feat(mesh): weights_digest — SHA-256 of served GGUF bytes, alongside identity_hash

[StevenMih]

A served model's identity today is a NAME (or, for a Hugging Face source, a hash of a reference string) — never a hash of the bytes actually loaded. A local GGUF's identity_hash is None entirely (ServedModelIdentity::identity_hash hashes a reference string; a local path has none). A proxy or a mis-deployed node can serve a different file under the same model name and nothing catches it.

What

Adds a weights_digest fact alongside the existing identity_hash — never replacing it, since a name-hash and a bytes-hash are different facts:

• mesh::weights_digest_for_file (new module) streams SHA-256 over a GGUF's file bytes, cached by (path, size, mtime) so a file already hashed for its current state is never re-hashed — hashing an 8GB GGUF costs real wall-clock time, once per file, never once per request. Returns None on any I/O error: an absent fact, never a fabricated digest.
• ServedModelIdentity gains a weights_digest: Option<String> field, computed at start_runtime_local_model — the local (solo) load path, the point this host actually opens the file for serving — and recorded via a new set_local_model_weights_digest.
• Deliberately not threaded onto the mesh gossip wire: a peer receiving it over gossip could never verify it against anything, since only the serving node can read the file.

Why

It makes the served bytes a fact any peer can check against the file on disk: a quant swap under the same model name now changes the digest. It is self-reported, so it surfaces an honest node's stale or swapped file — it does not stop a host from reporting a digest for a file it did not load. identity_hash (the reference-string hash) is untouched; the two are different facts and neither replaces the other.

Scope

The identity fact only. No serving-provenance / openai.exchange.v1 wiring here, and no change to the mesh gossip wire. One commit.

How tested

cargo test -p mesh-llm-host-runtime -p mesh-llm-types — 2983 + 13 passed, 0 failed. Four new dedicated unit tests for weights_digest_for_file: matches an independent SHA-256, changes when the file's bytes swap, cache-hits on an unchanged file, and returns None for an unreadable file. cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean. cargo fmt --check clean. Rebased onto current main.

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• New Features

  • Local served models now include an optional SHA-256 digest of their GGUF file contents.
  • Digest results are cached for unchanged files and restored when still valid after restart.
  • Digests are recorded only after the model starts successfully.

• Bug Fixes

  • Models without readable weight files no longer advertise an inaccurate digest.
  • File changes during model loading no longer produce stale digests.
  • Weight digests remain local and are not shared through peer announcements.

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The change adds an optional SHA-256 digest to served model identities. Local startup computes and caches the digest for GGUF files, records it after successful startup, and excludes it from gossip reconstruction.

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Weights digest support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Identity contract and initialization crates/mesh-llm-types/src/mesh/mod.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/mesh/model_identity.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/protocol/convert.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/mesh/tests/peer_state.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/mesh/mod.rs	ServedModelIdentity now contains an optional weights_digest. Constructors initialize it to None. Gossip conversion omits the digest and restores it as absent.
Digest computation and cache crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/mesh/weights_digest.rs	The cache coordinates concurrent requests for the same path, size, and modification-time key. Matching persisted records avoid re-hashing. Failed computations remove the pending entry.
Startup digest recording crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/runtime/local.rs	Local startup computes the digest on a blocking task and records it only after the model starts successfully. A TOCTOU check rejects digests when the file changes during startup. Tests cover descriptor updates, descriptor creation, carry-forward behavior, and failed startup cleanup.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant LocalStartup
  participant DigestWorker
  participant DigestCache
  participant LocalModel
  participant ServedModelDescriptor
  LocalStartup->>DigestWorker: Request GGUF SHA-256 digest
  DigestWorker->>DigestCache: Lookup or compute digest
  DigestCache-->>DigestWorker: Optional digest
  LocalStartup->>LocalModel: Start local model
  LocalModel-->>LocalStartup: Startup result
  LocalStartup->>ServedModelDescriptor: Store digest after successful start

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In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/mesh/weights_digest.rs`:
- Line 61: Update the cache logic around start_runtime_local_model and
hash_file_bytes so each CacheKey tracks an in-progress digest computation;
callers finding an existing computation must await its result, while the
initiating caller performs file I/O without holding the global cache mutex and
publishes success or failure to all waiters.

In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/runtime/local.rs`:
- Line 625: Update the model-loading flow around StageModel::open and
skippy_model_open so weights_digest is computed from the same opened immutable
model snapshot that serves inference, rather than hashing spec.model_path
beforehand. Bind that digest to the loaded model instance before
set_local_model_weights_digest publishes the descriptor, and remove the separate
weights_digest_for_file path that can observe replacement bytes.
- Around line 613-626: Move the set_local_model_weights_digest upsert out of the
pre-start path and into the successful startup commit after alloc_local_port and
start_local_openai_model complete. Ensure failure handlers leave the
served-model descriptor unchanged or remove only the descriptor created by the
failed attempt, so gossip cannot advertise an unserved model or digest.

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[StevenMih]

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→ 2983 passed, 0 failed, 11 ignored (finished in 50.33s)

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→ clean (no warnings, no errors)

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→ clean

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[michaelneale]

Reviewed on Mic's behalf. The idea is good and keeping it off the gossip proto is the right call (protocol/convert.rs:276-283) — Option<String> on a Deserialize struct means old JSON still loads, so there's no compat problem. Three things I'd want addressed before this merges.

1. The comment promises a restart-persistent cache that doesn't exist. runtime/local.rs:610-617 says a model "already hashed for this exact file state costs nothing here on a later restart". But the cache is process-local and in-memory:

// mesh/weights_digest.rs:31-34
fn cache() -> &'static Mutex<HashMap<CacheKey, String>> {
    static CACHE: OnceLock<Mutex<HashMap<CacheKey, String>>> = OnceLock::new();
    CACHE.get_or_init(|| Mutex::new(HashMap::new()))
}

There is no on-disk cache in the new module. Every process start re-hashes every locally started model. Either persist the digest (keyed by path+size+mtime, alongside the existing materialized-cache record would be natural) or fix the comment. As written the comment is the thing that would stop a reviewer from noticing item 2.

2. A whole-file SHA-256 is .awaited inline in the model start path. runtime/local.rs:618-625 — spawn_blocking correctly keeps it off the async workers, but the .await means start_runtime_local_model will not proceed to start_local_openai_model until the entire file has been hashed at 1 MiB per read (weights_digest.rs:100-111).

For this repo that's the load-bearing case: Qwen3.8 UD-IQ2_XXS is ~612 GiB. Even at 2 GB/s that's ~5 minutes of added serial startup before the node serves anything, plus a full page-cache-thrashing read of the model — combined with item 1, on every single restart. Please spawn it detached and upsert the digest onto the descriptor when it completes, or gate it behind a size cap / config flag. The node can serve perfectly well while the digest is still None.

3. Nothing consumes the field. The justification for omitting it from the wire is that it "rides the openai.exchange.v1 serving-provenance event instead" (convert.rs:281-283), but that path isn't in this PR — grepping weights_digest across crates/ at this head returns only the module itself, the mod/use in mesh/mod.rs:109,181, the setter at runtime/local.rs:458-480, and None initializers. plugin/openai_exchange.rs has no digest field. So today this pays a full-file read to produce a value no one reads, on the strength of a comment describing code that doesn't exist yet. Either land the exchange field here or drop the claim from the comment.

Also worth a look (not blocking):

• runtime/local.rs:463-480: set_local_model_weights_digest synthesizes a descriptor (source_kind: LocalGguf, local_file_name: Some("{model}.gguf")) when none is found, then upserts. It runs before start_local_openai_model, so if a richer descriptor registers concurrently this is a read-modify-write that can clobber real identity fields with a fabricated LocalGguf one. Is ordering against descriptor registration actually guaranteed?
• weights_digest.rs:47-51,64-67: two .expect("weights digest cache poisoned"). Practically unreachable (hashing happens outside the guard), but lock().unwrap_or_else(|e| e.into_inner()) avoids permanently poisoning digesting for a node.
• weights_digest.rs:33: the map is unbounded and partly keyed on mtime, so a repeatedly-rewritten file grows it without eviction.
• mesh-llm-types/src/mesh/mod.rs:46: neighbouring fields use #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]; this one doesn't, so it emits "weights_digest": null everywhere. Cosmetic.

Unit tests in weights_digest.rs:114-172 are good for the module (hash correctness, content swap with mtime bump, cache hit, missing file → None). Not covered: the descriptor-synthesis branch, and the documented same-size/same-mtime blind spot (:139-142) is only a comment.

Source reading only — I did not build or run the suite.

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Pushed 93e6735 to address pre-review findings:

P2 — Softened comment in convert.rs: "rides the" → "is intended to ride the" openai.exchange.v1 event — the wiring is out of scope for this PR, so the comment now matches the code.

P3 — tracing::warn on JoinError: replaced .unwrap_or(None) with .unwrap_or_else(|join_err| { tracing::warn!(...); None }) so a panicked/poisoned spawn_blocking thread logs a warning instead of silently returning None (distinguishes a real panic from an honest unreadable file).

P2 — Two unit tests for set_local_model_weights_digest: set_local_model_weights_digest_overwrites_existing_descriptor (branch 1: descriptor pre-seeded via upsert, then overwritten) and set_local_model_weights_digest_synthesizes_descriptor_when_absent (branch 2: no pre-existing descriptor, function synthesizes one).

P2 — Gossip no-cross-wire property test-locked: weights_digest_does_not_cross_the_gossip_wire in peer_state.rs — builds a local announcement with weights_digest: Some(...), roundtrips through proto gossip, asserts it comes back None. A future addition to descriptor_identity_to_proto that starts serializing the field would fail this test.

Local: cargo test -p mesh-llm-host-runtime -- weights_digest → 7 passed; cargo clippy -p mesh-llm-host-runtime -- -D warnings → clean.

[StevenMih]

Thanks for the review. I've pushed bdf81f0c1 (current head), addressing both blocking items, the CodeRabbit TOCTOU finding, and the four non-blocking notes. I verified each item below by running the named test at this head.

Scoping question first: can weights_digest be derived from the same load skippy_model_open performs?

No. Reading the FFI boundary (crates/skippy-runtime/src/native.rs, StageModel::open → open_path_with_optional_event_reporter), the function passes only a CString path pointer plus a RuntimeConfig across skippy_ffi::skippy_model_open; the native llama.cpp loader owns the entire file read, and the only thing crossing back into Rust is an opaque *mut RawModel handle. There's no accessor, fd, mmap handle, or streaming-hash hook that returns the loaded bytes. So the startup-cost item and the TOCTOU are two separate problems, handled separately below.

Blocking items

1 — restart-persistent cache claim vs. process-local cache. Fixed. weights_digest_for_file now persists each digest to a small JSON record under mesh_llm_cache_dir()/weights-digest/<sha256-of-path>.json (path, size, mtime, digest), written atomically (.tmp + rename). A cache miss checks the persisted record before hashing, so a restart with the file unchanged loads the digest from disk instead of re-reading. Best-effort: any read/write/parse failure falls back to re-hashing, never to a fabricated digest.

2 — whole-file SHA-256 .awaited inline serializes startup (~5 min for a ~612 GiB model). Fixed, matching your suggested approach. The hash is now started via tokio::spawn (still off the executor via spawn_blocking) and not awaited before start_local_openai_model, so model startup and hashing run concurrently. The descriptor commit moved into a second detached task spawned only after start_result.is_ok(), which awaits the hash and applies the TOCTOU recheck below before writing. The node reaches "serving" with weights_digest: None and fills it in once the hash completes.

3 — nothing consumes weights_digest yet; is the softened comment enough, or do you want the consumer landed here?

You're right that nothing reads it today, and it's worse than the softened comment implied: the terminal event on main (OpenAiExchangeEnvelope) has no served-model identity block at all, so there's nothing for the digest to ride yet. The comment now says that plainly rather than describing code that doesn't exist. The consumer this is meant for is the terminal-envelope enrichment tracked in #1702; this PR is deliberately the producer half of that pair. If you'd rather hold this until #1702 lands so the pair arrives together, I'm happy to — just say the word. Otherwise it sits as a recorded fact that nothing reads yet, which I'd rather state honestly than dress up. (It's also still deliberately kept off the gossip wire — see protocol/convert.rs.)

CodeRabbit TOCTOU (runtime/local.rs, is_resolved: false). Since deriving from the same load isn't reachable (see above), rather than accept it outright I narrowed it: the file is fingerprinted (size, mtime) before the hash and again after start_local_openai_model returns Ok — covering the whole window in which the native read can have happened — and the digest is discarded (None) on any mismatch rather than published. The residual, documented in both doc comments: a replacement that preserves size and mtime exactly is invisible to this check (the same limitation the digest cache key already has). Worth stating the broader limit too: weights_digest is a self-report the receiving peer never verifies — even a perfectly bound digest says what the serving node claims it loaded. The recheck narrows a window inside an assertion; it doesn't turn it into a proof. The pure logic is extracted to weights_digest_toctou_recheck_passes for direct unit testing.

Non-blocking (all four addressed)

• Descriptor-synth ordering/clobber (local.rs:463-480): traced the call graph — mesh::infer_local_served_model_descriptor is currently a stub returning None, so nothing live clobbers a digest-bearing descriptor today; the other real path only overwrites four named fields (never weights_digest). Added a defensive carry_forward_weights_digest helper anyway so a future real implementation can't silently regress it (2 unit tests).
• .expect("cache poisoned") → recover via into_inner: fixed — one poisoned lock no longer disables digesting for the process.
• Unbounded mtime-keyed map: fixed — old entries for a path are dropped before inserting the new one.
• Missing #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")] on weights_digest: added, matching the existing topology/metadata pattern.

Tests + adversarial pass

New tests: persistence (unchanged_file_loads_digest_from_a_persisted_record_without_rehashing, persisted_record_for_a_stale_file_state_is_ignored), TOCTOU (toctou_recheck_passes_when_file_state_is_unchanged, ..._fails_when_file_size_or_mtime_changed, ..._fails_when_file_became_unreadable), descriptor carry-forward (2), and a characterization test pinning the documented same-size/same-mtime blind spot. Each new test was shown failing with its fix reverted (e.g. stubbing weights_digest_toctou_recheck_passes to always-true fails the size/mtime and unreadable cases; short-circuiting the persisted-record check makes the persistence test recompute a real hash instead of loading the planted record), then restored.

Local verification

cargo test -p mesh-llm-host-runtime --lib: 3058 passed, 0 failed, 11 ignored. cargo clippy -p mesh-llm-host-runtime -p mesh-llm-types --all-targets -- -D warnings: clean. cargo fmt … --check: clean. scripts/ci-local.sh (docker/linux): all gates PASS (actionlint, python_contract_tests, xtask_ci_crate_lists, xtask_publish_crates, release_targets_and_deps, no_console_print, cargo_fmt_check, cargo_clippy_workspace; cli_docs_sync SKIP — no CLI-domain files touched). Diff touches exactly the files named above, no unrelated drift.

CI

You'd already noted that all five GitHub PR workflow runs on this head conclude action_required, so we still need CI validation — that's still the case at bdf81f0c1. Once you're able to approve the pending run (or point me at whoever can), that closes the one gap we can't clear from the fork side; ci-local.sh runs green locally on this head in the meantime.

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In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/mesh/weights_digest.rs`:
- Line 165: Update the entry eviction logic around the weights-digest cache to
track the current fingerprint for each path and retain all Pending entries until
they publish results. When handling a newer (path, size, mtime) key, evict only
obsolete completed entries for that path, preserving newer in-progress
computations so callers can join them.

In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/runtime/local.rs`:
- Line 494: Update the descriptor mutation flow around
Node::upsert_served_model_descriptor and set_served_model_descriptors so
weights_digest is read and written under the descriptor lock. Add a lock-scoped
Node mutation for changing only the digest, and ensure full-descriptor
replacements preserve the currently stored identity.weights_digest while holding
the same lock, including refresh_served_model_descriptors,
add_serving_assignment, capability updates, and set_local_model_weights_digest.
- Line 784: Update the delayed digest task around set_local_model_weights_digest
to capture the started runtime instance’s identity or generation, then apply the
digest only if that exact instance remains active. Prevent the update from
creating or replacing a descriptor when the originating instance has unloaded or
when another same-named instance is now active.

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Reviewed from a fresh read of the full diff.

• Single-flight digest cache is correct: map mutex never held across the file read; waiters join via condvar; failed (None) computations aren't cached so retries can succeed; per-path eviction bounds growth for rewritten files.
• Persisted record uses atomic tmp+rename and is strictly validated against (path, size, mtime) on read — mismatch falls back to re-hashing, never fabricates.
• TOCTOU gap is honestly documented and narrowed with the before/after fingerprint recheck; the size+mtime-preserving blind spot matches the cache key's existing limitation.
• Digest committed only after a successful start, and carry_forward_weights_digest prevents later descriptor upserts from clobbering it back to None. Gossip-wire exclusion is asserted by test.

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@StevenMih Please close out the parent work in #1702 before this PR merges.

This PR adds weights_digest, but #1702 also requires the host-served openai.exchange.v1 terminal event, usage plus request/response digests, and the serving-provenance envelope. Please either land those remaining pieces here or link the concrete PRs that will complete them and keep #1702 open until the full acceptance scope is verified. Merging #1708 alone should not be treated as completing #1702.

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@StevenMih Please close out the parent work in #1702 before this PR merges.

This PR adds weights_digest, but #1702 also requires the host-served openai.exchange.v1 terminal event, usage plus request/response digests, and the serving-provenance envelope. Please either land those remaining pieces here or link the concrete PRs that will complete them and keep #1702 open until the full acceptance scope is verified. Merging #1708 alone should not be treated as completing #1702.

@i386 — agreed on all of it: #1708 alone doesn't close #1702, and #1702 stays open until the full scope is verified.

Taking your list item by item. #1841, now up, carries three of the four: the host-served openai.exchange.v1 terminal event (the raw-proxy branch published nothing before — that's the biggest gap), usage with the real token counts from the dispatch outcome, and the serving_provenance envelope — plus request_digest. Not yet in it: the response-side digests — response_digest alongside tool_calls_digest and reasoning_digest. Those extend the envelope #1841 creates, so that branch is cut once #1841 lands rather than stacked on it; I'll link it here when it's up. So: two PRs to complete #1702, one open now, one to follow.

On sequencing — this PR is the field, #1841 is the envelope it rides. I'd rather hold #1708 until #1841 is in and they land as a pair; say if you'd prefer otherwise.

One small thing: the Commit-convention failure on this head is the Merge branch 'main' commit rather than the code. A rebase clears it if you'd rather not carry the merge commit.

[StevenMih]

Heads-up on sequencing with #1841: that PR calls Node::served_model_descriptors() in production (serving_provenance_for_model), and this branch's head gates it #[cfg(test)]. Each is fine alone; whichever lands second drops the gate. I'll carry that in the rebase, just flagging it.

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Reviewed the complete current-main-synchronized head 21fb722820f062c63eee1429242c90bce1d9b851. The digest is computed from the served GGUF bytes, cached and persisted only against a stable file fingerprint, published only after successful model startup, and kept local rather than accepted as peer-verifiable gossip. I also repaired the post-main-sync test fixture for the current local-start API.

Full mesh-llm-host-runtime and mesh-llm-types package suites pass, including 3,554 host unit tests and 13 types tests; just ci-validate passes with 1,489 tests and 9 skips. No review threads remain unresolved.