jev-web 0.7.2 → 0.8.0

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-# jev-web
-
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-
-Run **typed-decision models** in the browser. One *state* text
-plus any number of typed *questions* (`choice` / `score` / `noul`) go in; a
-calibrated probability distribution per question comes back from a **single
-forward pass**. No server, no API keys, no network calls after the weights are
-cached.
-
-Three model families ship today — open-jev (fused DeBERTa graph), Laya
-(ModernBERT encoder + typed head), Strands Decider 2B (Qwen torso + pointer
-head), Bekko System One v0 (Ettin cross-encoder), Decision 2.0 (Qwen3 +
-candidate head), and Kev (Qwen3 + pointer head) — behind one registry:
-`createDecisionRuntime({ family, fallback })`.
-
-This is a generic runtime, not a classifier for any particular domain. You bring
-the state text and the questions; the model answers by choosing among the options
-you give it.
-
-## ▶ Live demo
-
-**https://warsang.github.io/jev-web/**
-
-An interactive playground that runs this exact package: type a state, add typed
-questions, and watch the model and a hand-written keyword baseline answer
-side by side. It also counts your actual outbound requests, so the
-"offline / private / no server" claim is checkable rather than asserted.
-
-![jev-web demo: typed decisions vs raw text parsing](docs/demo.gif)
-
-<sub>The frames are captured from the live demo at
-[warsang.github.io/jev-web](https://warsang.github.io/jev-web/) — site → typed
-decisions with latency → the negation case where the rules and the model
-disagree → the comparison matrix.</sub>
-
-Three questions, one forward pass, and a hard label from the rule parser that
-could not answer the third question at all:
-
-![three typed decisions with full distributions and a measured latency, beside a keyword baseline that returns hard labels and no answer](docs/demo-typed.png)
-
-## Quickstart
-
-```js
-import { createDecider } from "jev-web";
-
-const decider = await createDecider();          // ~340 MB of weights, once
-const { answers } = await decider.decide(
-  "I was charged twice for the same order.",
-  [{ type: "noul", instructions: "The customer is asking for a refund." }],
-);
-
-answers[0].noul;                    // 0.92   — p(yes)
-answers[0].probabilities;           // { no: 0.08, yes: 0.92 }
-answers[0].confidence;               // 0.92
-```
-
-That is the whole integration. The first call downloads the weights and the
-browser caches them; every later call — and every later visit, including
-offline — is local. **Zero dependencies**: `@huggingface/transformers` is an
-optional peer, imported lazily.
-
-## What comes back
-
-```js
-const { answers } = await decider.decide(
-  "I was charged twice for the same order and nobody answers my emails. I want my money back now.",
-  [
-    { type: "choice", instructions: "Which product area is the message about?",
-      options: ["fees & charges", "refund & dispute", "card", "other"] },
-    { type: "noul",   instructions: "The customer is asking for a refund." },
-    { type: "score",  instructions: "How negative is the message?",
-      options: ["very negative", "negative", "neutral", "positive", "very positive"] },
-  ],
-);
-
-// [
-//   { type: "choice", choice: "fees & charges", index: 0,
-//     probabilities: { "fees & charges": 0.796, "refund & dispute": 0.169,
-//                      card: 0.019, other: 0.016 }, confidence: 0.796 },
-//   { type: "noul", noul: 0.927,
-//     probabilities: { no: 0.073, yes: 0.927 }, confidence: 0.927 },
-//   { type: "score", score: 0.866, level: 1,
-//     probabilities: { "very negative": 0.336, negative: 0.478, neutral: 0.175,
-//                      positive: 0.008, "very positive": 0.003 }, confidence: 0.478 },
-// ]
-// timings: { totalMs, inferMs }   ·  length, truncated, prompts
-```
-
-Three questions, **one** forward pass, and every question carries the full
-distribution — not just a label. That last part is the point: a hard label
-cannot be thresholded, routed by confidence, or second-guessed, and the
-`choice` answer above is a genuine 79.6 / 16.9 split rather than a coin flip you
-find out about later.
-
-## jev-web vs. calling a hosted LLM API with `fetch()`
-
-| | jev-web | Hosted LLM API via `fetch()` |
-|---|---|---|
-| **Cost per decision** | **$0.00** — the weights are static files | per-token, forever; a busy form multiplies it by every visitor |
-| **Latency** | one local forward pass, measured live on the demo page | typically 0.4–3 s, plus a network round trip |
-| **Network at answer time** | **0 requests** — works in airplane mode | one round trip per call, minimum |
-| **Output shape** | **calibrated distribution per question, every question in one pass** | prose you then have to regex back into a distribution |
-| **Determinism** | same input → same probabilities, always | temperature 0 + structured outputs helps; still not guaranteed |
-| **Privacy** | your text never leaves the device | your users' text is sent to a third party on every call |
-| **Ops burden** | static files on a CDN, no key, no rate limit | key management, quotas, rate limits, uptime, spend alerts |
-| **Ceiling** | only *picks among options you supply* — never writes, never explains | general purpose; will happily invent an option you never offered |
-
-**The honest trade.** jev-web is a classifier, not a chatbot. If you need
-free-form answers you need a generator. If you need a routing decision, a score,
-or a yes/no with a confidence you can threshold on, this is the cheaper, faster
-and private one — and it is also *smaller*: a 0.5 B model plus your options
-beats a frontier model plus a parsing layer, on every axis except generality.
-
-## Try it before you install it
-
-The live demo covers the interesting cases, and the presets are chosen to break
-keyword parsing rather than to flatter the model:
-
-| preset | what it shows |
-|---|---|
-| **Banking triage** | easy text — a fair rule can match, the model adds a confidence |
-| **Negation trap** | *"This is not about a refund. My card was stolen…"* — the keyword rule routes to `refund & dispute`; the model routes to `card` (53.3%) and answers the refund question **no** (0.101) |
-| **Contradictory review** | praise and complaint in one sentence; keyword polarity reads the praise |
-| **Mixed intent** | two intents in one state — a hard label must pick one, a distribution does not have to |
-| **Out of domain** | no in-domain signal at all; the rule parser has nothing to say |
-
-The negation case is the one worth looking at. The state is *"This is not about
-a refund. My card was stolen in Madrid and the bank refuses to help. I never
-received the money back I asked about."*
-
-![negation: the keyword baseline routes to refund and dispute, the model routes to card](docs/demo-negation.png)
-
-The rule parser finds the word `refund` and routes to **refund & dispute** — the
-exact opposite of what the customer meant. The model routes to **card** (53.3%)
-and answers *"the customer is asking for a refund"* with **no** (0.101). Both
-the bad routing and the inversion come from the same clause, and neither is
-visible in a hard label.
-
-The demo also tracks outbound requests through the Performance API: you will see
-~14 requests while the weights load, then **0** for every decision after that.
-
-## Install
-
-```bash
-npm i jev-web @huggingface/transformers
-```
-
-`@huggingface/transformers` is an optional peer dependency (it is imported
-lazily). Hosts that already ship their own copy can inject it via
-`createDecider({ transformers })`.
-
-## Use
-
-```js
-import { createDecider, DEFAULT_MODEL, DEFAULT_REVISION } from "jev-web";
-
-const decider = await createDecider({
-  // defaults to the reference open-jev DeBERTa-v3-large ONNX export,
-  // pinned by revision; any repo with the same typed-decision graph works
-  onProgress: (p) => console.log(p.phase, p.file, p.progress),
-});
-
-const { answers } = await decider.decide(
-  "I was charged twice for the same order and nobody answers my emails.",
-  [
-    {
-      type: "choice",
-      instructions: "Which product area is the message about?",
-      options: ["fees & charges", "refund & dispute", "card", "other"],
-    },
-    { type: "noul", instructions: "The customer is asking for a refund." },
-    {
-      type: "score",
-      instructions: "How negative is the message?",
-      options: ["very negative", "negative", "neutral", "positive", "very positive"],
-    },
-  ],
-);
-```
-
-## Question types
-
-| type | options | answer |
-|---|---|---|
-| `choice` | 2–255 labels | `choice` (argmax), `probabilities`, `confidence` |
-| `score` | 2–10 ordered levels | `score` (expected level index, may fall between levels) |
-| `noul` | exactly 2 (defaults `["no","yes"]`) | `noul` (p of the second option = p(yes)), `confidence` |
-
-Every answer carries the full distribution. `decide()` also returns
-`{ truncated, length }` — the state is capped (256 tokens by default) and the
-flag tells you when it was cut.
-
-## Backends and quantization
-
-`device` / `dtype` default to `auto`: WebGPU → `q4f16`, otherwise WASM → `q4`.
-Override explicitly (`fp16`, `fp32`, `q8`, …) when accuracy matters more than
-download size. First load downloads the weights once; transformers.js caches
-them (Cache API / IndexedDB) so later visits are offline-fast.
-
-`decider.info` reports the resolved `{ model, revision, device, dtype,
-temperature, maxStateTokens, maxLen, pool, configSource }`.
-
-## Model config
-
-Defaults come from the model repo's `open_jev_config.json` when present
-(temperature, marker tokens, state cap), else the published reference values.
-To use a different typed-decision export:
-
-```js
-createDecider({ model: "your-org/your-typed-decision-ONNX", revision: "main" });
-```
-
-The export must add the `[STATE]`, `[Q]`, `[OPT]` markers to its tokenizer,
-take `input_ids, attention_mask, seg, pair_q, pair_opt`, and return per-pair
-`logits`. `typedMarkerIds()` fails loudly when a repo is missing them.
-
-## Multiple families (registry)
-
-`jev-web` is a multi-family runtime: `createDecisionRuntime({ family, fallback })`
-tries the requested family and then any fallbacks, returning the shared contract
-`{ info, decide(state, questions), dispose? }`:
-
-```js
-import { createDecisionRuntime, listDecisionFamilies } from "jev-web";
-
-listDecisionFamilies(); // ["open-jev", "laya", "strands-decider", "bekko", "decision2", "kev"]
-const runtime = await createDecisionRuntime({
-  family: "strands-decider",
-  fallback: ["laya", "open-jev"],
-  onFallback: ({ family, error }) => console.warn(family, error),
-});
-const { answers, truncated, length, prompts, timings } = await runtime.decide(state, questions);
-```
-
-Third-party families plug in without touching core:
-
-```js
-registerDecisionFamily("my-model", {
-  defaults: { model: "org/my-typed-decision-ONNX", revision: "main" },
-  create: async (opts) => ({ info, decide, dispose }),
-});
-```
-
-`decide()` returns `prompts` (decoded input sequence(s), for audit/debug) and
-`timings` (per-stage ms) alongside the answers.
-
-## Laya family (ModernBERT encoder + typed head)
-
-`createLayaDecider(options)` runs the [Laya](https://huggingface.co/convaiinnovations/laya)
-System-1 decision models, whose browser export is a **two-file q8 ONNX split**
-(encoder + head) rather than one fused graph:
-
-```js
-import { createLayaDecider } from "jev-web";
-
-const decider = await createLayaDecider({
-  // defaults to alfred361/laya-typed-decisions-web-q8 @ pinned revision
-  wasmPaths: "/assets/",            // self-hosted ORT wasm (optional)
-  onProgress: (p) => console.log(p.phase, p.loaded, p.total),
-});
-const { answers } = await decider.decide(stateText, questions);
-```
-
-Protocol implemented here (mirrors the reference `laya` Python runtime):
-
-- sequence `[CLS] <type> question: <instructions> [SEP] [MASK]opt0 … [SEP] <state> [SEP]`,
-  `marker_pos` at each option's `[MASK]`, `qtype` 0 choice / 1 score / 2 noul;
-- encoder `input_ids, attention_mask → hidden`; head
-  `hidden, attention_mask, marker_pos, marker_mask, qtype → logits`;
-- per-question calibration from `rl_agent_config.json`
-  (`temperature` + `temperature_by_options` buckets, clamped to [0.5, 5]).
-
-Notes:
-- the q8 web head is **batch-1 only**, so `decide()` batches the encoder and
-  runs the head once per question;
-- `choice` supports at most `max_prefixes` options (6 for the typed-decisions
-  export);
-- weights download once (~520 MB q8) and are browser-cached.
-
-Lower-level helpers are exported for custom runtimes:
-`buildLayaSequence`, `collateLayaItems`, `layaAnswersFromLogits`,
-`layaTokenizerAdapter`, `renderLayaOptions`, `layaTempBucket`, `clampTemperature`.
-
-## Strands Decider family (Qwen torso + pointer head)
-
-`createStrandsDecider(options)` runs
-[Strands Decider 2B](https://strandsagents.com/blog/introducing-strands-decider/),
-a 2B-parameter decision model: a Qwen3.5-2B torso (LoRA merged) with its LM head
-replaced by a pointer head that scores each option from its own hidden state
-against the `<answer>` position. One fused ONNX graph, one forward pass for the
-whole batch:
-
-```js
-import { createStrandsDecider } from "jev-web";
-
-const decider = await createStrandsDecider({
-  // defaults to onnx-community/strands-decider-2B-hobson-v19-ONNX @ pinned
-  // revision, q8 (onnx/model_quantized.onnx)
-  onProgress: (p) => console.log(p.phase, p.loaded, p.total),
-});
-const { answers } = await decider.decide(stateText, questions);
-```
-
-Protocol implemented here (mirrors the reference Python runtime):
-
-- prompt `<state>…</state><question type="{noul|choice|score}">…<options>\n1. …\n</options></question><answer>`;
-- graph `input_ids, attention_mask, answer_pos, option_pos → logits`, where
-  `answer_pos` is each row's last real token (the `<answer>` pooling position)
-  and `option_pos` carries each option line's last-token position (padded with
-  0); the prompt is tokenised in chunks at pre-tokeniser piece boundaries so
-  those positions are exact with no offset mapping;
-- choice questions accept `criteria` as `{label: description}` (mirroring the
-  reference schema); noul slots are fixed `false`/`true` with overridable
-  rubric descriptions;
-- the question gets first claim on the 4096-token window (up to 75%), the state
-  is truncated from the right into what remains, and an over-long question is
-  truncated from the front, keeping the options and `<answer>`;
-- per-kind calibration from the checkpoint (`noul` 0.911 / `choice` 0.734 /
-  `score` 1.328); `score` confidence is ordinal (spread-based, with the
-  training smoothing floor), not max-probability.
-
-Lower-level helpers are exported for custom runtimes:
-`renderStrandsQuestion`, `renderStrandsState`, `renderStrandsContent`,
-`buildStrandsBatch`, `collateStrandsItems`, `strandsOptionTokenIndices`,
-`strandsAnswersFromLogits`, `strandsChoiceConfidence`, `strandsScoreConfidence`.
-
-## Bekko family (Ettin cross-encoder)
-
-`createBekkoDecider(options)` runs
-[Bekko System One v0](https://github.com/hotchpotch/bekko-system-one), a
-cross-encoder that scores each (query, candidate) pair: the query renders as
-`Instruction: {instruction}\nState: {state}` and every option becomes a
-`Candidate: {id}: {description}` document. One ONNX graph
-(`prefix_ids, prefix_mask, doc_ids, doc_mask, owners → logits [N, tasks]`),
-one forward per question, with candidates batched by the reference
-attention budget:
-
-```js
-import { createBekkoDecider } from "jev-web";
-
-const decider = await createBekkoDecider({
-  // defaults to hotchpotch/bekko-system-one-v0-17m @ pinned revision,
-  // onnx_browser/ (29 MB)
-  onProgress: (p) => console.log(p.phase, p.loaded, p.total),
-});
-// or pick a larger sibling:
-// await createBekkoDecider({ variant: "68m" });  // 196 MB
-// await createBekkoDecider({ variant: "400m" }); // 1.43 GB, #2 on the S1MB leaderboard
-const { answers } = await decider.decide(stateText, questions);
-```
-
-Protocol implemented here (mirrors the reference browser runtime,
-`browser/src/core.js` + `decision.js`, MIT):
-
-- query `[cls] Instruction: …\nState: … [sep]`; instruction and state split the
-  4096-token budget 50/50 with spillover; candidates truncate to 2048 tokens;
-- choice questions accept `criteria` as `{label: description}`; noul slots are
-  fixed `true`/`false` with authored meanings (overridable via criteria);
-- score levels map to numeric candidate values `0..n-1`; the answer is the
-  expected value plus the argmax level and a normalised score.
-
-Larger siblings are available via the `variant` option (`"17m"`, `"68m"`,
-`"400m"`) or the exported model/revision constants: `BEKKO_68M_MODEL` /
-`BEKKO_68M_REVISION` and `BEKKO_400M_MODEL` / `BEKKO_400M_REVISION` (same
-`onnx_browser/` layout). The `BEKKO_VARIANTS` map carries each size's pinned
-revision and download size.
-
-Lower-level helpers are exported for custom runtimes:
-`renderBekkoContent`, `renderBekkoRequest`, `tokenizeBekkoRequest`,
-`collateBekkoDocs`, `bekkoSoftmax`, `bekkoAnswerFromLogits`.
-
-## Decision 2.0 family (Qwen3 + candidate head)
-
-`createDecision2Decider(options)` runs
-[vLLM Semantic Router Decision 2.0](https://huggingface.co/collections/vllm-sr/decision-20),
-a Qwen3 fine-tune with a candidate head: one prompt per question, each option
-rendered as a `{"description": …, "key": …}` JSON segment. One ONNX graph
-(`input_ids, attention_mask, answer_pos, option_pos → logits [B, K]`), one
-forward pass for the whole batch:
-
-```js
-import { createDecision2Decider } from "jev-web";
-
-const decider = await createDecision2Decider({
-  // defaults to onnx-community/Decision-2.0-Kai-0.6B-ONNX @ pinned revision,
-  // q8 (onnx/model_quantized.onnx, 0.61 GB)
-  onProgress: (p) => console.log(p.phase, p.loaded, p.total),
-});
-// or pick a larger sibling:
-// await createDecision2Decider({ variant: "eos" }); // 0.8B, 16k context
-// await createDecision2Decider({ variant: "sol" }); // 2B, 16k context
-const { answers } = await decider.decide(stateText, questions);
-```
-
-Protocol implemented here (mirrors the reference `decision2` runtime):
-
-- segments `Context:` / `Task type:` / `Question:` / `Options:` / one
-  `<option>` JSON segment per option / the `Decision:` suffix, each tokenized
-  separately so `option_pos` (last token of each `</option>`) and `answer_pos`
-  (last token) are exact — validated 11/11 against the reference fixtures;
-- choice questions accept `criteria` as `{label: description}` (empty
-  descriptions encode as `null`); noul slots are fixed `false`/`true`;
-- score questions add the per-level `score_bias` from `config.json` before the
-  softmax (temperature 1).
-
-Larger siblings are available via the `variant` option (`"kai"`, `"eos"`,
-`"sol"`) or the exported model/revision constants: `DECISION2_EOS_MODEL` /
-`DECISION2_EOS_REVISION` (0.8B) and `DECISION2_SOL_MODEL` /
-`DECISION2_SOL_REVISION` (2B). The `DECISION2_VARIANTS` map carries each
-variant's pinned revision and context size.
-
-Lower-level helpers are exported for custom runtimes:
-`renderDecision2Content`, `renderDecision2Options`, `buildDecision2Segments`,
-`tokenizeDecision2Segments`, `decision2Softmax`, `decision2AnswerFromLogits`.
-
-## Kev family (Qwen3 + pointer head)
-
-`createKevDecider(options)` runs
-[Kev](https://huggingface.co/jaredpalmer/kev-0.6b) (Apache-2.0), a typed
-decision model: one state and any number of typed questions are packed into a
-single sequence with five delimiter tokens; a block-causal mask derived
-in-graph lets every question see the state and itself only, and a pointer head
-scores each option's `</opt>` token against its question's `<decide>` token.
-One ONNX graph (`input_ids, attention_mask → logits [B, seq]`), one forward
-pass for the whole batch — read the logit at each option's `</opt>` position
-and softmax within the question:
-
-```js
-import { createKevDecider } from "jev-web";
-
-const decider = await createKevDecider({
-  // defaults to onnx-community/kev-0.6b-ONNX @ pinned revision,
-  // onnx/model_q4f16.onnx (335 MB)
-  onProgress: (p) => console.log(p.phase, p.loaded, p.total),
-});
-// or pick the larger sibling:
-// await createKevDecider({ variant: "4b" }); // 1.07 GB, #29 on the Decision Index
-const { answers } = await decider.decide(stateText, questions);
-```
-
-Protocol implemented here (mirrors the reference JS in the model README):
-
-- delimiters `<|fim_prefix|>` (state), `<|fim_middle|>` (question),
-  `<|box_start|>` / `<|box_end|>` (option), `<|fim_suffix|>` (decide); ids
-  derived through the tokenizer, limits from `config.json`'s `kev` block
-  (8192 state / 8192 branch tokens, 255 options);
-- caller text is escaped (`<|name|>` → `<¦name¦>`) so it can never forge a
-  delimiter;
-- choice questions accept `criteria` as `{label: description}`, rendered as
-  `label: description`; noul defaults to `no` / `yes`.
-
-The `KEV_VARIANTS` map (`"0.6b"`, `"4b"`) carries each size's pinned revision
-and download size. Lower-level helpers are exported for custom runtimes:
-`escapeKevText`, `packKevSequence`.
-
-## Worker / thread
-
-`jev-web` does not bundle a worker, so hosts can create one the way their
-bundler prefers:
-
-```js
-// host code
-const worker = new Worker(new URL("./my-worker.mjs", import.meta.url), { type: "module" });
-// my-worker.mjs
-import { createDecider } from "jev-web";
-```
-
-## API
-
-- `createDecider(options)` → open-jev family: `{ info, decide, decideMany, dispose }`
-- `createLayaDecider(options)` → Laya family: `{ info, decide, dispose }` (same `decide` contract)
-- `createStrandsDecider(options)` → Strands Decider family: `{ info, decide, dispose }` (same `decide` contract)
-- `normalizeQuestions`, `buildDecisionInput`, `typedMarkerIds`, `answersFromScores`,
-  `softmaxWithTemperature`, `resolveDevice`, `resolveDtype`, `detectWebGPU`,
-  `loadModelConfig`, defaults (model/revision/temperature/caps).
-
-## Demos
-
-- **Live demo** — <https://warsang.github.io/jev-web/> (built from `demo/`, deployed on every push)
-- **Local playground** — `npm run dev` → <http://localhost:5188>. Same ideas, plus
-  COOP/COEP headers that unlock `SharedArrayBuffer` for the threaded
-  onnxruntime-web build (GitHub Pages cannot set those headers, so the deployed
-  demo runs single-threaded).
-- **Verify a change visually** — `node tools/shot.mjs jobs.json` drives headless
-  Chrome over CDP, waits on a real DOM condition, and reports the page's own
-  console errors. The GIF in this README was built with it. It exists because a
-  screenshot alone cannot tell you a promise is silently rejecting.
-
-## Limits
-
-- Typed-decision models answer **only** by picking among your options; they do
-  not explain or generate text.
-- Accuracy is domain-bound: questions and states unlike the model's training
-  domain are out of distribution. Measure before relying on any answer.
-- English, 512-token sequence (state capped), one state per forward pass.
-
-## License
-
-MIT (runtime code). Model weights keep their own license (the reference export
+# jev-web
+
+[![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/jev-web.svg)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/jev-web)
+[![license](https://img.shields.io/npm/l/jev-web.svg)](./LICENSE)
+[![CI](https://github.com/warsang/jev-web/actions/workflows/test.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/warsang/jev-web/actions/workflows/test.yml)
+
+Run **typed-decision models** in the browser. One *state* text
+plus any number of typed *questions* (`choice` / `score` / `noul`) go in; a
+calibrated probability distribution per question comes back from a **single
+forward pass**. No server, no API keys, no network calls after the weights are
+cached.
+
+Seven model families ship today — open-jev (fused DeBERTa graph), Laya
+(ModernBERT encoder + typed head), Strands Decider 2B (Qwen torso + pointer
+head), Bekko System One v0 (Ettin cross-encoder), Decision 2.0 (Qwen3 +
+candidate head), Kev (Qwen3 + pointer head), and Vega 0.8B (frozen Qwen3.5
+torso + latent decision-physics engine) — behind one registry:
+`createDecisionRuntime({ family, fallback })`.
+
+This is a generic runtime, not a classifier for any particular domain. You bring
+the state text and the questions; the model answers by choosing among the options
+you give it.
+
+## ▶ Live demo
+
+**https://warsang.github.io/jev-web/**
+
+An interactive playground that runs this exact package: type a state, add typed
+questions, and watch the model and a hand-written keyword baseline answer
+side by side. It also counts your actual outbound requests, so the
+"offline / private / no server" claim is checkable rather than asserted.
+
+![jev-web demo: typed decisions vs raw text parsing](docs/demo.gif)
+
+<sub>The frames are captured from the live demo at
+[warsang.github.io/jev-web](https://warsang.github.io/jev-web/) — site → typed
+decisions with latency → the negation case where the rules and the model
+disagree → the comparison matrix.</sub>
+
+Three questions, one forward pass, and a hard label from the rule parser that
+could not answer the third question at all:
+
+![three typed decisions with full distributions and a measured latency, beside a keyword baseline that returns hard labels and no answer](docs/demo-typed.png)
+
+## Quickstart
+
+```js
+import { createDecider } from "jev-web";
+
+const decider = await createDecider();          // ~340 MB of weights, once
+const { answers } = await decider.decide(
+  "I was charged twice for the same order.",
+  [{ type: "noul", instructions: "The customer is asking for a refund." }],
+);
+
+answers[0].noul;                    // 0.92   — p(yes)
+answers[0].probabilities;           // { no: 0.08, yes: 0.92 }
+answers[0].confidence;               // 0.92
+```
+
+That is the whole integration. The first call downloads the weights and the
+browser caches them; every later call — and every later visit, including
+offline — is local. **Zero dependencies**: `@huggingface/transformers` is an
+optional peer, imported lazily.
+
+## What comes back
+
+```js
+const { answers } = await decider.decide(
+  "I was charged twice for the same order and nobody answers my emails. I want my money back now.",
+  [
+    { type: "choice", instructions: "Which product area is the message about?",
+      options: ["fees & charges", "refund & dispute", "card", "other"] },
+    { type: "noul",   instructions: "The customer is asking for a refund." },
+    { type: "score",  instructions: "How negative is the message?",
+      options: ["very negative", "negative", "neutral", "positive", "very positive"] },
+  ],
+);
+
+// [
+//   { type: "choice", choice: "fees & charges", index: 0,
+//     probabilities: { "fees & charges": 0.796, "refund & dispute": 0.169,
+//                      card: 0.019, other: 0.016 }, confidence: 0.796 },
+//   { type: "noul", noul: 0.927,
+//     probabilities: { no: 0.073, yes: 0.927 }, confidence: 0.927 },
+//   { type: "score", score: 0.866, level: 1,
+//     probabilities: { "very negative": 0.336, negative: 0.478, neutral: 0.175,
+//                      positive: 0.008, "very positive": 0.003 }, confidence: 0.478 },
+// ]
+// timings: { totalMs, inferMs }   ·  length, truncated, prompts
+```
+
+Three questions, **one** forward pass, and every question carries the full
+distribution — not just a label. That last part is the point: a hard label
+cannot be thresholded, routed by confidence, or second-guessed, and the
+`choice` answer above is a genuine 79.6 / 16.9 split rather than a coin flip you
+find out about later.
+
+## jev-web vs. calling a hosted LLM API with `fetch()`
+
+| | jev-web | Hosted LLM API via `fetch()` |
+|---|---|---|
+| **Cost per decision** | **$0.00** — the weights are static files | per-token, forever; a busy form multiplies it by every visitor |
+| **Latency** | one local forward pass, measured live on the demo page | typically 0.4–3 s, plus a network round trip |
+| **Network at answer time** | **0 requests** — works in airplane mode | one round trip per call, minimum |
+| **Output shape** | **calibrated distribution per question, every question in one pass** | prose you then have to regex back into a distribution |
+| **Determinism** | same input → same probabilities, always | temperature 0 + structured outputs helps; still not guaranteed |
+| **Privacy** | your text never leaves the device | your users' text is sent to a third party on every call |
+| **Ops burden** | static files on a CDN, no key, no rate limit | key management, quotas, rate limits, uptime, spend alerts |
+| **Ceiling** | only *picks among options you supply* — never writes, never explains | general purpose; will happily invent an option you never offered |
+
+**The honest trade.** jev-web is a classifier, not a chatbot. If you need
+free-form answers you need a generator. If you need a routing decision, a score,
+or a yes/no with a confidence you can threshold on, this is the cheaper, faster
+and private one — and it is also *smaller*: a 0.5 B model plus your options
+beats a frontier model plus a parsing layer, on every axis except generality.
+
+## Try it before you install it
+
+The live demo covers the interesting cases, and the presets are chosen to break
+keyword parsing rather than to flatter the model:
+
+| preset | what it shows |
+|---|---|
+| **Banking triage** | easy text — a fair rule can match, the model adds a confidence |
+| **Negation trap** | *"This is not about a refund. My card was stolen…"* — the keyword rule routes to `refund & dispute`; the model routes to `card` (53.3%) and answers the refund question **no** (0.101) |
+| **Contradictory review** | praise and complaint in one sentence; keyword polarity reads the praise |
+| **Mixed intent** | two intents in one state — a hard label must pick one, a distribution does not have to |
+| **Out of domain** | no in-domain signal at all; the rule parser has nothing to say |
+
+The negation case is the one worth looking at. The state is *"This is not about
+a refund. My card was stolen in Madrid and the bank refuses to help. I never
+received the money back I asked about."*
+
+![negation: the keyword baseline routes to refund and dispute, the model routes to card](docs/demo-negation.png)
+
+The rule parser finds the word `refund` and routes to **refund & dispute** — the
+exact opposite of what the customer meant. The model routes to **card** (53.3%)
+and answers *"the customer is asking for a refund"* with **no** (0.101). Both
+the bad routing and the inversion come from the same clause, and neither is
+visible in a hard label.
+
+The demo also tracks outbound requests through the Performance API: you will see
+~14 requests while the weights load, then **0** for every decision after that.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+npm i jev-web @huggingface/transformers
+```
+
+`@huggingface/transformers` is an optional peer dependency (it is imported
+lazily). Hosts that already ship their own copy can inject it via
+`createDecider({ transformers })`.
+
+## Use
+
+```js
+import { createDecider, DEFAULT_MODEL, DEFAULT_REVISION } from "jev-web";
+
+const decider = await createDecider({
+  // defaults to the reference open-jev DeBERTa-v3-large ONNX export,
+  // pinned by revision; any repo with the same typed-decision graph works
+  onProgress: (p) => console.log(p.phase, p.file, p.progress),
+});
+
+const { answers } = await decider.decide(
+  "I was charged twice for the same order and nobody answers my emails.",
+  [
+    {
+      type: "choice",
+      instructions: "Which product area is the message about?",
+      options: ["fees & charges", "refund & dispute", "card", "other"],
+    },
+    { type: "noul", instructions: "The customer is asking for a refund." },
+    {
+      type: "score",
+      instructions: "How negative is the message?",
+      options: ["very negative", "negative", "neutral", "positive", "very positive"],
+    },
+  ],
+);
+```
+
+## Question types
+
+| type | options | answer |
+|---|---|---|
+| `choice` | 2–255 labels | `choice` (argmax), `probabilities`, `confidence` |
+| `score` | 2–10 ordered levels | `score` (expected level index, may fall between levels) |
+| `noul` | exactly 2 (defaults `["no","yes"]`) | `noul` (p of the second option = p(yes)), `confidence` |
+
+Every answer carries the full distribution. `decide()` also returns
+`{ truncated, length }` — the state is capped (256 tokens by default) and the
+flag tells you when it was cut.
+
+## Backends and quantization
+
+`device` / `dtype` default to `auto`: WebGPU → `q4f16`, otherwise WASM → `q4`.
+Override explicitly (`fp16`, `fp32`, `q8`, …) when accuracy matters more than
+download size. First load downloads the weights once; transformers.js caches
+them (Cache API / IndexedDB) so later visits are offline-fast.
+
+`decider.info` reports the resolved `{ model, revision, device, dtype,
+temperature, maxStateTokens, maxLen, pool, configSource }`.
+
+## Model config
+
+Defaults come from the model repo's `open_jev_config.json` when present
+(temperature, marker tokens, state cap), else the published reference values.
+To use a different typed-decision export:
+
+```js
+createDecider({ model: "your-org/your-typed-decision-ONNX", revision: "main" });
+```
+
+The export must add the `[STATE]`, `[Q]`, `[OPT]` markers to its tokenizer,
+take `input_ids, attention_mask, seg, pair_q, pair_opt`, and return per-pair
+`logits`. `typedMarkerIds()` fails loudly when a repo is missing them.
+
+## Multiple families (registry)
+
+`jev-web` is a multi-family runtime: `createDecisionRuntime({ family, fallback })`
+tries the requested family and then any fallbacks, returning the shared contract
+`{ info, decide(state, questions), dispose? }`:
+
+```js
+import { createDecisionRuntime, listDecisionFamilies } from "jev-web";
+
+listDecisionFamilies(); // ["open-jev", "laya", "strands-decider", "bekko", "decision2", "kev", "vega"]
+const runtime = await createDecisionRuntime({
+  family: "strands-decider",
+  fallback: ["laya", "open-jev"],
+  onFallback: ({ family, error }) => console.warn(family, error),
+});
+const { answers, truncated, length, prompts, timings } = await runtime.decide(state, questions);
+```
+
+Third-party families plug in without touching core:
+
+```js
+registerDecisionFamily("my-model", {
+  defaults: { model: "org/my-typed-decision-ONNX", revision: "main" },
+  create: async (opts) => ({ info, decide, dispose }),
+});
+```
+
+`decide()` returns `prompts` (decoded input sequence(s), for audit/debug) and
+`timings` (per-stage ms) alongside the answers.
+
+## Laya family (ModernBERT encoder + typed head)
+
+`createLayaDecider(options)` runs the [Laya](https://huggingface.co/convaiinnovations/laya)
+System-1 decision models, whose browser export is a **two-file q8 ONNX split**
+(encoder + head) rather than one fused graph:
+
+```js
+import { createLayaDecider } from "jev-web";
+
+const decider = await createLayaDecider({
+  // defaults to alfred361/laya-typed-decisions-web-q8 @ pinned revision
+  wasmPaths: "/assets/",            // self-hosted ORT wasm (optional)
+  onProgress: (p) => console.log(p.phase, p.loaded, p.total),
+});
+const { answers } = await decider.decide(stateText, questions);
+```
+
+Protocol implemented here (mirrors the reference `laya` Python runtime):
+
+- sequence `[CLS] <type> question: <instructions> [SEP] [MASK]opt0 … [SEP] <state> [SEP]`,
+  `marker_pos` at each option's `[MASK]`, `qtype` 0 choice / 1 score / 2 noul;
+- encoder `input_ids, attention_mask → hidden`; head
+  `hidden, attention_mask, marker_pos, marker_mask, qtype → logits`;
+- per-question calibration from `rl_agent_config.json`
+  (`temperature` + `temperature_by_options` buckets, clamped to [0.5, 5]).
+
+Notes:
+- the q8 web head is **batch-1 only**, so `decide()` batches the encoder and
+  runs the head once per question;
+- `choice` supports at most `max_prefixes` options (6 for the typed-decisions
+  export);
+- weights download once (~520 MB q8) and are browser-cached.
+
+Lower-level helpers are exported for custom runtimes:
+`buildLayaSequence`, `collateLayaItems`, `layaAnswersFromLogits`,
+`layaTokenizerAdapter`, `renderLayaOptions`, `layaTempBucket`, `clampTemperature`.
+
+## Strands Decider family (pointer head over a Qwen3.5 or Gemma 4 torso)
+
+`createStrandsDecider(options)` runs
+[Strands Decider 2B](https://strandsagents.com/blog/introducing-strands-decider/),
+a decision model: a Qwen3.5 or Gemma 4 torso (LoRA merged) with its LM head
+replaced by a pointer head that scores each option from its own hidden state
+against the `<answer>` position. One fused ONNX graph, one forward pass for the
+whole batch:
+
+```js
+import { createStrandsDecider } from "jev-web";
+
+const decider = await createStrandsDecider({
+  // defaults to onnx-community/strands-decider-2B-hobson-v19-ONNX @ pinned
+  // revision, q8 (onnx/model_quantized.onnx)
+  onProgress: (p) => console.log(p.phase, p.loaded, p.total),
+});
+const { answers } = await decider.decide(stateText, questions);
+```
+
+Protocol implemented here (mirrors the reference Python runtime):
+
+- prompt `<state>…</state><question type="{noul|choice|score}">…<options>\n1. …\n</options></question><answer>`;
+- graph `input_ids, attention_mask, answer_pos, option_pos → logits`, where
+  `answer_pos` is each row's last real token (the `<answer>` pooling position)
+  and `option_pos` carries each option line's last-token position (padded with
+  -1); the prompt is tokenised in chunks at pre-tokeniser piece boundaries so
+  those positions are exact with no offset mapping;
+- choice questions accept `criteria` as `{label: description}` (mirroring the
+  reference schema); noul slots are fixed `false`/`true` with overridable
+  rubric descriptions;
+- the question gets first claim on the 4096-token window (up to 75%), the state
+  is truncated from the right into what remains, and an over-long question is
+  truncated from the front, keeping the options and `<answer>`;
+- **calibration comes from the checkpoint**, not from this package: the loader
+  reads `strands_decider_config.json` (`hobson_config.json` on v19) from the
+  model repo at start-up and applies its `temperature` / `temperature_by_kind`
+  / `ordinal_smoothing` / `max_length`. A repo that ships no config falls back
+  to the pinned reference values (the current pin's temperatures: `noul` 0.911
+  / `choice` 0.734 / `score` 1.328). `decider.info.configSource` names the file
+  that was used, or `null` for the pinned defaults;
+- explicit `temperature` / `temperaturesByKind` / `ordinalSmoothing` / `maxLen`
+  options still override the checkpoint, which overrides the pinned values;
+  `calibrationModel` points the config load at another repo (e.g. the source
+  checkpoint when your own export predates config shipping);
+- `score` confidence is ordinal (spread-based, with the training smoothing
+  floor), not max-probability.
+
+Checkpoint compatibility (verified against the 2026-10-09 drop):
+
+| checkpoint | params / q8 ONNX | browser? |
+|---|---|---|
+| `2B-hobson-v19` (current pin) | ~2.0B / 1.8 GB | ✅ shipped |
+| `2B-qwen3.5-v1-2610`, `E2B-gemma4-v1-2610` | ~2.1B / ~2.1 GB | ✅ export-ready (E2B: see caveat below) |
+| `E4B-gemma4-v1-2610` | ~5.7B / ~5.7 GB | ⚠️ opt-in heavy only |
+| `12B-gemma4-v1-2610` | ~13.3B / ~13 GB | ❌ too heavy |
+| `26B-A4B-gemma4-v1-2610` (MoE, 128 experts) | ~26B / ~26 GB | ❌ too heavy |
+
+A new browser-eligible checkpoint needs an ONNX export plus a model/revision
+repin — no runtime code change (`export/strands-decider/` documents the
+pipeline and its browser-feasibility gate). Named checkpoints are addressed
+through `STRANDS_VARIANTS` — temperatures are never baked into a variant,
+they ship with the checkpoint:
+
+```js
+const decider = await createStrandsDecider({ variant: "qwen3.5-v1" }); // the newer Qwen torso
+const decider2 = await createStrandsDecider();                        // hobson-v19, the default
+```
+
+`qwen3.5-v1` currently ships the exact fp16 graph (~3.7 GB) because dynamic
+q8 fails shape-inference on this graph's export metadata and the weight-only
+path drifts on the GatedDeltaNet delta rule (see
+`export/strands-decider/RESUME.md`), so it stays an opt-in until a quantized
+build lands. Caveat: the E2B model card reports
+a faulty GPU kernel path for *multi-question* yes/no answers before an upstream
+attention fix; this runtime batches every question into one forward pass, so
+validate multi-question parity before pinning E2B as a default.
+
+Lower-level helpers are exported for custom runtimes:
+`renderStrandsQuestion`, `renderStrandsState`, `renderStrandsContent`,
+`buildStrandsBatch`, `collateStrandsItems`, `strandsOptionTokenIndices`,
+`strandsAnswersFromLogits`, `strandsChoiceConfidence`, `strandsScoreConfidence`,
+`parseStrandsCalibration`, `loadStrandsCalibration`.
+
+## Bekko family (Ettin cross-encoder)
+
+`createBekkoDecider(options)` runs
+[Bekko System One v0](https://github.com/hotchpotch/bekko-system-one), a
+cross-encoder that scores each (query, candidate) pair: the query renders as
+`Instruction: {instruction}\nState: {state}` and every option becomes a
+`Candidate: {id}: {description}` document. One ONNX graph
+(`prefix_ids, prefix_mask, doc_ids, doc_mask, owners → logits [N, tasks]`),
+one forward per question, with candidates batched by the reference
+attention budget:
+
+```js
+import { createBekkoDecider } from "jev-web";
+
+const decider = await createBekkoDecider({
+  // defaults to hotchpotch/bekko-system-one-v0-17m @ pinned revision,
+  // onnx_browser/ (29 MB)
+  onProgress: (p) => console.log(p.phase, p.loaded, p.total),
+});
+// or pick a larger sibling:
+// await createBekkoDecider({ variant: "68m" });  // 196 MB
+// await createBekkoDecider({ variant: "400m" }); // 1.43 GB, #2 on the S1MB leaderboard
+const { answers } = await decider.decide(stateText, questions);
+```
+
+Protocol implemented here (mirrors the reference browser runtime,
+`browser/src/core.js` + `decision.js`, MIT):
+
+- query `[cls] Instruction: …\nState: … [sep]`; instruction and state split the
+  4096-token budget 50/50 with spillover; candidates truncate to 2048 tokens;
+- choice questions accept `criteria` as `{label: description}`; noul slots are
+  fixed `true`/`false` with authored meanings (overridable via criteria);
+- score levels map to numeric candidate values `0..n-1`; the answer is the
+  expected value plus the argmax level and a normalised score.
+
+Larger siblings are available via the `variant` option (`"17m"`, `"68m"`,
+`"400m"`) or the exported model/revision constants: `BEKKO_68M_MODEL` /
+`BEKKO_68M_REVISION` and `BEKKO_400M_MODEL` / `BEKKO_400M_REVISION` (same
+`onnx_browser/` layout). The `BEKKO_VARIANTS` map carries each size's pinned
+revision and download size.
+
+Lower-level helpers are exported for custom runtimes:
+`renderBekkoContent`, `renderBekkoRequest`, `tokenizeBekkoRequest`,
+`collateBekkoDocs`, `bekkoSoftmax`, `bekkoAnswerFromLogits`.
+
+## Decision 2.0 family (Qwen3 + candidate head)
+
+`createDecision2Decider(options)` runs
+[vLLM Semantic Router Decision 2.0](https://huggingface.co/collections/vllm-sr/decision-20),
+a Qwen3 fine-tune with a candidate head: one prompt per question, each option
+rendered as a `{"description": …, "key": …}` JSON segment. One ONNX graph
+(`input_ids, attention_mask, answer_pos, option_pos → logits [B, K]`), one
+forward pass for the whole batch:
+
+```js
+import { createDecision2Decider } from "jev-web";
+
+const decider = await createDecision2Decider({
+  // defaults to onnx-community/Decision-2.0-Kai-0.6B-ONNX @ pinned revision,
+  // q8 (onnx/model_quantized.onnx, 0.61 GB)
+  onProgress: (p) => console.log(p.phase, p.loaded, p.total),
+});
+// or pick a larger sibling:
+// await createDecision2Decider({ variant: "eos" }); // 0.8B, 16k context
+// await createDecision2Decider({ variant: "sol" }); // 2B, 16k context
+const { answers } = await decider.decide(stateText, questions);
+```
+
+Protocol implemented here (mirrors the reference `decision2` runtime):
+
+- segments `Context:` / `Task type:` / `Question:` / `Options:` / one
+  `<option>` JSON segment per option / the `Decision:` suffix, each tokenized
+  separately so `option_pos` (last token of each `</option>`) and `answer_pos`
+  (last token) are exact — validated 11/11 against the reference fixtures;
+- choice questions accept `criteria` as `{label: description}` (empty
+  descriptions encode as `null`); noul slots are fixed `false`/`true`;
+- score questions add the per-level `score_bias` from `config.json` before the
+  softmax (temperature 1).
+
+Larger siblings are available via the `variant` option (`"kai"`, `"eos"`,
+`"sol"`) or the exported model/revision constants: `DECISION2_EOS_MODEL` /
+`DECISION2_EOS_REVISION` (0.8B) and `DECISION2_SOL_MODEL` /
+`DECISION2_SOL_REVISION` (2B). The `DECISION2_VARIANTS` map carries each
+variant's pinned revision and context size.
+
+Lower-level helpers are exported for custom runtimes:
+`renderDecision2Content`, `renderDecision2Options`, `buildDecision2Segments`,
+`tokenizeDecision2Segments`, `decision2Softmax`, `decision2AnswerFromLogits`.
+
+## Kev family (Qwen3 + pointer head)
+
+`createKevDecider(options)` runs
+[Kev](https://huggingface.co/jaredpalmer/kev-0.6b) (Apache-2.0), a typed
+decision model: one state and any number of typed questions are packed into a
+single sequence with five delimiter tokens; a block-causal mask derived
+in-graph lets every question see the state and itself only, and a pointer head
+scores each option's `</opt>` token against its question's `<decide>` token.
+One ONNX graph (`input_ids, attention_mask → logits [B, seq]`), one forward
+pass for the whole batch — read the logit at each option's `</opt>` position
+and softmax within the question:
+
+```js
+import { createKevDecider } from "jev-web";
+
+const decider = await createKevDecider({
+  // defaults to onnx-community/kev-0.6b-ONNX @ pinned revision,
+  // onnx/model_q4f16.onnx (335 MB)
+  onProgress: (p) => console.log(p.phase, p.loaded, p.total),
+});
+// or pick the larger sibling:
+// await createKevDecider({ variant: "4b" }); // 1.07 GB, #29 on the Decision Index
+const { answers } = await decider.decide(stateText, questions);
+```
+
+Protocol implemented here (mirrors the reference JS in the model README):
+
+- delimiters `<|fim_prefix|>` (state), `<|fim_middle|>` (question),
+  `<|box_start|>` / `<|box_end|>` (option), `<|fim_suffix|>` (decide); ids
+  derived through the tokenizer, limits from `config.json`'s `kev` block
+  (8192 state / 8192 branch tokens, 255 options);
+- caller text is escaped (`<|name|>` → `<¦name¦>`) so it can never forge a
+  delimiter;
+- choice questions accept `criteria` as `{label: description}`, rendered as
+  `label: description`; noul defaults to `no` / `yes`.
+
+The `KEV_VARIANTS` map (`"0.6b"`, `"4b"`) carries each size's pinned revision
+and download size. Lower-level helpers are exported for custom runtimes:
+`escapeKevText`, `packKevSequence`.
+
+## Vega family (frozen Qwen3.5 backbone + latent decision-physics engine)
+
+`createVegaDecider(options)` runs [Vega 0.8B](https://huggingface.co/nandakishorm/vega-08b-public-intents)
+(by the Laya author): the language model is frozen and never trained — a 0.8B
+Qwen3.5 torso is read once (layers 13 and 19, span means pooled in-graph) and
+a 14M-parameter physics engine on top does the deciding. Each question drops a
+particle into a latent space whose landscape holds one Gaussian well per
+option; a damped symplectic integrator with a selective-SSM thermostat runs
+up to 12 steps (settled particles freeze), and the Boltzmann occupancy of the
+wells is the answer distribution:
+
+```js
+import { createVegaDecider } from "jev-web";
+
+const decider = await createVegaDecider({
+  // defaults to warsang/vega-08b-web (revision pinned once the export repo
+  // lands — export/vega/05_upload.py prints the sha for VEGA_DEFAULT_REVISION)
+  onProgress: (p) => console.log(p.phase, p.loaded, p.total),
+});
+const { answers } = await decider.decide(stateText, questions);
+```
+
+Protocol implemented here (mirrors the reference `vega_common.py` / `vega_api.py`):
+
+- prompt `[BOS] Observation:\n<state>\n\nMeasurement (choice|score|boolean): <instructions>\nPossible outcomes:\n* <option> …\nOutcome:` — the state comes first so its span never sees the question
+  (causal attention), and short states get a query-first prefix so the frozen
+  model reads knowing what is asked;
+- two ONNX graphs: the frozen torso emits per-segment span means for the
+  state/question/final-token slots, every option, and 16 equal state chunks
+  (the engine's memory reader) from the one causal read; the engine graph
+  (unrolled integrator; the settle-freeze math is identical to the
+  reference's early exit) emits raw logits plus the particle physics;
+- calibration is **thermal and checkpoint-driven**: `vega_config.json`'s
+  `calibration.theta` maps the particle's physical state (residual kinetic
+  energy, distance to the nearest well, steps used, option count) to a
+  temperature per question type; `decider.info.calibrationSource` names the
+  file used;
+- answers carry the full distribution plus Vega's reliability machinery:
+  a split-conformal `predictionSet`, an `abstain` flag at the chosen risk
+  (`alpha` conformal level, `risk` abstention level, both per question type),
+  an `unbound` out-of-distribution flag (particle ended far from every
+  well), `settleSteps`, and the final `energy`;
+- jev-web's `noul` maps to Vega's `boolean` (fixed `no` / `yes` slots);
+  `choice` accepts `criteria` as `{label: description}`, and `score` uses the
+  option texts as levels.
+
+Caveats: the checkpoint's gated task adapters are not shipped in v1 — the
+runtime uses the base engine, which is the source repo's default; the torso
+ships as the exact fp16 graph (~1.5 GB, the weight class of the strands 2B q8
+default) because q8 on this graph drifts on the GatedDeltaNet delta rule,
+with the measured q8 experiment available as an opt-in file; and the prompt
+window is the trained 73,728 tokens, so pass `maxLen` to cap a browser's
+read. The browser export repo (`warsang/vega-08b-web`, ~1.7 GB) is uploaded
+by `export/vega/05_upload.py`; the revision lands in `VEGA_DEFAULT_REVISION`.
+
+Lower-level helpers are exported for custom runtimes:
+`buildVegaPrompt`, `packVegaBatch`, `packVegaChunks`, `vegaQuestionDef`,
+`vegaOptionTexts`, `vegaThermalFeatures`, `vegaThermalProbabilities`,
+`vegaAnswers`, `vegaOptionLabels`.
+
+## Worker / thread
+
+`jev-web` does not bundle a worker, so hosts can create one the way their
+bundler prefers:
+
+```js
+// host code
+const worker = new Worker(new URL("./my-worker.mjs", import.meta.url), { type: "module" });
+// my-worker.mjs
+import { createDecider } from "jev-web";
+```
+
+## API
+
+- `createDecider(options)` → open-jev family: `{ info, decide, decideMany, dispose }`
+- `createLayaDecider(options)` → Laya family: `{ info, decide, dispose }` (same `decide` contract)
+- `createStrandsDecider(options)` → Strands Decider family: `{ info, decide, dispose }` (same `decide` contract)
+- `normalizeQuestions`, `buildDecisionInput`, `typedMarkerIds`, `answersFromScores`,
+  `softmaxWithTemperature`, `resolveDevice`, `resolveDtype`, `detectWebGPU`,
+  `loadModelConfig`, defaults (model/revision/temperature/caps).
+
+## Demos
+
+- **Live demo** — <https://warsang.github.io/jev-web/> (built from `demo/`, deployed on every push)
+- **Local playground** — `npm run dev` → <http://localhost:5188>. Same ideas, plus
+  COOP/COEP headers that unlock `SharedArrayBuffer` for the threaded
+  onnxruntime-web build (GitHub Pages cannot set those headers, so the deployed
+  demo runs single-threaded).
+- **Verify a change visually** — `node tools/shot.mjs jobs.json` drives headless
+  Chrome over CDP, waits on a real DOM condition, and reports the page's own
+  console errors. The GIF in this README was built with it. It exists because a
+  screenshot alone cannot tell you a promise is silently rejecting.
+
+## Limits
+
+- Typed-decision models answer **only** by picking among your options; they do
+  not explain or generate text.
+- Accuracy is domain-bound: questions and states unlike the model's training
+  domain are out of distribution. Measure before relying on any answer.
+- English, 512-token sequence (state capped), one state per forward pass.
+- **WebGPU support is uneven.** A `navigator.gpu` adapter existing is not
+  evidence that inference will run: onnxruntime-web compiles WGSL per subgraph,
+  and Firefox currently rejects the reference DeBERTa-v3 export's `Clip`
+  subgraph (`Failed to create a WebGPU compute pipeline: ShaderModule with
+  'Clip' label is invalid`, surfaced as `failed to call OrtRun()`). The live
+  demo detects that signature and rebuilds on WASM, which works but is much
+  slower. If you hit it in your own app, fall back explicitly rather than
+  trusting adapter detection:
+
+  ```js
+  let decider;
+  try {
+    decider = await createDecider({ device: "webgpu" });
+    await decider.decide("warmup", [{ type: "noul", instructions: "Ready?" }]);
+  } catch {
+    decider = await createDecider({ device: "wasm", dtype: "q4" });
+  }
+  ```
+
+  That warm-up call is the point: probe with **inference**, not with
+  `requestAdapter()`.
+
+## License
+
+MIT (runtime code). Model weights keep their own license (the reference export
 is Apache-2.0).