mlx-bun 0.0.4

package/docs/planning/journal.md

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+# Engineering Journal
+
+Ongoing, chronological record of AI/agent decisions, investigations, and
+corrections — newest work appended under a dated heading. Purpose: bring
+a fresh agent up to speed on *why* the code is the way it is. PLAN.md is
+the what/when (phases, exit criteria); this is the narrative behind it.
+
+## 2026-06-13 — MiniCPM5 starter port (branch `codex-minicpm5-starter-port`)
+
+- Created a dedicated branch for the MiniCPM5 starter-model port.
+  - Attempted `codex/minicpm5-starter-port`, but git ref creation was blocked by the sandbox/ref layout.
+  - Used `codex-minicpm5-starter-port`.
+- Corrected the execution order per Josh's direction:
+  - Goldens first.
+  - Build the port second.
+  - Compare implementation against the goldens continuously.
+- Downloaded `mlx-community/MiniCPM5-1B-OptiQ-4bit`.
+  - Snapshot: `~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--mlx-community--MiniCPM5-1B-OptiQ-4bit/snapshots/664aabaed233c653f82716d8dc822234d0091f78`.
+  - Verified by the repo downloader.
+- Added MiniCPM5 snapshot constants to `tests/paths.ts`.
+- Added `scripts/regen-minicpm5-goldens.ts`.
+  - Uses `MLX_BUN_ORACLE_VENV=/Users/joshrossi/Code/mlx-lm-example/.venv`.
+  - Drives stock `mlx_lm.load()` against the MiniCPM5 snapshot.
+  - Writes `minicpm5-parity.json` and `minicpm5-logits-step*.bin`.
+- Generated oracle goldens before porting.
+  - Output dir on this machine: `goldens/apple-m1-max/`.
+  - Prompt: `The capital of France is`.
+  - Prompt ids: `[0, 608, 4894, 304, 6918, 357]`.
+  - Logit steps: 4.
+  - Greedy tokens: 100.
+- Inspected MiniCPM5 config and tensor layout.
+  - `model_type: "llama"`.
+  - 24 full-attention layers.
+  - Hidden size 1536.
+  - 16 query heads, 2 KV heads.
+  - Head dim 128.
+  - RoPE theta 5,000,000.
+  - RMS norm epsilon `1e-6`.
+  - SiLU/SwiGLU MLP.
+  - Untied embeddings with quantized `lm_head`.
+  - Weight paths are standard `model.layers.N.*`, plus `model.embed_tokens`, `model.norm`, and `lm_head`.
+- Decision: first implementation is the naive Llama path only.
+  - No compiled decode.
+  - No fused custom kernels.
+  - No speculative decode.
+  - No vision path.
+  - Compare against goldens before optimizing.
+- Added initial Llama port edits.
+  - `src/config.ts`: flat Llama config defaults, full-attention layer types, default RoPE params.
+  - `src/mlx/ffi.ts` / `src/mlx/ops.ts`: `mlx_sigmoid` binding for SwiGLU.
+  - `src/model/minicpm5.ts`: concrete MiniCPM5 graph mirroring `mlx_lm.models.llama`.
+  - `src/model/factory.ts`: dispatch this known `model_type === "llama"` artifact to `MiniCPM5Model`.
+  - `src/generate.ts`: widen runtime model type and gate compiled decode to Gemma-only.
+- Added `tests/minicpm5-parity.test.ts`.
+  - Reads the MiniCPM5 goldens.
+  - Runs the new `MiniCPM5Model`.
+  - Initially required 12 greedy ids and the first 4 logit vectors; expanded to the full 100-token golden after the first green run.
+- First MiniCPM5 parity run passed immediately.
+  - Command: `bun test tests/minicpm5-parity.test.ts`.
+  - Result: 12/12 greedy ids matched; first 4 full-logit vectors were bit-exact.
+  - Decision: expand the test to the full 100-token golden before starter wiring.
+- Expanded MiniCPM5 parity to 100 greedy tokens.
+  - Command: `bun test tests/minicpm5-parity.test.ts`.
+  - Result: 100/100 greedy ids matched; first 4 full-logit vectors remained bit-exact.
+  - Decision: naive Llama graph is correct enough to proceed to integration wiring.
+- Added shared supported-model predicate.
+  - `src/model/support.ts`: supports `gemma4*` and `llama`.
+  - CLI and server library support checks now use the same predicate.
+- Swapped the first-run starter repo to `mlx-community/MiniCPM5-1B-OptiQ-4bit`.
+  - Recommended Gemma download still runs in the background for the machine profile.
+- Widened server context model type to `RuntimeModel`.
+- Updated public/library/docs surfaces.
+  - `src/index.ts` exports `MiniCPM5Model` and `RuntimeModel`.
+  - `src/lora.ts` accepts `RuntimeModel` so server construction is type-consistent.
+  - README quickstart and supported-model table now include MiniCPM5.
+  - PLAN Phase 16 and publishing gate now record MiniCPM5 Track A as chosen/ported.
+- Process/testing note from Josh:
+  - Running the full sharded suite can start Bun test processes that load large models and in-process servers.
+  - Do not run the full suite again casually during this branch; use focused MiniCPM5 parity/smokes unless Josh explicitly wants the full model-loading suite.
+  - The suspected large Bun process was already killed before inspection; `ps` showed no remaining Bun processes afterward.
+- Test-proof correction:
+  - Josh called out that the `bun:test` pass looked suspiciously fast and was not good enough evidence as presented.
+  - Verified with an explicit one-off script that config/weights/model construction occurs and first eval touches the model (`weightsBytes` about 0.907 GB, first argmax token 8181).
+  - Added `scripts/check-minicpm5-port.ts`: hard check, no skip guards, requires snapshot + goldens, prints open/construct/eval timings, and compares 100 oracle tokens plus first 4 logit vectors.
+  - Hard-check result:
+    - `open`: 4.1 ms.
+    - `construct`: 2.0 ms.
+    - `first eval`: 81.7 ms.
+    - `decode`: 100 tokens in 691.8 ms.
+    - `parity`: 100/100 greedy ids, 100/100 full-logit vectors bit-exact.
+  - Explanation: `Weights.open` and model construction are lazy/mmap-backed; the model is actually touched at eval time, not construction time.
+- Oracle-strength correction:
+  - Josh clarified that oracle parity means bit-for-bit comparison against oracle logits, not just token agreement plus a few early logits.
+  - Changed MiniCPM5 golden regeneration to dump full last-position logits for all 100 decode steps.
+  - Changed the hard check and parity test to require/compare all 100 logit binaries.
+- MiniCPM5 parity matrix:
+  - Standard bf16 KV mode must match stock `mlx-lm`.
+  - Mixed precision KV mode using the shipped `kv_config.json` must match `mlx-optiq`.
+  - Server default should use the shipped mixed-KV config.
+  - `--kv-quant off` must remain the standard-cache mode.
+  - Added `scripts/regen-minicpm5-kv-goldens.ts` and `tests/minicpm5-kv-parity.test.ts` for the OptiQ mixed-KV path.
+- Strengthened `tests/minicpm5-parity.test.ts` after Josh's pushback.
+  - Removed skip guards for this MiniCPM5 proof.
+  - Requires the downloaded snapshot and MiniCPM5 goldens.
+  - Constructs the model inside the test body, asserts `weightsBytes > 900 MB`, and prints open/construct/first-eval/decode timings.
+  - The logit comparison is full-vector last-position logits from the same golden prompt; `lastPositionLogits()` forces evaluation via `toFloat32()`.
+- Live chat failure diagnosis:
+  - Josh opened `/chat`, sent `hi there`, and saw an empty assistant bubble.
+  - Direct curl to `/v1/chat/completions` returned `QuantizedKVCache: use updateAndFetchQuantized`.
+  - Cause: MiniCPM5 ships `kv_config.json`; the server applied mixed KV quant by default, but `MiniCPM5Model` only supports bf16 KV so far.
+  - Temporary workaround was to serve MiniCPM5 bf16 KV only; this was later reverted once MiniCPM5 got QuantizedKVCache parity.
+  - Also fixed `/chat` to surface streamed `{ error }` SSE payloads instead of swallowing them into an empty assistant bubble.
+  - Verified with a temporary in-process server on an ephemeral port:
+    - `/stats` reported KV mode `bf16`, 24 bf16 layers.
+    - `/v1/chat/completions` for `hi there` returned HTTP 200 with assistant text.
+    - Observed default MiniCPM5 behavior includes `<think>`; non-thinking starter UX still needs template/config handling.
+- Naming/scope correction from Josh:
+  - This branch should not become a generic Llama platform.
+  - Renamed the concrete model file/class to `src/model/minicpm5.ts` / `MiniCPM5Model`.
+  - The config still says `model_type: "llama"` because that is the upstream artifact; factory dispatch treats that as this known MiniCPM5 starter artifact for now.
+  - Re-ran focused parity after the rename: 100/100 greedy ids matched; first 4 logits bit-exact.
+- Tightened support recognition so this is not generic Llama support.
+  - Registry/library support uses repo id `MiniCPM5-1B-OptiQ-4bit` plus `model_type: "llama"`.
+  - Factory dispatch checks the known MiniCPM5 config shape before constructing `MiniCPM5Model`.
+  - Other Llama configs throw unsupported instead of silently using the MiniCPM5 graph.
+  - Re-ran focused parity after this tightening: 100/100 greedy ids matched; first 4 logits bit-exact.
+- Completed the oracle-strength MiniCPM5 parity matrix.
+  - Standard cache mode matches stock `mlx-lm`: 100/100 greedy ids and 100/100 full last-position logit vectors are bit-exact.
+  - Mixed precision cache mode matches `mlx-optiq` with the shipped `kv_config.json`: 100/100 greedy ids and 100/100 full last-position logit vectors are bit-exact.
+  - `MiniCPM5Model` now consumes `QuantizedKVCache` directly and routes quantized triples through `quantizedSdpa`.
+  - Production generation now mirrors OptiQ's quantization order: first prompt prefill runs bf16, then populated caches are quantized before decode.
+- Restored MiniCPM5 server default to mixed KV from `kv_config.json`.
+  - Temporary in-process server `/stats` reported `mixed (kv_config.json)`, 6 kv8 layers and 18 kv4 layers.
+  - `kvQuant: off` reported 24 bf16 layers and still served chat correctly.
+  - Non-streaming and streaming `/v1/chat/completions` returned HTTP 200 without the prior `QuantizedKVCache: use updateAndFetchQuantized` error.
+- Read the MiniCPM5 OptiQ manual.
+  - MiniCPM5's template contract is `chat_template_kwargs.enable_thinking`.
+  - Default starter behavior is no-think (`enable_thinking=false`), matching the manual's fast direct-answer mode.
+  - Explicit `chat_template_kwargs: { "enable_thinking": true }` opens the `<think>` reasoning channel.
+  - Server prompt rendering now forwards that flag and defaults MiniCPM5 to no-think when absent.
+- Pi harness correction after Josh's pushback:
+  - Mistake: briefly changed branch code toward `~/.pi/agent/models.json` upsert and described the generated extension as stale.
+  - Correction: reverted branch code/docs/tests back to the existing extension-based live-discovery methodology; the generated extension is the path that worked for Gemma and must remain first-class.
+  - Note: I had already run the harness while debugging, which modified Josh's local pi config outside the repo. Do not mutate that again without explicit instruction.
+- MiniCPM5 tool-call corruption fix:
+  - Reproduced Josh's broken output: `name="read"> name="path">...`.
+  - Root cause: the server applied Gemma's tool sentinel token ids globally. In MiniCPM5, token 49 decodes to literal `<`, and `<function` / `<param` are added special tokens stripped by `decode(..., true)`.
+  - Ported the OptiQ behavior: tool parsing is decoded-text based and active only when tools are declared. Gemma keeps its family sentinel path; MiniCPM5 tool-active decoding preserves special tokens and parses native `<function name="..."><param name="...">...` XML into OpenAI `tool_calls`.
+  - Added `tests/minicpm5-tools.test.ts`, covering non-streaming and streaming tool calls with the real MiniCPM5 snapshot.
+- Full-branch review pass after Josh reported "a lot of bugs" vs the Gemma 4 port quality. Four real defects found and fixed:
+  1. **Multi-turn tool conversations crashed at render time.** MiniCPM5's template uses `[a, b]|min` in its assistant tool-call-history branch; `@huggingface/jinja` 0.5.9 has no `min`/`max` array filter, so every second round of an agent loop returned 400 `prompt build failed: Unknown ArrayValue filter: min`. This is why pi looked broken. Fix: `ChatTemplate.load` rewrites `[a, b]|min`/`|max` into conditional expressions. Verified byte-for-byte against the oracle venv's `apply_chat_template` for the agent round-trip case (`tests/minicpm5-template.test.ts`); Gemma template parity stays bit-exact.
+  2. **Streaming with tools declared buffered the entire response.** `buffered-text` mode returned "" for every token and dumped everything at flush — pi streams nothing until the end, and prose before a tool call was dropped entirely when a call parsed. Fix: ported the oracle's incremental behavior (`_QwenXMLToolCallStreamParser` buffers only from the tool marker on): content streams live with a StopMatcher-style hold-back on `<tool_call>`/`<function` prefixes; only the markup is withheld; parse-failure falls back to releasing the raw text.
+  3. **Tool param values were JSON-coerced regardless of schema.** `<param name="path">2025</param>` became the number 2025. Oracle (`_decode_tool_parameter_value` + `_tool_parameter_schema`) keeps string-typed params as raw text. Ported; also made the `<param>` regex CDATA-safe (a `</param>` inside CDATA no longer truncates the value). Unit tests added.
+  4. **Sampling ignored the model's `generation_config.json`.** The server hardcoded temp 0.7 / no top-p; optiq serve injects the author-recommended sampling (`optiq/runtime/gen_config.py`) as defaults. Ported: `loadContext` reads `generation_config.json` (MiniCPM5: temp 0.9, top_p 0.95; Gemma: temp 1.0, top_k 64, top_p 0.95) and `toOptions` uses it when the request omits the field. Explicit request values still win. This was the likely "quality" gap on a 1B model.
+  - Verification: MiniCPM5 parity (bf16 + mixed-KV) still 100/100 bit-exact; minicpm5-tools, tool-call, chat-template, tools-template, parity (Gemma 12B), server-tools, and server suites all green. Live two-turn agent round-trip (tool call → tool result → final answer) confirmed working in-process.

package/docs/reference/distribution.md

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+# Distributing mlx-bun via Homebrew (signed + notarized)
+
+The end-to-end runbook for shipping a `brew install`-able, Developer-ID
+signed and notarized mlx-bun. Companion to [embedding.md](./embedding.md)
+(which covers the Tauri/Electron *sidecar* layout); this doc is the
+*standalone CLI* distribution.
+
+## What ships
+
+A single **self-contained** bundle — the whole `dist/` directory in one
+tarball (~73 MB compressed, ~228 MB installed):
+
+| file | what |
+|---|---|
+| `mlx-bun` | the CLI/server (`bun build --compile`), ~61 MB |
+| `libmlxc.dylib`, `libmlx.dylib`, `libjaccl.dylib` | MLX native runtime |
+| `mlx.metallib` | Metal kernels (~150 MB — the bulk) |
+| pi assets | `photon_rs_bg.wasm`, `theme/`, `assets/`, `export-html/`, `native/`, `package.json`, `CHANGELOG.md` |
+
+We ship everything in the bottle (rather than the npm/sidecar approach of
+a tiny binary that downloads the native pack on first run) so that
+`brew install` is the *only* network step and the entire bundle is signed
+and notarized as one artifact.
+
+## One-time Apple setup
+
+1. **Developer ID Application certificate** — Xcode → Settings → Accounts →
+   your Apple ID → *Manage Certificates…* → **+** → **Developer ID
+   Application**. Verify:
+   ```sh
+   security find-identity -v -p codesigning   # shows "Developer ID Application: NAME (TEAMID)"
+   ```
+2. **Notary credentials** — an App Store Connect **API key** (not the
+   Developer-portal "Keys" page; not your Apple ID password). Create at
+   **App Store Connect → Users and Access → Integrations → App Store
+   Connect API → Team Keys → +** (role: Developer). Download the
+   `AuthKey_<KEYID>.p8` (one-time download), note the **Key ID** and the
+   **Issuer ID** (UUID at the top of the page), then:
+   ```sh
+   xcrun notarytool store-credentials AC_PROFILE \
+     --key ~/.private_keys/AuthKey_<KEYID>.p8 \
+     --key-id "<KEYID>" --issuer "<ISSUER-UUID>"
+   ```
+   `store-credentials` validates against Apple before saving — success
+   means notarization auth works.
+
+## Release a build
+
+```sh
+./scripts/release-binary.sh            # version from package.json
+# or: ./scripts/release-binary.sh 0.0.4
+```
+
+This runs [build-binary.sh](../../scripts/build-binary.sh), then:
+- signs every nested Mach-O (dylibs, any `.node`) with the hardened
+  runtime, then the executable with the JIT
+  [entitlements](../../scripts/entitlements.plist) (JavaScriptCore JITs —
+  without `allow-jit` the binary is killed on launch);
+- notarizes the zipped bundle via `AC_PROFILE` and waits;
+- emits `dist-release/mlx-bun-v<ver>-arm64.tar.gz` (+ `.sha256`) and
+  prints the `version`/`url`/`sha256` for the formula.
+
+> A flat CLI bundle **cannot be stapled** (`stapler` only handles
+> `.app`/`.dmg`/`.pkg`); the notarization ticket lives on Apple's servers.
+> Gatekeeper checks it online only when a copy is *quarantined*. brew
+> formula installs are **not** quarantined (brew downloads via curl), so
+> the binary runs prompt-free regardless — notarization is load-bearing
+> only for a direct browser download or a Cask.
+
+Publish the artifact as a GitHub release whose tag matches the formula url:
+```sh
+gh release create v0.0.4 dist-release/mlx-bun-v0.0.4-arm64.tar.gz \
+  --title "mlx-bun v0.0.4" --notes "..."
+```
+
+## The tap
+
+Homebrew taps must be a repo named `homebrew-<name>`:
+
+1. Create a public repo **`joshuarossi/homebrew-mlx-bun`**.
+2. Copy [packaging/homebrew/mlx-bun.rb](../../packaging/homebrew/mlx-bun.rb)
+   to `Formula/mlx-bun.rb` in it, updating `version`/`url`/`sha256` from
+   the release-script output. Commit and push.
+3. Install:
+   ```sh
+   brew install joshuarossi/mlx-bun/mlx-bun
+   mlx-bun --version
+   ```
+
+`brew audit --strict --new joshuarossi/mlx-bun/mlx-bun` before pushing
+catches most formula issues; `brew install --build-from-source` +
+`brew test` runs the formula's `test do` locally.
+
+## Updating (one command)
+
+Releases must originate on this Mac (signing + notarization need the
+Developer ID cert + Apple creds), so the publish step is local too — no
+cross-repo CI token to manage, and the tap can't drift out of sync.
+
+Per release:
+
+1. bump `version` in `package.json` and commit;
+2. one shot:
+   ```sh
+   PUBLISH=1 ./scripts/release-binary.sh
+   ```
+   This builds → signs → notarizes → creates the `v<ver>` GitHub release →
+   rewrites `version`/`url`/`sha256` in the tap's `Formula/mlx-bun.rb` and
+   pushes it → mirrors the same fields into
+   [packaging/homebrew/mlx-bun.rb](../../packaging/homebrew/mlx-bun.rb)
+   (left staged — commit it).
+
+Prefer two steps? Run `./scripts/release-binary.sh` to build, eyeball the
+artifact, then `./scripts/publish-release.sh` to publish + sync the tap.
+Both are idempotent: re-running `publish-release.sh` clobbers the release
+asset and no-ops the tap push if nothing changed.
+
+Users then upgrade with:
+```sh
+brew upgrade joshuarossi/tap/mlx-bun
+```

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+# Embedding mlx-bun (single-binary sidecar)
+
+Ship local inference inside a Mac app (Tauri, Electron, or anything
+that can spawn a process) with zero user-visible dependencies: one
+executable + three native libraries, dropped into your app's resources.
+
+## Build the bundle
+
+```sh
+./scripts/build-binary.sh dist
+```
+
+Produces a relocatable directory:
+
+| file | what | size (arm64) |
+|---|---|---|
+| `mlx-bun` | the CLI/server, compiled with `bun build --compile` | ~61 MB |
+| `libmlxc.dylib` | mlx-c, rewritten to load `@loader_path/libmlx.dylib` | ~0.7 MB |
+| `libmlx.dylib` | mlx core (+`@loader_path` rpath added for libjaccl) | ~15 MB |
+| `libjaccl.dylib` | mlx's distributed-comm dependency | ~0.6 MB |
+| `mlx.metallib` | Metal kernels — libmlx loads it from its own directory | ~150 MB |
+| `photon_rs_bg.wasm` | pi image codec — only the web chat's `read`-on-image path; resolved next to the executable | ~1.8 MB |
+
+Library resolution order (src/mlx/ffi.ts): `MLX_BUN_LIBMLXC` env var →
+`libmlxc.dylib` next to the executable → homebrew
+(`/opt/homebrew/lib`, `/usr/local/lib`). The whole directory can be
+renamed/moved; nothing references absolute paths after the build
+script's `install_name_tool` fixups.
+
+## Embedded pi web chat (`/ws/chat`)
+
+The compiled binary includes the full embedded pi AgentSession
+(`src/pi-web.ts`, dep `@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent`) that drives the
+browser chat. The web chat runs pi **headless** — no TUI — so it needs
+far less than pi's own `bun build --compile` ships.
+
+**Bundled automatically.** All of pi's JavaScript (the SDK,
+`createAgentSession`, the seven tools, the `openai-completions` provider,
+the resource loader) is pulled into the executable by `bun build
+--compile`. Nothing extra to do for the JS.
+
+**Sidecar'd by `build-binary.sh`.** The only runtime asset pi resolves
+*by path* on the headless web-chat path is `photon_rs_bg.wasm` (pi's
+image codec). pi resolves it relative to `process.execPath`, so the build
+script copies it next to `mlx-bun`. It is reached only when the `read`
+tool is asked to read an image file, and pi degrades gracefully when it's
+absent (the tool returns a text "[Image omitted]" note instead of
+crashing), so it is best-effort, not load-bearing.
+
+> Known limitation: `@silvia-odwyer/photon-node`'s wasm-bindgen glue
+> currently fails to decode under Bun (both `bun` and `bun build
+> --compile`) with *"Unreachable code should not be executed"* — a Bun
+> wasm-bindgen gap, not an asset-placement issue (the bytes are valid and
+> found). Net effect today: web-chat image *reads* aren't resized inline.
+> The web chat itself is unaffected (its provider is text-only), and the
+> wasm is shipped so it will work once Bun's support lands.
+
+**Intentionally omitted** (TUI-only assets pi ships beside its own binary,
+never reached by the headless web chat):
+
+| omitted asset | what it's for |
+|---|---|
+| `theme/*.json` | TUI color themes (loaded via `initTheme`; we pass `noThemes`) |
+| `assets/*.png` | TUI announcement/interactive images |
+| `export-html/*` | the `/export-html` command's template + vendor JS |
+| `docs/`, `examples/`, `README.md`, `CHANGELOG.md` | TUI help/doc browsing |
+
+These are gated behind TUI code paths and the explicit `exportToHtml()`
+method; `createAgentSession`'s import graph (`core/sdk.js`) pulls in no
+theme/asset/export-html loaders, and `src/pi-web.ts` builds the session
+with `noThemes`/`noSkills`/`noExtensions`/`noPromptTemplates`/
+`noContextFiles`.
+
+**Verifying it.** `build-binary.sh` runs `scripts/verify-binary-pi.ts` as
+a sibling compiled binary inside the bundle (so `process.execPath` points
+at the bundle dir, matching what the real binary sees). It builds the
+exact headless session `src/pi-web.ts` builds — same provider/registry/
+resource-loader config — against an unreachable provider, far enough to
+prove the bundled SDK + assets resolve without a missing-asset crash. It
+needs **no model and no server**; a provider/model error is the success
+signal. The one thing this can't cover offline is a live token-streaming
+turn over `/ws/chat` — that still requires `mlx-bun serve` running a real
+model (run it yourself; the smoke covers everything up to the model call).
+
+## Sidecar pattern
+
+Spawn the server on app start, point your in-app client at it:
+
+```ts
+// Electron main / Tauri sidecar config
+const child = spawn(resourcePath("mlx-bun"), [
+  "serve", "gemma-4-12B", "--port", "8090", "--memory-budget", "12",
+]);
+// readiness: poll GET /v1/models (start→ready is ~0.4 s warm)
+```
+
+- One generation runs at a time (single queue, one GPU) — serialize or
+  queue client-side too if you show progress.
+- `--memory-budget <GB>` is the OOM defense: requests that can't finish
+  within the budget are rejected with HTTP 400 (`memory_admission`)
+  *before* generating. The Metal OOM it prevents is uncatchable.
+- Protocols: OpenAI chat completions, Anthropic `/v1/messages`, OpenAI
+  Responses (`previous_response_id` works) — see
+  [server-api.md](./server-api.md). Use whichever your client SDK
+  already speaks.
+- Kill the child freely (SIGKILL is fine): restart→ready is ~0.4 s and
+  prompt-cache misses are the only loss.
+
+## First-run weights
+
+The binary includes the resumable verified downloader:
+
+```sh
+mlx-bun get mlx-community/gemma-4-12B-it-OptiQ-4bit   # → standard HF cache
+mlx-bun scan                                          # index it
+mlx-bun serve gemma-4-12B --port 8090
+```
+
+Downloads resume across interruption, every blob is checksum-verified
+(sha256/sha1), and the cache layout is exactly huggingface_hub's — a
+user's existing HF cache is picked up as-is. For a custom weights
+location inside your app's container, set `HF_HOME` in the child's
+environment.
+
+## Signing & notarization
+
+The build script ad-hoc signs the dylibs (required on arm64 after
+`install_name_tool`). For distribution, re-sign everything with your
+Developer ID and notarize:
+
+```sh
+IDENTITY="Developer ID Application: Your Name (TEAMID)"
+
+# 1. entitlements — Bun executables REQUIRE allow-jit under the
+#    hardened runtime (JavaScriptCore JIT); without it the binary is
+#    killed on launch.
+cat > entitlements.plist <<'EOF'
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
+  "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
+<plist version="1.0"><dict>
+  <key>com.apple.security.cs.allow-jit</key><true/>
+  <key>com.apple.security.cs.allow-unsigned-executable-memory</key><true/>
+</dict></plist>
+EOF
+
+# 2. sign (dylibs first, then the executable with entitlements)
+codesign -f --options runtime -s "$IDENTITY" \
+  dist/libjaccl.dylib dist/libmlx.dylib dist/libmlxc.dylib
+codesign -f --options runtime --entitlements entitlements.plist \
+  -s "$IDENTITY" dist/mlx-bun
+
+# 3. notarize (zip the bundle dir; metallib needs no signature)
+ditto -c -k --keepParent dist mlx-bun.zip
+xcrun notarytool submit mlx-bun.zip --keychain-profile "AC_PROFILE" --wait
+```
+
+Inside an `.app`, put the bundle under
+`Contents/Resources/` (Electron: `extraResources`; Tauri:
+`bundle.resources` + `externalBin` for the executable) and let the
+app's normal signing pass cover it — the same entitlements apply to
+the sidecar binary.
+
+## Library API
+
+The server is one consumer of the library — embed generation directly
+in a Bun process instead of spawning, via `loadContext`/`generate`:
+see [library-api.md](./library-api.md).

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+# Library API
+
+The HTTP server is one consumer of a library-first API. Everything it
+does — generation, sampling, KV schemes, LoRA, vision, caching, memory
+admission — is importable directly into a Bun process. Not yet
+published to npm; import from `src/`.
+
+One rule everywhere: **one generation at a time per process** (one GPU,
+batch=1). The server serializes through a queue; do the same.
+
+## Quick start
+
+```ts
+import { loadModelConfig } from "./src/config";
+import { Weights } from "./src/weights";
+import { Gemma4Model } from "./src/model/gemma4";
+import { loadTokenizer } from "./src/tokenizer";
+import { ChatTemplate } from "./src/chat-template";
+import { generate } from "./src/generate";
+
+const dir = "/path/to/hf-snapshot";          // mlx-bun ls prints these
+const model = new Gemma4Model(await Weights.open(dir), await loadModelConfig(dir));
+const tok = await loadTokenizer(dir);
+const template = await ChatTemplate.load(dir);
+
+const ids = tok.encode(template.render([{ role: "user", content: "hi" }]));
+const promptIds = ids[0] === ids[1] && ids[0] === tok.bosTokenId ? ids.slice(1) : ids;
+
+const gen = generate(model, promptIds, { maxTokens: 256, temperature: 0 });
+const out: number[] = [];
+for await (const t of gen) out.push(t.token);   // t: { token, index }
+console.log(tok.decode(out, true));
+console.log(gen.stats);                          // set once iteration ends
+```
+
+Weight loading is lazy (mmap + mlx native loader): construction is
+milliseconds; weights materialize on first forward.
+
+## generate(model, promptTokens, options) → Generation
+
+`Generation` is an `AsyncIterable<GeneratedToken>` with a `stats`
+property (`GenerateStats`, available after iteration completes — also
+after an early `break`, which cleanly cancels the in-flight step).
+
+`GenerateOptions` (all optional):
+
+| option | default | notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| `maxTokens` | 512 | |
+| `temperature` / `topP` / `topK` / `seed` | greedy when temperature 0 | on-device sampling; seeded per (seed, step) |
+| `repetitionPenalty` / `repetitionContextSize` | off / 20 | |
+| `eosTokenIds` | from config | includes the tool-handoff token |
+| `prefillChunkSize` | 2048 | matches mlx-lm |
+| `cache` | fresh | pre-warmed `Cache[]`; `cache[0].offset` tokens are treated as already prefilled. Caller keeps ownership |
+| `kvBits` / `kvGroupSize` / `quantizedKvStart` | off / 64 / 5000 | uniform KV quantization (4 or 8), incl. rotating caches (Phase 9) |
+| `kvConfig` | off | per-layer mixed precision from `kv_config.json` (`config.kvQuant`); overrides `kvBits`, start 0 — optiq serve semantics |
+| `adapters` | none | mounted LoRA adapter ids, applied for exactly this generation |
+| `promptEmbeddings` / `imageMask` | — | vision path (see `src/vision/`) |
+
+`GenerateStats`: `promptTokens`, `cachedTokens`, `generatedTokens`,
+`prefillTps` / `prefillMs`, `decodeTps` / `decodeMs`, `cacheTokens`
+(the exact token sequence whose KV is in the cache — feed it to
+`PromptCache.put`). Timing semantics match mlx-lm: the prompt clock
+runs until the first token arrives (the prefill→decode boundary is
+prompt time), the decode clock from there.
+
+## Serving pieces
+
+```ts
+import { loadContext, createServer } from "./src/server";
+
+const ctx = await loadContext(dir, "my-model", { memoryBudgetBytes: 12e9 });
+const server = createServer(ctx, 8090, {
+  promptCacheBytes: 2e9,        // byte-capped LRU (never count-capped)
+  kvQuant: undefined,           // default: kv_config.json; "off" | bits
+  memoryBudgetBytes: 12e9,      // admission control — the only OOM defense
+});
+```
+
+`loadContext` refuses models that cannot serve any context within the
+budget (pre-GPU, mmap-only check). The server exposes OpenAI chat
+completions, Anthropic `/v1/messages`, OpenAI Responses, adapters, and
+`/stats` — [server-api.md](./server-api.md).
+
+## Prompt cache (in-process prefix reuse)
+
+```ts
+import { PromptCache } from "./src/prompt-cache";
+const cache = new PromptCache(2e9);                  // BYTE-capped LRU
+const hit = cache.take(promptIds, /*namespace*/ "");  // longest common prefix, trimmed
+const caches = hit?.caches ?? model.makeCache();
+const gen = generate(model, promptIds, { cache: caches });
+for await (const t of gen) { /* … */ }
+cache.put(gen.stats!.cacheTokens, caches, "");       // hand ownership back
+```
+
+Namespace entries by adapter spec when LoRA is in play (KV computed
+under one adapter must not seed another's prefill).
+
+## KV-cache persistence (cross-process)
+
+```ts
+import { saveKvCache, loadKvCache } from "./src/kv-store";
+saveKvCache("/tmp/prefix.kv", tokens, caches);       // page-aligned file
+const { tokens, caches, mmap } = loadKvCache("/tmp/prefix.kv", model);
+// reload is a zero-copy MAP_PRIVATE mmap straight to the GPU (~1 ms);
+// keep `mmap` referenced as long as the caches live
+```
+
+Quantized caches are not persistable yet (documented gap).
+
+## Registry + fit (model discovery and memory math)
+
+```ts
+import { Registry } from "./src/registry";
+import { fit, skuMatrix } from "./src/fit";
+
+const reg = new Registry();           // bun:sqlite, scans the HF cache
+await reg.scan();
+const m = reg.resolve("12B");         // unique-match query, throws on ambiguity
+const report = fit(await loadModelConfig(m.path), m.sizeBytes, 8192,
+                   undefined, undefined, m.expertsBytes);
+// report: { fits, maxSafeContext, predictedDecodeTps, kvBytes, … }
+```
+
+`fit` is calibrated per chip family (MoE-aware: decode reads active
+experts only). The server uses it for admission; `mlx-bun fit <query>`
+is the CLI face.
+
+## LoRA hot-swap
+
+```ts
+import { AdapterManager } from "./src/lora";
+const adapters = new AdapterManager(model);
+await adapters.mount("upper", "/path/to/adapter-dir");  // all-or-nothing validation
+const gen = generate(model, promptIds, { adapters: ["upper"] });
+```
+
+Mount N adapters on one base; selection is per-generation; an
+unselected adapter costs nothing; base logits are byte-identical after
+any amount of switching.
+
+## Memory & disposal rules
+
+- `MlxArray` wrappers have explicit `.dispose()` with a
+  FinalizationRegistry backstop — dispose what you create in hot paths.
+- Caches you own (from `model.makeCache()` outside the prompt cache):
+  dispose each via `c.dispose()` when done.
+- GPU OOM is **uncatchable** (mlx throws from a Metal completion
+  handler → process death). Use `fit`/admission before generating, not
+  try/catch around it.
+- Never read a typed array that native code wrote in a hot path; use
+  the `read.*` helpers (bun#32054 — see PLAN.md Phase 4 findings).