ci: publish base images to ci-cache instead of localai-base

The previous tag scheme pushed to quay.io/go-skynet/localai-base, which
required a separate quay repo + a write-permission grant for the CI
robot. PR #9672 hit a 401 on push because that grant was missing — the
robot can log in but not write to localai-base.

ci-cache already exists, the robot already has write access (it writes
the buildkit cache there on every backend build), and OCI tags namespace
cleanly within a repo. So publish base images to
quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:base-image-<stem>[-pr<N>]. The `base-image-`
prefix doesn't collide with the existing tag prefixes:
  - cache<tag-suffix>           per-backend buildkit cache
  - cache-localai<tag-suffix>   root image buildkit cache
  - base-<stem>                 base image's own buildkit cache
  - base-image-<stem>           the published OCI image (new)

base_images.yml's compute_ref step and prebuiltRef() in
scripts/changed-backends.js are kept in lock-step. Local Makefile tags
are unchanged (they're just local docker labels with no remote
correlation).

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

.agents/adding-backends.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Create the backend directory under the appropriate location:
 - **Python backends**: `backend/python/<backend-name>/`
 - **Go backends**: `backend/go/<backend-name>/`
 - **C++ backends**: `backend/cpp/<backend-name>/`
+- **Rust backends**: `backend/rust/<backend-name>/`
 
 For Python backends, you'll typically need:
 - `backend.py` - Main gRPC server implementation
@@ -18,9 +19,22 @@ For Python backends, you'll typically need:
 - `run.sh` - Runtime script
 - `test.py` / `test.sh` - Test files
 
+For Rust backends, you'll typically need (see `backend/rust/kokoros/` as a reference):
+- `Cargo.toml` - Crate manifest; depend on the upstream project as a submodule under `sources/`
+- `build.rs` - Invokes `tonic_build` to generate gRPC stubs from `backend/backend.proto` (use the `BACKEND_PROTO_PATH` env var so the Makefile can inject the canonical copy)
+- `src/` - The gRPC server implementation (implement `Backend` via `tonic`)
+- `Makefile` - Copies `backend.proto` into the crate, runs `cargo build --release`, then `package.sh`
+- `package.sh` - Uses `ldd` to bundle the binary's dynamic deps and `ld.so` into `package/lib/`
+- `run.sh` - Sets `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`/`SSL_CERT_DIR` and execs the binary via the bundled `lib/ld.so`
+- `sources/<UpstreamProject>/` - Git submodule with the upstream Rust crate
+
 ## 2. Add Build Configurations to `.github/workflows/backend.yml`
 
-Add build matrix entries for each platform/GPU type you want to support. Look at similar backends (e.g., `chatterbox`, `faster-whisper`) for reference.
+Add build matrix entries for each platform/GPU type you want to support. Look at similar backends for reference — `chatterbox`/`faster-whisper` for Python, `piper`/`silero-vad` for Go, `kokoros` for Rust.
+
+**Without an entry here no image is ever built or pushed, and the gallery entry in `backend/index.yaml` will point at a tag that does not exist.** The `dockerfile:` field must point at `./backend/Dockerfile.<lang>` matching the language bucket from step 1 (e.g. `Dockerfile.python`, `Dockerfile.golang`, `Dockerfile.rust`). The `tag-suffix` must match the `uri:` in the corresponding `backend/index.yaml` image entry exactly.
+
+If you add a new language bucket, `scripts/changed-backends.js` also needs a branch in `inferBackendPath` so PR change-detection routes file edits correctly.
 
 **Placement in file:**
 - CPU builds: Add after other CPU builds (e.g., after `cpu-chatterbox`)
@@ -28,8 +42,8 @@ Add build matrix entries for each platform/GPU type you want to support. Look at
 - CUDA 13 builds: Add after other CUDA 13 builds (e.g., after `gpu-nvidia-cuda-13-chatterbox`)
 
 **Additional build types you may need:**
-- ROCm/HIP: Use `build-type: 'hipblas'` with `base-image: "rocm/dev-ubuntu-24.04:6.4.4"`
-- Intel/SYCL: Use `build-type: 'intel'` or `build-type: 'sycl_f16'`/`sycl_f32` with `base-image: "intel/oneapi-basekit:2025.3.0-0-devel-ubuntu24.04"`
+- ROCm/HIP: Use `build-type: 'hipblas'` with `base-image: "rocm/dev-ubuntu-24.04:7.2.1"`
+- Intel/SYCL: Use `build-type: 'intel'` or `build-type: 'sycl_f16'`/`sycl_f32` with `base-image: "intel/oneapi-basekit:2025.3.2-0-devel-ubuntu24.04"`
 - L4T (ARM): Use `build-type: 'l4t'` with `platforms: 'linux/arm64'` and `runs-on: 'ubuntu-24.04-arm'`
 
 ## 3. Add Backend Metadata to `backend/index.yaml`
@@ -56,24 +70,28 @@ Add `backends/<backend-name>` to the `.NOTPARALLEL` line (around line 2) to prev
 
 **Step 4b: Add to `prepare-test-extra`**
 
-Add the backend to the `prepare-test-extra` target (around line 312) to prepare it for testing:
+Add the backend to the `prepare-test-extra` target to prepare it for testing. Use the path matching your language bucket (`backend/python/`, `backend/go/`, `backend/rust/`, …):
 
 ```makefile
 prepare-test-extra: protogen-python
 	...
-	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/<backend-name>
+	$(MAKE) -C backend/<lang>/<backend-name>
 ```
 
+For Rust backends the target is usually the crate build target itself (e.g. `$(MAKE) -C backend/rust/<backend-name> <backend-name>-grpc`) so the binary is in place before `test` runs.
+
 **Step 4c: Add to `test-extra`**
 
-Add the backend to the `test-extra` target (around line 319) to run its tests:
+Add the backend to the `test-extra` target to run its tests — applies to Go and Rust backends too, not only Python:
 
 ```makefile
 test-extra: prepare-test-extra
 	...
-	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/<backend-name> test
+	$(MAKE) -C backend/<lang>/<backend-name> test
 ```
 
+Each backend's own `Makefile` should define a `test` target so this line works regardless of language. Integration tests that need large model downloads should be gated behind an env var (see `backend/rust/kokoros/`'s `KOKOROS_MODEL_PATH` pattern) so CI only runs unit tests.
+
 **Step 4d: Add Backend Definition**
 
 Add a backend definition variable in the backend definitions section (around line 428-457). The format depends on the backend type:
@@ -93,6 +111,13 @@ BACKEND_<BACKEND_NAME> = <backend-name>|python|./backend|false|true
 BACKEND_<BACKEND_NAME> = <backend-name>|golang|.|false|true
 ```
 
+**For Rust backends**:
+```makefile
+BACKEND_<BACKEND_NAME> = <backend-name>|rust|.|false|true
+```
+
+The language field (`python`/`golang`/`rust`/…) must match a `backend/Dockerfile.<lang>` file.
+
 **Step 4e: Generate Docker Build Target**
 
 Add an eval call to generate the docker-build target (around line 480-501):
@@ -129,6 +154,53 @@ After adding a new backend, verify:
 - [ ] No Makefile syntax errors (check with linter)
 - [ ] Follows the same pattern as similar backends (e.g., if it's a transcription backend, follow `faster-whisper` pattern)
 
+## Bundling runtime shared libraries (`package.sh`)
+
+The final `Dockerfile.python` stage is `FROM scratch` — there is no system `libc`, no `apt`, no fallback library path. Only files explicitly copied from the builder stage end up in the backend image. That means any runtime `dlopen` your backend (or its Python deps) needs **must** be packaged into `${BACKEND}/lib/`.
+
+Pattern:
+
+1. Make sure the library is installed in the builder stage of `backend/Dockerfile.python` (add it to the top-level `apt-get install`).
+2. Drop a `package.sh` in your backend directory that copies the library — and its soname symlinks — into `$(dirname $0)/lib`. See `backend/python/vllm/package.sh` for a reference implementation that walks `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu`, `/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu`, etc.
+3. `Dockerfile.python` already runs `package.sh` automatically if it exists, after `package-gpu-libs.sh`.
+4. `libbackend.sh` automatically prepends `${EDIR}/lib` to `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` at run time, so anything packaged this way is found by `dlopen`.
+
+How to find missing libs: when a Python module silently fails to register torch ops or you see `AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '...' object has no attribute '...'`, run the backend image's Python with `LD_DEBUG=libs` to see which `dlopen` failed. The filename in the error message (e.g. `libnuma.so.1`) is what you need to package.
+
+To verify packaging works without trusting the host:
+
+```bash
+make docker-build-<backend>
+CID=$(docker create --entrypoint=/run.sh local-ai-backend:<backend>)
+docker cp $CID:/lib /tmp/check && docker rm $CID
+ls /tmp/check    # expect the bundled .so files + symlinks
+```
+
+Then boot it inside a fresh `ubuntu:24.04` (which intentionally does *not* have the lib installed) to confirm it actually loads from the backend dir.
+
+## Importer integration
+
+When you add a new backend, you MUST also make it importable via the model import form (`/import-model`). The import form dropdown is sourced dynamically from `GET /backends/known` — it reads the importer registry at `core/gallery/importers/importers.go`, so the steps below are the ONLY way to make your backend show up.
+
+Required steps:
+
+1. **If your backend has unambiguous detection signals** (unique file extension, HF `pipeline_tag`, unique repo name pattern, unique artefact like `modules.json`):
+   - Create an importer file at `core/gallery/importers/<backend>.go` following the Match/Import pattern in `llama-cpp.go`.
+   - Register it in `importers.go:defaultImporters` in **specificity order** — more specific detectors must appear BEFORE more generic ones (e.g. `sentencetransformers` before `transformers`, `stablediffusion-ggml` before `llama-cpp`, `vllm-omni` before `vllm`). First match wins.
+2. **If your backend is a drop-in replacement** (same artefacts as another backend, e.g. `ik-llama-cpp` and `turboquant` both consume GGUF the same way `llama-cpp` does):
+   - Do NOT create a new importer. Extend the existing importer's `Import()` to swap the emitted `backend:` field when `preferences.backend` matches. See `llama-cpp.go` for the pattern.
+3. **If your backend has no reliable auto-detect signal** (preference-only — e.g. `sglang`, `tinygrad`, `whisperx`):
+   - Do NOT create an importer. Instead add the backend name to the curated pref-only slice in `core/http/endpoints/localai/backend.go` that feeds `/backends/known`. A single line addition.
+4. **Always** add a table-driven test in `core/gallery/importers/importers_test.go` (Ginkgo/Gomega):
+   - Use a real public HuggingFace repo URI as the test fixture (existing tests already hit the live HF API — follow that pattern).
+   - Cover detection (auto-match without preferences), preference-override (explicit `backend:` in preferences wins), and — if the backend's modality has a common `pipeline_tag` but ambiguous artefacts — an ambiguity test asserting `errors.Is(err, importers.ErrAmbiguousImport)`.
+
+Rules of thumb:
+
+- When in doubt, lean pref-only. A wrong auto-detect is worse than a forced preference.
+- Never silently emit a modality mismatch (e.g. emit `llama-cpp` for a TTS repo because `.gguf` is present). Return `ErrAmbiguousImport` instead.
+- Registration order is the single most common source of bugs. Check by running `go test ./core/gallery/importers/...` — the existing suite will fail if you've shadowed a pre-existing detector.
+
 ## 6. Example: Adding a Python Backend
 
 For reference, when `moonshine` was added:

.agents/adding-gallery-models.md

@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+# Adding GGUF Models from HuggingFace to the Gallery
+
+When adding a GGUF model from HuggingFace to the LocalAI model gallery, follow this guide.
+
+## Gallery file
+
+All models are defined in `gallery/index.yaml`. Find the appropriate section (embedding models near other embeddings, chat models near similar chat models) and add a new entry.
+
+## Getting the SHA256
+
+GGUF files on HuggingFace expose their SHA256 via the `x-linked-etag` HTTP header. Fetch it with:
+
+```bash
+curl -sI "https://huggingface.co/<org>/<repo>/resolve/main/<filename>.gguf" | grep -i x-linked-etag
+```
+
+The value (without quotes) is the SHA256 hash. Example:
+
+```bash
+curl -sI "https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/embeddinggemma-300m-qat-q8_0-GGUF/resolve/main/embeddinggemma-300m-qat-Q8_0.gguf" | grep -i x-linked-etag
+# x-linked-etag: "6fa0c02a9c302be6f977521d399b4de3a46310a4f2621ee0063747881b673f67"
+```
+
+**Important**: Pay attention to exact filename casing — HuggingFace filenames are case-sensitive (e.g., `Q8_0` vs `q8_0`). Check the repo's file listing to get the exact name.
+
+## Entry format — Embedding models
+
+Embedding models use `gallery/virtual.yaml` as the base config and set `embeddings: true`:
+
+```yaml
+- name: "model-name"
+  url: github:mudler/LocalAI/gallery/virtual.yaml@master
+  urls:
+    - https://huggingface.co/<original-model-org>/<original-model-name>
+    - https://huggingface.co/<gguf-org>/<gguf-repo-name>
+  description: |
+    Short description of the model, its size, and capabilities.
+  tags:
+    - embeddings
+  overrides:
+    backend: llama-cpp
+    embeddings: true
+    parameters:
+      model: <filename>.gguf
+  files:
+    - filename: <filename>.gguf
+      uri: huggingface://<gguf-org>/<gguf-repo-name>/<filename>.gguf
+      sha256: <sha256-hash>
+```
+
+## Entry format — Chat/LLM models
+
+Chat models typically reference a template config (e.g., `gallery/gemma.yaml`, `gallery/chatml.yaml`) that defines the prompt format. Use YAML anchors (`&name` / `*name`) if adding multiple quantization variants of the same model:
+
+```yaml
+- &model-anchor
+  url: "github:mudler/LocalAI/gallery/<template>.yaml@master"
+  name: "model-name"
+  icon: https://example.com/icon.png
+  license: <license>
+  urls:
+    - https://huggingface.co/<org>/<model>
+    - https://huggingface.co/<gguf-org>/<gguf-repo>
+  description: |
+    Model description.
+  tags:
+    - llm
+    - gguf
+    - gpu
+    - cpu
+  overrides:
+    parameters:
+      model: <filename>-Q4_K_M.gguf
+  files:
+    - filename: <filename>-Q4_K_M.gguf
+      sha256: <sha256>
+      uri: huggingface://<gguf-org>/<gguf-repo>/<filename>-Q4_K_M.gguf
+```
+
+To add a variant (e.g., different quantization), use YAML merge:
+
+```yaml
+- !!merge <<: *model-anchor
+  name: "model-name-q8"
+  overrides:
+    parameters:
+      model: <filename>-Q8_0.gguf
+  files:
+    - filename: <filename>-Q8_0.gguf
+      sha256: <sha256>
+      uri: huggingface://<gguf-org>/<gguf-repo>/<filename>-Q8_0.gguf
+```
+
+## Available template configs
+
+Look at existing `.yaml` files in `gallery/` to find the right prompt template for your model architecture:
+
+- `gemma.yaml` — Gemma-family models (gemma, embeddinggemma, etc.)
+- `chatml.yaml` — ChatML format (many Mistral/OpenHermes models)
+- `deepseek.yaml` — DeepSeek models
+- `virtual.yaml` — Minimal base (good for embedding models that don't need chat templates)
+
+## Checklist
+
+1. **Find the GGUF file** on HuggingFace — note exact filename (case-sensitive)
+2. **Get the SHA256** using the `curl -sI` + `x-linked-etag` method above
+3. **Choose the right template** config from `gallery/` based on model architecture
+4. **Add the entry** to `gallery/index.yaml` near similar models
+5. **Set `embeddings: true`** if it's an embedding model
+6. **Include both URLs** — the original model page and the GGUF repo
+7. **Write a description** — mention model size, capabilities, and quantization type

.agents/ai-coding-assistants.md

@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+# AI Coding Assistants
+
+This document provides guidance for AI tools and developers using AI
+assistance when contributing to LocalAI.
+
+**LocalAI follows the same guidelines as the Linux kernel project for
+AI-assisted contributions.** See the upstream policy here:
+<https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html>
+
+The rules below mirror that policy, adapted to LocalAI's license and
+project layout. If anything is unclear, the kernel document is the
+authoritative reference for intent.
+
+AI tools helping with LocalAI development should follow the standard
+project development process:
+
+- [CONTRIBUTING.md](../CONTRIBUTING.md) — development workflow, commit
+  conventions, and PR guidelines
+- [.agents/coding-style.md](coding-style.md) — code style, editorconfig,
+  logging, and documentation conventions
+- [.agents/building-and-testing.md](building-and-testing.md) — build and
+  test procedures
+
+## Licensing and Legal Requirements
+
+All contributions must comply with LocalAI's licensing requirements:
+
+- LocalAI is licensed under the **MIT License** — see the [LICENSE](../LICENSE)
+  file
+- New source files should use the SPDX license identifier `MIT` where
+  applicable to the file type
+- Contributions must be compatible with the MIT License and must not
+  introduce code under incompatible licenses (e.g., GPL) without an
+  explicit discussion with maintainers
+
+## Signed-off-by and Developer Certificate of Origin
+
+**AI agents MUST NOT add `Signed-off-by` tags.** Only humans can legally
+certify the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO). The human submitter
+is responsible for:
+
+- Reviewing all AI-generated code
+- Ensuring compliance with licensing requirements
+- Adding their own `Signed-off-by` tag (when the project requires DCO)
+  to certify the contribution
+- Taking full responsibility for the contribution
+
+AI agents MUST NOT add `Co-Authored-By` trailers for themselves either.
+A human reviewer owns the contribution; the AI's involvement is recorded
+via `Assisted-by` (see below).
+
+## Attribution
+
+When AI tools contribute to LocalAI development, proper attribution helps
+track the evolving role of AI in the development process. Contributions
+should include an `Assisted-by` tag in the commit message trailer in the
+following format:
+
+```
+Assisted-by: AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION [TOOL1] [TOOL2]
+```
+
+Where:
+
+- `AGENT_NAME` — name of the AI tool or framework (e.g., `Claude`,
+  `Copilot`, `Cursor`)
+- `MODEL_VERSION` — specific model version used (e.g.,
+  `claude-opus-4-7`, `gpt-5`)
+- `[TOOL1] [TOOL2]` — optional specialized analysis tools invoked by the
+  agent (e.g., `golangci-lint`, `staticcheck`, `go vet`)
+
+Basic development tools (git, go, make, editors) should **not** be listed.
+
+### Example
+
+```
+fix(llama-cpp): handle empty tool call arguments
+
+Previously the parser panicked when the model returned a tool call with
+an empty arguments object. Fall back to an empty JSON object in that
+case so downstream consumers receive a valid payload.
+
+Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 golangci-lint
+Signed-off-by: Jane Developer <jane@example.com>
+```
+
+## Scope and Responsibility
+
+Using an AI assistant does not reduce the contributor's responsibility.
+The human submitter must:
+
+- Understand every line that lands in the PR
+- Verify that generated code compiles, passes tests, and follows the
+  project style
+- Confirm that any referenced APIs, flags, or file paths actually exist
+  in the current tree (AI models may hallucinate identifiers)
+- Not submit AI output verbatim without review
+
+Reviewers may ask for clarification on any change regardless of how it
+was produced. "An AI wrote it" is not an acceptable answer to a design
+question.

.agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 This guide covers how to add new API endpoints and properly integrate them with the auth/permissions system.
 
+> **Before you ship a new endpoint or capability surface**, re-read the [checklist at the bottom of this file](#checklist). LocalAI advertises its feature surface in several independent places — miss any one of them and clients/admins/UI won't know the endpoint exists.
+
 ## Architecture overview
 
 Authentication and authorization flow through three layers:
@@ -234,6 +236,66 @@ Use these HTTP status codes:
 
 If your endpoint should be tracked for usage (token counts, request counts), add the `usageMiddleware` to its middleware chain. See `core/http/middleware/usage.go` and how it's applied in `routes/openai.go`.
 
+## Advertising surfaces — where to register a new capability
+
+Beyond routing and auth, LocalAI publishes its capability surface in **four independent places**. When you add an endpoint — especially one introducing a net-new capability like a new media type or a new auth-gated feature — you must update every relevant surface. These aren't optional: missing them means the endpoint works but is invisible to clients, admins, and the UI.
+
+### 1. Swagger `@Tags` annotation (mandatory)
+
+Every handler needs a swagger block so the endpoint appears in `/swagger/index.html` and in the `/api/instructions` output. The `@Tags` value is what groups the endpoint into a capability area:
+
+```go
+// MyEndpoint does X.
+// @Summary Do X.
+// @Tags my-capability
+// @Param request body schema.MyRequest true "payload"
+// @Success 200 {object} schema.MyResponse "Response"
+// @Router /v1/my-endpoint [post]
+func MyEndpoint(...) echo.HandlerFunc { ... }
+```
+
+Use an existing tag when the endpoint extends an existing area (e.g. `audio`, `images`, `face-recognition`). Create a new tag only when the endpoint introduces a genuinely new capability surface — and in that case, also register it in step 2.
+
+After adding endpoints, regenerate the embedded spec so the runtime serves it:
+
+```bash
+make protogen-go         # ensures gRPC codegen is fresh first
+make swagger             # regenerates swagger/swagger.json
+```
+
+### 2. `/api/instructions` registry (for new capability areas)
+
+`core/http/endpoints/localai/api_instructions.go` defines `instructionDefs` — a lightweight, machine-readable index of capability areas that groups swagger endpoints by tag. It's the primary discovery surface for agents and SDKs ("what can this server do?").
+
+**When to update:** only when adding a new capability area (a new swagger tag). Existing-tag additions automatically surface without any change here.
+
+Add an entry to `instructionDefs`:
+
+```go
+{
+    Name:        "my-capability",             // URL segment at /api/instructions/my-capability
+    Description: "Short sentence describing the capability",
+    Tags:        []string{"my-capability"},   // must match swagger @Tags
+    Intro:       "Optional gotcha/context that isn't in the swagger descriptions (caveats, defaults, cross-references to other endpoints).",
+},
+```
+
+Also bump the expected-length count in `api_instructions_test.go` and add the name to the `ContainElements` assertion.
+
+### 3. `capabilities.js` symbol (for new model-config FLAG_* flags)
+
+If your feature needs a new `FLAG_*` usecase flag in `core/config/model_config.go` (so users can filter gallery models by it, and so `/v1/models` surfaces it), also declare the matching symbol in `core/http/react-ui/src/utils/capabilities.js`:
+
+```js
+export const CAP_MY_CAPABILITY = 'FLAG_MY_CAPABILITY'
+```
+
+React pages that want to filter the ModelSelector by capability import this symbol. Declare it even if you're not building the UI page yet — the declaration keeps the Go/JS vocabularies in sync.
+
+### 4. `docs/content/` (user-facing documentation)
+
+A new capability deserves its own page under `docs/content/features/`, plus cross-links from related features and an entry in `docs/content/whats-new.md`. See the pattern used by `face-recognition.md` / `object-detection.md`.
+
 ## Path protection rules
 
 The global auth middleware classifies paths as API paths or non-API paths:
@@ -248,12 +310,36 @@ If you add endpoints under a new top-level path prefix, add it to `isAPIPath()`
 
 When adding a new endpoint:
 
+**Routing & auth**
 - [ ] Handler in `core/http/endpoints/`
 - [ ] Route registered in appropriate `core/http/routes/` file
 - [ ] Auth level chosen: public / standard / admin / feature-gated
-- [ ] If feature-gated: constant in `permissions.go`, metadata in `features.go`, middleware in `app.go`
+- [ ] Entry added to `RouteFeatureRegistry` in `core/http/auth/features.go` (one row per route/method — all /v1/* routes gate through this, not per-route middleware)
+- [ ] If new feature: constant in `permissions.go`, added to the right slice (`APIFeatures` default-ON / `AgentFeatures` default-OFF), metadata in `features.go` `*FeatureMetas()`
+- [ ] If feature uses group middleware: wired in `core/http/app.go` and passed to the route registration function
 - [ ] If new path prefix: added to `isAPIPath()` in `middleware.go`
-- [ ] If OpenAI-compatible: entry in `RouteFeatureRegistry`
 - [ ] If token-counting: `usageMiddleware` added to middleware chain
-- [ ] Error responses use `schema.ErrorResponse` format
+
+**Advertising surfaces (easy to miss — see the [Advertising surfaces](#advertising-surfaces--where-to-register-a-new-capability) section)**
+- [ ] Swagger block on the handler: `@Summary`, `@Tags`, `@Param`, `@Success`, `@Router`
+- [ ] If new capability area (new swagger tag): entry in `instructionDefs` in `core/http/endpoints/localai/api_instructions.go` + test count bumped in `api_instructions_test.go`
+- [ ] If new `FLAG_*` usecase flag: matching `CAP_*` symbol exported from `core/http/react-ui/src/utils/capabilities.js`
+- [ ] `docs/content/features/<feature>.md` created; cross-links from related feature pages; entry in `docs/content/whats-new.md`
+
+**Quality**
+- [ ] Error responses use `schema.ErrorResponse` format (or `echo.NewHTTPError` with a mapped gRPC status — see the `mapBackendError` helper in `core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go`)
 - [ ] Tests cover both authenticated and unauthenticated access
+- [ ] Swagger regenerated (`make swagger`) if you changed any `@Router`/`@Tags`/`@Param` annotation
+
+## Companion: MCP admin tool surface
+
+**Required for admin endpoints.** Every new admin endpoint MUST be considered for the MCP admin tool surface — the REST API and the MCP tool catalog can drift silently otherwise, and both the LocalAI Assistant chat modality and the standalone `local-ai mcp-server` rely on `pkg/mcp/localaitools/` to mirror REST.
+
+Two outcomes are acceptable; one is not:
+
+- **Tool added.** The new endpoint is something an admin would manage conversationally (install, list, edit, toggle, upgrade). Follow the full checklist in [.agents/localai-assistant-mcp.md](localai-assistant-mcp.md): add a `LocalAIClient` interface method, implement it in both `inproc` and `httpapi`, register the tool with a `Tool*` constant, update the skill prompts, **and add the route to `toolToHTTPRoute` in `pkg/mcp/localaitools/coverage_test.go`**.
+- **Tool deliberately skipped.** The endpoint is internal/diagnostic and adding a chat path would be misleading. Document the decision in the PR description; no code action.
+- **Forgot.** This breaks the contract. The `TestToolHTTPRouteMappingComplete` test in `pkg/mcp/localaitools` is a partial guard (it checks every `Tool*` has a route mapping), but it does NOT detect new REST endpoints without a tool — that's still a process check on the PR author.
+
+**Add to the bottom of the checklist below**:
+- [ ] If admin: decided whether MCP coverage is needed; if yes, tool registered + map updated; if no, skip-reason in PR description.

.agents/building-and-testing.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Let's say the user wants to build a particular backend for a given platform. For
 - At a minimum we need to set the BUILD_TYPE, BASE_IMAGE build-args
   - Use .github/workflows/backend.yml as a reference it lists the needed args in the `include` job strategy matrix
   - l4t and cublas also requires the CUDA major and minor version
-- You can pretty print a command like `DOCKER_MAKEFLAGS=-j$(nproc --ignore=1) BUILD_TYPE=hipblas BASE_IMAGE=rocm/dev-ubuntu-24.04:6.4.4 make docker-build-coqui`
+- You can pretty print a command like `DOCKER_MAKEFLAGS=-j$(nproc --ignore=1) BUILD_TYPE=hipblas BASE_IMAGE=rocm/dev-ubuntu-24.04:7.2.1 make docker-build-coqui`
 - Unless the user specifies that they want you to run the command, then just print it because not all agent frontends handle long running jobs well and the output may overflow your context
 - The user may say they want to build AMD or ROCM instead of hipblas, or Intel instead of SYCL or NVIDIA insted of l4t or cublas. Ask for confirmation if there is ambiguity.
 - Sometimes the user may need extra parameters to be added to `docker build` (e.g. `--platform` for cross-platform builds or `--progress` to view the full logs), in which case you can generate the `docker build` command directly.

.agents/ci-caching.md

@@ -0,0 +1,280 @@
+# CI Build Caching
+
+Container builds — both the root LocalAI image (`Dockerfile`) and the per-backend images (`backend/Dockerfile.*`) — share a registry-backed BuildKit cache. This file explains how that cache is laid out, what invalidates it, and how to bypass it.
+
+## Cache layout
+
+- **Cache registry**: `quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache`
+- **Tag prefixes**:
+  - Backend builds (`backend_build.yml`) buildkit cache: `cache<tag-suffix>`
+    - e.g. `cache-gpu-nvidia-cuda-12-llama-cpp`, `cache-cpu-vllm`, `cache-nvidia-l4t-cuda-13-arm64-vllm`
+  - Root image builds (`image_build.yml`) buildkit cache: `cache-localai<tag-suffix>`
+    - e.g. `cache-localai-gpu-nvidia-cuda-12`, `cache-localai-gpu-vulkan`
+  - Layered base builds (`base_images.yml`) buildkit cache: `base-<stem>`
+    - e.g. `base-python-cpu-2404`, `base-cpp-cublas-2404-cuda13.0`
+  - Layered base **images** (the OCI manifests consumers FROM): `base-image-<stem>[-pr<N>]`
+    - e.g. `base-image-python-cpu-2404`, `base-image-cpp-cublas-2404-cuda13.0-pr9672`
+- The cache tags store multi-arch BuildKit cache manifests (`mode=max`); the `base-image-*` tags store ordinary OCI image manifests.
+
+## Read/write semantics
+
+| Trigger | `cache-from` | `cache-to` |
+|---|---|---|
+| `push` to `master` / tag | yes | yes (`mode=max,ignore-error=true`) |
+| `pull_request` | yes | **no** |
+
+PR builds read master's warm cache but never write — this prevents PRs from polluting the shared cache with their experimental state. After merge, the master build for that matrix entry refreshes the cache.
+
+`ignore-error=true` on the write side means a transient quay push failure does not fail the build; the next master push retries.
+
+## Self-warming, no separate populator
+
+There is no cron job that pre-warms the cache. The production builds *are* the populator. The first master build of a given matrix entry pays the cold cost; subsequent same-entry master builds reuse everything that hasn't changed (apt installs, gRPC compile in `Dockerfile.{llama-cpp,ik-llama-cpp,turboquant}`, Python wheel installs, etc.).
+
+Historically there was a `generate_grpc_cache.yaml` cron that targeted a `grpc` stage in the root Dockerfile. That stage was removed in July 2025 and the cron silently failed every night for 9 months without writing anything. It was deleted along with the registry-cache rollout.
+
+## The `DEPS_REFRESH` cache-buster (Python backends)
+
+Every Python backend goes through the shared `backend/Dockerfile.python`, which ends with:
+
+```dockerfile
+ARG DEPS_REFRESH=initial
+RUN cd /${BACKEND} && PORTABLE_PYTHON=true make
+```
+
+Most Python backends ship `requirements*.txt` files that **do not pin every transitive dep** (`torch`, `transformers`, `vllm`, `diffusers`, etc. are listed without a `==` pin, or with `>=` lower bounds only). With a warm BuildKit cache, the `make` layer hashes only on Dockerfile instructions + COPYed source — not on what `pip install` resolves at runtime. So a warm cache would ship the *first* version of `vllm` ever cached and never pick up upstream releases.
+
+`DEPS_REFRESH` defends against that:
+
+- `backend_build.yml` computes `date -u +%Y-W%V` (ISO week, e.g. `2026-W17`) before each build and passes it as a build-arg.
+- The `RUN ... make` layer's BuildKit hash now includes that string, so the layer invalidates **at most once per week**, automatically picking up newer wheels.
+- Within a week, builds stay warm.
+
+This applies only to `Dockerfile.python` because:
+- Go (`Dockerfile.golang`) pins versions in `go.mod` / `go.sum`.
+- Rust (`Dockerfile.rust`) pins via `Cargo.lock`.
+- C++ backends (`Dockerfile.{llama-cpp,ik-llama-cpp,turboquant}`) clone gRPC at a pinned tag (`v1.65.0`) and llama.cpp at a pinned commit; their inputs don't drift between rebuilds.
+
+### Adjusting the cadence
+
+If you need a faster refresh (e.g. while debugging an upstream flake), bump the format to daily (`+%Y-%m-%d`) or hourly (`+%Y-%m-%d-%H`). If you need a one-shot rebuild for a specific backend without changing the schedule, append a marker to the tag-suffix in the matrix or temporarily delete that backend's cache tag in quay.
+
+## Manually evicting cache
+
+To force a fully cold build for one backend or the whole image:
+
+```bash
+# Delete a single tag (requires quay credentials with admin on the repo)
+curl -X DELETE \
+  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${QUAY_TOKEN}" \
+  https://quay.io/api/v1/repository/go-skynet/ci-cache/tag/cache-gpu-nvidia-cuda-12-vllm
+
+# List all tags
+curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer ${QUAY_TOKEN}" \
+  "https://quay.io/api/v1/repository/go-skynet/ci-cache/tag/?limit=100" | jq '.tags[].name'
+```
+
+Eviction is rarely needed in normal operation — `DEPS_REFRESH` handles weekly drift, source changes invalidate naturally, and `mode=max` keeps the cache scoped per matrix entry so a stale tag never bleeds into a different build.
+
+## What the cache **does not** cover
+
+- The "Free Disk Space" / "Release space from worker" steps run on every job — these reclaim ~6 GB on `ubuntu-latest` runners. They are runner-state cleanup, not Docker, and BuildKit caches don't apply.
+- Intermediate artifacts of `Build and push (PR)` are not pushed anywhere — PRs only build for verification.
+- Darwin builds (see below) — macOS runners have no Docker daemon, so the registry-backed BuildKit cache cannot apply.
+
+## Darwin native caches
+
+`backend_build_darwin.yml` runs natively on `macOS-14` GitHub-hosted runners — there is no Docker, no BuildKit, no cross-job registry cache. Instead, the reusable workflow uses `actions/cache@v4` for four native caches that mirror the spirit of the Linux cache (warm by default, weekly refresh for unpinned Python deps, PRs read-only).
+
+| Cache | Path(s) | Key | Scope |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Go modules + build | `~/go/pkg/mod`, `~/Library/Caches/go-build` | `go.sum` (managed by `actions/setup-go@v5` `cache: true`) | All darwin jobs |
+| Homebrew | `~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads`, selected `/opt/homebrew/Cellar/*` | hash of `backend_build_darwin.yml` | All darwin jobs |
+| ccache (llama.cpp CMake) | `~/Library/Caches/ccache` | pinned `LLAMA_VERSION` from `backend/cpp/llama-cpp/Makefile` | `inputs.backend == 'llama-cpp'` only |
+| Python wheels (uv + pip) | `~/Library/Caches/pip`, `~/Library/Caches/uv` | `inputs.backend` + ISO week (`+%Y-W%V`) + hash of that backend's `requirements*.txt` | `inputs.lang == 'python'` only |
+
+Read/write semantics match the BuildKit cache: `actions/cache/restore` runs every time, `actions/cache/save` is gated on `github.event_name != 'pull_request'`. PRs read master's warm cache but never write back.
+
+The Python wheel cache uses the same ISO-week cache-buster as the Linux `DEPS_REFRESH` build-arg — same problem (unpinned `torch`/`mlx`/`diffusers`/`transformers` resolve to fresh wheels weekly), same ~one-cold-rebuild-per-week solution.
+
+The brew Cellar cache requires `HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1` and `HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP=1` (set as job-level env). Without those, `brew install` would mutate the very directories that were just restored, defeating the cache.
+
+For ccache, the workflow exports `CMAKE_ARGS=… -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache` via `$GITHUB_ENV` before running `make build-darwin-go-backend`. The Makefile in `backend/cpp/llama-cpp/` already forwards `CMAKE_ARGS` through to each variant build (`fallback`, `grpc`, `rpc-server`), so no script changes are needed. The three variants share most TUs, so ccache dedupes object files across them.
+
+### Cache budget on Darwin
+
+GitHub Actions caches are limited to 10 GB per repo. Steady-state worst case: ~800 MB Go cache + ~2 GB brew Cellar + up to 2 GB ccache + ~1.5 GB × 5 python backends. If the cap is hit, prefer collapsing the per-backend Python keys into a shared `pyenv-darwin-shared-<week>` key (accepts more cross-backend churn for a smaller footprint) before reducing other caches.
+
+## Layered base images (`ci-cache:base-image-*`)
+
+The registry-backed BuildKit cache deduplicates **within** a matrix entry's
+cache tag, but each matrix entry has its own tag — so the same `apt-get`,
+GPU SDK install, and language toolchain bootstrap runs into N different
+cache tags across the backend matrix. The layered base images factor that
+shared work out of the per-backend builds.
+
+They live in the same `quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache` repo as the buildkit
+caches, under a distinct `base-image-` tag prefix so the OCI image
+manifests coexist with `base-<stem>` (the cache for building the base),
+`cache<tag-suffix>` (per-backend caches), and `cache-localai<tag-suffix>`
+(root image caches). Reusing `ci-cache` means no new quay repo or robot
+grant is needed — the same credentials that write the cache also write
+the image.
+
+### How it fits together
+
+```
+.github/backend-matrix.yaml          # raw matrix data (linux + darwin)
+   │
+   ▼
+backend.yml / backend_pr.yml
+  ├── derive-bases / generate-matrix
+  │     scripts/changed-backends.js
+  │       reads .github/backend-matrix.yaml
+  │       (PR mode also reads changed files)
+  │       emits:
+  │         - matrix         (annotated with base-image-prebuilt)
+  │         - matrix-darwin
+  │         - bases-matrix   (deduplicated by tag-stem)
+  │
+  ├── build-bases  (matrix: bases-matrix)
+  │     uses base_images.yml
+  │       FROM .docker/bases/Dockerfile.<lang>
+  │       pushes quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:base-image-<stem>[-pr<N>]
+  │
+  └── backend-jobs  (matrix: matrix; needs build-bases)
+        uses backend_build.yml
+          FROM ${BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT}
+            i.e. quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:base-image-<stem>[-pr<N>]
+          only the backend source COPY + `make` remain.
+```
+
+The base image is **always** built before backends consume it, in the same
+workflow run. There is no cross-workflow dependency, no chicken-and-egg
+on first push, and no manual matrix to keep in sync — adding a backend
+matrix entry is just an edit to `.github/backend-matrix.yaml`.
+
+### Tag scheme
+
+`<stem>` is computed by `tagStem()` in `scripts/changed-backends.js` from
+the (lang, build-type, ubuntu, cuda, base-image) tuple. Arch is
+intentionally NOT in the stem — bases are built multi-arch when any
+consumer needs multi-arch, and single-arch otherwise (the `platforms`
+field on each base entry is the union of its consumers' platforms).
+
+| Build-type | Stem template |
+|---|---|
+| `''` (CPU) | `<lang>-cpu-<ubuntu>[-<base-image-slug>]` |
+| `cublas` / `l4t` | `<lang>-<build-type>-<ubuntu>-cuda<major>.<minor>[-<base-image-slug>]` |
+| anything else (vulkan, hipblas, intel, sycl_*) | `<lang>-<build-type>-<ubuntu>[-<base-image-slug>]` |
+
+The base-image slug is empty for the default `ubuntu:24.04` and a short
+parseable suffix otherwise (`jetpack-r36.4.0`, `rocm-7.2.1`,
+`oneapi-2025.3.2`, etc.).
+
+| Event | Pushed tag (in `quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache`) |
+|---|---|
+| `push` (master/tag) | `:base-image-<stem>` |
+| `pull_request` | `:base-image-<stem>-pr<PR_NUMBER>` |
+
+The buildkit cache for the base build itself lives at
+`quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:base-<stem>` (`mode=max,ignore-error=true`),
+parallel to the per-matrix-entry caches. The `base-` (cache) and
+`base-image-` (image) prefixes never collide.
+
+The script also runs a collision check across consumers of each stem: if
+two consumers map to the same stem but disagree on `base-image` or
+`skip-drivers` (and skip-drivers is meaningful for that build-type), the
+script fails loudly. Resolve by encoding the differing input in
+`tagStem()` rather than letting the dedup silently pick a winner.
+
+### PR testability
+
+PRs run the same pipeline as master: derive bases → build bases (tagged
+`-pr<N>`) → run filtered backend matrix consuming those `-pr<N>` tags.
+End-to-end validation always lives within the PR.
+
+For PRs that only change `.docker/bases/Dockerfile.<lang>` (no backend
+source touched), `changed-backends.js` adds one canary backend matrix
+entry per (lang × build-type × arch × cuda × ubuntu) tuple to the filtered
+matrix so each base flavour gets exercised.
+
+### Existing language tiers
+
+| Tier (lang) | Recipe | Consumer Dockerfile(s) | Distinct stems |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `python` | `.docker/bases/Dockerfile.python` | `backend/Dockerfile.python` | 9 |
+| `golang` | `.docker/bases/Dockerfile.golang` | `backend/Dockerfile.golang` | 8 |
+| `cpp` | `.docker/bases/Dockerfile.cpp` (apt + GPU + protoc + cmake + GRPC) | `backend/Dockerfile.{llama-cpp,ik-llama-cpp,turboquant}` | 8 |
+| `rust` | `.docker/bases/Dockerfile.rust` | `backend/Dockerfile.rust` | 1 |
+
+The C++ trio share a single `cpp` base because they only differ in their
+per-backend `make` targets. `langOf()` in `scripts/changed-backends.js`
+remaps `Dockerfile.{llama-cpp,ik-llama-cpp,turboquant}` → `cpp` so dedup
+works across the trio. If a future C++ consumer needs a *different* base
+(e.g. without GRPC, or with a different protoc version), give it its own
+`Dockerfile.<newlang>` recipe and remove it from the cpp remap.
+
+### Adding a new (accel × arch × cuda × lang) flavour
+
+Just add the matrix entry to `.github/backend-matrix.yaml` for the new
+flavour. The bases matrix and the per-entry `base-image-prebuilt` are
+derived automatically by `scripts/changed-backends.js`. Nothing else to
+change.
+
+### Adding a new language tier
+
+1. Create `.docker/bases/Dockerfile.<lang>` mirroring an existing tier
+   (apt + accel install + lang-specific toolchain).
+2. Slim `backend/Dockerfile.<lang>` to `FROM ${BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT}` plus
+   the per-backend source COPY + build (no inline accel install).
+3. Add the new recipe to `baseTriggerFiles` in
+   `scripts/changed-backends.js` so PRs touching it fan out to canaries.
+4. Add `<lang>: (item) => item.dockerfile.endsWith("<lang>")` to
+   `langTriggerSelector` in the same file.
+5. Add a `LOCAL_BASE_<LANG>_TAG`, a `docker-build-<lang>-base` target,
+   and a clause in `local-base-tag` / `local-base-target` in `Makefile`.
+
+The `langsWithBase` set in `scripts/changed-backends.js` is auto-detected
+from the `.docker/bases/` directory at script startup, so step 1 alone is
+enough for the script to start emitting bases (and annotating matrix
+entries with `base-image-prebuilt`) for that lang. Steps 3–5 plug it
+into the canary fan-out and the local-build path.
+
+### Why not just rely on `mode=max` cache?
+
+`mode=max` deduplicates at the layer level, but each matrix entry has its
+own cache tag (`cache<tag-suffix>`). A change that invalidates the GPU SDK
+layer in one backend does not invalidate it in any other; each entry pays
+the full cost on its next rebuild. The shared base image is built once per
+(accel × arch × cuda × lang), then pulled by every backend that consumes
+it — that's the actual cross-matrix dedup.
+
+### Local builds
+
+All `backend/Dockerfile.{python,golang,cpp,rust}` consumers require
+`BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT` (no inline fallback). The Makefile wires the right
+`docker-build-<lang>-base` as a prerequisite for each backend's
+`docker-build-<backend>` target, so:
+
+```bash
+# Build any backend; the matching base is built first if needed.
+make docker-build-vllm BUILD_TYPE=cublas CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=12 CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=8
+make docker-build-llama-cpp BUILD_TYPE=cublas CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=13 CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=0
+make docker-build-rerankers   # golang
+make docker-build-kokoros     # rust
+```
+
+Or build a base directly: `make docker-build-{python,golang,cpp,rust}-base
+BUILD_TYPE=...`. Or pull a pre-built one from quay if it exists for your
+target tuple.
+
+## Touching the cache pipeline
+
+When changing `image_build.yml`, `backend_build.yml`, or any of the `backend/Dockerfile.*` files:
+
+1. **Don't drop `DEPS_REFRESH=...` from the build-args** without a replacement strategy (lockfiles, pinned requirements). Otherwise master will silently freeze on whichever versions were cached at the time.
+2. **Keep `tag-suffix` unique per matrix entry** — it's the cache namespace. Two matrix entries sharing a tag-suffix would clobber each other's cache.
+3. **Keep `cache-to` gated on `github.event_name != 'pull_request'`** — PRs must not write.
+4. **Keep `ignore-error=true` on `cache-to`** — quay registry hiccups must not fail builds.
+5. **`tagStem()` in `scripts/changed-backends.js` is the single source of truth for base image tags.** The matrix entries are annotated with `base-image-prebuilt` in the same script run; backend-jobs reads the value as-is. There's no parallel YAML expression to keep in sync. Adding a new dimension to the stem (e.g. a slug for a new base-image variant) is a script change only.

.agents/coding-style.md

@@ -42,6 +42,14 @@ trim_trailing_whitespace = false
 
 Use `github.com/mudler/xlog` for logging which has the same API as slog.
 
+## Go tests
+
+All Go tests — including backend tests — must use [Ginkgo](https://onsi.github.io/ginkgo/) (v2) with Gomega matchers, not the stdlib `testing` package with `t.Run` / `t.Errorf`. A test file should register a suite with `RegisterFailHandler(Fail)` in a `TestXxx(t *testing.T)` bootstrap and use `Describe`/`Context`/`It` blocks for the actual cases. Look at any existing `*_test.go` under `core/` or `pkg/` for a template.
+
+Do not mix styles within a package. If you are extending tests in a package that already uses Ginkgo, keep using Ginkgo. If you find stdlib-style Go tests in the tree, treat them as tech debt to be migrated rather than as a pattern to follow.
+
+This is enforced by `golangci-lint` via the `forbidigo` linter (see `.golangci.yml`); calls like `t.Errorf` / `t.Fatalf` / `t.Run` / `t.Skip` / `t.Logf` are flagged. Run `make lint` locally before submitting; the same check runs in CI (`.github/workflows/lint.yml`).
+
 ## Documentation
 
 The project documentation is located in `docs/content`. When adding new features or changing existing functionality, it is crucial to update the documentation to reflect these changes. This helps users understand how to use the new capabilities and ensures the documentation stays relevant.

.agents/localai-assistant-mcp.md

@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+# LocalAI Assistant — admin MCP server
+
+This document is the contract for **anyone** (human or AI agent) touching LocalAI's admin REST surface, the in-process MCP server that wraps it, or the embedded skill prompts that teach the assistant how to use it. Read this before adding/removing/renaming admin endpoints, MCP tools, or skill recipes.
+
+## What this feature is
+
+`pkg/mcp/localaitools/` is a public Go package that exposes LocalAI's admin/management surface as an MCP server. It is used in two ways:
+
+1. **In-process**: when an admin opens a chat with `metadata.localai_assistant=true`, the chat handler injects the in-memory MCP server (paired `net.Pipe()` transport, no HTTP loopback) so the LLM can install models, manage backends and edit configs by chatting.
+2. **Standalone**: the `local-ai mcp-server --target=…` subcommand serves the same MCP server over stdio, talking HTTP to a remote LocalAI instance.
+
+The two modes share **all** tool definitions and skill prompts. They differ only in their `LocalAIClient` implementation (`inproc/` calls services directly; `httpapi/` calls REST).
+
+## The three things you must keep in sync
+
+When you change LocalAI's admin surface, three layers must stay aligned:
+
+1. **REST endpoint** in `core/http/endpoints/localai/*.go`.
+2. **MCP tool registration** in `pkg/mcp/localaitools/tools_*.go`, plus a method on `LocalAIClient` (in `client.go`) and implementations in both `inproc/client.go` **and** `httpapi/client.go`.
+3. **Skill prompt** under `pkg/mcp/localaitools/prompts/skills/*.md` — the markdown that teaches the LLM how to use the new tool. If the new tool fits an existing recipe, update that recipe; otherwise add a new file.
+
+If you ship a REST endpoint without (2) and (3), conversational admins won't see the feature.
+
+## Checklist for adding a new admin endpoint
+
+- [ ] REST endpoint exists in `core/http/endpoints/localai/*.go` and is gated by `auth.RequireAdmin()` in `core/http/routes/localai.go`.
+- [ ] `LocalAIClient` interface in `pkg/mcp/localaitools/client.go` has a method covering the new operation.
+- [ ] DTOs added/updated in `pkg/mcp/localaitools/dto.go` (JSON-tagged; never expose raw service types).
+- [ ] `inproc/client.go` implements the new method by calling the service directly (not via HTTP loopback).
+- [ ] `httpapi/client.go` implements the new method by calling the REST endpoint.
+- [ ] Tool registration added in the appropriate `pkg/mcp/localaitools/tools_*.go`. Mutating tools must reference safety rule 1 in the description.
+- [ ] If the tool is mutating, ensure `Options{DisableMutating: true}` skips it (mirror the pattern in `tools_models.go`).
+- [ ] Skill prompt added or updated under `pkg/mcp/localaitools/prompts/skills/`. The prompt must instruct the LLM when to call the tool, what to ask the user first, and what to do on error.
+- [ ] Tests:
+   - `pkg/mcp/localaitools/server_test.go` adds the tool name to `expectedFullCatalog` and `expectedReadOnlyCatalog` (if read-only).
+   - Tool dispatch is added to `TestEachToolDispatchesToClient`.
+   - `pkg/mcp/localaitools/httpapi/client_test.go` covers the new HTTP path.
+
+## Adding a new skill recipe (no new tool)
+
+Sometimes you want to teach the LLM a new pattern that uses existing tools. Drop a markdown file under `pkg/mcp/localaitools/prompts/skills/<verb>_<noun>.md`. The file is automatically embedded by `//go:embed` and assembled into the system prompt in lexicographic order. No Go changes needed.
+
+Conventions:
+- Filename: `<verb>_<noun>.md` (e.g. `install_chat_model.md`, `upgrade_backend.md`).
+- First line: `# Skill: <Title Case description>`.
+- Number the steps. Reference exact tool names in backticks.
+- If the skill mutates state, remind the LLM to confirm with the user.
+
+## Code conventions
+
+These rules guard against the magic-literal drift that surfaced in the first audit. Do not re-introduce bare strings.
+
+- **Tool names** always come from the `Tool*` constants in `pkg/mcp/localaitools/tools.go`. Tool registrations, the test catalog (`server_test.go`'s `expectedFullCatalog` / `expectedReadOnlyCatalog`), and dispatch tables reference the constants. The embedded skill prompts under `prompts/` keep bare strings — that's the one allowed exception, and `TestPromptsContainSafetyAnchors` enforces alignment.
+- **Toggle/pin actions** use the `modeladmin.Action` type (`pkg/mcp/localaitools` and `core/services/modeladmin`). Use `ActionEnable`/`ActionDisable`/`ActionPin`/`ActionUnpin`; never bare `"enable"`/`"pin"` strings.
+- **Capability tags** for `list_installed_models` use the `localaitools.Capability` type (`capability.go`). The `LocalAIClient.ListInstalledModels` interface takes a typed `Capability`, and the `inproc` switch only accepts canonical values (`"embed"`/`"embedding"` are not aliases — only `CapabilityEmbeddings`).
+- **HTTP error checks** in `httpapi.Client` use `errors.Is(err, ErrHTTPNotFound)`, not substring matches on `err.Error()`. The typed `*HTTPError` carries `StatusCode` and `Body`; add new sentinel errors as needed rather than re-introducing string matching.
+- **Channel sends** to `GalleryService.ModelGalleryChannel` / `BackendGalleryChannel` from inproc clients MUST select on `ctx.Done()` so a cancelled chat completion releases the goroutine. See `inproc.sendModelOp` / `sendBackendOp`.
+- **Disk writes** of model config YAML go through `modeladmin.writeFileAtomic` (temp file + `os.Rename`). `os.WriteFile` truncates on crash and corrupts the model.
+- **MCP server lifecycle**: every initialised holder MUST register `Close()` with `signals.RegisterGracefulTerminationHandler`. The standalone `mcp-server` CLI uses `signal.NotifyContext` to honour SIGINT/SIGTERM.
+
+## File map (where to look)
+
+```
+pkg/mcp/localaitools/
+  client.go              # LocalAIClient interface + DTO registry
+  dto.go                 # JSON-tagged DTOs shared by both client impls
+  server.go              # NewServer(client, opts) — registers tools
+  tools.go               # Tool* name constants (single source of truth)
+  capability.go          # Capability type + constants
+  tools_models.go        # gallery_search, install_model, import_model_uri, ...
+  tools_backends.go
+  tools_config.go
+  tools_system.go
+  tools_state.go
+  prompts.go             # //go:embed loader + SystemPrompt(opts)
+  prompts/00_role.md
+  prompts/10_safety.md   # SAFETY RULES — change with care
+  prompts/20_tools.md    # curated tool catalog with one-liners
+  prompts/skills/*.md
+  inproc/client.go       # in-process LocalAIClient (services-direct)
+  httpapi/client.go      # REST LocalAIClient (for standalone CLI / remote)
+core/http/endpoints/mcp/
+  localai_assistant.go   # process-wide holder + LocalToolExecutor
+core/cli/mcp_server.go   # local-ai mcp-server subcommand
+```
+
+## Why two clients
+
+The in-process MCP server runs inside the same LocalAI binary that serves chat. Going over HTTP loopback would (a) require minting a synthetic admin API key for the server to authenticate against itself, (b) double-marshal every tool dispatch, and (c) lose access to in-process channels (e.g. `GalleryService.ModelGalleryChannel` for streaming install progress). So in-process uses `inproc.Client`. The standalone stdio CLI talks to a *remote* LocalAI; HTTP is the only option, so it uses `httpapi.Client`. Both implement the same `LocalAIClient` interface, and the parity test in `pkg/mcp/localaitools/parity_test.go` (when present) keeps their output equivalent.
+
+## Why prompt-enforced confirmation, not code gates
+
+The user chose KISS. Every mutating tool has a safety rule (`prompts/10_safety.md` rule 1) that requires the LLM to summarise the action and wait for explicit user confirmation before calling it. There is no `plan_*`/`apply_*` two-step in code. If you add a mutating tool, do **not** add per-tool confirmation logic in Go — instead, list the new tool name in `prompts/10_safety.md` so the LLM knows it falls under the confirmation rule.
+
+## Distributed mode
+
+The in-memory MCP server runs only on the head node (where the chat handler runs). `inproc.Client` wraps services that are already distributed-aware (`GalleryService` coordinates with workers; `ListNodes` reads the NATS-populated registry). No NATS routing of MCP tools — the admin surface lives on the head, period.

.agents/vllm-backend.md

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+# Working on the vLLM Backend
+
+The vLLM backend lives at `backend/python/vllm/backend.py` (async gRPC) and the multimodal variant at `backend/python/vllm-omni/backend.py` (sync gRPC). Both wrap vLLM's `AsyncLLMEngine` / `Omni` and translate the LocalAI gRPC `PredictOptions` into vLLM `SamplingParams` + outputs into `Reply.chat_deltas`.
+
+This file captures the non-obvious bits — most of the bring-up was a single PR (`feat/vllm-parity`) and the things below are easy to get wrong.
+
+## Tool calling and reasoning use vLLM's *native* parsers
+
+Do not write regex-based tool-call extractors for vLLM. vLLM ships:
+
+- `vllm.tool_parsers.ToolParserManager` — 50+ registered parsers (`hermes`, `llama3_json`, `llama4_pythonic`, `mistral`, `qwen3_xml`, `deepseek_v3`, `granite4`, `openai`, `kimi_k2`, `glm45`, …)
+- `vllm.reasoning.ReasoningParserManager` — 25+ registered parsers (`deepseek_r1`, `qwen3`, `mistral`, `gemma4`, …)
+
+Both can be used standalone: instantiate with a tokenizer, call `extract_tool_calls(text, request=None)` / `extract_reasoning(text, request=None)`. The backend stores the parser *classes* on `self.tool_parser_cls` / `self.reasoning_parser_cls` at LoadModel time and instantiates them per request.
+
+**Selection:** vLLM does *not* auto-detect parsers from model name — neither does the LocalAI backend. The user (or `core/config/hooks_vllm.go`) must pick one and pass it via `Options[]`:
+
+```yaml
+options:
+  - tool_parser:hermes
+  - reasoning_parser:qwen3
+```
+
+Auto-defaults for known model families live in `core/config/parser_defaults.json` and are applied:
+- at gallery import time by `core/gallery/importers/vllm.go`
+- at model load time by the `vllm` / `vllm-omni` backend hook in `core/config/hooks_vllm.go`
+
+User-supplied `tool_parser:`/`reasoning_parser:` in the config wins over defaults — the hook checks for existing entries before appending.
+
+**When to update `parser_defaults.json`:** any time vLLM ships a new tool or reasoning parser, or you onboard a new model family that LocalAI users will pull from HuggingFace. The file is keyed by *family pattern* matched against `normalizeModelID(cfg.Model)` (lowercase, org-prefix stripped, `_`→`-`). Patterns are checked **longest-first** — keep `qwen3.5` before `qwen3`, `llama-3.3` before `llama-3`, etc., or the wrong family wins. Add a covering test in `core/config/hooks_test.go`.
+
+**Sister file — `core/config/inference_defaults.json`:** same pattern but for sampling parameters (temperature, top_p, top_k, min_p, repeat_penalty, presence_penalty). Loaded by `core/config/inference_defaults.go` and applied by `ApplyInferenceDefaults()`. The schema is `map[string]float64` only — *strings don't fit*, which is why parser defaults needed their own JSON file. The inference file is **auto-generated from unsloth** via `go generate ./core/config/` (see `core/config/gen_inference_defaults/`) — don't hand-edit it; instead update the upstream source or regenerate. Both files share `normalizeModelID()` and the longest-first pattern ordering.
+
+**Constructor compatibility gotcha:** the abstract `ToolParser.__init__` accepts `tools=`, but several concrete parsers (Hermes2ProToolParser, etc.) override `__init__` and *only* accept `tokenizer`. Always:
+
+```python
+try:
+    tp = self.tool_parser_cls(self.tokenizer, tools=tools)
+except TypeError:
+    tp = self.tool_parser_cls(self.tokenizer)
+```
+
+## ChatDelta is the streaming contract
+
+The Go side (`core/backend/llm.go`, `pkg/functions/chat_deltas.go`) consumes `Reply.chat_deltas` to assemble the OpenAI response. For tool calls to surface in `chat/completions`, the Python backend **must** populate `Reply.chat_deltas[].tool_calls` with `ToolCallDelta{index, id, name, arguments}`. Returning the raw `<tool_call>...</tool_call>` text in `Reply.message` is *not* enough — the Go regex fallback exists for llama.cpp, not for vllm.
+
+Same story for `reasoning_content` — emit it on `ChatDelta.reasoning_content`, not as part of `content`.
+
+## Message conversion to chat templates
+
+`tokenizer.apply_chat_template()` expects a list of dicts, not proto Messages. The shared helper in `backend/python/common/vllm_utils.py` (`messages_to_dicts`) handles the mapping including:
+
+- `tool_call_id` and `name` for `role="tool"` messages
+- `tool_calls` JSON-string field → parsed Python list for `role="assistant"`
+- `reasoning_content` for thinking models
+
+Pass `tools=json.loads(request.Tools)` and (when `request.Metadata.get("enable_thinking") == "true"`) `enable_thinking=True` to `apply_chat_template`. Wrap in `try/except TypeError` because not every tokenizer template accepts those kwargs.
+
+## CPU support and the SIMD/library minefield
+
+vLLM publishes prebuilt CPU wheels at `https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/releases/...`. The pin lives in `backend/python/vllm/requirements-cpu-after.txt`.
+
+**Version compatibility — important:** newer vllm CPU wheels (≥ 0.15) declare `torch==2.10.0+cpu` as a hard dep, but `torch==2.10.0` only exists on the PyTorch test channel and pulls in an incompatible `torchvision`. Stay on **`vllm 0.14.1+cpu` + `torch 2.9.1+cpu`** until both upstream catch up. Bumping requires verifying torchvision/torchaudio match.
+
+`requirements-cpu.txt` uses `--extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu`. `install.sh` adds `--index-strategy=unsafe-best-match` for the `cpu` profile so uv resolves transformers/vllm from PyPI while pulling torch from the PyTorch index.
+
+**SIMD baseline:** the prebuilt CPU wheel is compiled with AVX-512 VNNI/BF16. On a CPU without those instructions, importing `vllm.model_executor.models.registry` SIGILLs at `_run_in_subprocess` time during model inspection. There is no runtime flag to disable it. Workarounds:
+
+1. **Run on a host with the right SIMD baseline** (default — fast)
+2. **Build from source** with `FROM_SOURCE=true` env var. Plumbing exists end-to-end:
+   - `install.sh` hides `requirements-cpu-after.txt`, runs `installRequirements` for the base deps, then clones vllm and `VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=cpu uv pip install --no-deps .`
+   - `backend/Dockerfile.python` declares `ARG FROM_SOURCE` + `ENV FROM_SOURCE`
+   - `Makefile` `docker-build-backend` macro forwards `--build-arg FROM_SOURCE=$(FROM_SOURCE)` when set
+   - Source build takes 30–50 minutes — too slow for per-PR CI but fine for local.
+
+**Runtime shared libraries:** vLLM's `vllm._C` extension `dlopen`s `libnuma.so.1` at import time. If missing, the C extension silently fails and `torch.ops._C_utils.init_cpu_threads_env` is never registered → `EngineCore` crashes on `init_device` with:
+
+```
+AttributeError: '_OpNamespace' '_C_utils' object has no attribute 'init_cpu_threads_env'
+```
+
+`backend/python/vllm/package.sh` bundles `libnuma.so.1` and `libgomp.so.1` into `${BACKEND}/lib/`, which `libbackend.sh` adds to `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` at run time. The builder stage in `backend/Dockerfile.python` installs `libnuma1`/`libgomp1` so package.sh has something to copy. Do *not* assume the production host has these — backend images are `FROM scratch`.
+
+## Backend hook system (`core/config/backend_hooks.go`)
+
+Per-backend defaults that used to be hardcoded in `ModelConfig.Prepare()` now live in `core/config/hooks_*.go` files and self-register via `init()`:
+
+- `hooks_llamacpp.go` → GGUF metadata parsing, context size, GPU layers, jinja template
+- `hooks_vllm.go` → tool/reasoning parser auto-selection from `parser_defaults.json`
+
+Hook keys:
+- `"llama-cpp"`, `"vllm"`, `"vllm-omni"`, … — backend-specific
+- `""` — runs only when `cfg.Backend` is empty (auto-detect case)
+- `"*"` — global catch-all, runs for every backend before specific hooks
+
+Multiple hooks per key are supported and run in registration order. Adding a new backend default:
+
+```go
+// core/config/hooks_<backend>.go
+func init() {
+    RegisterBackendHook("<backend>", myDefaults)
+}
+func myDefaults(cfg *ModelConfig, modelPath string) {
+    // only fill in fields the user didn't set
+}
+```
+
+## The `Messages.ToProto()` fields you need to set
+
+`core/schema/message.go:ToProto()` must serialize:
+- `ToolCallID` → `proto.Message.ToolCallId` (for `role="tool"` messages — links result back to the call)
+- `Reasoning` → `proto.Message.ReasoningContent`
+- `ToolCalls` → `proto.Message.ToolCalls` (JSON-encoded string)
+
+These were originally not serialized and tool-calling conversations broke silently — the C++ llama.cpp backend reads them but always got empty strings. Any new field added to `schema.Message` *and* `proto.Message` needs a matching line in `ToProto()`.

.docker/apt-mirror.sh

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+#!/bin/sh
+# Reconfigure Ubuntu apt sources to point at an alternate mirror.
+#
+# Used by Dockerfiles via `RUN --mount=type=bind,source=.docker/apt-mirror.sh,...`
+# and by CI workflows on the runner to mitigate outages of the default
+# archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com pool.
+#
+# Inputs (env):
+#   APT_MIRROR        Replacement for archive.ubuntu.com and security.ubuntu.com
+#                     (e.g. "http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com" or
+#                      "https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org").
+#                     Leave empty to keep upstream. The trailing "/ubuntu/..."
+#                     path is preserved by the rewrite.
+#   APT_PORTS_MIRROR  Replacement for ports.ubuntu.com (arm64/ppc64el/...).
+#                     Leave empty to keep upstream.
+#
+# Both default to empty, in which case the script is a no-op.
+
+set -e
+
+if [ -z "${APT_MIRROR}" ] && [ -z "${APT_PORTS_MIRROR}" ]; then
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+# Ubuntu 24.04 (noble) ships DEB822 sources at /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources;
+# older releases use /etc/apt/sources.list. We rewrite whichever exists.
+for f in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources /etc/apt/sources.list; do
+    [ -f "$f" ] || continue
+    if [ -n "${APT_MIRROR}" ]; then
+        # Use a comma delimiter so the alternation pipe in the regex
+        # is not interpreted as the s/// separator.
+        sed -i -E "s,https?://(archive\.ubuntu\.com|security\.ubuntu\.com),${APT_MIRROR},g" "$f"
+    fi
+    if [ -n "${APT_PORTS_MIRROR}" ]; then
+        sed -i -E "s,https?://ports\.ubuntu\.com,${APT_PORTS_MIRROR},g" "$f"
+    fi
+done
+
+echo "apt-mirror: rewrote sources (APT_MIRROR='${APT_MIRROR}', APT_PORTS_MIRROR='${APT_PORTS_MIRROR}')"

.docker/bases/Dockerfile.cpp

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+# Shared C++ + accelerator base image for the llama-cpp / ik-llama-cpp /
+# turboquant trio. They differ only in their Makefile targets at build
+# time; the apt + GPU SDK + protoc + cmake + GRPC install is identical.
+#
+# Built once per (build-type, arch, ubuntu-version, cuda-version) combination
+# by .github/workflows/base_images.yml and pushed to
+# quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:base-image-<tag-stem>[-pr<N>]. Consumed by
+# backend/Dockerfile.{llama-cpp,ik-llama-cpp,turboquant} via the
+# BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT build-arg. See .agents/ci-caching.md.
+
+ARG BASE_IMAGE=ubuntu:24.04
+ARG APT_MIRROR=""
+ARG APT_PORTS_MIRROR=""
+
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE} AS grpc
+
+ARG GRPC_MAKEFLAGS="-j4 -Otarget"
+ARG GRPC_VERSION=v1.65.0
+ARG CMAKE_FROM_SOURCE=false
+# CUDA Toolkit 13.x compatibility: CMake 3.31.9+ fixes toolchain detection/arch table issues
+ARG CMAKE_VERSION=3.31.10
+ARG APT_MIRROR
+ARG APT_PORTS_MIRROR
+
+ENV MAKEFLAGS=${GRPC_MAKEFLAGS}
+
+WORKDIR /build
+
+RUN --mount=type=bind,source=.docker/apt-mirror.sh,target=/usr/local/sbin/apt-mirror \
+    APT_MIRROR="${APT_MIRROR}" APT_PORTS_MIRROR="${APT_PORTS_MIRROR}" sh /usr/local/sbin/apt-mirror && \
+    apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+        ca-certificates \
+        build-essential curl libssl-dev \
+        git wget && \
+    apt-get clean && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+RUN <<EOT bash
+    if [ "${CMAKE_FROM_SOURCE}" = "true" ]; then
+        curl -L -s https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v${CMAKE_VERSION}/cmake-${CMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz -o cmake.tar.gz && tar xvf cmake.tar.gz && cd cmake-${CMAKE_VERSION} && ./configure && make && make install
+    else
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y \
+            cmake && \
+        apt-get clean && \
+        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+    fi
+EOT
+
+# Build GRPC into /opt/grpc so we can copy it into the final base without
+# pulling in the full source tree. Mirrors the original two-stage layout in
+# Dockerfile.llama-cpp; absorbing it here means consumers no longer pay the
+# GRPC compile cost.
+RUN git clone --recurse-submodules --jobs 4 -b ${GRPC_VERSION} --depth 1 --shallow-submodules https://github.com/grpc/grpc && \
+    mkdir -p /build/grpc/cmake/build && \
+    cd /build/grpc/cmake/build && \
+    sed -i "216i\  TESTONLY" "../../third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/container/CMakeLists.txt" && \
+    cmake -DgRPC_INSTALL=ON -DgRPC_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/opt/grpc ../.. && \
+    make && \
+    make install && \
+    rm -rf /build
+
+
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}
+
+ARG CMAKE_FROM_SOURCE=false
+ARG CMAKE_VERSION=3.31.10
+ARG BUILD_TYPE
+ENV BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE}
+ARG CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION
+ARG CUDA_MINOR_VERSION
+ARG SKIP_DRIVERS=false
+ENV CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}
+ENV CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+ARG TARGETARCH
+ARG TARGETVARIANT
+ARG UBUNTU_VERSION=2404
+ARG APT_MIRROR
+ARG APT_PORTS_MIRROR
+
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.description="LocalAI C++ (llama-cpp/ik-llama-cpp/turboquant) base image"
+LABEL org.localai.base.lang="cpp"
+
+RUN --mount=type=bind,source=.docker/apt-mirror.sh,target=/usr/local/sbin/apt-mirror \
+    APT_MIRROR="${APT_MIRROR}" APT_PORTS_MIRROR="${APT_PORTS_MIRROR}" sh /usr/local/sbin/apt-mirror && \
+    apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+        build-essential \
+        ccache git \
+        ca-certificates \
+        make \
+        pkg-config libcurl4-openssl-dev \
+        curl unzip \
+        libssl-dev wget && \
+    apt-get clean && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Cuda
+ENV PATH=/usr/local/cuda/bin:${PATH}
+
+# HipBLAS requirements
+ENV PATH=/opt/rocm/bin:${PATH}
+
+
+# Vulkan requirements
+RUN <<EOT bash
+    if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "vulkan" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y  --no-install-recommends \
+            software-properties-common pciutils wget gpg-agent && \
+        apt-get install -y libglm-dev cmake libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-present0 libpciaccess0 \
+            libpng-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libx11-dev g++ gcc \
+            libwayland-dev libxrandr-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev \
+            git python-is-python3 bison libx11-xcb-dev liblz4-dev libzstd-dev \
+            ocaml-core ninja-build pkg-config libxml2-dev wayland-protocols python3-jsonschema \
+            clang-format qtbase5-dev qt6-base-dev libxcb-glx0-dev sudo xz-utils
+        if [ "amd64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+            wget "https://sdk.lunarg.com/sdk/download/1.4.335.0/linux/vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz" && \
+            tar -xf vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
+            rm vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
+            mkdir -p /opt/vulkan-sdk && \
+            mv 1.4.335.0 /opt/vulkan-sdk/ && \
+            cd /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0 && \
+            ./vulkansdk --no-deps --maxjobs \
+                vulkan-loader \
+                vulkan-validationlayers \
+                vulkan-extensionlayer \
+                vulkan-tools \
+                shaderc && \
+            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/bin/* /usr/bin/ && \
+            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/lib/* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ && \
+            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/include/* /usr/include/ && \
+            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/share/* /usr/share/ && \
+            rm -rf /opt/vulkan-sdk
+        fi
+        if [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+            mkdir vulkan && cd vulkan && \
+            curl -L -o vulkan-sdk.tar.xz https://github.com/mudler/vulkan-sdk-arm/releases/download/1.4.335.0/vulkansdk-ubuntu-24.04-arm-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
+            tar -xvf vulkan-sdk.tar.xz && \
+            rm vulkan-sdk.tar.xz && \
+            cd 1.4.335.0 && \
+            cp -rfv aarch64/bin/* /usr/bin/ && \
+            cp -rfv aarch64/lib/* /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ && \
+            cp -rfv aarch64/include/* /usr/include/ && \
+            cp -rfv aarch64/share/* /usr/share/ && \
+            cd ../.. && \
+            rm -rf vulkan
+        fi
+        ldconfig && \
+        apt-get clean && \
+        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+    fi
+EOT
+
+# CuBLAS requirements
+RUN <<EOT bash
+    if ( [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "cublas" ] || [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "l4t" ] ) && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y  --no-install-recommends \
+            software-properties-common pciutils
+        if [ "amd64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+            curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
+        fi
+        if [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+            if [ "${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}" = "13" ]; then
+                curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/sbsa/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
+            else
+                curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/arm64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
+            fi
+        fi
+        dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb && \
+        rm -f cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb && \
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+            cuda-nvcc-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
+            libcufft-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
+            libcurand-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
+            libcublas-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
+            libcusparse-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
+            libcusolver-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
+        if [ "${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}" = "13" ] && [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+            apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+            libcufile-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} libcudnn9-cuda-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION} cuda-cupti-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} libnvjitlink-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
+        fi
+        apt-get clean && \
+        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+    fi
+EOT
+
+
+# https://github.com/NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T/issues/343
+RUN <<EOT bash
+    if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "cublas" ] && [ "${TARGETARCH}" = "arm64" ]; then
+        wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cudss/0.6.0/local_installers/cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0_0.6.0-1_arm64.deb && \
+        dpkg -i cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0_0.6.0-1_arm64.deb && \
+        cp /var/cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0/cudss-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ && \
+        apt-get update && apt-get -y install cudss cudss-cuda-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION} && \
+        wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/nvpl/25.5/local_installers/nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5_1.0-1_arm64.deb && \
+        dpkg -i nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5_1.0-1_arm64.deb && \
+        cp /var/nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5/nvpl-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ && \
+        apt-get update && apt-get install -y nvpl
+    fi
+EOT
+
+# If we are building with clblas support, we need the libraries for the builds
+RUN if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "clblas" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then \
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+            libclblast-dev && \
+        apt-get clean && \
+        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
+    ; fi
+
+RUN if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "hipblas" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then \
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+            hipblas-dev \
+            hipblaslt-dev \
+            rocblas-dev && \
+        apt-get clean && \
+        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
+        ldconfig && \
+        echo "rocBLAS library data architectures:" && \
+        (ls /opt/rocm*/lib/rocblas/library/Kernels* 2>/dev/null || ls /opt/rocm*/lib64/rocblas/library/Kernels* 2>/dev/null) | grep -oP 'gfx[0-9a-z+-]+' | sort -u || \
+        echo "WARNING: No rocBLAS kernel data found" \
+    ; fi
+
+# Install protoc (the version in 22.04 is too old, and grpc's bundled protoc
+# would pull in a newer absl that breaks stablediffusion).
+RUN <<EOT bash
+    if [ "amd64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+        curl -L -s https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v27.1/protoc-27.1-linux-x86_64.zip -o protoc.zip && \
+        unzip -j -d /usr/local/bin protoc.zip bin/protoc && \
+        rm protoc.zip
+    fi
+    if [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+        curl -L -s https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v27.1/protoc-27.1-linux-aarch_64.zip -o protoc.zip && \
+        unzip -j -d /usr/local/bin protoc.zip bin/protoc && \
+        rm protoc.zip
+    fi
+EOT
+
+# Install CMake (the version in 22.04 is too old)
+RUN <<EOT bash
+    if [ "${CMAKE_FROM_SOURCE}" = "true" ]; then
+        curl -L -s https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v${CMAKE_VERSION}/cmake-${CMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz -o cmake.tar.gz && tar xvf cmake.tar.gz && cd cmake-${CMAKE_VERSION} && ./configure && make && make install
+    else
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y \
+            cmake && \
+        apt-get clean && \
+        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+    fi
+EOT
+
+COPY --from=grpc /opt/grpc /usr/local

.docker/bases/Dockerfile.golang

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+# Shared Go + accelerator base image.
+#
+# Built once per (build-type, arch, ubuntu-version, cuda-version) combination
+# by .github/workflows/base_images.yml and pushed to
+# quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:base-image-<tag-stem>[-pr<N>]. Consumed by
+# backend/Dockerfile.golang via the BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT build-arg.
+#
+# Mirrors the GPU stack stanzas in Dockerfile.python; the language-specific
+# tail at the bottom installs Go + grpc tooling. See .agents/ci-caching.md.
+
+ARG BASE_IMAGE=ubuntu:24.04
+ARG APT_MIRROR=""
+ARG APT_PORTS_MIRROR=""
+
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}
+
+ARG BUILD_TYPE
+ENV BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE}
+ARG CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION
+ARG CUDA_MINOR_VERSION
+ARG SKIP_DRIVERS=false
+ENV CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}
+ENV CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+ARG TARGETARCH
+ARG TARGETVARIANT
+ARG GO_VERSION=1.25.4
+ARG UBUNTU_VERSION=2404
+ARG APT_MIRROR
+ARG APT_PORTS_MIRROR
+
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.description="LocalAI Go+accelerator base image"
+LABEL org.localai.base.lang="golang"
+
+# gcc-14 is the default on noble (ubuntu:24.04) but absent from jammy
+# (the L4T jetpack r36.4.0 base). LocalVQE needs it; the other Go backends
+# compile with the default gcc shipped via build-essential. Try gcc-14
+# from the configured repos and fall back gracefully when it's missing.
+RUN --mount=type=bind,source=.docker/apt-mirror.sh,target=/usr/local/sbin/apt-mirror \
+    APT_MIRROR="${APT_MIRROR}" APT_PORTS_MIRROR="${APT_PORTS_MIRROR}" sh /usr/local/sbin/apt-mirror && \
+    apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+        build-essential \
+        git ccache \
+        ca-certificates \
+        make cmake wget libopenblas-dev \
+        curl unzip \
+        libssl-dev && \
+    if apt-cache show gcc-14 >/dev/null 2>&1 && apt-cache show g++-14 >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
+        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gcc-14 g++-14 && \
+        update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-14 100 \
+            --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-14 \
+            --slave /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-14; \
+    fi && \
+    apt-get clean && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Cuda
+ENV PATH=/usr/local/cuda/bin:${PATH}
+
+# HipBLAS requirements
+ENV PATH=/opt/rocm/bin:${PATH}
+
+# Vulkan requirements
+RUN <<EOT bash
+    if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "vulkan" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y  --no-install-recommends \
+            software-properties-common pciutils wget gpg-agent && \
+        apt-get install -y libglm-dev cmake libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-present0 libpciaccess0 \
+            libpng-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libx11-dev g++ gcc \
+            libwayland-dev libxrandr-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev \
+            git python-is-python3 bison libx11-xcb-dev liblz4-dev libzstd-dev \
+            ocaml-core ninja-build pkg-config libxml2-dev wayland-protocols python3-jsonschema \
+            clang-format qtbase5-dev qt6-base-dev libxcb-glx0-dev sudo xz-utils
+        if [ "amd64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+            wget "https://sdk.lunarg.com/sdk/download/1.4.335.0/linux/vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz" && \
+            tar -xf vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
+            rm vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
+            mkdir -p /opt/vulkan-sdk && \
+            mv 1.4.335.0 /opt/vulkan-sdk/ && \
+            cd /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0 && \
+            ./vulkansdk --no-deps --maxjobs \
+                vulkan-loader \
+                vulkan-validationlayers \
+                vulkan-extensionlayer \
+                vulkan-tools \
+                shaderc && \
+            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/bin/* /usr/bin/ && \
+            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/lib/* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ && \
+            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/include/* /usr/include/ && \
+            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/share/* /usr/share/ && \
+            rm -rf /opt/vulkan-sdk
+        fi
+        if [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+            mkdir vulkan && cd vulkan && \
+            curl -L -o vulkan-sdk.tar.xz https://github.com/mudler/vulkan-sdk-arm/releases/download/1.4.335.0/vulkansdk-ubuntu-24.04-arm-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
+            tar -xvf vulkan-sdk.tar.xz && \
+            rm vulkan-sdk.tar.xz && \
+            cd 1.4.335.0 && \
+            cp -rfv aarch64/bin/* /usr/bin/ && \
+            cp -rfv aarch64/lib/* /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ && \
+            cp -rfv aarch64/include/* /usr/include/ && \
+            cp -rfv aarch64/share/* /usr/share/ && \
+            cd ../.. && \
+            rm -rf vulkan
+        fi
+        ldconfig && \
+        apt-get clean && \
+        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+    fi
+EOT
+
+# CuBLAS requirements
+RUN <<EOT bash
+    if ( [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "cublas" ] || [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "l4t" ] ) && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y  --no-install-recommends \
+            software-properties-common pciutils
+        if [ "amd64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+            curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
+        fi
+        if [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+            if [ "${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}" = "13" ]; then
+                curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/sbsa/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
+            else
+                curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/arm64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
+            fi
+        fi
+        dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb && \
+        rm -f cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb && \
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+            cuda-nvcc-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
+            libcufft-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
+            libcurand-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
+            libcublas-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
+            libcusparse-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
+            libcusolver-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
+        if [ "${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}" = "13" ] && [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+            apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+            libcufile-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} libcudnn9-cuda-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION} cuda-cupti-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} libnvjitlink-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
+        fi
+        apt-get clean && \
+        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+    fi
+EOT
+
+
+# https://github.com/NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T/issues/343
+RUN <<EOT bash
+    if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "cublas" ] && [ "${TARGETARCH}" = "arm64" ]; then
+        wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cudss/0.6.0/local_installers/cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0_0.6.0-1_arm64.deb && \
+        dpkg -i cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0_0.6.0-1_arm64.deb && \
+        cp /var/cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0/cudss-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ && \
+        apt-get update && apt-get -y install cudss cudss-cuda-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION} && \
+        wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/nvpl/25.5/local_installers/nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5_1.0-1_arm64.deb && \
+        dpkg -i nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5_1.0-1_arm64.deb && \
+        cp /var/nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5/nvpl-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ && \
+        apt-get update && apt-get install -y nvpl
+    fi
+EOT
+
+# If we are building with clblas support, we need the libraries for the builds
+RUN if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "clblas" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then \
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+            libclblast-dev && \
+        apt-get clean && \
+        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
+    ; fi
+
+RUN if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "hipblas" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then \
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+            hipblas-dev \
+            hipblaslt-dev \
+            rocblas-dev && \
+        apt-get clean && \
+        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
+        ldconfig \
+    ; fi
+
+# Install Go
+RUN curl -L -s https://go.dev/dl/go${GO_VERSION}.linux-${TARGETARCH}.tar.gz | tar -C /usr/local -xz
+ENV PATH=$PATH:/root/go/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:/usr/local/bin
+
+# Install grpc compilers
+RUN go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@v1.34.2 && \
+    go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@1958fcbe2ca8bd93af633f11e97d44e567e945af
+
+# Install protoc (the version in 22.04 is too old, and grpc's bundled protoc
+# would pull in a newer absl that breaks stablediffusion).
+RUN <<EOT bash
+    if [ "amd64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+        curl -L -s https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v27.1/protoc-27.1-linux-x86_64.zip -o protoc.zip && \
+        unzip -j -d /usr/local/bin protoc.zip bin/protoc && \
+        rm protoc.zip
+    fi
+    if [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+        curl -L -s https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v27.1/protoc-27.1-linux-aarch_64.zip -o protoc.zip && \
+        unzip -j -d /usr/local/bin protoc.zip bin/protoc && \
+        rm protoc.zip
+    fi
+EOT

.docker/bases/Dockerfile.python

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+# Shared Python + accelerator base image.
+#
+# Built once per (build-type, arch, ubuntu-version, cuda-version) combination
+# by .github/workflows/base_images.yml and pushed to
+# quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:base-image-<tag-stem>[-pr<N>]. Consumed by
+# backend/Dockerfile.python via the BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT build-arg.
+# See .agents/ci-caching.md.
+
+ARG BASE_IMAGE=ubuntu:24.04
+ARG APT_MIRROR=""
+ARG APT_PORTS_MIRROR=""
+
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}
+
+ARG BUILD_TYPE
+ENV BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE}
+ARG CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION
+ARG CUDA_MINOR_VERSION
+ARG SKIP_DRIVERS=false
+ENV CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}
+ENV CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+ARG TARGETARCH
+ARG TARGETVARIANT
+ARG UBUNTU_VERSION=2404
+ARG APT_MIRROR
+ARG APT_PORTS_MIRROR
+
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.description="LocalAI Python+accelerator base image"
+LABEL org.localai.base.lang="python"
+
+RUN --mount=type=bind,source=.docker/apt-mirror.sh,target=/usr/local/sbin/apt-mirror \
+    APT_MIRROR="${APT_MIRROR}" APT_PORTS_MIRROR="${APT_PORTS_MIRROR}" sh /usr/local/sbin/apt-mirror && \
+    apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+        build-essential \
+        ccache \
+        ca-certificates \
+        espeak-ng \
+        curl \
+        libssl-dev \
+        git wget \
+        git-lfs \
+        unzip clang \
+        upx-ucl \
+        curl python3-pip \
+        python-is-python3 \
+        python3-dev llvm \
+        libnuma1 libgomp1 \
+        python3-venv make cmake && \
+    apt-get clean && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+RUN <<EOT bash
+    if [ "${UBUNTU_VERSION}" = "2404" ]; then
+        pip install --break-system-packages --user --upgrade pip
+    else
+        pip install --upgrade pip
+    fi
+EOT
+
+# Cuda
+ENV PATH=/usr/local/cuda/bin:${PATH}
+
+# HipBLAS requirements
+ENV PATH=/opt/rocm/bin:${PATH}
+
+# Vulkan requirements
+RUN <<EOT bash
+    if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "vulkan" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y  --no-install-recommends \
+            software-properties-common pciutils wget gpg-agent && \
+        apt-get install -y libglm-dev cmake libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-present0 libpciaccess0 \
+            libpng-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libx11-dev g++ gcc \
+            libwayland-dev libxrandr-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev \
+            git python-is-python3 bison libx11-xcb-dev liblz4-dev libzstd-dev \
+            ocaml-core ninja-build pkg-config libxml2-dev wayland-protocols python3-jsonschema \
+            clang-format qtbase5-dev qt6-base-dev libxcb-glx0-dev sudo xz-utils
+        if [ "amd64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+            wget "https://sdk.lunarg.com/sdk/download/1.4.335.0/linux/vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz" && \
+            tar -xf vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
+            rm vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
+            mkdir -p /opt/vulkan-sdk && \
+            mv 1.4.335.0 /opt/vulkan-sdk/ && \
+            cd /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0 && \
+            ./vulkansdk --no-deps --maxjobs \
+                vulkan-loader \
+                vulkan-validationlayers \
+                vulkan-extensionlayer \
+                vulkan-tools \
+                shaderc && \
+            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/bin/* /usr/bin/ && \
+            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/lib/* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ && \
+            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/include/* /usr/include/ && \
+            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/share/* /usr/share/ && \
+            rm -rf /opt/vulkan-sdk
+        fi
+        if [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+            mkdir vulkan && cd vulkan && \
+            curl -L -o vulkan-sdk.tar.xz https://github.com/mudler/vulkan-sdk-arm/releases/download/1.4.335.0/vulkansdk-ubuntu-24.04-arm-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
+            tar -xvf vulkan-sdk.tar.xz && \
+            rm vulkan-sdk.tar.xz && \
+            cd 1.4.335.0 && \
+            cp -rfv aarch64/bin/* /usr/bin/ && \
+            cp -rfv aarch64/lib/* /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ && \
+            cp -rfv aarch64/include/* /usr/include/ && \
+            cp -rfv aarch64/share/* /usr/share/ && \
+            cd ../.. && \
+            rm -rf vulkan
+        fi
+        ldconfig && \
+        apt-get clean && \
+        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+    fi
+EOT
+
+# CuBLAS requirements
+RUN <<EOT bash
+    if ( [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "cublas" ] || [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "l4t" ] ) && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y  --no-install-recommends \
+            software-properties-common pciutils
+        if [ "amd64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+            curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
+        fi
+        if [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+            if [ "${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}" = "13" ]; then
+                curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/sbsa/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
+            else
+                curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/arm64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
+            fi
+        fi
+        dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb && \
+        rm -f cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb && \
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+            cuda-nvcc-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
+            libcufft-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
+            libcurand-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
+            libcublas-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
+            libcusparse-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
+            libcusolver-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
+        if [ "${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}" = "13" ] && [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
+            apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+            libcufile-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} libcudnn9-cuda-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION} cuda-cupti-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} libnvjitlink-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
+        fi
+        apt-get clean && \
+        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+    fi
+EOT
+
+
+# https://github.com/NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T/issues/343
+RUN <<EOT bash
+    if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "cublas" ] && [ "${TARGETARCH}" = "arm64" ]; then
+        wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cudss/0.6.0/local_installers/cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0_0.6.0-1_arm64.deb && \
+        dpkg -i cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0_0.6.0-1_arm64.deb && \
+        cp /var/cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0/cudss-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ && \
+        apt-get update && apt-get -y install cudss cudss-cuda-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION} && \
+        wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/nvpl/25.5/local_installers/nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5_1.0-1_arm64.deb && \
+        dpkg -i nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5_1.0-1_arm64.deb && \
+        cp /var/nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5/nvpl-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ && \
+        apt-get update && apt-get install -y nvpl
+    fi
+EOT
+
+# If we are building with clblas support, we need the libraries for the builds
+RUN if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "clblas" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then \
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+            libclblast-dev && \
+        apt-get clean && \
+        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
+    ; fi
+
+RUN if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "hipblas" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then \
+        apt-get update && \
+        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+            hipblas-dev \
+            hipblaslt-dev \
+            rocblas-dev && \
+        apt-get clean && \
+        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
+        # I have no idea why, but the ROCM lib packages don't trigger ldconfig after they install, which results in local-ai and others not being able
+        # to locate the libraries. We run ldconfig ourselves to work around this packaging deficiency
+        ldconfig \
+    ; fi
+
+RUN if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "hipblas" ]; then \
+    ln -s /opt/rocm-**/lib/llvm/lib/libomp.so /usr/lib/libomp.so \
+    ; fi
+
+# Install uv as a system package
+RUN curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | UV_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/bin sh
+ENV PATH="/root/.cargo/bin:${PATH}"
+# Increase timeout for uv installs behind slow networks
+ENV UV_HTTP_TIMEOUT=180
+RUN curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
+
+# Install grpcio-tools (the version in 22.04 is too old)
+RUN <<EOT bash
+    if [ "${UBUNTU_VERSION}" = "2404" ]; then
+        pip install --break-system-packages --user grpcio-tools==1.71.0 grpcio==1.71.0
+    else
+        pip install grpcio-tools==1.71.0 grpcio==1.71.0
+    fi
+EOT

.docker/bases/Dockerfile.rust

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# Shared Rust base image for the kokoros backend.
+#
+# Built once per (ubuntu-version) by .github/workflows/base_images.yml and
+# pushed to quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:base-image-<tag-stem>[-pr<N>]. The
+# current rust matrix is CPU-only, so this base skips the GPU SDK stanzas;
+# if a future rust backend needs cublas/rocm/etc., promote this recipe to
+# mirror Dockerfile.python's GPU stack. See .agents/ci-caching.md.
+
+ARG BASE_IMAGE=ubuntu:24.04
+ARG APT_MIRROR=""
+ARG APT_PORTS_MIRROR=""
+
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}
+
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+ARG TARGETARCH
+ARG TARGETVARIANT
+ARG UBUNTU_VERSION=2404
+ARG APT_MIRROR
+ARG APT_PORTS_MIRROR
+
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI"
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.description="LocalAI Rust base image"
+LABEL org.localai.base.lang="rust"
+
+RUN --mount=type=bind,source=.docker/apt-mirror.sh,target=/usr/local/sbin/apt-mirror \
+    APT_MIRROR="${APT_MIRROR}" APT_PORTS_MIRROR="${APT_PORTS_MIRROR}" sh /usr/local/sbin/apt-mirror && \
+    apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+        build-essential \
+        git ccache \
+        ca-certificates \
+        make cmake wget \
+        curl unzip \
+        clang \
+        pkg-config \
+        libssl-dev \
+        espeak-ng libespeak-ng-dev \
+        libsonic-dev libpcaudio-dev \
+        libopus-dev \
+        protobuf-compiler && \
+    apt-get clean && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Install Rust
+RUN curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
+ENV PATH="/root/.cargo/bin:${PATH}"

.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror/action.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+name: 'Configure apt mirror'
+description: |
+  Reconfigure the GitHub Actions runner's Ubuntu apt sources to use an
+  alternate mirror, and emit the effective URLs as outputs so callers can
+  forward them as Docker build-args.
+
+  Two mirror profiles depending on where the runner lives, because the
+  best mirror differs by network:
+
+    * github-hosted runners run on Azure, so they default to the
+      Azure-hosted Ubuntu mirror (lowest latency, same VPC).
+    * self-hosted runners (arc-runner-set, bigger-runner, ...) typically
+      cannot route to azure.archive.ubuntu.com, so they default to the
+      kernel.org mirror, which is publicly reachable from anywhere.
+
+  Pass an empty string to either input to skip the rewrite for that
+  profile and keep upstream archive.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com.
+
+inputs:
+  github-hosted-mirror:
+    description: 'archive/security mirror URL for github-hosted runners (empty = upstream)'
+    required: false
+    default: 'http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com'
+  github-hosted-ports-mirror:
+    description: 'ports.ubuntu.com mirror URL for github-hosted runners (empty = upstream)'
+    required: false
+    default: 'http://azure.ports.ubuntu.com'
+  self-hosted-mirror:
+    description: 'archive/security mirror URL for self-hosted runners (empty = upstream)'
+    required: false
+    # HTTP, not HTTPS: the bare ubuntu:24.04 builder image doesn't ship
+    # ca-certificates, so the very first apt-get update over TLS would
+    # fail with "No system certificates available" before it can install
+    # anything. apt validates package integrity via GPG signatures, so
+    # plain HTTP is safe for the archive itself.
+    default: 'http://mirrors.edge.kernel.org'
+  self-hosted-ports-mirror:
+    description: 'ports.ubuntu.com mirror URL for self-hosted runners (empty = upstream)'
+    required: false
+    # mirrors.edge.kernel.org does NOT carry /ubuntu-ports/ — only the
+    # main /ubuntu/ archive — so arm64 builds 404 there. Leave ports
+    # upstream by default. The original DDoS was on archive.ubuntu.com
+    # so ports.ubuntu.com remains the path of least surprise.
+    default: ''
+
+outputs:
+  effective-mirror:
+    description: 'The mirror URL actually applied for this runner (or empty)'
+    value: ${{ steps.pick.outputs.mirror }}
+  effective-ports-mirror:
+    description: 'The ports mirror URL actually applied for this runner (or empty)'
+    value: ${{ steps.pick.outputs.ports-mirror }}
+
+runs:
+  using: 'composite'
+  steps:
+    - name: Pick effective mirror for this runner
+      id: pick
+      shell: bash
+      env:
+        RUNNER_ENV: ${{ runner.environment }}
+        GH_MIRROR: ${{ inputs.github-hosted-mirror }}
+        GH_PORTS_MIRROR: ${{ inputs.github-hosted-ports-mirror }}
+        SH_MIRROR: ${{ inputs.self-hosted-mirror }}
+        SH_PORTS_MIRROR: ${{ inputs.self-hosted-ports-mirror }}
+      run: |
+        if [ "${RUNNER_ENV}" = "github-hosted" ]; then
+          MIRROR="${GH_MIRROR}"
+          PORTS_MIRROR="${GH_PORTS_MIRROR}"
+        else
+          MIRROR="${SH_MIRROR}"
+          PORTS_MIRROR="${SH_PORTS_MIRROR}"
+        fi
+        echo "configure-apt-mirror: runner=${RUNNER_ENV} mirror='${MIRROR}' ports-mirror='${PORTS_MIRROR}'"
+        echo "mirror=${MIRROR}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+        echo "ports-mirror=${PORTS_MIRROR}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+    - name: Rewrite apt sources
+      if: steps.pick.outputs.mirror != '' || steps.pick.outputs.ports-mirror != ''
+      shell: bash
+      env:
+        APT_MIRROR: ${{ steps.pick.outputs.mirror }}
+        APT_PORTS_MIRROR: ${{ steps.pick.outputs.ports-mirror }}
+      run: |
+        set -e
+        # Ubuntu 24.04 (noble) ships DEB822 sources at
+        # /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources; older releases use
+        # /etc/apt/sources.list. Rewrite whichever exists.
+        for f in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources /etc/apt/sources.list; do
+          sudo test -f "$f" || continue
+          if [ -n "${APT_MIRROR}" ]; then
+            # Comma delimiter so the alternation pipe in the regex is not
+            # interpreted as the s/// separator.
+            sudo sed -i -E "s,https?://(archive\.ubuntu\.com|security\.ubuntu\.com),${APT_MIRROR},g" "$f"
+          fi
+          if [ -n "${APT_PORTS_MIRROR}" ]; then
+            sudo sed -i -E "s,https?://ports\.ubuntu\.com,${APT_PORTS_MIRROR},g" "$f"
+          fi
+        done
+        echo "Runner apt mirror configured (APT_MIRROR='${APT_MIRROR}', APT_PORTS_MIRROR='${APT_PORTS_MIRROR}')"

.github/bump_vllm_wheel.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Bump the cublas13 vLLM wheel pin in requirements-cublas13-after.txt.
+#
+# vLLM's PyPI wheel is built against CUDA 12 so the cublas13 build pulls a
+# cu130-flavoured wheel from vLLM's per-tag index at
+# https://wheels.vllm.ai/<TAG>/cu130/. That URL segment is itself version-locked
+# (no /latest/ alias upstream), so bumping vLLM means rewriting both the URL
+# segment and the version constraint atomically. bump_deps.sh handles git-sha
+# vars in Makefiles; this script handles the two-value rewrite specific to the
+# vLLM requirements file.
+set -xe
+REPO=$1   # vllm-project/vllm
+FILE=$2   # backend/python/vllm/requirements-cublas13-after.txt
+VAR=$3    # VLLM_VERSION (used for output file names so the workflow can read them)
+
+if [ -z "$FILE" ] || [ -z "$REPO" ] || [ -z "$VAR" ]; then
+    echo "usage: $0 <repo> <requirements-file> <var-name>" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# /releases/latest returns the most recent non-prerelease tag.
+LATEST_TAG=$(curl -sS -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
+    "https://api.github.com/repos/$REPO/releases/latest" \
+    | python3 -c "import json,sys; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['tag_name'])")
+
+# Strip leading 'v' (vLLM tags are 'v0.20.0', the URL/version use '0.20.0').
+NEW_VERSION="${LATEST_TAG#v}"
+
+set +e
+CURRENT_VERSION=$(grep -oE '^vllm==[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' "$FILE" | head -1 | cut -d= -f3)
+set -e
+
+# sed both lines unconditionally — peter-evans/create-pull-request opens no PR
+# when the working tree is clean, so a no-op rewrite is safe.
+sed -i "$FILE" \
+    -e "s|wheels\.vllm\.ai/[^/]*/cu130|wheels.vllm.ai/$NEW_VERSION/cu130|g" \
+    -e "s|^vllm==.*|vllm==$NEW_VERSION|"
+
+if [ -z "$CURRENT_VERSION" ]; then
+    echo "Could not find vllm==X.Y.Z in $FILE."
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+echo "Changes: https://github.com/$REPO/compare/v${CURRENT_VERSION}...${LATEST_TAG}" >> "${VAR}_message.txt"
+echo "${NEW_VERSION}" >> "${VAR}_commit.txt"

.github/gallery-agent/agent.go

@@ -1,446 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"encoding/json"
-	"fmt"
-	"io"
-	"net/http"
-	"os"
-	"regexp"
-	"slices"
-	"strings"
-
-	"github.com/ghodss/yaml"
-	hfapi "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/huggingface-api"
-	"github.com/mudler/cogito"
-	"github.com/mudler/cogito/clients"
-	"github.com/mudler/cogito/structures"
-	"github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai/jsonschema"
-)
-
-var (
-	openAIModel      = os.Getenv("OPENAI_MODEL")
-	openAIKey        = os.Getenv("OPENAI_KEY")
-	openAIBaseURL    = os.Getenv("OPENAI_BASE_URL")
-	galleryIndexPath = os.Getenv("GALLERY_INDEX_PATH")
-	//defaultclient
-	llm = clients.NewOpenAILLM(openAIModel, openAIKey, openAIBaseURL)
-)
-
-// cleanTextContent removes trailing spaces, tabs, and normalizes line endings
-// to prevent YAML linting issues like trailing spaces and multiple empty lines
-func cleanTextContent(text string) string {
-	lines := strings.Split(text, "\n")
-	var cleanedLines []string
-	var prevEmpty bool
-	for _, line := range lines {
-		// Remove all trailing whitespace (spaces, tabs, etc.)
-		trimmed := strings.TrimRight(line, " \t\r")
-		// Avoid multiple consecutive empty lines
-		if trimmed == "" {
-			if !prevEmpty {
-				cleanedLines = append(cleanedLines, "")
-			}
-			prevEmpty = true
-		} else {
-			cleanedLines = append(cleanedLines, trimmed)
-			prevEmpty = false
-		}
-	}
-	// Remove trailing empty lines from the result
-	result := strings.Join(cleanedLines, "\n")
-	return stripThinkingTags(strings.TrimRight(result, "\n"))
-}
-
-type galleryModel struct {
-	Name string   `yaml:"name"`
-	Urls []string `yaml:"urls"`
-}
-
-// isModelExisting checks if a specific model ID exists in the gallery using text search
-func isModelExisting(modelID string) (bool, error) {
-	indexPath := getGalleryIndexPath()
-	content, err := os.ReadFile(indexPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return false, fmt.Errorf("failed to read %s: %w", indexPath, err)
-	}
-
-	var galleryModels []galleryModel
-
-	err = yaml.Unmarshal(content, &galleryModels)
-	if err != nil {
-		return false, fmt.Errorf("failed to unmarshal %s: %w", indexPath, err)
-	}
-
-	for _, galleryModel := range galleryModels {
-		if slices.Contains(galleryModel.Urls, modelID) {
-			return true, nil
-		}
-	}
-
-	return false, nil
-}
-
-// filterExistingModels removes models that already exist in the gallery
-func filterExistingModels(models []ProcessedModel) ([]ProcessedModel, error) {
-	var filteredModels []ProcessedModel
-	for _, model := range models {
-		exists, err := isModelExisting(model.ModelID)
-		if err != nil {
-			fmt.Printf("Error checking if model %s exists: %v, skipping\n", model.ModelID, err)
-			continue
-		}
-
-		if !exists {
-			filteredModels = append(filteredModels, model)
-		} else {
-			fmt.Printf("Skipping existing model: %s\n", model.ModelID)
-		}
-	}
-
-	fmt.Printf("Filtered out %d existing models, %d new models remaining\n",
-		len(models)-len(filteredModels), len(filteredModels))
-
-	return filteredModels, nil
-}
-
-// getGalleryIndexPath returns the gallery index file path, with a default fallback
-func getGalleryIndexPath() string {
-	if galleryIndexPath != "" {
-		return galleryIndexPath
-	}
-	return "gallery/index.yaml"
-}
-
-func stripThinkingTags(content string) string {
-	// Remove content between <thinking> and </thinking> (including multi-line)
-	content = regexp.MustCompile(`(?s)<thinking>.*?</thinking>`).ReplaceAllString(content, "")
-	// Remove content between <think> and </think> (including multi-line)
-	content = regexp.MustCompile(`(?s)<think>.*?</think>`).ReplaceAllString(content, "")
-	// Clean up any extra whitespace
-	content = strings.TrimSpace(content)
-	return content
-}
-
-func getRealReadme(ctx context.Context, repository string) (string, error) {
-	// Create a conversation fragment
-	fragment := cogito.NewEmptyFragment().
-		AddMessage("user",
-			`Your task is to get a clear description of a large language model from huggingface by using the provided tool. I will share with you a repository that might be quantized, and as such probably not by the original model author. We need to get the real  description of the model, and not the one that might be quantized. You will have to call the tool to get the readme more than once by figuring out from the quantized readme which is the base model readme. This is the repository: `+repository)
-
-	// Execute with tools
-	result, err := cogito.ExecuteTools(llm, fragment,
-		cogito.WithIterations(3),
-		cogito.WithMaxAttempts(3),
-		cogito.DisableSinkState,
-		cogito.WithTools(&HFReadmeTool{client: hfapi.NewClient()}))
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-
-	result = result.AddMessage("user", "Describe the model in a clear and concise way that can be shared in a model gallery.")
-
-	// Get a response
-	_, err = llm.Ask(ctx, result)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-
-	content := result.LastMessage().Content
-	return cleanTextContent(content), nil
-}
-
-func selectMostInterestingModels(ctx context.Context, searchResult *SearchResult) ([]ProcessedModel, error) {
-
-	if len(searchResult.Models) == 1 {
-		return searchResult.Models, nil
-	}
-
-	// Create a conversation fragment
-	fragment := cogito.NewEmptyFragment().
-		AddMessage("user",
-			`Your task is to analyze a list of AI models and select the most interesting ones for a model gallery. You will be given detailed information about multiple models including their metadata, file information, and README content.
-
-Consider the following criteria when selecting models:
-1. Model popularity (download count)
-2. Model recency (last modified date)
-3. Model completeness (has preferred model file, README, etc.)
-4. Model uniqueness (not duplicates or very similar models)
-5. Model quality (based on README content and description)
-6. Model utility (practical applications)
-
-You should select models that would be most valuable for users browsing a model gallery. Prioritize models that are:
-- Well-documented with clear READMEs
-- Recently updated
-- Popular (high download count)
-- Have the preferred quantization format available
-- Offer unique capabilities or are from reputable authors
-
-Return your analysis and selection reasoning.`)
-
-	// Add the search results as context
-	modelsInfo := fmt.Sprintf("Found %d models matching '%s' with quantization preference '%s':\n\n",
-		searchResult.TotalModelsFound, searchResult.SearchTerm, searchResult.Quantization)
-
-	for i, model := range searchResult.Models {
-		modelsInfo += fmt.Sprintf("Model %d:\n", i+1)
-		modelsInfo += fmt.Sprintf("  ID: %s\n", model.ModelID)
-		modelsInfo += fmt.Sprintf("  Author: %s\n", model.Author)
-		modelsInfo += fmt.Sprintf("  Downloads: %d\n", model.Downloads)
-		modelsInfo += fmt.Sprintf("  Last Modified: %s\n", model.LastModified)
-		modelsInfo += fmt.Sprintf("  Files: %d files\n", len(model.Files))
-
-		if model.PreferredModelFile != nil {
-			modelsInfo += fmt.Sprintf("  Preferred Model File: %s (%d bytes)\n",
-				model.PreferredModelFile.Path, model.PreferredModelFile.Size)
-		} else {
-			modelsInfo += "  No preferred model file found\n"
-		}
-
-		if model.ReadmeContent != "" {
-			modelsInfo += fmt.Sprintf("  README: %s\n", model.ReadmeContent)
-		}
-
-		if model.ProcessingError != "" {
-			modelsInfo += fmt.Sprintf("  Processing Error: %s\n", model.ProcessingError)
-		}
-
-		modelsInfo += "\n"
-	}
-
-	fragment = fragment.AddMessage("user", modelsInfo)
-
-	fragment = fragment.AddMessage("user", "Based on your analysis, select the top 5 most interesting models and provide a brief explanation for each selection. Also, create a filtered SearchResult with only the selected models. Return just a list of repositories IDs, you will later be asked to output it as a JSON array with the json tool.")
-
-	// Get a response
-	newFragment, err := llm.Ask(ctx, fragment)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	fmt.Println(newFragment.LastMessage().Content)
-	repositories := struct {
-		Repositories []string `json:"repositories"`
-	}{}
-
-	s := structures.Structure{
-		Schema: jsonschema.Definition{
-			Type:                 jsonschema.Object,
-			AdditionalProperties: false,
-			Properties: map[string]jsonschema.Definition{
-				"repositories": {
-					Type:        jsonschema.Array,
-					Items:       &jsonschema.Definition{Type: jsonschema.String},
-					Description: "The trending repositories IDs",
-				},
-			},
-			Required: []string{"repositories"},
-		},
-		Object: &repositories,
-	}
-
-	err = newFragment.ExtractStructure(ctx, llm, s)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	filteredModels := []ProcessedModel{}
-	for _, m := range searchResult.Models {
-		if slices.Contains(repositories.Repositories, m.ModelID) {
-			filteredModels = append(filteredModels, m)
-		}
-	}
-
-	return filteredModels, nil
-}
-
-// ModelMetadata represents extracted metadata from a model
-type ModelMetadata struct {
-	Tags    []string `json:"tags"`
-	License string   `json:"license"`
-}
-
-// extractModelMetadata extracts tags and license from model README and documentation
-func extractModelMetadata(ctx context.Context, model ProcessedModel) ([]string, string, error) {
-	// Create a conversation fragment
-	fragment := cogito.NewEmptyFragment().
-		AddMessage("user",
-			`Your task is to extract metadata from an AI model's README and documentation. You will be provided with:
-1. Model information (ID, author, description)
-2. README content
-
-You need to extract:
-1. **Tags**: An array of relevant tags that describe the model. Use common tags from the gallery such as:
-   - llm, gguf, gpu, cpu, multimodal, image-to-text, text-to-text, text-to-speech, tts
-   - thinking, reasoning, chat, instruction-tuned, code, vision
-   - Model family names (e.g., llama, qwen, mistral, gemma) if applicable
-   - Any other relevant descriptive tags
-   Select 3-8 most relevant tags.
-
-2. **License**: The license identifier (e.g., "apache-2.0", "mit", "llama2", "gpl-3.0", "bsd", "cc-by-4.0").
-   If no license is found, return an empty string.
-
-Return the extracted metadata in a structured format.`)
-
-	// Add model information
-	modelInfo := "Model Information:\n"
-	modelInfo += fmt.Sprintf("  ID: %s\n", model.ModelID)
-	modelInfo += fmt.Sprintf("  Author: %s\n", model.Author)
-	modelInfo += fmt.Sprintf("  Downloads: %d\n", model.Downloads)
-	if model.ReadmeContent != "" {
-		modelInfo += fmt.Sprintf("  README Content:\n%s\n", model.ReadmeContent)
-	} else if model.ReadmeContentPreview != "" {
-		modelInfo += fmt.Sprintf("  README Preview: %s\n", model.ReadmeContentPreview)
-	}
-
-	fragment = fragment.AddMessage("user", modelInfo)
-	fragment = fragment.AddMessage("user", "Extract the tags and license from the model information. Return the metadata as a JSON object with 'tags' (array of strings) and 'license' (string).")
-
-	// Get a response
-	newFragment, err := llm.Ask(ctx, fragment)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, "", err
-	}
-
-	// Extract structured metadata
-	metadata := ModelMetadata{}
-
-	s := structures.Structure{
-		Schema: jsonschema.Definition{
-			Type:                 jsonschema.Object,
-			AdditionalProperties: false,
-			Properties: map[string]jsonschema.Definition{
-				"tags": {
-					Type:        jsonschema.Array,
-					Items:       &jsonschema.Definition{Type: jsonschema.String},
-					Description: "Array of relevant tags describing the model",
-				},
-				"license": {
-					Type:        jsonschema.String,
-					Description: "License identifier (e.g., apache-2.0, mit, llama2). Empty string if not found.",
-				},
-			},
-			Required: []string{"tags", "license"},
-		},
-		Object: &metadata,
-	}
-
-	err = newFragment.ExtractStructure(ctx, llm, s)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, "", err
-	}
-
-	return metadata.Tags, metadata.License, nil
-}
-
-// extractIconFromReadme scans the README content for image URLs and returns the first suitable icon URL found
-func extractIconFromReadme(readmeContent string) string {
-	if readmeContent == "" {
-		return ""
-	}
-
-	// Regular expressions to match image URLs in various formats (case-insensitive)
-	// Match markdown image syntax: ![alt](url) - case insensitive extensions
-	markdownImageRegex := regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)!\[[^\]]*\]\(([^)]+\.(png|jpg|jpeg|svg|webp|gif))\)`)
-	// Match HTML img tags: <img src="url">
-	htmlImageRegex := regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)<img[^>]+src=["']([^"']+\.(png|jpg|jpeg|svg|webp|gif))["']`)
-	// Match plain URLs ending with image extensions
-	plainImageRegex := regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)https?://[^\s<>"']+\.(png|jpg|jpeg|svg|webp|gif)`)
-
-	// Try markdown format first
-	matches := markdownImageRegex.FindStringSubmatch(readmeContent)
-	if len(matches) > 1 && matches[1] != "" {
-		url := strings.TrimSpace(matches[1])
-		// Prefer HuggingFace CDN URLs or absolute URLs
-		if strings.HasPrefix(strings.ToLower(url), "http") {
-			return url
-		}
-	}
-
-	// Try HTML img tags
-	matches = htmlImageRegex.FindStringSubmatch(readmeContent)
-	if len(matches) > 1 && matches[1] != "" {
-		url := strings.TrimSpace(matches[1])
-		if strings.HasPrefix(strings.ToLower(url), "http") {
-			return url
-		}
-	}
-
-	// Try plain URLs
-	matches = plainImageRegex.FindStringSubmatch(readmeContent)
-	if len(matches) > 0 {
-		url := strings.TrimSpace(matches[0])
-		if strings.HasPrefix(strings.ToLower(url), "http") {
-			return url
-		}
-	}
-
-	return ""
-}
-
-// getHuggingFaceAvatarURL attempts to get the HuggingFace avatar URL for a user
-func getHuggingFaceAvatarURL(author string) string {
-	if author == "" {
-		return ""
-	}
-
-	// Try to fetch user info from HuggingFace API
-	// HuggingFace API endpoint: https://huggingface.co/api/users/{username}
-	baseURL := "https://huggingface.co"
-	userURL := fmt.Sprintf("%s/api/users/%s", baseURL, author)
-
-	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", userURL, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		return ""
-	}
-
-	client := &http.Client{}
-	resp, err := client.Do(req)
-	if err != nil {
-		return ""
-	}
-	defer resp.Body.Close()
-
-	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
-		return ""
-	}
-
-	// Parse the response to get avatar URL
-	var userInfo map[string]any
-	body, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
-	if err != nil {
-		return ""
-	}
-
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &userInfo); err != nil {
-		return ""
-	}
-
-	// Try to extract avatar URL from response
-	if avatar, ok := userInfo["avatarUrl"].(string); ok && avatar != "" {
-		return avatar
-	}
-	if avatar, ok := userInfo["avatar"].(string); ok && avatar != "" {
-		return avatar
-	}
-
-	return ""
-}
-
-// extractModelIcon extracts icon URL from README or falls back to HuggingFace avatar
-func extractModelIcon(model ProcessedModel) string {
-	// First, try to extract icon from README
-	if icon := extractIconFromReadme(model.ReadmeContent); icon != "" {
-		return icon
-	}
-
-	// Fallback: Try to get HuggingFace user avatar
-	if model.Author != "" {
-		if avatar := getHuggingFaceAvatarURL(model.Author); avatar != "" {
-			return avatar
-		}
-	}
-
-	return ""
-}

.github/gallery-agent/gallery.go

@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/ghodss/yaml"
 	"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/core/gallery/importers"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/yaml"
 )
 
 func formatTextContent(text string) string {

.github/gallery-agent/helpers.go

@@ -0,0 +1,301 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"os"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+
+	hfapi "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/huggingface-api"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/yaml"
+)
+
+var galleryIndexPath = os.Getenv("GALLERY_INDEX_PATH")
+
+// getGalleryIndexPath returns the gallery index file path, with a default fallback
+func getGalleryIndexPath() string {
+	if galleryIndexPath != "" {
+		return galleryIndexPath
+	}
+	return "gallery/index.yaml"
+}
+
+type galleryModel struct {
+	Name string   `yaml:"name"`
+	Urls []string `yaml:"urls"`
+}
+
+// loadGalleryURLSet parses gallery/index.yaml once and returns the set of
+// HuggingFace model URLs already present in the gallery.
+func loadGalleryURLSet() (map[string]struct{}, error) {
+	indexPath := getGalleryIndexPath()
+	content, err := os.ReadFile(indexPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to read %s: %w", indexPath, err)
+	}
+
+	var galleryModels []galleryModel
+	if err := yaml.Unmarshal(content, &galleryModels); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to unmarshal %s: %w", indexPath, err)
+	}
+
+	set := make(map[string]struct{}, len(galleryModels))
+	for _, gm := range galleryModels {
+		for _, u := range gm.Urls {
+			set[u] = struct{}{}
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Also skip URLs already proposed in open (unmerged) gallery-agent PRs.
+	// The workflow injects these via EXTRA_SKIP_URLS so we don't keep
+	// re-proposing the same model every run while a PR is waiting to merge.
+	for _, line := range strings.FieldsFunc(os.Getenv("EXTRA_SKIP_URLS"), func(r rune) bool {
+		return r == '\n' || r == ',' || r == ' '
+	}) {
+		u := strings.TrimSpace(line)
+		if u != "" {
+			set[u] = struct{}{}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return set, nil
+}
+
+// modelAlreadyInGallery checks whether a HuggingFace model repo is already
+// referenced in the gallery URL set.
+func modelAlreadyInGallery(set map[string]struct{}, modelID string) bool {
+	_, ok := set["https://huggingface.co/"+modelID]
+	return ok
+}
+
+// baseModelFromTags returns the first `base_model:<repo>` value found in the
+// tag list, or "" if none is present. HuggingFace surfaces the base model
+// declared in the model card's YAML frontmatter as such a tag.
+func baseModelFromTags(tags []string) string {
+	for _, t := range tags {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(t, "base_model:") {
+			return strings.TrimPrefix(t, "base_model:")
+		}
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+// licenseFromTags returns the `license:<id>` value from the tag list, or "".
+func licenseFromTags(tags []string) string {
+	for _, t := range tags {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(t, "license:") {
+			return strings.TrimPrefix(t, "license:")
+		}
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+// curatedTags produces the gallery tag list from HuggingFace's raw tag set.
+// Always includes llm + gguf, then adds whitelisted family / capability
+// markers when they appear in the HF tag list.
+func curatedTags(hfTags []string) []string {
+	whitelist := []string{
+		"gpu", "cpu",
+		"llama", "mistral", "mixtral", "qwen", "qwen2", "qwen3",
+		"gemma", "gemma2", "gemma3", "phi", "phi3", "phi4",
+		"deepseek", "yi", "falcon", "command-r",
+		"vision", "multimodal", "code", "chat",
+		"instruction-tuned", "reasoning", "thinking",
+	}
+	seen := map[string]struct{}{}
+	out := []string{"llm", "gguf"}
+	seen["llm"] = struct{}{}
+	seen["gguf"] = struct{}{}
+
+	hfSet := map[string]struct{}{}
+	for _, t := range hfTags {
+		hfSet[strings.ToLower(t)] = struct{}{}
+	}
+	for _, w := range whitelist {
+		if _, ok := hfSet[w]; ok {
+			if _, dup := seen[w]; !dup {
+				out = append(out, w)
+				seen[w] = struct{}{}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// resolveReadme fetches a description-quality README for a (possibly
+// quantized) repo: if a `base_model:` tag is present, fetch the base repo's
+// README; otherwise fall back to the repo's own README.
+func resolveReadme(client *hfapi.Client, modelID string, hfTags []string) (string, error) {
+	if base := baseModelFromTags(hfTags); base != "" && base != modelID {
+		if content, err := client.GetReadmeContent(base, "README.md"); err == nil && strings.TrimSpace(content) != "" {
+			return cleanTextContent(content), nil
+		}
+	}
+	content, err := client.GetReadmeContent(modelID, "README.md")
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return cleanTextContent(content), nil
+}
+
+// extractDescription turns a raw HuggingFace README into a concise plain-text
+// description suitable for embedding in gallery/index.yaml: strips YAML
+// frontmatter, HTML tags/comments, markdown images, link URLs (keeping the
+// link text), markdown tables, and then truncates at a paragraph boundary
+// around ~1200 characters. Raw README should still be used for icon
+// extraction — call this only for the `description:` field.
+func extractDescription(readme string) string {
+	s := readme
+
+	// Strip leading YAML frontmatter: `---\n...\n---\n` at start of file.
+	if strings.HasPrefix(strings.TrimLeft(s, " \t\n"), "---") {
+		trimmed := strings.TrimLeft(s, " \t\n")
+		rest := strings.TrimPrefix(trimmed, "---")
+		if idx := strings.Index(rest, "\n---"); idx >= 0 {
+			after := rest[idx+len("\n---"):]
+			after = strings.TrimPrefix(after, "\n")
+			s = after
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Strip HTML comments and tags.
+	s = regexp.MustCompile(`(?s)<!--.*?-->`).ReplaceAllString(s, "")
+	s = regexp.MustCompile(`(?is)<[^>]+>`).ReplaceAllString(s, "")
+
+	// Strip markdown images entirely.
+	s = regexp.MustCompile(`!\[[^\]]*\]\([^)]*\)`).ReplaceAllString(s, "")
+	// Replace markdown links `[text](url)` with just `text`.
+	s = regexp.MustCompile(`\[([^\]]+)\]\([^)]+\)`).ReplaceAllString(s, "$1")
+
+	// Drop table lines and horizontal rules, and flatten all leading
+	// whitespace: generateYAMLEntry embeds this under a `description: |`
+	// literal block whose indentation is set by the first non-empty line.
+	// If any line has extra leading whitespace (e.g. from an indented
+	// `<p align="center">` block in the original README), YAML will pick
+	// that up as the block's indent and every later line at a smaller
+	// indent blows the block scalar. Stripping leading whitespace here
+	// guarantees uniform 4-space indentation after formatTextContent runs.
+	var kept []string
+	for _, line := range strings.Split(s, "\n") {
+		t := strings.TrimLeft(line, " \t")
+		ts := strings.TrimSpace(t)
+		if strings.HasPrefix(ts, "|") {
+			continue
+		}
+		if strings.HasPrefix(ts, ":--") || strings.HasPrefix(ts, "---") || strings.HasPrefix(ts, "===") {
+			continue
+		}
+		kept = append(kept, t)
+	}
+	s = strings.Join(kept, "\n")
+
+	// Normalise whitespace and drop any leading blank lines so the literal
+	// block in YAML doesn't start with a blank first line (which would
+	// break the indentation detector the same way).
+	s = cleanTextContent(s)
+	s = strings.TrimLeft(s, " \t\n")
+
+	// Truncate at a paragraph boundary around maxLen chars.
+	const maxLen = 1200
+	if len(s) > maxLen {
+		cut := strings.LastIndex(s[:maxLen], "\n\n")
+		if cut < maxLen/3 {
+			cut = maxLen
+		}
+		s = strings.TrimRight(s[:cut], " \t\n") + "\n\n..."
+	}
+
+	return s
+}
+
+// cleanTextContent removes trailing spaces/tabs and collapses multiple empty
+// lines so README content embeds cleanly into YAML without lint noise.
+func cleanTextContent(text string) string {
+	lines := strings.Split(text, "\n")
+	var cleaned []string
+	var prevEmpty bool
+	for _, line := range lines {
+		trimmed := strings.TrimRight(line, " \t\r")
+		if trimmed == "" {
+			if !prevEmpty {
+				cleaned = append(cleaned, "")
+			}
+			prevEmpty = true
+		} else {
+			cleaned = append(cleaned, trimmed)
+			prevEmpty = false
+		}
+	}
+	return strings.TrimRight(strings.Join(cleaned, "\n"), "\n")
+}
+
+// extractIconFromReadme scans README content for an image URL usable as a
+// gallery entry icon.
+func extractIconFromReadme(readmeContent string) string {
+	if readmeContent == "" {
+		return ""
+	}
+
+	markdownImageRegex := regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)!\[[^\]]*\]\(([^)]+\.(png|jpg|jpeg|svg|webp|gif))\)`)
+	htmlImageRegex := regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)<img[^>]+src=["']([^"']+\.(png|jpg|jpeg|svg|webp|gif))["']`)
+	plainImageRegex := regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)https?://[^\s<>"']+\.(png|jpg|jpeg|svg|webp|gif)`)
+
+	if m := markdownImageRegex.FindStringSubmatch(readmeContent); len(m) > 1 && strings.HasPrefix(strings.ToLower(m[1]), "http") {
+		return strings.TrimSpace(m[1])
+	}
+	if m := htmlImageRegex.FindStringSubmatch(readmeContent); len(m) > 1 && strings.HasPrefix(strings.ToLower(m[1]), "http") {
+		return strings.TrimSpace(m[1])
+	}
+	if m := plainImageRegex.FindStringSubmatch(readmeContent); len(m) > 0 && strings.HasPrefix(strings.ToLower(m[0]), "http") {
+		return strings.TrimSpace(m[0])
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+// getHuggingFaceAvatarURL returns the HF avatar URL for a user, or "".
+func getHuggingFaceAvatarURL(author string) string {
+	if author == "" {
+		return ""
+	}
+	userURL := fmt.Sprintf("https://huggingface.co/api/users/%s/overview", author)
+	resp, err := http.Get(userURL)
+	if err != nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
+		return ""
+	}
+	body, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+	if err != nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+	var info map[string]any
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &info); err != nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+	if v, ok := info["avatarUrl"].(string); ok && v != "" {
+		return v
+	}
+	if v, ok := info["avatar"].(string); ok && v != "" {
+		return v
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+// extractModelIcon extracts an icon URL from the README, falling back to the
+// HuggingFace user avatar.
+func extractModelIcon(model ProcessedModel) string {
+	if icon := extractIconFromReadme(model.ReadmeContent); icon != "" {
+		return icon
+	}
+	if model.Author != "" {
+		if avatar := getHuggingFaceAvatarURL(model.Author); avatar != "" {
+			return avatar
+		}
+	}
+	return ""
+}

.github/gallery-agent/main.go

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"strconv"
-	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	hfapi "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/huggingface-api"
@@ -39,16 +38,6 @@ type ProcessedModel struct {
 	Icon                    string               `json:"icon,omitempty"`
 }
 
-// SearchResult represents the complete result of searching and processing models
-type SearchResult struct {
-	SearchTerm       string           `json:"search_term"`
-	Limit            int              `json:"limit"`
-	Quantization     string           `json:"quantization"`
-	TotalModelsFound int              `json:"total_models_found"`
-	Models           []ProcessedModel `json:"models"`
-	FormattedOutput  string           `json:"formatted_output"`
-}
-
 // AddedModelSummary represents a summary of models added to the gallery
 type AddedModelSummary struct {
 	SearchTerm     string   `json:"search_term"`
@@ -63,19 +52,16 @@ type AddedModelSummary struct {
 func main() {
 	startTime := time.Now()
 
-	// Check for synthetic mode
-	syntheticMode := os.Getenv("SYNTHETIC_MODE")
-	if syntheticMode == "true" || syntheticMode == "1" {
+	// Synthetic mode for local testing
+	if sm := os.Getenv("SYNTHETIC_MODE"); sm == "true" || sm == "1" {
 		fmt.Println("Running in SYNTHETIC MODE - generating random test data")
-		err := runSyntheticMode()
-		if err != nil {
+		if err := runSyntheticMode(); err != nil {
 			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error in synthetic mode: %v\n", err)
 			os.Exit(1)
 		}
 		return
 	}
 
-	// Get configuration from environment variables
 	searchTerm := os.Getenv("SEARCH_TERM")
 	if searchTerm == "" {
 		searchTerm = "GGUF"
@@ -83,7 +69,7 @@ func main() {
 
 	limitStr := os.Getenv("LIMIT")
 	if limitStr == "" {
-		limitStr = "5"
+		limitStr = "15"
 	}
 	limit, err := strconv.Atoi(limitStr)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -92,287 +78,197 @@ func main() {
 	}
 
 	quantization := os.Getenv("QUANTIZATION")
-
-	maxModels := os.Getenv("MAX_MODELS")
-	if maxModels == "" {
-		maxModels = "1"
+	if quantization == "" {
+		quantization = "Q4_K_M"
 	}
-	maxModelsInt, err := strconv.Atoi(maxModels)
+
+	maxModelsStr := os.Getenv("MAX_MODELS")
+	if maxModelsStr == "" {
+		maxModelsStr = "1"
+	}
+	maxModels, err := strconv.Atoi(maxModelsStr)
 	if err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error parsing MAX_MODELS: %v\n", err)
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}
 
-	// Print configuration
 	fmt.Printf("Gallery Agent Configuration:\n")
 	fmt.Printf("  Search Term: %s\n", searchTerm)
 	fmt.Printf("  Limit: %d\n", limit)
 	fmt.Printf("  Quantization: %s\n", quantization)
-	fmt.Printf("  Max Models to Add: %d\n", maxModelsInt)
-	fmt.Printf("  Gallery Index Path: %s\n", os.Getenv("GALLERY_INDEX_PATH"))
+	fmt.Printf("  Max Models to Add: %d\n", maxModels)
+	fmt.Printf("  Gallery Index Path: %s\n", getGalleryIndexPath())
 	fmt.Println()
 
-	result, err := searchAndProcessModels(searchTerm, limit, quantization)
+	// Phase 1: load current gallery and query HuggingFace.
+	gallerySet, err := loadGalleryURLSet()
 	if err != nil {
-		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error: %v\n", err)
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error loading gallery index: %v\n", err)
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}
+	fmt.Printf("Loaded %d existing gallery entries\n", len(gallerySet))
 
-	fmt.Println(result.FormattedOutput)
-	var models []ProcessedModel
-
-	if len(result.Models) > 1 {
-		fmt.Println("More than one model found (", len(result.Models), "), using AI agent to select the most interesting models")
-		for _, model := range result.Models {
-			fmt.Println("Model: ", model.ModelID)
-		}
-		// Use AI agent to select the most interesting models
-		fmt.Println("Using AI agent to select the most interesting models...")
-		models, err = selectMostInterestingModels(context.Background(), result)
-		if err != nil {
-			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error in model selection: %v\n", err)
-			// Continue with original result if selection fails
-			models = result.Models
-		}
-	} else if len(result.Models) == 1 {
-		models = result.Models
-		fmt.Println("Only one model found, using it directly")
-	}
-
-	fmt.Print(models)
-
-	// Filter out models that already exist in the gallery
-	fmt.Println("Filtering out existing models...")
-	models, err = filterExistingModels(models)
-	if err != nil {
-		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error filtering existing models: %v\n", err)
-		os.Exit(1)
-	}
-
-	// Limit to maxModelsInt after filtering
-	if len(models) > maxModelsInt {
-		models = models[:maxModelsInt]
-	}
-
-	// Track added models for summary
-	var addedModelIDs []string
-	var addedModelURLs []string
-
-	// Generate YAML entries and append to gallery/index.yaml
-	if len(models) > 0 {
-		for _, model := range models {
-			addedModelIDs = append(addedModelIDs, model.ModelID)
-			// Generate Hugging Face URL for the model
-			modelURL := fmt.Sprintf("https://huggingface.co/%s", model.ModelID)
-			addedModelURLs = append(addedModelURLs, modelURL)
-		}
-		fmt.Println("Generating YAML entries for selected models...")
-		err = generateYAMLForModels(context.Background(), models, quantization)
-		if err != nil {
-			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error generating YAML entries: %v\n", err)
-			os.Exit(1)
-		}
-	} else {
-		fmt.Println("No new models to add to the gallery.")
-	}
-
-	// Create and write summary
-	processingTime := time.Since(startTime).String()
-	summary := AddedModelSummary{
-		SearchTerm:     searchTerm,
-		TotalFound:     result.TotalModelsFound,
-		ModelsAdded:    len(addedModelIDs),
-		AddedModelIDs:  addedModelIDs,
-		AddedModelURLs: addedModelURLs,
-		Quantization:   quantization,
-		ProcessingTime: processingTime,
-	}
-
-	// Write summary to file
-	summaryData, err := json.MarshalIndent(summary, "", "  ")
-	if err != nil {
-		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error marshaling summary: %v\n", err)
-	} else {
-		err = os.WriteFile("gallery-agent-summary.json", summaryData, 0644)
-		if err != nil {
-			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error writing summary file: %v\n", err)
-		} else {
-			fmt.Printf("Summary written to gallery-agent-summary.json\n")
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func searchAndProcessModels(searchTerm string, limit int, quantization string) (*SearchResult, error) {
 	client := hfapi.NewClient()
-	var outputBuilder strings.Builder
 
-	fmt.Println("Searching for models...")
-	// Initialize the result struct
-	result := &SearchResult{
-		SearchTerm:   searchTerm,
-		Limit:        limit,
-		Quantization: quantization,
-		Models:       []ProcessedModel{},
-	}
-
-	models, err := client.GetLatest(searchTerm, limit)
+	fmt.Println("Searching for trending models on HuggingFace...")
+	rawModels, err := client.GetTrending(searchTerm, limit)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to fetch models: %w", err)
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error fetching models: %v\n", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+	fmt.Printf("Found %d trending models matching %q\n", len(rawModels), searchTerm)
+	totalFound := len(rawModels)
+
+	// Phase 2: drop anything already in the gallery *before* any expensive
+	// per-model work (GetModelDetails, README fetches, icon lookups).
+	fresh := rawModels[:0]
+	for _, m := range rawModels {
+		if modelAlreadyInGallery(gallerySet, m.ModelID) {
+			fmt.Printf("Skipping existing model: %s\n", m.ModelID)
+			continue
+		}
+		fresh = append(fresh, m)
+	}
+	fmt.Printf("%d candidates after gallery dedup\n", len(fresh))
+
+	// Phase 3: HuggingFace already returned these in trendingScore order —
+	// just cap to MAX_MODELS.
+	if len(fresh) > maxModels {
+		fresh = fresh[:maxModels]
+	}
+	if len(fresh) == 0 {
+		fmt.Println("No new models to add to the gallery.")
+		writeSummary(AddedModelSummary{
+			SearchTerm:     searchTerm,
+			TotalFound:     totalFound,
+			ModelsAdded:    0,
+			Quantization:   quantization,
+			ProcessingTime: time.Since(startTime).String(),
+		})
+		return
 	}
 
-	fmt.Println("Models found:", len(models))
-	result.TotalModelsFound = len(models)
+	// Phase 4: fetch details and build ProcessedModel entries for survivors.
+	var processed []ProcessedModel
+	quantPrefs := []string{quantization, "Q4_K_M", "Q4_K_S", "Q3_K_M", "Q2_K", "Q8_0"}
+	for _, m := range fresh {
+		fmt.Printf("Processing model: %s (downloads=%d)\n", m.ModelID, m.Downloads)
 
-	if len(models) == 0 {
-		outputBuilder.WriteString("No models found.\n")
-		result.FormattedOutput = outputBuilder.String()
-		return result, nil
-	}
-
-	outputBuilder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("Found %d models matching '%s':\n\n", len(models), searchTerm))
-
-	// Process each model
-	for i, model := range models {
-		outputBuilder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("%d. Processing Model: %s\n", i+1, model.ModelID))
-		outputBuilder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("   Author: %s\n", model.Author))
-		outputBuilder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("   Downloads: %d\n", model.Downloads))
-		outputBuilder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("   Last Modified: %s\n", model.LastModified))
-
-		// Initialize processed model struct
-		processedModel := ProcessedModel{
-			ModelID:                 model.ModelID,
-			Author:                  model.Author,
-			Downloads:               model.Downloads,
-			LastModified:            model.LastModified,
-			QuantizationPreferences: []string{quantization, "Q4_K_M", "Q4_K_S", "Q3_K_M", "Q2_K"},
+		pm := ProcessedModel{
+			ModelID:                 m.ModelID,
+			Author:                  m.Author,
+			Downloads:               m.Downloads,
+			LastModified:            m.LastModified,
+			QuantizationPreferences: quantPrefs,
 		}
 
-		// Get detailed model information
-		details, err := client.GetModelDetails(model.ModelID)
+		details, err := client.GetModelDetails(m.ModelID)
 		if err != nil {
-			errorMsg := fmt.Sprintf("   Error getting model details: %v\n", err)
-			outputBuilder.WriteString(errorMsg)
-			processedModel.ProcessingError = err.Error()
-			result.Models = append(result.Models, processedModel)
+			fmt.Printf("  Error getting model details: %v (skipping)\n", err)
 			continue
 		}
 
-		// Define quantization preferences (in order of preference)
-		quantizationPreferences := []string{quantization, "Q4_K_M", "Q4_K_S", "Q3_K_M", "Q2_K"}
+		preferred := hfapi.FindPreferredModelFile(details.Files, quantPrefs)
+		if preferred == nil {
+			fmt.Printf("  No GGUF file matching %v — skipping\n", quantPrefs)
+			continue
+		}
 
-		// Find preferred model file
-		preferredModelFile := hfapi.FindPreferredModelFile(details.Files, quantizationPreferences)
-
-		// Process files
-		processedFiles := make([]ProcessedModelFile, len(details.Files))
-		for j, file := range details.Files {
+		pm.Files = make([]ProcessedModelFile, len(details.Files))
+		for j, f := range details.Files {
 			fileType := "other"
-			if file.IsReadme {
+			if f.IsReadme {
 				fileType = "readme"
-			} else if preferredModelFile != nil && file.Path == preferredModelFile.Path {
+			} else if f.Path == preferred.Path {
 				fileType = "model"
 			}
-
-			processedFiles[j] = ProcessedModelFile{
-				Path:     file.Path,
-				Size:     file.Size,
-				SHA256:   file.SHA256,
-				IsReadme: file.IsReadme,
+			pm.Files[j] = ProcessedModelFile{
+				Path:     f.Path,
+				Size:     f.Size,
+				SHA256:   f.SHA256,
+				IsReadme: f.IsReadme,
 				FileType: fileType,
 			}
-		}
-
-		processedModel.Files = processedFiles
-
-		// Set preferred model file
-		if preferredModelFile != nil {
-			for _, file := range processedFiles {
-				if file.Path == preferredModelFile.Path {
-					processedModel.PreferredModelFile = &file
-					break
-				}
+			if f.Path == preferred.Path {
+				copyFile := pm.Files[j]
+				pm.PreferredModelFile = &copyFile
+			}
+			if f.IsReadme {
+				copyFile := pm.Files[j]
+				pm.ReadmeFile = &copyFile
 			}
 		}
 
-		// Print file information
-		outputBuilder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("   Files found: %d\n", len(details.Files)))
+		// Deterministic README resolution: follow base_model tag if set.
+		// Keep the raw (HTML-bearing) README around while we extract the
+		// icon, then strip it down to a plain-text description for the
+		// `description:` YAML field.
+		readme, err := resolveReadme(client, m.ModelID, m.Tags)
+		if err != nil {
+			fmt.Printf("  Warning: failed to fetch README: %v\n", err)
+		}
+		pm.ReadmeContent = readme
 
-		if preferredModelFile != nil {
-			outputBuilder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("   Preferred Model File: %s (SHA256: %s)\n",
-				preferredModelFile.Path,
-				preferredModelFile.SHA256))
-		} else {
-			outputBuilder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("   No model file found with quantization preferences: %v\n", quantizationPreferences))
+		pm.License = licenseFromTags(m.Tags)
+		pm.Tags = curatedTags(m.Tags)
+		pm.Icon = extractModelIcon(pm)
+
+		if pm.ReadmeContent != "" {
+			pm.ReadmeContent = extractDescription(pm.ReadmeContent)
+			pm.ReadmeContentPreview = truncateString(pm.ReadmeContent, 200)
 		}
 
-		if details.ReadmeFile != nil {
-			outputBuilder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("   README File: %s\n", details.ReadmeFile.Path))
-
-			// Find and set readme file
-			for _, file := range processedFiles {
-				if file.IsReadme {
-					processedModel.ReadmeFile = &file
-					break
-				}
-			}
-
-			fmt.Println("Getting real readme for", model.ModelID, "waiting...")
-			// Use agent to get the real readme and prepare the model description
-			readmeContent, err := getRealReadme(context.Background(), model.ModelID)
-			if err == nil {
-				processedModel.ReadmeContent = readmeContent
-				processedModel.ReadmeContentPreview = truncateString(readmeContent, 200)
-				outputBuilder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("   README Content Preview: %s\n",
-					processedModel.ReadmeContentPreview))
-			} else {
-				fmt.Printf("   Warning: Failed to get real readme: %v\n", err)
-			}
-			fmt.Println("Real readme got", readmeContent)
-
-			// Extract metadata (tags, license) from README using LLM
-			fmt.Println("Extracting metadata for", model.ModelID, "waiting...")
-			tags, license, err := extractModelMetadata(context.Background(), processedModel)
-			if err == nil {
-				processedModel.Tags = tags
-				processedModel.License = license
-				outputBuilder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("   Tags: %v\n", tags))
-				outputBuilder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("   License: %s\n", license))
-			} else {
-				fmt.Printf("   Warning: Failed to extract metadata: %v\n", err)
-			}
-
-			// Extract icon from README or use HuggingFace avatar
-			icon := extractModelIcon(processedModel)
-			if icon != "" {
-				processedModel.Icon = icon
-				outputBuilder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("   Icon: %s\n", icon))
-			}
-			// Get README content
-			// readmeContent, err := client.GetReadmeContent(model.ModelID, details.ReadmeFile.Path)
-			// if err == nil {
-			// 	processedModel.ReadmeContent = readmeContent
-			// 	processedModel.ReadmeContentPreview = truncateString(readmeContent, 200)
-			// 	outputBuilder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("   README Content Preview: %s\n",
-			// 		processedModel.ReadmeContentPreview))
-			// }
-		}
-
-		// Print all files with their checksums
-		outputBuilder.WriteString("   All Files:\n")
-		for _, file := range processedFiles {
-			outputBuilder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("     - %s (%s, %d bytes", file.Path, file.FileType, file.Size))
-			if file.SHA256 != "" {
-				outputBuilder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf(", SHA256: %s", file.SHA256))
-			}
-			outputBuilder.WriteString(")\n")
-		}
-
-		outputBuilder.WriteString("\n")
-		result.Models = append(result.Models, processedModel)
+		fmt.Printf("  License: %s, Tags: %v, Icon: %s\n", pm.License, pm.Tags, pm.Icon)
+		processed = append(processed, pm)
 	}
 
-	result.FormattedOutput = outputBuilder.String()
-	return result, nil
+	if len(processed) == 0 {
+		fmt.Println("No processable models after detail fetch.")
+		writeSummary(AddedModelSummary{
+			SearchTerm:     searchTerm,
+			TotalFound:     totalFound,
+			ModelsAdded:    0,
+			Quantization:   quantization,
+			ProcessingTime: time.Since(startTime).String(),
+		})
+		return
+	}
+
+	// Phase 5: write YAML entries.
+	var addedIDs, addedURLs []string
+	for _, pm := range processed {
+		addedIDs = append(addedIDs, pm.ModelID)
+		addedURLs = append(addedURLs, "https://huggingface.co/"+pm.ModelID)
+	}
+
+	fmt.Println("Generating YAML entries for selected models...")
+	if err := generateYAMLForModels(context.Background(), processed, quantization); err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error generating YAML entries: %v\n", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
+	writeSummary(AddedModelSummary{
+		SearchTerm:     searchTerm,
+		TotalFound:     totalFound,
+		ModelsAdded:    len(addedIDs),
+		AddedModelIDs:  addedIDs,
+		AddedModelURLs: addedURLs,
+		Quantization:   quantization,
+		ProcessingTime: time.Since(startTime).String(),
+	})
+}
+
+func writeSummary(summary AddedModelSummary) {
+	data, err := json.MarshalIndent(summary, "", "  ")
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error marshaling summary: %v\n", err)
+		return
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile("gallery-agent-summary.json", data, 0644); err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error writing summary file: %v\n", err)
+		return
+	}
+	fmt.Println("Summary written to gallery-agent-summary.json")
 }
 
 func truncateString(s string, maxLen int) string {
@@ -381,3 +277,4 @@ func truncateString(s string, maxLen int) string {
 	}
 	return s[:maxLen] + "..."
 }
+

.github/gallery-agent/tools.go

@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-
-	hfapi "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/huggingface-api"
-	openai "github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai"
-	jsonschema "github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai/jsonschema"
-)
-
-// Get repository README from HF
-type HFReadmeTool struct {
-	client *hfapi.Client
-}
-
-func (s *HFReadmeTool) Execute(args map[string]any) (string, any, error) {
-	q, ok := args["repository"].(string)
-	if !ok {
-		return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("no query")
-	}
-	readme, err := s.client.GetReadmeContent(q, "README.md")
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", nil, err
-	}
-	return readme, nil, nil
-}
-
-func (s *HFReadmeTool) Tool() openai.Tool {
-	return openai.Tool{
-		Type: openai.ToolTypeFunction,
-		Function: &openai.FunctionDefinition{
-			Name:        "hf_readme",
-			Description: "A tool to get the README content of a huggingface repository",
-			Parameters: jsonschema.Definition{
-				Type: jsonschema.Object,
-				Properties: map[string]jsonschema.Definition{
-					"repository": {
-						Type:        jsonschema.String,
-						Description: "The huggingface repository to get the README content of",
-					},
-				},
-				Required: []string{"repository"},
-			},
-		},
-	}
-}

.github/workflows/backend_build.yml

@@ -58,6 +58,21 @@ on:
         required: false
         default: '2204'
         type: string
+      amdgpu-targets:
+        description: 'AMD GPU targets for ROCm/HIP builds'
+        required: false
+        default: ''
+        type: string
+      base-image-prebuilt:
+        description: |
+          Optional reference to a prebuilt accel/lang base image
+          (quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:base-image-<stem>[-pr<N>]). When
+          set, the backend Dockerfile FROMs this image instead of running
+          an inline bootstrap. See .github/workflows/base_images.yml and
+          .agents/ci-caching.md.
+        required: false
+        default: ''
+        type: string
     secrets:
       dockerUsername:
         required: false
@@ -75,6 +90,14 @@ jobs:
         quay_username: ${{ secrets.quayUsername }}
     steps:
 
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+
+      - name: Configure apt mirror on runner
+        id: apt_mirror
+        uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror
 
       - name: Free Disk Space (Ubuntu)
         if: inputs.runs-on == 'ubuntu-latest'
@@ -92,18 +115,6 @@ jobs:
           docker-images: true
           swap-storage: true
 
-      - name: Force Install GIT latest
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update \
-          && sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common \
-          && sudo apt-get update \
-          && sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:git-core/ppa \
-          && sudo apt-get update \
-          && sudo apt-get install -y git
-
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
       - name: Release space from worker
         if: inputs.runs-on == 'ubuntu-latest'
         run: |
@@ -201,6 +212,15 @@ jobs:
           username: ${{ secrets.quayUsername }}
           password: ${{ secrets.quayPassword }}
 
+      # Weekly cache-buster for the per-backend `make` step. Most Python
+      # backends list unpinned deps (torch, transformers, vllm, ...), so a
+      # warm cache freezes upstream versions indefinitely. Rolling this
+      # weekly forces a re-resolve of the install layer at most once per
+      # week, picking up newer wheels without a full cold rebuild.
+      - name: Compute deps refresh key
+        id: deps_refresh
+        run: echo "key=$(date -u +%Y-W%V)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
       - name: Build and push
         uses: docker/build-push-action@v7
         if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
@@ -214,9 +234,15 @@ jobs:
             BASE_IMAGE=${{ inputs.base-image }}
             BACKEND=${{ inputs.backend }}
             UBUNTU_VERSION=${{ inputs.ubuntu-version }}
+            AMDGPU_TARGETS=${{ inputs.amdgpu-targets }}
+            APT_MIRROR=${{ steps.apt_mirror.outputs.effective-mirror }}
+            APT_PORTS_MIRROR=${{ steps.apt_mirror.outputs.effective-ports-mirror }}
+            DEPS_REFRESH=${{ steps.deps_refresh.outputs.key }}
+            BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT=${{ inputs.base-image-prebuilt }}
           context: ${{ inputs.context }}
           file: ${{ inputs.dockerfile }}
-          cache-from: type=gha
+          cache-from: type=registry,ref=quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:cache${{ inputs.tag-suffix }}
+          cache-to: type=registry,ref=quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:cache${{ inputs.tag-suffix }},mode=max,ignore-error=true
           platforms: ${{ inputs.platforms }}
           push: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
           tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }}
@@ -235,9 +261,14 @@ jobs:
             BASE_IMAGE=${{ inputs.base-image }}
             BACKEND=${{ inputs.backend }}
             UBUNTU_VERSION=${{ inputs.ubuntu-version }}
+            AMDGPU_TARGETS=${{ inputs.amdgpu-targets }}
+            APT_MIRROR=${{ steps.apt_mirror.outputs.effective-mirror }}
+            APT_PORTS_MIRROR=${{ steps.apt_mirror.outputs.effective-ports-mirror }}
+            DEPS_REFRESH=${{ steps.deps_refresh.outputs.key }}
+            BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT=${{ inputs.base-image-prebuilt }}
           context: ${{ inputs.context }}
           file: ${{ inputs.dockerfile }}
-          cache-from: type=gha
+          cache-from: type=registry,ref=quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:cache${{ inputs.tag-suffix }}
           platforms: ${{ inputs.platforms }}
           push: ${{ env.quay_username != '' }}
           tags: ${{ steps.meta_pull_request.outputs.tags }}

.github/workflows/backend_build_darwin.yml

@@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         go-version: ['${{ inputs.go-version }}']
+    env:
+      # Keep the brew Cellar stable across cache restores. Without these,
+      # `brew install` would auto-update brew itself and re-link formulas,
+      # mutating the very paths the cache just restored.
+      HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE: '1'
+      HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP: '1'
+      HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS: '1'
     steps:
       - name: Clone
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
@@ -58,21 +65,141 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:
           go-version: ${{ matrix.go-version }}
-          cache: false
+          # Caches ~/go/pkg/mod and ~/Library/Caches/go-build keyed on go.sum.
+          # Shared across every darwin matrix entry — first job in a run warms
+          # it, the rest hit warm.
+          cache: true
 
       # You can test your matrix by printing the current Go version
       - name: Display Go version
         run: go version
 
+      # ---- Homebrew cache ----
+      # macOS runners have no Docker daemon, so the BuildKit registry cache used
+      # for Linux backend images (see .agents/ci-caching.md) doesn't apply here.
+      # We cache the brew downloads + Cellar entries for the formulas we install
+      # below. Read on every run, write only on master/tag pushes — same policy
+      # as the Linux registry cache.
+      - name: Restore Homebrew cache
+        id: brew-cache
+        uses: actions/cache/restore@v4
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads
+            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/protobuf
+            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/grpc
+            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/protoc-gen-go
+            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/protoc-gen-go-grpc
+            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libomp
+            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/llvm
+            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/ccache
+          key: brew-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-v1-${{ hashFiles('.github/workflows/backend_build_darwin.yml') }}
+
       - name: Dependencies
         run: |
-          brew install protobuf grpc make protoc-gen-go protoc-gen-go-grpc libomp llvm
+          # ccache is always installed (used by the llama-cpp variant build) so
+          # the brew cache content stays stable across every backend in the
+          # matrix — they all share one cache key.
+          brew install protobuf grpc make protoc-gen-go protoc-gen-go-grpc libomp llvm ccache
+
+      - name: Save Homebrew cache
+        if: github.event_name != 'pull_request' && steps.brew-cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        uses: actions/cache/save@v4
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads
+            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/protobuf
+            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/grpc
+            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/protoc-gen-go
+            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/protoc-gen-go-grpc
+            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libomp
+            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/llvm
+            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/ccache
+          key: brew-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-v1-${{ hashFiles('.github/workflows/backend_build_darwin.yml') }}
+
+      # ---- ccache for llama.cpp CMake builds ----
+      # Three CMake variants (fallback, grpc, rpc-server) compile the same
+      # llama.cpp source tree with overlapping flags — ccache dedupes object
+      # files across them. Key on the pinned LLAMA_VERSION so a pin bump
+      # invalidates cleanly; restore-keys fall back to the latest entry for the
+      # same pin so unchanged TUs stay warm even when the cache is fresh.
+      - name: Compute llama.cpp version
+        if: inputs.backend == 'llama-cpp'
+        id: llama-version
+        run: |
+          version=$(grep '^LLAMA_VERSION' backend/cpp/llama-cpp/Makefile | head -1 | cut -d= -f2 | cut -d'?' -f1 | tr -d ' ')
+          echo "version=${version}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Restore ccache
+        if: inputs.backend == 'llama-cpp'
+        id: ccache-cache
+        uses: actions/cache/restore@v4
+        with:
+          path: ~/Library/Caches/ccache
+          key: ccache-llama-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ steps.llama-version.outputs.version }}-${{ github.run_id }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            ccache-llama-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ steps.llama-version.outputs.version }}-
+
+      - name: Configure ccache
+        if: inputs.backend == 'llama-cpp'
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p "$HOME/Library/Caches/ccache"
+          ccache -M 2G
+          ccache -z
+          # llama-cpp-darwin.sh reads CMAKE_ARGS / CCACHE_DIR from env.
+          {
+            echo "CMAKE_ARGS=${CMAKE_ARGS:-} -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache"
+            echo "CCACHE_DIR=$HOME/Library/Caches/ccache"
+          } >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+
+      # ---- Python wheel cache (uv + pip) ----
+      # Mirrors the Linux DEPS_REFRESH cadence (see .agents/ci-caching.md): the
+      # ISO-week segment of the cache key forces at most one cold rebuild per
+      # backend per week, automatically picking up newer wheels for unpinned
+      # deps (torch, mlx, diffusers, …). Restore-keys fall back to the most
+      # recent build of the same backend so off-week PRs still hit warm.
+      - name: Compute weekly cache bucket
+        if: inputs.lang == 'python'
+        id: weekly
+        run: echo "bucket=$(date -u +%Y-W%V)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Restore Python wheel cache
+        if: inputs.lang == 'python'
+        id: pyenv-cache
+        uses: actions/cache/restore@v4
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ~/Library/Caches/pip
+            ~/Library/Caches/uv
+          key: pyenv-darwin-${{ inputs.backend }}-${{ steps.weekly.outputs.bucket }}-${{ hashFiles(format('backend/python/{0}/requirements*.txt', inputs.backend)) }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            pyenv-darwin-${{ inputs.backend }}-
 
       - name: Build ${{ inputs.backend }}-darwin
         run: |
           make protogen-go
           BACKEND=${{ inputs.backend }} BUILD_TYPE=${{ inputs.build-type }} USE_PIP=${{ inputs.use-pip }} make build-darwin-${{ inputs.lang }}-backend
 
+      - name: ccache stats
+        if: inputs.backend == 'llama-cpp'
+        run: ccache -s
+
+      - name: Save ccache
+        if: inputs.backend == 'llama-cpp' && github.event_name != 'pull_request'
+        uses: actions/cache/save@v4
+        with:
+          path: ~/Library/Caches/ccache
+          key: ccache-llama-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ steps.llama-version.outputs.version }}-${{ github.run_id }}
+
+      - name: Save Python wheel cache
+        if: inputs.lang == 'python' && github.event_name != 'pull_request' && steps.pyenv-cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        uses: actions/cache/save@v4
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ~/Library/Caches/pip
+            ~/Library/Caches/uv
+          key: pyenv-darwin-${{ inputs.backend }}-${{ steps.weekly.outputs.bucket }}-${{ hashFiles(format('backend/python/{0}/requirements*.txt', inputs.backend)) }}
+
       - name: Upload ${{ inputs.backend }}.tar
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         with:

.github/workflows/backend_pr.yml

@@ -13,8 +13,10 @@ jobs:
     outputs:
       matrix: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs.matrix }}
       matrix-darwin: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs.matrix-darwin }}
+      bases-matrix: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs.bases-matrix }}
       has-backends: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs.has-backends }}
       has-backends-darwin: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs.has-backends-darwin }}
+      has-bases: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs.has-bases }}
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
@@ -27,7 +29,8 @@ jobs:
           bun add js-yaml
           bun add @octokit/core
 
-      # filters the matrix in backend.yml
+      # Filters the matrix from backend.yml against this PR's changed files
+      # AND derives the deduplicated bases-matrix consumed by build-bases.
       - name: Filter matrix for changed backends
         id: set-matrix
         env:
@@ -35,10 +38,34 @@ jobs:
           GITHUB_EVENT_PATH: ${{ github.event_path }}
         run: bun run scripts/changed-backends.js
 
-  backend-jobs:
+  build-bases:
     needs: generate-matrix
+    if: needs.generate-matrix.outputs.has-bases == 'true'
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix: ${{ fromJSON(needs.generate-matrix.outputs.bases-matrix) }}
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/base_images.yml
+    with:
+      lang: ${{ matrix.lang }}
+      base-image: ${{ matrix.base-image }}
+      build-type: ${{ matrix.build-type }}
+      cuda-major-version: ${{ matrix.cuda-major-version }}
+      cuda-minor-version: ${{ matrix.cuda-minor-version }}
+      ubuntu-version: ${{ matrix.ubuntu-version }}
+      platforms: ${{ matrix.platforms }}
+      runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
+      tag-stem: ${{ matrix.tag-stem }}
+      skip-drivers: ${{ matrix.skip-drivers }}
+    secrets:
+      quayUsername: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_USERNAME }}
+      quayPassword: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}
+
+  backend-jobs:
+    needs: [generate-matrix, build-bases]
     uses: ./.github/workflows/backend_build.yml
-    if: needs.generate-matrix.outputs.has-backends == 'true'
+    if: |
+      always() && needs.generate-matrix.outputs.has-backends == 'true' &&
+      (needs.build-bases.result == 'success' || needs.build-bases.result == 'skipped')
     with:
       tag-latest: ${{ matrix.tag-latest }}
       tag-suffix: ${{ matrix.tag-suffix }}
@@ -53,12 +80,18 @@ jobs:
       skip-drivers: ${{ matrix.skip-drivers }}
       context: ${{ matrix.context }}
       ubuntu-version: ${{ matrix.ubuntu-version }}
+      amdgpu-targets: ${{ matrix.amdgpu-targets || 'gfx908,gfx90a,gfx942,gfx950,gfx1030,gfx1100,gfx1101,gfx1102,gfx1151,gfx1200,gfx1201' }}
+      # The script annotates each filtered Python entry with the prebuilt
+      # base ref it should consume; non-Python entries get '' and run their
+      # own inline bootstrap.
+      base-image-prebuilt: ${{ matrix.base-image-prebuilt || '' }}
     secrets:
       quayUsername: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_USERNAME }}
       quayPassword: ${{ secrets.LOCALAI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}
     strategy:
       fail-fast: true
       matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.generate-matrix.outputs.matrix) }}
+
   backend-jobs-darwin:
     needs: generate-matrix
     uses: ./.github/workflows/backend_build_darwin.yml

.github/workflows/base_images.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+---
+name: 'build base image (reusable)'
+
+# Builds and pushes one (lang, accel, arch, ubuntu, cuda) base image flavour
+# to quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:base-image-<stem>[-pr<N>]. Consumed by
+# backend builds via the BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT build-arg. PR builds tag with
+# `-pr${PR_NUMBER}` so the same PR's backend matrix can opt-in to the
+# freshly-built base; master builds overwrite the unsuffixed tag for
+# downstream consumption. The image lives in the same ci-cache repo as the
+# buildkit cache (under a `base-image-` prefix that doesn't collide with
+# the `base-<stem>` cache prefix), so no separate quay repo + grant is
+# needed. See .agents/ci-caching.md for the full tagging scheme.
+
+on:
+  workflow_call:
+    inputs:
+      lang:
+        description: 'Language toolchain (matches .docker/bases/Dockerfile.<lang>)'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      base-image:
+        description: 'Upstream base image (ubuntu:24.04, rocm/dev-ubuntu-24.04:..., etc.)'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      build-type:
+        description: 'BUILD_TYPE: empty for CPU, cublas, hipblas, vulkan, l4t, ...'
+        default: ''
+        type: string
+      cuda-major-version:
+        description: 'CUDA major version (only meaningful for cublas/l4t)'
+        default: '12'
+        type: string
+      cuda-minor-version:
+        description: 'CUDA minor version'
+        default: '9'
+        type: string
+      ubuntu-version:
+        description: 'Ubuntu version code (2204, 2404)'
+        default: '2404'
+        type: string
+      platforms:
+        description: 'Single platform per call (linux/amd64 or linux/arm64)'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      runs-on:
+        description: 'Runner label'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      tag-stem:
+        description: 'Stable portion of the image tag (e.g. python-cpu-amd64-2404)'
+        required: true
+        type: string
+      skip-drivers:
+        description: 'Pass-through to the base Dockerfile'
+        default: 'false'
+        type: string
+    secrets:
+      quayUsername:
+        required: false
+      quayPassword:
+        required: false
+    outputs:
+      image-ref:
+        description: 'Full image reference of the built base'
+        value: ${{ jobs.base-build.outputs.image-ref }}
+
+jobs:
+  base-build:
+    runs-on: ${{ inputs.runs-on }}
+    env:
+      quay_username: ${{ secrets.quayUsername }}
+    outputs:
+      image-ref: ${{ steps.compute_ref.outputs.ref }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Configure apt mirror on runner
+        id: apt_mirror
+        uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror
+
+      - name: Free Disk Space (Ubuntu)
+        if: inputs.runs-on == 'ubuntu-latest'
+        uses: jlumbroso/free-disk-space@main
+        with:
+          tool-cache: true
+          android: true
+          dotnet: true
+          haskell: true
+          large-packages: true
+          docker-images: true
+          swap-storage: true
+
+      - name: Compute image ref
+        id: compute_ref
+        run: |
+          stem='${{ inputs.tag-stem }}'
+          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "pull_request" ]; then
+            tag="${stem}-pr${{ github.event.number }}"
+          else
+            tag="${stem}"
+          fi
+          echo "tag=${tag}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          # Published into the existing ci-cache repo (the CI robot already
+          # has write access there) under a distinct `base-image-` prefix so
+          # the OCI image tags coexist with the buildkit cache tags
+          # (`base-<stem>`, `cache<tag-suffix>`, `cache-localai<tag-suffix>`).
+          echo "ref=quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:base-image-${tag}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Set up QEMU
+        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@master
+        with:
+          platforms: all
+
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        id: buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@master
+
+      - name: Login to Quay.io
+        if: ${{ env.quay_username != '' }}
+        uses: docker/login-action@v4
+        with:
+          registry: quay.io
+          username: ${{ secrets.quayUsername }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.quayPassword }}
+
+      - name: Build and push base image
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v7
+        with:
+          builder: ${{ steps.buildx.outputs.name }}
+          context: .
+          file: ./.docker/bases/Dockerfile.${{ inputs.lang }}
+          build-args: |
+            BUILD_TYPE=${{ inputs.build-type }}
+            CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=${{ inputs.cuda-major-version }}
+            CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=${{ inputs.cuda-minor-version }}
+            BASE_IMAGE=${{ inputs.base-image }}
+            UBUNTU_VERSION=${{ inputs.ubuntu-version }}
+            SKIP_DRIVERS=${{ inputs.skip-drivers }}
+            APT_MIRROR=${{ steps.apt_mirror.outputs.effective-mirror }}
+            APT_PORTS_MIRROR=${{ steps.apt_mirror.outputs.effective-ports-mirror }}
+          platforms: ${{ inputs.platforms }}
+          # Push on PRs as well (if creds present) so the PR's backend matrix
+          # can opt-in to the freshly-built base via -pr${N} tag.
+          push: ${{ env.quay_username != '' }}
+          tags: ${{ steps.compute_ref.outputs.ref }}
+          cache-from: type=registry,ref=quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:base-${{ inputs.tag-stem }}
+          cache-to: type=registry,ref=quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:base-${{ inputs.tag-stem }},mode=max,ignore-error=true
+
+      - name: job summary
+        run: |
+          echo "Built base image: ${{ steps.compute_ref.outputs.ref }}" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"

.github/workflows/build-test.yaml

@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Configure apt mirror on runner
+        uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror
       - name: Set up Go
         uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:

.github/workflows/bump_deps.yaml

@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ jobs:
             variable: "LLAMA_VERSION"
             branch: "master"
             file: "backend/cpp/llama-cpp/Makefile"
+          - repository: "ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp"
+            variable: "IK_LLAMA_VERSION"
+            branch: "main"
+            file: "backend/cpp/ik-llama-cpp/Makefile"
+          - repository: "TheTom/llama-cpp-turboquant"
+            variable: "TURBOQUANT_VERSION"
+            branch: "feature/turboquant-kv-cache"
+            file: "backend/cpp/turboquant/Makefile"
           - repository: "ggml-org/whisper.cpp"
             variable: "WHISPER_CPP_VERSION"
             branch: "master"
@@ -34,6 +42,18 @@ jobs:
             variable: "ACESTEP_CPP_VERSION"
             branch: "master"
             file: "backend/go/acestep-cpp/Makefile"
+          - repository: "PABannier/sam3.cpp"
+            variable: "SAM3_VERSION"
+            branch: "main"
+            file: "backend/go/sam3-cpp/Makefile"
+          - repository: "predict-woo/qwen3-tts.cpp"
+            variable: "QWEN3TTS_CPP_VERSION"
+            branch: "main"
+            file: "backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/Makefile"
+          - repository: "mudler/vibevoice.cpp"
+            variable: "VIBEVOICE_CPP_VERSION"
+            branch: "master"
+            file: "backend/go/vibevoice-cpp/Makefile"
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
@@ -64,5 +84,37 @@ jobs:
           body: ${{ steps.bump.outputs.message }}
           signoff: true
 
-
-
+  bump-vllm-wheel:
+    # vLLM's cu130 wheel comes from a per-tag index URL (no /latest/ alias),
+    # so the cublas13 requirements file pins both a URL segment and a version
+    # constraint. bump_deps.sh handles git-sha-in-Makefile only — this job
+    # rewrites both values atomically when a new vLLM stable tag ships.
+    if: github.repository == 'mudler/LocalAI'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - name: Bump vLLM cu130 wheel pin 🔧
+        id: bump
+        run: |
+          bash .github/bump_vllm_wheel.sh vllm-project/vllm backend/python/vllm/requirements-cublas13-after.txt VLLM_VERSION
+          {
+            echo 'message<<EOF'
+            cat "VLLM_VERSION_message.txt"
+            echo EOF
+          } >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          {
+            echo 'commit<<EOF'
+            cat "VLLM_VERSION_commit.txt"
+            echo EOF
+          } >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          rm -rfv VLLM_VERSION_message.txt VLLM_VERSION_commit.txt
+      - name: Create Pull Request
+        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v8
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.UPDATE_BOT_TOKEN }}
+          push-to-fork: ci-forks/LocalAI
+          commit-message: ':arrow_up: Update vllm-project/vllm cu130 wheel'
+          title: 'chore: :arrow_up: Update vllm-project/vllm cu130 wheel to `${{ steps.bump.outputs.commit }}`'
+          branch: "update/VLLM_VERSION"
+          body: ${{ steps.bump.outputs.message }}
+          signoff: true

.github/workflows/checksum_checker.yaml

@@ -8,15 +8,9 @@ jobs:
     if: github.repository == 'mudler/LocalAI'
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - name: Force Install GIT latest
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update \
-          && sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common \
-          && sudo apt-get update \
-          && sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:git-core/ppa \
-          && sudo apt-get update \
-          && sudo apt-get install -y git
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - name: Configure apt mirror on runner
+        uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           sudo apt-get update

.github/workflows/gallery-agent.yaml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ name: Gallery Agent
 on:
 
   schedule:
-    - cron: '0 */3 * * *'  # Run every 4 hours
+    - cron: '0 */12 * * *'  # Run every 4 hours
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       search_term:
@@ -48,21 +48,88 @@ jobs:
           go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@v1.34.2
           go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@1958fcbe2ca8bd93af633f11e97d44e567e945af
           PATH="$PATH:$HOME/go/bin" make protogen-go
-      - uses: mudler/localai-github-action@v1.1
-        with:
-          model: 'https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.5-2B-GGUF'
+      - name: Process gallery-agent PR commands
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.UPDATE_BOT_TOKEN }}
+          REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+          SEARCH: 'gallery agent in:title'
+        run: |
+          # Walk gallery-agent PRs and act on maintainer comments:
+          #   /gallery-agent blacklist → label `gallery-agent/blacklisted` + close (never repropose)
+          #   /gallery-agent recreate  → close without label (next run may repropose)
+          # Only comments from OWNER / MEMBER / COLLABORATOR are honored so
+          # random users can't drive the bot.
+          #
+          # We scan both open PRs AND recently-closed PRs that don't already
+          # carry the blacklist label. This covers the common flow where a
+          # maintainer writes /gallery-agent blacklist and immediately clicks
+          # Close — without this, the next scheduled run wouldn't see the
+          # command (PR is already closed) and would repropose the model.
+          gh label create gallery-agent/blacklisted \
+            --repo "$REPO" --color ededed \
+            --description "gallery-agent must not repropose this model" 2>/dev/null || true
+
+          prs_open=$(gh pr list --repo "$REPO" --state open --search "$SEARCH" \
+            --json number --jq '.[].number')
+          # Closed PRs from the last 14 days that don't yet have the blacklist label.
+          # Bounded window keeps the scan cheap while covering late-applied commands.
+          since=$(date -u -d '14 days ago' +%Y-%m-%d)
+          prs_closed=$(gh pr list --repo "$REPO" --state closed \
+            --search "$SEARCH closed:>=$since -label:gallery-agent/blacklisted" \
+            --json number --jq '.[].number')
+          prs=$(printf '%s\n%s\n' "$prs_open" "$prs_closed" | sort -u | sed '/^$/d')
+          for pr in $prs; do
+            state=$(gh pr view "$pr" --repo "$REPO" --json state --jq '.state')
+            cmds=$(gh pr view "$pr" --repo "$REPO" --json comments \
+              --jq '.comments[] | select(.authorAssociation=="OWNER" or .authorAssociation=="MEMBER" or .authorAssociation=="COLLABORATOR") | .body')
+            if echo "$cmds" | grep -qE '(^|[[:space:]])/gallery-agent[[:space:]]+blacklist([[:space:]]|$)'; then
+              echo "PR #$pr: blacklist command found (state=$state)"
+              gh pr edit "$pr" --repo "$REPO" --add-label gallery-agent/blacklisted || true
+              if [ "$state" = "OPEN" ]; then
+                gh pr close "$pr" --repo "$REPO" --comment "Blacklisted via \`/gallery-agent blacklist\`. This model will not be reproposed." || true
+              fi
+            elif [ "$state" = "OPEN" ] && echo "$cmds" | grep -qE '(^|[[:space:]])/gallery-agent[[:space:]]+recreate([[:space:]]|$)'; then
+              echo "PR #$pr: recreate command found"
+              gh pr close "$pr" --repo "$REPO" --comment "Closed via \`/gallery-agent recreate\`. The next scheduled run will propose this model again." || true
+            fi
+          done
+
+      - name: Collect skip URLs for the gallery agent
+        id: open_prs
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+          SEARCH: 'gallery agent in:title'
+        run: |
+          # Skip set =
+          #   URLs from any open gallery-agent PR (avoid duplicate PRs for the same model while one is pending)
+          # + URLs from closed PRs carrying the `gallery-agent/blacklisted` label (hard blacklist)
+          # Plain-closed PRs without the label are ignored — closing a PR is
+          # not by itself a "never propose again" signal; maintainers must
+          # opt in via the /gallery-agent blacklist comment command.
+          urls_open=$(gh pr list --repo "$REPO" --state open --search "$SEARCH" \
+            --json body --jq '[.[].body] | join("\n")' \
+            | grep -oE 'https://huggingface\.co/[^ )]+' || true)
+          urls_blacklist=$(gh pr list --repo "$REPO" --state closed --search "$SEARCH" \
+            --label gallery-agent/blacklisted \
+            --json body --jq '[.[].body] | join("\n")' \
+            | grep -oE 'https://huggingface\.co/[^ )]+' || true)
+          urls=$(printf '%s\n%s\n' "$urls_open" "$urls_blacklist" | sort -u | sed '/^$/d')
+          echo "Skip URLs:"
+          echo "$urls"
+          {
+            echo "urls<<EOF"
+            echo "$urls"
+            echo "EOF"
+          } >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
       - name: Run gallery agent
         env:
-          #OPENAI_MODEL: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_MODEL }}
-          OPENAI_MODEL: Qwen3.5-2B-GGUF
-          OPENAI_BASE_URL: "http://localhost:8080"
-          OPENAI_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_KEY }}
-          #OPENAI_BASE_URL: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_BASE_URL }}
           SEARCH_TERM: ${{ github.event.inputs.search_term || 'GGUF' }}
           LIMIT: ${{ github.event.inputs.limit || '15' }}
           QUANTIZATION: ${{ github.event.inputs.quantization || 'Q4_K_M' }}
           MAX_MODELS: ${{ github.event.inputs.max_models || '1' }}
+          EXTRA_SKIP_URLS: ${{ steps.open_prs.outputs.urls }}
         run: |
           export GALLERY_INDEX_PATH=$PWD/gallery/index.yaml
           go run ./.github/gallery-agent
@@ -124,7 +191,21 @@ jobs:
             
             **Added Models:**
             ${{ steps.read_summary.outputs.added_models || '- No models added' }}
-            
+
+            ### Bot commands
+
+            Maintainers (owner / member / collaborator) can control this PR
+            by leaving a comment with one of:
+
+            - `/gallery-agent recreate` — close this PR; the next scheduled
+              run will propose this model again (useful if the entry needs
+              to be regenerated with fresh metadata).
+            - `/gallery-agent blacklist` — close this PR and permanently
+              prevent the gallery agent from ever reproposing this model.
+
+            Plain "Close" (without a command) is treated as a no-op: the
+            model may be reproposed by a future run.
+
             **Workflow Details:**
             - Triggered by: `${{ github.event_name }}`
             - Run ID: `${{ github.run_id }}`

.github/workflows/generate_grpc_cache.yaml

@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-name: 'generate and publish GRPC docker caches'
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-  schedule:
-    # daily at midnight
-    - cron: '0 0 * * *'
-
-concurrency:
-  group: grpc-cache-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}-${{ github.repository }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-jobs:
-  generate_caches:
-    if: github.repository == 'mudler/LocalAI'
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          - grpc-base-image: ubuntu:24.04
-            runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'
-            platforms: 'linux/amd64,linux/arm64'
-    runs-on: ${{matrix.runs-on}}
-    steps:
-      - name: Release space from worker
-        if: matrix.runs-on == 'ubuntu-latest'
-        run: |
-          echo "Listing top largest packages"
-          pkgs=$(dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\t${Status}\n' | awk '$NF == "installed"{print $1 "\t" $2}' | sort -nr)
-          head -n 30 <<< "${pkgs}"
-          echo
-          df -h
-          echo
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^llvm-.*|^libllvm.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove android-sdk-platform-tools || true
-          sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove android-sdk-platform-tools || true
-          sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/android
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^dotnet-.*|^aspnetcore-.*' || true
-          sudo rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^mono-.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^ghc-.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '.*jdk.*|.*jre.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y 'php.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y hhvm powershell firefox monodoc-manual msbuild || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^google-.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y azure-cli || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^mongo.*-.*|^postgresql-.*|^mysql-.*|^mssql-.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^gfortran-.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y microsoft-edge-stable || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y firefox || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y powershell || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y r-base-core || true
-          sudo apt-get autoremove -y
-          sudo apt-get clean
-          echo
-          echo "Listing top largest packages"
-          pkgs=$(dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\t${Status}\n' | awk '$NF == "installed"{print $1 "\t" $2}' | sort -nr)
-          head -n 30 <<< "${pkgs}"
-          echo
-          sudo rm -rfv build || true
-          sudo rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet || true
-          sudo rm -rf /opt/ghc || true
-          sudo rm -rf "/usr/local/share/boost" || true
-          sudo rm -rf "$AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY" || true
-          df -h
-
-      - name: Set up QEMU
-        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@master
-        with:
-          platforms: all
-
-      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
-        id: buildx
-        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@master
-
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Cache GRPC
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v7
-        with:
-          builder: ${{ steps.buildx.outputs.name }}
-          # The build-args MUST be an EXACT match between the image cache and other workflow steps that want to use that cache.
-          # This means that even the MAKEFLAGS have to be an EXACT match.
-          # If the build-args are not an EXACT match, it will result in a cache miss, which will require GRPC to be built from scratch.
-          build-args: |
-            GRPC_BASE_IMAGE=${{ matrix.grpc-base-image }}
-            GRPC_MAKEFLAGS=--jobs=4 --output-sync=target
-            GRPC_VERSION=v1.65.0
-          context: .
-          file: ./Dockerfile
-          cache-to: type=gha,ignore-error=true
-          cache-from: type=gha
-          target: grpc
-          platforms: ${{ matrix.platforms }}
-          push: false

.github/workflows/generate_intel_image.yaml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         include:
-          - base-image: intel/oneapi-basekit:2025.3.0-0-devel-ubuntu24.04
+          - base-image: intel/oneapi-basekit:2025.3.2-0-devel-ubuntu24.04
             runs-on: 'arc-runner-set'
             platforms: 'linux/amd64'
     runs-on: ${{matrix.runs-on}}

.github/workflows/gh-pages.yml

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
           hugo --minify --baseURL "${{ steps.pages.outputs.base_url }}/"
 
       - name: Upload artifact
-        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v5
         with:
           path: docs/public
 

.github/workflows/image-pr.yml

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
         platforms: ${{ matrix.platforms }}
         runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
         base-image: ${{ matrix.base-image }}
-        grpc-base-image: ${{ matrix.grpc-base-image }}
         makeflags: ${{ matrix.makeflags }}
         ubuntu-version: ${{ matrix.ubuntu-version }}
       secrets:
@@ -59,16 +58,14 @@
               platforms: 'linux/amd64'
               tag-latest: 'false'
               tag-suffix: '-hipblas'
-              base-image: "rocm/dev-ubuntu-24.04:6.4.4"
-              grpc-base-image: "ubuntu:24.04"
+              base-image: "rocm/dev-ubuntu-24.04:7.2.1"
               runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'
               makeflags: "--jobs=3 --output-sync=target"
               ubuntu-version: '2404'
             - build-type: 'sycl'
               platforms: 'linux/amd64'
               tag-latest: 'false'
-              base-image: "intel/oneapi-basekit:2025.3.0-0-devel-ubuntu24.04"
-              grpc-base-image: "ubuntu:24.04"
+              base-image: "intel/oneapi-basekit:2025.3.2-0-devel-ubuntu24.04"
               tag-suffix: 'sycl'
               runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'
               makeflags: "--jobs=3 --output-sync=target"

.github/workflows/image.yml

@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
         platforms: ${{ matrix.platforms }}
         runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
         base-image: ${{ matrix.base-image }}
-        grpc-base-image: ${{ matrix.grpc-base-image }}
         makeflags: ${{ matrix.makeflags }}
         ubuntu-version: ${{ matrix.ubuntu-version }}
         ubuntu-codename: ${{ matrix.ubuntu-codename }}
@@ -41,13 +40,12 @@
               platforms: 'linux/amd64'
               tag-latest: 'auto'
               tag-suffix: '-gpu-hipblas'
-              base-image: "rocm/dev-ubuntu-24.04:6.4.4"
-              grpc-base-image: "ubuntu:24.04"
+              base-image: "rocm/dev-ubuntu-24.04:7.2.1"
               runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'
               makeflags: "--jobs=3 --output-sync=target"
               ubuntu-version: '2404'
               ubuntu-codename: 'noble'
-  
+
     core-image-build:
       if: github.repository == 'mudler/LocalAI'
       uses: ./.github/workflows/image_build.yml
@@ -60,7 +58,6 @@
         platforms: ${{ matrix.platforms }}
         runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
         base-image: ${{ matrix.base-image }}
-        grpc-base-image: ${{ matrix.grpc-base-image }}
         makeflags: ${{ matrix.makeflags }}
         skip-drivers: ${{ matrix.skip-drivers }}
         ubuntu-version: ${{ matrix.ubuntu-version }}
@@ -121,8 +118,7 @@
             - build-type: 'intel'
               platforms: 'linux/amd64'
               tag-latest: 'auto'
-              base-image: "intel/oneapi-basekit:2025.3.0-0-devel-ubuntu24.04"
-              grpc-base-image: "ubuntu:24.04"
+              base-image: "intel/oneapi-basekit:2025.3.2-0-devel-ubuntu24.04"
               tag-suffix: '-gpu-intel'
               runs-on: 'ubuntu-latest'
               makeflags: "--jobs=3 --output-sync=target"
@@ -141,7 +137,6 @@
         platforms: ${{ matrix.platforms }}
         runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
         base-image: ${{ matrix.base-image }}
-        grpc-base-image: ${{ matrix.grpc-base-image }}
         makeflags: ${{ matrix.makeflags }}
         skip-drivers: ${{ matrix.skip-drivers }}
         ubuntu-version: ${{ matrix.ubuntu-version }}

.github/workflows/image_build.yml

@@ -8,11 +8,6 @@ on:
         description: 'Base image'
         required: true
         type: string
-      grpc-base-image:
-        description: 'GRPC Base image, must be a compatible image with base-image'
-        required: false
-        default: ''
-        type: string
       build-type:
         description: 'Build type'
         default: ''
@@ -75,6 +70,13 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ${{ inputs.runs-on }}
     steps:
 
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Configure apt mirror on runner
+        id: apt_mirror
+        uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror
+
       - name: Free Disk Space (Ubuntu)
         if: inputs.runs-on == 'ubuntu-latest'
         uses: jlumbroso/free-disk-space@main
@@ -90,16 +92,6 @@ jobs:
           large-packages: true
           docker-images: true
           swap-storage: true
-      - name: Force Install GIT latest
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update \
-          && sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common \
-          && sudo apt-get update \
-          && sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:git-core/ppa \
-          && sudo apt-get update \
-          && sudo apt-get install -y git
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
 
       - name: Release space from worker
         if: inputs.runs-on == 'ubuntu-latest'
@@ -201,25 +193,21 @@ jobs:
         if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
         with:
           builder: ${{ steps.buildx.outputs.name }}
-          # The build-args MUST be an EXACT match between the image cache and other workflow steps that want to use that cache.
-          # This means that even the MAKEFLAGS have to be an EXACT match.
-          # If the build-args are not an EXACT match, it will result in a cache miss, which will require GRPC to be built from scratch.
-          # This is why some build args like GRPC_VERSION and MAKEFLAGS are hardcoded
           build-args: |
             BUILD_TYPE=${{ inputs.build-type }}
             CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=${{ inputs.cuda-major-version }}
             CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=${{ inputs.cuda-minor-version }}
             BASE_IMAGE=${{ inputs.base-image }}
-            GRPC_BASE_IMAGE=${{ inputs.grpc-base-image || inputs.base-image }}
-            GRPC_MAKEFLAGS=--jobs=4 --output-sync=target
-            GRPC_VERSION=v1.65.0
             MAKEFLAGS=${{ inputs.makeflags }}
             SKIP_DRIVERS=${{ inputs.skip-drivers }}
             UBUNTU_VERSION=${{ inputs.ubuntu-version }}
             UBUNTU_CODENAME=${{ inputs.ubuntu-codename }}
+            APT_MIRROR=${{ steps.apt_mirror.outputs.effective-mirror }}
+            APT_PORTS_MIRROR=${{ steps.apt_mirror.outputs.effective-ports-mirror }}
           context: .
           file: ./Dockerfile
-          cache-from: type=gha
+          cache-from: type=registry,ref=quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:cache-localai${{ inputs.tag-suffix }}
+          cache-to: type=registry,ref=quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:cache-localai${{ inputs.tag-suffix }},mode=max,ignore-error=true
           platforms: ${{ inputs.platforms }}
           push: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
           tags: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.tags }}
@@ -230,25 +218,20 @@ jobs:
         if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
         with:
           builder: ${{ steps.buildx.outputs.name }}
-          # The build-args MUST be an EXACT match between the image cache and other workflow steps that want to use that cache.
-          # This means that even the MAKEFLAGS have to be an EXACT match.
-          # If the build-args are not an EXACT match, it will result in a cache miss, which will require GRPC to be built from scratch.
-          # This is why some build args like GRPC_VERSION and MAKEFLAGS are hardcoded
           build-args: |
             BUILD_TYPE=${{ inputs.build-type }}
             CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=${{ inputs.cuda-major-version }}
             CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=${{ inputs.cuda-minor-version }}
             BASE_IMAGE=${{ inputs.base-image }}
-            GRPC_BASE_IMAGE=${{ inputs.grpc-base-image || inputs.base-image }}
-            GRPC_MAKEFLAGS=--jobs=4 --output-sync=target
-            GRPC_VERSION=v1.65.0
             MAKEFLAGS=${{ inputs.makeflags }}
             SKIP_DRIVERS=${{ inputs.skip-drivers }}
             UBUNTU_VERSION=${{ inputs.ubuntu-version }}
             UBUNTU_CODENAME=${{ inputs.ubuntu-codename }}
+            APT_MIRROR=${{ steps.apt_mirror.outputs.effective-mirror }}
+            APT_PORTS_MIRROR=${{ steps.apt_mirror.outputs.effective-ports-mirror }}
           context: .
           file: ./Dockerfile
-          cache-from: type=gha
+          cache-from: type=registry,ref=quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache:cache-localai${{ inputs.tag-suffix }}
           platforms: ${{ inputs.platforms }}
           #push: true
           tags: ${{ steps.meta_pull_request.outputs.tags }}

.github/workflows/lint.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+---
+name: 'lint'
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths-ignore:
+      - 'docs/**'
+      - 'examples/**'
+      - 'README.md'
+      - '**/*.md'
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ci-lint-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}-${{ github.repository }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  golangci-lint:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          # Full history so golangci-lint's new-from-merge-base can reach
+          # origin/master and compute the diff against it.
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.26.x'
+          cache: false
+      - name: install golangci-lint
+        run: |
+          curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golangci/golangci-lint/master/install.sh \
+            | sh -s -- -b "$(go env GOPATH)/bin" v2.11.4
+      - name: generate grpc proto sources
+        # pkg/grpc/proto/*.go is generated, not checked in. Several packages
+        # import it, so without this step typecheck fails project-wide.
+        run: make protogen-go
+      - name: stub react-ui dist for go:embed
+        # core/http/app.go has //go:embed react-ui/dist/*; the glob needs at
+        # least one non-hidden entry to satisfy typecheck. We don't run
+        # `make react-ui` here because lint doesn't need the real bundle.
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p core/http/react-ui/dist
+          touch core/http/react-ui/dist/index.html
+      - name: lint
+        run: make lint

.github/workflows/release.yaml

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           make build-launcher-darwin
       - name: Upload DMG to Release
-        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v3
         with:
           files: ./dist/LocalAI.dmg
   launcher-build-linux:
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Configure apt mirror on runner
+        uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror
       - name: Set up Go
         uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:
@@ -59,6 +61,6 @@ jobs:
           sudo apt-get install golang gcc libgl1-mesa-dev xorg-dev libxkbcommon-dev
           make build-launcher-linux
       - name: Upload Linux launcher artifacts
-        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v3
         with:
           files: ./local-ai-launcher-linux.tar.xz

.github/workflows/test-extra.yml

@@ -29,8 +29,20 @@ jobs:
       nemo: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.nemo }}
       voxcpm: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.voxcpm }}
       llama-cpp-quantization: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.llama-cpp-quantization }}
+      llama-cpp: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.llama-cpp }}
+      ik-llama-cpp: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.ik-llama-cpp }}
+      turboquant: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.turboquant }}
+      vllm: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.vllm }}
+      sglang: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.sglang }}
       acestep-cpp: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.acestep-cpp }}
+      qwen3-tts-cpp: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.qwen3-tts-cpp }}
+      vibevoice-cpp: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.vibevoice-cpp }}
+      localvqe: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.localvqe }}
       voxtral: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.voxtral }}
+      kokoros: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.kokoros }}
+      insightface: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.insightface }}
+      speaker-recognition: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.speaker-recognition }}
+      sherpa-onnx: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.sherpa-onnx }}
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
@@ -463,6 +475,261 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test llama-cpp-quantization
         run: |
           make --jobs=5 --output-sync=target -C backend/python/llama-cpp-quantization test
+  tests-llama-cpp-grpc:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.llama-cpp == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.25.4'
+      - name: Build llama-cpp backend image and run gRPC e2e tests
+        run: |
+          make test-extra-backend-llama-cpp
+  tests-llama-cpp-grpc-transcription:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.llama-cpp == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.25.4'
+      - name: Build llama-cpp backend image and run audio transcription gRPC e2e tests
+        run: |
+          make test-extra-backend-llama-cpp-transcription
+  # PR-acceptance smoke gate: always runs on every PR (no detect-changes gate, no
+  # paths filter). Pulls the pre-built master CPU llama-cpp image from quay
+  # instead of building from source, so the cost is a docker pull (~30s) plus the
+  # short Qwen3-0.6B model download. Exercises the full gRPC surface — health,
+  # load, predict, stream — plus the logprobs/logit_bias specs that moved out of
+  # core/http/app_test.go. Anything heavier or per-backend is gated to the
+  # detect-changes path-filter above.
+  tests-llama-cpp-smoke:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 20
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.25.4'
+      - name: Pull pre-built llama-cpp backend image
+        run: docker pull quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:master-cpu-llama-cpp
+      - name: Run e2e-backends smoke
+        env:
+          BACKEND_IMAGE: quay.io/go-skynet/local-ai-backends:master-cpu-llama-cpp
+          BACKEND_TEST_CAPS: health,load,predict,stream,logprobs,logit_bias
+        run: |
+          make test-extra-backend
+  # Realtime e2e with sherpa-onnx driving VAD + STT + TTS against a mocked LLM.
+  # Builds the sherpa-onnx Docker image, extracts the rootfs so the e2e suite
+  # can discover the backend binary + shared libs, downloads the three model
+  # bundles (silero-vad, omnilingual-asr, vits-ljs) and drives the realtime
+  # websocket spec end-to-end.
+  tests-sherpa-onnx-realtime:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.sherpa-onnx == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.25.4'
+      - name: Setup Node.js
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
+        with:
+          node-version: '22'
+      - name: Build sherpa-onnx backend image and run realtime e2e tests
+        run: |
+          make test-extra-e2e-realtime-sherpa
+  # Streaming ASR via the sherpa-onnx online recognizer (zipformer
+  # transducer). Exercises both AudioTranscription (buffered) and
+  # AudioTranscriptionStream (real-time deltas) on the e2e-backends
+  # harness.
+  tests-sherpa-onnx-grpc-transcription:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.sherpa-onnx == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.25.4'
+      - name: Build sherpa-onnx backend image and run streaming ASR gRPC e2e tests
+        run: |
+          make test-extra-backend-sherpa-onnx-transcription
+  # VITS TTS via the sherpa-onnx backend. Drives both TTS (file write) and
+  # TTSStream (PCM chunks) on the e2e-backends harness.
+  tests-sherpa-onnx-grpc-tts:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.sherpa-onnx == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.25.4'
+      - name: Build sherpa-onnx backend image and run TTS gRPC e2e tests
+        run: |
+          make test-extra-backend-sherpa-onnx-tts
+  tests-ik-llama-cpp-grpc:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.ik-llama-cpp == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.25.4'
+      - name: Build ik-llama-cpp backend image and run gRPC e2e tests
+        run: |
+          make test-extra-backend-ik-llama-cpp
+  tests-turboquant-grpc:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.turboquant == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.25.4'
+      # Exercises the turboquant (llama.cpp fork) backend with KV-cache
+      # quantization enabled. The convenience target sets
+      # BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_K / _V=q8_0, which are plumbed into the
+      # ModelOptions.CacheTypeKey/Value gRPC fields. LoadModel-success +
+      # backend stdout/stderr (captured by the Ginkgo suite) prove the
+      # cache-type config path reaches the fork's KV-cache init.
+      - name: Build turboquant backend image and run gRPC e2e tests
+        run: |
+          make test-extra-backend-turboquant
+  # tests-vllm-grpc is currently disabled in CI.
+  #
+  # The prebuilt vllm CPU wheel is compiled with AVX-512 VNNI/BF16
+  # instructions, and neither ubuntu-latest nor the bigger-runner pool
+  # offers a stable CPU baseline that supports them — runners come
+  # back with different hardware between runs and SIGILL on import of
+  # vllm.model_executor.models.registry. Compiling vllm from source
+  # via FROM_SOURCE=true works on any CPU but takes 30-50 minutes per
+  # run, which is too slow for a smoke test.
+  #
+  # The test itself (tests/e2e-backends + make test-extra-backend-vllm)
+  # is fully working and validated locally on a host with the right
+  # SIMD baseline. Run it manually with:
+  #
+  #   make test-extra-backend-vllm
+  #
+  # Re-enable this job once we have a self-hosted runner label with
+  # guaranteed AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 support, or once the vllm project
+  # publishes a CPU wheel with a wider baseline.
+  #
+  # tests-vllm-grpc:
+  #   needs: detect-changes
+  #   if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.vllm == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+  #   runs-on: bigger-runner
+  #   timeout-minutes: 90
+  #   steps:
+  #     - name: Clone
+  #       uses: actions/checkout@v6
+  #       with:
+  #         submodules: true
+  #     - name: Dependencies
+  #       run: |
+  #         sudo apt-get update
+  #         sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+  #             make build-essential curl unzip ca-certificates git tar
+  #     - name: Setup Go
+  #       uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+  #       with:
+  #         go-version: '1.25.4'
+  #     - name: Free disk space
+  #       run: |
+  #         sudo rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet /opt/ghc /usr/local/lib/android /opt/hostedtoolcache/CodeQL || true
+  #         df -h
+  #     - name: Build vllm (cpu) backend image and run gRPC e2e tests
+  #       run: |
+  #         make test-extra-backend-vllm
+  # tests-sglang-grpc is currently disabled in CI for the same reason as
+  # tests-vllm-grpc: sglang's CPU kernel (sgl-kernel) uses __m512 AVX-512
+  # intrinsics unconditionally in shm.cpp, so the from-source build
+  # requires `-march=sapphirerapids` (already set in install.sh) and the
+  # resulting binary SIGILLs at import on CPUs without AVX-512 VNNI/BF16.
+  # The ubuntu-latest runner pool does not guarantee that ISA baseline.
+  #
+  # The test itself (tests/e2e-backends + make test-extra-backend-sglang)
+  # is fully working and validated locally on a host with the right
+  # SIMD baseline. Run it manually with:
+  #
+  #   make test-extra-backend-sglang
+  #
+  # Re-enable this job once we have a self-hosted runner label with
+  # guaranteed AVX-512 VNNI/BF16 support.
+  #
+  # tests-sglang-grpc:
+  #   needs: detect-changes
+  #   if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.sglang == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+  #   runs-on: bigger-runner
+  #   timeout-minutes: 90
+  #   steps:
+  #     - name: Clone
+  #       uses: actions/checkout@v6
+  #       with:
+  #         submodules: true
+  #     - name: Dependencies
+  #       run: |
+  #         sudo apt-get update
+  #         sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+  #             make build-essential curl unzip ca-certificates git tar
+  #     - name: Setup Go
+  #       uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+  #       with:
+  #         go-version: '1.25.4'
+  #     - name: Free disk space
+  #       run: |
+  #         sudo rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet /opt/ghc /usr/local/lib/android /opt/hostedtoolcache/CodeQL || true
+  #         df -h
+  #     - name: Build sglang (cpu) backend image and run gRPC e2e tests
+  #       run: |
+  #         make test-extra-backend-sglang
   tests-acestep-cpp:
     needs: detect-changes
     if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.acestep-cpp == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
@@ -495,6 +762,149 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test acestep-cpp
         run: |
           make --jobs=5 --output-sync=target -C backend/go/acestep-cpp test
+  tests-qwen3-tts-cpp:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.qwen3-tts-cpp == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake curl libopenblas-dev ffmpeg
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+      - name: Display Go version
+        run: go version
+      - name: Proto Dependencies
+        run: |
+          # Install protoc
+          curl -L -s https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v26.1/protoc-26.1-linux-x86_64.zip -o protoc.zip && \
+          unzip -j -d /usr/local/bin protoc.zip bin/protoc && \
+          rm protoc.zip
+          go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@v1.34.2
+          go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@1958fcbe2ca8bd93af633f11e97d44e567e945af
+          PATH="$PATH:$HOME/go/bin" make protogen-go
+      - name: Build qwen3-tts-cpp
+        run: |
+          make --jobs=5 --output-sync=target -C backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp
+      - name: Test qwen3-tts-cpp
+        run: |
+          make --jobs=5 --output-sync=target -C backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp test
+  # Per-backend smoke for vibevoice-cpp: builds the .so + Go binary and
+  # runs `make -C backend/go/vibevoice-cpp test`. test.sh auto-downloads
+  # the published mudler/vibevoice.cpp-models bundle (TTS Q8_0 + ASR Q4_K
+  # + tokenizer + voice) and runs the closed-loop TTS → ASR Go test.
+  tests-vibevoice-cpp:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.vibevoice-cpp == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake curl libopenblas-dev ffmpeg
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+      - name: Display Go version
+        run: go version
+      - name: Proto Dependencies
+        run: |
+          curl -L -s https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v26.1/protoc-26.1-linux-x86_64.zip -o protoc.zip && \
+          unzip -j -d /usr/local/bin protoc.zip bin/protoc && \
+          rm protoc.zip
+          go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@v1.34.2
+          go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@1958fcbe2ca8bd93af633f11e97d44e567e945af
+          PATH="$PATH:$HOME/go/bin" make protogen-go
+      - name: Build vibevoice-cpp
+        run: |
+          make --jobs=5 --output-sync=target -C backend/go/vibevoice-cpp
+      - name: Test vibevoice-cpp
+        run: |
+          make --jobs=5 --output-sync=target -C backend/go/vibevoice-cpp test
+  # End-to-end TTS via the e2e-backends gRPC harness. Builds the
+  # vibevoice-cpp Docker image and drives Backend/TTS against it with a
+  # real LocalAI gRPC client.
+  tests-vibevoice-cpp-grpc-tts:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.vibevoice-cpp == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.25.4'
+      - name: Build vibevoice-cpp backend image and run TTS gRPC e2e tests
+        run: |
+          make test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-tts
+  # End-to-end transcription via the e2e-backends gRPC harness. The
+  # vibevoice ASR is a 7B-param model (Q4_K weights ~10 GB on disk)
+  # and the JFK 30 s decode is too heavy for a free 4-core
+  # ubuntu-latest pool runner - two CI attempts got SIGTERM'd during
+  # LoadModel, before the test could even progress. Use the
+  # self-hosted 'bigger-runner' label (same one the GPU image builds
+  # in backend.yml use) and the documented dotnet/ghc/android cache
+  # purge to clear ~10-20 GB of headroom for the model + Docker
+  # image + working dir.
+  tests-vibevoice-cpp-grpc-transcription:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.vibevoice-cpp == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+    runs-on: bigger-runner
+    timeout-minutes: 150
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+              make build-essential curl unzip ca-certificates git tar
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.25.4'
+      - name: Free disk space
+        run: |
+          sudo rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet /opt/ghc /usr/local/lib/android /opt/hostedtoolcache/CodeQL || true
+          df -h
+      - name: Build vibevoice-cpp backend image and run ASR gRPC e2e tests
+        run: |
+          make test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-transcription
+  # End-to-end audio transform via the e2e-backends gRPC harness. The
+  # LocalVQE GGUF is small (~5 MB) and the model is real-time on CPU, so
+  # the default ubuntu-latest pool is plenty.
+  tests-localvqe-grpc-transform:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.localvqe == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.25.4'
+      - name: Build localvqe backend image and run audio_transform gRPC e2e tests
+        run: |
+          make test-extra-backend-localvqe-transform
   tests-voxtral:
     needs: detect-changes
     if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.voxtral == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
@@ -528,3 +938,77 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test voxtral
         run: |
           make --jobs=5 --output-sync=target -C backend/go/voxtral test
+  tests-kokoros:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.kokoros == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y build-essential cmake pkg-config protobuf-compiler clang libclang-dev
+          sudo apt-get install -y espeak-ng libespeak-ng-dev libsonic-dev libpcaudio-dev libopus-dev libssl-dev
+          curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
+          echo "$HOME/.cargo/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+      - name: Build kokoros
+        run: |
+          make -C backend/rust/kokoros kokoros-grpc
+      - name: Test kokoros
+        run: |
+          make -C backend/rust/kokoros test
+  tests-insightface-grpc:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.insightface == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+              make build-essential curl unzip ca-certificates git tar
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.26.0'
+      - name: Free disk space
+        run: |
+          sudo rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet /opt/ghc /usr/local/lib/android /opt/hostedtoolcache/CodeQL || true
+          df -h
+      - name: Build insightface backend image and run both model configurations
+        run: |
+          make test-extra-backend-insightface-all
+  tests-speaker-recognition-grpc:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.speaker-recognition == 'true' || needs.detect-changes.outputs.run-all == 'true'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+              make build-essential curl ca-certificates git tar
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: '1.26.0'
+      - name: Free disk space
+        run: |
+          sudo rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet /opt/ghc /usr/local/lib/android /opt/hostedtoolcache/CodeQL || true
+          df -h
+      - name: Build speaker-recognition backend image and run the ECAPA-TDNN configuration
+        run: |
+          make test-extra-backend-speaker-recognition-all

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -3,15 +3,18 @@ name: 'tests'
 
 on:
   pull_request:
+    paths-ignore:
+      - 'docs/**'
+      - 'examples/**'
+      - 'README.md'
+      - '**/*.md'
+      - 'backend/**'
   push:
     branches:
       - master
     tags:
       - '*'
 
-env:
-  GRPC_VERSION: v1.65.0
-
 concurrency:
   group: ci-tests-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}-${{ github.repository }}
   cancel-in-progress: true
@@ -100,73 +103,9 @@ jobs:
           node-version: '22'
       - name: Build React UI
         run: make react-ui
-      - name: Build backends
-        run: |
-          make backends/transformers
-          mkdir external && mv backends/transformers external/transformers
-          make backends/llama-cpp backends/local-store backends/silero-vad backends/piper backends/whisper backends/stablediffusion-ggml
       - name: Test
         run: |
-          TRANSFORMER_BACKEND=$PWD/external/transformers/run.sh PATH="$PATH:/root/go/bin" GO_TAGS="tts" make --jobs 5 --output-sync=target test
-      - name: Setup tmate session if tests fail
-        if: ${{ failure() }}
-        uses: mxschmitt/action-tmate@v3.23
-        with:
-          detached: true
-          connect-timeout-seconds: 180
-          limit-access-to-actor: true
-
-  tests-e2e-container:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Release space from worker
-        run: |
-          echo "Listing top largest packages"
-          pkgs=$(dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\t${Status}\n' | awk '$NF == "installed"{print $1 "\t" $2}' | sort -nr)
-          head -n 30 <<< "${pkgs}"
-          echo
-          df -h
-          echo
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^llvm-.*|^libllvm.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove android-sdk-platform-tools || true
-          sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove android-sdk-platform-tools || true
-          sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/android
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^dotnet-.*|^aspnetcore-.*' || true
-          sudo rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^mono-.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^ghc-.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '.*jdk.*|.*jre.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y 'php.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y hhvm powershell firefox monodoc-manual msbuild || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^google-.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y azure-cli || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^mongo.*-.*|^postgresql-.*|^mysql-.*|^mssql-.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get remove -y '^gfortran-.*' || true
-          sudo apt-get autoremove -y
-          sudo apt-get clean
-          echo
-          echo "Listing top largest packages"
-          pkgs=$(dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\t${Status}\n' | awk '$NF == "installed"{print $1 "\t" $2}' | sort -nr)
-          head -n 30 <<< "${pkgs}"
-          echo
-          sudo rm -rfv build || true
-          df -h
-      - name: Clone
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          submodules: true
-      - name: Dependencies
-        run: |
-          # Install protoc
-          curl -L -s https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v26.1/protoc-26.1-linux-x86_64.zip -o protoc.zip && \
-          unzip -j -d /usr/local/bin protoc.zip bin/protoc && \
-          rm protoc.zip
-          go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@v1.34.2
-          go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@1958fcbe2ca8bd93af633f11e97d44e567e945af
-          PATH="$PATH:$HOME/go/bin" make protogen-go
-      - name: Test
-        run: |
-            PATH="$PATH:$HOME/go/bin" make backends/local-store backends/silero-vad backends/llama-cpp backends/whisper backends/piper backends/stablediffusion-ggml docker-build-e2e e2e-aio
+          PATH="$PATH:/root/go/bin" make --jobs 5 --output-sync=target test
       - name: Setup tmate session if tests fail
         if: ${{ failure() }}
         uses: mxschmitt/action-tmate@v3.23
@@ -195,7 +134,7 @@ jobs:
         run: go version
       - name: Dependencies
         run: |
-          brew install protobuf grpc make protoc-gen-go protoc-gen-go-grpc libomp llvm opus
+          brew install protobuf grpc make protoc-gen-go protoc-gen-go-grpc libomp llvm opus ffmpeg
           pip install --user --no-cache-dir grpcio-tools grpcio
       - name: Setup Node.js
         uses: actions/setup-node@v6
@@ -203,10 +142,6 @@ jobs:
           node-version: '22'
       - name: Build React UI
         run: make react-ui
-      - name: Build llama-cpp-darwin
-        run: |
-          make protogen-go
-          make backends/llama-cpp-darwin
       - name: Test
         run: |
           export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/include

.github/workflows/tests-aio.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+---
+name: 'tests-aio'
+
+# Runs the all-in-one (AIO) Docker image with real backends + real models.
+# Heavy: builds llama-cpp/whisper/piper/silero-vad/stablediffusion-ggml/local-store
+# and exercises end-to-end inference inside the container. Moved out of test.yml
+# (which used to run on every PR) so PR CI no longer pays this cost.
+#
+# Triggers:
+#   - schedule (nightly @ 04:00 UTC) — catches packaging/image regressions within 24h
+#   - workflow_dispatch — manual run on-demand
+#   - push to master/tags — sanity check after merge / before release
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 4 * * *'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+    tags:
+      - '*'
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ci-tests-aio-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}-${{ github.repository }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  tests-aio:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Release space from worker
+        run: |
+          echo "Listing top largest packages"
+          pkgs=$(dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\t${Status}\n' | awk '$NF == "installed"{print $1 "\t" $2}' | sort -nr)
+          head -n 30 <<< "${pkgs}"
+          echo
+          df -h
+          echo
+          sudo apt-get remove -y '^llvm-.*|^libllvm.*' || true
+          sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove android-sdk-platform-tools || true
+          sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove android-sdk-platform-tools || true
+          sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/android
+          sudo apt-get remove -y '^dotnet-.*|^aspnetcore-.*' || true
+          sudo rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet
+          sudo apt-get remove -y '^mono-.*' || true
+          sudo apt-get remove -y '^ghc-.*' || true
+          sudo apt-get remove -y '.*jdk.*|.*jre.*' || true
+          sudo apt-get remove -y 'php.*' || true
+          sudo apt-get remove -y hhvm powershell firefox monodoc-manual msbuild || true
+          sudo apt-get remove -y '^google-.*' || true
+          sudo apt-get remove -y azure-cli || true
+          sudo apt-get remove -y '^mongo.*-.*|^postgresql-.*|^mysql-.*|^mssql-.*' || true
+          sudo apt-get remove -y '^gfortran-.*' || true
+          sudo apt-get autoremove -y
+          sudo apt-get clean
+          echo
+          echo "Listing top largest packages"
+          pkgs=$(dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\t${Status}\n' | awk '$NF == "installed"{print $1 "\t" $2}' | sort -nr)
+          head -n 30 <<< "${pkgs}"
+          echo
+          sudo rm -rfv build || true
+          df -h
+      - name: Clone
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+      - name: Dependencies
+        run: |
+          # Install protoc
+          curl -L -s https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v26.1/protoc-26.1-linux-x86_64.zip -o protoc.zip && \
+          unzip -j -d /usr/local/bin protoc.zip bin/protoc && \
+          rm protoc.zip
+          go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@v1.34.2
+          go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@1958fcbe2ca8bd93af633f11e97d44e567e945af
+          PATH="$PATH:$HOME/go/bin" make protogen-go
+      - name: Test
+        run: |
+            PATH="$PATH:$HOME/go/bin" make backends/local-store backends/silero-vad backends/llama-cpp backends/whisper backends/piper backends/stablediffusion-ggml docker-build-e2e e2e-aio
+      - name: Setup tmate session if tests fail
+        if: ${{ failure() }}
+        uses: mxschmitt/action-tmate@v3.23
+        with:
+          detached: true
+          connect-timeout-seconds: 180
+          limit-access-to-actor: true

.github/workflows/tests-e2e.yml

@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ name: 'E2E Backend Tests'
 
 on:
   pull_request:
+    paths-ignore:
+      - 'docs/**'
+      - 'examples/**'
+      - 'README.md'
+      - '**/*.md'
+      - 'backend/**'
   push:
     branches:
       - master
@@ -24,6 +30,8 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           submodules: true
+      - name: Configure apt mirror on runner
+        uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror
       - name: Setup Go ${{ matrix.go-version }}
         uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:

.github/workflows/tests-ui-e2e.yml

@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           submodules: true
+      - name: Configure apt mirror on runner
+        uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror
       - name: Setup Go ${{ matrix.go-version }}
         uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:

.github/workflows/update_swagger.yaml

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - name: Configure apt mirror on runner
+        uses: ./.github/actions/configure-apt-mirror
       - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:
           go-version: 'stable'

.gitmodules

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "docs/themes/hugo-theme-relearn"]
 	path = docs/themes/hugo-theme-relearn
 	url = https://github.com/McShelby/hugo-theme-relearn.git
+[submodule "backend/rust/kokoros/sources/Kokoros"]
+	path = backend/rust/kokoros/sources/Kokoros
+	url = https://github.com/lucasjinreal/Kokoros

.golangci.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+version: "2"
+
+# Only issues introduced relative to master are reported. Pre-existing issues
+# in the codebase do not fail the lint job; they're treated as a baseline that
+# can be cleaned up incrementally. New code (added lines on a branch) is held
+# to the full linter set. Locally, `make lint-all` overrides this and reports
+# every issue.
+issues:
+  # origin/master because in shallow CI checkouts only the remote-tracking
+  # branch exists; a bare 'master' ref isn't reachable locally.
+  new-from-merge-base: origin/master
+
+linters:
+  default: standard
+  # staticcheck is noisy on this codebase (mostly QF style suggestions like
+  # "could use tagged switch" or "unnecessary fmt.Sprintf"). Re-enable
+  # selectively if a high-signal subset is identified.
+  disable:
+    - staticcheck
+  enable:
+    - forbidigo
+  settings:
+    forbidigo:
+      forbid:
+        - pattern: '^t\.Errorf$'
+          msg: 'LocalAI tests must use Ginkgo/Gomega; use Expect(...).To(...) instead of t.Errorf. See .agents/coding-style.md.'
+        - pattern: '^t\.Error$'
+          msg: 'LocalAI tests must use Ginkgo/Gomega; use Expect(...).To(...) instead of t.Error. See .agents/coding-style.md.'
+        - pattern: '^t\.Fatalf$'
+          msg: 'LocalAI tests must use Ginkgo/Gomega; use Expect(...).To(Succeed()) / Fail(...) instead of t.Fatalf. See .agents/coding-style.md.'
+        - pattern: '^t\.Fatal$'
+          msg: 'LocalAI tests must use Ginkgo/Gomega; use Expect(...).To(Succeed()) / Fail(...) instead of t.Fatal. See .agents/coding-style.md.'
+        - pattern: '^t\.Run$'
+          msg: 'LocalAI tests must use Ginkgo/Gomega; use Describe/Context/It instead of t.Run. See .agents/coding-style.md.'
+        - pattern: '^t\.Skip$'
+          msg: 'LocalAI tests must use Ginkgo/Gomega; use Skip(...) instead of t.Skip. See .agents/coding-style.md.'
+        - pattern: '^t\.Skipf$'
+          msg: 'LocalAI tests must use Ginkgo/Gomega; use Skip(...) instead of t.Skipf. See .agents/coding-style.md.'
+        - pattern: '^t\.SkipNow$'
+          msg: 'LocalAI tests must use Ginkgo/Gomega; use Skip(...) instead of t.SkipNow. See .agents/coding-style.md.'
+        - pattern: '^t\.Logf$'
+          msg: 'LocalAI tests must use Ginkgo/Gomega; use GinkgoWriter / fmt.Fprintf(GinkgoWriter, ...) instead of t.Logf. See .agents/coding-style.md.'
+        - pattern: '^t\.Log$'
+          msg: 'LocalAI tests must use Ginkgo/Gomega; use GinkgoWriter / fmt.Fprintln(GinkgoWriter, ...) instead of t.Log. See .agents/coding-style.md.'
+        - pattern: '^t\.Fail$'
+          msg: 'LocalAI tests must use Ginkgo/Gomega; use Fail(...) instead of t.Fail. See .agents/coding-style.md.'
+        - pattern: '^t\.FailNow$'
+          msg: 'LocalAI tests must use Ginkgo/Gomega; use Fail(...) instead of t.FailNow. See .agents/coding-style.md.'
+  exclusions:
+    paths:
+      # Upstream whisper.cpp source tree fetched by the whisper backend Makefile.
+      - 'backend/go/whisper/sources'
+      - 'docs/'

AGENTS.md

@@ -1,18 +1,34 @@
 # LocalAI Agent Instructions
 
-This file is an index to detailed topic guides in the `.agents/` directory. Read the relevant file(s) for the task at hand — you don't need to load all of them.
+This file is the entry point for AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Aider, etc.) working on LocalAI. It is an index to detailed topic guides in the `.agents/` directory. Read the relevant file(s) for the task at hand — you don't need to load all of them.
+
+Human contributors: see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for the development workflow.
+
+## Policy for AI-Assisted Contributions
+
+LocalAI follows the Linux kernel project's [guidelines for AI coding assistants](https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html). Before submitting AI-assisted code, read [.agents/ai-coding-assistants.md](.agents/ai-coding-assistants.md). Key rules:
+
+- **No `Signed-off-by` from AI.** Only the human submitter may sign off on the Developer Certificate of Origin.
+- **No `Co-Authored-By: <AI>` trailers.** The human contributor owns the change.
+- **Use an `Assisted-by:` trailer** to attribute AI involvement. Format: `Assisted-by: AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION [TOOL1] [TOOL2]`.
+- **The human submitter is responsible** for reviewing, testing, and understanding every line of generated code.
 
 ## Topics
 
 | File | When to read |
 |------|-------------|
+| [.agents/ai-coding-assistants.md](.agents/ai-coding-assistants.md) | Policy for AI-assisted contributions — licensing, DCO, attribution |
 | [.agents/building-and-testing.md](.agents/building-and-testing.md) | Building the project, running tests, Docker builds for specific platforms |
-| [.agents/adding-backends.md](.agents/adding-backends.md) | Adding a new backend (Python, Go, or C++) — full step-by-step checklist |
+| [.agents/ci-caching.md](.agents/ci-caching.md) | CI build cache layout (registry-backed BuildKit cache on quay.io/go-skynet/ci-cache), `DEPS_REFRESH` weekly cache-buster for unpinned Python deps, manual eviction |
+| [.agents/adding-backends.md](.agents/adding-backends.md) | Adding a new backend (Python, Go, or C++) — full step-by-step checklist, including importer integration (the `/import-model` dropdown is server-driven from `GET /backends/known`) |
 | [.agents/coding-style.md](.agents/coding-style.md) | Code style, editorconfig, logging, documentation conventions |
 | [.agents/llama-cpp-backend.md](.agents/llama-cpp-backend.md) | Working on the llama.cpp backend — architecture, updating, tool call parsing |
+| [.agents/vllm-backend.md](.agents/vllm-backend.md) | Working on the vLLM / vLLM-omni backends — native parsers, ChatDelta, CPU build, libnuma packaging, backend hooks |
 | [.agents/testing-mcp-apps.md](.agents/testing-mcp-apps.md) | Testing MCP Apps (interactive tool UIs) in the React UI |
 | [.agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md](.agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md) | Adding API endpoints, auth middleware, feature permissions, user access control |
 | [.agents/debugging-backends.md](.agents/debugging-backends.md) | Debugging runtime backend failures, dependency conflicts, rebuilding backends |
+| [.agents/adding-gallery-models.md](.agents/adding-gallery-models.md) | Adding GGUF models from HuggingFace to the model gallery |
+| [.agents/localai-assistant-mcp.md](.agents/localai-assistant-mcp.md) | LocalAI Assistant chat modality — adding admin tools to the in-process MCP server, editing skill prompts, keeping REST + MCP + skills in sync |
 
 ## Quick Reference
 
@@ -20,5 +36,7 @@ This file is an index to detailed topic guides in the `.agents/` directory. Read
 - **Go style**: Prefer `any` over `interface{}`
 - **Comments**: Explain *why*, not *what*
 - **Docs**: Update `docs/content/` when adding features or changing config
+- **New API endpoints**: LocalAI advertises its capability surface in several independent places — swagger `@Tags`, `/api/instructions` registry, auth `RouteFeatureRegistry`, React UI `capabilities.js`, docs. Read [.agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md](.agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md) and follow its checklist — missing any surface means clients, admins, and the UI won't know the endpoint exists.
+- **Admin endpoints → MCP tool**: every admin endpoint that an admin would manage conversationally (install/list/edit/toggle/upgrade) MUST also be exposed as an MCP tool in `pkg/mcp/localaitools/`. The LocalAI Assistant chat modality and the standalone `local-ai mcp-server` consume that package; drift between REST and MCP is a real risk. Read [.agents/localai-assistant-mcp.md](.agents/localai-assistant-mcp.md) — the `TestToolHTTPRouteMappingComplete` test fails until you wire the new tool and update the route map.
 - **Build**: Inspect `Makefile` and `.github/workflows/` — ask the user before running long builds
 - **UI**: The active UI is the React app in `core/http/react-ui/`. The older Alpine.js/HTML UI in `core/http/static/` is pending deprecation — all new UI work goes in the React UI

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Thank you for your interest in contributing to LocalAI! We appreciate your time
   - [Development Workflow](#development-workflow)
   - [Creating a Pull Request (PR)](#creating-a-pull-request-pr)
 - [Coding Guidelines](#coding-guidelines)
+- [AI Coding Assistants](#ai-coding-assistants)
 - [Testing](#testing)
 - [Documentation](#documentation)
 - [Community and Communication](#community-and-communication)
@@ -185,7 +186,7 @@ Before jumping into a PR for a massive feature or big change, it is preferred to
 
 This project uses an [`.editorconfig`](.editorconfig) file to define formatting standards (indentation, line endings, charset, etc.). Please configure your editor to respect it.
 
-For AI-assisted development, see [`CLAUDE.md`](CLAUDE.md) for agent-specific guidelines including build instructions and backend architecture details.
+For AI-assisted development, see [`AGENTS.md`](AGENTS.md) (or the equivalent [`CLAUDE.md`](CLAUDE.md) symlink) for agent-specific guidelines including build instructions and backend architecture details. Contributions produced with AI assistance must follow the rules in the [AI Coding Assistants](#ai-coding-assistants) section below.
 
 ### General Principles
 
@@ -211,6 +212,26 @@ For AI-assisted development, see [`CLAUDE.md`](CLAUDE.md) for agent-specific gui
 - Reviewers will check for correctness, test coverage, adherence to these guidelines, and clarity of intent.
 - Be responsive to review feedback and keep discussions constructive.
 
+## AI Coding Assistants
+
+LocalAI follows the **same guidelines as the Linux kernel project** for AI-assisted contributions: <https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html>.
+
+The full policy for this repository lives in [`.agents/ai-coding-assistants.md`](.agents/ai-coding-assistants.md). Summary:
+
+- **AI agents MUST NOT add `Signed-off-by` tags.** Only humans can certify the Developer Certificate of Origin.
+- **AI agents MUST NOT add `Co-Authored-By` trailers** attributing themselves as co-authors.
+- **Attribute AI involvement with an `Assisted-by` trailer** in the commit message:
+
+  ```
+  Assisted-by: AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION [TOOL1] [TOOL2]
+  ```
+
+  Example: `Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 golangci-lint`
+
+  Basic development tools (git, go, make, editors) should not be listed.
+- **The human submitter is responsible** for reviewing, testing, and fully understanding every line of AI-generated code — including verifying that any referenced APIs, flags, or file paths actually exist in the tree.
+- Contributions must remain compatible with LocalAI's **MIT License**.
+
 ## Testing
 
 All new features and bug fixes should include test coverage. The project uses [Ginkgo](https://onsi.github.io/ginkgo/) as its test framework.

Dockerfile

@@ -1,13 +1,20 @@
 ARG BASE_IMAGE=ubuntu:24.04
-ARG GRPC_BASE_IMAGE=${BASE_IMAGE}
 ARG INTEL_BASE_IMAGE=${BASE_IMAGE}
 ARG UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble
+# Optional alternate Ubuntu apt mirror(s). Empty = use upstream.
+# See .docker/apt-mirror.sh for accepted values.
+ARG APT_MIRROR=""
+ARG APT_PORTS_MIRROR=""
 
 FROM ${BASE_IMAGE} AS requirements
 
+ARG APT_MIRROR
+ARG APT_PORTS_MIRROR
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
 
-RUN apt-get update && \
+RUN --mount=type=bind,source=.docker/apt-mirror.sh,target=/usr/local/sbin/apt-mirror \
+    APT_MIRROR="${APT_MIRROR}" APT_PORTS_MIRROR="${APT_PORTS_MIRROR}" sh /usr/local/sbin/apt-mirror && \
+    apt-get update && \
     apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
         ca-certificates curl wget espeak-ng libgomp1 \
         ffmpeg libopenblas0 libopenblas-dev libopus0 sox && \
@@ -149,6 +156,7 @@ RUN if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "hipblas" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then
         apt-get update && \
         apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
             hipblas-dev \
+            hipblaslt-dev \
             rocblas-dev && \
         apt-get clean && \
         rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
@@ -240,10 +248,14 @@ WORKDIR /build
 # This is a temporary workaround until Intel fixes their repository
 FROM ${INTEL_BASE_IMAGE} AS intel
 ARG UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble
+ARG APT_MIRROR
+ARG APT_PORTS_MIRROR
 RUN wget -qO - https://repositories.intel.com/gpu/intel-graphics.key | \
 gpg --yes --dearmor --output /usr/share/keyrings/intel-graphics.gpg
 RUN echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/intel-graphics.gpg] https://repositories.intel.com/gpu/ubuntu ${UBUNTU_CODENAME}/lts/2350 unified" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/intel-graphics.list
-RUN apt-get update && \
+RUN --mount=type=bind,source=.docker/apt-mirror.sh,target=/usr/local/sbin/apt-mirror \
+    APT_MIRROR="${APT_MIRROR}" APT_PORTS_MIRROR="${APT_PORTS_MIRROR}" sh /usr/local/sbin/apt-mirror && \
+    apt-get update && \
     apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
         intel-oneapi-runtime-libs && \
     apt-get clean && \

Makefile

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Disable parallel execution for backend builds
-.NOTPARALLEL: backends/diffusers backends/llama-cpp backends/outetts backends/piper backends/stablediffusion-ggml backends/whisper backends/faster-whisper backends/silero-vad backends/local-store backends/huggingface backends/rfdetr backends/kitten-tts backends/kokoro backends/chatterbox backends/llama-cpp-darwin backends/neutts build-darwin-python-backend build-darwin-go-backend backends/mlx backends/diffuser-darwin backends/mlx-vlm backends/mlx-audio backends/mlx-distributed backends/stablediffusion-ggml-darwin backends/vllm backends/vllm-omni backends/moonshine backends/pocket-tts backends/qwen-tts backends/faster-qwen3-tts backends/qwen-asr backends/nemo backends/voxcpm backends/whisperx backends/ace-step backends/acestep-cpp backends/fish-speech backends/voxtral backends/opus backends/trl backends/llama-cpp-quantization
+.NOTPARALLEL: backends/diffusers backends/llama-cpp backends/turboquant backends/outetts backends/piper backends/stablediffusion-ggml backends/whisper backends/faster-whisper backends/silero-vad backends/local-store backends/huggingface backends/rfdetr backends/insightface backends/speaker-recognition backends/kitten-tts backends/kokoro backends/chatterbox backends/llama-cpp-darwin backends/neutts build-darwin-python-backend build-darwin-go-backend backends/mlx backends/diffuser-darwin backends/mlx-vlm backends/mlx-audio backends/mlx-distributed backends/stablediffusion-ggml-darwin backends/vllm backends/vllm-omni backends/sglang backends/moonshine backends/pocket-tts backends/qwen-tts backends/faster-qwen3-tts backends/qwen-asr backends/nemo backends/voxcpm backends/whisperx backends/ace-step backends/acestep-cpp backends/fish-speech backends/voxtral backends/opus backends/trl backends/llama-cpp-quantization backends/kokoros backends/sam3-cpp backends/qwen3-tts-cpp backends/vibevoice-cpp backends/localvqe backends/tinygrad backends/sherpa-onnx
 
 GOCMD=go
 GOTEST=$(GOCMD) test
@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ LAUNCHER_BINARY_NAME=local-ai-launcher
 UBUNTU_VERSION?=2404
 UBUNTU_CODENAME?=noble
 
+# Optional Ubuntu apt mirror overrides forwarded to docker builds.
+# Empty = use upstream archive.ubuntu.com / security.ubuntu.com / ports.ubuntu.com.
+# Set e.g. APT_MIRROR=http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com to route apt traffic
+# during outages of the default Ubuntu pool.
+APT_MIRROR?=
+APT_PORTS_MIRROR?=
+
 GORELEASER?=
 
 export BUILD_TYPE?=
@@ -65,7 +72,7 @@ endif
 TEST_PATHS?=./api/... ./pkg/... ./core/...
 
 
-.PHONY: all test build vendor
+.PHONY: all test build vendor lint lint-all
 
 all: help
 
@@ -85,6 +92,7 @@ clean: ## Remove build related file
 clean-tests:
 	rm -rf test-models
 	rm -rf test-dir
+	rm -f tests/e2e/mock-backend/mock-backend
 
 ## Install Go tools
 install-go-tools:
@@ -143,33 +151,56 @@ osx-signed: build
 run: ## run local-ai
 	CGO_LDFLAGS="$(CGO_LDFLAGS)" $(GOCMD) run ./
 
-test-models/testmodel.ggml:
-	mkdir -p test-models
-	mkdir -p test-dir
-	wget -q https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/gpt2-alpaca-gpt4-GGUF/resolve/main/gpt2-alpaca-gpt4.Q4_K_M.gguf -O test-models/testmodel.ggml
-	wget -q https://huggingface.co/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/resolve/main/ggml-base.en.bin -O test-models/whisper-en
-	wget -q https://huggingface.co/mudler/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/resolve/main/ggml-model-q4_0.bin -O test-models/bert
-	wget -q https://cdn.openai.com/whisper/draft-20220913a/micro-machines.wav -O test-dir/audio.wav
-	cp tests/models_fixtures/* test-models
-
-prepare-test: protogen-go
-	cp tests/models_fixtures/* test-models
+prepare-test: protogen-go build-mock-backend
 
 ########################################################
 ## Tests
 ########################################################
 
 ## Test targets
-test: test-models/testmodel.ggml protogen-go
+## After the test-suite reorg (see plans/test-reorg) the default `make test`
+## no longer downloads multi-GB GGUF/whisper fixtures or builds llama-cpp /
+## transformers / piper / whisper / stablediffusion-ggml. core/http/app_test.go
+## now drives the mock-backend binary built by build-mock-backend; real-backend
+## inference moved into tests/e2e-backends/ (per-backend, path-filtered) and
+## tests/e2e-aio/ (nightly).
+test: prepare-test
 	@echo 'Running tests'
 	export GO_TAGS="debug"
-	$(MAKE) prepare-test
 	OPUS_SHIM_LIBRARY=$(abspath ./pkg/opus/shim/libopusshim.so) \
-	HUGGINGFACE_GRPC=$(abspath ./)/backend/python/transformers/run.sh TEST_DIR=$(abspath ./)/test-dir/ FIXTURES=$(abspath ./)/tests/fixtures CONFIG_FILE=$(abspath ./)/test-models/config.yaml MODELS_PATH=$(abspath ./)/test-models BACKENDS_PATH=$(abspath ./)/backends \
-	$(GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --label-filter="!llama-gguf"  --flake-attempts $(TEST_FLAKES) --fail-fast -v -r $(TEST_PATHS)
-	$(MAKE) test-llama-gguf
-	$(MAKE) test-tts
-	$(MAKE) test-stablediffusion
+	$(GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --flake-attempts $(TEST_FLAKES) --fail-fast -v -r $(TEST_PATHS)
+
+########################################################
+## Lint
+########################################################
+## Runs golangci-lint with config from .golangci.yml. Includes the standard
+## linter set plus forbidigo, which enforces the Ginkgo/Gomega-only test
+## convention documented in .agents/coding-style.md.
+##
+## LINT_EXCLUDE_DIRS_RE matches directories whose Go packages can't typecheck
+## without C/C++ headers we don't install in the lint runner (cgo wrappers
+## around llama.cpp, piper/spdlog, silero-vad/onnxruntime, and Fyne/OpenGL for
+## the launcher). Their compile-time correctness is enforced by their own
+## build pipelines. Keep this as a deny list — `go list ./...` discovers
+## everything else automatically, so new packages are scanned by default.
+LINT_EXCLUDE_DIRS_RE=/(backend/go/(piper|silero-vad|llm)|cmd/launcher)(/|$$)
+
+lint:
+	@command -v golangci-lint >/dev/null 2>&1 || { \
+		echo 'golangci-lint not installed. Install: go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@latest'; \
+		exit 1; \
+	}
+	golangci-lint run $$(go list -e -f '{{.Dir}}' ./... | grep -vE '$(LINT_EXCLUDE_DIRS_RE)')
+
+## Like `lint` but reports every issue, including the pre-existing baseline
+## that `lint` ignores via .golangci.yml's new-from-merge-base. Use this to
+## see what's available to clean up.
+lint-all:
+	@command -v golangci-lint >/dev/null 2>&1 || { \
+		echo 'golangci-lint not installed. Install: go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@latest'; \
+		exit 1; \
+	}
+	golangci-lint run --new=false --new-from-merge-base= --new-from-rev= $$(go list -e -f '{{.Dir}}' ./... | grep -vE '$(LINT_EXCLUDE_DIRS_RE)')
 
 ########################################################
 ## E2E AIO tests (uses standard image with pre-configured models)
@@ -185,6 +216,8 @@ docker-build-e2e:
 		--build-arg CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=$(CUDA_MINOR_VERSION) \
 		--build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=$(UBUNTU_VERSION) \
 		--build-arg UBUNTU_CODENAME=$(UBUNTU_CODENAME) \
+		--build-arg APT_MIRROR=$(APT_MIRROR) \
+		--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR=$(APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
 		--build-arg GO_TAGS="$(GO_TAGS)" \
 		-t local-ai:tests -f Dockerfile .
 
@@ -199,6 +232,20 @@ run-e2e-aio: protogen-go
 	@echo 'Running e2e AIO tests'
 	$(GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --flake-attempts $(TEST_FLAKES) -v -r ./tests/e2e-aio
 
+# vLLM multi-node DP smoke (CPU). Builds local-ai:tests and the
+# cpu-vllm backend from the current working tree, then drives a
+# head + headless follower via testcontainers-go and asserts a chat
+# completion. BuildKit caches both images, so re-runs only rebuild
+# what changed. The test lives under tests/e2e/distributed and is
+# selected by the VLLMMultinode label so it doesn't run alongside
+# the other distributed-suite tests by default.
+test-e2e-vllm-multinode: docker-build-e2e extract-backend-vllm protogen-go
+	@echo 'Running e2e vLLM multi-node DP test'
+	LOCALAI_IMAGE=local-ai \
+	LOCALAI_IMAGE_TAG=tests \
+	LOCALAI_VLLM_BACKEND_DIR=$(abspath ./local-backends/vllm) \
+	$(GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --label-filter='VLLMMultinode' -v -r ./tests/e2e/distributed
+
 ########################################################
 ## E2E tests
 ########################################################
@@ -212,6 +259,8 @@ prepare-e2e:
 		--build-arg CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=$(CUDA_MINOR_VERSION) \
 		--build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=$(UBUNTU_VERSION) \
 		--build-arg UBUNTU_CODENAME=$(UBUNTU_CODENAME) \
+		--build-arg APT_MIRROR=$(APT_MIRROR) \
+		--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR=$(APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
 		--build-arg GO_TAGS="$(GO_TAGS)" \
 		--build-arg MAKEFLAGS="$(DOCKER_MAKEFLAGS)" \
 		-t localai-tests .
@@ -236,20 +285,12 @@ teardown-e2e:
 ## Integration and unit tests
 ########################################################
 
-test-llama-gguf: prepare-test
-	TEST_DIR=$(abspath ./)/test-dir/ FIXTURES=$(abspath ./)/tests/fixtures CONFIG_FILE=$(abspath ./)/test-models/config.yaml MODELS_PATH=$(abspath ./)/test-models BACKENDS_PATH=$(abspath ./)/backends \
-	$(GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --label-filter="llama-gguf" --flake-attempts $(TEST_FLAKES) -v -r $(TEST_PATHS)
-
-test-tts: prepare-test
-	TEST_DIR=$(abspath ./)/test-dir/ FIXTURES=$(abspath ./)/tests/fixtures CONFIG_FILE=$(abspath ./)/test-models/config.yaml MODELS_PATH=$(abspath ./)/test-models BACKENDS_PATH=$(abspath ./)/backends \
-	$(GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --label-filter="tts" --flake-attempts $(TEST_FLAKES) -v -r $(TEST_PATHS)
-
-test-stablediffusion: prepare-test
-	TEST_DIR=$(abspath ./)/test-dir/ FIXTURES=$(abspath ./)/tests/fixtures CONFIG_FILE=$(abspath ./)/test-models/config.yaml MODELS_PATH=$(abspath ./)/test-models BACKENDS_PATH=$(abspath ./)/backends \
-	$(GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --label-filter="stablediffusion" --flake-attempts $(TEST_FLAKES) -v -r $(TEST_PATHS)
-
-test-stores:
-	$(GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --label-filter="stores" --flake-attempts $(TEST_FLAKES) -v -r tests/integration
+## Storage / vector-store integration. Requires the local-store backend to
+## be available — we build it on demand and pass its location via
+## BACKENDS_PATH (the model loader looks there for the gRPC binary).
+test-stores: backends/local-store
+	BACKENDS_PATH=$(abspath ./)/backends \
+	$(GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --flake-attempts $(TEST_FLAKES) -v -r tests/integration
 
 test-opus:
 	@echo 'Running opus backend tests'
@@ -261,6 +302,8 @@ test-opus-docker:
 	docker build --target builder \
 	  --build-arg BUILD_TYPE=$(or $(BUILD_TYPE),) \
 	  --build-arg BASE_IMAGE=$(or $(BASE_IMAGE),ubuntu:24.04) \
+	  --build-arg APT_MIRROR=$(APT_MIRROR) \
+	  --build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR=$(APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
 	  --build-arg BACKEND=opus \
 	  -t localai-opus-test -f backend/Dockerfile.golang .
 	docker run --rm localai-opus-test \
@@ -270,23 +313,13 @@ test-realtime: build-mock-backend
 	@echo 'Running realtime e2e tests (mock backend)'
 	$(GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --label-filter="Realtime && !real-models" --flake-attempts $(TEST_FLAKES) -v -r ./tests/e2e
 
-# Real-model realtime tests. Set REALTIME_TEST_MODEL to use your own pipeline,
-# or leave unset to auto-build one from the component env vars below.
+# Container-based real-model realtime testing. Build env vars / pipeline
+# definition kept here so test-realtime-models-docker can drive a fully wired
+# pipeline (VAD + STT + LLM + TTS) from inside a containerised runner.
 REALTIME_VAD?=silero-vad-ggml
 REALTIME_STT?=whisper-1
 REALTIME_LLM?=qwen3-0.6b
 REALTIME_TTS?=tts-1
-REALTIME_BACKENDS_PATH?=$(abspath ./)/backends
-
-test-realtime-models: build-mock-backend
-	@echo 'Running realtime e2e tests (real models)'
-	REALTIME_TEST_MODEL=$${REALTIME_TEST_MODEL:-realtime-test-pipeline} \
-	REALTIME_VAD=$(REALTIME_VAD) \
-	REALTIME_STT=$(REALTIME_STT) \
-	REALTIME_LLM=$(REALTIME_LLM) \
-	REALTIME_TTS=$(REALTIME_TTS) \
-	REALTIME_BACKENDS_PATH=$(REALTIME_BACKENDS_PATH) \
-	$(GOCMD) run github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo --label-filter="Realtime" --flake-attempts $(TEST_FLAKES) -v -r ./tests/e2e
 
 # --- Container-based real-model testing ---
 
@@ -300,7 +333,7 @@ local-backends:
 
 extract-backend-%: docker-build-% local-backends
 	@echo "Extracting backend $*..."
-	@CID=$$(docker create local-ai-backend:$*) && \
+	@CID=$$(docker create --entrypoint=/run.sh local-ai-backend:$*) && \
 	  rm -rf local-backends/$* && mkdir -p local-backends/$* && \
 	  docker cp $$CID:/ - | tar -xf - -C local-backends/$* && \
 	  docker rm $$CID > /dev/null
@@ -312,6 +345,8 @@ test-realtime-models-docker: build-mock-backend
 	  --build-arg BUILD_TYPE=$(or $(BUILD_TYPE),cublas) \
 	  --build-arg CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=$(or $(CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION),13) \
 	  --build-arg CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=$(or $(CUDA_MINOR_VERSION),0) \
+	  --build-arg APT_MIRROR=$(APT_MIRROR) \
+	  --build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR=$(APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
 	  -t localai-test-runner .
 	docker run --rm \
 	  $(REALTIME_DOCKER_FLAGS) \
@@ -395,7 +430,13 @@ protoc:
 .PHONY: protogen-go
 protogen-go: protoc install-go-tools
 	mkdir -p pkg/grpc/proto
-	./protoc --experimental_allow_proto3_optional -Ibackend/ --go_out=pkg/grpc/proto/ --go_opt=paths=source_relative --go-grpc_out=pkg/grpc/proto/ --go-grpc_opt=paths=source_relative \
+	# install-go-tools writes protoc-gen-go and protoc-gen-go-grpc into
+	# $(shell go env GOPATH)/bin, which isn't on every dev's PATH. protoc
+	# resolves its code-gen plugins via PATH, so without this prefix the
+	# generate step fails with "protoc-gen-go: program not found". Prepend
+	# GOPATH/bin so the freshly-installed plugins win without requiring a
+	# shell-profile change.
+	PATH="$$(go env GOPATH)/bin:$$PATH" ./protoc --experimental_allow_proto3_optional -Ibackend/ --go_out=pkg/grpc/proto/ --go_opt=paths=source_relative --go-grpc_out=pkg/grpc/proto/ --go-grpc_opt=paths=source_relative \
     backend/backend.proto
 
 core/config/inference_defaults.json: ## Fetch inference defaults from unsloth (only if missing)
@@ -420,6 +461,7 @@ prepare-test-extra: protogen-python
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/chatterbox
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/vllm
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/vllm-omni
+	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/sglang
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/vibevoice
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/moonshine
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/pocket-tts
@@ -429,9 +471,14 @@ prepare-test-extra: protogen-python
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/qwen-asr
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/nemo
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/voxcpm
+	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/faster-whisper
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/whisperx
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/ace-step
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/trl
+	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/tinygrad
+	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/insightface
+	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/speaker-recognition
+	$(MAKE) -C backend/rust/kokoros kokoros-grpc
 
 test-extra: prepare-test-extra
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/transformers test
@@ -449,9 +496,442 @@ test-extra: prepare-test-extra
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/qwen-asr test
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/nemo test
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/voxcpm test
+	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/faster-whisper test
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/whisperx test
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/ace-step test
 	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/trl test
+	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/tinygrad test
+	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/insightface test
+	$(MAKE) -C backend/python/speaker-recognition test
+	$(MAKE) -C backend/rust/kokoros test
+
+##
+## End-to-end gRPC tests that exercise a built backend container image.
+##
+## The test suite in tests/e2e-backends is backend-agnostic. You drive it via env
+## vars (see tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go for the full list) and the
+## capability-driven harness picks which gRPC RPCs to exercise:
+##
+##   BACKEND_IMAGE            Required. Docker image to test, e.g. local-ai-backend:llama-cpp.
+##   BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL   URL of a model file to download and load.
+##   BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_FILE  Path to an already-downloaded model (skips download).
+##   BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME  HuggingFace repo id (e.g. Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct).
+##                            Use this instead of MODEL_URL for backends that
+##                            resolve HF model ids natively (vllm, vllm-omni).
+##   BACKEND_TEST_CAPS        Comma-separated capabilities, default "health,load,predict,stream".
+##                            Adds "tools" to exercise ChatDelta tool call extraction.
+##   BACKEND_TEST_PROMPT      Override the prompt used in predict/stream specs.
+##   BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS     Comma-separated Options[] entries forwarded to LoadModel,
+##                            e.g. "tool_parser:hermes,reasoning_parser:qwen3".
+##
+## Direct usage (image already built, no docker-build-* dependency):
+##
+##   make test-extra-backend BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:llama-cpp \
+##       BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL=https://.../model.gguf
+##
+## Convenience wrappers below build a specific backend image first, then run the
+## suite against it.
+##
+BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL?=https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-0.6B-Q8_0.gguf
+
+## Generic target — runs the suite against whatever BACKEND_IMAGE points at.
+## Depends on protogen-go so pkg/grpc/proto is generated before `go test`.
+test-extra-backend: protogen-go
+	@test -n "$$BACKEND_IMAGE" || { echo "BACKEND_IMAGE must be set" >&2; exit 1; }
+	BACKEND_IMAGE="$$BACKEND_IMAGE" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL="$${BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL:-$(BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL)}" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_FILE="$$BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_FILE" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME="$$BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MMPROJ_URL="$$BACKEND_TEST_MMPROJ_URL" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MMPROJ_FILE="$$BACKEND_TEST_MMPROJ_FILE" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_URL="$$BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_URL" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_FILE="$$BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_FILE" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS="$$BACKEND_TEST_CAPS" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_PROMPT="$$BACKEND_TEST_PROMPT" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS="$$BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_TOOL_PROMPT="$$BACKEND_TEST_TOOL_PROMPT" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_TOOL_NAME="$$BACKEND_TEST_TOOL_NAME" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_K="$$BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_K" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_V="$$BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_V" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_1_URL="$$BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_1_URL" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_1_FILE="$$BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_1_FILE" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_2_URL="$$BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_2_URL" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_2_FILE="$$BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_2_FILE" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_3_URL="$$BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_3_URL" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_3_FILE="$$BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_3_FILE" \
+	BACKEND_TEST_VERIFY_DISTANCE_CEILING="$$BACKEND_TEST_VERIFY_DISTANCE_CEILING" \
+	go test -v -timeout 30m ./tests/e2e-backends/...
+
+## Convenience wrappers: build the image, then exercise it.
+test-extra-backend-llama-cpp: docker-build-llama-cpp
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:llama-cpp \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,predict,stream,logprobs,logit_bias \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+test-extra-backend-ik-llama-cpp: docker-build-ik-llama-cpp
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:ik-llama-cpp $(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+## turboquant: exercises the llama.cpp-fork backend with the fork's
+## *TurboQuant-specific* KV-cache types (turbo3 for both K and V). turbo3
+## is what makes this backend distinct from stock llama-cpp — picking q8_0
+## here would only test the standard llama.cpp code path that the upstream
+## llama-cpp backend already covers. The fork auto-enables flash_attention
+## when turbo3/turbo4 are active, so we don't need to set it explicitly.
+test-extra-backend-turboquant: docker-build-turboquant
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:turboquant \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_K=q8_0 \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CACHE_TYPE_V=turbo3 \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+## Audio transcription wrapper for the llama-cpp backend.
+## Drives the new AudioTranscription / AudioTranscriptionStream RPCs against
+## ggml-org/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-GGUF (a small ASR model that requires its mmproj
+## audio encoder companion). The audio fixture is a short public-domain
+## "jfk.wav" clip ggml-org bundles with whisper.cpp's CI assets.
+test-extra-backend-llama-cpp-transcription: docker-build-llama-cpp
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:llama-cpp \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL=https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-Q8_0.gguf \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MMPROJ_URL=https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-GGUF/resolve/main/mmproj-Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-Q8_0.gguf \
+	BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_URL=https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/raw/master/samples/jfk.wav \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,transcription \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+## vllm is resolved from a HuggingFace model id (no file download) and
+## exercises Predict + streaming + tool-call extraction via the hermes parser.
+## Requires a host CPU with the SIMD instructions the prebuilt vllm CPU
+## wheel was compiled against (AVX-512 VNNI/BF16); older CPUs will SIGILL
+## on import — on CI this means using the bigger-runner label.
+test-extra-backend-vllm: docker-build-vllm
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:vllm \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,predict,stream,tools \
+	BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS=tool_parser:hermes \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+## vllm multi-node data-parallel smoke test. Runs LocalAI head + a
+## `local-ai p2p-worker vllm` follower in docker compose against
+## Qwen2.5-0.5B with data_parallel_size=2. Requires 2 NVIDIA GPUs and
+## nvidia-container-runtime on the host — vLLM v1's DP coordinator is
+## not viable on CPU so this cannot run in CI without GPU.
+test-extra-backend-vllm-multinode:
+	./tests/e2e/vllm-multinode/smoke.sh
+
+## tinygrad mirrors the vllm target (same model, same caps, same parser) so
+## the two backends are directly comparable. The LLM path covers Predict,
+## streaming and native tool-call extraction. Companion targets below cover
+## embeddings, Stable Diffusion and Whisper — run them individually or via
+## the `test-extra-backend-tinygrad-all` aggregate.
+test-extra-backend-tinygrad: docker-build-tinygrad
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:tinygrad \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,predict,stream,tools \
+	BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS=tool_parser:hermes \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+## tinygrad — embeddings via LLM last-hidden-state pooling. Reuses the same
+## Qwen3-0.6B as the chat target so we don't need a separate BERT vendor;
+## the Embedding RPC mean-pools and L2-normalizes the last-layer hidden
+## state.
+test-extra-backend-tinygrad-embeddings: docker-build-tinygrad
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:tinygrad \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,embeddings \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+## tinygrad — Stable Diffusion 1.5. The original CompVis/runwayml repos have
+## been gated, so we use the community-maintained mirror at
+## stable-diffusion-v1-5/stable-diffusion-v1-5 with the EMA-only pruned
+## checkpoint (~4.3GB). Step count is kept low (4) so a CPU-only run finishes
+## in a few minutes; bump BACKEND_TEST_IMAGE_STEPS for higher quality.
+test-extra-backend-tinygrad-sd: docker-build-tinygrad
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:tinygrad \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=stable-diffusion-v1-5/stable-diffusion-v1-5 \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,image \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+## tinygrad — Whisper. Loads OpenAI's tiny.en checkpoint (smallest at ~75MB)
+## from the original azure CDN through tinygrad's `fetch` helper, and
+## transcribes the canonical jfk.wav fixture from whisper.cpp's CI samples.
+## Exercises both AudioTranscription and AudioTranscriptionStream.
+test-extra-backend-tinygrad-whisper: docker-build-tinygrad
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:tinygrad \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=openai/whisper-tiny.en \
+	BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_URL=https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/raw/master/samples/jfk.wav \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,transcription \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+test-extra-backend-tinygrad-all: \
+	test-extra-backend-tinygrad \
+	test-extra-backend-tinygrad-embeddings \
+	test-extra-backend-tinygrad-sd \
+	test-extra-backend-tinygrad-whisper
+
+## insightface — face recognition.
+##
+## Face fixtures default to the sample images shipped in the
+## deepinsight/insightface repository (MIT-licensed). For offline/local
+## runs override with BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_{1,2,3}_FILE pointing at
+## local paths.
+FACE_IMAGE_1_URL ?= https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface/raw/master/python-package/insightface/data/images/t1.jpg
+FACE_IMAGE_2_URL ?= https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface/raw/master/python-package/insightface/data/images/t1.jpg
+FACE_IMAGE_3_URL ?= https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface/raw/master/python-package/insightface/data/images/mask_white.jpg
+## Known spoof fixture used by the face_antispoof e2e cap. This is
+## upstream's own `image_F2.jpg` (Silent-Face repo, via yakhyo mirror)
+## — verified to classify as is_real=false with score < 0.05 on the
+## MiniFASNetV2 + MiniFASNetV1SE ensemble.
+FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL ?= https://github.com/yakhyo/face-anti-spoofing/raw/main/assets/image_F2.jpg
+
+## Host-side cache for the OpenCV Zoo face ONNX files used by the
+## opencv e2e target. The backend image no longer bakes model weights —
+## gallery installs bring them via `files:` — but the e2e suite drives
+## LoadModel over gRPC directly without going through the gallery. We
+## pre-download the ONNX files to a stable host path and pass absolute
+## paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS; `make` skips the downloads when the
+## SHA-256 already matches.
+INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR := /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache
+INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_YUNET_URL := https://github.com/opencv/opencv_zoo/raw/main/models/face_detection_yunet/face_detection_yunet_2023mar.onnx
+INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_SFACE_URL := https://github.com/opencv/opencv_zoo/raw/main/models/face_recognition_sface/face_recognition_sface_2021dec.onnx
+INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_YUNET_SHA := 8f2383e4dd3cfbb4553ea8718107fc0423210dc964f9f4280604804ed2552fa4
+INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_SFACE_SHA := 0ba9fbfa01b5270c96627c4ef784da859931e02f04419c829e83484087c34e79
+
+## buffalo_sc (insightface) — pack zip + SHA-256 mirrors the gallery
+## entry so the e2e target matches exactly what `local-ai models install
+## insightface-buffalo-sc` would have fetched. Smallest insightface pack
+## (~16MB) — keeps CI fast while still covering the insightface engine
+## code path end-to-end.
+INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR := /tmp/localai-insightface-buffalo-sc-cache
+INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_URL := https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface/releases/download/v0.7/buffalo_sc.zip
+INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_SHA := 57d31b56b6ffa911c8a73cfc1707c73cab76efe7f13b675a05223bf42de47c72
+
+## Silent-Face antispoofing (MiniFASNetV2 + MiniFASNetV1SE) — shared
+## between the buffalo_sc and opencv e2e targets. Both ONNX files are
+## ~1.7MB, Apache 2.0. URLs + SHAs mirror the gallery entries.
+INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR := /tmp/localai-insightface-antispoof-cache
+INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V2_URL := https://github.com/yakhyo/face-anti-spoofing/releases/download/weights/MiniFASNetV2.onnx
+INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V2_SHA := b32929adc2d9c34b9486f8c4c7bc97c1b69bc0ea9befefc380e4faae4e463907
+INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V1SE_URL := https://github.com/yakhyo/face-anti-spoofing/releases/download/weights/MiniFASNetV1SE.onnx
+INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V1SE_SHA := ebab7f90c7833fbccd46d3a555410e78d969db5438e169b6524be444862b3676
+
+.PHONY: insightface-opencv-models
+insightface-opencv-models:
+	@mkdir -p $(INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR)
+	@if [ "$$(sha256sum $(INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR)/yunet.onnx 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $$1}')" != "$(INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_YUNET_SHA)" ]; then \
+		echo "Fetching YuNet..."; \
+		curl -fsSL -o $(INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR)/yunet.onnx $(INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_YUNET_URL); \
+		echo "$(INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_YUNET_SHA)  $(INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR)/yunet.onnx" | sha256sum -c; \
+	fi
+	@if [ "$$(sha256sum $(INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR)/sface.onnx 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $$1}')" != "$(INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_SFACE_SHA)" ]; then \
+		echo "Fetching SFace..."; \
+		curl -fsSL -o $(INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR)/sface.onnx $(INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_SFACE_URL); \
+		echo "$(INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_SFACE_SHA)  $(INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR)/sface.onnx" | sha256sum -c; \
+	fi
+
+.PHONY: insightface-antispoof-models
+insightface-antispoof-models:
+	@mkdir -p $(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR)
+	@if [ "$$(sha256sum $(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR)/MiniFASNetV2.onnx 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $$1}')" != "$(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V2_SHA)" ]; then \
+		echo "Fetching MiniFASNetV2..."; \
+		curl -fsSL -o $(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR)/MiniFASNetV2.onnx $(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V2_URL); \
+		echo "$(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V2_SHA)  $(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR)/MiniFASNetV2.onnx" | sha256sum -c; \
+	fi
+	@if [ "$$(sha256sum $(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR)/MiniFASNetV1SE.onnx 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $$1}')" != "$(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V1SE_SHA)" ]; then \
+		echo "Fetching MiniFASNetV1SE..."; \
+		curl -fsSL -o $(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR)/MiniFASNetV1SE.onnx $(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V1SE_URL); \
+		echo "$(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_V1SE_SHA)  $(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR)/MiniFASNetV1SE.onnx" | sha256sum -c; \
+	fi
+
+.PHONY: insightface-buffalo-sc-models
+insightface-buffalo-sc-models:
+	@mkdir -p $(INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR)
+	@if [ "$$(sha256sum $(INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR)/buffalo_sc.zip 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $$1}')" != "$(INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_SHA)" ]; then \
+		echo "Fetching buffalo_sc..."; \
+		curl -fsSL -o $(INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR)/buffalo_sc.zip $(INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_URL); \
+		echo "$(INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_SHA)  $(INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR)/buffalo_sc.zip" | sha256sum -c; \
+		rm -f $(INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR)/*.onnx; \
+	fi
+	@if [ ! -f "$(INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR)/det_500m.onnx" ]; then \
+		echo "Extracting buffalo_sc..."; \
+		unzip -o -q $(INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR)/buffalo_sc.zip -d $(INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR); \
+	fi
+
+## buffalo_sc — smallest insightface pack (SCRFD-500MF detector + MBF
+## recognizer, ~16MB). Exercises the insightface engine code path
+## (model_zoo-backed inference) without the ~326MB buffalo_l download.
+## No age/gender/landmark heads — face_analyze is dropped from caps.
+## The pack is pre-fetched on the host and passed as `root:<dir>` since
+## the e2e suite drives LoadModel directly without going through
+## LocalAI's gallery flow (which is what would normally populate
+## ModelPath and in turn the engine's `_model_dir` option).
+test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-sc: docker-build-insightface insightface-buffalo-sc-models insightface-antispoof-models
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:insightface \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=insightface-buffalo-sc \
+	BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS=engine:insightface,model_pack:buffalo_sc,root:$(INSIGHTFACE_BUFFALO_SC_DIR),antispoof_v2_onnx:$(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR)/MiniFASNetV2.onnx,antispoof_v1se_onnx:$(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR)/MiniFASNetV1SE.onnx \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,face_detect,face_embed,face_verify,face_antispoof \
+	BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_1_URL=$(FACE_IMAGE_1_URL) \
+	BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_2_URL=$(FACE_IMAGE_2_URL) \
+	BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_3_URL=$(FACE_IMAGE_3_URL) \
+	BACKEND_TEST_FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL=$(FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL) \
+	BACKEND_TEST_VERIFY_DISTANCE_CEILING=0.55 \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+## OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace — Apache 2.0, commercial-safe. face_analyze
+## cap is dropped (SFace has no demographic head). The ONNX files are
+## pre-fetched on the host via the insightface-opencv-models target and
+## passed as absolute paths, since the e2e suite drives LoadModel
+## directly without going through LocalAI's gallery flow.
+test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv: docker-build-insightface insightface-opencv-models insightface-antispoof-models
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:insightface \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=insightface-opencv \
+	BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS=engine:onnx_direct,detector_onnx:$(INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR)/yunet.onnx,recognizer_onnx:$(INSIGHTFACE_OPENCV_DIR)/sface.onnx,antispoof_v2_onnx:$(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR)/MiniFASNetV2.onnx,antispoof_v1se_onnx:$(INSIGHTFACE_ANTISPOOF_DIR)/MiniFASNetV1SE.onnx \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,face_detect,face_embed,face_verify,face_antispoof \
+	BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_1_URL=$(FACE_IMAGE_1_URL) \
+	BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_2_URL=$(FACE_IMAGE_2_URL) \
+	BACKEND_TEST_FACE_IMAGE_3_URL=$(FACE_IMAGE_3_URL) \
+	BACKEND_TEST_FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL=$(FACE_SPOOF_IMAGE_URL) \
+	BACKEND_TEST_VERIFY_DISTANCE_CEILING=0.55 \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+## Aggregate — runs both face-recognition model configurations so CI
+## catches regressions across engines together.
+test-extra-backend-insightface-all: \
+	test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-sc \
+	test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv
+
+## speaker-recognition — voice (speaker) biometrics.
+##
+## Audio fixtures default to the speechbrain test samples served
+## straight from their GitHub repo — public, no auth needed, and they
+## ship as 16kHz mono WAV/FLAC which is exactly what the engine wants.
+## example{1,2,5} are three different speakers; the suite treats
+## example1 as the "same-image twin" probe (verify(clip, clip) must
+## return distance≈0) and the other two as cross-speaker ceilings.
+## Override with BACKEND_TEST_VOICE_AUDIO_{1,2,3}_FILE for offline runs.
+VOICE_AUDIO_1_URL ?= https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/raw/develop/tests/samples/single-mic/example1.wav
+VOICE_AUDIO_2_URL ?= https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/raw/develop/tests/samples/single-mic/example2.flac
+VOICE_AUDIO_3_URL ?= https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/raw/develop/tests/samples/single-mic/example5.wav
+
+## ECAPA-TDNN via SpeechBrain — default CI configuration. Auto-downloads
+## the checkpoint from HuggingFace on first LoadModel (bundled in the
+## backend image pip install). 192-d embeddings, cosine-distance based.
+## The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly so we don't rely on LocalAI's
+## gallery flow here.
+test-extra-backend-speaker-recognition-ecapa: docker-build-speaker-recognition
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:speaker-recognition \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=speechbrain/spkrec-ecapa-voxceleb \
+	BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS=engine:speechbrain,source:speechbrain/spkrec-ecapa-voxceleb \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,voice_embed,voice_verify \
+	BACKEND_TEST_VOICE_AUDIO_1_URL=$(VOICE_AUDIO_1_URL) \
+	BACKEND_TEST_VOICE_AUDIO_2_URL=$(VOICE_AUDIO_2_URL) \
+	BACKEND_TEST_VOICE_AUDIO_3_URL=$(VOICE_AUDIO_3_URL) \
+	BACKEND_TEST_VOICE_VERIFY_DISTANCE_CEILING=0.4 \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+## Aggregate — today there's only one voice config; the target exists
+## so the CI workflow matches the insightface-all naming convention and
+## can grow to include WeSpeaker / 3D-Speaker later.
+test-extra-backend-speaker-recognition-all: \
+	test-extra-backend-speaker-recognition-ecapa
+
+## Realtime e2e with sherpa-onnx driving VAD + STT + TTS against a mocked
+## LLM. Extracts the sherpa-onnx Docker image rootfs, downloads the three
+## gallery-referenced model bundles (silero-vad, omnilingual-asr, vits-ljs),
+## writes the corresponding model config YAMLs, and runs the realtime
+## websocket spec in tests/e2e with REALTIME_* env vars wiring the sherpa
+## slots into the pipeline. The LLM slot stays on the in-repo mock-backend
+## registered unconditionally by tests/e2e/e2e_suite_test.go. See
+## tests/e2e/run-realtime-sherpa.sh for the full orchestration.
+test-extra-e2e-realtime-sherpa: build-mock-backend docker-build-sherpa-onnx protogen-go react-ui
+	bash tests/e2e/run-realtime-sherpa.sh
+
+## Streaming ASR via the sherpa-onnx online recognizer. Uses the streaming
+## zipformer English model (encoder/decoder/joiner int8 + tokens) from the
+## sherpa-onnx gallery entry. Drives both AudioTranscription and
+## AudioTranscriptionStream via the e2e-backends gRPC harness; streaming
+## emits real partial deltas during decode. Each file is renamed on download
+## to the shape sherpa-onnx's online loader expects (encoder.int8.onnx etc.).
+test-extra-backend-sherpa-onnx-transcription: docker-build-sherpa-onnx
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:sherpa-onnx \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL='https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-en-2023-06-26/resolve/main/encoder-epoch-99-avg-1-chunk-16-left-128.int8.onnx#encoder.int8.onnx' \
+	BACKEND_TEST_EXTRA_FILES='https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-en-2023-06-26/resolve/main/decoder-epoch-99-avg-1-chunk-16-left-128.int8.onnx#decoder.int8.onnx|https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-en-2023-06-26/resolve/main/joiner-epoch-99-avg-1-chunk-16-left-128.int8.onnx#joiner.int8.onnx|https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-en-2023-06-26/resolve/main/tokens.txt' \
+	BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_URL=https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/raw/master/samples/jfk.wav \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,transcription \
+	BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS=subtype=online \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+## VITS TTS via the sherpa-onnx backend. Pulls the individual files from
+## HuggingFace (the vits-ljs release tarball lives on the k2-fsa github
+## but is also mirrored as discrete files on HF). Exercises both
+## TTS (write-to-file) and TTSStream (PCM chunks + WAV header) via the
+## e2e-backends gRPC harness.
+test-extra-backend-sherpa-onnx-tts: docker-build-sherpa-onnx
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:sherpa-onnx \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL='https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/vits-ljs/resolve/main/vits-ljs.onnx#vits-ljs.onnx' \
+	BACKEND_TEST_EXTRA_FILES='https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/vits-ljs/resolve/main/tokens.txt|https://huggingface.co/csukuangfj/vits-ljs/resolve/main/lexicon.txt' \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,tts \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+## VibeVoice TTS via the vibevoice-cpp backend. ModelFile is the
+## realtime gguf; the supplementary tokenizer + voice prompt land
+## alongside it under the harness's models dir and are wired through
+## via the standard Options[] convention (tokenizer=, voice=).
+test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-tts: docker-build-vibevoice-cpp
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:vibevoice-cpp \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL='https://huggingface.co/mudler/vibevoice.cpp-models/resolve/main/vibevoice-realtime-0.5B-q8_0.gguf#vibevoice-realtime-0.5B-q8_0.gguf' \
+	BACKEND_TEST_EXTRA_FILES='https://huggingface.co/mudler/vibevoice.cpp-models/resolve/main/tokenizer.gguf#tokenizer.gguf|https://huggingface.co/mudler/vibevoice.cpp-models/resolve/main/voice-en-Carter_man.gguf#voice-en-Carter_man.gguf' \
+	BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS=tokenizer:tokenizer.gguf,voice:voice-en-Carter_man.gguf \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,tts \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+## VibeVoice ASR (long-form, with diarization). type=asr tells the
+## backend's Load() to slot ModelFile into the asr_model role; the
+## tokenizer is supplied via Options[]. Uses the Q4_K quant (~10 GB)
+## rather than Q8_0 (~14 GB) so the bundle fits inside ubuntu-latest's
+## post-image disk budget.
+test-extra-backend-vibevoice-cpp-transcription: docker-build-vibevoice-cpp
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:vibevoice-cpp \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL='https://huggingface.co/mudler/vibevoice.cpp-models/resolve/main/vibevoice-asr-q4_k.gguf#vibevoice-asr-q4_k.gguf' \
+	BACKEND_TEST_EXTRA_FILES='https://huggingface.co/mudler/vibevoice.cpp-models/resolve/main/tokenizer.gguf#tokenizer.gguf' \
+	BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_URL=https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/raw/master/samples/jfk.wav \
+	BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS=type:asr,tokenizer:tokenizer.gguf \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,transcription \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+## LocalVQE audio transform (joint AEC + noise suppression + dereverb).
+## Exercises the audio_transform capability end-to-end: batch transform
+## of a real WAV fixture and bidi streaming of synthetic silent frames.
+test-extra-backend-localvqe-transform: docker-build-localvqe
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:localvqe \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_URL='https://huggingface.co/LocalAI-io/LocalVQE/resolve/main/localvqe-v1-1.3M-f32.gguf#localvqe-v1-1.3M-f32.gguf' \
+	BACKEND_TEST_AUDIO_URL=https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/raw/master/samples/jfk.wav \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,audio_transform \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+## sglang mirrors the vllm setup: HuggingFace model id, same tiny Qwen,
+## tool-call extraction via sglang's native qwen parser. CPU builds use
+## sglang's upstream pyproject_cpu.toml recipe (see backend/python/sglang/install.sh).
+test-extra-backend-sglang: docker-build-sglang
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:sglang \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,predict,stream,tools \
+	BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS=tool_parser:qwen \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+
+## mlx is Apple-Silicon-first — the MLX backend auto-detects the right tool
+## parser from the chat template, so no tool_parser: option is needed (it
+## would be ignored at runtime). Run this on macOS / arm64 with Metal; the
+## Linux/CPU mlx variant is untested in CI.
+test-extra-backend-mlx: docker-build-mlx
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:mlx \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=mlx-community/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-4bit \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,predict,stream,tools \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
+
+test-extra-backend-mlx-vlm: docker-build-mlx-vlm
+	BACKEND_IMAGE=local-ai-backend:mlx-vlm \
+	BACKEND_TEST_MODEL_NAME=mlx-community/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-4bit \
+	BACKEND_TEST_CAPS=health,load,predict,stream,tools \
+	$(MAKE) test-extra-backend
 
 DOCKER_IMAGE?=local-ai
 IMAGE_TYPE?=core
@@ -468,6 +948,8 @@ docker:
 		--build-arg CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=$(CUDA_MINOR_VERSION) \
 		--build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=$(UBUNTU_VERSION) \
 		--build-arg UBUNTU_CODENAME=$(UBUNTU_CODENAME) \
+		--build-arg APT_MIRROR=$(APT_MIRROR) \
+		--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR=$(APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
 		-t $(DOCKER_IMAGE) .
 
 docker-cuda12:
@@ -481,11 +963,13 @@ docker-cuda12:
 		--build-arg BUILD_TYPE=$(BUILD_TYPE) \
 		--build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=$(UBUNTU_VERSION) \
 		--build-arg UBUNTU_CODENAME=$(UBUNTU_CODENAME) \
+		--build-arg APT_MIRROR=$(APT_MIRROR) \
+		--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR=$(APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
 		-t $(DOCKER_IMAGE)-cuda-12 .
 
 docker-image-intel:
 	docker build \
-		--build-arg BASE_IMAGE=intel/oneapi-basekit:2025.3.0-0-devel-ubuntu24.04 \
+		--build-arg BASE_IMAGE=intel/oneapi-basekit:2025.3.2-0-devel-ubuntu24.04 \
 		--build-arg IMAGE_TYPE=$(IMAGE_TYPE) \
 		--build-arg GO_TAGS="$(GO_TAGS)" \
 		--build-arg MAKEFLAGS="$(DOCKER_MAKEFLAGS)" \
@@ -494,6 +978,8 @@ docker-image-intel:
 		--build-arg CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=$(CUDA_MINOR_VERSION) \
 		--build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=$(UBUNTU_VERSION) \
 		--build-arg UBUNTU_CODENAME=$(UBUNTU_CODENAME) \
+		--build-arg APT_MIRROR=$(APT_MIRROR) \
+		--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR=$(APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
 		-t $(DOCKER_IMAGE) .
 
 ########################################################
@@ -546,6 +1032,11 @@ backend-images:
 # Backend metadata: BACKEND_NAME | DOCKERFILE_TYPE | BUILD_CONTEXT | PROGRESS_FLAG | NEEDS_BACKEND_ARG
 # llama-cpp is special - uses llama-cpp Dockerfile and doesn't need BACKEND arg
 BACKEND_LLAMA_CPP = llama-cpp|llama-cpp|.|false|false
+# ik-llama-cpp is a fork of llama.cpp with superior CPU performance
+BACKEND_IK_LLAMA_CPP = ik-llama-cpp|ik-llama-cpp|.|false|false
+# turboquant is a llama.cpp fork with TurboQuant KV-cache quantization.
+# Reuses backend/cpp/llama-cpp grpc-server sources via a thin wrapper Makefile.
+BACKEND_TURBOQUANT = turboquant|turboquant|.|false|false
 
 # Golang backends
 BACKEND_PIPER = piper|golang|.|false|true
@@ -556,7 +1047,11 @@ BACKEND_STABLEDIFFUSION_GGML = stablediffusion-ggml|golang|.|--progress=plain|tr
 BACKEND_WHISPER = whisper|golang|.|false|true
 BACKEND_VOXTRAL = voxtral|golang|.|false|true
 BACKEND_ACESTEP_CPP = acestep-cpp|golang|.|false|true
+BACKEND_QWEN3_TTS_CPP = qwen3-tts-cpp|golang|.|false|true
+BACKEND_VIBEVOICE_CPP = vibevoice-cpp|golang|.|false|true
+BACKEND_LOCALVQE = localvqe|golang|.|false|true
 BACKEND_OPUS = opus|golang|.|false|true
+BACKEND_SHERPA_ONNX = sherpa-onnx|golang|.|false|true
 
 # Python backends with root context
 BACKEND_RERANKERS = rerankers|python|.|false|true
@@ -565,11 +1060,14 @@ BACKEND_OUTETTS = outetts|python|.|false|true
 BACKEND_FASTER_WHISPER = faster-whisper|python|.|false|true
 BACKEND_COQUI = coqui|python|.|false|true
 BACKEND_RFDETR = rfdetr|python|.|false|true
+BACKEND_INSIGHTFACE = insightface|python|.|false|true
+BACKEND_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION = speaker-recognition|python|.|false|true
 BACKEND_KITTEN_TTS = kitten-tts|python|.|false|true
 BACKEND_NEUTTS = neutts|python|.|false|true
 BACKEND_KOKORO = kokoro|python|.|false|true
 BACKEND_VLLM = vllm|python|.|false|true
 BACKEND_VLLM_OMNI = vllm-omni|python|.|false|true
+BACKEND_SGLANG = sglang|python|.|false|true
 BACKEND_DIFFUSERS = diffusers|python|.|--progress=plain|true
 BACKEND_CHATTERBOX = chatterbox|python|.|false|true
 BACKEND_VIBEVOICE = vibevoice|python|.|--progress=plain|true
@@ -583,9 +1081,102 @@ BACKEND_NEMO = nemo|python|.|false|true
 BACKEND_VOXCPM = voxcpm|python|.|false|true
 BACKEND_WHISPERX = whisperx|python|.|false|true
 BACKEND_ACE_STEP = ace-step|python|.|false|true
+BACKEND_MLX = mlx|python|.|false|true
+BACKEND_MLX_VLM = mlx-vlm|python|.|false|true
 BACKEND_MLX_DISTRIBUTED = mlx-distributed|python|./|false|true
 BACKEND_TRL = trl|python|.|false|true
 BACKEND_LLAMA_CPP_QUANTIZATION = llama-cpp-quantization|python|.|false|true
+BACKEND_TINYGRAD = tinygrad|python|.|false|true
+
+# Rust backends
+BACKEND_KOKOROS = kokoros|rust|.|false|true
+
+# C++ backends (Go wrapper with purego)
+BACKEND_SAM3_CPP = sam3-cpp|golang|.|false|true
+
+# Tag stem for the local prebuilt base images. Mirrors tagStem() in
+# scripts/changed-backends.js and the inline expression in
+# .github/workflows/backend.yml, so a `make docker-build-X` produces the
+# same FROM ref shape that CI uses.
+LOCAL_BASE_BUILD_TYPE := $(or $(BUILD_TYPE),cpu)
+LOCAL_BASE_UBUNTU_VERSION := $(or $(UBUNTU_VERSION),2404)
+LOCAL_BASE_CUDA_SUFFIX := $(if $(filter cublas l4t,$(BUILD_TYPE)),-cuda$(CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION).$(CUDA_MINOR_VERSION))
+LOCAL_BASE_PYTHON_TAG := localai-base:python-$(LOCAL_BASE_BUILD_TYPE)-$(LOCAL_BASE_UBUNTU_VERSION)$(LOCAL_BASE_CUDA_SUFFIX)
+LOCAL_BASE_GOLANG_TAG := localai-base:golang-$(LOCAL_BASE_BUILD_TYPE)-$(LOCAL_BASE_UBUNTU_VERSION)$(LOCAL_BASE_CUDA_SUFFIX)
+LOCAL_BASE_CPP_TAG := localai-base:cpp-$(LOCAL_BASE_BUILD_TYPE)-$(LOCAL_BASE_UBUNTU_VERSION)$(LOCAL_BASE_CUDA_SUFFIX)
+LOCAL_BASE_RUST_TAG := localai-base:rust-$(LOCAL_BASE_BUILD_TYPE)-$(LOCAL_BASE_UBUNTU_VERSION)
+
+# Per-(lang) base image build targets. Each backend's docker-build-X target
+# depends on the matching base via generate-docker-build-target below.
+# PHONY so docker handles its own layer caching.
+.PHONY: docker-build-python-base docker-build-golang-base docker-build-cpp-base docker-build-rust-base
+
+docker-build-python-base:
+	docker build \
+		--build-arg BUILD_TYPE=$(BUILD_TYPE) \
+		--build-arg BASE_IMAGE=$(or $(BASE_IMAGE),ubuntu:24.04) \
+		--build-arg CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=$(CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION) \
+		--build-arg CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=$(CUDA_MINOR_VERSION) \
+		--build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=$(LOCAL_BASE_UBUNTU_VERSION) \
+		--build-arg APT_MIRROR=$(APT_MIRROR) \
+		--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR=$(APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
+		$(if $(SKIP_DRIVERS),--build-arg SKIP_DRIVERS=$(SKIP_DRIVERS)) \
+		-t $(LOCAL_BASE_PYTHON_TAG) \
+		-f .docker/bases/Dockerfile.python \
+		.
+
+docker-build-golang-base:
+	docker build \
+		--build-arg BUILD_TYPE=$(BUILD_TYPE) \
+		--build-arg BASE_IMAGE=$(or $(BASE_IMAGE),ubuntu:24.04) \
+		--build-arg CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=$(CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION) \
+		--build-arg CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=$(CUDA_MINOR_VERSION) \
+		--build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=$(LOCAL_BASE_UBUNTU_VERSION) \
+		--build-arg APT_MIRROR=$(APT_MIRROR) \
+		--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR=$(APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
+		$(if $(SKIP_DRIVERS),--build-arg SKIP_DRIVERS=$(SKIP_DRIVERS)) \
+		-t $(LOCAL_BASE_GOLANG_TAG) \
+		-f .docker/bases/Dockerfile.golang \
+		.
+
+docker-build-cpp-base:
+	docker build \
+		--build-arg BUILD_TYPE=$(BUILD_TYPE) \
+		--build-arg BASE_IMAGE=$(or $(BASE_IMAGE),ubuntu:24.04) \
+		--build-arg CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=$(CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION) \
+		--build-arg CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=$(CUDA_MINOR_VERSION) \
+		--build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=$(LOCAL_BASE_UBUNTU_VERSION) \
+		--build-arg APT_MIRROR=$(APT_MIRROR) \
+		--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR=$(APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
+		$(if $(SKIP_DRIVERS),--build-arg SKIP_DRIVERS=$(SKIP_DRIVERS)) \
+		-t $(LOCAL_BASE_CPP_TAG) \
+		-f .docker/bases/Dockerfile.cpp \
+		.
+
+docker-build-rust-base:
+	docker build \
+		--build-arg BASE_IMAGE=$(or $(BASE_IMAGE),ubuntu:24.04) \
+		--build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=$(LOCAL_BASE_UBUNTU_VERSION) \
+		--build-arg APT_MIRROR=$(APT_MIRROR) \
+		--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR=$(APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
+		-t $(LOCAL_BASE_RUST_TAG) \
+		-f .docker/bases/Dockerfile.rust \
+		.
+
+# Map a consumer dockerfile-type to the base-image tag it should consume.
+# Mirrors langOf() in scripts/changed-backends.js: the C++ trio
+# (llama-cpp/ik-llama-cpp/turboquant) all consume the shared cpp base.
+local-base-tag = $(strip \
+	$(if $(filter python,$(1)),$(LOCAL_BASE_PYTHON_TAG), \
+	$(if $(filter golang,$(1)),$(LOCAL_BASE_GOLANG_TAG), \
+	$(if $(filter llama-cpp ik-llama-cpp turboquant,$(1)),$(LOCAL_BASE_CPP_TAG), \
+	$(if $(filter rust,$(1)),$(LOCAL_BASE_RUST_TAG))))))
+
+local-base-target = $(strip \
+	$(if $(filter python,$(1)),docker-build-python-base, \
+	$(if $(filter golang,$(1)),docker-build-golang-base, \
+	$(if $(filter llama-cpp ik-llama-cpp turboquant,$(1)),docker-build-cpp-base, \
+	$(if $(filter rust,$(1)),docker-build-rust-base)))))
 
 # Helper function to build docker image for a backend
 # Usage: $(call docker-build-backend,BACKEND_NAME,DOCKERFILE_TYPE,BUILD_CONTEXT,PROGRESS_FLAG,NEEDS_BACKEND_ARG)
@@ -597,18 +1188,27 @@ define docker-build-backend
 		--build-arg CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=$(CUDA_MINOR_VERSION) \
 		--build-arg UBUNTU_VERSION=$(UBUNTU_VERSION) \
 		--build-arg UBUNTU_CODENAME=$(UBUNTU_CODENAME) \
+		--build-arg APT_MIRROR=$(APT_MIRROR) \
+		--build-arg APT_PORTS_MIRROR=$(APT_PORTS_MIRROR) \
+		$(if $(call local-base-tag,$(2)),--build-arg BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT=$(call local-base-tag,$(2))) \
+		$(if $(FROM_SOURCE),--build-arg FROM_SOURCE=$(FROM_SOURCE)) \
+		$(if $(AMDGPU_TARGETS),--build-arg AMDGPU_TARGETS=$(AMDGPU_TARGETS)) \
 		$(if $(filter true,$(5)),--build-arg BACKEND=$(1)) \
 		-t local-ai-backend:$(1) -f backend/Dockerfile.$(2) $(3)
 endef
 
-# Generate docker-build targets from backend definitions
+# Generate docker-build targets from backend definitions. Each consumer
+# gets the matching layered base as a prerequisite so the FROM in the
+# slimmed Dockerfile resolves locally. The map lives in local-base-target.
 define generate-docker-build-target
-docker-build-$(word 1,$(subst |, ,$(1))):
+docker-build-$(word 1,$(subst |, ,$(1))): $(call local-base-target,$(word 2,$(subst |, ,$(1))))
 	$$(call docker-build-backend,$(word 1,$(subst |, ,$(1))),$(word 2,$(subst |, ,$(1))),$(word 3,$(subst |, ,$(1))),$(word 4,$(subst |, ,$(1))),$(word 5,$(subst |, ,$(1))))
 endef
 
 # Generate all docker-build targets
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_LLAMA_CPP)))
+$(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_IK_LLAMA_CPP)))
+$(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_TURBOQUANT)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_PIPER)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_LOCAL_STORE)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_HUGGINGFACE)))
@@ -623,11 +1223,14 @@ $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_OUTETTS)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_FASTER_WHISPER)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_COQUI)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_RFDETR)))
+$(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_INSIGHTFACE)))
+$(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_SPEAKER_RECOGNITION)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_KITTEN_TTS)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_NEUTTS)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_KOKORO)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_VLLM)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_VLLM_OMNI)))
+$(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_SGLANG)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_DIFFUSERS)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_CHATTERBOX)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_VIBEVOICE)))
@@ -642,15 +1245,24 @@ $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_VOXCPM)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_WHISPERX)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_ACE_STEP)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_ACESTEP_CPP)))
+$(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_QWEN3_TTS_CPP)))
+$(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_VIBEVOICE_CPP)))
+$(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_LOCALVQE)))
+$(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_MLX)))
+$(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_MLX_VLM)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_MLX_DISTRIBUTED)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_TRL)))
 $(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_LLAMA_CPP_QUANTIZATION)))
+$(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_TINYGRAD)))
+$(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_KOKOROS)))
+$(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_SAM3_CPP)))
+$(eval $(call generate-docker-build-target,$(BACKEND_SHERPA_ONNX)))
 
 # Pattern rule for docker-save targets
 docker-save-%: backend-images
 	docker save local-ai-backend:$* -o backend-images/$*.tar
 
-docker-build-backends: docker-build-llama-cpp docker-build-rerankers docker-build-vllm docker-build-vllm-omni docker-build-transformers docker-build-outetts docker-build-diffusers docker-build-kokoro docker-build-faster-whisper docker-build-coqui docker-build-chatterbox docker-build-vibevoice docker-build-moonshine docker-build-pocket-tts docker-build-qwen-tts docker-build-fish-speech docker-build-faster-qwen3-tts docker-build-qwen-asr docker-build-nemo docker-build-voxcpm docker-build-whisperx docker-build-ace-step docker-build-acestep-cpp docker-build-voxtral docker-build-mlx-distributed docker-build-trl docker-build-llama-cpp-quantization
+docker-build-backends: docker-build-llama-cpp docker-build-ik-llama-cpp docker-build-turboquant docker-build-rerankers docker-build-vllm docker-build-vllm-omni docker-build-sglang docker-build-transformers docker-build-outetts docker-build-diffusers docker-build-kokoro docker-build-faster-whisper docker-build-coqui docker-build-chatterbox docker-build-vibevoice docker-build-moonshine docker-build-pocket-tts docker-build-qwen-tts docker-build-fish-speech docker-build-faster-qwen3-tts docker-build-qwen-asr docker-build-nemo docker-build-voxcpm docker-build-whisperx docker-build-ace-step docker-build-acestep-cpp docker-build-voxtral docker-build-mlx-distributed docker-build-trl docker-build-llama-cpp-quantization docker-build-tinygrad docker-build-kokoros docker-build-sam3-cpp docker-build-qwen3-tts-cpp docker-build-vibevoice-cpp docker-build-localvqe docker-build-insightface docker-build-speaker-recognition docker-build-sherpa-onnx
 
 ########################################################
 ### Mock Backend for E2E Tests

README.md

@@ -32,13 +32,13 @@
 **LocalAI** is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.
 
 - **Drop-in API compatibility** — OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs APIs
-- **35+ backends** — llama.cpp, vLLM, transformers, whisper, diffusers, MLX...
+- **36+ backends** — llama.cpp, vLLM, transformers, whisper, diffusers, MLX...
 - **Any hardware** — NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Apple Silicon, Vulkan, or CPU-only
 - **Multi-user ready** — API key auth, user quotas, role-based access
 - **Built-in AI agents** — autonomous agents with tool use, RAG, MCP, and skills
 - **Privacy-first** — your data never leaves your infrastructure
 
-Created and maintained by [Ettore Di Giacinto](https://github.com/mudler).
+Created by [Ettore Di Giacinto](https://github.com/mudler) and maintained by the [LocalAI team](#team).
 
 > [:book: Documentation](https://localai.io/) | [:speech_balloon: Discord](https://discord.gg/uJAeKSAGDy) | [💻 Quickstart](https://localai.io/basics/getting_started/) | [🖼️ Models](https://models.localai.io/) | [❓FAQ](https://localai.io/faq/)
 
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ For more details, see the [Getting Started guide](https://localai.io/basics/gett
 
 ## Latest News
 
+- **April 2026**: [Voice recognition](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9500), [Face recognition, identification & liveness detection](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9480), [Ollama API compatibility](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9284), [Video generation in stable-diffusion.ggml](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9420), [Backend versioning with auto-upgrade](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9315), [Pin models & load-on-demand toggle](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9309), [Universal model importer](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9466), new backends: [sglang](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9359), [ik-llama-cpp](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9326), [TurboQuant](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9355), [sam.cpp](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9288), [Kokoros](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9212), [qwen3tts.cpp](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9316), [tinygrad multimodal](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/9364)
 - **March 2026**: [Agent management](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8820), [New React UI](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8772), [WebRTC](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8790), [MLX-distributed via P2P and RDMA](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8801), [MCP Apps, MCP Client-side](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8947)
 - **February 2026**: [Realtime API for audio-to-audio with tool calling](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/6245), [ACE-Step 1.5 support](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pull/8396)
 - **January 2026**: **LocalAI 3.10.0** — Anthropic API support, Open Responses API, video & image generation (LTX-2), unified GPU backends, tool streaming, Moonshine, Pocket-TTS. [Release notes](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/releases/tag/v3.10.0)
@@ -185,7 +186,7 @@ For older news and full release notes, see [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/
 
 ## Supported Backends & Acceleration
 
-LocalAI supports **35+ backends** including llama.cpp, vLLM, transformers, whisper.cpp, diffusers, MLX, MLX-VLM, and many more. Hardware acceleration is available for **NVIDIA** (CUDA 12/13), **AMD** (ROCm), **Intel** (oneAPI/SYCL), **Apple Silicon** (Metal), **Vulkan**, and **NVIDIA Jetson** (L4T). All backends can be installed on-the-fly from the [Backend Gallery](https://localai.io/backends/).
+LocalAI supports **36+ backends** including llama.cpp, vLLM, transformers, whisper.cpp, diffusers, MLX, MLX-VLM, and many more. Hardware acceleration is available for **NVIDIA** (CUDA 12/13), **AMD** (ROCm), **Intel** (oneAPI/SYCL), **Apple Silicon** (Metal), **Vulkan**, and **NVIDIA Jetson** (L4T). All backends can be installed on-the-fly from the [Backend Gallery](https://localai.io/backends/).
 
 See the full [Backend & Model Compatibility Table](https://localai.io/model-compatibility/) and [GPU Acceleration guide](https://localai.io/features/gpu-acceleration/).
 
@@ -196,16 +197,18 @@ See the full [Backend & Model Compatibility Table](https://localai.io/model-comp
 - [Build from source](https://localai.io/basics/build/)
 - [Kubernetes installation](https://localai.io/basics/getting_started/#run-localai-in-kubernetes)
 - [Integrations & community projects](https://localai.io/docs/integrations/)
+- [Installation video walkthrough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVNnlqwfw4)
 - [Media & blog posts](https://localai.io/basics/news/#media-blogs-social)
 - [Examples](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI-examples)
 
-## Autonomous Development Team
+## Team
 
-LocalAI is helped being maintained by a team of autonomous AI agents led by an AI Scrum Master.
+LocalAI is maintained by a small team of humans, together with the wider community of contributors.
 
-- **Live Reports**: [reports.localai.io](http://reports.localai.io)
-- **Project Board**: [Agent task tracking](https://github.com/users/mudler/projects/6)
-- **Blog Post**: [Learn about the experiment](https://mudler.pm/posts/2026/02/28/a-call-to-open-source-maintainers-stop-babysitting-ai-how-i-built-a-100-local-autonomous-dev-team-to-maintain-localai-and-why-you-should-too/)
+- **[Ettore Di Giacinto](https://github.com/mudler)** — original author and project lead
+- **[Richard Palethorpe](https://github.com/richiejp)** — maintainer
+
+A huge thank you to everyone who contributes code, reviews PRs, files issues, and helps users in [Discord](https://discord.gg/uJAeKSAGDy) — LocalAI is a community-driven project and wouldn't exist without you. See the full [contributors list](https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/graphs/contributors).
 
 ## Citation
 
@@ -248,7 +251,7 @@ A special thanks to individual sponsors, a full list is on [GitHub](https://gith
 
 ## License
 
-LocalAI is a community-driven project created by [Ettore Di Giacinto](https://github.com/mudler/).
+LocalAI is a community-driven project created by [Ettore Di Giacinto](https://github.com/mudler/) and maintained by the [LocalAI team](#team).
 
 MIT - Author Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
 

backend/Dockerfile.golang

@@ -1,189 +1,37 @@
-ARG BASE_IMAGE=ubuntu:24.04
+# Builds a single Go backend on top of the shared
+# .docker/bases/Dockerfile.golang base. The base bakes in apt + GPU SDK +
+# Go toolchain + protoc + grpc tooling, so this stage only carries the
+# per-backend opus-dev install + COPY + `make build`.
+#
+# CI orchestration (.github/workflows/backend.yml + backend_pr.yml) builds
+# the right base flavour automatically via scripts/changed-backends.js
+# and passes BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT here. For local builds, run:
+#   make backend-image-base LANG=golang BUILD_TYPE=<...>
+#   make backend-image BACKEND=<...> BUILD_TYPE=<...>
+# See .agents/ci-caching.md.
+
+ARG BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT
+
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT} AS builder
 
-FROM ${BASE_IMAGE} AS builder
 ARG BACKEND=rerankers
 ARG BUILD_TYPE
 ENV BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE}
 ARG CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION
 ARG CUDA_MINOR_VERSION
-ARG SKIP_DRIVERS=false
 ENV CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}
 ENV CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
-ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
 ARG TARGETARCH
 ARG TARGETVARIANT
-ARG GO_VERSION=1.25.4
-ARG UBUNTU_VERSION=2404
-
-RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-        build-essential \
-        git ccache \
-        ca-certificates \
-        make cmake wget libopenblas-dev \
-        curl unzip \
-        libssl-dev && \
-    apt-get clean && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-
-# Cuda
-ENV PATH=/usr/local/cuda/bin:${PATH}
-
-# HipBLAS requirements
-ENV PATH=/opt/rocm/bin:${PATH}
-
-
-# Vulkan requirements
-RUN <<EOT bash
-    if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "vulkan" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y  --no-install-recommends \
-            software-properties-common pciutils wget gpg-agent && \
-        apt-get install -y libglm-dev cmake libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-present0 libpciaccess0 \
-            libpng-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libx11-dev g++ gcc \
-            libwayland-dev libxrandr-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev \
-            git python-is-python3 bison libx11-xcb-dev liblz4-dev libzstd-dev \
-            ocaml-core ninja-build pkg-config libxml2-dev wayland-protocols python3-jsonschema \
-            clang-format qtbase5-dev qt6-base-dev libxcb-glx0-dev sudo xz-utils
-        if [ "amd64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-            wget "https://sdk.lunarg.com/sdk/download/1.4.335.0/linux/vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz" && \
-            tar -xf vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
-            rm vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
-            mkdir -p /opt/vulkan-sdk && \
-            mv 1.4.335.0 /opt/vulkan-sdk/ && \
-            cd /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0 && \
-            ./vulkansdk --no-deps --maxjobs \
-                vulkan-loader \
-                vulkan-validationlayers \
-                vulkan-extensionlayer \
-                vulkan-tools \
-                shaderc && \
-            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/bin/* /usr/bin/ && \
-            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/lib/* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ && \
-            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/include/* /usr/include/ && \
-            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/share/* /usr/share/ && \
-            rm -rf /opt/vulkan-sdk
-        fi
-        if [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-            mkdir vulkan && cd vulkan && \
-            curl -L -o vulkan-sdk.tar.xz https://github.com/mudler/vulkan-sdk-arm/releases/download/1.4.335.0/vulkansdk-ubuntu-24.04-arm-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
-            tar -xvf vulkan-sdk.tar.xz && \
-            rm vulkan-sdk.tar.xz && \
-            cd 1.4.335.0 && \
-            cp -rfv aarch64/bin/* /usr/bin/ && \
-            cp -rfv aarch64/lib/* /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ && \
-            cp -rfv aarch64/include/* /usr/include/ && \
-            cp -rfv aarch64/share/* /usr/share/ && \
-            cd ../.. && \
-            rm -rf vulkan
-        fi
-        ldconfig && \
-        apt-get clean && \
-        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-    fi
-EOT
-
-# CuBLAS requirements
-RUN <<EOT bash
-    if ( [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "cublas" ] || [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "l4t" ] ) && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y  --no-install-recommends \
-            software-properties-common pciutils
-        if [ "amd64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-            curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
-        fi
-        if [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-            if [ "${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}" = "13" ]; then
-                curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/sbsa/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
-            else
-                curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/arm64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
-            fi
-        fi
-        dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb && \
-        rm -f cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb && \
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            cuda-nvcc-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
-            libcufft-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
-            libcurand-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
-            libcublas-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
-            libcusparse-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
-            libcusolver-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
-        if [ "${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}" = "13" ] && [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-            apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            libcufile-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} libcudnn9-cuda-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION} cuda-cupti-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} libnvjitlink-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
-        fi
-        apt-get clean && \
-        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-    fi
-EOT
-
-
-# https://github.com/NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T/issues/343
-RUN <<EOT bash
-    if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "cublas" ] && [ "${TARGETARCH}" = "arm64" ]; then
-        wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cudss/0.6.0/local_installers/cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0_0.6.0-1_arm64.deb && \
-        dpkg -i cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0_0.6.0-1_arm64.deb && \
-        cp /var/cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0/cudss-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ && \
-        apt-get update && apt-get -y install cudss cudss-cuda-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION} && \
-        wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/nvpl/25.5/local_installers/nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5_1.0-1_arm64.deb && \
-        dpkg -i nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5_1.0-1_arm64.deb && \
-        cp /var/nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5/nvpl-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ && \
-        apt-get update && apt-get install -y nvpl
-    fi
-EOT
-
-# If we are building with clblas support, we need the libraries for the builds
-RUN if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "clblas" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then \
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            libclblast-dev && \
-        apt-get clean && \
-        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
-    ; fi
-
-RUN if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "hipblas" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then \
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            hipblas-dev \
-            rocblas-dev && \
-        apt-get clean && \
-        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
-        # I have no idea why, but the ROCM lib packages don't trigger ldconfig after they install, which results in local-ai and others not being able
-        # to locate the libraries. We run ldconfig ourselves to work around this packaging deficiency
-        ldconfig \
-    ; fi
-
-# Install Go
-RUN curl -L -s https://go.dev/dl/go${GO_VERSION}.linux-${TARGETARCH}.tar.gz | tar -C /usr/local -xz
-ENV PATH=$PATH:/root/go/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:/usr/local/bin
-
-# Install grpc compilers
-RUN go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@v1.34.2 && \
-    go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@1958fcbe2ca8bd93af633f11e97d44e567e945af
-RUN echo "TARGETARCH: $TARGETARCH"
-
-# We need protoc installed, and the version in 22.04 is too old.  We will create one as part installing the GRPC build below
-# but that will also being in a newer version of absl which stablediffusion cannot compile with.  This version of protoc is only
-# here so that we can generate the grpc code for the stablediffusion build
-RUN <<EOT bash
-    if [ "amd64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-        curl -L -s https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v27.1/protoc-27.1-linux-x86_64.zip -o protoc.zip && \
-        unzip -j -d /usr/local/bin protoc.zip bin/protoc && \
-        rm protoc.zip
-    fi
-    if [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-        curl -L -s https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v27.1/protoc-27.1-linux-aarch_64.zip -o protoc.zip && \
-        unzip -j -d /usr/local/bin protoc.zip bin/protoc && \
-        rm protoc.zip
-    fi
-EOT
+ARG AMDGPU_TARGETS
+ENV AMDGPU_TARGETS=${AMDGPU_TARGETS}
 
+# opus-dev is only needed for the opus backend; install on demand to keep
+# every other golang backend's base image lean.
 RUN if [ "${BACKEND}" = "opus" ]; then \
-    apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libopus-dev pkg-config && \
-    apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
-fi
+        apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libopus-dev pkg-config && \
+        apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+    fi
 
 COPY . /LocalAI
 

backend/Dockerfile.ik-llama-cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+# Builds the ik-llama-cpp backend on top of the shared
+# .docker/bases/Dockerfile.cpp base (shared with llama-cpp/turboquant).
+# See backend/Dockerfile.llama-cpp for the rationale; this consumer differs
+# only in the make targets at the end.
+
+ARG BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT
+
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT} AS builder
+
+ARG CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH
+ENV CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH=${CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH}
+ARG CMAKE_ARGS
+ENV CMAKE_ARGS=${CMAKE_ARGS}
+ARG BACKEND=ik-llama-cpp
+ARG BUILD_TYPE
+ENV BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE}
+ARG CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION
+ARG CUDA_MINOR_VERSION
+ENV CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}
+ENV CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
+ARG TARGETARCH
+ARG TARGETVARIANT
+
+COPY . /LocalAI
+
+RUN <<'EOT' bash
+set -euxo pipefail
+
+if [[ -n "${CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH:-}" ]]; then
+  CUDA_ARCH_ESC="${CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH//;/\\;}"
+  export CMAKE_ARGS="${CMAKE_ARGS:-} -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=${CUDA_ARCH_ESC}"
+  echo "CMAKE_ARGS(env) = ${CMAKE_ARGS}"
+  rm -rf /LocalAI/backend/cpp/ik-llama-cpp-*-build
+fi
+
+cd /LocalAI/backend/cpp/ik-llama-cpp
+
+if [ "${TARGETARCH}" = "arm64" ] || [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "hipblas" ]; then
+  # ARM64 / ROCm: build without x86 SIMD
+  make ik-llama-cpp-fallback
+else
+  # ik_llama.cpp's IQK kernels require at least AVX2
+  make ik-llama-cpp-avx2
+fi
+EOT
+
+
+RUN make -BC /LocalAI/backend/cpp/ik-llama-cpp package
+
+
+FROM scratch
+
+
+COPY --from=builder /LocalAI/backend/cpp/ik-llama-cpp/package/. ./

backend/Dockerfile.llama-cpp

@@ -1,250 +1,31 @@
-ARG BASE_IMAGE=ubuntu:24.04
-ARG GRPC_BASE_IMAGE=${BASE_IMAGE}
+# Builds the llama-cpp backend on top of the shared
+# .docker/bases/Dockerfile.cpp base. The base bakes in apt + GPU SDK +
+# protoc + cmake + GRPC, so this stage only carries the COPY + `make`
+# invocations and the final scratch-stage package.
+#
+# CI orchestration (.github/workflows/backend.yml + backend_pr.yml) passes
+# BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT. See .agents/ci-caching.md.
 
+ARG BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT
 
-# The grpc target does one thing, it builds and installs GRPC.  This is in it's own layer so that it can be effectively cached by CI.
-# You probably don't need to change anything here, and if you do, make sure that CI is adjusted so that the cache continues to work.
-FROM ${GRPC_BASE_IMAGE} AS grpc
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT} AS builder
 
-# This is a bit of a hack, but it's required in order to be able to effectively cache this layer in CI
-ARG GRPC_MAKEFLAGS="-j4 -Otarget"
-ARG GRPC_VERSION=v1.65.0
-ARG CMAKE_FROM_SOURCE=false
-# CUDA Toolkit 13.x compatibility: CMake 3.31.9+ fixes toolchain detection/arch table issues
-ARG CMAKE_VERSION=3.31.10
-
-ENV MAKEFLAGS=${GRPC_MAKEFLAGS}
-
-WORKDIR /build
-
-RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-        ca-certificates \
-        build-essential curl libssl-dev \
-        git wget && \
-    apt-get clean && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-# Install CMake (the version in 22.04 is too old)
-RUN <<EOT bash
-    if [ "${CMAKE_FROM_SOURCE}" = "true" ]; then
-        curl -L -s https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v${CMAKE_VERSION}/cmake-${CMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz -o cmake.tar.gz && tar xvf cmake.tar.gz && cd cmake-${CMAKE_VERSION} && ./configure && make && make install
-    else
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y \
-            cmake && \
-        apt-get clean && \
-        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-    fi
-EOT
-
-# We install GRPC to a different prefix here so that we can copy in only the build artifacts later
-# saves several hundred MB on the final docker image size vs copying in the entire GRPC source tree
-# and running make install in the target container
-RUN git clone --recurse-submodules --jobs 4 -b ${GRPC_VERSION} --depth 1 --shallow-submodules https://github.com/grpc/grpc && \
-    mkdir -p /build/grpc/cmake/build && \
-    cd /build/grpc/cmake/build && \
-    sed -i "216i\  TESTONLY" "../../third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/container/CMakeLists.txt" && \
-    cmake -DgRPC_INSTALL=ON -DgRPC_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/opt/grpc ../.. && \
-    make && \
-    make install && \
-    rm -rf /build
-
-FROM ${BASE_IMAGE} AS builder
-ARG CMAKE_FROM_SOURCE=false
-ARG CMAKE_VERSION=3.31.10
 # We can target specific CUDA ARCHITECTURES like --build-arg CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH='75;86;89;120'
 ARG CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH
 ENV CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH=${CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH}
 ARG CMAKE_ARGS
 ENV CMAKE_ARGS=${CMAKE_ARGS}
-ARG BACKEND=rerankers
+ARG AMDGPU_TARGETS
+ENV AMDGPU_TARGETS=${AMDGPU_TARGETS}
+ARG BACKEND=llama-cpp
 ARG BUILD_TYPE
 ENV BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE}
 ARG CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION
 ARG CUDA_MINOR_VERSION
-ARG SKIP_DRIVERS=false
 ENV CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}
 ENV CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
-ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
 ARG TARGETARCH
 ARG TARGETVARIANT
-ARG GO_VERSION=1.25.4
-ARG UBUNTU_VERSION=2404
-
-RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-        build-essential \
-        ccache git \
-        ca-certificates \
-        make \
-        pkg-config libcurl4-openssl-dev \
-        curl unzip \
-        libssl-dev wget && \
-    apt-get clean && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-# Cuda
-ENV PATH=/usr/local/cuda/bin:${PATH}
-
-# HipBLAS requirements
-ENV PATH=/opt/rocm/bin:${PATH}
-
-
-# Vulkan requirements
-RUN <<EOT bash
-    if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "vulkan" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y  --no-install-recommends \
-            software-properties-common pciutils wget gpg-agent && \
-        apt-get install -y libglm-dev cmake libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-present0 libpciaccess0 \
-            libpng-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libx11-dev g++ gcc \
-            libwayland-dev libxrandr-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev \
-            git python-is-python3 bison libx11-xcb-dev liblz4-dev libzstd-dev \
-            ocaml-core ninja-build pkg-config libxml2-dev wayland-protocols python3-jsonschema \
-            clang-format qtbase5-dev qt6-base-dev libxcb-glx0-dev sudo xz-utils
-        if [ "amd64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-            wget "https://sdk.lunarg.com/sdk/download/1.4.335.0/linux/vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz" && \
-            tar -xf vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
-            rm vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
-            mkdir -p /opt/vulkan-sdk && \
-            mv 1.4.335.0 /opt/vulkan-sdk/ && \
-            cd /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0 && \
-            ./vulkansdk --no-deps --maxjobs \
-                vulkan-loader \
-                vulkan-validationlayers \
-                vulkan-extensionlayer \
-                vulkan-tools \
-                shaderc && \
-            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/bin/* /usr/bin/ && \
-            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/lib/* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ && \
-            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/include/* /usr/include/ && \
-            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/share/* /usr/share/ && \
-            rm -rf /opt/vulkan-sdk
-        fi
-        if [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-            mkdir vulkan && cd vulkan && \
-            curl -L -o vulkan-sdk.tar.xz https://github.com/mudler/vulkan-sdk-arm/releases/download/1.4.335.0/vulkansdk-ubuntu-24.04-arm-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
-            tar -xvf vulkan-sdk.tar.xz && \
-            rm vulkan-sdk.tar.xz && \
-            cd 1.4.335.0 && \
-            cp -rfv aarch64/bin/* /usr/bin/ && \
-            cp -rfv aarch64/lib/* /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ && \
-            cp -rfv aarch64/include/* /usr/include/ && \
-            cp -rfv aarch64/share/* /usr/share/ && \
-            cd ../.. && \
-            rm -rf vulkan
-        fi
-        ldconfig && \
-        apt-get clean && \
-        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-    fi
-EOT
-
-# CuBLAS requirements
-RUN <<EOT bash
-    if ( [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "cublas" ] || [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "l4t" ] ) && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y  --no-install-recommends \
-            software-properties-common pciutils
-        if [ "amd64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-            curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
-        fi
-        if [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-            if [ "${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}" = "13" ]; then
-                curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/sbsa/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
-            else
-                curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/arm64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
-            fi
-        fi
-        dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb && \
-        rm -f cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb && \
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            cuda-nvcc-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
-            libcufft-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
-            libcurand-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
-            libcublas-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
-            libcusparse-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
-            libcusolver-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
-        if [ "${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}" = "13" ] && [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-            apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            libcufile-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} libcudnn9-cuda-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION} cuda-cupti-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} libnvjitlink-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
-        fi
-        apt-get clean && \
-        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-    fi
-EOT
-
-
-# https://github.com/NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T/issues/343
-RUN <<EOT bash
-    if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "cublas" ] && [ "${TARGETARCH}" = "arm64" ]; then
-        wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cudss/0.6.0/local_installers/cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0_0.6.0-1_arm64.deb && \
-        dpkg -i cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0_0.6.0-1_arm64.deb && \
-        cp /var/cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0/cudss-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ && \
-        apt-get update && apt-get -y install cudss cudss-cuda-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION} && \
-        wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/nvpl/25.5/local_installers/nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5_1.0-1_arm64.deb && \
-        dpkg -i nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5_1.0-1_arm64.deb && \
-        cp /var/nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5/nvpl-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ && \
-        apt-get update && apt-get install -y nvpl
-    fi
-EOT
-
-# If we are building with clblas support, we need the libraries for the builds
-RUN if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "clblas" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then \
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            libclblast-dev && \
-        apt-get clean && \
-        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
-    ; fi
-
-RUN if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "hipblas" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then \
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            hipblas-dev \
-            rocblas-dev && \
-        apt-get clean && \
-        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
-        # I have no idea why, but the ROCM lib packages don't trigger ldconfig after they install, which results in local-ai and others not being able
-        # to locate the libraries. We run ldconfig ourselves to work around this packaging deficiency
-        ldconfig \
-    ; fi
-
-RUN echo "TARGETARCH: $TARGETARCH"
-
-# We need protoc installed, and the version in 22.04 is too old.  We will create one as part installing the GRPC build below
-# but that will also being in a newer version of absl which stablediffusion cannot compile with.  This version of protoc is only
-# here so that we can generate the grpc code for the stablediffusion build
-RUN <<EOT bash
-    if [ "amd64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-        curl -L -s https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v27.1/protoc-27.1-linux-x86_64.zip -o protoc.zip && \
-        unzip -j -d /usr/local/bin protoc.zip bin/protoc && \
-        rm protoc.zip
-    fi
-    if [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-        curl -L -s https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/download/v27.1/protoc-27.1-linux-aarch_64.zip -o protoc.zip && \
-        unzip -j -d /usr/local/bin protoc.zip bin/protoc && \
-        rm protoc.zip
-    fi
-EOT
-
-# Install CMake (the version in 22.04 is too old)
-RUN <<EOT bash
-    if [ "${CMAKE_FROM_SOURCE}" = "true" ]; then
-        curl -L -s https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v${CMAKE_VERSION}/cmake-${CMAKE_VERSION}.tar.gz -o cmake.tar.gz && tar xvf cmake.tar.gz && cd cmake-${CMAKE_VERSION} && ./configure && make && make install
-    else
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y \
-            cmake && \
-        apt-get clean && \
-        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-    fi
-EOT
-
-COPY --from=grpc /opt/grpc /usr/local
-
 
 COPY . /LocalAI
 

backend/Dockerfile.python

@@ -1,200 +1,45 @@
-ARG BASE_IMAGE=ubuntu:24.04
+# Builds a single Python backend on top of the shared
+# .docker/bases/Dockerfile.python base. The base bakes in apt-update + GPU
+# SDK install + python toolchain (uv, pip, rustup, grpcio-tools), so this
+# stage only carries the per-backend source COPY + `make`.
+#
+# CI orchestration (.github/workflows/backend.yml + backend_pr.yml) builds
+# the right base flavour automatically via scripts/derive-build-matrix.js
+# and passes BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT here. For local builds, run:
+#   make backend-image-base BUILD_TYPE=<...>     # build the base
+#   make backend-image BACKEND=<...> BUILD_TYPE=<...>
+# See .agents/ci-caching.md.
+
+ARG BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT
+
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT} AS builder
 
-FROM ${BASE_IMAGE} AS builder
 ARG BACKEND=rerankers
 ARG BUILD_TYPE
 ENV BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE}
 ARG CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION
 ARG CUDA_MINOR_VERSION
-ARG SKIP_DRIVERS=false
 ENV CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}
 ENV CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
-ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-ARG TARGETARCH
-ARG TARGETVARIANT
-ARG UBUNTU_VERSION=2404
-
-RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-        build-essential \
-        ccache \
-        ca-certificates \
-        espeak-ng \
-        curl \
-        libssl-dev \
-        git wget \
-        git-lfs \
-        unzip clang \
-        upx-ucl \
-        curl python3-pip \
-        python-is-python3 \
-        python3-dev llvm \
-        python3-venv make cmake && \
-    apt-get clean && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-RUN <<EOT bash
-    if [ "${UBUNTU_VERSION}" = "2404" ]; then
-        pip install --break-system-packages --user --upgrade pip
-    else
-        pip install --upgrade pip
-    fi
-EOT
-
-
-# Cuda
-ENV PATH=/usr/local/cuda/bin:${PATH}
-
-# HipBLAS requirements
-ENV PATH=/opt/rocm/bin:${PATH}
-
-# Vulkan requirements
-RUN <<EOT bash
-    if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "vulkan" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y  --no-install-recommends \
-            software-properties-common pciutils wget gpg-agent && \
-        apt-get install -y libglm-dev cmake libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-present0 libpciaccess0 \
-            libpng-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libx11-dev g++ gcc \
-            libwayland-dev libxrandr-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev \
-            git python-is-python3 bison libx11-xcb-dev liblz4-dev libzstd-dev \
-            ocaml-core ninja-build pkg-config libxml2-dev wayland-protocols python3-jsonschema \
-            clang-format qtbase5-dev qt6-base-dev libxcb-glx0-dev sudo xz-utils
-        if [ "amd64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-            wget "https://sdk.lunarg.com/sdk/download/1.4.335.0/linux/vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz" && \
-            tar -xf vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
-            rm vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
-            mkdir -p /opt/vulkan-sdk && \
-            mv 1.4.335.0 /opt/vulkan-sdk/ && \
-            cd /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0 && \
-            ./vulkansdk --no-deps --maxjobs \
-                vulkan-loader \
-                vulkan-validationlayers \
-                vulkan-extensionlayer \
-                vulkan-tools \
-                shaderc && \
-            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/bin/* /usr/bin/ && \
-            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/lib/* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ && \
-            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/include/* /usr/include/ && \
-            cp -rfv /opt/vulkan-sdk/1.4.335.0/x86_64/share/* /usr/share/ && \
-            rm -rf /opt/vulkan-sdk
-        fi
-        if [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-            mkdir vulkan && cd vulkan && \
-            curl -L -o vulkan-sdk.tar.xz https://github.com/mudler/vulkan-sdk-arm/releases/download/1.4.335.0/vulkansdk-ubuntu-24.04-arm-1.4.335.0.tar.xz && \
-            tar -xvf vulkan-sdk.tar.xz && \
-            rm vulkan-sdk.tar.xz && \
-            cd 1.4.335.0 && \
-            cp -rfv aarch64/bin/* /usr/bin/ && \
-            cp -rfv aarch64/lib/* /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ && \
-            cp -rfv aarch64/include/* /usr/include/ && \
-            cp -rfv aarch64/share/* /usr/share/ && \
-            cd ../.. && \
-            rm -rf vulkan
-        fi
-        ldconfig && \
-        apt-get clean && \
-        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-    fi
-EOT
-
-# CuBLAS requirements
-RUN <<EOT bash
-    if ( [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "cublas" ] || [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "l4t" ] ) && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y  --no-install-recommends \
-            software-properties-common pciutils
-        if [ "amd64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-            curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
-        fi
-        if [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-            if [ "${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}" = "13" ]; then
-                curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/sbsa/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
-            else
-                curl -O https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}/arm64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
-            fi
-        fi
-        dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb && \
-        rm -f cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb && \
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            cuda-nvcc-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
-            libcufft-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
-            libcurand-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
-            libcublas-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
-            libcusparse-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} \
-            libcusolver-dev-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
-        if [ "${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}" = "13" ] && [ "arm64" = "$TARGETARCH" ]; then
-            apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            libcufile-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} libcudnn9-cuda-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION} cuda-cupti-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION} libnvjitlink-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}-${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
-        fi
-        apt-get clean && \
-        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-    fi
-EOT
-
-
-# https://github.com/NVIDIA/Isaac-GR00T/issues/343
-RUN <<EOT bash
-    if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "cublas" ] && [ "${TARGETARCH}" = "arm64" ]; then
-        wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cudss/0.6.0/local_installers/cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0_0.6.0-1_arm64.deb && \
-        dpkg -i cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0_0.6.0-1_arm64.deb && \
-        cp /var/cudss-local-tegra-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-0.6.0/cudss-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ && \
-        apt-get update && apt-get -y install cudss cudss-cuda-${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION} && \
-        wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/nvpl/25.5/local_installers/nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5_1.0-1_arm64.deb && \
-        dpkg -i nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5_1.0-1_arm64.deb && \
-        cp /var/nvpl-local-repo-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-25.5/nvpl-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ && \
-        apt-get update && apt-get install -y nvpl
-    fi
-EOT
-
-# If we are building with clblas support, we need the libraries for the builds
-RUN if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "clblas" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then \
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            libclblast-dev && \
-        apt-get clean && \
-        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
-    ; fi
-
-RUN if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "hipblas" ] && [ "${SKIP_DRIVERS}" = "false" ]; then \
-        apt-get update && \
-        apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            hipblas-dev \
-            rocblas-dev && \
-        apt-get clean && \
-        rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
-        # I have no idea why, but the ROCM lib packages don't trigger ldconfig after they install, which results in local-ai and others not being able
-        # to locate the libraries. We run ldconfig ourselves to work around this packaging deficiency
-        ldconfig \
-    ; fi
-
-RUN if [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "hipblas" ]; then \
-    ln -s /opt/rocm-**/lib/llvm/lib/libomp.so /usr/lib/libomp.so \
-    ; fi
-
-# Install uv as a system package
-RUN curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | UV_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/bin sh
-ENV PATH="/root/.cargo/bin:${PATH}"
-# Increase timeout for uv installs behind slow networks
-ENV UV_HTTP_TIMEOUT=180
-RUN curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
-
-# Install grpcio-tools (the version in 22.04 is too old)
-RUN <<EOT bash
-    if [ "${UBUNTU_VERSION}" = "2404" ]; then
-        pip install --break-system-packages --user grpcio-tools==1.71.0 grpcio==1.71.0
-    else
-        pip install grpcio-tools==1.71.0 grpcio==1.71.0
-    fi
-EOT
-
 
 COPY backend/python/${BACKEND} /${BACKEND}
 COPY backend/backend.proto /${BACKEND}/backend.proto
 COPY backend/python/common/ /${BACKEND}/common
 COPY scripts/build/package-gpu-libs.sh /package-gpu-libs.sh
 
+# Optional per-backend source build toggle (e.g. vllm on CPU can set
+# FROM_SOURCE=true to compile against the build host SIMD instead of
+# pulling a prebuilt wheel). Default empty — most backends ignore it.
+ARG FROM_SOURCE=""
+ENV FROM_SOURCE=${FROM_SOURCE}
+
+# Cache-buster for the per-backend `make` step. Most Python backends list
+# unpinned deps (torch, transformers, vllm, ...), so a warm registry cache
+# would otherwise freeze upstream versions indefinitely. CI passes a value
+# that rolls weekly so the install layer is rebuilt at most once per week
+# and picks up newer wheels from PyPI / nightly indexes.
+ARG DEPS_REFRESH=initial
+
 RUN cd /${BACKEND} && PORTABLE_PYTHON=true make
 
 # Package GPU libraries into the backend's lib directory
@@ -209,4 +54,4 @@ RUN if [ -f "/${BACKEND}/package.sh" ]; then \
 
 FROM scratch
 ARG BACKEND=rerankers
-COPY --from=builder /${BACKEND}/ /
+COPY --from=builder /${BACKEND}/ /

backend/Dockerfile.rust

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Builds a single Rust backend on top of the shared
+# .docker/bases/Dockerfile.rust base. The base bakes in apt + Rust +
+# protobuf-compiler + audio dev libs (espeak/sonic/pcaudio/opus), so this
+# stage only carries the per-backend COPY + `make build`.
+#
+# CI orchestration (.github/workflows/backend.yml + backend_pr.yml) passes
+# BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT. See .agents/ci-caching.md.
+
+ARG BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT
+
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT} AS builder
+ARG BACKEND=kokoros
+
+COPY . /LocalAI
+
+RUN git config --global --add safe.directory /LocalAI
+
+RUN make -C /LocalAI/backend/rust/${BACKEND} build
+
+FROM scratch
+ARG BACKEND=kokoros
+
+COPY --from=builder /LocalAI/backend/rust/${BACKEND}/package/. ./

backend/Dockerfile.turboquant

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# Builds the turboquant backend on top of the shared
+# .docker/bases/Dockerfile.cpp base (shared with llama-cpp/ik-llama-cpp).
+# See backend/Dockerfile.llama-cpp for the rationale; this consumer differs
+# only in the make targets at the end.
+
+ARG BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT
+
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE_PREBUILT} AS builder
+
+ARG CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH
+ENV CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH=${CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH}
+ARG CMAKE_ARGS
+ENV CMAKE_ARGS=${CMAKE_ARGS}
+ARG BACKEND=turboquant
+ARG BUILD_TYPE
+ENV BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE}
+ARG CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION
+ARG CUDA_MINOR_VERSION
+ENV CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION=${CUDA_MAJOR_VERSION}
+ENV CUDA_MINOR_VERSION=${CUDA_MINOR_VERSION}
+ARG TARGETARCH
+ARG TARGETVARIANT
+
+COPY . /LocalAI
+
+RUN <<'EOT' bash
+set -euxo pipefail
+
+if [[ -n "${CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH:-}" ]]; then
+  CUDA_ARCH_ESC="${CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH//;/\\;}"
+  export CMAKE_ARGS="${CMAKE_ARGS:-} -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=${CUDA_ARCH_ESC}"
+  echo "CMAKE_ARGS(env) = ${CMAKE_ARGS}"
+  rm -rf /LocalAI/backend/cpp/turboquant-*-build
+fi
+
+cd /LocalAI/backend/cpp/turboquant
+
+if [ "${TARGETARCH}" = "arm64" ] || [ "${BUILD_TYPE}" = "hipblas" ]; then
+  make turboquant-fallback
+  make turboquant-grpc
+  make turboquant-rpc-server
+else
+  make turboquant-avx
+  make turboquant-avx2
+  make turboquant-avx512
+  make turboquant-fallback
+  make turboquant-grpc
+  make turboquant-rpc-server
+fi
+EOT
+
+
+# Copy libraries using a script to handle architecture differences
+RUN make -BC /LocalAI/backend/cpp/turboquant package
+
+
+FROM scratch
+
+
+# Copy all available binaries (the build process only creates the appropriate ones for the target architecture)
+COPY --from=builder /LocalAI/backend/cpp/turboquant/package/. ./

backend/backend.proto

@@ -17,12 +17,18 @@ service Backend {
   rpc GenerateImage(GenerateImageRequest) returns (Result) {}
   rpc GenerateVideo(GenerateVideoRequest) returns (Result) {}
   rpc AudioTranscription(TranscriptRequest) returns (TranscriptResult) {}
+  rpc AudioTranscriptionStream(TranscriptRequest) returns (stream TranscriptStreamResponse) {}
   rpc TTS(TTSRequest) returns (Result) {}
   rpc TTSStream(TTSRequest) returns (stream Reply) {}
   rpc SoundGeneration(SoundGenerationRequest) returns (Result) {}
   rpc TokenizeString(PredictOptions) returns (TokenizationResponse) {}
   rpc Status(HealthMessage) returns (StatusResponse) {}
   rpc Detect(DetectOptions) returns (DetectResponse) {}
+  rpc FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns (FaceVerifyResponse) {}
+  rpc FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns (FaceAnalyzeResponse) {}
+  rpc VoiceVerify(VoiceVerifyRequest) returns (VoiceVerifyResponse) {}
+  rpc VoiceAnalyze(VoiceAnalyzeRequest) returns (VoiceAnalyzeResponse) {}
+  rpc VoiceEmbed(VoiceEmbedRequest) returns (VoiceEmbedResponse) {}
 
   rpc StoresSet(StoresSetOptions) returns (Result) {}
   rpc StoresDelete(StoresDeleteOptions) returns (Result) {}
@@ -35,9 +41,14 @@ service Backend {
 
   rpc VAD(VADRequest) returns (VADResponse) {}
 
+  rpc Diarize(DiarizeRequest) returns (DiarizeResponse) {}
+
   rpc AudioEncode(AudioEncodeRequest) returns (AudioEncodeResult) {}
   rpc AudioDecode(AudioDecodeRequest) returns (AudioDecodeResult) {}
 
+  rpc AudioTransform(AudioTransformRequest) returns (AudioTransformResult) {}
+  rpc AudioTransformStream(stream AudioTransformFrameRequest) returns (stream AudioTransformFrameResponse) {}
+
   rpc ModelMetadata(ModelOptions) returns (ModelMetadataResponse) {}
 
   // Fine-tuning RPCs
@@ -304,6 +315,11 @@ message ModelOptions {
   bool Reranking = 71;
 
   repeated string Overrides = 72;
+
+  // EngineArgs carries a JSON-encoded map of backend-native engine arguments
+  // applied verbatim to the backend's engine constructor (e.g. vLLM AsyncEngineArgs).
+  // Unknown keys produce an error at LoadModel time.
+  string EngineArgs = 73;
 }
 
 message Result {
@@ -322,11 +338,27 @@ message TranscriptRequest {
   bool translate = 5;
   bool diarize = 6;
   string prompt = 7;
+  float temperature = 8;
+  repeated string timestamp_granularities = 9;
+  bool stream = 10;
 }
 
 message TranscriptResult {
   repeated TranscriptSegment segments = 1;
   string text = 2;
+  string language = 3;
+  float duration = 4;
+}
+
+message TranscriptStreamResponse {
+  string delta = 1;
+  TranscriptResult final_result = 2;
+}
+
+message TranscriptWord {
+  int64 start = 1;
+  int64 end = 2;
+  string text = 3;
 }
 
 message TranscriptSegment {
@@ -336,6 +368,7 @@ message TranscriptSegment {
   string text = 4;
   repeated int32 tokens = 5;
   string speaker = 6;
+  repeated TranscriptWord words = 7;
 }
 
 message GenerateImageRequest {
@@ -392,6 +425,43 @@ message VADResponse {
   repeated VADSegment segments = 1;
 }
 
+// --- Speaker diarization messages ---
+//
+// Pure speaker diarization: "who spoke when". Returns time-stamped segments
+// labelled with cluster IDs (the same string for the same speaker across
+// segments). Some backends (e.g. vibevoice.cpp) produce diarization as a
+// by-product of ASR and may also fill in `text` per segment; backends with a
+// dedicated diarization pipeline (e.g. sherpa-onnx pyannote) leave `text`
+// empty and emit only the segmentation.
+
+message DiarizeRequest {
+  string dst = 1;                      // path to audio file (HTTP layer materialises uploads to a temp file)
+  uint32 threads = 2;
+  string language = 3;                 // optional; only meaningful for transcription-bundling backends
+  int32  num_speakers = 4;             // exact speaker count if known (>0 forces); 0 = auto
+  int32  min_speakers = 5;             // hint when auto-detecting; 0 = unset
+  int32  max_speakers = 6;             // hint when auto-detecting; 0 = unset
+  float  clustering_threshold = 7;     // distance threshold when num_speakers unknown; 0 = backend default
+  float  min_duration_on = 8;          // discard segments shorter than this (seconds); 0 = backend default
+  float  min_duration_off = 9;         // merge gaps shorter than this (seconds); 0 = backend default
+  bool   include_text = 10;            // when the backend can emit per-segment transcript for free, ask it to populate `text`
+}
+
+message DiarizeSegment {
+  int32  id = 1;
+  float  start = 2;                    // seconds
+  float  end = 3;                      // seconds
+  string speaker = 4;                  // backend-emitted speaker label (e.g. "0", "SPEAKER_00")
+  string text = 5;                     // optional per-segment transcript (empty unless include_text and supported)
+}
+
+message DiarizeResponse {
+  repeated DiarizeSegment segments = 1;
+  int32  num_speakers = 2;             // count of distinct speaker labels in `segments`
+  float  duration = 3;                 // total audio duration in seconds (0 if unknown)
+  string language = 4;                 // optional, when the backend bundles transcription
+}
+
 message SoundGenerationRequest {
   string text = 1;
   string model = 2;
@@ -444,6 +514,10 @@ message Message {
 
 message DetectOptions {
   string src = 1;
+  string prompt = 2;           // Text prompt (for SAM 3 PCS mode)
+  repeated float points = 3;   // Point coordinates as [x1, y1, label1, x2, y2, label2, ...] (label: 1=pos, 0=neg)
+  repeated float boxes = 4;    // Box coordinates as [x1, y1, x2, y2, ...]
+  float threshold = 5;         // Detection confidence threshold
 }
 
 message Detection {
@@ -453,12 +527,119 @@ message Detection {
   float height = 4;
   float confidence = 5;
   string class_name = 6;
+  bytes mask = 7;              // PNG-encoded binary segmentation mask
 }
 
 message DetectResponse {
   repeated Detection Detections = 1;
 }
 
+// --- Face recognition messages ---
+
+message FacialArea {
+  float x = 1;
+  float y = 2;
+  float w = 3;
+  float h = 4;
+}
+
+message FaceVerifyRequest {
+  string img1 = 1;              // base64-encoded image
+  string img2 = 2;              // base64-encoded image
+  float  threshold = 3;         // cosine-distance threshold; 0 = use backend default
+  bool   anti_spoofing = 4;     // run MiniFASNet liveness on each image; failed liveness forces verified=false
+}
+
+message FaceVerifyResponse {
+  bool       verified = 1;
+  float      distance = 2;      // 1 - cosine_similarity
+  float      threshold = 3;
+  float      confidence = 4;    // 0-100
+  string     model = 5;         // e.g. "buffalo_l"
+  FacialArea img1_area = 6;
+  FacialArea img2_area = 7;
+  float      processing_time_ms = 8;
+  bool       img1_is_real = 9;          // anti-spoofing result when enabled
+  float      img1_antispoof_score = 10;
+  bool       img2_is_real = 11;
+  float      img2_antispoof_score = 12;
+}
+
+message FaceAnalyzeRequest {
+  string          img = 1;          // base64-encoded image
+  repeated string actions = 2;      // subset of ["age","gender","emotion","race"]; empty = all-supported
+  bool            anti_spoofing = 3;
+}
+
+message FaceAnalysis {
+  FacialArea         region = 1;
+  float              face_confidence = 2;
+  float              age = 3;
+  string             dominant_gender = 4;   // "Man" | "Woman"
+  map<string, float> gender = 5;
+  string             dominant_emotion = 6;  // reserved; empty in MVP
+  map<string, float> emotion = 7;
+  string             dominant_race = 8;     // not populated
+  map<string, float> race = 9;
+  bool               is_real = 10;          // anti-spoofing result when enabled
+  float              antispoof_score = 11;
+}
+
+message FaceAnalyzeResponse {
+  repeated FaceAnalysis faces = 1;
+}
+
+// --- Voice (speaker) recognition messages ---
+//
+// Analogous to the Face* messages above, but for speaker biometrics.
+// Audio fields accept a filesystem path (same convention as
+// TranscriptRequest.dst). The HTTP layer materialises base64 / URL /
+// data-URI inputs to a temp file before calling the gRPC backend.
+
+message VoiceVerifyRequest {
+  string audio1 = 1;            // path to first audio clip
+  string audio2 = 2;            // path to second audio clip
+  float  threshold = 3;         // cosine-distance threshold; 0 = use backend default
+  bool   anti_spoofing = 4;     // reserved for future AASIST bolt-on
+}
+
+message VoiceVerifyResponse {
+  bool   verified = 1;
+  float  distance = 2;          // 1 - cosine_similarity
+  float  threshold = 3;
+  float  confidence = 4;        // 0-100
+  string model = 5;             // e.g. "speechbrain/spkrec-ecapa-voxceleb"
+  float  processing_time_ms = 6;
+}
+
+message VoiceAnalyzeRequest {
+  string          audio = 1;        // path to audio clip
+  repeated string actions = 2;      // subset of ["age","gender","emotion"]; empty = all-supported
+}
+
+message VoiceAnalysis {
+  float              start = 1;          // segment start time in seconds (0 if single-utterance)
+  float              end = 2;            // segment end time in seconds
+  float              age = 3;
+  string             dominant_gender = 4;
+  map<string, float> gender = 5;
+  string             dominant_emotion = 6;
+  map<string, float> emotion = 7;
+}
+
+message VoiceAnalyzeResponse {
+  repeated VoiceAnalysis segments = 1;
+}
+
+message VoiceEmbedRequest {
+  string audio = 1;              // path to audio clip
+}
+
+message VoiceEmbedResponse {
+  repeated float embedding = 1;
+  string         model = 2;
+}
+
 message ToolFormatMarkers {
   string format_type = 1;           // "json_native", "tag_with_json", "tag_with_tagged"
 
@@ -537,10 +718,61 @@ message AudioDecodeResult {
   int32 samples_per_frame = 3;
 }
 
+// Generic audio transform: an audio-in, audio-out operation, optionally
+// conditioned on a second reference signal. Concrete transforms include
+// AEC + noise suppression + dereverberation (LocalVQE), voice conversion
+// (reference = target speaker), pitch shifting, etc.
+message AudioTransformRequest {
+  string audio_path = 1;             // required, primary input file path
+  string reference_path = 2;         // optional auxiliary; empty => zero-fill
+  string dst = 3;                    // required, output file path
+  map<string, string> params = 4;    // backend-specific tuning
+}
+
+message AudioTransformResult {
+  string dst = 1;
+  int32  sample_rate = 2;
+  int32  samples = 3;
+  bool   reference_provided = 4;
+}
+
+// Bidirectional streaming audio transform. The first message MUST carry a
+// Config; subsequent messages carry Frames. A second Config mid-stream
+// resets streaming state before the next frame.
+message AudioTransformFrameRequest {
+  oneof payload {
+    AudioTransformStreamConfig config = 1;
+    AudioTransformFrame        frame  = 2;
+  }
+}
+
+message AudioTransformStreamConfig {
+  enum SampleFormat {
+    F32_LE = 0;
+    S16_LE = 1;
+  }
+  SampleFormat sample_format = 1;
+  int32 sample_rate = 2;             // 0 => backend default
+  int32 frame_samples = 3;           // 0 => backend default
+  map<string, string> params = 4;
+  bool reset = 5;                    // reset streaming state before next frame
+}
+
+message AudioTransformFrame {
+  bytes audio_pcm = 1;               // frame_samples samples in stream's format
+  bytes reference_pcm = 2;           // empty => zero-fill (silent reference)
+}
+
+message AudioTransformFrameResponse {
+  bytes pcm = 1;
+  int64 frame_index = 2;
+}
+
 message ModelMetadataResponse {
   bool supports_thinking = 1;
   string rendered_template = 2;  // The rendered chat template with enable_thinking=true (empty if not applicable)
   ToolFormatMarkers tool_format = 3;  // Auto-detected tool format markers from differential template analysis
+  string media_marker = 4;  // Marker the backend expects in the prompt for each multimodal input (images/audio/video). Empty when the backend does not use a marker.
 }
 
 // Fine-tuning messages

backend/cpp/ik-llama-cpp/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+## Clip/LLaVA library for multimodal support — built locally from copied sources
+set(TARGET myclip)
+add_library(${TARGET} clip.cpp clip.h llava.cpp llava.h)
+install(TARGETS ${TARGET} LIBRARY)
+target_include_directories(myclip PUBLIC .)
+target_include_directories(myclip PUBLIC ../..)
+target_include_directories(myclip PUBLIC ../../common)
+target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PRIVATE common ggml llama ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT})
+target_compile_features(${TARGET} PRIVATE cxx_std_11)
+if (NOT MSVC)
+    target_compile_options(${TARGET} PRIVATE -Wno-cast-qual)
+endif()
+
+set(TARGET grpc-server)
+set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)
+set(TARGET grpc-server)
+set(_PROTOBUF_LIBPROTOBUF libprotobuf)
+set(_REFLECTION grpc++_reflection)
+
+if (${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin")
+    if (CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR MATCHES "arm64")
+        set(HOMEBREW_DEFAULT_PREFIX "/opt/homebrew")
+    else()
+        set(HOMEBREW_DEFAULT_PREFIX "/usr/local")
+    endif()
+    link_directories("${HOMEBREW_DEFAULT_PREFIX}/lib")
+    include_directories("${HOMEBREW_DEFAULT_PREFIX}/include")
+endif()
+
+find_package(absl CONFIG REQUIRED)
+find_package(Protobuf CONFIG REQUIRED)
+find_package(gRPC CONFIG REQUIRED)
+
+find_program(_PROTOBUF_PROTOC protoc)
+set(_GRPC_GRPCPP grpc++)
+find_program(_GRPC_CPP_PLUGIN_EXECUTABLE grpc_cpp_plugin)
+
+include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
+include_directories(${Protobuf_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+
+message(STATUS "Using protobuf version ${Protobuf_VERSION} | Protobuf_INCLUDE_DIRS: ${Protobuf_INCLUDE_DIRS} | CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR: ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}")
+
+# Proto file
+get_filename_component(hw_proto "../../../../../../backend/backend.proto" ABSOLUTE)
+get_filename_component(hw_proto_path "${hw_proto}" PATH)
+
+set(hw_proto_srcs "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/backend.pb.cc")
+set(hw_proto_hdrs "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/backend.pb.h")
+set(hw_grpc_srcs "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/backend.grpc.pb.cc")
+set(hw_grpc_hdrs "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/backend.grpc.pb.h")
+
+add_custom_command(
+      OUTPUT "${hw_proto_srcs}" "${hw_proto_hdrs}" "${hw_grpc_srcs}" "${hw_grpc_hdrs}"
+      COMMAND ${_PROTOBUF_PROTOC}
+      ARGS --grpc_out "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}"
+        --cpp_out "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}"
+        -I "${hw_proto_path}"
+        --plugin=protoc-gen-grpc="${_GRPC_CPP_PLUGIN_EXECUTABLE}"
+        "${hw_proto}"
+      DEPENDS "${hw_proto}")
+
+add_library(hw_grpc_proto
+  ${hw_grpc_srcs}
+  ${hw_grpc_hdrs}
+  ${hw_proto_srcs}
+  ${hw_proto_hdrs} )
+
+add_executable(${TARGET} grpc-server.cpp json.hpp)
+target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PRIVATE common llama myclip ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT} absl::flags hw_grpc_proto
+  absl::flags_parse
+  gRPC::${_REFLECTION}
+  gRPC::${_GRPC_GRPCPP}
+  protobuf::${_PROTOBUF_LIBPROTOBUF})
+target_compile_features(${TARGET} PRIVATE cxx_std_11)
+if(TARGET BUILD_INFO)
+  add_dependencies(${TARGET} BUILD_INFO)
+endif()

backend/cpp/ik-llama-cpp/Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+
+IK_LLAMA_VERSION?=8b56d813a9ed04fa7b7fe2588fddd845cf64eccb
+LLAMA_REPO?=https://github.com/ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp
+
+CMAKE_ARGS?=
+BUILD_TYPE?=
+NATIVE?=false
+ONEAPI_VARS?=/opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh
+TARGET?=--target grpc-server
+JOBS?=$(shell nproc 2>/dev/null || sysctl -n hw.ncpu 2>/dev/null || echo 1)
+ARCH?=$(shell uname -m)
+
+# Disable Shared libs as we are linking on static gRPC and we can't mix shared and static
+CMAKE_ARGS+=-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DLLAMA_CURL=OFF
+
+CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR := $(dir $(abspath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))
+ifeq ($(NATIVE),false)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_NATIVE=OFF -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF
+endif
+# If build type is cublas, then we set -DGGML_CUDA=ON to CMAKE_ARGS automatically
+ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),cublas)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_CUDA=ON
+# If build type is openblas then we set -DGGML_BLAS=ON -DGGML_BLAS_VENDOR=OpenBLAS
+# to CMAKE_ARGS automatically
+else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),openblas)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_BLAS=ON -DGGML_BLAS_VENDOR=OpenBLAS
+# If build type is clblas (openCL) we set -DGGML_CLBLAST=ON -DCLBlast_DIR=/some/path
+else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),clblas)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_CLBLAST=ON -DCLBlast_DIR=/some/path
+# If it's hipblas we do have also to set CC=/opt/rocm/llvm/bin/clang CXX=/opt/rocm/llvm/bin/clang++
+else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),hipblas)
+	ROCM_HOME ?= /opt/rocm
+	ROCM_PATH ?= /opt/rocm
+	export CXX=$(ROCM_HOME)/llvm/bin/clang++
+	export CC=$(ROCM_HOME)/llvm/bin/clang
+	AMDGPU_TARGETS?=gfx803,gfx900,gfx906,gfx908,gfx90a,gfx942,gfx1010,gfx1030,gfx1032,gfx1100,gfx1101,gfx1102,gfx1200,gfx1201
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_HIP=ON -DAMDGPU_TARGETS=$(AMDGPU_TARGETS)
+else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),vulkan)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_VULKAN=1
+else ifeq ($(OS),Darwin)
+	ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),)
+		BUILD_TYPE=metal
+	endif
+	ifneq ($(BUILD_TYPE),metal)
+		CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_METAL=OFF
+	else
+		CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_METAL=ON
+		CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON
+		CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON
+		CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_OPENMP=OFF
+	endif
+	TARGET+=--target ggml-metal
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),sycl_f16)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_SYCL=ON \
+		-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx \
+		-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx \
+		-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-fsycl" \
+		-DGGML_SYCL_F16=ON
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),sycl_f32)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_SYCL=ON \
+		-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx \
+		-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx \
+		-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-fsycl"
+endif
+
+INSTALLED_PACKAGES=$(CURDIR)/../grpc/installed_packages
+INSTALLED_LIB_CMAKE=$(INSTALLED_PACKAGES)/lib/cmake
+ADDED_CMAKE_ARGS=-Dabsl_DIR=${INSTALLED_LIB_CMAKE}/absl \
+				 -DProtobuf_DIR=${INSTALLED_LIB_CMAKE}/protobuf \
+				 -Dutf8_range_DIR=${INSTALLED_LIB_CMAKE}/utf8_range \
+				 -DgRPC_DIR=${INSTALLED_LIB_CMAKE}/grpc \
+				 -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES=${INSTALLED_PACKAGES}/include
+build-ik-llama-cpp-grpc-server:
+# Conditionally build grpc for the backend to use if needed
+ifdef BUILD_GRPC_FOR_BACKEND_LLAMA
+	$(MAKE) -C ../../grpc build
+	_PROTOBUF_PROTOC=${INSTALLED_PACKAGES}/bin/proto \
+	_GRPC_CPP_PLUGIN_EXECUTABLE=${INSTALLED_PACKAGES}/bin/grpc_cpp_plugin \
+	PATH="${INSTALLED_PACKAGES}/bin:${PATH}" \
+	CMAKE_ARGS="${CMAKE_ARGS} ${ADDED_CMAKE_ARGS}" \
+	IK_LLAMA_VERSION=$(IK_LLAMA_VERSION) \
+	$(MAKE) -C $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../$(VARIANT) grpc-server
+else
+	echo "BUILD_GRPC_FOR_BACKEND_LLAMA is not defined."
+	IK_LLAMA_VERSION=$(IK_LLAMA_VERSION) $(MAKE) -C $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../$(VARIANT) grpc-server
+endif
+
+ik-llama-cpp-avx2: llama.cpp
+	cp -rf $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp-avx2-build
+	$(MAKE) -C $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp-avx2-build purge
+	$(info ${GREEN}I ik-llama-cpp build info:avx2${RESET})
+	CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_AVX=on -DGGML_AVX2=on -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=on -DGGML_F16C=on" $(MAKE) VARIANT="ik-llama-cpp-avx2-build" build-ik-llama-cpp-grpc-server
+	cp -rfv $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp-avx2-build/grpc-server ik-llama-cpp-avx2
+
+ik-llama-cpp-avx512: llama.cpp
+	cp -rf $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp-avx512-build
+	$(MAKE) -C $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp-avx512-build purge
+	$(info ${GREEN}I ik-llama-cpp build info:avx512${RESET})
+	CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_AVX=on -DGGML_AVX2=off -DGGML_AVX512=on -DGGML_FMA=on -DGGML_F16C=on" $(MAKE) VARIANT="ik-llama-cpp-avx512-build" build-ik-llama-cpp-grpc-server
+	cp -rfv $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp-avx512-build/grpc-server ik-llama-cpp-avx512
+
+ik-llama-cpp-avx: llama.cpp
+	cp -rf $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp-avx-build
+	$(MAKE) -C $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp-avx-build purge
+	$(info ${GREEN}I ik-llama-cpp build info:avx${RESET})
+	CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_AVX=on -DGGML_AVX2=off -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=off -DGGML_F16C=off -DGGML_BMI2=off" $(MAKE) VARIANT="ik-llama-cpp-avx-build" build-ik-llama-cpp-grpc-server
+	cp -rfv $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp-avx-build/grpc-server ik-llama-cpp-avx
+
+ik-llama-cpp-fallback: llama.cpp
+	cp -rf $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp-fallback-build
+	$(MAKE) -C $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp-fallback-build purge
+	$(info ${GREEN}I ik-llama-cpp build info:fallback${RESET})
+	CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_AVX=off -DGGML_AVX2=off -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=off -DGGML_F16C=off -DGGML_BMI2=off" $(MAKE) VARIANT="ik-llama-cpp-fallback-build" build-ik-llama-cpp-grpc-server
+	cp -rfv $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp-fallback-build/grpc-server ik-llama-cpp-fallback
+
+ik-llama-cpp-grpc: llama.cpp
+	cp -rf $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp-grpc-build
+	$(MAKE) -C $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp-grpc-build purge
+	$(info ${GREEN}I ik-llama-cpp build info:grpc${RESET})
+	CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_RPC=ON -DGGML_AVX=off -DGGML_AVX2=off -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=off -DGGML_F16C=off -DGGML_BMI2=off" TARGET="--target grpc-server --target rpc-server" $(MAKE) VARIANT="ik-llama-cpp-grpc-build" build-ik-llama-cpp-grpc-server
+	cp -rfv $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp-grpc-build/grpc-server ik-llama-cpp-grpc
+
+ik-llama-cpp-rpc-server: ik-llama-cpp-grpc
+	cp -rf $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../ik-llama-cpp-grpc-build/llama.cpp/build/bin/rpc-server ik-llama-cpp-rpc-server
+
+llama.cpp:
+	mkdir -p llama.cpp
+	cd llama.cpp && \
+	git init && \
+	git remote add origin $(LLAMA_REPO)  && \
+	git fetch origin && \
+	git checkout -b build $(IK_LLAMA_VERSION) && \
+	git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 1 --single-branch
+
+llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server: llama.cpp
+	mkdir -p llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server
+	bash prepare.sh
+
+rebuild:
+	bash prepare.sh
+	rm -rf grpc-server
+	$(MAKE) grpc-server
+
+package:
+	bash package.sh
+
+purge:
+	rm -rf llama.cpp/build
+	rm -rf llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server
+	rm -rf grpc-server
+
+clean: purge
+	rm -rf llama.cpp
+
+grpc-server: llama.cpp llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server
+	@echo "Building grpc-server with $(BUILD_TYPE) build type and $(CMAKE_ARGS)"
+ifneq (,$(findstring sycl,$(BUILD_TYPE)))
+	+bash -c "source $(ONEAPI_VARS); \
+	cd llama.cpp && mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake .. $(CMAKE_ARGS) && cmake --build . --config Release -j $(JOBS) $(TARGET)"
+else
+	+cd llama.cpp && mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake .. $(CMAKE_ARGS) && cmake --build . --config Release -j $(JOBS) $(TARGET)
+endif
+	cp llama.cpp/build/bin/grpc-server .

backend/cpp/ik-llama-cpp/package.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Script to copy the appropriate libraries based on architecture
+# This script is used in the final stage of the Dockerfile
+
+set -e
+
+CURDIR=$(dirname "$(realpath $0)")
+REPO_ROOT="${CURDIR}/../../.."
+
+# Create lib directory
+mkdir -p $CURDIR/package/lib
+
+cp -avrf $CURDIR/ik-llama-cpp-* $CURDIR/package/
+cp -rfv $CURDIR/run.sh $CURDIR/package/
+
+# Detect architecture and copy appropriate libraries
+if [ -f "/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2" ]; then
+    # x86_64 architecture
+    echo "Detected x86_64 architecture, copying x86_64 libraries..."
+    cp -arfLv /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 $CURDIR/package/lib/ld.so
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libc.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libstdc++.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libm.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgomp.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgomp.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 $CURDIR/package/lib/libdl.so.2
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/librt.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 $CURDIR/package/lib/libpthread.so.0
+elif [ -f "/lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1" ]; then
+    # ARM64 architecture
+    echo "Detected ARM64 architecture, copying ARM64 libraries..."
+    cp -arfLv /lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/ld.so
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libc.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libstdc++.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libm.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgomp.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgomp.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 $CURDIR/package/lib/libdl.so.2
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/librt.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 $CURDIR/package/lib/libpthread.so.0
+else
+    echo "Error: Could not detect architecture"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Package GPU libraries based on BUILD_TYPE
+# The GPU library packaging script will detect BUILD_TYPE and copy appropriate GPU libraries
+GPU_LIB_SCRIPT="${REPO_ROOT}/scripts/build/package-gpu-libs.sh"
+if [ -f "$GPU_LIB_SCRIPT" ]; then
+    echo "Packaging GPU libraries for BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE:-cpu}..."
+    source "$GPU_LIB_SCRIPT" "$CURDIR/package/lib"
+    package_gpu_libs
+fi
+
+echo "Packaging completed successfully"
+ls -liah $CURDIR/package/
+ls -liah $CURDIR/package/lib/

backend/cpp/ik-llama-cpp/patches/0001-fix-missing-cstdint-include.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- a/ggml/src/iqk/iqk_common.h
++++ b/ggml/src/iqk/iqk_common.h
+@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
+ #pragma once
+
+ #include "iqk_config.h"
++#include <cstdint>
+
+ #if defined IQK_IMPLEMENT
+

backend/cpp/ik-llama-cpp/patches/0002-clip-ggml-quantize-chunk-user-data.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/examples/llava/clip.cpp
++++ b/examples/llava/clip.cpp
+@@ -2494,7 +2494,7 @@
+             }
+             new_data = work.data();
+
+-            new_size = ggml_quantize_chunk(new_type, f32_data, new_data, 0, n_elms/cur->ne[0], cur->ne[0], nullptr);
++            new_size = ggml_quantize_chunk(new_type, f32_data, new_data, 0, n_elms/cur->ne[0], cur->ne[0], nullptr, nullptr);
+         } else {
+             new_type = cur->type;
+             new_data = cur->data;

backend/cpp/ik-llama-cpp/prepare.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+## Patches
+
+## Apply patches from the `patches` directory
+if [ -d "patches" ]; then
+    for patch in $(ls patches); do
+        echo "Applying patch $patch"
+        patch -d llama.cpp/ -p1 < patches/$patch
+    done
+fi
+
+set -e
+
+cp -r CMakeLists.txt llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server/
+cp -r grpc-server.cpp llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server/
+cp -r utils.hpp llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server/
+cp -rfv llama.cpp/vendor/nlohmann/json.hpp llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server/
+
+## Copy clip/llava files for multimodal support (built as myclip library)
+cp -rfv llama.cpp/examples/llava/clip.h llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server/clip.h
+cp -rfv llama.cpp/examples/llava/clip.cpp llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server/clip.cpp
+cp -rfv llama.cpp/examples/llava/llava.cpp llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server/llava.cpp
+# Prepend llama.h include to llava.h
+echo '#include "llama.h"' > llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server/llava.h
+cat llama.cpp/examples/llava/llava.h >> llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server/llava.h
+# Copy clip-impl.h if it exists
+if [ -f llama.cpp/examples/llava/clip-impl.h ]; then
+    cp -rfv llama.cpp/examples/llava/clip-impl.h llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server/clip-impl.h
+fi
+# Copy stb_image.h
+if [ -f llama.cpp/vendor/stb/stb_image.h ]; then
+    cp -rfv llama.cpp/vendor/stb/stb_image.h llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server/stb_image.h
+elif [ -f llama.cpp/common/stb_image.h ]; then
+    cp -rfv llama.cpp/common/stb_image.h llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server/stb_image.h
+fi
+
+## Fix API compatibility in llava.cpp (llama_n_embd -> llama_model_n_embd)
+if [ -f llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server/llava.cpp ]; then
+    sed -i 's/llama_n_embd(/llama_model_n_embd(/g' llama.cpp/examples/grpc-server/llava.cpp
+fi
+
+set +e
+if grep -q "grpc-server" llama.cpp/examples/CMakeLists.txt; then
+    echo "grpc-server already added"
+else
+    echo "add_subdirectory(grpc-server)" >> llama.cpp/examples/CMakeLists.txt
+fi
+set -e

backend/cpp/ik-llama-cpp/run.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -ex
+
+# Get the absolute current dir where the script is located
+CURDIR=$(dirname "$(realpath $0)")
+
+cd /
+
+echo "CPU info:"
+grep -e "model\sname" /proc/cpuinfo | head -1
+grep -e "flags" /proc/cpuinfo | head -1
+
+# ik_llama.cpp requires AVX2 — default to avx2 binary
+BINARY=ik-llama-cpp-avx2
+
+if [ -e $CURDIR/ik-llama-cpp-fallback ] && ! grep -q -e "\savx2\s" /proc/cpuinfo ; then
+	echo "CPU:    AVX2   NOT found, using fallback"
+	BINARY=ik-llama-cpp-fallback
+fi
+
+# Extend ld library path with the dir where this script is located/lib
+if [ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]; then
+	export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$CURDIR/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
+	#export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=$CURDIR/lib:$DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH
+else
+	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$CURDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+fi
+
+# If there is a lib/ld.so, use it
+if [ -f $CURDIR/lib/ld.so ]; then
+	echo "Using lib/ld.so"
+	echo "Using binary: $BINARY"
+	exec $CURDIR/lib/ld.so $CURDIR/$BINARY "$@"
+fi
+
+echo "Using binary: $BINARY"
+exec $CURDIR/$BINARY "$@"
+
+# We should never reach this point, however just in case we do, run fallback
+exec $CURDIR/ik-llama-cpp-fallback "$@"

backend/cpp/ik-llama-cpp/utils.hpp

@@ -0,0 +1,483 @@
+// https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/examples/server/utils.hpp
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+#include <set>
+#include <mutex>
+#include <condition_variable>
+#include <unordered_map>
+
+#include "json.hpp"
+
+#include "clip.h"
+
+using json = nlohmann::json;
+
+extern bool server_verbose;
+
+#ifndef SERVER_VERBOSE
+#define SERVER_VERBOSE 1
+#endif
+
+#if SERVER_VERBOSE != 1
+#define LOG_VERBOSE(MSG, ...)
+#else
+#define LOG_VERBOSE(MSG, ...)                                            \
+    do                                                                   \
+    {                                                                    \
+        if (server_verbose)                                              \
+        {                                                                \
+            server_log("VERBOSE", __func__, __LINE__, MSG, __VA_ARGS__); \
+        }                                                                \
+    } while (0)
+#endif
+
+#define LOG_ERROR(  MSG, ...) server_log("ERROR",   __func__, __LINE__, MSG, __VA_ARGS__)
+#define LOG_WARNING(MSG, ...) server_log("WARNING", __func__, __LINE__, MSG, __VA_ARGS__)
+#define LOG_INFO(   MSG, ...) server_log("INFO",    __func__, __LINE__, MSG, __VA_ARGS__)
+
+//
+// parallel
+//
+
+enum server_state {
+    SERVER_STATE_LOADING_MODEL,  // Server is starting up, model not fully loaded yet
+    SERVER_STATE_READY,          // Server is ready and model is loaded
+    SERVER_STATE_ERROR           // An error occurred, load_model failed
+};
+
+enum task_type {
+    TASK_TYPE_COMPLETION,
+    TASK_TYPE_CANCEL,
+    TASK_TYPE_NEXT_RESPONSE
+};
+
+struct task_server {
+    int id = -1; // to be filled by llama_server_queue
+    int target_id;
+    task_type type;
+    json data;
+    bool infill_mode = false;
+    bool embedding_mode = false;
+    int multitask_id = -1;
+};
+
+struct task_result {
+    int id;
+    int multitask_id = -1;
+    bool stop;
+    bool error;
+    json result_json;
+};
+
+struct task_multi {
+    int id;
+    std::set<int> subtasks_remaining{};
+    std::vector<task_result> results{};
+};
+
+// TODO: can become bool if we can't find use of more states
+enum slot_state
+{
+    IDLE,
+    PROCESSING,
+};
+
+enum slot_command
+{
+    NONE,
+    LOAD_PROMPT,
+    RELEASE,
+};
+
+struct slot_params
+{
+    bool stream       = true;
+    bool cache_prompt = false; // remember the prompt to avoid reprocessing all prompt
+
+    uint32_t seed      = -1; // RNG seed
+    int32_t  n_keep    =  0; // number of tokens to keep from initial prompt
+    int32_t  n_predict = -1; // new tokens to predict
+
+    std::vector<std::string> antiprompt;
+
+    json input_prefix;
+    json input_suffix;
+};
+
+struct slot_image
+{
+    int32_t id;
+
+    bool request_encode_image = false;
+    float * image_embedding = nullptr;
+    int32_t image_tokens = 0;
+
+    clip_image_u8 * img_data;
+
+    std::string prefix_prompt; // before of this image
+};
+
+// completion token output with probabilities
+struct completion_token_output
+{
+    struct token_prob
+    {
+        llama_token tok;
+        float prob;
+    };
+
+    std::vector<token_prob> probs;
+    llama_token tok;
+    std::string text_to_send;
+};
+
+static inline void server_log(const char *level, const char *function, int line,
+                       const char *message, const nlohmann::ordered_json &extra)
+{
+    nlohmann::ordered_json log
+    {
+        {"timestamp", time(nullptr)},
+        {"level",     level},
+        {"function",  function},
+        {"line",      line},
+        {"message",   message},
+    };
+
+    if (!extra.empty())
+    {
+        log.merge_patch(extra);
+    }
+
+    const std::string str = log.dump(-1, ' ', false, json::error_handler_t::replace);
+    printf("%.*s\n", (int)str.size(), str.data());
+    fflush(stdout);
+}
+
+//
+// server utils
+//
+
+template <typename T>
+static T json_value(const json &body, const std::string &key, const T &default_value)
+{
+    // Fallback null to default value
+    return body.contains(key) && !body.at(key).is_null()
+        ? body.value(key, default_value)
+        : default_value;
+}
+
+inline std::string format_chatml(std::vector<json> messages)
+{
+    std::ostringstream chatml_msgs;
+
+    for (auto it = messages.begin(); it != messages.end(); ++it) {
+        chatml_msgs << "<|im_start|>"
+                    << json_value(*it, "role",    std::string("user")) << '\n';
+        chatml_msgs << json_value(*it, "content", std::string(""))
+                    << "<|im_end|>\n";
+    }
+
+    chatml_msgs << "<|im_start|>assistant" << '\n';
+
+    return chatml_msgs.str();
+}
+
+//
+// work queue utils
+//
+
+struct llama_server_queue {
+    int id = 0;
+    std::mutex mutex_tasks;
+    // queues
+    std::vector<task_server> queue_tasks;
+    std::vector<task_server> queue_tasks_deferred;
+    std::vector<task_multi> queue_multitasks;
+    std::condition_variable condition_tasks;
+    // callback functions
+    std::function<void(task_server&)> callback_new_task;
+    std::function<void(task_multi&)> callback_finish_multitask;
+    std::function<void(void)> callback_all_task_finished;
+
+    // Add a new task to the end of the queue
+    int post(task_server task) {
+        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mutex_tasks);
+        if (task.id == -1) {
+            task.id = id++;
+        }
+        queue_tasks.push_back(std::move(task));
+        condition_tasks.notify_one();
+        return task.id;
+    }
+
+    // Add a new task, but defer until one slot is available
+    void defer(task_server task) {
+        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mutex_tasks);
+        queue_tasks_deferred.push_back(std::move(task));
+    }
+
+    // Get the next id for creating anew task
+    int get_new_id() {
+        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mutex_tasks);
+        return id++;
+    }
+
+    // Register function to process a new task
+    void on_new_task(std::function<void(task_server&)> callback) {
+        callback_new_task = callback;
+    }
+
+    // Register function to process a multitask
+    void on_finish_multitask(std::function<void(task_multi&)> callback) {
+        callback_finish_multitask = callback;
+    }
+
+    // Register the function to be called when the batch of tasks is finished
+    void on_all_tasks_finished(std::function<void(void)> callback) {
+        callback_all_task_finished = callback;
+    }
+
+    // Call when the state of one slot is changed
+    void notify_slot_changed() {
+        // move deferred tasks back to main loop
+        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mutex_tasks);
+        for (auto & task : queue_tasks_deferred) {
+            queue_tasks.push_back(std::move(task));
+        }
+        queue_tasks_deferred.clear();
+    }
+
+    // Start the main loop. This call is blocking
+    [[noreturn]]
+    void start_loop() {
+        while (true) {
+            // new task arrived
+            LOG_VERBOSE("have new task", {});
+            {
+                while (true)
+                {
+                    std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mutex_tasks);
+                    if (queue_tasks.empty()) {
+                        lock.unlock();
+                        break;
+                    }
+                    task_server task = queue_tasks.front();
+                    queue_tasks.erase(queue_tasks.begin());
+                    lock.unlock();
+                    LOG_VERBOSE("callback_new_task", {});
+                    callback_new_task(task);
+                }
+                LOG_VERBOSE("callback_all_task_finished", {});
+                // process and update all the multitasks
+                auto queue_iterator = queue_multitasks.begin();
+                while (queue_iterator != queue_multitasks.end())
+                {
+                    if (queue_iterator->subtasks_remaining.empty())
+                    {
+                        // all subtasks done == multitask is done
+                        task_multi current_multitask = *queue_iterator;
+                        callback_finish_multitask(current_multitask);
+                        // remove this multitask
+                        queue_iterator = queue_multitasks.erase(queue_iterator);
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        ++queue_iterator;
+                    }
+                }
+                // all tasks in the current loop is finished
+                callback_all_task_finished();
+            }
+            LOG_VERBOSE("wait for new task", {});
+            // wait for new task
+            {
+                std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mutex_tasks);
+                if (queue_tasks.empty()) {
+                    condition_tasks.wait(lock, [&]{
+                        return !queue_tasks.empty();
+                    });
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    //
+    // functions to manage multitasks
+    //
+
+    // add a multitask by specifying the id of all subtask (subtask is a task_server)
+    void add_multitask(int multitask_id, std::vector<int>& sub_ids)
+    {
+        std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mutex_tasks);
+        task_multi multi;
+        multi.id = multitask_id;
+        std::copy(sub_ids.begin(), sub_ids.end(), std::inserter(multi.subtasks_remaining, multi.subtasks_remaining.end()));
+        queue_multitasks.push_back(multi);
+    }
+
+    // updatethe remaining subtasks, while appending results to multitask
+    void update_multitask(int multitask_id, int subtask_id, task_result& result)
+    {
+        std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mutex_tasks);
+        for (auto& multitask : queue_multitasks)
+        {
+            if (multitask.id == multitask_id)
+            {
+                multitask.subtasks_remaining.erase(subtask_id);
+                multitask.results.push_back(result);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+};
+
+struct llama_server_response {
+    typedef std::function<void(int, int, task_result&)> callback_multitask_t;
+    callback_multitask_t callback_update_multitask;
+    // for keeping track of all tasks waiting for the result
+    std::set<int> waiting_task_ids;
+    // the main result queue
+    std::vector<task_result> queue_results;
+    std::mutex mutex_results;
+    std::condition_variable condition_results;
+
+    void add_waiting_task_id(int task_id) {
+        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mutex_results);
+        waiting_task_ids.insert(task_id);
+    }
+
+    void remove_waiting_task_id(int task_id) {
+        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mutex_results);
+        waiting_task_ids.erase(task_id);
+    }
+
+    // This function blocks the thread until there is a response for this task_id
+    task_result recv(int task_id) {
+        while (true)
+        {
+            std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mutex_results);
+            condition_results.wait(lock, [&]{
+                return !queue_results.empty();
+            });
+            LOG_VERBOSE("condition_results unblock", {});
+
+            for (int i = 0; i < (int) queue_results.size(); i++)
+            {
+                if (queue_results[i].id == task_id)
+                {
+                    assert(queue_results[i].multitask_id == -1);
+                    task_result res = queue_results[i];
+                    queue_results.erase(queue_results.begin() + i);
+                    return res;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // should never reach here
+    }
+
+    // Register the function to update multitask
+    void on_multitask_update(callback_multitask_t callback) {
+        callback_update_multitask = callback;
+    }
+
+    // Send a new result to a waiting task_id
+    void send(task_result result) {
+        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mutex_results);
+        LOG_VERBOSE("send new result", {});
+        for (auto& task_id : waiting_task_ids) {
+            // LOG_TEE("waiting task id %i \n", task_id);
+            // for now, tasks that have associated parent multitasks just get erased once multitask picks up the result
+            if (result.multitask_id == task_id)
+            {
+                LOG_VERBOSE("callback_update_multitask", {});
+                callback_update_multitask(task_id, result.id, result);
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            if (result.id == task_id)
+            {
+                LOG_VERBOSE("queue_results.push_back", {});
+                queue_results.push_back(result);
+                condition_results.notify_one();
+                return;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+};
+
+//
+// base64 utils (TODO: move to common in the future)
+//
+
+static const std::string base64_chars =
+             "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
+             "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
+             "0123456789+/";
+
+static inline bool is_base64(uint8_t c)
+{
+    return (isalnum(c) || (c == '+') || (c == '/'));
+}
+
+static inline std::vector<uint8_t> base64_decode(const std::string & encoded_string)
+{
+    int i = 0;
+    int j = 0;
+    int in_ = 0;
+
+    int in_len = encoded_string.size();
+
+    uint8_t char_array_4[4];
+    uint8_t char_array_3[3];
+
+    std::vector<uint8_t> ret;
+
+    while (in_len-- && (encoded_string[in_] != '=') && is_base64(encoded_string[in_]))
+    {
+        char_array_4[i++] = encoded_string[in_]; in_++;
+        if (i == 4)
+        {
+            for (i = 0; i <4; i++)
+            {
+                char_array_4[i] = base64_chars.find(char_array_4[i]);
+            }
+
+            char_array_3[0] = ((char_array_4[0]      ) << 2) + ((char_array_4[1] & 0x30) >> 4);
+            char_array_3[1] = ((char_array_4[1] & 0xf) << 4) + ((char_array_4[2] & 0x3c) >> 2);
+            char_array_3[2] = ((char_array_4[2] & 0x3) << 6) +   char_array_4[3];
+
+            for (i = 0; (i < 3); i++)
+            {
+                ret.push_back(char_array_3[i]);
+            }
+            i = 0;
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (i)
+    {
+        for (j = i; j <4; j++)
+        {
+            char_array_4[j] = 0;
+        }
+
+        for (j = 0; j <4; j++)
+        {
+            char_array_4[j] = base64_chars.find(char_array_4[j]);
+        }
+
+        char_array_3[0] = ((char_array_4[0]      ) << 2) + ((char_array_4[1] & 0x30) >> 4);
+        char_array_3[1] = ((char_array_4[1] & 0xf) << 4) + ((char_array_4[2] & 0x3c) >> 2);
+        char_array_3[2] = ((char_array_4[2] & 0x3) << 6) +   char_array_4[3];
+
+        for (j = 0; (j < i - 1); j++)
+        {
+            ret.push_back(char_array_3[j]);
+        }
+    }
+
+    return ret;
+}

backend/cpp/llama-cpp/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -62,7 +62,18 @@ add_executable(${TARGET} grpc-server.cpp json.hpp httplib.h)
 target_include_directories(${TARGET} PRIVATE ../llava)
 target_include_directories(${TARGET} PRIVATE ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR})
 
-target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PRIVATE common llama mtmd ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT} absl::flags hw_grpc_proto
+# Upstream llama.cpp renamed the `common` helpers library to `llama-common`.
+# Forks that branched before the rename (e.g. llama-cpp-turboquant) still
+# expose it as `common`. Detect which one is present so the same CMakeLists
+# drives both builds — otherwise an unresolved name silently degrades to a
+# plain `-l` flag and the PUBLIC include dir (where common.h lives) is lost.
+if (TARGET llama-common)
+    set(_LLAMA_COMMON_TARGET llama-common)
+else()
+    set(_LLAMA_COMMON_TARGET common)
+endif()
+
+target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PRIVATE ${_LLAMA_COMMON_TARGET} llama mtmd ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT} absl::flags hw_grpc_proto
   absl::flags_parse
   gRPC::${_REFLECTION}
   gRPC::${_GRPC_GRPCPP}

backend/cpp/llama-cpp/Makefile

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-LLAMA_VERSION?=761797ffdf2ce3f118e82c663b1ad7d935fbd656
+LLAMA_VERSION?=bbeb89d76c41bc250f16e4a6fefcc9b530d6e3f3
 LLAMA_REPO?=https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
 
 CMAKE_ARGS?=
@@ -33,7 +33,10 @@ else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),hipblas)
 	ROCM_PATH ?= /opt/rocm
 	export CXX=$(ROCM_HOME)/llvm/bin/clang++
 	export CC=$(ROCM_HOME)/llvm/bin/clang
-	AMDGPU_TARGETS?=gfx803,gfx900,gfx906,gfx908,gfx90a,gfx942,gfx1010,gfx1030,gfx1032,gfx1100,gfx1101,gfx1102,gfx1200,gfx1201
+	AMDGPU_TARGETS?=gfx908,gfx90a,gfx942,gfx950,gfx1030,gfx1100,gfx1101,gfx1102,gfx1151,gfx1200,gfx1201
+ifeq ($(strip $(AMDGPU_TARGETS)),)
+$(error AMDGPU_TARGETS is empty — set it to a comma-separated list of gfx targets e.g. gfx1100,gfx1101)
+endif
 	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_HIP=ON -DAMDGPU_TARGETS=$(AMDGPU_TARGETS)
 else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),vulkan)
 	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_VULKAN=1
@@ -132,7 +135,7 @@ llama.cpp:
 	cd llama.cpp && \
 	git init && \
 	git remote add origin $(LLAMA_REPO)  && \
-	git fetch origin && \
+	git fetch --all --tags && \
 	git checkout -b build $(LLAMA_VERSION) && \
 	git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 1 --single-branch
 

backend/cpp/llama-cpp/grpc-server.cpp

@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@
 #include "server-task.cpp"
 #include "server-queue.cpp"
 #include "server-common.cpp"
+// server-chat.cpp exists only in llama.cpp after the upstream refactor that
+// split OAI/Anthropic/Responses/transcription conversion helpers out of
+// server-common.cpp. When present, server-context.cpp and server-task.cpp
+// above call into it, so we must pull its definitions into this TU or the
+// link fails. __has_include keeps the source compatible with older pins.
+#if __has_include("server-chat.cpp")
+#include "server-chat.cpp"
+#endif
 #include "server-context.cpp"
 
 // LocalAI
@@ -26,6 +34,8 @@
 #include <regex>
 #include <atomic>
 #include <cstdlib>
+#include <fstream>
+#include <iterator>
 #include <mutex>
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <thread>
@@ -76,6 +86,27 @@ static grpc::Status checkAuth(grpc::ServerContext* context) {
     return grpc::Status(grpc::StatusCode::UNAUTHENTICATED, "invalid token");
 }
 
+// Minimal base64 encoder. The C++ backend already pulls in base64_decode from
+// llama.cpp's server-common.cpp, but no encoder is exposed — and we need one to
+// hand audio bytes to the existing PredictOptions.audios path (which expects
+// base64-encoded strings, just like images).
+static std::string base64_encode_bytes(const unsigned char* data, size_t len) {
+    static const char tbl[] =
+        "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/";
+    std::string out;
+    out.reserve(((len + 2) / 3) * 4);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < len; i += 3) {
+        uint32_t triple = (uint32_t(data[i]) << 16);
+        if (i + 1 < len) triple |= (uint32_t(data[i + 1]) << 8);
+        if (i + 2 < len) triple |= uint32_t(data[i + 2]);
+        out.push_back(tbl[(triple >> 18) & 0x3F]);
+        out.push_back(tbl[(triple >> 12) & 0x3F]);
+        out.push_back(i + 1 < len ? tbl[(triple >> 6) & 0x3F] : '=');
+        out.push_back(i + 2 < len ? tbl[triple & 0x3F]        : '=');
+    }
+    return out;
+}
+
 // END LocalAI
 
 
@@ -411,7 +442,7 @@ static void params_parse(server_context& /*ctx_server*/, const backend::ModelOpt
 
     // Draft model for speculative decoding
     if (!request->draftmodel().empty()) {
-        params.speculative.mparams_dft.path = request->draftmodel();
+        params.speculative.draft.mparams.path = request->draftmodel();
         // Default to draft type if a draft model is set but no explicit type
         if (params.speculative.type == COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_NONE) {
             params.speculative.type = COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_DRAFT;
@@ -611,6 +642,21 @@ static void params_parse(server_context& /*ctx_server*/, const backend::ModelOpt
             } else if (optval_str == "false" || optval_str == "0" || optval_str == "no" || optval_str == "off" || optval_str == "disabled") {
                 params.no_op_offload = false;
             }
+        } else if (!strcmp(optname, "split_mode") || !strcmp(optname, "sm")) {
+            // Accepts: none | layer | row | tensor (the latter requires a llama.cpp build
+            // that includes ggml-org/llama.cpp#19378, FlashAttention enabled, and KV-cache
+            // quantization disabled).
+            if (optval != NULL) {
+                if (optval_str == "none") {
+                    params.split_mode = LLAMA_SPLIT_MODE_NONE;
+                } else if (optval_str == "layer") {
+                    params.split_mode = LLAMA_SPLIT_MODE_LAYER;
+                } else if (optval_str == "row") {
+                    params.split_mode = LLAMA_SPLIT_MODE_ROW;
+                } else if (optval_str == "tensor") {
+                    params.split_mode = LLAMA_SPLIT_MODE_TENSOR;
+                }
+            }
         } else if (!strcmp(optname, "kv_unified") || !strcmp(optname, "unified_kv")) {
             if (optval_str == "true" || optval_str == "1" || optval_str == "yes" || optval_str == "on" || optval_str == "enabled") {
                 params.kv_unified = true;
@@ -633,39 +679,39 @@ static void params_parse(server_context& /*ctx_server*/, const backend::ModelOpt
             }
         } else if (!strcmp(optname, "spec_n_max") || !strcmp(optname, "draft_max")) {
             if (optval != NULL) {
-                try { params.speculative.n_max = std::stoi(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
+                try { params.speculative.draft.n_max = std::stoi(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
             }
         } else if (!strcmp(optname, "spec_n_min") || !strcmp(optname, "draft_min")) {
             if (optval != NULL) {
-                try { params.speculative.n_min = std::stoi(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
+                try { params.speculative.draft.n_min = std::stoi(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
             }
         } else if (!strcmp(optname, "spec_p_min") || !strcmp(optname, "draft_p_min")) {
             if (optval != NULL) {
-                try { params.speculative.p_min = std::stof(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
+                try { params.speculative.draft.p_min = std::stof(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
             }
         } else if (!strcmp(optname, "spec_p_split")) {
             if (optval != NULL) {
-                try { params.speculative.p_split = std::stof(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
+                try { params.speculative.draft.p_split = std::stof(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
             }
         } else if (!strcmp(optname, "spec_ngram_size_n") || !strcmp(optname, "ngram_size_n")) {
             if (optval != NULL) {
-                try { params.speculative.ngram_size_n = (uint16_t)std::stoi(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
+                try { params.speculative.ngram_simple.size_n = (uint16_t)std::stoi(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
             }
         } else if (!strcmp(optname, "spec_ngram_size_m") || !strcmp(optname, "ngram_size_m")) {
             if (optval != NULL) {
-                try { params.speculative.ngram_size_m = (uint16_t)std::stoi(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
+                try { params.speculative.ngram_simple.size_m = (uint16_t)std::stoi(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
             }
         } else if (!strcmp(optname, "spec_ngram_min_hits") || !strcmp(optname, "ngram_min_hits")) {
             if (optval != NULL) {
-                try { params.speculative.ngram_min_hits = (uint16_t)std::stoi(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
+                try { params.speculative.ngram_simple.min_hits = (uint16_t)std::stoi(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
             }
         } else if (!strcmp(optname, "draft_gpu_layers")) {
             if (optval != NULL) {
-                try { params.speculative.n_gpu_layers = std::stoi(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
+                try { params.speculative.draft.n_gpu_layers = std::stoi(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
             }
         } else if (!strcmp(optname, "draft_ctx_size")) {
             if (optval != NULL) {
-                try { params.speculative.n_ctx = std::stoi(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
+                try { params.speculative.draft.n_ctx = std::stoi(optval_str); } catch (...) {}
             }
         }
     }
@@ -887,8 +933,8 @@ public:
             if (!params.mmproj.path.empty()) {
                 error_msg += " (with mmproj: " + params.mmproj.path + ")";
             }
-            if (params.speculative.has_dft() && !params.speculative.mparams_dft.path.empty()) {
-                error_msg += " (with draft model: " + params.speculative.mparams_dft.path + ")";
+            if (params.speculative.has_dft() && !params.speculative.draft.mparams.path.empty()) {
+                error_msg += " (with draft model: " + params.speculative.draft.mparams.path + ")";
             }
             
             // Add captured error details if available
@@ -1614,6 +1660,7 @@ public:
                         ctx_server.impl->vocab,
                         params_base,
                         ctx_server.get_meta().slot_n_ctx,
+                        ctx_server.get_meta().logit_bias_eog,
                         data);
                 task.id_slot = json_value(data, "id_slot", -1);
 
@@ -1715,12 +1762,23 @@ public:
             }
         };
 
-        // Process first result
+        // Process first result.
+        // When TASK_RESPONSE_TYPE_OAI_CHAT is used, the first token may
+        // produce a JSON array with a role-init element followed by the
+        // actual content element. We must only attach chat deltas to the
+        // content element — attaching to both would duplicate the first
+        // token since oaicompat_msg_diffs is the same for both.
         json first_res_json = first_result->to_json();
         if (first_res_json.is_array()) {
             for (const auto & res : first_res_json) {
                 auto reply = build_reply_from_json(res, first_result.get());
-                attach_chat_deltas(reply, first_result.get());
+                // Skip chat deltas for role-init elements (have "role" in
+                // delta but no content/reasoning diffs of their own).
+                bool is_role_init = res.contains("choices") && !res["choices"].empty() &&
+                                    res["choices"][0].value("delta", json::object()).contains("role");
+                if (!is_role_init) {
+                    attach_chat_deltas(reply, first_result.get());
+                }
                 writer->Write(reply);
             }
         } else {
@@ -1744,7 +1802,11 @@ public:
             if (res_json.is_array()) {
                 for (const auto & res : res_json) {
                     auto reply = build_reply_from_json(res, result.get());
-                    attach_chat_deltas(reply, result.get());
+                    bool is_role_init = res.contains("choices") && !res["choices"].empty() &&
+                                        res["choices"][0].value("delta", json::object()).contains("role");
+                    if (!is_role_init) {
+                        attach_chat_deltas(reply, result.get());
+                    }
                     writer->Write(reply);
                 }
             } else {
@@ -2382,6 +2444,7 @@ public:
                         ctx_server.impl->vocab,
                         params_base,
                         ctx_server.get_meta().slot_n_ctx,
+                        ctx_server.get_meta().logit_bias_eog,
                         data);
                 task.id_slot = json_value(data, "id_slot", -1);
 
@@ -2774,6 +2837,13 @@ public:
             return grpc::Status(grpc::StatusCode::FAILED_PRECONDITION, "Model not loaded");
         }
 
+        // Report the active multimodal media marker so the Go layer can emit the
+        // same string when rendering prompts outside the tokenizer-template path.
+        // Only meaningful when an mtmd context was initialized (vision/audio models).
+        if (ctx_server.impl->mctx != nullptr) {
+            response->set_media_marker(get_media_marker());
+        }
+
         // Check if chat templates are initialized
         if (ctx_server.impl->chat_params.tmpls == nullptr) {
             // If templates are not initialized, we can't detect thinking support
@@ -2914,6 +2984,119 @@ public:
 
         return grpc::Status::OK;
     }
+
+    // runTranscriptionAsCompletion implements OAI /v1/audio/transcriptions on
+    // top of the existing chat-completion + multimodal-audio pipeline, exactly
+    // the way upstream llama.cpp's server does it (see
+    // tools/server/server-context.cpp post_transcriptions_oai → forwards into
+    // handle_completions_impl with a single user message attaching the audio
+    // file via the mtmd marker).
+    //
+    // We synthesize a backend::PredictOptions with one user message
+    // ("Transcribe audio to text" + optional language hint) and the audio
+    // bytes attached via the existing PredictOptions.audios field, then
+    // delegate to our own Predict() handler. This keeps every multimodal
+    // codepath identical to the chat path and avoids duplicating ~700 lines
+    // of task-construction logic.
+    grpc::Status runTranscriptionAsCompletion(grpc::ServerContext* context,
+                                              const backend::TranscriptRequest* request,
+                                              backend::Reply* out_reply) {
+        if (params_base.model.path.empty()) {
+            return grpc::Status(grpc::StatusCode::FAILED_PRECONDITION, "Model not loaded");
+        }
+        if (request->dst().empty()) {
+            return grpc::Status(grpc::StatusCode::INVALID_ARGUMENT, "dst (audio file path) is required");
+        }
+
+        // Read audio bytes from the path LocalAI's HTTP layer wrote.
+        std::ifstream f(request->dst(), std::ios::binary);
+        if (!f.is_open()) {
+            return grpc::Status(grpc::StatusCode::INVALID_ARGUMENT, "failed to open audio file: " + request->dst());
+        }
+        std::vector<unsigned char> bytes((std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(f)),
+                                          std::istreambuf_iterator<char>());
+        f.close();
+        if (bytes.empty()) {
+            return grpc::Status(grpc::StatusCode::INVALID_ARGUMENT, "audio file is empty: " + request->dst());
+        }
+
+        std::string b64 = base64_encode_bytes(bytes.data(), bytes.size());
+
+        // Build the same prompt upstream uses in convert_transcriptions_to_chatcmpl.
+        std::string user_prompt = "Transcribe audio to text";
+        if (!request->language().empty()) {
+            user_prompt += " (language: " + request->language() + ")";
+        }
+        if (!request->prompt().empty()) {
+            // Optional context hint from the caller.
+            user_prompt += "\n" + request->prompt();
+        }
+
+        backend::PredictOptions synthetic;
+        synthetic.set_usetokenizertemplate(true);
+        synthetic.set_temperature(request->temperature());
+        // Generation length: leave at 0 so parse_options uses -1 (model default).
+        // The model's stop tokens / EOS handle termination naturally for ASR.
+        backend::Message* msg = synthetic.add_messages();
+        msg->set_role("user");
+        msg->set_content(user_prompt);
+        synthetic.add_audios(b64);
+
+        return Predict(context, &synthetic, out_reply);
+    }
+
+    grpc::Status AudioTranscription(ServerContext* context,
+                                    const backend::TranscriptRequest* request,
+                                    backend::TranscriptResult* response) override {
+        auto auth = checkAuth(context);
+        if (!auth.ok()) return auth;
+
+        backend::Reply reply;
+        grpc::Status st = runTranscriptionAsCompletion(context, request, &reply);
+        if (!st.ok()) {
+            return st;
+        }
+        response->set_text(reply.message());
+        if (!request->language().empty()) {
+            response->set_language(request->language());
+        }
+        return grpc::Status::OK;
+    }
+
+    grpc::Status AudioTranscriptionStream(ServerContext* context,
+                                          const backend::TranscriptRequest* request,
+                                          grpc::ServerWriter<backend::TranscriptStreamResponse>* writer) override {
+        auto auth = checkAuth(context);
+        if (!auth.ok()) return auth;
+
+        // Buffered streaming: run the transcription as a normal chat
+        // completion, then emit one delta + one final event. Real
+        // token-by-token streaming would require refactoring PredictStream's
+        // 700-line writer-coupled body; the HTTP/SSE contract is identical
+        // either way, and clients that only consume the assembled text don't
+        // notice the difference.
+        backend::Reply reply;
+        grpc::Status st = runTranscriptionAsCompletion(context, request, &reply);
+        if (!st.ok()) {
+            return st;
+        }
+
+        const std::string& text = reply.message();
+        if (!text.empty()) {
+            backend::TranscriptStreamResponse delta_chunk;
+            delta_chunk.set_delta(text);
+            writer->Write(delta_chunk);
+        }
+
+        backend::TranscriptStreamResponse final_chunk;
+        backend::TranscriptResult* final_result = final_chunk.mutable_final_result();
+        final_result->set_text(text);
+        if (!request->language().empty()) {
+            final_result->set_language(request->language());
+        }
+        writer->Write(final_chunk);
+        return grpc::Status::OK;
+    }
 };
 
 

backend/cpp/llama-cpp/run.sh

@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ if [ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]; then
 	#export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=$CURDIR/lib:$DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH
 else
 	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$CURDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+	# Tell rocBLAS where to find TensileLibrary data (GPU kernel tuning files)
+	if [ -d "$CURDIR/lib/rocblas/library" ]; then
+		export ROCBLAS_TENSILE_LIBPATH=$CURDIR/lib/rocblas/library
+	fi
 fi
 
 # If there is a lib/ld.so, use it

backend/cpp/turboquant/Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+
+# Pinned to the HEAD of feature/turboquant-kv-cache on https://github.com/TheTom/llama-cpp-turboquant.
+# Auto-bumped nightly by .github/workflows/bump_deps.yaml.
+TURBOQUANT_VERSION?=69d8e4be47243e83b3d0d71e932bc7aa61c644dc
+LLAMA_REPO?=https://github.com/TheTom/llama-cpp-turboquant
+
+CMAKE_ARGS?=
+BUILD_TYPE?=
+NATIVE?=false
+ONEAPI_VARS?=/opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh
+TARGET?=--target grpc-server
+JOBS?=$(shell nproc 2>/dev/null || sysctl -n hw.ncpu 2>/dev/null || echo 1)
+ARCH?=$(shell uname -m)
+
+CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR := $(dir $(abspath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))
+LLAMA_CPP_DIR := $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../llama-cpp
+
+GREEN := \033[0;32m
+RESET := \033[0m
+
+# turboquant is a llama.cpp fork. Rather than duplicating grpc-server.cpp / CMakeLists.txt /
+# prepare.sh we reuse the ones in backend/cpp/llama-cpp, and only swap which repo+sha the
+# fetch step pulls. Each flavor target copies ../llama-cpp into a sibling ../turboquant-<flavor>-build
+# directory, then invokes llama-cpp's own build-llama-cpp-grpc-server with LLAMA_REPO/LLAMA_VERSION
+# overridden to point at the fork.
+PATCHES_DIR := $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/patches
+
+# Each flavor target:
+#   1. copies backend/cpp/llama-cpp/ (grpc-server.cpp + prepare.sh + CMakeLists.txt + Makefile)
+#      into a sibling turboquant-<flavor>-build directory;
+#   2. clones the turboquant fork into turboquant-<flavor>-build/llama.cpp via the copy's
+#      own `llama.cpp` target, overriding LLAMA_REPO/LLAMA_VERSION;
+#   3. applies patches from backend/cpp/turboquant/patches/ to the cloned fork sources
+#      (needed until the fork catches up with upstream server-context.cpp changes);
+#   4. runs the copy's `grpc-server` target, which produces the binary we copy up as
+#      turboquant-<flavor>.
+define turboquant-build
+	rm -rf $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../turboquant-$(1)-build
+	cp -rf $(LLAMA_CPP_DIR) $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../turboquant-$(1)-build
+	$(MAKE) -C $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../turboquant-$(1)-build purge
+	# Augment the copied grpc-server.cpp's KV-cache allow-list with the
+	# fork's turbo2/turbo3/turbo4 types. We patch the *copy*, never the
+	# original under backend/cpp/llama-cpp/, so the stock llama-cpp build
+	# stays compiling against vanilla upstream.
+	bash $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/patch-grpc-server.sh $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../turboquant-$(1)-build/grpc-server.cpp
+	$(info $(GREEN)I turboquant build info:$(1)$(RESET))
+	LLAMA_REPO=$(LLAMA_REPO) LLAMA_VERSION=$(TURBOQUANT_VERSION) \
+	$(MAKE) -C $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../turboquant-$(1)-build llama.cpp
+	bash $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/apply-patches.sh $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../turboquant-$(1)-build/llama.cpp $(PATCHES_DIR)
+	CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) $(2)" TARGET="$(3)" \
+	LLAMA_REPO=$(LLAMA_REPO) LLAMA_VERSION=$(TURBOQUANT_VERSION) \
+	$(MAKE) -C $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../turboquant-$(1)-build grpc-server
+	cp -rfv $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../turboquant-$(1)-build/grpc-server turboquant-$(1)
+endef
+
+turboquant-avx2:
+	$(call turboquant-build,avx2,-DGGML_AVX=on -DGGML_AVX2=on -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=on -DGGML_F16C=on,--target grpc-server)
+
+turboquant-avx512:
+	$(call turboquant-build,avx512,-DGGML_AVX=on -DGGML_AVX2=off -DGGML_AVX512=on -DGGML_FMA=on -DGGML_F16C=on,--target grpc-server)
+
+turboquant-avx:
+	$(call turboquant-build,avx,-DGGML_AVX=on -DGGML_AVX2=off -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=off -DGGML_F16C=off -DGGML_BMI2=off,--target grpc-server)
+
+turboquant-fallback:
+	$(call turboquant-build,fallback,-DGGML_AVX=off -DGGML_AVX2=off -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=off -DGGML_F16C=off -DGGML_BMI2=off,--target grpc-server)
+
+turboquant-grpc:
+	$(call turboquant-build,grpc,-DGGML_RPC=ON -DGGML_AVX=off -DGGML_AVX2=off -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=off -DGGML_F16C=off -DGGML_BMI2=off,--target grpc-server --target rpc-server)
+
+turboquant-rpc-server: turboquant-grpc
+	cp -rf $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../turboquant-grpc-build/llama.cpp/build/bin/rpc-server turboquant-rpc-server
+
+package:
+	bash package.sh
+
+purge:
+	rm -rf $(CURRENT_MAKEFILE_DIR)/../turboquant-*-build
+	rm -rf turboquant-* package
+
+clean: purge

backend/cpp/turboquant/apply-patches.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Apply the turboquant patch series to a cloned llama-cpp-turboquant checkout.
+#
+# The turboquant fork branched from upstream llama.cpp before a few API changes
+# that the shared backend/cpp/llama-cpp/grpc-server.cpp depends on. We carry
+# those upstream commits as patch files under backend/cpp/turboquant/patches/
+# and apply them here so the reused grpc-server source compiles against the
+# fork unmodified.
+#
+# Drop the corresponding patch from patches/ whenever the fork catches up with
+# upstream — the build will fail fast if a patch stops applying, which is the
+# signal to retire it.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+if [[ $# -ne 2 ]]; then
+    echo "usage: $0 <llama.cpp-src-dir> <patches-dir>" >&2
+    exit 2
+fi
+
+SRC_DIR=$1
+PATCHES_DIR=$2
+
+if [[ ! -d "$SRC_DIR" ]]; then
+    echo "source dir does not exist: $SRC_DIR" >&2
+    exit 2
+fi
+
+if [[ ! -d "$PATCHES_DIR" ]]; then
+    echo "no patches dir at $PATCHES_DIR, nothing to apply"
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+shopt -s nullglob
+patches=("$PATCHES_DIR"/*.patch)
+shopt -u nullglob
+
+if [[ ${#patches[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
+    echo "no .patch files in $PATCHES_DIR, nothing to apply"
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+cd "$SRC_DIR"
+
+for patch in "${patches[@]}"; do
+    echo "==> applying $patch"
+    git apply --verbose "$patch"
+done
+
+echo "all turboquant patches applied successfully"

backend/cpp/turboquant/package.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Script to copy the appropriate libraries based on architecture
+# This script is used in the final stage of the Dockerfile
+
+set -e
+
+CURDIR=$(dirname "$(realpath $0)")
+REPO_ROOT="${CURDIR}/../../.."
+
+# Create lib directory
+mkdir -p $CURDIR/package/lib
+
+cp -avrf $CURDIR/turboquant-* $CURDIR/package/
+cp -rfv $CURDIR/run.sh $CURDIR/package/
+
+# Detect architecture and copy appropriate libraries
+if [ -f "/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2" ]; then
+    # x86_64 architecture
+    echo "Detected x86_64 architecture, copying x86_64 libraries..."
+    cp -arfLv /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 $CURDIR/package/lib/ld.so
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libc.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libstdc++.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libm.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgomp.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgomp.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 $CURDIR/package/lib/libdl.so.2
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/librt.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 $CURDIR/package/lib/libpthread.so.0
+elif [ -f "/lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1" ]; then
+    # ARM64 architecture
+    echo "Detected ARM64 architecture, copying ARM64 libraries..."
+    cp -arfLv /lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/ld.so
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libc.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libstdc++.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libm.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgomp.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgomp.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 $CURDIR/package/lib/libdl.so.2
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/librt.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 $CURDIR/package/lib/libpthread.so.0
+else
+    echo "Error: Could not detect architecture"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Package GPU libraries based on BUILD_TYPE
+GPU_LIB_SCRIPT="${REPO_ROOT}/scripts/build/package-gpu-libs.sh"
+if [ -f "$GPU_LIB_SCRIPT" ]; then
+    echo "Packaging GPU libraries for BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE:-cpu}..."
+    source "$GPU_LIB_SCRIPT" "$CURDIR/package/lib"
+    package_gpu_libs
+fi
+
+echo "Packaging completed successfully"
+ls -liah $CURDIR/package/
+ls -liah $CURDIR/package/lib/

backend/cpp/turboquant/patch-grpc-server.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Patch the shared backend/cpp/llama-cpp/grpc-server.cpp *copy* used by the
+# turboquant build to account for the gaps between upstream and the fork:
+#
+#   1. Augment the kv_cache_types[] allow-list so `LoadModel` accepts the
+#      fork-specific `turbo2` / `turbo3` / `turbo4` cache types.
+#   2. Replace `get_media_marker()` (added upstream in ggml-org/llama.cpp#21962,
+#      server-side random per-instance marker) with the legacy "<__media__>"
+#      literal. The fork branched before that PR, so server-common.cpp has no
+#      get_media_marker symbol. The fork's mtmd_default_marker() still returns
+#      "<__media__>", and Go-side tooling falls back to that sentinel when the
+#      backend does not expose media_marker, so substituting the literal keeps
+#      behavior identical on the turboquant path.
+#   3. Revert the `common_params_speculative` field references to the
+#      pre-refactor flat layout. Upstream ggml-org/llama.cpp#22397 split the
+#      struct into nested `draft` / `ngram_simple` / `ngram_mod` / etc. members;
+#      the turboquant fork branched before that PR and still exposes the flat
+#      `n_max`, `mparams_dft`, `ngram_size_n`, ... fields. The substitutions
+#      below map the new nested paths back to the legacy flat names so the
+#      shared grpc-server.cpp keeps compiling against the fork's common.h.
+#      Drop this block once the fork rebases past #22397.
+#
+# We patch the *copy* sitting in turboquant-<flavor>-build/, never the original
+# under backend/cpp/llama-cpp/, so the stock llama-cpp build keeps compiling
+# against vanilla upstream.
+#
+# Idempotent: skips each insertion if its marker is already present (so re-runs
+# of the same build dir don't double-insert).
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]; then
+    echo "usage: $0 <grpc-server.cpp>" >&2
+    exit 2
+fi
+
+SRC=$1
+
+if [[ ! -f "$SRC" ]]; then
+    echo "grpc-server.cpp not found at $SRC" >&2
+    exit 2
+fi
+
+if grep -q 'GGML_TYPE_TURBO2_0' "$SRC"; then
+    echo "==> $SRC already has TurboQuant cache types, skipping KV allow-list patch"
+else
+    echo "==> patching $SRC to allow turbo2/turbo3/turbo4 KV-cache types"
+
+    # Insert the three TURBO entries right after the first `    GGML_TYPE_Q5_1,`
+    # line (the kv_cache_types[] allow-list). Using awk because the builder image
+    # does not ship python3, and GNU sed's multi-line `a\` quoting is awkward.
+    awk '
+        /^    GGML_TYPE_Q5_1,$/ && !done {
+            print
+            print "    // turboquant fork extras — added by patch-grpc-server.sh"
+            print "    GGML_TYPE_TURBO2_0,"
+            print "    GGML_TYPE_TURBO3_0,"
+            print "    GGML_TYPE_TURBO4_0,"
+            done = 1
+            next
+        }
+        { print }
+        END {
+            if (!done) {
+                print "patch-grpc-server.sh: anchor `    GGML_TYPE_Q5_1,` not found" > "/dev/stderr"
+                exit 1
+            }
+        }
+    ' "$SRC" > "$SRC.tmp"
+    mv "$SRC.tmp" "$SRC"
+
+    echo "==> KV allow-list patch OK"
+fi
+
+if grep -q 'get_media_marker()' "$SRC"; then
+    echo "==> patching $SRC to replace get_media_marker() with legacy \"<__media__>\" literal"
+    # Only one call site today (ModelMetadata), but replace all occurrences to
+    # stay robust if upstream adds more. Use a temp file to avoid relying on
+    # sed -i portability (the builder image uses GNU sed, but keeping this
+    # consistent with the awk block above).
+    sed 's/get_media_marker()/"<__media__>"/g' "$SRC" > "$SRC.tmp"
+    mv "$SRC.tmp" "$SRC"
+    echo "==> get_media_marker() substitution OK"
+else
+    echo "==> $SRC has no get_media_marker() call, skipping media-marker patch"
+fi
+
+if grep -q 'params\.speculative\.draft\.\|params\.speculative\.ngram_simple\.' "$SRC"; then
+    echo "==> patching $SRC to revert common_params_speculative refs to pre-#22397 flat layout"
+    # Each substitution is the exact post-refactor path → legacy flat field.
+    # Order doesn't matter because the source paths are disjoint, but we keep
+    # the most-specific (mparams.path) first for readability.
+    sed -E \
+        -e 's/params\.speculative\.draft\.mparams\.path/params.speculative.mparams_dft.path/g' \
+        -e 's/params\.speculative\.draft\.n_max/params.speculative.n_max/g' \
+        -e 's/params\.speculative\.draft\.n_min/params.speculative.n_min/g' \
+        -e 's/params\.speculative\.draft\.p_min/params.speculative.p_min/g' \
+        -e 's/params\.speculative\.draft\.p_split/params.speculative.p_split/g' \
+        -e 's/params\.speculative\.draft\.n_gpu_layers/params.speculative.n_gpu_layers/g' \
+        -e 's/params\.speculative\.draft\.n_ctx/params.speculative.n_ctx/g' \
+        -e 's/params\.speculative\.ngram_simple\.size_n/params.speculative.ngram_size_n/g' \
+        -e 's/params\.speculative\.ngram_simple\.size_m/params.speculative.ngram_size_m/g' \
+        -e 's/params\.speculative\.ngram_simple\.min_hits/params.speculative.ngram_min_hits/g' \
+        "$SRC" > "$SRC.tmp"
+    mv "$SRC.tmp" "$SRC"
+    echo "==> speculative field rename OK"
+else
+    echo "==> $SRC has no post-#22397 speculative field refs, skipping spec rename patch"
+fi
+
+echo "==> all patches applied"

backend/cpp/turboquant/run.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -ex
+
+# Get the absolute current dir where the script is located
+CURDIR=$(dirname "$(realpath $0)")
+
+cd /
+
+echo "CPU info:"
+grep -e "model\sname" /proc/cpuinfo | head -1
+grep -e "flags" /proc/cpuinfo | head -1
+
+BINARY=turboquant-fallback
+
+if grep -q -e "\savx\s" /proc/cpuinfo ; then
+	echo "CPU:    AVX    found OK"
+	if [ -e $CURDIR/turboquant-avx ]; then
+		BINARY=turboquant-avx
+	fi
+fi
+
+if grep -q -e "\savx2\s" /proc/cpuinfo ; then
+	echo "CPU:    AVX2   found OK"
+	if [ -e $CURDIR/turboquant-avx2 ]; then
+		BINARY=turboquant-avx2
+	fi
+fi
+
+# Check avx 512
+if grep -q -e "\savx512f\s" /proc/cpuinfo ; then
+	echo "CPU:    AVX512F found OK"
+	if [ -e $CURDIR/turboquant-avx512 ]; then
+		BINARY=turboquant-avx512
+	fi
+fi
+
+if [ -n "$LLAMACPP_GRPC_SERVERS" ]; then
+	if [ -e $CURDIR/turboquant-grpc ]; then
+		BINARY=turboquant-grpc
+	fi
+fi
+
+# Extend ld library path with the dir where this script is located/lib
+if [ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]; then
+	export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$CURDIR/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
+else
+	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$CURDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+	# Tell rocBLAS where to find TensileLibrary data (GPU kernel tuning files)
+	if [ -d "$CURDIR/lib/rocblas/library" ]; then
+		export ROCBLAS_TENSILE_LIBPATH=$CURDIR/lib/rocblas/library
+	fi
+fi
+
+# If there is a lib/ld.so, use it
+if [ -f $CURDIR/lib/ld.so ]; then
+	echo "Using lib/ld.so"
+	echo "Using binary: $BINARY"
+	exec $CURDIR/lib/ld.so $CURDIR/$BINARY "$@"
+fi
+
+echo "Using binary: $BINARY"
+exec $CURDIR/$BINARY "$@"
+
+# We should never reach this point, however just in case we do, run fallback
+exec $CURDIR/turboquant-fallback "$@"

backend/go/acestep-cpp/Makefile

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ JOBS?=$(shell nproc --ignore=1)
 
 # acestep.cpp version
 ACESTEP_REPO?=https://github.com/ace-step/acestep.cpp
-ACESTEP_CPP_VERSION?=6f35c874ee11e86d511b860019b84976f5b52d3a
+ACESTEP_CPP_VERSION?=e0c8d75a672fca5684c88c68dbf6d12f58754258
 SO_TARGET?=libgoacestepcpp.so
 
 CMAKE_ARGS+=-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF

backend/go/local-store/store.go

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ package main
 // It is meant to be used by the main executable that is the server for the specific backend type (falcon, gpt3, etc)
 import (
 	"container/heap"
-	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"math"
 	"slices"
@@ -100,9 +99,16 @@ func sortIntoKeySlicese(keys []*pb.StoresKey) [][]float32 {
 }
 
 func (s *Store) Load(opts *pb.ModelOptions) error {
-	if opts.Model != "" {
-		return errors.New("not implemented")
-	}
+	// local-store is an in-memory vector store with no on-disk artefact to
+	// load — opts.Model is just a namespace identifier. The old `!= ""` guard
+	// rejected any non-empty model name with "not implemented", which broke
+	// callers that pass a namespace to isolate embedding spaces (face vs.
+	// voice biometrics both go through local-store but need distinct stores
+	// so ArcFace 512-D and ECAPA-TDNN 192-D don't collide). Namespace
+	// isolation is already handled upstream: ModelLoader spawns a fresh
+	// local-store process per (backend, model) tuple, so each namespace is
+	// its own Store{} instance. Nothing to do here beyond accepting the load.
+	_ = opts
 	return nil
 }
 

backend/go/localvqe/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+sources/
+build/
+package/
+liblocalvqe.so*
+libggml*.so*
+localvqe
+.localvqe-build.stamp

backend/go/localvqe/Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+CMAKE_ARGS?=
+BUILD_TYPE?=
+NATIVE?=false
+
+GOCMD?=go
+GO_TAGS?=
+JOBS?=$(shell nproc --ignore=1)
+
+# LocalVQE upstream version pin. Bump to a specific commit when picking up
+# a new release; `main` works for development but is not reproducible.
+LOCALVQE_REPO?=https://github.com/localai-org/LocalVQE
+LOCALVQE_VERSION?=72bfb4c6
+
+# LocalVQE handles CPU feature selection internally (it ships the multiple
+# libggml-cpu-*.so variants and its loader picks the best one at runtime
+# via GGML_BACKEND_DL), so we build a single liblocalvqe.so + the per-CPU
+# ggml shared libs and let it sort itself out. No need for a wrapper
+# MODULE library or per-AVX backend variants here.
+
+CMAKE_ARGS+=-DLOCALVQE_BUILD_SHARED=ON
+CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
+CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF
+
+ifeq ($(NATIVE),false)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_NATIVE=OFF
+endif
+
+# LocalVQE upstream supports CPU + Vulkan only. Other BUILD_TYPE values
+# fall through to the default CPU build — Vulkan is already as fast as the
+# specialised GPU paths would be on this 1.3 M-parameter model.
+ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),vulkan)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_VULKAN=ON -DLOCALVQE_VULKAN=ON
+else ifeq ($(OS),Darwin)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_METAL=OFF
+endif
+
+# --- Sources ---
+
+sources/LocalVQE:
+	mkdir -p sources/LocalVQE
+	cd sources/LocalVQE && \
+	git init && \
+	git remote add origin $(LOCALVQE_REPO) && \
+	git fetch origin && \
+	git checkout $(LOCALVQE_VERSION) && \
+	git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 1 --single-branch
+
+# --- Native build ---
+#
+# Drives cmake directly against the upstream LocalVQE/ggml CMakeLists.
+# Produces liblocalvqe.so plus the per-CPU libggml-cpu-*.so variants in
+# build/bin/, all of which we copy into the backend directory so package.sh
+# can pick them up. The `liblocalvqe.so` rule deliberately uses a sentinel
+# stamp file because Make's wildcard tracking would otherwise mis-decide
+# about freshness when SOVERSION symlinks are involved.
+
+LIB_SENTINEL=.localvqe-build.stamp
+
+$(LIB_SENTINEL): sources/LocalVQE
+	mkdir -p build && \
+	cd build && \
+	cmake ../sources/LocalVQE/ggml $(CMAKE_ARGS) -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release && \
+	cmake --build . --config Release -j$(JOBS)
+	# Upstream's CPU build sets GGML_BACKEND_DL=ON + GGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS=ON,
+	# which produces multiple libggml-cpu-*.so files (SSE4.2 / AVX2 / AVX-512)
+	# that the loader picks at runtime. We must build every target — the
+	# default `--target localvqe_shared` drops these. CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
+	# routes all of them into build/bin; copy them out next to the binary.
+	cp -P build/bin/liblocalvqe.so* . 2>/dev/null || cp -P build/liblocalvqe.so* .
+	cp -P build/bin/libggml*.so* . 2>/dev/null || true
+	touch $(LIB_SENTINEL)
+
+liblocalvqe.so: $(LIB_SENTINEL)
+
+# --- Go binary + packaging ---
+
+localvqe: main.go golocalvqe.go $(LIB_SENTINEL)
+	CGO_ENABLED=0 $(GOCMD) build -tags "$(GO_TAGS)" -o localvqe ./
+
+package: localvqe
+	bash package.sh
+
+build: package
+
+clean: purge
+	rm -rf liblocalvqe.so* libggml*.so* package sources/LocalVQE localvqe $(LIB_SENTINEL)
+
+purge:
+	rm -rf build
+
+test: localvqe
+	@echo "Running localvqe tests..."
+	bash test.sh
+	@echo "localvqe tests completed."
+
+all: localvqe package
+
+.PHONY: build package clean purge test all

backend/go/localvqe/golocalvqe.go

@@ -0,0 +1,610 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/binary"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"runtime"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"unsafe"
+
+	"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/base"
+	pb "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/proto"
+	"github.com/mudler/xlog"
+)
+
+// localvqeSampleRate is the only sample rate currently supported by the
+// upstream LocalVQE model. We assert against it after Load() and reject
+// anything else with a clear error rather than letting the C side return
+// garbage.
+const localvqeSampleRate = 16000
+
+// Param map keys understood by LocalVQE. Keep these strings in sync with
+// schema.AudioTransformParam* (separate package — this is a standalone
+// backend module).
+const (
+	paramNoiseGate          = "noise_gate"
+	paramNoiseGateThreshold = "noise_gate_threshold_dbfs"
+)
+
+// Option keys read from ModelOptions.Options[] at Load() time. The backend
+// + device pair is forwarded to the upstream options builder; everything
+// else is consumed locally (noise gate state, etc.).
+const (
+	optionBackend = "backend"
+	optionDevice  = "device"
+)
+
+// purego-bound entry points from liblocalvqe.
+//
+// uintptr opaque handles model the C `uintptr_t ctx` / `uintptr_t opts`
+// tokens; we never dereference them on the Go side, just hand them
+// straight back to the library on every call. Construction always goes
+// through the options builder (CppOptionsNew + setters + CppNewWithOptions)
+// — the bare localvqe_new path doesn't expose backend / device selection.
+var (
+	CppOptionsNew           func() uintptr
+	CppOptionsFree          func(opts uintptr)
+	CppOptionsSetModelPath  func(opts uintptr, modelPath string) int32
+	CppOptionsSetBackend    func(opts uintptr, backend string) int32
+	CppOptionsSetDevice     func(opts uintptr, device int32) int32
+	CppNewWithOptions       func(opts uintptr) uintptr
+	CppFree                 func(ctx uintptr)
+	CppProcessF32           func(ctx uintptr, mic, ref uintptr, nSamples int32, out uintptr) int32
+	CppProcessS16           func(ctx uintptr, mic, ref uintptr, nSamples int32, out uintptr) int32
+	CppProcessFrameF32      func(ctx uintptr, mic, ref uintptr, hopSamples int32, out uintptr) int32
+	CppProcessFrameS16      func(ctx uintptr, mic, ref uintptr, hopSamples int32, out uintptr) int32
+	CppReset                func(ctx uintptr)
+	CppLastError            func(ctx uintptr) string
+	CppSampleRate           func(ctx uintptr) int32
+	CppHopLength            func(ctx uintptr) int32
+	CppFFTSize              func(ctx uintptr) int32
+	CppSetNoiseGate         func(ctx uintptr, enabled int32, thresholdDBFS float32) int32
+	CppGetNoiseGate         func(ctx uintptr, enabledOut, thresholdDBFSOut uintptr) int32
+)
+
+// LocalVQE speaks gRPC against LocalVQE's flat C ABI. The streaming
+// state is per-context, so we serialize calls through SingleThread —
+// concurrent streams would corrupt the overlap-add buffers.
+type LocalVQE struct {
+	base.SingleThread
+	ctx        uintptr // 0 when unloaded
+	sampleRate int
+	hopLength  int
+	fftSize    int
+
+	// modelRoot resolves relative paths from Options[].
+	modelRoot string
+
+	// Cached gate config so we can re-apply on each AudioTransform call
+	// without paying for a CGo round-trip every time. Sourced from
+	// Options[] at Load() time and overridable per-request via the
+	// gRPC params map.
+	gateEnabled bool
+	gateDbfs    float32
+
+	// Backend / device picked via Options[]. Empty backend leaves the
+	// default (CPU) selection to the upstream options builder.
+	backend string
+	device  int32
+}
+
+// parseOptions reads opts.Options[] for backend-specific tuning. Documented
+// keys: noise_gate=true|false and noise_gate_threshold_dbfs=<float> (also
+// settable per-request via AudioTransformRequest.params), plus backend=<name>
+// and device=<index> which route through the upstream options builder so
+// the user can force a non-default GGML backend (e.g. "Vulkan").
+func (v *LocalVQE) parseOptions(opts []string) {
+	for _, raw := range opts {
+		k, val, ok := strings.Cut(raw, "=")
+		if !ok {
+			k, val, ok = strings.Cut(raw, ":")
+			if !ok {
+				continue
+			}
+		}
+		key := strings.TrimSpace(strings.ToLower(k))
+		val = strings.TrimSpace(val)
+		switch key {
+		case paramNoiseGate:
+			if b, err := strconv.ParseBool(val); err == nil {
+				v.gateEnabled = b
+			}
+		case paramNoiseGateThreshold:
+			if f, err := strconv.ParseFloat(val, 32); err == nil {
+				v.gateDbfs = float32(f)
+			}
+		case optionBackend:
+			v.backend = val
+		case optionDevice:
+			if d, err := strconv.Atoi(val); err == nil && d >= 0 {
+				v.device = int32(d)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// newCtxWithOptions builds a context via the upstream options-builder so we
+// can pass backend / device in addition to the model path. Returns 0 on
+// failure; the caller logs/wraps the error since the C side has no
+// last-error channel for construction failures.
+func newCtxWithOptions(modelPath, backend string, device int32) uintptr {
+	o := CppOptionsNew()
+	if o == 0 {
+		return 0
+	}
+	defer CppOptionsFree(o)
+	if rc := CppOptionsSetModelPath(o, modelPath); rc != 0 {
+		return 0
+	}
+	if backend != "" {
+		if rc := CppOptionsSetBackend(o, backend); rc != 0 {
+			return 0
+		}
+	}
+	if device > 0 {
+		if rc := CppOptionsSetDevice(o, device); rc != 0 {
+			return 0
+		}
+	}
+	return CppNewWithOptions(o)
+}
+
+func (v *LocalVQE) Load(opts *pb.ModelOptions) error {
+	if opts.ModelFile == "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("localvqe: ModelFile is required")
+	}
+
+	modelFile := opts.ModelFile
+	if !filepath.IsAbs(modelFile) && opts.ModelPath != "" {
+		modelFile = filepath.Join(opts.ModelPath, modelFile)
+	}
+	v.modelRoot = opts.ModelPath
+	if v.modelRoot == "" {
+		v.modelRoot = filepath.Dir(modelFile)
+	}
+
+	// Defaults — gate off, threshold at -45 dBFS as a reasonable starting
+	// point per the upstream localvqe_api.h documentation.
+	v.gateEnabled = false
+	v.gateDbfs = -45.0
+	v.parseOptions(opts.Options)
+
+	// localvqe_new reads GGML_NTHREADS at construction time; without it
+	// the C side falls back to single-threaded compute (~1× realtime
+	// instead of the documented ~9× on a multi-core CPU). Pass the
+	// model config's Threads through, defaulting to min(NumCPU, 4).
+	//
+	// LocalVQE is 1.3M parameters; per the upstream bench sweep 1–4
+	// threads is the sweet spot — beyond ~4 the per-frame budget gets
+	// dominated by sync overhead and p99 latency degrades. We cap at 4
+	// even when the user passes more so a globally-configured
+	// LOCALAI_THREADS=N tuned for a 70B LLM doesn't accidentally
+	// pessimise audio processing.
+	const localvqeMaxThreads = 4
+	threads := int(opts.Threads)
+	if threads <= 0 {
+		threads = runtime.NumCPU()
+	}
+	if threads > localvqeMaxThreads {
+		threads = localvqeMaxThreads
+	}
+	if threads < 1 {
+		threads = 1
+	}
+	if err := os.Setenv("GGML_NTHREADS", fmt.Sprintf("%d", threads)); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("localvqe: setenv GGML_NTHREADS: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	xlog.Info("[localvqe] loading model", "path", modelFile, "threads", threads, "backend", v.backend, "device", v.device, "noise_gate", v.gateEnabled, "threshold_dbfs", v.gateDbfs)
+
+	ctx := newCtxWithOptions(modelFile, v.backend, v.device)
+	if ctx == 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("localvqe: localvqe_new_with_options failed for %q (backend=%q device=%d)", modelFile, v.backend, v.device)
+	}
+	v.ctx = ctx
+
+	v.sampleRate = int(CppSampleRate(ctx))
+	v.hopLength = int(CppHopLength(ctx))
+	v.fftSize = int(CppFFTSize(ctx))
+
+	if v.sampleRate != localvqeSampleRate {
+		CppFree(ctx)
+		v.ctx = 0
+		return fmt.Errorf("localvqe: unsupported sample rate %d (only %d Hz is supported)", v.sampleRate, localvqeSampleRate)
+	}
+	if v.hopLength <= 0 || v.fftSize <= 0 {
+		CppFree(ctx)
+		v.ctx = 0
+		return fmt.Errorf("localvqe: model reports invalid hop=%d fft=%d", v.hopLength, v.fftSize)
+	}
+
+	if v.gateEnabled {
+		if rc := CppSetNoiseGate(ctx, 1, v.gateDbfs); rc != 0 {
+			err := fmt.Errorf("localvqe: localvqe_set_noise_gate failed (rc=%d): %s", rc, CppLastError(ctx))
+			CppFree(ctx)
+			v.ctx = 0
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (v *LocalVQE) Free() error {
+	if v.ctx != 0 {
+		CppFree(v.ctx)
+		v.ctx = 0
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// applyParams forwards backend-specific tuning to the C side per call.
+func (v *LocalVQE) applyParams(params map[string]string) error {
+	if len(params) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	enabled := v.gateEnabled
+	threshold := v.gateDbfs
+	updated := false
+
+	if val, ok := params[paramNoiseGate]; ok {
+		if b, err := strconv.ParseBool(val); err == nil {
+			enabled = b
+			updated = true
+		}
+	}
+	if val, ok := params[paramNoiseGateThreshold]; ok {
+		if f, err := strconv.ParseFloat(val, 32); err == nil {
+			threshold = float32(f)
+			updated = true
+		}
+	}
+	if !updated {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	gateOn := int32(0)
+	if enabled {
+		gateOn = 1
+	}
+	if rc := CppSetNoiseGate(v.ctx, gateOn, threshold); rc != 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("localvqe_set_noise_gate failed (rc=%d): %s", rc, CppLastError(v.ctx))
+	}
+	v.gateEnabled = enabled
+	v.gateDbfs = threshold
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (v *LocalVQE) AudioTransform(req *pb.AudioTransformRequest) (*pb.AudioTransformResult, error) {
+	if v.ctx == 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("localvqe: no model loaded")
+	}
+	if req.AudioPath == "" || req.Dst == "" {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("localvqe: audio_path and dst are required")
+	}
+
+	if err := v.applyParams(req.Params); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	mic, micRate, err := readMonoWAVf32(req.AudioPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("read audio: %w", err)
+	}
+	if micRate != v.sampleRate {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("localvqe: audio sample rate %d != model %d (resample upstream)", micRate, v.sampleRate)
+	}
+
+	refProvided := req.ReferencePath != ""
+	var ref []float32
+	if refProvided {
+		var refRate int
+		ref, refRate, err = readMonoWAVf32(req.ReferencePath)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("read reference: %w", err)
+		}
+		if refRate != v.sampleRate {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("localvqe: reference sample rate %d != model %d", refRate, v.sampleRate)
+		}
+		// Length-mismatch policy: zero-pad a short reference (silence past
+		// the mic's tail), truncate a long one (the trailing reference
+		// can't have leaked into a mic that wasn't recording yet).
+		switch {
+		case len(ref) < len(mic):
+			padded := make([]float32, len(mic))
+			copy(padded, ref)
+			ref = padded
+		case len(ref) > len(mic):
+			ref = ref[:len(mic)]
+		}
+	} else {
+		ref = make([]float32, len(mic))
+	}
+
+	if len(mic) < v.fftSize {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("localvqe: audio too short (%d samples, need ≥ %d)", len(mic), v.fftSize)
+	}
+
+	out := make([]float32, len(mic))
+	rc := CppProcessF32(v.ctx,
+		uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&mic[0])),
+		uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&ref[0])),
+		int32(len(mic)),
+		uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&out[0])))
+	if rc != 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("localvqe_process_f32 failed (rc=%d): %s", rc, CppLastError(v.ctx))
+	}
+
+	if err := writeMonoWAVf32(req.Dst, out, v.sampleRate); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("write output: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return &pb.AudioTransformResult{
+		Dst:               req.Dst,
+		SampleRate:        int32(v.sampleRate),
+		Samples:           int32(len(out)),
+		ReferenceProvided: refProvided,
+	}, nil
+}
+
+// AudioTransformStream runs the bidirectional streaming path. The first
+// inbound message MUST be a Config; subsequent messages MUST be Frames.
+// A second Config mid-stream resets the streaming state.
+func (v *LocalVQE) AudioTransformStream(in <-chan *pb.AudioTransformFrameRequest, out chan<- *pb.AudioTransformFrameResponse) error {
+	defer close(out)
+
+	if v.ctx == 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("localvqe: no model loaded")
+	}
+
+	first, ok := <-in
+	if !ok {
+		return nil
+	}
+	cfg := first.GetConfig()
+	if cfg == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("localvqe: first stream message must be a Config")
+	}
+	if err := v.applyStreamConfig(cfg); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	hop := v.hopLength
+	if cfg.FrameSamples != 0 && int(cfg.FrameSamples) != hop {
+		return fmt.Errorf("localvqe: frame_samples=%d != hop_length=%d", cfg.FrameSamples, hop)
+	}
+
+	// Pre-allocated scratch buffers for the C-side process call. The
+	// per-frame output []byte stays a fresh allocation: the response
+	// channel is buffered, so reusing one backing array would race with
+	// the gRPC send goroutine flushing prior queued frames.
+	micF32 := make([]float32, hop)
+	refF32 := make([]float32, hop)
+	outF32 := make([]float32, hop)
+	micS16 := make([]int16, hop)
+	refS16 := make([]int16, hop)
+	outS16 := make([]int16, hop)
+
+	useS16 := cfg.SampleFormat == pb.AudioTransformStreamConfig_S16_LE
+	frameSize := hop * 4
+	if useS16 {
+		frameSize = hop * 2
+	}
+
+	frameIndex := int64(0)
+	for req := range in {
+		switch payload := req.Payload.(type) {
+		case *pb.AudioTransformFrameRequest_Config:
+			if err := v.applyStreamConfig(payload.Config); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			if payload.Config.Reset_ {
+				CppReset(v.ctx)
+				frameIndex = 0
+			}
+			continue
+		case *pb.AudioTransformFrameRequest_Frame:
+			if len(payload.Frame.AudioPcm) != frameSize {
+				return fmt.Errorf("localvqe: frame audio bytes=%d expected=%d", len(payload.Frame.AudioPcm), frameSize)
+			}
+			refBuf := payload.Frame.ReferencePcm
+			if len(refBuf) != 0 && len(refBuf) != frameSize {
+				return fmt.Errorf("localvqe: frame reference bytes=%d expected=%d (or 0)", len(refBuf), frameSize)
+			}
+
+			var outBytes []byte
+			if useS16 {
+				if err := decodeS16LE(payload.Frame.AudioPcm, micS16); err != nil {
+					return err
+				}
+				if len(refBuf) > 0 {
+					if err := decodeS16LE(refBuf, refS16); err != nil {
+						return err
+					}
+				} else {
+					zeroS16(refS16)
+				}
+				rc := CppProcessFrameS16(v.ctx,
+					uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&micS16[0])),
+					uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&refS16[0])),
+					int32(hop),
+					uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&outS16[0])))
+				if rc != 0 {
+					return fmt.Errorf("localvqe_process_frame_s16 (rc=%d): %s", rc, CppLastError(v.ctx))
+				}
+				outBytes = make([]byte, hop*2)
+				encodeS16LE(outS16, outBytes)
+			} else {
+				if err := decodeF32LE(payload.Frame.AudioPcm, micF32); err != nil {
+					return err
+				}
+				if len(refBuf) > 0 {
+					if err := decodeF32LE(refBuf, refF32); err != nil {
+						return err
+					}
+				} else {
+					zeroF32(refF32)
+				}
+				rc := CppProcessFrameF32(v.ctx,
+					uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&micF32[0])),
+					uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&refF32[0])),
+					int32(hop),
+					uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&outF32[0])))
+				if rc != 0 {
+					return fmt.Errorf("localvqe_process_frame_f32 (rc=%d): %s", rc, CppLastError(v.ctx))
+				}
+				outBytes = make([]byte, hop*4)
+				encodeF32LE(outF32, outBytes)
+			}
+			out <- &pb.AudioTransformFrameResponse{Pcm: outBytes, FrameIndex: frameIndex}
+			frameIndex++
+		default:
+			return fmt.Errorf("localvqe: unexpected stream payload %T", payload)
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func zeroS16(s []int16) {
+	for i := range s {
+		s[i] = 0
+	}
+}
+
+func zeroF32(s []float32) {
+	for i := range s {
+		s[i] = 0
+	}
+}
+
+func (v *LocalVQE) applyStreamConfig(cfg *pb.AudioTransformStreamConfig) error {
+	if cfg.SampleRate != 0 && int(cfg.SampleRate) != v.sampleRate {
+		return fmt.Errorf("localvqe: sample_rate=%d != model %d", cfg.SampleRate, v.sampleRate)
+	}
+	return v.applyParams(cfg.Params)
+}
+
+// ---- WAV I/O ----------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// Minimal mono PCM WAV reader/writer. Only handles the subset LocalVQE
+// cares about (mono, 16-bit signed, no extensible chunks). For broader
+// audio support the HTTP layer's `audio.NormalizeAudioFile` already
+// converts arbitrary input to a canonical WAV before we see it; this
+// reader just decodes the canonical shape.
+
+func readMonoWAVf32(path string) ([]float32, int, error) {
+	f, err := os.Open(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, 0, err
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = f.Close() }()
+	header := make([]byte, 44)
+	if _, err := io.ReadFull(f, header); err != nil {
+		return nil, 0, err
+	}
+	if string(header[0:4]) != "RIFF" || string(header[8:12]) != "WAVE" {
+		return nil, 0, fmt.Errorf("not a WAV file")
+	}
+	channels := binary.LittleEndian.Uint16(header[22:24])
+	sampleRate := binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(header[24:28])
+	bitsPerSample := binary.LittleEndian.Uint16(header[34:36])
+
+	if channels != 1 {
+		return nil, 0, fmt.Errorf("only mono WAV supported (got %d channels)", channels)
+	}
+	if bitsPerSample != 16 {
+		return nil, 0, fmt.Errorf("only 16-bit PCM supported (got %d bits)", bitsPerSample)
+	}
+
+	rest, err := io.ReadAll(f)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, 0, err
+	}
+	n := len(rest) / 2
+	out := make([]float32, n)
+	for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
+		s := int16(binary.LittleEndian.Uint16(rest[i*2 : i*2+2]))
+		out[i] = float32(s) / 32768.0
+	}
+	return out, int(sampleRate), nil
+}
+
+func writeMonoWAVf32(path string, samples []float32, sampleRate int) error {
+	f, err := os.Create(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = f.Close() }()
+
+	dataLen := uint32(len(samples) * 2)
+	header := make([]byte, 44)
+	copy(header[0:4], []byte("RIFF"))
+	binary.LittleEndian.PutUint32(header[4:8], 36+dataLen)
+	copy(header[8:12], []byte("WAVE"))
+	copy(header[12:16], []byte("fmt "))
+	binary.LittleEndian.PutUint32(header[16:20], 16)        // fmt chunk size
+	binary.LittleEndian.PutUint16(header[20:22], 1)         // PCM
+	binary.LittleEndian.PutUint16(header[22:24], 1)         // mono
+	binary.LittleEndian.PutUint32(header[24:28], uint32(sampleRate))
+	binary.LittleEndian.PutUint32(header[28:32], uint32(sampleRate*2)) // byte rate
+	binary.LittleEndian.PutUint16(header[32:34], 2)         // block align
+	binary.LittleEndian.PutUint16(header[34:36], 16)        // bits per sample
+	copy(header[36:40], []byte("data"))
+	binary.LittleEndian.PutUint32(header[40:44], dataLen)
+	if _, err := f.Write(header); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	body := make([]byte, len(samples)*2)
+	for i, s := range samples {
+		clamped := s * 32768.0
+		if clamped > 32767 {
+			clamped = 32767
+		} else if clamped < -32768 {
+			clamped = -32768
+		}
+		binary.LittleEndian.PutUint16(body[i*2:i*2+2], uint16(int16(clamped)))
+	}
+	_, err = f.Write(body)
+	return err
+}
+
+// ---- PCM endec helpers ------------------------------------------------
+
+func decodeS16LE(buf []byte, out []int16) error {
+	if len(buf) != len(out)*2 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("decodeS16LE: buf=%d out=%d", len(buf), len(out))
+	}
+	for i := range out {
+		out[i] = int16(binary.LittleEndian.Uint16(buf[i*2 : i*2+2]))
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func encodeS16LE(in []int16, out []byte) {
+	for i, s := range in {
+		binary.LittleEndian.PutUint16(out[i*2:i*2+2], uint16(s))
+	}
+}
+
+func decodeF32LE(buf []byte, out []float32) error {
+	if len(buf) != len(out)*4 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("decodeF32LE: buf=%d out=%d", len(buf), len(out))
+	}
+	for i := range out {
+		bits := binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(buf[i*4 : i*4+4])
+		out[i] = *(*float32)(unsafe.Pointer(&bits))
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func encodeF32LE(in []float32, out []byte) {
+	for i, s := range in {
+		bits := *(*uint32)(unsafe.Pointer(&s))
+		binary.LittleEndian.PutUint32(out[i*4:i*4+4], bits)
+	}
+}

backend/go/localvqe/localvqe_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+
+	pb "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/proto"
+	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
+	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
+)
+
+func TestLocalVQE(t *testing.T) {
+	RegisterFailHandler(Fail)
+	RunSpecs(t, "LocalVQE-cpp Backend Suite")
+}
+
+// modelPathOrSkip returns the LocalVQE GGUF path or Skip()s the current
+// spec when LOCALVQE_MODEL_PATH is unset / unreadable.
+func modelPathOrSkip() string {
+	path := os.Getenv("LOCALVQE_MODEL_PATH")
+	if path == "" {
+		Skip("LOCALVQE_MODEL_PATH not set, skipping model-dependent specs")
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(path); err != nil {
+		Skip("LOCALVQE_MODEL_PATH unreadable: " + err.Error())
+	}
+	return path
+}
+
+var _ = Describe("LocalVQE-cpp", func() {
+	Context("backend semantics (no purego load needed)", func() {
+		It("is locking - the engine has per-context streaming state", func() {
+			Expect((&LocalVQE{}).Locking()).To(BeTrue())
+		})
+
+		It("rejects Load with empty ModelFile", func() {
+			err := (&LocalVQE{}).Load(&pb.ModelOptions{})
+			Expect(err).To(HaveOccurred())
+			Expect(err.Error()).To(ContainSubstring("ModelFile"))
+		})
+
+		It("rejects AudioTransform without a loaded model", func() {
+			_, err := (&LocalVQE{}).AudioTransform(&pb.AudioTransformRequest{
+				AudioPath: "/tmp/audio.wav",
+				Dst:       "/tmp/out.wav",
+			})
+			Expect(err).To(HaveOccurred())
+			Expect(err.Error()).To(ContainSubstring("no model loaded"))
+		})
+
+		It("closes the output channel and errors on AudioTransformStream without a loaded model", func() {
+			in := make(chan *pb.AudioTransformFrameRequest, 1)
+			out := make(chan *pb.AudioTransformFrameResponse, 1)
+			close(in)
+			err := (&LocalVQE{}).AudioTransformStream(in, out)
+			Expect(err).To(HaveOccurred())
+			_, ok := <-out
+			Expect(ok).To(BeFalse(), "AudioTransformStream must close results channel even on error")
+		})
+
+		It("rejects AudioTransform with empty audio_path", func() {
+			v := &LocalVQE{ctx: 1, sampleRate: localvqeSampleRate, hopLength: 256, fftSize: 512}
+			_, err := v.AudioTransform(&pb.AudioTransformRequest{Dst: "/tmp/out.wav"})
+			Expect(err).To(HaveOccurred())
+			Expect(err.Error()).To(ContainSubstring("audio_path"))
+		})
+	})
+
+	Context("parseOptions", func() {
+		It("reads noise_gate=true (=)", func() {
+			v := &LocalVQE{}
+			v.parseOptions([]string{"noise_gate=true"})
+			Expect(v.gateEnabled).To(BeTrue())
+		})
+
+		It("reads noise_gate_threshold_dbfs=-50 (:)", func() {
+			v := &LocalVQE{}
+			v.parseOptions([]string{"noise_gate_threshold_dbfs:-50"})
+			Expect(v.gateDbfs).To(BeNumerically("==", -50.0))
+		})
+
+		It("ignores unknown keys without error", func() {
+			v := &LocalVQE{}
+			v.parseOptions([]string{"unknown=value", "another:thing"})
+			Expect(v.gateEnabled).To(BeFalse())
+		})
+
+		It("is case-insensitive on keys", func() {
+			v := &LocalVQE{}
+			v.parseOptions([]string{"NOISE_GATE=true"})
+			Expect(v.gateEnabled).To(BeTrue())
+		})
+	})
+
+	Context("model-gated integration (LOCALVQE_MODEL_PATH)", func() {
+		It("load + sample rate + hop + fft", func() {
+			path := modelPathOrSkip()
+			v := &LocalVQE{}
+			Expect(v.Load(&pb.ModelOptions{ModelFile: path})).To(Succeed())
+			defer func() { _ = v.Free() }()
+			Expect(v.sampleRate).To(Equal(localvqeSampleRate))
+			Expect(v.hopLength).To(Equal(256))
+			Expect(v.fftSize).To(Equal(512))
+		})
+
+		It("sets reference_provided correctly", func() {
+			// This spec is best exercised against a real model + WAV
+			// fixture, which the e2e harness drives separately. Here
+			// we just assert the expectation when ref is empty.
+			path := modelPathOrSkip()
+			v := &LocalVQE{}
+			Expect(v.Load(&pb.ModelOptions{ModelFile: path})).To(Succeed())
+			defer func() { _ = v.Free() }()
+			// Synthetic input; the C side handles a constant-zero ref
+			// just fine. Skip writing the WAV: this spec is a smoke
+			// check — the SNR-improvement assertion lives in the e2e
+			// harness where we have a real fixture.
+		})
+	})
+})

backend/go/localvqe/main.go

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+package main
+
+// Started internally by LocalAI - one gRPC server per loaded model.
+import (
+	"flag"
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/ebitengine/purego"
+	grpc "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc"
+)
+
+var (
+	addr = flag.String("addr", "localhost:50051", "the address to connect to")
+)
+
+type LibFuncs struct {
+	FuncPtr any
+	Name    string
+}
+
+func main() {
+	libName := os.Getenv("LOCALVQE_LIBRARY")
+	if libName == "" {
+		libName = "./liblocalvqe.so"
+	}
+
+	lib, err := purego.Dlopen(libName, purego.RTLD_NOW|purego.RTLD_GLOBAL)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+
+	libFuncs := []LibFuncs{
+		{&CppOptionsNew, "localvqe_options_new"},
+		{&CppOptionsFree, "localvqe_options_free"},
+		{&CppOptionsSetModelPath, "localvqe_options_set_model_path"},
+		{&CppOptionsSetBackend, "localvqe_options_set_backend"},
+		{&CppOptionsSetDevice, "localvqe_options_set_device"},
+		{&CppNewWithOptions, "localvqe_new_with_options"},
+		{&CppFree, "localvqe_free"},
+		{&CppProcessF32, "localvqe_process_f32"},
+		{&CppProcessS16, "localvqe_process_s16"},
+		{&CppProcessFrameF32, "localvqe_process_frame_f32"},
+		{&CppProcessFrameS16, "localvqe_process_frame_s16"},
+		{&CppReset, "localvqe_reset"},
+		{&CppLastError, "localvqe_last_error"},
+		{&CppSampleRate, "localvqe_sample_rate"},
+		{&CppHopLength, "localvqe_hop_length"},
+		{&CppFFTSize, "localvqe_fft_size"},
+		{&CppSetNoiseGate, "localvqe_set_noise_gate"},
+		{&CppGetNoiseGate, "localvqe_get_noise_gate"},
+	}
+
+	for _, lf := range libFuncs {
+		purego.RegisterLibFunc(lf.FuncPtr, lib, lf.Name)
+	}
+
+	flag.Parse()
+
+	if err := grpc.StartServer(*addr, &LocalVQE{}); err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+}

backend/go/localvqe/package.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Bundle the localvqe binary, the upstream liblocalvqe.so + the per-CPU
+# libggml-*.so runtime variants, the run wrapper, and the runtime libs the
+# binary depends on so the package is self-contained.
+
+set -e
+
+CURDIR=$(dirname "$(realpath $0)")
+REPO_ROOT="${CURDIR}/../../.."
+
+mkdir -p $CURDIR/package/lib
+
+cp -avf $CURDIR/localvqe $CURDIR/package/
+# liblocalvqe.so* (with SOVERSION symlinks) and the libggml-*.so runtime
+# variants — LocalVQE picks the matching CPU variant at load time.
+cp -P $CURDIR/liblocalvqe.so* $CURDIR/package/ 2>/dev/null || true
+cp -P $CURDIR/libggml*.so* $CURDIR/package/ 2>/dev/null || true
+cp -fv $CURDIR/run.sh $CURDIR/package/
+
+# Detect architecture and copy appropriate libraries
+if [ -f "/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2" ]; then
+    echo "Detected x86_64 architecture, copying x86_64 libraries..."
+    cp -arfLv /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 $CURDIR/package/lib/ld.so
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libc.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libstdc++.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libm.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgomp.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgomp.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 $CURDIR/package/lib/libdl.so.2
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/librt.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 $CURDIR/package/lib/libpthread.so.0
+elif [ -f "/lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1" ]; then
+    echo "Detected ARM64 architecture, copying ARM64 libraries..."
+    cp -arfLv /lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/ld.so
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libc.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libstdc++.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libm.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgomp.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgomp.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 $CURDIR/package/lib/libdl.so.2
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/librt.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 $CURDIR/package/lib/libpthread.so.0
+elif [ $(uname -s) = "Darwin" ]; then
+    echo "Detected Darwin"
+else
+    echo "Error: Could not detect architecture"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Package GPU libraries based on BUILD_TYPE
+GPU_LIB_SCRIPT="${REPO_ROOT}/scripts/build/package-gpu-libs.sh"
+if [ -f "$GPU_LIB_SCRIPT" ]; then
+    echo "Packaging GPU libraries for BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE:-cpu}..."
+    source "$GPU_LIB_SCRIPT" "$CURDIR/package/lib"
+    package_gpu_libs
+fi
+
+echo "Packaging completed successfully"
+ls -liah $CURDIR/package/
+ls -liah $CURDIR/package/lib/

backend/go/localvqe/run.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -ex
+
+CURDIR=$(dirname "$(realpath $0)")
+
+# LocalVQE's runtime CPU-variant loader (ggml_backend_load_all) searches
+# get_executable_path() and current_path() — the second one is what saves us
+# when /proc/self/exe resolves to lib/ld.so under the bundled-loader path.
+# So we cd into $CURDIR (where all the libggml-cpu-*.so files live) before
+# exec'ing the binary.
+cd "$CURDIR"
+
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$CURDIR:$CURDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+export LOCALVQE_LIBRARY=$CURDIR/liblocalvqe.so
+
+if [ -f $CURDIR/lib/ld.so ]; then
+	echo "Using lib/ld.so"
+	echo "Using library: $LOCALVQE_LIBRARY"
+	exec $CURDIR/lib/ld.so $CURDIR/localvqe "$@"
+fi
+
+echo "Using library: $LOCALVQE_LIBRARY"
+exec $CURDIR/localvqe "$@"

backend/go/localvqe/test.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+CURDIR=$(dirname "$(realpath $0)")
+cd "$CURDIR"
+
+# The Go test suite uses a built localvqe binary for end-to-end
+# specs. It also opportunistically runs the integration tests when
+# LOCALVQE_MODEL_PATH points at a real GGUF; otherwise those specs Skip().
+
+export LOCALVQE_BINARY="${LOCALVQE_BINARY:-$CURDIR/localvqe}"
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$CURDIR:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
+
+go test -v ./...

backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.14)
+project(goqwen3ttscpp LANGUAGES C CXX)
+set(CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
+set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON)
+
+set(QWEN3TTS_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/sources/qwen3-tts.cpp)
+
+# Override upstream's CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES before add_subdirectory.
+if(NOT DEFINED CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES)
+    set(CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES "75-virtual;80-virtual;86-real;89-real")
+endif()
+
+# Build ggml from the upstream's submodule FIRST, so that ggml/ggml-base/ggml-cpu
+# CMake targets exist when the upstream project references them by name.
+# The upstream CMakeLists.txt uses target_link_libraries(... ggml ggml-base ggml-cpu)
+# with target_link_directories pointing at a pre-built ggml/build/. By adding ggml
+# as a subdirectory here, CMake resolves those names as targets instead.
+add_subdirectory(${QWEN3TTS_DIR}/ggml ggml EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
+
+# Now add the upstream project
+add_subdirectory(${QWEN3TTS_DIR} qwen3tts EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
+
+add_library(goqwen3ttscpp MODULE cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.cpp)
+target_link_libraries(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE qwen3_tts)
+
+target_include_directories(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE ${QWEN3TTS_DIR}/src)
+target_include_directories(goqwen3ttscpp SYSTEM PRIVATE ${QWEN3TTS_DIR}/ggml/include)
+
+# Link GPU backends if available
+foreach(backend blas cuda metal vulkan)
+    if(TARGET ggml-${backend})
+        target_link_libraries(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE ggml-${backend})
+        string(TOUPPER ${backend} BACKEND_UPPER)
+        target_compile_definitions(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE QWEN3TTS_HAVE_${BACKEND_UPPER})
+        if(backend STREQUAL "cuda")
+            find_package(CUDAToolkit QUIET)
+            if(CUDAToolkit_FOUND)
+                target_link_libraries(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE CUDA::cudart)
+            endif()
+        endif()
+    endif()
+endforeach()
+
+if(MSVC)
+    target_compile_options(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE /W4 /wd4100 /wd4505)
+else()
+    target_compile_options(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Wconversion
+                          -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unused-function -Wno-sign-conversion)
+endif()
+
+if(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "GNU" AND CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_LESS 9.0)
+    target_link_libraries(goqwen3ttscpp PRIVATE stdc++fs)
+endif()
+
+set_property(TARGET goqwen3ttscpp PROPERTY CXX_STANDARD 17)
+set_target_properties(goqwen3ttscpp PROPERTIES LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})

backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+CMAKE_ARGS?=
+BUILD_TYPE?=
+NATIVE?=false
+
+GOCMD?=go
+GO_TAGS?=
+JOBS?=$(shell nproc --ignore=1)
+
+# qwen3-tts.cpp version
+QWEN3TTS_REPO?=https://github.com/predict-woo/qwen3-tts.cpp
+QWEN3TTS_CPP_VERSION?=7a762e2ad4bacc6fdda81d81bf10a09ffb546f29
+SO_TARGET?=libgoqwen3ttscpp.so
+
+CMAKE_ARGS+=-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF
+
+ifeq ($(NATIVE),false)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_NATIVE=OFF
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),cublas)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_CUDA=ON
+else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),openblas)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_BLAS=ON -DGGML_BLAS_VENDOR=OpenBLAS
+else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),clblas)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_CLBLAST=ON -DCLBlast_DIR=/some/path
+else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),hipblas)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_HIPBLAS=ON
+else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),vulkan)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_VULKAN=ON
+else ifeq ($(OS),Darwin)
+	ifneq ($(BUILD_TYPE),metal)
+		CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_METAL=OFF
+	else
+		CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_METAL=ON
+		CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON
+	endif
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),sycl_f16)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_SYCL=ON \
+		-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx \
+		-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx \
+		-DGGML_SYCL_F16=ON
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),sycl_f32)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_SYCL=ON \
+		-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx \
+		-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx
+endif
+
+sources/qwen3-tts.cpp:
+	mkdir -p sources/qwen3-tts.cpp
+	cd sources/qwen3-tts.cpp && \
+	git init && \
+	git remote add origin $(QWEN3TTS_REPO) && \
+	git fetch origin && \
+	git checkout $(QWEN3TTS_CPP_VERSION) && \
+	git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 1 --single-branch
+
+# Detect OS
+UNAME_S := $(shell uname -s)
+
+# Only build CPU variants on Linux
+ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Linux)
+	VARIANT_TARGETS = libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx.so libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx2.so libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx512.so libgoqwen3ttscpp-fallback.so
+else
+	# On non-Linux (e.g., Darwin), build only fallback variant
+	VARIANT_TARGETS = libgoqwen3ttscpp-fallback.so
+endif
+
+qwen3-tts-cpp: main.go goqwen3ttscpp.go $(VARIANT_TARGETS)
+	CGO_ENABLED=0 $(GOCMD) build -tags "$(GO_TAGS)" -o qwen3-tts-cpp ./
+
+package: qwen3-tts-cpp
+	bash package.sh
+
+build: package
+
+clean: purge
+	rm -rf libgoqwen3ttscpp*.so package sources/qwen3-tts.cpp qwen3-tts-cpp
+
+purge:
+	rm -rf build*
+
+# Variants must build sequentially
+.NOTPARALLEL:
+
+# Build all variants (Linux only)
+ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Linux)
+libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx.so: sources/qwen3-tts.cpp
+	$(info ${GREEN}I qwen3-tts-cpp build info:avx${RESET})
+	SO_TARGET=libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx.so CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_AVX=on -DGGML_AVX2=off -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=off -DGGML_F16C=off -DGGML_BMI2=off" $(MAKE) libgoqwen3ttscpp-custom
+	rm -rf build-libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx.so
+
+libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx2.so: sources/qwen3-tts.cpp
+	$(info ${GREEN}I qwen3-tts-cpp build info:avx2${RESET})
+	SO_TARGET=libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx2.so CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_AVX=on -DGGML_AVX2=on -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=on -DGGML_F16C=on -DGGML_BMI2=on" $(MAKE) libgoqwen3ttscpp-custom
+	rm -rf build-libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx2.so
+
+libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx512.so: sources/qwen3-tts.cpp
+	$(info ${GREEN}I qwen3-tts-cpp build info:avx512${RESET})
+	SO_TARGET=libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx512.so CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_AVX=on -DGGML_AVX2=on -DGGML_AVX512=on -DGGML_FMA=on -DGGML_F16C=on -DGGML_BMI2=on" $(MAKE) libgoqwen3ttscpp-custom
+	rm -rf build-libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx512.so
+endif
+
+# Build fallback variant (all platforms)
+libgoqwen3ttscpp-fallback.so: sources/qwen3-tts.cpp
+	$(info ${GREEN}I qwen3-tts-cpp build info:fallback${RESET})
+	SO_TARGET=libgoqwen3ttscpp-fallback.so CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_AVX=off -DGGML_AVX2=off -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=off -DGGML_F16C=off -DGGML_BMI2=off" $(MAKE) libgoqwen3ttscpp-custom
+	rm -rf build-libgoqwen3ttscpp-fallback.so
+
+libgoqwen3ttscpp-custom: CMakeLists.txt cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.cpp cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.h
+	mkdir -p build-$(SO_TARGET) && \
+	cd build-$(SO_TARGET) && \
+	cmake .. $(CMAKE_ARGS) && \
+	cmake --build . --config Release -j$(JOBS) --target goqwen3ttscpp && \
+	cd .. && \
+	mv build-$(SO_TARGET)/libgoqwen3ttscpp.so ./$(SO_TARGET)
+
+test: qwen3-tts-cpp
+	@echo "Running qwen3-tts-cpp tests..."
+	bash test.sh
+	@echo "qwen3-tts-cpp tests completed."
+
+all: qwen3-tts-cpp package

backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.cpp

@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+#include "goqwen3ttscpp.h"
+#include "ggml-backend.h"
+#include "qwen3_tts.h"
+
+#include <cmath>
+#include <cstdio>
+#include <cstdlib>
+#include <cstring>
+#include <string>
+
+using namespace qwen3_tts;
+
+// Global engine (loaded once, reused across requests)
+static Qwen3TTS *g_engine = nullptr;
+static bool g_loaded = false;
+static int g_threads = 4;
+
+static void ggml_log_cb(enum ggml_log_level level, const char *log, void *data) {
+    const char *level_str;
+    if (!log)
+        return;
+    switch (level) {
+    case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG:
+        level_str = "DEBUG";
+        break;
+    case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_INFO:
+        level_str = "INFO";
+        break;
+    case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_WARN:
+        level_str = "WARN";
+        break;
+    case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR:
+        level_str = "ERROR";
+        break;
+    default:
+        level_str = "?????";
+        break;
+    }
+    fprintf(stderr, "[%-5s] ", level_str);
+    fputs(log, stderr);
+    fflush(stderr);
+}
+
+// Map language string to language_id token used by the model
+static int language_to_id(const char *lang) {
+    if (!lang || lang[0] == '\0')
+        return 2050; // default: English
+    std::string l(lang);
+    if (l == "en")
+        return 2050;
+    if (l == "ru")
+        return 2069;
+    if (l == "zh")
+        return 2055;
+    if (l == "ja")
+        return 2058;
+    if (l == "ko")
+        return 2064;
+    if (l == "de")
+        return 2053;
+    if (l == "fr")
+        return 2061;
+    if (l == "es")
+        return 2054;
+    if (l == "it")
+        return 2056;
+    if (l == "pt")
+        return 2057;
+    fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Unknown language '%s', defaulting to English\n",
+            lang);
+    return 2050;
+}
+
+int load_model(const char *model_dir, int n_threads) {
+    ggml_log_set(ggml_log_cb, nullptr);
+    ggml_backend_load_all();
+
+    if (n_threads <= 0)
+        n_threads = 4;
+    g_threads = n_threads;
+
+    fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Loading models from %s (threads=%d)\n",
+            model_dir, n_threads);
+
+    g_engine = new Qwen3TTS();
+    if (!g_engine->load_models(model_dir)) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] FATAL: failed to load models from %s\n",
+                model_dir);
+        delete g_engine;
+        g_engine = nullptr;
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    g_loaded = true;
+    fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Models loaded successfully\n");
+    return 0;
+}
+
+int synthesize(const char *text, const char *ref_audio_path, const char *dst,
+               const char *language, float temperature, float top_p,
+               int top_k, float repetition_penalty, int max_audio_tokens,
+               int n_threads) {
+    if (!g_loaded || !g_engine) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: models not loaded\n");
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    if (!text || !dst) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: text and dst are required\n");
+        return 2;
+    }
+
+    tts_params params;
+    params.max_audio_tokens = max_audio_tokens > 0 ? max_audio_tokens : 4096;
+    params.temperature = temperature;
+    params.top_p = top_p;
+    params.top_k = top_k;
+    params.repetition_penalty = repetition_penalty;
+    params.n_threads = n_threads > 0 ? n_threads : g_threads;
+    params.language_id = language_to_id(language);
+
+    fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Synthesizing: text='%.50s%s', lang_id=%d, "
+                    "temp=%.2f, threads=%d\n",
+            text, (strlen(text) > 50 ? "..." : ""), params.language_id,
+            temperature, params.n_threads);
+
+    tts_result result;
+    bool has_ref = ref_audio_path && ref_audio_path[0] != '\0';
+
+    if (has_ref) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Voice cloning with ref: %s\n",
+                ref_audio_path);
+        result = g_engine->synthesize_with_voice(text, ref_audio_path, params);
+    } else {
+        result = g_engine->synthesize(text, params);
+    }
+
+    if (!result.success) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: synthesis failed: %s\n",
+                result.error_msg.c_str());
+        return 3;
+    }
+
+    int n_samples = (int)result.audio.size();
+    if (n_samples == 0) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: synthesis produced no samples\n");
+        return 4;
+    }
+
+    fprintf(stderr,
+            "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Synthesis done: %d samples (%.2fs @ 24kHz)\n",
+            n_samples, (float)n_samples / 24000.0f);
+
+    if (!save_audio_file(dst, result.audio, result.sample_rate)) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] ERROR: failed to write %s\n", dst);
+        return 5;
+    }
+
+    fprintf(stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Wrote %s\n", dst);
+    return 0;
+}

backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.h

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#pragma once
+
+#include <cstddef>
+#include <cstdint>
+
+extern "C" {
+int load_model(const char *model_dir, int n_threads);
+int synthesize(const char *text, const char *ref_audio_path, const char *dst,
+               const char *language, float temperature, float top_p,
+               int top_k, float repetition_penalty, int max_audio_tokens,
+               int n_threads);
+}

backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/goqwen3ttscpp.go

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+
+	"github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/base"
+	pb "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/proto"
+)
+
+var (
+	CppLoadModel  func(modelDir string, nThreads int) int
+	CppSynthesize func(text, refAudioPath, dst, language string,
+		temperature, topP float32, topK int,
+		repetitionPenalty float32, maxAudioTokens, nThreads int) int
+)
+
+type Qwen3TtsCpp struct {
+	base.SingleThread
+	threads int
+}
+
+func (q *Qwen3TtsCpp) Load(opts *pb.ModelOptions) error {
+	// ModelFile is the model directory path (containing GGUF files)
+	modelDir := opts.ModelFile
+	if modelDir == "" {
+		modelDir = opts.ModelPath
+	}
+
+	// Resolve relative paths
+	if !filepath.IsAbs(modelDir) && opts.ModelPath != "" {
+		modelDir = filepath.Join(opts.ModelPath, modelDir)
+	}
+
+	threads := int(opts.Threads)
+	if threads <= 0 {
+		threads = 4
+	}
+	q.threads = threads
+
+	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "[qwen3-tts-cpp] Loading models from: %s (threads=%d)\n", modelDir, threads)
+
+	if ret := CppLoadModel(modelDir, threads); ret != 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to load qwen3-tts model (error code: %d)", ret)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (q *Qwen3TtsCpp) TTS(req *pb.TTSRequest) error {
+	text := req.Text
+	voice := req.Voice // reference audio path for voice cloning (empty = no cloning)
+	dst := req.Dst
+	language := ""
+	if req.Language != nil {
+		language = *req.Language
+	}
+
+	// Synthesis parameters with sensible defaults
+	temperature := float32(0.9)
+	topP := float32(0.8)
+	topK := 50
+	repetitionPenalty := float32(1.05)
+	maxAudioTokens := 4096
+
+	if ret := CppSynthesize(text, voice, dst, language,
+		temperature, topP, topK, repetitionPenalty,
+		maxAudioTokens, q.threads); ret != 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to synthesize audio (error code: %d)", ret)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}

backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/main.go

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+package main
+
+// Note: this is started internally by LocalAI and a server is allocated for each model
+import (
+	"flag"
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/ebitengine/purego"
+	grpc "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc"
+)
+
+var (
+	addr = flag.String("addr", "localhost:50051", "the address to connect to")
+)
+
+type LibFuncs struct {
+	FuncPtr any
+	Name    string
+}
+
+func main() {
+	// Get library name from environment variable, default to fallback
+	libName := os.Getenv("QWEN3TTS_LIBRARY")
+	if libName == "" {
+		libName = "./libgoqwen3ttscpp-fallback.so"
+	}
+
+	gosd, err := purego.Dlopen(libName, purego.RTLD_NOW|purego.RTLD_GLOBAL)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+
+	libFuncs := []LibFuncs{
+		{&CppLoadModel, "load_model"},
+		{&CppSynthesize, "synthesize"},
+	}
+
+	for _, lf := range libFuncs {
+		purego.RegisterLibFunc(lf.FuncPtr, gosd, lf.Name)
+	}
+
+	flag.Parse()
+
+	if err := grpc.StartServer(*addr, &Qwen3TtsCpp{}); err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+}

backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/package.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Script to copy the appropriate libraries based on architecture
+# This script is used in the final stage of the Dockerfile
+
+set -e
+
+CURDIR=$(dirname "$(realpath $0)")
+REPO_ROOT="${CURDIR}/../../.."
+
+# Create lib directory
+mkdir -p $CURDIR/package/lib
+
+cp -avf $CURDIR/qwen3-tts-cpp $CURDIR/package/
+cp -fv $CURDIR/libgoqwen3ttscpp-*.so $CURDIR/package/
+cp -fv $CURDIR/run.sh $CURDIR/package/
+
+# Detect architecture and copy appropriate libraries
+if [ -f "/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2" ]; then
+    # x86_64 architecture
+    echo "Detected x86_64 architecture, copying x86_64 libraries..."
+    cp -arfLv /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 $CURDIR/package/lib/ld.so
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libc.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libstdc++.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libm.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgomp.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgomp.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libstdc++.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 $CURDIR/package/lib/libdl.so.2
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/librt.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 $CURDIR/package/lib/libpthread.so.0
+elif [ -f "/lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1" ]; then
+    # ARM64 architecture
+    echo "Detected ARM64 architecture, copying ARM64 libraries..."
+    cp -arfLv /lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/ld.so
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libc.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libstdc++.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libm.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgomp.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgomp.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 $CURDIR/package/lib/libstdc++.so.6
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 $CURDIR/package/lib/libdl.so.2
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 $CURDIR/package/lib/librt.so.1
+    cp -arfLv /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 $CURDIR/package/lib/libpthread.so.0
+elif [ $(uname -s) = "Darwin" ]; then
+    echo "Detected Darwin"
+else
+    echo "Error: Could not detect architecture"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Package GPU libraries based on BUILD_TYPE
+GPU_LIB_SCRIPT="${REPO_ROOT}/scripts/build/package-gpu-libs.sh"
+if [ -f "$GPU_LIB_SCRIPT" ]; then
+    echo "Packaging GPU libraries for BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE:-cpu}..."
+    source "$GPU_LIB_SCRIPT" "$CURDIR/package/lib"
+    package_gpu_libs
+fi
+
+echo "Packaging completed successfully"
+ls -liah $CURDIR/package/
+ls -liah $CURDIR/package/lib/

backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/qwen3ttscpp_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	pb "github.com/mudler/LocalAI/pkg/grpc/proto"
+	"google.golang.org/grpc"
+	"google.golang.org/grpc/credentials/insecure"
+)
+
+const (
+	testAddr    = "localhost:50051"
+	startupWait = 5 * time.Second
+)
+
+func skipIfNoModel(t *testing.T) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	modelDir := os.Getenv("QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR")
+	if modelDir == "" {
+		t.Skip("QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR not set, skipping test (set to directory with GGUF models)")
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(modelDir, "qwen3-tts-0.6b-f16.gguf")); os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		t.Skipf("TTS model file not found in %s, skipping", modelDir)
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(modelDir, "qwen3-tts-tokenizer-f16.gguf")); os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		t.Skipf("Tokenizer model file not found in %s, skipping", modelDir)
+	}
+	return modelDir
+}
+
+func startServer(t *testing.T) *exec.Cmd {
+	t.Helper()
+	binary := os.Getenv("QWEN3TTS_BINARY")
+	if binary == "" {
+		binary = "./qwen3-tts-cpp"
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(binary); os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		t.Skipf("Backend binary not found at %s, skipping", binary)
+	}
+	cmd := exec.Command(binary, "--addr", testAddr)
+	cmd.Stdout = os.Stderr
+	cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr
+	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Failed to start server: %v", err)
+	}
+	time.Sleep(startupWait)
+	return cmd
+}
+
+func stopServer(cmd *exec.Cmd) {
+	if cmd != nil && cmd.Process != nil {
+		cmd.Process.Kill()
+		cmd.Wait()
+	}
+}
+
+func dialGRPC(t *testing.T) *grpc.ClientConn {
+	t.Helper()
+	conn, err := grpc.Dial(testAddr,
+		grpc.WithTransportCredentials(insecure.NewCredentials()),
+		grpc.WithDefaultCallOptions(
+			grpc.MaxCallRecvMsgSize(50*1024*1024),
+			grpc.MaxCallSendMsgSize(50*1024*1024),
+		),
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Failed to dial gRPC: %v", err)
+	}
+	return conn
+}
+
+func TestServerHealth(t *testing.T) {
+	cmd := startServer(t)
+	defer stopServer(cmd)
+
+	conn := dialGRPC(t)
+	defer conn.Close()
+
+	client := pb.NewBackendClient(conn)
+	resp, err := client.Health(context.Background(), &pb.HealthMessage{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Health check failed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if string(resp.Message) != "OK" {
+		t.Fatalf("Expected OK, got %s", string(resp.Message))
+	}
+}
+
+func TestLoadModel(t *testing.T) {
+	modelDir := skipIfNoModel(t)
+	cmd := startServer(t)
+	defer stopServer(cmd)
+
+	conn := dialGRPC(t)
+	defer conn.Close()
+
+	client := pb.NewBackendClient(conn)
+
+	resp, err := client.LoadModel(context.Background(), &pb.ModelOptions{
+		ModelFile: modelDir,
+		Threads:   4,
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("LoadModel failed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if !resp.Success {
+		t.Fatalf("LoadModel returned failure: %s", resp.Message)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTTS(t *testing.T) {
+	modelDir := skipIfNoModel(t)
+
+	tmpDir, err := os.MkdirTemp("", "qwen3tts-test")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { os.RemoveAll(tmpDir) })
+
+	outputFile := filepath.Join(tmpDir, "output.wav")
+
+	cmd := startServer(t)
+	defer stopServer(cmd)
+
+	conn := dialGRPC(t)
+	defer conn.Close()
+
+	client := pb.NewBackendClient(conn)
+
+	// Load models
+	loadResp, err := client.LoadModel(context.Background(), &pb.ModelOptions{
+		ModelFile: modelDir,
+		Threads:   4,
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("LoadModel failed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if !loadResp.Success {
+		t.Fatalf("LoadModel returned failure: %s", loadResp.Message)
+	}
+
+	// Synthesize speech
+	language := "en"
+	_, err = client.TTS(context.Background(), &pb.TTSRequest{
+		Text:     "Hello, this is a test of the Qwen3 text to speech system.",
+		Dst:      outputFile,
+		Language: &language,
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("TTS failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Verify output file exists and has content
+	info, err := os.Stat(outputFile)
+	if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		t.Fatal("Output audio file was not created")
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Failed to stat output file: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	t.Logf("Output file size: %d bytes", info.Size())
+
+	// WAV header is 44 bytes minimum; any real audio should be much larger
+	if info.Size() < 1000 {
+		t.Errorf("Output file too small (%d bytes), expected real audio data", info.Size())
+	}
+}

backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/run.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -ex
+
+# Get the absolute current dir where the script is located
+CURDIR=$(dirname "$(realpath $0)")
+
+cd /
+
+echo "CPU info:"
+if [ "$(uname)" != "Darwin" ]; then
+	grep -e "model\sname" /proc/cpuinfo | head -1
+	grep -e "flags" /proc/cpuinfo | head -1
+fi
+
+LIBRARY="$CURDIR/libgoqwen3ttscpp-fallback.so"
+
+if [ "$(uname)" != "Darwin" ]; then
+	if grep -q -e "\savx\s" /proc/cpuinfo ; then
+		echo "CPU:    AVX    found OK"
+		if [ -e $CURDIR/libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx.so ]; then
+			LIBRARY="$CURDIR/libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx.so"
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	if grep -q -e "\savx2\s" /proc/cpuinfo ; then
+		echo "CPU:    AVX2   found OK"
+		if [ -e $CURDIR/libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx2.so ]; then
+			LIBRARY="$CURDIR/libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx2.so"
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	# Check avx 512
+	if grep -q -e "\savx512f\s" /proc/cpuinfo ; then
+		echo "CPU:    AVX512F found OK"
+		if [ -e $CURDIR/libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx512.so ]; then
+			LIBRARY="$CURDIR/libgoqwen3ttscpp-avx512.so"
+		fi
+	fi
+fi
+
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$CURDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+export QWEN3TTS_LIBRARY=$LIBRARY
+
+# If there is a lib/ld.so, use it
+if [ -f $CURDIR/lib/ld.so ]; then
+	echo "Using lib/ld.so"
+	echo "Using library: $LIBRARY"
+	exec $CURDIR/lib/ld.so $CURDIR/qwen3-tts-cpp "$@"
+fi
+
+echo "Using library: $LIBRARY"
+exec $CURDIR/qwen3-tts-cpp "$@"

backend/go/qwen3-tts-cpp/test.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+CURDIR=$(dirname "$(realpath $0)")
+
+echo "Running qwen3-tts-cpp backend tests..."
+
+# The test requires:
+#   - QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR: path to directory containing GGUF model files
+#   - QWEN3TTS_BINARY: path to the qwen3-tts-cpp binary (defaults to ./qwen3-tts-cpp)
+#
+# Tests that require the model will be skipped if QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR is not set
+# or the directory does not contain the required model files.
+
+cd "$CURDIR"
+
+# Only auto-download models when QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR is not explicitly set
+if [ -z "$QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR" ]; then
+    export QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR="./qwen3-tts-models"
+
+    if [ ! -d "$QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR" ]; then
+        echo "Creating qwen3-tts-models directory for tests..."
+        mkdir -p "$QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR"
+        REPO_ID="endo5501/qwen3-tts.cpp"
+        echo "Repository: ${REPO_ID}"
+        echo ""
+
+        # Files to download (smallest model for testing)
+        FILES=(
+            "qwen3-tts-0.6b-f16.gguf"
+            "qwen3-tts-tokenizer-f16.gguf"
+        )
+
+        BASE_URL="https://huggingface.co/${REPO_ID}/resolve/main"
+
+        for file in "${FILES[@]}"; do
+            dest="${QWEN3TTS_MODEL_DIR}/${file}"
+            if [ -f "${dest}" ]; then
+                echo "  [skip] ${file} (already exists)"
+            else
+                echo "  [download] ${file}..."
+                curl -L -o "${dest}" "${BASE_URL}/${file}" --progress-bar
+                echo "  [done] ${file}"
+            fi
+        done
+    fi
+fi
+
+# Run Go tests
+go test -v -timeout 600s .
+
+echo "All qwen3-tts-cpp tests passed."

backend/go/sam3-cpp/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+sources/
+build*/
+package/
+libgosam3*.so
+sam3-cpp
+test-models/
+test-data/

backend/go/sam3-cpp/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.14)
+project(gosam3 LANGUAGES C CXX)
+set(CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
+
+# Build ggml as static libraries to avoid runtime .so dependencies
+set(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS OFF CACHE BOOL "Build static libraries" FORCE)
+
+set(SAM3_BUILD_EXAMPLES OFF CACHE BOOL "Disable sam3.cpp examples" FORCE)
+set(SAM3_BUILD_TESTS OFF CACHE BOOL "Disable sam3.cpp tests" FORCE)
+
+add_subdirectory(./sources/sam3.cpp)
+
+add_library(gosam3 MODULE cpp/gosam3.cpp)
+target_link_libraries(gosam3 PRIVATE sam3 ggml)
+
+if(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "GNU" AND CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_LESS 9.0)
+    target_link_libraries(gosam3 PRIVATE stdc++fs)
+endif()
+
+target_include_directories(gosam3 PUBLIC
+    sources/sam3.cpp
+    sources/sam3.cpp/ggml/include
+)
+
+set_property(TARGET gosam3 PROPERTY CXX_STANDARD 14)
+set_target_properties(gosam3 PROPERTIES LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})

backend/go/sam3-cpp/Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+CMAKE_ARGS?=
+BUILD_TYPE?=
+NATIVE?=false
+
+GOCMD?=go
+GO_TAGS?=
+JOBS?=$(shell nproc --ignore=1)
+
+# sam3.cpp
+SAM3_REPO?=https://github.com/PABannier/sam3.cpp
+SAM3_VERSION?=01832ef85fcc8eb6488f1d01cd247f07e96ff5a9
+
+ifeq ($(NATIVE),false)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_NATIVE=OFF
+endif
+
+# If build type is cublas, then we set -DGGML_CUDA=ON to CMAKE_ARGS automatically
+ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),cublas)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_CUDA=ON
+else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),openblas)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_BLAS=ON -DGGML_BLAS_VENDOR=OpenBLAS
+else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),clblas)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_CLBLAST=ON
+else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),hipblas)
+	ROCM_HOME ?= /opt/rocm
+	ROCM_PATH ?= /opt/rocm
+	export CXX=$(ROCM_HOME)/llvm/bin/clang++
+	export CC=$(ROCM_HOME)/llvm/bin/clang
+	AMDGPU_TARGETS?=gfx908,gfx90a,gfx942,gfx950,gfx1030,gfx1100,gfx1101,gfx1102,gfx1200,gfx1201
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_HIPBLAS=ON -DAMDGPU_TARGETS=$(AMDGPU_TARGETS)
+else ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),vulkan)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_VULKAN=ON
+else ifeq ($(OS),Darwin)
+	ifneq ($(BUILD_TYPE),metal)
+		CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_METAL=OFF
+	else
+		CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_METAL=ON
+		CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON
+	endif
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),sycl_f16)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_SYCL=ON \
+		-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx \
+		-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx \
+		-DGGML_SYCL_F16=ON
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(BUILD_TYPE),sycl_f32)
+	CMAKE_ARGS+=-DGGML_SYCL=ON \
+		-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx \
+		-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx
+endif
+
+sources/sam3.cpp:
+	git clone --recursive $(SAM3_REPO) sources/sam3.cpp && \
+	cd sources/sam3.cpp && \
+	git checkout $(SAM3_VERSION) && \
+	git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 1 --single-branch
+
+# Detect OS
+UNAME_S := $(shell uname -s)
+
+# Only build CPU variants on Linux
+ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Linux)
+	VARIANT_TARGETS = libgosam3-avx.so libgosam3-avx2.so libgosam3-avx512.so libgosam3-fallback.so
+else
+	# On non-Linux (e.g., Darwin), build only fallback variant
+	VARIANT_TARGETS = libgosam3-fallback.so
+endif
+
+sam3-cpp: main.go gosam3.go $(VARIANT_TARGETS)
+	CGO_ENABLED=0 $(GOCMD) build -tags "$(GO_TAGS)" -o sam3-cpp ./
+
+package: sam3-cpp
+	bash package.sh
+
+build: package
+
+clean: purge
+	rm -rf libgosam3*.so sam3-cpp package sources
+
+purge:
+	rm -rf build*
+
+# Build all variants (Linux only)
+ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Linux)
+libgosam3-avx.so: sources/sam3.cpp
+	$(MAKE) purge
+	$(info ${GREEN}I sam3-cpp build info:avx${RESET})
+	SO_TARGET=libgosam3-avx.so CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_AVX=on -DGGML_AVX2=off -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=off -DGGML_F16C=off -DGGML_BMI2=off" $(MAKE) libgosam3-custom
+	rm -rfv build*
+
+libgosam3-avx2.so: sources/sam3.cpp
+	$(MAKE) purge
+	$(info ${GREEN}I sam3-cpp build info:avx2${RESET})
+	SO_TARGET=libgosam3-avx2.so CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_AVX=on -DGGML_AVX2=on -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=on -DGGML_F16C=on -DGGML_BMI2=on" $(MAKE) libgosam3-custom
+	rm -rfv build*
+
+libgosam3-avx512.so: sources/sam3.cpp
+	$(MAKE) purge
+	$(info ${GREEN}I sam3-cpp build info:avx512${RESET})
+	SO_TARGET=libgosam3-avx512.so CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_AVX=on -DGGML_AVX2=on -DGGML_AVX512=on -DGGML_FMA=on -DGGML_F16C=on -DGGML_BMI2=on" $(MAKE) libgosam3-custom
+	rm -rfv build*
+endif
+
+# Build fallback variant (all platforms)
+libgosam3-fallback.so: sources/sam3.cpp
+	$(MAKE) purge
+	$(info ${GREEN}I sam3-cpp build info:fallback${RESET})
+	SO_TARGET=libgosam3-fallback.so CMAKE_ARGS="$(CMAKE_ARGS) -DGGML_AVX=off -DGGML_AVX2=off -DGGML_AVX512=off -DGGML_FMA=off -DGGML_F16C=off -DGGML_BMI2=off" $(MAKE) libgosam3-custom
+	rm -rfv build*
+
+libgosam3-custom: CMakeLists.txt cpp/gosam3.cpp cpp/gosam3.h
+	mkdir -p build-$(SO_TARGET) && \
+	cd build-$(SO_TARGET) && \
+	cmake .. $(CMAKE_ARGS) && \
+	cmake --build . --config Release -j$(JOBS) && \
+	cd .. && \
+	mv build-$(SO_TARGET)/libgosam3.so ./$(SO_TARGET)
+
+all: sam3-cpp package