feat(inference): add Qwen3.8 27B llama.cpp profile - #9682
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Adds an explicit-only managed llama.cpp serving profile for unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF on one DGX Spark, pinned to the UD-Q4_K_XL file by revision, size, and SHA-256 digest. The recipe reuses the llama.cpp source revision, runtime image, CUDA base image, and downloader/probe image digests already pinned by the Nemotron 3 Nano recipe, so it introduces no new image to qualify. Priority 430 keeps it below both existing llama.cpp Spark profiles. This checkpoint's embedded chat template reads `reasoning_effort`, not the `reasoning_strength` argument the llama.cpp runtime supplies, so it ignores the supplied value and resolves to its own `xhigh` default. The recipe declares `xhigh` to record what the server actually serves, and the guide states the mismatch. Closing it properly needs a contract change wider than one profile. The source repository publishes multimodal projector and MTP draft files. The recipe pins neither, matching the existing profiles' disabled multimodal projection and speculative decoding. Signed-off-by: Zac Wang <zacw@nvidia.com>
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to This PR adds a digest-pinned, explicit-only Qwen serving profile with documented behavior and passing repository checks; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal maintainer review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Selection
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Selection->>SparkPreset: selects the exact Qwen recipe ID
SparkPreset->>ServingRecipe: applies DGX Spark requirements
ServingRecipe->>LlamaCppServer: starts the pinned model and runtime
LlamaCppServer-->>ServingRecipe: reports readiness and serving capabilities
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Merge-train scope decision required. This PR creates a new supported managed-inference surface. The repository product-scope gate requires an accepted issue or design decision that establishes the integration’s ownership, lifecycle, compatibility, security, and validation expectations before implementation approval. The current record does not provide that authority:
I am therefore deferring this PR from the merge train without assigning it or applying a release target. Maintainer direction is needed on the supported publisher, the minimum DGX Spark qualification evidence, and whether the reasoning-control mismatch is acceptable for this profile. An accepted decision should name one accountable maintainer and the validation plan. Once that record exists, the PR can return to technical, documentation, and security review. This is a scope hold, not a conclusion about the implementation’s technical quality. |
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This PR creates a new supported managed-inference surface without an accepted product decision defining ownership, lifecycle, compatibility, security, and validation. Current evidence also does not qualify the target DGX Spark GB10 path, leaves the reasoning-control contract unresolved, and configures automatic selection despite the stated explicit-only intent.
Record an accepted scope decision with an accountable owner and validation plan; correct the selection contract; provide target-hardware qualification and reasoning behavior evidence; then update from current main so the generic-GPU workflow receives the current PR context. Green technical checks alone cannot establish product approval.
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In `@docs/inference/set-up-llama-cpp.mdx`:
- Line 91: Update the Qwen3.8 27B onboarding documentation to include the
explicit recipe ID llama-cpp.qwen3-8-27b.spark-single.v1 alongside the existing
profile examples, so users can select the lower-priority profile
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Approval remains blocked at 7709d95a9006ee4388d3b65f7ddb0eb5d29541ed. This PR creates a supported managed-inference profile, but no accepted issue or design decision defines the owner, lifecycle, compatibility, security, and validation requirements. The PR also states that the target DGX Spark GB10 path has not been qualified, and it leaves the reasoning-control mismatch as an inert declaration. In addition, the PR calls the profile explicit-only while the preset uses selection: automatic. These are product-scope and behavior decisions, not mechanical fixes.
Please record the accepted product decision and accountable owner, decide whether this profile is explicit-only or automatic, define the reasoning contract, and provide physical DGX Spark qualification for the selected artifact and serving behavior. Then update from current main and obtain green required checks. The remaining unresolved documentation thread should also name llama-cpp.qwen3-8-27b.spark-single.v1 if the profile proceeds.
Review correctly identified that the preset shipped `selection: automatic` while the PR described it as explicit-only. The preset was generated from the Nemotron Spark preset, which carries `automatic`, and the description was written from a reading taken against a much older base where those presets were still `explicit-only`. The config, not the description, was the thing that was wrong: an unqualified third-party profile should not join the automatic selection pool on a qualifying DGX Spark host. Sets `selection: explicit-only`, so the profile is reachable only through an exact `NEMOCLAW_LLAMACPP_RECIPE` and never appears in the interactive menu. Priority 430 is retained but is now inert for selection. Replaces the automatic-choices list entry with a test that asserts the explicit-only contract in both directions: absent from `listManagedLlamaCppSelectionChoices`, still resolvable by exact recipe ID. Reverting the preset to `automatic` fails that test. Documents the exact recipe ID for selection, per review feedback, and corrects the guide to state that the profile never appears in the menu. Signed-off-by: Zac Wang <zacw@nvidia.com>
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Thanks both — the scope hold is fair, and one of the technical findings was a real defect on my side. Scope decision filed: #10112. It follows the feature-request template's ownership / placement / validation-plan / compatibility / security fields, and states plainly that this PR should not merge until that issue is accepted. It puts the three items @apurvvkumaria asked for in front of maintainers as explicit decisions rather than assumptions:
The issue proposes me as owner but says explicitly that a contributor cannot self-assign the accountable maintainer role, so that needs maintainer confirmation. NemoClaw Community instead of core is an acceptable outcome if that is the judgment.
The fix swaps the automatic-choices list entry for a test asserting the contract in both directions — absent from Also addressed the CodeRabbit thread: the guide now documents the exact recipe ID and states that the profile never appears in the interactive menu. Not addressed, deliberately. GB10 qualification evidence — the preset requires arm64 and a qualified @cv on the CI note — the branch has been updated from |
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In `@src/lib/inference/llama-cpp/managed-selection.test.ts`:
- Around line 326-329: Strengthen the explicit-selection assertion in
resolveManagedLlamaCppSelection by narrowing the selected result and asserting
selection.recipe.metadata.id equals QWEN_RECIPE_ID, while retaining the existing
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Assert the selected recipe identity.
The explicit-selection assertion checks only kind === "selected". It can pass if a different recipe is selected. Assert selection.recipe.metadata.id === QWEN_RECIPE_ID after narrowing the result. This verifies the observable contract for exact recipe selection.
As per path instructions, this test must verify behavioral confidence through the public selection result.
Proposed assertion
- expect(
- resolveManagedLlamaCppSelection({ [LLAMA_CPP_RECIPE_ENV]: QWEN_RECIPE_ID }, catalog, report)
- .kind,
- ).toBe("selected");
+ const selection = resolveManagedLlamaCppSelection(
+ { [LLAMA_CPP_RECIPE_ENV]: QWEN_RECIPE_ID },
+ catalog,
+ report,
+ );
+ expect(selection.kind).toBe("selected");
+ if (selection.kind === "selected") {
+ expect(selection.selection.recipe.metadata.id).toBe(QWEN_RECIPE_ID);
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In `@src/lib/inference/llama-cpp/managed-selection.test.ts` around lines 326 -
329, Strengthen the explicit-selection assertion in
resolveManagedLlamaCppSelection by narrowing the selected result and asserting
selection.recipe.metadata.id equals QWEN_RECIPE_ID, while retaining the existing
kind === "selected" check.
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Two concrete blockers remain at cdfb4f6797e0ee192449625296b2d4ece3a2e7da:
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managed-inference/recipes/llama-cpp.qwen3-8-27b.spark-single.v1.yaml:46pins the upstreamghcr.io/ggml-org/llama.cppimage, while the managed lifecycle replaces its entrypoint with/usr/local/bin/nemoclaw-llama-cpp-request-guard. The repository-owned image installs and qualifies that executable; the upstream image has no such checked-in contract. This can prevent startup and leaves the authenticated request-limit boundary unverified. Use a compatible qualified NemoClaw image, or add and enforce an image contract that proves the exact guard artifact and behavior. -
Product scope issue #10112 is open with no accepted decision or accountable maintainer. The PR still states that physical DGX Spark qualification is absent and that the reasoning-control contract is unresolved. Because this creates a supported managed-inference surface, the repository Product Scope Gate requires acceptance of ownership, lifecycle, compatibility, security, and validation expectations before approval.
The exact-head diff also still omits the explicit-only Qwen recipe from docs/reference/commands.mdx, and the unresolved CodeRabbit thread correctly notes that the explicit-selection test asserts only kind, not the selected recipe identity. Both are simple follow-up fixes, but I did not push them because this checkout has no installed project dependencies, so focused Vitest, typecheck, repository checks, and docs validation could not run.
The automatic-selection defect and setup-guide recipe ID are fixed. All 16 PR commits are GitHub Verified; the two authored commits have DCO trailers, while merge commits do not. Current failed checks are not the reason for this review.
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Summary
Adds an explicit-only managed llama.cpp serving profile for
unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUFon one DGX Spark, pinned to theUD-Q4_K_XLfile by revision, size, and SHA-256 digest.The recipe reuses the llama.cpp source revision, runtime image, CUDA base image, and downloader/probe image digests already pinned by the Nemotron 3 Nano recipe, so it introduces no new image to qualify. Priority
430keeps it below both existing llama.cpp Spark profiles, so it never outranks a qualified one.Related Issue
Scope decision: #10112 — filed in response to the product-scope hold. It records ownership, placement, validation plan, compatibility, and security impact, and puts the three open decisions (publisher policy, minimum DGX Spark qualification bar, reasoning-control mismatch) in front of maintainers. This PR should not merge before that issue is accepted and an accountable maintainer is named.
Review Updates
selection: automatic→explicit-only(3ab7c6a). The review was right, and the config was the thing that was wrong rather than the description. The preset was generated from the Nemotron Spark preset, which carriesautomatic; the "explicit-only" wording came from a reading taken against a much older base where those presets still saidexplicit-only, and I did not re-verify after branching. An unqualified third-party profile should not join the automatic selection pool on a qualifying DGX Spark host.The fix replaces the automatic-choices list entry with a test that asserts the contract in both directions — absent from
listManagedLlamaCppSelectionChoices, still resolvable by exact recipe ID. Reverting the preset toautomaticfails that test; verified, and note it only fails afternpm run catalog:compile, since the selection tests read the compiled catalog artifact rather than the YAML. The guide now states the profile never appears in the menu and gives the exact recipe ID, per the CodeRabbit thread.Not addressed here, because they are not mine to decide: the scope decision (#10112), DGX Spark GB10 qualification evidence, and whether the reasoning-control mismatch is acceptable for this profile.
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Questions raised before implementation, with my recommendation and the decision taken:
linux-amd64-nvidia(matches what we can qualify)UD-Q4_K_XLUD-Q4_K_XL— matches the Nemotron precedentDecision 1 means the validation host cannot select this profile (see Verification). Decision 2 means a companion NVFP4 vLLM profile for
unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4is deliberately not in this PR; it should follow thevllm.linux-amd64-nvidia.single.*pattern once that lands on main.Changes
managed-inference/recipes/llama-cpp.qwen3-8-27b.spark-single.v1.yaml(new): digest-pinned recipe. Modelunsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUFat revision27af057ecb382ddfea5d12837360a8980560e3ed, fileQwen3.8-27B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf,sizeBytes: 17559178144,sha256:3f227079003add2511437e5b1e94812e363385225bf6a9b47b0054a72bc8b01e, served asqwen3-8-27b,contextSize: 262144.managed-inference/presets/llama-cpp.dgx-spark-gb10.single.qwen3-8-27b.yaml(new): Spark preset. Byte-identical to the Nemotron Spark preset apart fromid,displayName,priority, andrecipeRef, so the arm64 /host.platform.dgx_spark/ driver580.65.06requirement block is carried over unchanged.src/lib/inference/serving/catalog-loader.test.ts: the new recipe and preset IDs in the three expectation lists.src/lib/inference/llama-cpp/managed-selection.test.ts: the new profile in the priority-ordered selection expectation.docs/inference/set-up-llama-cpp.mdx: profile listed, chat-template behavior documented, capabilities stated, and the qualification status stated plainly.Two things worth a maintainer's attention
1. The declared reasoning strength is inert for this checkpoint. Its embedded template reads
reasoning_effort, butbuildLlamaCppServerArgumentsemits--chat-template-kwargs {"reasoning_strength": ...}. The template therefore ignores the supplied value and resolves to its own default,xhigh. It also accepts onlyxhigh,medium,lowand raises on anything else — so the contract'shighwould be invalid for it even if the name matched.The recipe declares
xhighbecause that is what the server actually serves, and the guide states the mismatch rather than implying control. Closing it properly means teaching the contract to emitreasoning_effort, which is wider than one profile — happy to follow up if maintainers want that.2. Third-party publisher. This checkpoint is published by
unsloth, notnvidia/. Precedent exists (Inferact/Muse-Glimmer-…ships Experimental), and the model is Apache-2.0, ungated, and derived fromQwen/Qwen3.8-27B. Flagging it explicitly as a policy call rather than assuming.Type of Change
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docs-updatedDGX Station Hardware Evidence
Not applicable — this profile targets DGX Spark, and
scripts/prepare-dgx-station-host.shis unchanged.Verification
Hardware used: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition (sm_120), x86_64, driver 595.80, Docker 29.4.3.
This is not a DGX Spark. The preset requires
arm64and a qualifiedhost.platform.dgx_spark, so this profile could not be selected on the validation host. What follows is the arch-portable evidence — the pinned artifacts and the exact server contract. It is not a substitute for physical GB10 qualification, and the GB10 unified-memory behavior is unverified.Artifact pins, verified directly:
sizeBytes.sha256sum→3f227079003add2511437e5b1e94812e363385225bf6a9b47b0054a72bc8b01e, matching the pinned digest.linux/amd64.Served with the exact argv
buildLlamaCppServerArgumentsproduces for this recipe (--gpu-layers all --ctx-size 262144 --parallel 1 --sleep-idle-seconds -1 --batch-size 2048 --ubatch-size 512 --cache-type-k f16 --cache-type-v f16 --flash-attn on --timeout 900 --jinja --chat-template-kwargs '{"reasoning_strength":"xhigh"}' --api-key-file … --metrics --no-ui --no-slots --no-mmproj --no-agent):srv load_model: n_slots = 1, n_ctx_slot = 262144,model loaded, listening/health{"status":"ok"}/v1/models['qwen3-8-27b']— matchesservedNameandreadiness.expectedModel401with no key and with a wrong keyPONG;reasoning_contentpresent, consistent with thexhighdefaultfinish_reason: tool_calls, one call,{"city":"Santa Clara"}parses as JSONThe
blk.64.nextn.*tensors load as unused-and-ignored, consistent withspeculativeDecoding: disabled.Repository checks:
npm run catalog:check— OKnpx vitest run src/lib/inference/serving/catalog-loader.test.ts test/managed-inference-catalog-compiler.test.ts src/lib/inference/llama-cpp/managed-selection.test.ts— 28 passednpm run checks:repository— passednpm run docs:check-routes— OK;markdownlint-cli2on the changed page — 0 issuesPre-existing failures on this checkout, each confirmed to reproduce identically on clean
mainand untouched by this change:managed-installer/managed-status/managed-lifecycle-adapter(14 failures),host-local-vllm-selection, anddocs:check-agent-variantsreporting missingsecurity/tcb-boundarygenerated pages.Signed-off-by: Zac Wang zacw@nvidia.com
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