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mudler-agentandEttore Di Giacinto	7c74d26555	feat(addons): run the add-on owner as its own workload (#12867) ... * feat(addons): generate and load a static carrier key set A split deployment needs the owner and the frontends to share certificates and a signing key that outlive a process. The loopback carrier makes fresh keys at every start, so it cannot serve that. GenerateCarrierKeys writes a CA certificate, an owner leaf and a frontend leaf, and the frontend signing key pair. It drops the CA key, so nobody can issue a third leaf, and it refuses to overwrite any file. LoadCarrierConfig reads only the files of one role and refuses key files that group or other users can access. The owner never forwards, but NewCarrier still requires a signing key, so the owner config gets a throwaway key in memory instead of the frontends' private key. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): add util addons-carrier-keys An operator who runs the add-on owner and its frontends as separate workloads needs a way to make the shared key set. The command wraps GenerateCarrierKeys: --out names the directory and --owner-host, which can repeat, sets the names the owner certificate is valid for. It prints which files belong on the owner and which on the frontends. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): add the owner and frontend roles to local-ai run Every local-ai run process is its own add-on owner, so a distributed deployment cannot scale its frontends: replicas that share a data volume fight over the owner lock. --addons-role selects combined (today's behaviour, the default), owner or frontend. The owner and frontend roles also take --addons-owner-address and --addons-carrier-dir, and the owner takes --addons-owner-listen. They use the fixed carrier identities and the key set from the carrier key directory. The frontend role has no add-on root, so it never creates the add-ons folder. A bad role setup stops startup with a message that names the flag. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): keep the frontend role away from owner state A frontend holds no add-on state, but it still wrote the library sources file of the data path, which is the owner's file. The frontend role now skips the library option and reads only the galleries named by the flags, and logs a warning when it has no account database, because its pins are then kept per frontend. The add-on manager rejects a relative root even for a forwarding frontend, so the frontend config names the absolute path where an owner would keep its state. Nothing creates or opens it, and a spec checks that the data path stays empty. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(addons): run the owner and frontends as separate applications The split roles are only useful if an owner and its frontends work as separate processes that share nothing but the carrier keys and the owner address. A spec now builds them as separate Application values with their own data paths and keys from GenerateCarrierKeys. It covers a frontend that lists apps and reads add-on status through the owner, two frontends on one key set, a frontend that starts while the owner is down and answers unavailable, a second owner refused on the same root, and an owner that restarts on the same root and address and still serves the installed add-on to the same frontend. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(addons): describe running the owner as its own workload An operator who runs several frontend replicas had no documented way to stop each one from being its own add-on owner. The add-ons page now has a section for the owner and frontend roles: one owner replica with its own volume and a recreate-style rollout, a stable owner address, key generation and per-role mounts, a Compose example, what a restart and an owner outage look like, the models-path limit, and the frontend limits. The singleton section names the roles and the distributed-state mode, and the distributed mode page links to the new section. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): gate the addons feature in /api/features One function, Application.AddonsFeature, decides whether the add-on side is on. A combined or owner process answers true when add-ons are enabled and the owner manager exists. A frontend answers true when the owner answered the carrier's audience call within 2 s, and keeps that answer for 10 s so /api/features does not dial the owner per request. /api/features reports the result as "addons", and fine_tuning and quantization take the same value, because both are add-ons. The frontend cache is per-instance state. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): answer 503 on every add-on route when add-ons are off With --addons-enabled=false the real add-on, fine-tuning and quantization routes and services are not registered. One catch-all per prefix answers the typed unavailable response of an absent owner, for any path under it, so a client cannot tell which routes exist. The response is the one the gateway already writes (gateway.WriteUnavailable over typedError), not a second format. With add-ons on, the same routes sit behind RequireAddonsFeature, which reads Application.AddonsFeature, so a frontend that cannot reach the owner gives the same answer. The per-user feature middleware still runs after the gate. No endpoint is added, so the swagger, /api/instructions and RouteFeatureRegistry surfaces do not change. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): build no carrier for a frontend with add-ons off addonConfigFor already returned the zero config before it read a role flag when add-ons are disabled. Say so on the way out: when a role, owner address, listen address or carrier directory flag is set, log one info line that the flags are ignored. A frontend with --addons-enabled=false needs no owner address and no key directory, loads no keys and builds no carrier. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): hide add-on entries when the addons feature is off The UI reads features.addons from /api/features. When it is false: the sidebar shows no Add-ons entry and no pinned apps, the 404 page lists no add-on destination, the shell does not call /api/addons/pins or /api/addons/builtin, and /app/addons, /app/addons/*, /app/fine-tune and /app/quantize lead back to /app. The Build hub tabs for add-ons, fine-tuning and quantization were already keyed on features and now follow the gate. An absent key (an older server) counts as on. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(addons): describe the addons feature gate The --addons-enabled row now says the UI hides the add-on entries and every add-on, fine-tuning and quantization route answers 503. A new subsection describes the addons key of /api/features, the 10 s frontend cache as per-instance state, and that a frontend with add-ons off needs no owner address or key directory. The fine-tuning and quantization pages say they are off with --addons-enabled=false. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): give a frontend no add-on state root OwnerConfig.validate required an absolute root for every role, so a frontend named a path under the data directory that nothing was allowed to open. Only the owner has a state root now: validate checks it when the instance is the owner, and the frontend role leaves Root empty. Nothing on a frontend reads or creates it. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): make the carrier signing key optional for the owner NewCarrier required an Ed25519 signing key of every instance, so the owner role loaded a throwaway key in memory that it never used. The owner never signs an outbound request, so it now needs none: NewCarrier accepts an empty key when the instance is the owner and still requires a whole key from a frontend, and a malformed key is refused for both. LoadCarrierConfig no longer generates one. The owner still verifies frontend signatures with frontend-sign.pub. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * Keep the owner address out of the add-on identity file The owner address is runtime configuration, so storing it and comparing the whole file made a moved owner refuse its own root. The identity file now holds the owner ID and storage ID only. An older file that still has an address loads, and the address is ignored. A different owner ID or storage ID is still refused. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(addons): state that an existing root loads under the owner role The owner identity no longer stores its address, so a root written by a single node loads under the owner role when the owner and storage identity match. Say so, and keep the caveat about absolute paths in the journal. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): refuse library-source routes on a frontend A frontend must keep no owner state, but the library-source routes, the ApplyLibraries call and the startup official-libraries step still opened and wrote addons/sources.json in its data path. Mark the frontend role in the add-on config, also when add-ons are off. On a frontend, LibrarySources returns the unavailable error, ApplyLibraries does nothing and the startup step skips the store. The six /api/library/sources routes answer 503 with the body that the add-on feature gate writes, and an X-LocalAI-Reason header names the cause. Reads are refused too: the carrier has no verb for them. Owner and combined roles are unchanged. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): put the reason in the unavailable body WriteUnavailable wrote the plain text "addon request failed", and the library-source refusal put its reason in an X-LocalAI-Reason header. Write the LocalAI error envelope instead, with a message, a type and the code "unavailable", and keep the 503 status. The message names the cause: add-ons are off on this instance, the add-on owner is not reachable, or library sources are managed on the owner. Remove the header. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): serve library calls on the add-on owner Add the carrier verbs a frontend needs to work on the library through the owner: library-list, library-add, library-update, library-enable, library-disable, library-remove, library-backend-resolve and library-backend-releases. A call carries the operation in one LibraryCall field of the wire request, so an old owner rejects it as an invalid binding. Every verb but the three reads is a mutation, and the reply is an envelope of data or a typed error, so a frontend gives the status the owner's own routes give. The owner serves them through gateway.LibraryAdmin, implemented in the application on the same LocalAdmin as the owner's HTTP routes. It runs the owner's administrator check before any store call. Add two peer-authenticated reads that take no actor and leave the audience reply unchanged: GET /addons/capabilities (protocol, calls and the owner's OS and architecture) and GET /addons/library/snapshot (the gallery-relevant source list and its version). Split the backend install: Installer.Resolve is the owner's half (resolve, pick the meta backend for the asker's capability, pin by digest) and returns a Plan; the node that installs runs the collision check and the gallery install itself. Move the source administration behind library.Admin and add library.ReconcileInfos for a source list read from the owner. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): forward library routes from a frontend to the owner A frontend refused the library-source routes and did not serve the backend library routes. Forward them instead, and keep the owner the only writer of the sources. The library-source routes work on library.Admin: the local store on a combined or owner process, the carrier on a frontend. The frontend checks the calling account (a legacy API key is refused with 401), and the owner checks the administrator right again before any store call. With add-ons off, a frontend answers these routes with a 503. A frontend asks the owner for its source list every 60 seconds through the peer-authenticated snapshot call and rebuilds its model and backend gallery lists, and the official-libraries switch, only when the version changed. If the owner does not answer, it keeps the last lists and marks them stale. Changing official_libraries on a frontend is refused with 409. The backend library install is split. The owner resolves the entry and pins the image; the frontend runs the gallery install on its own node, with its own size limit and strict mode. A frontend refuses library calls to an owner that does not serve them, or that runs on another OS or architecture. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(addons): document library operations on a frontend Replace the frontend limits that said a frontend refuses the library routes with what happens now: the library sources and the backend library go through the owner, the gallery lists follow the owner every 60 seconds, official_libraries is set on the owner, and the owner and the frontends must run on one OS and architecture. Add specs for the split owner: a frontend lists sources through the owner, a source added on a frontend reaches the owner and then the other frontend after a refresh, a write with the owner down answers 503 with the error envelope, official_libraries answers 409 on a frontend and a change on the owner reaches the frontend's gallery lists, the lists are kept and marked stale while the owner is down, a platform mismatch and a legacy API key are refused, and a frontend installs a backend into its own path from the owner's plan. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): check the shared models path with a probe Exports write into the models path of the owner, and frontends load models from their own path. A wrong mount fails silently: the export succeeds and the model never appears. The owner writes a probe file with a random nonce into its models path at start. A frontend fetches the nonce over the carrier and checks at start, then every 60 seconds, that the same file is visible at the same absolute path. On a mismatch it logs an error, reports model_exports false and blocks its export and import routes. The owner refuses an export or import while its own probe is missing, and keeps running if it cannot write the probe. An unreachable or older owner gives "unknown" and leaves exports on. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(api): describe the library refusal and forwarding The library-source and backend-library routes forward to the add-on owner on a frontend and answer 503 when the owner cannot serve them. Add the 503 to their swagger annotations, regenerate the swagger files, and say in /api/instructions that a frontend forwards these routes. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): let frontends run the backend update check through the owner In named-user mode a frontend has no user to act as, so the background backend update check failed there. Add one read-only system call for the release lookup. The owner accepts it only on the peer-authenticated route from a pinned frontend, only for backend-releases, and without an actor. Calls through /addons/forward cannot carry the mark, and every user-facing call still goes through the administrator check. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(mcp): expose the backend update check as a tool Add list_backend_library_updates, a read-only tool for GET /backends/library/updates. The in-process client reads the library installer, and the HTTP client calls the route. The six library source routes stay out of the catalog: the assistant has no per-call actor and no approval card for library changes. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(api): add export status routes for fine-tuning and quantization The add-on UIs could not know that model exports are blocked until a user hit the refusal of the export route. Add GET /api/fine-tuning/status and GET /api/quantization/status. Each returns {"model_exports": bool}, from the same check that drives the model_exports key of /api/features. The routes sit behind the add-ons gate, so they answer 503 when add-ons are off. They are listed in the swagger spec, the instructions registry, the route-feature registry and the feature docs. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): disable exports when the models probe fails The fine-tuning and quantization pages now read the new status route and turn off the export form, the checkpoint export button and the import button when model_exports is false. A short reason shows next to the control. A failed or slow answer leaves the controls on, as the server does for an unknown check. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 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>	2026-10-24 14:29:39 +02:00
mudler-agentandEttore Di Giacinto	f1ff707b97	feat(addons): list and install backends from a library (#12816) ... * feat(addons): add the add-on runtime, navigation and first-party add-ons Add the add-on runtime to LocalAI: manifests, the host operation broker, admin gating by account role, the add-on UI bundle builder and the SDK for add-on pages. Move the navigation to Chat, Models, Add-ons and Settings, with pinned add-ons in the sidebar and an Add-ons drawer. Ship the first-party add-ons (voice, face, fine-tuning, quantization) as packages for linux/amd64, linux/arm64 and darwin/arm64. Intel macOS (darwin/amd64) is enabled in the platform files. Squashed from the review branch. The tree is unchanged; the pre-squash history is kept on a local backup branch. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(gosec): tighten file modes and annotate false positives Write job state, configs and imported models with mode 0600, clean the paths that are read from disk, and mark the route tables, the header name and the retry jitter as reviewed false positives. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 gosec Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): keep API keys off recovery mutations and same-site cookies POST /api/addons/dispatch forwarded the recovery and update mutations to the owner for any administrator key, which skipped the browser-session rule of their own routes. Refuse those actions there. Also apply the same-origin rule to the legacy token cookie, not only the session cookie, because the global CSRF check lets same-site requests through. Do not fail the start of LocalAI when an add-on library cannot be refreshed; log it and keep the installed add-ons up. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): refuse a reinstall that would migrate retained data unbacked An upgrade takes a verified backup before the new package migrates the data. A reinstall over retained data has no running generation to stop, so the new package would migrate it without one. Refuse a reinstall whose data format differs from the retained one. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): release the manager lock while a release is fetched Submit held the state lock across the catalog lookup and the package download, so the apps list and status reads stalled for the whole install. Serialize Submit and Reconcile with their own lock and drop the state lock around the fetch only. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): kill an add-on only after three missed health probes One slow 100 ms probe killed a busy add-on and dropped the work it was serving. Require three misses in a row. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): move settings under the operate hub The Operate hub already has Settings as a tab, so the sidebar no longer shows a separate Settings entry. The /app/settings route stays, and the hub tab still reaches it. The navigation test now expects Chat, Models and Add-ons as the primary items. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): accept same-host browser requests that carry no fetch metadata Browsers do not send Sec-Fetch-* headers over plain HTTP on an address that is not localhost, so every add-on request from a LAN address was refused as cross-site. Keep refusing a Sec-Fetch-Site value other than same-origin. When the header is absent, accept the request only if its Origin, or failing that its Referer, names the same host and port as the request. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): show the server's reason when an add-on request is refused A 403 or 400 answer showed a generic message and hid the reason in the response body, so a refusal by the browser guard could not be told from a missing permission. Show error.message from the body as the server sent it, and keep the generic text when the body has none. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): run the add-on owner in the normal binary The owner was only enabled when an embedding host set the add-on config, so a normal run answered every add-on request as unavailable. Add --addons-enabled (default true) and --addons-ownership-mode (default named-user, or local-owner; anything else stops startup). The node is its own owner: state lives under the data path, and the carrier uses loopback keys made at each start and kept in memory. --addons-enabled=false turns the owner off completely. Named-user mode needs the account database. With authentication off the owner stays off and a warning says how to use local-owner. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): keep the loopback owner address stable across restarts The single-node loopback transport took a new ephemeral port at each start. The owner stores its address in its identity file and refuses to start when the address differs, so every start after the first failed with "invalid addon owner configuration". Choose the port once, keep it in the add-on state root (loopback-port, mode 0600) and reuse it. If the port is taken at a later start, stop with an error that names the port and --addons-enabled=false, because another port would break the identity check. The keys and certificate stay in memory. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): let add-on pages keep the host modules they were written against A page written for the web UI imports React, the router, i18next and a few shared components. The add-on builder refuses a bundle that holds a host file, so moving such a page into an add-on meant rewriting it. Add a compat mode to the shared builder. It answers those imports from a directory of stand-ins that read the SDK, bundles the dynamic import of the page code into the one output file, and collects the style sheets the page imports. A relative import that is not in the add-on's own source resolves to the file at the same path under the compat directory. Widen the SDK for these pages, without a version change: more host components (spinner, modal, lightbox, model picker) and hooks (models, resources, voice profiles, operations, MCP client), a style on icons, the icon names the pages draw, sdk.navigation.openApp to open a page of the app (only addresses under /app, and the way back as the only state) and sdk.portal. The shell passes the query string to the page. The stand-ins cover the router (the tab in the path, the model in the query), the translator over the host locale files, the core API calls through sdk.core.fetch, and byte copies of the pure helpers, with tests that keep the copies equal to the originals. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): ship Studio and Talk as add-ons instead of built-in pages Studio and Talk were compiled into the web bundle and always listed in the Add-ons drawer. They are add-ons now, like Voice, Face, fine-tuning and quantization: a person installs and removes them, the drawer lists them only while they are installed, and they are packaged the same way. Move the pages, their components, hooks and helpers into addons/studio and addons/talk. Each has a manifest, a UI bundle, a release platform matrix and a catalog template, and is built by the compat mode of the shared builder. The core API stays where it is: the pages call it with the signed-in person's session. The history keeps its browser storage keys. The unit tests of the moved helpers move with them. In the core, drop the two pages, the Create group of the sidebar (Chat joins Home and Models in the old layout), the built-in catalog entries (the catalog is empty) and the talk locale namespace. The old addresses (/app/studio, /app/talk and the generator links) redirect to the add-on pages, with the model as ?model=. The Home /studio command is offered only while the Studio add-on is installed and opens it. The release workflow and its tests now list seven add-ons. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): run the Studio and Talk specs against the add-on bundles The pages are add-ons now, so a spec that draws one installs the real built bundle first: the apps list names it and its module and style sheet are served from the build output, the way the add-on owner serves them. studio-addon.js holds that helper, and the Studio and Talk fixtures call it. Update the specs for the new addresses (/app/addons/studio/studio, the model as ?model=), the session permission the add-on route needs, the legacy redirects, the Home /studio command that appears only while the add-on is installed, and the sidebar without a Create group. Add specs for the add-ons themselves: every tab draws with no script error, the shell titles the page once, the old addresses say so when the add-on is not installed, a button of the page reaches a core page with the way back, and the drawer lists both only after they are installed. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): centre the icon of a built-in tile in its icon box The drawer drew the icon of a built-in tile (Studio's palette was one) in a bare 40px box. Only the placeholder box was laid out as a centred grid with the 20px size, so the real icon sat in the top-left corner at the size of the page text. Give the built-in tile the same classes as the placeholder box, and check in a browser that the icon is centred. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(addons): describe Studio and Talk as add-ons Replace the built-in list (now empty) with the Studio and Talk add-on sections, the new targets of the old links, the Home command, and the seven packaged add-ons. Describe the SDK additions the pages use: components, hooks, icons, openApp and portal. Say on the Studio page that it is installed from the drawer. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): click the shell title in the Studio slash-key spec The add-on shell titles the page, and the Studio overview no longer draws a second title, but the generator tabs keep theirs, so a bare h1 locator matched two elements. Click the first, which is the shell's. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): read the loopback port file through os.Root The persisted port file was read with a path built from the add-on root, which gosec reports as a file inclusion through a variable. Open it through os.Root so the name cannot leave the root, even by a symbolic link, and require a regular file with no group or other access. A looser file now fails closed instead of being trusted. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): expect Settings under the Operate hub, not the sidebar Settings moved out of the sidebar into the Operate hub. The navigation spec still expected a sidebar link. Assert that the sidebar has no Settings entry, and that the Operate hub opens Settings as a tab. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): drop Settings from the 404 places Settings is a tab of the Operate hub and not a destination of its own, so the 404 page does not list it. Assert that it is absent. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): drive the media history and TTS specs through the Studio add-on The image, video, sound and speech generators are pages of the Studio add-on now, and the old addresses redirect to it. Install the add-on with the Studio fixtures, open its pages and use its compose card, so the specs run against the page that exists. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): count the first-run steps, not every list item The recommended models are a list inside the second step, so counting all list items read 3 only while the models were still loading. Count the step elements, which does not depend on the load order. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): fail the node refresh by state, not by call count The spec served the list to the first request and failed the rest. The first request is not always the one from the page, so the page could get the failure first and show no list. Serve the list until the page shows it, then fail the refreshes. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): default to local-owner when auth is off A server without authentication has no accounts, so named-user left the add-on owner off. Resolve the unset mode in one place: local-owner when authentication is off, named-user when it is on. A flag or environment value still wins, and an unknown value is still refused. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): register an official add-on library by default Add gallery/addons/index.yaml, a YAML index of the four first-party add-ons (fine-tuning, quantization, voice, face) in the library format. The entries come from addonpkg catalog over locally built linux/amd64 packages, so the digests pin those images. On the first start, when the owner has no sources.json, register the raw GitHub URL of that index on master as the "official" library and write the file. The file is then the record: a library the admin removes stays removed, and an existing file is never changed. --addons-official-library=false skips the default. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(addons): document the ownership default and the official library Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): list Studio and Talk in the first-party index Add the Studio and Talk entries to gallery/addons/index.yaml next to the four existing ones. They come from addonpkg catalog over locally built linux/amd64 packages, so the digests pin those images. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(addons): expect Studio and Talk in the official index The official index now lists six add-ons. Update the test that decodes it so it accepts Studio and Talk. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): add a real icon to each first-party add-on Each icon is a 256 by 256 PNG: a rounded square in one colour of the UI kit palette with a white outline glyph from the kit sprite. Fine-tuning uses sliders, quantization layers, voice waveform, face user, studio palette, talk phone and tables database. They were rendered with headless Chrome from the sprite paths. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 chrome Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): ship a committed icon.png instead of the generated square The shared UI builder and the Tables builder copy ui/icon.png from the add-on source tree to the package unchanged when the file exists. They write the generated placeholder only when it does not. Add a fixture with an icon and a test for both cases. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): list the tables add-on in the first-party index Add the Tables entry to gallery/addons/index.yaml next to the six existing ones. It comes from addonpkg catalog over a locally built linux/amd64 package, so the digest pins that image. The official index test now expects seven add-ons. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): make the Voice add-on one page with tabs The Voice add-on had four pages: recognition, library, create and speech, and the drawer listed two of them. It now has one page, "voice", and one drawer entry. Recognition, Library, Text to speech and From a recording are tabs of that page, drawn with the same tab strip the recognition page already used. The tab is the first path segment (voice/library), as in the Studio add-on, and the form that adds a voice is a view of the Library tab (voice/library/new). The old page names stay declared in the manifest. Each one redirects to its tab and keeps the query string, so saved links still open. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): send the old voice routes to the Voice tabs /app/voice, /app/voice-library and /app/voice-library/new now open the matching tab of the Voice add-on page while the add-on is installed and running, and the core pages otherwise. The moved-page helper compares the first segment of the target with the declared pages, so a target can name a tab. The docs and the navigation spec list the new addresses. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(addons): cover the Voice tabs and the old page redirects The add-on unit tests render the tabs instead of the four pages. The Playwright spec checks the tab strip, the address of each tab, the missing Library tab for a member, and that the old page addresses of the add-on redirect to their tab with the query string kept. The migration table test follows the new targets. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(studio): keep the model menu inside a narrow screen The Home model picker sizes its menu from the viewport, and assumes the picker sits at the page gutter. In the Studio composer card the field is further in, so on a 390px screen the menu of the Sound expansion picker ended 7px past the right edge. Size the menu from the field it opens under instead. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): build the add-on bundles once for the whole run Each worker built the Studio and Talk bundles into the same dist directory, and the build empties that directory first. A worker that started, or restarted after a failure, removed the files another worker was serving, so a Studio spec saw "the style sheet of the add-on could not be loaded". Build once in a global setup before the workers start. A run without the setup still builds per worker. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): register the worker when the add-node spec says so The mocked roster added the worker on the third read of /api/nodes. The shell and the page both read it, and which one asks first depends on load, so the page could take the new worker as part of the roster it opened with and never show it as found. The worker now joins after the page shows it is listening. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): hold the gallery answer until the skeleton is seen The spec delayed the answer by a fixed 800 ms and then looked for the skeleton. The assertion polls at growing intervals, so on a slow machine it could step over that window. The answer now waits until the skeleton has been seen, and the spec then checks that the skeleton goes away. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): give the PDF tag the time the other PDF specs have pdf.js and its worker load on first use. The other specs in this file wait up to ten seconds for the result of that load. The first one waited five, and missed the tag on a busy machine. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): build the Face and Fine-tuning bundles in the global setup The navigation spec serves the built Fine-tuning bundle, but nothing built it, so two specs failed on a fresh checkout when the dist folder was missing. The spec also built the Face bundle in a hook that every worker runs, and a build rewrites the folder the other workers serve. The global setup now builds Studio, Talk, Face and Fine-tuning once, before the workers start. The spec builds the two bundles itself only when it runs without the global setup. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): fix the Home answers in the stale pin spec The spec asserts that the page shows no alert. The Home page raises its own alert when the model list fails or a staging operation has failed, and both answers come from the shared test server. A slow reply or a failed install left there counted as an alert about the pin. The spec now fixes both answers, so the alert count tells only about the pin. The assertions are unchanged. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): read the server address in the add-node spec from the page The spec expected the register address to carry port 8089, so it failed on any other port. It now expects the origin the page was opened from. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(addons): give the navigation routes spec its own catalog No page is built in today, so the catalog is empty and the three specs that expect the studio and talk entries failed on the list and on the pin seed. They passed only while Studio and Talk were built in. The spec now sets a catalog of two ungated entries for each example and restores the old one afterwards. The assertions are unchanged. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(cli): report a failed write of the MLX hostfile The tunnel callback ignored the error of os.WriteFile and set the hostfile variable even when the file was not written. It now logs the error and leaves the variable alone. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(addons): discard the close error of the held listener errcheck flags the deferred Close of the listener that keeps the port busy. The test has no use for that error, so the defer drops it explicitly. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(addons): move the add-on tool tests to Ginkgo The fine-tuning, quantization and add-on host library tests used t.Errorf, t.Fatal and t.Run, which the forbidigo rule rejects. They now use Describe, It and Gomega, with a suite bootstrap in each package. The cases and the assertions are the same. The tables in the host client and the tool schema tests keep one entry per case. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(addons): move the host operation tests to Ginkgo The hostops tests used the testing package calls that forbidigo rejects. They now run as Ginkgo specs under one suite bootstrap. Every check and every per-operation case is kept. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(addons): move the pin store tests to Ginkgo The pin service, file store, sweep and shared store contract tests used the testing package calls that forbidigo rejects. The store contract is now a function that registers its specs for each store, so the file store, the memory-only store and the database store run the same cases. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(addons): move the remaining add-on tests to Ginkgo The built-in catalog, tool arguments, loopback carrier, host operation contract, packaging, application, config, CLI and endpoint tests used the testing package calls that forbidigo rejects. They now run as Ginkgo specs. The endpoint tests also drop the unchecked Close errors that errcheck reports when the auth tag is on. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): wait for the targeted Reinstall button before the install click The "generic deletion blocks targeted install at confirmation" spec dispatches a popstate to set the target node, then clicks Reinstall with a script click. The click can run before the targeted page has rendered or while the button is still disabled, so no install request is sent and the poll on the install count times out. It failed 1 run in 10 with two workers and on every retry in CI. The spec now waits for the button to be enabled first. The assertions are unchanged. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * chore(addons): refresh the voice package digest in the first-party index The Voice add-on became one page with tabs and got a new icon, so the digest in gallery/addons/index.yaml no longer matched the build. Render the entry again with addonpkg catalog over a locally built linux/amd64 package; the main page is now voice. The other entries are unchanged. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): wait for the target node's Reinstall button after the popstate The "generic deletion blocks targeted install at confirmation" spec dispatches a popstate to set the target node, then waits for a button named Reinstall and clicks it. Until React renders the targeted page, the page still draws the generic Reinstall button. It is enabled and has the same name, so the wait passed on it, the click started a global install, and no node install request was sent. The poll on the install count timed out with the confirm dialog still open. With the CPU throttled to 8x, the spec failed on 20 of 20 runs, and the button it clicked had the title "Reinstall". The spec now waits for the button titled "Reinstall on <node>". With the throttle it passes 30 of 30 runs. The assertions are unchanged. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): give the Studio hand-off spec a budget for the cold bundle load The "a result made through a hand-off records which result it came from" spec opens the Studio add-on straight from an address, twice. Each is a cold load: the page shows "Loading" until the add-on module has run, and the next assertion had the default five seconds. The load takes about two seconds on an idle run and seven to ten under CPU load, so the spec failed on a loaded machine with the hand-off note not yet drawn. With the CPU throttled to 6x and eight busy loops running, it failed on 21 of 30 runs. The first assertion after each load now waits up to 20 seconds, and the spec then passed 30 of 30 under the same load. The assertions are unchanged. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): carry the identity page styles in the Face add-on The Face page is drawn with the shared identity views, but its style sheet held only the clip and error rules. The page, card, model list, known-faces table, enrol sheet and distance scale classes had no rules. They looked right only when the host had already loaded the style sheet of its own Faces page, which a visit through the add-on drawer does not do. Opened that way, the cards had no gap, the model list showed bullets, and the install buttons ran into the names. The Face sheet now holds the same identity rules as the core sheet, so the page looks the same whichever way it is opened. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): scope the narrow-screen identity rules of the Voice add-on The rules for narrow screens (single-column pairs, smaller tool padding, compact rank rows) were copied into the Voice style sheet without their media query, so they applied at every width. They now sit in a max-width 720px query, and the reduced-motion rule in its own query, as in the core sheet. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): drop the repeated title from the Voice and Face pages The add-on shell already titles the page, so the recognition pages showed the name twice: "Voice" above "Voices", "Face" above "Faces". Keep the supporting line and the model picker, as the Studio page does, and remove the unused title strings. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): replace the Pinned sidebar section with an Apps entry The sidebar no longer lists pinned add-ons. It shows one Apps entry that opens the add-ons drawer, with a Show all link below it that opens the same drawer. Pins are used from the drawer, where a pinned tile keeps its pin and move buttons. The server pins API is unchanged. Remove the PinnedNav component and its locale title, rename the items.addons label to Apps, and update the e2e specs and the add-ons documentation to match. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(addons): assert the single shell title on the Voice and Face pages The add-on shell now shows the one title, "Voice" or "Face", and the page no longer repeats it. The tests still looked for the h1 "Voices" and "Faces". Assert that the add-on page has exactly one h1 and that it is the shell title. The core pages keep their own "Voices" and "Faces" titles. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): drop the repeated title from the Voice Library and Text to speech pages The add-on shell already titles the page "Voice", so these two tabs showed a second heading below it ("Speech voices", "Speak text"). Keep the supporting line, as the Studio and recognition pages do, and remove the unused title strings. The e2e spec now checks that each tab has exactly one h1, the shell title. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): list pinned apps under Apps in the sidebar A pinned app now shows as an indented child of the Apps entry, with its icon and title, in pin order. Show all stays the last child. The pins come from GET /api/addons/pins through the navigation context, and the apps from the add-on registry, which the drawer feeds on every list read, so the links follow the drawer. A pin without an installed app is not drawn, nothing extra shows when no app is pinned, and the children are hidden when the sidebar is collapsed to the rail. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(addons): say that pinned apps are listed under Apps in the sidebar The sidebar lists the pinned apps between Apps and Show all, in pin order. The pins section and the navigation section said that pins do not appear in the sidebar. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): remove the Show all link under Apps in the sidebar The link repeated the Apps entry, which opens the same drawer, and looked redundant when no app was pinned. Apps is now the only add-on entry; pinned apps still list under it in pin order. The link, its locale key and the style comment are gone, and the e2e spec and the add-ons docs now say that Apps is the only entry. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): show a first-run card on Apps when nothing is installed An administrator who opens Apps with no add-on installed now sees a short card with three steps: choose a library, browse and install, start the add-on. Its button opens the Browse tab. The card is hidden once an add-on is installed and for anyone who cannot install. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): hide the pinned apps in the icon rail When the window is narrower than 1024 px the sidebar shrinks to the icon rail by CSS alone, without the collapsed class. The pinned app links were still drawn there, with the indent meant for the full sidebar, so their icons sat to the right of the rail and were cut off. Hide the pinned app links in both rail states. The Apps entry keeps its centred icon. The e2e spec checks that the rail shows no pinned app and that every icon is centred at 1280 px collapsed and at 1000 px. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(ui): stop the backend redirect test racing the installed list The test reads the redirected URL right after the path changes. The Backends page then loads the installed list and drops a selected backend that is not installed, so the backend parameter was sometimes already gone when the test read it. The mock server has no llama-cpp, and about 15 of 40 repeated runs failed on the backend assertion. The redirect itself was correct, including show_all. Serve the selected backend in the installed list, so the page keeps the selection and the assertions stay as strict as before. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): accept a same-host Referer or Origin for human confirmation Browsers send no Sec-Fetch-* headers over plain HTTP on an address that is not localhost, so creating a resource from a LAN address failed with "Creating a resource requires your own browser session". When Sec-Fetch-Site is present it must still be same-origin with an empty destination, as before. When it is absent, Origin or, failing that, Referer must name the request host and port. A destination or mode that is present must still be the expected one. This matches the rule in BrowserProtection. The credential, token cookie, API key and tool-context checks are unchanged. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): keep hub entries off the Apps route in the sidebar The Build hub still owned /app/addons through its legacy Add-ons tab, so the sidebar lit both Apps and Build on the Apps page. A tab whose gate is closed now owns no route when the sidebar asks, so only the Apps entry is active there. The hubs keep their own routes, and the legacy navigation still gives /app/addons to the Build hub. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): label the pin control on app tiles and in the detail view The pin was a small icon-only button and hard to find. Each app tile now shows a button reading Pin, or Pinned with a filled pin, and the detail view has the same control in its header. Both toggle the same stored pin. The Apps grid lists pinned apps first, in pin order, then the others. The sidebar list and the server pins API are unchanged. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(addons): check the Voice From a recording tab has one title The Library and Text to speech tabs already assert that the add-on shell title is the only h1. Do the same for the From a recording tab, so a heading added there later fails the navigation spec. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): stop the add-on shell drawing a title over add-on pages The app decides what its page shows. The shell drew the add-on name as a header above every add-on page, so an add-on could not choose its own title. The shell now draws no header on a live, loading or frozen add-on page; each add-on titles its own pages. The unavailable and missing-page states keep the name, because no add-on page is drawn there. The runtime and shell specs now check that the shell adds no page title. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(addons): let each add-on draw its own page title The shell no longer titles add-on pages, so each add-on draws one h1 per page. Voice titles its tabs "Voices" (Recognition and From a recording), "Speech voices" (Library) and "Speak text" (Text to speech); "Add a speech voice" already had its own. Face draws "Faces", Studio "Studio" and Talk "Talk". Tables promotes the database list and database name from h2 to h1. Fine-tuning and Quantization already drew a title. The add-on unit tests and the navigation and Studio specs now assert exactly one h1 per page, with the page's own title. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): add a kind to library entries and read unknown kinds tolerantly A library entry now has an optional kind: addon (the default when it is absent), backend or model. Every index written before kinds existed stays valid and its entries are add-ons. A reader keeps the entries of the kinds it knows and skips the others without reading their fields, so a newer kind never makes an older host refuse the whole index. The refresh result and the library state report how many entries were skipped and of which kinds, and the refresh logs a warning. A kind that is not a plain kind name still makes the index malformed. Search lists add-ons unless the caller asks for a kind, and Resolve returns add-ons only, so an add-on install cannot be pointed at a backend image. A library policy may name the signer with an anchored identityRegex instead of an exact identity, so builds from master and from tags both verify. An add-on install refuses a policy that carries one. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(backends): install a backend from a library entry A library can now list backends. An entry of kind backend names the image of the backend gallery by digest, and POST /backends/library/install installs it on the local node. The gallery stays the source of truth and its install path is the one used: the library resolves the entry, takes the signature policy from the library, pins the image by digest and calls the same install as the gallery. Installing a name that came from a gallery, another library or by hand is refused and changes nothing. The signature policy of a backend library names the signer with an anchored identityRegex, so images signed by the merge workflow on master and on tags both verify. A pattern that is not anchored is refused. An install is bounded by a size limit per kind: add-ons keep 512 MiB and a backend image defaults to 8 GiB, set with --addons-backend-max-bytes. The limit reads the manifest after the signature check and before any layer is fetched. The metadata of an installed backend records the library it came from. scripts/backends/cmd/backendcatalog renders entries from backend/index.yaml and pins them against the registry. The pilot is the CPU build of local-store, in gallery/backends/index.yaml. The library is registered on the first start only with --addons-backend-library, which is off by default. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): show the kind of library entries and install backends from them The Browse tab lists the entries of every kind this host reads and marks each one as an add-on or a backend. A backend installs through the backend route and not through the add-on lifecycle: the confirmation says that the backend gallery is not changed and that a backend runs native code, and a refusal of the host, such as a name installed from another origin, is shown with its own reason. The details give the kind, the alias and the signer pattern. The library editor can name the signer with a pattern. Without this a save would drop the pattern of a backend library. The Libraries tab reports the entries a refresh skipped because their kind is not read. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(addons): describe backends in the library Document the entry kinds, how a reader skips a kind it does not know, the backend entry format, the signer identity pattern, the install route, the size limit of each kind, the pilot library and the command that renders it. The backend page links to it. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(mcp): install a backend from a library entry The backend library route installs a backend from an add-on library entry, and the admin REST surface and the MCP catalog must stay in step. Add the install_library_backend tool with an in-process and an HTTP client, the route map entry, the safety-rule listing and a skill recipe. Listing library entries stays on the add-on routes, which the assistant does not expose, so no list tool is added. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(ui): carry the add-on library keys in every locale The add-on library and backend library strings existed only in English, so the other locales had no value for them. Add the missing keys of the addons namespace to de, es, id, it, ko, pt-BR and zh-CN. The values are the English text until a translation is contributed. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(backends): report the steps of a library install as a job A backend install from a library ran inside the request and showed nothing until it ended. It is now a job of the gallery service, the kind the backend gallery installs use. The request answers with the job ID and GET /backends/jobs/{id} reports the step as the phase of the job: resolving, verifying, size, fetching and writing, with the byte progress of the fetch. A job that fails keeps the phase of the step that failed and gives the reason. A second install of the same name is refused while one runs. The downloader and the gallery install report their stages through an optional hook, so the steps are the real ones and not a guess. The Browse tab lists the steps of the entry being installed, marks the one that failed, and omits the signature step for a library that does not require one. The library installer also gets Updates and a route that lists the installed library backends with a newer build in their library, for the next change. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): mark library backends and offer their updates on the Backends page A backend installed from a library now shows the library ID next to its name and, in the detail, the library and the digest that metadata.json pinned. Gallery backends look and behave as before, and the gallery reinstall is not offered for a library backend, because the gallery does not list it. When the cached index of the library lists another build in the channel of the installed version, the row says "Update available" and offers an Update button. The button starts the same install as the Browse tab, and the detail shows its steps. Nothing is upgraded on its own. The check says nothing when the library no longer lists the installed version and has several channels, instead of guessing one. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 node playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(mcp): match the library installer to the progress type The MCP install of a library backend was written against the earlier Install signature. The job-based install now takes a Progress value, so the application did not build. The MCP interface drops its unused status callback and the application adapts the installer to it. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(gallery): add the model library entry shape and its reader A model library entry is the shared library envelope (kind, id, name, version, description, license, urls, tags, icon, channel, policy, schemaVersion) plus a model body: url, backend, size, files, configFile, overrides, variants and promptTemplates. The envelope lives in the catalog package so the other kinds can move to it. A gallery entry converts to a library entry and back to the same gallery entry. Floats are written so they read back as floats, and an empty variants list stays distinct from an absent one, because both occur in the real index. The reader is strict: unknown fields, duplicate ids, a second document and a flow-style list are refused. An entry of another kind is skipped and reported, as in the add-on reader. The gallery index stays the default and is not changed. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(gallery): render the model library from the model gallery scripts/models/cmd/modelcatalog reads gallery/index.yaml with the same structs the host reads it with, converts every entry to a library entry and back, and fails if any entry does not come back equal. It writes gallery/models/index.yaml and the golden files for the tests. The output is deterministic, and the gallery is only read. The golden files are a digest pair for every entry (the gallery entry and the library entry made from it) and a readable gallery and library pair for each kind of entry: plain, with variants, with an empty variants list, with a config file, with a size, with a backend, with floats in the overrides, without a url, without files and with a multiline description. All 2212 entries of the index round trip. The gallery struct does not read a few keys (last_checked, parameters and four stray capitalised keys); the host drops them when it loads the index, so the library does not carry them, and the command reports them. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(gallery): add --model-index-source to read the model library --model-index-source selects the file the host reads the models of the official gallery from: gallery (the default) or library. With library the gallery named localai reads the model library, from --model-library-url or the file in the repository, and keeps its configured name and URL on every entry. A gallery the owner added keeps its own index, and add-on and backend galleries never take this path. A library that cannot be fetched or read is an error and not a fall back to the gallery, so the setting is never silent. The tests round trip every entry of the real gallery index, compare it with the golden files, check the rendered library file reads and agrees with itself, and cover the strict reader, the kinds it skips, prompt templates, number types, empty lists and the setting. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(backends): upgrade library backends with the auto-upgrade switch The upgrade checker now installs the newer build of a library backend when auto_upgrade_backends is on, on the same check that upgrades the gallery backends. With the switch off nothing is installed and the Update button stays manual. The switch is read on every check, so a change in the runtime settings applies at the next one. There is no second toggle. The tests cover both states and a host without a library. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(cli): add local-ai library to manage library sources local-ai library has list, add, remove, enable and disable. It works on the source store the server reads (addons/sources.json under the data path), so it also works with the server stopped. A source has a kind (addon, backend or model); the store records whether it is a shipped default, and removing a default leaves a tombstone so it does not come back at the next start. The shipped model and backend gallery indexes are default sources next to the official add-on library. Defaults are added at every start when they have no record yet, and an existing file that holds no default is left alone as before. The --model-index-source and --model-library-url flags are removed: a model library is added as a model source, and the gallery entry says it is a library. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(addons): let a source of your own win an entry over a default When two enabled sources list the same entry (same kind and id), the source the user added wins over a shipped default, and the default is ignored for that entry. When two sources the user added list it, search and resolve are refused with an error that names the entry and both sources, and nothing is picked silently. Among shipped defaults nothing changes. The tests cover a user source over a default, a tie between two user sources, a default ignored once a user source wins, and the case where disabling a source ends the conflict. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(cli): map the gallery flags to library sources at startup --galleries and --backend-galleries keep loading the same JSON. At startup each entry they name also becomes a source the user owns, of kind model or backend, so local-ai library list shows it. The mapping is additive: an entry whose kind and URL is already a source (a shipped default, one added with the CLI, or one mapped at an earlier start) is not added twice, and a derived id never collides with another source. The sources then decide which galleries the server reads: a gallery whose source is disabled or removed is left out, and a model library or gallery added with local-ai library add is added. A list set by the flags still replaces the shipped defaults. If the store cannot be opened, the galleries stay as the flags set them. The autoload switches are not touched. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(library): use id for every kind and seed the default libraries The backend entries of the library used addonId while the model entries use id. Release now has the field ID, written as id for every kind. ReadIndex reads addonId as a legacy alias for one release, for add-ons and backends, and refuses an entry that holds both names. The backend index and the catalog generator write id. The shipped libraries are default sources. The pilot backend library is now on by default, like the official add-on library, and the model library is a new default model source, official-models. The server reads it next to the localai gallery. A source the user removed stays removed, and a source the user adds is added to the defaults. The model catalog header held a backtick that ended its raw string, so the generator did not build. The header no longer has it. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go node playwright Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(library): choose the default model source by build A build read both the localai gallery and the official-models library by default, so every model was listed twice. Now a build reads one of them. library.ModelSource names it: "library" or "gallery". The model source that is not chosen is still shipped, as a disabled default, and local-ai library enable turns it on. The value is a Go variable set at link time with -ldflags, because the same source tree makes both kinds of build and a constant would need a commit to change. It is "library" in the source, so a build from master, go build and go test read the library. Only the exact value "gallery" selects the gallery, so a mistyped value cannot leave a build without a model source. The Makefile sets it from LOCALAI_MODEL_SOURCE. When that is not set, a commit that carries a tag gets "gallery" and any other commit gets "library". .goreleaser.yaml passes the same variable and defaults to "gallery". The release workflow sets it to "library" on a tag, which is the cutover. A default source is seeded once, so a data directory that an earlier build seeded keeps its enabled flags. Switch it with local-ai library enable and disable. Tests assert the master default, the tagged default before the cutover and after it, and that a mistyped value reads the library. The model library header now says that CI checks it and when a build reads it. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go node Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * ci(library): check the model library and cut over on tag No workflow checked gallery/models/index.yaml, so it could go stale when gallery/index.yaml changed. A new workflow, model-library.yml, runs on pull requests and on master when the gallery, the library, the generator or core/gallery change. It runs the generator tests and the library shape tests (the file decodes, it has the library shape, every real entry round trips), then renders the library again from gallery/index.yaml and fails on any difference with git diff --exit-code. The error message gives the command that fixes it. release.yaml gets the cutover. On a tag, a step sets LOCALAI_MODEL_SOURCE=library before GoReleaser runs, and .goreleaser.yaml links it into the binary. Without that step a tagged build reads the gallery. The step is the one place to remove when the gallery is retired. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(library): make the model library the source of the gallery The library, gallery/models/index.yaml, was rendered from the gallery. Now it is the source and models are edited there. modelcatalog reads the library and writes gallery/index.yaml, a generated copy that stays only so releases before the cutover keep working. The gallery file is written in the shape the host reads: the same field order, floats such as 1.0 keep their form, and an empty variants list stays apart from an absent one. The command converts every library entry to a gallery entry and back, loads its own output the way the host does, and fails when an entry comes back different. The gallery copy drops what the library cannot carry: last_checked, parameters and four capitalised keys (Base Model, Context Length, License, Training Data). The gallery struct has no field for any of them, so the host ignored them on load. Every run lists these keys and how often the file being replaced still had each. Loading the old and the new gallery with the host structs gives equal entries for all 2212 models. The tests that read the library and the golden files follow in the next commit. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * ci(library): check the library and that the gallery is its copy The model-library workflow assumed the gallery was the source. It now checks the library file, the new source. The library decodes, every entry has the library shape, every entry converts to a gallery entry and back, and the gallery reader loads the generated gallery and sees the same names, file uris and digests. The workflow then generates gallery/index.yaml again and fails on any diff with git diff --exit-code. The message says the file is generated, not to edit it by hand, and gives the command that regenerates it. The tests in core/gallery read the library file now. The round trip runs library to gallery and back on all 2212 real entries, a new test compares the checked-in gallery with the generated copy so go test finds a hand edit too, and the golden digests and samples are written from the library. The version of an entry is no longer compared with a digest of its content, since an edit to the library does not change it. The docs say the library is the source, the gallery file is a generated copy for releases before the cutover, and edits go to the library. The agent guide for adding models says the same. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(library): add admin routes for library sources and an official libraries switch The library sources of the add-on, backend and model kinds had a CLI but no HTTP routes. Add them for administrators, on the same store and the same functions as `local-ai library`, so the two cannot drift: GET /api/library/sources POST /api/library/sources POST /api/library/sources/{id}/enable POST /api/library/sources/{id}/disable DELETE /api/library/sources/{id} The list carries kind, default, removed (a tombstone), suspended and the conflict message of a source that clashes with another one. A change to a model or backend source applies to the running server. A deleted source drops its gallery by address; a removed default keeps its record. Add the runtime setting official_libraries (default on), with the flag --official-libraries. When it is off, every shipped default source of the three kinds is suspended: it is not read, stays in the store marked default, and comes back when the setting is on again. Sources the user added are not affected. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): list library sources of all three kinds in the Libraries tab The Libraries tab of the Add-ons page now lists the sources of the add-on, backend and model kinds from the new library routes. It has a kind filter with counts, a Default badge, the state of each source (enabled, disabled, removed, or off while the official libraries are off), turn on and off, a Restore button for a removed default, and the conflict message next to a source that clashes. Adding a source takes a kind and, for backends and models, an index format. Settings gets the toggle "Use official libraries" for the official_libraries setting. Add unit tests for the list and the kind filter, and a Playwright spec that runs on a fresh test server started with --library-sources (its own config, port 8097): it lists the three kinds, adds a model source, disables and removes a default, checks the conflict message and the official libraries toggle. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 javascript Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(library): extend the backend body to carry what the gallery carries The backend library entry only held an image and its digest. The backend gallery holds more that matters at install and in the UI, so the library could not replace it. Add the missing fields to the backend kind and keep the strict reader. New fields, all refused on an add-on entry: - mirrors: ordered fallback images of the same backend, each oci://. The install pins them with the digest of the artifact. - capabilities: a map from a host capability to a backend id. An entry with capabilities and no artifact is a meta backend. It has no digest, os or arch, is listed for every platform, and installing it installs the backend its capability names, in the same library and channel. - license, urls, tags: display metadata, bounded and checked as text. - icon: an https URL. The add-on ui.icon stays a path in the package. The host never fetches the icon. - mutable: the artifact is a moving tag, such as a development image. The entry has no digest. The install resolves the tag to a digest, verifies that image and records the digest it installed. - schemaVersion: the envelope version. A higher one is refused. The index bounds grow to 8 MiB and 4000 entries, because the backend library lists every image for every platform. Release now holds lists, so the add-on staging compares it with Equal instead of ==. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(library): render the backend library from the whole backend gallery Add the conversion between a gallery backend and its library entries in core/gallery, and make scripts/backends/cmd/backendcatalog build the library from the gallery and the gallery from the library. The library now holds all 1093 gallery entries as 1088 backends, because five names appear twice in the gallery with the same content and are folded. That is 934 concrete backends and 154 meta backends, written as 1240 entries: a backend built for several platforms has one entry for each, with the digest of that platform image. - 539 release entries are pinned by the digest the registry serves for the platform. - 543 development entries (master-* tags) keep their tag and are mutable. The install pins them. - 4 release entries are not pinned, because the registry has no image for them: cpu-qdrant-store, metal-qdrant-store, cpu-gemxcpp and vulkan-gemxcpp. They are marked mutable and no digest is invented. Render them again with --repin once the images exist. The generator can import a gallery once, pin the release images again, and write the gallery file from the library without the network. Before it writes it converts every backend to the library and back and fails if one does not come back equal. A policy is no longer written on each entry, because the host takes the policy of the library source. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(library): check that every backend gallery entry round trips Prove that the backend library can replace the backend gallery. The golden input is the real backend gallery from before the library became the source: 1093 entries, kept under core/gallery/testdata/backend_library with the pins the library holds and the digest of each generated entry. TestBackendLibraryRoundTripsEveryRealGalleryEntry converts each entry to library entries, writes them as an index, reads them as a host does, validates them and converts them back. It asserts that all 1093 entries come back equal on every field the gallery reader uses, and logs the count. The five names that appear twice in the gallery have the same content, so the twin is checked against the first one and folded. The other tests check the library file in the repository: every entry passes the host checks, every backend round trips, every meta backend names concrete backends the library has, a development entry keeps its master-* tag and has no digest, and the golden digests still match. Unit tests cover each field, the fields the library cannot carry, which are refused rather than dropped, and entries of one backend that disagree. An entry with no artifact, digest, os or arch no longer writes them as empty strings, so a meta backend and a mutable entry stay short. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(library): make the backend library the source of the backend gallery Flip the source the way the model library did. The backend library, gallery/backends/index.yaml, is where backends are edited. The backend gallery, backend/index.yaml, is now generated from it by scripts/backends/cmd/backendcatalog and stays only so releases before the cutover keep working. It no longer has anchors or hand-written order, and it holds 1088 backends: the five names that were listed twice with the same content are folded. Which source a build reads is set at build time, like the model source: - core/library.BackendSource is "library" or "gallery". Only the exact value "gallery" selects the gallery, so a mistyped value cannot leave a build with no backend source. - A build from master reads the library. The Makefile reads the gallery for a commit that carries a tag (LOCALAI_BACKEND_SOURCE), and GoReleaser defaults to the gallery. - A step in release.yaml sets LOCALAI_BACKEND_SOURCE=library, so a tagged build cuts over by itself. - Both sources are shipped and one is enabled. With --addons-backend-library=false every build reads the gallery. The server hands the shipped backend library to the gallery reader as a library, so the Backends page lists it and installs from it the way it did from the gallery. A backend library the user adds stays with the add-on catalog. The shipped library is now a backend source, not an add-on one. The new workflow backend-library.yml runs the tests, regenerates backend/index.yaml and fails on a diff. It never reads the registry. backendcatalog --add merges backends written in the gallery shape into the library, so adding a backend does not mean writing platform entries by hand; the agent guide says so. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 go Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(library): describe the backend library as the source of the backends Rewrite the backends and add-ons pages for the backend library. The library file is the source of truth and the backend gallery is a generated copy that is never edited by hand. - backends.md: the library and the generated gallery, which source a build reads (master, tagged before the cutover, tagged after it), the --addons-backend-library switch, how to add a backend and generate the gallery, and what CI checks. - addons.md: the full backend entry with the new fields (mirrors, capabilities, license, urls, tags, icon URL, mutable, schemaVersion), meta backends, development images pinned at install, and the backend library section in place of the pilot one. - compatibility-table.md: point to the library as the source. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(library): mirrors on library sources, editable through the API Library sources carry an optional list of mirrors. The mirrors go into the gallery entries the server reads, and a source can be edited with PUT /api/library/sources/:id. The mirror forms accepted are http(s), github:, oci:// and file://, at most eight per source. Sources saved before this change load without mirrors. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-haiku-5-5 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): library chips on the model and backend pages The model and backend pages manage their own library sources. Filter chips above the list narrow it to one library, and a panel adds, edits, turns on or off, refreshes and removes sources of that kind. The add-on Libraries tab lists add-on sources only. Settings shows the model and backend galleries as a read-only view of the library sources, with their mirrors. Mirrors are edited in the panel. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-haiku-5-5 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): show the library chips when a kind has one library The chips were hidden until a page had two libraries, so a single library had no visible filter. The row now shows whenever a page has a library. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-haiku-5-5 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(gallery): state the mirror rule and the cutover for the old index The library no longer has no mirrors: a source can list them, so the note now says that the shipped official-models library has none. The mirror section says that clearing a source's mirrors waits for a restart. The cutover section says the old gallery file is removed in the cutover release. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-haiku-5-5 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(gosec): tighten the modes the catalog generators write The generators wrote generated files and sample folders with 0644 and 0755. The generated index copies are tracked by git, which keeps only the executable bit, so the tracked files do not change. Local copies get 0600 and 0750. The library path read in mergeLibrary is the operator's own argument, so that read is annotated. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-haiku-5-5 [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>	2026-10-23 01:00:07 +02:00
Plamen K. Kosseff	7b9ef6a0f8	feat(backends): --disable-backend-install disables backend downloads. (#12754) ... feat(backends): --disable-backend-install refuses every backend acquisition A hardening switch for deployments that must run exactly the backend set they were tested with (production, air-gapped, immutable images, package-managed hosts). With LOCALAI_DISABLE_BACKEND_INSTALL=1 every install and upgrade path refuses — gallery, OCI/URL/path, node-scoped, auto-upgrade, boot-time external backends — HTTP routes answer 403 up front, and a model whose backend is missing is refused before any download: 409 on the API, an error on preload and import. Whether a backend is present is asked of the execution target: the local backend directory on a single node, the workers' listings on a distributed frontend, which installs nothing itself. Backends already present, including system-path ones, keep working. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5 Signed-off-by: Plamen K. Kosseff <p.kosseff@gmail.com>	2026-10-22 17:58:53 +02:00
mudler-agent	cd604b5c5b	fix(distributed): bound, stop and cancel model loads with leases and worker operations (#12524) ... Fence model load jobs by generation, lease them on the database clock, bound the work on the worker with operations and a process-group watchdog, and add one stop path with a load-cancel API. See the pull request for the design, the rolling upgrade notes and the test evidence. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-10-07 16:59:56 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto	8db6c15fe0	refactor: name the proxy backends with constants ... Review asked for constants instead of the "cloud-proxy" and "localai-proxy" literals. Add CloudProxyBackend and LocalAIProxyBackend next to the other backend-name constants in pkg/model (WhisperBackend, TransformersBackend, ...), which core/config already imports, and use them in every production check: the proxy options builder, IsRemoteProxy, IsCloudProxyBackendPassthrough, the PII defaults, the localai-proxy backend hook and loader warning, and the PII middleware metadata in the routes and the in-process MCP client. The proxy options builder now calls IsRemoteProxy() instead of repeating the two-backend check, so the set of proxy backends is defined once. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-09-27 07:42:21 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto	191d2d6301	feat(failover): add MCP tools to list chains and pin targets ... Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-09-27 07:42:20 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto	db09452d54	feat(tts): support multi-reference personalities ... Saved profiles previously resolved to one audio path and transcript, so cloning backends could not use several examples of one personality. Store ordered audio and transcript pairs while preserving the legacy first-reference fields. Fish Speech and audio.cpp receive all pairs, including on distributed workers. Other backends retain their single-reference behavior. Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-09-11 21:56:08 +00:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto	80e3240f2d	feat(distributed): key scheduling rules by a model alias (#11771) ... Node placement and replica rules could only name a model, so an operator who pinned "llama3" to the GPU tier had to rewrite the rule whenever a different model took over that job. An alias already gives a stable name for whichever model serves it, and a rule on that name makes it a deployment slot: repoint the alias and the placement follows. A rule keeps the name the operator chose. Reads resolve that name through the config loader to the model the rule governs, so the reconciler counts, schedules and trims replicas of the target, and the router finds an alias-keyed rule from the target it is already routing. An alias that resolves to nothing governs nothing loadable, so the reconciler skips it and the write paths refuse it. A replica is shared by every name that resolves to it, so only one rule can decide where it runs. The REST and MCP write paths reject a rule whose target another rule already governs. A pair that arrives some other way, such as a seed file or an alias repointed onto a model that already has a rule, resolves in favour of the rule named after the model itself and then the oldest, and the rest are listed as shadowed. The eviction guard is the exception: it matches rules to replicas in raw SQL inside a locking transaction and cannot resolve an alias. It reads a stored target that the reconciler refreshes each tick, and falls back to the rule's own name when that target is empty. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 golangci-lint eslint Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-08-29 09:16:50 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto	82c191afad	fix(distributed): keep model replicas config-consistent (#11664) ... * docs: design configurable copy buffering Document the context-aware copy buffer option and its validation plan. Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 * docs: design durable distributed staging operations Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 * docs: design distributed model config revisions Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [apply_patch] [exec_command] * feat(config): add stable model revisions Hash typed model configuration and effective protobuf options deterministically for distributed revision comparisons. Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [apply_patch] [exec_command] * feat(worker): acknowledge exact model stops Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [apply_patch] [exec_command] * feat(nodes): track model config revisions Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [apply_patch] * fix(distributed): retry quarantined model cleanup Stop quarantined replicas by exact process identity, retain failed cleanup as durable capped retries, and compare-and-delete only the claimed registry row. Process one sufficiently leased row at a time so multiple frontends cannot duplicate slow cleanup work. Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 * fix(distributed): bind loads to config revisions Assisted-by: Codex: GPT-5 [OpenAI Codex] * fix(modeladmin): apply config revisions consistently Route model edits, patches, state changes, deletion, and peer refreshes through the same revision lifecycle. Quarantine stale replicas before exact cleanup and report durable pending cleanup without failing successful config writes. Assisted-by: Codex: GPT-5 [OpenAI Codex] * feat(distributed): expose model config revision state Document replica revision observability and durable cleanup behavior. Keep pending cleanup explicit in model mutation responses and verify endpoint contracts expose revision state without serialized load options. Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5 [OpenAI Codex] * test(distributed): cover model revision convergence Exercise cross-frontend quarantine, stale replay rejection, exact cleanup retry, worker re-registration, and current-generation replica convergence against the distributed PostgreSQL harness. Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 * fix(distributed): pass config revision CI checks Keep configured gallery sources out of authoritative runtime snapshots only after validating their real schema, and harden rollback snapshots against symlink races and non-regular files. Assisted-by: Codex: GPT-5 [OpenAI Codex] --------- Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-08-22 22:44:03 +02:00
Richard Palethorpe	d10374f849	feat(router): make KNN a first-class classifier with a persisted, curated corpus (#10652) ... * feat(router): make KNN a first-class classifier with a persisted, curated corpus Add `classifier: knn` — similarity-weighted voting over labelled example prompts. Unlike score/colbert it needs no classifier model: label knowledge lives in a corpus seeded and curated through the admin API, so routing decisions are deterministic, auditable, and grounded in graded experience rather than a model's opinion. Epistemic gate: corpus entries below knn.similarity_threshold cannot vote; when none clears it the classifier activates no labels and the router uses the fallback — a prompt unlike all labelled experience is treated as undecidable, not guessed. Decisions record nearest_similarity (also on fallback rows) so admins can see how far the nearest labelled experience was; the Routing tab explains out-of-corpus fallbacks and shows per-label corpus counts. Persistence: one JSONL file per router under <data path>/router-corpus (text, labels, vector, embedder fingerprint). The file is the source of truth; the local-store index is rebuilt from it at classifier build time and stays a pure in-memory index. Entries recorded under a different embedding model re-embed on load. Also corrects the docs' false claim that local-store collections persist — the embedding cache never survived restarts (and still doesn't); the corpus does. Corpus input is API-only by design (entries may contain example user content): POST /api/router/{name}/corpus seeds (labels validated against declared policies, embedded server-side, indexed immediately), GET .../corpus/stats inspects — label counts only, entry texts are never returned by any surface — DELETE .../corpus wipes. Admin-gated like the sibling router endpoints, and exposed as MCP tools (seed_router_corpus / get_router_corpus_stats / clear_router_corpus) in both the httpapi and inproc clients with coverage-test route mappings. Plumbing: VectorStore gains SearchK (top-K was hardcoded to 1); local-store gets InsertBatch/Delete as optional fast paths; RouterConfig gains a knn block (embedding_model, k, similarity_threshold, vote_threshold, store_name) with meta-registry fields; the classifier dropdown now offers knn and the previously-missing colbert; embedding_cache is ignored (with a warning) for knn — it IS an embedding-KNN lookup; the stale /api/instructions intelligent-routing entry is rewritten (it described a classifier that no longer exists); swagger regenerated. Tests: KNN vote/gate specs with hand-computed vote shares, corpus manager suite (restart reload without re-embedding, fingerprint re-embed, dedupe, hostile store names), middleware specs (corpus routing, gate fallback, config validation, cache-wrap refusal), corpus endpoint specs pinning the texts-never-returned contract, MCP catalog + route-mapping gates, and a Playwright spec for corpus stats and the out-of-corpus decision detail. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * feat(router): name consulted corpus neighbours in knn decisions Every knn decision (decision log rows and the /api/router/decide response) now carries neighbors: the K retrieved corpus entries by descending similarity - including ones below the epistemic gate, which is what makes fallback decisions diagnosable - each as {id, similarity, labels}. The id is the entry's content hash (first 8 bytes of the SHA-256 of its text, hex): stable across reseeds and re-embeds, and text-free, so an external platform that seeded the corpus can recompute text->id on its own copy and bucket decisions by corpus region (per- region reliability accounting) without corpus text ever leaving the server. A corrupt index payload surfaces as an id-less neighbour at a real similarity instead of disappearing. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * refactor(router): deduplicate knn plumbing and cut corpus hot-path waste Post-review cleanup of the knn-first-class-router branch; no behaviour changes on the API surface. Reuse/altitude: - RouterKNNConfig.ResolvedStoreName is now the single source of the router-corpus-<name> default (was hand-derived in four files). - corpus.ResolveKNNRouter + corpus.Seed carry the shared model resolution and seed validation; the REST endpoints and the assistant MCP client are thin transport adapters over them, with sentinel errors mapped to HTTP statuses at the echo boundary. - middleware.NewClassifierDeps assembles the classifier dependency set once for all five entry points (OpenAI, Anthropic, realtime, decide, corpus) instead of five hand-copied literals. - router.AllClassifiers feeds both the status endpoint and the unknown-classifier error, ending the classifier-list drift. - Per-classifier requirements moved out of validateRouterPolicies into their buildClassifier arms; the knn arm owns its embedding_cache opt-out instead of a name-check in the shared wrap tail. - adminOnly replaces four inline copies of the admin gate in the middleware routes. - localVectorStore.Search delegates to SearchK (identical traces). Efficiency: - Manager.Add embeds outside the manager mutex and appends to the JSONL file (O(new) instead of O(corpus) rewrite); a torn tail from a crash mid-append is tolerated on read and repaired on next write. - Stats memoises per store keyed on the file's stat fingerprint and no longer takes the manager mutex, so the 5s status poll stops parsing vector-laden JSONL and stops blocking behind seeds. - KNN Classify decodes each neighbour payload once (was twice) and builds refs and votes in a single pass with one fallback return. - Corpus file writes fsync before rename/close. - The corpus manager is built eagerly in newApplication (sync.Once dropped); test helper dead branch removed. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * feat(router): bind knn corpus vectors to an embedder fingerprint and fail closed on mismatch Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * chore(mcp): align corpus tool prompts and the mutating-tool safety list Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * feat(proto,backend): report embedding shape from the llama-cpp backend Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * feat(embeddings): Go-side pooling — mean/last/decayed_mean with half-life Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * feat(embeddings): accept chat messages[] and per-request pooling on /v1/embeddings Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * chore(middleware): name the failing fields when post-merge validation 400s An intermittent post-merge validation failure surfaced as an opaque 400 during integration (pooling scheme mismatch that no client had sent). Log the model, the request's pooling override, and the merged config's pooling fields at the failure point so the next occurrence identifies whether the request or the stored config carried the bad value. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * fix(embeddings): scheme override must not inherit the config's half-life A model config defaulting to decayed_mean pooling carries pooling_half_life_tokens; a request overriding the scheme to mean/last without its own half-life inherited that value, and post-merge validation rejected the pair the server itself had assembled. Zero the inherited half-life when the overridden scheme is not decayed_mean; a request that explicitly pairs a half-life with a non-decayed scheme still 400s. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * fix embedding pooling validation and router bounds Declare backend embedding layouts and reject incompatible pooling modes. Reset local-store dimensions after a full clear, validate KNN thresholds, and add real backend and store integration coverage. Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> * ci: run local-store integration tests Build and install the local-store backend in the Linux test job, then run the existing store integration suite so new specs are discovered automatically. Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com> --------- Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>	2026-08-18 09:37:43 +02:00
Owen Adirah	8f74f74b10	feat(mcp): expose scheduling admin tools (#11228) ... * feat(mcp): add scheduling client contracts Assisted-by: Hephaestus:openai/gpt-5.5 Signed-off-by: Owen Adirah <owenadira@gmail.com> * feat(mcp): add scheduling HTTP client support Assisted-by: Hephaestus:openai/gpt-5.5 Signed-off-by: Owen Adirah <owenadira@gmail.com> * feat(mcp): add in-process scheduling stubs Assisted-by: Hephaestus:openai/gpt-5.5 Signed-off-by: Owen Adirah <owenadira@gmail.com> * feat(mcp): register scheduling tools Assisted-by: Hephaestus:openai/gpt-5.5 Signed-off-by: Owen Adirah <owenadira@gmail.com> * test(mcp): map scheduling tools to REST routes Assisted-by: Hephaestus:openai/gpt-5.5 Signed-off-by: Owen Adirah <owenadira@gmail.com> * docs(mcp): document scheduling assistant tools Assisted-by: Hephaestus:openai/gpt-5.5 Signed-off-by: Owen Adirah <owenadira@gmail.com> * fix(mcp): wire in-process scheduling Use an explicit MCP scheduling DTO and route in-process scheduling calls through the distributed node registry so the embedded assistant matches the REST scheduling surface. Assisted-by: Hephaestus:openai/gpt-5.5 Signed-off-by: Owen Adirah <owenadira@gmail.com> * fix(mcp): narrow scheduling dto Assisted-by: Hephaestus:openai/gpt-5.5 [opencode] Signed-off-by: Owen Adirah <owenadira@gmail.com> --------- Signed-off-by: Owen Adirah <owenadira@gmail.com>	2026-08-03 15:24:29 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto	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> --------- 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
LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto	8cec22c3b7	feat(vram): per-node VRAM allocation budget (LOCALAI_VRAM_BUDGET) (#10833) ... * feat(vram): add vrambudget primitive for per-node VRAM caps Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): apply default VRAM budget in xsysinfo aggregate getters Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): wire LOCALAI_VRAM_BUDGET flag to xsysinfo default budget Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): persist VRAM budget via runtime settings with live apply Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(vram): reset process-global VRAM budget after runtime-settings spec Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): add VRAM budget field to Settings page Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): store and enforce per-node VRAM budget in the node registry Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): apply per-node VRAM budget in router hardware defaults Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): report worker VRAM budget in node registration The distributed worker now reports its operator-set VRAM budget string (LOCALAI_VRAM_BUDGET) to the server on registration. The worker keeps reporting RAW total/available VRAM and never sets the xsysinfo process-global budget (that stays standalone-only); the server resolves and enforces the budget uniformly (Task 6). Also closes a Task 6 gap: on re-registration, a struct Updates zero-skips an empty budget, so a worker that dropped LOCALAI_VRAM_BUDGET left the stale cap in place. For non-admin-override nodes the budget columns are now force-written (map Updates) even when empty, so removing the env var clears the cap; admin overrides are preserved unchanged. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * style(vram): drop em dash from worker-clear comment Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): add node VRAM budget admin endpoints Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): add node VRAM budget control to the node UI Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(vram): expose set_node_vram_budget MCP admin tool Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(vram): document LOCALAI_VRAM_BUDGET and node VRAM budget UI Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(vram): avoid double-applying VRAM budget in GetResourceAggregateInfo The GPU-branch aggregate returned by GetResourceInfo is sourced from GetGPUAggregateInfo, which already caps total/free/used against the process-wide VRAM budget. GetResourceAggregateInfo then applied the budget a second time. For an absolute budget this is idempotent, but for a percentage budget b.Apply resolves the ceiling as a fraction of its input total, so a second pass yields P*(P*T) instead of P*T and distorts UsagePercent (read by the memory reclaimer in pkg/model/watchdog.go). Remove the redundant second application so the budget is applied exactly once, against the raw physical totals, upstream in GetGPUAggregateInfo. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(vram): implement SetNodeVRAMBudget on mcp assistant test stub The LocalAIClient interface gained SetNodeVRAMBudget; the stubClient in core/http/endpoints/mcp used by the assistant tests is a separate implementer and needs the method too (broke golangci-lint typecheck and both test jobs). 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>	2026-07-15 09:58:45 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto	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 --------- Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-07-13 09:54:46 +02:00
Richard Palethorpe	eb32cd9073	feat(realtime): eager blocking pipeline warm-up + /backend/load API (#10662) ... Realtime sessions previously lazy-loaded each pipeline sub-model (VAD, transcription, LLM, TTS) on first use, so every cold session paid a per-request model-load stall and load errors only surfaced mid-stream. Warm the whole pipeline eagerly and blockingly at session start (including the voice-gate speaker-recognition model, which an enforced gate blocks each utterance on; compaction's summary_model stays lazy since it only runs off the response path): - Add backend.PreloadModel / PreloadModelByName as the single load path for every modality (no transcription special-case; backend-omitted configs are deprecated). - The realtime session blocks on Model.Warmup and returns a model_load_error to the client if any stage fails to load; updateSession warms in the background. Opt out per pipeline with pipeline.disable_warmup, exposed as a UI toggle via the config-metadata registry. Add a LocalAI-native POST /backend/load (and /v1/backend/load) that pre-loads a model -- expanding realtime pipelines into their sub-models -- as the inverse of /backend/shutdown. There is one preload engine (backend.PreloadStages): the realtime Warmup methods, /backend/load and the --load-to-memory startup flag all use it, so --load-to-memory now also expands pipeline models and records load-failure traces. Pipeline sub-model alias resolution is likewise shared (ModelConfigLoader.LoadResolvedModelConfig). Surface the endpoint everywhere an admin manages models: - MCP admin tool load_model (httpapi + inproc clients, safety/catalog prompts, catalog/dispatch tests). - "Load into memory" action in the React models UI. - Swagger regenerated; docs moved to the general backend-monitor page since it is not realtime-specific. Fix a Traces UI crash ("json: unsupported value: -Inf"): audio-snippet RMS/peak now floor at a finite dBFS, and backend-trace data is sanitized to drop non-finite floats before marshaling. The sanitizer is copy-on-write -- it runs on every RecordBackendTrace, so containers are only re-allocated on the paths that actually changed. Migrate core/http/openresponses_test.go onto the prebuilt mock-backend the rest of the http suite already uses -- it was the last spec still pointing at a real HuggingFace model, so it 404'd wherever no vision backend was built -- and fix its item_reference specs to send the spec's "id" field instead of "item_id", which the handler never accepted. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 Claude Code Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>	2026-07-03 18:00:37 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto	9565db5f94	feat(models): model aliases - redirect a model name to another configured model (#10414) ... * feat(config): add model alias field and self-validation Add ModelConfig.Alias (yaml: alias), IsAlias(), and an alias short-circuit at the top of Validate() that rejects self-reference and forbids setting backend/parameters.model on a pure-redirect alias. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(config): resolve and validate model alias targets in the loader Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4-8 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(middleware): resolve model aliases and stamp requested/served identity Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(modeladmin): reject alias configs with invalid targets on create/edit Validate alias targets at create/swap entry points (ImportModelEndpoint, EditYAML, PatchConfig) so a dangling, chained, or disabled alias target is rejected at save time rather than surfacing as a runtime error. Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4-8 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(api): add GET /api/aliases to list model aliases Adds an admin-gated read-only endpoint that lists every model alias config as {name, target} pairs, backed by the loader's existing GetAllModelsConfigs(). Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(mcp): add set_alias and list_aliases tools Expose model-alias management over the LocalAI Assistant MCP surface: list_aliases (read-only, GET /api/aliases) and set_alias (mutating). SetAlias is swap-first: PATCH /api/models/config-json/:name swaps an existing alias's target (validated, non-destructive) and a 404 falls back to POST /models/import to create a fresh {name, alias} config. The inproc client mirrors this via ConfigService.PatchConfig + a create path modeled on ImportModelEndpoint. Deletion reuses delete_model. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * style(mcp): replace em dashes in alias tool comments Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(config-meta): expose alias as a model-select field Add an 'alias' section to DefaultSections() and an 'alias' field override in DefaultRegistry() so the schema-driven React editor renders the new top-level ModelConfig.Alias field as a model picker in its own section. Assisted-by: Claude:opus-4.8 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(ui): add alias template card and Manage alias badge Add an 'Alias / Routing' template to the create-flow gallery that seeds a minimal name + alias config, and a read-only 'alias -> target' badge on the Manage Models tab. The capabilities row payload does not carry the alias field, so the badge resolves targets from GET /api/aliases looked up by name. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs: document model aliases Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * docs(swagger): regenerate for GET /api/aliases Adds the /api/aliases path and AliasInfo schema generated from the ListAliasesEndpoint annotation. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(localai): check os.RemoveAll error in aliases_test Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix: correct alias conversion docs and advertise /api/aliases in instructions Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(mcp): write alias config 0600 to satisfy gosec G306 The inproc createAlias path wrote the alias YAML with 0644, which gosec flags as a new G306 finding on the PR. The LocalAI process is the sole reader/writer of model configs, so 0600 is correct and keeps the scan clean. 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>	2026-06-20 22:38:42 +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
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
Richard Palethorpe	12d1f3a697	security(http): refuse redirects on outbound clients via hardened pkg/httpclient (#10087) ... LocalAI's outbound HTTP clients used Go's default redirect policy, which follows up to 10 redirects. On a cross-host redirect Go forwards custom request headers — including credential headers such as Anthropic's x-api-key — to the redirect target (Go strips Authorization, Cookie and WWW-Authenticate cross-host, but NOT arbitrary custom headers). An attacker able to elicit a redirect from an upstream (a hijacked or spoofed upstream, DNS trickery, or a malicious upstream_url) then harvests the operator's provider API key. This was first reported against the cloud-proxy / MITM PII path (GHSA-3mj3-57v2-4636); the same class affects every other outbound client. Rather than patch each call site, add pkg/httpclient as the one sanctioned constructor for outbound HTTP and route everything through it. pkg/httpclient: - New(...) refuses redirects, TLS 1.2 floor, no body deadline (streaming/SSE safe) - NewWithTimeout(d) simple request/response calls - WithFollowRedirects opt-in following that still strips credential headers on any cross-host hop; different scheme/host/port == different origin, guarding the curl CVE-2022-27774 port-confusion class - WithTransport(rt) keep a custom transport (IP-pin, HTTP/2, a credential-injecting RoundTripper) - HardenedTransport() base transport with the TLS floor + bounded setup - Harden(c) apply the policy to a library-supplied *http.Client - NoRedirect the CheckRedirect policy; wraps ErrRedirectBlocked Lint: a forbidigo rule flags http.DefaultClient and http.Get/Post/ PostForm/Head, pointing at pkg/httpclient (.golangci.yml, .agents/coding-style.md). forbidigo cannot match the &http.Client{} composite literal without also flagging legitimate *http.Client type references, so that form is enforced by review. Migrates every non-test outbound call site across core/, pkg/, cmd/, and the Go backend (backend/go/cloud-proxy). Credential-bearing and internal-RPC clients refuse redirects; download / CDN / registry clients use WithFollowRedirects so they keep working while stripping secrets cross-host. The only credential-bearing client that follows redirects is the gated-download path (pkg/downloader/uri.go), which strips the token on the cross-host hop to the CDN. Hardening this closes, in passing: - MCP remote-server bearer token leaking via a redirect (the RoundTripper re-injected Authorization on every hop) - agent multimedia/webhook clients leaking user-supplied auth headers - cors_proxy following redirects, bypassing its SSRF IP-pin - downloader's authorized read path leaking the token cross-host Fixes: GHSA-3mj3-57v2-4636 (cloud-proxy leaks operator provider API key (x-api-key) to attacker host on cross-host redirect) Reported-by: tonghuaroot Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>	2026-05-30 12:04:10 +02:00
Richard Palethorpe	6a80e23733	feat(middleware): Model routing, PII filtering, Cloud model proxies (#9802) ... Add a routing middleware stack and a cloud-proxy backend. * cloud-proxy: a Go gRPC backend that forwards OpenAI- and Anthropic-shaped chat requests to upstream providers, with an optional translate mode (OpenAI request -> Anthropic /v1/messages -> OpenAI response) and full tool-calling support. * routing: admission control, content-aware model routing (embedding cache + classifier + rerank + Arch-Router score), PII detection/redaction (regex + NER) with streaming filter and OpenAI/Anthropic adapters, and a per-user/per-key billing recorder backed by GORM or in-memory storage. * middleware: UsageMiddleware records usage via the billing recorder, plus admission, route-model, usage-stamp and trace middlewares. * observability: BackendTrace ring buffer stores full request bodies (capped), MITM proxy emits structured trace events, and router classifier decisions surface at /api/router/decide. * gallery: Arch-Router-1.5B (Q4_K_M and Q8_0). * UI: cloud-proxy model-editor fields, classifier system-prompt and score-normalization config, and a Traces page rendering request bodies. Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>	2026-05-25 09:28:27 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto	b1a99436c7	feat(branding): admin-configurable instance name, tagline, and assets (#9635) ... Adds a whitelabeling feature so an operator can replace the LocalAI instance name, tagline, square logo, horizontal logo, and favicon from the admin Settings page. Defaults fall back to the bundled assets so existing installs are unaffected. The public GET /api/branding endpoint is reachable pre-auth so the login screen can render the configured branding before sign-in. Mutating routes (POST/DELETE /api/branding/asset/:kind) remain admin-only. Text fields (instance_name, instance_tagline) ride the existing /api/settings flow; binary assets get a dedicated multipart upload route that persists files under DynamicConfigsDir/branding/. To prevent the Settings page's stale local state from clobbering an upload on save, UpdateSettingsEndpoint preserves whatever the on-disk asset filename fields are regardless of the body — /api/branding/asset/* are the sole writers for those fields. The MCP catalog gains get_branding and set_branding tools (text fields only; file upload stays UI-only) plus a configure_branding skill prompt. While wiring this up, the same restart-loss class of bug surfaced for several existing fields whose RuntimeSettings entries were never read by the startup loader. Fix loadRuntimeSettingsFromFile() to load: - branding (instance_name, instance_tagline, *_file basenames) - auto_upgrade_backends, prefer_development_backends - localai_assistant_enabled - open_responses_store_ttl - the 7 existing AgentPool fields (enabled, default/embedding model, chunking sizes, enable_logs, collection_db_path) Also exposes 3 new AgentPool runtime settings (vector_engine, database_url, agent_hub_url) via /api/settings + the Settings UI, with the same load-on-startup wiring. The file watcher's manual-edit path is intentionally not changed — the in-process API endpoints already update appConfig directly, so the watcher is redundant for supported flows and a separate refactor for everything else. 15 TDD specs cover the loader behaviour (1 branding + 11 adjacent + 3 new agent-pool); 2 specs cover the persistence helpers and the clobber-prevention contract. Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7 Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-05-02 15:51:36 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto	bcef72b9c1	feat: localai assistant chat modality (#9602) ... * fix(tests): inline model_test fixtures after tests/models_fixtures removal The previous reorg removed tests/models_fixtures/ but core/config/model_test.go still read CONFIG_FILE/MODELS_PATH env vars pointing into that directory, so `make test` failed with "open : no such file or directory" on the readConfigFile spec (the suite ran with --fail-fast and bailed before openresponses_test). Inline the YAMLs (config/embeddings/grpc/rwkv/whisper) directly into the test file, materialise them into a per-test tmpdir via BeforeEach, and drop the env-var lookups. The test no longer depends on Makefile plumbing. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Write] [Bash] * refactor(modeladmin): extract model-admin helpers into a service package Lift the bodies of EditModelEndpoint, PatchConfigEndpoint, ToggleStateModelEndpoint, TogglePinnedModelEndpoint and VRAMEstimateEndpoint into core/services/modeladmin so the same logic can be called by non-HTTP clients (notably the in-process MCP server that backs the LocalAI Assistant chat modality, landing in a follow-up commit). The HTTP handlers shrink to thin shells that parse echo inputs, call the matching helper, map typed errors (ErrNotFound, ErrConflict, ErrPathNotTrusted, ErrBadAction, ...) to the existing HTTP status codes, and render the existing response shapes. No REST-surface behaviour change; the existing localai endpoint tests cover the regression net. Adds focused unit tests for each helper against tmp-dir-backed ModelConfigLoader fixtures (deep-merge patch, rename + conflict, path separator guard, toggle/pin enable/disable, sync callback). Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * feat(assistant): LocalAI Assistant chat modality with in-memory MCP server Adds a chat modality, admin-only, that wires the chat session to an in-memory MCP server exposing LocalAI's own admin/management surface as tools. An admin can install models, manage backends, edit configs and check status by chatting; the LLM calls tools like gallery_search, install_model, import_model_uri, list_installed_models, edit_model_config and surfaces the results. Same Go package powers two modes: pkg/mcp/localaitools/ NewServer(client, opts) builds an MCP server that registers the 19-tool admin catalog. The LocalAIClient interface has two impls: - inproc.Client — calls services directly (no HTTP loopback, no synthetic admin API key). Used in-process by the chat handler. - httpapi.Client — calls the LocalAI REST API. Used by the new `local-ai mcp-server --target=…` subcommand to control a remote LocalAI from a stdio MCP host. Tools and their embedded skill prompts are agnostic to which client backs them. Skill prompts are markdown files under prompts/, embedded via go:embed and assembled into the system prompt at server init. Wiring: - core/http/endpoints/mcp/localai_assistant.go — process-wide holder that spins up the in-memory MCP server once at Application start using paired net.Pipe transports, then reuses LocalToolExecutor (no fork) for every chat request that opts in. - core/http/endpoints/openai/chat.go — small branch ahead of the existing MCP block: when metadata.localai_assistant=true, defense-in-depth admin check + executor swap + system-prompt injection. All downstream tool dispatch is unchanged. - core/http/auth/{permissions,features}.go — adds FeatureLocalAIAssistant; gating happens at the chat handler entry plus admin-only `/api/settings`. - core/cli/{run.go,cli.go,mcp_server.go} — LOCALAI_DISABLE_ASSISTANT flag (runtime-toggleable via Settings, no restart), plus `local-ai mcp-server` stdio subcommand. - core/config/runtime_settings.go — `localai_assistant_enabled` runtime setting; the chat handler reads `DisableLocalAIAssistant` live at request entry. UI: - Home.jsx — prominent self-explanatory CTA card on first run ("Manage LocalAI by chatting"); collapses to a compact "Manage by chat" button in the quick-links row once used, persisted via localStorage. - Chat.jsx — admin-only "Manage" toggle in the chat header, "Manage mode" badge, dedicated empty-state copy, starter chips. - Settings.jsx — "LocalAI Assistant" section with the runtime enable toggle. - useChat.js — `localaiAssistant` flag on the chat schema; injects `metadata.localai_assistant=true` on requests when active. Distributed mode: the in-memory MCP server lives only on the head node; inproc.Client wraps already-distributed-aware services so installs propagate to workers via the existing GalleryService machinery. Documentation: `.agents/localai-assistant-mcp.md` is the contributor contract — when adding an admin REST endpoint, also add a LocalAIClient method, an inproc + httpapi impl, a tool registration, and a skill prompt update; the AGENTS.md index links to it. Out of scope (follow-ups): per-tool RBAC granularity for non-admin read-only access; streaming mcp_tool_progress for long installs; React Vitest rig for the UI changes. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(assistant): extract tool/capability/MiB/server-name constants The MCP tool surface, capability tag set, server-name default, and the chat-handler metadata key were repeated as bare string literals across seven files. Renaming any one required hand-editing every call site and risked code/test/prompt drift. This pulls them into typed constants: - pkg/mcp/localaitools/tools.go — Tool* constants for the 19 MCP tools, plus DefaultServerName. - pkg/mcp/localaitools/capability.go — typed Capability + constants for the capability tag set the LLM passes to list_installed_models. The type rides through LocalAIClient.ListInstalledModels and replaces the triplet of "embed"/"embedding"/"embeddings" with the single CapabilityEmbeddings. - pkg/mcp/localaitools/inproc/client.go — bytesPerMiB constant for the VRAMEstimate byte→MB conversion. - core/http/endpoints/mcp/tools.go — MetadataKeyLocalAIAssistant for the "localai_assistant" request-metadata key consumed by the chat handler. Tool registrations, the test catalog, the dispatch table, the validation fixtures, and the fake/stub clients all reference the constants. The embedded skill prompts under prompts/ keep their bare strings (go:embed markdown can't import Go constants); the existing TestPromptsContain SafetyAnchors guards the alignment. No behaviour change. All tests pass with -race. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(modeladmin): typed Action for ToggleState/TogglePinned The toggle/pin verbs were bare strings everywhere — handler signatures, service implementations, MCP tool args, the fake/stub clients, the inproc and httpapi LocalAIClient impls, plus 4 test files. A typo in any caller silently fell through to the runtime "must be 'enable' or 'disable'" check. Introduce core/services/modeladmin.Action (string alias) with ActionEnable, ActionDisable, ActionPin, ActionUnpin and a small Valid helper. The compiler now catches mismatches at every boundary; renames ripple through one source of truth. LocalAIClient.ToggleModelState/Pinned signatures change to take modeladmin.Action. The package is brand-new and unreleased so this is a free public-API tightening. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(assistant): respect ctx cancellation on gallery channel sends InstallModel, DeleteModel, ImportModelURI, InstallBackend and UpgradeBackend all pushed onto galleryop channels with bare sends. If the worker was paused or the buffer full, the chat-handler goroutine blocked forever — the LLM kept polling and the request leaked. Wrap the five sends in a sendModelOp/sendBackendOp helper that selects on ctx.Done() so a cancelled chat completion surfaces context.Canceled back to the LLM instead of hanging. Adds inproc/client_test.go with a pre-cancelled-ctx regression test on InstallModel; the helpers are shared so the same guarantee covers the other four call sites. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(assistant): graceful shutdown for in-memory holder and stdio CLI Two related leaks: - Application.start() built the LocalAIAssistantHolder but never wired Close() into the graceful-termination chain — the in-memory MCP transport pair stayed alive until process exit, and the goroutines behind net.Pipe() didn't drain. Hook into the existing signals.RegisterGracefulTerminationHandler chain (same pattern as core/http/endpoints/mcp/tools.go:770). - core/cli/mcp_server.go ran srv.Run with context.Background(); a Ctrl-C from the host (Claude Desktop, mcphost, npx inspector) or a SIGTERM from process supervision left the stdio loop reading from a closed pipe. Switch to signal.NotifyContext to surface the signal through ctx and let srv.Run drain. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(assistant): typed HTTPError + propagate prompt walk error The httpapi client detected "no such job" by substring-matching on the error string ("404", "could not find") — brittle to status-code formatting changes and to LocalAI fixing /models/jobs/:uuid to return a proper 404. Replace with a typed *HTTPError whose Is() method honours errors.Is(err, ErrHTTPNotFound). The 500-with-"could not find" branch stays as a transitional fallback documented in Is(). Same change covers ListNodes' 404 fallback for the /api/nodes endpoint. Adds httptest tests for both 404 and the legacy 500 path, plus a direct errors.Is exposure test so external callers (the standalone stdio CLI host) can match without re-string-parsing. Also tightens prompts.SystemPrompt: panic when fs.WalkDir on the embedded FS fails. The only realistic cause is a build-time //go:embed misconfiguration; serving an empty system prompt to the LLM is much worse than crashing init. TestSystemPromptIncludesAllEmbeddedFiles catches regressions in CI. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * fix(modeladmin): atomic writes for model config files The five sites that wrote model YAML used os.WriteFile, which opens with O_TRUNC|O_WRONLY|O_CREATE. A crash mid-write left the destination truncated and the model unloadable until manual repair. Pre-existing behaviour inherited from the original endpoint handlers — fix once now that there's a single helper. Adds writeFileAtomic: writes to a sibling temp file, chmods, syncs via Close(), then os.Rename. Same-directory temp keeps the rename atomic on the same filesystem; cleanup runs on every error path so stray temps don't accumulate. No new dependency. Applied to: - ConfigService.PatchConfig - ConfigService.EditYAML (both rename and in-place branches) - mutateYAMLBoolFlag (drives ToggleState + TogglePinned) atomic_test.go covers the happy path plus a read-only-dir failure case that asserts the original file is preserved (skipped on Windows where the chmod trick is POSIX-specific). Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * chore(assistant): prune dead code, mark stub, document conventions Three small cleanups landing together: - Drop the unused errNotImplemented sentinel from inproc/client.go. All five methods that used to return it are wired to modeladmin helpers since the Phase B commit; the package var is dead. - Annotate httpapi.Client.GetModelConfig as a known stub. LocalAI's /models/edit/:name returns rendered HTML, not JSON, so the standalone CLI's get_model_config tool surfaces a clear error to the LLM. A future JSON-only /api/models/config-yaml/:name endpoint is tracked in the agent contract; FIXME points at it. - Extend `.agents/localai-assistant-mcp.md` with a "Code conventions" section that documents the audit-driven rules: tool/Capability/Action constants, errors.Is over substring matching, ctx-aware channel sends, atomic writes, and graceful shutdown. Refresh the file map so it lists tools.go and capability.go and drops the removed tools_bootstrap.go. The tools_models.go diff is a comment-only change explaining why the ModelName empty-string check stays at the tool layer (consistency across LocalAIClient implementations, since the SDK schema validator only enforces presence, not non-empty). Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test(assistant): convert test files to ginkgo + gomega The repo convention (per core/http/endpoints/localai/*_test.go, core/gallery/**, etc.) is Ginkgo v2 with Gomega assertions. The tests I introduced for the assistant feature used vanilla testing.T, which made them stand out and stripped the BDD structure the rest of the suite relies on. Convert every test file in the assistant scope to Ginkgo: pkg/mcp/localaitools/ dto_test.go — Describe("DTOs round-trip through JSON") prompts_test.go — Describe("SystemPrompt assembler") server_test.go — Describe("Server tool catalog"), Describe("Tool dispatch"), Describe("Tool error surfacing"), Describe("Argument validation"), Describe("Concurrent tool calls") parity_test.go — Describe("LocalAIClient parity"), hosts the suite's single RunSpecs (the file is package localaitools_test so it can import httpapi without an import cycle; Ginkgo aggregates Describes from both the internal and external test packages into one run). httpapi/client_test.go — Describe("httpapi.Client against the LocalAI admin REST surface"), Describe("ErrHTTPNotFound"), Describe("Bearer token") inproc/client_test.go — Describe("inproc.Client cancellation") core/services/modeladmin/ config_test.go — Describe("ConfigService") with sub-Describes for GetConfig, PatchConfig, EditYAML state_test.go — Describe("ConfigService.ToggleState") pinned_test.go — Describe("ConfigService.TogglePinned") atomic_test.go — Describe("writeFileAtomic") core/http/endpoints/mcp/ localai_assistant_test.go — Describe("LocalAIAssistantHolder") Each package gets a `*_suite_test.go` with the standard `RegisterFailHandler(Fail) + RunSpecs(t, "...")` boilerplate. Helpers that previously took *testing.T (newTestService, writeModelYAML, readMap, sortedStrings, sortGalleries, etc.) drop the *T receiver and use Gomega Expectations directly. tmp dirs come from GinkgoT().TempDir(). No semantic change to test coverage — every original assertion has a direct Gomega counterpart. All suites pass with -race. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * test+docs(assistant): drift detector for Tool ↔ REST route mapping Honest gap from the audit: the parity_test.go suite only checks four methods, and uses the same httpapi.Client for both sides — it asserts stability of the DTO shapes, not equivalence between in-process and HTTP. If a contributor adds an admin REST endpoint without an MCP tool, or a tool without a matching httpapi route, both surfaces silently diverge. Add a coverage test plus stronger docs: - pkg/mcp/localaitools/coverage_test.go introduces a hand-maintained toolToHTTPRoute map: every Tool* constant must list the REST endpoint the httpapi.Client hits (or "(none)" with a documented reason). Two Ginkgo specs assert the map and the published catalog stay in sync — one fails when a Tool is added without a route entry, the other fails when a route entry references a tool that no longer exists. Verified by removing the ToolDeleteModel entry locally; the test fired with a clear message pointing the contributor at the file. Deliberate non-test: we don't enumerate live admin REST routes from here. Walking the route registry requires booting Application; parsing core/http/routes/localai.go is brittle. The "new admin REST endpoint → MCP tool" direction stays a PR checklist item — see below. - AGENTS.md gets a new Quick Reference bullet that calls out the rule and points at the test by name. - .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md tightens the existing "Companion: MCP admin tool surface" subsection from "if useful, consider..." to "MUST be considered, with three concrete outcomes (tool added, deliberately skipped with documented reason, or forgot — which breaks the contract)". Adds a checklist item at the bottom of the file's authoritative checklist. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Write] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(assistant): drop duplicate DTOs, surface canonical types Audit feedback: localaitools/dto.go reinvented several types that already existed in the codebase. Replace the duplicates with the canonical types so the LLM-visible wire format stays aligned with the rest of LocalAI by construction (no parallel structs to keep in sync). Removed (and the canonical type now used by the LocalAIClient interface): localaitools.Gallery → config.Gallery localaitools.GalleryModelHit → gallery.Metadata localaitools.VRAMEstimate → vram.EstimateResult Tightened scope: localaitools.Backend → kept, but reduced to {Name, Installed}. ListKnownBackends now returns []schema.KnownBackend (the canonical type already used by REST /backends/known). Kept with documented rationale: localaitools.JobStatus — galleryop.OpStatus has Error error which marshals to "{}". JobStatus is the JSON-friendly mirror. localaitools.Node — nodes.BackendNode carries gorm internals + token hash; we expose only the LLM-relevant fields. ImportModelURIRequest/Response — schema.ImportModelRequest and GalleryResponse are wire-shaped, mine are LLM-shaped (BackendPreference flat, AmbiguousBackend exposed). Side wins: - Drop bytesPerMiB; vram.EstimateResult already carries human-readable display strings (size_display, vram_display) the LLM uses directly. - Drop the handler-private vramEstimateRequest in core/http/endpoints/localai/vram.go and bind directly into modeladmin.VRAMRequest (now JSON-tagged). Both clients pass through these types now where possible (e.g. ListGalleries in inproc.Client is a one-liner returning AppConfig.Galleries; httpapi.Client.GallerySearch decodes straight into []gallery.Metadata). All tests green with -race. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> * refactor(assistant): extract REST route paths into named constants httpapi.Client had 18 bare-string path sites scattered across methods. Pull them into pkg/mcp/localaitools/httpapi/routes.go: static paths as package-private constants, dynamic paths as small builders that handle url.PathEscape on segment values. No behaviour change. Drops the now-unused net/url import from client.go since path escaping moved into routes.go alongside the path it applies to. Local-only by design: the server-side registrations in core/http/routes/localai.go remain bare strings. Sharing constants across the pkg/ ↔ core/ boundary would invert the layering today; the existing Tool↔REST drift-detector in coverage_test.go is the safety net for that direction. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code] * docs(assistant): align with shipped UI and dropped bootstrap env vars The LocalAI Assistant doc still described the older iteration: - The in-chat toggle was renamed from "Admin" to "Manage" (the badge is now "Manage mode" and the home page exposes a "Manage by chat" CTA). - LOCALAI_ASSISTANT_BOOTSTRAP_MODEL / --localai-assistant-bootstrap-model and the bootstrap_default_model tool were removed — admins pick a model from the existing selector instead, no env-var configuration required. - The shipped tool catalog includes import_model_uri but didn't appear in the doc; bootstrap_default_model appeared but no longer exists. - The Settings → LocalAI Assistant runtime toggle wasn't mentioned as the preferred way to disable without restart. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Claude Code] --------- Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>	2026-04-28 19:29:27 +02:00