Two completely different pictures sent to a GGUF model with a configured
mmproj produced byte-identical descriptions, while the same prompt with NO
image answered differently. So the images reached the model and their content
did not -- the embeddings carry nothing -- and the log said nothing either way:
projector init, media-marker substitution, bitmap decode and chunk eval all
log under names ('mtmd', 'clip', 'bitmap', 'media', 'projector') that the
load-phase filter did not have, so every one of them was discarded.

Reproduced with two synthetic images (yellow background with a blue triangle
and a green square; black background with three white circles) at temperature
0: identical answers, neither resembling either picture, both unlike the
no-image control. Keeping these lines is what makes the next request say which
step is losing the pixels.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014T3rZozi1Ehk96NG1WesgC