The poller now fetches /health alongside /models on each neuron and
stashes the activation snapshot on NodeState. The /v1/models handler
gains a Pass 3 that synthesises Loading locations from each neuron's
activation.in_progress and activation.pending lists, so a catalogued
model that's mid-prewarm surfaces as `status: "loading"` rather than
appearing absent (loaded=false, locations=[]).
Without this, a client polling /v1/models during a beast restart sees
Qwen3.6-27B disappear for the ~5 minutes the q5k load takes, then
reappear. Now it stays visible the whole time with a clear status.
Adds ModelStatus::Loading to cortex-core. The router's per-node priority
loop gets an explicit (no-op) arm: Loading models aren't routable yet,
and falling through to the catalogue cold-load path is the existing
race — no worse than before, but tagged as a known follow-up needing
neuron-side in-flight tracking on /models/load.
New test_poller_captures_activation_from_health exercises the full
round-trip: mock neuron with empty /models but a pre_warming /health
→ poller writes node.activation. Common test helpers gain
spawn_mock_neuron_with_models_and_health and default_health_response.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stage 1 of the candle-native pivot. Replaces the external-process
harness model (mistralrs over HTTP, llamacpp placeholder) with an
in-process Harness trait whose sole implementation is candle. The
trait keeps its shape so future engines slot in additively, but
start/stop default to no-ops and HarnessConfig drops endpoint and
systemd_unit since no harness needs external supervision.
Behaviour is unchanged on the wire: load_model returns a "not
implemented yet (Stage 2)" error and list_models is empty. The
gateway-side proxy, poller, and router are untouched.
CLAUDE.md Phase 11 (llama.cpp) and Phase 12 (mistral.rs COPR) are
marked superseded; the staged plan lives in
~/.claude/plans/create-a-more-aggressive-calm-naur.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace NodeConfig (static vram_mb, pinned) with NeuronEndpoint.
Hardware discovery and model pinning now come from neuron API and
models.toml catalogue respectively.
- config.rs: nodes -> neurons, add models_config path
- catalogue.rs: ModelProfile with pinned_on, ModelCatalogue
- poller.rs: poll neuron GET /models (ModelInfo format)
- router.rs: resolve inference endpoint via neuron GET /models/{id}/endpoint
- evictor.rs: call neuron POST /models/unload
- node.rs: remove vram_mb, pinned fields (come from discovery/catalogue)
- All 22 gateway tests updated to mock neuron API
- Remove MistralModelsResponse, ModelLifecycleRequest (no longer needed)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extract public poll_once() from poll_loop() for testability.
4 tests proving the poller correctly discovers models, updates
gateway state, marks unreachable nodes unhealthy, and prunes
stale models.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
