chore: overhaul slices S1+S2 — dependency hygiene, panic-free config CLI, contract-drift docs

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -55,15 +55,16 @@ the case we want filed.
 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/warpfront/hipfire
 cd hipfire
-cargo build --release --features deltanet --example daemon -p hipfire-runtime
+cargo build --release --locked -p hipfire-daemon
+cargo build --release --locked -p hipfire-cli
 cargo build --release --features deltanet --example test_kernels -p hipfire-runtime
 cargo build --release -p hipfire-quantize
 ./scripts/install-hooks.sh
 ```
-
-Requires Rust 1.75+ and ROCm 6+ (the dev workflow needs `hipcc` for
-kernel JIT). Pre-compiled kernel blobs ship for gfx1010 / gfx1030 /
-gfx1100 / gfx1200; other arches JIT-compile on first load.
+Requires current stable Rust (CI tracks `stable`; 1.98 is what the
+maintainers build with — no MSRV is declared yet) and ROCm 6+ (the dev
+workflow needs `hipcc` for kernel JIT). Pre-compiled kernel blobs ship for
+gfx1010 / gfx1030 / gfx1100 / gfx1200; other arches JIT-compile on first load.
 
 `scripts/install-hooks.sh` is idempotent; it sets
 `core.hooksPath=.githooks` and makes the local pre-commit hook

Cargo.toml

@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ members = [
     "crates/redline",
     "crates/redline-rocr",
     "crates/redline-dispatch",
-    "crates/radiowave",
     "crates/hipfire-dispatch",
     "crates/hipfire-dispatch-tests",
     "crates/hipfire-tui",
@@ -54,7 +53,16 @@ edition = "2021"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
+anyhow = "1"
+clap = "4.6"
 half = "2.7"
 libloading = "0.9"
+memmap2 = "0.9"
+minijinja = "2"
+minijinja-contrib = "2"
 proptest = { version = "1.11", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 safetensors = "0.8"
+serde = "1"
+serde_json = "1"
+sha2 = "0.10"
+thiserror = "2"

crates/hip-bridge/Cargo.toml

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ lab = []
 [dependencies]
 hipfire-config = { path = "../hipfire-config" }
 libloading.workspace = true
-thiserror = "2"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 redline-rocr = { path = "../redline-rocr" }

crates/hipfire-arch-cohere2moe/Cargo.toml

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ hipfire-runtime = { path = "../hipfire-runtime" }
 hipfire-dispatch = { path = "../hipfire-dispatch", features = ["from-hip-error"] }
 hip-bridge = { path = "../hip-bridge" }
 rdna-compute = { path = "../rdna-compute" }
-serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
-serde_json = "1"
+serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
+serde_json.workspace = true
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Archived research probes.

crates/hipfire-arch-deepseek4/Cargo.toml

@@ -16,12 +16,11 @@ hipfire-runtime = { path = "../hipfire-runtime" }
 hipfire-ds4-parent = { path = "../hipfire-ds4-parent" }
 hip-bridge = { path = "../hip-bridge" }
 rdna-compute = { path = "../rdna-compute" }
-serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
-serde_json = { version = "1", features = ["preserve_order"] }
+serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
+serde_json = { workspace = true, features = ["preserve_order"] }
 hipfire-dispatch = { path = "../hipfire-dispatch", features = ["from-hip-error"] }
 hipfire-reap = { path = "../hipfire-reap", default-features = false }
 saddle-core = { path = "../saddle-core" }
-memmap2 = "0.9"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 libloading.workspace = true

crates/hipfire-arch-dots-ocr/Cargo.toml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ hipfire-runtime = { path = "../hipfire-runtime" }
 hipfire-arch-qwen2 = { path = "../hipfire-arch-qwen2" }
 hip-bridge = { path = "../hip-bridge" }
 rdna-compute = { path = "../rdna-compute" }
-serde_json = "1"
+serde_json.workspace = true
 # Used by `image.rs` for PNG/JPEG decode. Matches the version pin in
 # hipfire-arch-qwen35-vl/Cargo.toml; default-features off keeps the
 # build closure small (only PNG + JPEG are needed for dots.ocr's

crates/hipfire-arch-gemma4/Cargo.toml

@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ hipfire-runtime = { path = "../hipfire-runtime" }
 hip-bridge = { path = "../hip-bridge" }
 rdna-compute = { path = "../rdna-compute" }
 hipfire-dispatch = { path = "../hipfire-dispatch" }
-serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
-serde_json = "1"
+serde_json.workspace = true
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Archived research probes.

crates/hipfire-arch-lfm2-vl/Cargo.toml

@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ deltanet = ["hipfire-runtime/deltanet", "rdna-compute/deltanet"]
 hipfire-runtime = { path = "../hipfire-runtime" }
 hip-bridge = { path = "../hip-bridge" }
 rdna-compute = { path = "../rdna-compute" }
-serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
-serde_json = "1"
+serde_json.workspace = true
 image = { version = "0.25", default-features = false, features = ["png", "jpeg"] }
 libm = "0.2"

crates/hipfire-arch-lfm2moe/Cargo.toml

@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ hipfire-reap = { path = "../hipfire-reap", default-features = false }
 # an lfm2_vl artifact was loaded with --include-vision. Acyclic — lfm2-vl
 # never depends back on this crate.
 hipfire-arch-lfm2-vl = { path = "../hipfire-arch-lfm2-vl" }
-serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
-serde_json = "1"
+serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
+serde_json.workspace = true
 
 [features]
 # Archived research probes; see the note by the [[example]] blocks.

crates/hipfire-arch-maple/Cargo.toml

@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ hipfire-runtime = { path = "../hipfire-runtime" }
 hipfire-dispatch = { path = "../hipfire-dispatch", features = ["from-hip-error"] }
 hip-bridge = { path = "../hip-bridge" }
 rdna-compute = { path = "../rdna-compute" }
-serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
-serde_json = "1"
+serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
+serde_json.workspace = true
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Archived research probes.

crates/hipfire-arch-maple/src/bundle.rs

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ impl ArchModel for MapleBundle {
 /// Maple's end-of-turn token. The checkpoint ships the Qwen tokenizer and
 /// `config.json` declares `eos_token_id` 151645 (`<|im_end|>`), not the
 /// `<|endoftext|>` (151643) that a vocab heuristic would pick.
-pub const MAPLE_EOS_FALLBACK: u32 = 151645;
+pub const MAPLE_EOS_FALLBACK: u32 = hipfire_runtime::chatml::IM_END;
 
 /// Resolve the end-of-turn id from the tokenizer, falling back to the
 /// config-declared ChatML id.

crates/hipfire-arch-minimax/Cargo.toml

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ hipfire-dispatch = { path = "../hipfire-dispatch", features = ["from-hip-error"]
 hip-bridge = { path = "../hip-bridge" }
 rdna-compute = { path = "../rdna-compute" }
 hipfire-reap = { path = "../hipfire-reap", default-features = false }
-serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
-serde_json = "1"
+serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
+serde_json.workspace = true
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Archived research probes.

crates/hipfire-arch-minimax/examples/ep_minimax.rs

@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ fn main() {
     for step in 0..max {
         let next = argmax(&logits);
         gen.push(next);
-        if matches!(next, 200020 | 151643 | 151645 | 2) {
+        if matches!(next, 200020 | hipfire_runtime::chatml::ENDOFTEXT | hipfire_runtime::chatml::IM_END | 2) {
             break;
         }
         if step == 2 { steady_t = std::time::Instant::now(); steady = 0; }

crates/hipfire-arch-minimax/examples/infer_minimax.rs

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ fn main() {
         let next = argmax(&logits);
         gen.push(next);
         // common MiniMax/Qwen EOS ids; stop early if hit
-        if matches!(next, 200020 | 151643 | 151645 | 2) {
+        if matches!(next, 200020 | hipfire_runtime::chatml::ENDOFTEXT | hipfire_runtime::chatml::IM_END | 2) {
             break;
         }
         logits =

crates/hipfire-arch-minimax/examples/minimax_prefill_bench.rs

@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ fn main() -> Result<(), String> {
         let mut gen: Vec<u32> = Vec::new();
         for _ in 0..gen_n {
             let next = am(&logits) as u32;
-            if matches!(next, 200020 | 151643 | 151645 | 2) {
+            if matches!(next, 200020 | hipfire_runtime::chatml::ENDOFTEXT | hipfire_runtime::chatml::IM_END | 2) {
                 break;
             }
             gen.push(next);

crates/hipfire-arch-muse-glimmer/Cargo.toml

@@ -19,8 +19,7 @@ hipfire-runtime = { path = "../hipfire-runtime" }
 hip-bridge = { path = "../hip-bridge" }
 rdna-compute = { path = "../rdna-compute" }
 hipfire-dispatch = { path = "../hipfire-dispatch" }
-serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
-serde_json = "1"
+serde_json.workspace = true
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Archived research probes.