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mudler-agentandEttore Di Giacinto 4899d28e8a feat(chats): server-side chats with steering, sub-agents and compaction (#12918)
* Find the Sandbox guest image in the executable, not its build info

The Sandbox smoke checked that the packaged executable carries the
guest image by looking for -X main.guestImage in go version -m. The
package is built with -trimpath, and with -trimpath Go leaves -ldflags
out of the build info, so the check failed on every gvisor run,
although the image was linked in.

Look for the reference in the executable instead: the value of
SANDBOX_GUEST_IMAGE when it is set, any digest reference otherwise.
package.sh had the same check for an executable built elsewhere; it
now looks for its own reference the same way.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Answer a network card the limit refuses with one precise reason

A card that waited while the administrator's limit went down was
refused on the first click with 400, and every later click was a bare
409, so a stale card looked like a conflict loop. A refused card now
answers 400 egress_above_ceiling every time, the same answer sent twice
is one answer (204), and another answer to an answered card is 409
already_answered. The chat view marks a card the limit cannot admit
with above_ceiling.

When the limit is off, or below the chat's preset, the note of the turn
and the block line of the proxy now say that the server's setting
blocks the network and no approval changes it, so the model reports it
instead of waiting or retrying.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Explain a blocked Sandbox network instead of offering dead buttons

A card the limit cannot admit shows why network access is off or
limited, and who can change it, with a link to Settings > Tools >
Sandbox network for administrators. The buttons of a card disable while
an answer is sent, and a failed answer reads the card again. The
Network row says why its choices are capped. Settings opens a group
from ?group=. Strings are translated in all nine locales and the chat
and add-on docs describe the new behaviour.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Add an always-allowed hosts list to the Sandbox network

The extra registries setting only widens the package registries, so a
one-off host needs the approval card in every chat. The new admin
setting chats_egress_allowed_hosts lists exact hosts (optionally
host:port to pin a port) that a chat reaches whenever its effective
preset is registries or all.

The list sits in the same decision as the presets: the ceiling still
caps it, the ports setting still applies, and a private, loopback,
link-local or metadata address still needs the private switch and an
administrator's rule or answer. Each use is audited with the reason
allowed_host. Hosts are validated like the extra registries (lower
case, punycode, no scheme, path or pattern, at most 64) and an IP
literal is refused unless the private switch is on.

get_chat_egress and the chat egress view return the list; no MCP tool
writes it, as for the extra registries.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Let users delete from the Trash for good

A delete only set a tombstone, so the Trash grew without end and
nothing could free the space of a deleted file.

The workspace stores gain a Purger: it erases the deleted nodes of
some change sets, or of a whole folder, with their journal rows, the
change sets that nothing is left in, and the blobs that no row refers
to. Both stores implement it and pass the same contract specs. A blob
is removed after a grace period, and only if it is still unused then,
so an upload of the same bytes in flight keeps them.

DELETE /api/chats/files/trash empties the user's Trash and
DELETE /api/chats/files/trash/{rev} deletes one entry. Both are scoped
to the caller's home. The Trash listing now gives files, folders and
bytes per entry and for the whole Trash. The file tools of a chat
cannot reach any of this.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Add Empty Trash and Delete permanently to the Files page

The Trash tab shows what it holds, with an Empty Trash button that is
off while the Trash is empty and a Delete permanently button on each
item. Both ask in the page first and say how many files and folders and
how much space they remove. Texts are translated in all nine locales.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Fall back to Brave Search and Bing when DuckDuckGo asks for a captcha

DuckDuckGo answers some servers with HTTP 202 and a bot check (the
"anomaly" page) instead of results. The parser read that page as "no
results it could read", so web_search failed for every query.

The keyless search is now a chain: DuckDuckGo, then the result page of
Brave Search, then the result page of Bing. Each page has its own
tolerant parser (title, URL, snippet; Bing's /ck/a links and DDG's uddg
links are unwrapped) with saved fixtures.

A bot check is a typed error (ErrChallenged), and a 403 or 429 is
ErrBlocked. Both wrap ErrProvider. A Fallback with a cool-down skips a
challenged or blocked provider for a few minutes, so each search does
not wait for it first; when every provider is cooling down, all are
asked again. Fallback.SearchAttempts and TestEach report what each
provider did (ok, no_results, challenged, blocked, timeout, error,
skipped).

The error a model reads now lists what was tried and what each provider
did, then where an administrator fixes it.

safehttp keeps the status code of an answer (Response.StatusCode) and
of a refusal (StatusError, still ErrStatus for errors.Is).

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Use the keyless search chain in the chats and test each provider

The built-in web_search now searches with DuckDuckGo, Brave Search and
Bing in turn when no SearXNG instance is set. A new runtime setting,
chats_web_search_providers, sets the order (searxng, duckduckgo,
brave_html, bing_html) and leaves a provider out. Empty keeps the old
choice: SearXNG alone when an instance is set, so its queries do not
reach the public engines unless the administrator lists them.

POST /api/chats/admin/web/test asks every provider of the order and
returns what each did in "providers" (ok, no_results, challenged,
blocked, timeout or error, with the reason), next to the first answer.
Settings > Tools has a Test search on the web_search row that shows it,
and the provider list is checked on the page and by the server.

The cool-down of a challenged provider is kept per frontend, like the
cache and the limits; web.md says why.

Docs: web.md (providers, chain, bot checks, privacy, how to fix it with
SearXNG or the Web add-on) and runtime-settings.md. Strings in the
nine locales. Swagger regenerated.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Try the mirror library alone in the reinstall recovery spec

The spec adds a second library with the same URL and expects an
install from it to keep the retained data apart. Since two enabled
libraries that list one add-on are a conflict, the reinstall from the
original library then failed with library_conflict, and the install
from the mirror failed for that reason instead of the trusted identity.

Switch the original library off while the mirror is tried, check that
the mirror is refused for its identity and not for a conflict, then
switch the mirror off and the original on for the reinstall.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Pause a chat turn at the step limit and offer Continue

A chat turn ran at most 10 rounds of tool calls, the default of the
harness, because nothing set a limit. A multi-step task (read some
files, run commands, write a result) stopped half way, and the person
saw an answer that looked final.

The limit is now the runtime setting chats_max_iterations (1 to 500,
default 40, Settings > Tools); a model's agent.max_iterations still
wins. When the tool loop reaches it, the harness sends a paused event
with the limit, and the turn ends with last_turn "paused". A paused
turn counts as finished: waiting messages start the next turn and a
sub-agent reports back. The status line says "Paused, after 40 steps"
and has a Continue button, which sends a message that asks the model
to go on.

A claim that found no waiting message released the chat as "done",
which hid a pause. It now keeps the status the chat had.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Edit the always-allowed Sandbox hosts in Settings > Tools

Add a list editor for chats_egress_allowed_hosts next to the extra
package registries: the hosts are tags with a remove button, an input
adds one on Enter, comma or Add (a pasted list adds them all), and the
reason an entry is refused shows under the input, with the count out
of 64. The same checks stop Apply on a bad entry, and the server still
has the last word.

The chat's Network panel lists the hosts read only and the row says
how many an administrator always allows while the chat's network is on.
The help text of both settings now says how they differ. Strings are
translated in all nine locales.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Document the always-allowed Sandbox hosts

Describe chats_egress_allowed_hosts in the runtime settings page, the
network section of the add-ons page (including the allowed_host audit
reason and how the list differs from extra registries) and the chats
page.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Let a chat edit, pause and delete the person's triggers

A chat could propose a trigger and list them, but not change one: the
Triggers page and the API could. list_triggers now gives each trigger a
stable ref (not its id) and shows the prompt of one trigger only when
asked. update_trigger and delete_trigger store a change record in the
trigger table: an edit or a delete waits for Apply or Delete on a card,
a pause or a resume applies at once with a receipt. An applied change
can be undone for a day; a delete restores the trigger with its id.

Change records are rows in the database, so every frontend shows and
answers the same card. The new routes under /api/chats/triggers/changes
serve the card and are gated by the triggers feature.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Show the trigger changes a chat asks for as cards

An edit lists each changed field before and after with Apply and
Dismiss, a delete shows the trigger and its last run with Delete and
Keep, and an applied change is a receipt with Undo. The cards sit below
the message text like the proposal card, and read their state from the
server so a reload shows the same answer.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add a Test search button to the web tools settings

POST /api/chats/admin/web/test existed, but no page called it and the
docs showed only curl. The web_search row of Settings > Tools now has
a Test search button. It runs one search with the applied settings and
shows the provider with its first results, or the error a chat would
read.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Describe undo per tool call in the chats docs

The docs said the checkpoint line of a turn carries the change set of
the turn. A turn checkpoint is taken only by a chat with a VM sandbox,
which the service never sets up, so that rev is always 0. What ships
is one change set per file tool call, with a files_change card on its
tool line. The docs now say so and how to undo a whole turn.

Grouping a turn's changes into one change set in the file store is
left for later: it touches the file store's revisions and the undo of
shared folders.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Mount the skill folders read-only for the built-in bash

The built-in pdf skill ships scripts, but the commands saw only the
home and the shared folders, so the model could read the scripts and
not run them. The built-in bash now mounts the three skill layers
read-only, at the names the file tools already use: shared-skills,
shared-builtin-skills and shared-addon-skills. A shared folder named
skills moves to "shared-skills 2", so the two never collide.

A read-only mount with subfolders made every command report its
folders as changes the mount refused, because the host backend lists
every folder of its work tree. A folder alone is no change: both
stores now refuse only files, whiteouts and opaque folders there.

The Sandbox add-on mounts only the home; the docs say to copy a
script there first.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Find the add-on that runs commands by what it shadows

The chats knew the add-on that runs commands from a per-process cache,
filled with the Sandbox's own tool name the first time a chat listed
its tools. Another add-on that replaces bash did not count, so skills
that need commands showed as unavailable. The admin network view read
the same cache: after a restart it said no Sandbox serves until
someone chatted, each frontend of a cluster could answer differently,
and a removed add-on stayed listed.

The tool that runs commands is now the one that shadows bash, as the
spec asks. sandboxRunTool and the cache are gone. The stand-in of an
add-on that cannot work carries the built-in tools it replaces, and
the admin view asks the add-on host which add-on serves bash now: the
pinned one or the oldest running install, and none when the pinned one
is stopped.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Show international host names in punycode in the network checks

The card-spoofing defence of the sandbox network asks for host names
in their ASCII form, but CheckHost passed Unicode names through. A
look-alike name reached the consent card as text that reads like the
real site.

CheckHost now converts an international name with the IDNA lookup
profile and refuses one with no valid ASCII form. The conversion runs
before the address checks, so full-width digits that spell a loopback
address are refused as loopback.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Keep the seeded Studio and Talk pins until the add-ons are installed

The upgrade pins Studio and Talk for existing accounts, but both are
add-ons that an administrator installs later. The sweep marked a pin
whose add-on is not installed as missing and deleted it after 30
days, so an administrator who installed Studio late found the seeded
pins gone.

The sweep now records the first time a seeded add-on is present, in
the table of seed runs or the pins file. A seeded pin keeps no clock
until then, and a mark that an older sweep set is cleared. After the
first install the pin follows the retention rule as before.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Fix two small labels of the Skills and Backends pages

On the Skills page, the skill of an add-on that is not chosen said
"Replaced by <add-on>", the label of a built-in skill that an add-on
serves. It now says "Not active: <add-on> provides it", as the add-on
skills spec asks.

On the Backends page, Clear filters on an empty Installed search left
the library filter set, so the list stayed empty. It now clears the
library filter too.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Tell the model when no network card can appear

Each turn told the model that a blocked host asks the user. No card
appears when the ceiling is off or no wider than the chat's preset, in
an unattended run or in a sub-agent, so the model waited for an answer
that could not come.

The line now says that a blocked host is refused and nothing asks the
user in those cases, so the model names the host it needs in its
answer.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Translate six Backends and preview labels in every locale

check, reinstallBackend, deleteBackend and filterLabel of the Backends
page and the label and failed text of the file preview showed in
English in the eight other locales. They now have translations, and
the i18n baseline goes down to match.

Also fix a comment of the home composer that still named the removed
Canvas chip.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* List the admin routes that have no assistant tool, with the reason

The admin oversight routes of saved agents, triggers and connectors
had no MCP tool and no recorded reason, and the other deliberate skips
lived only in code comments. coverage_test.go now keeps them in
adminRoutesWithoutTool with a reason each, and a spec checks that no
route there is also wrapped by a tool. The contributor checklist names
the map.

The tool catalog of the assistant docs said it matched the real one
but missed most tools added since. It now lists every tool, read-only
and mutating, and the actions that stay in the web interface.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Close the doc and registry gaps of the chats and add-ons

- /api/agent/* answers 404 with the chats_off reason when the chats
  are off, as /api/chats/* and /api/workspace/* do.
- The add-ons docs get an upgrade section: Studio and Talk are
  add-ons, nothing is preinstalled, and users need the addons feature,
  which the upgrade does not grant. It says how an administrator
  installs them (also from a private library) and grants the feature,
  and carries a paragraph for the release notes.
- The migration page no longer lists fork, edit, the chat settings and
  the token counters as removed.
- Runtime settings document chats_vision_model,
  chats_transcription_model and the skill keys of
  chats_tool_providers.
- The docs show POST /api/chats/files/folders,
  GET /api/chats/files/history and the allow route of a connector
  sender.
- The in-tree specs get amendments where the shipped design differs.
- A route test of the tagged suite still set the removed Runs field.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Look for the kit empty state in the backends regression spec

The Backends page now draws the shared EmptyState of the kit
(ui-empty), not the old dk-empty block, so the regression spec of the
gallery suite found no empty state after a search with no match.
Check the kit's no-results form and its title.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Ignore a features request that outlives its page in the add-on stubs

stubAddonRoutes answers /api/features by fetching the real flags and
turning add-ons on. A spec that ends while the page polls, like the
one that checks that a viewer without the feature never reads the
list, left that fetch in flight, and Playwright failed the spec with
"route.fetch: Target page, context or browser has been closed" after
its checks had passed. Abort the request when the fetch fails because
the page is gone.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Bring the gallery-ui case inventory up to date

The suite lists the node unit cases of addons.test.mjs and the
Playwright specs of addons-gallery.spec.js. The inventory missed the
unit cases added since it was written, and one spec was renamed when
the legacy switch came in ("hub: the Add-ons tab appears only for an
account that holds the feature" is now "hub: under the legacy switch
the Add-ons tab appears ..."). The list comes from a local run of
both parts against the UI test server.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Read spreadsheets, documents and slides in read_document

read_document said "file.xlsx has no text layer; it may be a scan" for
workbooks that some Python libraries write. Their workbook gives the
sheet as an absolute part name (/xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml) and the
cells as inline strings. The text extractor of the harness joined
"xl/" with that name, found no sheet, and returned no text; the tool
then took any empty result for a scanned PDF.

The new package core/services/studio/extract has one entry point,
Extract(ctx, name, data), that returns the text and the structure it
read, for read_document now and for a file indexer later. Office files
go through the files preview reader, which resolves both kinds of part
names and reads inline strings:

- a workbook comes sheet by sheet, rows as tab-separated lines, up to
  2000 rows and 50 columns a sheet, with a note for a cut sheet;
- a Word document gives headings, list items, paragraphs and tables;
- a presentation gives each slide with its title, text and notes.

PDF and EPUB keep the harness extractor. Only a PDF with no text is
reported as a probable scan; an empty Office file is reported as empty.
The preview reader now keeps a Word table as one block with its rows,
and the preview pane draws it as a table.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add the missing explorer, library and tools translations

Eight locales had no explorer.json, library.json or tools.json. The
browser asks the server for every namespace of the language it shows,
so an Italian page that used the library answered 404 for
/locales/it/library.json on every load and fell back to English.

The 24 files now exist, translated, with every key of English. The
locale gate counted a missing file as missing keys, which the baseline
allowed. It now fails on a missing namespace file whatever the
baseline says, and the baseline is 24 entries shorter.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Back off while the add-on service is unavailable

A page that followed an add-on upgrade read the operation every two
seconds, up to 300 times. While the add-on service restarted, each read
waited for its timeout and answered 503, so the log of one session had
48 failed dispatches in a row, and the page only showed the upgrade as
running. The Sandbox state of a chat's Tools menu read once and, on a
503, said nothing more.

The reads of an operation now back off while the service does not
answer: 2, 4, 8, then up to 30 seconds. The upgrade entry says that it
waits for the add-on service and when it checks again, in Activity and
in the details, which also get a Check now button. The Tools menu says
that the Sandbox is starting and reads its state again with the same
back-off, kept for the page, so opening another chat does not ask
again before the wait is over.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Start a chat with its switches and list them before it exists

The composer of a new chat could not show the Tools and Skills menus,
because the lists and the switches belong to a chat. A chat started
from Home therefore always began with every tool and skill on.

- POST /api/chats takes switches: the add-ons, MCP servers and
  connectors, built-in groups and skills that are off, and the opt-in
  groups that are on. They are checked as the PUT endpoints check them
  and stored with the new record, so the chat never exists without
  them; a bad entry refuses the request and creates nothing. The SQL
  store now writes these lists on create too.
- GET /api/chats/draft/tools and /api/chats/draft/addons list what a
  chat on a model, with a saved agent, could use, every switch in its
  default state. They refuse what create refuses: an unknown or
  forbidden model, an agent without the agents feature, another
  user's agent.

Document both in the chats page and regenerate the swagger.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Give Home the composer of the chat page

Home drew a smaller message box than the chat page: no files, no
agent, no Tools or Skills menus, no paste to attach, no rich model
list, and its text was lost on a reload. A chat started there could
not be set up before its first message.

Move the composer wiring out of the chat page into one place that
both pages use:

- useChatComposer holds the draft (text and files), the model and the
  saved agent of a new chat, the chat models, the switches and what
  attaching and pasting do.
- ChatComposer draws the model list (fit, vision, memory bar), the
  agent picker, the Tools and Skills menus, the attach buttons,
  dictation, the add-on slot and the vision notice over HomeComposer.
- useChatSwitches has a draft mode: before the chat exists it lists
  from the draft endpoints, a switch changes only the screen, and the
  choices go with the create request. They outlive a change of model
  or agent.

Home now creates the chat with the model, the agent and the drafted
switches, sends the first message with its files and opens the chat.
When the message cannot go, the new chat is removed and the text and
files stay on Home. Its text is kept in the browser across a reload.
Home also gets the shortcuts row, the notices of the chat page and the
line that says whether the model is loaded. Its own slash actions,
widgets, examples and first-run steps stay.

The empty chat page gets the same draft menus. On a phone the chips
of both wrap to a second row, and the Tools and agent menus open as a
sheet from the bottom, as the skills picker does.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Move add-on settings to the add-on's own page

The settings.sections slot drew every add-on's settings at the end of the
global Settings page, and the Sandbox and Web sections were unstyled: the
add-on UIs used class names the host does not define (btn, btn-primary)
and bare inputs, the SDK offered no form primitives, its muted token
named a property that does not exist, and the slot root was an
inline-flex span that laid a form out in a row.

An add-on's settings sections now render on the Settings tab of its
details on the Add-ons page (/app/addons?detail=<id>&view=settings),
narrowed to that add-on, for administrators only. An add-on page gets a
host Settings link to that tab. The Settings page no longer draws the
slot: an Add-ons group, shown when an add-on has settings, lists those
add-ons with a link each. The old #ad-section-<addon>-<id> anchor
redirects to the tab once the apps list is read. Server settings of an
add-on's feature stay on the Settings page; the tab shows them under
"Server settings for this add-on", with a read-only summary of the
Sandbox network and links to ?group=tools#settings-egress and
#settings-builtin-tools.

The SDK gets a settings kit in sdk.ui (Section, Field, Select,
TextInput, Switch, Choice, StatusChip, Callout, List/ListRow, Code,
Actions, Table, ExternalLink), drawn with host classes and tokens, and
more theme tokens. The Sandbox and Web sections are rebuilt with it:
backend rows with a status chip and the raw reason collapsed in a code
block, a backend choice with one line per option, and the AppArmor and
user-namespace hint (with a docs link) only for the gVisor
"exit status 128 ... cannot read client sync file" failure.

The Settings page showed "Changed, default 30, Reset" next to a 0 for the
audit retention, and the same for the Sandbox network limit, preset and
ports: the server stores 0 or an empty value for a setting never set.
Those fields now read that value as their default, and the retention
input has its unit and bounds.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Adapt the add-on runtime specs to the new navigation

Three specs of the esm-ui suite still assumed the old shell:

- the Add-ons tab that lists the pages add-ons declare is part of the
  legacy layout, so the navigation spec found no hub subnav; it now
  sets the legacy switch on the server's flags for that page;
- the sidebar has no "Chat" link any more, so the unsaved-edits spec
  could not leave the page; it leaves through Home in the primary
  navigation;
- the shell keeps a notification stream open, so the network never
  goes idle and the spec for a member without the feature waited out
  its timeout; it waits for the server's switches, the account and
  the shell instead.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Name the legacy Add-ons tab unit case as the esm unit tests do

The esm-ui inventory listed "unit: registry: the Add-ons tab lists
page links only when the registry has usable add-ons", but the unit
test is named "the legacy Add-ons tab lists ...", so the suite could
never match its inventory. Use the name the test prints.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Say on the Collections page when the embedding model is missing

At startup the server opened a collection and its first embedding call
got 404 from POST /embeddings. The collections embed through this
server's own API with collections_embedding_model, the default
granite-embedding-107m-multilingual, and that model was not installed.
Nothing told the user: uploads and searches just failed.

GET /api/collections now also returns embedding_model and
embedding_model_installed (a loaded configuration of that name, or a
model file of that name). When it is missing, the Collections page
says "No embedding model installed", names the model, and gives an
administrator a button that opens the Models page with a search for
it.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Report modified times and the upload limit in folder listings

The Files page could not sort by date or show when a file changed: a
folder listing had no time. It also learned the upload limit only after
it had sent the whole file. The default server body limit is 15 MB,
lower than the 256 MiB a workspace file may have, so a large upload
failed late and without a clear reason.

Each listed entry now has "modified", the time of the change set of
its revision. Both workspace stores fill it in List: the JSON store
from its in-memory change sets, the database store with one query per
batch of revisions. The listing also has "max_file_size", the smaller
of the workspace limit and the server body limit, so a client can
refuse a larger file before it sends any byte.

The store contract suite checks the new time against the history, and
the route tests check both fields.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add a sortable file list with thumbnails for the Files page

The building blocks of the new file browser, used by the page in a
later change:

- fileBrowser.js: the kind of an entry from its extension, the order
  (folders first, natural and case-insensitive names, then size,
  modified time or type), the filter of a folder, dates in words with
  the full date for a tooltip, the Shift range, the arrow moves of a
  list and of a grid, type-to-find, names that do not clash, why a
  name cannot be used, the name of a pasted screenshot and the view
  settings read back from storage.
- FileList: a grid with sortable column headers or a grid of tiles
  with image thumbnails, a check box per row, a row menu, inline
  rename with the reason a name is refused, rows that can be dragged
  onto folders, and the keyboard: arrows, Shift, Space, Enter, F2,
  Delete, Ctrl+A, Escape, Backspace and typing a name.
- MoveDialog: a folder picker that walks the tree and refuses a move
  into the moving folder itself.
- ActionMenu can open at a point with no trigger (a right click), and
  its trigger can take another icon and class (a split button).
- fileSize also writes gigabytes.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add an upload queue with progress, cancel and retry

An upload of the Files page was one fetch per file in a loop: nothing
showed while it ran, one failure stopped the rest, and leaving the
page lost it.

- uploadQueue.js keeps every upload outside React: queued, sending
  with the bytes sent and a smoothed rate, done, failed with a reason
  and whether Try again can help, or canceled. Two files go at once.
  It lives for the whole app, so opening another folder or page does
  not stop an upload.
- filesApi.uploadWithProgress sends the same PUT with XMLHttpRequest,
  which reports upload progress and can be aborted. The server already
  streams the body into the store; nothing changes there.
- useUploads reads the queue and asks before the tab closes while a
  file is on its way.
- UploadTray shows the queue at the bottom of the page: the total and
  the time left, each file with its progress, speed and time left,
  Cancel, Try again with the reason, and a done state that fades out.
  A live region tells a screen reader when uploads start, fail and
  end.
- ConflictDialog asks what to do when an upload has the name of a file
  in the folder: replace it, keep both, or skip it.
- dropFiles.js reads dropped folders with their paths.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Rebuild the Files page as a file browser

The Files page was a list of links: the store's byte order, the same
icon for every file, three icon buttons on every row, no progress on
an upload, no selection, and on a phone a preview that opened below
the whole list.

Browsing: a breadcrumb that folds a deep path, sortable columns (name,
modified, type, size) with folders first, a list or a grid of
thumbnails, both kept per user in the browser, a filter of the open
folder with a search of every file on Enter, type icons, human sizes,
dates in words with the full date on hover, and Back and Forward
between folders.

Uploads go through the upload queue and its tray: the Upload button
or its folder menu, drops of files and folders anywhere on the page or
onto a folder row or crumb, and paste. A clash asks to replace, keep
both or skip; a file over the server limit is refused before it is
sent.

Selection and actions: click, Ctrl and Shift, check boxes, a selection
bar (Download, Move to, Move to Trash; at the bottom of the screen on
a phone), a row menu and a right click, inline rename and new
folder or file, drag to move, the keyboard, and a toast with Undo for
a delete, a move and a rename.

States: a skeleton on the first load, an error with Try again, empty
states that say how files get here, and a no-match state. The preview
uses the side pane: docked on a wide screen, a sheet on a phone, with
the same actions as the row menu. Trash, History and the Managed by
LocalAI group stay as they were.

Every new string is in the nine languages. The page uses design
tokens only (seven raw font sizes fewer). The specs cover sorting,
the filter, the views, selection and bulk actions, the keyboard, the
menu, rename checks, drag to move, drops, paste, clashes, the size
limit, upload progress, cancel and retry against the real server, and
the error states.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Fix two specs that fail on the integration branch

The Describe spec of the egress package checked that the no-card line
does not contain "asks the user", but that line says "nothing asks the
user". It now checks for the sentence that promises a card.

The context meter spec gave the chat a 4k context window. The tool
schemas of the chat now take 3k of it, so the turn stopped before the
model request. The spec uses a 16k window.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Translate the always-allowed hosts note of the chat network row

The three egress keys of the always-allowed hosts were only in English,
so the locale check failed for every chats namespace. The workspace
namespaces now miss two keys fewer, so their baseline goes down too.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Bring the contracts and host-slots case inventories up to date

The contracts suite has eight new specs for the check of a tool that
shadows a built-in. The host-slots suite runs the unit case of the file
preview slot, which the inventory did not list.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add the design of the file text index

The search of the chats' files reads only small UTF-8 text files, so a
PDF or an Office file is found by name only. The design extracts the
text when a file is written, keeps it in LocalAI's own store keyed by
node and hash, checks access at query time and runs one indexer per
cluster under an advisory lock.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Give extracted documents their pages, sheets and slides

Extract now says where each page, sheet and slide starts in the text,
so a search hit can name its page or sheet. A PDF page starts with a
"## Page N" line, as sheets and slides already start with a heading.
A PDF also stops at a page limit (200 by default) and at the text
limit, which it ignored before, and a panic of the reader is an error.

The test fixtures move to extracttest, with a real text PDF and a
workbook with shared strings, so other packages can build the same
documents.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add a store for the text of workspace documents

textindex keeps one entry per workspace node: the text read from a
PDF or Office file, the hash it was read from, its pages or sheets and
its status (pending, ready, failed, skipped), plus the cursor of the
indexer in the workspace journal.

The GORM store keeps a lower-cased copy of the text, so SQL and the
Go matcher agree on every script, and searches it with FTS5 and the
trigram tokenizer on SQLite or a pg_trgm index on PostgreSQL. Without
them it scans the column. The JSON store keeps the metadata in memory
and each text in its own file, and scans the texts. One contract
suite runs on JSON, SQLite and PostgreSQL.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Index the text of new and changed workspace documents

The indexer tails the workspace journal from a cursor kept in the text
store. A write of a PDF, Word, Excel or PowerPoint file marks it
pending (the same hash only follows the path), a delete removes the
entry and a move rewrites the paths below a folder. Then it reads the
pending files two at a time, with a timeout, a size cap, a page cap and
a text cap, and stores ready, failed or skipped. A panic of the reader
fails the file, not the pass. The same content is read once.

The first pass starts at revision 0, which indexes the files that were
there before, in bounded steps that resume from the cursor. Enqueue
marks an upload pending at once and Forget drops the entries of nodes a
purge erased. In a cluster each pass runs under a new advisory lock,
so one frontend reads.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Search and read the text of documents in the chats' files

search_files and GET /api/chats/files/search now also search the text
index: after the name and text-file hits come lines of PDF, Word, Excel
and PowerPoint files, as path (page 3, line 40): text, with the sheet or
slide where a document has them. Each entry is shown only when the
caller may read its file now and the file still has the content the
text came from. Documents keep up to a third of the hits. When files
below the path are still pending, the answer says so instead of
"Nothing found.", and the REST result has indexing.

read_file returns the text of a PDF or Office file with the usual offset
and limit, from the index when it matches the file and read on the
spot otherwise. An upload and a write of a chat tool queue the file at
once, and emptying the Trash drops the entries of the purged files.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Start the file text index with the files and add its settings

With files on, the server opens the text store next to the workspace
index (the auth database, or a folder under the data path) and starts
the indexer. A chat worker searches the index but runs no indexer.

chats_index_files (default on) switches the reading off and
chats_index_max_text_bytes (2 MiB by default, 64 KiB to 16 MiB) caps
the text kept for one document. Both apply at the next pass, and both
are rows of Settings > Tools.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Show the page, sheet or slide of a document hit on the Files page

Search all files now lists hits inside PDF and Office files with their
page, sheet or slide instead of a line number of the extracted text,
and says how many documents are still being indexed. The strings are
in all nine locales.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Test finding an uploaded PDF by its words through the routes

The PDF has a generated name and is uploaded with the REST upload. The
search route first reports it as being indexed, then finds it on its
page after a pass of the indexer, and so does the search_files tool of
a chat. Another user finds nothing.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Document the search inside documents

The chats page says what the index reads, where the text is kept, who
finds it, which search engine each database uses, the two settings,
the backfill and the single-runner mode in a cluster, and how
search_files and read_file answer for documents. The API instructions
and the PDF skill say the same in short.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Test the indexer on the JSON workspace store

A server without a database keeps the workspace and the text in JSON
files. The indexer follows the uploads, a folder move and a delete in
that journal as it does in the database one.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Read all of a long document with read_file

The index keeps the first chats_index_max_text_bytes of a document, so
read_file used to stop where the index stopped. It now uses the index
only when it holds the whole text, and reads the document again (up to
16 MiB of text) when the index cut it.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Start bash in the user's home

The Sandbox's bash and the built-in bash started in /workspace, the
folder that holds the mounts, so a model that ran a script by a
relative path failed and a file it saved there was lost. A call now
starts in /workspace/home, the folder of the user's files: a relative
path is the same file the file tools see. The tool descriptions and
the commands block of every turn say where a call starts and that
only what is saved there is kept. The built-in bash says that the
/workspace paths do not exist on the host and that a shared folder is
next to the home.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Name files in tool results by the path the model uses

write_file, edit_file and search_files named a file of the home by its
path in the home ("/scripts/build.py") while the model had written
/workspace/home/scripts/build.py, and a model took the two spellings
for two files. The results now give the path the model uses, and
move_file says where it moved the file to. The cards and the change
notes keep the path in the home.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Name the paths a command's commit did not save

The result of a bash call ended with "N file(s) changed in your files
meanwhile; the sandbox's version was kept as a copy" for every path the
commit refused, also for a file written outside the user's files,
where no copy is kept. It now has one line a path, with the path as
the guest sees it, the reason, and the path of the copy when the store
kept one, so the model and the user can act on it. The host returns
the paths and the copy to the Sandbox add-on relative to the user's
files, as its mounts are.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Show the files a command saved under its step

A document that a script wrote with bash reached the user's files, but
the chat showed nothing: only the file tools put a file on their step,
and the Sandbox committed for no chat, so the chat's file list, the
chips under the answer and the preview pane never saw the file.

The host now commits a Sandbox call for the chat that ran it (the
action resource of the request names the chat). After each bash call,
of the Sandbox or of this machine, the chat reads the change sets of
the chat that the call made from the shared store and puts the files
on the step's card, next to the card that says who served the call
(session.SetToolFiles; files with path, change set and op on the
card's new files field). The step lists them as chips that open the
preview pane, the chat's clients are told that its files changed, and
the files reach the file list, so the answer gets its chips and the
pane opens on the newest one, as for write_file.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Keep JSON out of the answer of a trigger run

The workspace skill told the model to put the widget data shape and a
source marker in a trigger prompt. Some proposals then asked the run to
print that JSON, and every run ended its chat with a stray line of it.

The skill now says source and note live inside the data file and are
never the answer, and that a prompt must not ask for JSON. The runner
appends one closing instruction to the first message of every trigger
run: finish with one short plain sentence. The propose_trigger and
update_trigger descriptions say the prompt must stand alone and must
not ask for JSON. Connector chats are talks with people and do not get
the line.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Read the images of a page as base64 for its frame

The bridge of a page reads UTF-8 text only, so the UI could not put a
png or a jpg of the page's folder into the page. A read of the page
file routes with encoding=base64 now returns an image as base64 with
its media type. Only the extensions of an image are read this way
(png, jpg, gif, webp, avif, bmp, ico, svg); any other file is 415, so
this is no way to read an arbitrary binary file. The path checks, the
1 MiB limit, the viewer's rights and, for a shared page, the consent
check are the same as for a text read.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Let a page use the files next to it

A page runs from a srcdoc with no network, so fetch('news.json'),
<script src="app.js">, <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">,
<img src="logo.png"> and import './x.js' all failed without a word.
Models that split a page into files, or load its data with fetch,
made pages that showed nothing.

Before the frame loads, the UI now reads the files that the page names
with relative URLs, with the same calls as the bridge, and puts them in:
classic scripts in place (deferred ones at the end of the body), style
sheets as <style> with their @import and url(), images as data: URLs,
and ES modules as blob: URLs behind an import map, so cycles and
import() work. A page with modules gets blob: in script-src; no other
part of the policy changes. Inside the frame, fetch and XMLHttpRequest
read relative URLs with files.read and answer with a real Response (200,
404 for a missing file, 413, 415); any other URL rejects with "network
is off in pages; put the data in a file next to the page".

Every path is resolved inside the page's folder: .., %2e%2e, absolute
paths, backslashes and protocol-relative URLs are refused, and the
query and the fragment are dropped. The files go in only after a shared
page is allowed, with the viewer's rights. The files that go in are at
most 4 MiB, images 2 MiB; a script or style sheet that does not load
shows a notice in the page. A change of one of these files reloads the
page, as a change of index.html does.

The skills, the docs and the shared pages fixture say and test the same.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Return tool descriptions from an MCP connector test

A connection test listed only the tool names. A person who adds a
server cannot tell from a name such as "query" what the tool does or
whether to keep the connector on.

The test response now also has tool_details: each tool with the
description its server gives, in the order of tools. tools is
unchanged, so existing clients keep working.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add jq, ripgrep, sqlite3 and archive tools to the Sandbox guest

The guest user cannot install packages and apt is blocked by the proxy,
so any tool the model needs has to be in the image. Add jq, ripgrep,
sqlite3, zip, unzip, file and tree to the final stage.

A new check-tools.sh runs in the existing build step and fails the build
when one of these programs, Poppler, git or curl is missing or does not
start.

The list is one constant, GuestTools, in the shared sandbox package. The
Commands block of the prompt of an isolated chat names it. The tool
description (capped at 400 characters, already full) and the turn note
(cut at 400 characters) have no room for it. Tests keep the Dockerfile,
the check script and the Sandbox documentation in line with the constant.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Keep the helper files of a chat in its work folder

A chat asked for a Word document left a 19 KB build script at the top of
the user's home, next to the user's own files. Chats like it leave
scripts, intermediate data, logs and drafts at the top level or in
folders such as scripts/, and nothing tells them apart from what the
user asked for.

Each chat now has a work folder, Chats/<chat folder>/work/ in the
user's home, next to its attachments. The chat takes the name of its
folder at its first turn (checked against the folders and the other
recent chats of the user, so two chats with one title get two names)
and makes the folder only when it is used: before a bash command runs,
or when a file is saved there. The prompt of every turn names the
folder and says what goes in it: scripts, helper code, intermediate
data, logs and drafts go there; the deliverable goes where the user
said or at the top of the home; no new top-level folders for scripts;
a run-once command needs no file. A sub-agent is told its parent's
folder. The descriptions of bash (the Sandbox's, within its 400
characters, and the built-in one) and of write_file end with one short
hint, and the built-in office, apps and workspace skills say the same
in one line.

The steering is soft. When write_file, move_file or a command leaves a
helper file outside the work folder, the result gets one line that
suggests moving it, at most once a turn of a chat.

One function (workspace/workfiles) decides the kind of a file:
working for anything in a chat's work folder, or for a script, a log
or a temporary file by its extension or a folder named scripts, tmp or
scratch; deliverable for everything else, and always for pages, the
LocalAI folder, the shared folders and the files the user attached.
The chat's file list (kind), the files of a command's card
(files[].kind) and the card of a file tool (file_kind) carry it, so the
interface only renders it.

The runtime setting chats_work_folder (on by default) turns the
steering off.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Stop telling the model that the Sandbox has npm

The guest image has no Node, so the network hints named a tool that
does not exist.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Update the Sandbox description test after dropping npm

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Open the links of a page after the person confirms them

A page runs in a frame without allow-popups or top navigation, so a
click on <a href="https://..."> did nothing, and a link to #id loaded
LocalAI's own address in the frame, since a srcdoc resolves it against
the parent. A news page had only dead links.

The bridge of the frame now takes the clicks on links (also with a
modifier, the middle button or Enter) and window.open(), and sends
link.open(url) to the host. The host lets through only an http or https
address without a user name or password, at most 2048 characters;
javascript:, data:, file:, blob:, //host and links to other files of
the page are refused with a message in the console. A bar above the
page shows the site in large type, the whole address, and Open and
Cancel. A host in punycode also says how it reads, since it may imitate
another site. Open is a click in the app, so the new tab is not blocked
and opens with noopener and noreferrer. A page asks at most 5 links at
once, then one every 3 seconds. A link to #id scrolls the page.

The sandbox, the policy of the frame and the consent of shared pages do
not change; a shared page asks the same way.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Let the items of a Home widget link

A list widget showed each item as plain text, so a digest of articles
or a list of pages could not take the person anywhere. An item now has
an optional url. An http or https address without a user name opens in
a new tab with noopener and noreferrer, and its tooltip names the site;
a path of the app (/app/pages, /app/chats, /app/files and the other
screens a person reads) opens inside LocalAI. The label is the link,
with a focus ring, an underline on hover and focus, and an icon for an
address outside the app.

The widget-data schema checks the url, and the server adds an error in
words that names the item and the rule, so a trigger run that writes a
bad link learns why. The skill and the docs show the field.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Attach any file in a chat with one button

The chat had three attach buttons (image, audio, file) that all add to
the same list, and the file button's dialog filtered on */*, which
some file dialogs read as a type filter that greys out archives such as
.zip. A chat now shows one Attach file button whose dialog has no type
filter. Composers without anyFile keep the three buttons.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Accept both Node behaviours for a broken punycode label in the link test

Node 22 refuses the address, Node 24 parses it. Both mean the page never
opens it unwarned.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Show a chat's working files apart from what it made

The Files pane, the steps and the preview treated a helper script like
the document the user asked for: a 19 KB build script was listed next
to the document, got a chip under the answer, and the preview opened on
whichever file was newest.

The interface now renders the kind the server puts on each file. The
pane lists what the chat made first and folds the working files into
one quiet heading under the rest, "Working files · 2", with a line that
says what they are; opening it shows their rows, which preview like any
file. A working file opened from a step unfolds the group. The preview
that opens by itself after a turn picks the newest file that is not a
working file, and the chips under the answer name only those files. A
step that saved working files lists them as one line, "Also saved 2
working files", that opens to their chips, and the file of a write_file
step that is a working file is a quieter chip. The files the user
attached are unchanged.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add a search field and a segmented filter to the UI kit

The Agents views each drew their own toolbar: a search box capped at
320 px on the agents list, round chip filters on the triggers history,
and a bare checkbox on the tasks page. Add-ons already had the look the
product wants (a search that fills the row and a segmented tray), but
only as add-on classes.

SearchField and Segmented are that toolbar as two small primitives with
ui-* classes and token values only. Segmented buttons carry their id in
data-filter, so specs can press them. The README shows how to use them.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Draw an agent task run as a history row with its output

The jobs of an agent task were table rows that opened to bare <pre>
blocks: no copy, parameters printed as k=v, the traces in a raw
<details>, and "by manual" in the server's words.

RunItem is one run of a history list: a toggle, the state chip, what it
was and what happened, when and for how long, small actions, and the
details that open under it. OutputBlock draws an answer or an error in
mono with a Copy button. JobRow and JobDetail use them for a job: the
values it ran with as labelled chips, the answer or error, the steps,
the webhook outcome and a link to the chat that holds the run. Times
show as words with the full date as a tooltip.

The agent task helpers gain the pure rules the page needs: the jobs of
a task, the run filters (waiting and running count as in progress), the
on/off filter and search of the task list, the field errors of a save,
how a job started, and the API call that runs a task by name.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Create, edit and run agent tasks in a side sheet

The task form opened as bare fields above the list, with a checkbox for
On and a Save button that was only disabled when a field was missing.
Run with parameters was a second inline form in the same place.

TaskSheet is a side sheet with three labelled groups (about, who runs
it, what it does), help under each field, the parameters the prompt
asks for as chips while you type, and an On switch. Save checks the
required fields, says next to each one what is missing, and moves the
focus to the first. RunSheet asks for each value the prompt names and
shows the prompt as the task will receive it.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Show the details of an agent task in a pane with tabs

A task had no details view: its prompt, its runs and the way to run it
over the API were only in the lede of the page.

TaskPane is the kit's side pane with three tabs. Overview shows who
runs the task, the values it asks for, the prompt and a curl call that
runs it by name, with Copy. Runs lists its jobs. Settings holds the On
switch, the webhook count and Delete. Run and Edit stay in the footer.
The tabs move with the arrow keys, Home and End.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Rebuild the agent tasks page from the shared list pieces

The tasks page looked unstyled next to Add-ons and the agents list: two
raw tables under uppercase eyebrows, a bare checkbox for All users,
forms that opened above the list, three text buttons on every row, and
on a phone a table that broke names one syllable per line.

The page now uses the same pieces as the polished pages. The header has
one line and New task. A toolbar holds the search, an All/On/Off filter
and, for an administrator, an All users switch. Each task is an agent
row: a tile, the name, two lines of description, who runs it and what
it asks for, the last run's state and time with the run strip, an On
switch, Run and a menu. A task with no parameters runs at once. The
name opens the details pane; New task, Edit and Run open the sheets.
The run history is grouped by day, with a state filter, a task filter
and Show more. A job is deleted after an in-page question. With no
tasks the page explains what one is, with an example; a failed load
shows the error with Try again. On a phone the controls grow to 44 px
and the filters scroll sideways.

New strings, and the task strings that existed only in English, are in
all nine locales; the strings the page no longer uses are gone. A new
stubbed spec covers the list, filters, sheets, pane and history, and the
real-server spec follows the new controls. The docs describe the page.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Rebuild the MCP connectors page on the Add-ons patterns

The page read as a form: every connector was a row of raw controls (a
checkbox, a Test button, red Delete text), the add form pushed the list
down, a test result vanished on reload, and the frame was narrower than
the pages next to it in the sidebar.

The page now uses the same blocks as Add-ons and Files:

- Full page width and the shared PageHeader with a one-sentence purpose
  and "Add connector".
- The Add-ons toolbar (search and a state filter with counts) from four
  connectors, and the Add-ons rows: a monogram tile, a state chip
  (Connected, Needs sign-in, Can't connect, Not tested, Off), one line
  with the tools or the reason, a meta line, the kit Switch and a menu.
- Details in the shared SidePane: the switch, the last test, the tools
  with their descriptions and a search, the connection with the query of
  the address hidden, and what is saved.
- Add and edit in the shared SideSheet: kind first, grouped fields with
  inline checks, masked secrets with show and hide, then "Save and
  test", the result with the tools, and Turn on. Escape and Cancel ask
  before they drop typed changes.
- An empty state that says what a connector is for.

The last test of each connector is kept in this browser with a hash of
what it tested, never the address or a secret, so the page shows the
last known state after a reload. Strings are in all nine locales.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Document the MCP connectors page and its states

The MCP servers section now describes the add sheet (kind, checks,
masked secrets, Save and test, Turn on), the states a connector shows,
where the last test is kept, the search and the filter, and the details
pane. The test example shows tool_details.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Render a preloaded page without its loading placeholder

A page that was preloaded still showed the route's loading placeholder
when it opened: React.lazy suspends once on its first render even when
the chunk is already in memory, and React keeps a fallback on screen
for at least 300 ms once it shows one. Opening a chat from Home showed
a blank page for that time.

The page loader now remembers the module once it has loaded and hands
it to React.lazy as a thenable that resolves at once, so a preloaded
page renders in the same commit. A preload of a segment now warms
every page registered under it: /app/chats is the chat page, its
connectors and its conversion page, and before only the last one
registered was preloaded.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Move the composer from Home into the new chat in one gesture

Sending the first message on Home was a hard cut. The page stood still
while the chat was created, then showed a blank placeholder, the empty
"new chat" screen with its composer in the middle, an empty thread
with the composer at the bottom, and only then the message, while the
sidebar folded and moved the whole column. Focus was lost.

Now Send fades the rest of Home and keeps the composer in place while
the message goes. When the send has answered, a view transition moves
the composer to the dock of the chat, lifts the text out of it into
the message, moves the attached files with it and folds the sidebar in
place; the model's indicator comes in after the message has landed and
the empty composer has the focus. The chat page draws the message from
what Home already knows (a small hand-off store: the chat record, the
text and the files, with the local copy of an image for its thumbnail)
and keeps the same row when the server's transcript replaces it, so
nothing is drawn twice or animates again. What is sent to the server
does not change.

A browser without view transitions gets a FLIP slide of the composer
and the message (Web Animations, transform and opacity only). Less
motion gets a short cross-fade, or an instant switch. A send that fails
brings Home back, shakes the composer and keeps the draft; a second
Enter while one send is in flight sends nothing. The draft is cleared
when Home closes, so the box never shows its placeholder on the way.

Focus mode folds the sidebar in a layout effect, so the fold happens in
the frame the conversation appears. One motion token is added,
--dur-glide (360 ms), for a part that travels to its place on the next
page.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Draw the triggers as rows and their history like the task runs

The triggers page used a table with a switch column next to the agents
card list, folded its list behind Hide, filtered the history with round
chips, and on a phone cut each history row at the right edge.

Each trigger is now an agent row: a clock or folder tile, the name, the
schedule in the server's words, the agent or model and when it runs
next, the last run's state and time with the run strip, an On switch,
Run now and a menu. The week sentence sits under the Run history title.
The history uses the segmented filter and the same run rows and day
headings as the agent tasks, with Show more after 30 runs; an open run
shows its reason with Copy. On a trigger page the prompt comes before
the runs, in the body face, the On switch is the kit switch, and the
runs stop at 10 with Show more.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Use the shared search and the full width on the agents list

The agents list stopped its search at 320 px and used the content width,
while the Triggers and Tasks views next to it use the full width, so the
title and the view tabs moved when you switched views.

The list now uses SearchField, which fills the toolbar row as on
Add-ons, and the full page width like its sibling views.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Polish the agent task sheets and pane after a visual review

Screenshots of every state showed a few rough edges:

- The name placeholder looked like a filled-in value next to the error
  "Give the task a name". The name field has no placeholder now, and
  the prompt placeholder starts with "For example:".
- A task run by an agent showed the agent id until the agents were
  read. It says "Agent" until then.
- A run opened in the details pane also opened in the history, and the
  two copies shared an element id. The pane keeps its own open runs and
  ids.
- A failed run in the pane drew its meta line in red; the title carries
  the error colour there now.
- A group title that is not a legend had a double gap under it, and the
  kebab menus were under 44 px on a phone.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Cover the code files of a shared page in its consent

The consent to a shared page was kept against the hash of index.html
and page.json. The UI also puts the scripts, style sheets and modules
next to the page into it before it runs, so the author could change
app.js after a viewer allowed the page and run new code without asking
again.

The server now finds the same files as the UI's inliner: every script
src, stylesheet link, relative CSS @import and module import of the
folder, followed through the module graph. Their content hashes go into
the hash of the page, and a file the page names that is missing counts
too, so adding it later also asks again. Data files and images stay
out, so saving data does not ask again. The files are listed as
code_files. What a file names is kept per content hash in a small
per-frontend cache, which only saves reads.

Two more checks close the gaps around it. A frame of an older version
that reads a changed file of code gets 409, so a script edited while
the page is open never runs under the old consent. The UI puts no text
file into a shared page that is not in code_files, so if the server and
the UI ever disagree, the file fails to load instead of running outside
the consent. The trust sheet names the files of code when only one of
them changed.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Let a page be a tile on Home in its compact mode

Home widgets could show a list, a number or the last chats, but not one
of the pages a person or the assistant built. A page can now be a tile.

A page opts in with a widget block in page.json: a size (small, medium
or large, the height of the tile) and an optional short title. A
widget of type page in LocalAI/home.json names the page, and a folder
id for a page of a shared folder. The server takes at most three page
widgets and says why in words, and refuses a name that is not a page
name.

The tile runs the page in the same sandbox and bridge as the full
view. The page reads localai.page.mode ("widget" in a tile, "page"
otherwise) and localai.page.size, and <html> carries data-mode and
data-size, so the page decides how its tile looks instead of being
shrunk. The tile reserves the height of its size, builds its frame only
once it scrolls into view, tells the page through a new visibility
event when it goes out of sight or the tab is hidden, takes the frame
down far off screen, and keeps at most three frames alive. It has a
title bar with Open page and a refresh button, a skeleton while it
loads, Retry on an error, and the link question of the full view. A
page that is gone or has no widget block shows a calm line with a link
to Customise Home; a shared page that the viewer has not allowed shows
Allow this page, which opens the same trust sheet.

Customise Home lists the pages with a widget block, with the size of
their tile. The task board starter has a compact view, the skills tell
the assistant how to put a page on Home, and the docs describe it.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Give the Files upload its own size limit

The Files page upload was capped by the general --upload-limit (15 MB
by default), although a workspace file can be 256 MiB.

Make 0 the default of --upload-limit, meaning not set. When it is not
set, the general routes keep the 15 MB limit and the Files upload route
skips it, so the workspace file size is its limit. When the operator
sets a value, it applies to the Files upload too, lower or higher (a
file never exceeds the workspace size). The max_file_size of a folder
listing reports the limit in force.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Refuse writes of code files from a page

A page loads its own scripts, modules and styles, so a page that could
overwrite app.js or style.css would run new code on its next load. The
page bridge now writes data files only.

The server refuses a write whose final segment has a code or document
extension (js, mjs, cjs, css, html, htm, svg, xml, xhtml, wasm), is named
index, or is page.json, with 403 and a clear message. The check applies
to the page routes only; the Files page and the assistant's file tools
keep full write access. The judgement lives in pages.IsCodeFile and is
mirrored by isCodeFile in the web host, which refuses early with the
error code forbidden. Both run one table of cases, covering case, double
extensions, trailing dots and spaces, percent-encoding, backslashes and
lookalike dots.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Make the trigger tools a built-in group a chat can switch off

propose_trigger, list_triggers, update_trigger and delete_trigger were
added to every chat a person starts, with no switch. They are now four
entries of the built-in tool registry in one group, triggers, so the
Tools menu, the tools panel, the draft list and the builtins switch
endpoint handle them like the web group. The group is on by default.

A trigger or connector run and a sub-agent still never get them. The
panel lists the group as not usable, with a reason, for those chats,
for a user without the triggers feature, and not at all when the server
runs no triggers. The group has no runtime setting, so the registry
gets an Unlisted flag and Settings > Tools skips it. The panel now
builds every grouped tool to learn whether it is usable, not only the
opt-in ones.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Show the Triggers group in the chat Tools menu

The menu rows come from the groups the server lists, so the row needs
only its label in the nine locales. A Playwright spec covers the row,
its switch request, Select all and Disable all, and the disabled row
with its reason.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Talk about settings, not the files behind them

The settings cards, the shortcuts row, Home and the change notes in a
chat named the files that hold a person's settings: "Defined in
LocalAI/shortcuts.json", "Layout is in LocalAI/home.json", "Saved
LocalAI/persona.json". A person changes their shortcuts or their Home,
not a file, and the Files page still shows the files to whoever looks.

The "Stored in", "Defined in" and "Layout is in" lines are gone; the
history line keeps Versions, Revert and the Invalid badge. The notes
say what changed ("Saved your shortcuts.", "Created the page Task
board."), the errors name the setting or the widget instead of a path,
and the Source view says "The settings as text" instead of JSON and
schema. A failed save now says what happened in one plain sentence and
keeps the server's own words under a collapsed Details. The drafts that
"Edit with the assistant" puts in the composer no longer carry the
path; the built-in workspace skill already maps shortcuts and Home to
their files.

All nine locales are translated; only the changed keys moved, and four
keys that nothing reads any more are removed.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Drop internal names from the skills, add-ons and tasks copy

Other pages used words that only make sense to someone who knows how
LocalAI is built:

- Skills said "a folder with a SKILL.md" and "the file workspace". It
  now says what a skill is for, and that skills need Files.
- The add-on notes blamed "the owner", the internal name of the server
  that runs add-ons. They now say what happened to the action, or that
  the add-on service is not available; a private library names a
  credential "an administrator configured on this server".
- The Tasks header listed an API route, and the first-run wizard spoke
  of a "host bash fallback". The memory line of Settings no longer
  mentions "the resources endpoint".

All locales that have these keys are translated. The skill delete
dialog, the unused skills intro and the Tasks header exist only in
English and change only there.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Fail the unit tests when UI copy names implementation details

A new test reads every string of every locale and fails when one names
a settings or data file (.json, .yaml, LocalAI/), an API route or HTTP
method, a setting key (chats_*), an environment variable, a format
word (JSON, YAML, schema) or a path shown as code. Plain words such as
"schema" and "endpoint" are checked in English only, since other
languages use them for other things.

Operator pages may still name the model configuration, the metrics
route or a startup setting that the docs name. Those keys are listed in
ui-copy-allowlist.json, each with the audience and the reason. The list
only shrinks: an entry whose string no longer needs it, or whose key is
gone, fails too.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Name the triggers group in the chat tools routes

The routes that list and switch the built-in groups of a chat said only
"a name such as web". They now name all three: web, triggers and
saved_agents, with the tools of each.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Make the built-in skills answer in plain words

The skills told the model to report file names, folders and formats
after a change. Add one rule near the top of localai-workspace and
localai-apps: do the work with files, but say what changed, and name a
file only when the user did or asks. Replace the example replies that
carried paths, keep every path that says where to write, and pin the
rule with a test.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Apply the Go 1.26 modernizers to the latest Studio code

go fix suggested slices.Contains, strings.SplitSeq and range-over-int
on lines added since the first pass. ParseSearchProviders had the same
hand-written membership loop, so it uses slices.Contains too. Only
lines that the branch added since then are changed.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Share the blob wait and the counting of the two workspace purges

The JSON and GORM stores each had the 2-minute default for the blob
grace, the same switch that reads the BlobGrace option, and the same
loop that counts files, folders and bytes per revision. They now call
blob.Grace and PurgeResult.Add, both with specs. The SQL and the
in-memory walk that pick the nodes stay in each store.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Read the upper layer of a sandbox in one place for both stores

The JSON and GORM workspace stores had the same readUpper, place,
joinRel, depth and sortedKeys, with the same upperSet types. They move
to workspace/internal/upperset, which has its own specs. The commit
algorithm that applies the set to the nodes stays in each store; it
needs a storage interface first.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Let chat attachments use the 1 GiB message limit

The docs promise 1 GiB for a message with attachments, but the general
body limit (15 MB by default) ran first, because only the Files upload
skipped it. Skip it also for a multipart POST to the messages route
when the operator set no --upload-limit. A JSON message keeps the
general limit, and an explicit --upload-limit still wins. A message
that goes over the 1 GiB limit now gets 413, not 400.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Name the read_file tool in the skills index header

A weaker model read a built-in skill with the wrong path and then tried
the Sandbox, which cannot see skill folders. The header now says which
tool reads a skill and that the shown path is the one to use, before it
mentions where the user's own skills go.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Tell the model that skill folders are not in the Sandbox

The Commands block of an isolated chat now says that skills are read
with read_file. The Sandbox tool description and the per-turn note are
at their size caps, so the sentence goes in the system prompt.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Point read_document at read_file for text files

read_document reads PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and EPUB files. For a
Markdown or text file it said only that the file is not a document it
can read. The error now names read_file.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Tidy the text index stores and the indexer pool

The two stores wrote the default limits 20 and 100 as numbers in five
places; they are now named constants, so the stores cannot drift. The
JSON store checks a missing file with errors.Is. The indexer starts its
readers with wg.Go and keeps the first error inline, which drops the
cmpErr helper.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Refuse the server's public address in the Sandbox proxy

web_fetch refuses the addresses of the server: its interfaces,
loopback and the host of the external base URL. The Sandbox proxy runs
in the add-on process and listed only the interfaces of its own
machine. Under "All public sites", an always-allowed host or an Allow
card, a command could reach the LocalAI API through the public name or
address of the server, a NAT address or a proxy in front of it.

The host now keeps one list for both. The application builds it once,
gives it to web_fetch, and sends it as CIDR strings in the new self
field of every egress.check allow. The proxy keeps the last list it
got and refuses it on each dial, besides its own interfaces, also for
an allow it cached. safehttp gets the codec and a join of deny lists,
so both sides read the list the same way.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Check the TLS server name on every port of the Sandbox proxy

The proxy checked the ClientHello only on CONNECT to port 443. An
always-allowed host pinned to another port, or any port added to
chats_egress_ports, was a raw tunnel: a command could open TLS to
another tenant of the same front through it. The docs said the server
name must still match.

On other ports the proxy still waits for nothing, since the protocol
may be anything and the server may speak first. But when the first
bytes from the guest are a TLS handshake record, it reads the whole
ClientHello and passes it on only when the server name is the CONNECT
host; otherwise it closes the tunnel and audits the reason sni.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Say what sent each notification

The inbox only knew whether a notification was about a run or needed
attention, so a trigger that was switched off and a connector that was
switched off looked the same. Each notification now carries a source:
trigger, connector or system (the conversion of old data). The list
endpoint returns it, and items stored before have none.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Say where a skill is when a read of it fails

When read_file, read_document or list_files fail with not found for a
path that names a skill of the chat (a wrong skills folder, or just
<name>/SKILL.md), the error now gives the skill's real path and says to
read it with read_file. The skills come from the chat's own resolver, so
every layer, add-on and per-user switch is respected, and nothing is
looked up unless a read fails.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Keep the last valid Sandbox network lists when a value is bad

The settings endpoint refuses a bad chats_egress_allowed_hosts with the
reason, and the runtime settings file keeps the value in force. A bad
value that reached the configuration another way was dropped with no
log line: the always-allowed hosts and the extra registries became
empty, and a bad port list fell back to 80 and 443, which can widen a
narrower list.

Each of the three lists now keeps the last value that parsed, logs a
bad value once, and uses the default only when the process never saw
a valid one. The parse runs again only when the value changes, not on
every egress.check.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Use the keyless chain of the built-in search in the Web add-on

The add-on replaces the built-in web_search, but its keyless provider
was DuckDuckGo alone. DuckDuckGo often answers data-center addresses
with a bot check, so installing the add-on without a key made search
worse than the built-in, which falls back to the Brave Search and Bing
result pages.

The keyless entry of the add-on's order (saved name duckduckgo) is now
the built-in chain from pkg/web/search: DuckDuckGo, then the Brave
Search page, then the Bing page, with the same cool-down. The status
tool reports the providers in their cool-down, and the Settings tab
shows them with the reason. Test the providers gives one row for each
page of the chain.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Fix the GitHub hosts in the Q1 row of the egress design

The Q1 row still listed raw.githubusercontent.com on the registries
list. The owner decision below it and registries.json exclude it,
since it serves any user content, and add
release-assets.githubusercontent.com. The row now says the same.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Keep one private-address rule for the network cards

A card asked whether its host is a private IP literal by calling
egress.Admits with a made-up ceiling, which re-derived the rule that
egress already has. egress.PrivateLiteral is now exported (with a spec)
and the card uses it. The two String methods of an allowed host write
host:port with net.JoinHostPort, which brackets an IPv6 literal the
same way the hand-written code did.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Read a unique constraint violation in one place

The jobs and triggers stores had the same isUniqueViolation, and the
saved agents store had the same test inline before it looked for the
name index. They now call dberr.IsUniqueViolation, which has specs for
the SQLite and PostgreSQL error texts. The workspace store keeps its
own stricter match.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Ask before a Home widget link opens another site

A list widget turned an http or https item into a plain link to a new
tab. Its data file is written by trigger runs and the assistant, which
read web text, so a planted link opened with one click, and only a
tooltip showed the host. A link of a page asks first.

An external item link now opens the confirmation bar of page links in
the widget: the site, the full address, the punycode warning, and Open
or Cancel. A link inside the app still navigates directly. The bar
takes a label, so the widget says that it wants to open the link.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Prune the audit of the commands run on this machine

The audit of the built-in bash had no retention: the database table
grew without bound in a cluster, with commands of up to 4 KiB each.
The Sandbox network audit had chats_egress_audit_days and a daily
prune under an advisory lock.

Both audits record what the commands of the chats did, so the host
command audit now uses the same retention and is pruned in the same
daily pass: one frontend of a cluster, under the same lock; a
standalone process alone. The GORM and file stores get Prune. No new
setting.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Save the Studio JSON stores with atomicfile.WriteJSON

Seven stores (agents, connectors, jobs, MCP connections, notifications,
push subscriptions and triggers) encoded their state and then called
atomicfile.Write with the same four lines. atomicfile.WriteJSON does
both and has specs. The load side stays in each store, since the error
messages differ.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Build the result page walkers of the keyless search on one walk

hasChallenge and firstByClass each had their own recursive walk that
stopped at the first match. They are now predicates passed to
firstElement, which already did that walk. The order of the walk and
the element tested first are the same.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Expire network cards that a dead frontend left pending

Pending network cards expired only on the turn-end path of the process
that ran the turn. When that frontend died, its cards stayed pending
in the chat record, counted toward the cap of three, and gave the next
turn's connections cards-full blocks. The UI showed them as waiting.

A card now names the turn that asked it. One rule, shared with the
command card in a later change, says whether a card still has a
waiter: its turn holds the chat and its wait has not run out. A card
that fails it reads as expired, takes no place under the cap, and is
expired in the record when the next card is asked, when the next turn
starts, or when the reaper ends the dead turn.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Reuse ChooseProvider for the expected add-on of a tool

shadowers.expected repeated ChooseProvider line for line: the pinned
add-on when it is installed, else the oldest install. It now calls it.
commandFiles kept an order field and sorted the nodes of a map by it;
it now appends each node to a list when it first sees it, which gives
the same order without the sort.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Do not print a nil error when a key or entry is missing

Three checks joined "the read failed" and "the read found nothing" in
one branch, so the second case wrote "<nil>" into the message: the
VAPID keys of push notifications, the sealing key of connectors and a
rendered catalog entry. Each case now has its own message. The message
of a failed read does not change.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Check the close errors and rename the tool variables

golangci-lint failed on the new studio code. Five deferred Close calls
and one Fprintf into a hash dropped their error, and two locals named t
made forbidigo read `t.Run` as a testing call. Discard the errors
explicitly and name the locals tool.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Make the file text index forget purged files and say its limits

Three gaps of the text index of documents:

- A purge dropped the index entries of what it erased in a goroutine
  that only logged its errors, and the purge had already erased the
  journal rows. A crash or a store error left the text in the database
  for good. Each pass of the indexer now also checks a batch of entries
  (200 every 30 s, round all of them) and deletes those whose node is
  gone, so what a failed Forget leaves is removed.

- A document search stopped at 20000 files or 64 MiB of text without a
  word, and the "still being indexed" count stopped at 50. The search
  now sets Limited (search_files says "results limited", the REST
  answer has "limited", the Files page shows a note), and the count is
  the number of pending entries below the path.

- read_file extracted a long document again for every page, up to 50
  MiB and 60 s each time. The first read keeps the whole text in the
  index store by content hash (a new documents table, or files in the
  JSON store), and the next pages come from it. The text goes away with
  the last entry of that content, on delete and on purge.

Search reads the text without its folded copy, which only the database
needs.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Stop the PDF reader when the extraction gives up

The PDF and EPUB reader runs in a goroutine, and the call returns after
60 seconds when it is slow. The goroutine went on reading every page,
since its context ended only with the caller's. It now gets a context
that ends when the call returns, so it stops at the next page. What
the call returns does not change.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Compare the code files of a shared page as the store does

The guard that refuses new code to a frame of an older version compared
the name it reads with the names of the page's code exactly. The
workspace folds case, so an old frame that read Index.html or JS/App.js
got the new code with no 409. Compare names in the store's form
(workspace.FoldName), as the write check already does, and test the
case variants.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Expire the command card of a turn that is over

The card of the built-in bash was cleared only by a defer in the call
that asked. When that frontend died, the card stayed in the chat
record. The chat hid it only while no turn ran, so the next turn
showed it again, and an answer to it reached no one but still got 204.

The card now names its turn and when it was asked, and follows the
same rule as the network cards: it waits only while that turn holds
the chat and its five minutes have not run out. GET /api/chats/{id}
shows only such a card. The next turn and the reaper clear a card left
behind, and the waiting call clears only its own card, so it never
removes a newer one. An answer to a card with nobody waiting is
410 consent_expired, and the chat shows the card as not answered, with
no buttons. The store gets UpdateHostConsent, an atomic change of the
card.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Answer a trigger change once across frontends

ApplyChange, UndoChange and DismissChange checked the outcome of the
change record under a mutex of one process, then wrote the store. Two
frontends could both see a pending change and both apply it, or both
undo it.

Add Store.SetOutcome, a conditional update of the outcome (only from
the outcome it names), to the GORM and JSON stores and to the store
suite. The three answers now claim the record with it before they
write, give the outcome back when the change itself fails, and answer
ErrProposalAnswered (409) when another request won. A test runs the
two answers on two frontends at the moment between the read and the
write, for an edit, its undo, and a delete.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add the shadowers spec to the tables-tools inventory

The tool adapter gained a spec that lists the add-ons that replace a
built-in in any state. The tables-tools suite runs every spec of that
package, so verify.sh found one case more than the inventory holds.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Offer Clear filters when the backend Catalog shows nothing

The Installed view had a Clear filters button in its no-results state;
the Catalog view did not, although the spec asks for it in both. Move
the button to one place and show it in the Catalog when a search, a
type filter or a library filter leaves no row. Add Playwright specs for
both views, which the earlier Installed fix lacked.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Give the chat settings without an assistant tool their reason

chats_max_iterations, chats_work_folder, chats_index_files and
chats_index_max_text_bytes had no MCP tool and no entry in
adminRoutesWithoutTool, and the older chats_saved_agents,
chats_suggestions, chats_vision_model and chats_transcription_model
were unlisted too. Add each with the reason it stays a person's choice
in Settings: they apply to every user's chats, and the step limit is
one a model must not raise for itself.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Remove the stray allowed-hosts keys from the chats inbox locales

allowedHosts, allowedHostsOff and allowedHostsNote sat twice in eight
locales: under egress, where English has them and the UI reads them,
and again under inbox, where nothing reads them. In de and ko the two
copies had drifted apart. Delete the inbox copies and keep the egress
ones.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Bring three design specs in line with what shipped

- web tools and shadowing: the status still said phase 2 waits; both
  phases shipped. Note that the Web add-on's keyless entry is now the
  built-in keyless chain.
- Home front door: Home now creates the chat and sends the first
  message itself, with a short-lived hand-off to the chat page, and
  its composer takes attachments. Both were described the old way or
  as out of scope.
- chat footer: the meter bar is 96 px with the tokens left, and a phone
  keeps the bar and the tokens left, not the percentage only.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Store the command card's answer and read it back every two seconds

The answer to the command card of the built-in bash went only as a
bus message. When the message was lost, the call waited the full five
minutes and ended as not answered, although the person had clicked.
The network card stores its answer first and re-reads the card every
two seconds.

The command card now does the same, through one shared pair of
helpers: listenConsent subscribes before the card is stored, and
waitConsent wakes on the bus message or every two seconds and reads
the record, which holds the truth. The network card uses the same
helpers. HostExecDecide writes the decision to the card atomically
before it sends the message: the same answer twice is 204, the other
answer 409 already_answered, and an answered card is no longer shown
as waiting.

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* Load skills by name with a load_skill tool

A weaker model failed to read a skill at the path the index showed. The
chat now has a built-in load_skill tool that takes a skill's name and
returns the instructions of its SKILL.md, without the frontmatter.

The tool reads the same resolved skill set as the index: the nearest
skill of each name, the chat's switches, the add-ons the chat can use
now and the grants of its agent. It reads through the user's rights.
When the skill's folder holds other files, the answer starts with the
base directory and names up to 20 of them for read_file; a chat without
read_file gets the instructions only. A skill that needs commands, in a
chat that cannot run them, is refused with the reason. An unknown name
is an error that gives near names first and then every name the chat
has.

Every chat with at least one skill gets the tool, and a sub-agent gets
it with its parent's tools. It has no switch and Settings > Tools does
not list it.

The index of skills now lists names and descriptions only and tells the
model to call load_skill. The Sandbox sentence and the error for a
wrong skill path now point at load_skill too.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Tell the built-in skills to load other skills by name

localai-apps told the model to read the localai-workspace skill, and
writing-skills said a description is what the agent sees before it
opens the file. Both now speak of loading a skill with load_skill.
localai-workspace keeps the path of its schemas folder and says to read
it with read_file, since those files are not a skill.

A test checks that no built-in skill sends the model to another skill by
"read" or by the path of its SKILL.md.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Document load_skill and the skills index

The chats page now says that the prompt lists skills by name and
description, that load_skill returns a skill's instructions and names
the files of its folder, what it refuses and who gets it. It no longer
says the model reads a skill by its path. The add-ons page says how a
chat loads an add-on's skill, and the saved agents page says that the
skills grant limits load_skill too.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add the proposal action spec to the tables-acceptance inventory

The spec that an editor cannot confirm a schema change as a write ran in
the suite but was never in the inventory, so the evidence manifest check
failed. CI did not reach that check before, because the burst spec
failed first.

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* Give a chat a goal that it works toward by itself

A chat can now hold one goal. While it is active, every turn's prompt
names it, the model gets goal_done and goal_blocked, and when a turn
ends by itself the frontend that ran it starts the next one with
"Continue toward the goal". The person's waiting messages still go
first, and a turn they start does not count as an automatic one.

The goal pauses when the person presses Stop, when a turn fails or is
cut short, and when the automatic turns or the model steps reach their
limits. Resume gives it fresh budgets. A sub-agent, and a chat that a
trigger, a connector, a job or a page started, has no goal and no goal
tools.

The goal lives with the chat record in the store (UpdateGoal on the
JSON and GORM stores, with contract tests and a column migration), so
every frontend reads the same one. The next turn goes through the same
turn claim as any other, so only one frontend continues it; a reaped
turn, or a JSON store that reloads after a crash, leaves the goal
paused instead of continued twice. The transcript keeps goal lines
(set, replaced, continue, paused, resumed, done, blocked, cleared) as
their own role, so an automatic message never reads as typed by the
person.

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* Add a store for the loops of the chats

A loop repeats a prompt in one chat, at an interval or when the model
asks for the next run. The new loops package keeps the loops, the
daily budget of runs of each owner, and which chats confirmed a loop
once. JSON and GORM stores share one contract suite. Add checks the
limits per chat and per owner in the same step as the insert, and
TakeRun never hands out the last run of a day twice, also across
frontends.

A user message that a loop sent now carries a loop mark (loop ID, run
number, self-paced or not). Both chat stores keep it. The model reads
a short line before the prompt that says the message repeats by
itself, and, for a self-paced loop, how to ask for the next run.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add the file preview slot specs to the host-slots inventory

The file preview slot came with two Go specs in the host-slots package.
verify.sh found them in the run but not in the inventory.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Check the Settings page and the add-ons with the UI copy guard

The guard read the locale files only. The Settings page keeps its
English labels and descriptions in settingsSchema.js, and several
add-ons carry their own English bundle, so neither was checked.

The guard now also reads the label, description and note of every
setting and the label and hint of every group, and the English
bundles of the add-ons (an en.js module or an English JSON file).
The allow-list takes settings:<key>.<what> and addon:<id>:<key>
entries, each with its reason; the operator ones (the SearXNG JSON
format, the fine-tuning file types, the API route of a voice, the
schema of the Databases add-on) are listed.

What it found in the voice library is fixed in plain words: "model
YAML is not modified" and "Existing model YAML is not changed" now say
that the models' settings are not changed, in the voice add-on, the
Studio add-on and the host locales that have the strings (en, fr,
pt-BR). The two host allow-list entries for them go.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add the update digest specs to the updates inventory

Two checker specs pin that an update names its candidate digest and
that a stale cached notice stays readable. The updates suite runs the
whole checker package, so the inventory needs both.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Draw the Add-ons search and state filter with the kit pieces

The Add-ons page had its own copy of the search box and the segmented
filter (ad-search, ad-seg), the same shapes and styles as the kit's
SearchField and Segmented that the Agents pages use. Use the kit
pieces and drop the copy; the narrow-screen rules now target the kit
classes inside the toolbar. The search keeps its test id.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add the limits of a chat goal to the runtime settings

chats_goal_max_turns (1 to 200, default 20) is the most turns a chat
with a goal starts by itself, and chats_goal_max_steps (1 to 10000,
default 400) the most model steps of all the turns of one goal, before
the goal pauses. Both are read when a turn ends, so they apply without
a restart. They sit in Settings > Tools next to the step limit of one
turn, and the settings page documents them.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add the goal routes of a chat to the API

GET, PUT and DELETE /api/chats/{id}/goal read, set and clear a chat's
goal, and POST /api/chats/{id}/goal/resume resumes a paused or blocked
one. They belong to the chat's owner like the other chat routes and
take the chats feature. A chat view carries the goal with the limits
that apply now, the transcript gives goal lines with goal_event and
goal_turn, and the event stream has a goal event so that other tabs
read the chat again.

The routes are in the route feature registry, the swagger file and the
chats entry of /api/instructions. They manage the person's own chat,
not the server, so they have no MCP tool, as the other chat routes. The
chats page documents goals, their states and limits, and how several
frontends share them.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Redesign the notification inbox

The inbox panel was a plain list: every row had the same weight, a
failed run looked like a finished one, the panel ran off the screen on
a phone, and a failed load showed nothing.

The panel now has a header with the unread count, a menu for Clear read
and Clear all, Mark all read, and an All / Unread / Failed filter. Items
are grouped under Today, Yesterday and Earlier. Each item shows what
sent it (trigger, connector or LocalAI) with a tinted icon, the title,
two lines of text or the reason of a failure, and when it happened, with
the exact time on hover. A click marks it read and opens its chat; a
connector that was switched off opens the connectors page. Mark read and
Delete show on hover or focus, and stay in view on a touch screen.

The panel has a loading skeleton, an error with Try again, an empty
state that says what shows up here, and a caught-up state. A new
notification slides in, is highlighted for a few seconds and is
announced once. The badge stops at 99+. Focus moves into the panel when
it opens; the arrow keys, Home, End and Delete work on the items, and
Esc returns focus to the button. On a phone the panel is a sheet over
the bottom of the screen with 44 px targets.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Explain the reads of the text index and the provider requests to gosec

gosec flagged three new lines. The text index reads files from the
directory the host gave it, with names it listed there. A search
provider sends its request to the endpoint fixed at construction, never
to a URL from a tool call. Mark the lines with the reason.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Keep the add-on details open when Escape closes a dialog

Escape in the restore dialog of the recovery panel also closed the
details pane around it. The pane handles Escape in React, and the
dialog listens on the document, so the pane ran first and saw no
preventDefault. The pane now registers as a modal layer and closes only
when it is the top layer, as the side panes do.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add skill and agent messages, compact and clear to the chats API

A message can now carry a skill of the chat or one of the user's saved
agents. The server checks the name against the chat's resolved skill
set (switches, the agent's grants, shadowing, add-ons) or the saved
agents the chat may call, and refuses an unknown one with a 400 that
lists what the chat has. A skill message gives the model the text of
the skill's SKILL.md before the user's words, for that turn only; an
agent message asks the model to start the agent with spawn_agent. The
transcript keeps the words and the command (Entry.Invoked), not the
instructions. A regenerate or an edit runs the command again. Such a
message does not wait for a running turn: it answers 409.

POST /api/chats/{id}/compact runs the summary the loop makes when the
context fills up, through a new optional session.Compactor that the
loop harness implements with its own history compaction. The compacted
state is saved for the next turn and a "compacted" line with the sizes
goes in the transcript.

POST /api/chats/{id}/clear writes a "cleared" line and drops the saved
state. The model then sees nothing above the line: the rebuilt state
and the transcript summary start after the last such line, so a fork
from above it keeps what the model saw there. Export, import and the
Markdown export carry both lines.

Both calls take the turn claim, so no frontend starts a turn on the
chat meanwhile; messages sent during them start a turn after. No MCP
tool: they act on one chat of the caller and are not admin calls.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Give each network card spec its own settings

A check that a card spec starts can still wait on its card when the
next spec begins. It read the settings through a closure over a
variable that the next BeforeEach replaced, which the race detector
reported. Each service now reads the settings holder it was built with,
under a lock, and the specs change the settings through it.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Show the effective audit retention in the settings snapshot

The settings snapshot returned 0 for chats_egress_audit_days while the
setting was unset. Any page that saves the whole snapshot back, such as
the Traces settings strip, then posted 0 and the server rejected it with
"Invalid chats_egress_audit_days", so saving tracing settings failed on a
fresh install.

Report the retention that applies (30 days by default), the same way
chats_max_iterations does.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Run the Sandbox smoke test in a short scratch folder

The smoke test step was reached for the first time and both isolated
backends refused to start: their state folder under the checkout's
cache made the socket paths 126 and 132 bytes, over the 107 a unix
socket allows. Point SANDBOX_SMOKE_WORK at /tmp/sandbox-smoke, which
leaves room for the sockets.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Use paths from the home folder in the Sandbox command specs

bash now starts in the user's home folder, so the end-to-end specs that
read and wrote home/<name> found nothing. Use names relative to the
home folder, as the Sandbox specs already do.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Show the goal of a chat on the chat page

A bar above the composer shows the goal with its state: Pause (which
stops the running turn and so pauses the goal) while it works, Resume
when it paused or needs the person, and Clear. A second line says why
it paused, what the model needs, or what it did. The status line shows
"Goal · turn 3 of 20" while the goal is active, and the Continue button
of a paused turn stays away then, since the next turn starts by itself.

The transcript shows the goal lines as quiet rows: set, replaced,
continuing (with its turn), paused with the reason in plain words,
resumed, reached with the summary, blocked and cleared. A goal event,
also from another tab, reads the chat again, and a hidden live region
says each change to a screen reader once.

The strings are in all nine locales. Unit tests cover the helpers and
the thread rows; a Playwright spec covers the bar, the progress, the
lines, Pause, Resume, Clear and the event.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Run the loops of the chats

The loop host fires the loops that are due. A run sends the prompt to
the chat as a new message only when the chat is idle: a busy chat
skips the run, and an interval loop moves to its next slot instead of
piling missed runs up. A self-paced loop gets two tools while it is
active: schedule_next (clamped to the minimum interval and one day)
and loop_done. A run in which the model calls neither ends the loop
with a note. A loop ends after its run limit, pauses after three
failed runs in a row, and waits for the next UTC day when the owner's
daily budget of runs is used up.

One frontend fires the loops, the holder of a new advisory lock. A run
is claimed in the store first, and the turn claim keeps one turn per
chat, so a short overlap of two leaders starts no run twice. A new
leader finishes the runs the old one watched. Deleting a chat removes
its loops; a due loop whose chat is gone removes itself.

Five runtime settings bound the loops: chats_loop_min_interval,
chats_loop_max_runs, chats_loop_max_per_chat, chats_loop_max_per_user
and chats_loop_daily_runs.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add the loops API of the chats

GET, POST and DELETE /api/chats/{id}/loops list, start and stop the
loops of a chat; PUT and DELETE /api/chats/{id}/loops/{loopId} pause,
resume, confirm or stop one. GET /api/chats/{id} carries the loops,
the transcript marks the user lines a loop sent with loop {id, run},
and a loops event tells every open tab that the list changed.

The routes are gated by the chats feature and documented in the
swagger spec and the API instructions. They act on the caller's own
chats only, so they get no assistant tool. The chats page gets a loop
section, with when to use a loop and when a trigger, and the cluster
behaviour; the runtime settings page lists the five loop settings.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Show the loops of a chat above the message box

Each loop of the open chat shows as one line over the message box,
such as "Loop · every 5 min · run 4 · next at 09:20", with Pause or
Resume and Stop. A loop that paused itself or ended says why; an
ended one has Dismiss. The first loop of a chat shows a card instead:
"Run this every 5 minutes until you stop it?" with Start and Cancel.
The server keeps the pending loop, so a reload shows the card again.

A message that a loop sent carries a small "Loop run 4" label. The
page reads the loops again on the loops event, so every open tab
follows. The answer to /loop list is ready for the slash command. The
strings are in all nine locales.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Build the chat slash menu on one command registry

The slash commands of Home and of a chat now come from one registry,
src/utils/slashCommands.js. A command has a kind (navigate, insert or
server), the surfaces that offer it, a needs check and, optionally, an
argument provider: args(query, ctx) returns the items the menu lists
when the box holds "/cmd <query>". Every existing command and test id
stays; the registry adds:

- one command per skill of the chat or the draft (/review), marked
  built-in, add-on, shared or yours, and /skill <name>, which also
  reaches a skill named like a command;
- /agent <name> <task>, which lists the saved agents, or offers to turn
  them on for the chat when they are off;
- /model and /models with a model name, which switch at once;
- /compact and /clear, which show their progress in the status line
  and leave a marker in the thread; the context meter drops;
- /attach and /attach clear, /help (a card that lists the commands)
  and /about (a card with the model, its state, the tools, skills,
  where commands run and the context size).

Tab completes a command or an argument, Enter runs it, and the first
row whose name starts with what was typed is selected first. A message
typed as a skill or agent command is sent with its marker, not as text;
the transcript shows the words and a chip. Home offers the same set
without the commands that need a thread.

The words are in all nine locales. The registry has unit tests, and a
Playwright spec covers the menu, the completion, the marker, the chip,
compact, clear and the cards with the routes stubbed. The docs page
gains a slash commands section.

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* Add the /goal command to the chat

/goal shows a card with the goal, its state, the automatic turns and
steps it used out of the limits, and when it was set. /goal <text>
sets a new goal at once, replacing the one the chat had without a
question, and the goal bar says what it replaced. /goal clear and
/goal resume act on the goal; typing "/goal " lists resume and clear
for the goal the chat has. None of these is sent as a message. In a
new chat, /goal <text> creates the chat first.

The command sits in the Context group of the shared command registry,
on the chat surface only, and not in a chat that a trigger or another
run started. A skill named goal is reached through /skill. Unit tests
cover the parser and the menu items; the Playwright spec covers the
card, setting, replacing, resuming and clearing from the box.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Add /loop to the chat

/loop [interval] <prompt> starts a loop in the chat; /loop list shows
the loops of the chat with the code that /loop stop takes, and
/loop stop [id] stops one or all. The command is in the slash
registry: after "/loop " the menu offers list and stop, and after
"stop " the loops of the chat.

A loop prompt that invokes a skill (/review the diff, or
/skill review the diff) runs as the person's skill command would: the
model gets the skill's text, and the transcript shows the words, the
skill's chip and the loop label. The server checks the skill when the
loop starts and at each run; any other command is refused with the
reason.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* List the loop settings on the Settings page

The five limits of the loops of the chats show under Tools with the
other chat settings: the shortest interval, the runs per loop, the
loops per chat and per user, and the loop runs per day. All apply at
once.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Clear a sent Home draft when the page goes away too

Home clears the draft of a sent message when it closes, so the text
stays visible while the composer moves into the new chat. While the
chat page still loads, a reload or a closed tab could come first, and
the sent text came back on Home. Leaving the page now clears it too.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Check the close error of a previewed file

golangci-lint (errcheck) flagged the deferred Close of the file the
preview endpoint reads. Discard its error explicitly, as the other
studio file handlers do.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Explain the document read of the text index to gosec

gosec reported the read of a stored document text as a file inclusion
through a variable. The path is the configured index directory joined
with a hash that documentPath refuses when it holds a path separator
or a dot, so it cannot leave the documents folder.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Build the darwin/arm64 add-on packages on macos-15

GitHub retires the macos-14 runner image on 2026-11-02 and runs
scheduled brownouts until then: every darwin/arm64 package job failed
at once with the brownout notice. macos-15 is the Apple Silicon image
that replaces it.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Expect the chat's own load_skill tool in the agent prompt spec

The spec that keeps the agent engine's text out of the prompt also
required that no load_skill tool or mention reach the model. Chats now
offer their own load_skill tool and the skills index tells the model to
call it, so the spec failed. Keep the checks on the engine's own skill
and command text, and check that the chat's tool is offered.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Read the user's scripted tool call in the mock model

The chat prompt now names the chat's work folder, and the folder name
comes from the chat title, which holds a cut copy of the user message.
The mock model read the first ADDON_TOOL_CALL marker, the cut one in the
system prompt, and called the tool with broken arguments over and over.
Read the last marker, the one of the user message.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Keep the phone targets of the inbox at 44 pixels in every build

On a phone the inbox close button and the item actions must be 44
pixels wide. Their rule had the same weight as the kit's .dk-btn
min-width, so the order of the stylesheets decided. The single-chunk
coverage build puts the kit later and the close button shrank to 28
pixels. Scope both rules to their container so they win in any order.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Let the about-you spec accept the sidebar's own seen date

When the user has pages, the sidebar writes the date of its New label
under seen.new in user.json. In the whole suite other specs make pages
first, so the saved record held that date as well and the exact
comparison failed. Check that the uploaded seen record is kept.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Give the typed-while-working chat spec time for two turns

The spec waits up to 30 seconds for each step, but two turns of the
mock model with its tool steps take about 28 seconds on their own, so
the default 30 second test limit cut it under load. Set its limit to
90 seconds.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Scope the foundation spec's state query to the sheet header

The details pane now repeats the observed state under Health, so a
role query for "State: Off" inside the add-on sheet matched two
elements and failed in strict mode. The administrator-manages spec,
and the two specs after it, did not run.

Query the chip in the header (.ad-pane__meta), which is the state the
administrator sees next to the add-on's name, through one helper used
for all three assertions.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Wait for the page to read each apps answer in the registry polling spec

The spec moved the page clock as soon as the stand-in saw a request.
The registry sets its next timer only after it reads the answer, so on
a slow runner the clock could pass the due time of a timer that did not
exist yet, and the next read never came. With the CPU throttled ten
times, the old spec failed in 3 of 3 runs.

The spec now counts the answers the page has read and lets queued work
finish before it moves the clock. It pauses the clock before it leaves
the page, and it tries the pause again when a slow machine passed the
target time. The assertions do not change: one read at once, one read
per interval and no faster, and no read after the disable.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Close the egress test listener only after it accepts

The dial helper of the egress proxy specs closed its listener when it
returned, while the goroutine that accepts the connection could still
be waiting to run. On a loaded runner the listener sometimes closed
first. The kernel then reset the connection that was still in the
accept queue, the spec's write consumed the reset error, which the
spec ignores, and the next read saw EOF. The spec failed with
"unexpected EOF" before the proxy got the request.

Wait for Accept to return before the listener closes, then start the
proxy handler on the accepted connection.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Run host commands in a shell that reads no startup file

The host backend promises a fixed environment, but bash -lc reads
/etc/profile and the user's dotfiles. On macOS path_helper rewrote PATH
there, so the command did not get the fixed PATH. Turn the login shell
into 'bash --noprofile --norc -c' in the host backend only, and make the
test assert the exact fixed PATH.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Answer the command card in the platform turns and 400 a bad answer

The tool-list spec of the platform suite timed out: without accounts
the one person is an administrator, so the chat has the built-in bash
in ask mode. The tool list is sorted and bash is first, and the mock
model calls the first tool, so every turn waited five minutes for a
yes on the command card. The turn helper now refuses each card it
sees, as a person who clicks deny, and the turn goes on to its step
limit. bash stays in the checked list.

An administrator who posts a consent with no card id or an unknown
decision got 403 "only an administrator can allow commands". That is
a bad request, not a refusal: it now answers 400, as the swagger
already says, and the route check for administrators passes.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Let a chat switch off its shell, file, media, collection and sub-agent tools

The Tools menu of a chat switched only three groups of built-in tools:
web, saved_agents and triggers. A person could not keep a chat away
from the shell, the files, the helper models, the collections or the
sub-agents.

Add five groups to the registry of built-in tools, all on until the
chat switches them off:

- shell: bash, whoever serves it. The Sandbox add-on's bash and the
  built-in bash on this machine both go, and the add-on list reports
  commands switched_off. The row stays listed when nothing can run
  commands, not usable, with the reason.
- files: the file tools and read_document.
- media: describe_image and transcribe_audio.
- collections: list_collections and search_collection, usable only
  for a user with the collections feature.
- subagents: spawn_agent. list_agents and /agent follow it.

The registry gets two flags. External marks a tool that its own code
builds for the turn (with the wrappers it needs); the registry lists it
in its group and Hidden tells the builder what the chat switched off.
Covers makes a group's switch also hide the add-on tool that replaces
the built-in one. PUT .../builtins, the panel, the draft list and the
fallbacks use the existing group code.

A sub-agent follows the switches of its parent chat. The turn prompt
is built from the final tool list: no file tool names, no skill
writing hint, no work folder and no rules pointer when the chat cannot
use files, no describe_image when the helper is off, and a commands
block that says the person switched commands off.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Queue the edited chat message after the first step starts

The spec queued its message as soon as the chat showed a busy state.
The turn is busy before its first model request starts, and that
request takes every message that waits. With the chat's tools and
skills, the first request now starts a few hundred milliseconds after
the turn, so the message went with it, and the edit got 409 "already
delivered" (5 of 6 local runs).

Wait until the answer streams, as the Stop spec does: the request is
running then, and the queued message waits for the next step.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Give the reload chat spec a turn that outlasts the reload

The spec reloaded the page during a 3 second turn and expected the
page to show the turn still running. A reload of the coverage build
on a busy runner takes 4 to 5 seconds (measured with a 6x CPU
throttle), so the turn had ended before the page could show it. With
the 30 second turn the page always showed it running, so the resumed
state works and only the window was short.

Add MOCK_LONG_STREAM_MEDIUM to the mock model, a turn of about 10
seconds, and use it in the spec with a 60 second limit.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Wait for the chat page after the Home hand-off in the specs

Send on Home changes the address inside a view transition, and the
chat page mounts about 35 ms later. Specs that waited only for the
address acted on Home in between:

- The title spec pressed Ctrl+K at once, because the server names a
  chat after its first message as it arrives, so the title poll ends
  at once too. The key reached the page before the chat page listened,
  and the menu did not open (3 of 3 presses at 0 ms failed, all at
  300 ms and later passed).
- The Back spec went back before the chat page was drawn. Home was
  never closed, so its draft of the sent message stayed in the box.

startChat now waits for the chat page, the title spec for the title
in the chat header, and the Back spec for the chat page before Back.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Accept a resolved user.json conflict in the quiet page specs

The sidebar notes in the seen record of user.json the first day it
labels Pages as new, and saves it from the version it read. All specs
share the test server's one user, so tabs of other workers save the
same record at the same time: one gets 409 and useSeen reads the file
again and saves once more. Three tabs that open /app/files at once
give 200, 409, 200. The quiet check of the shell pages counted the
409 as a problem.

Ignore a 409 on PUT /api/chats/wellknown/user in that check.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Check only the spec's own items in the Trash after the reload

After Empty Trash and a reload, the spec expected the whole Trash to
be empty. The Trash belongs to the test server's one user, and specs
of other workers move files to it meanwhile, so CI saw "In the Trash:
3 files, 356 B." after the reload.

The checks right after Empty Trash stay. After the reload, check that
the server's Trash, the Trash tab and Files do not hold the spec's
items, once each list has loaded.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Show the new tool groups in the chat Tools menu

The Tools menu lists the groups of built-in tools that the server
sends. The five new ones need words and an order, and the shell row
needs to say who runs the commands.

Name the groups in all nine locales (Run commands, Your files, Images
and audio, Collections, Sub-agents) and order the rows by what they
reach: the shell and the files first, the triggers last. The shell row
carries a chip with the provider (Sandbox or This machine) and a line
under it that says the commands run isolated, or a warning when they
run on this machine. When nothing can run commands the row is disabled
with the words of the commands notice. A switched-off sub-agents group
also turns /agent off in the composer.

The specs cover the rows, the off and on requests, the bulk actions,
the provider chip, the disabled reasons, the draft on Home and a real
server round trip.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Document the groups of built-in tools a chat can switch off

The Tools menu section described only the web, triggers and saved
agents groups. List every group with its tools, say which groups the
server may leave out and why a row can be not usable, how Run commands
covers both providers, what the model is told when a group is off, and
that a sub-agent follows its parent's switches.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Fix the host command consent spec for the 400 contract

The consent route answers 400 for a body without a card id or with a
decision other than once or deny, whoever asks. The spec still expected
403 for always from an administrator. Cover the malformed answers for
an administrator and a user, each in their own chat, keep another
user's chat at 404, and say it in the chats guide.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Find the web tool group by name in the route spec

The tools panel lists the shell group before the web group, so the
spec that read the first entry compared the wrong group. Look the
group up by name, which does not depend on the registry order.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Give Skills its own sidebar item

Skills work in every chat, but the sidebar filed the page under Agents
and only agent skill chips linked to it. Add a Skills item right after
Memory, show it in the legacy list too, and stop lighting up Agents on
the skills pages.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Add Manage skills to the skills picker and a /skills command

The picker now ends with a Manage skills link, and /skills opens the
Skills page from the composer on Home and in a chat. The picker keeps
the height of its status line, so a refused change does not move the
rows. Words are added in all nine locales.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Say on the Skills page that every chat can use skills

The page subtitle named only agents as users of skills. Say that all
chats use them, translate it, and document where to manage skills: the
sidebar item, the picker link and /skills.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Keep Home on screen while its widgets load their strings

A Home widget reads the pages strings, and i18next loads a namespace
the first time a component asks for it, by suspending. Home had no
Suspense boundary of its own, so the route's boundary hid all of Home
(display: none) and showed the route fallback until the strings came.

A widget shows only after home.json is read, so this happened after
the composer was already drawn. Focus given to the composer in that
window went nowhere, and a key typed then was lost. The slash menu
spec failed in CI this way when another spec had written widgets to
the shared home.json: the box was empty and the body had the focus.
With widgets in home.json the composer was hidden right after it
appeared on 5 of 5 loads, and the spec failed 1 or 2 times in 5.

The examples and the widgets now have their own boundary with no
fallback, so only they wait. A new spec holds the pages strings while
it types in the composer; it fails without the change (the composer
never takes the focus) and passes with it.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Send the stubbed file change after the Files page read the folder

The change feed spec answered the first stream request with the change
at once. The app shell (the appearance sync) opens the shared stream
when the app starts, before the Files page chunk has loaded, so on a
slow runner the change reached a tab where nobody watched the folder
yet and was dropped. The page then never read the folder again, and
the spec failed on all three CI attempts. A CPU throttle of 8 makes it
fail 3 of 3 times locally.

On a real server the page's own first read would already show such a
change. The stub now holds the change until the page has read the
folder; the page subscribes in the same commit as that read, so the
change arrives with a subscriber in place. The resume check is kept.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Give the oversized 3D input as a sparse file, not a buffer

The spec built a 32 MiB buffer and passed it to setInputFiles.
Playwright sends a buffer to the browser over the protocol: that step
alone took 5.5 s on an idle machine, and on the loaded CI runner the
test hit the 30 s timeout on all three attempts.

It now writes a sparse file of the same size to the test output folder
and passes its path, which the local browser opens as is. The page
still checks the size before it reads the file, so the toast and the
no-request assertion are unchanged. The step takes milliseconds.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Check the tool line, not the tool name, in the tool call journey

The spec looked for /list_files/ in the transcript. The user's own
message holds that name, so the check could pass before any tool ran.
Once the model's call streamed, a second element matched, and the
strict locator failed (2 matches on the first attempt, 5 on the
retry).

It now waits for the activity line that the tool run adds ("Listed
/"), which only shows after the tool ran.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Measure the proposal card and its neighbours in one frame

The layout spec read the boxes of the message text, the card and the
message actions with three boundingBox calls. They are viewport
positions taken in three frames, and the transcript scrolls to its end
while the card fills in. On the phone the actions were read after a
scroll and came out 156 px above the bottom of the card.

The three boxes now come from one page.evaluate, so they are read in
the same frame. The order assertions are unchanged.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Read the page fixture time when the page is served

The task board fixture of the discovery and Pages specs set its
change time once, when the file loaded. A worker loads it once and
keeps running specs, so a spec that ran two minutes later read
"Changed 2 minutes ago by the assistant" where it expects "just now".

The change time is now a getter, read when the fixture is serialized
into a response.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Check a background process without /proc in the host test

The alive helper read /proc/<pid>/stat, which macOS does not have, so it
reported every process as dead and the spec failed there with "did not
survive the suspend". Use signal 0 for existence and ps (or /proc where
present) to tell a zombie from a live process.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Keep the composer switch menus at their own height

The base rule of the dropdown menu caps it at 320px and lets it scroll.
The switch menus set their own height with a rule of the same weight in a
lazy sheet, so which one won depended on the order the sheets loaded in.
When the base rule won, the picker showed a few rows, and a click on a row
at the edge of the list scrolled the list by a few pixels.

Double the class on the switch menu rules so they win in any order, and
add a test that loads the base rule last.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Show what applies in the chat Network switch

The Network row highlighted the choice stored with the chat, so a
chat that asked for All public sites under an administrator limit of
Off showed All highlighted although it was disabled and not in effect.

Highlight the effective choice, the lower of the chat's choice and the
limit, which the server already computes. When the chat asks for more
than the limit, say so in one line instead of highlighting it. Add a
line that the limit is set by the administrator, and tell the host
network line that limits need the Sandbox add-on.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Design the host components that add-ons reference

The host UI names the Sandbox and the Web add-ons to place their server
settings, and the chat's Network row links to the global Settings page.
Describe a closed registry of host components that an add-on references
by ID in its manifest, entitled by the existing host operation grants
and tool shadows, so the controls live on the add-on's own page and a
second add-on can reuse them with no host change.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Let an add-on ask for host controls in its manifest

An add-on had no way to say that a host-owned control belongs on its
page, so the host UI placed those controls by add-on name. Add
ui.controls, a list of IDs from a closed registry of host controls:
network-policy (the network of the commands an add-on runs) and
tool-providers (the rows of the built-in tools it replaces).

The host decides which controls it draws: EntitledControls keeps a
control only when the add-on holds its host operation grant and
replaces its built-in tool. The field is optional, so every existing
manifest stays valid.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* List the host controls an add-on is entitled to

The apps list now carries ui.controls with the host controls the
manifest declares and the host setting entitles the add-on to: the
manager passes each add-on's host operation grants to the list.

GET /api/chats/{id}/egress gains addon, the add-on that runs the chat's
commands when it has the network-policy control, so the chat can draw
its Network row from that add-on and link to its settings. applies and
applies_reason keep their meaning: the policy holds with or without the
control. The model and the 400 error no longer send an administrator to
Settings > Tools for the limit.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Draw the host controls on the add-on's own page

The host UI placed the Sandbox network and the tool rows by add-on name
(SERVER_SETTINGS), showed a read-only summary on the add-on's Settings
tab, and linked the chat's Network row to the global Settings page.

Add a registry of host controls keyed by the IDs of the contract. The
Settings tab of an add-on draws, below its own sections, the controls
the apps list gives it, in one form with the pending bar of the
Settings page: network-policy reuses the network section and its
setting rows, tool-providers the rows of the built-in tools the add-on
replaces. The chat draws its Network row only when the server names an
add-on with network-policy, and the administrator link opens that
add-on's tab. The row itself is unchanged.

The Settings page keeps the settings of features that exist without an
add-on, points to the add-on where one serves them, and no longer
lists the network settings. Its old address opens the add-on's tab.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Ask for the host controls in the Sandbox and Web manifests

The Sandbox asks for network-policy and tool-providers, so the network
of its commands and the bash row are drawn on its own Settings tab and
its chats get the Network row. The Web add-on asks for tool-providers
only: it holds no egress grant. The manifest tests check that the
default grants entitle each add-on to what it asks for.

The proxy's refusal now sends the model to the Sandbox Settings tab
instead of Settings > Tools.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Keep the button of the network pointer row at its size

The row used the wide layout of the tool rows, so its Open settings
button stretched across the page. Use the plain setting row, which
puts the button on the right like the other controls.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5

* Fix the add-on contract inventory and the apps Swagger fixture

The contracts case inventory missed the six host control specs, so
verify.sh rejected the Ginkgo report. List them.

The Swagger spec test never saw `controls` in the emitted UIView JSON
because its fixture left the omitempty field empty. Set it there.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

* Add the host controls spec to the apps inventory

The apps suite ran one more spec than scripts/addons/suites.json
listed, so verify.sh rejected the apps report as an inventory
mismatch. List the new spec in the report inventory and in the
suite's aggregate case list. Every other Ginkgo suite was re-run
and matches its inventory.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5

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Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-11-01 12:08:23 +01:00
mudler-agentandEttore Di Giacinto c7ce0c602c fix: stop listing the models directory on request paths and cache GGUF header reads (#12683)
* fix(http): stop listing the models directory on embeddings and bearer requests

Every embeddings request read the whole models directory before the body
was parsed, even when the body named its model. On a network-backed
models directory this cost seconds per request.

Embeddings now binds the body first and looks up a default model only
when the body has none, like chat. The pre-bind default lookup and the
gpt-4o constant default are gone from that route.

The first-available default lookup skips the directory when the filter
cannot accept an unconfigured file. Every usecase filter rejects files
without a config, so the scan never added results for them. Match-all,
nil and name filters keep the scan.

The bearer token check is now an exact test: a configured name, or one
stat of that name in the models directory. The value is a literal, not a
regular expression, and a name that is not a local relative path never
matches a file.

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

* perf(config): cache GGUF header reads for model defaults

Model defaults re-parsed the GGUF header on every SetDefaults call, which
runs per request and at startup reload. Put a bounded LRU in front of the
parser, keyed by absolute path and validated by size and modification
time. The cached value is a snapshot of the fields the defaults use, not
the parser output.

A changed size or mtime is a miss. Missing files and parse errors are not
cached, so the existing fallback is unchanged. LOCALAI_DISABLE_GUESSING,
the empty-path guard, the alias early return, the panic recovery and the
context-size default are all kept in front of the cache.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-haiku-5-5

* test(http): cover listing-free default lookup on every usecase route

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

* feat(config): persist the GGUF header cache per instance

The header cache kept parsed GGUF results only in memory, so every restart
parsed each model file again before its defaults were known. Write the cache
to a per-instance file in the data path and load it at startup. A restarted
frontend with a fixed instance ID starts warm.

The file is versioned and records the estimator inputs (gguf-parser version,
candidate contexts, auto context size, offload count). A mismatch on any of
them makes the file ignored. Each entry keeps path, size and mtime, so a
changed model file is a miss on load. Writes run on one background saver,
debounced, through a temp file and rename. The entry bound applies to the
file as well. Without a data path the cache stays in memory only.

Documented as a per-instance exception in the model configuration docs.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-haiku-5-5

* docs(embeddings): document model selection and the no-model error

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

* refactor(config): split the header cache into a generic cache

The GGUF header cache mixed two things: the mechanics (bounded LRU keyed
by path and identity, per-instance file, debounced atomic save, tolerant
load) and the GGUF fields. Move the mechanics into headerCache[S], driven
by a headerCacheSpec[S] that names the file prefix, schema, fingerprint,
parser and the snapshot encode/decode pair. The GGUF cache becomes one
instance of it.

File names, the identity check, LRU size, debounce, atomic write and the
corruption handling are unchanged. The on-disk JSON keeps the "estimator"
key so existing files still load.

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

* feat(config): share one GGUF header cache file between frontends

Every frontend used to write its own header cache file, named after its
instance ID, so a header read by one frontend was never reused by another.
The cache now uses one file, header-cache.json, in the data path, for all
frontends and for standalone mode. The instance ID no longer changes the
file name.

Frontends share the file in three ways. A save first merges the file's
entries in, so one frontend's write does not drop another's entries. A
miss reloads the file when its modification time has changed, and a hit
never reads it. Writes go to a temp file that is renamed into place, so a
reader never sees a partial file.

Two frontends saving at the same moment can still drop each other's last
entries. That costs one re-parse, never a wrong value, because every
entry is checked against its model file before use.

The shared file is valid only when every frontend mounts the same data
volume. The distributed-mode and model-configuration docs state this mode
and its volume limit.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-haiku-5-5

* feat(config): give an instance ID its own header cache file

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

* style(config): gofmt the distributed config struct

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

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Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-10-14 01:06:14 +02:00
mudler-agentandEttore Di Giacinto e4fa051ee3 refactor(distributed): put the NATS-only paths behind interfaces (#12395)
* feat(messaging): add shared subject rules

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* test(messaging): cover BroadcastRoots, ControlRoots and SubjectRoot

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(messaging): add Broadcaster and enforce subject rules in every carrier

Broadcaster is the fan-out half of MessagingClient. The NATS client and
the in-memory FakeBus now refuse a subject outside the served roots and any
wildcard other than a whole single token, and FakeBus shares MatchSubject
instead of its own copy. FakeBus Unsubscribe now removes its own
subscription instead of the first one with the same subject.

A shared conformance suite in messagingtest runs against both carriers.
The distributed e2e specs that used invented test.* subjects, and the one
that subscribed with a > filter, now use subjects from subjects.go.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor: depend on Broadcaster where only publish and subscribe are used

Narrowed to messaging.Broadcaster: nodes/staging_progress.go,
nodes/install_progress_publisher.go, galleryop/operation.go,
galleryop/service.go, agentpool/user_services.go, agentpool/agent_jobs.go,
openresponses/store.go, openresponses/sync.go, syncstate/syncstate.go,
finetune/service.go, quantization/service.go and
failover/distsync/distsync.go. SubscribeJSON now takes a Broadcaster
because it only calls Subscribe, which lets the narrowed consumers use it.

Stayed wide: worker/supervisor.go, because its client field also serves
the SubscribeReply handlers in worker/lifecycle.go. The request/reply,
queue and wiring files (nodes/unloader.go, nodes/file_stager_s3.go,
jobs/dispatcher.go, agents/dispatcher.go, agents/events.go,
worker/file_staging.go, cli/agent_worker.go, http/app.go) are unchanged by
design.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor(nodes): name the no-route condition and confine the carrier error

Consumers matched nats.ErrNoResponders, which names an absence, to demote a node. They now match ErrNoRoute, the control path maps the carrier's failure onto it, and timeouts and worker refusals are pinned as not being no-route.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs(nodes): state which FileStager implementations return ErrNoRoute

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor(nodes): build backend clients through one node-aware seam

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: describe the distributed transport seams

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: correct comments that overclaim after the seams refactor

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(agent-worker): refuse an unserved LOCALAI_AGENT_SUBJECT at startup

The messaging client now refuses a subject whose root no carrier serves.
An agent worker started with a custom LOCALAI_AGENT_SUBJECT such as
tenant-a.agent.execute used to start and then wait on a subject the
frontend never publishes to. After the subject rules landed it exited
at subscribe time with an error that did not name the setting.

Behaviour change: the worker now checks LOCALAI_AGENT_SUBJECT before it
registers or connects, and exits with an error that names the variable
and says to use a served subject under the agent root, for example
agent.execute. The served roots are not widened: a custom root was
never delivered by the frontend, and a wider set would reopen the
drift the subject rules exist to close. The flag help and the agent
worker docs state the constraint.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* test(nodes): pin the reactions to ErrNoRoute

Three callers react to ErrNoRoute and had no spec: the reconciler's
upgrade drain falls back to the legacy forced install, the reconciler
marks the node unhealthy when a pending op has no route, and the
backend-op fan-out marks the node unhealthy. Each spec drives the real
caller with a scripted no-responders reply and reads the result from
the registry or the recorded requests.

A fourth spec pins the other side: a pending op that times out leaves
the node healthy and only counts the attempt, so mapping timeouts onto
ErrNoRoute would fail here.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* test(messaging): pin client subject checks and fail the carrier suite in CI

Add specs that call Publish, Request, Subscribe, QueueSubscribe,
SubscribeReply and QueueSubscribeReply on a client with no connection.
Each call must return ErrUnservedSubject for bogus.thing and
ErrUnsupportedWildcard for jobs.>. This proves that the subject check
runs before the connection is used, and needs no server.

The NATS conformance suite is the only check that runs the subject rules
against a real carrier. Before this change it skipped without output
when Docker was missing. Now it fails when CI is set, so a Linux runner
without Docker cannot hide it. It still skips on local runs and on macOS
CI, which has no Docker.

Add SubjectNodeBackendInstallProgress to the list of constructors that
must build served subjects, and ask contributors to extend the list.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: state what ErrNoRoute may change, and group the distributed guides

The seams note said MarkUnhealthy was the only state change allowed
on ErrNoRoute. A pending backend op still records the failed attempt,
counts toward the reconciler's retry limit and is dead-lettered after
the maximum attempts. The note now says that MarkUnhealthy is the only
change to the node's own state, and that the per-op accounting is not
a verdict about the node.

The note also documents that the NATS conformance run fails under CI
when Docker is missing. The distributed-seams row moves next to the
distributed-state row in the topics table. The liveness ping spec
header now says no route is a reason to skip the worker, not proof
that the worker is gone.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor(nodes): give the backend client factory the node id

Mechanical: the method gains a nodeID parameter and the eight test fakes are updated. No behaviour change.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor(nodes): drop the optional node-aware factory

The node id is now in the main method, so the optional interface and its helper had no behaviour of their own.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor(nodes): dial backend probes through the client factory

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor(nodes): dial workers' file servers through a per-node dialer

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor(http): proxy backend logs through the per-node worker dialer

The admin backend-logs proxy (list, lines and the WebSocket stream) now reaches a worker through the same per-node dialer as the HTTP file stager, so every frontend-to-worker dial goes through one seam. The shared direct dialer keeps alive for 15s where the proxy used 30s. Harmless for requests bounded at 15s.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(http): keep the backend-logs proxy independent of the admin connection

The proxy request had no context before the dialer change and is bounded only by its 15s timeout. Keep it that way.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor: move the worker control payloads to workerctl

Mechanical move of the request and reply structs, the install progress event and the file payloads out of messaging. The verbs no longer belong to one carrier. No alias is left behind.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor(worker): serve the lifecycle verbs through a controlServer

The worker registers one handler per verb and a NATS server maps each verb to its subject. Registration errors now name the verb. node.stop is served with SubscribeReply, which is identical on the wire because the handler never replies.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor(worker): report install progress through the control sink

Install and upgrade now emit download progress through the sink the control server hands them. The debounce and the terminal flush stay in the handler path, built over that sink by the new nodes.NewDebouncedInstallProgressSink, which replaces NewDebouncedInstallProgressPublisher. The subject and payload on the wire are unchanged. The supervisor no longer holds the bus, and installFn and upgradeFn let specs drive both verbs without a gallery.

The malformed-request log lines are restored for install, upgrade, backend.delete, model.unload, model.stop and model.delete, with the reply bytes unchanged. The signal adapter is renamed noReply, which also lets worker.go import os/signal without an alias again.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor(worker): serve the file-staging verbs through a controlServer

An empty list-dir answer is now {} rather than {"files":null}, because the typed reply omits an empty Files slice. The frontend decodes both to a nil slice in nodes/file_stager_s3.go.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(messaging): add WorkQueue and the NATS producer

This is the producer side of the competing-consumer seam. The work kinds map one to one to today's subjects and queue groups: task to jobs.new and mcp-ci to jobs.mcp-ci.new (both in group workers), agent-run to agent.execute (group agent-workers). Enqueue publishes the payload as Publish does today, with one JSON marshal. FakeBus now records queue groups and keeps reply handlers so later specs can pin and drive them.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(messaging): add the NATS WorkConsumer

An in-flight limit of one runs the handler inline on the delivery goroutine, as the MCP CI consumer does today. Any other limit spawns per delivery, as the agent consumer does. Queue groups are unchanged.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor: publish queued work through WorkQueue

The job dispatcher, the agent pool and the agent scheduler enqueue through messaging.WorkQueue; the NATS implementation publishes to the same subjects as before. DistributedServices builds the queue next to the NATS client and hands it to the dispatcher and the agent pool, whose distributed mode switch now reads a non-nil WorkQueue. The unused AgentPoolService.SetNATSClient is removed.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor: consume queued work through WorkConsumer

The agent dispatcher and the MCP CI consumer register through messaging.WorkConsumer. The NATS implementation keeps the inline one-at-a-time model for MCP CI and the per-delivery model for agent runs. handleMCPCIJob reports on the events publisher the carrier hands it instead of a captured client.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor: delete the consumers nothing in production reached

jobs.new has a producer and no production consumer, and the agent dispatcher's Dispatch was only called from tests. Publishing jobs.new is unchanged.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor(mcp): send MCP requests to agent workers through AgentControl

Timeouts still honour only the deadline, not cancellation, exactly as today. The NATS no-responders error maps to ErrNoRoute and a timeout does not.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor(agent-worker): serve MCP requests and backend.stop through agentRPCServer

The agent worker's MCP tool and discovery reply subscriptions and its backend stop listener move behind an unexported agentRPCServer interface, served on NATS by nodes.NATSAgentRPCServer. The handlers become typed mcp.ToolHandler and mcp.DiscoveryHandler values that answer every failure with a reply carrying Error.

Queue group (agent-workers), inline execution on the delivery goroutine, the background handler context, the unmarshal error reply texts and the reply-less backend stop subscription are unchanged. The backend stop handler takes the decoded backend name, so it can still close that backend's MCP sessions.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor(messaging): remove helpers that only tests used

BroadcastRoots, ControlRoots and SubjectRoot had no production caller. The roots spec now asserts every served root through ValidateSubject instead. MatchSubject moves back into the test support package, the only place that used it, with its table. NATSAgentRPCServer drops the subscription list it stored and never read, and NewNATSAgentRPCServer gets a doc comment.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* test(mcp): round trip the agent RPC server over a real NATS server

One spec sends a tool request and a discovery request through NATSAgentControl to NATSAgentRPCServer and checks that the handlers see the decoded requests and the replies come back. It also puts an undecodable body on the tool subject and checks the server answers with an unmarshal error instead of leaving the requester to time out.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: describe the distributed transport seams

The developer note now lists the final seams: fan-out, queues, both halves of the control verbs and of agent RPC, and the dial. It records the open items a second carrier has to handle.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* test: pin the in-flight limit each queue consumer asks for

The work queue specs pin what Consume does for a given limit, but nothing
pinned which limit each production consumer passes. Changing the agent
worker's MCP CI limit from 1 to 0 would have let MCP CI jobs run
concurrently on each worker with every test green.

Move the MCP CI Consume call into startMCPCIConsumer with the same wiring
and pin that it asks for (WorkMCPCI, 1). Pin that NATSDispatcher.Start asks
for (WorkAgentRun, maxConcurrent) for several limits.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* refactor: remove helpers the branch left without a caller

SubjectJobCancelWildcard lost its last subscriber when the frontend
stopped listening on jobs.*.cancel; the NATS permissions and conformance
suite spell the subject out, so nothing reads the constant.

decodeBackendStopRequest returned a stopAll flag that production dropped
and only a test read. decodeBackendStop is now the single decoder with the
same semantics: an empty body is stop-all, an empty Backend is stop-all,
malformed JSON is an error. stopBackends still derives stop-all from
Backend, so no reply changes.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(messaging): keep an explicitly empty agent queue a plain subscription

Before the work queue seam the agent worker passed LOCALAI_AGENT_QUEUE
straight to QueueSubscribe, so an explicitly empty value made a plain
subscription and every agent worker ran every agent run.
WithAgentRunRoute replaced an empty queue with agent-workers, which
silently changed that.

Keep the queue as given once the option is applied. An empty subject still
falls back to agent.execute, since it never had a meaning of its own. The
flag default stays agent-workers, so only an explicitly empty value
reaches this.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* docs: correct comments and record the PR B notes

Fix the recordingFactory comment (it also records the parallel flag),
document that a negative maxInFlight is unbounded and that Unsubscribe from
a handler deadlocks, and say a permanently undecodable payload returns nil.

Record controlHandler's undecodable return as a kept exception, and add the
second carrier notes to the developer note: the reconciler has no
ClientFactory option, the logs proxy honours HTTP_PROXY, verbs one carrier
serves need an opt-out, terminal replies come from the result event, and
agent runs publish through the NATS-bound EventBridge, which is not an
additive change.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-10-02 23:58:41 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 9c156656bd Merge PR #12285: feat(failover): serve a model name from a chain of local and remote targets
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-28 15:32:30 +00:00
mudler-agentandEttore Di Giacinto 97ad8f1d70 fix(distributed): stage the files a model install declares (#12309)
* fix(distributed): stage every shard of a split GGUF

A split GGUF is configured by its first shard only. llama.cpp opens the
other "-0000N-of-0000M.gguf" files from the same directory by name. The
router staged only the configured path, so the worker received shard 1
and the load failed with "failed to load GGUF split".

The router now stages the remaining shards next to the first one. A
missing shard fails the load and names the file. The file count for
progress and the payload size also include all shards. The payload size
feeds the load deadline and the disk-headroom check. For a 111 GB model
whose first shard is 10 MB, both were sized for less than 1 GB.

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

* fix(distributed): stage the files a model install declares

Replace the split GGUF file name matching with the model's own file
list. A gallery install or an import records every file of the model in
._gallery_<name>.yaml (files:), and a config can list more under
download_files:. The router now stages all of these files, not only the
files that the config's path fields name. This includes the other
shards of a split GGUF, which llama.cpp opens by name.

The application gives the router a resolver that reads the two lists.
The resolver looks up the files by model name when it stages them, so a
replica that the reconciler loads from saved load options gets the same
files. backend.proto does not change.

A declared file that is missing on the frontend is skipped with a
warning. The load deadline and the disk headroom check include the
declared files.

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

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-28 08:34:56 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto d30c33a074 feat(failover): run one prober per cluster and pin warm targets on workers
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 07:42:20 +00:00
Adira Denis Muhando 869000ceb7 fix(distributed): exclude pinned models from cluster eviction and idle scale-down
pinned: true was only honoured by the per-node watchdog. Every distributed
eviction path was pinned-blind: the router's LRU eviction (EvictLRU,
evictLRUAndFreeNode) and the replica reconciler's idle scale-down would
happily unload a pinned model — and since eviction is gated on
in_flight = 0, a pinned model became eviction-eligible the instant each
response completed. Under capacity pressure that surfaces as the backend
being freed immediately after every request (#11101).

Wire the model config loader into the router and reconciler through a new
PinnedModelResolver seam (mirroring ConcurrencyConflictResolver):

- EvictLRU passes the pinned set into FindLRUModel's query so the
  next-oldest unpinned model is selected instead of the attempt failing
- evictLRUAndFreeNode filters pinned models inside its locked selection
- scaleDownIdle skips pinned models entirely: trimming to the floor still
  means requests beyond the survivor's capacity pay a cold reload

Deliberate teardown (admin unload, model delete, node drain) intentionally
still applies to pinned models, as does dead-row reaping (state correction,
not eviction).

Regression specs verified to fail with the exclusion disabled.

Addresses the cluster-side eviction gap in #11101

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Adira Denis Muhando <dennisadira@gmail.com>
2026-09-11 23:08:26 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 783556bc93 feat(prefixcache): index reported KV residency
Add a NATS event contract and exact-residency provider for backend KV cache reports. Keep guessed request observations as the default routing source while maintaining the reported index for future producers.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-11 21:53:33 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto a64fc865ba fix(distributed): aggregate prefix cache pressure
Broadcast forced-disturb events and successful scale-up resets so every frontend shares the same rolling autoscale signal. Deduplicate NATS echoes, expose an origin-only Prometheus counter, and document cluster behavior.

Closes #10083

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-11 21:48:07 +00:00
localai-org-maint-botandEttore Di Giacinto 9afe10ba21 fix(distributed): survive a slow control-plane database (#11837)
* fix(distributed): evict only when a node is known to be full

scheduleNewModel asked the registry for a free replica slot and treated
every error as "this node is full", so a control-plane database slow
enough to time out the lookup evicted a healthy loaded model. The
evicted process died, a peer frontend still holding its address dialled
the dead port and retried, and the model thrashed between nodes. The
comment on the branch already said it meant a full node; the code never
tested for it.

Evict only on ErrNoFreeSlot. Any other error now returns and names the
lookup that failed, so a slow database degrades into a diagnosable
load failure instead of into lost work.

An audit of the rest of the router found one branch of the same shape:
node selection discarded the error from its last-resort finder, so a
database timeout there also produced a nil node and evicted for it.
That path now returns unless the finder said gorm.ErrRecordNotFound,
which is the only answer that means the cluster had no node to give.
No other destructive branch in router.go fires on a generic error.

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

* fix(distributed): checkpoint heartbeat writes instead of writing every beat

Every heartbeat UPDATEd backend_nodes. Six nodes at a ten second beat is
roughly 52,000 writes a day against a six-row table, and that churn is
what turned a blocked autovacuum into a 460 MB table whose six-row scan
cost 867 ms and timed out the queries that place models.

A beat carrying only a fresher timestamp now waits for the checkpoint
interval. Each reported field is compared against the value last
persisted rather than tested for presence, because a worker sends its
disk figures on every beat and presence alone would suppress nothing.
A node's first beat, a changed total VRAM, total disk or GPU vendor,
and a free VRAM, RAM or disk reading that has moved more than 256 MiB
from the persisted value all still write at once. A node that is not
active is never suppressed, because it recovers only when the health
monitor sees a fresh timestamp.

The persisted column is up to one interval stale by design, so the
stale-node threshold moves from 60s to 5m to cover it.

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

* fix(distributed): fail worker readiness when a held backend is unreachable

The readiness gate tracked only the NATS link, so a worker whose backend
processes had died still answered /readyz with 200 and kept receiving
loads. One node did exactly that during an incident: it reported healthy
while its backend port refused connections, and every load routed to it
failed.

Readiness is now the NATS link and, for each backend process the worker
believes it is running, a short dial of its recorded address. A worker
holding no backends stays ready, because idle is a healthy state.

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

* fix(distributed): keep a starting backend out of the readiness dial set

A backend process is inserted into the supervisor map with its gRPC
address already recorded, but the address refuses connections until the
gRPC server binds, which the startup poll allows up to 30 seconds for and
which takes 10 to 15 seconds on a slow node. The new data-path readiness
probe dialled that address straight away, so a worker answered /readyz
with 503 for the whole of every cold backend start. The container
HEALTHCHECK absorbs that, but a Kubernetes readinessProbe at 10s does
not, and the worker would leave rotation each time it loaded a model.

The skip for a stopping process had no counterpart at the other end of
the lifecycle. Backend processes now carry a serving flag, set where the
startup health-check gate succeeds, and the probe dials only processes
that are serving and not yet stopping. backendStartStillValid becomes
markBackendServing: the check and the mark must share one lock hold, so
the flag can only ever land on the entry the key currently owns.

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

* feat(distributed): export control-plane database health gauges

Four transactions wedged on a corrupt index held the vacuum horizon open
for 42 days. Nothing measured it, so the first symptom anyone saw was
models failing to load six weeks later, by which time a six-row table
had grown to 460 MB.

Export the oldest xmin age, the longest open transaction, and the dead
tuple ratio on the registry tables. The first is the number that would
have caught it: it sits near zero in health and was 21,002,291.

Sampling is scrape-driven behind a cache, and a failed sample reports
the last good values rather than failing the scrape, because these
gauges matter most when the database is already struggling.

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

* fix(distributed): rate-limit failed control-plane database samples

The cache advanced its clock only on a successful sample, so once the
database started failing every scrape retried the query immediately.
That turned the cache off in the one regime it exists for: a retry
storm at scrape cadence aimed at a database already in trouble. A
catalog read that consistently exceeds the 5 second timeout also paid
that cost on every scrape, with all scrapes serialised behind the
sampler mutex.

Time every attempt rather than every success, so failures and timeouts
cost the same interval as good samples. Whether a good sample exists
moves to its own field, keeping the gauges absent until the first
success and holding the last good values through later failures.

Also note in the runbook that pg_stat_activity cannot see prepared
transactions or replication slot xmins, so a healthy-looking xmin age
does not by itself rule out a blocked horizon.

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

* test(distributed): pin that a failing database evicts nothing

Exercises the real distributed stack against a control-plane database that
refuses the router's slot lookup, and asserts the scheduler reports the
lookup it could not answer instead of falling through to eviction.

The failure is injected with privileges rather than a statement timeout. A
timeout set with ALTER DATABASE also breaks AutoMigrate, and it leaks into
every later spec in the suite unless it is reset, so the spec would end up
testing the migration rather than the scheduler. Instead the spec creates a
dedicated login role, points a second gorm handle at it, and revokes that
role's SELECT on node_models.replica_index. This has to be a separate role:
the test container's owner is a PostgreSQL superuser, and superusers bypass
every privilege check, so revoking from CURRENT_USER is recorded and then
ignored.

The revoke is scoped to one column on purpose. Revoking the whole table
would also blind node selection, which runs first and has a guard of its
own, so the scheduler would never reach the slot lookup this spec is about.
Leaving every other column readable lets selection succeed and lands the
refusal exactly on NextFreeReplicaIndex, which plucks replica_index. The
grant is restored from BeforeEach via DeferCleanup, so a failing assertion
or a panic cannot hand the next spec a role that cannot read.

Reverting the eviction guard fails this spec, which is the point of it: the
router then reports "no replica slot on keeper and eviction failed" for an
error that was never evidence the node was full. The surviving-row
assertions are secondary under this injection, because the eviction path
reads whole node_models rows and the same revoke blinds it too; a comment
in the spec says so, so nobody mistakes them for the load-bearing ones.

Also documents why the vector store and the control plane must not share a
database: the removable-tuple cutoff is per database, not per table, so one
transaction left open anywhere stops autovacuum reclaiming the node
registry, and a six-row table bloats into hundreds of megabytes. The note
names LOCALAI_AUTH_DATABASE_URL and LOCALAI_AGENT_POOL_DATABASE_URL as the
two knobs that must differ, and the localai_control_plane_oldest_xmin_age
gauge as the way to see it coming.

grep for StaleNodeThreshold and HealthCheckInterval in
core/config/runtime_settings_registry.go returns no matches: the
distributed duration knobs are not exposed as runtime settings, so the new
heartbeat checkpoint interval follows them and needs no registry entry.

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

* fix(distributed): close the review gaps in the heartbeat and health path

The stale-node threshold moved from 60 seconds to 5 minutes in this branch
because checkpointing makes last_heartbeat up to one checkpoint interval
behind by design. Two things were left inconsistent with that. NewHealthMonitor
still fell back to a hardcoded 60 seconds when handed a zero threshold, so any
future caller that stopped passing the configured value would mark every
healthy, beating node offline on every cycle. And the threshold itself had a
flag-name constant but no AppOption, no CLI field and no env binding, so an
operator who widened --node-heartbeat-checkpoint had no way to widen the
threshold to match. The fallback now tracks config.DefaultStaleNodeThreshold,
and --stale-node-threshold / LOCALAI_STALE_NODE_THRESHOLD is wired the same
way its sibling is.

Heartbeat suppression compared the RAW reported free VRAM against the
snapshot, but the column persists capAvailable(raw, ceiling). On any node with
a VRAM budget set, whose actual free VRAM oscillates above that ceiling, every
beat looked material while the persisted value never moved: suppression was
defeated on exactly the nodes an operator had configured, and the write
amplification this branch exists to remove came straight back there. The
comparison and the snapshot now both hold the capped figure, so they measure
the same quantity as the column.

Fixing that needs the ceiling, and reading it cost a SELECT on every beat,
including suppressed ones. The skip decision therefore moved ahead of the
updates map and now reuses the ceiling cached on the last durable write, while
the write path still re-reads it before capping anything. A ceiling that
changed inside the checkpoint window can cost one extra or one late write; it
cannot persist a wrong figure. A suppressed beat now costs no query at all.

Also: the operations section now says to grant pg_read_all_stats to the
LocalAI role, because PostgreSQL blanks backend_xmin and xact_start for
sessions owned by other roles, and the transaction that wedged the horizon in
the incident was a co-located vector store connecting as a different role, so
without the grant the new gauge sees only our own sessions. The compose
healthcheck comment now describes readiness covering the backend data path,
and the control-plane gauge registration records the otel.SetMeterProvider
ordering it depends on.

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

* fix(distributed): resolve the gauge's table names through gorm

The dead-tuple gauge queried pg_stat_user_tables against a hardcoded list
of three table names. Those three do not agree on where their name comes
from: BackendNode and NodeModel take gorm's default pluralisation, while
GalleryOperationRecord overrides TableName, and gallery_operations
already had a constant of its own that the list duplicated.

A literal list keeps compiling after any of that moves, and the query
then matches nothing. The failure is silent and it points the wrong way:
a dead-tuple ratio that matched no rows reports the same numbers as a
cluster with no bloat, so the gauge would look healthiest exactly when it
had stopped working.

Ask gorm what each model is stored as instead, which follows a TableName
override and the default pluralisation alike. A spec pins that the
override really is consulted: naive pluralisation of the type would give
gallery_operation_records, so the resolution cannot quietly stop asking
the model.

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

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Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-02 12:37:12 +02:00
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.


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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]

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2026-08-22 22:44:03 +02:00
88edd7fc7f fix(distributed): run cold model loads as durable jobs instead of holding the advisory lock (#11514)
* fix(advisorylock): set statement_timeout alongside lock_timeout

WithLockCtx already overrides a deployment-wide lock_timeout on its
dedicated connection so a blocking pg_advisory_lock() waits its turn
instead of failing with 55P03. statement_timeout aborts that exact same
statement independently, with SQLSTATE 57014, and was not overridden.

Production roles commonly carry statement_timeout=60s. Any guarded
section longer than that (a cold model load stages for tens of minutes)
therefore killed every concurrent waiter:

  advisorylock: acquiring lock 9003261067483446873: ERROR: canceling
  statement due to statement timeout (SQLSTATE 57014)

Derive it from the same context budget as lock_timeout, with a matching
RESET so the pooled connection is returned clean.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]

* feat(distributed): add ModelLoadJob, the durable cold-load record

A cold load in distributed mode is a long-running background job, but it
was modelled as a synchronous side effect of an inference request: the
whole of it (backend install, multi-GB staging, checkpoint load) ran
inside the per-model advisory lock. Loading a 35.7 GB GGUF held that lock
for ~20 minutes, so every concurrent request for the same model blocked
on pg_advisory_lock and died at the role's 60s statement_timeout.

Introduce the row that lets the lock shrink to a decision. Exactly one
ModelLoadJob may be active per tracking key; that uniqueness — not the
lifetime of a lock — is what de-duplicates concurrent loaders across
replicas. ClaimLoadJob does its read-then-write under the advisory lock
and nothing else: no network, file or gRPC I/O inside the guarded
section, so a claim costs milliseconds no matter how long the resulting
load takes.

LastProgress is a heartbeat rather than a byte counter. A checkpoint load
legitimately moves zero bytes for many minutes, so a reaper keyed on byte
movement would reclaim a healthy job mid-load; byte progress stays the
concern of load_deadline.go. A job whose heartbeat stops for longer than
the orphan window is reclaimable, so a replica killed mid-load cannot
wedge a model permanently.

Failed jobs keep their row for a short grace so an immediately-following
request reports the real cause instead of silently starting a fresh load
of a model that just failed.

No caller yet — the router moves onto this in the next commit.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]

* refactor(distributed): run cold loads as jobs, outside the advisory lock

Route wrapped the entire cold load — node selection, backend install,
multi-GB staging and the remote LoadModel — in the per-model advisory
lock. The lock's job is to de-duplicate concurrent loaders, a decision
that takes milliseconds; holding it for the tens of minutes the resulting
work takes is what turned a dedup mechanism into a cluster-wide outage
for that model.

Split it into a claim and a run. The claim is the only thing left inside
the lock. The run is a background job owned by the claiming replica and
bounded by the same progress-extended deadline as before; every other
request for that model — local or on another replica — attaches as a
waiter and is served the moment the model is ready, with no duplicate
load and no lock contention.

Waiters share one broadcast rather than an ordered queue: they all want
the identical outcome, so ordering them would add fairness machinery that
changes no result. The local channel wakes same-replica waiters instantly
and a 2s DB poll is the authority, because a waiter on another replica
has no channel to close. On wake a waiter re-runs the warm path rather
than trusting the signal — the model may have been evicted in between.

A waiter whose client disconnects returns immediately and the job keeps
running; it belongs to the job record, not to the request. A failure is
recorded on the row so every waiter reports the real cause, and the row
survives briefly so the next request does not read "no job" as "not
loading" and start a duplicate load of a model that just failed.

The runner heartbeats the row on a fixed interval whether or not bytes
are moving, which is what keeps a legitimately silent checkpoint load
from being reclaimed as an orphan. Phase (installing/staging/loading) and
placement ride to the heartbeat on the context, the same seam
load_deadline.go already uses, so single-host paths are untouched.

Non-distributed mode (no DB) keeps the inline load exactly as it was.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]

* feat(distributed): bound the wait for a loading model and answer with progress

A request whose model is cold-loading now attaches to the running job and
is served the moment the model is ready. That wait has to be bounded: a
held HTTP request cannot survive real infrastructure, and an ingress or LB
idle timeout kills a twenty-minute request regardless of what LocalAI
does.

New LOCALAI_MODEL_LOAD_WAIT (default 60s) bounds the CALLER, never the
load — the job keeps running either way. On expiry the request gets 503
with Retry-After and a structured body naming the model, the node, the
phase, byte progress and an ETA. The `error` envelope keeps OpenAI
clients working; `loading` is additive so they ignore it.

The ETA comes from the job's own observed rate and is omitted rather than
guessed until enough bytes have moved for that rate to mean anything: a
confidently wrong ETA on a twenty-minute wait is worse than none.
Retry-After is that ETA when known, clamped to [5s, 300s], and the wait
budget otherwise.

LOCALAI_MODEL_LOAD_WAIT=0 waits unbounded, for deployments with no proxy
in front. Zero in the config struct still means "unset, use the default",
so the CLI records the operator's zero as ModelLoadWaitUnbounded rather
than losing the distinction.

The distributed branch of ModelLoader.loadModel wrapped the router's
error with %s, which flattened it to a string. Use %w: the typed error is
what the HTTP layer keys the 503 off.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]

* feat(api): add GET /api/models/{id}/load-status

A client that receives 503 while a model stages onto a worker needs
somewhere to poll. This returns the same `loading` object the 503 carries
— phase, node, byte progress and ETA — or 404 when no load is running.

Read-only and observability-shaped, so it is deliberately neither
admin-gated nor feature-gated: it explains a 503 the caller just
received, and hiding that behind a per-modality feature would make the
explanation for a failed image request depend on chat permissions. It
also gets no MCP tool, since there is nothing here an admin would manage
conversationally.

Registered on the surfaces from .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md: the
swagger block (existing `models` tag, so /api/instructions needs no new
area), the endpoint discovery maps in RegisterLocalAIRoutes, regenerated
swagger, and the distributed-mode docs page. No FLAG_* usecase is
involved, so capabilities.js is unchanged.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]

* feat(ui): show cold-load progress in Chat and retry when the model is ready

A chat request for a model that is still staging onto a worker now gets a
503 carrying live progress instead of an error. Render it: the composer
shows the phase (installing / staging / loading), the node, the percent
and the ETA, then polls load-status and re-sends the request the moment
the model is ready.

Reuses the staging progress idiom the page already had rather than
inventing a second one — the two sources are folded into one
loadProgress, with the load job winning because it is authoritative
across frontend replicas and knows the phase, where the staging operation
only knows about a byte transfer this replica happens to be performing.

Waiting is bounded (three send attempts, ~30 min of polling each), so a
load that never finishes still surfaces as an error rather than as a
spinner nobody questions. An aborted generation stops the polling too.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]

* fix(distributed): check warm-path cleanup errors

The router moved legacy cleanup calls onto newly linted lines. Report
cleanup failures while preserving the fallback to a cold load.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5 [golangci-lint]

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2026-08-15 13:20:11 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto 878a0d00a1 fix(distributed): reaper reaps live backends, ghost model stubs, in_flight leak, sidecar staging runaway (#11142)
* fix(distributed): stop the probe reaper from orphaning busy backends

The reconciler's liveness probe is a 1s gRPC HealthCheck, and a single
failed probe deleted the model's node_models row. A backend that is
merely busy cannot answer it: single-threaded Python backends (video and
avatar generation) block for minutes inside one request, so the reaper
was deleting registry rows for backends that were alive and mid-request.

The model then vanished from the nodes page while it was still
generating, and because the row was gone the in-flight decrement had
nothing to decrement ("DecrementInFlight: no matching row or already
zero"). Every subsequent request re-routed and re-staged the full model
from scratch.

Two guards:

  - Replicas with in-flight requests are excluded in SQL. A row that is
    actively serving is proof of life, and the running request is
    exactly what stops the backend from answering the probe.

  - Idle replicas must miss three CONSECUTIVE probes before removal, so
    a transient blip cannot orphan a live replica. A successful probe
    resets the streak.

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

* fix(distributed): drop the local model stub when its last replica goes

In distributed mode every routed model leaves an in-process stub in the
frontend's ModelLoader, and DistributedModelStore.Range reports local
stubs UNION the registry rows. Every registry removal path deletes only
the DB row, so the stub outlived the replica and the model was reported
as loaded forever.

That is the "loaded on the home page, absent from every node" ghost:
/system reads the union and still sees the stub, while /api/nodes/models
reads the registry and correctly sees nothing. It never self-healed,
and both frontend replicas showed it independently.

The replica-removed chokepoint could not fix this as it stood, because
it held a SINGLE hook that the prefix cache already owned, and it was
registered only when the prefix cache was enabled. Registering a second
listener would have silently displaced the first.

  - Turn replicaRemovedHook into a list (AddReplicaRemovedHook), so
    independent subsystems can each register without displacing others.
  - Add NewLocalStubInvalidator, which drops the local stub once no
    healthy replica of the model remains anywhere in the cluster, and
    wire it unconditionally in startup.

The stub is kept while another node still serves the model: the
frontend is right to consider it loaded, and each request re-routes
through SmartRouter to pick a live replica anyway.

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

* fix(distributed): stop staging checksum sidecars back to workers

The file transfer server writes a "<file>.sha256" sidecar next to every
file it accepts. The sender walked the model directory with no filter,
so it staged those sidecars too, and the receiver duly wrote a sidecar
for each sidecar. Every staging pass multiplied the tree:

  config.json -> config.json.sha256 -> config.json.sha256.sha256 -> ...

One LongCat snapshot had grown to 498 files, 466 of them chained, up to
29 levels deep, and the staged file count climbed on every pass. This
inflates each transfer and grows disk without bound on both ends.

Skip hash sidecars in stageDirectory, and mirror the skip in
countStageableFiles so the progress bar still reaches 100%. The check is
"a sidecar sitting next to a real file" rather than a blanket suffix
ban, so a model that genuinely ships a .sha256 payload with no
corresponding base file is still transferred.

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

* fix(distributed): classify the liveness probe instead of gating on in_flight

The previous commit excluded replicas with in-flight requests from the probe
reaper. That was the wrong guard, and could invert the bug it fixed.

in_flight has no decrement guarantee: track() balances its increment with a
defer, but a frontend killed mid-request never runs it, and the load-time
reservation is released only when the first inference completes. Nothing
resets a leaked counter. Gating the reaper on it therefore meant a leaked
counter would shield a genuinely dead replica from ever being reaped.

Nor was patience alone a fix: three misses at the default interval is ~90s of
silence, while the generation that triggered this blocks for 15+ minutes.

The real conflation was in the probe itself. A gRPC HealthCheck against the
backend's serving port measures "is it idle enough to answer", not "does the
process exist", and probeLoadedModels discarded the error that tells them
apart. Because the gRPC client is lazy, the status code is decisive:

  - DeadlineExceeded: transport fine, nothing serviced the RPC. Busy.
  - Unavailable: nothing is listening. Gone.

ModelProber now returns a ProbeOutcome, and only ProbeUnreachable counts
toward the reap threshold. ProbeBusy clears the streak: it is evidence of
life. A blackholed network reads as busy too, deliberately, since whole-node
failure is the health monitor's job.

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

* feat(distributed): reconcile replicas against worker-reported processes

Probing a backend's own serving port cannot distinguish "busy" from "gone"
without inferring it from an error code. The worker can answer directly: it
spawned the process, holds the handle, and its reply is not blocked by
whatever that backend is doing.

Adds a models.running request-reply subject. The worker answers out of its
in-memory process table, reporting each live process as (modelID,
replicaIndex, address) — the supervisor's process keys are `modelID#replica`,
which is isomorphic to a NodeModel row, so the reconciler can diff the two
directly.

reconcileNodeProcesses runs before the port probe and reaps rows for models
the worker is not running. Models the worker vouches for get updated_at
bumped, which takes them out of the port prober's stale set entirely: that is
what keeps a backend deep in a long generation away from the probe in the
first place, rather than relying on classifying its silence after the fact.

A worker that does not answer is skipped, not assumed empty. A messaging
failure says nothing about the processes, and assuming the worst would delete
a node's rows on a transient NATS blip; the port probe stays as the fallback
for those nodes. Rows younger than probeStaleAfter are ignored so a freshly
created row is never judged against a process table that has not caught up.

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

* fix(distributed): stop in_flight leaking and pin replicas against eviction

A leaked in_flight counter is not cosmetic. FindLRUModel,
FindGlobalLRUModelWithZeroInFlight and the router's eviction query all require
in_flight = 0, so a replica whose counter never came back is pinned and its
VRAM is unreclaimable for the lifetime of the process.

Two halves.

The source: routing reserves in_flight = 1 at load time so a freshly loaded
replica is not evicted out from under the request that caused the load. That
reservation was released ONLY by the first inference completing, so a route
torn down before any inference ran (client disconnect, handler error, failure
between load and the backend call) stranded it. newRouteResult now wires the
reservation to a sync.Once fired by whichever comes first, the first inference
or route teardown, and replaces three copies of the old wiring.

The backstop: a sweeper for counters leaked by paths that cannot run a defer
at all, such as a frontend killed mid-request.

Identifying a leak by elapsed time alone is unsafe. IncrementInFlight stamps
last_used at request START and nothing moves it while the request runs, so a
long generation is indistinguishable from a leak by age, and resetting there
would expose a serving model to eviction. The probe supplies the missing bit:
a backend that answers a health check promptly is not inside a request,
because that is precisely what a busy one cannot do. Requiring the row to also
be idle for 30 minutes covers backends that serve in parallel and can answer
while working, since those keep last_used fresh through each new increment.

Two existing tests asserted the old behaviour ("No decrement on Release").
That assertion was the leak, so both now pin the release instead.

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

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Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-27 18:36:31 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto 6584db992f fix(nodes): never schedule a model onto a node that cannot store it (#11054)
* fix(nodes): never schedule a model onto a node that cannot store it

A worker whose models filesystem was 100% full kept advertising
`status: healthy`, stayed a scheduling candidate, was picked to host a
70 GB video model, accepted the staging request, transferred ~17 GB and
only then failed:

  staging .../whisper-large-v3/model.fp32-00001-of-00002.safetensors:
    upload to node b7bacbf4-... failed with status 500:
    writing file: /models/longcat-video-avatar-1.5/...: no space left on device

The node was at 937G/937G/0-avail. Total elapsed before the truth
surfaced: 16 minutes, for a decision that could never have succeeded.

The worker health signal only ever proved liveness. `/readyz`
(WorkerReadiness/NATSReadiness) checks the NATS link; `status: healthy`
in the registry is driven by heartbeat recency. Node capacity carried
VRAM and RAM but no disk figure at all, and the router compared model
size against VRAM only — nothing anywhere looked at free space on the
filesystem that staging actually writes to.

Report it, then use it:

- Workers now measure the filesystem backing their MODELS directory
  (not `/` -- staged weights land in the models path, and that mount is
  very often separate) and report `total_disk`/`available_disk` on
  registration and on every heartbeat. Free disk moves faster than VRAM
  under staging traffic, so the per-heartbeat refresh matters.
- The SmartRouter drops nodes that cannot store the model before it
  picks one. The requirement comes from `modelPayloadBytes` -- the same
  local paths `stageModelFiles` uploads, already computed for the
  size-derived load budget -- plus a 5% / 1 GiB margin, rather than a
  fixed percentage of the node's disk. A percentage threshold would take
  a small-but-usable node out of rotation for models it could hold, and
  on a homogeneous cluster would strand every node at once.
- When no node fits, scheduling fails immediately with an error naming
  the requirement and each node's free space, instead of picking one and
  discovering it mid-transfer.

Two deliberate non-changes. Low disk does not mark a node `unhealthy`:
the check is per model, so a node too small for one model stays a valid
target for smaller ones. And `total_disk == 0` means "does not report
disk" (pre-upgrade worker, or a failed stat), not "full" -- such nodes
pass through untouched so a rolling upgrade never empties the candidate
pool. A genuinely full node is distinguishable: non-zero total, zero
available. Registry read failures are logged and scheduling continues
unfiltered; a database hiccup must not wedge a cluster.

Free space is surfaced on the node detail page next to VRAM, since the
incident's signature was a node that looked entirely healthy.

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* feat(nodes): make the disk-headroom check operator-controllable

The admission check added in the previous commit had no off switch. A
scheduler-side veto with no escape hatch is a liability: our size
estimate can be wrong (deduplicating or compressing filesystems, a
backend that fetches its own weights rather than loading the staged
copy), and an operator who hits that has no way out but a downgrade.

Add one knob with two surfaces that share a single source of truth:

- `--distributed-disk-headroom-check` / `LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_DISK_HEADROOM_CHECK`
  (default true), following the `--distributed-prefix-cache` pattern for
  a default-on distributed feature.
- `distributed_disk_headroom_check` in the runtime-settings registry, so
  it can be flipped without a restart from `POST /api/settings` and from
  Settings -> Distributed in the WebUI.

Both write `DistributedConfig.DiskHeadroomDisabled`, and the SmartRouter
reads that member LIVE on every scheduling decision through a closure
over the application config rather than a value snapshotted at
construction. Env/CLI sets the boot value, the runtime setting overrides
it live, last write wins, and there is exactly one member to read.
Snapshotting would have made the runtime toggle a no-op until restart.

Disabled means WARN, not SKIP. Selection goes back to ignoring free disk
-- byte for byte the pre-check behaviour -- but the check still runs, and
when it would have rejected every node it says so, naming the knob that
suppressed it. Going quiet when switched off would reproduce the exact
condition that made the original incident expensive: a cluster doing
something that could not work and saying nothing. Disabling is also
logged once at startup. Warning only on the total-rejection case keeps
it actionable rather than chatty on a heterogeneous cluster.

Also fixes a false positive in the check itself: shared-models mode
(LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_SHARED_MODELS) stages nothing at all -- every node
already mounts this models directory at this path -- so demanding the
full checkpoint size of free space per node would have rejected a
cluster that needs no new bytes. The check is skipped there entirely.

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Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-23 00:03:21 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto 01fca9c9b2 fix(distributed): scale the remote model-load deadline with checkpoint size (#11030)
The gRPC deadline for the remote LoadModel call was a fixed 5m. It starts
only after the backend install and file staging have completed, so it
covers the worker's checkpoint read and pipeline init alone - work whose
duration is proportional to the bytes on disk. A fixed value is therefore
a model-size cliff, not a timeout.

Measured in production: a 70 GB video checkpoint (longcat-video-avatar-1.5)
on an NVIDIA Jetson Thor worker failed reproducibly with
"rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded" after 953.5s of wall clock. Backend
install plus staging consumed ~11m, then LoadModel got its 5m and expired.
The load never had a chance, and the operator saw only a generic
DeadlineExceeded with no hint that a config value was the cause.

Raising the constant does not fix this. It moves the cliff to the next
larger model - the cluster has to support 600 GB checkpoints - and it makes
a genuinely wedged SMALL model hang for the whole inflated duration before
anyone notices, which is a real regression in failure latency.

So derive the budget from the checkpoint size instead:

    budget = 5m + 20s/GiB, capped at 6h

2 GiB -> 5m40s, 70 GiB -> 28m20s, 600 GiB -> 3h25m. The per-GiB rate is
deliberately pessimistic (~54 MB/s of weight read) because the errors are
not symmetric: too long costs only failure latency on a load that was going
to fail anyway, too short is a guaranteed false failure on a healthy load.

The size is measured from the frontend's local model files, over the same
path set stageModelFiles uploads. When those files are not present locally -
a backend handed a bare HuggingFace repo id fetches its own weights on the
worker - there is nothing to measure and the budget stays at today's 5m.

An explicit LOCALAI_NATS_MODEL_LOAD_TIMEOUT still wins outright, in both
directions: a shorter override is honoured, so an operator who wants fast
failure is not silently extended by the heuristic.

The cold-load hold needed widening to match. It extends on staging progress,
but LoadModel reports none, so once the last byte lands the hold expires a
stall window later and would cancel a load still well inside its own budget.
scheduleAndLoad now extends the hold by the load budget plus the staging
margin as it enters the load phase; ModelLoadCeilingFor stays the hold's
starting budget rather than its maximum.

Finally, a deadline that does expire now names the budget, the checkpoint
size it was derived from, and the knob that overrides it, instead of
surfacing a bare "context deadline exceeded".


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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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2026-07-22 09:30:23 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto fb4c61d1c9 fix(distributed): configurable remote model-load timeout, and reap the load when it times out (#10948)
* fix(distributed): make the remote LoadModel deadline configurable

The router hardcoded a 5 minute gRPC deadline for the remote LoadModel
call. Staging finishes before the timer starts, so those five minutes
cover only the worker backend's own checkpoint load and pipeline init.
A cold load of meituan-longcat/LongCat-Video-Avatar-1.5 (~83 GB) on an
ARM64 Thor worker fails at exactly 302s with DeadlineExceeded while the
backend process is still making progress (CPU time accumulating, RSS
moving as weights are mapped), so the load was cut short rather than
wedged.

Add LOCALAI_NATS_MODEL_LOAD_TIMEOUT / --model-load-timeout mirroring the
existing backend-install timeout knob, defaulting to 5m so unset
clusters keep today's behaviour.

The cold-load hold ceiling (which bounds how long one load may hold the
per-model advisory lock) was derived from the install timeout alone, so
raising the load deadline past it would have been silently clipped.
Derive it from both budgets via ModelLoadCeilingFor:

    max(install + load + 5m staging margin, 25m)

With the defaults that is 15m + 5m + 5m = 25m, identical to the previous
constant, and the 25m floor means shrinking either budget can never
tighten the ceiling below what clusters relied on before.

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* fix(distributed): reap the abandoned replica when a remote load times out

The gRPC deadline on the remote LoadModel call only cancels the client
side. A backend blocked in a synchronous weight load never observes its
cancelled handler context, so when scheduleAndLoad gave up it left the
worker loading with nobody waiting for the result.

Observed on an ARM64 Thor worker loading LongCat-Video-Avatar-1.5: the
client returned DeadlineExceeded at 302s, and the backend process was
still alive 30 minutes later having pulled ~57GB from HuggingFace. Every
retry stacked another multi-GB loader on the worker; they had to be
reaped by hand via POST /api/nodes/:id/models/unload.

Send backend.stop for the exact `modelID#replicaIndex` process key we
just abandoned. The exact key matters: a bare model ID stops every
replica on that node, including healthy ones serving traffic.

Only a deadline or cancellation triggers the reap. Any other LoadModel
failure is the backend answering, which means its handler returned and
the process is idle - stopping it there would discard a warm process and
its downloaded weights. The reap is best-effort and never replaces the
load error the caller is waiting on.

The `modelID#replicaIndex` format was already hand-rolled in two places
(the worker's buildProcessKey and pkg/model's log store). Rather than add
a third, export model.BackendProcessKey from pkg/model, the lowest common
dependency of both sides.

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Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-19 12:01:48 +02:00
29001a88c1 fix(distributed): don't let a dead worker pin the model-load advisory lock (#10600)
* fix(distributed): don't let a dead worker pin the model-load advisory lock

In distributed mode a chat request could fail with:

  failed to route model with internal loader: routing model ...:
  loading model ...: advisorylock: acquiring lock <id>:
  ERROR: canceling statement due to lock timeout (SQLSTATE 55P03)

Root cause is two independent defects in the cross-replica model-load path:

1. SmartRouter.Route holds a per-model PostgreSQL advisory lock for the whole
   cold-load sequence, which includes installBackendOnNode -> InstallBackend,
   a NATS request-reply with a 15m deadline (DefaultBackendInstallTimeout) that
   ignored ctx. When the chosen worker died mid-install, the holder sat on the
   lock for up to 15m. The detached loadCtx (WithoutCancel) had no deadline, so
   nothing capped the hold.

2. The acquiring statement, pg_advisory_lock(), is subject to any deployment
   global lock_timeout. A common operator setting (e.g. 10s) aborts the wait
   with SQLSTATE 55P03, so every other replica's request for that model hard
   -errored instead of waiting for the in-progress load and reusing it. For the
   ~15m window the model was effectively unroutable.

Fixes:

- advisorylock.WithLockCtx (postgres): SET lock_timeout = 0 on its dedicated
  connection (RESET before it returns to the pool) so the Go context, not a
  deployment-wide GUC, governs how long we wait. Waiters now block and then
  re-check, reusing the model another replica just loaded.

- SmartRouter: bound the detached loadCtx with a single ModelLoadCeiling so the
  lock is always released in bounded time even if a sub-step wedges. Default is
  the configured backend.install deadline + 10m (staging + LoadModel margin),
  so a legitimately slow load is never cut.

- installBackendOnNode: use singleflight.DoChan + select on ctx.Done() so the
  install wait honors cancellation; the ceiling can then actually free a caller
  pinned behind a dead worker. The shared install still coalesces via
  singleflight.

Reproduced both defects as failing tests first (a real 55P03 against a
testcontainer with a short lock_timeout; a wedged install that blocks Route)
and confirmed green.

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

* fix(distributed): bound advisory-lock wait instead of disabling lock_timeout

Setting lock_timeout = 0 to override a deployment's short global lock_timeout
meant "wait forever" server-side. Safe for SmartRouter.Route (its loadCtx now
carries the model-load ceiling) but unsafe for the schema-migration callers
that pass context.Background(): a holder whose session never releases would
hang them indefinitely.

Derive the server-side lock_timeout from the caller's context instead: its
remaining budget plus a margin (so the Go context's cancellation still wins
with a clean error and the server bound is only a backstop), or a finite
30m backstop when the context has no deadline. Never zero - "wait forever"
is no longer possible, while a deployment's hostile short lock_timeout is
still overridden so legitimate cross-replica waits don't fail with 55P03.

Added a spec proving a deadline-less waiter gives up at the (shrunk) backstop
rather than hanging.

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Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-07-02 09:52:51 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto f3d829e2ef feat(distributed): add LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_SHARED_MODELS to skip staging on shared volumes (#10556) (#10566)
In distributed mode, even when the frontend and workers share the same
models directory via a shared volume mount, starting a model on a worker
re-staged (re-downloaded) it: stageModelFiles always uploads model files
into a tracking-key-namespaced subdir on the worker, and the staging probe
only checks that staged location, so a file already present on the shared
volume at the canonical path was never reused.

Add a config switch LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_SHARED_MODELS (default false). When
enabled, the operator asserts that all nodes mount the SAME models directory
at the SAME path, so staging is unnecessary: the frontend's absolute model
paths are already valid on the worker. In that mode stageModelFiles returns
the cloned opts unchanged without uploading, leaving the path fields pointing
at their canonical absolute paths so the worker loads them directly from the
shared volume.

The value is plumbed from DistributedConfig through SmartRouterOptions into
the SmartRouter. Docs and docker-compose.distributed.yaml updated.


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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-06-28 01:23:07 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto 569d9bbd9e fix(distributed): broadcast file-staging progress across replicas (#10440)
File-staging progress lived only in the SmartRouter's in-memory
StagingTracker on the replica performing the transfer. In a multi-replica
deployment behind a round-robin load balancer, a /api/operations poll
that lands on any other replica saw no staging row, so the progress
("processing file ... Total ... Current ...") flickered in and out as
polls rotated between frontends.

Mirror the pattern already used for gallery-install progress: the origin
replica broadcasts staging ticks over NATS (SubjectStagingProgress, a
new staging.<model>.progress subject), and peers merge them via
ApplyRemote (SubscribeBroadcasts on the wildcard). Byte-level ticks are
leading-edge debounced (~1/s); Start/FileComplete/Complete always
publish. A locally-owned op stays authoritative so the origin's own echo
and stray peer events can't clobber it, and mirrored remote ops expire
after a TTL so a missed Done event can't leave a phantom row. The UI read
path (StagingTracker.GetAll) is unchanged.


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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-06-22 09:28:07 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto 7637f8cf1b feat(distributed): declarative per-model scheduling via env/args (#10308)
* feat(distributed): add SpreadAll column and authoritative scheduling seeding

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

* feat(distributed): parse declarative model scheduling config (env/file)

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* feat(distributed): reconcile spread_all to one replica per matching node

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* feat(distributed): wire LOCALAI_MODEL_SCHEDULING env/args and startup seeding

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* feat(distributed): expose spread_all on the scheduling API endpoint

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* feat(distributed): add spread-to-all-nodes mode to the scheduling UI

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* docs(distributed): document LOCALAI_MODEL_SCHEDULING env/args

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* docs(distributed): clarify replica modes and all-nodes spread in scheduling config

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2026-06-13 18:31:06 +02:00
Richard Palethorpe 3a932a9803 feat(distributed): Add NATS JWT authentication and TLS/mTLS options (#10159)
* feat(distributed): NATS JWT auth, TLS/mTLS options, and e2e coverage

Mint per-node NATS user JWTs at registration when LOCALAI_NATS_ACCOUNT_SEED
is set, and connect workers with scoped credentials from the register response.
Add optional LOCALAI_NATS_TLS_CA/CERT/KEY for private CA and mTLS alongside
tls:// URLs, plus test-e2e-distributed and NatsJWT container e2e specs.

Document JWT setup (nats-auth-setup.sh) and TLS env vars in distributed-mode.

Assisted-by: Grok:grok grok-build
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* fix(distributed): correct NATS JWT scoping and harden client auth

The JWT-auth path added in 46467cc7 had several gaps that fail silently
under LOCALAI_NATS_REQUIRE_AUTH:

- Agent-worker minted JWTs did not allow the subjects the agent worker
  actually subscribes to (jobs.mcp-ci.new and nodes.<id>.backend.stop),
  so MCP-CI jobs and backend-stop session cleanup were silently dropped.
  Scope the agent permission set to those subjects.
- NATS subscription permission violations were swallowed (Subscribe
  returned a live-but-dead subscription). Confirm subscriptions with a
  server round-trip so a denial surfaces synchronously, and log async
  permission errors.
- The backend worker connected anonymously when given a JWT without its
  paired seed; reject the unpaired credential instead.
- The documented service-user permissions in nats-auth-setup.sh omitted
  prefixcache.>, which the frontend publishes and subscribes; add it.

Also: add a credential-provider hook to the messaging client (consumed by
the follow-up credential-lifecycle change), drop the always-nil error from
NatsMessagingOptions, run go mod tidy (jwt/v2 and nkeys are now direct),
and gofmt the feature's files.

Tests: an agent-JWT e2e spec that connects to the enforcing NATS server
and exercises every subscription the agent worker makes, plus permission
allow-list coverage unit tests.

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

* feat(distributed): acquire and auto-refresh worker NATS credentials

Workers fetched NATS credentials once at startup, which broke two cases
under JWT auth: a worker that registered while still pending admin
approval never received a minted JWT (it connected unauthenticated and
gave up), and a long-running worker's 24h JWT expired with no way to renew
it.

Introduce workerregistry.NATSCredentialManager, built on idempotent
re-registration (the frontend preserves the node row and mints a fresh JWT
each call):

- Acquire re-registers through admin approval until the node is approved
  and credentials are minted (or returns the first success when auth is
  not required, preserving anonymous-NATS behavior).
- RefreshLoop re-registers before the JWT expires (~75% of its lifetime),
  updating the credentials served to the connection.
- Both are bounded (default 100 attempts / consecutive failures) and
  return an error on exhaustion, so an unapprovable or unrenewable worker
  exits non-zero and surfaces the problem instead of hanging or drifting
  toward an expired credential.

The messaging client gains WithUserJWTProvider, fetching credentials on
each (re)connect so the connection transparently adopts a refreshed JWT
when the server expires the old one. RegisterFull exposes the approval
status and full response; Register delegates to it.

Both the backend worker and the agent worker are wired to this: explicit
env credentials are used as-is, minted credentials are acquired-with-wait
and refreshed, and a permanent refresh failure shuts the worker down so it
restarts and re-acquires.

Tests cover Acquire (wait-through-pending, bounded give-up, context
cancel), RefreshLoop (refresh-before-expiry, bounded failure, no-expiry
exit) and jwtExpiry decoding. Docs updated in distributed-mode.md.

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Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>

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2026-06-03 19:43:56 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto a44bdb29d4 feat: prefix-cache-aware routing for distributed mode (#10071)
* feat(radixtree): generic prefix tree skeleton with longest-match

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

* feat(radixtree): Insert with path recency refresh and entry cap

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

* feat(radixtree): TTL idle-expiry and Evict sweep with branch pruning

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

* feat(radixtree): recency-weighted per-value Weight

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* feat(radixtree): Remove all entries for a value

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

* test(radixtree): race-free concurrency smoke test

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

* fix(radixtree): reclaim empty branches, RWMutex reads, TTL boundary, empty-key guard

Address review findings on the generic prefix tree:

- Extract a shared pruneWalk helper parameterized by a shouldClear
  predicate and use it from Evict, Remove, and the MaxEntries path.
  Previously evictOldestLocked cleared a victim's value but never
  removed the now value-less node or its childless ancestors, so
  internal nodes accumulated under sustained churn at the cap. The
  MaxEntries path now prunes the victim and its empty ancestors.
- DRY: pruneWalk replaces the duplicated logic in the former
  pruneLocked and Remove's inner closure.
- Switch Tree.mu to sync.RWMutex; LongestMatch, Weight and Len take
  the read lock (RLock) while Insert, Evict and Remove keep the write
  lock. Confirmed race-clean under go test -race.
- Document the strict greater-than TTL boundary on Options.TTL and
  expired: age exactly equal to TTL is still live.
- Guard Insert against an empty key (no-op): the root never holds a
  value.

Adds Ginkgo specs covering MaxEntries eviction, ancestor reclamation,
the no-growth-past-cap invariant, the TTL boundary, and empty-key
behavior for both Insert and LongestMatch.

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

* feat(prefixcache): RoutePolicy enum with parse/resolve

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* feat(prefixcache): Config with defaults and validation

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* feat(prefixcache): deterministic xxhash prefix-chain extractor

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* feat(prefixcache): pure filter-then-score replica selection

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* feat(prefixcache): Provider interface and radix-tree-backed Index

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

* style(prefixcache): gofmt policy enum comment alignment

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

* fix(prefixcache): head-first prefix chunking and hoist Weight out of sort

Address code-quality review findings in the prefixcache package.

Correctness: ExtractChain now chunks from absolute offset 0 with fixed
[0,W),[W,2W),... boundaries and caps the chain to the FIRST MaxDepth
head blocks. The previous tail-keeping logic shifted the byte offset by a
non-window amount once a conversation grew past MaxDepth*WindowBytes,
changing every hash each turn and silently breaking cross-turn
longest-prefix matching. The reusable KV/prefix cache lives at the head
of the prompt, so anchoring at offset 0 makes the chain a true
prefix-chain: P and P+suffix share their full leading overlap. Add a
regression spec proving cross-turn stability past the cap.

Performance: Index.Decide precomputes each candidate's Weight once
(decorate-sort-undecorate) instead of calling the O(tree size) Weight
inside the O(n log n) sort comparator. Behavior is unchanged.

Lint: encode prev with binary.LittleEndian.PutUint64 instead of a manual
byte loop, clearing the modernize rangeint finding.

Also add a concurrent Decide/Observe/Invalidate spec to exercise Index's
documented concurrency safety under go test -race.

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

* feat(messaging): prefixcache observe/invalidate subjects and payloads

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* feat(prefixcache): NATS sync publish/apply for observe and invalidate

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* feat(distributedhdr): ctx carrier for prefix-hash chain

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

* feat(distributedhdr): PrefixChainHook indirection for backend-side chain build

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

* feat(backend): stash prompt prefix chain on ctx before distributed routing

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* fix(backend): mirror modelID fallback for prefix-chain salt parity

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

* feat(nodes): scheduling config columns for prefix-cache routing

Add RoutePolicy and per-model balance/prefix-match override columns to
ModelSchedulingConfig and include them in the SetModelScheduling upsert
DoUpdates list so updates are not dropped on conflict.

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

* feat(nodes): optional route preference in FindAndLockNodeWithModel

Add a RoutePreference type and a new pref parameter so the atomic
pick+lock+increment can be biased toward a preferred node without
weakening atomicity. A nil preference reproduces the previous ORDER BY
behavior exactly. Update the ModelRouter interface, both router.go call
sites (pass nil for now; Phase 5 builds the real preference), the test
doubles, and the distributed e2e caller.

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* feat(prefixcache): make Sync satisfy Provider with Evict

Sync.Observe now returns whether the local index treated the assignment as
new or extended, and Sync gains an Evict method that delegates to the wrapped
index. Together these let SmartRouter hold a single prefixcache.Provider that
broadcasts via NATS. Adds a compile-time Provider assertion and an
Evict-delegates behavioral test.

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* feat(nodes): prefix-cache-aware preference and observe in SmartRouter.Route

Add a PrefixProvider + PrefixConfig to SmartRouterOptions/SmartRouter (nil
keeps routing byte-for-byte the round-robin floor). On each request Route now
calls buildPreference: it reads the prompt prefix chain from ctx
(distributedhdr.PrefixChain), resolves the per-model policy/thresholds over
the global config, loads candidate replica in-flight via a new registry read
LoadedReplicaStats (deduped to one entry per node using the MIN in-flight
across that node's replicas), asks the provider to Decide, and runs
prefixcache.Select. The chosen node is passed as the RoutePreference to
FindAndLockNodeWithModel on all three pick paths (cache hit, locked re-pick,
cold scheduleAndLoad), and the served node is recorded via Observe only when
the resolved policy is prefix_cache so round-robin models never pollute the
tree.

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

* feat(nodes): invalidate prefix-cache entries on unload and stale removal

UnloadModel and both staleness fall-through paths in Route (after a failed
gRPC probe and RemoveNodeModel) now call prefixProvider.Invalidate(model,
nodeID), guarded by a nil-provider check so the round-robin floor is
unchanged. At runtime the provider is the *prefixcache.Sync, so invalidations
also broadcast to peer frontends. Adds a test that a previously hot prefix no
longer Decides to a node after UnloadModel.

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* feat(prefixcache): rolling forced-disturb pressure counter

Add a concurrency-safe per-model rolling counter that tracks how many
times a request had a usable hot prefix match but the load guard forced
it off the warm node. Entries outside the window are dropped lazily on
Count so the backing slice stays bounded.

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* feat(nodes): autoscale on prefix-cache forced-disturb pressure

Wire the rolling forced-disturb counter into the SmartRouter and the
ReplicaReconciler.

Router: in buildPreference, after Decide + Select, record a forced-disturb
when a usable hot prefix match existed (d.HotNodeID != "" and
d.MatchRatio >= cfg.MinPrefixMatch) but Select chose a different node (or
nothing) because the load guard ruled the warm node out. This is the
scale-worthy signal: the cache-warm replica is saturated. It deliberately
does not fire for all-unique workloads (no hot match), avoiding
false-positive scale-ups. Pressure is optional on SmartRouterOptions; nil
keeps the path a no-op.

Reconciler: read the same Pressure instance in reconcileModel as an extra
scale-up reason, reusing the existing MaxReplicas + ClusterCapacityForModel
guards and the UnsatisfiableUntil cooldown that gates the whole method.
Pressure never overrides MaxReplicas and never force-evicts; a no-capacity
model does not spin. Window and threshold come from prefixcache.Config
(PressureWindow default 1m, PressureScaleThreshold default 1) and are
configurable via ReplicaReconcilerOptions.

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

* fix(prefixcache): bound Pressure slice in Record; drop dead reconciler pressureWindow

Record now prunes entries older than the rolling window (the same prune
Count does), via a shared pruneLocked helper, so a model that takes
forced-disturb records but is never Counted (e.g. one with zero loaded
replicas the reconciler skips) no longer grows its backing slice
unbounded.

Also removes the dead pressureWindow struct field and the
ReplicaReconcilerOptions.PressureWindow option from the reconciler: they
were stored but never read (the window lives inside the *prefixcache.Pressure
instance). The scale block now reads pressure.Count once into a local.

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

* feat(api): prefix-cache fields in scheduling endpoint DTO with validation

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

* feat(ui): prefix-cache routing controls in node scheduling form

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

* feat(distributed): wire prefix-cache index, NATS sync, and config

Activates prefix-cache-aware routing in distributed mode. Builds the
prefixcache Index + NATS-backed Sync + Pressure counter, installs the
distributedhdr.PrefixChainHook so core/backend/llm.go attaches a prefix
chain per request, subscribes to prefixcache.observe/prefixcache.invalidate
to apply peers' events to the local index (no re-broadcast), threads
PrefixProvider/PrefixConfig/Pressure into the SmartRouter and
Pressure/PressureThreshold into the ReplicaReconciler, and runs a
background eviction ticker (every TTL/2) bound to the app context.

Enabled by default; --distributed-prefix-cache=false (LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_PREFIX_CACHE)
opts out and leaves the provider/pressure nil so routing stays round-robin.
--distributed-prefix-cache-ttl (LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_PREFIX_CACHE_TTL, default 5m)
controls entry idle-timeout and eviction cadence.

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

* test(nodes): round-robin-floor invariant for prefix-cache routing

Drives Select directly: a saturated hot node (in_flight 50 vs 0) is never
picked even with a perfect prefix match (round-robin floor holds), while a
balanced hot node within the load slack is reused.

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

* chore(prefixcache): clear branch lint findings and em dashes

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

* feat(distributed): validate prefix-cache config at startup wiring

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

* perf(radixtree): single-walk WeightsFor for batch value weights

Add Tree.WeightsFor(values, now) which computes the recency-weighted
weight for many values in a single O(N + len(values)) tree traversal,
versus calling Weight once per value (O(len(values) * N)). Consumers
that score K candidates against the tree under the read lock no longer
pay K full walks.

Extract the per-entry contribution math into an unexported helper shared
by both Weight and WeightsFor so the metric stays identical (DRY).
Weight's public behavior is unchanged.

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

* refactor(config): add ModelConfig.ModelID() single source of truth

The c.Name fallback to c.Model was duplicated in core/backend/options.go
(feeding model.WithModelID) and hand-copied into core/backend/llm.go (the
prefix-chain salt). These MUST agree or the prefix-cache salt diverges
silently from the id the model loader tracks. Consolidate both into a new
config.ModelConfig.ModelID() helper and call it from both sites. Behavior
is identical.

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

* perf(prefixcache): reuse one xxhash.Digest in ExtractChain

ExtractChain allocated a fresh xxhash.New() Digest per block (up to MaxDepth
per call) and grew the chain slice without preallocation. Reuse a single
Digest via Reset() before each block and preallocate the chain to
min(nBlocks, MaxDepth).

xxhash seed 0 is stateless, so Reset()+Write produces the byte-identical
value to a fresh New()+Write. Output hashes are unchanged, preserving the
cross-process determinism that peers rely on over NATS. Verified by capturing
ExtractChain output for the existing test inputs before and after the
refactor: identical. Existing extractor tests pass unchanged.

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

* fix(prefixcache): drop hot match when matched node is not a candidate; weigh cold candidates in one walk

Index.Decide called radixtree.LongestMatch over the whole tree, so the
deepest match could be a node that is offline, unloaded, or simply not in
the passed candidate set. Honoring that as HotNodeID produced a false
forced-disturb signal upstream (buildPreference records pressure when
chosen != HotNodeID), making it look like a warm replica was load
saturated when it was actually absent.

Build the candidate set once and only set HotNodeID/MatchRatio when the
matched node is an actual candidate; otherwise fall back to cold
placement. A future refinement could ask the tree for the longest match
restricted to the candidate nodes (shallower-but-valid) instead of
dropping it.

Also replace the per-candidate tree.Weight call in the cold-order sort
with a single tree.WeightsFor walk, turning O(K*N) under the read lock
into O(N + K).

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

* refactor(prefixcache): remove Select's unreachable deterministic fallback

buildPreference always passes ColdOrder as a permutation of the full
candidate set, so the cold-order loop hits every eligible candidate. The
trailing best/bestIF scan was dead. Replace it with a plain "return """
and document that ColdOrder is guaranteed to cover all candidates, so ""
means none were eligible.

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

* refactor(nodes): fetch model scheduling config once per Route

GetModelScheduling was read three times per request - in
resolveSelectorCandidates, buildPreference, and nodeMatchesScheduling -
three DB round-trips for one row that is immutable for the life of the
request, and not a consistent snapshot. Fetch it once near the top of
Route and thread the *ModelSchedulingConfig (may be nil) into all three
helpers. scheduleNewModel keeps its own fetch since it runs outside the
Route snapshot. Behavior is identical for nil sched.

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

* fix(autoscale): add Pressure.Reset to consume forced-disturb signal

Pressure.Count is non-draining (it prunes only by age), so a single burst
of forced-disturbs stays within the rolling window for the whole window and
keeps Count >= threshold on every reconciler tick. The reconciler will use
Reset to clear a model's events after acting on the signal so a fresh
scale-up requires fresh forced-disturbs to accumulate, rather than one burst
driving the model toward MaxReplicas.

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

* fix(autoscale): at most one scale-up per reconcile tick, consume pressure

Two autoscale bugs:

1. Over-scaling: the pressure scale-up block read Pressure.Count but never
   consumed it. With a non-draining counter a single forced-disturb burst
   kept Count >= threshold across the whole window, firing scaleUp on every
   tick and pushing the model toward MaxReplicas off one transient burst.
   After a successful pressure-triggered scale-up the reconciler now calls
   Pressure.Reset to consume the signal.

2. Double scale-up in one tick: the all-replicas-busy block and the pressure
   block could both fire in the same reconcileModel pass, each calling
   scaleUp(+1) against the same `current` read once at the top, so a model
   that was both busy and over threshold scaled +2 and could overshoot
   MaxReplicas by one. A scaledUp flag now enforces at most one scaleUp(+1)
   per tick: the pressure block is skipped if the busy block already scaled,
   and scale-down is skipped in any tick that scaled up.

MinReplicas enforcement, UnsatisfiableUntil backoff, and capacity guards are
unchanged.

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

* feat(nodes): replica-removed chokepoint hook for prefix-cache invalidation

Add SetReplicaRemovedHook to NodeRegistry and fire it from both
RemoveNodeModel and RemoveAllNodeModelReplicas after a successful
delete. This is the single chokepoint every replica-removal path funnels
through (router eviction, reconciler scale-down, probe reaper,
health-monitor node-down reap, RemoteUnloaderAdapter), so the
prefix-cache index can be invalidated by construction rather than wiring
each call site individually.

The hook is stored in an atomic.Pointer so the startup wiring (setter)
and the request/reconcile-time fire are race-free; it is nil-safe when
unset. GORM Delete reports no error for a no-op delete, so the hook also
fires when nothing was removed; the consumer's Invalidate(model, node)
is idempotent so this is harmless.

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

* feat(distributed): invalidate prefix-cache on any replica removal via registry hook

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

* refactor(prefixcache): single source of truth for threshold bounds

Extract ValidateThresholds into prefixcache/config.go so the per-model
override validation (nodes.go endpoint) and Config.Validate share one
implementation of the numeric bounds (min_prefix_match in [0,1],
balance_abs_threshold >= 0, balance_rel_threshold == 0-or->= 1) instead
of hard-coding them in two places. The route_policy allow-list stays
explicit (not ParsePolicy, which maps typos to Default).

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

* fix(nodes): preserve prefix-cache settings on partial scheduling update

A scheduling POST that omitted route_policy/thresholds (e.g. a
min_replicas-only update) full-replaced every column and silently reset
the model's previously-configured prefix-cache settings to empty/zero.

Make the four prefix-cache request fields pointers so omitted is
distinguishable from explicit zero, and merge PATCH-style in
SetSchedulingEndpoint: a provided pointer wins, an omitted one preserves
the existing config value (zero default when none). Non-prefix fields
keep their full-replace PUT semantics. Validation now runs on the
resolved values via prefixcache.ValidateThresholds.

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

* fix(prefixcache): make Invalidate a no-op for uncached models and skip empty broadcasts

A registry chokepoint fires Sync.Invalidate(model, nodeID) for every replica
removal of every model, including round-robin models that never used the
prefix cache. Index.Invalidate previously called tree(model), which lazily
created and permanently retained an empty radix tree for any model that ever
lost a replica, growing the trees map without bound. Sync.Invalidate also
published a NATS PrefixCacheInvalidateEvent on every call, amplifying no-op
removals across the cluster.

Index.Invalidate now looks the tree up read-only via existingTree and returns
without allocating when none exists. The Provider interface is unchanged;
Sync gates the broadcast through an optional invalidateExisting(bool) capability
type-asserted from the wrapped Index, falling back to the prior always-broadcast
behavior for other Provider implementations.

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

* perf(prefixcache): derive Decide candidacy from WeightsFor and skip trivial sort

WeightsFor already returns a map keyed by every requested candidate, so the
separate candidates set built to validate the hot match was redundant: a node
is a candidate iff it is a key in the weights map. Drop the extra map and gate
the hot-match check on weights membership. Also skip the sort when there is at
most one candidate, since the input order is already the cold order. Behavior
is unchanged.

Deferred follow-up: skipping the WeightsFor walk entirely when a hot match wins
would need lazy cross-file changes and is out of scope here.

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

* fix(nodes): fire replica-removed hook on bulk node_models deletes; trim LoadedReplicaStats columns

Bulk node-scoped node_models deletes (Register re-register cleanup,
MarkOffline, MarkDraining, Deregister) removed rows directly without
firing the replica-removed hook, so the prefix-cache index kept
pointing at nodes whose models were gone. Capture the DISTINCT model
names before each bulk delete and fire fireReplicaRemoved once per
model after a successful delete, restoring the single-chokepoint
invariant for all removal paths. The pre-query is skipped when no hook
is set so the no-hook path stays cheap.

Also narrow LoadedReplicaStats to SELECT only node_id and in_flight
(the only fields the router consumer reads), dropping the JOIN-side
available_vram fetch and unused columns while keeping the
[]ReplicaCandidate return type unchanged.

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

* fix(reconciler): consume autoscale signals only on a real scale-up

scaleUp was fire-and-forget (void) yet its callers unconditionally
consumed the pressure signal (Pressure.Reset) and the MinReplicas
hysteresis (ClearUnsatisfiable) right after calling it. If scaleUp
added nothing (ScheduleAndLoadModel errored, or no node could be
loaded) the saturated warm replica got no new replica AND its
accumulated forced-disturb history was wiped, forcing the signal to
re-accumulate over a full PressureWindow before the next attempt.

Make scaleUp return whether at least one replica was actually
scheduled, and gate the side effects on it:

- pressure block (2b): set scaledUp and call Pressure.Reset only on
  success; on failure preserve the signal so the next tick retries off
  the same accumulated pressure.
- busy-burst block (2): set scaledUp from the return value so a failed
  attempt does not suppress the pressure path or scale-down.
- MinReplicas block: call ClearUnsatisfiable only on success so a
  failed attempt does not reset the unsatisfiable counter.

All existing invariants (MaxReplicas, capacity gating,
UnsatisfiableUntil cooldown, at-most-one-scale-up-per-tick) are
preserved.

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

* refactor(nodes): drop router's redundant prefix-cache Invalidate calls

The NodeRegistry removal chokepoint (RemoveNodeModel /
RemoveAllNodeModelReplicas) now fires SetReplicaRemovedHook, which
invalidates the prefix-cache index. The router was also calling
prefixProvider.Invalidate explicitly right after each registry removal
on the two stale-replica health-probe fall-throughs in Route and in
UnloadModel, so every router-side eviction invalidated twice (double
tree-prune + double NATS broadcast).

Remove the three redundant explicit Invalidate calls and their empty
nil-guards. Each removed call sat immediately after a registry removal
that fires the hook, so invalidation is preserved via the chokepoint.
Decide/Observe usage is untouched.

Re-point the unit test (fake registry fires no hook) to assert the
removal chokepoint is exercised on unload instead of the router's
direct invalidation.

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

* fix(prefixcache): broadcast invalidations unconditionally for cross-frontend coherence

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

* fix(prefixcache): reject TTL<=0 in Config.Validate (eviction ticker would panic)

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

* fix(nodes): make capture+delete atomic in bulk node_models removal paths

MarkOffline, MarkDraining, and the Register re-register cleanup ran the
nodeModelNames SELECT and the bulk node_models DELETE as two separate
statements on r.db with no transaction. A SetNodeModel landing between
the two was deleted but its replica-removed hook never fired, leaving
the prefix-cache index pointing at a removed replica until TTL or
candidacy self-heal.

Wrap the capture and the delete in a single db.Transaction in each path
(mirroring how Deregister already does it). The captured model names are
collected into a slice declared outside the closure; the
replica-removed hook fires for each only after the transaction commits,
so a rollback never invalidates the index for a removal that did not
persist. The set of fired hooks now equals exactly the set of
node_models rows actually deleted, with no interleaving gap.

The status flip in MarkOffline/MarkDraining (setStatus) is a separate,
pre-existing operation and routing already filters non-healthy nodes, so
it stays outside the transaction; return contracts are unchanged.
Deregister was already correct and is untouched. The cheap-path skip
(no hook -> skip the SELECT) is preserved.

Adds a spec asserting MarkOffline fires hooks for exactly the rows it
deletes and leaves no node_models row behind (consistent snapshot).

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

* chore(nodes): debug logging for prefix-cache routing decisions and observations

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

* fix(radixtree): match shared prefixes by valuing every node on insert

Insert recorded the value (node id) only on the final node of the key
chain, leaving every intermediate prefix node valueless. LongestMatch
returns the deepest node that hasValue, so two chains that share a
leading block but diverge in the tail never matched: only exact-repeat
queries hit. That broke the prefix-cache routing core use cases (shared
system prompt, multi-turn extension, volatile tail), all of which rely
on prefix matching rather than exact-repeat.

Set value/hasValue/lastSeen at every node along the chain so each
prefix-block node remembers the node id that served that prefix
(SGLang/vLLM-style). The deepest match wins, and the last writer owns a
shared prefix node (a recency heuristic: the most recent chain through a
block is the one most likely still warm). size now counts valued nodes,
which is the intended meaning.

Updated radixtree tests to the new semantics: deepest-prefix test uses
non-overlapping chains, a new test asserts last-writer-owns-shared-node,
Evict/Remove/MaxEntries expectations recomputed for per-prefix-node
counting, and a shared-prefix LongestMatch red test added. Added a
prefixcache Decide test proving a prefix-only query routes to the warm
node. No prefixcache .go logic changed.

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

* test(distributed): lock in prefix-cache routing behavior end to end

Add a DB-backed e2e spec that drives SmartRouter against a real
NodeRegistry (Postgres testcontainer) and the real prefixcache.Index
radix-tree provider, using a fake gRPC backend factory so no real
inference runs. Covers the five behaviors validated by hand:

1. Cold miss + observe: an unseen prefix chain cold-places and is recorded.
2. Hot-match affinity: the same chain returns to its warm node X.
3. Shared-prefix match: a divergent chain sharing X's leading prefix
   still routes to X (the radix-tree regression we fixed).
4. Negative control: an unrelated chain is a cold miss, not a false
   hot match on X.
5. Failover + invalidation: removing X's replica fires the registry
   chokepoint hook to invalidate the prefix entry, and the chain fails
   over to surviving node Y and re-homes there.

Replaces the need for manual docker-compose re-runs.

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

* refactor(prefixcache): make prefix-cache affinity replica-granular

Track prefix-cache affinity per loaded replica (a backend process with its
own KV cache) instead of per node, so multiple replicas of the same model on
one node each keep distinct affinity and a hot prefix routes back to the exact
replica that served it.

- radixtree: add RemoveFunc(pred) and reimplement Remove on top of it.
- prefixcache: introduce ReplicaKey{NodeID, Replica}; Index/Candidate/
  PrefixDecision/Select/Provider now key on ReplicaKey. Add InvalidateNode to
  drop every replica of a node; Invalidate drops one replica. Select returns
  (ReplicaKey, bool) and gains a deterministic least-in-flight eligible
  fallback (tiebreak NodeID then Replica).
- messaging: carry Replica on PrefixCacheObserveEvent and
  PrefixCacheInvalidateEvent (Replica < 0 means all replicas of the node).
- Sync delegates + broadcasts with replica; InvalidateNode broadcasts
  Replica=-1; ApplyInvalidate routes negative replica to InvalidateNode.

This is part 1 of 2; the registry/router/wiring consumers are updated
separately.

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

* feat(distributed): make prefix-cache routing replica-granular

Wire the SmartRouter, NodeRegistry, and distributed startup to the
replica-keyed prefixcache API. Affinity is now tracked per replica
(each replica is a separate process with its own KV cache), so a prefix
served by (node,0) no longer leaks onto the same-node sibling (node,1).

- RoutePreference gains PreferredReplica; FindAndLockNodeWithModel locks
  the EXACT (node_id, replica_index) row, falling through to the default
  ORDER BY when that replica is not loaded.
- SetReplicaRemovedHook now carries replicaIndex; RemoveNodeModel fires
  the specific replica, RemoveAllNodeModelReplicas and the four bulk
  node-scoped deletes fire replica<0 (all replicas of the node).
- buildPreference builds one Candidate per loaded replica and locks the
  exact replica the policy chose; observePrefix records the served
  ReplicaKey at every call site.
- distributed.go routes the hook to InvalidateNode (replica<0) or
  Invalidate(key).
- Tests updated to the replica-keyed API plus new coverage: a hot prefix
  on (node,0) prefers replica 0 over the same-node sibling (router unit +
  e2e), and FindAndLock locks the exact preferred replica.

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

* fix(distributed): derive prefix chain from messages for tokenizer-template models

Prefix-cache-aware routing built its prompt-prefix chain from the rendered
prompt string `s` in ModelInference. For models with
TemplateConfig.UseTokenizerTemplate the frontend never renders a prompt - the
backend tokenizes the structured messages itself - so `s` is empty, the chain
is empty, and routing silently falls back to round-robin. That covers the bulk
of modern chat models (qwen3, llama3, ...), so the feature effectively never
engaged for them.

Fall back to messagesPrefixSource(messages): a deterministic, prefix-stable
head-first serialization of the conversation (role + content per turn). Two
requests sharing a leading system prompt and early turns share a leading byte
prefix, which ExtractChain maps to a shared chain prefix - landing both on the
same cache-warm replica. The rendered `s` is still preferred when present
(higher fidelity for non-template models).

Found via the multi-replica-per-node e2e: zero "prefix-cache routing decision"
logs despite per-request Route calls, traced to the empty-chain guard.

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

* docs(distributed): document prefix-cache routing roadmap

Add a routing-and-caching roadmap section to the distributed-mode guide,
linking the epic (#10063) and the follow-up issues (#10064-#10070) surfaced
from a survey of SGLang, vLLM production-stack, Ray Serve, llm-d, AIBrix, and
NVIDIA Dynamo.

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

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-30 23:24:22 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto a0f3e26245 fix(distributed): make admin backend installs resilient and observable (#9958)
* feat(distributed): add configurable NATS backend install/upgrade timeouts

Adds BackendInstallTimeout and BackendUpgradeTimeout to DistributedConfig
with 15m defaults, following the existing MCPToolTimeout / WorkerWaitTimeout
pattern. These will replace the hardcoded literals in RemoteUnloaderAdapter
so admin-driven backend installs across the cluster survive long OCI image
pulls that previously timed out at 3m.

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

* style(distributed): gofmt alignment after timeout fields

Re-aligns the Validate() negative-duration map and the Default* const
block so the new BackendInstall/UpgradeTimeout entries do not leave
the surrounding columns mis-padded.

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

* feat(cli): surface LOCALAI_NATS_BACKEND_INSTALL_TIMEOUT and _UPGRADE_TIMEOUT

Parses the two new env vars on the run CLI and threads them through the
existing AppOption builder so DistributedConfig picks them up. Invalid
duration strings now fail loudly at startup rather than silently falling
back to the default.

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

* feat(distributed): inject NATS install/upgrade timeouts into RemoteUnloaderAdapter

Removes the hardcoded 3m / 15m literals from RemoteUnloaderAdapter and
threads in DistributedConfig.BackendInstallTimeoutOrDefault() and
BackendUpgradeTimeoutOrDefault() at construction. Install now defaults
to 15m (was 3m); cold OCI image pulls on Jetson Wi-Fi routinely blew
past the old ceiling. Scripted messaging client captures the timeout
so tests can assert the configured value actually reaches the NATS
request.

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

* feat(distributed): introduce galleryop.ErrWorkerStillInstalling sentinel

When the NATS request-reply for backend.install (or .upgrade) times out
the worker is almost always still pulling the OCI image. Wrap the timeout
in a typed sentinel so the manager above can distinguish "worker hung"
from "worker still working" and leave the pending_backend_ops row in
place for the reconciler to confirm via backend.list.

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

* feat(distributed): treat NATS install timeout as in-progress, not failure

When a worker times out replying to backend.install but the install is
still running on the worker, enqueueAndDrainBackendOp now reports a
running_on_worker status and pushes NextRetryAt out by the install
timeout so the reconciler does not immediately re-fire another install
while the worker is still pulling the image. The pending_backend_ops
row stays in place for the next reconciler pass to confirm via
backend.list.

InstallBackend wraps the result in galleryop.ErrWorkerStillInstalling
so callers can branch (galleryop renders yellow in-progress instead of
red error). UpgradeBackend uses the same wrap.

Adds RemoteUnloaderAdapter.InstallTimeout() so the manager can push
NextRetryAt by the configured timeout without reaching into a private
field, and NodeRegistry.RecordPendingBackendOpInFlight as the soft
cousin of RecordPendingBackendOpFailure.

Also includes incidental gofmt-driven struct-field alignment in
registry.go on lines unrelated to the change (touched files are
re-formatted to canonical form per project policy).

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

* fix(distributed): don't increment Attempts on in-flight install timeout

An in-flight timeout (worker still pulling the OCI image) is not a
failed attempt, it's a delayed one. Incrementing Attempts let
genuinely-progressing slow installs (e.g. 30 GB CUDA images on Wi-Fi)
trip the reconciler's maxPendingBackendOpAttempts cap and dead-letter
the queue row while the worker was still legitimately working.

RecordPendingBackendOpInFlight now only updates LastError and NextRetryAt.
Also documents "running_on_worker" in the NodeOpStatus.Status enum
comment so Task 6 implementers see the full surface.

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

* feat(galleryop): surface ErrWorkerStillInstalling as non-error OpStatus

When the distributed backend manager returns an error that wraps
ErrWorkerStillInstalling, backendHandler now completes the op with a
"still installing in background" message rather than marking it as a
red failure. Admin UI sees a yellow in-progress state; reconciler
confirms completion on its next pass.

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

* test(distributed): end-to-end install-timeout-then-reconcile

Wires Task 1-6 end-to-end so any seam mismatch surfaces in CI rather
than during a real cluster install. NATS times out, the queue row
stays alive with running_on_worker status, the worker eventually
reports the backend installed via backend.list, the manager surfaces
it via ListBackends.

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

* docs(distributed): document LOCALAI_NATS_BACKEND_INSTALL_TIMEOUT / _UPGRADE_TIMEOUT

Add the two new operator-tunable env vars to the Frontend Configuration
table in the distributed-mode docs. Explains the 15m default, when to
raise it (slow links pulling multi-GB OCI images), and the new
"still installing in background" admin-UI state when the round-trip
times out but the worker is still working.

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

* feat(distributed): clear pending install rows when backend.list confirms

DistributedBackendManager.ListBackends now proactively clears
pending_backend_ops install rows whose (nodeID, backend) is reported
installed by backend.list. Operator UI updates immediately instead of
waiting up to installTimeout (default 15m) for the next reconciler
tick after NextRetryAt.

Only install rows are cleared; upgrade and delete intents are not
satisfied by presence in backend.list and continue to drain through
their normal reconciler paths.

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

* feat(messaging): add BackendInstallProgressEvent wire type and subject

New NATS subject nodes.<nodeID>.backend.install.<opID>.progress lets the
worker publish transient progress events (file, current/total bytes,
percentage, phase) while a long-running install pulls its OCI image.
BackendInstallRequest gains an optional OpID field so the worker knows
which subject to publish on.

Transient pub/sub (not JetStream): the install reply remains ground
truth for success/failure; dropped progress events are tolerable.

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

* style(messaging): drop em-dash from BackendInstallProgress test comment

Per project convention (no em-dashes anywhere). Comment substance is
unchanged.

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

* feat(distributed): worker publishes debounced install progress over NATS

When BackendInstallRequest.OpID is set, the worker's backend.install
handler wires a debounced publisher (250ms window) into the gallery
download callback. Each tick becomes a BackendInstallProgressEvent on
nodes.<nodeID>.backend.install.<opID>.progress; the publisher always
emits a final event on Flush so the UI sees the terminal percentage.

Old masters that do not set OpID continue to run silent installs: no
behavior change for them. Lock ordering: the publisher releases its
mutex before calling messaging.Publish so a slow network never stalls
the install loop.

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

* feat(distributed): RemoteUnloaderAdapter subscribes to install progress

InstallBackend gains opID + onProgress parameters. When both are set,
the adapter subscribes to nodes.<nodeID>.backend.install.<opID>.progress
BEFORE publishing the install request, decodes each message into the
caller's onProgress callback in a goroutine (so a slow callback never
stalls the NATS reader thread), and unsubscribes after RequestJSON
returns.

When onProgress is nil OR opID is empty (the reconciler retry path),
subscription is skipped entirely - silent installs cost nothing extra.

Subscribe failure is logged at Warn and the install proceeds without
progress streaming; the NATS round-trip still owns terminal status.

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

* feat(distributed): forward backend install progress into galleryop OpStatus

DistributedBackendManager.InstallBackend now passes the gallery op ID
and a progress bridge into the adapter call. Each
BackendInstallProgressEvent from the worker becomes a
galleryop.ProgressCallback tick - which the existing backendHandler
already turns into OpStatus.UpdateStatus, so the admin UI/SSE polling
sees per-byte progress for distributed installs without any UI-side
change.

UpgradeBackend is intentionally left silent for now: its wire request
(BackendUpgradeRequest) does not carry OpID, and rolling-update
fallback is the rarer path. Will be picked up in a follow-up if the
worker upgrade path also gets a progress channel.

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

* test(distributed): InstallBackend tolerates silent (pre-Phase-2) workers

A worker on pre-Phase-2 code never publishes progress events. The new
master subscribes optimistically; this spec pins that a silent worker
still produces a green install with no progressCb ticks. The install
reply is the source of truth for terminal state; the progress stream
is a best-effort UX enrichment.

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

* docs(distributed): document install progress streaming

Note the new nodes.<nodeID>.backend.install.<opID>.progress subject and
the silent-worker compatibility behavior so operators know to expect
real-time progress and what happens on a mixed-version cluster.

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

* docs(distributed): note progress-event ordering trade-off in InstallBackend

Document near the goroutine dispatch why ordering at the consumer is
best-effort, why it rarely matters in practice (worker debounce >>
goroutine jitter), and what a future hardening pass would look like
(Seq field + stale-by-seq drop). Stops the next reader from accidentally
"fixing" the goroutine pool away.

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

* feat(galleryop): add NodeProgress + OpStatus.Nodes for per-node breakdown

Adds the data model the UI needs to render an expandable per-node
breakdown of a fanned-out backend install. NodeProgress carries node
identity (ID + name), per-node status (queued / running_on_worker /
success / error / downloading), the current file + bytes + percentage
from the Phase 2 progress stream, and any per-node error.

OpStatus.Nodes is the slice the /api/operations handler will surface
in a follow-up.

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

* feat(galleryop): UpdateNodeProgress merges per-node ticks by NodeID

GalleryService.UpdateNodeProgress(opID, nodeID, np) merges a NodeProgress
into OpStatus.Nodes (keyed by NodeID, no duplicates) and mirrors the
latest tick into the aggregate Progress / FileName /
DownloadedFileSize / TotalFileSize fields so the legacy single-bar
OperationsBar view keeps working unchanged alongside the new per-node
breakdown.

Concurrent-safe via the existing g.Mutex.

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

* feat(distributed): write per-node OpStatus entries during install fan-out

DistributedBackendManager now accepts a nodeProgressSink and feeds it
two streams:

1. enqueueAndDrainBackendOp emits a per-node terminal entry on each
   status it appends to BackendOpResult (queued, success, error,
   running_on_worker). The opID is threaded through the function so
   the sink gets the right gallery op identity.

2. The install apply closure fans each BackendInstallProgressEvent
   into the sink as a downloading entry, alongside the legacy
   progressCb path so the aggregate single-bar view stays correct.

Production wiring passes the GalleryService (which implements
UpdateNodeProgress via Task 2) as the sink. Single-node tests pass
nil. DeleteBackend and UpgradeBackend pass an empty opID so the
sink path no-ops for ops that aren't gallery-tracked the same way
as Install.

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

* feat(operations): expose per-node breakdown on /api/operations

When an operation's OpStatus has Nodes entries (populated by the
Phase 4 progress sink wiring), surface them as a "nodes" array on the
/api/operations response, sorted by node_name for stable rendering.

Backward compatible: legacy clients ignore the field; ops without any
node entries (single-node mode, model installs) omit the array entirely
thanks to the empty-slice guard.

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

* feat(ui): per-node breakdown in OperationsBar

When an install op fans out to more than one worker, the operations
bar now shows a "N nodes" chevron that expands into a per-node list.
Each row carries the node's status (color-coded pill), the current
file being downloaded, byte counts, percentage, and a thin per-node
progress bar. Yellow "Worker busy" pill marks running_on_worker
status with a tooltip explaining the NATS round-trip timed out but
the worker is still installing in the background.

Backward compatible: ops without a nodes field (legacy or single-node
mode) render as before. State for expand/collapse is local to the
component, keyed by jobID/id - reload starts collapsed.

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

* docs(distributed): document per-node breakdown in the operations bar

Adds a short subsection covering the expandable "N nodes" chevron in
the OperationsBar admin UI, the meaning of each status pill, and
how it relates to the /api/operations nodes array.

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

* fix(galleryop): UpdateStatus preserves Nodes when caller sends none

Real-world bug surfaced by the Phase 4 multi-worker smoke test: the
nodes[] array in /api/operations flickered between a single node at a
time on a 2-worker install. Root cause: the Phase 2 progress bridge
also calls the legacy progressCb -> UpdateStatus(&OpStatus{...}) on
every tick. UpdateStatus then overwrote the entire status pointer,
wiping the Nodes slice that UpdateNodeProgress had just merged in.

Fix: in UpdateStatus, if the incoming op has an empty Nodes slice,
carry forward the previous status's Nodes before storing. Callers
that explicitly populate Nodes still win (their slice replaces the
prior one, no merge across the two code paths).

Two regression specs added pinning both directions of the contract.

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

* docs(distributed): strip implementation details from user-facing docs

Trim the new install/upgrade timeout rows and the install-progress
sections to focus on what the operator sees and tunes. Drops:

- the NATS subject names and pub/sub mechanics
- "round-trip" / reconciler / backend.list jargon
- /api/operations polling cadence
- "pre-2026-05-22" version references

Reframes the breakdown text around the admin UI (Operations Bar,
chevron, status pills, "Worker busy" tooltip). Implementation context
lives in the agent notes and code comments.

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

* refactor(config): move DistributedConfig.Validate flag names to constants

The negative-duration check map was a wall of literal kebab-case
strings that had to stay in sync with the kong-derived CLI flag names
manually. Move them to a Flag* const block alongside the existing
Default* block so a rename of either the Go field or the CLI naming
convention forces a compile error rather than silent drift.

Sole consumer today is Validate; the constants are exported so future
operator-facing surfaces (e.g. error messages on other validation
paths) can reference them by name instead of repeating the literals.

Tests pin both the literal values (so a future "let's just rename
this" doesn't accidentally regress the CLI flag) and the negative-
duration error message for the new BackendInstall / BackendUpgrade
fields.

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

* refactor(distributed): extract NodeStatus and Phase enums to constants

Sweep for the same literal-string-as-identifier pattern called out on
the Validate flag names: the per-node install status enum
("queued" | "downloading" | "running_on_worker" | "success" | "error")
appeared as raw literals across managers_distributed.go (10+ sites,
including 3 separate `n.Status == "running_on_worker"` checks),
operation.go, and the test suite. Same shape for the Phase enum
("resolving" | "downloading" | "extracting" | "starting") in the
worker-side progress publisher.

Promote both to exported const blocks:

- galleryop.NodeStatus{Queued,Downloading,RunningOnWorker,Success,Error}
  shared between galleryop.NodeProgress.Status (the wire field) and
  nodes.NodeOpStatus.Status (the in-process per-node summary)
- messaging.Phase{Resolving,Downloading,Extracting,Starting}
  shared between the worker publisher and any future consumer that
  needs to switch on phase

Tests pin both the literal values (so a future "let's just rename" doesn't
silently change the JSON wire) and use the constants in setup (so the
producer side stays drift-protected). Wire-format assertions on the
/api/operations JSON output keep their literals deliberately, so the
constant value can never silently diverge from what the UI receives.

Out of scope for this PR (separate cleanup): the finetune and
quantization job-status enums have the same anti-pattern with 14+
literal sites each, but predate this PR's work.

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

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Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-23 12:35:44 +02:00
LocalAI [bot]andEttore Di Giacinto b4fdb41dcc fix(distributed): cascade-clean stale node_models rows + filter routing by healthy status (#9754)
* fix(distributed): cascade-clean stale node_models on drain and filter routing by healthy status

Stale node_models rows (state="loaded") were surviving past the healthy
state of their owning node, causing /embeddings (and other inference
paths) to dispatch to a backend whose process was gone or drained. The
downstream symptom in a live cluster was pgvector rejecting inserts
with "vector cannot have more than 16000 dimensions (SQLSTATE 54000)"
because the misbehaving backend silently returned a malformed
(oversized) tensor; the Models page showed the model as "running"
without an associated node, like a stale entry, even though the node
was no longer visible in the Nodes view.

Two changes here, plus a third in a follow-up commit:

- MarkDraining now cascade-deletes node_models rows for the affected
  node, mirroring MarkOffline. Drains are explicit operator actions —
  the box has been intentionally taken out of rotation — so clearing
  the rows stops the Models UI from misreporting and prevents the
  routing layer from picking those rows if scheduling logic is ever
  relaxed. In-flight requests already hold their gRPC client through
  Route() and finish normally; the only observable effect is a
  non-fatal IncrementInFlight warning, acceptable for a drain.

  MarkUnhealthy is deliberately left status-only: it fires from
  managers_distributed / reconciler on a single nats.ErrNoResponders
  with no retry, so a transient NATS hiccup must not nuke every loaded
  model and force a full reload on recovery.

- FindAndLockNodeWithModel's inner JOIN now filters on
  backend_nodes.status = healthy in addition to node_models.state =
  loaded. The previous version relied on the second node-fetch step to
  reject non-healthy nodes, but a concurrent reader could still pick
  the same stale row in the same window. Belt-and-braces.

- DistributedConfig.PerModelHealthCheck renamed to
  DisablePerModelHealthCheck and inverted at the call site so
  per-model gRPC probing is on by default. The probe (now made
  consecutive-miss aware in a follow-up commit) independently health-
  checks each model's gRPC address and removes stale node_models rows
  when the backend has crashed even though the worker's node-level
  heartbeat is still arriving.

  Migration: the field had no CLI flag, env var binding, or YAML key
  in tree (only the bare struct field), so there is no user-facing
  migration. Anything constructing DistributedConfig in code needs to
  drop the assignment (default now does the right thing) or invert it.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go-vet go-test golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(distributed): require consecutive misses before per-model probe removes a row

The per-model gRPC probe used to remove a node_models row on a single
failed health check. With the per-model probe now on by default, that
made any 5-second gRPC blip (network jitter, a long-running request
hogging the worker's gRPC server thread, brief GC pause) trigger a
full reload of the affected model — too eager for production.

Require perModelMissThreshold (3) consecutive failed probes before
removal. At the default 15s tick a model must be unreachable for ~45s
before reap; a single successful probe in between resets the streak.
Per-(node, model, replica) state tracked under a mutex on the monitor.

If the removal call itself fails, the miss counter is left in place
so the next tick retries rather than starting the streak over.

Tests:
- removes stale model via per-model health check after consecutive
  failures (replaces the single-shot expectation)
- preserves model row when an intermittent failure is followed by a
  success (covers the reset-on-success path and verifies the counter
  reset by failing twice more without crossing threshold)
- newTestHealthMonitor initializes the misses map so direct-construct
  test helpers don't nil-map-panic in the probe path

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 go-vet go-test golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

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Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-13 21:57:50 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto bbcaebc1ef feat(concurrency-groups): per-model exclusive groups for backend loading (#9662)
* feat(concurrency-groups): per-model exclusive groups for backend loading

Adds `concurrency_groups: [...]` to model YAML configs. Two models that share
a group cannot be loaded concurrently on the same node — loading one evicts
the others, reusing the existing pinned/busy/retry policy from LRU eviction.

Layered design:
- Watchdog (pkg/model): per-node correctness floor — on every Load(), evict
  any loaded model that shares a group with the requested one. Pinned skips
  surface NeedMore so the loader retries (and ultimately logs a clear
  warning), instead of silently allowing the rule to be violated.
- Distributed scheduler (core/services/nodes): soft anti-affinity hint —
  scheduleNewModel prefers nodes that don't already host a same-group
  model, falling back to eviction only if every candidate has a conflict.
  Composes with NodeSelector at the same point in the candidate pipeline.

Per-node, not cluster-wide: VRAM is a node-local resource, and two heavy
models running on different nodes is fine. The ConfigLoader is wired into
SmartRouter via a small ConcurrencyConflictResolver interface so the nodes
package keeps a narrow surface on core/config.

Refactors the inner LRU eviction body into a shared collectEvictionsLocked
helper and the loader retry loop into retryEnforce(fn, maxRetries, interval),
so both LRU and group enforcement share busy/pinned/retry semantics.

Closes #9659.

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

* fix(watchdog): sync pinned + concurrency_groups at startup

The startup-time watchdog setup lives in initializeWatchdog (startup.go),
not in startWatchdog (watchdog.go). The latter is only invoked from the
runtime-settings RestartWatchdog path. As a result, neither
SyncPinnedModelsToWatchdog nor SyncModelGroupsToWatchdog ran at boot,
so `pinned: true` and `concurrency_groups: [...]` only became effective
after a settings-driven watchdog restart.

Fix by adding both sync calls to initializeWatchdog. Confirmed end-to-end:
loading model A in group "heavy", then C with no group (coexists),
then B in group "heavy" now correctly evicts A and leaves [B, C].

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

* fix(test): satisfy errcheck on new os.Remove in concurrency_groups spec

CI lint runs new-from-merge-base, so the existing pre-existing
`defer os.Remove(tmp.Name())` lines are baseline-grandfathered but the
one introduced by the concurrency_groups YAML round-trip test is held
to errcheck. Wrap the remove in a closure that discards the error.

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

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-05-05 08:42:50 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 75a63f87d8 feat(distributed): sync state with frontends, better backend management reporting (#9426)
* fix(distributed): detect backend upgrades across worker nodes

Before this change `DistributedBackendManager.CheckUpgrades` delegated to the
local manager, which read backends from the frontend filesystem. In
distributed deployments the frontend has no backends installed locally —
they live on workers — so the upgrade-detection loop never ran and the UI
silently never surfaced upgrades even when the gallery advertised newer
versions or digests.

Worker-side: NATS backend.list reply now carries Version, URI and Digest
for each installed backend (read from metadata.json).

Frontend-side: DistributedBackendManager.ListBackends aggregates per-node
refs (name, status, version, digest) instead of deduping, and CheckUpgrades
feeds that aggregation into gallery.CheckUpgradesAgainst — a new entrypoint
factored out of CheckBackendUpgrades so both paths share the same core
logic.

Cluster drift policy: when per-node version/digest tuples disagree, the
backend is flagged upgradeable regardless of whether any single node
matches the gallery, and UpgradeInfo.NodeDrift enumerates the outliers so
operators can see *why* it is out of sync. The next upgrade-all realigns
the cluster.

Tests cover: drift detection, unanimous-match (no upgrade), and the
empty-installed-version path that the old distributed code silently
missed.

* feat(ui): surface backend upgrades in the System page

The System page (Manage.jsx) only showed updates as a tiny inline arrow,
so operators routinely missed them. Port the Backend Gallery's upgrade UX
so System speaks the same visual language:

- Yellow banner at the top of the Backends tab when upgrades are pending,
  with an "Upgrade all" button (serial fan-out, matches the gallery) and a
  "Updates only" filter toggle.
- Warning pill (↑ N) next to the tab label so the count is glanceable even
  when the banner is scrolled out of view.
- Per-row labeled "Upgrade to vX.Y" button (replaces the icon-only button
  that silently flipped semantics between Reinstall and Upgrade), plus an
  "Update available" badge in the new Version column.
- New columns: Version (with upgrade + drift chips), Nodes (per-node
  attribution badges for distributed mode, degrading to a compact
  "on N nodes · M offline" chip above three nodes), Installed (relative
  time).
- System backends render a "Protected" chip instead of a bare "—" so rows
  still align and the reason is obvious.
- Delete uses the softer btn-danger-ghost so rows don't scream red; the
  ConfirmDialog still owns the "are you sure".

The upgrade checker also needed the same per-worker fix as the previous
commit: NewUpgradeChecker now takes a BackendManager getter so its
periodic runs call the distributed CheckUpgrades (which asks workers)
instead of the empty frontend filesystem. Without this the /api/backends/
upgrades endpoint stayed empty in distributed mode even with the protocol
change in place.

New CSS primitives — .upgrade-banner, .tab-pill, .badge-row, .cell-stack,
.cell-mono, .cell-muted, .row-actions, .btn-danger-ghost — all live in
App.css so other pages can adopt them without duplicating styles.

* feat(ui): polish the Nodes page so it reads like a product

The Nodes page was the biggest visual liability in distributed mode.
Rework the main dashboard surfaces in place without changing behavior:

StatCards: uniform height (96px min), left accent bar colored by the
metric's semantic (success/warning/error/primary), icon lives in a
36x36 soft-tinted chip top-right, value is left-aligned and large.
Grid auto-fills so the row doesn't collapse on narrow viewports. This
replaces the previous thin-bordered boxes with inconsistent heights.

Table rows: expandable rows now show a chevron cue on the left (rotates
on expand) so users know rows open. Status cell became a dedicated chip
with an LED-style halo dot instead of a bare bullet. Action buttons gained
labels — "Approve", "Resume", "Drain" — so the icons aren't doing all
the semantic work; the destructive remove action uses the softer
btn-danger-ghost variant so rows don't scream red, with the ConfirmDialog
still owning the real "are you sure". Applied cell-mono/cell-muted
utility classes so label chips and addresses share one spacing/font
grammar instead of re-declaring inline styles everywhere.

Expanded drawer: empty states for Loaded Models and Installed Backends
now render as a proper drawer-empty card (dashed border, icon, one-line
hint) instead of a plain muted string that read like broken formatting.

Tabs: three inline-styled buttons became the shared .tab class so they
inherit focus ring, hover state, and the rest of the design system —
matches the System page.

"Add more workers" toggle turned into a .nodes-add-worker dashed-border
button labelled "Register a new worker" (action voice) instead of a
chevron + muted link that operators kept mistaking for broken text.

New shared CSS primitives carry over to other pages:
.stat-grid + .stat-card, .row-chevron, .node-status, .drawer-empty,
.nodes-add-worker.

* feat(distributed): durable backend fan-out + state reconciliation

Two connected problems handled together:

1) Backend delete/install/upgrade used to silently skip non-healthy nodes,
   so a delete during an outage left a zombie on the offline node once it
   returned. The fan-out now records intent in a new pending_backend_ops
   table before attempting the NATS round-trip. Currently-healthy nodes
   get an immediate attempt; everyone else is queued. Unique index on
   (node_id, backend, op) means reissuing the same operation refreshes
   next_retry_at instead of stacking duplicates.

2) Loaded-model state could drift from reality: a worker OOM'd, got
   killed, or restarted a backend process would leave a node_models row
   claiming the model was still loaded, feeding ghost entries into the
   /api/nodes/models listing and the router's scheduling decisions.

The existing ReplicaReconciler gains two new passes that run under a
fresh KeyStateReconciler advisory lock (non-blocking, so one wedged
frontend doesn't freeze the cluster):

  - drainPendingBackendOps: retries queued ops whose next_retry_at has
    passed on currently-healthy nodes. Success deletes the row; failure
    bumps attempts and pushes next_retry_at out with exponential backoff
    (30s → 15m cap). ErrNoResponders also marks the node unhealthy.

  - probeLoadedModels: gRPC-HealthChecks addresses the DB thinks are
    loaded but hasn't seen touched in the last probeStaleAfter (2m).
    Unreachable addresses are removed from the registry. A pluggable
    ModelProber lets tests substitute a fake without standing up gRPC.

DistributedBackendManager exposes DeleteBackendDetailed so the HTTP
handler can surface per-node outcomes ("2 succeeded, 1 queued") to the
UI in a follow-up commit; the existing DeleteBackend still returns
error-only for callers that don't care about node breakdown.

Multi-frontend safety: the state pass uses advisorylock.TryWithLockCtx
on a new key so N frontends coordinate — the same pattern the health
monitor and replica reconciler already rely on. Single-node mode runs
both passes inline (adapter is nil, state drain is a no-op).

Tests cover the upsert semantics, backoff math, the probe removing an
unreachable model but keeping a reachable one, and filtering by
probeStaleAfter.

* feat(ui): show cluster distribution of models in the System page

When a frontend restarted in distributed mode, models that workers had
already loaded weren't visible until the operator clicked into each node
manually — the /api/models/capabilities endpoint only knew about
configs on the frontend's filesystem, not the registry-backed truth.

/api/models/capabilities now joins in ListAllLoadedModels() when the
registry is active, returning loaded_on[] with node id/name/state/status
for each model. Models that live in the registry but lack a local config
(the actual ghosts, not recovered from the frontend's file cache) still
surface with source="registry-only" so operators can see and persist
them; without that emission they'd be invisible to this frontend.

Manage → Models replaces the old Running/Idle pill with a distribution
cell that lists the first three nodes the model is loaded on as chips
colored by state (green loaded, blue loading, amber anything else). On
wider clusters the remaining count collapses into a +N chip with a
title-attribute breakdown. Disabled / single-node behavior unchanged.

Adopted models get an extra "Adopted" ghost-icon chip with hover copy
explaining what it means and how to make it permanent.

Distributed mode also enables a 10s auto-refresh and a "Last synced Xs
ago" indicator next to the Update button so ghost rows drop off within
one reconcile tick after their owning process dies. Non-distributed
mode is untouched — no polling, no cell-stack, same old Running/Idle.

* feat(ui): NodeDistributionChip — shared per-node attribution component

Large clusters were going to break the Manage → Backends Nodes column:
the old inline logic rendered every node as a badge and would shred the
layout at >10 workers, plus the Manage → Models distribution cell had
copy-pasted its own slightly-different version.

NodeDistributionChip handles any cluster size with two render modes:
  - small (≤3 nodes): inline chips of node names, colored by health.
  - large: a single "on N nodes · M offline · K drift" summary chip;
    clicking opens a Popover with a per-node table (name, status,
    version, digest for backends; name, status, state for models).

Drift counting mirrors the backend's summarizeNodeDrift so the UI
number matches UpgradeInfo.NodeDrift. Digests are truncated to the
docker-style 12-char form with the full value preserved in the title.

Popover is a new general-purpose primitive: fixed positioning anchored
to the trigger, flips above when there's no room below, closes on
outside-click or Escape, returns focus to the trigger. Uses .card as
its surface so theming is inherited. Also useful for a future
labels-editor popup and the user menu.

Manage.jsx drops its duplicated inline Nodes-column + loaded_on cell
and uses the shared chip with context="backends" / "models"
respectively. Delete code removes ~40 lines of ad-hoc logic.

* feat(ui): shared FilterBar across the System page tabs

The Backends gallery had a nice search + chip + toggle strip; the System
page had nothing, so the two surfaces felt like different apps. Lift the
pattern into a reusable FilterBar and wire both System tabs through it.

New component core/http/react-ui/src/components/FilterBar.jsx renders a
search input, a role="tablist" chip row (aria-selected for a11y), and
optional toggles / right slot. Chips support an optional `count` which
the System page uses to show "User 3", "Updates 1" etc.

System Models tab: search by id or backend; chips for
All/Running/Idle/Disabled/Pinned plus a conditional Distributed chip in
distributed mode. "Last synced" + Update button live in the right slot.

System Backends tab: search by name/alias/meta-backend-for; chips for
All/User/System/Meta plus conditional Updates / Offline-nodes chips
when relevant. The old ad-hoc "Updates only" toggle from the upgrade
banner folded into the Updates chip — one source of truth for that
filter. Offline chip only appears in distributed mode when at least
one backend has an unhealthy node, so the chip row stays quiet on
healthy clusters.

Filter state persists in URL query params (mq/mf/bq/bf) so deep links
and tab switches keep the operator's filter context instead of
resetting every time.

Also adds an "Adopted" distribution path: when a model in
/api/models/capabilities carries source="registry-only" (discovered on
a worker but not configured locally), the Models tab shows a ghost chip
labelled "Adopted" with hover copy explaining how to persist it — this
is what closes the loop on the ghost-model story end-to-end.
2026-04-19 17:55:53 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 8862e3ce60 feat: add node reconciler, allow to schedule to group of nodes, min/max autoscaler (#9186)
* always enable parallel requests

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

* feat: add node reconciler, allow to schedule to group of nodes, min/max autoscaler

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

* chore: move tests to ginkgo

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* chore(smart router): order by available vram

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2026-03-31 08:28:56 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 59108fbe32 feat: add distributed mode (#9124)
* feat: add distributed mode (experimental)

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

* fix data races, mutexes, transactions

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

* refactorings

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* fixups

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* fix events and tool stream in agent chat

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* use ginkgo

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* refactoring and consolidation

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* refactoring and consolidation

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

* refactoring and consolidation

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

* refactoring and consolidation

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

* refactoring and consolidation

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

* refactoring and consolidation

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

* refactoring and consolidation

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

* refactoring and consolidation

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

* fix(cron): compute correctly time boundaries avoiding re-triggering

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

* enhancements, refactorings

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

* do not flood of healthy checks

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

* do not list obvious backends as text backends

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

* tests fixups

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

* refactoring and consolidation

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

* Drop redundant healthcheck

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

* enhancements, refactorings

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

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-03-30 00:47:27 +02:00