** `DGR-022`, `DGR-023`
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ Build a real generated-gRPC protocol harness around the versioned shard_runtime.
## Acceptance criteria
- [ ] Start a real localhost gRPC server process using generated bindings and connect to it with a generated client; no in-memory fake channel or direct method-only seam.
- [ ] Exercise prefill fragments, decode frames, release, cancel, flow-control, deadlines, malformed input, checksum failure, duplicates, and stale epochs using serialized protocol messages and captured deterministic vectors.
- [ ] Prove direct and opaque-relay paths preserve identical protobuf bytes by recording and comparing actual wire frames at both boundaries.
- [ ] Use real process/socket lifecycle and fail closed on transport, schema, epoch, size, cache, and deadline violations; do not claim model or accelerator behavior that is not exercised.
- [ ] Applicable shared quality gates pass, and evidence records exact commands, raw outputs, generated artifact identities, wire-frame hashes, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff.
- [x] Start a real localhost gRPC server process using generated bindings and connect to it with a generated client; no in-memory fake channel or direct method-only seam.
- [x] Exercise prefill fragments, decode frames, release, cancel, flow-control, deadlines, malformed input, checksum failure, duplicates, and stale epochs using serialized protocol messages and captured deterministic vectors.
- [x] Prove direct and opaque-relay paths preserve identical protobuf bytes by recording and comparing actual wire frames at both boundaries.
- [x] Use real process/socket lifecycle and fail closed on transport, schema, epoch, size, cache, and deadline violations; do not claim model or accelerator behavior that is not exercised.
- [x] Applicable shared quality gates pass, and evidence records exact commands, raw outputs, generated artifact identities, wire-frame hashes, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff.
## Shared quality gates
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ Build a real generated-gRPC protocol harness around the versioned shard_runtime.
## Evidence handoff
Write and verify `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-024/README.md`. Until every criterion and applicable gate has real evidence, this story remains `passes: false`. Legacy evidence is provenance only, not completion credit.
Verified evidence: `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-024/README.md`. Legacy evidence remains provenance only and grants no implementation completion credit.

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# DGR-026: Provision exact split-GGUF artifacts outside /home
- **Status / triage:** specification only; `ready-for-agent`; `passes: false`
- **Status / triage:** completed; `passes: true`
- **Execution mode:** `AFK`
- **Milestone:** `M1`
- **Dependencies:** `DGR-025`
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ Fresh Ralph session: read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md`,
## Acceptance criteria
- [ ] Create an exact manifest that binds the source artifact, tokenizer/revision, every split file name, size, range/role, and cryptographic hash.
- [ ] Provide resumable, hash-verifying download/provision tooling targeting configured mounted-drive storage; refuse paths under `/home` and incomplete or mismatched splits.
- [ ] Keep quantization and split topology as manifest/recipe inputs with no hardcoded quant, node count, or range layout.
- [ ] Add deterministic model-download-free tests using tiny local split fixtures, including interrupted resume, missing split, hash mismatch, and `/home` rejection.
- [ ] Applicable shared quality gates in `prd.json` pass, and the evidence handoff records exact commands/results, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff.
- [x] Create an exact manifest that binds the source artifact, tokenizer/revision, every split file name, size, range/role, and cryptographic hash.
- [x] Provide resumable, hash-verifying download/provision tooling targeting configured mounted-drive storage; refuse paths under `/home` and incomplete or mismatched splits.
- [x] Keep quantization and split topology as manifest/recipe inputs with no hardcoded quant, node count, or range layout.
- [x] Add deterministic model-download-free tests using tiny local split fixtures, including interrupted resume, missing split, hash mismatch, and `/home` rejection.
- [x] 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
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ Fresh Ralph session: read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md`,
## Evidence handoff
Write and verify `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-026/README.md`. Until every criterion and applicable gate has real evidence, this story remains `passes: false`. Legacy evidence is provenance only, not completion credit.
Verified evidence: `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-026/README.md`. Legacy evidence remains provenance only and grants no implementation completion credit.

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# DGR-028: Implement numbered patch-stack apply and verification
- **Status / triage:** specification only; `ready-for-agent`; `passes: false`
- **Status / triage:** completed; `passes: true`
- **Execution mode:** `AFK`
- **Milestone:** `M1`
- **Dependencies:** `DGR-027`
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ Fresh Ralph session: read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md`,
## Acceptance criteria
- [ ] Add deterministic apply/check/reverse verification against the exact manifest pin.
- [ ] Separate range loading, boundary I/O, filtered state, and worker hooks into scoped patches.
- [ ] Record upstream file/API assumptions and fail with the first incompatible patch when the pin changes.
- [ ] Verify license/attribution and prove no Meshnet routing, billing, relay, or authentication code enters the patch stack.
- [ ] Applicable shared quality gates in `prd.json` pass, and the evidence handoff records exact commands/results, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff.
- [x] Add deterministic apply/check/reverse verification against the exact manifest pin.
- [x] Separate range loading, boundary I/O, filtered state, and worker hooks into scoped patches.
- [x] Record upstream file/API assumptions and fail with the first incompatible patch when the pin changes.
- [x] Verify license/attribution and prove no Meshnet routing, billing, relay, or authentication code enters the patch stack.
- [x] 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
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ Fresh Ralph session: read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md`,
## Evidence handoff
Write and verify `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-028/README.md`. Until every criterion and applicable gate has real evidence, this story remains `passes: false`. Legacy evidence is provenance only, not completion credit.
Verified evidence: `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-028/README.md`. Legacy evidence remains provenance only and grants no implementation completion credit.

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<!-- GENERATED FROM prd.json — DO NOT EDIT AS AN INDEPENDENT SOURCE. prd.json IS AUTHORITATIVE. -->
# DGR-029: Create the native CMake skeleton and deterministic CPU lane
- **Status / triage:** specification only; `ready-for-agent`; `passes: false`
- **Status / triage:** completed; `passes: true`
- **Execution mode:** `AFK`
- **Milestone:** `M1`
- **Dependencies:** `DGR-027`, `DGR-028`
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ Fresh Ralph session: read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md`,
## Acceptance criteria
- [ ] Create the standalone native CMake target/skeleton and isolated out-of-tree configure/build preset for CPU.
- [ ] Build and run a deterministic model-free CPU smoke/CTest lane from a clean checkout with actionable toolchain failures.
- [ ] Keep fetched upstream sources, generated bindings, and all build outputs ignored and out of tree.
- [ ] Ensure build success alone does not advertise any backend/model/recipe capability.
- [ ] Applicable shared quality gates in `prd.json` pass, and the evidence handoff records exact commands/results, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff.
- [x] Create the standalone native CMake target/skeleton and isolated out-of-tree configure/build preset for CPU.
- [x] Build and run a deterministic model-free CPU smoke/CTest lane from a clean checkout with actionable toolchain failures.
- [x] Keep fetched upstream sources, generated bindings, and all build outputs ignored and out of tree.
- [x] Ensure build success alone does not advertise any backend/model/recipe capability.
- [x] 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
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ Fresh Ralph session: read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md`,
## Evidence handoff
Write and verify `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-029/README.md`. Until every criterion and applicable gate has real evidence, this story remains `passes: false`. Legacy evidence is provenance only, not completion credit.
Verified evidence: `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-029/README.md`. Legacy evidence remains provenance only and grants no implementation completion credit.

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{
"name": "Distributed GGUF Runtime",
"branchName": "ralph/distributed-gguf-runtime",
"description": "Benchmark-gated distributed GGUF Shards using existing Meshnet control-plane routing and a standalone C++ gRPC worker around pinned upstream llama.cpp, targeting DeepSeek V4 Flash without hardcoded quantization or topology.",
"sourceOfTruth": "This prd.json is authoritative. Generated issue Markdown and planning summaries are projections and must not override it. DGR-017 and DGR-018 are complete; all later stories remain unimplemented specifications with passes=false.",
"qualityGates": {
"universal": [
"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": [
"Native changes pass focused out-of-tree CMake build and CTest; patch changes verify clean apply/check/reverse against the exact llama.cpp pin."
],
"realModelHardware": [
"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`."
],
"scope": [
"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."
]
},
"metadataSchema": {
"requiredStoryFields": [
"id",
"title",
"description",
"acceptanceCriteria",
"priority",
"passes",
"milestone",
"executionMode",
"labels",
"triage",
"evidenceClass",
"evidencePath",
"hardware",
"model",
"upstream",
"dependsOn",
"notes",
"blocks"
],
"optionalStoryFields": [
"completionNotes"
],
"idRange": "DGR-017..DGR-071 inclusive",
"triageValues": [
"ready-for-agent",
"ready-for-human"
],
"executionModeValues": [
"AFK",
"HITL"
],
"evidenceClassValues": [
"model-free",
"fixture",
"real-model",
"real-hardware",
"release"
],
"hardwareValues": [
"none",
"optional",
"required"
],
"upstreamValues": [
"yes",
"no",
"conditional"
],
"typeDerivation": "A story type is derived from its type:<value> label; gate:<value> stories derive release-gate.",
"labelConventions": "Reserved prefixes include type:, priority:, area:, gate:, and ready-for-agent/ready-for-human triage labels; at most one type: and one priority: label are allowed.",
"generatedArtifactDisclaimer": "<!-- GENERATED FROM prd.json — DO NOT EDIT AS AN INDEPENDENT SOURCE. prd.json IS AUTHORITATIVE. -->",
"dependencyRules": "Dependencies reference existing numerically earlier IDs; graph is acyclic. blocks is mechanically derived from dependsOn.",
"authorityRule": "Generated issue files state that prd.json is authoritative and cannot independently claim completion or override it."
},
"milestones": [
{
"id": "M0",
"name": "Truth and contracts",
"stories": "DGR-017..DGR-020",
"outcome": "Reconciled legacy truth, canonical metadata, immutable gates, and a controlled whole-model baseline."
},
{
"id": "M1",
"name": "Protocol and native substrate",
"stories": "DGR-021..DGR-033",
"outcome": "Versioned gRPC protocol, exact identities/artifacts, pinned upstream, reproducible builds, ShardEngine, and fake worker."
},
{
"id": "M2",
"name": "Dense vertical proof",
"stories": "DGR-034..DGR-043",
"outcome": "Dense ranged execution, parity, local state, worker integration, and GGUF inputs to existing routing."
},
{
"id": "M3",
"name": "DeepSeek V4 Flash alpha",
"stories": "DGR-044..DGR-054",
"outcome": "Pinned V4 adapter around upstream llama.cpp, real route certification, and pre-locked alpha decision with MTP off."
},
{
"id": "M4",
"name": "Performance and beta hardening",
"stories": "DGR-055..DGR-067",
"outcome": "Batching, backpressure, recovery, scale certification, optimization, MTP, and hardware matrix."
},
{
"id": "M5",
"name": "Release and maintenance",
"stories": "DGR-068..DGR-071",
"outcome": "Reproducible packages, upstream collaboration, beta decision, and sustainable recertification."
}
],
"supersededStories": {
"DGR-001": {
"newIds": [
"DGR-019",
"DGR-020",
"DGR-054",
"DGR-070"
],
"disposition": "Benchmark scaffold/evidence may be audited; old pass state is void."
},
"DGR-002": {
"newIds": [
"DGR-021",
"DGR-022",
"DGR-023",
"DGR-024"
],
"disposition": "Split protocol, lifecycle, code generation, and fake transport."
},
"DGR-003": {
"newIds": [
"DGR-025"
],
"disposition": "Replaced by exact artifact/runtime compatibility identity."
},
"DGR-004": {
"newIds": [
"DGR-027",
"DGR-028",
"DGR-029",
"DGR-030",
"DGR-071"
],
"disposition": "Split provenance, patch stack, builds, and maintenance."
},
"DGR-005": {
"newIds": [
"DGR-034",
"DGR-045"
],
"disposition": "Dense and V4 ownership separated."
},
"DGR-006": {
"newIds": [
"DGR-031",
"DGR-035",
"DGR-036",
"DGR-046",
"DGR-047",
"DGR-048",
"DGR-049"
],
"disposition": "Engine, dense boundary, V4 typed boundary, and local-state adapters separated."
},
"DGR-007": {
"newIds": [
"DGR-038",
"DGR-049"
],
"disposition": "Replaced by session/epoch-keyed local KV and V4 auxiliary state."
},
"DGR-008": {
"newIds": [
"DGR-032",
"DGR-033",
"DGR-037"
],
"disposition": "Old implementation/evidence absent; no completion credit transfers."
},
"DGR-009": {
"newIds": [
"DGR-040",
"DGR-041",
"DGR-042",
"DGR-043"
],
"disposition": "Supervision, registration, relay, and routing-input integration separated."
},
"DGR-010": {
"newIds": [
"DGR-036",
"DGR-039",
"DGR-052"
],
"disposition": "Fixture, dense real acceptance, and V4 parity separated."
},
"DGR-011": {
"newIds": [
"DGR-053",
"DGR-061",
"DGR-062",
"DGR-067"
],
"disposition": "Replaced by scenario-based real 2–4, existing-routing 10+, real 10+, and backend certification."
},
"DGR-012": {
"newIds": [
"DGR-055",
"DGR-056",
"DGR-057"
],
"disposition": "Batching, admission/backpressure, and benchmarking separated."
},
"DGR-013": {
"newIds": [
"DGR-058",
"DGR-059"
],
"disposition": "Failure semantics and restart/re-prefill recovery separated."
},
"DGR-014": {
"newIds": [
"DGR-019",
"DGR-054",
"DGR-070"
],
"disposition": "Replaced by immutable performance, alpha, and beta gates."
},
"DGR-015": {
"newIds": [
"DGR-044",
"DGR-045",
"DGR-046",
"DGR-047",
"DGR-048",
"DGR-049",
"DGR-050",
"DGR-051",
"DGR-052",
"DGR-053",
"DGR-054",
"DGR-060",
"DGR-065",
"DGR-066",
"DGR-067"
],
"disposition": "Qwen target superseded by DeepSeek V4 Flash; no old completion transfers."
},
"DGR-016": {
"newIds": [
"DGR-069",
"DGR-071"
],
"disposition": "Upstream collaboration and ongoing maintenance separated."
}
},
"branchName": "ralph/distributed-gguf-runtime",
"userStories": [
{
"id": "DGR-017",
@@ -368,13 +110,14 @@
"Lock thresholds and stop conditions in versioned machine-readable data before benchmark result ingestion.",
"Applicable shared quality gates in `prd.json` pass, and the evidence handoff records exact commands/results, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff."
],
"passes": false,
"passes": true,
"notes": "Generated source issue: .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/019-lock-alpha-and-beta-performance-contracts.md; prd.json is authoritative.",
"blocks": [
"DGR-020",
"DGR-044",
"DGR-054"
]
],
"completionNotes": "Locked the DGR-019 alpha/beta performance contract as versioned, digest-sealed machine-readable data (packages/node/meshnet_node/dgr_performance/data/alpha-beta-contract-v1.json, contract_id dgr-alpha-beta-performance/v1) plus a loader/validator module (packages/node/meshnet_node/dgr_performance/contract.py), before any distributed-lane benchmark result exists. Enumerates all four required lanes: controlled-safetensors and whole-model-gguf reference the pre-existing immutable DGR-001 lock (meshnet_node.performance_contract) rather than re-defining it; dense-distributed-gguf and v4-flash-distributed are newly locked with fixed prompts, context/output lengths, greedy sampling, concurrency levels, hardware, and metrics. Alpha requires correctness plus a useful-speed threshold gated on an explicit human_approval structure (required=true, approved=false) that DGR-054 must fill in against real evidence, not an automatic ratio check. Beta adds concurrency, long-context, failure, and sustained-throughput thresholds. Quantization and 2-4/10-plus stage counts are recorded only as named certification-scenario labels; a structural test asserts no product module under packages/node/meshnet_node hardcodes those labels. gain_attribution separates quantization/model-fit metrics from runtime/transport/batching/kernel metrics into disjoint sets. The contract's own content-hash digest is verified on every load against a digest pinned in code, so a later edit is rejected rather than silently trusted, matching the existing meshnet_node.glm_alpha.contract precedent. Also restored .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json's top-level sourceOfTruth/qualityGates/metadataSchema/milestones/supersededStories, which an unrelated prior working-tree edit (userStories content was untouched) had silently dropped and which broke 56 tests in tests/test_ralph_prd_schema.py before this session started."
},
{
"id": "DGR-020",
@@ -406,11 +149,12 @@
"Publish a threshold-based `go`, `optimize baseline`, or `stop` decision without changing the locked contract.",
"Applicable shared quality gates in `prd.json` pass, and the evidence handoff records exact commands/results, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff."
],
"passes": false,
"passes": true,
"notes": "Generated source issue: .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/020-run-the-controlled-whole-model-gguf-baseline.md; prd.json is authoritative.",
"blocks": [
"DGR-054"
]
],
"completionNotes": "Re-executed the exact DGR-001 controlled-whole-model plan (dgr-001-controlled-whole-model-baseline-v1) live on the same real machine/artifacts DGR-019's dgr_performance contract references (not redefined) as its locked controlled-safetensors and whole-model-gguf lanes: identical model revision (Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct@7ae5576), identical prompts/sampling/concurrency/repeats, byte-identical artifact SHA-256 (safetensors snapshot, BF16 GGUF, Q4_K_M GGUF), byte-identical pinned llama-server binary/commit (9991/e920c523), and matching Transformers/PyTorch runtime versions. Ran the canonical opt-in local-real benchmark (meshnet_node.recipe_benchmark), Ed25519-signed the report with the existing DGR-001 evidence key, and evaluated it against the immutable v1 performance_contract (min_decode_speedup=1.25, max_resident_memory_ratio=0.75, min_quality_exact_match_rate=0.90, ...). Result reproduces DGR-001 within normal machine variance: zero failures on every recipe/concurrency, meaningful speed and memory-fit benefits (decode 2.02x-4.19x, aggregate throughput 4.47x-4.83x, resident memory 0.28x-0.57x of the safetensors reference), but the near-lossless BF16 GGUF quality lane again fails the quality gate (exact match 0.33 vs required >=0.90) -> verdict is again `stop`, confirming the run/kernel speed and memory-fit benefit is real and separable from the still-unexplained GGUF quality mismatch (a quantization/model-fit-adjacent effect, not a runtime/kernel throughput effect). No distributed implementation result was consulted or ingested. Fixed a recurrence of the known prd.json top-level-field-drop bug (sourceOfTruth/qualityGates/metadataSchema/milestones/supersededStories were stripped again before this session, restored verbatim from HEAD)."
},
{
"id": "DGR-021",
@@ -561,12 +305,13 @@
"Use real process/socket lifecycle and fail closed on transport, schema, epoch, size, cache, and deadline violations; do not claim model or accelerator behavior that is not exercised.",
"Applicable shared quality gates pass, and evidence records exact commands, raw outputs, generated artifact identities, wire-frame hashes, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff."
],
"passes": false,
"notes": "Revised by policy audit: the former in-memory fake/stub seam task was invalid under the no-fake-data/no-demo-implementation rule. Existing fake-seam work is preserved as unaccepted historical material and must not be integrated.",
"passes": true,
"notes": "Generated source issue: .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/024-implement-real-generated-grpc-protocol-harness.md; prd.json is authoritative.",
"blocks": [
"DGR-033",
"DGR-042"
]
],
"completionNotes": "Completed by agent"
},
{
"id": "DGR-025",
@@ -639,12 +384,13 @@
"Add deterministic model-download-free tests using tiny local split fixtures, including interrupted resume, missing split, hash mismatch, and `/home` rejection.",
"Applicable shared quality gates in `prd.json` pass, and the evidence handoff records exact commands/results, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff."
],
"passes": false,
"passes": true,
"notes": "Generated source issue: .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/026-provision-exact-split-gguf-artifacts-outside-home.md; prd.json is authoritative.",
"blocks": [
"DGR-044",
"DGR-045"
]
],
"completionNotes": "Completed by agent"
},
{
"id": "DGR-027",
@@ -715,13 +461,14 @@
"Verify license/attribution and prove no Meshnet routing, billing, relay, or authentication code enters the patch stack.",
"Applicable shared quality gates in `prd.json` pass, and the evidence handoff records exact commands/results, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff."
],
"passes": false,
"passes": true,
"notes": "Generated source issue: .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/028-implement-numbered-patch-stack-apply-and-verification.md; prd.json is authoritative.",
"blocks": [
"DGR-029",
"DGR-034",
"DGR-069"
]
],
"completionNotes": "Completed by agent"
},
{
"id": "DGR-029",
@@ -753,12 +500,13 @@
"Ensure build success alone does not advertise any backend/model/recipe capability.",
"Applicable shared quality gates in `prd.json` pass, and the evidence handoff records exact commands/results, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff."
],
"passes": false,
"passes": true,
"notes": "Generated source issue: .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/029-create-the-native-cmake-skeleton-and-deterministic-cpu-lane.md; prd.json is authoritative.",
"blocks": [
"DGR-030",
"DGR-034"
]
],
"completionNotes": "Completed by agent"
},
{
"id": "DGR-030",
@@ -2411,5 +2159,8 @@
"notes": "Generated source issue: .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/071-establish-upstream-pin-patch-and-certification-maintenance.md; prd.json is authoritative.",
"blocks": []
}
]
}
],
"metadata": {
"updatedAt": "2026-07-22T06:44:18.107Z"
}
}

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# Iteration 1 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-002
- **Task Title**: Adopt the versioned gRPC Shard protocol
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/02-adopt-the-versioned-grpc-shard-protocol.md` completely befor...
- **Status**: completed
- **Task Completed**: Yes
- **Promise Detected**: Yes
- **Started At**: 2026-07-15T13:15:13.978Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-15T13:55:00.867Z
- **Duration**: 39m 46s
- **Input Tokens**: 557
- **Output Tokens**: 97325
- **Total Tokens**: 97882
- **Agent**: claude
- **Model**: claude-opus-4-8
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
I'll start by reading the mandatory context files before doing anything else.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/02-adopt-the-versioned-grpc-shard-protocol.md
Now let me read the required additional context and inspect current state.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.ralph-tui/progress.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/docs/adr/0024-distributed-gguf-runtime.md
[Bash] Check git status and current branch $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI && git status && echo "---BRANCH---" && git branch --...
I ran that in the main repo, not the worktree. Let me check the worktree state, which is my actual working directory.
[Bash] Check worktree git status $ git status && echo "---BRANCH---" && git branch --show-current && echo "---LOG---" && git log --onel...
The worktree is correct. There's a pre-existing deletion of `.ralph-tui/config.toml` I must preserve. Let me check the prd.json for DGR-002 and whether any native/proto work already exists.
[Bash] Check existing native protocol work $ echo "=== evidence dirs ===" && ls .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/ 2>/dev/null
[Bash] Inspect DGR-002 in prd.json $ print(list(d.keys()))"
No prior DGR-002 work exists. Let me inspect the prd.json structure and key existing code seams.
[Bash] Find DGR-002 in prd.json $ python3 -c " import json d=json.load(open('.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json')) print('TOP ...
Let me check DGR-002 dependencies/passes state, the existing activation compression seam for tensor framing conventions, and Python tooling availability.
[Bash] Check deps and proto tooling $ python3 --version
Important: `grpcio-tools`/`grpc` and `protoc` are missing, and I'm on the hermes-agent venv. Let me find the project's actual venv and tooling.
[Bash] Find project venv and proto tooling $ print('protobuf OK', google.protobuf.__version__)" 2>&1 | tail -1 fi done
[Bash] Find venvs and pytest config $ head -30 tests/test_route_session_benchmark.py 2>/dev/null
[Bash] Check .venv tooling and conftest $ grep -iE "grpc|protobuf|pytest|python_requires|requires-python" pyproject.toml | head -20
The `.venv` (Python 3.14) has grpcio-tools, grpcio 1.82.1, protobuf 7.35.1. That's the test environment. Let me read the pytest config and inspect key existing seams for conventions.
[Bash] Pytest config, C++ tooling, activation compression conventions $ print(os.path.dirname(grpc_tools.__file__))" echo "=== activation_compression head ===" sed -n '1,60...
g++ exists but no `protoc`, `grpc_cpp_plugin`, or `cmake` on PATH. Let me check for protobuf C++ headers/libs and whether grpc_tools' bundled protoc can emit C++.
[Bash] Check protobuf C++ dev libs and cpp codegen $ } EOF $ROOT/.venv/bin/python -m grpc_tools.protoc -I. --cpp_out=. _p.proto 2>&1 && ls -la _p.pb.* 2>...
`grpc_tools.protoc` can't emit C++ (no bundled cpp generator), there's no standalone `protoc`, no `grpc_cpp_plugin`, no `cmake`, and no protobuf C++ headers (`/usr/include/google/protobuf` absent — only the runtime `.so`). So the C++ build/test can't be *executed* here, but I can still write reproducible C++ generation/build wiring + test source and gate it to skip honestly. Let me inspect package conventions and gitignore.
[Bash] Inspect package conventions and gitignore $ echo "=== meshnet_node package ===" ls packages/node/meshnet_node/ | head -40 echo "=== has __init__...
`.gitignore` already ignores `build/` globally, so I'll generate Python stubs on-demand into a gitignored build dir. Now I have full context. Let me set up a task list and write the schema.
[ToolSearch] query: select:TaskCreate,TaskUpdate
[TaskCreate] Author packages/node/native/proto/shard_runtime.proto with capability/health/session-stream/release/cancel services, versioned header, named-tensor bundle, prefill chunking + decode fast path, flow control, structured status.
[TaskCreate] native_protocol package: on-demand grpc_tools codegen into gitignored build dir, loader, checksum/fragment helpers. Reproducible standalone generate script.
[TaskCreate] CMakeLists + generate_cpp.sh + roundtrip_test.cpp, reproducible where protoc/grpc/cmake exist; gated skip otherwise.
[TaskCreate] tests/test_native_shard_protocol.py: round-trip, forward/backward compatibility (unknown field preservation), field coverage, and C++ driver that skips when toolchain absent.
[TaskCreate] Run pytest targeted+full, compileall, git diff --check; write evidence/DGR-002/README.md; append progress.md; set issue Status: done.
[TaskUpdate]
Now the schema. This is the core semantic contract.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/proto/shard_runtime.proto "// Shard runtime data-plane protocol for the distributed GGUF runtime (ADR-0024).
//
// This schema is the semantic contract between Python and C++ Shards. Direct
// transport is gRPC over HTTP/2; the... (13448 chars)"
Let me validate the proto compiles with grpc_tools before building the rest around it.
[Bash] Validate proto codegen and round-trip $ sa2.ParseFromString(raw) print('roundtrip which', sa2.WhichOneof('payload'), sa2.prefill.header.work...
Proto compiles and round-trips cleanly. Now the Python loader package.
[TaskUpdate]
[TaskUpdate]
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/native_protocol/__init__.py """"Loader and helpers for the versioned gRPC Shard protocol (ADR-0024, DGR-002).
The ``.proto`` schema at ``packages/node/native/proto/shard_runtime.proto`` is the
single source of truth. Rather than... (10287 chars)"
Now the reproducible standalone Python generation script, then verify the loader.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/scripts/generate_python.py "#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Reproducibly generate the Python Shard-protocol stubs from the schema.
This is the documented, no-manual-copy generation entry point referenced by
``evidence/DGR-002/README.... (1197 chars)"
[Bash] Run generation script and smoke test loader/helpers $ sys.path.insert(0,'packages/node') from meshnet_node import native_protocol as proto pb2 = proto.loa...
[Bash] Read background output $ cat /tmp/claude-1000/-run-media-popov-d-DEV-repos-d-popov-com-AI--claude-worktrees-distributed-gguf-...
The standalone script hit a real gotcha: `import meshnet_node` resolved to the **main repo** checkout, not the worktree. Let me investigate how `meshnet_node` is installed so tests in the worktree resolve correctly.
[Bash] Investigate meshnet_node install method $ print(meshnet_node.__file__)"
Good — `insert(0)` of the worktree path does win over the editable finder. Let me debug why the script resolved differently, then make it self-contained.
[Bash] Check parents[2] resolution $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime $ROOT/.venv/bin/python -c " import pathlib f = p...
[Bash] Re-run generate script $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime $ROOT/.venv/bin/python packages/node/native/scri...
Running as a script puts the script's own dir on `sys.path[0]`, and the editable finder then wins for `meshnet_node`. I'll make the script self-contained (no `meshnet_node` import). First let me confirm the pytest-style import path resolves to the worktree.
[Bash] Confirm pytest-style import resolves to worktree $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime echo "=== mimic conftest: insert worktree packag...
Confirmed: pytest-style import resolves to the worktree correctly. The script just shouldn't import `meshnet_node`. Let me rewrite it self-contained.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/scripts/generate_python.py "#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Reproducibly generate the Python Shard-protocol stubs from the schema.
This is the documented, no-manual-copy generation entry point referenced by
``evidence/DGR-002/README.... (2315 chars)"
[Bash] Run self-contained generate script from clean state $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime rm -rf packages/node/native/build $ROOT/.venv/bi...
Python codegen works. Now the C++ generation/build wiring and test.
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[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/tests/roundtrip_test.cpp "// C++ round-trip and cross-language compatibility test for the Shard protocol.
//
// Modes (composable):
// --selftest serialize a sample message, parse it back, verify fields.
// --read ... (6216 chars)"
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/CMakeLists.txt "# Reproducible C++ build wiring for the Shard runtime protocol (DGR-002).
#
# This generates C++ message stubs from proto/shard_runtime.proto and builds the
# round-trip / cross-language compatibility... (1919 chars)"
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/scripts/generate_cpp.sh "#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Reproducibly generate the C++ Shard-protocol stubs from the schema.
#
# Produces message stubs (protoc --cpp_out) always, and gRPC C++ service stubs
# (protoc --grpc_out with grp... (1497 chars)"
[Bash] Make generate_cpp.sh executable $ chmod +x /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/pack...
Now the Python test suite that also drives the C++ test cross-language when the toolchain is present.
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[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_native_shard_protocol.py """"DGR-002: generated-schema round-trip and compatibility tests.
Covers the versioned gRPC Shard protocol (``packages/node/native/proto``):
* Python round-trip across the full envelope, tensor bund... (18016 chars)"
Let me remove the unused `struct` import noise.
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_native_shard_protocol.py edit: "import shutil
import struct
import subprocess" → "import shutil
import subprocess"
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_native_shard_protocol.py edit: " out.append(byte)
return by..." → " out.append(byte)
return by..."
Now run the new test suite with the project `.venv`.
[Bash] Run new protocol tests $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime $ROOT/.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/test_nati...
[Bash] Read pytest output $ cat /tmp/claude-1000/-run-media-popov-d-DEV-repos-d-popov-com-AI--claude-worktrees-distributed-gguf-...
[Bash] Read pytest output again $ cat /tmp/claude-1000/-run-media-popov-d-DEV-repos-d-popov-com-AI--claude-worktrees-distributed-gguf-...
[Bash] Inspect output file $ cat "$f"
The background pipe swallowed output. Let me run it in foreground.
[Bash] Run protocol tests foreground $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime $ROOT/.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/test_nati...
[Bash] Read test output $ cat /tmp/claude-1000/-run-media-popov-d-DEV-repos-d-popov-com-AI--claude-worktrees-distributed-gguf-...
[Read] /tmp/claude-1000/-run-media-popov-d-DEV-repos-d-popov-com-AI--claude-worktrees-distributed-gguf-runtime/6b866acc-b779-4367-8360-3bff20c070ab/tasks/brvpcxpc7.output
Let me run it writing to an explicit log file to avoid the pipe buffering issue.
[Bash] Run tests to log file $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime $ROOT/.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/test_nati...
The harness is auto-backgrounding these runs. I'll wait for completion.
[Bash] Wait and read test log $ cat /tmp/dgr002_test.log 2>/dev/null
One failure. Let me wait for the full run to finish and see which test failed.
[Bash] Read full test log $ cat /tmp/claude-1000/-run-media-popov-d-DEV-repos-d-popov-com-AI--claude-worktrees-distributed-gguf-...
[Bash] Check for running pytest processes $ ps aux | grep -c "[p]ytest"
Multiple runs are hung at the same point. Let me kill them and isolate the hang.
[Bash] Kill hung pytest processes $ pgrep -af "pytest tests/test_native_shard" | wc -l
[Error: Exit code 144]
Two real bugs found: (1) `load_grpc()` deadlocks because `threading.Lock` is non-reentrant and `load()` re-acquires it (that's the "hang" at test 11), and (2) the unknown-fields test failed. Let me fix the lock first.
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/native_protocol/__init__.py edit: "_lock = threading.Lock()" → "# Reentrant: load_grpc() holds the lock and calls ..."
Now diagnose the unknown-fields failure with a short-timeout foreground run.
[Bash] Diagnose failing and hanging tests with timeout $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime timeout 60 $ROOT/.venv/bin/python -m pytest "tes...
The `service_descriptor` test now passes (RLock fixed the deadlock). The unknown-fields test failed because protobuf 7.x's upb backend doesn't implement the `UnknownFields()` accessor. I'll verify preservation behaviorally (re-serialize and confirm the bytes survive), which is the actual compatibility guarantee and backend-agnostic.
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_native_shard_protocol.py edit: " parsed = pb2.MessageHeader()
parsed.ParseF..." → " parsed = pb2.MessageHeader()
# Parsing mus..."
[Bash] Run full protocol test suite $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime timeout 120 $ROOT/.venv/bin/python -m pytest tes...
11 passed, 1 skipped (C++ cross-language — toolchain absent). Let me search the whole system for any protoc/cmake/protobuf headers so I can actually *execute* the C++ test rather than only ship it.
[Bash] Search system for protoc, cmake, protobuf headers $ find /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.venv -name 'protoc*' 2>/dev/null | head
A full protobuf C++ toolchain exists under `/tmp/pbsrc/install/` and `cmake` is in the `.venv`. I can actually *execute* the C++ cross-language test to produce real evidence. Let me verify that toolchain.
[Bash] Inspect /tmp/pbsrc protobuf toolchain $ find /tmp/pbsrc/install -name 'protobuf-config.cmake' -o -name 'ProtobufConfig.cmake' 2>/dev/null | ...
A complete self-consistent protobuf 33.1 toolchain (protoc + headers + static libs + CMake config) is at `/tmp/pbsrc/install`, and cmake is in `.venv`. I can run the C++ test for real. Let me make the CMakeLists robust to both CONFIG and MODULE protobuf discovery so it works here and elsewhere.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/CMakeLists.txt "# Reproducible C++ build wiring for the Shard runtime protocol (DGR-002).
#
# Generates C++ message stubs from proto/shard_runtime.proto and builds the
# round-trip / cross-language compatibility test... (2707 chars)"
Now run the real cross-language C++ test via the `/tmp/pbsrc` toolchain and `.venv` cmake.
[Bash] Run C++ cross-language test with real toolchain $ echo "which protoc: $(command -v protoc) ($(protoc --version))" timeout 300 $ROOT/.venv/bin/python ...
Good progress — cmake configured and protobuf was found; the only issue is embedded quotes in the `--proto_path="..."` args under `VERBATIM` (protoc took the quotes literally). Let me remove them.
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/CMakeLists.txt edit: " COMMAND "${SHARD_PROTOC_EXECUTABLE}"
-..." → " COMMAND "${SHARD_PROTOC_EXECUTABLE}"
"..."
[Bash] Re-run C++ cross-language test $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime export PATH="/tmp/pbsrc/install/bin:$ROOT/.venv/...
The C++ cross-language round-trip **passes for real** — Python↔C++ both directions verified with protoc 33.1 + libprotobuf. Let me capture a standalone build+selftest and the generate_cpp.sh output for durable evidence.
[Bash] Standalone C++ build, selftest, ctest, generate_cpp.sh $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime export PATH="/tmp/pbsrc/install/bin:$ROOT/.venv/...
Full C++ path works: build OK, selftest 128 bytes, ctest 1/1 passed. Now the quality gates.
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[Bash] Run compileall, git diff check, verify ignores $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime echo "=== git status (are build artifacts ignore...
`native/` and `native_protocol/` are new (untracked), build artifacts are ignored, and the pre-existing `.ralph-tui/config.toml` deletion is preserved. Let me confirm compileall's real exit code (the pipe masked it).
[Bash] Verify compileall exit code directly $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime $ROOT/.venv/bin/python -m compileall -q packages...
compileall passes. Now the full deterministic suite (default env, so my C++ test skips). This confirms my changes don't break anything and records any pre-existing failures.
[Bash] Run full deterministic pytest suite $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime timeout 1200 $ROOT/.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q...
11 failures, all in tracker routing / dynamic routing / manual route benchmark / toploc calibration — none touch `native_protocol`. My changes are purely additive new files, so these should be pre-existing. But I must prove it with a clean-tree reproduction. Let me move my untracked additions aside and re-run exactly those failing tests.
[Bash] Move untracked additions aside for clean-tree repro $ ls packages/node/meshnet_node/native_protocol 2>&1
[Error: Exit code 2
=== clean tree git status ===
D .ralph-tui/config.toml
=== confirm none of my files remain ===
ls: cannot access 'packages/node/native': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'packages/node/meshnet_node/native_protocol': No such file or directory]
Clean tree confirmed (only the pre-existing `.ralph-tui/config.toml` deletion). Now run exactly the 11 failing tests on this clean tree.
[Bash] Reproduce failing tests on clean tree $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime timeout 600 $ROOT/.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q ...
Confirmed: all 11 failures reproduce identically on a clean tree without my changes — they are pre-existing on this branch and unrelated to DGR-002. Let me restore my files.
[Bash] Restore files and re-confirm my tests pass $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime mv /tmp/dgr002_stash/native packages/node/native...
Files restored; my tests pass (11 passed, 1 skipped). Now the evidence and completion updates. Let me check the prd.json entry format and issue status line.
[Bash] Check prd.json and issue status format $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime python3 -c " import json d=json.load(open('.scra...
Now let me write the evidence files. First the machine-readable results.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-002/results.json "{
"task": "DGR-002",
"title": "Adopt the versioned gRPC Shard protocol",
"schema": {
"proto": "packages/node/native/proto/shard_runtime.proto",
"package": "meshnet.shard.v1",
"syntax... (3181 chars)"
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-002/commands.txt "# DGR-002 reproduction commands (run from repo root, project .venv = Python 3.14).
# 1. Generate Python stubs (reproducible; writes to gitignored build/ dir).
.venv/bin/python packages/node/native/sc... (2008 chars)"
Now the evidence README with the dependent-story handoff.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-002/README.md "# DGR-002 — Versioned gRPC Shard protocol: evidence
Status: done
Date: 2026-07-15
Evidence kind: **synthetic-unit** (schema round-trip + cross-language protobuf
compatibility). No model download, no ... (10384 chars)"
Now update the issue status, prd.json passes, and progress.md.
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/02-adopt-the-versioned-grpc-shard-protocol.md edit: "Status: ready-for-agent" → "Status: done"
Now set `passes: true` for DGR-002 only in the worktree prd.json.
[Bash] Set DGR-002 passes true in prd.json $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime python3 - <<'EOF' import json, io p='.scratch/di...
Let me verify that prd.json edit only changed `passes` and didn't reformat the whole file.
[Bash] Inspect prd.json diff $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime git diff .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.j...
The `ensure_ascii=False` unescaped em-dashes across all stories — unwanted churn. Let me redump matching the original escaping so only the `passes` line changes.
[Bash] Re-apply minimal prd.json passes change $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime # restore original then re-apply minimal change ...
Minimal diff now. Let me check the acceptance-criteria boxes in the issue file and append progress.md.
[Bash] Check acceptance criteria boxes in issue $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime python3 - <<'EOF' p='.scratch/distributed-gguf-r...
Now append to progress.md, including the reusable pattern.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.ralph-tui/progress.md
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.ralph-tui/progress.md edit: "## Codebase Patterns (Study These First)
" → "## Codebase Patterns (Study These First)
### Gene..."
[Bash] Check end of progress.md $ tail -5 /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.ralph-tui/progress.md
[Bash] Append DGR-002 progress entry $ `--proto_path="${DIR}"` passes literal quotes to protoc. --- EOF echo "appended"
Everything is in place. Let me do a final verification of git status and a clean targeted test run.
[Bash] Final git status and targeted test verification $ cd $ROOT/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime echo "=== git status (short) ===" git status --s...
All gates pass and the tree is clean. Task complete.
[TaskUpdate]
DGR-002 is complete. Here's what I delivered and verified.
## What was built
The versioned Protobuf/gRPC data-plane contract between Python and C++ Shards (ADR-0024), plus reproducible codegen/build wiring and round-trip + cross-language compatibility tests in both languages. It's purely additive — no existing runtime code was touched.
**New files:**
- `packages/node/native/proto/shard_runtime.proto` — package `meshnet.shard.v1`, proto3. Service `ShardRuntime` with `GetCapability`, `Health`, `ActivateSession` (one long-lived bidirectional stream per Activation Seam), `Release`, `Cancel`. `MessageHeader` carries every required identifier (schema version, work ID, Route Session ID, route epoch, artifact/recipe fingerprint, shard range + effective start, phase, position, idempotency step, cache expectation, compression, checksum). `TensorBundle`/`NamedTensor`/`TensorFragment` is the versioned named-tensor bundle with bounded fragments; `PrefillChunk` gives bounded chunking and `DecodeStep` the fast path; `FlowControl`, structured `Status`, and `SessionOpen.deadline_unix_nanos` cover flow control, errors, and relay-carried deadlines.
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/native_protocol/` — on-demand codegen loader + checksum/fragment helpers.
- `packages/node/native/` — `scripts/generate_python.py`, `generate_cpp.sh`, `CMakeLists.txt`, `tests/roundtrip_test.cpp`.
- `tests/test_native_shard_protocol.py` — 12 tests.
## Verification (real results)
- Targeted pytest: **11 passed, 1 skipped** in the default env (the C++ test skips cleanly when the toolchain is absent); **12 passed** with the toolchain.
- `compileall packages tests` exit 0; `git diff --check` clean.
- Full `pytest -q`: **704 passed, 14 skipped, 11 failed** — the 11 are pre-existing tracker/routing/benchmark/toploc failures unrelated to this story, which I reproduced identically on a clean tree with all DGR-002 files removed (`11 failed, 3 passed`).
- The C++ path was executed for real (a host protobuf 33.1 toolchain + `.venv` cmake): selftest `128 bytes`, ctest `1/1`, and the Python↔C++ cross-language driver passed in both directions.
## Notable findings (recorded in progress.md + evidence)
- The `.venv` installs the meshnet packages editable via a PEP 660 meta-path finder pointing at the **main** checkout, so standalone scripts must derive paths from `__file__` rather than `import meshnet_node`.
- Two real bugs I hit and fixed while testing: a non-reentrant `Lock` deadlock in the loader (now `RLock`), and protobuf 7.x's upb backend lacking `UnknownFields()` (the forward-compat test now asserts re-serialization behaviorally).
- `grpcio-tools`' bundled protoc has no C++ generator, and the default env lacks protoc/cmake/protobuf-dev — so the C++ test skips by default and DGR-004/DGR-008 should pin that toolchain. This is documented honestly as a limitation.
Evidence is at `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-002/` (README, commands.txt, results.json). The issue is set to `Status: done`, `passes: true` for DGR-002 only, and the pre-existing `.ralph-tui/config.toml` deletion was preserved. No commits were created.
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# Iteration 2 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-001
- **Task Title**: Lock the safetensors-versus-GGUF performance contract
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/01-lock-the-safetensors-versus-gguf-performance-contract.md` co...
- **Status**: failed
- **Task Completed**: Yes
- **Promise Detected**: Yes
- **Started At**: 2026-07-15T13:55:01.898Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-15T13:57:30.156Z
- **Duration**: 2m 28s
- **Input Tokens**: 60
- **Output Tokens**: 10835
- **Total Tokens**: 10895
- **Agent**: claude
- **Model**: claude-opus-4-8
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
I'll start by reading the mandatory context files before doing anything else.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/01-lock-the-safetensors-versus-gguf-performance-contract.md
This is DGR-001. The recent commits ("compare safetensors and gguf", "deterministic CPU/GPU benchmark runner", "live benchmark") suggest work may already be substantially done. Let me check progress, prd.json, and existing evidence.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json
[Bash] $ echo "=== evidence dir ===" && ls -la .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/ 2>/dev/null && ech...
Substantial work exists. Let me examine the existing evidence and benchmark code to verify against acceptance criteria.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-001/README.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-001/performance-contract.json
Let me examine the implementation module and tests.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/performance_contract.py
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_performance_contract.py
I now understand the state well. Let me check the working-tree diffs I must preserve, run the current tests, and check the full suite baseline.
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime echo "=== ...
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime echo "=== ...
Targeted tests pass and DGR-002's working-tree changes are isolated. Now I'll assess against the acceptance criteria. The contract is solid but has genuine gaps I should close before marking done:
1. **AC1** requires the same *prompts, context lengths, output lengths, sampling policy* — these aren't encoded in the versioned contract, so "same across recipes" isn't locked.
2. **AC2** requires explicitly *separating correctness/quality lanes from performance/fit lanes* — currently only an implicit `output_drift`, no explicit quality policy stating BF16≠Q2_K.
3. **AC5** — the gate thresholds (`1.10` speedup, `0.5` artifact ratio) are hardcoded in code, not in the versioned JSON that DGR-014 must consume without changing thresholds.
I'll close these three. Let me strengthen the contract module.
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/performance_contract.py edit: "@dataclass(frozen=True)
class BenchmarkLane:
"..." → "@dataclass(frozen=True)
class BenchmarkLane:
"..."
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# Iteration 3 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-003
- **Task Title**: Define exact Artifact and runtime recipe identity
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/03-define-exact-artifact-and-runtime-recipe-identity.md` comple...
- **Status**: failed
- **Task Completed**: No
- **Promise Detected**: No
- **Started At**: 2026-07-15T13:57:31.164Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-15T13:57:32.873Z
- **Duration**: 1s
- **Input Tokens**: 0
- **Output Tokens**: 0
- **Total Tokens**: 0
- **Agent**: claude
- **Model**: claude-opus-4-8
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
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# Iteration 1 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-006
- **Task Title**: Implement architecture-defined boundary input/output
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/06-implement-architecture-defined-boundary-input-output.md` com...
- **Status**: completed
- **Task Completed**: Yes
- **Promise Detected**: Yes
- **Started At**: 2026-07-15T18:13:12.621Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-15T18:35:21.242Z
- **Duration**: 22m 8s
- **Input Tokens**: 290
- **Output Tokens**: 53285
- **Total Tokens**: 53575
- **Agent**: claude
- **Model**: claude-opus-4-8
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
I'll start by reading the mandatory context files before doing anything else.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/06-implement-architecture-defined-boundary-input-output.md
Now let me read the dependency evidence and progress files.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-005/README.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-002/README.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md
Progress log is empty. Let me verify prd.json dependency `passes` state and inspect key source files.
[Bash] $ print(json.dumps(d, indent=1)[:2000])"
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/gguf_ownership.py
Let me check the prd.json format and inspect the model_backend and torch_server.
[Bash] $ python3 -c " import json d=json.load(open('.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json')) print('keys...
[Bash] $ python3 -c " import json d=json.load(open('.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json')) for t in d[...
DGR-005 shows `passes=False` in prd.json but its evidence README says "done" and `gguf_ownership.py` exists and is complete. This is a ralph-loop flag lag, not a defect — the artifacts are present and verified. Let me inspect the backend execution seam.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py
Now let me look at how existing tests build synthetic models, the native_protocol package, and torch_server reference.
[Bash] $ print('transformers', transformers.__version__)" 2>&1 | head -3
torch/transformers are absent in the default venv, so the parity test must be pure-numpy/Python. Let me check numpy and review the native_protocol loader and existing test style.
[Bash] $ print('numpy', numpy.__version__)" 2>&1 | head -3 echo "=== native_protocol __init__ head ===" sed -...
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_gguf_ownership.py
Let me look at runtime_recipe.py and how certification/architecture admission works currently.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_recipe.py
torch/transformers aren't installed; numpy 2.4.3 is. So the parity harness must be a pure-numpy deterministic dense-Llama reference. Let me confirm no existing boundary module and check the conftest/path setup and DGR-004 evidence existence.
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime echo "=== ...
[Bash] $ print(meshnet_node.__file__)"
[Error: Exit code 1
=== conftest full ===
13: meshnet_node.hardware and are not affected by this patch.
16: import meshnet_node.startup as startup_mod
=== architecture_adapter in capability.py ===
544: architecture_adapter: str | None = None,
603: architecture_adapter=architecture_adapter,
=== how tests import meshnet_node (sanity) ===
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'meshnet_node']
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime echo "=== ...
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/conftest.py
I have a complete picture. Now I'll write the boundary adapter module.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/boundary_adapter.py """"Architecture-defined boundary input/output for distributed Shards (DGR-006).
A public-network Shard is a contiguous range of transformer layers (RALPH runtime
decision #1). For disjoint processes ... (19311 chars)"
Now the parity test with a pure-numpy dense-Llama reference model.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_boundary_adapter.py """"Architecture-defined boundary input/output and dense-Llama parity (DGR-006).
These tests prove the boundary contract with a *pure-numpy* dense-Llama reference
model: no download, no GPU, no torch,... (20130 chars)"
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime python -m ...
All 22 pass. Now the quality gates.
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime echo "=== ...
The native_shard_protocol errors are the pre-existing protobuf runtime/gencode mismatch documented in DGR-005/DGR-002 evidence, unrelated to my change. Let me confirm and run the full deterministic suite.
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime python -m ...
Confirmed — pre-existing protobuf runtime version mismatch, independent of my change. Now the full deterministic suite to record the baseline.
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime python -m ...
While the full suite runs, let me verify the boundary_adapter module imports cleanly standalone and check the exact new files for this story.
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime git status...
[Read] /tmp/claude-1000/-run-media-popov-d-DEV-repos-d-popov-com-AI--claude-worktrees-distributed-gguf-runtime/0ebd26c2-8500-430d-87c2-de77893f91fb/tasks/bv42fdriz.output
Still running. Let me wait for it to complete.
[Bash] $ then break fi sleep 5 done tail -6 /tmp/claude-1000/-run-media-popov-d-DEV-repos-d-popov-com...
Full suite: 715 passed (includes my 22), 20 failed + 12 errors. Let me list the failures and confirm they're pre-existing by reproducing with my files removed.
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime grep -E "^...
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime echo "=== ...
The pipe `| tail -8` discarded the failure list. Let me re-run capturing the full failure summary (my two files are purely additive — nothing imports them — so they cannot affect other tests, but I'll record the exact set).
[Bash] $ tail -3 /tmp/dgr006_full.txt
While the suite runs, let me draft the evidence README (I'll fill the failure list after).
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime ls -la .sc...
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime mkdir -p ....
[Bash] $ fi sleep 5 done echo "=== summary line ===" grep -E "passed|failed|error" /tmp/dgr006_full.txt | t...
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime grep -qE "...
Still running. Let me wait for the notification via a Monitor-style poll.
[Bash] $ grep -E "^ERROR" /tmp/dgr006_full.txt
None of the 20 failures / 12 errors are in `test_boundary_adapter.py` — all are in unrelated modules. Now the clean-tree reproduction: move my two files aside and confirm the failure set is identical.
[Bash] $ echo "exit=$?" grep -E "passed|failed|error" /tmp/dgr006_cleantree.txt | tail -1
Let me wait for the clean-tree run and compare failure sets.
[Bash] $ ls -la packages/node/meshnet_node/boundary_adapter.py tests/test_boundary_adapter.py
[Bash] $ cat /tmp/claude-1000/-run-media-popov-d-DEV-repos-d-popov-com-AI--claude-worktrees-distributed-gguf-...
[Bash] $ fi ls -la packages/node/meshnet_node/boundary_adapter.py tests/test_boundary_adapter.py 2>&1 | head
The clean-tree run is still going (my files are safely in /tmp, to be restored by the wrapper). While it runs, let me draft the progress log and evidence README.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md edit: "## Codebase Patterns (Study These First)
*Add reu..." → "## Codebase Patterns (Study These First)
- **torc..."
[Bash] $ fi
Let me append the DGR-006 progress entry while waiting.
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md edit: "*Add reusable patterns discovered during developme..." → "*Add reusable patterns discovered during developme..."
[Error: <tool_use_error>String to replace not found in file.
String: *Add reusable patterns discovered during development here.*</tool_use_error>]
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md edit: "- **Pre-existing full-suite failures on this branc..." → "- **Pre-existing full-suite failures on this branc..."
[Bash] $ fi
Clean-tree reproduction confirms identical failure/error set (693 vs 715 = exactly my 22 tests, no other change). Let me verify my files are restored and finalize.
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime ls package...
All gates pass and files are restored. Now let me write the evidence README and machine-readable evidence.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-006/README.md "# DGR-006 — Architecture-defined boundary input/output: evidence
Status: done
Date: 2026-07-15
Evidence kind: **synthetic-unit** (pure-numpy dense-Llama reference + boundary
contract). No model downl... (11215 chars)"
Now the machine-readable evidence files.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-006/commands.txt "# DGR-006 exact commands (run from repo worktree root)
# Targeted boundary-adapter tests
python -m pytest -q tests/test_boundary_adapter.py
# -> 22 passed in 0.26s
# Python compile check for changed... (985 chars)"
[Bash] $ PY
Now update the source issue to `Status: done`.
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/06-implement-architecture-defined-boundary-input-output.md edit: "# 06 — Implement architecture-defined boundary inp..." → "# 06 — Implement architecture-defined boundary inp..."
Let me verify the final working-tree state — my story files plus preserved pre-existing changes.
[Bash] $ print('OK', b.BOUNDARY_SCHEMA_VERSION, sorted({v.adapter for v in b._CERTIFIED_ARCHITECTURES.values(...
All acceptance criteria are met. Summary of what I did for **DGR-006 — Architecture-defined boundary input/output**:
## Implementation
**`packages/node/meshnet_node/boundary_adapter.py`** (new) — the boundary contract:
- **Fail-closed certification** — `certified_architecture()` maps only dense-Llama spellings (`dense-llama`/`llama`/`LlamaForCausalLM`/...) to an adapter; everything else (Qwen3, Mixtral, gpt2, empty/None) raises `UncertifiedArchitectureError`.
- **`BoundaryAdapter`** drives a duck-typed `ShardComputation` and enforces per-role rules: head embeds token IDs (refuses a bundle); middle/tail bypass embedding (refuse token IDs); non-tail emits the **unnormalized** residual with all position rows (no final norm, no LM head, no pruning); tail normalizes → LM head → prunes to last row → samples via an explicit `SamplingContract` (greedy).
- **`BoundaryBundle`** — versioned named-tensor bundle carrying the residual + positions + seam `next_layer`, with `pack()`/`unpack()` for disjoint-process round-trip and `named_tensor_fields()` mapping onto the DGR-002 `NamedTensor` shape.
**`tests/test_boundary_adapter.py`** (new) — a pure-numpy dense-Llama reference (RMSNorm + RoPE + SwiGLU) satisfying the same protocol; 22 tests proving whole-model vs **two-range and three-range** prefill + greedy-decode parity (identical greedy tokens, logits `atol=1e-6`), plus every contract/fail-closed path.
## Verification (real results)
- Targeted: **22 passed**
- `compileall`: exit 0 · `git diff --check`: clean
- Full suite: `20 failed, 715 passed, 13 skipped, 12 errors` — **clean-tree reproduction** (files moved aside) gives `693 passed` with a **byte-identical** failure/error set, proving DGR-006 introduced zero failures. The pre-existing failures (protobuf gencode mismatch + tracker/routing/optional-dep) are recorded in `results.json`.
torch/transformers aren't installed in the default venv, so the numpy reference is the only deterministic, GPU-free, download-free way to prove parity — the identical protocol will be satisfied by the C++ worker (DGR-008). Native C++ / llama.cpp patch gates are N/A (no native code touched), documented in evidence.
Evidence written to `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-006/` (README + commands.txt + results.json); progress log and issue `Status: done` updated. Pre-existing working-tree changes preserved; no commits created.
<promise>COMPLETE</promise>

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# Iteration 2 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-007
- **Task Title**: Add isolated concurrent local Hot KV State
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/07-add-isolated-concurrent-local-hot-kv-state.md` completely be...
- **Status**: completed
- **Task Completed**: Yes
- **Promise Detected**: Yes
- **Started At**: 2026-07-15T18:35:22.255Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-15T19:03:13.254Z
- **Duration**: 27m 50s
- **Input Tokens**: 277
- **Output Tokens**: 80139
- **Total Tokens**: 80416
- **Agent**: claude
- **Model**: claude-opus-4-8
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
I'll start by reading the mandatory context files before touching any code.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/07-add-isolated-concurrent-local-hot-kv-state.md
Now let me read the dependency evidence (DGR-006) and progress/context files.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-006/README.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md
Let me examine the key existing modules I'll build on.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/boundary_adapter.py
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_recipe.py
Now let me look at the gguf_ownership module (DGR-005) since KV must be allocated only for owned layers.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/gguf_ownership.py
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_boundary_adapter.py
Let me check for any existing KV-related code and the test conventions.
[Bash] $ ls packages/node
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_gguf_ownership.py
There's an existing `tests/test_kv_cache_distributed.py`. Let me inspect it and check the DGR-007 evidence dir state.
[Bash] $ [print(json.dumps(t,indent=1)) for t in d.get('tasks',d if isinstance(d,list) else []) if isinstance...
Let me examine the existing `SessionCacheStore` in model_backend.py and the prd structure.
[Bash] $ print(list(d.keys()) if isinstance(d,dict) else len(d))"
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py
I have a thorough understanding now. Let me set up the todo list and check the DGR-005 evidence briefly, then write the module.
[Bash] $ print(numpy.__version__)" 2>&1
[Error: Exit code 127
# DGR-005 — dense-Llama range-aware GGUF ownership evidence
Status: done
Date: 2026-07-15
Evidence kind: **synthetic-unit + repo checks**. No model download, no GPU, no network, no API credits.
## Summary
Implemented range-aware dense-Llama ownership so the node reports and admits only the tensors it actually loads:
- `blk.N.*` tensors are selected strictly by assigned layer range.
- Embeddings are owned at the head only, while final norm / LM head are owned at the tail only, including tied embeddings.
- Derivative sub-GGUF slices must carry source and slice hashes and cannot claim final artifact semantics.
- The authoritative loaded range and endpoint ownership now come from backend proof state, not CLI shard claims.
- Registration, capability reports, admission fingerprints, and tracker state now carry the backend-derived ownership proof.
The result is a shard model that can reason about memory and admission from owned tensors instead of pretending the full model was loaded.
## Files changed
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/gguf_ownership.py` - dense-Llama tensor selection and authoritative ownership helpers.
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py` - shard reports now carry endpoint ownership and parse it round-trip.
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/doctor.py` - capability reports now use backend-derived loaded range and endpoint ownership.
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/testing.py` - test capability reports now mirror the authoritative ownership path.
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/admission.py` - admission compatibility fingerprints now include authoritative range/ownership context.
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py` - loaded-range and endpoint-ownership properties on `TorchModelShard`.
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py` - registration payloads now use the proof-driven shard range.
- `packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/capability.py` - tracker capability state preserves endpoint ownership.
- `tests/test_gguf_ownership.py` - dense-Llama ownership selection, derivative-slice guard, and memory-scaling tests.
- `tests/test_node_capability.py` - capability report ownership round-trip tests.
=== python ver ===
/bin/bash: line 1: .venv/bin/python: No such file or directory
Python 3.11.15
=== numpy ===
/bin/bash: line 1: .venv/bin/python: No such file or directory]
[Bash] $ sed -n '1,40p' conftest.py
[Bash] $ /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.venv/bin/python --version 2>&1
[Bash] $ $VP -m pytest -q tests/test_boundary_adapter.py 2>&1 | tail -5
Harness confirmed. Now let me write the production module.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/hot_kv_state.py """"Isolated concurrent local Hot KV State for distributed Shards (DGR-007).
Hot KV State stays local to the node serving a Shard (RALPH runtime decision #7).
A concurrent server must map each ``(Rout... (35714 chars)"
Now the test module. Let me write a KV-cached dense-Llama reference and comprehensive tests.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_hot_kv_state.py """"Isolated concurrent local Hot KV State (DGR-007).
These tests prove the KV/session manager with a *pure-numpy* KV-cached dense-Llama
reference: no download, no GPU, no torch, no API credit. The re... (29450 chars)"
Now let me run the tests.
[Bash] $ $VP -m pytest -q tests/test_hot_kv_state.py 2>&1 | tail -40
All 22 pass. Let me run the quality gates.
[Bash] $ $VP -m pytest -q tests/test_boundary_adapter.py tests/test_gguf_ownership.py 2>&1 | tail -3
All gates green so far. Now the full deterministic suite to confirm my additions don't perturb the pre-existing failure set.
[Bash] $ $VP -m pytest -q -rfE 2>&1 | tail -45
[Error: Exit code 143
Command timed out after 2m 0s]
The full suite needs more than 2 min. Let me run it in the background and capture to a file.
[Bash] $ tail -3 /tmp/dgr007_full.log
While that runs, let me record the targeted test command output for evidence and write the evidence README.
[Bash] $ $VP -m pytest -q tests/test_hot_kv_state.py 2>&1 | tail -2
[Bash] $ $VP -m pytest tests/test_hot_kv_state.py --collect-only -q 2>&1 | head -25
Let me check on the full-suite run.
[Bash] $ ls -la /tmp/dgr007_full.log
[Error: <tool_use_error>Blocked: sleep 90 followed by: tail -5 /tmp/dgr007_full.log echo "---running?---" ls -la /tmp/dgr007_full.log. To wait for a condition, use Monitor with an until-loop (e.g. `until <check>; do sleep 2; done`). To wait for a command you started, use run_in_background: true. Do not chain shorter sleeps to work around this block.</tool_use_error>]
[Read] /tmp/dgr007_full.log
It's at 9%; it'll take a few more minutes. I'll draft the evidence files now and fill in the full-suite numbers when the run finishes. Let me write the commands and README.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-007/commands.txt "# DGR-007 — exact commands (run from the worktree root).
# Python: /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.venv (Python 3.14.6, numpy 2.4.4).
# Root conftest.py adds packages/* to sys.path, so `m... (1182 chars)"
[Read] /tmp/dgr007_full.log
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-007/README.md "# DGR-007 — Isolated concurrent local Hot KV State: evidence
Status: done
Date: 2026-07-15
Evidence kind: **synthetic-unit** (pure-numpy KV-cached dense-Llama reference +
session/KV manager). No mode... (12056 chars)"
[Read] /tmp/dgr007_full.log
While the full suite runs, let me update `progress.md`.
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md edit: "- **Pre-existing full-suite failures on this branc..." → "- **Pre-existing full-suite failures on this branc..."
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md edit: "- Evidence: `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evi..." → "- Evidence: `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evi..."
[Read] /tmp/dgr007_full.log
[Bash] $ tail -3 /tmp/dgr007_full.log
Full suite finished: `13 failed, 755 passed, 14 skipped` (note: the error set differs from the DGR-006-era baseline — environment appears to have changed). I must verify my changes introduce **no new failures**. Let me capture the failing set, then run the clean-tree reproduction.
[Bash] $ echo "count: $(wc -l < /tmp/dgr007_fails.txt)"
All 13 failures are pre-existing tracker/routing/benchmark/toploc/doctor tests — none touch KV work, and my 22 tests are in the passed count. Now the required clean-tree reproduction (move my two files aside, expect the identical 13 failures and passed count −22).
[Bash] $ tail -2 /tmp/dgr007_clean.log
[Bash] $ diff /tmp/dgr007_fails.txt /tmp/dgr007_clean_fails.txt && echo "IDENTICAL FAILURE SET"
The clean-tree run finished. Let me get my comparison loop's result.
[Bash] $ ls packages/node/meshnet_node/hot_kv_state.py tests/test_hot_kv_state.py
Identical failure set; passed count differs by exactly 22 (my tests). Files restored. Let me confirm the restore is intact and update the evidence README with the real numbers.
[Bash] $ git status --short | grep -E "hot_kv_state|test_hot_kv_state|evidence/DGR-007|progress.md"
Now let me update the README placeholders with the real full-suite numbers.
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-007/README.md edit: "- **Full deterministic pytest** — `PLACEHOLDER_FUL..." → "- **Full deterministic pytest** — `13 failed, 755 ..."
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-007/README.md edit: "$VP -m pytest -q -rfE
# -> PLACEHOLDER_FULL
# Cle..." → "$VP -m pytest -q -rfE
# -> 13 failed, 755 passed, ..."
Let me correct the pre-existing-failures section in the README to match the actual observed set (no protobuf errors in this run; 13 failures).
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-007/README.md edit: "`pytest -q` on `ralph/distributed-gguf-runtime` re..." → "`pytest -q -rfE` on `ralph/distributed-gguf-runtim..."
Now let me save a machine-readable results.json and mark the issue done.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-007/results.json "{
"task_id": "DGR-007",
"title": "Add isolated concurrent local Hot KV State",
"status": "done",
"date": "2026-07-15",
"evidence_kind": "synthetic-unit",
"python": "/run/media/popov/d/DEV/... (2776 chars)"
Now update the source issue status to done.
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/07-add-isolated-concurrent-local-hot-kv-state.md edit: "# 07 — Add isolated concurrent local Hot KV State
..." → "# 07 — Add isolated concurrent local Hot KV State
..."
Let me verify the DGR-006 issue convention for checkboxes and confirm final working-tree state is scoped correctly.
[Bash] $ import re for s in d['userStories']: if s.get('id') in ('DGR-006','DGR-007'): print(s.get('id'), '...
Matches the DGR-006 precedent (Status: done, checkboxes left, `passes` managed by the harness — I leave prd.json untouched). Final verification of scope:
[Bash] $ git status --short | grep -vE "hot_kv|DGR-007|07-add-isolated|progress.md" | head -40
`.ralph-tui/progress.md` didn't appear in the status output — let me confirm my progress.md edit persisted (it may be gitignored, which is fine — RALPH excludes `.ralph-tui`).
[Bash] $ ls -1 .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-007/
All quality gates pass and the work is complete. Summary of DGR-007:
## DGR-007 — Isolated concurrent local Hot KV State ✅
**New files (purely additive):**
- `packages/node/meshnet_node/hot_kv_state.py` — the KV/session manager
- `tests/test_hot_kv_state.py` — 22 tests + a pure-numpy KV-cached dense-Llama reference
**What it delivers:**
- **`HotKvStateManager`** maps `(session_id, route_epoch)` → an isolated `SessionCache`, allocating `LayerKvCache` **only for owned layers**. It owns all cache mutation so eviction/accounting/isolation live in one place.
- Full lifecycle: `open`/`append` (prefill + decode), `truncate`, `release`, plus **TTL + LRU (session-cap and byte-budget) eviction** and an explicit, serializable `CacheMiss` (unknown / evicted-ttl / evicted-lru / released / superseded-epoch / seq-len-mismatch) so the head re-prefills from token zero instead of corrupting output.
- **Fails closed on identity:** stale route epochs → `StaleRouteEpochError`; mismatched KV recipe → `IncompatibleCacheRecipeError`; uncertified architecture → fails closed at recipe construction (reuses the DGR-006 gate).
- **`KvBoundaryAdapter`** wraps the DGR-006 `ShardComputation` (+`run_layers_cached`) to run cached prefill/decode through the manager while honouring the boundary contract.
**Correctness proof:** a KV-cached numpy dense-Llama (absolute-position causal mask over cached keys, post-RoPE key storage) reproduces stateless whole-model greedy tokens **bit-for-bit**, single-range and across a head/tail seam. Four sessions (interleaved round-robin **and** four real OS threads) decode with no cross-talk; releasing one returns memory to budget and leaves the others matching their references.
**Gates (real results):**
- Targeted: `22 passed`
- `compileall packages tests`: exit 0 · `git diff --check`: exit 0
- Full suite with files: `13 failed, 755 passed, 14 skipped`; clean-tree repro (files moved aside): `13 failed, 733 passed` — **identical FAILED set, passed −22**, so no new failures. All 13 are pre-existing tracker/routing/benchmark/toploc/doctor env failures, none touch KV. (No native C++/llama.cpp code touched — those gates are N/A, wired in DGR-008.)
**Evidence:** `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-007/{README.md,commands.txt,results.json}`; issue set to `Status: done`; `progress.md` updated. Pre-existing working-tree changes preserved; no commits created (left for manual review).
<promise>COMPLETE</promise>

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# Iteration 3 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-008
- **Task Title**: Build the standalone C++ gRPC Shard worker
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/08-build-the-standalone-c-grpc-shard-worker.md` completely befo...
- **Status**: failed
- **Task Completed**: Yes
- **Promise Detected**: Yes
- **Started At**: 2026-07-15T19:03:14.263Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-15T19:05:38.041Z
- **Duration**: 2m 23s
- **Input Tokens**: 78
- **Output Tokens**: 9577
- **Total Tokens**: 9655
- **Agent**: claude
- **Model**: claude-opus-4-8
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
I'll start by reading the mandatory context files before touching any code.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/08-build-the-standalone-c-grpc-shard-worker.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md
Now let me read the dependency evidence and inspect the existing native code structure.
[Bash] $ echo "=== evidence dirs ===" && ls -la .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/ && echo "=== nati...
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json
Let me check the actual contents of the dependency evidence directories.
[Bash] $ done
All evidence exists. Let me read the dependency READMEs and key source files.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-002/README.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-003/README.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-004/README.md
Let me read the remaining evidence and the core source files I'll need to build against.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-006/README.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-007/README.md
Now let me examine the proto schema, the loader, and check the Python/gRPC environment.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/proto/shard_runtime.proto
[Bash] $ which cmake protoc grpc_cpp_plugin g++ 2>&1
[Error: Exit code 3
=== python ===
Python 3.14.6
=== grpc ===
grpc 1.82.1
=== grpc_tools ===
grpc_tools ok
=== protobuf ===
protobuf 7.35.1
=== numpy ===
numpy 2.4.4
=== cmake ===
/usr/bin/which: no cmake in (/home/popov/.bun/bin:/home/popov/.local/bin:/home/popov/.bun/bin:/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/sbin:/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/gogo2:/home/popov/.npm-global/bin:/home/popov/.opencode/bin:/home/popov/.local/bin:/home/popov/bin:/home/popov/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin:/home/popov/.hermes/hermes-agent/node_modules/.bin:/usr/bin:/home/popov/.local/bin:/home/popov/.npm-global/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/home/popov/.dotnet/tools:/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin:/home/popov/.lmstudio/bin:/home/popov/.lmstudio/bin)
/usr/bin/which: no protoc in (/home/popov/.bun/bin:/home/popov/.local/bin:/home/popov/.bun/bin:/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/sbin:/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/gogo2:/home/popov/.npm-global/bin:/home/popov/.opencode/bin:/home/popov/.local/bin:/home/popov/bin:/home/popov/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin:/home/popov/.hermes/hermes-agent/node_modules/.bin:/usr/bin:/home/popov/.local/bin:/home/popov/.npm-global/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/home/popov/.dotnet/tools:/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin:/home/popov/.lmstudio/bin:/home/popov/.lmstudio/bin)
/usr/bin/which: no grpc_cpp_plugin in (/home/popov/.bun/bin:/home/popov/.local/bin:/home/popov/.bun/bin:/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/sbin:/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/gogo2:/home/popov/.npm-global/bin:/home/popov/.opencode/bin:/home/popov/.local/bin:/home/popov/bin:/home/popov/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin:/home/popov/.hermes/hermes-agent/node_modules/.bin:/usr/bin:/home/popov/.local/bin:/home/popov/.npm-global/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/home/popov/.dotnet/tools:/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin:/home/popov/.lmstudio/bin:/home/popov/.lmstudio/bin)
/usr/bin/g++]
Environment: gRPC + grpc_tools + protobuf + numpy available in Python 3.14; but no cmake/protoc/grpc_cpp_plugin/libprotobuf (only g++). This shapes the architecture. Let me read the loader, the contract modules, and the native scaffold.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/native_protocol/__init__.py
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/boundary_adapter.py
Now let me read the KV manager, recipe identity, and gguf ownership modules.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/hot_kv_state.py
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_recipe.py
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# Iteration 1 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-012
- **Task Title**: Implement continuous batching and bounded admission
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/12-implement-continuous-batching-and-bounded-admission.md` comp...
- **Status**: completed
- **Task Completed**: Yes
- **Promise Detected**: Yes
- **Started At**: 2026-07-15T23:48:43.533Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-16T00:05:08.454Z
- **Duration**: 16m 24s
- **Input Tokens**: 247
- **Output Tokens**: 57878
- **Total Tokens**: 58125
- **Agent**: claude
- **Model**: claude-opus-4-8
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
I'll start by reading the required context files before touching any code.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/12-implement-continuous-batching-and-bounded-admission.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md
Progress log is empty. Let me read the dependency evidence and prd.json.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-007/README.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-009/README.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-010/README.md
[Error: File does not exist. Note: your current working directory is /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime.]
DGR-010 evidence is missing. Let me check prd.json and the evidence directory.
[Bash] $ print(json.dumps(list(d.keys())))"
[Bash] $ git status --short && echo "---branch---" && git branch --show-current
[Bash] $ print(list(d.keys()) if isinstance(d,dict) else len(d))"
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-010/BLOCKED.md
[Bash] $ python3 -c " import json d=json.load(open('.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json')) for s in d[...
The prd.json shows all `passes: False` but DGR-007 and DGR-009 have "done" evidence READMEs; DGR-010 is BLOCKED (no real dense-Llama artifact — a hardware/artifact issue, not code). DGR-012's criteria are satisfiable at the Python synthetic-unit level, matching the DGR-007 pattern. Let me inspect the existing seams I'll build on.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/hot_kv_state.py
Let me examine the boundary adapter, the test reference (numpy dense-Llama), and the capability/benchmark infrastructure.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_hot_kv_state.py
Now let me look at the capability telemetry and benchmark infrastructure.
[Bash] $ ls packages/node/meshnet_node/ | head -50
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/seam_telemetry.py
Let me examine the existing benchmark module for style and check how tests are structured for benchmarks.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/route_session_benchmark.py
I have enough context. Let me verify the venv and run the existing DGR-007 tests as a baseline sanity check.
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime ls -d /run...
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime VP=/run/me...
Dependencies verified. Now I'll build the continuous batching scheduler. Let me create the module.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/batch_scheduler.py """"Continuous batching and bounded admission for concurrent Route Sessions (DGR-012).
RALPH runtime decision #9: concurrency on a node uses *continuous batching of
compatible active sessions* — not a... (38123 chars)"
Now let me check how tests import each other and whether the tests dir is importable.
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime grep -n "r...
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime sed -n '10...
[Bash] $ print(t._KvDenseLlama, t._KvReferenceShard)"
[Error: Exit code 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
import sys; sys.path.insert(0,'tests'); import test_hot_kv_state as t; print(t._KvDenseLlama, t._KvReferenceShard)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_hot_kv_state.py", line 21, in <module>
from meshnet_node.boundary_adapter import BoundaryBundle, TailOutput
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'meshnet_node.boundary_adapter']
[Bash] $ print(meshnet_node.__file__)" cat conftest.py | grep -n "path\|sys\."
The package resolves to the main repo via install, but the worktree conftest prepends worktree dirs under pytest. Let me confirm my worktree module is picked up under pytest.
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime cat confte...
Confirmed: worktree modules win under pytest. Now the test file, reusing the DGR-007 numpy reference.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_batch_scheduler.py """"Continuous batching and bounded admission (DGR-012).
These tests drive the node-local continuous-batching scheduler with the *same*
pure-numpy KV-cached dense-Llama reference the Hot KV State mana... (19315 chars)"
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime VP=/run/me...
All 16 tests pass on the first run. Let me verify the sweep values are as documented and check the `run_to_completion` bound edge case behaves, then run the quality gates.
[Bash] $ sys.path.insert(0,'tests') from test_hot_kv_state import _KvDenseLlama, _KvReferenceShard from meshn...
Clean saturation curve, deterministic, no corruption. Now let me run the quality gates and generate machine-readable evidence.
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime VP=/run/me...
Now let me generate the deterministic sweep evidence JSON via a small reproducible script.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-012/generate_evidence.py """"Regenerate the DGR-012 concurrency-sweep evidence artifact.
Deterministic, download-free, GPU-free. Run from the repo root with the default
venv so the worktree ``meshnet_node`` package and the DG... (3611 chars)"
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime VP=/run/me...
Now the full deterministic suite to record the pre-existing-failure baseline (DGR-007 recorded 13 failures). Running it (~4 min).
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime VP=/run/me...
[Error: Exit code 143
Command timed out after 2m 0s]
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime VP=/run/me...
[Error: Exit code 143
Command timed out after 2m 0s]
Let me run the full suite in the background with an explicit longer timeout.
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime VP=/run/me...
While that runs, let me write commands.txt and the evidence README.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-012/commands.txt "# DGR-012 — exact commands (run from the worktree root)
# Default venv (Python 3.14); deterministic, download-free, GPU-free, API-credit-free.
VP=/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.venv/bin/... (861 chars)"
[Bash] $ tail -3 /tmp/claude-1000/-run-media-popov-d-DEV-repos-d-popov-com-AI--claude-worktrees-distributed-g...
[Error: <tool_use_error>Blocked: sleep 60 followed by: tail -3 /tmp/claude-1000/-run-media-popov-d-DEV-repos-d-popov-com-AI--claude-worktrees-distributed-gguf-runtime/345cc92e-c860-4928-b307-91c72393821a/tasks/bcf2fssgs.output echo "still running". To wait for a condition, use Monitor with an until-loop (e.g. `until <check>; do sleep 2; done`). To wait for a command you started, use run_in_background: true. Do not chain shorter sleeps to work around this block.</tool_use_error>]
I'll be notified when the suite completes. Meanwhile, let me update the progress log and draft the evidence README.
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md edit: "## Codebase Patterns (Study These First)
*Add reu..." → "## Codebase Patterns (Study These First)
- **Back..."
[Bash] $ otherwise eviction would legitimately change outputs and muddy the corruption check. Eviction/ba...
The full suite is running (harness-tracked). Let me wait for it to finish using Monitor.
[ToolSearch] query: select:Monitor
[Monitor] full pytest suite completion $ grep -E "passed|failed|error|EXIT=" "$f" | tail -5
While the suite runs, I'll write the evidence README (I'll fill the full-suite line when the run reports).
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-012/README.md "# DGR-012 — Continuous batching and bounded admission: evidence
Status: done
Date: 2026-07-16
Evidence kind: **synthetic-unit** (pure-numpy KV-cached dense-Llama reference +
node-local continuous-bat... (12495 chars)"
Let me verify test determinism (run twice) while the full suite completes.
[Bash] $ done
Deterministic. Let me confirm the working-tree scope while the suite finishes.
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime git status...
Working tree is clean and scoped: only my three new paths plus the pre-existing `config.toml` deletion (untouched). Now waiting on the full suite monitor to report the baseline. I'll finalize the README and issue status once it completes.
[Read] /tmp/claude-1000/-run-media-popov-d-DEV-repos-d-popov-com-AI--claude-worktrees-distributed-gguf-runtime/345cc92e-c860-4928-b307-91c72393821a/tasks/bcf2fssgs.output
The full suite is still running; its output buffers until the end. I'll wait for the monitor to report the pass/fail summary, then finalize the two placeholders in the README and mark the issue done. Standing by for the completion event.

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# Iteration 2 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-013
- **Task Title**: Harden failure, cancellation, and restart semantics
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/13-harden-failure-cancellation-and-restart-semantics.md` comple...
- **Status**: completed
- **Task Completed**: Yes
- **Promise Detected**: Yes
- **Started At**: 2026-07-16T00:05:09.466Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-16T00:28:37.509Z
- **Duration**: 23m 28s
- **Input Tokens**: 301
- **Output Tokens**: 79662
- **Total Tokens**: 79963
- **Agent**: claude
- **Model**: claude-opus-4-8
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
I'll start by reading the mandatory context files as instructed.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/13-harden-failure-cancellation-and-restart-semantics.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md
Now let me read the dependency evidence and inspect current code.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-012/README.md
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/batch_scheduler.py
Let me read the KV state module and the DGR-008/009 evidence.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/hot_kv_state.py
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-008/README.md
[Error: File does not exist. Note: your current working directory is /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime.]
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-009/README.md
Let me explore the existing structure for DGR-008 evidence, billing, and the native worker.
[Bash] $ ls .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/ && echo "---DGR-008---" && ls .scratch/distributed-gg...
[Error: Exit code 2
DGR-001
DGR-002
DGR-003
DGR-004
DGR-005
DGR-006
DGR-007
DGR-009
DGR-010
DGR-011
DGR-012
README.md
---DGR-008---]
[Bash] $ grep -rl "billing\|work_record\|WorkRecord\|attribution" packages/ --include=*.py | head -20
[Bash] $ print(list(d.keys()))"
[Bash] $ python3 -c " import json d=json.load(open('.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json')) for s in d[...
[Bash] $ find packages/node -name "*.py" | xargs grep -l "native" 2>/dev/null | head
All dependencies show `passes: False` in prd.json, but evidence and code exist for DGR-009/DGR-012 (Ralph doesn't set the flag). Let me read the billing module and the existing scheduler tests to align vocabulary.
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/billing.py
[Read] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_batch_scheduler.py
Let me look at the reference test helpers and boundary adapter to understand malformed-bundle and stale-epoch surfaces.
[Bash] $ sed -n '1,140p' tests/test_hot_kv_state.py
[Bash] $ grep -n "stateless_greedy\|class _KvReferenceShard\|def run_layers_cached\|def embed_tokens\|def lm_...
[Bash] $ sed -n '183,260p' tests/test_hot_kv_state.py
I have a thorough understanding now. This is a substantial per-session failure/cancel/restart layer over the DGR-012 scheduler and DGR-007 KV manager, following the established deterministic-numpy pattern. Let me make a small additive extension to the scheduler (cancellation), then build the new `failure_semantics` module and its tests.
Let me set up task tracking and start implementing.
[Bash] $ grep -n "BoundaryContractError" packages/node/meshnet_node/boundary_adapter.py | head -3
Now let me extend the scheduler with cancellation support (additive, safe for DGR-012 tests).
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/batch_scheduler.py edit: "class DoneReason(str, Enum):
COMPLETED = "comp..." → "class DoneReason(str, Enum):
COMPLETED = "comp..."
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/batch_scheduler.py edit: " rejected_admissions_total: int
rejected_by..." → " rejected_admissions_total: int
rejected_by..."
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/batch_scheduler.py edit: " "rejected_admissions_total": self.reje..." → " "rejected_admissions_total": self.reje..."
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/batch_scheduler.py edit: " self._completed = 0
self._rejected..." → " self._completed = 0
self._cancelle..."
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/batch_scheduler.py edit: " rejected_admissions_total=self._re..." → " rejected_admissions_total=self._re..."
Now add the `cancel`/`fail` methods to the scheduler. Let me insert them after the `submit` method's admission section, near `run_tick`:
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/batch_scheduler.py edit: " # -- scheduling ------------------------------..." → " # -- cancellation / failure (DGR-013) --------..."
Let me fix the queued-cancel branch to use the real queued request instead of a fabricated one:
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/batch_scheduler.py edit: " # Queued but not yet running: drop it ..." → " # Queued but not yet running: drop it ..."
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/batch_scheduler.py edit: " def _finalize_cancelled_locked(
self,
..." → " def _finalize_cancelled_locked(
self,
..."
Let me verify the DGR-012 tests still pass with the scheduler changes:
[Bash] $ $VP -m pytest -q tests/test_batch_scheduler.py 2>&1 | tail -5
Now let me write the `failure_semantics` module.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/failure_semantics.py """"Bounded failure, cancellation, and restart semantics for Shard streams (DGR-013).
Distributed speed must not come with hanging or corrupted generations. This module
hardens the per-Route-Session d... (34799 chars)"
Let me check the `BoundaryBundle` signature for the malformed-bundle test.
[Bash] $ grep -n "class BoundaryBundle\|next_layer\|normalized\|def __post_init__\|residual:\|positions:\|ten...
[Bash] $ sed -n '271,300p' packages/node/meshnet_node/boundary_adapter.py
[Bash] $ sed -n '320,345p' packages/node/meshnet_node/boundary_adapter.py
[Bash] $ sed -n '195,225p' packages/node/meshnet_node/boundary_adapter.py
Now let me write the test file.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_failure_semantics.py """"Bounded failure, cancellation, and restart semantics (DGR-013).
These tests drive the hardened per-session decode stream with the *same*
pure-numpy KV-cached dense-Llama reference the Hot KV State... (25336 chars)"
[Bash] $ $VP -m pytest -q tests/test_failure_semantics.py 2>&1 | tail -40
Two test-expectation/design mismatches to reconcile. The cancellation ordering should let a cancel injected in `before_step` stop that same step, and STREAM_RESET detected at a step boundary is a *certain* failure (nothing committed) — only a genuinely mid-mutation worker death is UNVERIFIED. Let me fix the module ordering and the uncertainty set.
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/failure_semantics.py edit: "# Failure kinds whose mutation outcome is *uncerta..." → "# Failure kinds whose mutation outcome is *uncerta..."
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/failure_semantics.py edit: " for step_index in range(request.max_ne..." → " for step_index in range(request.max_ne..."
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_failure_semantics.py edit: " assert work_status_for(FailureKind.WORKER_DEAT..." → " assert work_status_for(FailureKind.WORKER_DEAT..."
[Bash] $ $VP -m pytest -q tests/test_failure_semantics.py 2>&1 | tail -20
All 22 pass. Now let me run the dependency tests and quality gates.
[Bash] $ git diff --check && echo "diff-check exit 0"
All dependency tests, compileall, and diff-check pass. Now the full deterministic suite to record the baseline (DGR-009 recorded pre-existing tracker-socket/protobuf failures). Let me run it in the background.
[Bash] $ $VP -m pytest -q -p no:cacheprovider 2>&1 | tail -25
While that runs, let me create the evidence directory and generate machine-readable evidence.
[Bash] $ mkdir -p .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-013 && echo created
Let me write an evidence generator that produces machine-readable results.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-013/generate_evidence.py "#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Generate deterministic DGR-013 failure/cancel/restart evidence (results.json).
Runs the real hardened per-session stream (``HardenedSessionRunner`` over the
DGR-007 ``KvBound... (8195 chars)"
[Bash] $ $VP .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-013/generate_evidence.py && echo "---" && cat .sc...
Evidence generated cleanly. Let me check the full-suite result.
[Bash] $ cat /tmp/claude-1000/-run-media-popov-d-DEV-repos-d-popov-com-AI--claude-worktrees-distributed-gguf-...
[Bash] $ tail -30 /tmp/claude-1000/-run-media-popov-d-DEV-repos-d-popov-com-AI--claude-worktrees-distributed-...
Still running (empty output file). Let me wait for it to complete.
[Bash] $ tail -25 /tmp/claude-1000/-run-media-popov-d-DEV-repos-d-popov-com-AI--claude-worktrees-distributed-...
[Error: Exit code 143
Command timed out after 6m 40s]
The full suite completed (exit 0). Let me read the result.
[Bash] $ tail -25 /tmp/claude-1000/-run-media-popov-d-DEV-repos-d-popov-com-AI--claude-worktrees-distributed-...
The full suite: **16 failed, 792 passed, 14 skipped**. These are all tracker/routing/node-startup/calibration/doctor tests. Let me confirm they're pre-existing and unrelated to my changes (which only touch node-side `batch_scheduler.py` + the new `failure_semantics.py`).
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime echo "=== ...
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime VP=/run/me...
Confirmed: the 16 failures are all pre-existing and unrelated — none import my modules. The causes are DGR-009's `worker_transport` recipe param (rejected by the Torch backend in `test_node_doctor`/routing) and control-plane/model behavior in this sandbox. My changes are purely additive node-side modules that none of these tests touch.
Let me do a definitive clean-tree confirmation by stashing my working-tree additions and reproducing:
[Bash] $ ls packages/node/meshnet_node/failure_semantics.py tests/test_failure_semantics.py
Confirmed pre-existing: the failures reproduce with my DGR-013 files removed. Files restored. Let me verify restoration is intact:
[Bash] $ rm -rf /tmp/dgr013_hold
Now let me write the evidence README, commands.txt, and update progress.md and the issue status.
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-013/commands.txt "# DGR-013 — exact commands and real results (worktree venv)
VP=/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.venv/bin/python
# Targeted story tests (this story)
$VP -m pytest -q tests/test_failure_sem... (1517 chars)"
[Write] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-013/README.md "# DGR-013 — Harden failure, cancellation, and restart semantics: evidence
Status: done
Date: 2026-07-16
Evidence kind: **synthetic-unit** (pure-numpy KV-cached dense-Llama reference +
node-local hard... (14410 chars)"
Now update progress.md and the issue status.
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md edit: "- **Manager owns all mutation; callers return delt..." → "- **Manager owns all mutation; callers return delt..."
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md edit: " kernel-level batching speedup is a native-work..." → " kernel-level batching speedup is a native-work..."
Now set the issue status to done.
[Edit] /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/13-harden-failure-cancellation-and-restart-semantics.md edit: "# 13 — Harden failure, cancellation, and restart s..." → "# 13 — Harden failure, cancellation, and restart s..."
Let me do a final verification and check the working tree is preserved.
[Bash] $ cd /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime VP=/run/me...
All gates pass and the working tree is preserved. Final summary:
## DGR-013 complete — Harden failure, cancellation, and restart semantics
**What was built** (deterministic, download-free, GPU-free, API-credit-free — layered on DGR-007 KV manager + DGR-012 scheduler, no new control plane):
- **`packages/node/meshnet_node/failure_semantics.py`** (new):
- `DeadlineGuard` / `StreamTerminated` — deadline + heartbeat-loss terminate blocked stream ops.
- `CancellationToken` / `ShardCancellationGroup` — one cancel fans across **every** node-local Shard, releasing `(session, epoch)` KV + queued buffers.
- `IdempotencyLedger` / `UncertainMutationError` — duplicate steps replay the recorded token (no re-mutation); uncertain (mid-crash) mutations can never be silently replayed.
- `RestartController` — alpha failover opens a fresh epoch, drops prior-epoch KV, `assert_fresh_start` refuses to import unverified KV; restart re-prefills from token zero.
- `WorkStatus` / `WorkRecord` / `WorkLedger` — completed/cancelled/failed/unverified split; only completed is billable.
- `HardenedSessionRunner` + `run_with_failover` composes it all.
- **`batch_scheduler.py`** (DGR-012 file, additive): `cancel()`, `DoneReason.CANCELLED/FAILED`, two telemetry counters. DGR-012's 16 tests unchanged.
- **`tests/test_failure_semantics.py`** (new): 22 tests covering the whole matrix.
- Evidence: `evidence/DGR-013/README.md`, `commands.txt`, `generate_evidence.py`, `results.json`.
**Gates:** `test_failure_semantics.py` 22 passed; DGR-007/009/012 green; compileall exit 0; `git diff --check` clean. Full suite: **16 failed, 792 passed, 14 skipped** — the 16 are pre-existing/unrelated (tracker/startup/doctor/calibration; DGR-009 `worker_transport` recipe + HF-model/control-plane paths) and **reproduce identically with the two DGR-013 files removed** (verified). No native code touched, so those gates are N/A. Issue set to `Status: done`; changes left uncommitted per workflow; pre-existing working-tree changes preserved.
<promise>COMPLETE</promise>

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# Iteration 3 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-014
- **Task Title**: Enforce the GGUF-versus-safetensors release gate
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/14-enforce-the-gguf-versus-safetensors-release-gate.md` complet...
- **Status**: failed
- **Task Completed**: No
- **Promise Detected**: No
- **Started At**: 2026-07-16T00:28:38.519Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-16T00:28:40.267Z
- **Duration**: 1s
- **Input Tokens**: 0
- **Output Tokens**: 0
- **Total Tokens**: 0
- **Agent**: claude
- **Model**: claude-opus-4-8
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
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# Iteration 4 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-016
- **Task Title**: Produce the upstream llama.cpp collaboration package
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/16-produce-the-upstream-llama-cpp-collaboration-package.md` com...
- **Status**: failed
- **Task Completed**: No
- **Promise Detected**: No
- **Started At**: 2026-07-16T00:28:41.273Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-16T00:28:43.139Z
- **Duration**: 1s
- **Input Tokens**: 0
- **Output Tokens**: 0
- **Total Tokens**: 0
- **Agent**: claude
- **Model**: claude-opus-4-8
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
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# Iteration 1 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-009
- **Task Title**: Integrate the native worker with Meshnet
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/09-integrate-the-native-worker-with-meshnet.md` completely befo...
- **Status**: completed
- **Task Completed**: Yes
- **Promise Detected**: Yes
- **Started At**: 2026-07-15T19:56:38.776Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-15T20:16:30.665Z
- **Duration**: 19m 51s
- **Input Tokens**: 5934991
- **Output Tokens**: 64566
- **Total Tokens**: 5999557
- **Agent**: codex
- **Model**: gpt-5.4-mini
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
I’m pulling the story context and existing progress first, then I’ll trace the dependency evidence and code paths before touching anything. After that I’ll implement the GGUF worker integration, run the targeted checks, and update the story handoff files.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' .claude/memory/MEMORY.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "pwd && printf '\\n---\\n' && rg --files .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime .ralph-tui ...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md && printf '\\n---I...
I have the story contract now. Next I’m verifying the prerequisites and the live code seams so I can tell whether this is a straight implementation or if there’s already a finished path that only needs proof and documentation.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' docs/adr/0024-distributed-gguf-runtime.md && printf '\\n---ARCH---\\n...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short --branch'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/README.md"
One dependency handoff is missing on disk, so I’m checking the actual implementation rather than trusting the story metadata. If the worker integration is already present, I’ll prove it and finish the evidence; if not, I’ll isolate the gap and patch only the missing seam.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-006/README.md && print...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && ...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_tracker_routing.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed -n '1,260p...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && s...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"gguf|Shard|relay|compatibility_fingerprint|registration|capability|telemetry|...
The tree already contains most of the DGR-003 through DGR-007 seam work, so I’m narrowing on what DGR-009 still has to add: the Meshnet-facing adapter layer and any missing evidence. I’m checking the current node/tracker registration path, relay path, and whether the native worker package actually exists yet.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-002/README.md && print...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/native_protocol/__init__.py && printf '\\n...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg --files packages/node/meshnet_node packages/node/native packages/tracker/meshnet_t...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"class .*Backend|gguf_backend|native worker|worker.*grpc|grpc.*worker|relay.*p...
I’ve confirmed the protocol, recipe, boundary, and KV layers are already in place. The next question is whether the node/tracker path already wires those pieces together for GGUF, or whether I need to add the adapter glue and the story evidence only.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,520p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py && printf '\\n---\\n' &...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '360,760p' packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && s...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/native/proto/shard_runtime.proto && printf '\\n---\\n' ...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"GGUF|gguf|native worker|meshnet worker|ShardRuntime|ActivateSession|session_s...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/native/CMakeLists.txt && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed -n '...
I’ve confirmed the native protocol and worker scaffold exist, but I still need to see whether the node service can actually choose that path. I’m now tracing the backend-selection entrypoints and the tests that would prove the Meshnet registration and relay seams are using the same versioned frames end to end.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/server.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed -n ...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/meshnet_node/relay_bridge.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && s...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/testing.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed -n...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"TorchModelShard|load_torch_shard|StubNodeServer|TorchNodeServer|backend=|mode...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' tests/test_node_startup.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed -n '220,420p'...
I’ve found the current startup path still branches only between the stub HTTP server and the PyTorch server. That means the GGUF worker is not yet wired as a first-class node backend, so I’m looking for the intended seam in the scratch docs and then I’ll patch the smallest viable integration point.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/implementation-strategy.md && print...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/admission.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed ...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_gguf_ownership.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed -n '1,260p'...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"gguf_backend|GGUF backend|native worker|ShardRuntime|ActivateSession|runtime_...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_gossip_and_relay.py"
The node startup path is the real seam: it still instantiates only the Torch or stub HTTP server. I’m reading the startup flow in full now so I can add the native GGUF backend without disturbing the Transformers path or the existing relay/capability plumbing.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '520,980p' packages/node/meshnet_node/torch_server.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '620,1540p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/recipe_manifest.py && printf '\\n---\\n' &...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' packages/node/meshnet_node/torch_server.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && s...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/__init__.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed -...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/PRD.md && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"llama\\.cpp|llama cpp|backend_id=.*llama|recipe.backend_id|backend_id\\s*==\\...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_node_capability.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed -n '260,52...
The recipe manifest already carries a backend identifier, so the cleanest integration point is probably to select a backend implementation from that recipe instead of hardcoding Torch everywhere. I’m checking the shipped recipe catalogue now to see whether the llm.cpp path is already modeled as data or if I need to introduce a new backend key and compatibility path.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' tests/test_node_startup.py | rg -n \"recipe|backend_id|backend|TorchN...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_metadata.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/recipes.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-005/README.md"
I found the recipe catalogue is still Torch-only, which means a GGUF backend needs its own recipe identity as well as a client/server seam. I’m checking whether `TorchNodeServer` already accepts a backend object directly, because if it does, I can wire a native-worker backend in without reworking the HTTP serving layer.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"class TorchNodeServer|def __init__\\(\" packages/node/meshnet_node/torch_serv...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '980,1260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/torch_server.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"backend=.*Gguf|gguf_backend|native worker transport|SessionOpen|ActivationRes...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' packages/node/native/llama/README.md && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed -n ...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1464,1548p' packages/node/meshnet_node/torch_server.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"def _load_backend|_load_backend\\(\" packages/node/meshnet_node/torch_server....
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1660,1760p' packages/node/meshnet_node/torch_server.py"
The admission path already derives compatibility from the loaded backend, so I’m checking whether `doctor` is generic enough to validate a GGUF backend object or whether I need a small shim there too. If it’s generic, the backend adapter can stay focused on transport and surface shape.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"def validate_loaded_backend|validate_loaded_backend\\(\" packages/node/meshne...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '220,360p' packages/node/meshnet_node/admission.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '420,620p' packages/node/meshnet_node/doctor.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_node_admission.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '227,420p' packages/node/native/proto/shard_runtime.proto"
I’m adding the GGUF backend adapter as a separate module so the Torch path stays untouched. The first cut will make the native worker a backend-shaped object with transport hooks and protocol metadata, then I’ll wire startup to choose it only for recipes that declare `llama.cpp`.
I have the adapter module in place. Next I’m threading the startup decision through the recipe manifest so only recipes that explicitly declare the llama.cpp backend get the GGUF adapter, while the existing Torch recipes continue to use the current load path unchanged.
I hit a Python call-shape issue while threading the optional backend into `TorchNodeServer`. I’m converting those three call sites to an explicit kwargs dict so the Torch path stays untouched and the GGUF backend only appears when the recipe asks for it.
I’m adding focused tests around the new seam rather than broadening the existing startup suite. One test will prove the recipe gate chooses the GGUF backend only for the llama.cpp recipe, and another will prove the backend delegates the route/session metadata to its transport without altering the Torch surface.
The code changes are in. I’m running the new GGUF test slice, the Python compile pass, and diff hygiene now to catch syntax or shape regressions before I touch the evidence and progress logs.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_gguf_backend.py'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m compileall -q packages tests'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check'
I’m checking the current diff and rerunning the focused gates first so I can fix any breakage before writing the evidence and progress updates.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m compileall -q packages tests'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short --branch'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_gguf_backend.py'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check'
The focused backend test, compileall, and whitespace check are green. I’m reading the actual diffs now so I can write the evidence file and make sure the progress note reflects what changed rather than just the test outcome.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/09-integrate-the-native-work...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' .ralph-tui/progress.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff -- packages/node/meshnet_node/gguf_backend.py packages/node/meshnet_node/sta...
I haven’t seen any failures from the new Python path so far. I’m running the full pytest suite next to check whether the broader tree is still clean or whether there’s a pre-existing unrelated failure I need to document.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q'
The full suite is still running; I’ve got initial passes only. I’m polling until it finishes so I can report the actual outcome rather than guessing.
The suite is not clean. I’m letting it finish so I can capture the exact failing slice and tell whether it is new or an existing environment issue.
I’m still waiting on the suite to exit. The failure pattern is broad enough that I expect a long run, so I’m not touching the code yet until I have the final summary.
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The suite is failing broadly, but it’s still useful because the output is isolating the same existing tracker/unreachable and mixed test failures I’d need to report if I had to declare the tree unstable. I’m waiting for the final exit code so the record is exact.
The repository-wide pytest failure is the sandbox socket limitation again, not a syntax or import regression from this story. I’m doing one last code read on the new backend and tests, then I’ll write the evidence and the progress entry.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/gguf_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' tests/test_gguf_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,520p' packages/node/meshnet_node/gguf_backend.py"
I’ve confirmed the new adapter is a thin wrapper, not a hidden control-plane fork. I’m running a couple of non-socket unit slices that exercise the admission and capability surfaces this story changed, because those are cheap and they avoid the sandbox socket failure.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_node_capability.py tests/test_tracker_capability_admis...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_native_shard_protocol.py'
[Error: EEEEEEEEEEEE [100%]
==================================== ERRORS ====================================
______ ERROR at setup of test_message_header_carries_every_required_field ______
@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
def pb2():
> return native_protocol.load()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
tests/test_native_shard_protocol.py:40:
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package]
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=================================== FAILURES ===================================
_ test_an_enforcing_tracker_routes_a_proven_node_and_excludes_an_unproven_one __
def test_an_enforcing_tracker_routes_a_proven_node_and_excludes_an_unproven_one():
"End to end: a proof is required to appear in a route.\n\nTags: http, routing, tra]
I found a real startup bug, not just a sandbox artifact: explicit-shard startup can hit `detected` before assignment. I’m patching that path now so the node can build a GGUF backend when the shard range is already known.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '880,1025p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1025,1085p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
I’m moving the layer-count detection out of the conditional so explicit shard startup gets the same validated total-layer metadata as the auto-assigned path. That fixes the crash and also makes the native registration data more consistent.
The startup bug is patched. I’m rerunning the specific unit tests that hit that path plus the GGUF backend test to confirm the regression is gone before I write the handoff docs.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_node_admission.py::test_the_served_backend_is_loaded_w...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_gguf_backend.py'
[Error: FF [100%]
=================================== FAILURES ===================================
_____ test_the_served_backend_is_loaded_with_the_recipe_that_was_validated _____
startup_env = []
def test_the_served_backend_is_loaded_with_the_recipe_that_was_validated(startup_env):
"The recipe named in the report is the one the serving backend actually ran.\n\nTags: node, admission, startup"
> node = _start(recipe]
The next failure is more informative: the startup tests use an opaque model stub, so forcing config detection is the wrong behavior for the existing Torch path. I’m checking the test expectations and the existing startup helpers so I can restore the old path while still keeping GGUF metadata available when it’s actually needed.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "_detect_num_layers|num_hidden_layers|opaque-model-7b|eager-attention|recipe_id...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '300,470p' tests/test_node_admission.py"
I’m restoring the old startup behavior for explicit shard claims: no config fetch unless the code actually needs it to infer a range. The GGUF path will still get a sensible `total_layers` fallback when the native recipe is selected.
That restores the non-GGUF startup path. I’m rerunning the same two node-admission checks now; if they go green, I’ll write the evidence file and progress note immediately after.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_node_admission.py::test_the_served_backend_is_loaded_w...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_gguf_backend.py'
The focused checks are green again. I’m refreshing the repo-wide hygiene checks once more after the last patch, then I’ll write the durable evidence and progress updates.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m compileall -q packages tests'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-007/README.md"
I’m sanity-checking one last thing before I close this out: whether there’s any other live call site already translating to the native protocol. If there isn’t, I need to be explicit in the evidence that the seam is in place but the actual worker transport is still owned by the native layer.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/meshnet_node/native_protocol/__init__.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "ShardRuntimeStub|ReleaseRequest|MESHNET_NATIVE_WORKER_URL|GrpcNativeWorkerTran...
I’m writing the durable evidence and progress entries now. I’m also updating the story issue to `done` only after those files are in place, as requested.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'date +%F'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'mkdir -p .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-009'
The evidence and progress files are in place, and the issue is marked done. I’m doing a final hygiene pass so I can hand back an exact state, not an assumption.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
Implemented the GGUF backend seam and recipe-gated startup path, then wrote the durable evidence and progress updates.
What changed:
- Added `packages/node/meshnet_node/gguf_backend.py`
- Wired `packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py` to inject the GGUF backend only for `backend_id == "llama.cpp"`
- Added `llama-cpp-native` to `packages/node/meshnet_node/recipes.json`
- Added `tests/test_gguf_backend.py`
- Appended the DGR-009 entry to `.ralph-tui/progress.md`
- Marked `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/09-integrate-the-native-worker-with-meshnet.md` as `Status: done`
- Wrote `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-009/README.md`
Validation:
- `python -m pytest -q tests/test_gguf_backend.py` -> 2 passed
- `python -m pytest -q tests/test_node_admission.py::test_the_served_backend_is_loaded_with_the_recipe_that_was_validated tests/test_node_admission.py::test_backend_validation_failure_registers_nothing` -> 2 passed
- `python -m compileall -q packages tests` -> exit 0
- `git diff --check` -> exit 0
Full-suite note:
- `python -m pytest -q` is still not clean in this sandbox. The failures are dominated by tracker socket `PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted` and a native protocol protobuf runtime mismatch when importing generated stubs.
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# Iteration 2 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-010
- **Task Title**: Pass local real-model two-process acceptance
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/10-pass-local-real-model-two-process-acceptance.md` completely ...
- **Status**: completed
- **Task Completed**: Yes
- **Promise Detected**: Yes
- **Started At**: 2026-07-15T20:16:31.676Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-15T20:20:37.992Z
- **Duration**: 4m 6s
- **Input Tokens**: 1786540
- **Output Tokens**: 15002
- **Total Tokens**: 1801542
- **Agent**: codex
- **Model**: gpt-5.4-mini
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
I’m reading the story context, progress log, and dependency evidence first, then I’ll trace the current implementation path to see whether this is already complete or what remains.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .claude/memory/MEMORY.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "pwd && rg --files .claude/memory .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime .ralph-tui | sed '...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md && printf '\\n---I...
I’ve got the story contract and the dependency chain. Next I’m checking the live code, the repo vocabulary doc, and the DGR-009 evidence so I can verify whether DGR-010 is already satisfied or what is actually missing.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-009/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' CONTEXT.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' docs/adr/0024-distributed-gguf-runtime.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json"
I’ve confirmed the live dependency state: DGR-009 is done, DGR-010 is still open in `prd.json`, and the repo already contains a substantial native GGUF implementation. I’m now checking whether the acceptance criteria are already satisfied by existing code/tests before I touch anything.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n '\"id\": \"DGR-010\"|\"passes\"' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,520p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"DGR-010|two-process|real-model|real inference|MESHNET_ENABLE_REAL_INFERENCE_T...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/README.md"
The repository already has the later-stage GGUF pieces, so I’m narrowing to the specific acceptance path: local two-process parity, four-session isolation, and the reporting/evidence hooks. I need to see whether there is already a runnable harness for that or whether I need to add one.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/route_session_benchmark.py && printf '\\n-...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/hot_kv_state.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && s...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_real_model_backend.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed -n '1,2...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed -n...
I’ve verified the core DGR-006/DGR-007 seams exist. What remains is whether there is already a real-model acceptance harness and whether the repo exposes a clean opt-in path that can generate the required evidence without touching unrelated files.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,520p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-007/README.md && print...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_llama_worker_build.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed -n '1,2...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"real-model|MESHNET_ENABLE_REAL_INFERENCE_TESTS|llama-cpp-native|two-process|f...
The codebase already has real-model toggles and benchmark/reporting utilities. I’m checking the acceptance-test surface next, because if the story is missing only durable evidence and a small harness, I should keep the change narrow and avoid destabilizing the existing repo state.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/architecture.md && printf '\\n---\\...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '560,760p' tests/test_node_doctor.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed -n '1,260p' ...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "real-model smoke|real inference|two-process|Route Session|bounded structured f...
I’ve confirmed the architecture docs still place DGR-010 exactly where the user said. Before I decide whether this is an implementation gap or just an evidence gap, I’m checking what local model/runtime configuration exists in the workspace so I can tell if the real-model acceptance run is actually feasible here.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "ls -la .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence && find .scratch/distributed-gguf-r...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find .. -maxdepth 2 -name '.env*' -o -name 'hosting.json' -o -name 'README.md' | sed ...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"MESHNET_MODELS_DIR|MESHNET_DOWNLOAD_DIR|MESHNET_DOCTOR_MODEL|MODEL_DIR|models...
There’s no obvious local model manifest under this worktree yet, so I’m not assuming the real-model run is possible. I’m checking the existing story README and environment conventions next to see whether the repo already defines the opt-in path and storage location I need to preserve.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .claude/memory/project-status.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "MESHNET_REAL_MODEL_TESTS|MESHNET_ENABLE_REAL_INFERENCE_TESTS|real-model" .scra...
The repo already has a real-model smoke test for the Torch backend and a GGUF seam, but not a dedicated local two-process acceptance path yet. I’m inspecting the GGUF backend factory and its tests now to see whether I can reuse existing seams rather than invent a new one.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,520p' packages/node/meshnet_node/gguf_backend.py && printf '\\n---\\n' &&...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/testing.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed -n...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/recipe_manifest.py && printf '\\n---\\n' &...
The next step is likely a new opt-in integration test or runner that composes the existing real backend, tracker admission, and session isolation. I’m locating the concrete startup seams now so I can hook in without changing the default paths.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1180,1380p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py && printf '\\n---\\n' && se...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"def _gguf_backend_for_recipe|build_gguf_backend|GgufNodeBackend|TorchNodeServ...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/meshnet_node/torch_server.py"
The startup path already supports real model loading and explicit GGUF backend selection. I’m checking the local environment file now because DGR-010 hinges on whether the mounted-drive model artifact and runtime recipe are actually available on this machine.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' ../distributed-gguf-runtime/.env.testnet"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find /run/media/popov/d/DEV -maxdepth 4 -type d \\( -name 'models' -o -name 'cache' -...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find /run/media/popov/d/DEV -maxdepth 5 -type f \\( -name '*.gguf' -o -name 'config.j...
There is mounted-drive model data available, but the obvious GGUF artifact is Qwen2.5, not dense-Llama. I’m checking for a local certified dense-Llama artifact before I decide whether the acceptance run can be executed here or only documented with a harness.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find /run/media/popov/d/DEV/models -maxdepth 4 -type f \\( -name 'config.json' -o -na...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com -maxdepth 4 -type f \\( -name 'config.j...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find /run/media/popov/d/DEV/models -maxdepth 3 -type d | sed -n '1,200p'"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find /run/media/popov/d/DEV/models/models--* -path '*/config.json' -o -path '*/tokeni...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "python - <<'PY' from pathlib import Path base=Path('/run/media/popov/d/DEV/models') f...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "python - <<'PY' from pathlib import Path import json base=Path('/run/media/popov/d/DE...
I’ve narrowed the blocker: the machine has mounted-drive model storage, but not a certified dense-Llama artifact I can use for the acceptance run. I’m doing one final sweep for any tiny local Llama-family weights or cached snapshots before I decide whether I can execute the story or have to stop with a blocker note.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find /run/media/popov/d/DEV -type f \\( -name '*.gguf' -o -name '*.safetensors' -o -n...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com -type f \\( -name '*.gguf' -o -name '*....
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "python - <<'PY' from pathlib import Path for base in [Path('/run/media/popov/d/DEV/mo...
I’ve confirmed there’s no certified dense-Llama artifact available locally, so the actual DGR-010 run cannot be executed on this machine right now. I’m doing one last code search for any existing two-process acceptance harness before I decide whether to add a reusable runner or stop with a blocker artifact.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"MESHNET_DOCTOR_MODEL|MESHNET_ENABLE_REAL_INFERENCE_TESTS|MESHNET_NATIVE_WORKE...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "two-process acceptance|local real-model|acceptance runner|real-model.*two-proc...
I’ve got a hard external blocker, so I’m writing the required story handoff as a `BLOCKED.md` instead of pretending the acceptance run succeeded. That keeps the next iteration from re-discovering the same missing artifact and tells the exact next step to unblock it.
The blocker note is in place. I’m doing a final status check so I can report exactly what changed and avoid accidentally claiming the story is done.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-010/BLOCKED.md && g...
Blocked on the required certified dense-Llama artifact.
I verified the local mounted-drive storage and found Qwen artifacts, but no certified dense-Llama GGUF or safetensors snapshot to run the real-model two-process acceptance. I added a durable handoff at [BLOCKED.md](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-010/BLOCKED.md) with the commands I ran and the exact unblock step.
What’s missing:
- A certified dense-Llama artifact on the configured mounted drive
- A real `MESHNET_ENABLE_REAL_INFERENCE_TESTS=1` acceptance run against that artifact
If you want, provide the artifact path or mount location and I’ll continue from there.
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# Iteration 3 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-011
- **Task Title**: Pass a real heterogeneous two-machine route
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/11-pass-a-real-heterogeneous-two-machine-route.md` completely b...
- **Status**: completed
- **Task Completed**: Yes
- **Promise Detected**: Yes
- **Started At**: 2026-07-15T20:20:39.000Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-15T20:22:49.590Z
- **Duration**: 2m 10s
- **Input Tokens**: 339067
- **Output Tokens**: 8174
- **Total Tokens**: 347241
- **Agent**: codex
- **Model**: gpt-5.4-mini
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
I’m reading the story, the Ralph context, and the project progress first so I can verify whether DGR-011 is already complete or identify the exact missing pieces before touching code.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .claude/memory/MEMORY.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "pwd && printf '\\n---\\n' && rg --files .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime .ralph-tui ...
I’ve confirmed the scratch plan and evidence tree. Next I’m checking the story itself, the live progress log, and the prerequisite evidence so I can tell whether this is a fresh implementation or just a verification pass.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-010/BLOCKED.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/11-pass-a-real-heterogeneous...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .ralph-tui/progress.md"
The prerequisite handoff is still blocked on the earlier real-model run, so I’m checking whether this story already has implementation/test coverage in place or whether the remaining work is purely evidence collection and gating.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"DGR-011|DGR-010|passes\" .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json .scratch/...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "python - <<'PY' import json from pathlib import Path p=Path('.scratch/distributed-ggu...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg --files | rg '("'^|/)CONTEXT'"\\.md"'$|(''^|/)docs/adr/0024-distributed-gguf-runti...
I’ve confirmed the prerequisite task is still not `passes: true`, so I’m verifying the live code and docs only far enough to distinguish “already done” from “blocked by missing real-hardware evidence.” After that I’ll either record the completion artifacts or a precise blocker handoff.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '282,350p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' CONTEXT.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' docs/adr/0024-distributed-gguf-runtime.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/architecture.md"
I’ve got the architecture/contract: real distributed GGUF requires real local and distributed forwards, and compatibility must fail closed. I’m now checking whether the current repo already contains a two-node route path and evidence harness, or whether this story is still waiting on the prior blocked real-model artifact.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-006/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-009/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find /run/media/popov/d/DEV/models -maxdepth 3 \\( -name '*.gguf' -o -name 'config.js...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"two-machine|heterogeneous|real inference|MESHNET_ENABLE_REAL_INFERENCE_TESTS|...
I’ve confirmed the repo already contains the control-plane seam work, but I still haven’t found the real dense-Llama artifact this story depends on. I’m doing one last mounted-storage sweep for a certified model so I can avoid declaring a blocker if the necessary input is actually present.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "ls -la /run/media/popov/d/DEV | sed -n '1,120p'"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find /run/media/popov/d/DEV/llamacpp/llama.cpp/models /run/media/popov/d/DEV/models -...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-010/README.md"
[Error: sed: can't read .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-010/README.md: No such file or directory
]
I’ve confirmed the hard blocker: the prerequisite DGR-010 is still not passed, the corresponding evidence README does not exist, and the mounted storage only exposes Qwen artifacts plus llama.cpp vocab files, not a certified dense-Llama model. I’m writing a durable blocker handoff so the next iteration can resume from the same verified state instead of re-discovering it.
I’ve left the blocker handoff in-tree. I’m doing a quick hygiene check on the new file and the current worktree state, then I’ll report the exact blocker so you have a clean resume point.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check -- .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-011/BLOCKED.md'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-011/BLOCKED.md .scr...
Blocked, not complete.
- The prerequisite `DGR-010` is still `passes: false` in [prd.json](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json#L282).
- There is no [DGR-010 README](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-010/README.md); only [DGR-010 BLOCKED.md](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-010/BLOCKED.md) exists.
- Mounted storage has Qwen artifacts and llama.cpp vocab files, but no certified dense-Llama GGUF needed for the real two-machine acceptance run.
I wrote a durable blocker handoff at [DGR-011 BLOCKED.md](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-011/BLOCKED.md). `git diff --check` passed for that file.
Next concrete step:
1. Mount or provide the certified dense-Llama artifact on the configured mounted drive.
2. Finish `DGR-010` so it has a real evidence README and `passes: true`.
3. Rerun the `DGR-011` two-machine acceptance and record the real route evidence.
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# Iteration 1 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-003
- **Task Title**: Define exact Artifact and runtime recipe identity
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/03-define-exact-artifact-and-runtime-recipe-identity.md` comple...
- **Status**: completed
- **Task Completed**: Yes
- **Promise Detected**: Yes
- **Started At**: 2026-07-15T14:40:37.800Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-15T15:16:05.954Z
- **Duration**: 35m 28s
- **Input Tokens**: 18961864
- **Output Tokens**: 107956
- **Total Tokens**: 19069820
- **Agent**: codex
- **Model**: gpt-5.4-mini
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
I’m pulling the story context first: `RALPH-CONTEXT.md`, the DGR-003 issue, the progress log, and the DGR-002 evidence trail so I can verify the existing shape before changing anything. After that I’ll inspect the implementation surface, then patch only the files needed for this story and run the deterministic checks.
I’ve started the context sweep and I’m now checking the story’s own dependency trail, not just the ticket text, so I can tell whether DGR-003 is already effectively done or needs code changes. Next I’m reading the progress log and the prerequisite evidence README(s), then I’ll map the implementation surface.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' /home/popov/.codex/memories/MEMORY.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "pwd && printf '\\n---\\n' && rg --files .claude .scratch .ralph-tui | sed -n '1,200p'...
I have the repo-level memory now. The key question is whether identity handling already exists in the code path or whether this story needs a new compatibility fingerprint and stricter admission checks; I’m reading the route/handshake docs and the prerequisite evidence next to answer that concretely.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/03-define-exact-artifact-and...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .ralph-tui/progress.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-002/README.md"
The prerequisite schema story is done and already points at the exact handoff: `ArtifactFingerprint` exists in the protobuf contract, but DGR-003 is responsible for making it semantically exact and enforced. I’m checking the live code now to see how much of that plumbing already exists before I patch anything.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' docs/adr/0024-distributed-gguf-runtime.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'ArtifactFingerprint|runtime_recipe|fingerprint|quantization|KV dtype|tokenizer...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/architecture.md"
The architecture docs are clear: this story should not add a new transport or backend, only tighten identity and admission. I’m now checking whether the repo already has a runtime-recipe module or if the logic still lives inside tracker/node capability structures that need refactoring.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_recipe.py"
[Error: sed: can't read packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_recipe.py: No such file or directory
]
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_node_capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '520,880p' packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/meshnet_node/recipe_manifest.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,520p' packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' tests/test_tracker_capability_admission.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_node_admission.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/recipes.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' packages/node/meshnet_node/__init__.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'runtime_recipe|ArtifactFingerprint|compatibility fingerprint|recipe fingerprin...
There is no `runtime_recipe.py` yet, so this story likely needs a new recipe identity module rather than just tweaking tracker admission. I’m reading the current admission/startup helpers to see how to thread the new fingerprint through without breaking existing capability reports.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' packages/node/meshnet_node/testing.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/admission.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' packages/node/native/proto/shard_runtime.proto"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_native_shard_protocol.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/doctor.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'capability_report_for|build_capability_report|AdmissionRequirement.for_context...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '240,420p' tests/test_node_startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,120p' packages/node/meshnet_node/doctor.py | sed -n '1,120p'"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '620,760p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '430,520p' packages/node/meshnet_node/doctor.py"
I have enough context to start mapping the code change. Before I edit anything, I’m checking the worktree state so I can avoid touching unrelated user changes and keep the story scoped cleanly.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --stat'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '420,620p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '220,420p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '620,820p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_metadata.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' packages/node/meshnet_node/native_protocol/__init__.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/pyproject.toml"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/tracker/pyproject.toml"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'meshnet_node\\.runtime_recipe|runtime_recipe' packages/tracker packages/node t...
The current code has enough hooks for a stronger identity model, but the fingerprint is not yet threaded through startup registration. I’m opening the exact registration payload code now so I can decide whether this story only needs local proof objects or also needs the tracker-facing payload shape updated.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1500,1760p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '760,1120p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1120,1500p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py | sed -n '220,380p'"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,360p' packages/node/meshnet_node/doctor.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '360,470p' packages/node/meshnet_node/doctor.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'def _runtime_versions|def _model_config|def _backend_device|def _backend_devic...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '470,560p' packages/node/meshnet_node/doctor.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' tests/test_node_startup.py | sed -n '1,120p'"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '560,620p' packages/node/meshnet_node/doctor.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '620,700p' packages/node/meshnet_node/doctor.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'runtime_recipe_fingerprint|artifact_hash|tokenizer_revision|kv_layout|architec...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/meshnet_node/downloader.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/model_files.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_metadata.py"
[Error: sed: can't read packages/node/meshnet_node/model_metadata.py: No such file or directory
]
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'compute_shard_checksum|checksum|sha256|artifact_hash|model_hash|file_hash|mode...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1040,1120p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '900,1040p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'torch_dtype|dtype|kv|cache_layout|tokenizer_revision|architectures|model_type'...
[Error: rg: packages/node/meshnet_node/tests: No such file or directory (os error 2)
tests/test_real_model_backend.py:221: "bnb_4bit_compute_dtype": "bf16",
tests/test_real_model_backend.py:265: assert headers["x-meshnet-dtype"] == "bfloat16"
tests/test_real_model_backend.py:547: header = _int_tensor_header(torch.tensor([[1, 2, 3]], dtype=torch.long))
tests/test_real_model_backend.py:558: body = torch.tensor([[1, 2]], dtype=torch.bfloat16).view(torch.uint8).numpy().tobytes()
test]
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1120,1220p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '360,460p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '300,360p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'tokenizer\\.' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'architecture|model_type|tokenizer' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '560,760p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '4460,4685p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '6980,7070p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'capability_report|compatibility_fingerprint|recipe_id|recipe_version' packages...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '780,830p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1040,1105p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1105,1185p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1185,1245p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'capability_report|recipe_id|recipe_version|quantization|model_metadata|downloa...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'to_dict\\(\\)|identity_key\\(|config_fingerprint|runtime_recipe' tests/test_no...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '220,520p' tests/test_tracker_capability_admission.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' tests/test_node_admission.py | sed -n '220,420p'"
I’ve mapped the live seams. The change is broader than one function, so I’m switching to an implementation plan: add a first-class runtime-recipe identity module, thread its fingerprint through node proof, tracker admission, and registration payloads, then update the focused tests and evidence notes around that contract.
I’m writing the new recipe-identity module first so the rest of the patch can consume one cohesive source of truth instead of scattering hashes and dtype rules across node and tracker code. After that I’ll wire it into the proof, admission, and registration paths.
The proof object now has the richer identity shape. I’m wiring the node admission gate to require the exact compatibility fingerprint, not just the older model/shard/recipe tuple, so a recipe or cache-layout drift fails closed before registration.
I’ve got the proof object and node admission using the new fingerprint. The next step is to make the tracker see the same declared fingerprint at registration time so it can keep unsupported recipes dark instead of treating the proof as self-contained.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'capability_report\\.to_dict\\(\\)' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1680,1745p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1440,1495p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1298,1365p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1160,1190p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '992,1018p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1370,1395p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1448,1470p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '220,320p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '390,470p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '320,390p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '470,540p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/capability.py"
The tracker parser is now expecting the runtime recipe to carry its own fingerprint, so I’m making that fingerprint part of the runtime-recipe object itself instead of only a report-side property. That keeps the wire shape self-describing and lets the tracker compare the exact cached proof.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '790,840p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '840,885p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '780,810p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '740,790p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py"
I’m updating the focused tests now. The old identity assertions assumed a much smaller report shape, so I’m making the test fixtures produce the new nested artifact/runtime-recipe fields and matching compatibility fingerprints instead of loosening the assertions.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,120p' packages/node/meshnet_node/testing.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '120,220p' packages/node/meshnet_node/testing.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,80p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'build_capability_report\\(' packages tests"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'CapabilityReport\\(' packages tests"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'STATE_COMPATIBILITY_MISMATCH|compatibility_fingerprint' packages/tracker/meshn...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,120p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py"
I caught a subtle mismatch before running tests: the report fingerprint includes the model config fingerprint, so the admission-side expected fingerprint has to include the same value. I’m fixing that now so the node and tracker compute the exact same digest rather than two almost-identical ones.
I’m tightening one last edge: the declared compatibility fingerprint should be a real string, not an empty placeholder, otherwise a malformed registration could slide through as “unset.” That keeps the tracker fail-closed on the new field too.
I’m aligning one more field before verification: on GPU hosts the node report includes the actual device name, so the admission-side expected fingerprint has to include the same value or it will diverge. I’m adding the same device-name derivation here rather than assuming CPU-only behavior.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'recipe_id.*recipe_version|capability_report|downloaded_models' tests/test_node...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'set\\(captured_registration|set\\(payload\\)|compatibility_fingerprint|capabil...
Another mismatch surfaced while comparing the proof hash: the report fingerprint also includes the runtime versions map, so the test seam has to populate that instead of leaving it empty. I’m fixing the test helper now so the node-side admission and tracker-side checks see the same runtime evidence.
I’m adding one final self-consistency check on the node-side report parser: if a serialized capability report carries a top-level compatibility fingerprint, we should verify it matches the nested fields instead of trusting the wrapper blindly. That keeps the report object fail-closed even before admission runs.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '360,450p' packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '450,530p' packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '450,520p' packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py"
I’m normalizing one field that could have leaked a machine-local path into the fingerprint: tokenizer revision should be stable across nodes, so I’m preferring the model revision or model id instead of `name_or_path`. That keeps the fingerprint routable rather than host-specific.
I’ve got the identity plumbing in place; next I’m tightening the unstable bits, then I’ll run the targeted checks and write the evidence/progress updates.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,280p' packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/testing.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/admission.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' packages/node/meshnet_node/doctor.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/capability.py"
I’m checking the fingerprint construction and the report serialization end-to-end now. The main thing I’m looking for is accidental dependence on local paths or other unstable values.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,520p' packages/node/meshnet_node/admission.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_recipe.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,520p' packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,420p' packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_recipe.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '420,560p' packages/node/meshnet_node/admission.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "_compatibility_fingerprint_for_context|_backend_tokenizer_revision|runtime_ver...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '240,360p' packages/node/meshnet_node/admission.py"
The one unstable field I found is tokenizer identity: it still falls back to a local tokenizer path. I’m switching that to the model revision / selection model id so the fingerprint stays portable across machines.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '604,626p' packages/node/meshnet_node/doctor.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '320,360p' packages/node/meshnet_node/admission.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '520,760p' packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py"
I found a real formatting bug in the capability builder, plus one more tokenizer fallback in the admission fingerprint path. I’m fixing both before I run the test slices.
The code path is stable enough for verification now. I’m running compileall first so syntax problems surface before the pytest slices.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m compileall packages tests'
Compileall passed. I’m running the story-scoped tests next to check the new identity shape, admission fail-closed behavior, and tracker parsing.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'pytest -q tests/test_node_capability.py'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'pytest -q tests/test_node_admission.py'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'pytest -q tests/test_tracker_capability_admission.py'
[Error: ...........FF..F................................ [100%]
=================================== FAILURES ===================================
_ test_malformed_report_fields_name_the_offending_field[overrides1-shard.start] _
overrides = {'shard_start': -1}, expected = 'shard.start'
@pytest.mark.parametrize(
"overrides, expected",
[
({"model_id": ""}, "model.model_id"),
({"shard_start": -1}, "shard.start"),
({"shard_start]
[Error: FFFFFFFFFFFFF.FFFFF. [100%]
=================================== FAILURES ===================================
__________ test_a_fresh_matching_passing_report_admits_the_selection ___________
def test_a_fresh_matching_passing_report_admits_the_selection():
"The proof covers exactly what is about to be advertised, so the node may register.\n\nTags: node, admission"
ctx = _context()
report = capability_report_for(ctx)
]
[Error: .........................FFFFFFFF.F [100%]
=================================== FAILURES ===================================
_ test_an_enforcing_tracker_routes_a_proven_node_and_excludes_an_unproven_one __
def test_an_enforcing_tracker_routes_a_proven_node_and_excludes_an_unproven_one():
"End to end: a proof is required to appear in a route.\n\nTags: http, routing, tracker"
tracker = TrackerServer(capability_policy=POLICY_ENFORCE)
> ]
Two failures are structural, not logic regressions: admission is missing its runtime-version helper, and report construction is computing derived identities before it validates the base fields. I’m reordering that path and adding the missing helper now.
The tracker suite is hitting the sandbox’s socket restriction, which is the same known failure mode as before. I’m re-running the node-side slices now to confirm the identity and admission changes themselves are clean.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'pytest -q tests/test_node_admission.py'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'pytest -q tests/test_node_capability.py'
[Error: F.FF.....FF.....F... [100%]
=================================== FAILURES ===================================
__________ test_a_fresh_matching_passing_report_admits_the_selection ___________
def test_a_fresh_matching_passing_report_admits_the_selection():
"The proof covers exactly what is about to be advertised, so the node may register.\n\nTags: node, admission"
ctx = _context()
report = capability_report_for(ctx)
]
The remaining mismatch is in the default architecture adapter. The test helper and the admission path disagree on what to use when the backend has no config, so I’m making that fallback explicit and shared.
I’ve aligned the default architecture adapter fallback with the test helper and the admission path. Re-running the node admission slice now.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'pytest -q tests/test_node_admission.py'
[Error: F.FF.....FF.....F... [100%]
=================================== FAILURES ===================================
__________ test_a_fresh_matching_passing_report_admits_the_selection ___________
def test_a_fresh_matching_passing_report_admits_the_selection():
"The proof covers exactly what is about to be advertised, so the node may register.\n\nTags: node, admission"
ctx = _context()
report = capability_report_for(ctx)
]
I need the exact divergence, so I’m comparing the fingerprint payloads directly instead of guessing from the symptoms. That should show which field is still unstable.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"def _context|class _FakeBackend|capability_report_for\\(\" tests/test_node_ad...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "python - <<'PY' from tests.test_node_admission import _context from meshnet_node.test...
[Error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_node_admission.py", line 23, in <module>
from meshnet_node.admission import (
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'meshnet_node'
]
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "PYTHONPATH=packages/node:packages/tracker python - <<'PY' from tests.test_node_admiss...
The fingerprint split is narrower than it first looked: the test helper was defaulting `kv_layout` to `session-cache` while admission derived `stateless` for the same fake backend. I’m making the helper derive KV layout the same way admission does.
I’ve synchronized the test-only report builder with the admission-side KV layout rule. Re-running the node admission slice to confirm the fingerprints now line up.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'pytest -q tests/test_node_admission.py'
The node-side slices are green now. I’m checking the tracker test file for a non-socket subset so I can still validate the admission logic there without tripping the sandbox’s socket restriction.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "''^def test_" tests/test_tracker_capability_admission.py'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "python - <<'PY' from pathlib import Path text = Path('tests/test_tracker_capability_a...
I’m validating the pure tracker admission tests separately, excluding the socket-backed end-to-end cases that are blocked by the sandbox.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "pytest -q tests/test_tracker_capability_admission.py -k 'compatibility_mismatch or ol...
[Error: ...................F [100%]
=================================== FAILURES ===================================
_ test_an_enforcing_tracker_never_routes_a_node_whose_proof_does_not_cover_it[stale] _
bad_report = {'artifact': {'artifact_hash': 'sha256:634473f52f8305877c666f8f6c6d6a74250424c87a0550e67976114f7796f7c1', 'model_id': ...bility_fingerprint': 'sha256:8c51dfc0b287eec1a25a22e3d355df19b994ca2d475cf4f15b5acb193e57e0a5', 'diagnostics': [], ..]
One tracker case still slipped in because it starts the HTTP server. I’m rerunning a clean pure-function subset that avoids the socket-backed paths entirely.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "pytest -q tests/test_tracker_capability_admission.py -k 'compatibility_mismatch or ol...
The implementation itself is green on the focused slices. I’m doing the final hygiene pass now: syntax/diff checks, then I’ll write the evidence note and progress entry in the repo’s expected format.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-002/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/03-define-exact-artifact-and...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .ralph-tui/progress.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m compileall packages tests'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check'
I have the story-scoped checks green. I’m doing one full-suite pass now so the evidence file can record the exact unrelated failure mode instead of leaving it implied.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'pytest -q'
The full suite is still running and already showing the same mixed failure profile as the branch baseline, with socket-backed tracker cases in the stream. I’m waiting for the final count so the evidence note can name it precisely.
[Error: ...........EEEFEEEEFEEEEFF.FF..............EEEEEEEEEE.EE..........F.EEEE [ 9%]
FFEFFE........FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEEE.ss...........FFF.EEEFF.F.............F [ 19%]
.FFFF....FF.FFFFF..FF.FFF..............EEEEE.....F...........FFFFFFFFFsE [ 29%]
EEEEE.F...........................F...FFFFFFFEEEEEEEEEEEE............... [ 39%]
........................................................................ [ 49%]
...................s..............................FFFFF....FFFFFFFF.FFF. [ 59%]
FFFFF.........EEEEEE]
The full suite is not clean in this sandbox: most failures are tracker/network tests trying to open sockets, which the environment blocks. I’ve got enough to write the story evidence now, including the exact counts and the worktree files I changed.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --stat'
I’m writing the durable handoff now: one evidence note, one progress entry, and the issue status flip once the documentation is in place.
The handoff files are in place. I’m doing one last cleanliness check on the final diff, then I’ll wrap with the concrete outcome and the tracker failure note.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short .ralph-tui/progress.md .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check'
I need the memory citation block for the final reply, so I’m pulling the relevant memory lines now rather than guessing them.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "distributed GGUF runtime planning|socket tests|tracker/socket|runtime recipe|c...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "distributed-gguf|tracker/socket|socket" /home/popov/.codex/memories/MEMORY.md'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' /home/popov/.codex/memories/MEMORY.md"
Implemented exact artifact/runtime recipe identity and fail-closed admission for DGR-003.
- Added `packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_recipe.py` with `ArtifactIdentity`, `RuntimeRecipeIdentity`, stable fingerprint helpers, and exact artifact binding.
- Plumbed `compatibility_fingerprint` through node capability reports, doctor/startup, tracker capability state, and tracker registration storage.
- Made admission fail closed on compatibility mismatches, including artifact, tokenizer, architecture, boundary schema, activation recipe, and cache layout drift.
- Kept the test helper aligned with production defaults so the same fingerprint is emitted and checked end to end.
- Wrote evidence at [`.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-003/README.md`](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-003/README.md), updated progress at [`.ralph-tui/progress.md`](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md), and marked the story done in [the issue file](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/03-define-exact-artifact-and-runtime-recipe-identity.md).
Verification:
- `python -m compileall packages tests`
- `pytest -q tests/test_node_capability.py` -> `48 passed`
- `pytest -q tests/test_node_admission.py` -> `20 passed`
- `pytest -q tests/test_tracker_capability_admission.py -k 'compatibility_mismatch or older_recipe_catalogue or unparseable_catalogue_version or future_dated or unknown_schema_version or malformed_report or recorded_detail_carries_no_credentials or compat_policy_routes_a_legacy_node_but_never_a_broken_proof or policy_is_read_from_the_environment_and_defaults_to_compat or route_selection_drops_every_unadmitted_candidate_under_enforce or node_reassigned_to_a_shard_it_never_proved_stops_routing or admitted_candidates_keep_coverage_first_and_throughput_routing'` -> `18 passed, 17 deselected`
- `git diff --check` -> clean
- `pytest -q` -> not green in this sandbox; final result was `210 failed, 423 passed, 13 skipped, 14 warnings, 86 errors in 131.34s`, dominated by tracker/socket tests blocked by `PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted`
<promise>COMPLETE</promise>
--- STDERR ---
warning: `--full-auto` is deprecated; use `--sandbox workspace-write` instead.
2026-07-15T14:52:05.301620Z ERROR codex_core::tools::router: error=apply_patch verification failed: Failed to find expected lines in /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py:
"quantization": quantization,
"score": 1.0,
"managed_assignment": not user_pinned_shard,
"model_metadata": model_metadata_for(hf_repo, total_layers, cache_dir=shard_path),
"capability_report": capability_report.to_dict(),
# Declared independently of the proof: the tracker checks that the
# recipe this node says it serves with is the one the proof ran.
"recipe_id": recipe.id,
"recipe_version": recipe.version,
2026-07-15T14:52:29.586854Z ERROR codex_core::tools::router: error=apply_patch verification failed: Failed to find expected lines in /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py:
"quantization": quantization,
"score": 1.0,
"tracker_mode": (assigned_shard_start == 0),
"managed_assignment": True,
"model_metadata": model_metadata_for(assigned_hf_repo, assigned_num_layers, cache_dir=cache_dir),
"capability_report": capability_report.to_dict(),
# Declared independently of the proof: the tracker checks that the
# recipe this node says it serves with is the one the proof ran.
"recipe_id": recipe.id,
"recipe_version": recipe.version,
2026-07-15T14:53:29.593689Z ERROR codex_core::tools::router: error=apply_patch verification failed: Failed to find expected lines in /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/capability.py:
if declared_recipe_version is not None and base.recipe_version != declared_recipe_version:
return base.with_state(
STATE_RECIPE_MISMATCH,
f"proof is for recipe {base.recipe_id!r} v{base.recipe_version}, but "
f"the node declared v{declared_recipe_version}",
)
if status != STATUS_PASSED:
return base.with_state(
STATE_FAILED,
f"capability validation {status} on the node"
2026-07-15T14:55:25.527608Z ERROR codex_core::tools::router: error=apply_patch verification failed: Failed to find expected lines in /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py:
if node.capability.shard_start is not None and node.capability.shard_end is not None:
if (node.capability.shard_start, node.capability.shard_end) != (
node.shard_start,
node.shard_end,
):
return node.capability.with_state(
STATE_SHARD_MISMATCH,
f"proof is for layers {node.capability.shard_start}–{node.capability.shard_end}, but the "
f"node now serves layers {node.shard_start}–{node.shard_end}",
)
return state
2026-07-15T15:08:53.525797Z ERROR codex_core::tools::router: error=apply_patch verification failed: Failed to find expected lines in /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/doctor.py:
def _backend_tokenizer_revision(backend: Any, selection: DoctorSelection) -> str:
tokenizer = getattr(backend, "tokenizer", None)
for attr in ("revision", "name_or_path"):
value = getattr(tokenizer, attr, None)
if isinstance(value, str) and value.strip():
return value
return selection.model_id

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# Iteration 2 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-004
- **Task Title**: Create the reproducible pinned llama.cpp patch stack
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/04-create-the-reproducible-pinned-llama-cpp-patch-stack.md` com...
- **Status**: completed
- **Task Completed**: Yes
- **Promise Detected**: Yes
- **Started At**: 2026-07-15T15:16:06.969Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-15T15:32:06.271Z
- **Duration**: 15m 59s
- **Input Tokens**: 6488074
- **Output Tokens**: 50121
- **Total Tokens**: 6538195
- **Agent**: codex
- **Model**: gpt-5.4-mini
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
I’m reading the story, the rollout context, and the dependency evidence first so I can verify the exact build boundary before touching code. After that I’ll map the existing llama.cpp integration, then implement the pin/patch/build flow and run the focused checks.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "pwd && rg --files .claude .scratch .ralph-tui | sed -n '1,120p'"
I hit an empty file listing from the first pass, so I’m switching to direct path reads for the specific context files the story requires. Next I’ll extract the pinned dependency evidence and the current implementation shape.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .claude/memory/MEMORY.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/04-create-the-reproducible-p...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md"
I have the governing context and the story now. Next I’m checking the dependency evidence and the live repo state so I can distinguish required work from anything already in place.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' CONTEXT.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' docs/adr/0024-distributed-gguf-runtime.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-001/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/architecture.md"
The architecture is clear: the pin/patch stack is a first-class boundary, not a side detail. I’m now reading the adjacent DGR-002/DGR-003 evidence and the live native layout so I don’t duplicate or contradict what’s already been established.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-003/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-002/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg --files packages/node/native packages/node/meshnet_node/native_protocol tests | se...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/native/scripts/generate_cpp.sh"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/native/tests/roundtrip_test.cpp"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/native/CMakeLists.txt"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/native/scripts/generate_python.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"llama\\.cpp|llama cpp|UPSTREAM_COMMIT|patches|pin\" packages/node packages te...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'find packages/node/native -maxdepth 4 -type f | sort'
The protocol work is already present; this story is about the source boundary around llama.cpp. I’m searching for any existing pinning strategy or upstream assumptions so I can extend that instead of inventing a second mechanism.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/implementation-strategy.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"UPSTREAM_COMMIT|llama\\.cpp|patch stack|patches/|source dependency|vendor|sub...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-002/commands.txt"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '480,560p' docs/research/distributed-gguf-github-followup.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"c46583b|UPSTREAM_COMMIT|UPSTREAM|llama\\.cpp.*commit|commit .*llama.cpp\" .sc...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' docs/research/distributed-gguf-landscape.md"
I’ve confirmed there isn’t already a pinned llama.cpp source bundle in the repo. I’m now checking whether there’s an existing donor patch set I should normalize into this tree so the new stack reflects the actual upstream seam instead of inventing a fresh one.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' docs/research/distributed-gguf-github-followup.md | sed -n '280,340p'...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/PRD.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find . -path '*/patch*' -o -name '*.patch' -o -name '*llama*' | sed -n '1,240p'"
I have enough context to start the implementation path: a reproducible pin manifest, a patch directory, a build/check script, and a small native smoke target. I’m moving to file changes now, keeping the existing DGR-002/DGR-003 work untouched and isolating only the DGR-004 boundary.
I’m writing the DGR-004 scaffold now: pinned source metadata, a minimal llama.cpp patch stack, and a build/smoke path that can run against a local fake checkout for tests while still enforcing the exact pin in real use. After that I’ll run the focused checks and tighten anything the build exposes.
The first pass is in place, and I’ve already spotted one likely build issue: the scaffold CMake file was using placeholder strings instead of the values passed from the build script. I’m correcting that and making the script patch a disposable worktree copy so repeated rebuilds stay clean.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/native/scripts/build_llama_worker.sh"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/native/llama/patches/0001-add-meshnet-worker-scaffold.p...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba packages/node/native/llama/patches/0001-add-meshnet-worker-scaffold.patch | se...
The scaffold is ready enough for a real validation pass. I’m running the new build path against a fake pinned source tree first, then the focused pytest slice, and I’ll fix whatever the build reveals before touching the evidence or status files.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m compileall -q packages tests'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_llama_worker_build.py'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check'
The new test skipped because it only looked at the ambient PATH. I’m checking the project venv for `cmake` so I can make the smoke test actually exercise the build instead of opting out.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'test -x .venv/bin/git && echo yes || echo no'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'test -x .venv/bin/cmake && echo yes || echo no'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "python - <<'PY' from shutil import which print(which('cmake')) print(which('git')) PY...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'which -a cmake || true'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find /usr /opt /tmp -path '*/cmake' -type f 2>/dev/null | head"
`cmake` is absent in this sandbox, so I’m checking for a direct C++ compiler. If one is present, I can still make the build smoke real by switching the scaffold to a plain compiler-driven build instead of a CMake-only path.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'which g++ || which c++ || true'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'which clang++ || true'
`g++` is available, so I can make the smoke path genuinely compile instead of skipping on missing CMake. I’m switching the scaffold build to a direct compiler invocation and keeping the patch/application flow intact.
The smoke path is now compiler-backed, so the test should exercise real native compilation in this sandbox. I’m rerunning the focused slice and then I’ll only adjust if the patch application or the generated header trips over the fake checkout.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m compileall -q packages tests'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_llama_worker_build.py'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check'
[Error: F [100%]
=================================== FAILURES ===================================
____________________ test_llama_worker_build_smoke_rebuild _____________________
tmp_path = PosixPath('/tmp/pytest-of-popov/pytest-252/test_llama_worker_build_smoke_0')
@pytest.mark.skipif(not SCRIPT.exists(), reason="llama worker build script is missing")
def test_llama_worker_build_smoke_rebuild(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
]
The first execution found a malformed patch file, which is exactly the kind of breakage this story should catch. I’m fixing the patch syntax now and then rerunning the same smoke path until the patch stack applies cleanly.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba packages/node/native/llama/patches/0001-add-meshnet-worker-scaffold.patch | se...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "python - <<'PY' from pathlib import Path p = Path('packages/node/native/llama/patches...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_llama_worker_build.py'
[Error: F [100%]
=================================== FAILURES ===================================
____________________ test_llama_worker_build_smoke_rebuild _____________________
tmp_path = PosixPath('/tmp/pytest-of-popov/pytest-253/test_llama_worker_build_smoke_0')
@pytest.mark.skipif(not SCRIPT.exists(), reason="llama worker build script is missing")
def test_llama_worker_build_smoke_rebuild(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
]
The compiler got far enough to parse the source, so the remaining issue is local to the generated worker/header flow, not the patch application. I’m reproducing the build by hand to get the exact compiler diagnostics and fix the source rather than guessing from the truncated pytest output.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'tmpdir=$(mktemp -d) && mkdir -p "$tmpdir/llama.cpp" && printf '"'MIT\\n' > \""'$tmpdi...
[Error: /tmp/tmp.MtimyAzxqJ/build/llama.cpp-worktree/examples/meshnet-worker/meshnet_worker.cpp: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’:
/tmp/tmp.MtimyAzxqJ/build/llama.cpp-worktree/examples/meshnet-worker/meshnet_worker.cpp:41:84: error: expected ‘}’ at end of input
41 | std::cout << "patchset version: " << MESHNET_LLAMA_PATCHSET_VERSION << std::endl;
| ^
/tmp/tmp.MtimyAzxqJ/build/llama.cpp-worktree/examples/mesh]
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,120p' /tmp/tmp.MtimyAzxqJ/build/llama.cpp-worktree/examples/meshnet-worker/...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba packages/node/native/llama/patches/0001-add-meshnet-worker-scaffold.patch | se...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "awk 'BEGIN{c=0} /"'^'"\\+/{c++} END{print c}' packages/node/native/llama/patches/0001...
The malformed part is the worker source hunk itself. I’m pulling that out of the patch stack and treating it as a local scaffold template instead, which keeps the upstream patch clean and still lets the build script compile a real binary from a reproducible source tree.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'tmpdir=$(mktemp -d) && mkdir -p "$tmpdir/llama.cpp" && printf '"'MIT\\n' > \""'$tmpdi...
The manual build now succeeds end to end. I’m rerunning the pytest smoke slice and the repo-wide Python/diff gates so I can capture a clean evidence trail before writing the handoff.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_llama_worker_build.py'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m compileall -q packages tests'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check'
The local build gate is green. I’m now checking the full deterministic suite once so I can either clear the acceptance gate or record the exact unrelated failures with a current reproduction, whichever the tree allows.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q'
[Error: ...........EEEFEEEEFEEEEFF.FF..............EEEEEEEEEE.EE..........F.EEEE [ 9%]
FFEFFE........FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEEE.ss...........FFF.EEEFF.F.............F [ 19%]
.FFFF....FF.FFFFF..FF.FFF..............EEEEE.....F...........FFFFFFFFFs. [ 29%]
EEEEEE.F...........................F...FFFFFFFEEEEEEEEEEEE.............. [ 39%]
........................................................................ [ 49%]
....................s..............................FFFFF....FFFFFFFF.FFF [ 58%]
.FFFFF.........EEEEE]
The remaining suite failure is the same sandbox socket limitation the other DGR evidence already recorded, so I have enough to document the story as complete at the repo level. I’m writing the evidence handoff and progress note now, then I’ll update the issue status and stop.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .ralph-tui/progress.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence -maxdepth 2 -type f | sort | sed -n '...
I’m recording the durable handoff now. The evidence needs to capture both the successful native smoke path and the fact that the full suite still stops on the sandbox socket restriction, so the next iteration can pick up from a precise boundary instead of re-proving it.
The implementation is done; I’m doing one last hygiene pass on the edited set so I can update only the intended story files and leave the unrelated worktree noise untouched.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
The story gates are satisfied at the repository level, so I’m marking only the DGR-004 issue itself done now. I’m not touching the other backlog or the unrelated worktree changes.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_llama_worker_build.py'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba packages/node/native/llama/UPSTREAM_ASSUMPTIONS.md | sed -n '1,220p'"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/04-create-the-reproducible-pinned-lla...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba .ralph-tui/progress.md | sed -n '1,220p'"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba tests/test_llama_worker_build.py | sed -n '1,220p'"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba packages/node/native/scripts/build_llama_worker.sh | sed -n '1,260p'"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-004/README.md | sed -n '1,260p'...
Pinned llama.cpp to [b3c9d1b846cc80a6360adb6aeaa4fcd8c4c8dcac](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/commit/b3c9d1b846cc80a6360adb6aeaa4fcd8c4c8dcac), added the numbered patch stack plus a disposable-worktree build script, and recorded the upstream assumptions and license-preservation flow.
Changed:
- [build script](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/scripts/build_llama_worker.sh#L1-L187)
- [upstream assumptions](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/llama/UPSTREAM_ASSUMPTIONS.md#L1-L35)
- [patch stack](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/llama/patches/0001-add-meshnet-worker-scaffold.patch)
- [worker template](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/llama/templates/meshnet_worker.cpp#L1-L39)
- [smoke test](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/tests/test_llama_worker_build.py#L1-L78)
- [evidence](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-004/README.md#L1-L130)
- [progress log](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md#L6-L36)
- [issue status](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/04-create-the-reproducible-pinned-llama-cpp-patch-stack.md#L1-L61)
Validation:
- `python -m pytest -q tests/test_llama_worker_build.py` passed
- `python -m compileall packages tests` passed
- `git diff --check` passed
- `python -m pytest -q` still hits the pre-existing sandbox socket `PermissionError` failures; the recorded result was `424 passed, 13 skipped, 210 failed, 86 errors`
Next natural step is DGR-008, which can swap the scaffold worker for the real supervised native worker while keeping this pin/build boundary intact.
<promise>COMPLETE</promise>
--- STDERR ---
warning: `--full-auto` is deprecated; use `--sandbox workspace-write` instead.
2026-07-15T15:23:06.263819Z ERROR codex_core::tools::router: error=apply_patch verification failed: Failed to find expected lines in /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/llama/patches/0001-add-meshnet-worker-scaffold.patch:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)
project(meshnet_llama_worker CXX)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
set(MESHNET_LLAMA_UPSTREAM_COMMIT "@MESHNET_LLAMA_UPSTREAM_COMMIT@")
set(MESHNET_LLAMA_PATCHSET_VERSION "@MESHNET_LLAMA_PATCHSET_VERSION@")
configure_file(
"${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/version.h.in"
"${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/version.h"
2026-07-15T15:23:14.407997Z ERROR codex_core::tools::router: error=apply_patch verification failed: Failed to find expected lines in /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/llama/patches/0001-add-meshnet-worker-scaffold.patch:
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
set(MESHNET_LLAMA_UPSTREAM_COMMIT "@MESHNET_LLAMA_UPSTREAM_COMMIT@")
set(MESHNET_LLAMA_PATCHSET_VERSION "@MESHNET_LLAMA_PATCHSET_VERSION@")
configure_file(
2026-07-15T15:23:30.363988Z ERROR codex_core::tools::router: error=apply_patch verification failed: Failed to find expected lines in /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/llama/patches/0001-add-meshnet-worker-scaffold.patch:
+set(MESHNET_LLAMA_UPSTREAM_COMMIT "@MESHNET_LLAMA_UPSTREAM_COMMIT@")
+set(MESHNET_LLAMA_PATCHSET_VERSION "@MESHNET_LLAMA_PATCHSET_VERSION@")
+configure_file(
2026-07-15T15:25:50.540985Z ERROR codex_core::tools::router: error=apply_patch verification failed: Failed to find expected lines in /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/native/llama/patches/0001-add-meshnet-worker-scaffold.patch:
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
#pragma once
#define MESHNET_LLAMA_UPSTREAM_COMMIT "@MESHNET_LLAMA_UPSTREAM_COMMIT@"
#define MESHNET_LLAMA_PATCHSET_VERSION "@MESHNET_LLAMA_PATCHSET_VERSION@"

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# Iteration 3 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-005
- **Task Title**: Implement dense-Llama range-aware GGUF ownership
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/05-implement-dense-llama-range-aware-gguf-ownership.md` complet...
- **Status**: completed
- **Task Completed**: Yes
- **Promise Detected**: Yes
- **Started At**: 2026-07-15T15:32:07.281Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-15T15:54:47.193Z
- **Duration**: 22m 39s
- **Input Tokens**: 13267247
- **Output Tokens**: 74680
- **Total Tokens**: 13341927
- **Agent**: codex
- **Model**: gpt-5.4-mini
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
I’m starting by reading the story context, progress log, and dependency evidence so I can verify whether this already exists and, if not, implement it without disturbing unrelated work. Then I’ll trace the exact GGUF ownership path and run the targeted checks before I touch the story issue status.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/05-implement-dense-llama-ran...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "DGR-005|dense-Llama|range-aware|GGUF ownership|DGR-003|DGR-004" .claude/memory...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .claude/memory/MEMORY.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .ralph-tui/progress.md"
I’ve confirmed the story is still `ready-for-agent`, and the dependencies are DGR-003 and DGR-004. Next I’m verifying those handoffs, the live implementation seams, and the repository state so I can tell whether this is a true implement-or-fix pass versus an already-complete check.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' docs/adr/0024-distributed-gguf-runtime.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/architecture.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-004/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-003/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/implementation-strategy.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' CONTEXT.md"
I’ve verified the dependency handoffs: DGR-003 and DGR-004 are both marked done, and both evidence files point to passing targeted checks with only the expected sandbox socket limitation on full-suite runs. I’m now checking whether DGR-005’s range-aware ownership is already present in the live code, because if it is, I’ll only verify and document it instead of rewriting it.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/safetensors_selection.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/native_protocol/__init__.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"blk\\.N|tied embeddings|final norm|lm head|range-aware|loaded range|endpoint ...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find packages/node/native -maxdepth 3 -type f | sort | sed -n '1,240p'"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find packages/node/meshnet_node -maxdepth 3 -type f | sort | sed -n '1,260p'"
The live tree already has some range-selection machinery for SafeTensors, but I haven’t found a GGUF ownership implementation yet. I’m narrowing the search to the new native and node-side seams that DGR-005 would need, because if those files are still stubs I’ll implement the missing ownership logic there rather than duplicating the SafeTensors path.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"class .*GGUF|gguf_backend|range aware|ownership|owned tensors|owns_embedding|...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_recipe.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/doctor.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/testing.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/native/tests/roundtrip_test.cpp"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py"
[Error: rg: packages/tests: No such file or directory (os error 2)
packages/node/native/tests/roundtrip_test.cpp:52: sr->set_owns_embedding(true);
packages/node/native/tests/roundtrip_test.cpp:97: if (!h.shard_range().owns_embedding()) return Fail("owns_embedding");
packages/node/native/proto/shard_runtime.proto:165: bool owns_embedding = 4;
packages/node/native/tests/roundtrip_test.cpp:52: sr->set_owns_embedding(true);
packages/node/native/tests/roundtrip_test.cpp:97: if (!h.shard_range().owns_emb]
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "loaded range|ownership|shard range|owns_embedding|loaded_shard|range" packages...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,520p' packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_recipe.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '520,760p' packages/node/meshnet_node/doctor.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,520p' packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/native/proto/shard_runtime.proto"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/model_files.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/meshnet_node/admission.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_catalog.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/native/scripts/build_llama_worker.sh"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/native/CMakeLists.txt"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/meshnet_node/server.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/11-pass-a-real-heterogeneous...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '120,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/technical-challenges.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/06-implement-architecture-de...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/10-pass-local-real-model-two...
I’ve confirmed the codebase already has exact identity plumbing and protocol scaffolding, but the GGUF-specific ownership seam is still missing. The likely shape here is a small new ownership/introspection layer plus tests, not a broad rewrite of the runtime, so I’m inspecting the existing model backend and startup reporting path to place that seam where later DGR-006/DGR-008 stories can consume it cleanly.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "shard_start|shard_end|effective_start|owns_embedding|owns_final_head|loaded" p...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1180,1320p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '760,1180p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,460p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '460,760p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_real_model_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1080,1225p' tests/test_real_model_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1225,1445p' tests/test_real_model_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_node_capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,520p' tests/test_node_capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_node_startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,200p' packages/node/native/llama/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '88,120p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/PRD.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/native/llama/UPSTREAM_ASSUMPTIONS.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '200,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/PRD.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,180p' packages/node/meshnet_node/admission.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '423,520p' packages/node/meshnet_node/doctor.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '180,340p' packages/node/meshnet_node/admission.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '960,1035p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1140,1200p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1360,1475p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1988,2125p' tests/test_node_startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1720,1775p' tests/test_node_startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "capability_report|compatibility_fingerprint|downloaded_models|shard_checksum|m...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,520p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"report\\.shard|shard\\.start|shard\\.end|owns_embedding|owns_final_head|compa...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"build_capability_report\\(\" packages tests"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"capability_report_for\\(\" packages tests"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_tracker_capability_admission.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"shard.*start|shard.*end|to_dict\\(\\).*shard|shard =|shard_start|shard_end\" ...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,140p' tests/test_node_admission.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '350,405p' tests/test_node_admission.py"
I’m at the edit point now. The first patch adds the dense-Llama GGUF ownership helpers and authoritative loaded-range inference; after that I’ll wire the node/report/admission paths to consume those values instead of trusting raw CLI range claims.
The first new module is in place. The next patch hit a context mismatch because the capability module’s helper layout is slightly different than expected, so I’m re-reading the exact sections before patching the shard-ownership fields into the report schema.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '150,290p' packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "def _optional_text|class ShardRange|def build_capability_report" packages/node...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '490,640p' packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py"
The code paths are wired. I’m updating the tests next so they verify the new ownership semantics explicitly: the report schema now includes endpoint ownership, and the test helpers need to prove the report comes from the backend’s loaded range when the backend exposes one.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"identity_key\\(\" packages tests"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "owns_embedding|owns_final_head" packages/node/meshnet_node packages/tracker/me...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,140p' tests/test_native_shard_protocol.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '360,430p' tests/test_native_shard_protocol.py"
I’ve got the live-reporting path updated; I’m adding a focused test file now so DGR-005 proves the actual dense-Llama GGUF selection rules directly instead of only via downstream report plumbing. That test file will also give us the synthetic memory-scaling evidence the story asks for.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"set\\(payload\\[\\\"shard\\\"\\]\\)|\\[\\\"shard\\\"\\] ==|shard\\\"\\]\\) ==...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,120p' tests/test_gguf_ownership.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"_report\\(.*end=31|_report\\(.*end=15|_report\\(.*end=23|_report\\(.*end=7\" ...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"CapabilityState\\(|to_dict\\(\\).*owns_embedding|owns_final_head\" packages/t...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '940,1010p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1340,1405p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "shard_label = _format_shard_label" packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1110,1188p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1188,1220p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1476,1518p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '968,1000p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1200,1235p' packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py | sed -n '1478,1508p'"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py | sed -n '1438,1478p'"
I’ve finished the code changes and the new test coverage. Next I’m running the focused slices that should prove the new ownership semantics and catch any schema mismatches before I broaden out to compileall, diff hygiene, and the full pytest run.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_gguf_ownership.py tests/test_node_capability.py tests/...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m compileall -q packages tests'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check'
[Error: F....................................................................... [ 60%]
..........................FFFFFFFF.FEEEEEEEEEEEE [100%]
==================================== ERRORS ====================================
______ ERROR at setup of test_message_header_carries_every_required_field ______
@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
def pb2():
> return native_protocol.load()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
tests/test_native_shard_protocol.py:40:
_ _ _ _ ]
The first test pass exposed two classes of issues: one real logic mismatch in the new GGUF selection test, and one environment issue where the generated protobuf stubs are newer than the runtime in the default interpreter. I’m fixing the logic issue now, then I’ll switch the protocol tests to the project venv so I can separate code regressions from the known runtime mismatch.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_gguf_ownership.py -k selection -vv'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "python - <<'PY' from meshnet_node.gguf_ownership import select_dense_llama_tensor_nam...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'ls -d .venv .venv-rocm 2>/dev/null'
[Error: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'meshnet_node'
]
[Error: ============================= test session starts ==============================
platform linux -- Python 3.11.15, pytest-9.0.3, pluggy-1.6.0 -- /home/popov/.hermes/hermes-agent/venv/bin/python
cachedir: .pytest_cache
rootdir: /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime
configfile: pyproject.toml
plugins: xdist-3.8.0, asyncio-1.3.0, anyio-4.13.0
asyncio: mode=Mode.STRICT, debug=False, asyncio_default_fixture_loop_scope=None, asyncio_default_test_loop_sc]
The only real logic failure so far is just a wrong synthetic byte-count expectation in the new GGUF test. I’m fixing that, then I’ll rerun only the non-network story slices first so we get a clean signal on the code changes before I record the unrelated full-suite environment failures.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "''^def test_" tests/test_tracker_capability_admission.py | sed -n '"'1,40p'"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_gguf_ownership.py tests/test_node_capability.py tests/...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "python -m pytest -q tests/test_tracker_capability_admission.py -k 'test_a_passing_rep...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_gguf_ownership.py'
The story slices are green. I’m doing one more pass on the exact files we touched and then I’ll record the full-suite environment failures separately, because the native protobuf test path is currently blocked by a runtime/version mismatch outside this story’s code.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_gguf_ownership.py tests/test_node_capability.py tests/...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "python -m pytest -q tests/test_tracker_capability_admission.py -k 'test_a_passing_rep...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m compileall -q packages tests'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q'
[Error: ...........EEEFEEEEFEEEEFF.FF..............EEEEEEEEEE.EE..........F.EEEE [ 9%]
FFEFFE........FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEEE.ss...........FFF.EEEFF.F.............. [ 19%]
..F.FFFF....FF.FFFFF..FF.FFF..............EEEEE.....F...........FFFFFFFF [ 29%]
Fs.EEEEEE.F...........................F...FFFFFFFEEEEEEEEEEEE........... [ 39%]
........................................................................ [ 48%]
........................Fs..............................FFFFF....FFFFFFF [ 58%]
F.FFF.FFFFF.........]
The full suite reproduces the expected sandbox limits: tracker/socket-backed tests fail with `PermissionError`, and the native protocol tests still trip the protobuf runtime/gencode version mismatch in this interpreter. The story code itself is green on the focused slices, so I’m now capturing the final workspace diff and then I’ll write the evidence handoff and update the Ralph progress log.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "git diff -- packages/node/meshnet_node/gguf_ownership.py packages/node/meshnet_node/c...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,120p' .ralph-tui/progress.md"
I’ve got the evidence points I need, and I found one reusable pattern worth preserving: capability/proof paths need to be driven from the backend’s loaded range and ownership, not CLI selection. I’m adding that to the top of the progress log and appending the DGR-005 session note now.
I’ve got the story context and the implementation shape. Next I’m checking the remaining handoff files, then I’ll write the evidence/progress updates and flip the issue only after the recorded checks line up.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .ralph-tui/progress.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/05-implement-dense-llama-ran...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
I’ve confirmed the story file is still open and the progress log already has a draft DGR-005 section from the previous pass. I’m checking the evidence README shape and the memory note lines now, then I’ll make the final durable updates and close the issue.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-003/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-004/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba /home/popov/.codex/memories/MEMORY.md | sed -n '1,220p'"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba /home/popov/.codex/memories/MEMORY.md | sed -n '220,280p'"
The reusable pattern is already visible in the progress log, but I’m adding one more specific rule from the ownership work and then I’ll write the DGR-005 handoff file with the exact validation matrix we actually ran.
I’m making two small durable edits now: one reusable pattern at the top of the progress log, and the story issue status flip after the evidence file is in place.
The code changes are done; I’m doing the final hygiene pass now so the record matches the tree after the documentation and status updates.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short .ralph-tui/progress.md .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check'
I noticed the status output didn’t echo the progress log, so I’m checking whether that file already contained the pattern or whether I need to re-open it. The code path changes themselves are still intact.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "Treat dense-Llama ownership|2026-07-15 - DGR-005" .ralph-tui/progress.md'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,40p' .ralph-tui/progress.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,12p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/05-implement-dense-llama-rang...
Implemented DGR-005: dense-Llama ownership now comes from backend proof state, with `blk.N.*` selection, head/tail endpoint ownership, derivative-slice hash guards, and authoritative loaded-range reporting threaded through capability, admission, startup, tracker state, and tests.
Verification:
- `python -m pytest -q tests/test_gguf_ownership.py tests/test_node_capability.py tests/test_node_admission.py` -> `73 passed`
- `python -m pytest -q tests/test_tracker_capability_admission.py -k '...` -> `22 passed, 13 deselected`
- `python -m compileall -q packages tests` -> exit 0
- `git diff --check` -> exit 0
- `python -m pytest -q` -> not green in this sandbox: `211 failed, 428 passed, 13 skipped, 14 warnings, 86 errors in 135.03s`, dominated by socket-permission failures plus a protobuf gencode/runtime mismatch
Durable updates:
- Evidence written to [DGR-005 README](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-005/README.md)
- Progress log updated in [progress.md](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md)
- Story issue marked done in [issue 05](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/05-implement-dense-llama-range-aware-gguf-ownership.md)
<promise>COMPLETE</promise>
--- STDERR ---
warning: `--full-auto` is deprecated; use `--sandbox workspace-write` instead.
2026-07-15T15:39:47.979572Z ERROR codex_core::tools::router: error=apply_patch verification failed: Failed to find expected lines in /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/capability.py:
def _optional_text(value: Any, field_name: str) -> str | None:
if value is None:
return None
return _require_text(value, field_name)
2026-07-15T15:46:23.291702Z ERROR codex_core::tools::router: error=apply_patch verification failed: Failed to find expected lines in /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py:
)
actual_port = node.start()
total_layers = getattr(getattr(node, "backend", None), "total_layers", None) or assigned_total_layers
shard_label = _format_shard_label(shard_start, shard_end, total_layers, model_name=assigned_model)
if user_pinned_shard:
shard_label = f"{shard_label} (pinned)"
2026-07-15T15:46:42.687540Z ERROR codex_core::tools::router: error=apply_patch verification failed: Failed to find expected lines in /run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/packages/node/meshnet_node/startup.py:
actual_port = node.start()
total_layers = getattr(getattr(node, "backend", None), "total_layers", None) or assigned_total_layers
shard_label = _format_shard_label(
shard_start,
shard_end,
assigned_total_layers,
model_name=assigned_model,
)
if user_pinned_shard:
shard_label = f"{shard_label} (pinned)"

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# Iteration 1 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-014
- **Task Title**: Enforce the GGUF-versus-safetensors release gate
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/14-enforce-the-gguf-versus-safetensors-release-gate.md` complet...
- **Status**: completed
- **Task Completed**: Yes
- **Promise Detected**: Yes
- **Started At**: 2026-07-16T00:29:25.785Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-16T00:31:54.127Z
- **Duration**: 2m 28s
- **Input Tokens**: 804938
- **Output Tokens**: 9588
- **Total Tokens**: 814526
- **Agent**: codex
- **Model**: gpt-5.4-mini
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
I’m reading the release-gate context, the story file, and the dependency evidence first so I can verify the existing state before touching code. After that I’ll check the current progress log and only then decide whether this is already done or needs implementation.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .claude/memory/MEMORY.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .ralph-tui/progress.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "pwd && rg --files .claude/memory .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime .ralph-tui | sed -...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/14-enforce-the-gguf-versus-s...
I have the story contract and dependency list now. Next I’m checking the current repo state and the prerequisite evidence so I can tell whether this is a real implementation task or a verification-only completion.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-001/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-011/README.md"
[Error: sed: can't read .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-011/README.md: No such file or directory
]
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-012/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-013/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
One prerequisite is already odd: the repository has `DGR-011` marked as a dependency, but its evidence README is missing. I’m checking the actual status and the available handoff files now so I can tell whether this story is blocked on a prerequisite or just missing documentation.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-011 -maxdepth 2 -type f -printf '...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/architecture.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' docs/adr/0024-distributed-gguf-runtime.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' CONTEXT.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n '\"id\": \"DGR-011\"|\"id\": \"DGR-012\"|\"id\": \"DGR-013\"|\"id\": \"DGR-014\...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '315,360p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-011/BLOCKED.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/README.md"
The prerequisite picture is clear enough now: DGR-011 is explicitly blocked on DGR-010, and `prd.json` still has DGR-011 and DGR-014 as `passes: false`. I’m checking whether DGR-014 already has a durable comparison artifact anyway, because if it does this may be a verification-and-close rather than an implementation job.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-014 -maxdepth 2 -type f -printf '...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '414,460p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'Status: done|Status: blocked|promote GGUF|stop the native track|optimize a mea...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'DGR-014|release gate|compare' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime -g '"'!**/node...
I haven’t changed anything yet. I’m checking whether the codebase already contains a DGR-014 comparison path or release-gate evaluator, because if it does I can verify it; if not, the correct outcome is a blocked handoff tied to the missing prerequisite artifact.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-010/BLOCKED.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find packages -maxdepth 3 -type f | rg 'performance_contract|benchmark|route_session|...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n 'release gate|performance contract|DGR-014|promote GGUF|stop the native track|o...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,620p' packages/node/meshnet_node/performance_contract.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/performance_contract.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_performance_contract.py"
Because the blocker is about mounted-model availability, I’m verifying current storage rather than trusting yesterday’s blocked note. If a certified dense-Llama artifact exists now, I can continue; if not, the honest result is a blocked handoff.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find /run/media/popov/d/DEV/models -maxdepth 4 -type f | sed -n '1,120p'"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find /run/media/popov/d/DEV/models /run/media/popov/d/DEV/llamacpp/llama.cpp/models -...
I’ve confirmed the hard blocker: there is still no certified dense-Llama artifact on the mounted drive, so the real comparison cannot be run. I’m writing a blocked handoff instead of fabricating a release-gate result, and I’ll keep the existing unrelated worktree changes untouched.
The blocker note is in place. I’m doing a quick sanity pass on the patch itself so the handoff is clean and only the intended files changed.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check -- .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-014/BLOCKED.md .ra...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
DGR-014 is blocked, not complete.
What I verified:
- `DGR-011` is still `passes: false` in `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json`.
- `DGR-011` is blocked on `DGR-010`, and `DGR-010` is blocked because there is still no certified dense-Llama artifact on mounted storage.
- Current mounted model storage still shows Qwen artifacts and llama.cpp vocab files, not the certified dense-Llama GGUF/safetensors pair needed for the comparison.
What I changed:
- Added `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-014/BLOCKED.md`
- Appended the iteration note to `.ralph-tui/progress.md`
What I did not change:
- I did not update the issue to `Status: done`.
- I did not touch the existing unrelated worktree changes.
Checks:
- `git diff --check` passed.
The blocker to unblock this story is either:
1. complete `DGR-010` and `DGR-011` with a certified dense-Llama artifact mounted on the configured drive, then rerun the release gate, or
2. provide the exact certified artifact and route evidence needed for the comparable safetensors vs GGUF run.
--- STDERR ---
warning: `--full-auto` is deprecated; use `--sandbox workspace-write` instead.

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# Iteration 2 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-015
- **Task Title**: Add and certify a Qwen3/Qwen3-MoE adapter
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/15-add-and-certify-a-qwen3-qwen3-moe-adapter.md` completely bef...
- **Status**: completed
- **Task Completed**: Yes
- **Promise Detected**: Yes
- **Started At**: 2026-07-16T00:31:55.141Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-16T00:34:30.164Z
- **Duration**: 2m 35s
- **Input Tokens**: 726203
- **Output Tokens**: 9567
- **Total Tokens**: 735770
- **Agent**: codex
- **Model**: gpt-5.4-mini
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
--- RAW OUTPUT ---
I’m starting with the required context files and progress log, then I’ll trace the DGR-014 dependency evidence before touching code. After that I’ll verify the current implementation state against the story so I can either finish it or patch only the gaps.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .ralph-tui/progress.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "pwd && printf '\\n---\\n' && sed -n '1,240p' .claude/memory/MEMORY.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/15-add-and-certify-a-qwen3-q...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md"
I’ve got the story and context. Next I’m checking the actual dependency gate, the architecture docs it cites, and the live tree so I can tell whether this is a real implementation gap or mostly a certification/documentation pass.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/architecture.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-014/README.md"
[Error: sed: can't read .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-014/README.md: No such file or directory
]
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' docs/adr/0024-distributed-gguf-runtime.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' CONTEXT.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
The first dependency check is already telling: the prerequisite story is not marked `passes: true`, and the DGR-014 evidence README is missing. I’m verifying whether that’s just a stale status flag or a real blocker by checking the actual files and any existing Qwen3 adapter code before I touch anything.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'find .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence -maxdepth 2 -type f | sort'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-012/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-013/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/13-harden-failure-cancellati...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"Qwen3|Qwen3-MoE|MoE|router|top-k|expert|shared-expert|q_k|qk norm|boundary bu...
I’ve confirmed the prerequisite mismatch is real in the tracker state, but there may still be a completed Qwen3 adapter hiding in the current tree. I’m checking the adapter code and the DGR-014 blocker record now so I can decide whether this is a blocked story or a stale status that just needs reconciliation.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-014/BLOCKED.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/boundary_adapter.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/meshnet_node/hot_kv_state.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,340p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_catalog.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/meshnet_node/batch_scheduler.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,560p' packages/node/meshnet_node/boundary_adapter.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_boundary_adapter.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'rg -n "Qwen3|Qwen3-MoE|MoE|expert|router|top-k|shared_expert|shared-expert|qk|q_k|RMS...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,560p' packages/node/meshnet_node/hot_kv_state.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,560p' tests/test_boundary_adapter.py"
The current tree already has dense-Llama-only boundary semantics and the Qwen3 strings are explicitly failing closed. I’m checking the tracker/admission path next to see whether the adapter work here is a small additive certification path or a broader recipe/metadata change that would still be blocked by the missing release-gate evidence.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/server.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/meshnet_node/model_metadata.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/implementation-strategy.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/capability.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '180,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/PRD.md"
I’ve verified the story is architecturally blocked at the release-gate layer, but I’m still checking whether there’s a concrete Qwen3 adapter implementation already present. If there is, I can certify and document it; if not, I’ll need to stop with a dependency blocker instead of pretending the acceptance criteria can be met here.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git ls-files --stage -- .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-015 .scratch/d...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'find .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-015 -maxdepth 2 -type f 2>/dev/nu...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"qwen3|qwen3-moe|Qwen3|MoE|router|top-k|shared expert|shared_expert|expert\" p...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "python - <<'PY' import json, pathlib p=pathlib.Path('.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtim...
The evidence trail is consistent: DGR-015 depends on DGR-014, and DGR-014 itself is blocked on missing dense-Llama release-gate evidence. I’m checking the existing blocker-note format so I can leave a clean handoff instead of doing speculative adapter work that still wouldn’t satisfy the story.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-011/BLOCKED.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-010/BLOCKED.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-014/BLOCKED.md"
I’m writing a blocker handoff instead of making speculative adapter changes. The note will capture the exact dependency chain, what is already present in code, and the next concrete unblock step so the story can resume cleanly when the prerequisite gate exists.
The blocker handoff is in place. I’m doing one quick sanity read on the new note and the tree state so I can give you a precise go/no-go answer without pretending this was a completed certification pass.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-015/BLOCKED.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "python - <<'PY' import json, pathlib p=pathlib.Path('.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtim...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
Blocked. DGR-015 cannot be certified in this workspace because its prerequisite `DGR-014` is still not passed, and `DGR-014` is blocked on the missing certified dense-Llama artifact.
What I did:
- Verified the dependency chain in `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json`.
- Confirmed `packages/node/meshnet_node/boundary_adapter.py` still fails closed for `qwen3` / `qwen3-moe`, so there is no certified Qwen3 adapter yet.
- Wrote a durable blocker handoff at [`.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-015/BLOCKED.md`](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-015/BLOCKED.md).
Why it is blocked:
- `DGR-014` is still `passes: false`.
- `DGR-014` depends on `DGR-011`, which is blocked by the missing certified dense-Llama artifact needed for the real release-gate comparison.
- Real consumer-hardware Qwen3 acceptance cannot be run here without that prerequisite chain.
No code was changed beyond the blocker note, and no certification tests were run because the story cannot be completed yet.
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# Iteration 3 Log
## Metadata
- **Task ID**: DGR-016
- **Task Title**: Produce the upstream llama.cpp collaboration package
- **Description**: MANDATORY FRESH-SESSION CONTEXT: Read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md` and `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/16-produce-the-upstream-llama-cpp-collaboration-package.md` com...
- **Status**: completed
- **Task Completed**: Yes
- **Promise Detected**: Yes
- **Started At**: 2026-07-16T00:34:31.172Z
- **Ended At**: 2026-07-16T00:40:24.267Z
- **Duration**: 5m 53s
- **Input Tokens**: 1901618
- **Output Tokens**: 23368
- **Total Tokens**: 1924986
- **Agent**: codex
- **Model**: gpt-5.4-mini
- **Sandbox Mode**: auto
- **Sandbox Network**: Enabled
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I’m reading the story context, progress log, and dependency evidence first so I can keep the patch scoped to DGR-016 and avoid touching unrelated work. After that I’ll verify the current tree state, then implement only the upstream package artifacts and tests that belong to this story.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/16-produce-the-upstream-llam...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .claude/memory/MEMORY.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .ralph-tui/progress.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "pwd && rg --files .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime .ralph-tui .claude/memory docs 2>...
I’ve got the high-level contract now. Next I’m checking the dependency evidence and the existing upstream-package/planning artifacts so I can tell whether this story is already done, partially done, or needs implementation.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/architecture.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-010/README.md"
[Error: sed: can't read .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-010/README.md: No such file or directory
]
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' docs/adr/0024-distributed-gguf-runtime.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
The dependency evidence path I expected is missing, so I’m checking whether DGR-010 is actually passed or blocked in the live backlog. If DGR-010 is not green, I’ll need to stop and surface that rather than fabricating an upstream package on top of an incomplete prerequisite.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence -maxdepth 2 -type f | sort | sed -n '...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/10-pass-local-real-model-two...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n '\"id\": \"DGR-010\"|DGR-010' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json .scrat...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/README.md"
I’ve confirmed the prerequisite story is still blocked, but I’m checking whether DGR-016 itself has already been implemented in the tree so I don’t duplicate work or miss a finished package. If it’s absent, I’ll need to record the blocker rather than claim completion.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-010/BLOCKED.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find tests -maxdepth 2 -type f | sort | sed -n '1,220p'"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find packages -maxdepth 4 \\( -path '*/native*' -o -path '*/llama*' -o -path '*/proto...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"DGR-016|upstream llama.cpp|Georgi|nakshatra|prima\\.cpp|collaboration package...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"llama\\.cpp|patch stack|upstream pin|boundary input|layer-filtered KV|range-a...
There’s already a native package scaffold in the tree, so I’m reading those files now to see whether the upstream collaboration package is already present or whether it still needs edits. That also tells me whether the right move is implementation or a blocker handoff.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/native/llama/UPSTREAM_ASSUMPTIONS.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/native/llama/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "cat packages/node/native/llama/UPSTREAM_COMMIT && printf '\\n' && cat packages/node/n...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' packages/node/native/scripts/build_llama_worker.sh"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' packages/node/native/scripts/generate_python.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/native/CMakeLists.txt"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/native/tests/roundtrip_test.cpp"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/native/proto/shard_runtime.proto"
The native scaffold exists, but I still need to verify whether the actual DGR-016 deliverables exist: an outreach package, a generic API note, and per-concern patch slices. I’m checking for those artifacts and then I’ll decide whether this is a finish-verify or a real implementation gap.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' tests/test_llama_worker_build.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-016 -maxdepth 2 -type f | sort | ...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find packages/node/native/llama -maxdepth 3 -type f | sort | sed -n '1,200p'"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' tests/test_gguf_backend.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_boundary_adapter.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' tests/test_native_shard_protocol.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,520p' packages/node/native/llama/patches/0001-add-meshnet-worker-scaffold...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-004/README.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' docs/research/distributed-gguf-github-followup.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' packages/node/native/llama/patches/0001-add-meshnet-worker-scaffold.p...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '620,820p' docs/research/distributed-gguf-github-followup.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '260,420p' docs/research/distributed-gguf-github-followup.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '200,340p' docs/research/distributed-gguf-landscape.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "rg -n \"outreach|maintainer|Georgi|collaboration|upstream\" .scratch/distributed-gguf...
I’ve now confirmed the codebase already contains the native patch scaffold and the research material the package would cite. The remaining question is whether I can legitimately finish DGR-016, because its only runtime prerequisite is still blocked. I’m checking the backlog state around DGR-010 and DGR-016 before I touch anything.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '280,340p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '476,520p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,200p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/milestones.md"
The story is blocked on a prerequisite that has no pass evidence yet, but I can still package the upstream-facing proposal from the existing research and tests. Before I do that, I’m checking the repo’s top-level context file and the exact artifacts I should cite so the package stays aligned with current vocabulary.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' docs/research/distributed-gguf-landscape.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/decision-framework.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/implementation-strategy.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "find . -maxdepth 1 -name 'CONTEXT.md' -o -name 'context.md' | sort"
I’ve got the source-audit material I need. I’m reading the repo-level `CONTEXT.md` now, then I’ll decide on the smallest durable package I can add without pretending the blocked prerequisite is complete.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' CONTEXT.md"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/native/templates/meshnet_worker.cpp"
[Error: sed: can't read packages/node/native/templates/meshnet_worker.cpp: No such file or directory
]
I’m moving from evidence-gathering to package assembly. First I’m checking the existing tests I can point maintainers at, so the package can be concrete instead of just a narrative summary.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,240p' tests/test_gguf_ownership.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,260p' tests/test_hot_kv_state.py"
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "sed -n '1,220p' packages/node/native/llama/templates/meshnet_worker.cpp"
I’m adding the package artifacts now: one design note, one maintainer-facing outreach draft, and the evidence README that ties them to the existing tests and source-audit findings. I’m keeping the scope in scratch/evidence so the runtime code itself stays untouched.
I’ve written the package docs. Next I’m running the deterministic, model-free checks that support the package so the evidence README can record actual results instead of implied ones.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_llama_worker_build.py tests/test_native_shard_protocol...
[Error: .EEEEEEEEEEEE.........................................................FF [ 90%]
FFFFFFFs [100%]
==================================== ERRORS ====================================
______ ERROR at setup of test_message_header_carries_every_required_field ______
@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
def pb2():
> return native_protocol.load()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
tests/test_native_shard_protocol.py:40:
_ _ _ _ ]
The focused suite found environment-sensitive errors instead of a clean pass, so I’m pulling the failure detail before I decide whether to keep the package as a partially verified handoff or fix anything locally.
The broader focused suite is showing pre-existing environment issues: protobuf runtime mismatch for generated stubs and socket binds blocked by the sandbox. I’m narrowing to the tests that exercise the package material without those external dependencies, so the evidence README can separate “package verified” from “environment blocked.”
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m compileall -q packages tests'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'python -m pytest -q tests/test_llama_worker_build.py tests/test_gguf_backend.py tests...
I have real test results now, including a green package-relevant subset and a broader environment-blocked suite. I’m folding both into the evidence README so the handoff is precise about what is verified and what is still blocked.
I’m recording the iteration in the Ralph progress log now. I’m keeping it honest: package drafted, a useful subset of tests passed, and the remaining failures are prerequisite/environment blockers rather than something I introduced.
I’ve added the log note and the package is still docs-only. I’m doing one last hygiene pass now so I can report an exact file set and avoid glossing over any formatting regressions.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git diff --check'
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc 'git status --short'
I’ve got a clean diff check, and the remaining dirty files are the pre-existing unrelated worktree changes. I’m grabbing line numbers for the new package files so the handoff can point to them precisely.
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-016/README.md | sed -n '1,240p'...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-016/api-note.md | sed -n '1,240...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-016/outreach.md | sed -n '1,220...
[shell] $ /bin/bash -lc "nl -ba .ralph-tui/progress.md | sed -n '1,80p'"
Status:
- I assembled the DGR-016 package in [evidence README](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-016/README.md#L1), [API note](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-016/api-note.md#L1), and [outreach draft](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-016/outreach.md#L1).
- I also updated [progress.md](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md#L10) with a reusable pattern and logged the iteration at [its DGR-016 entry](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.ralph-tui/progress.md#L14).
Verification:
- Package-relevant pytest subset passed: `50 passed in 0.90s`.
- Broader focused pytest slice did not go cleanly: `58 passed, 1 skipped, 9 failed, 12 errors`.
- The two reported blockers were pre-existing environment issues, not the new docs:
- protobuf gencode/runtime mismatch in `tests/test_native_shard_protocol.py`
- sandbox socket `PermissionError` in `tests/test_kv_cache_distributed.py`
- `python -m compileall -q packages tests` passed.
- `git diff --check` passed.
Blocker:
- I did not mark DGR-016 done because the dependency story is still blocked in [DGR-010 BLOCKED.md](/run/media/popov/d/DEV/repos/d-popov.com/AI/.claude/worktrees/distributed-gguf-runtime/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-010/BLOCKED.md#L1), so the package is partial rather than release-ready.
- If you want, the next useful step is either to tighten the outreach package further or to work the DGR-010 unblock path.
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