The conformance suite was disabling Xet client-side, so the downstream half
of spec §8 -- and with it the claim that pointing HF_ENDPOINT at rustingface
works with the client people actually have -- was never exercised. The suite
now runs a Xet-capable client throughout and asserts it still chooses HTTP.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PqNtYNhov3fukx46KS9R7L
