neuron-tai/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/017-reconcile-and-clean-the-superseded-dgr-backlog.md

DGR-017: Reconcile and clean the superseded DGR backlog

• Status / triage: specification only; ready-for-agent; passes: false
• Execution mode: AFK
• Milestone: M0
• Dependencies: None
• Blocks (derived): DGR-018, DGR-019, DGR-027, DGR-054
• Labels: area:provenance, area:cleanup, type:audit, priority:p0, ready-for-agent
• Evidence class: model-free
• Hardware: none
• Model: generic
• Upstream: no

Objective / description

Fresh Ralph session: read .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md, source issue .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/017-reconcile-and-clean-the-superseded-dgr-backlog.md, and evidence READMEs for dependencies (none) before changing code. Inspect live source/tests rather than trusting legacy pass states. Objective: Audit implementation reality, void inherited completion credit, and clean misleading backlog/stub baggage while preserving attributable evidence and accepted research.

Acceptance criteria

• Compare the branch, old DGR-001..016 issue/pass states, evidence, and actual runtime sources; classify each output as reusable, reference-only, blocked, obsolete, or absent.
• Record an authoritative old-to-new disposition and provenance; explicitly give no completion credit to any new story and note absent implementation/evidence.
• Remove or archive only artifacts the audit proves obsolete while preserving accepted ADRs, useful research, raw benchmark evidence, and attributable reusable work.
• Protect ignored build workspaces, generated protobuf outputs, Ralph logs, and model artifacts from accidental commits, and document every retained legacy artifact.
• Applicable shared quality gates in prd.json pass, and the evidence handoff records exact commands/results, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff.

Shared quality gates

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

Evidence handoff

Write and verify .scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/evidence/DGR-017/README.md. Until every criterion and applicable gate has real evidence, this story remains passes: false. Legacy evidence is provenance only, not completion credit.