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localai-org-maint-bot
823fc25bb7 fix(kokoro): add CPU backend fallback (#11161)
Publish the existing Kokoro CPU profile for amd64 and arm64 and use it as the default gallery capability so Vulkan-only and CPU hosts can install the backend.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5

Co-authored-by: localai-org-maint-bot <306269227+localai-org-maint-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-28 18:02:39 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]
4baa36ddd8 feat(backend): vllm-cpp - text-generation backend for vllm.cpp with llama.cpp-parity tool calling (#11100)
* feat(backend): add vllm-cpp text-generation backend (vllm.cpp)

Wrap https://github.com/mudler/vllm.cpp - the LocalAI-team from-scratch C++20
port of vLLM (paged KV cache, continuous batching, prefix caching, safetensors
+ GGUF loading, no Python at inference) - as a Go gRPC backend over its stable
C ABI (ABI v2) via purego.

Backend (backend/go/vllm-cpp):
- Load -> vllm_engine_load: accepts a .gguf file or a config.json model dir
  (anything else is refused, satisfying the greedy-probe rule); context_size
  maps to max_model_len, options block_size/num_blocks/max_num_seqs size the
  KV cache and scheduler admission.
- Predict -> vllm_complete (blocking); PredictStream -> vllm_complete_stream
  with the per-delta C callback bridged into the gRPC stream. The backend
  embeds base.Base (not SingleThread): concurrent requests batch continuously
  in the engine's shared AsyncLLM scheduler.
- PredictOptions.Grammar -> the ABI's structured_grammar (GBNF), giving
  grammar-constrained tool calling at parity with llama-cpp; the ABI also
  exposes JSON-schema/regex/choice constraints.
- Hand-mirrored POD structs with layout locked by unit tests
  (unsafe.Offsetof vs the C offsets) and a runtime vllm_abi_version gate.
- One portable library per platform (vllm.cpp uses per-file SIMD tiers with
  runtime dispatch), so no avx/avx2/avx512 variant builds.

Wiring:
- backend-matrix: CPU amd64+arm64 (per-arch + manifest merge), CUDA 12/13
  amd64 (120a;121a Blackwell fat binary), L4T arm64 (121a, GB10/DGX Spark -
  the runtime-proven GPU target), Vulkan amd64, and Darwin arm64 Metal.
- backend/index.yaml meta + 12 image entries (latest/development x cpu,
  cuda12, cuda13, l4t, vulkan, metal); bump_deps registration for the
  VLLM_CPP_VERSION pin; root Makefile registration; test-extra runs the unit
  specs (pure Go, no engine build).
- Importers: preference-only swaps - llama-cpp (GGUF) and vllm (safetensors)
  advertise vllm-cpp via AdditionalBackends and emit backend: vllm-cpp
  without tokenizer templating (the C ABI takes the FINAL prompt; templating
  and tool parsing stay LocalAI-side). No auto-detect importer.
- Docs: backends list, top-level README maintained-engines table,
  compatibility table.

Verified: 20/20 Ginkgo specs against the real pinned engine and
Qwen3.5-2B-UD-Q8_K_XL.gguf on CPU - blocking + streaming parity, greedy
determinism, stop words, GBNF-constrained generation, and 4 concurrent
streams; plus a dlopen/ABI-gate smoke of the built gRPC server binary.
Upstream ABI v2 + production structured-output wiring landed as
mudler/vllm.cpp@86013f3.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(vllm-cpp): ride the autoparser code path - engine-side chat templating and tool engagement (ABI v3)

The backend now implements AIModelRich (PredictRich / PredictStreamRich) over
vllm.cpp's ABI v3 chat entry points, so chat and tool calling ride the SAME
code path as the llama.cpp autoparser: the ENGINE renders the model's chat
template, decides when a tool call engages, and parses it - LocalAI receives
pre-parsed ChatDelta / ToolCallDelta protos exactly as it does from llama-cpp.

- With use_tokenizer_template + structured Messages, PredictOptions lowers to
  ONE OpenAI chat request JSON (messages, tools, tool_choice, sampling,
  stream_options.include_usage) for vllm_chat / vllm_chat_stream. tool_choice
  auto lowers engine-side to a LAZY structural-tag decode constraint - free
  text until the model emits the tool trigger, then the call is
  grammar-constrained; required/named force a call. Tool output is parsed by
  the engine's streaming Hermes-style parser; each chat.completion.chunk maps
  onto ChatDeltas (content / reasoning_content / tool_calls) which the host
  already prefers over Go-side tag extraction. Without structured messages the
  plain path (LocalAI templating + optional GBNF grammar) applies unchanged.
- The engine resolves the chat template from the GGUF tokenizer.chat_template
  metadata (or tokenizer_config.json); templates beyond its minja subset -
  e.g. the full Qwen3.5 namespace()/macro template - degrade engine-side to a
  Hermes-aware fallback prompt (tools schemas + <tool_call> instruction) with
  a stderr witness, so structural-tag engagement keeps working.
- Importers now emit the same config shape as llama-cpp for vllm-cpp
  (use_tokenizer_template: true, no-grammar autoparser flow); only the
  llama-cpp-specific use_jinja option and the vllm-python parser options are
  dropped.
- Pin bumped to mudler/vllm.cpp@aaed7ec (ABI v3 + chat-prompt resolution).

Verified against the real engine and Qwen3.5-2B-UD-Q8_K_XL.gguf on CPU: full
suite green - blocking chat, streaming deltas concatenating byte-equal to the
blocking answer, a REQUIRED tool call returning schema-valid arguments JSON,
and an AUTO run where the engine itself engages get_weather and streams parsed
tool deltas; plus unit specs for the request lowering, chunk->ChatDelta
mapping, and the C struct mirrors (ABI gate now v3).

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(vllm-cpp): ABI v5 - engine-side parser selection for 30 tool dialects + reasoning

Bump the vllm.cpp pin to the autoparser-parity engine: 30 tool-call dialects
(every pure-text parser in the pinned vLLM registry, each ported 1:1 with its
upstream tests), 7 reasoning parsers, google/minja as the template renderer
(the full Qwen3.5 template now renders engine-side), per-family structural
tags (tool_choice required/named compiles the model's NATIVE syntax where
expressible), and template auto-detection for both parser axes.

Backend changes:
- cModelParams mirrors ABI v5 (tool_parser + reasoning_parser fields,
  layout-locked by the offset tests; ABI gate now v5).
- New model options tool_parser:<name> / reasoning_parser:<name> pass through
  to the engine; unset means template auto-detection (18-row tool marker
  table; [THINK]->mistral, <think>->think_auto for reasoning); "none"
  disables the reasoning split; unknown names fail the first chat call.
- Chat chunks parse the `reasoning` field (the pin renamed
  reasoning_content), flowing into ChatDelta.ReasoningContent which the host
  already prefers.

Live e2e against Qwen3.5-2B-UD-Q8_K_XL.gguf on CPU, full suite green: the
real chat template renders (no more fallback), reasoning auto-detection picks
think_auto so markerless answers stay pure content (the live run caught the
deepseek_r1 content-swallow upstream and drove the think_auto fix), required
tool_choice returns schema-valid arguments, auto tool_choice engages
engine-side and streams parsed deltas, and blocking/streaming stay
byte-identical. Turn latency also dropped (proper template EOS behavior).

Upstream program landed as mudler/vllm.cpp 86013f3..5fffe7e (ABI v2-v5,
minja, parser waves B1/B2/B4, reasoning seam, structural-tag registry,
think_auto).

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* chore(vllm-cpp): bump the engine pin to the ENG-wave close-out

mudler/vllm.cpp@df8909b: the six engine-backed vLLM tool-parser families
(qwen3-coder/xml/mimo, kimi_k2, glm45/47, minimax_m2, gemma4, seed_oss)
text-reimplemented from their wire formats and held to the upstream test
suites - 39 registered dialects; the pinned vLLM registry is now covered
except the three Rust/Harmony-backed families, descoped by decision. kimi_k2
also gains a full native structural-tag builder; four new template
auto-detection rows land with test-pinned ordering.

Full backend e2e re-run green against Qwen3.5-2B-UD-Q8_K_XL.gguf on CPU.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(vllm-cpp): add the vllm-cpp-development gallery meta

The gallery grew the twelve latest/development image entries but was missing
the separate vllm-cpp-development meta (own capabilities map targeting the
-development image names), which every backend ships so the development
gallery resolves per-platform. Validated: all capability targets in both
metas resolve to existing entries, and every image URI's tag suffix matches
a backend-matrix build.

Also full-stack verified in this change's context (single-node local-ai from
this branch, locally-built backend under --backends-path, Qwen3.5-2B GGUF):
/v1/chat/completions non-stream (clean content + usage), streaming (SSE
deltas), tool_choice auto engaging get_weather engine-side with schema-valid
arguments and finish_reason=tool_calls, and streamed tool-call deltas in the
standard name-first cadence.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(vllm-cpp): repair the CI backend builds - gcc-14 -Werror + fat-arch Triton

Two distinct failures took down all five vllm-cpp backend builds on the PR:

1. gcc-14 (ubuntu:24.04 CI images; the local toolchain is gcc-13) fails the
   engine build with -Werror=maybe-uninitialized in InputBatch::condense - a
   false positive through a staging std::optional's raw storage. Fixed
   upstream (mudler/vllm.cpp@61f3e85) by moving slot-to-slot directly;
   verified BOTH ways under dockerized g++-14.2 (unfixed reproduces CI's two
   diagnostics exactly, fixed compiles clean) with the engine's behavior
   suites green. Pin bumped to that sha.

2. The amd64 CUDA builds died at CMake configure: the vendored Triton-AOT
   cubin trees are per-arch and the engine refuses -DVLLM_CPP_TRITON=ON on a
   multi-arch (120a;121a) fat build unless pinned to one tree, which would be
   unsound for the other arch. Triton is now enabled only on the single-arch
   arm64/GB10 build (where the cubins matter); the fat amd64 binary uses the
   engine's non-AOT GDN path.

Backend e2e re-run green at the new pin (Qwen3.5-2B on CPU, full suite).

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(vllm-cpp): cuda-12 images cannot compile compute_121a - target 120a only

The second CI round surfaced a CUDA-version constraint: the cuda-12 (12.8)
image's nvcc rejects 'compute_121a' (GB10 arch support landed with CUDA 13),
killing the amd64 cuda-12 build at nvcc. Gate the architecture list on
CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION (exported by Dockerfile.golang): cuda-12 builds consumer
Blackwell 120a only, cuda-13 keeps the 120a;121a fat binary, arm64/l4t
(cuda-13) keeps single-arch 121a with the Triton cubins. GB10 is arm64, so
the amd64 cuda-12 image never served it - no capability change.

Verified by Makefile dry-run variable dumps for all three combinations
(cuda12 -> 120a; cuda13 -> 120a;121a; cpu -> CUDA off).

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(vllm-cpp): drop the cuda-12 variant - the engine needs the CUDA 13 toolchain

Third CI round, third layer: with the arch list already narrowed to 120a,
the cuda-12 (12.8) build still dies in ptxas compiling the sm_120a NVFP4 MMA
kernels ("Vector type too large, exceeds 128 bit limit") - the Blackwell fp4
path genuinely requires the CUDA 13 toolchain, and vllm.cpp supports
Blackwell-family GPUs only. Shipping a cuda-12 image without the fp4 kernels
would be a crippled build of an engine whose whole GPU story is fp4, so the
variant is dropped instead:

- backend-matrix: cuda-12 vllm-cpp entry removed (cuda-13 amd64, l4t arm64,
  cpu, vulkan, metal remain).
- gallery: cuda12 image entries removed; the nvidia capability now resolves
  to the cuda13 image in both metas; the nvidia-cuda-12 key is dropped so
  older-driver hosts fall back to the CPU image instead of an unrunnable one.
- backend Makefile: BUILD_TYPE=cublas under CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=12 now fails
  fast with a clear message; cuda-13 keeps the 120a;121a fat binary and
  arm64/l4t keeps 121a with the Triton cubins.

Verified: Makefile branch dumps for all four combinations (cuda12 loud
error, cuda13 fat, arm64 121a+Triton, cpu off), YAML parses, matrix filter
tests green, gallery capability targets all resolve.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(vllm-cpp): forward multi-turn tool identity and reasoning to the engine

chatRequestJSON dropped Message.ToolCallId and Message.Name on role="tool"
replies and Message.ReasoningContent on assistant history, so a second
turn after tool execution reached the engine's chat template without the
fields that bind a tool result to the call it answers. Forward all three
(present-only, matching the OpenAI wire shape) and pin vllm.cpp to
6a0bd3e7, where ChatMessage parses/round-trips tool_calls, tool_call_id,
name and reasoning and the minja adapter exposes them to the template
context.

Adds the round-trip request-lowering spec (user -> assistant tool_call ->
tool reply -> lowered request) and re-ran the gated e2e suite against the
new engine pin with a real Qwen3.5 GGUF: chat, reasoning split, streaming
parity, required-tool and auto-tool cases all green.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5 [Bash] [Edit] [Read]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(vllm-cpp): bump vllm.cpp for the darwin arm64 i8mm build fix

The darwin-metal CI job was the first build to compile the engine's arm
CPU-quant files on macOS and hit their Linux-only <asm/hwcap.h> /
<sys/auxv.h> includes. vllm.cpp 9e1c9025 detects i8mm per-OS (auxv on
Linux, sysctl on Apple Silicon) with kernels untouched. Gated e2e suite
re-run green against the new pin with a real Qwen3.5 GGUF.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5 [Bash] [Read]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(vllm-cpp): darwin build - bound cmake parallelism when nproc is absent

The macOS runners have no nproc, so JOBS evaluated empty and
`cmake --build -j$(JOBS)` became bare `-j`: unlimited clang jobs on a
3-core/7GB Mac, which swap-thrashed until the 6h GHA timeout (the log
shows "nproc: Command not found" and 7+ concurrent clang processes being
reaped at the cutoff). Use the same portable fallback chain as the other
darwin backends: nproc, then sysctl hw.ncpu, then 4.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5 [Bash] [Edit] [Read]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-26 23:04:48 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]
2b61e4bc1d fix(upgrade-check): don't filter upgrade candidates by controller capability (#11024)
CheckUpgradesAgainst resolved gallery entries through AvailableBackends,
which drops every entry the *local* host cannot run. In distributed mode
the host running the check is a CPU-only controller while the GPU
backends live on worker nodes, so FindGalleryElement returned nil for
every cuda/rocm/l4t entry and those backends were silently skipped.

Measured on a live cluster: GET /backends reported 48 installed
backends, POST /backends/upgrades/check evaluated 5 — all of them plain
or cpu-prefixed. The 43 skipped were all hardware-specific builds. As a
result cuda13-nvidia-l4t-arm64-longcat-video-development stayed at
sha256:0b8dc851 while the registry tag held sha256:38dae6ff, and a cuDNN
packaging fix sat unnoticed on a GPU worker for two days.

Every name looked up here is already installed somewhere in the cluster,
so hardware compatibility was decided at install time; re-deciding it
against the controller is wrong. Switch both CheckUpgradesAgainst and
UpgradeBackend to AvailableBackendsUnfiltered.


Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8[1m] [Read] [Edit] [Bash]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-21 19:28:34 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]
a4bab71f27 gallery: remove duplicated entries and lint against them recurring (#10996)
gallery: remove duplicated entries and lint against them coming back

gallery/index.yaml declared eight names twice: deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b,
llama3.2-3b-enigma, qwen3-asr-0.6b, qwen3-asr-1.7b, qwopus-glm-18b-merged,
voice-en-us-kathleen-low, whisper-large-q5_0 and whisper-small-q5_1.

FindGalleryElement resolves a reference by returning the first match, so in
every pair the second copy was unreachable: it could not be installed, could
not be selected as a variant target, and could not be corrected, because any
edit to it went to a copy nobody reads. A reference to such a name is also
ambiguous to anything reasoning over the catalog, which is why the variant
proposal job refuses to propose against them.

Each pair was compared both as parsed entries and as raw text, and all eight
were byte-identical apart from position. None of the sixteen blocks defines a
YAML anchor or pulls one in with a merge key, so nothing was reachable only
through a deleted block, and no entry named a removed copy as a variant target.
Removing the second copy of each therefore changes no behaviour: the parsed set
loses exactly eight entries and every surviving entry is field-for-field
unchanged.

The removal is textual, by line range, so the diff is pure deletions rather than
a reflow of forty thousand lines.

checkNoDuplicateEntryNames is the rule that keeps them out, added beside the
existing gallery invariants and reporting in the same style.

checkSingleVariantClaim closes the adjacent gap in the same place. VariantParents
resolves a build claimed by two parents by taking the first in gallery order and
calls that deterministic "for a gallery the linter would reject", but nothing
rejected it: the invariant was held by curation alone. Now it is a rule, and the
comment describes something real. No target is doubly claimed today, so the rule
is green on arrival.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-20 22:58:48 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]
2f33ad6669 fix(modelartifacts): treat CIFS EACCES as lock contention, not failure (#10986)
flock(2) on CIFS/SMB returns EACCES when another client holds the lock:
the kernel maps STATUS_LOCK_NOT_GRANTED and STATUS_FILE_LOCK_CONFLICT to
-EACCES and never produces EWOULDBLOCK on that path. gofrs/flock only
recognises EWOULDBLOCK as contention, so TryLockContext returned a bare
"permission denied" and Ensure aborted. Both replicas then fell back to
legacy loading, which makes the worker download the whole repo in-band
inside LoadModel and blow the remote-load deadline.

Replace TryLockContext with an explicit wait loop over a new Locker
interface, classifying EWOULDBLOCK/EAGAIN/EACCES/EBUSY as contention.
EACCES is ambiguous at the syscall boundary but not here: the lock file
is already open O_CREATE|O_RDWR, so a real permission problem would have
failed the open with an *fs.PathError, and flock(2) documents no EACCES
on Linux at all. The wait is bounded (DefaultLockWait, overridable via
WithLockWait), so even a misclassification degrades to a delay. On
timeout the committed result is re-checked before reporting the new
ErrLockContended, so a peer that finished the work still wins.

Locker also exists so the contention path is testable without a network
filesystem: nothing in CI can make flock(2) return EACCES on demand.

Raise the fallback to error for a managedArtifactBackends backend, via a
shared config.LogArtifactFallback used by both call sites. For those
backends the legacy path is not graceful degradation, and the operator
otherwise sees only a timeout with no causal link. The fallback stays
non-fatal.

Drop the os.Chmod(layout.Lock, 0o600) after acquisition: flock.New
already creates the file 0600, and the chmod was gratuitous risk on a
nounix mount that ignores modes.

Fixes #10981


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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-20 22:12:39 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]
83a0f16a21 feat(gallery): let one gallery entry offer several builds of the same model (#10943)
* feat(system): expose raw detected capability for model meta resolution

Model meta gallery entries express hardware fallback through candidate
ordering rather than a capability map, so they need the undecorated
detected capability string without Capability's default/cpu fallback
chain.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor(system): drop duplicate capability accessor, cover DetectedCapability

ReportedCapability was added with a body identical to the existing
DetectedCapability. Keep one accessor and move the specs onto it, since
DetectedCapability had no direct coverage of its no-fallback behavior.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(vram): parse IEC binary size suffixes (KiB..PiB)

ParseSizeString accepted only SI suffixes, so a "20GiB" floor was rejected
outright. Model and VRAM sizes are conventionally quoted in IEC units, and
silently reading GiB as GB would understate a floor by about 7%.

Purely additive: these inputs previously returned an unknown-suffix error.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): add Candidate type for meta model entries

Candidate is one option in a meta entry's ordered variant list. It names a
concrete gallery entry and declares when that entry suits the host.

EffectiveMinVRAM resolves the VRAM floor, letting an authored min_vram win
over a nightly-inferred one. An unparseable floor errors instead of being
treated as absent: swallowing a typo would turn a constrained candidate into
an unconstrained one and select a too-large variant rather than fail loudly.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): add hardware-aware model variant resolver

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): allow gallery model entries to declare variant candidates

A gallery entry with a non-empty candidates list is a meta entry: it names
an ordered list of concrete entries and resolves to the first one the host
can satisfy, instead of describing model files directly.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): resolve meta model entries to hardware-appropriate variants at install

Meta gallery entries carry an ordered candidate list; at install time the
first candidate the host satisfies is resolved and its payload installed
under the meta's name, so the model keeps a stable name regardless of which
variant backs it. The resolution is recorded in the installed gallery
config so a reinstall honors a prior pin and operators can see the backing
variant.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(gallery): key meta pin recall on the installed name and detach resolved entries

Six review findings on the meta-entry install path.

Pin recall was keyed on the gallery entry name while applyModel writes the
record under the install name (req.Name when supplied), so a meta installed
under a custom name with a pin lost that pin on reinstall and was silently
re-resolved onto a different variant, possibly swapping its backend. Compute
the install name with applyModel's own precedence before the recall.

ResolveMetaModel returned a shallow struct copy, so the resolved entry's
Overrides aliased the gallery entry's map and the install path's in-place
mergo merge wrote the caller's request into the shared catalog. Detach
Overrides, ConfigFile, AdditionalFiles, URLs and Tags. Not exploitable today
only because this path re-unmarshals the gallery per call, which is a
property nobody should have to rely on.

Also: overlay the meta's name onto the persisted config for meta installs so
the gallery file no longer records the variant's name; move the pinned-VRAM
warning below the variant validation so a pin naming a nonexistent entry does
not warn about VRAM before failing for an unrelated reason; and stop seeding
config.URLs in the config_file branch, which duplicated every declared URL.

Add seven network-free specs driving InstallModelFromGallery with a meta
entry: variant payload wins over the meta's legacy url fallback, the
resolution record round-trips to disk, a pin is recorded and honored on
reinstall including under a custom install name, and the resolved entry does
not alias the gallery's maps.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(gallery): deep-copy meta overrides and make two specs functional

ResolveMetaModel detached the resolved entry's Overrides and ConfigFile with
maps.Clone, which only copies the top level. Gallery overrides are nested in
practice (parameters.model is near-universal) and the install path merges the
caller's request with mergo.WithOverride, which recurses into nested maps and
overwrites them in place, so the gallery entry's own inner maps were still
reachable and still got rewritten by the last caller to install.

Copy both maps all the way down instead, recursing through the container shapes
a YAML decoder produces. ConfigFile is not mutated on the install path today,
but it carries the same kind of nested payload and leaving it shallowly cloned
would invite the bug back.

Also fix two specs that passed whether or not their target fix was present:

- "does not write the caller's overrides back into the gallery entry" re-read
  the catalog from disk, which re-unmarshals fresh structs and so cannot
  observe in-memory aliasing. It now asserts against the in-memory gallery
  entry and drives the real mergo merge.
- "round-trips the resolution record to disk under the meta's name" asserted a
  name that is already correct in the config_file branch. It now drives the url
  branch via a file:// fixture, where the meta-name overlay actually applies.

Both were verified red by reverting their fix.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* test(gallery): lint meta model entry invariants in index.yaml

Adds Ginkgo specs that parse the shipped gallery/index.yaml and enforce
the invariants that keep meta entries safe: a legacy url fallback equal
to the final candidate's url, references only to existing non-meta
entries, a min_vram floor on every candidate but the last-resort one,
a capability drawn only from the vocabulary the system can report, and
descending VRAM floors within a capability group.

The capability check is the only compensating control for a typo there.
Candidate matching is a case-sensitive exact comparison against
SystemState.DetectedCapability(), so an unknown value never matches and
falls through silently instead of erroring. The vocabulary therefore
mirrors the raw return set of getSystemCapabilities(), which notably
excludes "cpu": that is a fallback key inside Capability(capMap) on the
meta backend path, never a reported capability. A CPU-only host reports
"default".

These pass vacuously until the pilot meta entry lands; the guard is
intentionally in place before the thing it guards.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* test(gallery): close coverage gaps in the meta entry lint

The ordering invariant grouped candidates by capability and asserted floors
descend within a group. A candidate with an EMPTY capability matches every
host, so it does not belong in its own group: it dominates every later
candidate whose floor is at or above its own, across capability groups.
Track a running minimum floor over the unconditional candidates instead,
which subsumes the old same-group check for the empty capability.

Every spec skipped non-meta entries, so with zero meta entries in the index
all five bodies were no-ops. Aligning GalleryModel.IsMeta() with
GalleryBackend.IsMeta(), whose semantics are deliberately opposite, would
have made all of them pass while checking nothing. Extract each invariant
into a helper over a slice of entries returning the violations it finds, and
cover those helpers with synthetic fixtures so the logic stays tested at zero
meta entries. The index-driven specs are now a thin application of already
proven logic.

Also assert the index parses non-empty, report every violation in one run
rather than aborting on the first, and parse the index once for the suite.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* ci(gallery): add nightly denormalization of meta model candidates

Fills the read-only backend, quantization and inferred_min_vram fields on
meta gallery candidates and opens a PR, modeled on the existing
checksum_checker job. Computing these needs network access, so it happens
nightly rather than at install time.

An authored min_vram is never modified: a human who measured a real load
knows more than a pre-download estimate does.

The index is rewritten via yaml.Node rather than a document round-trip. A
full round-trip reflows all ~26k lines of gallery/index.yaml, which would
bury the computed values and make the nightly PR unreviewable. The rewrite
touches only the three derived keys, so authored styling survives and a run
that computes nothing leaves the file untouched.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(ci): keep the gallery denormalize diff reviewable and self-healing

The nightly denormalization job edits YAML nodes instead of round-tripping
structs so its PR stays small enough for a human to review, but the write
path undid that: yaml.Marshal re-encoded the node tree at yaml.v3's default
4-space indent and dropped the leading document marker, reflowing roughly
6000 lines around the handful of real changes. Encode through
yaml.NewEncoder at the index's authored 2-space indent and restore the
header. A write that changes three fields now changes three lines.

Stale inferred_min_vram values were also never cleared. Both skip paths
(an authored min_vram is present, or the candidate is the last resort)
returned before touching the field, so a candidate that gained a floor or
became the last resort after a reorder kept an inferred value that
EffectiveMinVRAM reported as a real constraint, failing the meta lint with
no way for the job to self-heal. Clear the field before both skips.

The workflow discarded a whole night's work on any single failure: the
program exits 1 when a candidate cannot be estimated, which aborted the job
before the PR step, so one unreachable candidate blocked every other
refresh indefinitely. Capture the status, open the PR with what was
computed, mark the PR body as partial, and fail the run afterwards so the
problem still surfaces.

Also preserve the index's existing file mode instead of forcing 0644, and
drop the redundant //go:build ignore tag, since Go already skips dot
directories and the sibling modelslist.go carries no tag.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): add nanbeige4.1-3b meta entry with hardware-resolved variants

Adds the first real meta entry to the gallery index. It resolves to the
Q8_0 build on hosts with at least 6GiB of VRAM and to the Q4_K_M build
everywhere else, installing either payload under the stable name
nanbeige4.1-3b.

The entry carries a url equal to its final candidate's url. LocalAI
releases that predate candidates support parse the index non-strictly
and drop the key silently, so without that url they would list the entry
and install nothing. A regression spec parses the index the way those
releases do and asserts every meta entry stays installable for them.

Also teaches core/schema/gallery-model.schema.json about candidates. The
schema sets additionalProperties: false at the top level, so an author
following CONTRIBUTING.md and adding the yaml-language-server comment
would otherwise get a validation error on this entry.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): make candidate entries complete, installable entries

Reworks hardware-resolved gallery variants after a design pivot. There is no
longer a separate "meta" entry kind. A gallery entry is a normal, complete
entry that may additionally carry candidates:, a list of hardware-gated
upgrades over itself, and the entry is itself the last-resort candidate.

The previous design relied on a bare url: as the fallback for LocalAI releases
that predate candidates support. That fallback is empty in practice: none of
the 80 gallery/*.yaml files carry a top-level files:, and 1216 of 1281 index
entries carry their payload in the index entry itself, so a url alone yields a
config template with nothing to download. Since every released LocalAI reads
gallery/index.yaml live from master, merging a payload-less entry would have
shown every existing user a model that installs to a broken state. Making the
entry its own base candidate removes the problem at the root: old clients drop
the candidates key and install the entry exactly as they do today.

Resolution order is now explicit pin, then capability plus VRAM over the
declared upgrades, then the entry itself. The entry ALWAYS installs: when its
own min_vram or capability is unmet the installer warns and installs it
anyway, because there is nothing below it and refusing would make the gallery
behave worse the newer the client is. A pin naming the entry's own name is
valid and is how an operator declines an upgrade.

IsMeta() becomes HasCandidates(), ResolveMetaModel becomes ResolveVariant, and
the persisted meta_name record key becomes entry_name. GalleryBackend.IsMeta()
is a separate concept and is untouched.

The lint drops the three rules the pivot makes wrong (url equality with the
final candidate, no inline payload, unconstrained final candidate) and gains
one: the entry's own floor must sit strictly below every candidate's, since a
base that outranks a candidate makes that candidate unreachable.

The pilot entry is now the existing nanbeige4.1-3b-q4, which gains a 2GiB
floor of its own and a single 6GiB upgrade to nanbeige4.1-3b-q8, replacing the
separate nanbeige4.1-3b entry added in d0d441bb4.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): select model variants by hardware fit, not authored order

Gallery entries could already carry a list of alternatives, but selection was
an authored, ordered, first-match policy: every candidate declared a
`capability` string and the VRAM floors had to descend in a hand-tuned order.
That pushed hardware knowledge onto whoever edits the gallery and made ordering
load-bearing, so a reordered list silently changed what users installed.

None of it was necessary. SystemState.IsBackendCompatible already derives
hardware support from a backend name alone: it knows MLX and metal are
Darwin-only, CUDA is NVIDIA-only, ROCm AMD-only, SYCL Intel-only. Selection can
read that instead of asking authors to restate it.

Authoring is now just a list of names:

    - name: qwen3.6-27b
      min_memory: 4GiB
      variants:
        - model: qwen3.6-27b-mlx-8bit
        - model: qwen3.6-27b-gguf-q8
          min_memory: 28GiB

and all the intelligence moved into the selector. Given a host it drops the
variants whose backend cannot run here, drops those whose known memory
requirement exceeds what the host has, and takes the LARGEST of what is left,
because a bigger footprint is a higher quality quantization of the same model.
A variant of unknown size is kept, since nothing proves it does not fit, but it
ranks last so a proven fit always beats a guess. An explicit pin still wins
outright, and if nothing survives the entry installs its own payload: the base
always installs, this never refuses.

Available memory is VRAM when a GPU was detected and system RAM otherwise, read
through xsysinfo so a cgroup limit is honored and a container gets its own
limit rather than the node's RAM.

Capability disappears entirely, from the types, the schema and the lint. VRAM
and RAM collapse into one `min_memory`, because a model's footprint is roughly
the same wherever it lives and one figure is compared against whichever applies.
The lint rules about ordering, the capability vocabulary and floor
relationships are deleted with the hazards they described; what remains is that
every variant names an entry that exists and does not itself declare variants,
plus that any memory figure actually parses.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* gallery: size model variants with a live probe, drop the nightly denormalizer

Selection needs each variant's size to decide whether it fits and to rank
largest-first. That figure was written into the index by a nightly job, which
made the gallery carry a derived value that could drift from the entry it was
derived from. Derive it at install time instead.

pkg/vram already sizes a model without downloading it, and the gallery UI
already uses it: a remote GGUF header range-fetch, then an HTTP HEAD for the
content length, then any declared size:. It caches its results, so reuse it
rather than writing a second probing path.

A probe failure must never fail an install, so an unprobeable variant is
treated as unknown: it survives the memory filter, because nothing proves it
does not fit, and it ranks last, so a known-good fit always beats a guess. If
every probe fails, selection still terminates on the base entry.

The probe is injected through ResolveEnv rather than called directly, for the
same reason the backend compatibility check is: specs pin an exact size, or an
exact failure, without reaching the network.

With that in place three things are dead weight and go:

- The nightly job and the fields it populated. Variant.Backend was redundant
  because the backend is resolved live from the referenced entry during
  selection, and Quantization was display-only that nothing read.
- min_memory on the base entry. The base always installs and its floor could
  only warn, so it could not change any outcome.
- The lint rules and schema entries for both.

min_memory on individual variants stays, as the override for when the probed
size is wrong. An authored figure now suppresses the probe entirely rather
than merely outranking it, so it costs no round trip.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): expose model variants for selection over API, CLI and MCP

A gallery entry may carry `variants:`, alternative builds of the same model.
Selection already worked at install time, but nothing could see what an entry
offered or ask for a specific build, so the feature was undrivable.

Listing: `GET /api/models` now reports `variants` and `auto_variant` for the
entries that declare variants. Each variant carries its resolved backend, its
measured size and whether it fits this host. `auto_variant` is what installing
without a choice would pick right now.

The new gallery.DescribeVariants runs the same variantOptions + SelectVariant
pass the installer runs, so the reported default cannot drift from what
installing actually does, and HostResolveEnv is extracted so both derive the
host and share pkg/vram's probe cache from one place.

Performance: an entry that declares no variants returns early without touching
the probe, so the ~1280 ordinary entries cost exactly what they cost before.

Selection: `variant` is accepted on POST /models/apply, as a query param on
POST /api/models/install/:id, on the gallery apply file/string request, as
`local-ai models install --variant`, and as a parameter on the install_model
MCP tool (both the httpapi and inproc clients). Empty means auto-select.

An unknown variant name now fails the install naming what was requested. This
closes a real hole: an entry declaring no variants short-circuits before
selection runs, so a requested variant was previously dropped silently and the
install reported success.

startup.InstallModels ends in a variadic model list, so install options could
not be appended to it; InstallModelsWithOptions is added alongside and
InstallModels delegates to it. No caller signature changed.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): drop the redundant variant min_memory field

Variant.MinMemory was an authored override for when the live probe misreads
a variant's footprint. It duplicated an existing field: probeEntryMemory
already passes the entry's declared size: into EstimateModelMultiContext,
whose cascade prefers that declared size over its own guesswork. Correcting
size: on the referenced entry fixes the figure for every consumer rather
than only for variant selection, so min_memory shadowed the right answer.

A variant is now nothing but a name. Its effective size is exactly the probe
result, and an unknown stays unknown: it survives the filter and ranks last.

EffectiveMemory loses its error return along with the field. The authored
string was the only thing that could fail to parse, so the error had no
remaining source and was propagating dead nil-checks through SelectVariant,
DescribeVariants and the pin warning.

Selection behaviour is unchanged. The specs covering probe-derived sizing,
ranking, filtering, the unknown-size path, pin recall, entry/variant
metadata split and deep-copy isolation all survive; the three install specs
that needed a definite size now declare it through the referenced entry's
own size:, which exercises the documented escape hatch directly.

gallery/index.yaml is untouched: no entry ever carried the key.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(gallery): rank the entry's own build against its variants

Variant selection pulled the declaring entry's own payload, the base, out
of the candidate set and consulted it only once every declared variant had
been rejected. Two real failures followed.

A variant whose size the probe cannot determine deliberately survives the
memory filter, because nothing proves it does not fit. As the only survivor
it then won outright on any host, however small: a 2GiB machine installed an
unmeasured variant in preference to the 4GiB build the entry itself ships,
with no warning. 241 of the 1280 current index entries carry no files and no
size, which is exactly that shape.

"Largest wins" also broke whenever the base was the largest. An author
writing a Q8 entry that offers a Q4 downgrade for small hosts, a natural
shape that nothing in the lint, schema or docs discourages, had the Q4
installed on every large host instead.

Make the base an ordinary participant. It is still exempt from both filters,
so selection always terminates on something installable, but it is now
ranked against the variants: a proven fit first and largest, then the base,
then any variant whose size nothing could measure. Both failures disappear
together. The base is probed for its size accordingly, which it was not
before, because an unsized base would lose every contest to an unmeasurable
variant.

FellBackToBase is kept but narrowed to "no declared variant survived",
rather than "the base was chosen", since the base now also wins on merit and
that is not worth warning about.

A recalled variant pin also became a permanent install failure. A pin the
caller supplies on this request must stay fatal, but one recalled from
._gallery_<name>.yaml can be invalidated by any later gallery edit, and
failing on it turned one rename into a model that could never be reinstalled
or upgraded again short of deleting a dotfile the user has never heard of.
A stale recalled pin is now dropped with a warning naming it, and selection
runs as if it had never been recorded.

Also drop the last textual reference to two abandoned designs from the
DetectedCapability comment, correct the documented variants JSON example,
which showed a memory_bytes of 0 that omitempty makes impossible, and remove
an em dash from the install skill.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(gallery): budget variant memory from RAM when a GPU reports no VRAM

Variant selection read its memory budget from VRAM whenever a GPU
capability was detected, and from system RAM only when none was. Apple
Silicon satisfies the first branch and fails the premise: arm64 macs report
the metal capability unconditionally, without probing anything, while
TotalAvailableVRAM has no discrete VRAM pool to find and returns zero. The
budget therefore came out as zero on every Mac.

Zero drops every variant carrying a known size, so the base build was
installed on all of them however much memory the machine had. The feature
was inert on the platform, and silently: falling back to the base is a
legitimate outcome, so nothing looked wrong.

Take VRAM only when it is actually a number, and fall back to RAM
otherwise. On a unified-memory host RAM is not an approximation of the
budget, it is the budget, since the GPU shares it. A discrete GPU whose
VRAM could not be read also lands on RAM, which overstates what the card
holds but understates nothing the host has; the previous zero understated
both.

An unreadable RAM figure still yields zero and still installs the base, so
a genuinely unknown host is not talked into a larger download.

This is what turned tests-apple red: "installs a fitting variant's payload
under the entry's own name" asserts on selection, and the runner resolved
to the base because its budget was zero. The added specs pin the branch
directly rather than relying on a macOS runner to notice again.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(ui): add a model variant picker to the models gallery

PR #10943 shipped the server side: a gallery entry may declare `variants:`,
`GET /api/models` attaches `variants` and `auto_variant` to declaring
entries, and `POST /api/models/install/:id` accepts a `variant` query
parameter. Nothing in the UI consumed any of it, so the feature was not
reachable from the browser. This wires it up.

modelsApi.install takes an optional second argument and appends an encoded
`?variant=` only when one is given, so every existing call site keeps
sending exactly the request it sent before.

On the models table, an entry that declares variants gets a split button.
The primary Install still installs the auto-selected build, because auto is
the default and the point of the feature; the chevron opens a menu for a
deliberate override. It follows the Backends.jsx precedent: one shared
Popover re-anchored per row, rendering .action-menu items, which brings
Escape, outside-click and focus return along with it. An entry that
declares no variants renders exactly as it did before.

A variant that does not fit is dimmed but stays selectable, since the server
honors an explicit choice with a warning rather than refusing it.

memory_bytes is omitempty on the wire, so an absent key means the size is
unknown and never zero. A single helper guards both the menu and the detail
row, because formatBytes would otherwise render a falsy value as "0 B",
which reads as "needs nothing".

The expanded detail row gains a Variants section listing each build's
backend, size, whether it fits, which is the entry's own build, and which
one auto-selection would pick, built from the existing DetailRow helper and
.badge classes.

Eight Playwright specs cover the picker, including that plain Install sends
no variant parameter and that choosing one sends it. One pre-existing
assertion was scoped with .first(): the Variants section legitimately adds
more llama-cpp badges to the detail row, which tripped strict mode.

UI line coverage 49.42% -> 49.36% against a 40.0 baseline and 0.8pp
tolerance; branch coverage rose 72.04% -> 72.66%.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(gallery): describe model variants from a companion endpoint

Variant description probes each referenced entry's weight files over the
network: an HTTP HEAD plus a ranged GET, serial, five seconds per probe
with no aggregate deadline. Running it inline in GET /api/models made one
listing cost (entries x variants) round trips. The Manage page fetches
with items=9999, so at 200 declaring entries that is ~1000 serial probes,
minutes of a blocked handler and gigabytes of range traffic for a single
page load. Only one entry declares variants today, but the feature exists
so that many will.

Follow the precedent already set for VRAM estimates. The listing now
reports only has_variants, a length check on loaded metadata that touches
nothing, and GET /api/models/variants/:id returns the description for one
entry, mirroring estimate/:id in route shape, auth and error handling.
DescribeVariants itself is unchanged; only its caller moved.

The picker fetches lazily at the two points where a user asks to see
variants, opening the split-button menu and expanding the detail row, and
caches per entry for the page session. An entry declaring no variants
issues no request at all.

A spec counts real HTTP hits on the weight files, so it goes red if
description becomes reachable from the listing path again through any
caller.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(ui): filter the model gallery to entries that declare variants

The gallery is heading towards showing parent entries and hiding the
individual builds they reference, so a user sees one row per model
rather than six quantizations of it.

Adoption is a single entry today, so defaulting to that would leave a
one-row gallery. This ships the migration-phase inverse instead: the
default is untouched, and a toggle narrows the list to only the entries
that declare variants. It previews the end state and changes nothing
until someone asks for it.

The filter is server-side, next to term/tag/backend/capability and above
the pagination arithmetic. The listing paginates at 9 items, so
narrowing on the client would leave totalPages and availableModels
describing the unfiltered set and hand the user empty pages. It selects
on HasVariants(), which reads already-loaded metadata, so it issues no
variant probes.

The parameter is named has_variants after the listing field it selects
on, and is compared against "true" like the other boolean query params
(all_users, save_checkpoint), so has_variants=false reads as absent.
With it omitted the response is byte-for-byte what it was before.

The control is the shared Toggle component, matching the fitsFilter
toggle already on this page: same wrapper class, same icon and label
shape, same localStorage persistence. Unlike fitsFilter it resets to
page 1 on change, which a server-side filter has to do.

Stacking the toggle with a tag or backend filter easily yields nothing
while one entry declares variants, so the empty state now names the
variants filter as the cause rather than leaving a user to conclude the
gallery is broken.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(ui): render gallery model descriptions as Markdown

Gallery descriptions are Markdown, but the React UI dumped them raw, so a
model whose description opens with an ATX heading showed a literal
"# Qwen3.6-27B [](https://chat.qwen.ai)" in the list.

Full-description areas now render through renderMarkdown (marked +
DOMPurify), matching how Backends.jsx and the Manage detail panels already
handle the same content:

  - Models.jsx expanded detail row
  - VoiceLibrary.jsx voice detail header

The truncated one-line previews must not render block Markdown: a leading
"#" would become an <h1> and wreck the row height and rhythm. They get a new
stripMarkdown() helper instead, which reduces Markdown to a single line of
readable plain text. It is used for the cell text and for the title tooltip,
since a tooltip full of "[](url)" is no better than a cell full of it:

  - Models.jsx gallery table description cell
  - Manage.jsx model and backend resource-row descriptions

stripMarkdown walks marked's lexer output rather than running regexes over
the source, so what it strips is by construction what renderMarkdown would
have rendered, and it needs no new dependency. Output lands in JSX text
nodes, so React escapes it; no new dangerouslySetInnerHTML beyond the two
full-description sites, both of which run DOMPurify.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(ui): strip Markdown from the backends table description cell

Commit b35d630cf fixed this for gallery models but left the Backends admin
page with the same asymmetry: its detail panel renders the description
through renderMarkdown, while the collapsed table row dumped the raw gallery
string into both the cell body and the title tooltip.

That is user-visible. 40 of the 949 entries in backend/index.yaml carry
Markdown - insightface uses inline code backticks, others use lists and
links - and backend descriptions also contain embedded newlines, so the
one-line cell showed literal syntax.

The cell now runs stripMarkdown over the description once and uses the
result for the text and the title, matching Models.jsx and the
ResourceRowDesc component in Manage.jsx. The '-' placeholder is preserved,
and now also fires when a description reduces to nothing after stripping.
The detail panel is untouched and no new dangerouslySetInnerHTML is
introduced: stripMarkdown output lands in a JSX text node, so React escapes
it.

Three Playwright specs cover it: a description with a heading, inline code
and a link renders as clean text with no literal syntax and no block
element in the cell, the title tooltip carries the same stripped text, and
a backend without a description still shows the placeholder.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* ui(models): polish the variant detail view and scope rendered Markdown

The gallery detail pane rendered every field through the same two-column
label/value row, including the description. Multi-paragraph prose in a value
cell ran eight rows tall at the top of the pane on a ~1200px measure, breaking
the grid's rhythm exactly where the eye enters. Move it into its own full-width
block above the table, capped at a 68ch measure, keeping the label.

Rendered Markdown had no scoped typography anywhere in the app, so a
description opening with `#` inherited the browser default 2em inside a 13px
surface while a `##` further down was indistinguishable from body text. Add a
reusable .markdown-body block mapping h1-h6, paragraphs, lists, links, code,
blockquotes, images and tables onto the existing type scale, and apply it to
every renderMarkdown() consumer: the models detail, the backends detail, both
Manage details and the voice library detail.

Rebalance the variants list so the name leads. Backend and size drop from
badge/secondary weight to muted metadata; the FITS badge goes entirely, since
it was true of nearly every row and so said nothing, while the variant that
does not fit keeps a warning badge and a dimmed name. AUTO-SELECTED stays
marked because it answers what a plain Install produces. Rows share the
parent's grid tracks via subgrid so name, backend, size and status line up
down the list instead of raggedly following name length.

Finally, make each variant row actionable. It looked like a list of choices
but was inert text, with per-variant install hidden behind the split-button
chevron elsewhere; each row is now a button onto the existing
handleInstall(modelId, variant) path, with hover, keyboard focus and a
disabled state while an install is in flight.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): collapse the listing to one row per model

The listing supported has_variants=true, which narrowed to entries that
DECLARE variants. With adoption at three entries that showed three rows,
which is useless; it was always a placeholder.

Replace it with the view that is actually useful: the deduplicated
gallery. Show every entry installable in its own right and nothing twice,
which means the parents plus every entry nobody references, and hide only
the builds another entry already offers as a variant, since those are
reachable through their parent.

The parameter is renamed to collapse_variants accordingly: the filter is
no longer a predicate on a row's own metadata but a view over the whole
gallery. Default stays off, so the response with the parameter absent is
unchanged.

VariantReferencedIDs never reports an entry that declares variants of its
own, so parents are always visible. That guarantees every hidden entry
has a visible entry offering it, and no chain can strand a row. Variant
resolution already refuses to install such a reference, but the listing
has to stay coherent in the presence of a gallery that has one rather
than silently swallowing entries. Self-references and dangling references
hide nothing.

The referenced set is computed over the whole gallery rather than over
what the other filters left, so an entry is hidden because a parent
offers it and never because of what the user searched for. The pass is
over metadata already in memory: it resolves nothing over the network and
triggers no variant description or size probe, so the listing's zero-probe
contract still holds.

The UI toggle keeps its behaviour (persistence, page reset, clear
filters) and becomes "One row per model", which says what the user gets.
Its localStorage key moves too, since the stored value meant a different
filter.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(ui): show the collapsed model listing by default

The gallery listing is what a user reaches for to answer "what can I
install". Answering that with several rows for the same model, one per
build, makes the reader do the deduplication the collapsed view already
does, so the collapsed view is the one to land on.

The UI now asks for collapse_variants=true unless the toggle says
otherwise. The server default is deliberately untouched: a request with
the parameter absent still returns the full listing, because other API
clients depend on that response and collapsing it under them would be a
breaking change. Opting out omits the parameter rather than sending
false, so it asks for exactly the listing everyone else gets.

The stored preference changes vocabulary from '1'/'0' to 'on'/'off'. The
previous build wrote it from an effect that runs on mount, so a stored
'0' recorded that the page had been opened rather than that anyone chose
the expanded view, and honouring it would pin every earlier visitor to a
default they never picked. Only the new vocabulary counts as a choice;
a legacy '1' meant the collapsed view and is what the new default gives
anyway, so no earlier deliberate choice is lost.

Collapsing being the default also changes what the empty state may say
about it. An opted-into filter can be named as the cause of an empty
result; a default cannot, so the filters keep the top line and the
collapsed view drops to a hint below it, shown only once filters are
narrowing the set. For the same reason "Clear filters" now restores the
collapsed default instead of switching it off, and the toggle alone no
longer counts as a filter worth offering to clear.

The label stays "One row per model": it describes the view the user is
looking at rather than an action, so it reads the same whether it is
opted into or out of.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* gallery: group alternative builds of the same weights under variants

Sweep the gallery for entries that are alternative builds of the same
weights (different quantization, precision, or runtime format) and declare
them as variants of a single parent row, so the listing offers one row per
model instead of one row per quantization and the installer picks the
largest build that this host can actually run.

41 families over 95 entries, turning 54 entries into variants.

The parent is the bare-named entry wherever one exists, so nothing changes
about what any existing entry installs. Ranking already selects the largest
fitting build regardless of which entry is nominally the parent, so the
parent only decides the pathological case where nothing fits. For the ten
families that have no bare-named entry, the smallest build is the parent,
since that is the one that has to install when nothing fits.

Grouping was verified against the actual model filenames rather than the
entry names alone. Different parameter sizes, languages, finetunes, and
products that merely share a name prefix are left as separate rows: the
qwen3.6 APEX and pi-tune finetunes, the DFlash and MTP speculative-decoding
pairings, English-only versus multilingual Whisper, the QAT versus non-QAT
Gemma 4 weights, and the abliterated FLUX build are all distinct models.

Six parents define YAML anchors that other entries pull in with a merge key,
which would have handed their variants to every merging child. For the two
depth-anything anchors that would have made fourteen unrelated entries
advertise the base model's builds as their own. All 26 merging children
therefore carry an explicit empty variants list, which overrides the merged
key and is equivalent to the key being absent.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): rank model variants by host backend preference

Variant auto-selection filtered candidates by whether their backend can
run on the host, then ranked the survivors by size alone. The backend
never influenced the choice beyond that gate, so a Mac offered both an
MLX build and a llama.cpp build kept neither filtered and installed
whichever was larger, leaving the native accelerated runtime unused. The
same held for CUDA against CPU on NVIDIA and ROCm against Vulkan on AMD.

Rank by the host's backend preference between the fit tier and size: fit
stays a filter, preference decides among the builds the host can equally
hold, and size still separates builds on equally preferred runtimes.

The preference data stays in one declarative table in pkg/system, now
read by a prefix lookup instead of a switch, so adding a capability or
reordering one host's runtimes is a one-line edit and the gallery's
ranking code carries no per-backend branching. MLX joins the metal rule
ahead of metal itself, which is inert for the existing alias-resolution
consumer because no alias group holds a candidate named for mlx.

An unrecognised backend, an unrecognised capability and an absent
preference list all collapse to the previous size-only ordering rather
than erroring or dropping candidates.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(gallery): rank variants by engine name, not backend build tag

Variant auto-selection ranked candidates with
SystemState.BackendPreferenceTokens, but that function and the variant
ranker speak different vocabularies.

BackendPreferenceTokens returns BUILD TAGS ("cuda", "rocm", "sycl",
"vulkan", "metal", "cpu"). It exists to match installed backend build
directory names like "llama-cpp-cuda-12" during alias resolution in
ListSystemBackends. Variant ranking instead matches a gallery entry's
`backend:` value, which is an ENGINE NAME: "llama-cpp", "vllm",
"vllm-omni", "sglang", "mlx" and the rest. No engine name in
gallery/index.yaml contains "cuda", "rocm", "sycl" or "vulkan".

preferenceRank matches by substring, so on an NVIDIA host the tokens
[cuda, vulkan, cpu] matched neither "llama-cpp" nor "vllm", every
candidate scored identically and size alone decided. The NVIDIA, AMD,
Intel, darwin-x86 and vulkan rules were all inert. Only metal appeared
to work, and only because the token "mlx" happens to equal an engine
name. The mismatch does not error, it silently deletes the feature.

Separate the two vocabularies. backendBuildTagPreferenceRules keeps the
build tags and its original output for every capability, including
metal, whose "mlx" token is removed again; its alias-resolution consumer
is byte-identical to before. engineNamePreferenceRules is new, holds
engine names, and is read by the new EnginePreferenceTokens, which
HostResolveEnv wires into the renamed ResolveEnv.EnginePreference. Both
tables sit adjacent under one block comment naming each vocabulary and
each consumer, and share one lookup helper so their semantics cannot
drift.

On NVIDIA the order is vLLM, then SGLang, then llama-cpp: vLLM is the
throughput engine and a model published with a vLLM build is published
that way because that build is the one worth running. AMD and Intel get
the same order, since rocm and intel builds of both serving engines
ship. Metal prefers mlx over llama-cpp. Vulkan prefers llama-cpp, the
only LLM engine with a Vulkan build. darwin-x86 and unknown
capabilities are deliberately absent rather than guessed at, degrading
to the size-only ordering that predates preference.

preferenceRank stays generic and names no engine and no capability, so
adding a runtime remains a one-line table edit.

Specs pin the NVIDIA and metal rules through the live table and the real
HostResolveEnv wiring, so emptying the engine table or wiring the build
tag source back in both go red. A regression table asserts
BackendPreferenceTokens' original output per capability, and mirrored
locks assert neither table carries the other's vocabulary.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: record that variant selection ranks by engine before size

A gallery entry can now declare variants, and selection ranks the builds a
host can run by engine preference before size. Nothing told a contributor
adding a backend that engineNamePreferenceRules exists, so a new engine would
silently rank below every known one and lose to whatever build happened to be
larger on hosts where it should have won.

Document the step where a backend is added, warn against the sibling
backendBuildTagPreferenceRules table (build tags, not engine names: the wrong
table matches nothing, scores every candidate equally and disables the
preference without erroring), and index it from AGENTS.md.

Fix the authoring and user docs, which still claimed the largest surviving
build wins. An author grouping builds under one entry has to be able to
predict what a user gets, and size alone no longer decides it.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(cli,mcp): describe variant auto-selection as preference before size

The CLI flag help and the install_model tool schema both still said
auto-selection takes the largest build that runs. Ranking now puts engine
preference ahead of size, so on NVIDIA a vLLM build wins over a larger
llama.cpp one. An assistant reading the old schema would tell users the
wrong thing.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(gallery): prefer llama.cpp over GPU serving engines on hosts with no GPU

engineNamePreferenceRules had no row for the "default" capability, which
getSystemCapabilities() returns both when no GPU is detected and when a GPU
is present but under the 4 GiB VRAM floor. A missing row yields an empty
preference list, which preferenceRank reads as "score everything equally",
collapsing variant selection to size alone.

That would be harmless if the hardware filter dropped GPU serving engines on
such a host, but it does not. IsBackendCompatible derives support from the
engine NAME, and "vllm" and "sglang" contain none of the darwin, cuda, rocm
or sycl tokens it keys on, so they fall through to its closing "return true".
A vLLM variant therefore survives on a CPU-only box and wins whenever its
build is the larger of the two on offer: the machine installs vLLM in
preference to llama.cpp.

darwin-x86 had the identical hole. It was documented as a deliberate omission
because nothing accelerates on an Intel Mac, which is true about acceleration
and wrong about consequence: with every engine tied, download size decides.

Add rows for both putting llama-cpp first. The GPU engines are enumerated
behind it rather than left unmatched: an unmatched engine already ranks below
every listed one, so llama.cpp would win either way, but unmatched engines
also tie with each other and let size decide among them. Naming them fixes
that order. MLX is left off the darwin-x86 row on purpose so it ranks last,
since IsBackendCompatible admits darwin-tokened engines on that capability
even though MLX needs Apple silicon.

Preference orders survivors and never filters, so a model published only as a
vLLM build is still installed on a host with no GPU; there is a spec for it.

Surveyed every other value getSystemCapabilities() can return. nvidia, amd,
intel and vulkan have rows; the l4t and cuda-refined values reach the nvidia
row by prefix; "apple" and "" cannot reach the vendor fallthrough because the
darwin and no-GPU branches return earlier. default and darwin-x86 were the
only live holes.

BackendPreferenceTokens and its build-tag table are untouched, and
preferenceRank stays generic, naming no engine and no capability.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* gallery: prefer speculative-decoding builds when they fit

Rank serving features between engine preference and size, so a host that can
hold a DFlash or MTP build of a model's weights installs it instead of the
plain build. Both answer faster for the same output, so whenever one survives
the filters there is no reason to take the plain build.

Precedence is now fit, then engine, then serving feature, then size. Engine
outranks the feature deliberately: a serving feature makes the right engine
faster, it does not make a wrong engine right, so a plain vLLM build still
beats a DFlash llama.cpp build on NVIDIA. Fit outranks both, and a drafter
pairing is strictly larger than the plain build, so the existing size filter
drops it on a host too small for it before this axis is consulted.

The order lives in a third preference table in pkg/system, alongside the build
tag and engine name tables. It is the odd one of the three: not keyed by
capability, because no hardware prefers a plain build over an equivalent
faster one, and matched against whole segments of a gallery ENTRY NAME rather
than as a substring of a backend value. Nothing on a gallery entry declares a
serving feature, and tags are not a usable substitute: gemma-4-e2b-it:sglang-mtp
carries an mtp tag while ornith-1.0-9b-mtp and qwen3.6-27b-nvfp4-mtp carry
none. Entry names are author-supplied free text, unlike the closed engine
vocabulary, so a short marker can turn up inside an unrelated word and whole
segment matching is what keeps smtp-assistant from ranking as an MTP build.
The block comment over the tables now documents all three together and states
what each is matched against; the ranking code names no feature, so adding one
stays a one-line edit to the table.

29c49203b rejected these entries as serving configurations rather than
alternative builds of the same weights. The definition is now "alternative ways
to serve the same model", which includes them, so regroup 14 entries under 12
parents. Judged by the files each entry points at: the qwen3.6, qwen3.5, qwen3
and deepseek pairings are the base GGUF plus a drafter, the gemma-4 QAT MTP
entries are the same QAT weights at a different quantization plus an MTP
drafter, and the two sglang MTP entries describe themselves as the same model
served with speculative decoding. Left separate: qwen3.6-27b-mtp-pi-tune, a
finetune with its own weights, and every entry whose base model LocalAI does
not ship as its own row, which is the whole Qwopus line plus gemmable-4-12b-mtp,
mimo-7b-mtp:sglang and qwen3.5-4b-dflash.

None of the twelve parents defines a YAML anchor, so no variants key can leak
through a merge key and no empty override was needed this time. The index was
edited by line insertion only.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* test: check env restore errors in capability and variant specs

errcheck flagged ten unchecked os.Setenv and os.Unsetenv returns in the
specs added while the pre-commit hook was being skipped. Restoring an env
var is exactly the place a silent failure leaks state into the next spec,
so assert on it rather than suppressing the linter.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): make the mtp tag authoritative for serving-feature ranking

Variant auto-selection ranks survivors by fit, then engine, then serving
feature, then size. The serving-feature lookup read only whole alphanumeric
segments of a variant's entry name, because tags were inconsistent: every
dflash entry carried a dflash tag, but only 7 of 20 MTP entries carried an
mtp tag.

Tag the 13 untagged MTP entries, then teach the lookup to read tags as well
as names. A tag is now the authoritative signal and is compared whole and
case-insensitively, which is safe precisely because a tag is a deliberate
declaration rather than free text: there is no word-inside-a-word failure
mode, so the segment splitting the name half needs is unnecessary there.

The name check stays as a fallback rather than being replaced. Switching to
tags only would have regressed the six already-grouped entries on the day it
shipped, and would depend on tagging discipline that does not exist yet.

The lookup still names no feature, so adding one remains a one-line edit to
servingFeaturePreferenceTokens.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): make a declared tag the sole serving-feature signal

Variant auto-selection ranks survivors by fit, then engine, then serving
feature, then size. The serving-feature lookup recognised a speculative build
by either a declared tag or a whole segment of its entry name. Drop the name
half: a tag is now the only signal.

A name is author-supplied free text and a naming convention is not a contract,
so reading a marker out of one infers a capability nobody declared. The gallery
already had the failure in it: the four NVFP4 entries name MTP-bearing weights
while setting no option that enables speculative decoding, and being live
variants they were winning the feature axis without answering any faster.

overrides.options was considered as the replacement and rejected. It carries
spec_type:draft-mtp / spec_type:draft-dflash, which is what actually turns the
feature on, but that spelling is llama.cpp's config vocabulary: ds4 spells the
same feature mtp_path and sglang spells it speculative_algorithm in a
referenced config. Keying a cross-backend ranking decision on one backend's
option syntax would rank the other backends' builds as plain. Options are the
curation-time check instead, and never reach the selection logic.

With no fallback left, tag correctness is load bearing, so audit every entry
against the rule "tagged when the entry configures that feature, in whatever
vocabulary its backend uses". Three entries configure MTP untagged and gain the
tag (hy3, glm-5.2, qwythos-9b-claude-mythos-5-1m, all spec_type:draft-mtp with
no marker in their names). Four carry the tag while configuring nothing and
lose it: qwen3.6-27b-nvfp4-mtp, qwen3.6-35b-a3b-nvfp4-mtp,
qwopus3.6-27b-coder-mtp-nvfp4 and qwopus3.6-27b-v2-mtp-nvfp4, whose only option
is use_jinja:true. The dflash side was checked independently rather than assumed
consistent: all five dflash entries declare spec_type:draft-dflash and all five
are tagged, so it needed no edits.

Four entries keep a tag that a literal spec_type-only reading would strip,
because they configure MTP through a different backend: deepseek-v4-flash-q2-mtp
via ds4's mtp_path/mtp_draft, and the three sglang entries via
speculative_algorithm in their referenced configs. Stripping those would
contradict the reason spec_type was rejected as the signal and would demote four
genuinely faster builds to plain.

The index was edited by line insertion and deletion only, never round-tripped
through a serializer. A resolved-tag diff across all 1272 named entries, taken
after merge keys are applied, shows exactly these 7 changing and no entry
gaining or losing a tag through an anchor.

The two specs that pinned the name fallback are inverted rather than deleted,
since a name silently promoting a build is the regression worth guarding. The
whole-token guard survives on the tag path, where smtp must still not match mtp.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(gallery): make deepseek-v4-flash variant targets installable

Clicking install on deepseek-v4-flash failed with "invalid gallery model".
The parent entry is fine, but all four entries it was grouped with declared
neither url: nor config_file:, and applyModel needs one of the two to have
anything to build a config from. They carry urls: (plural), the informational
HuggingFace link list, which is a different field. None of the four was ever
independently installable, so grouping them routed a previously-working
install into a broken entry.

Give each the url: the parent already resolves through. virtual.yaml is a
no-op base, and applyModel passes overrides to InstallModel separately from
the fetched config, so backend: ds4, the parameters and the ssd/mtp options
all still land exactly as authored. This is the same pattern the parent and
many other GGUF entries in the index already use.

Add the lint rule that should have caught this. checkVariantReferences only
proved a target exists and is not itself a parent, which is structural
validity: an entry can exist, declare no variants, and still be
uninstallable. checkVariantTargetsInstallable mirrors applyModel's
precondition instead, and names the parent, the target and the missing
fields, because whoever hits it is reading a gallery entry and has no reason
to know applyModel exists.

The two index-driven resolution specs live in their own Ordered container:
an Ordered container stops at its first failure, so sharing one with the lint
rules let a lint breach skip them silently.

Nine further entries gallery-wide have the same defect and are unrelated to
variants, so they are broken installs that predate this branch. They are left
alone here rather than buried in a regression fix, and widening the rule to
cover every entry is deferred with them so the gate can ratchet up in one
step instead of needing a skip list.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(gallery): install entries with no url or config_file on an empty base

applyModel had three branches: fetch a base config from url:, build one from
an inline config_file:, or fail with "invalid gallery model". An entry
declaring neither is now installed on an empty base config, with overrides:
and files: supplying everything.

This is what the ~345 entries pointing at gallery/virtual.yaml were already
getting. That stub is five lines carrying name, description and license.
description and license are overwritten from the gallery entry immediately
after the fetch, and the name never reaches disk because InstallModel prefers
the install name. Crucially applyModel passes model.Overrides to InstallModel
as a separate argument rather than merging it into the fetched config, so
nothing an author writes depends on that base existing. The fetch bought a
round trip to GitHub and nothing else.

That makes f4ef80173 the wrong fix, so it is unwound. The four url: lines it
added to the deepseek-v4-flash variants are reverted: they are a pointless
network fetch now, and the family installs without them.

Relaxing the branch would hide a real authoring mistake, so a payload rule
replaces the base-config rule. An entry with no url, no config_file, no
overrides and no files installs nothing and would leave an empty model
directory while reporting success, so it is refused by name. The caller's
request counts toward the payload, because its overrides and files are merged
into the install exactly as the entry's own are. urls: (plural) is the
informational link list and does not count, which is what the four entries
that shipped broken had and why they were still uninstallable.

checkVariantTargetsInstallable asserted every variant target declares a url:
or a config_file:, which is no longer true and would now reject correct
authoring. checkEntriesInstallSomething pins what survives instead, and covers
every entry rather than only variant targets: the hazard is a half-written
stanza and a parent can be one as easily as a target. The old rule was scoped
to targets precisely because nine unrelated entries would have failed a
gallery-wide version; those nine are valid now, so the deferred ratchet
happens here in one step. 1280 entries, zero violations.

Those nine (aurore-reveil_koto-small-7b-it, lfm2-1.2b, the six liquidai_lfm2
entries and deepseek-v4-pro-q2-ssd) become installable for free. Each carries
overrides: and files:, and one of them is driven through the real install path
in a spec.

The no-fetch spec is paired rather than bare: an assertion that nothing was
fetched proves nothing unless something could have been, so a control runs the
same fixture with a url: pointing at a base config that is not there and
asserts the install fails. Only then does the identical fixture without the
url passing mean the read was skipped.

Follow-up, deliberately not here: the ~345 entries still naming virtual.yaml
can drop their url:. That is 345 index edits with their own risk, and mixing
them in would bury this change.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* ui(models): let search bypass the variant collapse, drop the toggle

The models page collapsed the gallery to one row per model by default and
offered a toggle to see every individual build. Because the collapse composed
with the search term, a build another entry offers as a variant could not be
found by typing its name, so the toggle was the only way to reach those builds
in the UI. A user who typed a name they knew existed got "no models found",
which reads as "that model does not exist".

Collapse is for browsing; search is for finding. An explicit search term now
bypasses the collapse in the listing handler, so a name lookup returns matching
entries whether or not a parent offers them. The term is trimmed once at the
top of the handler, so whitespace is neither a search nor a bypass; previously
an untrimmed blank term also narrowed the listing to whatever contained a
space. Tag and backend deliberately do not bypass: they refine a listing the
user is still reading rather than name an entry already known to exist.

That makes the toggle redundant, so it goes, along with its i18n strings in all
six locales, its localStorage persistence, its participation in "Clear filters"
and the empty-state hint telling users to turn it off. The hint was doubly
stale: it pointed at a control that no longer exists, and it was untrue exactly
when a user has a search term, since searching now sees every build. The page
always requests the collapsed listing.

The stored preference key is left inert rather than cleaned up: nothing reads
it, so a user who had the toggle off simply gets the collapsed view.

collapse_variants stays on the API, off by default, because other clients want
either view and the UI dropping its control is no reason to remove a working
parameter.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(ui): give the models gallery filter form a deliberate structure

The filter area had accreted controls into one undifferentiated flow. The
"Fits in GPU" toggle and the backend select were direct children of
.filter-bar, the same wrapping container as the 18 taxonomy chips, so their
position was decided by how many chips happened to wrap at the current width
rather than by any layout intent. At narrow widths they were pushed past the
right edge of that container's horizontal scroll and became unreachable
entirely.

Restructure into three bands inside the house .filter-bar-group wrapper that
components/FilterBar.jsx already uses on Backends and the System tabs:

  1. query scope: search plus the backend select
  2. taxonomy: the chip row, alone, free to wrap
  3. refinements: fits-in-GPU and context size, under a hairline rule

The backend select leads the chips rather than trailing them because picking a
backend disables the use cases that backend cannot serve, so it gates the row
below it. Fits-in-GPU and context size share a band because they are one
control group: the context size is the length the VRAM estimate is computed at,
and that estimate is what the fits filter tests against.

Chips had no visible keyboard focus indicator. The global focus ring is wrapped
in :where(), so it carries the specificity of a bare :focus-visible, ties with
.filter-btn and loses on source order, leaving focused chips showing their
resting drop shadow. Restate the ring where it outranks both resting and hover.

Also: aria-pressed on the chips, a real label association and aria-valuetext on
the context slider (it steps over an index, so it announced "2"), disabled chip
styling moved off inline styles, a prefers-reduced-motion block for the chip
transition, and the hard-coded English "Context:" moved into all seven locales.

No behaviour change: same filters, same state, same requests. Page reset on
change, localStorage persistence and "Clear filters" verified unchanged.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(ui): let the models recommendations panel fade into the background

The "Recommended for your hardware" strip rendered at full height on every
visit regardless of how many models were already installed, costing 186px at
1600px wide (287px at 1100px, where its cards wrapped to two rows) and pushing
the first gallery row to y=554 / y=703.

Make its prominence track how much the user still needs it. The panel now
defaults to a one-line summary once anything is installed, and both the
collapse choice and the existing dismissal persist:

  collapsed = explicit user choice, if one exists
            : installedCount > 0

The preference is three-valued on purpose. A boolean cannot tell "the user
expanded it" apart from "the user has never chosen", and those need opposite
handling when the installed count later crosses zero: someone who deliberately
opened the panel on an empty instance should not have it collapse out from
under them when their first model finishes installing.

Collapsed keeps the card, icon, title and a suggestion count, so the panel is
recovered by clicking what you are already looking at rather than by hunting.
Expanded is unchanged, because for a user with nothing installed it was never
the problem. Collapsed reclaims 145px at 1600 and 420, and 246px at 1100.

Models.jsx gains a statsLoaded flag: stats initializes to installed:0, so
reading it before the fetch resolves would render expanded and collapse a frame
later, which is exactly the layout shove this removes.

The dismissal key moves to the page's localai-models-* convention; the old
localai_rec_models_dismissed is still read, never written, so an existing
dismissal is honoured rather than resurrected by the rename.

Accessibility: the disclosure is a real button whose accessible name is the
visible title alone, with state on aria-expanded and aria-controls resolving in
both states, because the grid is hidden via the hidden attribute rather than
unmounted. That also keeps the four install buttons out of the tab order while
collapsed. The app's global focus ring applies; no per-component outline is
added, per the warning in App.css. Reveal animates opacity and transform only,
never height, and both it and the chevron rotation are disabled under
prefers-reduced-motion.

Only en had a recommended block, so the other six locales were falling back to
English for the whole panel. Translated the complete block rather than adding
one orphaned key to files that would still render the title in English.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(downloader): recover from a leftover .partial on non-HTTP URIs

An interrupted download leaves a `<file>.partial` behind. The partial
handling in DownloadFileWithContext gated resume on `err == nil &&
uri.LooksLikeHTTPURL()`, so for any URI that is not literally http(s)
the branch fell through to `else if !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist)`,
which with a nil err is true. The download then failed with an error
wrapping nil:

  failed to check file ".../Ternary-Bonsai-27B-Q2_g64.gguf" existence: <nil>

Every gallery file URI uses `huggingface://`, so a single interrupted
download made that model permanently uninstallable until someone
deleted the partial by hand. The `<nil>` in the message compounded it
by pointing debugging at a filesystem failure that never happened.

Restructure the handling as an explicit switch over the four real
states: partial exists and is resumable, partial exists and is not
resumable (discard and restart, as already done for an HTTP server
without range support), no partial, and a genuine stat failure. The
error branch is now only reachable with a non-nil error, names the
path that was actually stat'd, and wraps with %w.

Discarding is required for correctness and not merely convenience: the
writer opens the partial with O_APPEND, so an un-resumed download would
concatenate a fresh body onto stale bytes.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(ui): tell the models gallery's variant rows apart, and let browsing see every build

Both variant surfaces rendered name, backend and size. For two builds of one
model that is close to no information: a variant exists precisely because the
same weights are offered another way, so the backend usually matches and the
sizes usually land within a few hundred megabytes. Comparing
ternary-bonsai-27b-pq2 against ternary-bonsai-27b-q2-g64 meant reading two names
that differ by a suffix nobody has defined anywhere in the UI.

Report the quantization and the serving features on VariantView, and derive both
server-side from the referenced entry rather than parsing names in the browser,
so every client reads the same format out of the same file the installer will
hand the backend.

Quantization comes from overrides.parameters.model first, falling back to the
file list. That order is load bearing: entries routinely ship a vision tower
alongside the language model at a different quantization, so reading the file
list first reports the mmproj's format. Matching walks `-` and `.` delimited
segments right to left; `_` deliberately does not split, because it separates the
parts INSIDE a quant token and splitting on it reports Q4 for a Q4_K_M build. A
second, looser pass takes a segment's `_`-delimited tail, which catches the
gemma-4-E2B_q4_0-it.gguf style; it runs second so a precise match can never lose
to a fuzzy one further right in the name. An entry naming no format reports
nothing, which is the honest answer for a backend served from a directory of
weights.

Features are the same tag-against-vocabulary match servingFeatureRank already
ranks on, over the same host preference list. A build can therefore never be
shown as faster than one selection did not actually reward, nor rewarded without
being shown; a spec pins that agreement rather than trusting it.

The compact dropdown gets the quantization on its meta line and the bare feature
token. The detail row, which has the room, gets the quantization as its own
monospaced column so precision lines up down the list, and the feature spelled
out, because DFLASH names nothing to a user who has not met it. The referenced
entry's description stays out of both: the detail row already renders the
parent's prose above the table, and a second block per variant would push a
three-variant list past a screen to restate what the columns now say precisely.

The collapse toggle comes back. 462583f38 dropped it once search bypassed the
collapse, on the reasoning that nothing was unreachable any more. That holds for
finding a build whose name you know and does not hold for browsing: no sequence
of actions enumerated the 68 builds the default view hides. Collapse is for
browsing and search is for finding, and the toggle was the browsing half.

It goes in the refinements band 0d4823362 established, not back among the
taxonomy chips where its position depended on how many chips happened to wrap. It
leads that band because it decides how many rows the other two refine over, and
because unlike fits-in-GPU it is unconditional: a host with no GPU still browses.

The search bypass is untouched and re-checked by a spec in the toggle's default
state, since restoring the control must not restore the dead end it replaced. The
empty-state hint returns but only without a search term, because a term bypasses
the collapse and the hint would otherwise point at a control that cannot change
the result. The stored preference reads 'on'/'off' only: an older build wrote
'1'/'0' from an effect that ran on mount, so those record that the page was
opened, not that anyone chose a view.

Also fixes a latent flake it exposed. The collapse_variants spec compared whole
response bodies byte for byte, and the listing envelope carries live host
telemetry that drifts between two calls milliseconds apart, so it was asserting
on the machine's memory pressure. It now compares everything the parameter
governs -- the entries, their serialization and the paging -- and is green 25/25
where it was failing about one run in three.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(ui): let the models gallery show a variant's full details

The variant list in an entry's expanded detail row says how the builds
differ: name, backend, quantization, size, and the auto-selected, base
and serving-feature markers. It cannot say what any one of them is. A
variant's own description, tags, license, source links and file list are
unreachable anywhere in the UI, because while the collapse is on a
variant has no gallery row of its own.

Give each variant row an info control that reveals its entry, rendered by
the same ModelDetail a top-level row gets, so a field added to the detail
view appears here too. variantData is withheld from the nested render: a
variant may declare variants of its own, and recursing would nest a
picker inside a picker two levels deep already.

An inline disclosure rather than a modal. The control sits inside a table
row that is already expanded, inside a variant list within that; a dialog
opened from there stacks a dismissal on a dismissal for a handful of
extra fields about the entry the user is already reading, and breaks the
page's own expand idiom. The third level is carried by an inset and a
left rule instead of another card.

The entry is fetched by exact name from the listing, once, on first use.
The listing already returns every field the detail view renders, and a
search term bypasses the variant collapse server-side, so no new endpoint
is needed and neither the listing nor DescribeVariants gains any work.
Expanding a row costs nothing; a variant nobody opens costs nothing. A
name the listing no longer returns is stated, not blanked: an empty panel
reads as a rendering fault rather than as a lookup that came back empty.

The control is a sibling of the install button, not a descendant, so
asking about a build can never install it.

The variant list keeps its content-sized columns via a trailing filler
track instead of max-content sizing, so the rows are unchanged while the
panel spanning them gets the pane width its file table needs.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): let search respect the collapse instead of switching it off

The models listing collapsed to one row per model, and an explicit search term
turned that off wholesale. Searching while collapsed therefore answered with the
individual builds a parent already offers, which are exactly the rows the view
the user asked for has no place for: typing "mtp" returned
qwen3.6-27b-nvfp4-mtp, a row that is invisible the moment the box is cleared.
The bypass was the right shape of fix for the wrong half of the problem. What a
search must not do is answer "no models found" for a build the gallery does
hold; that does not require abandoning the grouping the user asked for.

So the term is now matched against every entry either way, hidden builds
included, and the collapse decides how a match is reported rather than which
matches exist. Collapsing stops being a filter that drops rows and becomes a
substitution: a match on a build another entry offers is reported as that entry,
the one installable in its own right. Nothing becomes unfindable and nothing
comes back that the requested view cannot show.

Substitution happens after search, tag and backend, so every filter is judged
against the build that really carries the name, tag or backend rather than
against a parent that merely offers it; the other order would let backend=vllm
match a parent whose own backend is something else. The price is that the
surfaced row shows the parent's own metadata while the match was on a variant,
which is what grouping means, and the alternative is claiming the gallery holds
no such build. It happens before the count and the page math, so both describe
the rows actually handed out rather than the matches that produced them.

A parent already in the result keeps its own position and absorbs its matching
variants there, which is what leaves the browsing listing ordered exactly as it
was; a parent surfaced only by a variant takes the position of the first variant
that surfaced it. Either way it appears once, however many of its builds matched
and whether or not it matched itself. Search preserves gallery order rather than
scoring, so a surfaced parent has a real position rather than an invented one.

VariantParents never reports an entry that declares variants of its own, so a
parent is never itself hidden and one hop always lands on a visible row. The
handler follows exactly one anyway: refusing the second is what makes a gallery
the linter would have rejected terminate rather than loop.

The empty-state hint pointing at the toggle goes with it for every server-side
filter. Substitution means a match is always reported as some row, so the
collapse can no longer be why a term, a chip or a backend came back empty, and
naming it there sends the user to a control that cannot change the result. It
survives for the fits filter alone, which runs in the browser after the
substitution and judges the surfaced entry's own size: there the build that fits
really can be filtered out along with a parent that does not.

Searching a build's exact name while collapsed now answers with its parent, so
the result no longer contains the string the user typed. That is intended, and
the row is the one they can act on, but it is a real rough edge: nothing on the
row explains the connection. Closing it properly means reporting which variant
matched so the UI can say so, which the listing does not do today.

ResetGalleryModelCache is added for tests. The model cache is a package global
keyed by nothing, so a background refresh one spec triggers can land in the
middle of the next and answer it with the previous spec's gallery; the extra
specs here made that fail about one run in five. It waits for the in-flight
refresh to publish before clearing, since clearing alone only narrows the
window.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-20 18:43:02 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]
626ae4d51e fix(model-artifacts): materialize longcat-video on the controller, and support companion repos (#10949)
* fix(model-artifacts): materialize longcat-video checkpoints on the controller

longcat-video loads a checkpoint directory: its backend.py takes
request.ModelFile when os.path.isdir(request.ModelFile) and otherwise
falls back to snapshot_download. That places it in the same class as
transformers/vllm/diffusers/sglang, but the allow-list added in #10910
did not enumerate it, so PrimaryArtifactSpec returned no managed
artifact for a bare HuggingFace repo id.

The consequence in distributed mode: nothing was acquired on the
controller, ModelFileName fell through to the raw repo id, and staging
skipped the resulting phantom /models/<owner>/<repo> path. The worker
received a blank ModelFile, fell back to request.Model, and downloaded
~83GB from HuggingFace inside the remote LoadModel deadline - so the
load could only ever fail with DeadlineExceeded while an abandoned
backend process kept downloading.

Note this materializes the full repository. The backend restricts its
own snapshot_download with allow_patterns, and the avatar repo ships
both base_model/ and base_model_int8/ where only one is ever loaded;
inferred specs have no way to carry patterns today. Tracked separately.

Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(distributed): warn when staging skips a non-existent model path

stageModelFiles logs "Staging model files for remote node" up front, then
silently drops any path field that does not exist on the controller. The
skip itself is legitimate and must stay: a backend outside
managedArtifactBackends that takes a bare HuggingFace repo id gets an
optimistically constructed path (ModelFileName falls through to the raw
model reference) that was never materialized, and sources its own weights
on the worker. Erroring would break those configs.

But at debug level the operator is left with a reassuring staging line and
no trace of the skip, so a genuine controller-side acquisition gap is
indistinguishable from a healthy pass-through - it surfaces much later as
a remote LoadModel timeout, on a worker that is quietly downloading tens
of gigabytes. Raise the skip to warn and name the field, path, node and
tracking key. Behavior is unchanged.

Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(model-artifacts): allow a config to declare companion artifacts

A composed pipeline needs more than one HuggingFace snapshot.
LongCat-Video-Avatar-1.5 loads its own transformer but takes the
tokenizer, text encoder and VAE from the separate LongCat-Video base
repo, so a single-artifact config cannot express it and the backend is
left to fetch the second repo itself at load time.

Widen the artifact model to target: model plus any number of named
target: companion entries. Normalize accepts the new target and
constrains a companion name to [a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]{0,63} because that
name is the option key the backend later receives; a companion may not
claim primary_file, which only means anything for a load target.
ModelConfig.Validate requires exactly one primary and requires it first,
since Artifacts[0] is what ModelFileName, size estimation and staging all
resolve from.

Both acquisition paths now loop instead of touching index 0 alone:
preloadOne for an already-installed config, bindPrimaryArtifact for a
gallery install. Failure policy differs by provenance. An inferred
primary keeps its warn-and-fall-back, because the legacy download path
still exists for it. Companions are explicit by construction, so they are
all-or-nothing: a config naming one is asserting the backend needs it,
and failing at the acquisition boundary is far more legible than a
missing-weights error surfacing later inside the backend.

The cache key is deliberately unchanged. It hashes source identity only,
never name or target, so every already-installed managed model still hits
its existing snapshot instead of silently re-downloading. Two specs pin
that: one proving a companion and a primary with identical sources agree
on the key, and one pinning the digest of a known primary outright.

Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(model-artifacts): hand resolved companion snapshots to the backend

A materialized companion is useless until the backend can find it, and
its location is a content-addressed cache key that does not exist until
the artifact resolves. A static gallery override cannot carry that, and
persisting it into the config YAML would rot the moment a re-resolve
produced a new key.

Synthesize it instead at load time: each resolved companion becomes
"<artifact name>:<snapshot path>" in ModelOptions.Options, reusing the
key:value convention backends already parse for options like
attention_backend. The value stays relative to the models directory so a
remote worker can resolve it under its own ModelPath once staging has
rewritten the model root. An option the author set explicitly always
wins, so pinning a companion to a local checkout still beats the managed
snapshot.

longcat-video resolves base_model through ModelPath, the same convention
qwen-tts, voxcpm, outetts and ace-step already use for companion assets.
Its sibling-directory heuristic is deleted: it looked for a LongCat-Video
directory next to the model, which cannot exist under the content
addressed .artifacts/huggingface/<key>/snapshot layout, so it was dead
code the moment the model became managed.

The gallery entry declares both repositories and restricts each with
allow_patterns. The avatar repo ships base_model/ and base_model_int8/
and only ever loads one, so fetching the whole repo would roughly double
the download. The patterns match the entry's own options (use_distill
true, use_int8 default false); enabling use_int8 here also requires
adding base_model_int8/**, which is called out in the entry.

Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(distributed): stage managed artifact trees from the models root

Staging anchored the worker's models directory on the primary snapshot
whenever a model was managed, so a companion snapshot could not reach the
worker at all.

frontendModelsDir was derived by stripping the Model relative path off
the end of ModelFile. For a managed artifact nothing matches: ModelFile
is .artifacts/huggingface/<key>/snapshot while Model stays a bare
HuggingFace repo id, so the strip was a no-op and the "models directory"
came out as the snapshot itself. Two consequences, both silent. Staging
keys lost the .artifacts/huggingface/<key>/snapshot prefix, so two
snapshots of one model were indistinguishable on the worker. And a
companion, which lives in a sibling snapshot directory outside the
primary, fell outside that directory entirely: StagingKeyMapper.Key
collapsed its files to bare basenames and resolveOptionPath could not
resolve the relative option at all, so it was skipped without a word.

Derive the models root from the artifact tree instead when the path runs
through it, and compute the worker's ModelPath from the file's path
relative to that root rather than from the Model field. The legacy layout
is unaffected: where Model really is the relative path, the new
derivation reduces to the old one, which a regression spec pins.

This deliberately changes an invariant that router_dirstage_test.go
pinned: for a managed primary, ModelFile and ModelPath were both the
snapshot directory, and staging keys were relative to it. Now ModelFile
is the snapshot, ModelPath is the models root above it, and keys keep the
full relative path. That spec is updated rather than accommodated, with
the reasoning recorded inline, because the old invariant is exactly what
made a sibling companion unreachable.

Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-19 12:01:36 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]
b19afb192a fix(distributed): backend discovery hid GPU-only backends behind the controller's capability (#10947)
* fix(backends): list backends runnable on worker nodes in distributed mode

GET /backends/available filtered the gallery against the system state of
the host serving the request. In a distributed deployment that host is the
controller, which typically has no GPU, while the GPUs live on worker
nodes. Any meta backend whose capabilities map lacks a "default" (or "cpu")
key was therefore dropped from the listing entirely — longcat-video,
vllm-omni, ltx-video, parakeet, edgetam and qwentts were invisible in the
UI even though installing them by name on a GPU worker worked fine.

Workers now report their own meta-backend capability at registration and
the controller persists it on the node row. The controller cannot derive
it: OS-dependent capabilities (metal, darwin-x86, nvidia-l4t) and the CUDA
runtime refinements are only observable on the worker. Nodes registered
before this field existed fall back to a coarse capability derived from
their GPU vendor and VRAM.

Backend discovery then evaluates compatibility as the union over healthy
backend nodes, so a backend runnable on any node is offered while one no
node can run stays hidden. Each remote capability is evaluated through a
capability-pinned system state, otherwise a forced capability on the
controller image (LOCALAI_FORCE_META_BACKEND_CAPABILITY or
/run/localai/capability) would silently override every worker's verdict.
With no registered nodes the listing is byte-for-byte what it was, so
single-node deployments are unaffected.

Also fixes the same-root-cause misclassification in /api/operations, which
used the capability-filtered listing to decide whether an operation was a
backend or a model install. A GPU-only backend installing on a worker is
still a backend operation on the controller, so that lookup is now
unfiltered.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(backends): union worker capabilities in backend discovery

Implementation for the specs added in the previous commit, plus the two
remaining discovery endpoints.

Capability-filtered backend discovery evaluated compatibility against the
system state of the host serving the request. In a distributed deployment
that host is the controller, which typically has no GPU, while the GPUs
live on worker nodes. Any meta backend whose capabilities map lacks a
"default" (or "cpu") key was dropped entirely — longcat-video, vllm-omni,
ltx-video, parakeet, edgetam and qwentts were invisible in the UI even
though installing them by name on a GPU worker worked fine.

Workers now report their own meta-backend capability at registration and
the controller persists it on the node row. The controller cannot derive
it: OS-dependent capabilities (metal, darwin-x86, nvidia-l4t) and the CUDA
runtime refinements are only observable on the worker. Nodes registered
before this field existed fall back to a coarse capability derived from
their GPU vendor and VRAM.

Discovery then evaluates compatibility as the union over healthy backend
nodes, so a backend runnable on any node is offered while one no node can
run stays hidden. Each remote capability is evaluated through a
capability-pinned system state, otherwise a forced capability on the
controller image (LOCALAI_FORCE_META_BACKEND_CAPABILITY or
/run/localai/capability) would silently override every worker's verdict.
With no registered nodes the listing is byte-for-byte what it was, so
single-node deployments are unaffected.

Four surfaces shared this root cause and are all routed through the same
helper now:

  - GET /backends/available
  - GET /api/fine-tuning/backends
  - GET /api/quantization/backends
  - /api/operations backend-vs-model classification, which additionally
    had no reason to filter by capability at all: a GPU-only backend
    installing on a worker is still a backend operation on the
    controller, so that lookup is now unfiltered.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-19 07:53:46 +00:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]
2dade4a9f9 fix(model-artifacts): gate inferred artifact materialization by backend (#10910)
The managed-artifact materializer stages a HuggingFace snapshot into a
directory (.artifacts/huggingface/<key>/snapshot/). That is the right load
target for directory-consuming backends (transformers, vLLM, diffusers, ...),
but PrimaryArtifactSpec inferred a managed artifact from ANY HuggingFace-shaped
model reference regardless of backend. A single-file backend such as llama.cpp
or whisper was therefore handed the snapshot directory instead of the weight
file and failed to load it.

The /import-model importer already guards this with a backend allow-list
(managedArtifactBackends), but the loader-side inference did not. Move the
allow-list into core/config as IsManagedArtifactBackend and apply it in
PrimaryArtifactSpec: only directory-consuming backends may have an artifact
inferred from a bare reference; every other backend stays on the legacy
download-to-file path. An explicit artifacts: block still bypasses the gate,
where single-file snapshot resolution handles the load path.

The importer now shares the same predicate, so both paths agree on which
backends auto-materialize.

Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-17 23:26:23 +00:00
LocalAI [bot]
bcc41219f7 feat: materialize Hugging Face model artifacts (#10825)
* feat(config): add model artifact source contract

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* feat(downloader): add authenticated raw-byte progress

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* feat(huggingface): resolve immutable snapshot manifests

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* feat(models): add artifact storage primitives

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* feat(models): materialize pinned Hugging Face snapshots

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* feat(models): bind managed snapshots at runtime

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* feat(gallery): materialize model artifacts during install

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* feat(gallery): declare managed Hugging Face artifacts

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* feat(models): preload managed model artifacts

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* fix(gallery): retain shared artifact caches on delete

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* feat(models): report artifact acquisition progress

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* refactor(backends): load managed models from ModelFile

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* refactor(backends): load staged speech model snapshots

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* refactor(backends): use staged snapshots in engine backends

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* test(distributed): cover staged artifact snapshots

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* docs: explain managed model artifacts

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* docs: add product design context

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* feat(ui): show model artifact download progress

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [Codex]

* Eagerly materialize Hugging Face artifacts

Materialize HF-backed model references as managed GGUF artifacts during load, with lazy download retained only as fallback.

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [shell]

* Refactor HF
  downloads through a shared executor

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [shell]

* drop

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-15 01:09:33 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]
4056283aa4 [voice] feat: add managed voice cloning profiles (#10799)
* feat(ui): add voice library workflow

Give administrators a production-ready flow to record or upload consented reference audio, manage reusable profiles, inspect API usage, discover compatible models, and hand a saved voice directly to text-to-speech.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5

* feat(voice): add managed voice cloning profiles

Make reusable reference voices manageable through the admin API instead of requiring model-directory and YAML edits. Discover compatible installed and gallery models from server-side backend capabilities, retain explicit model configuration controls, and stage saved references for supported backends.

Expose profile management through REST and MCP, document backend-specific behavior, and cover the workflow from profile creation through real Qwen3-TTS synthesis. Harden the agent-job HTTP test against completion racing cancellation.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5

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Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-13 09:54:46 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]
b00422e45f feat(backends): add LongCat video and avatar generation (#10792)
* feat(backends): add LongCat video and avatar generation

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [apply_patch] [exec_command] [web]

* refactor(config): declare model I/O modalities

Make model configs declare input and output modalities so capability discovery no longer branches on backend or checkpoint names. Complete the LongCat gallery and user documentation, make the SDPA patch apply to the pinned upstream revision, and stabilize the Agent Jobs race exposed by the required hook.

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [web]

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Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-12 23:58:46 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]
94bdc825dc feat(backend): add moss-transcribe-cpp backend (MOSS-Transcribe-Diarize) (#10756)
C++/ggml transcription + speaker diarization + timestamps backend. Purego
dlopens libmoss-transcribe.so (ggml statically linked) from moss-transcribe.cpp
and serves offline AudioTranscription, parsing the [start][Sxx]text[end] output
into segments with nanosecond timestamps. Adds the importer (surfaces in
GET /backends/known), backend-matrix (Linux + Darwin/metal), backend/index.yaml,
and a gallery entry (default q5_k GGUF from mudler/moss-transcribe.cpp-gguf).

Local L0 smoke (go build + go test ./... = 16 pass, golangci-lint 0 issues)
passed against the real libmoss-transcribe.so. The pre-commit coverage gate
(full pkg/core + tests/e2e) could not run in the authoring sandbox (no live
models, port 9090 held); CI must enforce it before merge.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 golangci-lint

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-09 23:27:11 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]
1d5139f0a0 fix(gallery): make backend (re)install a clean replace instead of an overlay (#10726)
InstallBackend extracted the artifact directly into the target directory
with no pre-clean, so a reinstall overlaid the new files onto the old
ones. Files present in a previous version but absent in the new artifact
(a stale .so, an orphaned package dir) survived and could shadow the new
build at import time -- e.g. an old vllm shared object lingering next to
a freshly pulled one. Only a failed download cleaned the directory.

Stage the download/extraction into a `<name>.install-tmp` dir, validate
run.sh is present, write metadata, then atomically swap it into place
(rename current -> .install-backup, staging -> current, drop backup),
rolling back on failure. This mirrors the atomic swap UpgradeBackend
already performs, so install and upgrade now leave identical on-disk
state with no orphaned files.

Reported as part of #10720.


Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-07 20:23:13 +00:00
LocalAI [bot]
2cbb3c96b3 fix(gallery): block SSRF in gallery config URL fetch (#10665) (#10673)
POST /models/apply with an empty "id" fetches the attacker-supplied
"url" gallery config directly via http.Client, with no check that the
URL resolves to a public IP. In the default Docker deployment no API key
is configured, so any network-reachable client can coerce LocalAI into
issuing requests to internal services or cloud-metadata endpoints (and
exfiltrate a small slice of the response through the job error message).

Guard the config fetch chokepoints (GetGalleryConfigFromURL and
GetGalleryConfigFromURLWithContext, which back both the /models/apply
worker and gallery installs) with utils.ValidateExternalURL, matching
the protection already applied to the CORS proxy and image/video/audio
download paths. Only plain http(s) URLs are validated; non-network
schemes (huggingface://, github:, oci://, ollama://, file://) resolve to
fixed public services or local files and are left untouched.


Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-03 21:32:42 +00:00
Adira
dfaec3bd51 fix(import): strip file:// scheme from model path for local imports (#10599)
Importing a model from a local directory (e.g. a HuggingFace checkout or an
LM Studio store) via a file:// URI produced a config whose model field kept
the scheme verbatim, e.g. model: file:///Users/u/.../Qwen3-4bit. The mlx and
vllm backends treat that field as a HuggingFace repo id or local path and
reject the file:// form with "Repo id must be in the form 'repo_name' or
'namespace/repo_name'", so the model imported fine but failed to load (issue
#7461).

Add a shared LocalModelPath helper that reduces a file:// URI to the bare
filesystem path it points at and leaves HuggingFace/HTTP URIs untouched, and
route the mlx, vllm, transformers and diffusers importers (all of which pass
details.URI straight into the model field for from_pretrained-style loading)
through it.

Cover the helper directly plus end-to-end file:// import specs for the mlx and
vllm importers.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Adira Denis Muhando <dennisadira@gmail.com>
2026-06-30 10:21:08 +02:00
Adira
1a4f68ed4a fix(import): derive model name from selected GGUF for repo-root URIs (#10589)
When importing a HuggingFace GGUF model from a repository-root URI (no file
component, e.g. hf://owner/repo) with the Model Name field left blank, the
importer named the model after the repository (filepath.Base(details.URI))
instead of the GGUF file it actually selected from the repo listing (issue
#10587).

Track whether the user supplied an explicit name; the URI base is now only a
fallback. In the HuggingFace branch, once the model group is picked, re-derive
the name from the selected GGUF via a new modelNameFromShardGroup helper that
uses ShardGroup.Base minus the .gguf extension. For sharded models this yields
a clean logical name (e.g. Qwen3-30B-A3B-Q4_K_M) rather than a shard filename
like ...-00001-of-00002. An explicit name preference still always wins, and the
.gguf/URL/OCI paths are unchanged.

Add network-free unit specs covering name-from-GGUF, clean-name-from-shard-base,
and explicit-name precedence, and update the live integration specs that had
encoded the previous repo-name behaviour.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Adira Denis Muhando <dennisadira@gmail.com>
2026-06-30 09:03:27 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]
f1fcafb888 fix(gallery): match mmproj/model quant as a whole token so F16 no longer selects BF16 (#10559) (#10564)
pickPreferredGroup matched a quant preference against the shard base
filename with strings.Contains. Because `f16` is a substring of `bf16`,
asking for the `F16` mmproj quant would wrongly satisfy a `BF16` file and
select it when its group came first.

Match the preference as a whole token instead: it must be delimited by a
non-alphanumeric character (or the string start/end) on both outer edges.
Separators inside the preference itself (e.g. `ud-q4_k_xl`) are left
untouched, and all occurrences are scanned before rejecting.


Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-06-28 01:21:33 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]
114eeaae81 feat(backends): make PreferDevelopmentBackends install the development image as primary (#10520)
When LOCALAI_PREFER_DEV_BACKENDS is set, install the -development image as the
primary backend URI (keeping the released image reachable as the first
fallback), instead of only reaching development as a download fallback when the
released image is missing. This lets an operator force backends built from the
development branch — e.g. to pick up a fix already on master before a release.

Threads PreferDevelopmentBackends through SystemState so InstallBackend can see
it, and reuses the same development-URI convention as the existing failure-path
fallback (released tag -> branch tag + dev suffix). The unexported developmentURI
helper is covered by a Ginkgo spec.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-06-26 07:42:45 +02:00
Richard Palethorpe
3fa7b2955c feat(pii): NER tier engine — privacy-filter.cpp backend + NER-centric PII filter (#10360)
Squashed feat/pii-ner-tier-engine rebased onto master (was 45 commits; see
backup/pii-ner-tier-engine-prerebase). Net change:

- privacy-filter.cpp: standalone GGML engine for the openai-privacy-filter
  PII/NER token classifier, wired as a LocalAI gRPC backend (CPU/CUDA/Vulkan).
  TokenClassify moves off the patched llama.cpp path onto this backend.
- PII filter reworked to be NER-centric (encoder/NER detection tier scanning
  whole conversations as one document), with a recreated bounded restricted-
  regex secret-matching pattern detector tier alongside it (per-model
  pii_detection.builtins / .patterns + core/services/routing/piipattern).
- Detection labelled by source (ner vs pattern); backend trace / confidence /
  debug observability; analyze/redact exposed as a synchronous API.
- Instance-wide default detector policy + per-usecase default-on; request
  filtering extended to completions, embeddings, edits & Ollama.
- React UI: NER-centric PII editor, detector-models table, pattern/builtins
  editor, middleware default-policy UI.
- Gallery: privacy-filter-multilingual token-classify model + NER install
  filter; token_classify known_usecase; batch sized to context for NER models.
  privacy-filter backend registered in the backend gallery (cpu/vulkan/cuda-13
  meta + image entries with a capabilities map) matching its CI matrix jobs,
  and an /import-model auto-detect importer (PrivacyFilterImporter, narrow
  privacy-filter GGUF detection) replacing the prior pref-only registration.

Reconciled against master's independent evolution:

- Dropped master's PIIPatternOverrides feature (global-pattern runtime
  overrides + /api/pii/patterns API + runtime_settings.json persistence). The
  per-model NER + pattern-detector design supersedes it; it was built on the
  global redactor pattern set this branch replaced.
- Reverted the llama.cpp Score carry-patch (0006-server-task-type-score):
  removed the patch and restored master's grpc-server.cpp Score RPC (direct
  llama_decode, slot-loop bypass) and LLAMA_VERSION pin, plus master's
  model_config validation forbidding score + chat/completion/embeddings on
  llama-cpp. token_classify is unaffected (it runs on the privacy-filter
  backend, not llama-cpp).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-06-18 11:45:22 +01:00
LocalAI [bot]
294170d3ed feat(backend): add depth-anything (Depth Anything 3) C++/ggml backend + gallery (#10352)
* feat(backend): add depth-anything (Depth Anything 3) C++/ggml backend + gallery

Mirrors the locate-anything-cpp backend to register a new depth-anything
backend that wraps the Depth Anything 3 ggml port (depth-anything.cpp) via
purego (cgo-less, no Python at inference).

- backend/go/depth-anything-cpp/: gRPC backend (Load + Predict + GenerateImage),
  purego binding to the da_capi_* C ABI, CMake/Makefile/run/package/test scripts
  building depth-anything.cpp's DA_SHARED static .so per CPU variant.
- backend/index.yaml: depth-anything backend meta + all hardware-variant
  capability entries (cpu/cuda12/cuda13/intel-sycl-f32+f16/vulkan/nvidia-l4t).
- gallery/index.yaml: 8 Depth Anything 3 GGUF models (base q4_k/q8_0/f16/f32,
  small, large, giant, mono-large).
- .github/backend-matrix.yml: one build entry per hardware variant.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(depth): typed Depth RPC + REST endpoint exposing full DA3 data

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(depth): pin depth-anything.cpp to e0b6814 (ABI 3 dense C-API)

The Depth RPC handler calls da_capi_depth_dense / da_capi_points (C-API ABI 3);
pin the native build to the commit that exports them.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(depth): pin depth-anything.cpp to v0.1.0 release (b515c31)

Repoint the native version from the now-orphaned e0b6814 to the
b515c31 release commit, kept alive by the upstream v0.1.0 tag.
C-API is unchanged (da_capi_abi_version == 3).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(depth): wire depth-anything-cpp into build, CI bump, and importer

The backend dir, gallery index, and CI build-matrix were present but the
backend was never wired into the integration points that adding-backends.md
requires:

- root Makefile: add to .NOTPARALLEL, the test-extra chain, a BACKEND_*
  definition, the docker-build target eval, and docker-build-backends
  (mirrors parakeet-cpp; the backend's own Makefile already documented that
  its `test` target is driven by test-extra).
- bump_deps.yaml: register the DEPTHANYTHING_VERSION pin so the daily
  auto-bump bot tracks mudler/depth-anything.cpp master (it cannot see an
  unregistered Makefile pin).
- import form: add a preference-only KnownBackend entry so depth-anything is
  selectable at /import-model (mirrors sam3-cpp; no reliable GGUF auto-detect
  signal, so pref-only per the doc's default).

changed-backends.js needs no entry: the generic golang suffix branch already
resolves backend/go/depth-anything-cpp/.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(depth): auto-detect importer for depth-anything GGUFs

Replace the preference-only entry with a real auto-detect importer
(mirrors parakeet-cpp / locate-anything):

- DepthAnythingImporter matches a .gguf whose name carries a
  depth-anything token (depth-anything-<size>-<quant>.gguf), so
  /import-model recognises mudler/depth-anything.cpp-gguf repos and direct
  GGUF URLs without an explicit backend preference. preferences.backend=
  "depth-anything" still forces it.
- Registered before LlamaCPPImporter so its GGUF bundles aren't claimed by
  the generic .gguf importer; the narrow name match means it cannot claim
  arbitrary llama GGUFs or the upstream safetensors PyTorch repos.
- Multi-quant repos pick the smallest quant by default (q4_k -> ... -> f32,
  depth stays >0.998 corr even at q4_k); quantizations preference overrides.
- Drops the now-redundant knownPrefOnlyBackends entry (importer-backed
  backends are not listed there, matching parakeet-cpp).
- Table-driven Ginkgo test covers detection, negative cases (llama GGUF,
  upstream safetensors), default/override/fallback quant pick, and direct
  URL import. 10/10 specs pass.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(depth): check conn.Close error in grpc Depth client (errcheck)

The new Depth() client method used a bare `defer conn.Close()`. golangci-lint
runs with new-from-merge-base, so although the 39 sibling methods use the same
bare form (grandfathered), the newly added line trips errcheck. Drop the result
explicitly to satisfy the linter.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8

* fix(depth): bump depth-anything.cpp to v0.1.1 (embeddable CMake)

v0.1.0 (b515c31) used ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR} for its include dirs, which
points at the parent project when built via add_subdirectory() as this
backend does, so the container build failed with missing stb_image.h /
da_gguf_keys.h. v0.1.1 (2d42897) switches to project-relative paths.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8

* fix(depth): resolve gosec findings in the backend wrapper

The code-scanning gate flagged three new failure-level alerts in
godepthanythingcpp.go (gosec runs with -no-fail; GitHub gates on new alerts):

- G301: export dirs were created with 0o755. Tighten to 0o750 (no world
  access needed for backend-written export output).
- G304: writeDepthPNG creates req.GetDst(). That path is chosen by the
  LocalAI core as the intended output destination (same pattern every
  image backend uses), not attacker input, so annotate with #nosec G304
  and document why.

The remaining G103 "audit unsafe" notes on the unsafe.Slice C-buffer copies
are warning-level (the same purego interop whisper/parakeet use) and do not
gate the check, per the supertonic exclusion precedent in secscan.yaml.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8

* fix(depth): bump depth-anything.cpp to v0.1.2 (CUDA cross-build arch)

v0.1.1 forced CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=native, which breaks the GPU-less
l4t/cublas CI builds (nvcc "Unsupported gpu architecture 'compute_'" on
CMake 3.22). v0.1.2 (442eea4) drops the override and lets ggml pick its
default cross-build arch list.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8

---------

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-06-16 16:28:28 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]
0854932a25 feat(omnivoice-cpp): add OmniVoice TTS backend (file + streaming, voice cloning + voice design) (#10310)
* feat(omnivoice-cpp): add C wrapper + CMake/Makefile build over OmniVoice ov_* ABI

Assisted-by: claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(omnivoice-cpp): add option/language parsing + WAV framing helpers with tests

Assisted-by: claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(omnivoice-cpp): wire purego binding with TTS + streaming TTSStream

Assisted-by: claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* build(omnivoice-cpp): wire backend into root Makefile

Assisted-by: claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* ci(omnivoice-cpp): add build matrix entries + dep-bump registration

Assisted-by: claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(omnivoice-cpp): register backend meta + image entries

Assisted-by: claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(omnivoice-cpp): expose as preference-only importable backend

Assisted-by: claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): add omnivoice-cpp TTS models (Q8_0 default + BF16 HQ)

Assisted-by: claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs(omnivoice-cpp): document the OmniVoice TTS backend

Assisted-by: claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* test(omnivoice-cpp): add env-gated e2e for TTS + streaming

Assisted-by: claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(omnivoice-cpp): honor tts.audio_path/tts.voice config as default cloning reference

The model config tts.audio_path (ModelOptions.AudioPath) and tts.voice now
provide a default voice-cloning reference used when a request omits Voice, so a
cloned voice can be pinned in the model YAML instead of passed per request. A
per-request voice still overrides. Paths resolve relative to the model dir.

Assisted-by: claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(omnivoice-cpp): add missing omnivoice-cpp-development backend meta

Mirrors the whisper/vibevoice convention: a -development meta aggregating the
master-tagged image variants (the production meta and per-variant prod+dev image
entries already existed; only the development meta aggregator was missing).

Assisted-by: claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

---------

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-06-13 21:28:46 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]
a7a7bd646b fix(mlx): route vision-language models to the mlx-vlm backend (#10274)
Vision-language checkpoints such as mlx-community/gemma-4-E4B-it-qat-4bit
declare the "image-text-to-text" pipeline tag on HuggingFace. The mlx
importer hardcoded backend "mlx" for every mlx-community model, so these
VLMs were served by the text-only mlx-lm backend whose tokenizer does not
carry the processor chat template. The template was never applied and the
model produced degenerate, looping output that echoed the prompt.

Detect the "image-text-to-text" pipeline tag in the importer and route those
models to mlx-vlm, which applies the processor-aware chat template. An
explicit backend preference still wins.

As a defensive backstop, the mlx backend now warns loudly when the loaded
model has no chat template, so a misrouted VLM surfaces the problem instead
of silently looping.

Fixes #10269


Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-06-12 23:12:42 +02:00
Richard Palethorpe
085fc53bbc fix(router): production-ready request router + auto-size batch for embedding/rerank (#10104)
* fix(router): score classifier production-readiness

Conversation trimming runs through the classifier model's chat template
and trims by exact token count, sized to the model's n_batch which is
now scaled to context so long probes can't crash the backend. Missing
chat_message templates are a hard error at router build time. Router-
facing factories (Embedder/Scorer/Reranker/TokenCounter) re-resolve
ModelConfig per call so a model installed post-startup doesn't bind a
stub Backend="" config and silently fall into the loader's auto-
iterate path.

New 'vector_store' backend trace recorded inside localVectorStore on
every Search/Insert — including the backend-load-failure path that
previously vanished into an xlog.Warn — with outcome tagging
(hit/miss/empty_store/backend_load_error/find_error/insert_error/ok).
Companion cleanup drops misleading similarity:0 and input_tokens_count:0
from non-hit and text-mode traces.

Gallery local-store-development aliases to 'local-store' so the master
image satisfies pkg/model.LocalStoreBackend lookups from the embedding
cache.

Misc: llama-cpp TokenizeString reads the correct 'prompt' JSON key
(the original bug); ModelTokenize nil-guard; non-fatal mitm proxy
startup; PII 'route_local' renamed to 'allow' with docs/UI in sync;
model-editor footer no longer eats the edit area on small screens;
several config-editor template/dropdown/section fixes.

Tests: e2e router specs (casual/code-hint + long-conversation trim),
vector_store trace specs, lazy-factory specs, gallery dev-alias
resolution, Playwright trace badge + scroll regression.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(backend): auto-size batch to context for embedding and rerank models

Embedding and rerank models pool over the whole input in a single physical batch (n_ubatch). With batch left at the 512 default, the backend rejects longer inputs with "input is too large to process", silently capping a large-context embedder (e.g. 8k/32k) at 512 tokens. Size n_batch to the context for these single-pass usecases, mirroring the existing FLAG_SCORE behaviour; an explicit batch: still wins.

Extracts EffectiveContextSize/EffectiveBatchSize from grpcModelOpts so the effective decode window has one home for other callers to reuse.

Adds an e2e-aio regression test that embeds a >512-token input. The AIO embedding model is switched to nomic-embed-text-v1.5 (2048 context) because the previous granite model was capped at 512 tokens and could not exercise the larger batch.

Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(gallery): raise arch-router scoring output cap via parallel:64

Scoring decodes the whole prompt+candidate in a single llama_decode and
reads one logit row per candidate token. The vendored llama.cpp server
caps causal output rows at n_parallel, so the default of 1 aborts with
GGML_ASSERT(n_outputs_max <= cparams.n_outputs_max) on multi-token route
labels. Set options: [parallel:64] on both arch-router quant entries to
lift the cap; kv_unified (the grpc-server default) keeps the full context
per sequence, so this does not split the KV cache.

Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-06-12 16:21:15 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]
56cc4f63fc feat(backend): locate-anything-cpp (open-vocabulary object detection via ggml) (#10264)
* feat(backend): add locate-anything-cpp backend (open-vocab detection via la_capi)

A Go/purego backend wrapping locate-anything.cpp's la_capi C ABI, implementing
the gRPC Detect RPC: image + open-vocabulary text prompt -> labeled boxes.
Mirrors backend/go/rfdetr-cpp; static-links ggml into a per-CPU-variant .so.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* ci(backend): register locate-anything-cpp in build matrix

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): locate-anything gallery entry + model importer

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* test(backend): locate-anything-cpp Load+Detect wire test

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): add locate-anything-3b model to the gallery index

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* ci(backend): register locate-anything.cpp in bump_deps auto-bump

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: mudler <mudler@localai.io>

* ci(test): e2e smoke for locate-anything-cpp in test-extra (loads the 3B + image, runs Detect)

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: mudler <mudler@localai.io>

---------

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Signed-off-by: mudler <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: mudler <mudler@localai.io>
2026-06-12 14:59:07 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]
4912c9b73a feat(parakeet-cpp): add NVIDIA NeMo Parakeet ASR backend (parakeet.cpp) (#10084)
* feat(parakeet-cpp): L0 backend scaffold, LoadModel + AudioTranscription (text)

Add a Go gRPC backend that bridges LocalAI to parakeet.cpp via the flat
C-API (parakeet_capi.h), loaded with purego (cgo-less, mirrors the
whisper / vibevoice-cpp backends).

L0 scope:
- main.go: dlopen libparakeet.so (override via PARAKEET_LIBRARY), register
  the C-API entry points, start the gRPC server.
- goparakeetcpp.go: Load (parakeet_capi_load), AudioTranscription
  (parakeet_capi_transcribe_path, decoder=0 = per-arch default head),
  Free, serialized through base.SingleThread since the C engine is a
  thread-unsafe singleton. char* returns are bound as uintptr so the
  malloc'd buffer is freed via parakeet_capi_free_string after copy.
- AudioTranscriptionStream returns a clear "not implemented in L0" error
  (closes the channel so the server doesn't hang), wired in L2.
- Makefile: clone-at-pin + cmake (PARAKEET_VERSION for bump_deps.sh),
  with a local-symlink dev shortcut; run.sh / package.sh mirror whisper.
- Test auto-skips without PARAKEET_BACKEND_TEST_MODEL/_WAV fixtures.

Builds clean (CGO_ENABLED=0), gofmt clean, test passes. The single
unsafeptr vet note in goStringFromCPtr is documented and matches the
whisper backend's tolerated pattern.

Word/segment timestamps (L1) and cache-aware streaming (L2) follow.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(parakeet-cpp): L1 word/segment timestamps via transcribe_path_json

AudioTranscription now calls parakeet_capi_transcribe_path_json and shapes
the per-word / per-token timestamps into the TranscriptResult:

- Bind parakeet_capi_transcribe_path_json (purego, char* as uintptr like
  the other returns) and register it in main.go + the test loader.
- Parse the JSON document ({"text","words":[{w,start,end,conf}],
  "tokens":[{id,t,conf}]}) into typed structs.
- Synthesise a single whole-clip segment (parakeet emits no native segment
  boundaries) spanning the first word start to the last word end; token ids
  populate Segment.Tokens.
- Attach word-level timings only when timestamp_granularities=["word"],
  matching the OpenAI API (segment-level default). secondsToNanos mirrors
  the whisper backend's nanosecond convention.

Verified end-to-end against tdt_ctc-110m (f16): both the default and
word-granularity specs pass; builds clean, gofmt clean, vet shows only the
one documented unsafeptr note shared with the whisper backend.

Cache-aware streaming (L2) follows.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(parakeet-cpp): L2 cache-aware streaming with EOU segmentation

Wire AudioTranscriptionStream to the streaming RNN-T C-API:

- Bind parakeet_capi_stream_{begin,feed,finalize,free}; feed takes 16 kHz
  mono float PCM ([]float32 via purego) and writes *eou_out on <EOU>/<EOB>.
- Decode opts.Dst to 16 kHz mono PCM (utils.AudioToWav + go-audio, same as
  the whisper backend), feed it in 1 s chunks, and emit each newly-finalized
  text run as a TranscriptStreamResponse delta.
- <EOU>/<EOB> events close the current segment; a closing FinalResult carries
  the full transcript plus the per-utterance segments (with a whole-clip
  fallback segment when no EOU fired).
- stream_begin returns 0 for non-streaming models, surfaced as a clear
  error instead of an empty stream. Honours context cancellation between
  chunks. Frees every malloc'd delta and the session.

Verified end-to-end against realtime_eou_120m-v1 (f16): the streamed
transcript matches the offline 110m reference word-for-word, deltas
reconstruct the final text, and the spec passes alongside the offline
specs. Builds clean, gofmt clean, vet shows only the shared documented
unsafeptr note.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(parakeet-cpp): L3 register backend in build/CI/gallery (whisper parity)

Wire the new Go gRPC parakeet-cpp backend (parakeet.cpp ggml port of NVIDIA
NeMo Parakeet ASR) into LocalAI's build/CI/gallery surfaces, matching the
existing ggml whisper Go backend 1:1.

- .github/backend-matrix.yml: add 11 linux entries + 1 darwin entry mirroring
  every whisper build (cpu amd64/arm64, intel sycl f32/f16, vulkan amd64/arm64,
  nvidia cuda-12, nvidia cuda-13, nvidia-l4t-arm64, nvidia-l4t-cuda-13-arm64,
  rocm hipblas, metal-darwin-arm64), all on ./backend/Dockerfile.golang with
  backend: "parakeet-cpp" and -*-parakeet-cpp tag-suffixes.
- scripts/changed-backends.js: explicit inferBackendPath branch resolving
  parakeet-cpp to backend/go/parakeet-cpp/ before the generic golang branch.
- .github/workflows/bump_deps.yaml: track the PARAKEET_VERSION pin in
  backend/go/parakeet-cpp/Makefile (repo mudler/parakeet.cpp, branch master).
- backend/index.yaml: add &parakeetcpp meta + latest/development image entries
  for every matrix tag-suffix.
- Makefile: add backends/parakeet-cpp to .NOTPARALLEL, BACKEND_PARAKEET_CPP
  definition, docker-build target eval, and test-extra-backend-parakeet-cpp-
  transcription target (mirrors test-extra-backend-whisper-transcription).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(parakeet-cpp): L4 gallery importer for parakeet GGUFs

Add ParakeetCppImporter so parakeet.cpp GGUFs auto-detect on /import-model
and route to the parakeet-cpp backend (it also surfaces in /backends/known,
which drives the import dropdown).

- Match is narrow: a .gguf whose name carries a parakeet architecture token
  (<arch>-<size>-<quant>.gguf, e.g. tdt_ctc-110m-f16.gguf, rnnt-0.6b-q4_k.gguf,
  realtime_eou_120m-v1-q8_0.gguf), a direct URL to one, or
  preferences.backend="parakeet-cpp". It deliberately does NOT claim arbitrary
  llama-style GGUFs, nor the upstream nvidia/parakeet-* NeMo repos (.nemo, not
  runnable here).
- Registered in the ASR batch BEFORE LlamaCPPImporter so its GGUFs aren't
  swallowed by the generic .gguf importer.
- Import nests files under parakeet-cpp/models/<name>/, defaults to the
  smallest quant (q4_k, near-lossless on parakeet) with a size-ladder
  fallback, and honours preferences.quantizations / name / description.

Tested with synthetic HF details (no network): metadata, positive matches
(HF repo, direct URL, preference), narrowness negatives (llama GGUF, NeMo
repo), and import (default quant, override, direct URL), 9 specs pass,
build/vet/gofmt clean.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs(parakeet-cpp): document the parakeet-cpp transcription backend

Add parakeet-cpp to the audio-to-text backend list and a dedicated usage
section: direct GGUF import (auto-detects to the backend), model YAML,
word-level timestamps via timestamp_granularities[]=word, and cache-aware
streaming with the realtime_eou model. Points at the mudler/parakeet-cpp-gguf
collection repo.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* ci(parakeet-cpp): wire transcription gRPC e2e test into test-extra

The L3 commit added the test-extra-backend-parakeet-cpp-transcription
Makefile target but never invoked it in CI. Mirror the whisper job:

- Add a parakeet-cpp output to detect-changes (emitted by
  changed-backends.js from the matrix entry).
- Add tests-parakeet-cpp-grpc-transcription, gated on the parakeet-cpp
  path filter / run-all, building the backend image and running the
  transcription e2e against tdt_ctc-110m + the JFK clip.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* style(parakeet-cpp): drop em dashes from comments and docs

Replace em dashes with plain punctuation in the backend comments, the
importer, package.sh, and the audio-to-text docs section (and use "and"
instead of the multiplication sign). No behaviour change.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): add parakeet-cpp f16 models to the model gallery

Add the 10 NVIDIA Parakeet models (f16, the recommended quality/speed
default) as gallery entries that install on the parakeet-cpp backend from
mudler/parakeet-cpp-gguf: tdt_ctc-110m/1.1b, tdt-0.6b-v2/v3, tdt-1.1b,
ctc-0.6b/1.1b, rnnt-0.6b/1.1b, and the cache-aware streaming
realtime_eou_120m-v1. Each pins the file sha256 and routes transcript
usecases to the backend.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(parakeet-cpp): satisfy govet lint + bump PARAKEET_VERSION

- goparakeetcpp.go: //nolint:govet on the C-owned-pointer unsafe.Pointer
  conversion (golangci-lint reports new-only issues, so unlike the whisper
  backend's identical line this one is flagged).
- Makefile: bump PARAKEET_VERSION to the current parakeet.cpp master commit
  (the previous pin's commit no longer exists after upstream history was
  squashed), so the backend image clone/build resolves again.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(parakeet-cpp): pin PARAKEET_VERSION to a tag-stable commit

The previous SHA pin was orphaned when parakeet.cpp's single-commit master
was amended/force-pushed, so the backend image clone (git fetch <sha>) failed
across every build variant. Repoint to 845c29e, which upstream now keeps
permanently fetchable via the `localai-backend-pin` tag, so future upstream
amends no longer break the backend build.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(parakeet-cpp): init the ggml submodule in the backend image clone

The backend Dockerfile clones parakeet.cpp at PARAKEET_VERSION with a shallow
fetch + checkout but never initialised submodules, so third_party/ggml was
empty and the parakeet.cpp cmake build failed at
`add_subdirectory(third_party/ggml)` (CMakeLists.txt:53) on every build
variant. Add `git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 1
--single-branch` after checkout, mirroring the whisper backend. Verified
locally: clone + submodule + cmake configure now succeeds.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(parakeet-cpp): statically link ggml into libparakeet.so

The shared libparakeet.so linked ggml's shared libs (libggml*.so), but the
package only ships libparakeet.so, so at runtime dlopen failed with
"libggml.so.0: cannot open shared object file" (the e2e transcription test
panicked on load). Build ggml static + PIC (BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF,
CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON) so libparakeet.so embeds ggml and depends
only on system libs already present in the runtime image. Verified locally:
ldd shows no libggml dependency.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(parakeet-cpp): non-streaming fallback in AudioTranscriptionStream

The e2e streaming test ran AudioTranscriptionStream against tdt_ctc-110m
(not a cache-aware streaming model), so stream_begin returned 0 and the call
errored. Per LocalAI's streaming contract (and the whisper backend), a
non-streaming model should fall back to a single offline transcription
emitted as one delta plus a closing FinalResult. Do that instead of erroring,
so the streaming endpoint works for every parakeet model. Verified locally:
the streaming spec passes against the non-streaming 110m model via fallback.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

---------

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-30 14:46:10 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]
7a4ca8f60d feat(backend): rfdetr-cpp native object detection + segmentation backend (#10028)
Adds a Go native gRPC backend that dlopens librfdetrcpp.so (built from
mudler/rf-detr.cpp at the pinned RFDETR_VERSION) via purego and exposes
the rfdetr.cpp inference pipeline through LocalAI's existing Detect RPC.

Supports all 5 RF-DETR detection variants (Nano/Small/Base/Medium/Large)
and 6 segmentation variants (SegNano/SegSmall/SegMedium/SegLarge/
SegXLarge/Seg2XLarge) with F32/F16/Q8_0/Q4_K quantizations. Pre-built
GGUFs ship at mudler/rfdetr-cpp-* on HuggingFace.

Detection returns Bbox + class_name + confidence; segmentation also
returns PNG-encoded per-detection masks via the rfdetr_capi accessor
functions (rfdetr_capi_get_detection_{class_id,box,score,class_name,
mask_png}).

End-to-end verified through POST /v1/detection: HTTP -> gRPC -> purego
dlopen -> rfdetr.cpp -> ggml -> response (9 detections on the detection
model, 21 detections + valid PNG masks on the seg-nano model against
the kitchen fixture).

Wiring:
  - backend/go/rfdetr-cpp/{main.go,gorfdetrcpp.go,CMakeLists.txt,
    Makefile,run.sh,package.sh,test.sh,.gitignore}
  - Top-level Makefile: BACKEND_RFDETR_CPP, docker-build target,
    .NOTPARALLEL, prepare-test-extra, test-extra
  - backend/go/rfdetr-cpp/Makefile: `test` target invoked by test-extra
  - .github/backend-matrix.yml: CPU + CUDA-12/13 + L4T CUDA-12/13
    (arm64) + HIP + Vulkan (amd64 + arm64) + SYCL f32/f16
  - backend/index.yaml: rfdetr-cpp meta anchor + latest/development
    image entries for every matrix tag-suffix
  - .github/workflows/bump_deps.yaml: RFDETR_VERSION pin tracking
    (mudler/rf-detr.cpp branch main)
  - gallery/index.yaml: 11 rfdetr-cpp-* entries (nano + 4 detection
    variants + 6 seg variants), all backed by mudler/rfdetr-cpp-*
    on HuggingFace with sha256 pinning on the F16 default
  - core/gallery/importers/rfdetr.go: GGUF auto-routing for HF imports
    (mudler/rfdetr-cpp-* repos route to rfdetr-cpp, Transformer-format
    repos stay on the Python rfdetr backend; explicit preferences.backend
    overrides both heuristics)
  - core/gallery/importers/rfdetr_test.go: table-driven coverage of the
    auto-routing + a live mudler/rfdetr-cpp-nano cross-check

scripts/changed-backends.js needs no change: the existing
Dockerfile.golang -> backend/go/${item.backend}/ branch already routes
the 9 rfdetr-cpp matrix entries to the correct backend path.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-27 18:43:57 +02:00
Richard Palethorpe
5d0b549049 feat(gallery): verify backend OCI images with keyless cosign (#9823)
* feat(gallery): verify backend OCI images with keyless cosign

Close a trust gap where a registry compromise or MITM could silently
replace a backend image: the gallery YAML tells LocalAI which image to
pull, but until now nothing verified the bytes came from our CI.

Consumer (pkg/oci/cosignverify):
- New package using sigstore-go to verify keyless-cosign signatures.
- OCI 1.1 referrers API + new bundle format (no legacy :tag.sig).
- Policy fields: Issuer / IssuerRegex / Identity / IdentityRegex /
  NotBefore. NotBefore is the revocation lever — keyless Fulcio certs
  are ephemeral so revocation is policy-side; advancing not_before in
  the gallery YAML invalidates every signature predating the cutoff.
- TUF trusted root cached process-wide so N backends from one gallery
  do 1 fetch, not N.

Plumbing:
- pkg/downloader: ImageVerifier interface + WithImageVerifier option
  threaded through DownloadFileWithContext. Verification runs between
  oci.GetImage and oci.ExtractOCIImage, with digest pinning via
  pinnedImageRef to close the TOCTOU window. Skips the verifier's HEAD
  when the ref is already digest-pinned.
- core/config: Gallery.Verification YAML block.
- core/gallery: backendDownloadOptions builds the verifier from the
  policy; applied on initial URI, mirrors, and tag fallbacks.
- core/gallery/upgrade: the upgrade path now routes through the same
  options builder. A regression Ginkgo spec pins this contract —
  without it, UpgradeBackend silently bypassed verification.
- core/cli: --require-backend-integrity (LOCALAI_REQUIRE_BACKEND_INTEGRITY)
  escalates missing policy / empty SHA256 from warn to hard-fail.

Producer (.github/workflows/backend_merge.yml):
- id-token: write at job scope (PR-fork-safe via existing event gate).
- sigstore/cosign-installer@v3 pinned to v2.4.1.
- After each docker buildx imagetools create, resolve the manifest
  list digest and run cosign sign --recursive --new-bundle-format
  --registry-referrers-mode=oci-1-1 against repo@digest. --recursive
  signs the index and every per-arch entry, matching how the consumer
  resolves a tag to a platform-specific manifest before verifying.

Rollout: backend/index.yaml has no `verification:` block yet, so this
PR is backward-compatible — installs proceed with a warning until the
gallery is populated. Strict mode is opt-in.

Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7 [Bash] [Edit] [Read] [Write] [WebSearch] [WebFetch]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* refactor(gallery): plumb RequireBackendIntegrity through config instead of env

The previous implementation re-exported the --require-backend-integrity
CLI flag into LOCALAI_REQUIRE_BACKEND_INTEGRITY via os.Setenv, then
re-read it in core/gallery via os.Getenv. This leaked process state
into the gallery package and made the flag impossible to override
per-call or test without touching the env.

Add RequireBackendIntegrity to ApplicationConfig (with a matching
WithRequireBackendIntegrity AppOption) and thread the bool through
every install/upgrade path: InstallBackend, InstallBackendFromGallery,
UpgradeBackend, InstallModelFromGallery, InstallExternalBackend,
ApplyGalleryFromString/File, startup.InstallModels. Worker subcommands
gain the same env-bound flag on WorkerFlags so distributed-worker
installs honor it consistently with the worker daemon path.

Add a forbidigo lint rule against os.Getenv / os.LookupEnv / os.Environ
to keep the env-leak pattern from creeping back. Existing offenders
(p2p, config loaders, etc.) are baseline-grandfathered by the existing
new-from-merge-base: origin/master setting; targeted path exclusions
cover the legitimate cases — kong CLI entry points, backend
subprocesses, system capability probes, gRPC AUTH_TOKEN inheritance,
test gating env vars.

Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-05-18 08:02:20 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]
d77a9137d8 feat(llama-cpp): bump to MTP-merge SHA and automatically set MTP defaults (#9852)
* feat(llama-cpp): bump to MTP-merge SHA and document draft-mtp spec type

Update LLAMA_VERSION to 0253fb21 (post ggml-org/llama.cpp#22673 merge,
2026-05-16) to pick up Multi-Token Prediction support.

No grpc-server.cpp changes are required: the existing `spec_type` option
delegates to upstream's `common_speculative_types_from_names()`, which
already accepts the new `draft-mtp` name. The `n_rs_seq` cparam needed
by MTP is auto-derived inside `common_context_params_to_llama` from
`params.speculative.need_n_rs_seq()`, and when no `draft_model` is set
the upstream server builds the MTP context off the target model itself.

Docs: extend the speculative-decoding section of the model-configuration
guide with the new type, both load paths (MTP head embedded in the main
GGUF vs. separate `mtp-*.gguf` sibling), the PR's recommended
`spec_n_max:2-3`, and the chained `draft-mtp,ngram-mod` recipe. Also
notes that the upstream `-hf` auto-discovery of `mtp-*.gguf` siblings is
not wired through LocalAI's gRPC layer.

Agent guide: short note explaining that new upstream spec types are
picked up automatically and that MTP needs no gRPC plumbing.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(llama-cpp): auto-detect MTP heads and enable draft-mtp on import + load

Detect upstream's `<arch>.nextn_predict_layers` GGUF metadata key (set by
`convert_hf_to_gguf.py` for Qwen3.5/3.6 family models and similar) and,
when present and the user has not configured a `spec_type` explicitly,
auto-append the upstream-recommended speculative-decoding tuple:

  - spec_type:draft-mtp
  - spec_n_max:6
  - spec_p_min:0.75

The 0.75 p_min is pinned defensively because upstream marks the current
default with a "change to 0.0f" TODO; locking it here keeps acceptance
thresholds stable across future llama.cpp bumps.

Detection runs in two places:

  - The model importer (`POST /models/import-uri`, the `/import-model`
    UI) range-fetches the GGUF header for HuggingFace / direct-URL
    imports via `gguf.ParseGGUFFileRemote`, with a 30s timeout and
    non-fatal error handling. OCI/Ollama URIs are skipped because the
    artifact is not directly streamable; the load-time hook covers them
    once the file is on disk.
  - The llama-cpp load-time hook (`guessGGUFFromFile`) reads the local
    header on every model start and appends the same options if
    `spec_type` is not already set.

Both paths share `ApplyMTPDefaults` and respect an explicit user-set
`spec_type:` / `speculative_type:` so YAML overrides win. Ginkgo
specs cover the append, preserve-user-choice, legacy alias, and nil
safety paths.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(importer): resolve huggingface:// URIs before MTP header probe

`gguf.ParseGGUFFileRemote` only speaks HTTP(S), but the importer was
handing it the raw `huggingface://...` URI directly (and similarly for
any other custom downloader scheme). Live-test against
`huggingface://ggml-org/Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-GGUF/Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-Q8_0.gguf`
exposed this: the probe failed with `unsupported protocol scheme
"huggingface"`, was caught by the non-fatal error path, and the MTP
options were silently never applied to the generated YAML.

Route every candidate URI through `downloader.URI.ResolveURL()` and
require the resolved form to be HTTP(S). After the fix the probe
successfully reads `<arch>.nextn_predict_layers=1` from the real HF
GGUF and the emitted ConfigFile carries spec_type:draft-mtp,
spec_n_max:6, spec_p_min:0.75 as intended.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

---------

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-16 22:42:48 +02:00
Richard Palethorpe
0245b33eab feat(realtime): Add Liquid Audio s2s model and assistant mode on talk page (#9801)
* feat(liquid-audio): add LFM2.5-Audio any-to-any backend + realtime_audio usecase

Wires LiquidAI's LFM2.5-Audio-1.5B as a self-contained Realtime API model:
single engine handles VAD, transcription, LLM, and TTS in one bidirectional
stream — drop-in alternative to a VAD+STT+LLM+TTS pipeline.

Backend
- backend/python/liquid-audio/ — new Python gRPC backend wrapping the
  `liquid-audio` package. Modes: chat / asr / tts / s2s, voice presets,
  Load/Predict/PredictStream/AudioTranscription/TTS/VAD/AudioToAudioStream/
  Free and StartFineTune/FineTuneProgress/StopFineTune. Runtime monkey-patch
  on `liquid_audio.utils.snapshot_download` so absolute local paths from
  LocalAI's gallery resolve without a HF round-trip. soundfile in place of
  torchaudio.load/save (torchcodec drags NVIDIA NPP we don't bundle).
- backend/backend.proto + pkg/grpc/{backend,client,server,base,embed,
  interface}.go — new AudioToAudioStream RPC mirroring AudioTransformStream
  (config/frame/control oneof in; typed event+pcm+meta out).
- core/services/nodes/{health_mock,inflight}_test.go — add stubs for the
  new RPC to the test fakes.

Config + capabilities
- core/config/backend_capabilities.go — UsecaseRealtimeAudio, MethodAudio
  ToAudioStream, UsecaseInfoMap entry, liquid-audio BackendCapability row.
- core/config/model_config.go — FLAG_REALTIME_AUDIO bitmask, ModalityGroups
  membership in both speech-input and audio-output groups so a lone flag
  still reads as multimodal, GetAllModelConfigUsecases entry, GuessUsecases
  branch.

Realtime endpoint
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go — extract prepareRealtimeConfig()
  so the gate is unit-testable; accept realtime_audio models and self-fill
  empty pipeline slots with the model's own name (user-pinned slots win).
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_gate_test.go — six specs covering nil
  cfg, empty pipeline, legacy pipeline, self-contained realtime_audio,
  user-pinned VAD slot, and partial legacy pipeline.

UI + endpoints
- core/http/routes/ui.go — /api/pipeline-models accepts either a legacy
  VAD+STT+LLM+TTS pipeline or a realtime_audio model; surfaces a
  self_contained flag so the Talk page can collapse the four cards.
- core/http/routes/ui_api.go — realtime_audio in usecaseFilters.
- core/http/routes/ui_pipeline_models_test.go — covers both code paths.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx — self-contained badge instead of
  the four-slot grid; rename Edit Pipeline → Edit Model Config; less
  pipeline-specific wording.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Models.jsx + locales/en/models.json — new
  realtime_audio filter button + i18n.
- core/http/react-ui/src/utils/capabilities.js — CAP_REALTIME_AUDIO.
- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/FineTune.jsx — voice + validation-dataset
  fields, surfaced when backend === liquid-audio, plumbed via
  extra_options on submit/export/import.

Gallery + importer
- gallery/liquid-audio.yaml — config template with known_usecases:
  [realtime_audio, chat, tts, transcript, vad].
- gallery/index.yaml — four model entries (realtime/chat/asr/tts) keyed by
  mode option. Fixed pre-existing `transcribe` typo on the asr entry
  (loader silently dropped the unknown string → entry never surfaced as a
  transcript model).
- gallery/lfm.yaml — function block for the LFM2 Pythonic tool-call format
  `<|tool_call_start|>[name(k="v")]<|tool_call_end|>` matching
  common_chat_params_init_lfm2 in vendored llama.cpp.
- core/gallery/importers/{liquid-audio,liquid-audio_test}.go — detector
  matches LFM2-Audio HF repos (excludes -gguf mirrors); mode/voice
  preferences plumbed through to options.
- core/gallery/importers/importers.go — register LiquidAudioImporter
  before LlamaCPPImporter.
- pkg/functions/parse_lfm2_test.go — seven specs for the response/argument
  regex pair on the LFM2 pythonic format.

Build matrix
- .github/backend-matrix.yml — seven liquid-audio targets (cuda12, cuda13,
  l4t-cuda-13, hipblas, intel, cpu amd64, cpu arm64). Jetpack r36 cuda-12
  is skipped (Ubuntu 22.04 / Python 3.10 incompatible with liquid-audio's
  3.12 floor).
- backend/index.yaml — anchor + 13 image entries.
- Makefile — .NOTPARALLEL, prepare-test-extra, test-extra,
  docker-build-liquid-audio.

Docs
- .agents/plans/liquid-audio-integration.md — phased plan; PR-D (real
  any-to-any wiring via AudioToAudioStream), PR-E (mid-audio tool-call
  detector), PR-G (GGUF entries once upstream llama.cpp PR #18641 lands)
  remain.
- .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md — expand the capability-surface
  checklist with every place a new FLAG_* needs to be registered.

Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(realtime): function calling + history cap for any-to-any models

Three pieces, all on the realtime_audio path that just landed:

1. liquid-audio backend (backend/python/liquid-audio/backend.py):
   - _build_chat_state grows a `tools_prelude` arg.
   - new _render_tools_prelude parses request.Tools (the OpenAI Chat
     Completions function array realtime.go already serialises) and
     emits an LFM2 `<|tool_list_start|>…<|tool_list_end|>` system turn
     ahead of the user history. Mirrors gallery/lfm.yaml's `function:`
     template so the model sees the same prompt shape whether served
     via llama-cpp or here. Without this the backend silently dropped
     tools — function calling was wired end-to-end on the Go side but
     the model never saw a tool list.

2. Realtime history cap (core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go):
   - Session grows MaxHistoryItems int; default picked by new
     defaultMaxHistoryItems(cfg) — 6 for realtime_audio models (LFM2.5
     1.5B degrades quickly past a handful of turns), 0/unlimited for
     legacy pipelines composing larger LLMs.
   - triggerResponse runs conv.Items through trimRealtimeItems before
     building conversationHistory. Helper walks the cut left if it
     would orphan a function_call_output, so tool result + call pairs
     stay intact.
   - realtime_gate_test.go: specs for defaultMaxHistoryItems and
     trimRealtimeItems (zero cap, under cap, over cap, tool-call pair
     preservation).

3. Talk page (core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx):
   - Reuses the chat page's MCP plumbing — useMCPClient hook,
     ClientMCPDropdown component, same auto-connect/disconnect effect
     pattern. No bespoke tool registry, no new REST endpoints; tools
     come from whichever MCP servers the user toggles on, exactly as
     on the chat page.
   - sendSessionUpdate now passes session.tools=getToolsForLLM(); the
     update re-fires when the active server set changes mid-session.
   - New response.function_call_arguments.done handler executes via
     the hook's executeTool (which round-trips through the MCP client
     SDK), then replies with conversation.item.create
     {type:function_call_output} + response.create so the model
     completes its turn with the tool output. Mirrors chat's
     client-side agentic loop, translated to the realtime wire shape.

UI changes require a LocalAI image rebuild (Dockerfile:308-313 bakes
react-ui/dist into the runtime image). Backend.py changes can be
swapped live in /backends/<id>/backend.py + /backend/shutdown.

Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(realtime): LocalAI Assistant ("Manage Mode") for the Talk page

Mirrors the chat-page metadata.localai_assistant flow so users can ask the
realtime model what's loaded / installed / configured. Tools are run
server-side via the same in-process MCP holder that powers the chat
modality — no transport switch, no proxy, no new wire protocol.

Wire:
- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime.go:
  - RealtimeSessionOptions{LocalAIAssistant,IsAdmin}; isCurrentUserAdmin
    helper mirrors chat.go's requireAssistantAccess (no-op when auth
    disabled, else requires auth.RoleAdmin).
  - Session grows AssistantExecutor mcpTools.ToolExecutor.
  - runRealtimeSession, when opts.LocalAIAssistant is set: gate on admin,
    fail closed if DisableLocalAIAssistant or the holder has no tools,
    DiscoverTools and inject into session.Tools, prepend
    holder.SystemPrompt() to instructions.
  - Tool-call dispatch loop: when AssistantExecutor.IsTool(name), run
    ExecuteTool inproc, append a FunctionCallOutput to conv.Items, skip
    the function_call_arguments client emit (the client can't execute
    these — it doesn't know about them). After the loop, if any
    assistant tool ran, trigger another response so the model speaks the
    result. Mirrors chat's agentic loop, driven server-side rather than
    via client round-trip.

- core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_webrtc.go: RealtimeCallRequest
  gains `localai_assistant` (JSON omitempty). Handshake calls
  isCurrentUserAdmin and builds RealtimeSessionOptions.

- core/http/react-ui/src/pages/Talk.jsx: admin-only "Manage Mode"
  checkbox under the Tools dropdown; passes localai_assistant: true to
  realtimeApi.call's body, captured in the connect callback's deps.

Mirroring chat's pattern means the in-process MCP tools surface "just
works" for the Talk page without exposing a Streamable-HTTP MCP endpoint
(which was the alternative). Clients with their own MCP servers can
still use the existing ClientMCPDropdown path in parallel; the realtime
handler distinguishes them by AssistantExecutor.IsTool() at dispatch
time.

Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(realtime): render Manage Mode tool calls in the Talk transcript

Previously the realtime endpoint only emitted response.output_item.added
for the FunctionCall item, and Talk.jsx's switch ignored the event — so
server-side tool runs were invisible in the UI. The model would speak
the result but the user had no way to see what tool was actually
called.

realtime.go: after executing an assistant tool inproc, emit a second
output_item.added/.done pair for the FunctionCallOutput item. Mirrors
the way the chat page displays tool_call + tool_result blocks.

Talk.jsx: handle both response.output_item.added and .done. Render
FunctionCall (with arguments) and FunctionCallOutput (pretty-printed
JSON when possible) as two transcript entries — `tool_call` with the
wrench icon, `tool_result` with the clipboard icon, both in mono-space
secondary-colour. Resets streamingRef after the result so the next
assistant text delta starts a fresh transcript entry instead of
appending to the previous turn.

Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* refactor(realtime): bound the Manage Mode tool-loop + preserve assistant tools

Fallout from a review pass on the Manage Mode patches:

- Bound the server-side agentic loop. triggerResponse used to recurse on
  executedAssistantTool with no cap — a model that kept calling tools
  would blow the goroutine stack. New maxAssistantToolTurns = 10 (mirrors
  useChat.js's maxToolTurns). Public triggerResponse is now a thin shim
  over triggerResponseAtTurn(toolTurn int); recursion increments the
  counter and stops at the cap with an xlog.Warn.

- Preserve Manage Mode tools across client session.update. The handler
  used to blindly overwrite session.Tools, so toggling a client MCP
  server mid-session silently wiped the in-process admin tools. Session
  now caches the original AssistantTools slice at session creation and
  the session.update handler merges them back in (client names win on
  collision — the client is explicit).

- strconv.ParseBool for the localai_assistant query param instead of
  hand-rolled "1" || "true". Mirrors LocalAIAssistantFromMetadata.

- Talk.jsx: render both tool_call and tool_result on
  response.output_item.done instead of splitting them across .added and
  .done. The server's event pairing (added → done) stays correct; the
  UI just doesn't need to inspect both phases of the same item. One
  switch case instead of two, no behavioural change.

Out of scope (noted for follow-ups): extract a shared assistant-tools
helper between chat.go and realtime.go (duplication is small enough
that two parallel implementations stay readable for now), and an i18n
key for the Manage Mode helper text (Talk.jsx doesn't use i18n
anywhere else yet).

Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7-1m [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* ci(test-extra): wire liquid-audio backend smoke test

The backend ships test.py + a `make test` target and is listed in
backend-matrix.yml, so scripts/changed-backends.js already writes a
`liquid-audio=true|false` output when files under backend/python/liquid-audio/
change. The workflow just wasn't reading it.

- Expose the `liquid-audio` output on the detect-changes job
- Add a tests-liquid-audio job that runs `make` + `make test` in
  backend/python/liquid-audio, gated on the per-backend detect flag

The smoke covers Health() and LoadModel(mode:finetune); fine-tune mode
short-circuits before any HuggingFace download (backend.py:192), so the
job needs neither weights nor a GPU. The full-inference path remains
gated on LIQUID_AUDIO_MODEL_ID, which CI doesn't set.

The four new Go test files (core/gallery/importers/liquid-audio_test.go,
core/http/endpoints/openai/realtime_gate_test.go,
core/http/routes/ui_pipeline_models_test.go, pkg/functions/parse_lfm2_test.go)
are already picked up by the existing test.yml workflow via `make test` →
`ginkgo -r ./pkg/... ./core/...`; their packages all carry RunSpecs entries.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-05-13 21:57:27 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]
d892e4af80 feat: add ds4 backend (DeepSeek V4 Flash) with tool calls, thinking, KV cache (#9758)
* test(e2e-backends): allow BACKEND_BINARY for native-built backends

Adds an escape hatch for hardware-gated backends (e.g. ds4) where the
model is too large for Docker build context. When BACKEND_BINARY points
at a run.sh produced by 'make -C backend/cpp/<name> package', the suite
skips docker image extraction and drives the binary directly.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* test(e2e-backends): validate BACKEND_BINARY basename + log actual source

Two follow-ups from the cbcf5148 code review:

- BACKEND_BINARY now requires a path whose basename is `run.sh`. Without
  this check, `filepath.Dir(binary)` silently discarded the filename, so
  pointing the env var at an arbitrary binary failed later with a
  confusing assertion that named a path the user never typed.
- The "Testing image=..." debug line printed an empty string when the
  binary path was used, hiding the actual source in CI logs. The line
  now reports whichever of BACKEND_IMAGE / BACKEND_BINARY is in effect
  as `src=...`.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): scaffold ds4 backend dir

Adds prepare.sh, run.sh, and a .gitignore. CMakeLists, Makefile, and the
implementation arrive in follow-up commits.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): add backend Makefile

Drives ds4's upstream Makefile to produce engine .o files (CUDA on Linux
when BUILD_TYPE=cublas, Metal on Darwin, otherwise CPU debug path), then
invokes CMake on our wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): add CMakeLists for grpc-server

Generates protoc stubs from backend.proto, links grpc-server.cpp +
dsml_parser.cpp + dsml_renderer.cpp + kv_cache.cpp against pre-built
ds4 engine .o files. DS4_GPU=cuda|metal|cpu selects the backend.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): grpc-server skeleton + module stubs

The minimum that links: Backend service with Health + Free; other RPCs
default to UNIMPLEMENTED. Stub headers/sources for dsml_parser,
dsml_renderer, and kv_cache are in place so CMake links cleanly even
before those modules ship.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement LoadModel

Opens engine + creates session sized to ContextSize (default 32768).
Backend is compile-time: CPU when DS4_NO_GPU, Metal on __APPLE__, else
CUDA. MTP/speculative options are accepted via ModelOptions.Options[]
(mtp_path, mtp_draft, mtp_margin). kv_cache_dir option is captured into
g_kv_cache_dir for the cache module (Task 19 wires it in).

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement TokenizeString

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement Predict (plain text)

Tool calls + thinking-mode split arrive in Task 13 once dsml_parser is in.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement PredictStream (plain text)

ChatDelta + reasoning/tool_calls split arrives in Task 14.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): implement Status RPC

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): add DSML streaming parser

Classifies raw model-emitted token text into CONTENT / REASONING /
TOOL_START / TOOL_ARGS / TOOL_END events. Markers it watches for are the
literal DSML strings rendered by ds4_server.c's prompt template
(<|DSML|tool_calls>, <|DSML|invoke name=...>, <think>, etc.) - these are
plain text the model emits, not special tokens.

Partial markers split across token chunks are buffered until a full marker
or a definitively-not-a-marker '<' is observed. RandomToolId() generates
the API-side tool call id (call_xxx) that exact-replay would key on.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): split hex escapes in DSML markers + add cstring/cstdio includes

C++ \x hex escapes have no length cap. '\x9cD' was read as a single escape
producing byte 0xCD, eating the 'D'. The markers were never actually matching
the DSML text the model emits. Split each escape with adjacent string literal
concatenation so the byte sequence is exactly EF BD 9C 44 (|D) at runtime.

Also adds <cstring> and <cstdio> includes (libstdc++ 13 does not transitively
expose std::strlen / std::snprintf via <string>).

The local plan file (uncommitted) was also updated with the same fixes so
Task 16's dsml_renderer.cpp does not re-introduce the bug.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): wire DsmlParser into Predict (ChatDelta)

Non-streaming Predict now emits one ChatDelta carrying content,
reasoning_content, and tool_calls[] parsed from the model's DSML output.
Reply.message still carries the raw model bytes for backends that prefer
the regex fallback path.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): wire DsmlParser into PredictStream

Per-token ChatDelta writes: content/reasoning_content go incrementally,
tool_calls emit TOOL_START as one delta (id + name) followed by
TOOL_ARGS deltas with incremental JSON. The Go-side aggregator
(pkg/functions/chat_deltas.go) reassembles them.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): chat template + reasoning_effort mapping

UseTokenizerTemplate=true + Messages -> ds4_chat_begin / append /
assistant_prefix. PredictOptions.Metadata['enable_thinking'] and
['reasoning_effort'] map to ds4_think_mode (DS4_THINK_HIGH default;
'max'/'xhigh' -> DS4_THINK_MAX; disabled -> DS4_THINK_NONE).

Tool-call rendering for assistant turns with tool_calls JSON arrives in
the next commit (dsml_renderer).

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): render assistant tool_calls + tool results to DSML

Closes the round-trip: when an OpenAI client sends a multi-turn chat
where prior turns contain tool_calls or role=tool messages, build_prompt
serializes them back to the DSML shape the model was trained on. Mirrors
ds4_server.c's prompt renderer; uses nlohmann::json for parsing the
OpenAI tool_calls payload.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): disk KV cache module

Dir-based cache keyed by SHA1(rendered prompt prefix). File format:
'DS4G' magic + version + ctx_size + prefix_len + prefix + payload_bytes
+ ds4_session_save_payload output. NOT bit-compatible with ds4-server's
KVC files - that interop is a follow-up plan. LoadLongestPrefix walks
the dir picking the longest stored prefix that prefixes the incoming
prompt.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): wire KvCache into Predict/PredictStream

LoadModel reads 'kv_cache_dir' from ModelOptions.Options[], passes it to
g_kv_cache.SetDir. Each Predict/PredictStream computes a render text for
the request, tries LoadLongestPrefix to recover state, then Saves the
new state after generation. ds4_session_sync handles the live-cache
fast path internally, so the disk cache only matters for cold-starts
and cross-session reuse.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): add package.sh

Linux: bundles libc + ld + libstdc++ + libgomp + GPU runtime libs into
package/lib so the FROM scratch image boots without a host libc.
Darwin is handled by scripts/build/ds4-darwin.sh which uses otool -L.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): rename namespace ds4_backend -> ds4cpp

ds4.h defines 'typedef enum {...} ds4_backend' which collides with our
C++ 'namespace ds4_backend' anywhere a TU includes both. kv_cache.h
includes ds4.h directly and surfaces the conflict immediately; other
TUs would hit it once gRPC dev headers are available.

Renames the C++ namespace to ds4cpp across all wrapper files and the
plan, leaving the upstream ds4 typedef untouched.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend): add Dockerfile.ds4

Single-stage builder (CUDA devel image for cublas, ubuntu:24.04 for cpu)
-> FROM scratch with packaged grpc-server + bundled runtime libs.
nlohmann-json3-dev is required for dsml_renderer's JSON handling.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(make): wire backend/cpp/ds4 + ds4-darwin into root Makefile

BACKEND_DS4 entry + generate-docker-build-target eval + docker-build-ds4
in docker-build-backends + .NOTPARALLEL guards. Also adds the
backends/ds4-darwin target which delegates to scripts/build/ds4-darwin.sh
(landed in Task 24).

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* ci: add backend-matrix entries for ds4 (cpu + cuda13, per-arch)

Two entries per build (amd64 + arm64) so backend-merge-jobs assembles a
multi-arch manifest. Skipping cuda12 - ds4 was validated against CUDA 13.
Darwin Metal is handled outside this matrix by backend_build_darwin.yml.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/index): add ds4 meta + image entries

cpu + cuda13 x latest + master. Darwin Metal builds publish under
ds4-darwin via the existing llama-cpp-darwin OCI pipeline.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(scripts/build): add ds4-darwin.sh

Native macOS/Metal build for the ds4 backend. Mirrors llama-cpp-darwin.sh:
make grpc-server -> otool -L for dylib bundling -> OCI tar that
'local-ai backends install' consumes via the backends/ds4-darwin
Makefile target.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* ci(darwin): build ds4-darwin in backend_build_darwin

Adds a 'Build ds4 backend (Darwin Metal)' step that runs the
backends/ds4-darwin Makefile target on the macOS runner.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(import): auto-detect ds4 weights via DS4Importer

Adds core/gallery/importers/ds4.go which matches on the antirez/deepseek-v4-gguf
repo URI and the DeepSeek-V4-Flash-*.gguf filename pattern. Registered before
LlamaCPPImporter so ds4 weights route to backend: ds4 instead of falling
through to llama-cpp.

Also lists ds4 in /backends/known so the /import-model UI surfaces it as a
manual choice for users who want to force the backend on a non-canonical URI.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): add deepseek-v4-flash-q2 (ds4 backend)

One-click install of the q2 weights with backend: ds4.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs(.agents): add ds4-backend.md

Documents the backend shape, DSML state machine, thinking-mode mapping,
disk KV cache, build matrix (cpu/cuda13/Darwin), and the BACKEND_BINARY
hardware-validation path.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): pass UBUNTU_VERSION + arch env vars to install-base-deps

The .docker/install-base-deps.sh script needs UBUNTU_VERSION (defaults to
2404), TARGETARCH, SKIP_DRIVERS, and APT_MIRROR/APT_PORTS_MIRROR exported
into the environment so it can pick the right cuda-keyring / cudss / nvpl
debs and apt mirrors. Dockerfile.ds4 was declaring some of the ARGs but not
re-exporting them via ENV. Mirrors Dockerfile.llama-cpp's pattern.

Without this fix 'make docker-build-ds4 BUILD_TYPE=cublas CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=13'
failed at:
  /usr/local/sbin/install-base-deps: line 120: UBUNTU_VERSION: unbound variable

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/index): add Metal image entries for ds4

Adds metal-ds4 + metal-ds4-development image entries pointing at
quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:{latest,master}-metal-darwin-arm64-ds4
(built by scripts/build/ds4-darwin.sh on macOS arm64 runners), plus the
'metal' and 'metal-darwin-arm64' capability mappings on the ds4 meta and
ds4-development variant.

Closes a gap from the initial Task 23 landing - the Darwin Metal build
script and CI workflow step were already wired (Tasks 24-25), but the
gallery had no image entry for users to install the Metal variant.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(ci): use ubuntu:24.04 base for ds4 cuda13 matrix entries

The initial Task 22 matrix landing used base-image: 'nvidia/cuda:13.0.0-devel-ubuntu24.04'
which clashes with install-base-deps.sh's cuda-keyring step:

  E: Conflicting values set for option Signed-By regarding source
     https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/sbsa/

The canonical pattern (llama-cpp, ik-llama-cpp, turboquant) uses plain
'ubuntu:24.04' + 'skip-drivers: false' so install-base-deps installs CUDA
from scratch via its own keyring setup. Adopting that here.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): drop install-base-deps.sh dependency

The .docker/install-base-deps.sh pipeline is built around the llama-cpp
needs: NVIDIA keyring + cuda-toolkit apt + gRPC-from-source build at
/opt/grpc. For ds4 we don't need any of that:
- CUDA: nvidia/cuda:13.0.0-devel-ubuntu24.04 ships /usr/local/cuda
  ready to go; install-base-deps's keyring step then conflicts with
  the pre-installed Signed-By.
- gRPC: ds4's grpc-server.cpp only links against grpc++; system
  libgrpc++-dev (apt) is sufficient, no source build needed.

Replaced the install-base-deps invocation in Dockerfile.ds4 with a
direct 'apt-get install libgrpc++-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler-grpc
nlohmann-json3-dev cmake build-essential pkg-config git'. Matrix entries
back to nvidia/cuda base + skip-drivers=true so install-base-deps would
no-op even if some downstream tooling calls it.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): correct proto accessors + alias grpc::Status as GStatus

Two compile bugs caught by the docker build:

1. proto::Message uses snake_case accessors. The build_prompt loop called
   m.toolcalls() / m.toolcallid() - the protoc-generated names are
   m.tool_calls() / m.tool_call_id(). Plan-text bug propagated to the
   wrapper.

2. The Status RPC method shadowed the 'using grpc::Status' alias, so any
   later method declaration using Status as a return type failed to parse
   ('Status does not name a type' starting at LoadModel). Solution: alias
   grpc::Status as GStatus instead, with no 'using' clause that would
   conflict. All RPC method declarations and return-statement constructions
   now use GStatus.

Pre-existing code reviewer flagged the Status-shadow concern as 'minor'
in the original Task 10 commit; it turned out to be a real compile blocker
under libstdc++ 13 once the surrounding methods were filled in.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): preserve TOOL_ARGS content in dsml_parser Flush

When the model emitted a parameter value that arrived in the same buffer
as the surrounding tool_call markers (e.g. the buffered tail after a
literal '</think>' opened the model output), the parser deferred all
buffered bytes to Flush() because looks_like_prefix() always returns
true while buf starts with '<'. Flush() then drained the buffer as
plain CONTENT/REASONING regardless of parser state, so the bytes
between the parameter open and close markers were classified as
CONTENT instead of TOOL_ARGS.

Symptom: the model emitted

  <|DSML|parameter name="location" string="true">Paris, France</|DSML|parameter>

and the assembled tool_call arguments came out as {"location":""} -
the opener and closer were emitted into the args stream but the
"Paris, France" content went to the assistant message instead.

Fix:

1. Flush() now uses the same state-aware emit logic as DrainPlain:
   PARAM_VALUE bytes become TOOL_ARGS (json-escaped when string),
   THINK bytes become REASONING, TEXT bytes become CONTENT, and
   INVOKE / TOOL_CALLS structural whitespace is discarded.

2. looks_like_prefix() restricts its leading-'<' fallback to buffers
   that have not yet seen a '>'. Without that change, char-by-char
   feeds would discard the '<' of '<|DSML|invoke name="..."' once
   the marker prefix length was reached but the closing quote/'>'
   were still in flight.

Verified with a standalone harness that runs the failing input three
ways (single Feed, split-after-'>', and char-by-char) and aggregates
TOOL_ARGS for tool index 0: all three now produce
{"location":"Paris, France"}.

Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.7 [Read,Edit,Bash]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(backend/cpp/ds4): use ds4_session_sync + manual generation loop for KV persistence

ds4_engine_generate_argmax() is a self-contained helper that doesn't take or
update a ds4_session - it manages its own internal state. Our Predict and
PredictStream methods created g_session via ds4_session_create() but then
called ds4_engine_generate_argmax(), so g_session's KV state never advanced.
ds4_session_payload_bytes(g_session) returned 0 and the disk KV cache save
correctly rejected with 'session has no valid checkpoint to save'.

Switch both RPCs to the proper session API:
  ds4_session_sync(g_session, &prompt, ...)
  loop:
    int token = ds4_session_argmax(g_session)
    if token == eos: break
    emit(token)
    ds4_session_eval(g_session, token, ...)

After the loop the session has a real checkpoint and ds4_session_save_payload
writes the KV state to disk. Verified end-to-end on a DGX Spark GB10: three
.kv files (15-30 MB each) are written when BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS sets
kv_cache_dir, and the e2e tool-call assertion still passes.

Also added stderr diagnostics to KvCache (enabled/disabled at SetDir; per-save
path + payload_bytes + result) so future failures are visible instead of
silent. The 'wrote ok' lines are low-volume - one per Predict/PredictStream
when the cache is enabled - and skipped entirely when the option is unset.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): use ds4_session_eval_speculative_argmax when MTP loaded

Wires MTP (Multi-Token Prediction) speculative decoding into the manual
generation loop in both Predict and PredictStream. When the upstream MTP
weights are loaded via 'mtp_path:' option AND we're on CUDA / Metal,
ds4_engine_mtp_draft_tokens() returns >0 and we switch the inner loop to
ds4_session_eval_speculative_argmax(), which can accept N>1 tokens per
verifier step. When MTP is not loaded (no option, CPU backend, or weights
absent), we fall through to the simple ds4_session_argmax + ds4_session_eval
path with no behavior change.

Validated on a DGX Spark GB10 with the optional MTP GGUF
(DeepSeek-V4-Flash-MTP-Q4K-Q8_0-F32.gguf, ~3.6 GB). LoadModel logs
'ds4: MTP support model loaded ... (draft=2)' on stderr.

Caveat per upstream README: 'currently provides at most a slight speedup,
not a meaningful generation-speed win'. Wired now mainly to track the
upstream API; bigger speedups arrive when ds4 improves the speculative path.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(backend/cpp/ds4): honor PredictOptions sampling with DSML-aware override

Mirrors ds4_server.c:7102-7115 sampling-policy semantics on the LocalAI
gRPC side. The generation loop now consults compute_sample_params() per
token to pick the effective (temperature, top_k, top_p, min_p), based on:

  1. Request defaults: PredictOptions.temperature / .topk / .topp / .minp
  2. Thinking-mode override: when enable_thinking != false, force T=1.0,
     top_k=0, top_p=1.0, min_p=0.0 (creativity for the reasoning pass and
     the trailing content)
  3. DSML structural override: when DsmlParser::IsInDsmlStructural()
     returns true (we are between tool-call markers but NOT in a param
     value payload), force T=0.0 so protocol bytes parse cleanly

When the effective temperature is 0, we keep using ds4_session_argmax +
MTP speculative path (matches ds4-server's gate that only enables MTP for
greedy positions). When > 0, we call ds4_session_sample(s, T, ...) with
a per-thread RNG seeded from system_clock and fall back to single-token
ds4_session_eval.

New public method on DsmlParser: IsInDsmlStructural() encodes which states
need protocol-byte determinism. PARAM_VALUE is excluded (payload uses user
sampling); TEXT and THINK are excluded (no tool-call context to protect).

Verified on the DGX Spark GB10: the e2e suite still passes with all 5
specs including tools, and the Predict output now varies between runs
(creative sampling active) while the tool-call args remain a clean
'{"location":"Paris, France"}' because the parser-state check forces
greedy on the structural bytes.

UX note: thinking mode is ON by default (matching ds4-server). Users who
want deterministic output should set Metadata.enable_thinking = false.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(gallery): add sha256 to deepseek-v4-flash-q2 entry

Per HF LFS metadata for antirez/deepseek-v4-gguf:
  size: 86720111200 bytes (~80.76 GiB)
  sha256: 31598c67c8b8744d3bcebcd19aa62253c6dc43cef3b8adf9f593656c9e86fd8c

LocalAI's downloader verifies sha256 when present, so users who install
deepseek-v4-flash-q2 from the gallery get integrity-checked weights and
the partial-download issue (an 81 GB file is easy to truncate) becomes
recoverable instead of silently producing a broken backend.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

---------

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-11 22:15:47 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
3568b2819d fix(gallery): keep auto-upgrade off non-dev backends when -development is installed (#9736)
A `-development` backend variant (e.g. `cuda12-llama-cpp-development`)
shares its `alias` with the stable counterpart and is meant to be a
drop-in replacement via ListSystemBackends alias resolution. Two paths
in the auto-upgrade flow let the stable variant slip back in on top of
the user's explicit dev pick:

1. ListSystemBackends emits a synthetic alias row keyed by the alias
   name that re-uses the chosen concrete's metadata pointer. In
   distributed mode, the worker's handleBackendList serialised that
   row over NATS as `{Name: <alias>, URI: <dev URI>, Digest: <dev>}`
   — the frontend can't reconstruct the alias relationship, and the
   wire-rebuilt row then carried `Metadata.Name = <alias>` and
   resolved against an unrelated gallery entry on the next upgrade
   check.
2. CheckUpgradesAgainst happily iterated the synthetic row in
   single-node too. Today the duplicate gallery lookup is harmless
   because both rows share the same `Metadata.Name`, but any gallery
   change that gives a meta backend a version, or any concrete
   sharing its alias with a dev counterpart, would surface a phantom
   non-dev upgrade and auto-upgrade would install it — shadowing the
   dev one through alias-token preference.

Two layered fixes:

- `core/services/worker/lifecycle.go` (`handleBackendList`): drop
  rows where the map key differs from `b.Metadata.Name`. Concrete
  and meta entries always have `key == Metadata.Name`; only synthetic
  aliases violate it. Workers now report only what's actually on disk;
  the per-node UI listing and CheckUpgrades both stop seeing phantoms.
- `core/gallery/upgrade.go` (`CheckUpgradesAgainst`): iterate by key,
  skip rows where `key != Metadata.Name` (belt-and-suspenders for any
  caller-supplied installed set), and apply the dev-aware rule —
  build a set of installed `Metadata.Name`s and drop any non-dev
  candidate `X` whose `X-<devSuffix>` counterpart is installed. Uses
  the configured dev suffix from `getFallbackTagValues(systemState)`.

Manual `POST /api/backends/upgrade/<name>` is unaffected: it goes
straight through `bm.UpgradeBackend(name)` without consulting the
suppression list, so users who genuinely want the stable variant
upgraded can still trigger it explicitly.

Tests in core/gallery/upgrade_test.go cover three cases under
"CheckUpgradesAgainst (distributed)": dev-only installed → only the
dev surfaces; both variants installed → dev still wins; synthetic
alias row is ignored. Generic backend names are used to avoid the
capability filter dropping cuda-prefixed entries on a CPU-only host.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-09 18:20:00 +02:00
Richard Palethorpe
670259ce43 chore: Security hardening (#9719)
* fix(http): close 0.0.0.0/[::] SSRF bypass in /api/cors-proxy

The CORS proxy carried its own private-network blocklist (RFC 1918 + a
handful of IPv6 ranges) instead of using the same classification as
pkg/utils/urlfetch.go. The hand-rolled list missed 0.0.0.0/8 and ::/128,
both of which Linux routes to localhost — so any user with FeatureMCP
(default-on for new users) could reach LocalAI's own listener and any
other service bound to 0.0.0.0:port via:

  GET /api/cors-proxy?url=http://0.0.0.0:8080/...
  GET /api/cors-proxy?url=http://[::]:8080/...

Replace the custom check with utils.IsPublicIP (Go stdlib IsLoopback /
IsLinkLocalUnicast / IsPrivate / IsUnspecified, plus IPv4-mapped IPv6
unmasking) and add an upfront hostname rejection for localhost, *.local,
and the cloud metadata aliases so split-horizon DNS can't paper over the
IP check.

The IP-pinning DialContext is unchanged: the validated IP from the
single resolution is reused for the connection, so DNS rebinding still
cannot swap a public answer for a private one between validate and dial.

Regression tests cover 0.0.0.0, 0.0.0.0:PORT, [::], ::ffff:127.0.0.1,
::ffff:10.0.0.1, file://, gopher://, ftp://, localhost, 127.0.0.1,
10.0.0.1, 169.254.169.254, metadata.google.internal.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(downloader): verify SHA before promoting temp file to final path

DownloadFileWithContext renamed the .partial file to its final name
*before* checking the streamed SHA, so a hash mismatch returned an
error but left the tampered file at filePath. Subsequent code that
operated on filePath (a backend launcher, a YAML loader, a re-download
that finds the file already present and skips) would consume the
attacker-supplied bytes.

Reorder: verify the streamed hash first, remove the .partial on
mismatch, then rename. The streamed hash is computed during io.Copy
so no second read is needed.

While here, raise the empty-SHA case from a Debug log to a Warn so
"this download had no integrity check" is visible at the default log
level. Backend installs currently pass through with no digest; the
warning makes that footprint observable without changing behaviour.

Regression test asserts os.IsNotExist on the destination after a
deliberate SHA mismatch.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(auth): require email_verified for OIDC admin promotion

extractOIDCUserInfo read the ID token's "email" claim but never
inspected "email_verified". With LOCALAI_ADMIN_EMAIL set, an attacker
who could register on the configured OIDC IdP under that email (some
IdPs accept self-supplied unverified emails) inherited admin role:

  - first login:  AssignRole(tx, email, adminEmail) → RoleAdmin
  - re-login:     MaybePromote(db, user, adminEmail) → flip to RoleAdmin

Add EmailVerified to oauthUserInfo, parse email_verified from the OIDC
claims (default false on absence so an IdP that omits the claim cannot
short-circuit the gate), and substitute "" for the role-decision email
when verified=false via emailForRoleDecision. The user record still
stores the unverified email for display.

GitHub's path defaults EmailVerified=true: GitHub only returns a public
profile email after verification, and fetchGitHubPrimaryEmail explicitly
filters to Verified=true.

Regression tests cover both the helper contract and integration with
AssignRole, including the bootstrap "first user" branch that would
otherwise mask the gate.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(cli): refuse public bind when no auth backend is configured

When neither an auth DB nor a static API key is set, the auth
middleware passes every request through. That is fine for a developer
laptop, a home LAN, or a Tailnet — the network itself is the trust
boundary. It is not fine on a public IP, where every model install,
settings change, and admin endpoint becomes reachable from the
internet.

Refuse to start in that exact configuration. Loopback, RFC 1918,
RFC 4193 ULA, link-local, and RFC 6598 CGNAT (Tailscale's default
range) all count as trusted; wildcard binds (`:port`, `0.0.0.0`,
`[::]`) are accepted only when every host interface is in one of those
ranges. Hostnames are resolved and treated as trusted only when every
answer is.

A new --allow-insecure-public-bind / LOCALAI_ALLOW_INSECURE_PUBLIC_BIND
flag opts out for deployments that gate access externally (a reverse
proxy enforcing auth, a mesh ACL, etc.). The error message lists this
plus the three constructive alternatives (bind a private interface,
enable --auth, set --api-keys).

The interface enumeration goes through a package-level interfaceAddrsFn
var so tests can simulate cloud-VM, home-LAN, Tailscale-only, and
enumeration-failure topologies without poking at the real network
stack.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* test(http): regression-test the localai_assistant admin gate

ChatEndpoint already rejects metadata.localai_assistant=true from a
non-admin caller, but the gate was open-coded inline with no direct
test coverage. The chat route is FeatureChat-gated (default-on), and
the assistant's in-process MCP server can install/delete models and
edit configs — the wrong handler change would silently turn the LLM
into a confused deputy.

Extract the gate into requireAssistantAccess(c, authEnabled) and pin
its behaviour: auth disabled is a no-op, unauthenticated is 403,
RoleUser is 403, RoleAdmin and the synthetic legacy-key admin are
admitted.

No behaviour change in the production path.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* test(http): assert every API route is auth-classified

The auth middleware classifies path prefixes (/api/, /v1/, /models/,
etc.) as protected and treats anything else as a static-asset
passthrough. A new endpoint shipped under a brand-new prefix — or a
new path that simply isn't on the prefix allowlist — would be
reachable anonymously.

Walk every route registered by API() with auth enabled and a fresh
in-memory database (no users, no keys), and assert each API-prefixed
route returns 401 / 404 / 405 to an anonymous request. Public surfaces
(/api/auth/*, /api/branding, /api/node/* token-authenticated routes,
/healthz, branding asset server, generated-content server, static
assets) are explicit allowlist entries with comments justifying them.

Build-tagged 'auth' so it runs against the SQLite-backed auth DB
(matches the existing auth suite).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* test(http): pin agent endpoint per-user isolation contract

agents.go's getUserID / effectiveUserID / canImpersonateUser /
wantsAllUsers helpers are the single trust boundary for cross-user
access on agent, agent-jobs, collections, and skills routes. A
regression there is the difference between "regular user reads their
own data" and "regular user reads anyone's data via ?user_id=victim".

Lock in the contract:
  - effectiveUserID ignores ?user_id= for unauthenticated and RoleUser
  - effectiveUserID honours it for RoleAdmin and ProviderAgentWorker
  - wantsAllUsers requires admin AND the literal "true" string
  - canImpersonateUser is admin OR agent-worker, never plain RoleUser

No production change — this commit only adds tests.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(downloader): drop redundant stat in removePartialFile

The stat-then-remove pattern is a TOCTOU window and a wasted syscall —
os.Remove already returns ErrNotExist for the missing-file case, so trust
that and treat it as a no-op.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(http): redact secrets from trace buffer and distribution-token logs

The /api/traces buffer captured Authorization, Cookie, Set-Cookie, and
API-key headers verbatim from every request when tracing was enabled. The
endpoint is admin-only but the buffer is reachable via any heap-style
introspection and the captured tokens otherwise outlive the request.
Strip those header values at capture time. Body redaction is left to a
follow-up — the prompts are usually the operator's own and JSON-walking
is invasive.

Distribution tokens were also logged in plaintext from
core/explorer/discovery.go; logs forward to syslog/journald and outlive
the token. Redact those to a short prefix/suffix instead.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(auth): rate-limit OAuth callbacks separately from password endpoints

The shared 5/min/IP limit on auth endpoints is right for password-style
flows but too tight for OAuth callbacks: corporate SSO funnels many real
users through one outbound IP and would trip the limit. Add a separate
60/min/IP limiter for /api/auth/{github,oidc}/callback so callbacks are
bounded against floods without breaking shared-IP deployments.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(gallery): verify backend tarball sha256 when set in gallery entry

GalleryBackend gained an optional sha256 field; the install path now
threads it through to the existing downloader hash-verify (which already
streams, verifies, and rolls back on mismatch). Galleries without sha256
keep working; the empty-SHA path still emits the existing
"downloading without integrity check" warning.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* test(http): pin CSRF coverage on multipart endpoints

The CSRF middleware in app.go is global (e.Use) so it covers every
multipart upload route — branding assets, fine-tune datasets, audio
transforms, agent collections. Pin that contract: cross-site multipart
POSTs are rejected; same-origin / same-site / API-key clients are not.
Also pins the SameSite=Lax fallback path the skipper relies on when
Sec-Fetch-Site is absent.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(http): XSS hardening — CSP headers, safe href, base-href escape, SVG sandbox

Several closely related XSS-prevention changes spanning the SPA shell, the
React UI, and the branding asset server:

- New SecurityHeaders middleware sets CSP, X-Content-Type-Options,
  X-Frame-Options, and Referrer-Policy on every response. The CSP keeps
  script-src permissive because the Vite bundle relies on inline + eval'd
  scripts; tightening that requires moving to a nonce-based policy.

- The <base href> injection in the SPA shell escaped attacker-controllable
  Host / X-Forwarded-Host headers — a single quote in the host header
  broke out of the attribute. Pass through SecureBaseHref (html.EscapeString).

- Three React sinks rendering untrusted content via dangerouslySetInnerHTML
  switch to text-node rendering with whiteSpace: pre-wrap: user message
  bodies in Chat.jsx and AgentChat.jsx, and the agent activity log in
  AgentChat.jsx. The hand-rolled escape on the agent user-message variant
  is replaced by the same plain-text path.

- New safeHref util collapses non-allowlisted URI schemes (most
  importantly javascript:) to '#'. Applied to gallery `<a href={url}>`
  links in Models / Backends / Manage and to canvas artifact links —
  these come from gallery JSON or assistant tool calls and must be treated
  as untrusted.

- The branding asset server attaches a sandbox CSP plus same-origin CORP
  to .svg responses. The React UI loads logos via <img>, but the same URL
  is also reachable via direct navigation; this prevents script
  execution if a hostile SVG slipped past upload validation.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(http): bound HTTP server with read-header and idle timeouts

A net/http server with no timeouts is trivially Slowloris-able and leaks
idle keep-alive connections. Set ReadHeaderTimeout (30s) to plug the
slow-headers attack and IdleTimeout (120s) to cap keep-alive sockets.

ReadTimeout and WriteTimeout stay at 0 because request bodies can be
multi-GB model uploads and SSE / chat completions stream for many
minutes; operators who need tighter per-request bounds should terminate
slow clients at a reverse proxy.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* test(auth): pin PUT /api/auth/profile field-tampering contract

The handler uses an explicit local body struct (only name and avatar_url)
plus a gorm Updates(map) with a column allowlist, so an attacker posting
{"role":"admin","email":"...","password_hash":"..."} can't mass-assign
those fields. Lock that down with a regression test so a future
"let's just c.Bind(&user)" refactor breaks loudly.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(services): strip directory components from multipart upload filenames

UploadDataset and UploadToCollectionForUser took the raw multipart
file.Filename and joined it into a destination path. The fine-tune
upload was incidentally safe because of a UUID prefix that fused any
leading '..' to a literal segment, but the protection is fragile.
UploadToCollectionForUser handed the filename to a vendored backend
without sanitising at all.

Strip to filepath.Base at both boundaries and reject the trivial
unsafe values ("", ".", "..", "/").

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(react-ui): validate persisted MCP server entries on load

localStorage is shared across same-origin pages; an XSS that lands once
can poison persisted MCP server config to attempt header injection or
to feed a non-http URL into the fetch path on subsequent loads.
Validate every entry: types must match, URL must parse with http(s)
scheme, header keys/values must be control-char-free. Drop anything
that doesn't fit.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(http): close X-Forwarded-Prefix open redirect

The reverse-proxy support concatenated X-Forwarded-Prefix into the
redirect target without validation, so a forged header value of
"//evil.com" turned the SPA-shell redirect helper at /, /browse, and
/browse/* into a 301 to //evil.com/app. The path-strip middleware had
the same shape on its prefix-trailing-slash redirect.

Add SafeForwardedPrefix at the middleware boundary: must start with
a single '/', no protocol-relative '//' opener, no scheme, no
backslash, no control characters. Apply at both consumers; misconfig
trips the validator and the header is dropped.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(http): refuse wildcard CORS when LOCALAI_CORS=true with empty allowlist

When LOCALAI_CORS=true but LOCALAI_CORS_ALLOW_ORIGINS was empty, Echo's
CORSWithConfig saw an empty allow-list and fell back to its default
AllowOrigins=["*"]. An operator who flipped the strict-CORS feature
flag without populating the list got the opposite of what they asked
for. Echo never sets Allow-Credentials: true so this isn't directly
exploitable (cookies aren't sent under wildcard CORS), but the
misconfiguration trap is worth closing. Skip the registration and warn.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(auth): zxcvbn password strength check with user-acknowledged override

The previous policy was len < 8, which let through "Password1" and the
rest of the credential-stuffing corpus. LocalAI has no second factor
yet, so the bar needs to sit higher.

Add ValidatePasswordStrength using github.com/timbutler/zxcvbn (an
actively-maintained fork of the trustelem port; v1.0.4, April 2024):
- min 12 chars, max 72 (bcrypt's truncation point)
- reject NUL bytes (some bcrypt callers truncate at the first NUL)
- require zxcvbn score >= 3 ("safely unguessable, ~10^8 guesses to
  break"); the hint list ["localai", "local-ai", "admin"] penalises
  passwords built from the app's own branding

zxcvbn produces false positives sometimes (a strong-looking password
that happens to match a dictionary word) and operators occasionally
need to set a known-weak password (kiosk demos, CI rigs). Add an
acknowledgement path: PasswordPolicy{AllowWeak: true} skips the
entropy check while still enforcing the hard rules. The structured
PasswordErrorResponse marks weak-password rejections as Overridable
so the UI can surface a "use this anyway" checkbox.

Wired through register, self-service password change, and admin
password reset on both the server and the React UI.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(react-ui): drop HTML5 minLength on new-password inputs

minLength={12} on the new-password input let the browser block the
form submit silently before any JS or network call ran. The browser
focused the field, showed a brief native tooltip, and that was that —
no toast, no fetch, no clue. Reproducible by typing fewer than 12
chars on the second password change of a session.

The JS-level length check in handleSubmit already shows a toast and
the server rejects with a structured error, so the HTML5 attribute
was redundant defence anyway. Drop it.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(react-ui): bundle Geist fonts locally instead of fetching from Google

The new CSP correctly refused to apply styles from
fonts.googleapis.com because style-src is locked to 'self' and
'unsafe-inline'. Loosening the CSP would defeat its purpose; the
right fix is to stop reaching out to a third-party CDN for fonts on
every page load.

Add @fontsource-variable/geist and @fontsource-variable/geist-mono as
npm deps and import them once at boot. Drop the <link rel="preconnect">
and external stylesheet from index.html.

Side benefit: no third-party tracking via Referer / IP on every UI
load, no failure mode when offline / behind a captive portal.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* fix(react-ui): refresh i18n strings to reflect 12-char password minimum

The translations still said "at least 8 characters" everywhere — the
client-side toast on a too-short password change told the user the
wrong floor. Update tooShort and newPasswordPlaceholder /
newPasswordDescription across all five locales (en, es, it, de,
zh-CN) to match the real ValidatePasswordStrength rule.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

* feat(auth): make password length-floor overridable like the entropy check

The 12-char minimum was a policy choice, not a technical invariant —
only "non-empty", "<= 72 bytes", and "no NUL bytes" are real bcrypt
constraints. Treating length-12 as a hard rule was inconsistent with
the entropy check (already overridable) and friction for use cases
where the account is just a name on a session, not a security
boundary (single-user kiosk, CI rig, lab demo).

Restructure ValidatePasswordStrength:
- Hard rules (always enforced): non-empty, <= MaxPasswordLength, no NUL byte
- Policy rules (skipped when AllowWeak=true): length >= 12, zxcvbn score >= 3

PasswordError now marks password_too_short as Overridable too. The
React forms generalised from `error_code === 'password_too_weak'` to
`overridable === true`, and the JS-side preflight length checks were
removed (server is source of truth, returns the same checkbox flow).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-05-08 16:25:45 +02:00
Richard Palethorpe
969005b2a1 feat(gallery): Speed up load times and clean gallery entries (#9211)
* feat: Rework VRAM estimation and use known_usecases in gallery

Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Claude Code]

* chore(gallery): regenerate gallery index and add known_usecases to model entries

Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-05-06 14:51:38 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]
6d56bf98fe feat(importers): add vibevoice-cpp importer for GGUF bundles (#9685)
Routes mudler/vibevoice.cpp-models and similar repos to the vibevoice-cpp
backend. Detects via repo name ("vibevoice.cpp"/"vibevoice-cpp"), file
listing (vibevoice-*.gguf + tokenizer.gguf), or preferences.backend
override. Defaults to the realtime TTS model; preferences.usecase=asr
selects the ASR/diarization variant. Bundles the required tokenizer.gguf
and (for TTS) a voice prompt, emitting the Options[] entries the backend
expects. Registered ahead of VibeVoiceImporter so the C++ bundles aren't
swallowed by the older Python-backend substring match.


Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Write] [Bash]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-06 13:33:10 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
8452068f43 feat(importers): whisper.cpp HF repos pick a quant + nest under whisper/models (#9630)
The WhisperImporter's Import() switch ordered LooksLikeURL ahead of the
HuggingFace branch, so any https://huggingface.co/<owner>/<repo> URI
(e.g. LocalAI-io/whisper-large-v3-it-yodas-only-ggml) hijacked the URL
path. FilenameFromUrl returned the repo slug, the gallery entry pointed
at the HTML repo page, the SHA256 was empty, and the HF file listing
was effectively dead code for HTTPS imports. The HF branch only fired
for huggingface://owner/repo and hf://owner/repo references.

Gate the URL case on a "ggml-*.bin" basename signal — mirroring how
the llama-cpp importer gates on ".gguf" — so direct file URLs still
take the URL path while HF repo URLs fall through to the HF branch.
There the file listing is actually consulted: every ggml-*.bin entry
is collected and one is picked by the new preferences.quantizations
preference (default q5_0; comma-separated for fallback ordering).

Pin the chosen file under whisper/models/<name>/<file> so a single
repo can ship q4_0/q5_0/q8_0 side-by-side without colliding on disk,
matching the llama-cpp/models/<name>/ layout. The fallback when no
preference matches is the last available ggml file, mirroring
llama-cpp's pickPreferredGroup behaviour.

Tests: replace the previous probe spec with positive assertions
against LocalAI-io/whisper-large-v3-it-yodas-only-ggml (default →
ggml-model-q5_0.bin, quantizations=q4_0 → ggml-model-q4_0.bin) plus
two offline specs that build a fake hfapi.ModelDetails to cover the
fallback rule and non-ggml filtering without touching the network.


Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Bash Read Edit WebFetch]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-01 12:03:07 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
4906cbad04 feat: add biometrics UI (#9524)
* feat(react-ui): add Face & Voice Recognition pages

Expose the face and voice biometrics endpoints
(/v1/face/*, /v1/voice/*) through the React UI. Each page has four
tabs driving the six endpoints per modality: Analyze (demographics
with bounding boxes / waveform segments), Compare (verify with a
match gauge and live threshold slider), Enrollment (register /
identify / forget with a top-K matches view), Embedding (raw
vector inspector with sparkline + copy).

MediaInput supports file upload plus live capture: webcam
snap-to-canvas for face, MediaRecorder -> AudioContext ->
16-bit PCM mono WAV transcode for voice (libsndfile on the
backend only handles WAV/FLAC/OGG natively).

Sidebar gets a new Biometrics section feature-gated on
face_recognition / voice_recognition; routes are wrapped in
<RequireFeature>. No new dependencies -- Font Awesome icons
picked from the Free set.

Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7

* fix(localai): accept data URI prefixes with codec/charset params

Browser MediaRecorder produces data URIs like
  data:audio/webm;codecs=opus;base64,...
so the pre-';base64,' section can carry multiple parameter
segments. The `^data:([^;]+);base64,` regex in pkg/utils/base64.go
and core/http/endpoints/localai/audio.go only matched exactly one
segment, so recordings straight from the React UI's live-capture
tab failed the strip and then tripped the base64 decoder on the
leading 'data:' literal, surfacing as
  "invalid audio base64: illegal base64 data at input byte 4"

Widened both regexes to `^data:[^,]+?;base64,` so any number of
';param=value' segments between the mime type and ';base64,' are
tolerated. Added a regression test covering the MediaRecorder
shape.

Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7

* fix(insightface): scope pack ONNX loading to known manifests

LocalAI's gallery extracts buffalo_* zips flat into the models
directory, which inevitably mixes with ONNX files from other
backends (opencv face engine, MiniFASNet antispoof, WeSpeaker
voice embedding) and older buffalo pack installs. Feeding those
foreign files into insightface's model_zoo.get_model() blows up
inside the router -- it assumes a 4-D NCHW input and indexes
`input_shape[2]` on tensors that aren't shaped like a face model,
raising IndexError mid-load and leaving the backend unusable.

The router's dispatch isn't amenable to per-file try/except alone
(first-file-wins picks det_10g.onnx from buffalo_l even when the
user asked for buffalo_sc -- alphabetical order happens to favour
the wrong pack). Instead, ship an explicit manifest of the
upstream v0.7 pack contents and scope the glob to that when the
requested pack is known. The manifest is small and stable; future
packs can be added alongside or fall through to the tolerance
loop, which also swallows any remaining IndexError / ValueError
from foreign files with a clear `[insightface] skipped` stderr
line for diagnostics.

Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7

* fix(speaker-recognition): extract FBank features for rank-3 ONNX encoders

Pre-exported speaker-encoder ONNX graphs come in two shapes:

  rank-2  [batch, samples]           -- some 3D-Speaker exports,
                                        take raw waveform directly.
  rank-3  [batch, frames, n_mels]    -- WeSpeaker and most Kaldi-
                                        lineage encoders, expect
                                        pre-computed Kaldi FBank.

OnnxDirectEngine unconditionally fed `audio.reshape(1, -1)` --
correct for rank-2, IndexError-on-input_shape[3] on rank-3, which
surfaced to the UI as
  "Invalid rank for input: feats Got: 2 Expected: 3"

Detect the input rank at session init and run Kaldi FBank
(80-dim, 25ms/10ms frames, dither=0.0, per-utterance CMN) before
the forward pass when rank>=3. All knobs are configurable via
backend options for encoders that deviate from defaults.

torchaudio.compliance.kaldi is already in the backend's
requirements (SpeechBrain pulls torchaudio in), so no new
dependency.

Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7

* fix(biometrics): isolate face and voice vector stores

Face (ArcFace, 512-D) and voice (ECAPA-TDNN 192-D / WeSpeaker
256-D) biometric embeddings were colliding inside a single
in-memory local-store instance. Enrolling one after the other
failed with
  "Try to add key with length N when existing length is M"
because local-store correctly refuses to mix dimensions in one
keyspace.

The registries were constructed with `storeName=""`, which in
StoreBackend() is just a WithModel() call. But ModelLoader's
cache is keyed on `modelID`, not `model` -- so both registries
collapsed to the same `modelID=""` slot and reused the same
backend process despite looking isolated on paper.

Three complementary fixes:

  1. application.go -- give each registry a distinct default
     namespace ("localai-face-biometrics" /
     "localai-voice-biometrics"). The comment claimed
     isolation, now it's actually enforced.

  2. stores.go -- pass the storeName as both WithModelID and
     WithModel so the ModelLoader cache key separates
     namespaces and the loader spawns distinct processes.

  3. local-store/store.go -- drop the Load() `opts.Model != ""`
     guard. It was there to prevent generic model-loading loops
     from picking up local-store by accident, but that auto-load
     path is being retired; the guard now just blocks legitimate
     namespace isolation. opts.Model is treated as a tag; the
     per-tuple process isolation upstream handles discrimination.

Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7

* fix(gallery): stale-file cleanup and upgrade-tmp directory safety

Two related robustness fixes for backend install/upgrade:

pkg/downloader/uri.go
  OCI downloads passed through
      if filepath.Ext(filePath) != "" ...
          filePath = filepath.Dir(filePath)
  which was intended to redirect file-shaped download targets
  into their parent directory for OCI extraction. The heuristic
  misfires on directory-shaped paths with a dot-suffix --
  gallery.UpgradeBackend uses
      tmpPath = "<backendsPath>/<name>.upgrade-tmp"
  and Go's filepath.Ext treats ".upgrade-tmp" as an extension.
  The rewrite landed the extraction at "<backendsPath>/", which
  then **overwrote the real install** (backends/<name>/) with a
  flat-layout file and left a stray run.sh at the top level. The
  tmp dir itself stayed empty, so the validation step that
  checked "<tmpPath>/run.sh" predictably failed with
      "upgrade validation failed: run.sh not found in new backend"
  Every manual upgrade silently corrupted the backends tree this
  way. Guard the rewrite behind "target isn't already an existing
  directory" -- InstallBackend / UpgradeBackend both pre-create
  the target as a directory, so they get the correct behaviour;
  existing file-path callers with a genuine dot-extension still
  get the parent redirect.

core/gallery/backends.go
  InstallBackend's MkdirAll returned ENOTDIR when something at
  the target path was already a file (legacy dev builds dropped
  golang backend binaries directly at `<backendsPath>/<name>`
  instead of nesting them under their own subdir). That
  permanently blocked reinstall and upgrade for anyone carrying
  that state, since every retry hit the same error. Detect a
  pre-existing non-directory, warn, and remove it before the
  MkdirAll so the fresh install can write the correct nested
  layout with metadata.json + run.sh.

Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7

* fix(galleryop): refresh upgrade cache after backend ops

UpgradeChecker caches the last upgrade-check result and only
refreshes on the 6-hour tick or after an auto-upgrade cycle.
Manual upgrades (POST /api/backends/upgrade/:name) go through
the async galleryop worker, which completes the upgrade
correctly but never tells UpgradeChecker to re-check -- so
/api/backends/upgrades continued to list a just-upgraded backend
as upgradeable, indistinguishable from a failed upgrade, for up
to six hours.

Add an optional `OnBackendOpCompleted func()` hook on
GalleryService that fires after every successful install /
upgrade / delete on the backend channel (async, so a slow
callback doesn't stall the queue). startup.go wires it to
UpgradeChecker.TriggerCheck after both services exist. Result:
the upgrade banner clears within milliseconds of the worker
finishing.

Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7

* build: prepend GOPATH/bin to PATH for protogen-go

install-go-tools runs `go install` for protoc-gen-go and
protoc-gen-go-grpc, which writes them into `go env GOPATH`/bin.
That directory isn't on every dev's PATH, and protoc resolves
its code-gen plugins via PATH, so the immediately-following
protoc invocation fails with
  "protoc-gen-go: program not found"
which in turn blocks `make build` and any
`make backends/%` target that depends on build.

Prepend `go env GOPATH`/bin to PATH for the protoc invocation
so the freshly-installed plugins are found without requiring a
shell-profile change.

Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7

* refactor(ui-api): non-blocking backend upgrade handler with opcache

POST /api/backends/upgrade/:name used to send the ManagementOp
directly onto the unbuffered BackendGalleryChannel, which blocked
the HTTP request whenever the galleryop worker was busy with a
prior operation. The op also didn't show up in /api/operations,
so the Backends UI couldn't reflect upgrade progress on the
affected row.

Register the op in opcache immediately, wrap it in a cancellable
context, store the cancellation function on the GalleryService,
and push onto the channel from a goroutine so the handler
returns right away. Response gains a `jobID` field and a
`message` string so clients have a consistent handle regardless
of whether the op is queued or running.

Pairs with the OnBackendOpCompleted hook added in the galleryop
commit — together the UI sees the upgrade start, watches
progress via /api/operations, and drops the "upgradeable" flag
the moment the worker finishes.

Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.7
2026-04-24 08:50:34 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
c1f923b2bc fix(importer): emit all shards for multi-part GGUF models (#9513)
The llama-cpp HuggingFace importer iterated files one at a time and
kept overwriting `lastGGUFFile`, so sharded repos such as
`unsloth/Kimi-K2.6-GGUF` (14 `Q8_K_XL` parts) produced a gallery entry
pointing only at the final shard — useless to llama.cpp's split loader,
which needs shard 1 to discover the set.

Group shards up front via new helpers in `pkg/huggingface-api`
(`SplitShardSuffix`, `ShardGroup`, `GroupShards`). The llama-cpp
importer now picks a group (preferred quant, then last-group fallback)
and emits every shard, with `Model:` pointing at shard 1.
`FindPreferredModelFile` returns shard 1 of the first matching group so
the gallery agent's preview stays coherent for sharded repos.

Adds unit coverage for the HuggingFace branch of the importer (which
had none), plus shard-detection tests in the hfapi package.

Assisted-by: Claude:Opus-4.7 [Read] [Edit] [Bash]
2026-04-23 15:00:02 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
f0c92610a1 feat(importer): expand importer flow to almost all backends (#9466)
* docs(agents): require importer integration when adding backends

Document the importer registry workflow so contributors know that adding
a new backend also requires updating the /import-model dropdown source:
either a new importer in core/gallery/importers/, extending an existing
one for drop-in replacements, or the pref-only slice for backends with
no reliable auto-detect signal. Always covered by a table-driven test.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for Batch 0 primitives

Introduce failing tests that drive Batch 0 of the importer expansion:

- pkg/huggingface-api: assert GetModelDetails populates PipelineTag and
  LibraryName from /api/models/{repo}, and that a failing metadata
  endpoint still returns file details (best-effort fetch).
- core/gallery/importers/helpers_test.go: new table-driven coverage for
  HasFile, HasExtension, HasONNX, HasONNXConfigPair, HasGGMLFile.
- core/gallery/importers/importers_test.go: assert ErrAmbiguousImport
  sentinel exists and round-trips through errors.Is.
- core/gallery/importers/local_test.go: extend with detection cases for
  ggml-*.bin (whisper), silero_vad.onnx (silero-vad), and the piper
  .onnx + .onnx.json pair.
- core/http/endpoints/localai/import_model_test.go: assert
  ImportModelURIEndpoint returns HTTP 400 with a structured
  {error, detail, hint} body when ErrAmbiguousImport surfaces.

All tests fail in the expected places (missing fields, missing
helpers, missing sentinel, endpoint still wraps as 500).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): Batch 0 foundation — helpers, sentinel, local detection

Implements the Batch 0 primitives that subsequent importer batches build on:

- pkg/huggingface-api: ModelDetails gains PipelineTag and LibraryName.
  GetModelDetails now layers a best-effort GET /api/models/{repo} fetch
  on top of ListFiles — a metadata outage leaves the fields empty but
  still returns full file details. Uses a dedicated response struct
  because the single-model endpoint uses snake_case keys while the list
  endpoint historically returned camelCase.

- core/gallery/importers/helpers.go: generic HasFile, HasExtension,
  HasONNX, HasONNXConfigPair, HasGGMLFile helpers working on
  []hfapi.ModelFile so per-backend importers can detect artefact
  patterns without duplicating string wrangling.

- core/gallery/importers/importers.go: adds the ErrAmbiguousImport
  sentinel. DiscoverModelConfig now returns it (wrapped with
  fmt.Errorf("%w: ...")) when no importer matched AND the HF
  pipeline_tag falls in a whitelist of narrow modalities (ASR, TTS,
  sentence-similarity, text-classification, object-detection). The
  whitelist is intentionally narrow — unknown tags keep the previous
  "no importer matched" behaviour to avoid blocking rare repos.

- core/gallery/importers/local.go: three new local-path detections,
  inserted before the existing merged-transformers branch:
    * ggml-*.bin → whisper
    * silero*.onnx → silero-vad
    * *.onnx + *.onnx.json pair → piper

- core/http/endpoints/localai/import_model.go: ImportModelURIEndpoint
  surfaces ErrAmbiguousImport as HTTP 400 with
  {error, detail, hint} JSON, preserving existing behaviour for
  unrelated errors.

Green tests:
  go test ./core/gallery/importers/... ./pkg/huggingface-api/... \
          ./core/http/endpoints/localai/...

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(importers): red tests for KnownBackend endpoint and importer metadata

Add failing tests that drive Batch UI-Dropdown:

- importers_test.go: assert importers expose Name/Modality/AutoDetects
  and that LlamaCPPImporter advertises drop-in replacements via a new
  AdditionalBackendsProvider interface. A Registry() accessor is also
  expected.

- backend_test.go (new): assert GET /backends/known returns
  []schema.KnownBackend, covers every importer, exposes drop-in
  llama-cpp replacements, includes curated pref-only backends, has no
  duplicates, and is sorted by Modality+Name.

These tests fail at compile time against master; they are intentionally
red so the follow-up green commit is reviewable.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery): add /backends/known endpoint for importer-aware backend list

Extend the Importer interface with Name/Modality/AutoDetects so the
import system can self-describe its registry, and introduce the
AdditionalBackendsProvider interface so importers can advertise drop-in
replacements (llama-cpp advertises ik-llama-cpp and turboquant).

Expose the new GET /backends/known endpoint that merges:

- the importer registry (auto-detect supported),
- drop-in replacements hosted by importers (preference-only),
- a curated knownPrefOnlyBackends slice for backends with no dedicated
  importer (sglang, tinygrad, trl, mlx-vlm, whisperx, kokoros, Qwen TTS
  variants, sam3-cpp) — kept at the top of backend.go so contributors
  adding a new pref-only backend have one obvious place to edit,
- backends installed on disk but unknown to the importer (marked
  AutoDetect=false, empty Modality).

The endpoint deliberately does NOT filter by gallery membership or host
capability (unlike /backends/available): LocalAI may auto-install a
backend that is not yet present, so the import form dropdown must show
everything the importer knows about.

Response is deduplicated (importer wins over pref-only) and sorted by
Modality+Name for deterministic output.

Registered in core/http/routes/localai.go next to /backends/available
under the same admin middleware.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(ui): source import form backend dropdown from /backends/known

Replace the hard-coded BACKENDS constant in ImportModel.jsx with a
live fetch of /backends/known on mount. Users now see every backend
the importer layer knows about (including preference-only entries)
grouped by modality, not a stale subset.

Changes:

- config.js: add backendsKnown endpoint constant next to
  backendsAvailable.
- api.js: add backendsApi.listKnown() wrapper.
- ImportModel.jsx: remove BACKENDS constant, fetch the list via
  useEffect, and derive grouped options via buildBackendOptions.
  Preference-only entries render with a " (preference-only)" suffix.
  Loading state disables the dropdown with a "Loading backends…"
  placeholder; on fetch failure the form falls back to auto-detect
  only and surfaces a non-blocking toast.
- SearchableSelect.jsx: accept items flagged isHeader=true and render
  them as non-selectable section dividers. Keyboard navigation skips
  headers and search queries hide them so filtered output stays
  relevant.

Vitest is not set up in this project (devDependencies ship Playwright
only). Per the brief's guard-rail, no frontend test framework is
introduced; coverage is provided by the Go handler tests that assert
the /backends/known contract consumed by the React form.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for whisper importer

Asserts detection on ggerganov/whisper.cpp (via ggml-*.bin filename),
the preferences.backend=whisper override path for arbitrary URIs,
and the Importer interface metadata (name/modality/autodetect).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add whisper importer

Recognises whisper.cpp GGML models by the "ggml-*.bin" filename
convention (direct URL or HF repo member) and by the explicit
preferences.backend="whisper" override. Emits backend: whisper with
the transcript use-case. Registered before llama-cpp so the narrow
filename signal wins before any generic GGUF match is attempted.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for moonshine importer

Asserts detection on UsefulSensors/moonshine-tiny via owner + ONNX
files, the preferences.backend=moonshine override for arbitrary URIs,
and the Importer interface metadata (name/modality/autodetect).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add moonshine importer

Matches UsefulSensors-owned HF repos whose artefacts or metadata
identify them as ASR: on-disk .onnx files (the canonical Moonshine
packaging) OR pipeline_tag=automatic-speech-recognition (covers
transformers/safetensors-only sibling repos). preferences.backend=
moonshine overrides detection. Test uses the live moonshine-tiny
repo because the canonical UsefulSensors/moonshine repo currently
hits a recursive-subfolder bug in pkg/huggingface-api ListFiles.

Registered after WhisperImporter but before LlamaCPPImporter and
TransformersImporter so the narrower owner+ASR signal wins before
the generic tokenizer.json check routes the repo to transformers.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for nemo importer

Asserts detection on nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 via owner + .nemo
file, the preferences.backend=nemo override for arbitrary URIs, and
the Importer interface metadata (name/modality/autodetect).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add nemo importer

Matches nvidia-owned HF repos that ship a .nemo checkpoint archive,
the canonical NeMo ASR packaging. preferences.backend=nemo forces
detection. Registered between moonshine and llama-cpp so the narrow
owner + extension signal wins before any downstream generic matcher.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for faster-whisper importer

Asserts detection on Systran/faster-whisper-large-v3 (owner +
model.bin + config.json + ASR pipeline), the preferences.backend=
faster-whisper override for arbitrary URIs, and the Importer
interface metadata.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add faster-whisper importer

Recognises CTranslate2-packaged whisper checkpoints distributed for
the faster-whisper runtime: model.bin + config.json + ASR
pipeline_tag, narrowed to Systran-owned repos or repo names
containing "faster-whisper" to avoid falsely claiming vanilla
OpenAI whisper HF repos. preferences.backend=faster-whisper
overrides detection. Registered before llama-cpp and transformers
so the narrow signal wins before tokenizer.json routes the repo to
the generic transformers importer.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for qwen-asr importer

Asserts detection on Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B via owner + ASR substring
in the repo name, the preferences.backend=qwen-asr override for
arbitrary URIs, and the Importer interface metadata.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add qwen-asr importer

Matches Qwen-owned HF repos whose name contains "ASR"
(case-insensitive), routing them to the qwen-asr backend rather
than the generic transformers/vllm path. The substring check scans
the repo portion only so the owner field cannot leak a false match.
preferences.backend=qwen-asr forces detection. Registered before
llama-cpp and transformers so the narrow owner+name signal wins.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): ASR ambiguity surfaces ErrAmbiguousImport

Locks in the behaviour added in Batch 0: an HF repo whose pipeline_tag
marks it as automatic-speech-recognition but whose artefacts match no
ASR importer (and no generic importer) must fail with
ErrAmbiguousImport so callers know to pass preferences.backend rather
than silently guess. pyannote/voice-activity-detection is the fixture
— its file list is only config.yaml + README, leaving every importer's
artefact check negative.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for piper importer

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add piper importer

Detects piper TTS voices by the canonical <voice>.onnx + <voice>.onnx.json
pair packaging (via HasONNXConfigPair). Narrow enough to skip generic
ONNX repos used by other backends (Moonshine ASR, sentence-transformers).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for bark importer

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add bark importer

Detects Suno's Bark TTS checkpoints by HF owner "suno" + repo name
prefix "bark". Adds HFOwnerRepoFromURI() helper so importers can fall
back to URI parsing when pkg/huggingface-api's recursive tree listing
errors on repos with nested subdirectories (suno/bark ships a
speaker_embeddings/v2 subtree that trips a pre-existing path-doubling
bug in the listFilesInPath recursion).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for fish-speech importer

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add fish-speech importer

Detects Fish Audio TTS releases by HF owner "fishaudio" with a URI-based
fallback for repos whose tree recursion trips the pre-existing hfapi
path-doubling bug.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for outetts importer

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add outetts importer

Detects OuteAI's OuteTTS releases by HF owner "OuteAI" or a case-
insensitive "OuteTTS" substring in the repo name, with a URI-based
fallback for recursion-bugged repos.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for voxcpm importer

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add voxcpm importer

Detects OpenBMB's VoxCPM TTS family by repo-name substring (community
mirrors re-host the weights under many owners — mlx-community,
bluryar, callgg, etc).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for kokoro importer

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add kokoro importer

Detects hexgrad's Kokoro TTS by the "Kokoro" repo-name substring paired
with a PyTorch .pth/.pt checkpoint — the pairing excludes ONNX-only
mirrors (handled by the pref-only `kokoros` Rust runtime) and GGUF
mirrors (handled by llama-cpp).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for kitten-tts importer

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add kitten-tts importer

Detects KittenML's kitten-tts releases by owner or "kitten-tts" repo-name
substring, with URI-parsing fallback.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for neutts importer

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add neutts importer

Detects Neuphonic's NeuTTS releases by owner "neuphonic" or "neutts"
repo-name substring, with URI-parsing fallback.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for chatterbox importer

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add chatterbox importer

Detects Resemble AI's Chatterbox TTS by owner "ResembleAI" or
"chatterbox" repo-name substring, with URI-parsing fallback.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for vibevoice importer

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add vibevoice importer

Detects Microsoft's VibeVoice TTS by "vibevoice" repo-name substring
(case-insensitive) so community mirrors still route here.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for coqui importer

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add coqui importer

Detects Coqui AI's TTS releases (XTTS-v2, YourTTS, …) by the
authoritative `coqui` HF owner, with URI-parsing fallback.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): TTS ambiguity surfaces ErrAmbiguousImport

Adds a Ginkgo spec that imports nari-labs/Dia-1.6B — a real HF repo
carrying pipeline_tag="text-to-speech" whose artefacts (*.pth, one
safetensors shard, preprocessor_config.json, config.json) match none of
the Batch-2 TTS importers nor the generic text/image importers — and
asserts DiscoverModelConfig wraps ErrAmbiguousImport via errors.Is.

Also pivots the endpoint-level ambiguity fixture from hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
to nari-labs/Dia-1.6B. Batch 2 added a dedicated kokoro importer that
now claims the original fixture; Dia remains genuinely unclaimed and
so exercises the same ambiguity code path at the HTTP layer.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for stablediffusion-ggml importer

Covers HF repo detection (city96/FLUX.1-dev-gguf), raw .gguf URL matching on
filename arch tokens, preference override, and Importer interface metadata.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add stablediffusion-ggml importer

Detects GGUF-packed Stable Diffusion and FLUX checkpoints (leejet owner,
city96 FLUX mirrors, second-state SD dumps, raw .gguf URLs with arch
tokens) and routes them to the stablediffusion-ggml backend. Registered
BEFORE LlamaCPPImporter so .gguf image checkpoints are not stolen by
llama-cpp's generic .gguf match. Reuses HFOwnerRepoFromURI for the
hfapi-recursion-bug fallback. preferences.backend overrides detection.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for ace-step importer

Covers HF repo-name detection (ACE-Step/ACE-Step-v1-3.5B), preference
override, and Importer interface metadata.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add ace-step importer

Routes ACE-Step music generation checkpoints (ACE-Step/ACE-Step-v1-3.5B,
ACE-Step/Ace-Step1.5, community mirrors) to the ace-step backend.
Matching is case-insensitive on the "ace-step" repo-name substring and
owner, with an HFOwnerRepoFromURI fallback for the hfapi recursion bug.
KnownUsecaseStrings mirrors the gallery's ace-step-turbo entry
(sound_generation, tts). preferences.backend overrides.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): surface ErrAmbiguousImport on text-to-image misses

Adds text-to-image to ambiguousModalities whitelist and covers the
h94/IP-Adapter-FaceID case — pipeline_tag=text-to-image but ships only
.bin/.safetensors so diffusers, stablediffusion-ggml, llama-cpp,
transformers, vllm, mlx, and ace-step all miss. DiscoverModelConfig now
surfaces ErrAmbiguousImport for that shape instead of the opaque
"no importer matched" error.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for vllm-omni importer

Introduces the test surface for the forthcoming VLLMOmniImporter:
detection via preferences.backend, Qwen owner + Omni repo token,
URI-only fallback, negative cases (plain Qwen, random OmniX repo), and
Import() emitting backend: vllm-omni with chat + multimodal usecases.

Includes a registration-order assertion via DiscoverModelConfig to pin
the requirement that vllm-omni wins over vllm for Qwen Omni repos
(tokenizer files are usually present too).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add vllm-omni importer

Adds VLLMOmniImporter for Qwen Omni-style multimodal checkpoints
(Qwen3-Omni, Qwen2.5-Omni, …). Detection is narrow: HF owner "Qwen"
combined with "omni" in the repo name, or a repo name matching the
-Omni-/Omni- naming pattern. preferences.backend="vllm-omni" always
wins; HFOwnerRepoFromURI provides a URI-only fallback for the hfapi
recursion-bug edge case.

Emitted YAML sets backend: vllm-omni and known_usecases: [chat,
multimodal], matching the gallery/index.yaml vllm-omni entries. The
importer is registered ahead of VLLMImporter so Qwen Omni repos —
which also carry tokenizer files — route to vllm-omni rather than the
plain vllm backend.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for llama-cpp drop-in preferences

Pins the expected drop-in replacement behaviour: preferences.backend
of ik-llama-cpp or turboquant must swap the emitted YAML backend
field while keeping the llama-cpp file layout identical. Also covers
the unknown-backend case (must stay llama-cpp) and re-asserts
AdditionalBackends() returns the two curated entries with non-empty
descriptions.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): llama-cpp honours ik-llama-cpp and turboquant drop-in preferences

preferences.backend set to ik-llama-cpp or turboquant now swaps the
emitted YAML backend field while leaving the file layout, model path,
mmproj handling and everything else in the llama-cpp Import pipeline
untouched. Unknown values are ignored and fall back to backend:
llama-cpp so arbitrary input can't leak into the config.

Aligns the AdditionalBackends() descriptions with the user-facing
naming conventions surfaced via /backends/known. No changes to the
pref-only curated list in endpoints/localai/backend.go: the two
drop-in names have always lived on the importer side via
AdditionalBackends.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for silero-vad importer

Add the SileroVADImporter test fixtures covering metadata, preference
overrides, snakers4 + onnx detection, silero_vad.onnx canonical filename,
URI fallback, and live HF discovery. Implementation follows in the next
commit.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add silero-vad importer

Recognise the Silero VAD ONNX packaging: the canonical silero_vad.onnx
filename or any ONNX file under the snakers4 owner. Emits a
backend: silero-vad config with the vad known_usecase, and attaches the
canonical file entry when present so the weights download on import.

Registered before the generic importers so the unique-filename signal
takes precedence over any downstream tokenizer-based matcher.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for rerankers importer

Cover the RerankersImporter contract: interface metadata, preference
override, cross-encoder owner detection, case-insensitive 'reranker'
substring match (BAAI/bge-reranker, Alibaba-NLP/gte-reranker), URI
fallback, and the full-discovery ordering check that a BAAI reranker
repo must route to the rerankers importer rather than transformers.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add rerankers importer

Recognise reranker repositories — cross-encoder owner or any repo whose
name contains 'reranker' (case-insensitive). Emits backend: rerankers
with reranking: true and the rerank known_usecase.

Registered ahead of sentencetransformers and transformers so reranker
repos that happen to ship tokenizer.json or modules.json still route
here.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for sentencetransformers importer

Cover the SentenceTransformersImporter contract: interface metadata,
preference override, modules.json marker file, sentence_bert_config.json
marker file, sentence-transformers owner, URI fallback, and the
full-discovery ordering check that ensures a sentence-transformers HF
URI routes here rather than transformers.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add sentencetransformers importer

Recognise sentence-transformers embedding repos by modules.json,
sentence_bert_config.json, or the sentence-transformers owner. Emits
backend: sentencetransformers with embeddings: true and the embeddings
known_usecase.

Registered ahead of transformers so ST repos that carry tokenizer.json
still route here.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): add failing tests for rfdetr importer

Cover the RFDetrImporter contract: interface metadata, preference
override, case-insensitive rf-detr and rfdetr substring matches, URI
fallback, and negative cases. Implementation follows in the next
commit.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(gallery/importers): add rfdetr importer

Recognise RF-DETR object-detection repositories by a case-insensitive
'rf-detr' / 'rfdetr' substring in the repo name. Emits backend: rfdetr
with the detection known_usecase.

Registered ahead of transformers so RF-DETR repos with tokenizer
artefacts still route here.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(gallery/importers): surface ErrAmbiguousImport on sentence-similarity misses

Add an ambiguity fixture covering the embeddings/rerankers modality.
Qdrant/bm25 carries pipeline_tag=sentence-similarity but ships only
config.json + stopword .txt files — none of the Batch 5 importers
(silero-vad, rerankers, sentencetransformers, rfdetr) or the generic
vllm/transformers/llama-cpp/mlx/diffusers importers match. Because the
modality is in the ambiguous whitelist, DiscoverModelConfig must
surface ErrAmbiguousImport.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(localai/backend): red tests for KnownBackend.Installed flag

Extend the /backends/known suite with three failing cases that pin down
the forthcoming Installed field: JSON field presence on every entry,
flipping to true when an importer-registered backend is also present on
disk (and staying false for non-installed pref-only entries), and
surfacing system-only backends with empty modality and AutoDetect=false.

A small writeFakeSystemBackend helper plants a run.sh under the backends
dir so gallery.ListSystemBackends recognises the fixture.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(schema,localai/backend): add Installed flag to KnownBackend

Add an Installed bool to schema.KnownBackend and populate it from the
/backends/known handler so the React import form can warn users that
picking a not-yet-installed backend will trigger an automatic download
on submit.

Computation: after merging the importer registry, additional backends
provider entries and the curated pref-only slice, the handler walks
gallery.ListSystemBackends(systemState) and either flips the existing
map entry's Installed flag to true (preserving modality / autodetect /
description metadata) or inserts a bare {Installed:true} entry for
system-only backends the importer layer doesn't know about.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(localai/import_model): structured ambiguous-import response

Add red tests covering the extended ambiguity shape the React import
form needs:

- ImportModelURIEndpoint must return an HTTP 400 body that exposes the
  detected `modality` (normalised to the importer modality key, e.g.
  "tts" for pipeline_tag=text-to-speech) and a list of `candidates`
  (backend names filtered by modality, excluding text-LLM backends).
- The importers package must surface a typed AmbiguousImportError so
  HTTP consumers can read Modality + Candidates without parsing the
  error string. errors.Is against the existing sentinel keeps working.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(localai/import_model): structured ambiguity response with modality + candidates

DiscoverModelConfig now returns a typed AmbiguousImportError that
carries the importer modality key, candidate backend names, the
original URI, and the raw HF pipeline_tag. Its Is() preserves
errors.Is(err, ErrAmbiguousImport) for legacy callers.

The importer modality is pre-mapped from the HF pipeline_tag
(automatic-speech-recognition → asr, text-to-speech → tts, etc) via
PipelineTagToModality — surfaced as an exported helper so downstream
consumers can avoid duplicating the table. CandidatesForModality
filters the default importer registry plus AdditionalBackendsProvider
drop-ins by modality, sorts deterministically, and is the single
source of truth used by ImportModelURIEndpoint.

ImportModelURIEndpoint now returns HTTP 400 with
  { error, detail, modality, candidates, hint }
when ambiguity fires, letting the React form render a modality-scoped
picker inline instead of a generic toast.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(ui/import): manual pick badge + tooltip

Red Playwright coverage for the preference-only → manual pick rename:

- The Backend dropdown renders a "manual pick" badge on every option
  whose KnownBackend.auto_detect is false.
- The badge carries a title attribute with hover-tooltip copy that
  explains auto-detect won't route to this backend.
- Auto-detectable backends must NOT carry the badge.
- The legacy " (preference-only)" suffix is gone from every label.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* ui(import): replace preference-only suffix with manual pick badge

SearchableSelect option rows now support an optional badge field — a
muted pill rendered to the right of the label with an optional title
attribute for native hover tooltips. Plain text so screen readers read
it alongside the option name.

buildBackendOptions in ImportModel stops appending " (preference-only)"
to the label and instead sets badge="manual pick" plus a descriptive
tooltip on every option whose auto_detect is false. The Backend help
text explains what "manual pick" means so users aren't left wondering
about the badge.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(ui/import): inline ambiguity picker

Red Playwright coverage for Batch A2 — when the server returns a 400
ambiguity body, the form must render an inline alert instead of a
toast, expose one clickable chip per candidate backend, and support
both auto-resubmit on pick and silent dismiss.

- Mocks /api/models/import-uri with the structured ambiguity body
  (error, detail, modality, candidates, hint).
- On first click of Import, the alert is visible, carries
  modality-specific copy, and shows a chip per candidate.
- Clicking a chip clears the alert, sets the Backend dropdown, and
  triggers a second POST to /api/models/import-uri.
- Dismissing the alert leaves the Backend dropdown on Auto-detect —
  no implicit backend assignment.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(ui/import): inline ambiguity alert with candidate chips

Adds AmbiguityAlert — a soft, info-coloured card rendered above the URI
input when the server returns a structured 400 with { modality,
candidates }. Message is modality-aware (tts/asr/embeddings/image/
reranker/detection get purpose-written copy, everything else falls back
to a generic template). Each candidate is a clickable chip that shows a
download icon when /backends/known marks the backend as not yet
installed, so users aren't surprised by an implicit install.

ImportModel wires the alert to handleSimpleImport's error path:
- api.handleResponse now attaches { status, body } to the thrown Error
  so pages can pattern-match on structured responses instead of string
  error messages.
- handleSimpleImport detects `status === 400 && body.error === 'ambiguous
  import'` and flips into the inline-picker mode instead of toasting.
- Clicking a chip sets prefs.backend and auto-resubmits (passing the
  picked backend as an override so setPrefs's asynchrony doesn't leak
  a stale value).
- Dismissing clears the alert; changing the URI or the backend also
  clears it so a stale alert never sticks around.

Test fixtures mock GET /backends/known + POST /models/import-uri so the
Playwright specs don't depend on real network reachability.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(ui/import): auto-install warning

Red Playwright coverage for Batch A3 — when the user picks a backend
whose KnownBackend.installed is false, the form must render a muted
inline note under the Backend dropdown warning that submitting will
download the backend first. Picking an installed backend or leaving
Auto-detect selected must keep the note hidden.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(ui/import): auto-install warning under backend dropdown

When the user picks a backend whose KnownBackend.installed is false,
render a muted inline note under the Backend dropdown's help text
warning that submitting will download the backend first. The note
lives inside the same form-group so it lines up with the existing
hint text; it's hidden when Auto-detect is selected (the selected
backend is unknowable at that point) or when the chosen backend is
already on disk.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* ui(import): drop redundant section header, adjust icons, rename HF shortcut

- Remove the "Import from URI" card-level <h2> — the page title already
  says "Import New Model" one row up, so the secondary header was
  duplicating information.
- Swap the fa-star on "Common Preferences" for fa-sliders (stars imply
  favourites/ratings; this is just a preferences block) and move the
  Custom Preferences fa-sliders-h to fa-plus-circle so the two blocks
  read as distinct rather than as two sliders.
- Rename the HF shortcut from "Search GGUF on HF" → "Browse models on
  HF" and drop the `search=gguf` filter on the linked URL. The import
  form now supports ~40 backends; hard-coding GGUF in the copy no
  longer matches the form's actual reach.
- Pure polish — no behaviour change, covered by the existing Batch A
  Playwright suite.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(ui/import): batch B — simple/power switch, options, tabs, dialog

Adds a failing Playwright suite covering the full Batch B surface ahead
of implementation:

- B1: SimplePowerSwitch segmented control renders, toggles, persists to
  localStorage across reloads.
- B2: Simple-mode Options disclosure is collapsed by default; expanding
  exposes only Backend, Model Name, Description (no quantizations,
  mmproj, model type, or custom prefs).
- B3: Power mode has Preferences and YAML tabs with a persistent
  selection across reloads; URI/name/description typed in Simple carry
  over to Power; YAML tab swaps the primary action to Create.
- B4: Switching Power -> Simple with a custom preference set triggers
  the 3-button confirmation dialog (Keep / Discard / Cancel) with the
  documented semantics.

Tests fail against master — implementation lands in the following
commits.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(ui/import): add SimplePowerSwitch segmented control

Replaces the previous "Advanced Mode / Simple Mode" toggle button in the
page header with a two-segment control that flips between Simple and
Power. The control reuses the existing .segmented CSS shared with the
Sound page for visual consistency.

Mode state is persisted to localStorage under `import-form-mode` so
reloads land on the same view (default: simple). The boolean alias
`isAdvancedMode` is retained internally to minimise diff — subsequent
commits reshape the Simple and Power surfaces independently.

Closes B1 from the Batch B Playwright suite.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(ui/import): simple mode collapsible options, power tabs, switch dialog

Completes the Batch B surface in a single structural pass so Simple and
Power mode can evolve independently:

Simple mode
  - URI input + Ambiguity alert + Import button, plus a collapsible
    "Options" disclosure that exposes ONLY Backend, Model Name,
    Description. Quantizations / MMProj / Model Type / Diffusers fields
    / Custom Preferences are no longer rendered in Simple mode.

Power mode
  - In-page segmented "Preferences · YAML" tab strip. Active tab
    persists to localStorage under `import-form-power-tab`.
  - Preferences tab = the full existing preferences + custom prefs
    panel (no progressive disclosure yet — that's Batch D).
  - YAML tab = the existing CodeEditor. Primary button reads "Create"
    here, "Import Model" everywhere else.

Switch dialog
  - Power -> Simple with non-default prefs (advanced pref keys set,
    any custom-pref key non-empty, or YAML edited away from the
    template) opens a 3-button dialog: Keep & switch / Discard &
    switch / Cancel.
  - Keep preserves all state. Discard resets prefs + customPrefs + YAML
    to defaults. Cancel leaves the user in Power mode.

Page subtitle reflects the current surface (Simple, Power/Preferences,
Power/YAML). Estimate banner renders everywhere except Power/YAML.

Closes B2/B3/B4 from the Batch B Playwright suite.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(ui/import): expand Options disclosure in Batch A tests

Batch B hid the Backend dropdown behind a collapsible Options disclosure
in Simple mode. The Batch A tests that exercise the dropdown directly
(manual-pick badge, ambiguity chip sets the selected backend, auto-
install warning) now click the disclosure toggle before asserting on
dropdown contents. Test intent is unchanged.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* ui(import): strip decorative icons from field labels

The preference panel had 12 Font Awesome icons decorating field labels
(Backend, Model Name, Description, Quantizations, MMProj Quantizations,
Model Type, Pipeline Type, Scheduler Type, Enable Parameters, Embeddings,
CUDA, plus fa-link on Model URI). Every label screamed equally, flattening
the visual hierarchy.

Remove them. Keep icons where they carry meaning: page-level section
headers, URI format guide entries, primary buttons, the Simple-mode
Options disclosure, the ambiguity alert's fa-lightbulb, the auto-install
note's fa-download, and the Estimated-requirements banner's
fa-memory / fa-microchip / fa-download.

No new behaviour, no layout / spacing changes beyond removing the
orphaned icon margin. Playwright suite green.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(ui/import): progressive disclosure of preference fields

Cover the Batch D visibility matrix for Power > Preferences: Quantizations,
MMProj Quantizations, and Model Type each render only for the backends that
can consume them, stay visible when the backend is unset, and preserve any
value the user already typed when toggled off and back on. Also pin the
shrunk Description textarea at rows=2.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(ui/import): progressive disclosure + shorter description textarea

Gate Quantizations, MMProj Quantizations, and Model Type in the Power >
Preferences tab so each field only renders for the backends that can
actually consume it. Backend unset keeps everything visible. Hidden
fields' state is preserved (the JSX wrapper is guarded, not the
underlying prefs state) so users flipping backends back and forth don't
lose input.

Also shrink the Description textarea from rows=3 to rows=2 — it's
shared between Simple Options and Power Preferences so the change
applies to both.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(ui/import): enter-to-submit in Simple mode

Red test for Batch F3 — pressing Enter in the URI input must POST
/models/import-uri, and Enter in the Description textarea must insert
a newline without submitting the form.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(ui/import): enter-to-submit in Simple mode

Wrap the Simple-mode URI input + ambiguity alert + Options disclosure
in a <form> whose onSubmit calls handleSimpleImport. Pressing Enter in
the URI input (or any Simple-mode text input) now submits the import
without having to move the mouse to the header button. The Description
textarea keeps its native behaviour — Enter inserts a newline.

A hidden submit button is included because the visible Import button
lives outside the form in the page header; some browsers only fire
implicit Enter-submit when the form contains a submit-capable element.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* ui(import,SearchableSelect,components): aria-hidden on decorative icons

Every Font Awesome icon in the import form is decorative — its meaning
is already conveyed by adjacent visible text. Adding aria-hidden="true"
prevents screen readers from announcing the unicode glyph point as
content. Covers ImportModel.jsx (all remaining <i> glyphs) and
SearchableSelect.jsx (the trigger chevron).

AmbiguityAlert and SimplePowerSwitch already set aria-hidden on their
icons when the components landed in Batches A and B — no change needed
there.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* ui(SearchableSelect): responsive dropdown maxHeight + hover focus guard

F2 — replace fixed pixel heights with min(pixel, vh) so the dropdown
and its inner scroll region don't overflow short viewports. Outer
container: 260px -> min(260px, 60vh); inner listbox: 200px ->
min(200px, 50vh). Tall viewports still get the original pixel caps.

F5 — short-circuit onMouseEnter when the hovered row is already the
focused row. Avoids queueing a setFocusIndex call (and a render) for
every mousemove inside the same item — the state would be identical.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* ui(import): aria-label on custom preference rows

The Key / Value inputs and trash button in each Custom Preferences row
previously relied on placeholder text alone. Placeholders are not
accessible names — they vanish on input and screen readers do not
announce them consistently. Add row-indexed aria-labels so assistive
tech can distinguish "Preference key for row 1" from "row 2", and give
the trash button an explicit "Remove this preference" label.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* test(ui/import): modality chip row

Red tests for Batch E — a horizontal modality chip row that filters the
Backend dropdown by modality. Covers visibility in Simple-mode Options
and Power/Preferences (and absence in Power/YAML), filter behaviour,
mismatched-backend clearing with toast, ambiguity-alert auto-selection,
and radiogroup keyboard navigation.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* feat(ui/import): add ModalityChips component + filter integration

Horizontal chip row (Any, Text, Speech, TTS, Image, Embeddings,
Rerankers, Detection, VAD) filters the Backend dropdown options to the
selected modality. Default is Any — no filter, current behaviour.

- New ModalityChips component (radiogroup pattern, roving tabindex,
  arrow-key navigation, Home/End).
- buildBackendOptions now accepts an optional modalityFilter so grouped
  output is narrowed before rendering.
- Chips render inside Simple-mode Options disclosure and Power >
  Preferences tab. Power > YAML stays unaffected.
- Switching the filter drops a mismatched backend selection and
  surfaces a toast so the auto-clear is visible.
- Ambiguity alerts auto-activate the matching chip so users see only
  relevant backends even if they dismiss the alert.

Tightens the Batch E tests' option-matching to the label <span> so the
"↵" keybind hint on the focused row doesn't break accessible-name
lookups.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m] [Agent]

* fix(ui/import): rename Power to Advanced + stop URI-formats toggle from submitting form

The "Supported URI Formats" disclosure button inside the Simple-mode form
lacked an explicit type attribute, so it defaulted to type="submit". Every
click triggered the form's onSubmit and surfaced the empty-URI validation
toast ("Please enter a model URI"). Marking it type="button" lets it
behave as a pure toggle.

While here, rename the user-visible "Power" label to "Advanced" in the
mode switch (button text + tooltip) and the Power-mode tab's aria-label,
matching the term users actually expect. The internal mode key stays
'power' so tests, localStorage, and data-testid selectors are untouched.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7

* fix(system): fall back to cpu when meta backend lacks default capability

Meta backends like vllm and sglang enumerate concrete variants for
nvidia/amd/intel/cpu but omit a default: catch-all entry. On a no-GPU
host the reported capability is "default", so the previous Capability()
returned "default" unconditionally on a miss — IsCompatibleWith then saw
no "default" key and filtered the meta out of AvailableBackends. The
import flow's auto-install step then failed with "no backend found with
name <meta>", contradicting the UI's promise that the backend would be
downloaded on demand.

Try the explicit "default" key first, then fall back to "cpu" before
giving up. vllm now resolves to cpu-vllm on CPU-only Linux without
touching the gallery YAML.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
2026-04-22 22:42:37 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
372eb08dcf fix(gallery): allow uninstalling orphaned meta backends + force reinstall (#9434)
Two interrelated bugs that combined to make a meta backend impossible
to uninstall once its concrete had been removed from disk (partial
install, earlier crash, manual cleanup).

1. DeleteBackendFromSystem returned "meta backend %q not found" and
   bailed out early when the concrete directory didn't exist,
   preventing the orphaned meta dir from ever being removed. Treat a
   missing concrete as idempotent success — log a warning and continue
   to remove the orphan meta.

2. InstallBackendFromGallery's "already installed, skip" short-circuit
   only checked that the name was known (`backends.Exists(name)`); an
   orphaned meta whose RunFile points at a missing concrete still
   satisfies that check, so every reinstall returned nil without doing
   anything. Afterwards the worker's findBackend returned empty and we
   kept looping with "backend %q not found after install attempt".
   Require the entry to be actually runnable (run.sh stat-able, not a
   directory) before skipping.

New helper isBackendRunnable centralises the runnability test so both
the install guard and future callers stay in sync. Tests cover the
orphaned-meta delete path and the non-runnable short-circuit case.
2026-04-20 00:10:19 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
75a63f87d8 feat(distributed): sync state with frontends, better backend management reporting (#9426)
* fix(distributed): detect backend upgrades across worker nodes

Before this change `DistributedBackendManager.CheckUpgrades` delegated to the
local manager, which read backends from the frontend filesystem. In
distributed deployments the frontend has no backends installed locally —
they live on workers — so the upgrade-detection loop never ran and the UI
silently never surfaced upgrades even when the gallery advertised newer
versions or digests.

Worker-side: NATS backend.list reply now carries Version, URI and Digest
for each installed backend (read from metadata.json).

Frontend-side: DistributedBackendManager.ListBackends aggregates per-node
refs (name, status, version, digest) instead of deduping, and CheckUpgrades
feeds that aggregation into gallery.CheckUpgradesAgainst — a new entrypoint
factored out of CheckBackendUpgrades so both paths share the same core
logic.

Cluster drift policy: when per-node version/digest tuples disagree, the
backend is flagged upgradeable regardless of whether any single node
matches the gallery, and UpgradeInfo.NodeDrift enumerates the outliers so
operators can see *why* it is out of sync. The next upgrade-all realigns
the cluster.

Tests cover: drift detection, unanimous-match (no upgrade), and the
empty-installed-version path that the old distributed code silently
missed.

* feat(ui): surface backend upgrades in the System page

The System page (Manage.jsx) only showed updates as a tiny inline arrow,
so operators routinely missed them. Port the Backend Gallery's upgrade UX
so System speaks the same visual language:

- Yellow banner at the top of the Backends tab when upgrades are pending,
  with an "Upgrade all" button (serial fan-out, matches the gallery) and a
  "Updates only" filter toggle.
- Warning pill (↑ N) next to the tab label so the count is glanceable even
  when the banner is scrolled out of view.
- Per-row labeled "Upgrade to vX.Y" button (replaces the icon-only button
  that silently flipped semantics between Reinstall and Upgrade), plus an
  "Update available" badge in the new Version column.
- New columns: Version (with upgrade + drift chips), Nodes (per-node
  attribution badges for distributed mode, degrading to a compact
  "on N nodes · M offline" chip above three nodes), Installed (relative
  time).
- System backends render a "Protected" chip instead of a bare "—" so rows
  still align and the reason is obvious.
- Delete uses the softer btn-danger-ghost so rows don't scream red; the
  ConfirmDialog still owns the "are you sure".

The upgrade checker also needed the same per-worker fix as the previous
commit: NewUpgradeChecker now takes a BackendManager getter so its
periodic runs call the distributed CheckUpgrades (which asks workers)
instead of the empty frontend filesystem. Without this the /api/backends/
upgrades endpoint stayed empty in distributed mode even with the protocol
change in place.

New CSS primitives — .upgrade-banner, .tab-pill, .badge-row, .cell-stack,
.cell-mono, .cell-muted, .row-actions, .btn-danger-ghost — all live in
App.css so other pages can adopt them without duplicating styles.

* feat(ui): polish the Nodes page so it reads like a product

The Nodes page was the biggest visual liability in distributed mode.
Rework the main dashboard surfaces in place without changing behavior:

StatCards: uniform height (96px min), left accent bar colored by the
metric's semantic (success/warning/error/primary), icon lives in a
36x36 soft-tinted chip top-right, value is left-aligned and large.
Grid auto-fills so the row doesn't collapse on narrow viewports. This
replaces the previous thin-bordered boxes with inconsistent heights.

Table rows: expandable rows now show a chevron cue on the left (rotates
on expand) so users know rows open. Status cell became a dedicated chip
with an LED-style halo dot instead of a bare bullet. Action buttons gained
labels — "Approve", "Resume", "Drain" — so the icons aren't doing all
the semantic work; the destructive remove action uses the softer
btn-danger-ghost variant so rows don't scream red, with the ConfirmDialog
still owning the real "are you sure". Applied cell-mono/cell-muted
utility classes so label chips and addresses share one spacing/font
grammar instead of re-declaring inline styles everywhere.

Expanded drawer: empty states for Loaded Models and Installed Backends
now render as a proper drawer-empty card (dashed border, icon, one-line
hint) instead of a plain muted string that read like broken formatting.

Tabs: three inline-styled buttons became the shared .tab class so they
inherit focus ring, hover state, and the rest of the design system —
matches the System page.

"Add more workers" toggle turned into a .nodes-add-worker dashed-border
button labelled "Register a new worker" (action voice) instead of a
chevron + muted link that operators kept mistaking for broken text.

New shared CSS primitives carry over to other pages:
.stat-grid + .stat-card, .row-chevron, .node-status, .drawer-empty,
.nodes-add-worker.

* feat(distributed): durable backend fan-out + state reconciliation

Two connected problems handled together:

1) Backend delete/install/upgrade used to silently skip non-healthy nodes,
   so a delete during an outage left a zombie on the offline node once it
   returned. The fan-out now records intent in a new pending_backend_ops
   table before attempting the NATS round-trip. Currently-healthy nodes
   get an immediate attempt; everyone else is queued. Unique index on
   (node_id, backend, op) means reissuing the same operation refreshes
   next_retry_at instead of stacking duplicates.

2) Loaded-model state could drift from reality: a worker OOM'd, got
   killed, or restarted a backend process would leave a node_models row
   claiming the model was still loaded, feeding ghost entries into the
   /api/nodes/models listing and the router's scheduling decisions.

The existing ReplicaReconciler gains two new passes that run under a
fresh KeyStateReconciler advisory lock (non-blocking, so one wedged
frontend doesn't freeze the cluster):

  - drainPendingBackendOps: retries queued ops whose next_retry_at has
    passed on currently-healthy nodes. Success deletes the row; failure
    bumps attempts and pushes next_retry_at out with exponential backoff
    (30s → 15m cap). ErrNoResponders also marks the node unhealthy.

  - probeLoadedModels: gRPC-HealthChecks addresses the DB thinks are
    loaded but hasn't seen touched in the last probeStaleAfter (2m).
    Unreachable addresses are removed from the registry. A pluggable
    ModelProber lets tests substitute a fake without standing up gRPC.

DistributedBackendManager exposes DeleteBackendDetailed so the HTTP
handler can surface per-node outcomes ("2 succeeded, 1 queued") to the
UI in a follow-up commit; the existing DeleteBackend still returns
error-only for callers that don't care about node breakdown.

Multi-frontend safety: the state pass uses advisorylock.TryWithLockCtx
on a new key so N frontends coordinate — the same pattern the health
monitor and replica reconciler already rely on. Single-node mode runs
both passes inline (adapter is nil, state drain is a no-op).

Tests cover the upsert semantics, backoff math, the probe removing an
unreachable model but keeping a reachable one, and filtering by
probeStaleAfter.

* feat(ui): show cluster distribution of models in the System page

When a frontend restarted in distributed mode, models that workers had
already loaded weren't visible until the operator clicked into each node
manually — the /api/models/capabilities endpoint only knew about
configs on the frontend's filesystem, not the registry-backed truth.

/api/models/capabilities now joins in ListAllLoadedModels() when the
registry is active, returning loaded_on[] with node id/name/state/status
for each model. Models that live in the registry but lack a local config
(the actual ghosts, not recovered from the frontend's file cache) still
surface with source="registry-only" so operators can see and persist
them; without that emission they'd be invisible to this frontend.

Manage → Models replaces the old Running/Idle pill with a distribution
cell that lists the first three nodes the model is loaded on as chips
colored by state (green loaded, blue loading, amber anything else). On
wider clusters the remaining count collapses into a +N chip with a
title-attribute breakdown. Disabled / single-node behavior unchanged.

Adopted models get an extra "Adopted" ghost-icon chip with hover copy
explaining what it means and how to make it permanent.

Distributed mode also enables a 10s auto-refresh and a "Last synced Xs
ago" indicator next to the Update button so ghost rows drop off within
one reconcile tick after their owning process dies. Non-distributed
mode is untouched — no polling, no cell-stack, same old Running/Idle.

* feat(ui): NodeDistributionChip — shared per-node attribution component

Large clusters were going to break the Manage → Backends Nodes column:
the old inline logic rendered every node as a badge and would shred the
layout at >10 workers, plus the Manage → Models distribution cell had
copy-pasted its own slightly-different version.

NodeDistributionChip handles any cluster size with two render modes:
  - small (≤3 nodes): inline chips of node names, colored by health.
  - large: a single "on N nodes · M offline · K drift" summary chip;
    clicking opens a Popover with a per-node table (name, status,
    version, digest for backends; name, status, state for models).

Drift counting mirrors the backend's summarizeNodeDrift so the UI
number matches UpgradeInfo.NodeDrift. Digests are truncated to the
docker-style 12-char form with the full value preserved in the title.

Popover is a new general-purpose primitive: fixed positioning anchored
to the trigger, flips above when there's no room below, closes on
outside-click or Escape, returns focus to the trigger. Uses .card as
its surface so theming is inherited. Also useful for a future
labels-editor popup and the user menu.

Manage.jsx drops its duplicated inline Nodes-column + loaded_on cell
and uses the shared chip with context="backends" / "models"
respectively. Delete code removes ~40 lines of ad-hoc logic.

* feat(ui): shared FilterBar across the System page tabs

The Backends gallery had a nice search + chip + toggle strip; the System
page had nothing, so the two surfaces felt like different apps. Lift the
pattern into a reusable FilterBar and wire both System tabs through it.

New component core/http/react-ui/src/components/FilterBar.jsx renders a
search input, a role="tablist" chip row (aria-selected for a11y), and
optional toggles / right slot. Chips support an optional `count` which
the System page uses to show "User 3", "Updates 1" etc.

System Models tab: search by id or backend; chips for
All/Running/Idle/Disabled/Pinned plus a conditional Distributed chip in
distributed mode. "Last synced" + Update button live in the right slot.

System Backends tab: search by name/alias/meta-backend-for; chips for
All/User/System/Meta plus conditional Updates / Offline-nodes chips
when relevant. The old ad-hoc "Updates only" toggle from the upgrade
banner folded into the Updates chip — one source of truth for that
filter. Offline chip only appears in distributed mode when at least
one backend has an unhealthy node, so the chip row stays quiet on
healthy clusters.

Filter state persists in URL query params (mq/mf/bq/bf) so deep links
and tab switches keep the operator's filter context instead of
resetting every time.

Also adds an "Adopted" distribution path: when a model in
/api/models/capabilities carries source="registry-only" (discovered on
a worker but not configured locally), the Models tab shows a ghost chip
labelled "Adopted" with hover copy explaining how to persist it — this
is what closes the loop on the ghost-model story end-to-end.
2026-04-19 17:55:53 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
7c5d6162f7 fix(ui): rename model config files on save to prevent duplicates (#9388)
Editing a model's YAML and changing the `name:` field previously wrote
the new body to the original `<oldName>.yaml`. On reload the config
loader indexed that file under the new name while the old key
lingered in memory, producing two entries in the system UI that
shared a single underlying file — deleting either removed both.

Detect the rename in EditModelEndpoint and rename the on-disk
`<name>.yaml` and `._gallery_<name>.yaml` to match, drop the stale
in-memory key before the reload, and redirect the editor URL in the
React UI so it tracks the new name. Reject conflicts (409) and names
containing path separators (400).

Fixes #9294
2026-04-17 08:12:48 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
016da02845 feat: refactor shared helpers and enhance MLX backend functionality (#9335)
* refactor(backends): extract python_utils + add mlx_utils shared helpers

Move parse_options() and messages_to_dicts() out of vllm_utils.py into a
new framework-agnostic python_utils.py, and re-export them from vllm_utils
so existing vllm / vllm-omni imports keep working.

Add mlx_utils.py with split_reasoning() and parse_tool_calls() — ported
from mlx_vlm/server.py's process_tool_calls. These work with any
mlx-lm / mlx-vlm tool module (anything exposing tool_call_start,
tool_call_end, parse_tool_call). Used by the mlx and mlx-vlm backends in
later commits to emit structured ChatDelta.tool_calls without
reimplementing per-model parsing.

Shared smoke tests confirm:
- parse_options round-trips bool/int/float/string
- vllm_utils re-exports are identity-equal to python_utils originals
- mlx_utils parse_tool_calls handles <tool_call>...</tool_call> with a
  shim module and produces a correctly-indexed list with JSON arguments
- mlx_utils split_reasoning extracts <think> blocks and leaves clean
  content

* feat(mlx): wire native tool parsers + ChatDelta + token usage + logprobs

Bring the MLX backend up to the same structured-output contract as vLLM
and llama.cpp: emit Reply.chat_deltas so the OpenAI HTTP layer sees
tool_calls and reasoning_content, not just raw text.

Key insight: mlx_lm.load() returns a TokenizerWrapper that already auto-
detects the right tool parser from the model's chat template
(_infer_tool_parser in mlx_lm/tokenizer_utils.py). The wrapper exposes
has_tool_calling, has_thinking, tool_parser, tool_call_start,
tool_call_end, think_start, think_end — no user configuration needed,
unlike vLLM.

Changes in backend/python/mlx/backend.py:

- Imports: replace inline parse_options / messages_to_dicts with the
  shared helpers from python_utils. Pull split_reasoning / parse_tool_calls
  from the new mlx_utils shared module.
- LoadModel: log the auto-detected has_tool_calling / has_thinking /
  tool_parser_type for observability. Drop the local is_float / is_int
  duplicates.
- _prepare_prompt: run request.Messages through messages_to_dicts so
  tool_call_id / tool_calls / reasoning_content survive the conversion,
  and pass tools=json.loads(request.Tools) + enable_thinking=True (when
  request.Metadata says so) to apply_chat_template. Falls back on
  TypeError for tokenizers whose template doesn't accept those kwargs.
- _build_generation_params: return an additional (logits_params,
  stop_words) pair. Maps RepetitionPenalty / PresencePenalty /
  FrequencyPenalty to mlx_lm.sample_utils.make_logits_processors and
  threads StopPrompts through to post-decode truncation.
- New _tool_module_from_tokenizer / _finalize_output / _truncate_at_stop
  helpers. _finalize_output runs split_reasoning when has_thinking is
  true and parse_tool_calls (using a SimpleNamespace shim around the
  wrapper's tool_parser callable) when has_tool_calling is true, then
  extracts prompt_tokens, generation_tokens and (best-effort) logprobs
  from the last GenerationResponse chunk.
- Predict: use make_logits_processors, accumulate text + last_response,
  finalize into a structured Reply carrying chat_deltas,
  prompt_tokens, tokens, logprobs. Early-stops on user stop sequences.
- PredictStream: per-chunk Reply still carries raw message bytes for
  back-compat but now also emits chat_deltas=[ChatDelta(content=delta)].
  On loop exit, emit a terminal Reply with structured
  reasoning_content / tool_calls / token counts / logprobs — so the Go
  side sees tool calls without needing the regex fallback.
- TokenizeString RPC: uses the TokenizerWrapper's encode(); returns
  length + tokens or FAILED_PRECONDITION if the model isn't loaded.
- Free RPC: drops model / tokenizer / lru_cache, runs gc.collect(),
  calls mx.metal.clear_cache() when available, and best-effort clears
  torch.cuda as a belt-and-suspenders.

* feat(mlx-vlm): mirror MLX parity (tool parsers + ChatDelta + samplers)

Same treatment as the MLX backend: emit structured Reply.chat_deltas,
tool_calls, reasoning_content, token counts and logprobs, and extend
sampling parameter coverage beyond the temp/top_p pair the backend
used to handle.

- Imports: drop the inline is_float/is_int helpers, pull parse_options /
  messages_to_dicts from python_utils and split_reasoning /
  parse_tool_calls from mlx_utils. Also import make_sampler and
  make_logits_processors from mlx_lm.sample_utils — mlx-vlm re-uses them.
- LoadModel: use parse_options; call mlx_vlm.tool_parsers._infer_tool_parser
  / load_tool_module to auto-detect a tool module from the processor's
  chat_template. Stash think_start / think_end / has_thinking so later
  finalisation can split reasoning blocks without duck-typing on each
  call. Logs the detected parser type.
- _prepare_prompt: convert proto Messages via messages_to_dicts (so
  tool_call_id / tool_calls survive), pass tools=json.loads(request.Tools)
  and enable_thinking=True to apply_chat_template when present, fall
  back on TypeError for older mlx-vlm versions. Also handle the
  prompt-only + media and empty-prompt + media paths consistently.
- _build_generation_params: return (max_tokens, sampler_params,
  logits_params, stop_words). Maps repetition_penalty / presence_penalty /
  frequency_penalty and passes them through make_logits_processors.
- _finalize_output / _truncate_at_stop: common helper used by Predict
  and PredictStream to split reasoning, run parse_tool_calls against the
  auto-detected tool module, build ToolCallDelta list, and extract token
  counts + logprobs from the last GenerationResult.
- Predict / PredictStream: switch from mlx_vlm.generate to mlx_vlm.stream_generate
  in both paths, accumulate text + last_response, pass sampler and
  logits_processors through, emit content-only ChatDelta per streaming
  chunk followed by a terminal Reply carrying reasoning_content,
  tool_calls, prompt_tokens, tokens and logprobs. Non-streaming Predict
  returns the same structured Reply shape.
- New helper _collect_media extracted from the duplicated base64 image /
  audio decode loop.
- New TokenizeString RPC using the processor's tokenizer.encode and
  Free RPC that drops model/processor/config, runs gc + Metal cache
  clear + best-effort torch.cuda cache clear.

* feat(importer/mlx): auto-set tool_parser/reasoning_parser on import

Mirror what core/gallery/importers/vllm.go does: after applying the
shared inference defaults, look up the model URI in parser_defaults.json
and append matching tool_parser:/reasoning_parser: entries to Options.

The MLX backends auto-detect tool parsers from the chat template at
runtime so they don't actually consume these options — but surfacing
them in the generated YAML:
  - keeps the import experience consistent with vllm
  - gives users a single visible place to override
  - documents the intended parser for a given model family

* test(mlx): add helper unit tests + TokenizeString/Free + e2e make targets

- backend/python/mlx/test.py: add TestSharedHelpers with server-less
  unit tests for parse_options, messages_to_dicts, split_reasoning and
  parse_tool_calls (using a SimpleNamespace shim to fake a tool module
  without requiring a model). Plus test_tokenize_string and test_free
  RPC tests that load a tiny MLX-quantized Llama and exercise the new
  RPCs end-to-end.

- backend/python/mlx-vlm/test.py: same helper unit tests + cleanup of
  the duplicated import block at the top of the file.

- Makefile: register BACKEND_MLX and BACKEND_MLX_VLM (they were missing
  from the docker-build-target eval list — only mlx-distributed had a
  generated target before). Add test-extra-backend-mlx and
  test-extra-backend-mlx-vlm convenience targets that build the
  respective image and run tests/e2e-backends with the tools capability
  against mlx-community/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-4bit. The MLX backend
  auto-detects the tool parser from the chat template so no
  BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS is needed (unlike vllm).

* fix(libbackend): don't pass --copies to venv unless PORTABLE_PYTHON=true

backend/python/common/libbackend.sh:ensureVenv() always invoked
'python -m venv --copies', but macOS system python (and some other
builds) refuses with:

    Error: This build of python cannot create venvs without using symlinks

--copies only matters when _makeVenvPortable later relocates the venv,
which only happens when PORTABLE_PYTHON=true. Make --copies conditional
on that flag and fall back to default (symlinked) venv otherwise.

Caught while bringing up the mlx backend on Apple Silicon — the same
build path is used by every Python backend with USE_PIP=true.

* fix(mlx): support mlx-lm 0.29.x tool calling + drop deprecated clear_cache

The released mlx-lm 0.29.x ships a much simpler tool-calling API than
HEAD: TokenizerWrapper detects the <tool_call>...</tool_call> markers
from the tokenizer vocab and exposes has_tool_calling /
tool_call_start / tool_call_end, but does NOT expose a tool_parser
callable on the wrapper and does NOT ship a mlx_lm.tool_parsers
subpackage at all (those only exist on main).

Caught while running the smoke test on Apple Silicon with the
released mlx-lm 0.29.1: tokenizer.tool_parser raised AttributeError
(falling through to the underlying HF tokenizer), so
_tool_module_from_tokenizer always returned None and tool calls slipped
through as raw <tool_call>...</tool_call> text in Reply.message instead
of being parsed into ChatDelta.tool_calls.

Fix: when has_tool_calling is True but tokenizer.tool_parser is missing,
default the parse_tool_call callable to json.loads(body.strip()) — that's
exactly what mlx_lm.tool_parsers.json_tools.parse_tool_call does on HEAD
and covers the only format 0.29 detects (<tool_call>JSON</tool_call>).
Future mlx-lm releases that ship more parsers will be picked up
automatically via the tokenizer.tool_parser attribute when present.

Also tighten the LoadModel logging — the old log line read
init_kwargs.get('tool_parser_type') which doesn't exist on 0.29 and
showed None even when has_tool_calling was True. Log the actual
tool_call_start / tool_call_end markers instead.

While here, switch Free()'s Metal cache clear from the deprecated
mx.metal.clear_cache to mx.clear_cache (mlx >= 0.30), with a
fallback for older releases. Mirrored to the mlx-vlm backend.

* feat(mlx-distributed): mirror MLX parity (tool calls + ChatDelta + sampler)

Same treatment as the mlx and mlx-vlm backends: emit Reply.chat_deltas
with structured tool_calls / reasoning_content / token counts /
logprobs, expand sampling parameter coverage beyond temp+top_p, and
add the missing TokenizeString and Free RPCs.

Notes specific to mlx-distributed:

- Rank 0 is the only rank that owns a sampler — workers participate in
  the pipeline-parallel forward pass via mx.distributed and don't
  re-implement sampling. So the new logits_params (repetition_penalty,
  presence_penalty, frequency_penalty) and stop_words apply on rank 0
  only; we don't need to extend coordinator.broadcast_generation_params,
  which still ships only max_tokens / temperature / top_p to workers
  (everything else is a rank-0 concern).
- Free() now broadcasts CMD_SHUTDOWN to workers when a coordinator is
  active, so they release the model on their end too. The constant is
  already defined and handled by the existing worker loop in
  backend.py:633 (CMD_SHUTDOWN = -1).
- Drop the locally-defined is_float / is_int / parse_options trio in
  favor of python_utils.parse_options, re-exported under the module
  name for back-compat with anything that imported it directly.
- _prepare_prompt: route through messages_to_dicts so tool_call_id /
  tool_calls / reasoning_content survive, pass tools=json.loads(
  request.Tools) and enable_thinking=True to apply_chat_template, fall
  back on TypeError for templates that don't accept those kwargs.
- New _tool_module_from_tokenizer (with the json.loads fallback for
  mlx-lm 0.29.x), _finalize_output, _truncate_at_stop helpers — same
  contract as the mlx backend.
- LoadModel logs the auto-detected has_tool_calling / has_thinking /
  tool_call_start / tool_call_end so users can see what the wrapper
  picked up for the loaded model.
- backend/python/mlx-distributed/test.py: add the same TestSharedHelpers
  unit tests (parse_options, messages_to_dicts, split_reasoning,
  parse_tool_calls) that exist for mlx and mlx-vlm.
2026-04-13 18:44:03 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
d67623230f feat(vllm): parity with llama.cpp backend (#9328)
* fix(schema): serialize ToolCallID and Reasoning in Messages.ToProto

The ToProto conversion was dropping tool_call_id and reasoning_content
even though both proto and Go fields existed, breaking multi-turn tool
calling and reasoning passthrough to backends.

* refactor(config): introduce backend hook system and migrate llama-cpp defaults

Adds RegisterBackendHook/runBackendHooks so each backend can register
default-filling functions that run during ModelConfig.SetDefaults().

Migrates the existing GGUF guessing logic into hooks_llamacpp.go,
registered for both 'llama-cpp' and the empty backend (auto-detect).
Removes the old guesser.go shim.

* feat(config): add vLLM parser defaults hook and importer auto-detection

Introduces parser_defaults.json mapping model families to vLLM
tool_parser/reasoning_parser names, with longest-pattern-first matching.

The vllmDefaults hook auto-fills tool_parser and reasoning_parser
options at load time for known families, while the VLLMImporter writes
the same values into generated YAML so users can review and edit them.

Adds tests covering MatchParserDefaults, hook registration via
SetDefaults, and the user-override behavior.

* feat(vllm): wire native tool/reasoning parsers + chat deltas + logprobs

- Use vLLM's ToolParserManager/ReasoningParserManager to extract structured
  output (tool calls, reasoning content) instead of reimplementing parsing
- Convert proto Messages to dicts and pass tools to apply_chat_template
- Emit ChatDelta with content/reasoning_content/tool_calls in Reply
- Extract prompt_tokens, completion_tokens, and logprobs from output
- Replace boolean GuidedDecoding with proper GuidedDecodingParams from Grammar
- Add TokenizeString and Free RPC methods
- Fix missing `time` import used by load_video()

* feat(vllm): CPU support + shared utils + vllm-omni feature parity

- Split vllm install per acceleration: move generic `vllm` out of
  requirements-after.txt into per-profile after files (cublas12, hipblas,
  intel) and add CPU wheel URL for cpu-after.txt
- requirements-cpu.txt now pulls torch==2.7.0+cpu from PyTorch CPU index
- backend/index.yaml: register cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development variants
- New backend/python/common/vllm_utils.py: shared parse_options,
  messages_to_dicts, setup_parsers helpers (used by both vllm backends)
- vllm-omni: replace hardcoded chat template with tokenizer.apply_chat_template,
  wire native parsers via shared utils, emit ChatDelta with token counts,
  add TokenizeString and Free RPCs, detect CPU and set VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE
- Add test_cpu_inference.py: standalone script to validate CPU build with
  a small model (Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct)

* fix(vllm): CPU build compatibility with vllm 0.14.1

Validated end-to-end on CPU with Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct (LoadModel, Predict,
TokenizeString, Free all working).

- requirements-cpu-after.txt: pin vllm to 0.14.1+cpu (pre-built wheel from
  GitHub releases) for x86_64 and aarch64. vllm 0.14.1 is the newest CPU
  wheel whose torch dependency resolves against published PyTorch builds
  (torch==2.9.1+cpu). Later vllm CPU wheels currently require
  torch==2.10.0+cpu which is only available on the PyTorch test channel
  with incompatible torchvision.
- requirements-cpu.txt: bump torch to 2.9.1+cpu, add torchvision/torchaudio
  so uv resolves them consistently from the PyTorch CPU index.
- install.sh: add --index-strategy=unsafe-best-match for CPU builds so uv
  can mix the PyTorch index and PyPI for transitive deps (matches the
  existing intel profile behaviour).
- backend.py LoadModel: vllm >= 0.14 removed AsyncLLMEngine.get_model_config
  so the old code path errored out with AttributeError on model load.
  Switch to the new get_tokenizer()/tokenizer accessor with a fallback
  to building the tokenizer directly from request.Model.

* fix(vllm): tool parser constructor compat + e2e tool calling test

Concrete vLLM tool parsers override the abstract base's __init__ and
drop the tools kwarg (e.g. Hermes2ProToolParser only takes tokenizer).
Instantiating with tools= raised TypeError which was silently caught,
leaving chat_deltas.tool_calls empty.

Retry the constructor without the tools kwarg on TypeError — tools
aren't required by these parsers since extract_tool_calls finds tool
syntax in the raw model output directly.

Validated with Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct + hermes parser on CPU:
the backend correctly returns ToolCallDelta{name='get_weather',
arguments='{"location": "Paris, France"}'} in ChatDelta.

test_tool_calls.py is a standalone smoke test that spawns the gRPC
backend, sends a chat completion with tools, and asserts the response
contains a structured tool call.

* ci(backend): build cpu-vllm container image

Add the cpu-vllm variant to the backend container build matrix so the
image registered in backend/index.yaml (cpu-vllm / cpu-vllm-development)
is actually produced by CI.

Follows the same pattern as the other CPU python backends
(cpu-diffusers, cpu-chatterbox, etc.) with build-type='' and no CUDA.
backend_pr.yml auto-picks this up via its matrix filter from backend.yml.

* test(e2e-backends): add tools capability + HF model name support

Extends tests/e2e-backends to cover backends that:
- Resolve HuggingFace model ids natively (vllm, vllm-omni) instead of
  loading a local file: BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME is passed verbatim as
  ModelOptions.Model with no download/ModelFile.
- Parse tool calls into ChatDelta.tool_calls: new "tools" capability
  sends a Predict with a get_weather function definition and asserts
  the Reply contains a matching ToolCallDelta. Uses UseTokenizerTemplate
  with OpenAI-style Messages so the backend can wire tools into the
  model's chat template.
- Need backend-specific Options[]: BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS lets a test set
  e.g. "tool_parser:hermes,reasoning_parser:qwen3" at LoadModel time.

Adds make target test-extra-backend-vllm that:
- docker-build-vllm
- loads Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
- runs health,load,predict,stream,tools with tool_parser:hermes

Drops backend/python/vllm/test_{cpu_inference,tool_calls}.py — those
standalone scripts were scaffolding used while bringing up the Python
backend; the e2e-backends harness now covers the same ground uniformly
alongside llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp.

* ci(test-extra): run vllm e2e tests on CPU

Adds tests-vllm-grpc to the test-extra workflow, mirroring the
llama-cpp and ik-llama-cpp gRPC jobs. Triggers when files under
backend/python/vllm/ change (or on run-all), builds the local-ai
vllm container image, and runs the tests/e2e-backends harness with
BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct, tool_parser:hermes,
and the tools capability enabled.

Uses ubuntu-latest (no GPU) — vllm runs on CPU via the cpu-vllm
wheel we pinned in requirements-cpu-after.txt. Frees disk space
before the build since the docker image + torch + vllm wheel is
sizeable.

* fix(vllm): build from source on CI to avoid SIGILL on prebuilt wheel

The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel from GitHub releases is compiled with
SIMD instructions (AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 or AMX-BF16) that not every CPU
supports. GitHub Actions ubuntu-latest runners SIGILL when vllm spawns
the model_executor.models.registry subprocess for introspection, so
LoadModel never reaches the actual inference path.

- install.sh: when FROM_SOURCE=true on a CPU build, temporarily hide
  requirements-cpu-after.txt so installRequirements installs the base
  deps + torch CPU without pulling the prebuilt wheel, then clone vllm
  and compile it with VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=cpu. The resulting binaries
  target the host's actual CPU.
- backend/Dockerfile.python: accept a FROM_SOURCE build-arg and expose
  it as an ENV so install.sh sees it during `make`.
- Makefile docker-build-backend: forward FROM_SOURCE as --build-arg
  when set, so backends that need source builds can opt in.
- Makefile test-extra-backend-vllm: call docker-build-vllm via a
  recursive $(MAKE) invocation so FROM_SOURCE flows through.
- .github/workflows/test-extra.yml: set FROM_SOURCE=true on the
  tests-vllm-grpc job. Slower but reliable — the prebuilt wheel only
  works on hosts that share the build-time SIMD baseline.

Answers 'did you test locally?': yes, end-to-end on my local machine
with the prebuilt wheel (CPU supports AVX-512 VNNI). The CI runner CPU
gap was not covered locally — this commit plugs that gap.

* ci(vllm): use bigger-runner instead of source build

The prebuilt vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel requires SIMD instructions (AVX-512
VNNI/BF16) that stock ubuntu-latest GitHub runners don't support —
vllm.model_executor.models.registry SIGILLs on import during LoadModel.

Source compilation works but takes 30-40 minutes per CI run, which is
too slow for an e2e smoke test. Instead, switch tests-vllm-grpc to the
bigger-runner self-hosted label (already used by backend.yml for the
llama-cpp CUDA build) — that hardware has the required SIMD baseline
and the prebuilt wheel runs cleanly.

FROM_SOURCE=true is kept as an opt-in escape hatch:
- install.sh still has the CPU source-build path for hosts that need it
- backend/Dockerfile.python still declares the ARG + ENV
- Makefile docker-build-backend still forwards the build-arg when set
Default CI path uses the fast prebuilt wheel; source build can be
re-enabled by exporting FROM_SOURCE=true in the environment.

* ci(vllm): install make + build deps on bigger-runner

bigger-runner is a bare self-hosted runner used by backend.yml for
docker image builds — it has docker but not the usual ubuntu-latest
toolchain. The make-based test target needs make, build-essential
(cgo in 'go test'), and curl/unzip (the Makefile protoc target
downloads protoc from github releases).

protoc-gen-go and protoc-gen-go-grpc come via 'go install' in the
install-go-tools target, which setup-go makes possible.

* ci(vllm): install libnuma1 + libgomp1 on bigger-runner

The vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel ships a _C C++ extension that dlopens
libnuma.so.1 at import time. When the runner host doesn't have it,
the extension silently fails to register its torch ops, so
EngineCore crashes on init_device with:

  AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
    'init_cpu_threads_env'

Also add libgomp1 (OpenMP runtime, used by torch CPU kernels) to be
safe on stripped-down runners.

* feat(vllm): bundle libnuma/libgomp via package.sh

The vllm CPU wheel ships a _C extension that dlopens libnuma.so.1 at
import time; torch's CPU kernels in turn use libgomp.so.1 (OpenMP).
Without these on the host, vllm._C silently fails to register its
torch ops and EngineCore crashes with:

  AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute
    'init_cpu_threads_env'

Rather than asking every user to install libnuma1/libgomp1 on their
host (or every LocalAI base image to ship them), bundle them into
the backend image itself — same pattern fish-speech and the GPU libs
already use. libbackend.sh adds ${EDIR}/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at
run time so the bundled copies are picked up automatically.

- backend/python/vllm/package.sh (new): copies libnuma.so.1 and
  libgomp.so.1 from the builder's multilib paths into ${BACKEND}/lib,
  preserving soname symlinks. Runs during Dockerfile.python's
  'Run backend-specific packaging' step (which already invokes
  package.sh if present).
- backend/Dockerfile.python: install libnuma1 + libgomp1 in the
  builder stage so package.sh has something to copy (the Ubuntu
  base image otherwise only has libgomp in the gcc dep chain).
- test-extra.yml: drop the workaround that installed these libs on
  the runner host — with the backend image self-contained, the
  runner no longer needs them, and the test now exercises the
  packaging path end-to-end the way a production host would.

* ci(vllm): disable tests-vllm-grpc job (heterogeneous runners)

Both ubuntu-latest and bigger-runner have inconsistent CPU baselines:
some instances support the AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 instructions the prebuilt
vllm 0.14.1+cpu wheel was compiled with, others SIGILL on import of
vllm.model_executor.models.registry. The libnuma packaging fix doesn't
help when the wheel itself can't be loaded.

FROM_SOURCE=true compiles vllm against the actual host CPU and works
everywhere, but takes 30-50 minutes per run — too slow for a smoke
test on every PR.

Comment out the job for now. The test itself is intact and passes
locally; run it via 'make test-extra-backend-vllm' on a host with the
required SIMD baseline. Re-enable when:
  - we have a self-hosted runner label with guaranteed AVX-512 VNNI/BF16, or
  - vllm publishes a CPU wheel with a wider baseline, or
  - we set up a docker layer cache that makes FROM_SOURCE acceptable

The detect-changes vllm output, the test harness changes (tests/
e2e-backends + tools cap), the make target (test-extra-backend-vllm),
the package.sh and the Dockerfile/install.sh plumbing all stay in
place.
2026-04-13 11:00:29 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
2865f0f8d3 feat(ux): backend management enhancement (#9325)
* feat: add PreferDevelopmentBackends setting, expose isMeta/isDevelopment in API

- Add PreferDevelopmentBackends config field, CLI flag, runtime setting
- Add IsDevelopment() method to GalleryBackend
- Use AvailableBackendsUnfiltered in UI API to show all backends
- Expose isMeta, isDevelopment, preferDevelopmentBackends in backend API response

* feat: upgrade banner with Upgrade All button, detect pre-existing backends

- Add upgrade banner on Backends page showing count and Upgrade All button
- Fix upgrade detection for backends installed before version tracking:
  flag as upgradeable when gallery has a version but installed has none
- Fix OCI digest check to flag backends with no stored digest as upgradeable
2026-04-12 00:35:22 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
8ab0744458 feat: backend versioning, upgrade detection and auto-upgrade (#9315)
* feat: add backend versioning data model foundation

Add Version, URI, and Digest fields to BackendMetadata for tracking
installed backend versions and enabling upgrade detection. Add Version
field to GalleryBackend. Add UpgradeAvailable/AvailableVersion fields
to SystemBackend. Implement GetImageDigest() for lightweight OCI digest
lookups via remote.Head. Record version, URI, and digest at install time
in InstallBackend() and propagate version through meta backends.

* feat: add backend upgrade detection and execution logic

Add CheckBackendUpgrades() to compare installed backend versions/digests
against gallery entries, and UpgradeBackend() to perform atomic upgrades
with backup-based rollback on failure. Includes Agent A's data model
changes (Version/URI/Digest fields, GetImageDigest).

* feat: add AutoUpgradeBackends config and runtime settings

Add configuration and runtime settings for backend auto-upgrade:
- RuntimeSettings field for dynamic config via API/JSON
- ApplicationConfig field, option func, and roundtrip conversion
- CLI flag with LOCALAI_AUTO_UPGRADE_BACKENDS env var
- Config file watcher support for runtime_settings.json
- Tests for ToRuntimeSettings, ApplyRuntimeSettings, and roundtrip

* feat(ui): add backend version display and upgrade support

- Add upgrade check/trigger API endpoints to config and api module
- Backends page: version badge, upgrade indicator, upgrade button
- Manage page: version in metadata, context-aware upgrade/reinstall button
- Settings page: auto-upgrade backends toggle

* feat: add upgrade checker service, API endpoints, and CLI command

- UpgradeChecker background service: checks every 6h, auto-upgrades when enabled
- API endpoints: GET /backends/upgrades, POST /backends/upgrades/check, POST /backends/upgrade/:name
- CLI: `localai backends upgrade` command, version display in `backends list`
- BackendManager interface: add UpgradeBackend and CheckUpgrades methods
- Wire upgrade op through GalleryService backend handler
- Distributed mode: fan-out upgrade to worker nodes via NATS

* fix: use advisory lock for upgrade checker in distributed mode

In distributed mode with multiple frontend instances, use PostgreSQL
advisory lock (KeyBackendUpgradeCheck) so only one instance runs
periodic upgrade checks and auto-upgrades. Prevents duplicate
upgrade operations across replicas.

Standalone mode is unchanged (simple ticker loop).

* test: add e2e tests for backend upgrade API

- Test GET /api/backends/upgrades returns 200 (even with no upgrade checker)
- Test POST /api/backends/upgrade/:name accepts request and returns job ID
- Test full upgrade flow: trigger upgrade via API, wait for job completion,
  verify run.sh updated to v2 and metadata.json has version 2.0.0
- Test POST /api/backends/upgrades/check returns 200
- Fix nil check for applicationInstance in upgrade API routes
2026-04-11 22:31:15 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
e00ce981f0 fix: try to add whisperx and faster-whisper for more variants (#9278)
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-04-08 21:23:38 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
223deb908d fix(nats): improve error handling (#9222)
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-04-04 12:11:54 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
59108fbe32 feat: add distributed mode (#9124)
* feat: add distributed mode (experimental)

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix data races, mutexes, transactions

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* refactorings

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* fixups

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* fix events and tool stream in agent chat

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* use ginkgo

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* refactoring and consolidation

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* refactoring and consolidation

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* refactoring and consolidation

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* refactoring and consolidation

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* refactoring and consolidation

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* refactoring and consolidation

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* refactoring and consolidation

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* refactoring and consolidation

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* fix(cron): compute correctly time boundaries avoiding re-triggering

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* enhancements, refactorings

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* do not flood of healthy checks

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* do not list obvious backends as text backends

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* tests fixups

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* refactoring and consolidation

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* Drop redundant healthcheck

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* enhancements, refactorings

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-03-30 00:47:27 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
5d410e5a03 fix(download): do not remove dst dir until we try all fallbacks (#9100)
This actually caused fallbacks to be compeletely no-op as we were
removing the destination dir before calling containerd.Apply

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-03-22 10:29:57 +01:00