# 16 — Produce the upstream llama.cpp collaboration package

Status: ready-for-agent

## Mandatory fresh-session context

- Read [RALPH-CONTEXT.md](../RALPH-CONTEXT.md) completely before changing code.
- This issue is `DGR-016` in [prd.json](../prd.json).
- Read the evidence README for every dependency listed below.
- Inspect current code and `git status`; historical text and previous agent claims are not evidence.

## Description

As a maintainer, I need narrow upstreamable proposals so that our patch burden can shrink without asking llama.cpp to own Meshnet networking.

## Expected durable outputs

- Narrow upstream patches/tests
- Generic API design note
- Human-ready llama.cpp outreach package
- evidence/DGR-016/README.md

## Acceptance criteria

- [ ] Separate generic llama.cpp hooks from Meshnet protocol/control-plane code.
- [ ] Prepare minimal reproducible examples and tests for range-aware loading, boundary input/output, and layer-filtered KV.
- [ ] Compare the proposal with Nakshatra and prima.cpp evidence and explain why the API is generally useful.
- [ ] Preserve one scoped commit/patch per concern against the exact upstream pin.
- [ ] Produce an outreach document suitable for Georgi/llama.cpp maintainers; actual sending remains a human action.
- [ ] Targeted pytest tests pass
- [ ] python -m compileall packages tests passes for Python changes
- [ ] git diff --check passes
- [ ] Default tests remain deterministic, model-download-free, API-credit-free, and GPU-free
- [ ] Full deterministic pytest -q passes, or the exact pre-existing unrelated failure is recorded with a clean-tree reproduction
- [ ] Pinned native C++ target builds and focused CTest/protocol tests pass where native code is touched
- [ ] llama.cpp patch stack applies cleanly to the exact pinned commit where patch code is touched
- [ ] Read .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md and this story issue completely before changing code
- [ ] Read and verify every dependency evidence README before relying on dependency behavior
- [ ] Preserve all pre-existing working-tree changes and stage only files belonging to this story
- [ ] Write .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-016/README.md with files changed, exact commands and real results, limitations, compatibility notes, and dependent-story handoff
- [ ] Update only this story issue to Status: done after every acceptance criterion and quality gate passes

## Dependency handoff

- `DGR-010` must have `passes: true`; read `../evidence/DGR-010/README.md` and verify its referenced files/commands.

## Finish contract

- Create the task evidence directory and durable handoff required above.
- Preserve real failures and blockers; never fabricate benchmark, model, test or hardware output.
- Change this issue to `Status: done` only after all criteria pass.
- Emit `<promise>COMPLETE</promise>` only after the evidence handoff exists.

## References

- [Ralph execution context](../RALPH-CONTEXT.md)
- [PRD](../PRD.md)
- [Implementation strategy](../implementation-strategy.md)
- [Current architecture](../architecture.md)
- [Architecture decision](../../docs/adr/0024-distributed-gguf-runtime.md)