# Distributed GGUF runtime milestones

The exact alpha target and immutable acceptance gates are defined in [GLM-5.2-MAX-ALPHA-ROADMAP.md](GLM-5.2-MAX-ALPHA-ROADMAP.md).

## Completed foundation

- DGR-001 locks the safetensors-versus-GGUF performance/fit/quality contract. Its immutable CPU v1 verdict remains `stop`; separate ROCm evidence supports a fit-oriented investigation without rewriting CPU evidence.
- DGR-002 defines the backend-neutral gRPC/Protobuf Shard protocol.

## Gate A — exact GLM-5.2 target and oracle

- DGR-017 locks official/GGUF revisions, `UD-IQ1_S`, hashes, resource accounting, Max-mode semantics, and alpha thresholds.
- DGR-003 builds exact recipe identity on DGR-002 and DGR-017.
- DGR-004 creates the reproducible pinned llama.cpp boundary after stock GLM behavior is measured.
- DGR-018 certifies one whole-model `UD-IQ1_S` oracle with real MoE, DSA, IndexShare, KV, and `reasoning_effort=max` semantics.

## Gate B — minimal native execution seam

- DGR-005 implements range-owned tensors using dense Llama as a cheap structural fixture.
- DGR-006 proves the generic named activation boundary and F32 correctness lane.
- DGR-019 implements explicit GLM-5.2 MoE/MLA/DSA/IndexShare/NextN range semantics and parity.

## Gate C — native Meshnet route

- DGR-007 isolates Shard-local Hot KV State.
- DGR-008 exposes the native worker over gRPC.
- DGR-009 integrates the worker without replacing Meshnet's control plane.
- DGR-010 passes local real-model two-process acceptance.
- DGR-011 passes real two-physical-machine execution.
- DGR-013 supplies the cancellation/node-loss/restart/cleanup subset required by alpha.

## Gate D — GLM-5.2 Max alpha verdict

- DGR-020 runs the exact `UD-IQ1_S` target across enough physical consumer nodes that no one node can admit the whole recipe.
- It produces an immutable `alpha` or `stop` verdict from target identity, native GLM semantics, parity, Max-mode usefulness, minimum speed, telemetry, failure, and cleanup evidence.
- Synthetic workers, layer-reduced fixtures, dense-attention fallbacks, and single-host execution cannot satisfy this gate.

## Gate E — post-alpha product hardening

- DGR-012 adds continuous batching and bounded admission.
- DGR-014 compares distributed GGUF against the current reference route under locked thresholds.
- Longer contexts progress through 32K/128K/200K before 1M certification.
- MTP/speculative decoding and source-bound layer packages remain measured optimizations.
- DGR-016 prepares narrow upstream llama.cpp collaboration material.
- DGR-015 adds Qwen3/Qwen3-MoE only as later architecture expansion.

No later gate may be claimed from synthetic workers or documentation-only evidence. Model artifacts remain on mounted-drive storage and never under `/home`.