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DeepSeek-V4-Pro packaging was deterministically evicted because a 12.9 GiB layer was emitted through the split-shard merge path, where source parts and the merged output coexist under the 50 GiB HF Jobs ephemeral-storage limit. This change bounds ordinary layer parts to 8 GiB and sends every oversized layer, including a layer containing one indivisible oversized tensor, through a direct streaming writer with no merge staging.

Replacement publishing is also safe and repeatable. --republish stages the complete package on a branch and promotes the manifest-listed snapshot to main in one parent-guarded commit. A failed upload leaves the published snapshot unchanged. Fresh queue attempts suppress duplicate paid jobs, while success and failure markers terminate that attempt immediately instead of extending the cooldown from repository modification time.

Additional package fixes in this PR:

  • Stream verified artifacts through upload hooks while retaining compact header stubs for metadata-carrier construction.
  • Preserve the generic hook contract: hooks may retain or delete their verified artifact.
  • Copy GGUF metadata key/value entries as raw wire bytes so typed keys such as general.alignment remain valid.
  • Omit zero-element GGUF placeholders throughout native inspection and package creation.
  • Accept only numeric layer-N-partMM.gguf suffixes when deriving layer ordinals.
  • Add repeatable --exclude-repo quarantine selection for queue runs.

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Status Symbol/declaration Public header Implementation / mirror Reason Lockstep update
Added enum skippy_status skippy_write_gguf_from_parts_consuming(const char * const * input_paths, size_t input_count, const char * output_path, struct skippy_error ** out_error) include/skippy/model_package.h src/skippy/model_package.cpp; crates/skippy-ffi/src/static_bindings.rs; crates/skippy-ffi/src/dynamic.rs; caller in crates/skippy-runtime/src/gguf_writer.rs Materialize a GGUF while deleting disposable source parts after their final selected tensor is copied, which bounds transient storage. Unlink failure is reported as an I/O error. Native and Rust ABI move from 0.1.54 to 0.1.55 together. Older native runtimes are intentionally unsupported.
Removed None No public declarations were removed.

The public header documents input ownership, deletion timing, and partial-failure behavior. The generated Skippy API reference was regenerated from the prepared queue.

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  • Clean 35-patch llama.cpp queue application and CPU static build.
  • 47/47 native tests, including byte-identical consuming/default writer behavior and input-retention/deletion checks.
  • Every installed Skippy public header compiles independently as C11 and C++17.
  • cargo test -p model-package: 25 passed.
  • cargo test -p skippy-model-package: 92 passed, including budget split, direct singleton writer, zero-element source, upload-hook, carrier, and independent verifier coverage.
  • cargo test -p skippy-runtime --lib: 159 passed, 1 ignored helper.
  • cargo test -p skippy-ffi --lib: 11 passed.
  • Clippy with -D warnings for model-package, skippy-model-package, skippy-runtime, skippy-ffi, mesh-llm-host-runtime, and mesh-llm.
  • Repository CI validation: 1,441 tests passed, 9 skipped; crate-list, release-target, publish-chain, console-print, formatting, shell syntax, Python promotion tests, and generated API checks passed.

The production DeepSeek-V4-Pro HF Job rerun remains the operational verification after merge.

Replacement policy for v2: --republish re-queues a model whose layer
package is already published, catalogued, or previously failed, so the
new job overwrites the existing meshllm/<model>-<quant>-layers repo in
place. Recently-queued (in-flight) jobs still skip to avoid duplicate
submissions. Ratchet allowlist renumbered mechanically (31 entries).
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The PR adds opt-in republishing, moves package artifacts to bucket storage, publishes metadata from header stubs, and permits descriptor-only GGUF shards with unaligned table ends.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Republish queue selection
crates/model-package/src/bin/queue-unsloth-layer-packages.rs, tools/xtask/data/console_print_allowlist.json
Adds the disabled-by-default --republish option. When enabled, Published, Cataloged, and Failed candidates are re-queued. Existing skip behavior remains unchanged without the flag.
Header-stub package publication
crates/skippy-model-package/src/package_v2.rs
Creates header stubs before payload hooks can delete parts. Publishes each verified payload during the artifact loop. Builds and publishes the metadata carrier from the header stubs.
Bucket package workspace
crates/model-package/src/scripts/split-model-job.sh, crates/model-package/src/script.rs
Uses ${JOB_WORK_DIR}/package for package artifacts. The script exits when the workspace resolves to the container root filesystem. Tests verify the updated path and output.
Descriptor-only GGUF validation
crates/skippy-model/src/gguf_catalog.rs
Validates descriptor-only GGUFs against the metadata table end while retaining the aligned data-start check for files with tensors. Adds coverage for an unaligned descriptor-only shard.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PackageWriter
  participant GGUFMetadataCatalog
  participant UploadHook
  participant MetadataCarrier
  PackageWriter->>GGUFMetadataCatalog: read metadata and write header stub
  PackageWriter->>UploadHook: publish verified payload part
  UploadHook-->>PackageWriter: return hook result
  PackageWriter->>MetadataCarrier: build carrier from header stubs
  PackageWriter->>UploadHook: publish verified metadata carrier
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Associate these entries with the queue binary path.

The changed entries are under crates/mesh-llm/src/commands/models/mod.rs, but the updated println! and print! calls are in crates/model-package/src/bin/queue-unsloth-layer-packages.rs. check_no_console_prints performs an exact source-path lookup, so it will not apply these approvals to the queue binary. Regenerate this allowlist section or use the exact queue-binary path.

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Verdict: request changes. The feature is well-scoped and the intent is right, but as written --republish is not idempotent, and the failure mode is duplicate paid HF Job submissions.

Blocking: --republish re-submits jobs that are already in flight

The PR body says "Recently-queued (in-flight) jobs still skip to avoid duplicate submissions." That is not true for any candidate --republish actually targets.

candidate_status() short-circuits in this order:

  1. catalog hit → returns Cataloged (before touching the repo at all)
  2. sibling model-package.json → returns Published
  3. automation/failure.json → returns Failed
  4. automation/queue.json within retry_queued_after → returns Queued

The queue-marker check at step 4 is only reachable when the candidate is not already cataloged, published, or failed — i.e. exactly the three statuses the new gate bypasses. So Queued can never win against --republish.

Concretely, on the v2 slate this PR exists to ship:

run 1 --republish --confirm  → writes automation/queue.json, submits 20 jobs
run 2 --republish --confirm  → still sees Cataloged/Published (marker never consulted)
                             → submits 20 more jobs for the same models

That happens on a CI re-run, a retry after a partial failure, or just running it twice. Since write_queue_marker() uploads the marker before jobs_client.submit(), even a crash mid-run leaves the marker in place with no protection. total_max_cost_usd is real money.

The fix is to make the republish bypass yield to a fresh queue marker. Cleanest is to check the marker in candidate_status() before the catalog/published/failure returns (or return the queue state alongside them), so QueueStatus::Queued is authoritative regardless of what else the repo contains. CodeRabbit flagged this for Failed only — it's the same bug on all three arms.

Style + testability: the empty-then-branch

if args.republish && matches!(status, Published{..} | Cataloged{..} | Failed{..}) {
    // Replacement policy: republish v2 over the existing package in place.
} else {
    match status { ... }
}

An if whose then-branch is a comment reads as a mistake. Two better shapes, and the second also solves the coverage gap:

  • Match guards: QueueStatus::Published { repo } if !args.republish => { println!(...); continue; }
  • Extract the policy: fn should_skip(status: &QueueStatus, republish: bool) -> Option<String> returning the skip message. Pure function, trivially unit-testable, and main() becomes if let Some(msg) = should_skip(...) { println!("{msg}"); continue; }.

Right now the decision is inline in main(), which is why it can't be tested.

Missing tests

The only test-file changes are two republish: false struct-literal fixups. There is no test that --republish parses, none that a published/cataloged/failed candidate is re-queued, and none for the double-submit regression above. With should_skip extracted, all three are a handful of lines.

Minor

automation/failure.json is never deleted on a successful republish, so a previously-failed repo ends up carrying both model-package.json and a stale failure marker. Harmless today (the Published check precedes the failure check) but it's misleading metadata for anyone reading the repo or a future status check that reorders.

Non-issues

  • The allowlist regen is correct — 31 → 31 entries, pure line-number shift, all under the queue-binary path key. CodeRabbit's outside-diff comment claiming the entries landed under crates/mesh-llm/src/commands/models/mod.rs is a false positive; don't chase it.
  • Re-cataloguing is safe: catalog_entry_path() is derived from the source repo, so it overwrites in place rather than duplicating.
  • Help text is updated, CI is green, and no docs or workflows reference this binary's flags.

…ages on the bucket

Two independent failures from the Batch 1 v2 republish runs:

1. read_gguf_catalog rejected any artifact whose aligned data_start lands
   beyond EOF. Split models legitimately ship a descriptor-only first
   shard (n_t=0, all model metadata, zero tensors) whose metadata table
   can end past the alignment boundary: unsloth/inkling-GGUF shard 1 ends
   at 12,986,167 bytes while 32-byte alignment rounds data_start to
   12,986,176. Kimi-K3's equivalent shard passes only because its table
   end happens to be exactly 32-aligned. Descriptor-only shards now only
   require the metadata table itself to fit; payload-bearing artifacts
   keep the original bounds checks.

2. split-model-job.sh staged the package workspace under /tmp, which is
   capped by the HF Jobs per-container 50G ephemeral-storage limit (a
   kubelet eviction threshold, not disk size - the node had 1.3T free
   when the pod was evicted). The package must stay fully materialized
   until the final metadata-carrier pass, so PACKAGE_DIR now defaults to
   the bucket workspace (/bucket/job-work/...) and the job refuses to
   run with the package workspace on the container root filesystem.
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Stacked two Batch-1 root-cause fixes on this branch (tip c82cb349b):

1. Descriptor-only GGUF shards (skippy-model)read_gguf_catalog rejected any artifact whose aligned data_start lands past EOF. Split models legitimately ship an n_t=0 first shard holding only metadata (unsloth/inkling-GGUF shard 1: table ends 12,986,167 B, 32-byte alignment rounds to 12,986,176 > EOF — job 6aa1153f died on this in 2.4s). Kimi-K3's identical-shaped shard passes only because its table end is coincidentally 32-aligned. Descriptor-only shards now require only that the metadata table fits; payload-bearing artifacts keep every original bounds check. Verified against the real downloaded shard bytes with the actual reader; regression test included.

**2. Package workspace on /bucket (split-model-job.sh)` — PACKAGE_DIR defaulted under /tmp and jobs died at the HF Jobs 50G per-container ephemeral-storage eviction (Kimi 6aa114dd, V4-Flash 6aa114e8; node overlay had 1.3T free — it is a kubelet cap, not disk size, and no flavor lifts it since ephemeralDisk is null across the catalog). The package must stay fully materialized until the final metadata-carrier pass, so PACKAGE_DIR now defaults to the bucket workspace and the job hard-fails if the package workspace sits on the container root FS.

Local: fmt, clippy -D warnings --all-targets, both crate test suites, no-console-print regen check — all green. Retriggering Kimi-K3, V4-Flash and Inkling from this branch tip (full SHA as --mesh-llm-ref).

Paul Hogan and others added 7 commits September 10, 2026 06:35
…S gate

On the HF bucket FUSE mount, empty directories are not backed by an
object and can vanish between the job's initial mkdir and the storage
gate, so 'df -P $PACKAGE_DIR' failed under set -e and every retried job
died at the gate before writing anything. Re-create the directory
immediately before the check; write-package creates parents itself from
there.
The v2 writer emitted every payload artifact with no upload hook and ran
the hook in one final pass, because the metadata carrier was built from
the on-disk parts. A full package therefore accumulated in the package
workspace before any upload: Kimi-K3, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, and
Inkling were all evicted by the HF Jobs 50G per-container ephemeral
storage limit mid-write (the canary only survived at 18.8G).

Each verified artifact is now uploaded and deleted immediately. The
metadata carrier needs only the parts' descriptor tables and tensor
locators, which live entirely in each part's header (bytes before its
aligned data start), so the writer captures a header-only stub per
artifact before the hook runs and builds shared/metadata.gguf from the
stubs. Peak workspace usage drops from the full package to one artifact
plus kilobytes of headers.

Validated end-to-end on a real model: write-package with a
copy-then-delete hook uploads every artifact, leaves only
model-package.json locally, and the reconstructed package passes
verify-package-v2 against the independent source (35 artifacts,
427 tensors).
MiniMax-H3's GGUF family (unsloth/qwen3vl_32b_minimax_h3-GGUF and the
pruned variants) are raw tensor dumps with no general.architecture,
block_count, or tokenizer metadata; packaging them cannot succeed until
upstream fixes the files. --exclude-repo lets the queue skip named
source repos explicitly instead of relying on the failed-job heuristic,
and is repeatable for the whole quarantined family.
Review fixes for PR #1718 (ndizazzo + CodeRabbit):

- candidate_status() now checks the target repo's queue marker FIRST, so
  QueueStatus::Queued can never be shadowed by the cataloged/published/
  failure returns. Previously a second --republish run re-submitted (and
  paid for) the same in-flight HF job, because the marker check was
  unreachable for exactly the statuses --republish bypasses.
- Extracted the skip decision into should_skip(status, republish): Queued
  always skips (even under --republish — an in-flight job already covers
  the candidate); Published/Cataloged/Failed re-queue only with
  --republish; Missing/StaleQueued always queue. Replaces the empty
  then-branch if/else.
- write_queue_marker() now deletes the stale automation/failure.json when
  re-queueing under --republish so the repo doesn't carry contradictory
  markers.
- Tests: double-submit regression (two consecutive --republish skips the
  second), skip policy matrix, queue-marker freshness via last_modified.

Note: CodeRabbit's outside-diff claim that allowlist entries landed under
the wrong path key was verified as a false positive (per ndizazzo) and
not chased.
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Paul Hogan and others added 11 commits September 10, 2026 14:47
d93d333 moved lines in queue-unsloth-layer-packages.rs without a ratchet
regen; CI contracts and consistency failed on stale line pins.
delete_queue_failure_marker only tolerated file-level 404s; a candidate
whose target repo was never created (no run has completed yet) fails the
re-queue path with RepoNotFound before the job is submitted. A missing
repo has nothing to delete — treat it as success.
…mpt exponential backoff

Two production jobs died when a sustained HF Xet I/O error (os error 5)
outlasted the upload hook's 4 attempts x <=60s backoff (V4-Flash
layer-00010, Inkling layer-00008; Inkling had already recovered from an
identical single-attempt blip earlier in the same run). Raise the default
to 8 attempts with exponential backoff capped at 300s — ~22 minutes of
total retry window per artifact, inside the 12h job budget.
…on FUSE mounts

Kimi-K3 job 6aa229b42 died after uploading layer-00001 (16.4 GB):
verify_hook_result checked path.exists() and then hashed the file, but
the /bucket FUSE mount kept reporting the freshly unlinked artifact as
present via a stale attr cache, so file_sha256 failed with ENOENT and
took the whole job down ~100 layers before completion.

An upload hook removing the artifact is the expected outcome of this
design, so 'can no longer be opened' now reads as unchanged; only a file
that opens but differs from its record (hook mutated it) fails. Applies
uniformly to payload artifacts, the metadata carrier, and projectors.
Regression test covers present/mutated/deleted.
Two Inkling jobs died 90 seconds in with 'upload-pack: not our ref'
(exit 128): GitHub's ref advertisement for allow-any-SHA fetches lags
freshly-pushed commits, and MESH_LLM_REF is always a raw branch-tip SHA
in this pipeline. fetch_ref_with_retry polls up to 10 x 60s before
giving up.
Three hardened split jobs died on sustained Xet upload I/O errors (os
error 5) while re-reading artifacts through the writable /bucket FUSE
mount: Inkling at layer 5, V4-Flash at layer 13, Kimi stuck at layer 1.
Xet is healthy from outside HF Jobs (2.15GB probe at 146-172MB/s), so
the failures are specific to reading freshly-written files back through
the FUSE mount in the job container.

Default the package workspace and the Xet chunk cache to the local work
dir and refuse a non-local PACKAGE_DIR unless PACKAGE_DIR_ALLOW_BUCKET
is set. The per-artifact upload+delete interleave keeps peak local usage
at one artifact plus its shard scratch, which fits the 50G ephemeral
cap; the bucket is still used for the script, source-cache fallback,
and job-work bookkeeping. The capacity warning now checks /bucket free
space for the fallback path instead of the package dir.
With package artifacts and the Xet chunk cache already on local SSD,
split jobs still hit sustained I/O errors (os error 5) on the Xet-CAS
channel from inside HF Jobs containers; the same uploads run clean from
outside the cluster. Per-layer GGUF artifacts gain nothing from chunk
deduplication, so default the job environment to HF_HUB_DISABLE_XET=1
and upload through the classic HTTP path, which uses different egress.
Set HF_HUB_DISABLE_XET=0 to restore the Xet uploader.
Kimi-K3's sharded split (32 shards) stages one per-shard part per layer
(~16G) then merges them into the layer GGUF while every part is still on
disk — a ~33G staging peak per layer that tipped the HF Jobs 50G
container-local ephemeral-storage eviction at layer 9 (job 6aa368302,
uploads themselves were clean).

Add llama patch 0024: skippy_write_gguf_from_parts_consuming, an opt-in
materializing variant that unlinks each input part as soon as its tensors
are absorbed into the output (sources are opened metadata-only, so nothing
pins the file). The default from-parts writer is byte-identical for bench
materialization and metadata carriers. ABI patch 53->54 paired in
skippy-ffi. The sharded stage writer now uses the consuming variant, so
peak staging drops to ~1x layer size.
# Conflicts:
#	crates/skippy-model/src/gguf_catalog.rs
Unsloth diffusion GGUFs (e.g. Qwen-Image-Edit-2511) carry a converter
placeholder tensor `__index_timestep_zero__` with dims [0] — zero
elements, zero payload bytes. The catalog reader hard-rejected any
zero dimension, failing the whole source parse at the last tensor.

Skip the entry instead: its table entry is fully consumed either way,
and both tensor-catalog and metadata-catalog modes keep every real
tensor. Verified against the real 64MB source prefix (1933 real
tensors parse; the placeholder is dropped).
Paul Hogan and others added 3 commits September 12, 2026 17:49
Clippy 1.9x prefers contains() over iter().any() for u32 slices;
mechanical change, no behavior difference. Unblocks PR #1807 CI.
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Paul Hogan and others added 2 commits September 13, 2026 08:49
Mirrors the #1807 catalog-reader change: the reader skips zero-dim
placeholder tensors (e.g. Unsloth diffusion __index_timestep_zero__),
so the native-vs-GGUF count comparison in source inspection and direct
planning must filter zero-element native tensors too. Without this,
Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 passes the source read and dies at write-package
with 'native and GGUF tensor inventories disagree' (1934 vs 1933).
# Conflicts:
#	crates/skippy-model/src/gguf_catalog.rs

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I agree with making replacement explicit and with reducing the package writer's disk footprint. The fresh target queue marker now wins over the published/catalogued/failed shortcuts, so the earlier sequential double-submit issue is addressed. The Rust and native ABI versions also agree at 0.1.54.

I'd hold this before merging. Republishing needs to preserve a complete published snapshot while new artifacts are uploaded, and the generic after-artifact hook must keep its existing file-retention contract. I've left those findings inline, along with the missing native API documentation update.

There are a few follow-ups I'd make while this is open:

  • Let's distinguish a finished attempt from an active queue marker. Success and failure paths retain automation/queue.json, and freshness uses the repository's latest modification time. A failed job therefore blocks --republish for the default 30 hours after the failure update, and a successful job does the same after publishing. I'd use an attempt identity and terminal state, or document a deliberate cooldown. The current regression test supplies QueueStatus::Queued directly, so it doesn't exercise either lifecycle.
  • The zero-element filtering is incomplete for package creation. source_inventory::inspect now drops placeholders, but ModelSource::open still retains them and ensure_native_inventory_matches compares that unfiltered set. A source containing the cited zero-element placeholder still fails before writing. I'd cover the complete writer path when finishing this support.
  • I'd add native tests showing that the consuming writer produces identical bytes, removes scratch inputs on success, and preserves the default writer's inputs. The new native std::remove result is ignored, so a failed unlink can silently defeat the storage-saving behavior. Its trailing any_of scan also does quadratic work although the comment says tensors are grouped by source.
  • Please update the title and description for the actual scope. This now includes package publication order, scratch-file ownership, upload/storage policy, and a new native ABI, beyond queue republishing. The description's bucket-default claim is also the opposite of the final script. The ABI inventory should explicitly list the new symbol, full signature, owners, 0.1.53 to 0.1.54 bump, and boundary validation.

I reviewed head 6ff4455a1aa8f7f94de2b83e52a5899d716500fc against base 22998c2732ef490c75fbe417bc17ccf55a325a2a. Locally, all 11 queue-binary tests passed, bash -n passed for the job script, and the diff whitespace check passed. I traced the writer, hook, catalog, and download paths and checked the previous reviews. I didn't run a native writer build, a real GGUF/HF publishing job, or a storage-budget trial.

At this review's check snapshot, PR / Quality passed; PR / Website and PR / macOS passed with their substantive lanes skipped. Linux CPU runtime and static ABI jobs passed, while Linux host/tests and Windows runtime/host/platform jobs were still running. I found no failed current-head job to triage. Those pending lanes and the absence of real publication/storage evidence mean this isn't a CI or operational acceptance sign-off.

Comment thread crates/model-package/src/bin/queue-unsloth-layer-packages.rs
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HF Jobs evicts split-package pods above 50G of container-local ephemeral
storage; DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 died deterministically writing layer-00000
(12.9 GiB single layer) because the v2 planner had no per-artifact byte
budget and the sharded writer needs ~2x transient for parts+merge.

Plan and write oversized layers as byte-balanced part artifacts instead:

- layout: plan_artifacts_with_budget subdivides groups above
  max_artifact_bytes (default 8 GiB) using the proven
  byte_balanced_split_boundaries algorithm; unsplit layers keep the
  legacy layers/layer-N.gguf path, split layers emit
  layers/layer-N-partMM.gguf with -partNN ids. A single tensor larger
  than the budget stays whole - it is the smallest indivisible unit.
- part_writer: new byte-preserving Rust GGUF writer that streams tensor
  payloads directly from the source shards at exact catalog offsets - no
  native ABI call, no parts+merge staging, no 2x transient copy. Source
  metadata KV entries are copied as raw wire bytes (llama.cpp
  type-checks general.alignment as u32; a serde_json round trip widens
  it to u64 and the native reader rejects the file).
- package_v2: --max-artifact-bytes CLI, part-aware emit path, and
  physical-content check (parts hold exactly their planned tensors;
  native stage slices duplicate common tensors, parts do not).
- verify_v2/package_carrier: layer-ordinal parsers accept -partNN paths.
- Manifest validation, stage admission, materialization and carrier
  resolution bind tensors by tensor-id -> (artifact, offset, length) and
  are artifact-grouping-agnostic, so splitting a layer across artifacts
  needs no loader or native changes.

Verified end to end by tests: tiny-budget package splits a 3-tensor
layer into 3 parts, all pass manifest validation and verify_v2 against
the independent source.
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Part-split fix landed on this branch1d215cb feat(package): split oversized layers into byte-balanced part artifacts

Fixes the deterministic DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 eviction (job 6aa5cd855): HF Jobs kills pods above 50G ephemeral storage, layer-00000 alone is 12.9 GiB, and the v2 planner had no per-artifact byte budget.

Rust-only, no native ABI change, no patch queue change:

  • plan_artifacts_with_budget — per-artifact budget (default 8 GiB), byte-balanced part split mirroring byte_balanced_split_boundaries; unsplit layers keep the legacy layers/layer-N.gguf path, split layers emit layer-N-partMM.gguf
  • New part_writer.rs — byte-preserving Rust GGUF writer streaming tensor payloads directly from source shards at exact catalog offsets (no parts+merge staging, no 2x transient copy); source metadata KV copied as raw wire bytes (llama.cpp type-checks general.alignment as u32 — a serde_json round trip widens it to u64 and the native reader rejects the file)
  • --max-artifact-bytes CLI flag; layer-ordinal parsers in verify_v2 and package_carrier accept -partNN
  • Works because manifest validation, stage admission, materialization and carrier resolution all bind by tensor-id → (artifact, offset, length) and are artifact-grouping-agnostic — verified before implementation

Testing on this box (CPU static lib rebuilt against current queue incl. Scama's 0024 doc-comment): 88/88 crate tests green including 4 new (layout budget split, dominating-tensor-keeps-whole, part-writer payload round-trip, end-to-end tiny-budget split package verified by verify_v2); fmt clean; console-print ratchet regenerated (mechanical line-shifts only); clippy 0 warnings.

Rebased onto the refreshed queue-republish branch (3ffd407). After merge, the V4-Pro job can be resubmitted with the new MESH_LLM_REF.

@i386 i386 changed the title feat(queue): add --republish to replace existing layer packages fix(package): bound layer artifacts and publish replacements atomically Sep 13, 2026
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Review follow-ups are addressed at 9a97623473bd4054c27e9703ea168f37305630ba:

  • merged current main and rebuilt the native queue as contiguous patches 0034–0035, resolving the 0024 collision;
  • made terminal success/failure end queue-attempt suppression immediately;
  • completed zero-element filtering through the native count/index accessors and the full package writer;
  • added native consuming-writer coverage, checked unlink failures, and replaced the quadratic remaining-source scan;
  • corrected the planner so oversized tensors are isolated and even a single oversized tensor uses the direct writer path;
  • tightened part-path parsing, regenerated the public API docs, bumped ABI 0.1.54 → 0.1.55 in lockstep, and added the required ABI inventory to the PR description.

Validation includes the clean 35-patch CPU static build, 47 native tests, 92 skippy-model-package tests, 25 model-package tests, 159 skippy-runtime tests, 11 skippy-ffi tests, C11/C++17 public-header compilation, clippy for affected crates, and the 1,441-test repository CI validation suite.

The previous quality run was cancelled by the PR metadata edit concurrency group; the replacement run is active.

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Follow-up from the post-merge CI run: the new runtime-events gate from current main selected family-qwen3-dense at pull-request cadence, but that artifact was only authorized for manual/nightly/llama-bump cadences. The native runtime build itself passed; resolution stopped before this PR's code was exercised.

Fixed in e28cdb95d82b59513683a9813d7f4a59eca17d67 by authorizing the pinned artifact for pull-request and main, regenerating the registry-backed manifests, and adding a contract test binding the workflow's selected artifact to both executable cadences. Local just ci-validate is green (1,441 tests, 9 skipped).

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The authorized live gate then exposed a second CI issue: the Rust integration test passed, but Cargo ran it from the crate directory and wrote the relative evidence path there; the wrapper checked the empty file it had created at the repository root.

Fixed in 121ab7f7a283e2e5c7aab92bc792208e589c36be by resolving the evidence path before Cargo changes the test working directory, with a regression test that requires the child process to receive an absolute path. bash -n, the focused 20-test gate suite, and the full 1,442-test just ci-validate suite pass locally.

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