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e715af1def feat(llama-cpp): add slot prompt-cache save and restore API (#12730)
* feat(llama-cpp): add slot prompt-cache save and restore API

Add POST /v1/slots/save and POST /v1/slots/restore. They write one
llama.cpp slot's prompt cache (KV state) to a file and load it back,
so a client can warm a long system prompt in a few hundred
milliseconds instead of re-running prefill. Refs #12685.

The new SlotCache gRPC call posts the same slot save and restore
tasks the llama-server /slots endpoint uses. It is off unless the
model sets the new slot_save_path option, so existing models are not
affected. The /slots monitoring endpoint is not needed here: the
backend has no HTTP server.

The file name comes from the caller, so it is checked twice, in Go
and again in the backend. It must be one path component: no empty
name, "/", "\", "..", NUL, control characters or absolute path. The
resolved path, with symbolic links followed, must be a direct child
of slot_save_path. The routes are admin only because they write
files on the backend host.

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

* fix(llama-cpp): answer 501 when a backend lacks slot cache

A backend that does not implement the SlotCache rpc returns gRPC
UNIMPLEMENTED. The API passed that text through, so the client saw
"unknown method SlotCache". Map the status to a typed error in
core/backend and return 501 with a fixed message instead. Every other
error path is unchanged.

Make the SlotCache comments in backend.proto backend-neutral: slot is
the backend's state slot, filename must stay inside the save directory,
and an empty model_identity means the backend does not check it. Only
comments change, no field or name.

Add tests that the identity sent is the configured model, and for the
error mapping.

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

* fix(llama-cpp): issue slot cache IDs on the server

The slot save and restore API let the client pick the file name.
Restore could load any file in slot_save_path, and the symlink check
ran before llama.cpp opened the file.

The backend now issues the name. A save returns a random 128-bit ID
(32 lowercase hex characters, read from /dev/urandom) and never
overwrites an existing file. Files live in a 0700 directory per model,
named from the SHA-256 of the model identity, with a manifest.json
that records each save. The manifest is written atomically and a
corrupt one stops both save and restore.

A restore takes the ID, finds it in the manifest, refuses an entry of
another model, builds the path from the entry and checks with lstat
that it is a plain file of the recorded size. The directory mode is
the main defence against another local user, since llama.cpp still
opens the path itself.

Each model keeps at most 32 saves and the oldest is deleted first. A
file over 8 GiB is deleted after the save, because llama.cpp does not
report the size before it writes. Responses carry no host path.

The HTTP bodies change: save takes {model, slot}, restore takes
{model, slot, id}, and an unknown ID returns 404. In the proto,
SlotCacheRequest.filename and SlotCacheResponse.filename become id.
SlotCache no longer calls checkModelIdentity, which reads a field this
request does not have.

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

* fix(llama-cpp): copy slot_cache files in prepare.sh

grpc-server.cpp includes slot_cache.h, but prepare.sh copies the helper
headers into llama.cpp/tools/grpc-server/ one by one and skipped it. The
llama-cpp, turboquant and bonsai builds share this step, so they all
failed with "slot_cache.h: No such file or directory".

Copy slot_cache.h and slot_cache_test.cpp, which CMakeLists.txt builds
when LLAMA_GRPC_BUILD_TESTS is on.

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

* chore(deps): bump LocalAGI to pick up the scheduler start/stop fix

LocalAGI's scheduler could hit a nil pointer in run when Start and Stop
raced. That made the core/services/agentpool tests panic at random and
turned tests-linux red.

Move to mudler/LocalAGI@7aa0c8fea0, the merge of
mudler/LocalAGI#519 ("make Start and Stop safe to call concurrently").
The new module version also adds a few indirect requirements to go.mod
and go.sum.

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

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@users.noreply.github.com>
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