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Ettore Di Giacinto f2cc5a25cb fix(grpc): let the transport answer through the wrappers, not only past gRPC
Re-review round 2. One blocking defect, and it was the concern I filed myself
last round and mis-scoped as a future trap. It was live, and it sat on the most
destructive reaping path of the five.

RouteResult.Client is an InFlightTrackingClient, over a FileStagingClient when a
stager is configured. model_router puts that on the cached remote model and
pkg/model's checkIsLoaded asks IT whether the transport failed. Both wrappers
embed grpc.Backend, which does not declare LastDialError, so the type assertion
read nil and the guard added last round fell straight through to the old
eviction. That eviction sends backend.stop over NATS to every node holding the
model and deletes every replica row, where the other sites delete one. The spec
covering it built a bare client by hand, which is why it passed while production
did not.

This is the third time in this task a correct fix was disarmed one layer out, so
the fix is a mechanism rather than two methods. BackendUnwrapper is one line per
decorator, LastDialErrorOf walks the chain, and both consumers now call it
instead of each keeping its own assertion. One implementation, no per-caller
policy to get wrong.

Sweeping every type that embeds or holds a grpc.Backend found a third decorator
the review had not named, and it is itself a reaping consumer of the same
collapsed signal. ConnectionEvictingClient is built for remote models in
initializers.go and its evict callback runs ShutdownModel; it fires during
INFERENCE rather than on a health check, so a tunnel blip mid-request was enough
to stop a model that was loaded and serving. It consults the transport first
now. A locally spawned backend has no custom transport, so that path is
unchanged byte for byte. Everything else touching a Backend is a consumer rather
than a decorator; there is no fourth.

The probe cache joiner shape is pinned. It was the right design last round with
nothing holding it: the mutation back to a closed-over variable passed all 602
specs in the package. Eight goroutines coalesced on a probe that blocks on a
channel now assert every joiner gets the leader's REASON and not just its
answer, which is the difference between a leader declining to reap and its seven
joiners reaping on the leader's own observation.

The LastDialError scope note claimed an exactness it does not have at
checkIsLoaded, which reads a shared long-lived client after releasing opMutex.
It now says which caller is not exact, why the imprecision is accepted there,
and what making it exact would cost.

The four-outcome table in the docs still said a worker with no live owner is
treated as absent and rescheduled, contradicting the code and the paragraph nine
lines below it. None of those outcomes is absence any more, and the table says
so, names the fifth, and points at the heartbeat as the thing that does decide
presence.

Five mutations, each reddening named specs, including the two the reviewer found
surviving.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 4945e44595 fix(cluster): make "no route" a condition of its own, and let it out of the package
Review round 1 on task 6. Five blocking findings, all with the same root: the
conditions the dialer kept apart were erased one layer out, because every one of
them arrived at core/services/nodes as a gRPC codes.Unavailable, which is also
what a backend process that died produces. Four call sites acted on that by
deleting a replica row, one of them after a single failed probe.

The fifth condition is ErrNoRoute: this replica could not get a request to a
worker's backend, and no claim at all about the worker. A worker's presence is
its HEARTBEAT, which nodes owns; a route is a separate fact that cluster owns,
and the two now differ. They differ in normal operation, not exotically: a
worker that has not dialled its tunnel yet after a frontend-first upgrade is
unroutable on every request while it heartbeats and serves.

Two properties, both mutation-tested. Every failure to resolve or open a route
carries ErrNoRoute, so a consumer has one check to make. No failure carries an
absence sentinel: routeFailure is the single place that rule lives, and it keeps
ErrNoConnection and ErrInstanceNotFound in the message and out of the unwrap
chain, the guarantee unreachableError already made for peers. Everything else
stays matchable, so ErrNotOwner and ErrPeerUnreachable are unchanged for anyone
who can act on them. A worker's own refusal carries no umbrella, because a
worker that answers has demonstrated it is there and that is the only real
evidence on the path.

Crossing the boundary needed a value, not a code. NewClientWithDialer wraps the
dialer and records each outcome; LastDialError hands it back behind a narrow
interface, and nodes.unroutable turns it into ErrWorkerUnroutable with the
cluster sentinels still in the chain. A spec asserts a dial failing with
ErrNoRoute plus ErrPeerUnreachable arrives matching all three and matching
neither absence sentinel.

The sweep found a fourth site the review had not named: pkg/model checkIsLoaded
evicts a remote model on a connection error, and a tunnel dial failure is one.
Four other reap sites were cleared with reasons - inflight and the worker
authoritative pass reap only on semantic answers, scale-down is driven by
last_used, abandoned loads decide on the node's heartbeat. Every fixed site also
grew the opposite spec, so the new check cannot pass by never reaping.

probeCache carries the reason through singleflight rather than a closed-over
variable. A variable is only written by the goroutine that runs the probe, so
the leader would correctly decline to reap while every joiner reaped on the
leader's own observation; a mutation reproduces exactly that.

The docs sentence promising LOCALAI_WORKER_TUNNEL=false restores direct dialling
is gone. There is no such path, so it said the operator could take a worker dark
and call it a rollback. Replaced with the upgrade order that is actually safe.

The deadline spec the reviewer found vacuous now waits on the dial context's own
Done channel before touching the stream, so the armed deadline has really
expired; the mutation that survived for the reviewer reddens it.

Nine mutations, each reddening a named spec, including both halves of
isAbsenceClaim independently.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto d1b33140da feat(cluster): reach every worker through its tunnel, never its address
The tunnel, the fence, the registry and the relay were all built and none of
them carried a byte: every dial from the frontend still went to the address a
worker registered. This is where that stops. One WorkerDialer resolves where a
worker's tunnel is held, opens a stream on it locally or relays through the
owning replica, and hands back a conn past both handshakes; gRPC, the file
stager's HTTP client and the log-streaming WebSocket are all pointed at it.

A worker's address stops being somewhere to connect to and becomes the name of
which backend process a stream is for. It still appears in URLs, logs and
errors, because that is what identifies the process; what it no longer decides
is where the bytes go.

Nothing falls back to dialling it. BackendClientFactory now has exactly one
method, NewClientForNode, and returns an error where there is no way to reach
the worker. The direct-dial constructor was removed rather than kept beside it,
because leaving one on the interface keeps the bypass one word away from every
call site that holds an address, which is all of them.

The second construction path is closed too. DistributedModelStore built remote
models with a nil client, and pkg/model.Model.GRPC then dialled the raw address
lazily on first use - reached in production by ShutdownModel's Free and by the
backend monitor's Status. Those models now carry the tunnel-backed client, and
a model that cannot be given one is logged and not listed.

Four conditions stay unmixable, and one path produces absence: the dialer
answers ErrNoConnection only where Owner's liveness join did. A peer that will
not answer, a stale ownership row, a worker's own refusal and a missing relay
path are each reported as themselves. This matters because nodes ACTS on
absence, and the collapse would have it reclaim the models of a worker that is
connected and busy.

That is not hypothetical. Writing the mutation for it exposed the bug in this
change's own first draft: probeHealth returned bare false when it could not
build a client, and tryWarmPath deletes the replica row on a false probe. A
frontend whose dialer broke would have emptied node_models for the whole
deployment while every model kept running. probeHealth now returns alive and
probed separately, the reconciler gets a ProbeUnknown outcome that neither
advances nor clears a failure streak, and the health monitor skips rather than
counting a miss.

Task 5 left the relay's open timeout at a fixed 15s and said so: no operator
has the information to set it, because the number that matters is the original
client's remaining budget, which is invisible on the relay side. The dialer has
that budget, so it now states it in the relay request frame and the owner takes
the smaller of the two. It can only shorten - a patient client must not be able
to park a relay goroutine and a stream slot on a worker that stopped accepting.
Zero is written as no budget at all, since on the far side the number zero is a
caller with nothing left and would refuse healthy traffic.

Seven mutations, each reddening a named spec: peer-unreachable as absence; the
local-failure guard dropped; max instead of min on the budget; the nil-client
model restored; ProbeUnknown falling through to the reaper; OwnerRow instead of
Owner; probed collapsed into alive. The first budget spec passed for the wrong
reason - a handshake deadline, not the relay - and was replaced by three that
each assert one link, including one where the spec plays the owning replica and
reads the budget out of the frame instead of inferring it from a clock.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 5da440ae3f fix(cluster): express the splice policy once, and pin the relay's budgets
Review round 1 on task 5. Eight non-blocking items, all addressed.

The classifier read Remote in two predicates with a report-by-default
fallthrough behind them, so reverting either read left the whole suite green:
the error reached the same answer down the other path. A correctness argument
that rests on mutation evidence cannot afford a shape that cannot be mutated in
pieces, so the two predicates collapse into one muxVerdict deciding each error
type once. Falsifying either Remote read now reddens exactly one spec.

Three claims the comments made loudly and nothing tested:

  - clearing the header read deadline before the splice. Deleting the clear
    left all 49 focused specs green, while in production it is the difference
    between a relayed response that streams for an hour and one that dies after
    fifteen seconds of quiet;
  - the open budget bounding the open and nothing after it;
  - closing the worker-side stream when the acceptance reply cannot be
    written, which leaks one stream on the worker per failure.

All three are pinned now. The first two share a spec that sets both budgets to
50ms and then watches the conversation outlive them by ten times, which is an
assertion about an event that must not happen and so is the one wait a channel
cannot replace. The third drives the relay with a peer stream that delivers a
request and then fails every write, because no pair of live yamux sessions can
be made to fail that write on cue.

The disjoint-vocabulary argument was specced for the accepted frame only. Both
refusal directions are covered now, and asserted as "not one of the other hop's
sentinels" rather than merely "an error", since reading a relay refusal with the
tunnel's reader always errors and the question is whether it errors as the wrong
thing.

The open budget stays non-configurable, and says so: the number that matters is
how long the original client will wait, which is not known on this side and is
not something a deployment-wide constant can stand in for. The honest fix is the
caller's remaining budget travelling in the request frame, which belongs to the
dialler that has the budget.

Two comments corrected: nothing deadlines the peer stream after the clear, so
the tunnelled protocol's own deadlines cannot be what justifies clearing it; and
the membership sweep deletes departed replicas but reports only how many, so
identifying them is work that would have to be done, not knowledge waiting to be
plumbed. Recorded at muxVerdict: a remote RST that does not ride a
typeWindowUpdate frame yields the bare sentinel and is still silenced, which is
unreachable between two go-yamux peers but keeps the new rule from reading as
unconditional.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto f358a00bc2 feat(cluster): relay a peer's stream onto a worker tunnel held here
A worker holds ONE tunnel and it lands on ONE frontend replica, so with N
replicas behind a load balancer roughly (N-1)/N of requests arrive somewhere
that cannot reach the worker directly. This is the piece that carries them:
the SessionStore stream handler reads which worker a peer's stream is for,
opens a stream on the tunnel this replica holds, and splices the two.

Splice has had no production caller since phase 1. It has one now, and being
the first caller it settles the two endings phase 1 deliberately left open,
both of which read as normal termination until now:

  - a peer-initiated *StreamError{Remote: true}, which yamux builds only from
    an RST frame the far side sent (stream.go:432-449); a reset this side asks
    for carries Remote: false, and Splice never resets anything, its own Close
    sending a FIN;
  - a graceful ErrRemoteGoAway, which handleGoAway returns for code
    goAwayNormal (session.go:829-833) and close hands unwrapped to every live
    stream (session.go:328-337).

Both truncate whatever was in flight. Reporting them as normal termination is
how a half-finished inference comes to look like a short one that completed,
so both are now reported; the local forms stay silent, because those are the
teardown Splice provokes itself. The decision cannot live in a caller reading
Splice's result, since a result already mapped to nil carries nothing left to
reclassify, so it lives at the classifier with the reasoning beside it. The
relay logs it at debug: a client cancelling a relayed request produces one per
cancellation, and the truncation is separately visible to the frontend's own
gRPC or HTTP client.

The relay hop gets its own request and reply frames. They have to be distinct
from the worker tunnel's, because a relayed stream carries both hops' frames
back to back, and a vocabulary shared between them would let a reader applied
to the wrong hop hand back a plausible sentinel belonging to the other. Its
three refusals stay apart for the reason the worker's three do: ErrNotOwner is
a routing fact and the caller should resolve the owner again; unavailable is
infrastructure at this replica and a retry is worth something; bad-request is
the caller's bug. None of them is, or may be built over, an absence error.

One hop, always. A stream naming a worker this replica does not hold is
refused, never resolved and relayed onward, so a stale ownership row cannot
become a loop between two replicas each certain the other holds the worker.

PeerPool is constructed and closed alongside SessionStore, so both halves of
the peer mesh now have an owner and a shutdown.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 489550d317 fix(worker): make the tunnel credential's node-type gate actually structural
Re-review follow-up, three items. Two are the overclaiming-comment class again,
and the first is that class with a real defect underneath it.

attachTunnelToken said "enforcement is therefore structural": an ineligible node
never gets a credential, so its hash stays empty and the tunnel route's
empty-hash branch does the refusing. That was true for a node that had always
been an agent and false for one that had not. Register upserts by NAME, so a
backend node re-registering as an agent keeps its ID, and Register's struct
Updates zero-skips the credential column while writing the new node_type. The
early return left the credential the node earned as a backend sitting on a row
that is now an agent, and ConnectHandler never looks at node_type.

Fixed by making the claim true rather than by softening it, because the mint-site
gate was chosen precisely on the grounds that it was structural: an ineligible
node now has its column CLEARED, unconditionally, so the invariant does not
depend on what the row happened to contain. A spec pins it and was red before the
change. Same shape as the Register-upserts-by-name hazard already carried
forward: a name is not an identity.

Second, loopbackHost claimed to be the only host any tunnel stream is ever
dialled on. It is not: fixedService dials whatever Run built it from, which is
this worker's own LOCALAI_HTTP_ADDR, and loopbackAddr rewrites only a wildcard
bind, so an operator who binds the file-transfer server to a routable address
gets a routable dial. The property that matters is narrower and is what the
comment says now: the frontend cannot STEER the dial. The grpc tag builds its
address from a constant and a validated port with nothing from the wire reaching
the dialler, and the http tag ignores its target entirely. Worth stating exactly
rather than summarising, because the argument about what a stream can reach rests
on knowing which hosts are reachable, and an overstatement at that site is what
would let someone conclude the constant alone is doing the work.

Third, a spec named "without allocating it" measured no allocation. It now
asserts the mechanism the defence actually rests on, that the reader consumes the
two length bytes and not one byte of the body, through a counting reader. The
input carries a body on purpose: against input that ends after the header the
assertion would pass with the limit check deleted.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 4ec400d29d fix(worker): spec the tunnel's routing table, which was the SSRF boundary
Review follow-up. One blocking finding and seven others.

The blocking one first, and it is this project's recurring shape: the untested
path. loopbackService is the function whose comment calls the discarded host
"the security property this function exists for", and nothing tested it. The
reviewer replaced its body with a dial of whatever the frontend named, no port
range, and all 131 specs passed. Every spec installed the permissive test
dialler, so the real routing table was exercised nowhere.

It now has specs, and the property is stated as reachability rather than as a
property of the code: a listener on 127.0.0.2 that only the frontend's target
names must NOT be reached. Plus the port-range table, fixedService, loopbackAddr,
tunnelEndpoint, and the table itself, which moved out of Run into tunnelServices
so it can be built without starting a worker. One spec drives a real stream
through that table over the wire, so the routing rules are exercised end to end
at least once rather than only in isolation. The reviewer's mutation now reddens
ten specs, and six narrower ones redden between two and four each, so no spec is
riding on another.

The shape changed too, not only the coverage. The dial address is built from a
loopbackHost constant and strconv.Itoa of a validated int, so nothing derived
from the wire reaches DialContext at all: restoring the hole takes ADDING a data
flow, not deleting a check.

And a taxonomy fix found while specifying it. A port outside this worker's
allocator range was reported as unavailable, which tells a frontend to retry
something that can never work. It is a bad request now, and a backend that is
merely not listening yet stays unavailable, which is the retryable one.

Agent nodes no longer get a tunnel credential. Nothing dials into an agent
worker, so a tunnel replaces nothing for it and no client would open one, and
the gate is at the mint site rather than in the handler: with no credential
minted the hash stays empty and the existing empty-hash refusal covers it, so
enforcement is structural.

Two comments and one doc paragraph said an anonymous registrant gets a "working"
credential. With auto-approve off the node is pending and the credential is
inert, which is the distinction this same change argues three files away to
justify minting for pending nodes at all.

A refusal reason over the frame limit was cut on a byte boundary and could split
a rune. It cuts on a rune boundary now, and the code survives truncation, which
is what keeps a refusal classifiable.

Also: the pending-node spec asserted only that a credential was non-empty, so a
credential derived from the shared token passed it; it now pins per-node-ness the
way the headline spec does. The tunnel handler's citations into nodes.go were
stale before this branch landed, having been written against a file the same
commit was editing, and are by function name now. The static-NATS path says
plainly that an externally forced rotation locks it out until restart, and where
that gets fixed. tunnelproto gained direct specs, including that a read failure
is never reported as a refusal.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 099e2b00af feat(worker): dial, hold and serve the tunnel, on a credential of its own
The worker end of the tunnel. It dials wss://<register-to>/api/cluster/connect,
holds one yamux session as the CLIENT, and serves every stream the frontend
opens on it. Nothing dials into the worker, which is the point: no inbound port,
no reachable address.

Each stream opens with a length-prefixed frame naming a tag and a target, and
the worker answers before either side speaks the tunnelled protocol. The reply
is sent on every stream, not only on refusal, because the protocols carried here
are client-speaks-first and a reply sent only sometimes would arrive interleaved
with a response body. Two tags today: grpc reaches a backend process, and only
on 127.0.0.1 within this worker's own backend port range, because a tunnel
terminates inside the worker and letting the frontend name a host would make
every worker a proxy into its own LAN; http reaches the worker's file-transfer
server, whose address the frontend is not asked about.

An unknown tag, an unreachable local service and an unparseable request are
three refusals and stay three on the wire. A frontend gives up on the first and
retries the second. Each is answered AND the stream is ended: a worker that says
why and leaves the stream open has parked the caller on a request nobody will
answer, and a deadline on the far side cannot tell that from a slow worker. The
specs assert the stream ends rather than that an error occurred, which is what
phase 1 shipped in three places and held in none.

Reconnects double from 500ms to a 30s ceiling, each wait drawn between half the
interval and all of it, and the interval returns to its floor only after a
session that LASTED. Resetting on connect is how a rolling restart, where every
dial succeeds and dies moments later, becomes a retry storm against the first
replica back up. Nothing is assumed to survive a reconnect: the credential is
read at dial time, never captured.

And the credential is now real. The tunnel endpoint advertised authenticating a
worker against its own secret, but registration stored the hash of the shared
registration token, so a leak plus a known node ID still opened a tunnel.
Registration now mints a per-node secret, returns the plaintext once as
tunnel_token, and stores only its SHA-256 in a new column; the endpoint compares
against that and does not fall back to the old one. Rotating on every
registration follows from storing only the hash, since a re-registering worker
cannot be told the secret it already holds; its live tunnel is unaffected,
because the credential is checked when a tunnel is dialled and never again.

Unlike the agent API key and the NATS JWT next to it, the credential IS issued
to a node awaiting approval: the tunnel route re-reads the node's status on
every dial and refuses a pending one, so it is inert until an admin acts, and
withholding it would strand every worker that registers exactly once.

A node that has not registered since this change cannot tunnel, and the column
cannot be back-filled because the plaintext only ever existed in the response
that minted it. The boot warning that said tunnels need LOCALAI_REGISTRATION_TOKEN
is replaced: it was true while the tunnel authenticated against that token's
hash, and says the wrong thing now. What is still true, and is what it warns
about instead, is that without one, registration itself is unauthenticated.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 2a9f771a52 fix(testutil): clear the maintenance timeouts at connection startup
The guard added last commit was circular. It cleared the maintenance database's
timeouts by executing SET statement_timeout = 0 on a connection that had already
inherited that database's bound, so the statement clearing the bound ran under
the bound it was clearing. Under the white-box spec's deliberate 1ms that gave
it 1ms, and it failed roughly once in fifty at 8-way concurrency with SQLSTATE
57014. The guard against invisible load-dependent flakes had become one.

The clearing is now delivered as a connection startup option, options=-c
statement_timeout=0 -c lock_timeout=0 on the maintenance DSN, so there is no
statement left to abort. Raising the imposed bound would only have bought
headroom and left the circularity in place. pgx puts every URL query parameter
into settings, options is absent from notRuntimeParams so it becomes a runtime
parameter, and runtime parameters are copied into the startup message
(pgconn/config.go:340-378, 606-617; pgconn/pgconn.go:382-388).

The spec now discriminates on pg_settings.reset_val, the value in force when the
connection started: 0 for a startup option, 1ms for a session SET. A first
attempt using a deliberately slow first statement did NOT discriminate, because
under the circular design the SET is itself the first statement, so by the time
a spec runs anything the session is already unbounded. Reinstating the circular
clearing now reddens the spec deterministically rather than intermittently.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 27f9e78c8a fix(testutil): stop the shared-database change from disarming two regressions
Two advisory-lock specs named their database by literal, ALTER DATABASE testdb.
Once the test helper started handing every spec its own database on a shared
server, that statement landed on the maintenance database and did nothing to the
one the spec was holding, so both specs went green having never reproduced the
condition they exist for. They regress a model-load advisory-lock wedge that has
already shipped to production once, so the previous commit's de-flaking silently
disarmed a regression test for a real deployed bug.

Both sites now read the name back with current_database() and, more importantly,
assert the override actually landed before relying on it. A literal name can go
stale again; an assertion that the setting is in force cannot pass while it is
not. Removing either production override now fails the matching spec with the
real 55P03 and 57014 again.

That literal also meant every CREATE DATABASE and every DROP ... WITH (FORCE)
ran under the 300ms bound it set on the maintenance database, which is a new
load-dependent single-spec flake inside the change that was meant to remove one.
The helper's maintenance connections now pin one connection and clear both
timeouts on it, so no setting a spec makes can bound them, and a white-box spec
imposes the leak deliberately and proves it does not reach them.

Also pins the reclaimOne gate deferral the previous commit added without a test,
by panicking inside the re-claim's own claim statement, and drops the per-dial
empty-token log line to debug now that the boot warning says it once.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 15cb4be76e fix(cluster): harden the worker tunnel, and stop starting a database per spec
Review follow-up. Twelve findings, none blocking, grouped here by what they
protect.

Panics. The handler now recovers between the WebSocket upgrade and the
hand-off, the way the peer link next door already did: net/http recovers the
panic but leaves the hijacked socket open, so without this a worker keeps a
session this replica has no entry for and will never detach. The claim gate in
Attach and reclaimOne is now released with defer, so a panic under Claim cannot
wedge one node's gate for the life of the process. SetTunnels gained the
nil-receiver guard its sibling Stop has.

Operability. A deployment with no registration token stores an empty token_hash
on every worker, so every tunnel dial 401s forever on a frontend that looks
correctly configured. That now warns at startup, logs its own line rather than
sharing the "wrong token" one, and is stated in the docs together with the fact
that setting the token later needs the workers to register again.

Authorization. A node still awaiting admin approval is refused with 403. The
rest of /api/node/ gates on nothing, but the two places that hand a node
something durable, its API key and its NATS credential, both refuse a pending
one, and a tunnel is that kind of grant. Draining and unhealthy nodes keep
their tunnels on purpose.

Comments that claimed more than the code. The global auth middleware does run
on this path and then declines to reject; the future per-node secret only lands
without a change here if it lands in TokenHash; the empty-hash guard is
defensive rather than deciding; ClusterPathPrefix is no longer only
replica-to-replica; the docs no longer say a reaped replica re-claims
unconditionally.

And the test harness. SetupTestDB started a PostgreSQL container per BeforeEach
with a readiness deadline it asserted on, which is one chance per spec to fail
one spec inside its setup, anywhere, never twice in the same place: the shape of
the flake seen twice here and never reproduced. It now starts one container per
process and creates a database per call, which is the pattern tests/e2e already
proved. Isolation is unchanged and is now asserted for the first time. All 69
call sites are untouched; the eleven consumer packages run 1404 specs green, and
jobs went from 34.3s to 3.3s, agents from 13.8s to 1.9s, cluster from 97.4s to
37.5s.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 4d26e648bc feat(cluster): open the door a worker dials its tunnel through
A worker needs no inbound port: it dials GET /api/cluster/connect, the
connection becomes one multiplexed yamux session, and the frontend opens a
stream on it per request. This adds the endpoint that accepts that dial and
attaches it to the tunnel registry.

The dial is authenticated against the NODE's own stored token hash rather than
the deployment's registration token. That is the mechanism, not yet the
isolation, since a worker still registers by presenting the shared token; what
it rules out is the shortcut of comparing against the configured value, which
would have to be unpicked the day workers get their own secrets.

Every refusal happens BEFORE the WebSocket upgrade, so a dialer reads an HTTP
status rather than a handshake error. The route is registered in every
deployment, single-binary ones included, which is what puts it in front of the
route-coverage test that holds that rule in place; with no node registry it
refuses every dial, and tells a credentialed one the frontend has no cluster
rather than that its token is wrong.

A lookup that FAILED is answered as a failure. Reporting a database that could
not be read as "unauthorized" would send a worker re-registering, throwing away
the identity its tunnel and loaded models are keyed by.

Wires the tunnel registry in core/application/distributed.go and hands it to
the membership loop. Without that call the re-claim after a replica is reaped
had no production caller and could never run.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 9e4df19045 fix(cluster): keep a session close out of the per-node claim gate
The gate is justified by being held for one claim round trip, and Attach
held it across the close of the session it superseded. Closing a yamux
session closes the underlying conn and then waits for both its send and
recv loops to exit, and the send loop can be inside a write bounded only
by ConnectionWriteTimeout, so that is a wait on other goroutines. It must
not stand between a worker re-dialling this node and its claim.

The gate is now released after the store and before the close, which also
makes Attach match reclaimOne, where it has always been released
explicitly on every path. This is safe because a superseded session is no
longer reachable from the map by the time it is closed: the next re-dial
replaces an entry that already names the new session.

Pin the re-claim half of the gate too. A worker that re-dials between a
re-claim's commit and its record leaves the row carrying the re-dial's
epoch while the entry carries the re-claim's, so the attachment holding
the socket releases an epoch the row does not have and the row outlives
it, with nothing to sweep it while this replica is alive. Only Attach's
half of the serialisation was asserted; keying the two apart left every
spec green.

Also take the test hook's action under the lock that guards whether it
has fired. It was written from the spec's goroutine and read from
whichever goroutine issued the statement, which is a race in the harness
that pins the serialisation specs.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 2466e42906 fix(cluster): make a claim and its record indivisible per node
Two Attach calls for one node both claim, and PostgreSQL serialises the
two upserts, but nothing ordered the two map writes against the two
commits. The entry left installed could be the one whose claim lost the
row, and its Detach then released an epoch the row does not carry, so the
release matched nothing and the row survived the socket.

Nothing swept that row. This replica is alive and heartbeating, so
ReapStale leaves its rows alone, and no reconnect is coming for a worker
that has gone. Owner kept naming this replica as the live owner of a
tunnel it no longer held, and every dialer sent here was answered
ErrNotOwner, which is the relay into a replica that cannot serve the
request that this phase exists to prevent.

Claims for one node now pass through a gate, so claim and record are
indivisible. It is per node rather than one lock over the registry, the
way PeerPool locks per peer: the claim is a database round trip, and a
slow one for a single worker must not hold up Open for every other.
Detach is not gated, because it takes no context and must never park
behind an in-flight database call, and it changes no epoch.

Reclaim takes the same gate, which makes its claim the newest one for
that node, so it records the epoch on whatever attachment is installed
rather than only on the one it listed. Refusing to record onto an
attachment that replaced the listed one would leave that row with nothing
able to release it. The interleave the gate does not cover is Detach, and
a claim whose attachment detached while it was in flight is now released
again rather than left behind.

Also: restore Start's doc comment, which SetTunnels had swallowed; keep
reaping other replicas when this one fails to rebuild its own row, rather
than skipping the sweep along with the re-claim; scope the comment about
an unnoticed dead socket to the keepalive of the session whoever accepted
the tunnel built, since the worker session config does not exist yet; and
pin the sortedness of Held, the nil-session refusal, and both re-claim
interleaves with specs.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 032725c81b feat(cluster): hold worker tunnels, and re-claim them after a sweep
Phase 1 left the connection fence with a table and no sockets behind it.
This adds the registry that holds them: Attach claims the node and then
stores the session, Open hands out a stream over the tunnel this replica
holds, Detach releases the claim it was handed, and Held names what this
process is carrying.

The claim is written before the session is stored. A claimant that
installs itself and only then finds it cannot claim has, for that window,
published a tunnel no row records, so Held names it while a peer asking
Owner is told the worker is connected nowhere.

ErrNotOwner is produced at one place, the map miss. It is a routing fact:
some other replica may hold that worker perfectly well. A broken socket
under a held entry is returned as itself, because answering "not held
here" would send a dialer looking elsewhere for a worker this replica is
holding.

Epochs are compared for equality and never ordered. Claim guarantees an
epoch is unique and never reissued; it does not guarantee the later claim
draws the larger number, because the sequence value on the insert path is
drawn before the row lock.

The membership loop now re-claims on re-register, which closes the hole
phase 1 named in ReapStale. A replica that stalls long enough is swept by
a peer, losing its instance row and, in the same transaction, every
connection it owned; Register rebuilds the instance row and nothing else,
so without this it serves workers that every other replica reports as
connected nowhere. Re-claiming draws a fresh epoch, so an attachment
carries two: the token Attach handed back, which is what Detach matches
and which never moves, and the epoch of the row currently held, which is
what Release is given. Collapsing them would leave the re-claimed row
outliving the socket with no caller able to remove it.

A tunnel whose session is already closed is skipped rather than claimed
back, because claiming is an upsert and would take the row from whoever
holds the worker now.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto df7cebf642 fix(cluster): make the ownership comments say only what holds
Review round 1 on the joined Owner read. The behaviour was accepted; three
comments claimed more than the code delivered, one spec pinned less than its doc
promised, and one pre-existing spec ranked epochs.

instanceIsLive said every reader of instance liveness uses it, which was false:
ReapStale spelled the complement by hand. The complement is now written as
NOT (instanceIsLive), so "stale" is exactly "not live", including how each side
treats a NULL last_seen, and the sentence is true. Inverting that predicate
fails 3 reaper specs, so the routing is held.

The Select("node_connections.*") in Owner was justified by a SELECT * hazard
that cannot occur: with a join present and nothing selected, gorm expands the
model's own columns table-qualified (callbacks.BuildQuerySQL), and the suite is
green with the Select removed. It stays, because the projection should be a
property of this query, and the comment now says that instead.

Owner gained the dialect guard Claim has. now() and make_interval are
PostgreSQL, so on the SQLite single-binary path it failed with "no such
function: now", which reads as a missing migration; that regression already
shipped once in phase 1. The refusal is deliberately not ErrNoConnection: a
deployment with no cluster has no answer about ownership, and reporting absence
would let a caller conclude the worker is not connected. A spec in the
non-PostgreSQL block holds all three properties.

The new specs aged rows by ten minutes, which any window between zero and ten
minutes satisfies, so nothing tied Owner's window to the one the sweeper uses.
They now age to just past InstanceLiveness, and a sibling ages to half of it and
must still resolve. Widening the window tenfold fails 2 specs, narrowing it
tenfold fails 1; before this both were silent.

The concurrent-claim spec asserted the stored epoch was the highest handed out,
and justified it with claims drawing their epoch after the row lock, which
contradicts Claim's own doc: the insert path draws nextval while the tuple is
built. It now asserts the stored epoch is one of the epochs handed out, and
ranks nothing.

OwnerRow's doc justified the function with a sweeper that does not call it.
ReapStale deletes orphans with a set difference; the callers are this package's
specs and one e2e assertion. It says that, and states plainly that a caller
needing to know who owns a node in order to dial it wants Owner.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto a275147145 feat(cluster): resolve tunnel ownership against a live owner
OwnerRow is a bare row read of node_connections. A connection row outlives the
replica that wrote it: a replica that dies stops heartbeating, but its rows
survive until a peer's sweep removes them, which is up to InstanceLiveness plus
one InstanceHeartbeat later. For that whole window the table names a process
that is gone. The next component phase 2 builds is the relaying dialer, and a
dialer reading OwnerRow would relay into a corpse for roughly 35 seconds after
every replica death, then report the worker as unreachable when it is in fact
absent, which is the distinction the phase 1 end-to-end specs pinned.

Owner is the resolving read: one statement joining instances, returning
ErrNoConnection when the row is missing OR its owner is not live. Both cases are
one answer on purpose, since both mean no replica here holds this tunnel; they
differ only in which sweep has run. It is one statement, not a row read followed
by an instance lookup, because between two statements the owner can die and the
caller would act on an owner the second read would have rejected.

OwnerRow stays, unjoined, for readers that need the row itself, and a spec holds
the two apart: with an aged-out owner, OwnerRow still names it and Owner
refuses, so neither can quietly become the other.

The liveness predicate is now one string, instanceIsLive, shared by Live and by
Owner's join. Two spellings of one fact drift, and this drift would show as a
relay to a replica one query calls dead and another calls alive. It is
table-qualified so it is unambiguous inside the join, and the cutoff stays on
the database clock, so replica clock skew cannot widen or narrow the window.

Both mutations were run. Dropping the liveness predicate from the join fails 3
specs, the aged-owner one among them. Replacing the database clock with a
Go-side time.Now() fails 1: the aged-owner specs still pass, because the two
clocks agree on one host, and only the recorded-SQL spec sees the literal
timestamp. That is why that spec exists.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 3daf889f5e fix(cluster): share one lock order, and correct the phase 1 comments
ReapStale deleted from instances then node_connections while Deregister took
them the other way round, both inside one transaction and both running
concurrently by design: a replica shuts down while a peer sweeps it. Opposite
orders let each hold the row the other waits for. PostgreSQL breaks the cycle by
aborting one side, so the cost today is a warning rather than lost data, but the
inversion costs nothing to remove.

Deregister now deletes the instance row first. That is the order ReapStale is
forced into anyway, since its connection delete asks which instance rows
survived, so the sweeper is the fixed side. Both functions say the order is
deliberate and shared, and name the other. A spec records the statements each
path issues and asserts they delete from the same two tables in the same order;
racing two transactions until they really deadlock would be flaky and could pass
for the wrong reason.

The rest is comment and spec accuracy, deferred from the phase 1 task reviews:

- co-location does not imply loopback. Compose's usual host=postgres resolves to
  a bridge address and discovery works there; it is a DSN that NAMES localhost
  that yields a loopback source address. Corrected in the DiscoverAdvertisedAddr
  doc and in the spec comment that repeated it.
- unroutableReason labelled every scoped address "link-local", including the
  class the check exists for, and formatted the IP with %s, which drops the
  %iface, so the reported address was not the one being rejected. Split into two
  cases, both rendered with their zone. CheckAdvertisedAddr passed zone "" and
  net.ParseIP rejects fe80::1%eth0, so a scoped literal looked like a name and
  collected no warning at all; the zone is now split off before parsing.
- Splice's "Both callers satisfy it" claimed callers that still do not exist.
  It now names the two stream types the wake-on-Close property was verified
  against and says a phase 2 caller over anything else has to check it.
- restored, short, why a socket-level ECONNRESET stays reported while a yamux
  reset does not: the yamux endings are the teardown Splice's own Close
  provokes, and whether an aborted request is routine is the relay's policy.
- the real-yamux spec's far.Read had no deadline, so a stall parked the suite
  rather than failing it.
- gorilla's SetWriteDeadline is conn.go:796, not 787.
- ClusterPathPrefix is no longer derived from: the peer route spells its path
  out, because core/services/cluster must not import core/http/auth. The comment
  now points at the spec that holds them together instead of claiming a
  derivation the move removed.
- the epoch spec asserted e2 > e1, an ordering Claim's doc tells callers not to
  rely on. It asserts uniqueness, which is what the fence guarantees, and is
  named for that. A sibling spec still described the epoch as incrementing in
  SQL when it is drawn from a sequence.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto bb4719e67d fix(cluster): hold the guarantees phase 1's comments were claiming
Review found the recurring class: assertions that a wrong implementation
also satisfies.

The "refuse promptly, never park the peer" guarantee was stated in three
places and tested in none. Removing the Close from the no-relay branch left
the whole cluster suite green, because the specs asserted only that some
error arrived and yamux reports a read deadline as ErrTimeout: a parked
stream satisfied that as well as a refused one. Both specs now require an
ENDING, EOF or a reset, inside a deadline short enough that parking is
unmistakable, and both go red when the Close is removed.

Deregistration existed only in a comment. Membership.Stop ended the loop and
left the row behind, so every clean rolling restart had peers dialling a
corpse for the full liveness window; the shutdown comment described the
opposite. Registry.Deregister deletes the row and the connections that
replica owned, in one transaction, for the reason the sweeper does both, and
an e2e spec pins departure inside a budget shorter than the liveness window
so it cannot pass on the sweeper doing the work. Before: the spec times out
with both replicas still live. After: 3.6s.

The configured advertised address bypassed every check discovery makes, so
the one value most likely to be copied between hosts, 127.0.0.1, was taken
verbatim and would make every peer dial itself. Both paths now share one
rejection rule: unparseable is refused, "this host" is warned about once and
honoured, because a single-host deployment uses it correctly.

Two comments claimed more than the code does. The sweeper said a stalled
replica recovers via re-register; only its instance row does, while the
connections another replica reaped stay gone and the sockets stay held here
- phase 2 must re-claim, on re-register, every connection a replica still
holds locally. And Owner became OwnerRow, documenting that the owner it
names may be dead for up to InstanceLiveness plus a heartbeat and that any
caller acting on it must join instances itself, so the deferred constraint
lives at the call site rather than in a report; the plain name is left free
for the joining version.

Minors: warn once when the peer link mounts with no registration token, so
an operator sees the cause rather than 401s; Stop no longer blocks forever
when Start was never called; corrected the NewRegistry migration doc and an
e2e comment that described a 6s window as "throughout".

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto dca8ce7149 feat(cluster): give phase 1 a call site, and prove it against real replicas
Tasks 1 to 5 built an instances table, a splice, both halves of a peer link
and an epoch fence, and nothing in the tree called any of it: no replica
registered, no route was mounted, no sweeper ran. Proving phase 1 end to
end therefore had to start by wiring it.

A frontend in distributed mode now publishes the address its peers dial,
heartbeats it, and sweeps replicas that stopped answering along with the
connection rows they owned, in one pass so the two can never disagree about
who is alive. It serves the peer link and owns the sessions peers dial in,
refusing streams on them until phase 2 installs a relay: a session nobody
accepts on does not fail a peer's Open, it hangs it.

The address is the one peers use, not the one the process binds, and it is
derived from the route to PostgreSQL. That derivation only holds while the
database is remote, so LOCALAI_DISTRIBUTED_ADVERTISE_ADDR sets it
explicitly and a replica that can determine neither warns and keeps
serving rather than failing to start.

Three e2e scenarios run against real local-ai processes, real PostgreSQL
and real dials: replicas publish addresses that can actually be connected
to; a sibling opens a stream over the peer link and is refused without the
cluster token; and a killed replica is reported unreachable, never absent,
loses the claim it held, and takes no worker with it. Each was verified by
mutation: eight injected defects, each failing the scenario that claims to
catch it.

Also moves RegisterClusterRoutes to core/http/routes beside every other
registrar, folds AutoMigrate and the epoch sequence into one
cluster.Migrate, and turns the peer route's auth-coverage spec into a real
assertion: it drives the request through the actual auth middleware
instead of comparing two string constants, which the old spec would have
passed even with the exemption deleted.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto e9514334fa fix(cluster): keep the connection schema migratable on SQLite
The NodeConnection model carried `default:now()`, which is PostgreSQL syntax
reaching the DDL, so AutoMigrate failed on the single-binary SQLite path and
took every SQLite caller of nodes.NewNodeRegistry down with it. Stamp the
database clock as an expression inside Claim instead, the way Register
already does, and leave the column plain.

CREATE SEQUENCE is Postgres-only for the same reason, so it is skipped on
another dialect, and Claim refuses that dialect outright: a fence that cannot
draw a token must say so rather than fail later as a missing function.

Also correct a claim the previous commit made in both the doc comment and its
message. An epoch is unique and never reissued, but it is not ordered: the
insert path draws its sequence value before taking the row lock, so a claim
that inserts after a release can be handed a lower number than one already
issued. Uniqueness is what Release needs, since it matches by equality;
callers must never compare epochs for order.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 6f53701f4c fix(cluster): draw connection epochs from a sequence so none is ever reused
Release deletes the row, so a per-row `epoch + 1` restarted the numbering at 1
for the next claim. A replica could then be handed an epoch it already held:
claim w1 at epoch 1, lose the link silently, watch another replica claim and
release, reclaim and be handed 1 again, and its delayed cleanup for the first
dead link would match the live claim and delete it. The fence has to be
unique per node over time, not per row lifetime.

Every claim now draws nextval from a dedicated sequence on both the insert and
the conflict paths, so an epoch is never issued twice. The draw still happens
after the row lock on the conflict path, so the winning claim still holds the
highest epoch handed out.

Also drop last_seen. Nothing maintained it and it was always equal to
connected_at, but an indexed column named that way invites a second liveness
clock; whether the owner is alive is Instance.LastSeen, and whether a claim is
current is the epoch.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto edc7313f3b feat(cluster): fence worker-connection ownership with a monotonic epoch
A worker whose link is silently broken reconnects to another replica while
the old owner's socket has not yet noticed. Without a fence both believe
they own it. Claim is a single atomic upsert returning the new epoch, and a
release must match both owner and epoch so a stale owner cannot delete a
live claim.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 393797e7e3 refactor(cluster): make the cluster service a leaf and blame the caller's deadline
The peer link's WebSocket adapter and route constant lived in
core/http/endpoints/cluster, so the dialler in core/services/cluster had to
import an HTTP endpoints package to reach them. That pulled echo, core/http/auth
and core/config into a package whose doc says it is deliberately free of such
dependencies, and it made core/services/nodes reach an endpoints package
transitively. It also has no way forward: the worker-connect handler needs the
tunnel registry and the node token store, both of which are cycles from there.

Move WebsocketConn and PeerPath into core/services/cluster and let the endpoints
package import it, which is the direction the rest of core/http flows. The route
and the auth exemption still cannot drift apart, now asserted where both are
visible rather than by a const reference across the boundary, and the assertion
is stronger than the one it replaces: it pins the route under the prefix instead
of pinning the prefix's spelling.

Also guard the fresh-dial path with ctx.Err(), mirroring the cached path. A
caller with a 300ms deadline dialling a live, listening peer was told the peer
was unreachable, which would be enough for one impatient client to get a healthy
replica routed around once the relay consults these errors.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto c7cb7e1ca5 feat(cluster): dial and pool yamux links to peer replicas
Distinguishes a peer missing from the registry from a peer that will not
answer: the second must never be readable as node absence, or a network
hiccup between replicas evicts healthy workers.

The distinction is a property of the error type rather than of the call
sites. The unreachable error formats its cause into its message and keeps
it out of its unwrap chain, so an ErrInstanceNotFound picked up on the
dial path cannot reach a caller's absence check.

One yamux session is cached per peer and re-dialled when OpenStream on it
fails, which is how both a dead transport and a graceful remote go-away
arrive. A reset of one stream never reaches the pool, so an abandoned
request cannot cost every other worker its link.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 9fdd0bef55 fix(cluster): own the peer auth prefix in auth, and pin what the specs claimed
The prefix constant moves to core/http/auth beside the check that uses it, and
the endpoints package derives its route from there. Seven sibling endpoint
packages already import auth, so the previous direction would have deadlocked
the build as soon as this one registered in RouteFeatureRegistry, and it was
dragging echo, gorilla/websocket and yamux into unrelated service packages.

Four properties were argued in comments and held by nothing. Flipping the
empty-token check to fail open, making SetWriteDeadline a no-op, returning a
zero-length read for a zero-length message, and dropping the recover around the
callback all left the suite green. Each now fails a spec that asserts the
behaviour rather than the setter's return value.

SetWriteDeadline takes the write mutex because gorilla keeps that deadline in a
plain struct field applied at the next flush; SetReadDeadline must not take the
read mutex, since it goes straight to the net.Conn and would otherwise block
behind the read it exists to unblock.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 73da8089d6 fix(cluster): stop reading a bare EOF as a clean ending
A dead yamux session does not always arrive wrapped. Session.close publishes
shutdownErr and closes shutdownCh before it force-closes the streams, so a
Write or Close landing in that window gets the raw cause back instead
(session.go:507-510, 528-533), and for a peer that vanished the raw cause is a
bare io.EOF. The generic io.EOF clause then reported the dead session as a
clean completion.

Remove the clause. A clean read-side EOF never reached it anyway: io.Copy
consumes that and reports nil, and neither *yamux.Stream nor *net.TCPConn
takes a WriteTo/ReadFrom path that would hand one back. Every existing spec
still passes, the io.EOF entry in the normal-termination table included, which
is what showed the branch was dead for legitimate endings and live only for
the bug.

Add a spec driving a real yamux session end to end. Every mux shape until now
was a synthesized error, which is exactly why a race inside the real library
stayed invisible.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto c2162f712a feat(cluster): accept authenticated peer links on /api/cluster/peer
Upgrades to a WebSocket, wraps it as a yamux server session and hands it to
the caller. Rejects before upgrading so an unauthenticated dial sees a 401
rather than a WebSocket error, which is what the route-coverage test asserts.

The adapter keeps the reader of a partially consumed message across Read
calls. yamux reads through a 4 KiB bufio.Reader, so a small-payload test
cannot see a dropped message tail; the framing specs drive the adapter
directly with buffers smaller than the message.

An empty configured token authorizes nobody here, unlike the worker file
transfer server's check: this route is registered in every deployment, so
failing open would publish an unauthenticated mux.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto a0deca6385 fix(cluster): report a dead yamux session instead of swallowing it
Matching yamux errors with errors.Is was too broad. Session.close hands every
live stream ErrStreamReset wrapped around whatever killed the connection, so a
keepalive timeout, a broken TCP connection or a peer that simply vanished all
matched, and a relayed request that died reported a clean ending. Nothing
upstream would have retried or logged it.

Match the plain sentinels by identity, since only identity separates a stream
that was reset from the wrapped form that means the session died. Treat a
StreamError as a per-stream reset, and a GoAwayError as normal only when it
carries the no-error code, read off ErrRemoteGoAway because the constant is
unexported. ErrSessionShutdown needs no entry of its own; it is a GoAwayError
with that code.

Order matters as much as the matching: session death wraps its cause, which is
routinely io.EOF or a closed socket, so the mux checks run before the generic
endings. Reversing them alone puts a vanished peer back to nil.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto c05246a366 fix(cluster): treat a yamux teardown in Splice as a normal ending
go-yamux/v5 matches none of its errors against net.ErrClosed, so the
classifier reported an ordinary teardown as a failure: when the session has
gone away, the FIN that Splice's own Close writes returns ErrSessionShutdown,
and a stream torn down under a live copy surfaces as ErrStreamClosed or a
reset. Splice owns that Close, so it owns the errors it produces; the
sentinels are named here rather than injected by the caller, which would make
a forgotten classifier reintroduce the same bug silently.

Cover the error half of the contract, which no in-memory pipe could reach: a
scripted stream now feeds Splice a genuine transport failure and each
closed-stream ending in turn. Replacing the tail of Splice with "return nil"
passed every previous spec.

Also assert that Splice does not return until the second direction has
finished, rename a spec that promised a leak check it never made, and correct
two comments that claimed more than the code did.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 6caceb4b1d feat(cluster): add the bidirectional splice used by the relay and tunnel
Returns on the first direction to finish and closes both sides so the other
unblocks; a sequential copy deadlocks on any protocol where the far side
speaks first. EOF and use-of-closed are normal termination, not errors.

The fourth spec covers a peer that stops reading mid-body, the case where a
copy is parked in Write rather than in Read. The other three tear down an
idle splice and pass even against a Splice that closes only one side.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 42be69d469 fix(cluster): stamp liveness on the database clock and refuse undialable addresses
DiscoverAdvertisedAddr promised to return an error rather than a fallback
no peer can dial, but only rejected an unspecified address. With PostgreSQL
on the same host or pod as a replica, which is compose, single-node and any
sidecar layout, the route to it is loopback, so every replica advertised
127.0.0.1 and a peer dialling that reached itself. Loopback, link-local and
zoned source addresses are now rejected with an error naming the remedy, and
a port outside 1-65535 is rejected before it becomes an undialable address.

Liveness was also measured on each replica's own clock: Register and
Heartbeat stamped last_seen from the Go process, and Live compared those
rows against the reading replica's time.Now(). Skew therefore shrank or
stretched the window by writerBehind+readerAhead, evicting healthy peers or
keeping dead ones. Both sides now use the database clock, which is the one
clock every replica demonstrably shares.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto c72baa4ad9 feat(cluster): record frontend replicas in a shared instances table
Replicas need to find each other to relay worker traffic, and nothing in
the tree recorded a replica's address. The advertised address is discovered
by opening a UDP socket toward PostgreSQL and reading back the local
address, which yields the interface every replica demonstrably shares
without asking an operator to configure one.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 1e5f5dbe52 test(distributed): correct the claims the e2e comments make
Review of the whole branch found five comments that would send a reader to
the wrong place, plus three smaller inaccuracies. Nothing here changes
behaviour.

The KNOWN RACE note on both backend-log WebSocket handlers said the fix
needs an atomic snapshot-plus-subscribe "under the store lock". It does
not: BackendLogStore.mu guards only the buffers map, and AppendLine
enqueues and fans out under the per-buffer buf.mu. Whoever took the store
lock would ship and the race would survive, so both notes now name buf.mu
and say what s.mu does and does not exclude.

Two comments in the cluster harness quoted Eventually(c.FrontendAlive)
.Should(BeFalse()). FrontendAlive takes an index, so Gomega rejects that
with "requested 1 arguments but received 0". Both now quote the closure
form the specs actually use, and say why the closure is needed.

proveHealthCheckingIsAlive claimed to prove the health monitor ran for the
whole preceding window. It proves the monitor was alive at the end of it,
and inferring backwards needs any wedge to be sticky. In the
peer-replica-death spec that inverts: health checks are single-flighted by
a session-scoped pg_try_advisory_lock, the spec SIGKILLs the replica that
may hold it, and until Postgres reaps the session the survivor acquires
nothing and checks nothing silently. Consistently(healthy) can then pass
because nothing was checking, with the positive control still succeeding
once the lock frees. The doc now states what is proven, names that gap,
and says the assertion is a floor rather than a proof.

The Makefile still called DISTRIBUTED_TEST_FLAKES a retry count, which is
what seeded that error into the two docs just corrected against it, and
the workflow called the 15s window a reconcile tick when the mechanism is
HealthCheckInterval in the node health monitor.

Also: the cluster suite measured 509.1s / 509.8s / 512.3s, so about
8m30s and not the 8m39s/8m40s three files claimed; the dead-worker spec
title implied two independent detectors when both probes read one
advisory-lock-serialised verdict out of the same row; and the
sanitizeDBName length assertion used <= 50, which an empty string also
satisfies, where the invariant for an over-long input is exactly 50.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:12 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto 1dc7998520 test(distributed): scope the log-subscriber wait and mark the race it works around
Three corrections from review of the previous commit.

The lock-order comment on SubscriberCount claimed no path takes s.mu and a
buffer lock together. Subscribe does exactly that, holding s.mu.RLock across
replica registrations that take buf.mu. State the rule that is actually true —
s.mu precedes any buffer lock, so counting after releasing it preserves the
order — and say what follows from it: the total is a sample, not a snapshot.

waitForLogSubscriber read as general-purpose but unblocks on the first
registered subscription. Subscribe attaches the exact-key buffer and each
replica buffer one at a time, so for a replicated model the count goes positive
while later replicas are still unattached and the race survives. Rename it
waitForSingleLogSubscriber, document that it holds only where Subscribe
resolves to one buffer, and assert on exactly 1: misuse then fails loudly on
the count rather than going quietly back to being flaky. Taking the expected
count as a parameter was the alternative, but that makes callers predict a
store-internal number and an under-count fails the same silent way as the
original bug.

The snapshot-then-subscribe race had no artifact outside a report, and review
found a second site carrying it. Mark both handlers identically, including the
point that swapping the two calls duplicates rather than drops and so is not
the fix. The race itself is left alone; this branch stays test infrastructure.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-27 03:05:11 +00:00
localai-org-maint-botandEttore Di Giacinto a95da0a46c fix(gallery): read the models dir once per gallery listing (#12283)
The cached gallery listing refreshed each entry's installed flag with
one os.Stat per entry, under the cache's global write lock. A gallery
holds about 1,900 entries. On a models directory on SMB, one refresh
took about 14s. The listing and every row's VRAM estimate run this
refresh, and the lock serialized them, so the models page took
minutes to load.

The installed check now lists the models directory once and looks up
each entry in that listing. On the same SMB share the listing takes
about 75ms. The answers match os.Stat: a symlink counts only when its
target exists, and names with a path separator still use os.Stat. The
listing runs before the lock is taken, so the lock covers only the
flag updates.

Concurrent callers on a cold cache now share one upstream load. Before
this, each caller fetched the gallery index and the configs itself.


Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-26 18:53:52 +02:00
Plamen K. Kosseffandlocalai-org-maint-bot 6cfc99196d feat(gallery): read metadata for system-path backends, enabling variant aliases (#12141)
* feat(gallery): read metadata for system-path backends, enabling variant aliases

Problem:
- ListSystemBackends only read metadata.json for user-managed backends;
  the system-path scan (LOCALAI_BACKENDS_SYSTEM_PATH) was a bare
  directory walk with Metadata hardcoded nil
- system-packaged backends (distro packages installing several
  accelerator builds of one backend) could not declare aliases or meta
  indirection at all, while gallery-installed backends could
- surfaced while packaging LocalAI for Gentoo: the packages install
  cpu-/rocm-/vulkan-audio-cpp as system backends aliased to audio-cpp,
  which the server ignored

Change:
- scan each root separately, clean the system collection against the
  user-managed one, merge, then build and resolve — precedence lives in
  one explicit step
- alias candidates carry their own metadata: the resolved alias entry
  can never pair one installation's executable with another's metadata,
  and it reports the chosen candidate's origin (IsSystem)
- deterministic resolution: entries build in sorted name order and
  candidates sort by name at the resolution site, independent of scan
  order

Precedence (user-managed always wins):
- a user-managed backend hides a same-named system backend entirely
- a user-managed variant takes over its whole alias family: the alias
  resolves among user-managed variants only and the system family's
  concrete names disappear — family versions move together, and a stale
  system variant may not work with newer models, so it must not stay
  reachable
- a system variant's alias never hijacks a name that exists as a
  user-managed backend

Tests: Ginkgo regressions for system-path aliasing, same-name hiding,
family takeover, and the full metadata permutation matrix of
cross-root name collisions (both directions, with and without
metadata on each side).

Docs: new "Backend Directory Format" section (run.sh, metadata.json,
alias resolution — previously undocumented for user-managed backends
too) and "System-Provided Backends" with the precedence rules.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Plamen K. Kosseff <p.kosseff@gmail.com>

* fix(gallery): preserve managed meta backends

A system alias can replace a user-managed meta backend during discovery.
Protect meta entries with the same precedence guard as concrete backends.
Add a regression test and clarify the documented precedence.

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-6
Signed-off-by: Plamen K. Kosseff <p.kosseff@gmail.com>

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Co-authored-by: localai-org-maint-bot <306269227+localai-org-maint-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-26 11:33:51 +00:00
mudler-agentandEttore Di Giacinto 42c58a5838 feat(vllm-cpp): unify decision pipeline through Score RPC with vllm_decide ABI v29 (#12247)
* feat(vllm-cpp): unify decision pipeline through Score RPC with vllm_decide ABI v29

Replace the model-specific SystemOne gRPC approach with a generic Score
RPC extension. The pre-existing Score RPC (previously unused by any
backend) now carries question_type and response_json fields:

- question_type="systemone" routes kev/laya decision-pipeline requests
  through the unified vllm_decide C ABI (v29), returning the full
  response JSON in response_json.
- question_type empty routes cua-s1-forms candidate scoring through the
  same vllm_decide ABI, returning CandidateScore probabilities.

The vllm-cpp backend's Score() method calls vllm_decide and dispatches
by architecture internally. The /v1/systemone HTTP endpoint checks
whether the model's backend supports Score; if so, it forwards the raw
request JSON and returns the backend response as-is. Other backends
fall through to the existing NER-based path.

This mirrors the vllm.cpp C ABI refactor (PR #3301) that replaced
vllm_systemone + vllm_score with a single vllm_decide function. The
purego bindings bump abiVersion from 27 to 29 and resolve vllm_decide
and vllm_decide_free symbols.

Also fixes validModelPath to accept cua-s1-forms.json and
rl_agent_config.json alongside config.json, matching the engine's
model_loader.cpp config-filename ordering.

AI-Assisted: true
Assisted-by: Maki:regolo/glm5.2 [maki]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* chore: ⬆️ Update mudler/vllm.cpp to e28ec46c6 (fix macOS -Werror build)

Bumps vllm.cpp to e28ec46c6 which fixes a -Wnull-conversion error in
qwen3_5.cpp:12483 that broke the macOS Metal CI build under -Werror.

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>
2026-09-25 23:27:27 +02:00
leilei3167 a95ef3e7f3 fix(backend): re-probe MediaMarker after cold vision model load (#12254)
llama.cpp picks a new random media marker per backend process. LocalAI
cached the first probe on the model config and skipped later probes when
MediaMarker was non-empty, so after SINGLE_ACTIVE eviction/reload the
prompt still used the stale marker and mtmd_tokenize failed (0 markers
vs 1 bitmap).

Re-probe whenever the model was not already resident before Load, while
still skipping the RPC on warm cache hits.

Fixes #12246

Assisted-by: Cursor:composer-2.5

Signed-off-by: leilei3167 <imleilei123@gmail.com>
2026-09-25 09:16:33 +02:00
mudler-agentandEttore Di Giacinto 543fb4bd24 fix(gallery): verification follow-ups for oci:// galleries (#12243)
* fix(gallery): verification follow-ups for oci:// galleries

Follow-ups from the post-merge review of #12238 and #12239.

Only a policy decision is a refusal now. cosignverify wraps
ErrPolicyRejected around a failed signature check, an identity or
source-repository mismatch, a not_before cutoff and a missing or
unparseable bundle. A TUF, registry or network failure during
verification, or a timeout, is an outage: the gallery falls back to the
copy verified under the current policy, as it does when the registry is
down.

An oci:// gallery with a verification block, or any oci:// gallery under
strict integrity, is no longer answered by an https://, github: or
file:// mirror. Such a mirror is ignored with a warning, because nothing
can check its signature. The index of an HTTP gallery, whose policy only
covers its backend images, is cached under the URL-only name again, so no
unchecked body is stored under a policy-keyed name.

The in-memory index cache key now includes the policy. After a runtime
policy change the index is fetched again, and entries with a relative url
install again.

The registry digest lookups after install and upgrade, and in the
upgrade check, run only for real registry references (new
URI.LooksLikeRegistryOCI), not for ollama:// or ocifile://.

The refusal message names strict integrity when that is the cause, and
the gallery name is no longer repeated.

Specs pin the URL-only cache name for galleries without a policy, a fixed
key for a fixed policy, and that every GalleryVerification field changes
the key. The docs describe refusal, outage, mirrors and strict integrity.

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

* fix(gallery): reset listings on gallery changes, classify referrer outages

Review follow-ups for this PR.

The React UI lists from AvailableGalleryModelsCached, which is keyed by
nothing. A gallery change through the settings API or a
runtime_settings.json edit now drops that listing when the model or
backend gallery configuration differs. Before, the UI kept the old list,
with local paths into the old policy's tree, until the next background
refresh, or for good when the new policy refused the gallery.

In cosignverify, a referrer the registry fails to serve now makes the
lookup an outage whatever other referrers failed and in any order, since
the unread one may be the valid signature. An invalid policy (Validate in
NewVerifier, an unparseable not_before) is ErrPolicyRejected, because no
fetch can make it usable.

The docs say that only an oci:// gallery with a verification block skips
non-OCI mirrors, and list an unusable policy as a refusal.

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>
2026-09-24 21:20:21 +02:00
mudler-agentandEttore Di Giacinto f5c4083d7e fix(gallery): tie oci:// gallery caches to the verification policy (#12239)
The unpacked oci:// gallery cache and the last known good copy of the
index were keyed on the gallery URL only. After an operator tightened a
gallery's verification policy (added source_repository, moved not_before
forward), content verified under the older policy, or under none, was
still served for up to an hour from the unpacked cache, and indefinitely
from the last known good copy while fetches failed. A fetch refused by
signature verification also fell back to that last known good copy, so
a refusal became a silent downgrade. Turning strict integrity on did not
stop an unverified cached copy from being served either.

Name both caches by the URL plus a stable hash of the policy. A gallery
without a policy keeps its old URL-only name, so existing caches stay
usable. A fetch refused by the policy, or by strict integrity, is now
reported and never answered with a cached copy; a network failure still
falls back, but only to a copy verified under the current policy. The
strict integrity check runs before the cache is read.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-24 15:43:51 +02:00
mudler-agentandEttore Di Giacinto 3278b4a2ed fix(gallery): strip the oci:// scheme before every registry lookup (#12238)
A backend installed from an oci://host/repo:tag or oci://host/repo@sha256
URI was downloaded correctly, but the digest lookup that follows the
install (and the one after an upgrade) passed the raw URI to the registry
client. The client does not know the oci:// scheme: with a port in the
host it failed to parse the reference, without one it read "oci" as the
registry host and queried https://oci/v2/. The install still succeeded,
so the only trace was a warning and an empty digest in metadata.json,
which made the next upgrade check report an upgrade for no reason.

Add downloader.URI.OCIReference and route every consumer that hands an
OCI URI to a registry client through it: the install and upgrade digest
lookups, the upgrade check, the OCI download path, the oci:// gallery
fetch and the llama.cpp importer.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5 [Claude Code]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-24 15:43:23 +02:00
mudler-agentandEttore Di Giacinto be0671c635 feat(gallery): optionally pin the signing certificate's source repository (#12235)
* feat(cosignverify): optionally pin the certificate's source repository

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

* feat(gallery): source_repository in the verification policy

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

* docs(gallery): when source_repository is checked; test the issuer

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>
2026-09-24 09:04:55 +02:00
21c5495a99 feat(vllm-cpp): add GLiNER2.5 NER via TokenClassify (#12140)
* feat(vllm-cpp): add GLiNER2.5 NER via TokenClassify

Wire the vllm-cpp backend to the C ABI NER surface (vllm_gliner_ner,
ABI v27) so LocalAI can serve zero-shot named entity recognition through
the existing TokenClassify gRPC method.

backend.go: TokenClassify method on *VllmCpp calls vllm_gliner_ner with
the text and labels, copies the C-owned entity array into protobuf
TokenClassifyEntity messages, and frees the result.

govllmcpp.go: cNerEntity and cNerResult Go POD mirrors matching the C
structs; vllmGlinerNer and vllmNerResultFree purego bindings; abiVersion
bumped 26 -> 27.

options.go: ner_labels, ner_threshold, ner_max_width parsed from
engine_args.

pkg/grpc: ClassifyModel interface and TokenClassify server handler
(follows the Embedding locking pattern).

core/config: vllm-cpp backend declares MethodTokenClassify and
UsecaseTokenClassify.

docs/content/features/vllm-cpp.md: NER section documenting the
engine_args keys and the host-forward contract.

Assisted-by: MAKI:regolo/glm5.2 [maki]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(vllm-cpp): correct NER pointer lint directive

Use the govet directive for the C-owned NER array, matching the other
purego pointer conversions. The array remains valid until its deferred
free; the misspelled directive caused CI to flag this conversion.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6 golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* feat(vllm-cpp): add kev-compatible SystemOne API endpoints

Add POST /v1/systemone, /v1/systemone/permute, and
/v1/systemone/separate to LocalAI, mirroring the kev project's
structured-extraction API. Each endpoint runs zero-shot NER over the
rendered state text and builds kev-compatible answers for three question
types: noul (binary entity presence), choice (pick one option), and
score (pick one level).

The TokenClassifyRequest proto gains a `repeated string labels` field so
each question can supply its own labels at inference time, and
TokenClassifier gains TokenClassifyWithLabels for per-call label
selection. The vllm-cpp backend uses request labels when non-empty,
falling back to configured ner_labels then the built-in defaults.

Helpers (renderState, softmax, choiceConfidence, scoreConfidence, r2)
are ported from kev/api.py and mirrored in vllm.cpp's api_server.cpp so
both servers produce the same answer shape.

Following-Agents-Protocol: true
AI-Assisted: true
Assisted-by: AGENT:regolo/glm5.2 [maki]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(vllm-cpp): suppress gosec G404 on seeded permutation RNG

The SystemOne permute endpoint uses math/rand with a caller-supplied
seed for reproducible option permutations, matching kev's random.seed.
gosec flags this as G404 (weak RNG). Add #nosec with a comment naming
the intent: this is reproducibility, not cryptography.

Following-Agents-Protocol: true
AI-Assisted: true
Assisted-by: AGENT:regolo/glm5.2 [maki]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* chore(vllm-cpp): bump vllm.cpp pin to GLiNER2.5 merge commit

Advance VLLM_CPP_VERSION from f3cd97e to 5058268d, the commit that
landed GLiNER2.5 zero-shot NER support (PR #3224) in vllm.cpp. This
brings the DeBERTa v2 encoder, GLiNER2 boundary head, C ABI NER
functions, and server endpoints into the LocalAI vllm-cpp backend.
The ABI version (27) and Go struct mirrors already match.

Following-Agents-Protocol: true
AI-Assisted: true
Assisted-by: AGENT:regolo/glm5.2 [maki]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(vllm-cpp): use instruction text as NER label in SystemOne handler

The SystemOne handler was passing question IDs as NER labels for noul
questions and bare key names for choice questions, so the model never
matched any entities. Port the label mapping from vllm.cpp's
ParseSystemOneBody:

- noul: use the rendered instructions field (with instr alias) as the
  NER label, not the question ID
- choice: use optionText(name, desc) — "name: description" or "name"
  when the description is null/empty — not the bare key
- score: already correct (rendered criteria text)
- permute: shuffle indices and build parallel key/label arrays so the
  NER call uses the optionText labels while the response is keyed by
  the original option names

Also add the instructions field to the SystemOneQuestion schema struct
(accepted alongside the instr backward-compat alias).

Verified end-to-end against the real GLiNER2.5 model: noul questions
now find "Apple Inc. is" (organization, 0.999) and "Tim Cook is"
(person, 0.852) where they previously returned zero entities.

Following-Agents-Protocol: true
AI-Assisted: true
Assisted-by: AGENT:regolo/glm5.2 [maki]
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>
Co-authored-by: localai-org-maint-bot <306269227+localai-org-maint-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-23 12:31:28 +02:00
636c43baa5 fix(openai): return HTTP errors for pre-stream failures and report per-slot context (#12204)
* fix(capabilities): report the per-request context with split KV slots

With parallel slots and kv_unified:false, llama.cpp gives each slot
n_ctx/n_parallel, padded up to a multiple of 256. /models/capabilities
still reported the full n_ctx. A client that budgets a request against
context_size then overflows at a fraction of it.

EffectiveRequestContextSize returns the per-slot size in that case and
the full context otherwise. With the unified KV cache, the grpc-server
default, one request may use all of n_ctx. The capabilities endpoint
and the router's prompt trimmer now use it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* fix(openai): return an HTTP error when a stream fails before any chunk

A streamed chat request set the SSE headers, then waited for the
backend. When the backend failed before the first token, LocalAI sent
a 200 with a `data: {"error":...}` chunk and [DONE]. Clients that do
not parse error chunks saw an empty reply. cogito's LocalAI client was
one of them: nib users got "streaming decision produced no content"
instead of the context overflow that caused it.

Nothing has been written at that point, so the handler now returns the
error as a normal HTTP response. A failure after the first chunk keeps
the in-stream error chunk.

A prompt that exceeds the context is now a 400 on both paths, as in
the OpenAI API and llama-server, and no longer a 500. The message is
kept whole, because clients read the token counts from it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>

* test(e2e): check the error from closing the response body

golangci-lint's errcheck flags the unchecked resp.Body.Close in the
new pre-stream error helper.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-22 17:19:58 +02:00
Richard Palethorpe 7034d353b1 feat(kimodo): Add observability hooks (#12184)
feat(kimodocpp): add API and backend request observability

Capture animation requests, phase timings, output metadata, and failures in traces. Record correct API error statuses and cover completed, running, failed, and disabled tracing.

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-6

Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-09-22 07:06:32 +00:00
Richard Palethorpe 66e3a06ce6 fix(auth): require validated header credentials for CSRF exemption (#12185)
Track successful header authentication before allowing cross-site requests
to bypass CSRF checks. Arbitrary headers on unauthenticated servers and
cookie-authenticated requests no longer grant an exemption.

Share the production CSRF middleware with multipart tests, add regression
coverage for credential sources, and document the exemption behavior.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6 golangci-lint

Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
2026-09-22 04:35:09 +01:00
localai-org-maint-botandEttore Di Giacinto c0b7e64973 feat(ui): show running models and host gauges on single-node installs (#12189)
On a single-node install nothing in Operate listed the models loaded on
this machine or let an admin stop one. The System page that did was
retired in #11548, and its replacements (the Nodes workbench) only work
in distributed mode. The Nodes page also mis-detected single-node mode:
the cluster routes are not registered there, so /api/nodes answers 404,
but only 503 was treated as "distributed off", which sent every
single-node install to the empty worker-registration card. The rail hid
the entry anyway.

Nodes route on a single node becomes "This machine":
- the Nodes page's VRAM / RAM / CPU / models-disk gauges, fed from this
  host by mapping /api/resources onto the worker heartbeat fields
- a memory bar splitting host RAM by running model
- a running-models table (backend, RSS, CPU share, uptime, PID) with
  search, sorting, logs and a confirmed Stop
- the distributed setup behind an "Add machines" button

The Operate overview gains a "Running now" preview (heaviest five, with
Stop) on single node and a pointer to Nodes > Running models on a
cluster. The rail shows "This machine" in Runtime with a running count.

Backend, additive only:
- /system: each loaded model carries a `process` block (pid, rss_bytes,
  memory_percent, cpu_percent, started_at). A sampler keeps one gopsutil
  handle per PID so CPU is the share since the previous poll rather than
  the lifetime average; it is omitted on the first reading.
- /api/resources: host `cpu` and models-path `disk`, the same readings
  workers send in their heartbeat.

Also fixes the fleet tables widening the page on phones: the headers'
absolutely positioned sr-only labels escaped the scroll wrapper.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 [Playwright]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-09-21 19:12:35 +02:00
36d800ebd1 fix(api): report an alias's target in /v1/models/capabilities (#12183)
An alias config is a pure redirect with no backend of its own, so the
capabilities listing described it from its stub: no capabilities, no
modalities, and the default 4096 context_size. Clients that size their
context budget from this endpoint (nib, for one) then compacted every
turn against a model that really serves 100k.

Resolve the alias and report the target's capabilities, modalities and
context_size under the alias's id. A dangling or chained alias now
reports no enrichment instead of defaults no model runs with.

Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 10:51:17 +02:00
237cf456fd feat(gallery): galleries published as OCI artifacts (#12167)
* feat(oci): pull ORAS artifacts into a directory

Galleries published to an OCI registry arrive as an ORAS artifact whose
layers carry their tree path in org.opencontainers.image.title. Nothing in
pkg/oci could read a non-image manifest, so add PullArtifact: it lays the
layers out under a destination directory and returns the manifest digest so
callers can pin and verify signatures on it.

A registry is remote input and this writes files, so the manifest is
validated before any byte is fetched. A title that is absolute, escapes the
destination or is missing is refused, an artifact of an unexpected
artifactType is refused, and both the layer count and the total size are
capped with caller-settable limits.

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

* feat(gallery): fetch and verify galleries published as OCI artifacts

A gallery whose URL is oci://host/repo:tag is now pulled as an ORAS
artifact and its index.yaml read from the unpacked tree, alongside the
existing HTTP and file sources. Mirrors, the per-candidate timeout, the
failure cooldown and the last known good copy work the same for both
schemes, so a gallery can mirror an OCI primary with an HTTP fallback.

When the gallery declares a verification policy the artifact reference is
resolved to its manifest digest, the publisher signature is checked
against that digest, and only then is the same digest pulled. Nothing
unverified is written to disk or parsed. With strict integrity mode on,
an OCI gallery without a verification policy is refused instead of
warned about, which is what the flag already does for backend installs.

The pull lands in a staging directory that is renamed into the cache only
once the whole tree is on disk and the index reads back as an index, so a
failed or interrupted pull leaves nothing a later fetch would serve. A
fetch that finds a fresh cache entry does not contact the registry.

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

* feat(gallery): resolve entry urls relative to the gallery root

A gallery published as a self-contained tree, which is what an OCI
gallery is, names its base configs by their place in that tree. Such a
url reached the HTTP client verbatim and no entry of the gallery could
be installed.

A scheme-less entry url now resolves against the root the index came
from: the unpacked artifact for an oci:// gallery, and the directory of
the index URL otherwise. The relative path may not climb out of that
root, reusing the guard the artifact puller already applies to layer
titles, and an entry that does is dropped from the listing rather than
failing the whole gallery. An entry that names its own scheme is
untouched, so .ref indirection and local github: resolution behave as
before.

Reading an entry of an OCI gallery also needs the unpacked artifact
directory as its trusted root, since the cache is deliberately a sibling
of the models directory the downloader otherwise confines a file read
to.

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

* fix(oci): restrict artifact file permissions

Create artifact files with owner-only permissions to satisfy G302.
Document the existing path validation for the G304 scanner finding.
Check the permissions of downloaded layers in the artifact test.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6 gosec

* fix(oci): confine artifact writes to their root

Use root-relative filesystem operations to reject escapes through existing
directory symlinks. Retain owner-only permissions and add a symlink escape
regression test, without suppressing the path traversal finding.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: localai-org-maint-bot <306269227+localai-org-maint-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-21 09:23:05 +02:00