1. 08 Oct, 2026 18 commits
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      front: forward-auth peers from env, and say why one was refused (v0.2.88) · 0945f123
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      The Digesta host reported SSO minting a session from inside the container
      (:8776) but refusing from the host through the published port (:8777), with the
      container's address in trusted_proxies and the front's own access log showing
      that very address as the client. Both that and "enabled: true in config.json
      did not switch the feature on" are one cause.
      
      The peer _fa_trusted checks is not the socket peer: uvicorn installs
      ProxyHeadersMiddleware by default with trusted_hosts="127.0.0.1", so a hop
      arriving over loopback from the internal nginx has scope["client"] rewritten
      from X-Forwarded-For before any of our middleware runs. On a container network
      that is the address the proxy was SNATed to. So the log and the check agreed and
      the peer really was 10.89.0.178 -- but the list it was compared against was the
      DEFAULT ["127.0.0.1", "::1"], because their config.json sat at a path the app
      does not read (the $CODERAI_CONFIG_DIR/coderai trap), which is equally why the
      file's `enabled` did nothing and the env var was needed. Loopback is in that
      default; the container address is not.
      
      The loader is fine and `enabled` from the file does suffice -- verified, not
      assumed. What was missing was a way to supply the peers the same way the switch
      and the secret can already be supplied, so CODERAI_ADMIN_FORWARD_AUTH_TRUSTED_
      PROXIES now overrides the list; blank or unset falls through to config.json.
      Enabling the feature from a unit file and then having it reject every request
      from your own proxy was a gap in the contract.
      
      And a refusal now says why, once per peer and reason per 60s, naming the list it
      was checked against and never the secret. A refusal is a 302 to the login form,
      indistinguishable from "no session yet"; the report had to ask for exactly this
      instrumentation, so it is permanent now.
      
      tests/test_forward_auth_peer_trust.py reproduces the peer resolution for all
      three hops, so the table in the doc is executable rather than reasoned.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      0945f123
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      township: the LongCat preset renders at 832x512, not 832x480 · 3b54735d
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Block-sparse attention tiles the latent into (4, 4, 4) chunks and asserts every
      axis divides evenly, so a side must be a multiple of 64 -- the VAE's 16px cell
      times 4. At height 480 the preset turned the flag on and the pass silently fell
      back to DENSE attention, which at ~37k tokens is both much slower and what ran
      a 24GB card out of memory on the first continuation segment of a 304-frame
      clip. 832 already divides by 64; 512 is the nearest height that does.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      3b54735d
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      longcat: report the real denoise step, over every segment (v0.2.87) · e685859a
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      A 304-frame request sat at "generating 0/16 (0%)" for its whole nine-minute
      first segment while the service's log showed Denoising: 15/16. Two defects.
      
      The service set _progress["step"] = 0 at the start of every segment and never
      again, so the step count existed only inside the vendored pipeline's
      tqdm(total=len(timesteps), desc="Denoising") -- which takes no callback.
      Nothing reached GET /progress; the poller in video.py faithfully reported the
      0 it was handed. Each pipeline module did `from tqdm import tqdm`, so the bar
      is instrumented by rebinding the name on the MODULE (patching tqdm.tqdm would
      be too late), and only bars labelled "Denoising" are tracked so a
      checkpoint-shard bar cannot move a request's progress.
      
      The totals also counted ONE segment: a four-segment render would have run
      0->16 four times against a denominator of 16. `step` now carries the completed
      segments' offset so it counts the stage end to end, and the bar spans
      steps x segments -- with refinement excluded, being a single pass over the
      finished video. A request that asked for a duration rather than a segment
      count only learns the real count from the service, so the denominator is
      corrected on the first report, through a setter that does not restart the bar
      and lose the elapsed time the rate is derived from.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      e685859a
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      runpod: fleet status for an external monitor (v0.2.86) · bed4b018
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Digesta needs to see what the fleet is doing, not only what it costs: how
      many pods are running, where, and which model. The spend endpoint already
      carried the pod rows, but a pod did not report its placement and there was
      no roll-up to read at a glance.
      
      A pod now carries and reports its data_center, cloud_type and gpu_count,
      plus the pool and engine it belongs to. GET /v1/runpod/status (an alias of
      /v1/runpod/spend, one implementation so the two can never disagree) adds a
      `summary`: pods_total/ready/booting/unhealthy, gpus_in_use, inflight,
      spot_pods, hourly_usd, and tallies by model, region, GPU and cloud type.
      
      Same gate as the spend figures — an admin-scoped API key, 403 otherwise.
      
      Three deliberate distinctions, documented: summary.hourly_usd counts only
      pods actually serving (a booting pod bills but answers nothing, so counting
      it would overstate capacity); pods_unhealthy is the alert-worthy number, a
      pod past boot that is costing money and serving nothing; and gpus_in_use
      counts cards, so a gpu_count:2 pod counts twice. An unknown region or GPU is
      labelled "unknown" rather than dropped, so the tallies always sum to
      pods_total.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      bed4b018
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      admin: optional SSO through a trusted reverse proxy (v0.2.85) · e51b5b14
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Implements docs/admin-forward-auth.md. Off by default, switchable from
      Settings -> Single sign-on, from config.json, or from the container's env
      (CODERAI_ADMIN_FORWARD_AUTH=1|0, CODERAI_ADMIN_FORWARD_AUTH_SECRET) — the
      env switch can disable it as well as enable it, so a unit file can override
      a mounted config either way.
      
      A request is forward-authed only when BOTH checks pass: the immediate peer
      is in trusted_proxies AND the shared secret header matches (constant time).
      Either alone is forgeable, so the identity header is not even read until
      trust is established — a client sending X-Forwarded-User directly is
      ignored. Enabled with no secret stays OFF with a log line, because without
      one there is nothing separating the proxy from any other client.
      
      It mints a real signed session and injects it into the current request, not
      just a rendered page: the dashboard's own /admin/api/* calls authenticate
      by cookie, so a page with 401ing AJAX would not be a working GUI. An
      auto-created account gets a random password nobody is told and is never
      asked to change it. keep_local_login=false makes /login refuse. Logout
      honours post_logout_url, since returning to our own login would be met by
      the proxy's headers and log the user straight back in.
      
      GUI only: /v1/* keeps its bearer tokens whatever the proxy asserts, and the
      readiness probes stay credential-free. The settings API reports
      shared_secret_set as a boolean and never the secret.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      e51b5b14
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      front: enforce the API bearer on /v1, and do not fall open (v0.2.84) · 83bad126
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Reproduced on the published 0.2.83 image, GPU-less, no Authorization header:
      
        GET  /v1/models            -> 200    <- open
        POST /v1/chat/completions  -> 503    (no model in the test, so inconclusive)
        GET  /v1/runpod/spend      -> 502
      
      Nothing returned 401, because the front was never an enforcement point: it
      answers some /v1 paths from its own registry and proxies the rest, so
      whether a request needed a token depended on which component served it. On
      a host published through a reverse proxy that is an open relay for the
      model list, and potentially for generation.
      
      The front now gates /v1 itself with the same credentials the engine
      accepts: the env token a capability image is locked with, the shared
      cluster token a head presents, an API token from auth.json, a logged-in
      browser session, the in-process broker bridge, and the aisbf relay marker.
      Constant-time comparison throughout.
      
      One deliberate difference from the engine's middleware: it does NOT fall
      open when no credentials are configured. That fallback is defensible on a
      loopback workstation and is precisely what exposed this one, so the front
      refuses instead. Readiness and progress endpoints stay exempt — a probe
      that 401s is read as "backend down", and surya-ocr's vLLM client probes
      {service_url}/health.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      83bad126
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      docs: the config file lives in $CODERAI_CONFIG_DIR/coderai, not the parent · 18a23094
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Reproduced the Digesta "engine#0 crash-loops despite backend.type=cpu and
      engine_specs" report on the published 0.2.83 image, GPU-less, with their
      config — and it is not the front failing to propagate the engine spec.
      
      coderai-entrypoint creates $CODERAI_CONFIG_DIR/coderai and symlinks
      ~/.coderai to it (lines 49, 70); the app resolves config from the HOME-style
      path. A config.json written at $CODERAI_CONFIG_DIR is therefore never read.
      On first start the app writes a DEFAULT coderai/config.json — backend null,
      engine_specs null, engines null — reads that, and the engine auto-detects,
      finds no GPU and aborts. Which is exactly the "backend: null" they saw and
      read as the front regenerating the config.
      
      Documents the live path, the one-liner to check which file is in use, and
      that mounting straight at /config/coderai sidesteps it.
      
      Also ships coderai-upgrade in Dockerfile.oci-venv. It was only in
      Dockerfile.oci, so every image we actually publish (venv-built) failed
      `coderai-docker --upgrade` with "stat /usr/local/bin/coderai-upgrade: no
      such file or directory".
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      18a23094
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      docs: surya_auto_build is the setting that makes the OCR venv appear · cc03d121
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      The guide said the venv ships in an image. It does not, in either image, and
      it does not need to: the engine builds it itself from
      requirements-surya.txt onto the persistent cache mount — but only when
      ocr.surya_auto_build is true, and it defaults to FALSE (config.py:908).
      
      That default is why the Digesta bring-up built the venv by hand and called
      it a packaging gap. It is a one-line config setting on the orchestrator.
      Documents the pillow<11 vs >=12 conflict that forces the venv to be
      isolated, where it lands, and how to pre-build it instead.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      cc03d121
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      docs: the orchestrator is the FULL image — a capability image is a pod · 0c64b5b7
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      The guide told the operator to install ghcr.io/nextime/coderai-ocr as the
      orchestrator. That is backwards and it is the mistake the Digesta bring-up
      actually made: a capability image is a POD, what CoderAI rents and launches,
      and it has no GUI; its admin pages are not behind the API's bearer check, so
      it is not something to expose either.
      
      Rewritten around the full image on port 8776, with the two settings a
      GPU-less host needs and the reason each one is needed:
      
      - backend.type must be "cpu", not "auto": with auto, main.py searches
        nvidia/vulkan/opencl and exits "No supported backend detected" when it
        finds none. Set explicitly, that search is skipped.
      - engine_specs must name the engine: left to auto-detect, the front creates
        a no-GPU engine NAMED cpu but launches it with backend="auto"
        (engine_supervisor.py:311), which hits the same abort whatever
        backend.type says. That is why the log reads "[cpu] Available backends:
        {'cpu': True}" and then "No supported backend detected" — [cpu] is the
        name, auto was the backend.
      
      Also states that server.engines=0 means AUTO (one per GPU, min 1), that no
      "zero engines" setting exists, and that you do not want one: the RunPod
      pools, scaler and reaper live inside the primary engine, so one idle CPU
      engine is the component that manages the pods, not a workaround.
      
      Service examples, the upgrade section and the reference table all follow.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      0c64b5b7
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      Revert "the orchestrator image serves its own admin GUI" — wrong layer · c6db72b4
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      A pod image is never an orchestrator; the full image always is. Acting on
      the Digesta report's second option put orchestrator behaviour into
      codai.api.app, which is what a RENTED POD runs, and that is wrong in three
      separate ways:
      
      - the GUI pages are not under BearerAuthMiddleware (it guards /v1/* only),
        so every rented pod would have served /admin and /login on its public
        address;
      - the first-admin bootstrap would have created an admin account, with a
        password in the pod's log, in each pod's throwaway auth.json;
      - initialising the session manager would have broken allow_open_pod, where
        the operator deliberately launches a pod with no token: the pod would
        then refuse every request instead of accepting all of them.
      
      Reverted all three. Bug 1 stays — /health and /v1/health are a genuine
      pod-side fix, since surya probes {service_url}/health.
      
      The real Bug 3 is elsewhere and the report's premise was also wrong:
      server.engines=0 does not mean "no engines", it means AUTO — "one per
      detected GPU, min 1" (config.py:70) — which is why their host kept spawning
      engine#0. A true GPU-less orchestrator in the full image needs its own
      change, not a flag that already exists.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      c6db72b4
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      ocr: the surya deep check imported a module that does not exist · e72edf08
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      My own check broke the build: `from surya.common.surya.schema import
      TaskNames` is not a path in surya-ocr 0.22.1, so the ocr image failed with
      ModuleNotFoundError at the venv deep check — I wrote an import from memory
      instead of reading what the worker uses.
      
      It now imports what codai/ocr/workers/ocr_worker.py actually constructs,
      DetectionPredictor and RecognitionPredictor, and keeps the pillow assertion.
      The test asserts those paths are present and that the invented one is gone.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      e72edf08
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      api: a fresh install gets one admin, so enforcing tokens cannot brick it · 76f41f65
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Enforcing API tokens (f4482fd5) had a sharp edge: on a brand-new config dir
      there is no token, so every /v1 call is refused, AND no user, so nobody can
      log in to create one. Nothing in the codebase auto-creates that first user —
      grepped for it rather than assumed.
      
      The app now creates a single `admin` account at startup when auth.json has
      no users, with a random password printed once and must_change_password set,
      and logs plainly when there are users but no tokens. Idempotent: verified it
      never touches an existing user or rewrites its hash.
      
      The guide gains "You never configure a pod — CoderAI does": a table of what
      the orchestrator sets on a rented pod by itself (the per-pool cra- token so
      a pod is never open, TLS from this install's CA, seed models, engine args
      including tensor-parallel and LoRA modules, admission limits, the volume
      mount, idle teardown and the reaper) and the rule that follows — no SSH into
      a pod, no client pointed at a pod URL; throughput comes from max_pods and
      scale_up_inflight_per_pod, not from hammering one pod.
      
      Also corrects the guide's first-run text, which promised credentials the
      code did not actually create until now.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      76f41f65
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      api: enforce API tokens under a bare uvicorn start · f4482fd5
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Found while checking the production proxy path. BearerAuthMiddleware falls
      OPEN when admin.routes.session_manager is None and no CODERAI_API_TOKEN is
      set: with no user database to check a token against it lets the request
      through rather than locking out an install with no auth configured. That is
      defensible on a loopback workstation.
      
      main.py and build_system_app() both initialise that database. A bare
      `uvicorn codai.api.app:app` start — exactly how the GPU-less orchestrator
      runs — did not, so once published through a reverse proxy every /v1/* call
      was served WITHOUT credentials. Verified before and after: session_manager
      None on import, /v1/models 200 with no header; now initialised at import
      and 401 for no header, a wrong Bearer, and nginx's Basic.
      
      The readiness probes stay open on purpose (/healthz, /health, /v1/health):
      a probe behind auth is read as "backend down" by every health checker,
      surya-ocr's vLLM client included.
      
      The guide gains the three traps of that deployment: auth_basic and Bearer
      share one header so the API path must not be basic-authed, proxy_buffering
      must be off for streaming, and how to check in one curl whether tokens are
      actually enforced.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      f4482fd5
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      docs: network volumes, pools, and a recipe per kind of model · 3703d7c3
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      The guide told an operator which keys exist but not how to lay out a real
      fleet. Adds a section covering:
      
      - why a network volume is the single biggest lever: without one a pod
        re-downloads its weights on EVERY cold start, which is ten minutes for a
        15 GB repo and one to two hours for a 150 GB MoE, paid as rental before
        it answers anything;
      - that the volume's region overrides data_center and the account setting,
        because a pod elsewhere cannot attach it — so two regions means two
        volumes;
      - a suggested volume layout, and venv_on_volume;
      - pooling: two models sharing `pool` share pods, but only CoderAI-engine
        models can, since a vLLM pod is launched --model X;
      - worked blocks for vLLM, llama.cpp/GGUF, embeddings (warm + scheduled),
        native-engine OCR, and the big MoE engine pods, which REQUIRE a volume
        because colibri and k3 never download;
      - LoRA/QLoRA: portable adapters travel as a reference and vLLM gets
        --enable-lora wired automatically, while a local-only adapter forces a
        CoderAI pod because vLLM and llama.cpp have no endpoint to receive one;
        the volume is the durable answer. Plus the two QLoRA traps — a
        quantization that must match what the adapter was trained against (it
        loads fine and silently degrades otherwise), and llama.cpp taking exactly
        one GGUF-converted adapter;
      - a checklist for before you add the tenth model.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      3703d7c3
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      docs: running the orchestrator as a service, and upgrading in place · 97dd707f
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Adds to the operator guide: a systemd unit and a rootless podman quadlet
      (the production host uses systemd), a sysvinit script for hosts without
      it, a wrapper script for the run line, and the in-image upgrade path.
      
      The service examples carry the two traps worth inheriting from the build
      machine's own scripts: the CONTAINER is the source of truth for "is it
      running", not the launcher, because dockerd outlives the shell and
      `run --rm --name` dies on a name conflict; and a boot-time shell has
      neither your env nor your PATH, which is why the live-code switch is a
      flag FILE and the runner path is spelled out.
      
      The upgrade section documents what `coderai-docker --upgrade` actually
      does (shallow clone, version gate, swap /opt/coderai/app, delta pip, exit
      0/10, host commits back onto the same tag) and says plainly when NOT to
      use it: it mutates a tag in place, so afterwards the local image is no
      longer byte-identical to the signed one in the registry.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      97dd707f
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      docs: installing CoderAI as a GPU-less RunPod orchestrator · 56290bbf
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      An operator guide for the deployment shape the Digesta host uses: no local
      GPU, models rented per request, scaled by the pool, billed into a capped
      ledger. Covers install and signature check, the sub-path nginx config, the
      global caps to set BEFORE adding a model, the per-model block, the four
      scaling numbers plus the two pod-side admission ones that otherwise cap a
      dedicated card at ~6 pages/s, the warm-pod schedule, all three layers of
      cost control (caps, GUI, /v1/runpod/spend with an admin-scoped key), the
      call shapes, and a symptom table.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      56290bbf
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      api: the orchestrator image now serves its own admin GUI (v0.2.83) · e23fbb72
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Bug 3 from the Digesta report: no published image was both a GPU-less
      RunPod orchestrator and an admin GUI.
      
      The cause was a split nobody had noticed: admin_router is the admin API
      (POST /login, /admin/api/*), while the GUI PAGES — GET /admin, /login,
      /admin/models … — live in frontproxy/ui_pages.py and were registered only
      on the front app. An install running `uvicorn codai.api.app:app` as a pure
      orchestrator therefore shipped the entire admin API with no way to reach
      it: GET /admin answered 404 and GET /login 405, because only POST /login
      existed. Reproduced both exactly before changing anything.
      
      codai/api/app.py now registers those pages itself, against the same config
      dir the admin API writes, so one image is orchestrator + GUI. Guarded: a
      missing templates or config dir logs and leaves the API untouched, the
      same contract the front has.
      
      Verified: /admin 404->302 /login, GET /login 405->200, /admin/models and
      /admin/runpod redirect to login, and under X-Forwarded-Prefix=/coderai the
      redirect goes to /coderai/login. /healthz and /v1/models unaffected.
      
      Bug 4 (the light app 500ing under X-Forwarded-Prefix) did NOT reproduce:
      _ForwardedPrefixMiddleware is installed in this app and /coderai/healthz,
      /coderai/v1/models and the GUI all answer correctly with the header set,
      stripped or un-stripped. The reported 500 was most likely /admin itself
      (404 before this fix) surfacing through their proxy.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      e23fbb72
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      ocr: the three blockers to native Surya on rented pods · fd6d7873
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Reported from the Digesta host, where coderai runs GPU-less and proxies to
      A40 pods.
      
      1. surya-ocr's vLLM client probes {service_url}/health and reads anything
         else as "backend down", so /v1/ocr never became ready against a coderai
         front that only served /healthz. /health and /v1/health now alias it,
         and /v1/health is exempt from the Bearer check — a readiness probe that
         needs a token is not a readiness probe.
      
      2. A rented pod ran the shared-workstation admission defaults (2 in
         flight, 6 queued), so its own gate capped an A40 at ~6 pages/s and
         everything above 16 concurrent got 429 while the GPU idled. The pod has
         no config file, so the knobs now arrive as env
         (CODERAI_SERVER_MAX_PARALLEL_REQUESTS / _QUEUE_MAX_SIZE) and are set
         per model from the model page (pod_max_parallel_requests /
         pod_queue_max_size), seeded when the pod is provisioned.
      
      3. The image baked no surya venv, and could not have: ocr.txt put
         surya-ocr in the MAIN venv, where its pillow<11 cap fights
         coderai's pillow>=12. It now has its own ocr.venv-surya profile with a
         deep check that proves the pin held. The venv belongs on the
         orchestrator, not the card: with surya_serve=vllm the model runs in
         vLLM on the pod and this side only renders and post-processes.
      
      Also a bug that fix exposed: _resolve_venv_dir looked only at
      /opt/coderai/<name>_venv while the image builder bakes
      /opt/coderai/venvs/<alias>, so a baked venv was invisible and got rebuilt
      on the cache mount at first use. ocr-paddle has been shipping a 2 GB
      paddleocr venv nothing ever found.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      fd6d7873
  2. 07 Oct, 2026 15 commits
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      admin: grant a token the admin scope from the tokens page · 5670b855
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      The API already took the flag; without this, granting it meant editing
      auth.json by hand. Opt-in at creation, and a toggle per row.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      5670b855
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      runpod: a region and a warm-pod schedule per model, spend over the API (v0.2.82) · c6c1017c
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Three gaps, all configurable from the model page:
      
      - data_center pins a model's pods to one RunPod region. Precedence is
        volume > model > account: a pod in another region cannot attach the
        volume, so the volume still decides.
      
      - schedule_enabled/start/end/days/tz gate the WARM FLOOR only. Outside
        the window the floor is 0 and the warm pod is released without waiting
        out idle_timeout_s; a request arriving out of hours still cold-starts
        one, exactly as min_pods=0 always has. An end before the start runs
        overnight and belongs to the day it started on. An incomplete or
        unparseable window is treated as no schedule rather than a floor of
        zero, and an unknown time zone falls back to local, not UTC.
      
      - GET /v1/runpod/spend serves the pods, ledger, caps and schedule status
        to an API key marked admin, so an external monitor can poll spend
        without an admin session. Opt-in per token; an ordinary key gets 403.
      
      pools_schedule_status() reports in_window/next_change/effective_min_pods
      on /admin/api/runpod/stats and on the new endpoint.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      c6c1017c
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      docs: the published tags were still 0.2.21 · a776c9d6
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      The full image is 0.2.81 and its real size is ~25 GB on disk / ~14 GB
      pulled, not ~28 GB. Also say that capability images version independently
      and name the nine still sitting at 0.2.18.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      a776c9d6
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      packaging: keep local-only files out of the published image · 5a86dc67
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      logs/, the empty .dev-code marker and a customer's integration
      requirements were being copied into the image by COPY . /opt/coderai/app.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      5a86dc67
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      longcat: a cache hit follows the pipeline's device when none is given · 4e51d876
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      encode_prompt's signature defaults device to None. Upstream's own callers always
      pass it, so this never fires today, but a cached tuple returned on the CPU would
      meet a DiT on the card — and the fallback is one expression, where discovering it
      later is a device-mismatch traceback from inside a generation.
      
      Falls back the way _get_t5_prompt_embeds does.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      4e51d876
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      longcat: place the lazily realised text encoder (v0.2.81 fixup) · bfcd3f22
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      A deferred encoder is not there when _place_pipeline runs, so pipe.to("cuda")
      has nothing to move. Under offload that was already right — the encoder belongs
      on the host and the wrapper brings it over for the encode — but with
      offload_strategy "" the encoder was built on the CPU and left there, while
      _get_t5_prompt_embeds sends it inputs on the card. The first cache miss would
      have died on a device mismatch.
      
      Placement cannot be re-derived on a miss: by then the offload argument is long
      gone. So _place_pipeline records where a realised encoder belongs, in each of
      its branches, and realise() replays it.
      
      A quantised encoder is exempt — device_map put it on the card as it loaded and
      bitsandbytes weights are not meant to be moved afterwards. That check now lives
      in _is_quantised_module, which _encoder_is_quantised delegates to, because a
      lazily realised encoder has to be asked the same question BEFORE it is attached
      to a pipeline and the two answers must not drift.
      
      test_quantisation_is_detected_from_the_model_not_the_config followed the names
      into the helper and now asserts the delegation too, so neither function can
      start consulting the config.
      
      Found by re-reading the committed diff, not by a test: nothing here runs the
      real pipeline, which is exactly the gap that let it through.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      bfcd3f22
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      longcat: cache prompt embeddings, so the encoder need not load (v0.2.81) · 175f2b2a
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      The UMT5-XXL text encoder is ~11 GB and turns a prompt into a few MB of
      embeddings that are a pure function of the prompt and the encoder. v0.2.76 made
      that run once per request instead of once per segment; this makes it once per
      prompt, ever.
      
      The saved GPU pass is not the point — it is seconds. The point is that a cached
      prompt needs no encoder AT ALL, so with the cache on the encoder is built
      lazily: ~11 GB of host RAM and about a minute of load that a repeated prompt
      never spends. That is the answer to "can we keep everything in VRAM": not by
      quantising the encoder (v0.2.79 measured int8 resident at 24.0 GB on a 24 GB
      card, and NF4 at 22.1 GB with less headroom than a 29-frame clip already uses),
      but by not having an encoder resident at all.
      
      Off by default — embeddings are derived data, but they are also several MB each
      under the user's cache directory, so growing that is opted into:
      
          "prompt_cache": "off",          # off | disk
          "prompt_cache_dir": "",         # blank = <coderai home>/prompt_cache/longcat
          "prompt_cache_max_gb": 0,       # 0 = 2 GB, least-recently-used evicted
      
      per model or server-wide, validated at startup rather than after a seven-minute
      load, settable from the models page, and in api_model_configure's whitelist so a
      save from that page does not silently drop it.
      
      An entry served to the wrong pipeline would be a silent quality change, which is
      worse than a miss, so the key covers the checkpoint, the dtype, the encoder's
      quantisation and the call's own arguments — an NF4 encoder cannot be served a
      bf16 entry. `device` is deliberately excluded: it moves the embeddings without
      changing them, and including it would split one entry into one per device.
      
      Every failure is a miss, never an error. Entries are written to a .tmp and
      renamed, read with weights_only=True (a cache directory is not a trusted source
      for a pickle), deleted when unreadable, and a cache that cannot be written warns
      once and generation carries on without it.
      
      _LazyEncoder is deliberately not a transparent proxy: upstream guards every use
      with `if self.text_encoder is not None`, so a proxy that looked like a module
      would be moved to the card by pipe.to() and offloaded by _place_pipeline,
      building the very weights it exists to avoid. pipe.text_encoder stays None and
      the holder sits beside it in _state, which is why both paths already do the
      right thing.
      
      Found while wiring it: a lazily realised encoder can be quantised, and the
      offload swap would have shuttled bitsandbytes weights to the host. The swap
      guard now checks the model, not just the offload mode.
      
      /health reports the cache and whether the encoder was ever built — laziness is
      invisible otherwise — and GET /prompt-cache returns its stats.
      
      No new dependencies. Unverified on the card: the round trip, eviction, corrupt
      entries and the key are covered by 54 tests against real tensors, but no
      generation has run through it yet.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
      Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0185zEBiy3KWB37xNGSrxL7w
      175f2b2a
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      pods: a compiler in the shared capability base, for Triton (v0.2.80) · ec6f5c30
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Sweeping the pod images for the gap the LongCat one had: Triton compiles its
      CUDA driver module at RUNTIME, and only vllm and engines-kt carried a compiler.
      Thirteen other torch-bearing profiles did not.
      
      The risk is not theoretical and not confined to block-sparse attention.
      core.txt — which every capability image installs — carries bitsandbytes, and
      bitsandbytes reaches Triton's autotuner on import; that is how the NF4
      verification failed first time round, with "libcuda.so cannot found!" and then a
      failed gcc invocation. On a pod the first quantised forward would have died with
      "Failed to find C compiler", exactly as Surya did locally before v0.2.62.
      
      So gcc and libc6-dev go into Dockerfile.capability-base, where every profile
      image inherits them, rather than into thirteen profiles one at a time.
      
      capability-base-light is deliberately left without one: it ships no torch, so it
      has no Triton to build for. That is precisely why the LongCat image installs its
      own — it adds a 3.10 venv with torch and triton to a parent that has neither —
      and there is now a test saying so, so a later cleanup does not "simplify" it
      away.
      
      Also: the quantised text-encoder load now reads torch.cuda.current_device()
      instead of hardcoding 0. The worker masks the card with CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES so
      0 was right here, but assuming it would not survive an install that does its
      device selection differently.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
      Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0185zEBiy3KWB37xNGSrxL7w
      ec6f5c30
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      longcat: the quantised-encoder estimate was 3x too optimistic (v0.2.79) · a24c8b1f
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      bitsandbytes NF4 works — verified on the 3090, in the LongCat venv, loading the
      real UMT5-XXL: 144 Linear4bit modules, is_loaded_in_4bit=True, finite embeddings
      of the right shape. But it does not cost what v0.2.77 claimed.
      
      bitsandbytes replaces Linear layers only. This encoder's 256k-token embedding
      table and one linear per layer stay at the load dtype, leaving 6.13 GB that
      cannot shrink. Measured on the card, against ~11.0 GB at bf16:
      
          nf4 + double quant   8.00 GB      (the bits-per-weight estimate said 2.8)
          int8                 9.76 GB      (it said 5.6)
      
      So the estimate now comes from those measurements rather than the bit width,
      because under-reserving by 3x is an OOM at load time. What the card must hold:
      
          bf16 encoder, offloaded   13.9 GB    9.7 GB headroom
          nf4  encoder, resident    22.1 GB    1.4 GB headroom
          int8 encoder, resident    24.0 GB    does not fit
          bf16 encoder, resident    25.2 GB    does not fit
      
      Which inverts the recommendation this was built for: an NF4 encoder does fit a
      24 GB card, but leaves less room for activations than a 29-frame clip already
      used, so it would OOM on anything longer. Offload plus the per-request embedding
      cache from v0.2.76 keeps 9.7 GB free and touches the encoder once, so it stays
      the better configuration here. The setting remains, correctly sized, for cards
      where it is the right trade.
      
      The model page now states the measured figures too, since "nf4 — ~2.8 GB" would
      have invited exactly the configuration that OOMs.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
      Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0185zEBiy3KWB37xNGSrxL7w
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    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      longcat: the new settings on the model page, and a compiler in the pod image (v0.2.78) · 43ce2008
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Configurable means configurable from the UI, not only from models.json. The
      model page now carries the four settings added over the last commits — text
      encoder quantisation, block-sparse attention, the base checkpoint an avatar
      family borrows tokenizer/text_encoder/vae from, and the context-parallel tile —
      each with the trade-off in the option text, because "nf4" means nothing without
      "~2.8 GB, stays resident" beside it. They are in api_model_configure's
      whitelist too, or the page would offer settings it then dropped on save.
      
      And the RunPod image: block-sparse attention is pure Triton, Triton compiles its
      CUDA driver module the first time it runs, and neither capability base image
      carries a compiler. A pod would have failed with "Failed to find C compiler" on
      the first denoising step — exactly how Surya failed in the local image before
      v0.2.62. gcc and libc6-dev added, and the compiler test now covers this
      Dockerfile alongside the two local ones, since checking only some of them is how
      the gap got there in the first place.
      
      Only this one pod image installs requirements-longcat.txt, so it is the whole
      blast radius of the accelerate and bitsandbytes pins; the main venv already
      carried bitsandbytes for the diffusers 4-bit path, in a separate venv, so there
      is no conflict.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
      Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0185zEBiy3KWB37xNGSrxL7w
      43ce2008
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      longcat: quantise the text encoder, so nothing has to leave the card (v0.2.77) · 3b384924
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      The DiT has upstream's INT8 path. The UMT5-XXL text encoder does not, and at
      bf16 it is ~11 GB — 45% of why a 13.6 GB INT8 DiT still overflows a 24 GB card
      (13.6 + 11.2 + VAE = 25.1 GB before a single activation). Offload worked around
      it by making the DiT and the encoder take turns; quantising the encoder removes
      the reason to.
      
      Measured against the real checkpoint, what the card must hold:
        bf16 encoder, offloaded   13.9 GB
        bf16 encoder, resident    25.2 GB   <- the configuration that OOMs
        int8 encoder, resident    19.5 GB
        nf4  encoder, resident    16.7 GB
      
      So `text_encoder_quant` is a setting: none | int8 | nf4 | fp4, per model or
      server-wide, validated at startup rather than after a seven-minute load.
      bitsandbytes is pinned in requirements-longcat.txt and asserted by both the pod
      image build and the local image's smoke test.
      
      A quantised encoder is RESIDENT and never offloaded: bitsandbytes quantises as
      the weights land on CUDA and is not built to shuttle them back — and at 2.8 GB
      it does not need to. That is detected from the MODEL, not the config, so a
      pipeline loaded quantised cannot be offloaded by a config that changed since,
      and defensively, so a component that cannot be walked is simply not quantised.
      
      Inserting these helpers by anchor dropped one of them between
      @contextlib.contextmanager and the function it was meant to decorate, so
      _encoder_is_quantised returned a context manager — truthy, making every pipeline
      look quantised — and _bsa_for quietly stopped being one. Both now have a test
      asserting their shape, because the symptom was five unrelated failures.
      
      Unverified: bitsandbytes has not executed on this GPU. A throwaway container
      cannot reach the card here (torch reports no CUDA devices under both --gpus all
      and --runtime=nvidia, though the production container's own CUDA is fine), so
      the NF4 path is proven only by its unit tests until a service run exercises it.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
      Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0185zEBiy3KWB37xNGSrxL7w
      3b384924
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      longcat: encode the prompt once per request, not once per segment (v0.2.76) · 049e2c2a
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      _run_segments calls generate_t2v once PER SEGMENT, and every one of those calls
      self.encode_prompt. A one-minute video at 15 fps is 12 segments, so that was 12
      identical encodes of the same prompt — and under offload each one also moved the
      13.6 GB DiT off the card and the ~11 GB text encoder on and back again. About
      35 GB over PCIe per segment, twelve times, for an answer that cannot change.
      
      The embeddings are a few MB, so they are now cached on the arguments that
      produce them, bounded to the last four. Segment 2 onward never touches the
      encoder: for the rest of a long generation the card holds nothing but the DiT
      and the VAE. Caching applies without offload too, where it saves the redundant
      forwards if not the transfers.
      
      The wrapper passes its arguments through verbatim instead of naming the first
      two — naming them baked in an assumption about upstream's signature that the
      avatar pipeline need not share, and it collided on the first test that used a
      differently-shaped one.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
      Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0185zEBiy3KWB37xNGSrxL7w
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    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      video: _as_b64 was out of scope for every LongCat binary input (v0.2.75) · 998a810c
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
          File "codai/api/video.py", line 4176, in _generate_longcat
            payload["audio"] = _as_b64(_audio)
          NameError: name '_as_b64' is not defined
      
      _as_b64 was defined INSIDE _generate_h3, MiniMax H3's handler, and
      _generate_longcat referenced it across that scope. So every LongCat path that
      carries binary input raised NameError before reaching the worker: the avatar
      audio track (at2v), the reference image (ai2v and i2v), and continuation frames.
      Text-to-video is the only path that never touches it, which is why t2v was the
      only one that ever worked.
      
      It cost a 20-minute wait for the GPU to find out, because the NameError fires
      after the model is loaded and the swap gate has handed over.
      
      Now module level, beside the _decode_b64_or_url it wraps. The test walks the AST
      for a call site in a function that neither defines it nor is nested in one that
      does, so the same mistake in another backend fails here instead of on a rented
      GPU.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
      Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0185zEBiy3KWB37xNGSrxL7w
      998a810c
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      longcat: block-sparse attention is additive, not a replacement (v0.2.74) · df816c76
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      v0.2.69 turned the dense backend OFF when enabling BSA, reasoning that
      _process_attn tests enable_bsa first so anything else would be a silent second
      opinion. That is true of SELF-attention and wrong about the model:
      
          attention.py:248, _process_cross_attn
            elif self.enable_xformers: ...
            else: raise RuntimeError("Unsupported attention operations.")
      
      Cross-attention has no enable_bsa branch at all. With the dense backend off,
      every cross-attention call in all 48 blocks raised — the first real BSA run died
      on step 0 of the first generation.
      
      So enable_bsa is now set alongside the chosen dense backend: BSA wins for
      self-attention on video because it is tested first, and cross-attention keeps a
      path to run on.
      
      Measured on the 3090, 29 frames, warm steady-state per step:
        dense  480x832 (30 latent rows)  8.13 s/it
        BSA    448x832 (28 latent rows)  6.34 s/it
      Adjusting for the 6.7% token difference the two geometries force (BSA needs
      sides divisible by 64), that is roughly 10-15% per step — well short of the 16x
      the 0.9375 sparsity suggests, because at this size attention is not the
      dominant cost; the weight-only INT8 linears are. BSA should matter more at 93
      frames and 720p, where attention grows quadratically. It also pays a one-time
      Triton compile of about four minutes per service.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
      Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0185zEBiy3KWB37xNGSrxL7w
      df816c76
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      longcat: block-sparse attention needs a geometry it can tile (v0.2.73) · 6541f265
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Turning bsa on produced a bare AssertionError out of the first denoising step:
      
          File ".../block_sparse_attention/bsa_interface.py", line 639
            assert Tq % tq == 0 and Hq % hq == 0 and Wq % wq == 0
      
      flash_attn_bsa_3d tiles the latent into 3D chunks and needs it to divide evenly on
      every axis. With the checkpoint's shipped chunk of (4, 4, 4) that means sides
      divisible by 64 — the VAE's 16-pixel latent cell times 4 — and a latent depth
      divisible by 4, which puts num_frames at 13, 29, 45, 61, 77, 93 … and NOT at the
      step*k+1 the 4n+1 generation rule would suggest.
      
      Upstream's own default 480x832 fails it (480/16 = 30), which is presumably why
      the flag ships off: nothing in that AssertionError mentions geometry.
      
      bsa_problems() now says which axis is wrong and what to try instead, with the
      chunk read from the checkpoint's bsa_params rather than assumed. The service
      checks it per pass and, when the shape cannot be tiled, runs dense attention for
      that pass and logs why: turning the flag on in a config must not break requests
      that already work, and a silent fallback would leave someone wondering why
      nothing got faster. The flag is restored afterwards, so the next request with a
      tileable shape still gets it.
      
      The suggestion arithmetic was wrong first time round — it offered 33, which is
      exactly the frame count that fails — and the test that checks every suggestion is
      itself tileable is what caught it.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
      Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0185zEBiy3KWB37xNGSrxL7w
      6541f265
  3. 06 Oct, 2026 7 commits
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      longcat: serve the avatar families, which ship no text encoder (v0.2.72) · 4980fd8b
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      LongCat-Video-Avatar-1.5 is a transformer and an audio encoder: base_model/,
      base_model_int8/, lora/dmd_lora, scheduler/, whisper-large-v3/. It has NO
      tokenizer, text_encoder or vae. Its README says so in its own frontmatter
      (`base_model: meituan-longcat/LongCat-Video`) and upstream's instructions
      download both repos side by side.
      
      Validated against the base checkpoint's layout it reported four missing
      directories that were never part of the repo, and the loader would then have
      asked from_pretrained for a text_encoder/ that does not exist — and for
      subfolder="dit", where the avatar transformer is base_model/.
      
      So the layout is family-aware now. An avatar checkpoint contributes its
      scheduler, its transformer (base_model/ at bf16, base_model_int8/ at int8) and
      its LoRA; tokenizer/text_encoder/vae are borrowed from a base checkpoint, named
      by `base_model` per model or falling back to the upstream repo id, which
      resolve_checkpoint() turns into a local snapshot. A base checkpoint that is
      absent or incomplete is reported AS the base checkpoint, rather than as a
      tokenizer missing from the avatar repo, which sends you looking in the wrong
      place.
      
      Either transformer alone is enough to validate: base_model/ is 31.7 GB of bf16
      that cannot fit a 24 GB card, so it is deliberately not downloaded here.
      
      Verified against the real checkpoint: family avatar-1.5, shared components
      resolving to the base snapshot, 4 INT8 shards with 2241 keys matching the index
      and 633 quantised Linear layers (the base DiT has 437 — the difference is the
      audio cross-attention), dmd_lora present. All three validators return [].
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
      Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0185zEBiy3KWB37xNGSrxL7w
      4980fd8b
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      longcat: size the load by what stays on the card, and install accelerate (v0.2.71) · 97a5302c
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      The estimator asked a 24 GB card for 74.3 GB and evicted every other model on
      the box before each generation. It sizes a model by summing its whole HF cache
      entry, and LongCat's holds three things that are never all resident: the bf16
      DiT (51 GB, stored fp32), the INT8 DiT built beside it (13.6 GB), and an fp32
      UMT5-XXL text encoder (22 GB).
      
      _longcat_resident_gb now counts only the DiT that `variant` selects, scales each
      component from its OWN stored dtype — one ratio cannot serve both an INT8 DiT
      that loads as it is stored and an fp32 encoder cast to bf16 — and, when offload
      is on, takes max(DiT, encoder) + VAE, because they take turns on the card. The
      dtype comes from the safetensors header, which is one small read per component
      and never touches the weights. Returning 0.0 leaves an unsizable model to the
      generic path rather than claiming it needs nothing.
      
      Measured against the real checkpoint: 13.9 GB for int8+offload, where the run
      actually used 13.6 GB. It was 74.3 GB.
      
      And accelerate, which upstream does not pin: without it transformers falls back
      to low_cpu_mem_usage=False and materialises the whole fp32 encoder in host RAM
      before casting it to bf16. Pinned in requirements-longcat.txt and asserted by
      BOTH the pod image build and the local image's smoke test, so a rebuild cannot
      quietly drop it.
      
      What accelerate does NOT fix, measured after installing it: the load time. The
      5 shards still take ~63 s each, because /AI is ext4 on a spinning disk that
      reads at 28 MB/s cold — 22 GB of fp32 is ~5 minutes of pure I/O. accelerate
      removes the host-RAM spike, not the wait. Halving the bytes read (a bf16 copy of
      the encoder) or moving the checkpoint to NVMe is what would shorten it.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
      Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0185zEBiy3KWB37xNGSrxL7w
      97a5302c
    • Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora )'s avatar
      longcat: it generates (v0.2.70) · ac62f4b4
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Two defects between a loading model and a finished clip, both found by running it.
      
      A repo id is not a directory. models.json holds what the model page registered —
      "meituan-longcat/LongCat-Video" — and resolve_model_path handed it straight to
      the service, which opens config.json, the VAE and the INT8 shards by path. Every
      load died with "checkpoint directory does not exist" before reading a byte.
      resolve_checkpoint() maps a repo id onto its newest snapshot in the hub cache,
      by hand rather than through huggingface_hub so the server's 3.13 venv and the
      service's 3.10 venv cannot disagree about where the weights are, and so a
      checkpoint that was never fetched stays an error instead of becoming a silent
      74 GB download.
      
      And the offload added in v0.2.67 was only half of one. It held the text encoder
      off the card until encode_prompt and then brought it over WITH the DiT still
      resident: 13.6 GB of INT8 DiT plus ~11 GB of UMT5-XXL is 24.8 GB on a 24 GB
      card. It OOM'd on the first prompt of the first generation. Model offload means
      only the active component is on the card, so they take turns now — the DiT steps
      off for the encode and comes back for the loop, in a finally, because a failed
      prompt that stranded the DiT on the host would leave every later generation
      running at PCIe speed with nothing to say why. Peak is max(), not sum.
      
      The placement test passed on the broken version: it asserted the encoder arrived
      and left, never that the DiT was not there too. It asserts co-residency now, and
      fails on the old code.
      
      Measured end to end on the 3090: 33 frames at 480x832, distilled stage, 16 steps
      at 9.4 s/it, 13.6 GB resident, HTTP 200 with the mp4.
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      longcat: block-sparse attention as an option, and a cp_split_hw that works (v0.2.69) · 3532636c
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Attention is the expensive part at video token counts — ~37k tokens for 93
      frames at 480x832, and it is O(N^2) in that. The checkpoint already carries
      bsa_params with sparsity 0.9375, roughly a 16x cut, and upstream's
      implementation is pure Triton, so none of it needs the flash-attn source build.
      
      So it is now a setting: longcat.bsa server-wide, "bsa" per model, --bsa on the
      service. Off by default because it is an approximation and video shows
      approximation as temporal flicker, not one soft frame. "auto" stays off when
      triton is missing; "on" says so instead, because someone who asked for it would
      otherwise be left wondering why nothing got faster. BSA replaces the dense
      backend rather than joining it, since Attention tests enable_bsa first.
      
      And cp_split_hw, found while wiring this: the DiT's forward opens with
      `if self.cp_split_hw[0] * self.cp_split_hw[1] > 1:` and has no None guard, but
      dit/config.json ships "cp_split_hw": null — so a DiT built from the config as
      published raises TypeError on its first forward. Our only assignment made it
      worse by storing cp_size, a process count, where a [h, w] pair belongs: an int
      is not subscriptable either. It defaults to [1, 1] now, derives [1, cp_size]
      under context parallelism, and takes an explicit tile that is checked against
      the group size.
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      longcat: pick the attention backend that is installed (v0.2.68) · a2b991e5
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      dit/config.json asks for enable_flashattn2, but requirements-longcat.txt ships
      xformers — flash-attn 2.7.4.post1 is a source build needing ninja and a CUDA
      toolchain. Upstream's Attention has no fallback: anything unselected reaches
      `raise RuntimeError("Unsupported attention operations.")`, and the FA2 branch
      imports flash_attn, which is not in the venv.
      
      --attention was only ever written into the environment. Nothing read
      LONGCAT_ATTENTION, so the checkpoint's config won every time.
      
      Now both load paths — bf16 through from_pretrained and INT8 through the config
      dict — are built with the backend that is actually importable, preferring what
      was asked for and saying so when it falls back. None installed is an error
      here, with the reason, rather than 48 blocks into the first step of a load that
      already cost minutes.
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      longcat: the offload setting never did anything (v0.2.67) · 1d745ffd
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      LongCatVideoPipeline's docstring says "This model inherits from
      [`DiffusionPipeline`]". The class declaration inherits nothing, so it has no
      enable_model_cpu_offload and no enable_sequential_cpu_offload. The guarded
      getattr found neither, logged a warning and fell through to pipe.to("cuda") —
      so every load put all three components on the card and the offload mode in the
      model config was decorative. That is the 45 GB ask against a 24 GB card.
      
      An INT8 DiT does not fix it on its own: 13.6 GB of DiT plus ~11.2 GB for the
      UMT5-XXL encoder (5.6B, stored fp32, loaded bf16) plus the VAE is ~25 GB before
      activations.
      
      But the encoder runs once, to encode the prompt, and is dead weight for every
      denoising step after. So offload now keeps it on the host and brings it over
      only for encode_prompt, set on the instance because all four generate_* methods
      call self.encode_prompt. The DiT and VAE stay resident, which leaves the loop —
      the part that has to be fast — on the card.
      
      It is moved back in a finally: stranding 11 GB after a failed encode would make
      the retry the thing that runs out of memory. 'sequential' is served as model
      offload and says so, rather than implying a deeper mode that upstream has no
      machinery for.
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      longcat: tests that still described the old rules · dbb5f86a
      Stefy Lanza (nextime / spora ) authored
      Three left over from earlier fixes in this work:
      
      - the frame tests asserted 93 was a valid TRAINING length. SimpleTuner's rule
        is 8n+1, not generation's 4n+1, and it rounds down silently — which is why
        frame_problems() rejects 93 and says a good clip can still be a bad sample.
        Reversed: the valid cases are 8n+1 now, and 93 has its own case asserting
        the message explains itself.
      - the trainer stopped dumping "Last output" when it started picking the error
        lines out of a bounded tail; the test still looked for the old wording.
      - the vendoring test counted the __pycache__ the container writes into the
        bind-mounted copy as "vendored non-source files". Generated, not vendored.
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