ci : add self-hosted ui workflow

ci : move python requirements check to CPU runners
this job is a bit slow for a dedicated "fast" runner
2026-07-01 01:57:43 +02:00 · 2026-05-24 22:18:31 +03:00 · 2026-05-24 20:16:00 +03:00 · 2026-05-24 20:10:54 +03:00 · 2026-05-24 19:39:33 +03:00 · 2026-05-24 19:35:39 +03:00
1045 changed files with 39194 additions and 111200 deletions
@@ -13,20 +13,6 @@ ARG APP_REVISION=N/A
 # BUILD STAGE
 # Compile all binary files and libraries
 # ==============================================================================
-ARG NODE_VERSION=24
-
-FROM docker.io/node:$NODE_VERSION AS web
-
-ARG APP_VERSION
-
-WORKDIR /app/tools/ui
-
-COPY tools/ui/package.json tools/ui/package-lock.json ./
-RUN npm ci
-
-COPY tools/ui/ ./
-RUN LLAMA_BUILD_NUMBER="$APP_VERSION" npm run build
-
 FROM ${CANN_BASE_IMAGE} AS build

 # -- Install build dependencies --
@@ -40,8 +26,6 @@ WORKDIR /app
 # -- Copy project files --
 COPY . .

-COPY --from=web /app/tools/ui/dist tools/ui/dist
-
 # -- Set CANN environment variables (required for compilation) --
 # Using ENV instead of `source` allows environment variables to persist across the entire image layer
 ENV ASCEND_TOOLKIT_HOME=/usr/local/Ascend/ascend-toolkit/latest
@@ -145,7 +129,7 @@ ENTRYPOINT ["/app/tools.sh"]
 # ==============================================================================
 FROM base AS light

-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-cli /app/full/llama-completion /app
+COPY --from=build /app/full/llama-cli /app/full/llama-completion /app

 ENTRYPOINT [ "/app/llama-cli" ]

@@ -156,7 +140,7 @@ FROM base AS server

 ENV LLAMA_ARG_HOST=0.0.0.0

-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-server /app
+COPY --from=build /app/full/llama-server /app

 HEALTHCHECK --interval=5m CMD [ "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:8080/health" ]

@@ -3,21 +3,7 @@ ARG BUILD_DATE=N/A
 ARG APP_VERSION=N/A
 ARG APP_REVISION=N/A

-ARG NODE_VERSION=24
-
-FROM docker.io/node:$NODE_VERSION AS web
-
-ARG APP_VERSION
-
-WORKDIR /app/tools/ui
-
-COPY tools/ui/package.json tools/ui/package-lock.json ./
-RUN npm ci
-
-COPY tools/ui/ ./
-RUN LLAMA_BUILD_NUMBER="$APP_VERSION" npm run build
-
-FROM docker.io/ubuntu:$UBUNTU_VERSION AS build
+FROM ubuntu:$UBUNTU_VERSION AS build

 ARG TARGETARCH

@@ -30,8 +16,6 @@ WORKDIR /app

 COPY . .

-COPY --from=web /app/tools/ui/dist tools/ui/dist
-
 RUN if [ "$TARGETARCH" = "amd64" ] || [ "$TARGETARCH" = "arm64" ]; then \
        cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON -DGGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS=ON; \
    else \
@@ -53,7 +37,7 @@ RUN mkdir -p /app/full \
    && cp .devops/tools.sh /app/full/tools.sh

 ## Base image
-FROM docker.io/ubuntu:$UBUNTU_VERSION AS base
+FROM ubuntu:$UBUNTU_VERSION AS base

 ARG BUILD_DATE=N/A
 ARG APP_VERSION=N/A
@@ -69,7 +53,7 @@ LABEL org.opencontainers.image.created=$BUILD_DATE \
      org.opencontainers.image.source=$IMAGE_SOURCE

 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y libgomp1 curl ffmpeg \
+    && apt-get install -y libgomp1 curl \
    && apt autoremove -y \
    && apt clean -y \
    && rm -rf /tmp/* /var/tmp/* \
@@ -104,7 +88,7 @@ ENTRYPOINT ["/app/tools.sh"]
 ### Light, CLI only
 FROM base AS light

-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-cli /app/full/llama-completion /app
+COPY --from=build /app/full/llama-cli /app/full/llama-completion /app

 WORKDIR /app

@@ -115,7 +99,7 @@ FROM base AS server

 ENV LLAMA_ARG_HOST=0.0.0.0

-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-server /app
+COPY --from=build /app/full/llama-server /app

 WORKDIR /app

@@ -1,47 +1,29 @@
 ARG UBUNTU_VERSION=24.04
 # This needs to generally match the container host's environment.
 ARG CUDA_VERSION=12.8.1
-ARG GCC_VERSION=14
 # Target the CUDA build image
-ARG BASE_CUDA_DEV_CONTAINER=docker.io/nvidia/cuda:${CUDA_VERSION}-devel-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}
+ARG BASE_CUDA_DEV_CONTAINER=nvidia/cuda:${CUDA_VERSION}-devel-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}

-ARG BASE_CUDA_RUN_CONTAINER=docker.io/nvidia/cuda:${CUDA_VERSION}-runtime-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}
+ARG BASE_CUDA_RUN_CONTAINER=nvidia/cuda:${CUDA_VERSION}-runtime-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}

 ARG BUILD_DATE=N/A
 ARG APP_VERSION=N/A
 ARG APP_REVISION=N/A

-ARG NODE_VERSION=24
-
-FROM docker.io/node:$NODE_VERSION AS web
-
-ARG APP_VERSION
-
-WORKDIR /app/tools/ui
-
-COPY tools/ui/package.json tools/ui/package-lock.json ./
-RUN npm ci
-
-COPY tools/ui/ ./
-RUN LLAMA_BUILD_NUMBER="$APP_VERSION" npm run build
-
 FROM ${BASE_CUDA_DEV_CONTAINER} AS build

-ARG GCC_VERSION
 # CUDA architecture to build for (defaults to all supported archs)
 ARG CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH=default

 RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y gcc-${GCC_VERSION} g++-${GCC_VERSION} build-essential cmake python3 python3-pip git libssl-dev libgomp1
+    apt-get install -y gcc-14 g++-14 build-essential cmake python3 python3-pip git libssl-dev libgomp1

-ENV CC=gcc-${GCC_VERSION} CXX=g++-${GCC_VERSION} CUDAHOSTCXX=g++-${GCC_VERSION}
+ENV CC=gcc-14 CXX=g++-14 CUDAHOSTCXX=g++-14

 WORKDIR /app

 COPY . .

-COPY --from=web /app/tools/ui/dist tools/ui/dist
-
 RUN if [ "${CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH}" != "default" ]; then \
    export CMAKE_ARGS="-DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=${CUDA_DOCKER_ARCH}"; \
    fi && \
@@ -77,7 +59,7 @@ LABEL org.opencontainers.image.created=$BUILD_DATE \
      org.opencontainers.image.source=$IMAGE_SOURCE

 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y libgomp1 curl ffmpeg \
+    && apt-get install -y libgomp1 curl \
    && apt autoremove -y \
    && apt clean -y \
    && rm -rf /tmp/* /var/tmp/* \
@@ -113,7 +95,7 @@ ENTRYPOINT ["/app/tools.sh"]
 ### Light, CLI only
 FROM base AS light

-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-cli /app/full/llama-completion /app
+COPY --from=build /app/full/llama-cli /app/full/llama-completion /app

 WORKDIR /app

@@ -124,7 +106,7 @@ FROM base AS server

 ENV LLAMA_ARG_HOST=0.0.0.0

-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-server /app
+COPY --from=build /app/full/llama-server /app

 WORKDIR /app

@@ -5,23 +5,9 @@ ARG APP_REVISION=N/A

 ## Build Image

-ARG NODE_VERSION=24
+FROM intel/deep-learning-essentials:$ONEAPI_VERSION AS build

-FROM docker.io/node:$NODE_VERSION AS web
-
-ARG APP_VERSION
-
-WORKDIR /app/tools/ui
-
-COPY tools/ui/package.json tools/ui/package-lock.json ./
-RUN npm ci
-
-COPY tools/ui/ ./
-RUN LLAMA_BUILD_NUMBER="$APP_VERSION" npm run build
-
-FROM docker.io/intel/deep-learning-essentials:$ONEAPI_VERSION AS build
-
-ARG GGML_SYCL_F16=ON
+ARG GGML_SYCL_F16=OFF
 ARG LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION=1.28.2
 ARG LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION=u24.04
 RUN apt-get update && \
@@ -36,12 +22,9 @@ WORKDIR /app

 COPY . .

-COPY --from=web /app/tools/ui/dist tools/ui/dist
-
 RUN if [ "${GGML_SYCL_F16}" = "ON" ]; then \
        echo "GGML_SYCL_F16 is set" \
-        && export OPT_SYCL_F16="-DGGML_SYCL_F16=ON" \
-        && export SYCL_PROGRAM_COMPILE_OPTIONS="-cl-fp32-correctly-rounded-divide-sqrt"; \
+        && export OPT_SYCL_F16="-DGGML_SYCL_F16=ON"; \
    fi && \
    echo "Building with dynamic libs" && \
    cmake -B build -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF -DGGML_SYCL=ON -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=icx -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON -DGGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS=ON -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF ${OPT_SYCL_F16} && \
@@ -59,7 +42,7 @@ RUN mkdir -p /app/full \
    && cp requirements.txt /app/full \
    && cp .devops/tools.sh /app/full/tools.sh

-FROM docker.io/intel/deep-learning-essentials:$ONEAPI_VERSION AS base
+FROM intel/deep-learning-essentials:$ONEAPI_VERSION AS base

 ARG BUILD_DATE=N/A
 ARG APP_VERSION=N/A
@@ -74,21 +57,11 @@ LABEL org.opencontainers.image.created=$BUILD_DATE \
      org.opencontainers.image.url=$IMAGE_URL \
      org.opencontainers.image.source=$IMAGE_SOURCE

-#Following versions are for multiple GPUs, since 26.x has known issue:
-#   https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/21747,
-#   https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/issues/921.
-#ARG IGC_VERSION=v2.20.5
-#ARG IGC_VERSION_FULL=2_2.20.5+19972
-#ARG COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION=25.40.35563.10
-#ARG COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL=25.40.35563.10-0
-#ARG IGDGMM_VERSION=22.8.2
-
-
-ARG IGC_VERSION=v2.34.4
-ARG IGC_VERSION_FULL=2_2.34.4+21428
-ARG COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION=26.18.38308.1
-ARG COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL=26.18.38308.1-0
-ARG IGDGMM_VERSION=22.10.0
+ARG IGC_VERSION=v2.20.5
+ARG IGC_VERSION_FULL=2_2.20.5+19972
+ARG COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION=25.40.35563.10
+ARG COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL=25.40.35563.10-0
+ARG IGDGMM_VERSION=22.8.2
 RUN mkdir /tmp/neo/ && cd /tmp/neo/ \
  && wget https://github.com/intel/intel-graphics-compiler/releases/download/$IGC_VERSION/intel-igc-core-${IGC_VERSION_FULL}_amd64.deb \
  && wget https://github.com/intel/intel-graphics-compiler/releases/download/$IGC_VERSION/intel-igc-opencl-${IGC_VERSION_FULL}_amd64.deb \
@@ -102,7 +75,7 @@ RUN mkdir /tmp/neo/ && cd /tmp/neo/ \
  && dpkg --install *.deb

 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y libgomp1 curl ffmpeg \
+    && apt-get install -y libgomp1 curl \
    && apt autoremove -y \
    && apt clean -y \
    && rm -rf /tmp/* /var/tmp/* \
@@ -141,7 +114,7 @@ ENTRYPOINT ["/app/tools.sh"]
 FROM base AS light

 COPY --from=build /app/lib/ /app
-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-cli /app/full/llama-completion /app
+COPY --from=build /app/full/llama-cli /app/full/llama-completion /app

 WORKDIR /app

@@ -153,7 +126,7 @@ FROM base AS server
 ENV LLAMA_ARG_HOST=0.0.0.0

 COPY --from=build /app/lib/ /app
-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-server /app
+COPY --from=build /app/full/llama-server /app

 WORKDIR /app

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ARG BUILD_DATE=N/A
 ARG APP_VERSION=N/A
 ARG APP_REVISION=N/A

-FROM docker.io/ascendai/cann:$ASCEND_VERSION AS build
+FROM ascendai/cann:$ASCEND_VERSION AS build

 WORKDIR /app

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ RUN echo "Building with static libs" && \
    cmake --build build --config Release --target llama-completion

 # TODO: use image with NNRT
-FROM docker.io/ascendai/cann:$ASCEND_VERSION AS runtime
+FROM ascendai/cann:$ASCEND_VERSION AS runtime

 ARG BUILD_DATE=N/A
 ARG APP_VERSION=N/A
@@ -2,28 +2,14 @@ ARG UBUNTU_VERSION=22.04
 # This needs to generally match the container host's environment.
 ARG MUSA_VERSION=rc4.3.0
 # Target the MUSA build image
-ARG BASE_MUSA_DEV_CONTAINER=docker.io/mthreads/musa:${MUSA_VERSION}-devel-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-amd64
+ARG BASE_MUSA_DEV_CONTAINER=mthreads/musa:${MUSA_VERSION}-devel-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-amd64

-ARG BASE_MUSA_RUN_CONTAINER=docker.io/mthreads/musa:${MUSA_VERSION}-runtime-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-amd64
+ARG BASE_MUSA_RUN_CONTAINER=mthreads/musa:${MUSA_VERSION}-runtime-ubuntu${UBUNTU_VERSION}-amd64

 ARG BUILD_DATE=N/A
 ARG APP_VERSION=N/A
 ARG APP_REVISION=N/A

-ARG NODE_VERSION=24
-
-FROM docker.io/node:$NODE_VERSION AS web
-
-ARG APP_VERSION
-
-WORKDIR /app/tools/ui
-
-COPY tools/ui/package.json tools/ui/package-lock.json ./
-RUN npm ci
-
-COPY tools/ui/ ./
-RUN LLAMA_BUILD_NUMBER="$APP_VERSION" npm run build
-
 FROM ${BASE_MUSA_DEV_CONTAINER} AS build

 # MUSA architecture to build for (defaults to all supported archs)
@@ -43,8 +29,6 @@ WORKDIR /app

 COPY . .

-COPY --from=web /app/tools/ui/dist tools/ui/dist
-
 RUN if [ "${MUSA_DOCKER_ARCH}" != "default" ]; then \
        export CMAKE_ARGS="-DMUSA_ARCHITECTURES=${MUSA_DOCKER_ARCH}"; \
    fi && \
@@ -80,7 +64,7 @@ LABEL org.opencontainers.image.created=$BUILD_DATE \
      org.opencontainers.image.source=$IMAGE_SOURCE

 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y libgomp1 curl ffmpeg \
+    && apt-get install -y libgomp1 curl \
    && apt autoremove -y \
    && apt clean -y \
    && rm -rf /tmp/* /var/tmp/* \
@@ -115,7 +99,7 @@ ENTRYPOINT ["/app/tools.sh"]
 ### Light, CLI only
 FROM base AS light

-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-cli /app/full/llama-completion /app
+COPY --from=build /app/full/llama-cli /app/full/llama-completion /app

 WORKDIR /app

@@ -126,7 +110,7 @@ FROM base AS server

 ENV LLAMA_ARG_HOST=0.0.0.0

-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-server /app
+COPY --from=build /app/full/llama-server /app

 WORKDIR /app

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
  glibc,
  config,
  stdenv,
-  stdenvNoCC,
  runCommand,
  cmake,
  ninja,
@@ -20,8 +19,6 @@
  openssl,
  shaderc,
  spirv-headers,
-  nodejs,
-  importNpmLock,
  useBlas ?
    builtins.all (x: !x) [
      useCuda
@@ -133,31 +130,7 @@ effectiveStdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
    src = lib.cleanSource ../../.;
  };

-  # Builds the webui locally, taking care not to require updating any sha256 hash.
-  webui = stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation {
-    pname = "webui";
-    version = llamaVersion;
-    src = lib.cleanSource ../../tools/ui;
-
-    nativeBuildInputs = [
-      nodejs
-      importNpmLock.linkNodeModulesHook
-    ];
-
-    # no sha256 required when using buildNodeModules
-    npmDeps = importNpmLock.buildNodeModules {
-      npmRoot = ../../tools/ui;
-      inherit nodejs;
-    };
-
-    installPhase = ''
-      LLAMA_UI_OUT_DIR=$out npm run build --offline
-    '';
-  };
-
-  postPatch = lib.optionalString useWebUi ''
-    cp -r ${finalAttrs.webui} tools/ui/dist
-    chmod -R u+w tools/ui/dist
+  postPatch = ''
  '';

  # With PR#6015 https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/6015,
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
-ARG OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR=2026.2.1
-ARG OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL=2026.2.1.21919.ede283a88e3
+ARG OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR=2026.0
+ARG OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL=2026.0.0.20965.c6d6a13a886
 ARG UBUNTU_VERSION=24.04

 # Intel GPU driver versions. https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases
-ARG IGC_VERSION=v2.36.3
-ARG IGC_VERSION_FULL=2_2.36.3+21719
-ARG COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION=26.22.38646.4
-ARG COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL=26.22.38646.4-0
-ARG IGDGMM_VERSION=22.10.0
+ARG IGC_VERSION=v2.30.1
+ARG IGC_VERSION_FULL=2_2.30.1+20950
+ARG COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION=26.09.37435.1
+ARG COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL=26.09.37435.1-0
+ARG IGDGMM_VERSION=22.9.0

 # Intel NPU driver versions. https://github.com/intel/linux-npu-driver/releases
-ARG NPU_DRIVER_VERSION=v1.33.0
-ARG NPU_DRIVER_FULL=v1.33.0.20260529-26625960453
+ARG NPU_DRIVER_VERSION=v1.32.0
+ARG NPU_DRIVER_FULL=v1.32.0.20260402-23905121947
 ARG LIBZE1_VERSION=1.27.0-1~24.04~ppa2

 # Optional proxy build arguments
@@ -22,22 +22,8 @@ ARG BUILD_DATE=N/A
 ARG APP_VERSION=N/A
 ARG APP_REVISION=N/A

-ARG NODE_VERSION=24
-
-FROM docker.io/node:$NODE_VERSION AS web
-
-ARG APP_VERSION
-
-WORKDIR /app/tools/ui
-
-COPY tools/ui/package.json tools/ui/package-lock.json ./
-RUN npm ci
-
-COPY tools/ui/ ./
-RUN LLAMA_BUILD_NUMBER="$APP_VERSION" npm run build
-
 ## Build Image
-FROM docker.io/ubuntu:${UBUNTU_VERSION} AS build
+FROM ubuntu:${UBUNTU_VERSION} AS build

 # Pass proxy args to build stage
 ARG http_proxy
@@ -60,18 +46,13 @@ RUN apt-get update && \
        intel-opencl-icd && \
    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

-# OpenVINO toolkit and GPU/NPU drivers are cached via BuildKit cache mounts to avoid re-downloading on rebuilds.
-# Install OpenVINO for Ubuntu 24.04.
+# Install OpenVINO for Ubuntu 24.04
 ARG OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR
 ARG OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/openvino,sharing=locked \
-    mkdir -p /opt/intel && \
-    TGZ=/var/cache/openvino/openvino_toolkit_ubuntu24_${OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL}_x86_64.tgz && \
-    if [ ! -f "$TGZ" ]; then \
-        wget -O "$TGZ" https://storage.openvinotoolkit.org/repositories/openvino/packages/${OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR}/linux/openvino_toolkit_ubuntu24_${OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL}_x86_64.tgz; \
-    fi && \
-    tar -xf "$TGZ" -C /opt/intel/ && \
-    mv /opt/intel/openvino_toolkit_ubuntu24_${OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL}_x86_64 /opt/intel/openvino_${OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR} && \
+RUN mkdir -p /opt/intel && \
+    wget https://storage.openvinotoolkit.org/repositories/openvino/packages/${OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR}/linux/openvino_toolkit_ubuntu24_${OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL}_x86_64.tgz && \
+    tar -xf openvino_toolkit_ubuntu24_${OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL}_x86_64.tgz && \
+    mv openvino_toolkit_ubuntu24_${OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL}_x86_64 /opt/intel/openvino_${OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR} && \
    cd /opt/intel/openvino_${OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR} && \
    echo "Y" | ./install_dependencies/install_openvino_dependencies.sh && \
    cd - && \
@@ -83,20 +64,18 @@ WORKDIR /app

 COPY . .

-COPY --from=web /app/tools/ui/dist tools/ui/dist
-
 # Build Stage
 RUN bash -c "source ${OpenVINO_DIR}/setupvars.sh && \
    cmake -B build/ReleaseOV -G Ninja \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-        -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -DGGML_OPENVINO=ON && \
-    cmake --build build/ReleaseOV --parallel "
+    cmake --build build/ReleaseOV -j$(nproc)"

-# Copy all necessary libraries (build outputs + OpenVINO runtime libs)
+# Copy all necessary libraries
 RUN mkdir -p /app/lib && \
-    find build/ReleaseOV -name '*.so*' -exec cp -P {} /app/lib \; && \
-    find "${OpenVINO_DIR}/runtime/lib/intel64" -name '*.so*' -exec cp -P {} /app/lib \;
+    find build/ReleaseOV -name '*.so*' -exec cp {} /app/lib \; && \
+    find ${OpenVINO_DIR}/runtime/lib/intel64 -name '*.so*' -exec cp -P {} /app/lib \; 2>/dev/null || \
+    find ${OpenVINO_DIR}/lib/intel64 -name '*.so*' -exec cp -P {} /app/lib \;

 # Create runtime directories and copy binaries
 RUN mkdir -p /app/full \
@@ -109,7 +88,7 @@ RUN mkdir -p /app/full \
    && cp .devops/tools.sh /app/full/tools.sh

 ## Base Runtime Image
-FROM docker.io/ubuntu:${UBUNTU_VERSION} AS base
+FROM ubuntu:${UBUNTU_VERSION} AS base

 # Pass proxy args to runtime stage
 ARG http_proxy
@@ -128,7 +107,7 @@ LABEL org.opencontainers.image.created=$BUILD_DATE \
      org.opencontainers.image.source=$IMAGE_SOURCE

 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y libgomp1 libtbb12 curl wget ffmpeg ocl-icd-libopencl1 \
+    && apt-get install -y libgomp1 libtbb12 curl wget ocl-icd-libopencl1 \
    && apt autoremove -y \
    && apt clean -y \
    && rm -rf /tmp/* /var/tmp/* \
@@ -141,41 +120,33 @@ ARG IGC_VERSION_FULL
 ARG COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION
 ARG COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL
 ARG IGDGMM_VERSION
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/intel-gpu,sharing=locked \
-    set -eux; \
-    cd /var/cache/intel-gpu; \
-    for url in \
-        https://github.com/intel/intel-graphics-compiler/releases/download/${IGC_VERSION}/intel-igc-core-${IGC_VERSION_FULL}_amd64.deb \
-        https://github.com/intel/intel-graphics-compiler/releases/download/${IGC_VERSION}/intel-igc-opencl-${IGC_VERSION_FULL}_amd64.deb \
-        https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION}/intel-ocloc_${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL}_amd64.deb \
-        https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION}/intel-opencl-icd_${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL}_amd64.deb \
-        https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION}/libigdgmm12_${IGDGMM_VERSION}_amd64.deb \
-        https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION}/libze-intel-gpu1_${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL}_amd64.deb ; do \
-        f=$(basename "$url"); \
-        [ -f "$f" ] || wget -q -O "$f" "$url"; \
-    done; \
-    apt-get update; \
-    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ./*.deb; \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+RUN mkdir /tmp/neo/ && cd /tmp/neo/ \
+    && wget https://github.com/intel/intel-graphics-compiler/releases/download/${IGC_VERSION}/intel-igc-core-${IGC_VERSION_FULL}_amd64.deb \
+    && wget https://github.com/intel/intel-graphics-compiler/releases/download/${IGC_VERSION}/intel-igc-opencl-${IGC_VERSION_FULL}_amd64.deb \
+    && wget https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION}/intel-ocloc-dbgsym_${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL}_amd64.ddeb \
+    && wget https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION}/intel-ocloc_${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL}_amd64.deb \
+    && wget https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION}/intel-opencl-icd-dbgsym_${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL}_amd64.ddeb \
+    && wget https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION}/intel-opencl-icd_${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL}_amd64.deb \
+    && wget https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION}/libigdgmm12_${IGDGMM_VERSION}_amd64.deb \
+    && wget https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION}/libze-intel-gpu1-dbgsym_${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL}_amd64.ddeb \
+    && wget https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION}/libze-intel-gpu1_${COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL}_amd64.deb \
+    && dpkg --install *.deb \
+    && rm -rf /tmp/neo/

 # Install NPU drivers
 ARG NPU_DRIVER_VERSION
 ARG NPU_DRIVER_FULL
 ARG LIBZE1_VERSION
-RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/intel-npu,sharing=locked \
-    set -eux; \
-    TGZ=/var/cache/intel-npu/linux-npu-driver-${NPU_DRIVER_FULL}-ubuntu2404.tar.gz; \
-    if [ ! -f "$TGZ" ]; then \
-        wget -q -O "$TGZ" https://github.com/intel/linux-npu-driver/releases/download/${NPU_DRIVER_VERSION}/linux-npu-driver-${NPU_DRIVER_FULL}-ubuntu2404.tar.gz; \
-    fi; \
-    DEB=/var/cache/intel-npu/libze1_${LIBZE1_VERSION}_amd64.deb; \
-    if [ ! -f "$DEB" ]; then \
-        wget -q -O "$DEB" https://snapshot.ppa.launchpadcontent.net/kobuk-team/intel-graphics/ubuntu/20260324T100000Z/pool/main/l/level-zero-loader/libze1_${LIBZE1_VERSION}_amd64.deb; \
-    fi; \
-    mkdir /tmp/npu/ && cd /tmp/npu/ && tar -xf "$TGZ" && cp "$DEB" .; \
-    apt-get update; \
-    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ./*.deb; \
-    rm -rf /tmp/npu/ /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+RUN mkdir /tmp/npu/ && cd /tmp/npu/ \
+    && wget https://github.com/intel/linux-npu-driver/releases/download/${NPU_DRIVER_VERSION}/linux-npu-driver-${NPU_DRIVER_FULL}-ubuntu2404.tar.gz \
+    && tar -xf linux-npu-driver-${NPU_DRIVER_FULL}-ubuntu2404.tar.gz \
+    && dpkg --install *.deb \
+    && rm -rf /tmp/npu/
+
+RUN cd /tmp \
+    && wget https://snapshot.ppa.launchpadcontent.net/kobuk-team/intel-graphics/ubuntu/20260324T100000Z/pool/main/l/level-zero-loader/libze1_${LIBZE1_VERSION}_amd64.deb \
+    && dpkg --install libze1_${LIBZE1_VERSION}_amd64.deb \
+    && rm libze1_${LIBZE1_VERSION}_amd64.deb

 COPY --from=build /app/lib/ /app/

@@ -195,26 +166,22 @@ RUN apt-get update && \
    python3 \
    python3-venv \
    python3-pip && \
-    python3 -m venv /openvino-venv && \
-    /openvino-venv/bin/pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip setuptools wheel && \
-    /openvino-venv/bin/pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt && \
+    python3 -m venv /ov-venv && \
+    /ov-venv/bin/pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip setuptools wheel && \
+    /ov-venv/bin/pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt && \
    apt-get autoremove -y && \
    apt-get clean && \
    rm -rf /tmp/* /var/tmp/* && \
    find /var/cache/apt/archives /var/lib/apt/lists -not -name lock -type f -delete && \
    find /var/cache -type f -delete

-# Activate the venv
-ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/openvino-venv \
-    PATH=/openvino-venv/bin:$PATH
-
-ENTRYPOINT ["/app/tools.sh"]
+ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash", "-c", "source /ov-venv/bin/activate && exec /app/tools.sh \"$@\"", "--"]


 ### Light, CLI only
 FROM base AS light

-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-cli /app/full/llama-completion /app/
+COPY --from=build /app/full/llama-cli /app/

 WORKDIR /app

@@ -225,7 +192,7 @@ FROM base AS server

 ENV LLAMA_ARG_HOST=0.0.0.0

-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-server /app/
+COPY --from=build /app/full/llama-server /app/

 WORKDIR /app

@@ -5,26 +5,12 @@ ARG ROCM_VERSION=7.2.1
 ARG AMDGPU_VERSION=7.2.1

 # Target the ROCm build image
-ARG BASE_ROCM_DEV_CONTAINER=docker.io/rocm/dev-ubuntu-${UBUNTU_VERSION}:${ROCM_VERSION}-complete
+ARG BASE_ROCM_DEV_CONTAINER=rocm/dev-ubuntu-${UBUNTU_VERSION}:${ROCM_VERSION}-complete

 ARG BUILD_DATE=N/A
 ARG APP_VERSION=N/A
 ARG APP_REVISION=N/A

-ARG NODE_VERSION=24
-
-FROM docker.io/node:$NODE_VERSION AS web
-
-ARG APP_VERSION
-
-WORKDIR /app/tools/ui
-
-COPY tools/ui/package.json tools/ui/package-lock.json ./
-RUN npm ci
-
-COPY tools/ui/ ./
-RUN LLAMA_BUILD_NUMBER="$APP_VERSION" npm run build
-
 ### Build image
 FROM ${BASE_ROCM_DEV_CONTAINER} AS build

@@ -52,8 +38,6 @@ WORKDIR /app

 COPY . .

-COPY --from=web /app/tools/ui/dist tools/ui/dist
-
 RUN HIPCXX="$(hipconfig -l)/clang" HIP_PATH="$(hipconfig -R)" \
    cmake -S . -B build \
        -DGGML_HIP=ON \
@@ -92,7 +76,7 @@ LABEL org.opencontainers.image.created=$BUILD_DATE \
      org.opencontainers.image.source=$IMAGE_SOURCE

 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y libgomp1 curl ffmpeg \
+    && apt-get install -y libgomp1 curl \
    && apt autoremove -y \
    && apt clean -y \
    && rm -rf /tmp/* /var/tmp/* \
@@ -127,7 +111,7 @@ ENTRYPOINT ["/app/tools.sh"]
 ### Light, CLI only
 FROM base AS light

-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-cli /app/full/llama-completion /app
+COPY --from=build /app/full/llama-cli /app/full/llama-completion /app

 WORKDIR /app

@@ -138,7 +122,7 @@ FROM base AS server

 ENV LLAMA_ARG_HOST=0.0.0.0

-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-server /app
+COPY --from=build /app/full/llama-server /app

 WORKDIR /app

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARG APP_VERSION=N/A
 ARG APP_REVISION=N/A

 ### Build Llama.cpp stage
-FROM docker.io/gcc:${GCC_VERSION} AS build
+FROM gcc:${GCC_VERSION} AS build

 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apt,sharing=locked \
    --mount=type=cache,target=/var/lib/apt/lists,sharing=locked \
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ COPY --from=build /opt/llama.cpp/conversion /llama.cpp/conversion


 ### Base image
-FROM docker.io/ubuntu:${UBUNTU_VERSION} AS base
+FROM ubuntu:${UBUNTU_VERSION} AS base

 ARG BUILD_DATE=N/A
 ARG APP_VERSION=N/A
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ WORKDIR /llama.cpp/bin

 # Copy llama.cpp binaries and libraries
 COPY --from=collector /llama.cpp/bin/*.so /llama.cpp/bin
-COPY --from=collector /llama.cpp/bin/llama /llama.cpp/bin/llama-cli /llama.cpp/bin/llama-completion /llama.cpp/bin
+COPY --from=collector /llama.cpp/bin/llama-cli /llama.cpp/bin/llama-completion /llama.cpp/bin

 ENTRYPOINT [ "/llama.cpp/bin/llama-cli" ]

@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ WORKDIR /llama.cpp/bin

 # Copy llama.cpp binaries and libraries
 COPY --from=collector /llama.cpp/bin/*.so /llama.cpp/bin
-COPY --from=collector /llama.cpp/bin/llama /llama.cpp/bin/llama-server /llama.cpp/bin
+COPY --from=collector /llama.cpp/bin/llama-server /llama.cpp/bin

 EXPOSE 8080

@@ -3,21 +3,7 @@ ARG BUILD_DATE=N/A
 ARG APP_VERSION=N/A
 ARG APP_REVISION=N/A

-ARG NODE_VERSION=24
-
-FROM docker.io/node:$NODE_VERSION AS web
-
-ARG APP_VERSION
-
-WORKDIR /app/tools/ui
-
-COPY tools/ui/package.json tools/ui/package-lock.json ./
-RUN npm ci
-
-COPY tools/ui/ ./
-RUN LLAMA_BUILD_NUMBER="$APP_VERSION" npm run build
-
-FROM docker.io/ubuntu:$UBUNTU_VERSION AS build
+FROM ubuntu:$UBUNTU_VERSION AS build

 # Install build tools
 RUN apt update && apt install -y git build-essential cmake wget xz-utils
@@ -31,8 +17,6 @@ WORKDIR /app

 COPY . .

-COPY --from=web /app/tools/ui/dist tools/ui/dist
-
 RUN cmake -B build -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF -DGGML_VULKAN=ON -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON -DGGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS=ON && \
    cmake --build build --config Release -j$(nproc)

@@ -49,7 +33,7 @@ RUN mkdir -p /app/full \
    && cp .devops/tools.sh /app/full/tools.sh

 ## Base image
-FROM docker.io/ubuntu:$UBUNTU_VERSION AS base
+FROM ubuntu:$UBUNTU_VERSION AS base

 ARG BUILD_DATE=N/A
 ARG APP_VERSION=N/A
@@ -65,7 +49,7 @@ LABEL org.opencontainers.image.created=$BUILD_DATE \
      org.opencontainers.image.source=$IMAGE_SOURCE

 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y libgomp1 curl ffmpeg libvulkan1 mesa-vulkan-drivers \
+    && apt-get install -y libgomp1 curl libvulkan1 mesa-vulkan-drivers \
    libglvnd0 libgl1 libglx0 libegl1 libgles2 \
    && apt autoremove -y \
    && apt clean -y \
@@ -107,7 +91,7 @@ ENTRYPOINT ["/app/tools.sh"]
 ### Light, CLI only
 FROM base AS light

-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-cli /app/full/llama-completion /app
+COPY --from=build /app/full/llama-cli /app/full/llama-completion /app

 WORKDIR /app

@@ -118,7 +102,7 @@ FROM base AS server

 ENV LLAMA_ARG_HOST=0.0.0.0

-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-server /app
+COPY --from=build /app/full/llama-server /app

 WORKDIR /app

@@ -1,117 +0,0 @@
-ARG UBUNTU_VERSION=24.04
-ARG BUILD_DATE=N/A
-ARG APP_VERSION=N/A
-ARG APP_REVISION=N/A
-
-ARG NODE_VERSION=24
-
-FROM docker.io/node:$NODE_VERSION AS web
-
-ARG APP_VERSION
-
-WORKDIR /app/tools/ui
-
-COPY tools/ui/package.json tools/ui/package-lock.json ./
-RUN npm ci
-
-COPY tools/ui/ ./
-RUN LLAMA_BUILD_NUMBER="$APP_VERSION" npm run build
-
-FROM docker.io/ubuntu:$UBUNTU_VERSION AS build
-
-RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y gcc-13 g++-13 build-essential git cmake libssl-dev libomp-dev libnuma-dev python3 ca-certificates
-
-ENV CC=gcc-13 CXX=g++-13
-
-WORKDIR /app
-
-COPY . .
-
-COPY --from=web /app/tools/ui/dist tools/ui/dist
-
-RUN cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON -DGGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS=ON -DGGML_ZENDNN=ON && \
-    cmake --build build -j $(nproc)
-
-RUN mkdir -p /app/lib && \
-    find build -name "*.so*" -exec cp -P {} /app/lib \;
-
-RUN mkdir -p /app/full \
-    && cp build/bin/* /app/full \
-    && cp *.py /app/full \
-    && cp -r conversion /app/full \
-    && cp -r gguf-py /app/full \
-    && cp -r requirements /app/full \
-    && cp requirements.txt /app/full \
-    && cp .devops/tools.sh /app/full/tools.sh
-
-## Base image
-FROM docker.io/ubuntu:$UBUNTU_VERSION AS base
-
-ARG BUILD_DATE=N/A
-ARG APP_VERSION=N/A
-ARG APP_REVISION=N/A
-ARG IMAGE_URL=https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp
-ARG IMAGE_SOURCE=https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp
-LABEL org.opencontainers.image.created=$BUILD_DATE \
-      org.opencontainers.image.version=$APP_VERSION \
-      org.opencontainers.image.revision=$APP_REVISION \
-      org.opencontainers.image.title="llama.cpp" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.description="LLM inference in C/C++" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.url=$IMAGE_URL \
-      org.opencontainers.image.source=$IMAGE_SOURCE
-
-RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y libgomp1 libnuma1 curl ffmpeg \
-    && apt autoremove -y \
-    && apt clean -y \
-    && rm -rf /tmp/* /var/tmp/* \
-    && find /var/cache/apt/archives /var/lib/apt/lists -not -name lock -type f -delete \
-    && find /var/cache -type f -delete
-
-COPY --from=build /app/lib/ /app
-
-### Full
-FROM base AS full
-
-COPY --from=build /app/full /app
-
-WORKDIR /app
-
-RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y \
-    git \
-    python3 \
-    python3-pip \
-    python3-wheel \
-    && pip install --break-system-packages --upgrade setuptools \
-    && pip install --break-system-packages -r requirements.txt \
-    && apt autoremove -y \
-    && apt clean -y \
-    && rm -rf /tmp/* /var/tmp/* \
-    && find /var/cache/apt/archives /var/lib/apt/lists -not -name lock -type f -delete \
-    && find /var/cache -type f -delete
-
-ENTRYPOINT ["/app/tools.sh"]
-
-### Light, CLI only
-FROM base AS light
-
-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-cli /app/full/llama-completion /app
-
-WORKDIR /app
-
-ENTRYPOINT [ "/app/llama-cli" ]
-
-### Server, Server only
-FROM base AS server
-
-ENV LLAMA_ARG_HOST=0.0.0.0
-
-COPY --from=build /app/full/llama /app/full/llama-server /app
-
-WORKDIR /app
-
-HEALTHCHECK CMD [ "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:8080/health" ]
-
-ENTRYPOINT [ "/app/llama-server" ]
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@

 build*/

-tools/ui/node_modules/
-
 models/*

 /llama-cli
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-name: "ccache-clear"
-description: "Delete all GitHub Actions caches matching a key prefix"
-inputs:
-  key:
-    description: "Cache key prefix to match and delete"
-    required: true
-
-runs:
-  using: "composite"
-  steps:
-    - name: Clear caches
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        CACHES=$(gh cache list --key "ccache-${{ inputs.key }}" --json id,key --jq '.[] | "\(.id) \(.key)"' 2>/dev/null)
-        if [ -z "$CACHES" ]; then
-          echo "No caches found with key prefix: ${{ inputs.key }}"
-          exit 0
-        fi
-        while read -r id key; do
-          echo "Deleting cache: $id ($key)"
-          gh cache delete "$id"
-        done <<< "$CACHES"
@@ -15,6 +15,6 @@ runs:
      id: setup
      uses: ./.github/actions/unarchive-tar
      with:
-        url: https://github.com/spacemit-com/toolchain/releases/download/v${{ inputs.version }}/spacemit-toolchain-linux-glibc-x86_64-v${{ inputs.version }}.tar.xz
+        url: https://archive.spacemit.com/toolchain/spacemit-toolchain-linux-glibc-x86_64-v${{ inputs.version }}.tar.xz
        path: ${{ inputs.path }}
        strip: 1
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ runs:
      run: |
        mkdir -p ${{ inputs.path }}
        cd ${{ inputs.path }}
-        curl --no-progress-meter -L ${{ inputs.url }} | tar -${{ inputs.type }}x --strip-components=${{ inputs.strip }}
+        curl --no-progress-meter ${{ inputs.url }} | tar -${{ inputs.type }}x --strip-components=${{ inputs.strip }}
@@ -96,34 +96,3 @@ runs:
          echo "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.1\bin" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_PATH -Encoding utf8 -Append
          echo "CUDA_PATH=C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.1" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
          echo "CUDA_PATH_V13_1=C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.1" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
-
-    - name: Install Cuda Toolkit 13.3
-      if: ${{ inputs.cuda_version == '13.3' }}
-      shell: pwsh
-      run: |
-          mkdir -p "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3"
-          choco install unzip -y
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_crt/windows-x86_64/cuda_crt-windows-x86_64-13.3.33-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_cudart/windows-x86_64/cuda_cudart-windows-x86_64-13.3.29-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_nvcc/windows-x86_64/cuda_nvcc-windows-x86_64-13.3.33-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_nvrtc/windows-x86_64/cuda_nvrtc-windows-x86_64-13.3.33-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/libcublas/windows-x86_64/libcublas-windows-x86_64-13.5.1.27-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/libnvvm/windows-x86_64/libnvvm-windows-x86_64-13.3.33-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_nvtx/windows-x86_64/cuda_nvtx-windows-x86_64-13.3.29-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_profiler_api/windows-x86_64/cuda_profiler_api-windows-x86_64-13.3.27-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/visual_studio_integration/windows-x86_64/visual_studio_integration-windows-x86_64-13.3.27-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cccl/windows-x86_64/cccl-windows-x86_64-13.3.3.3.1-archive.zip"
-          unzip '*.zip' -d "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3"
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\cuda_crt-windows-x86_64-13.3.33-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\cuda_cudart-windows-x86_64-13.3.29-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\cuda_nvcc-windows-x86_64-13.3.33-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\cuda_nvrtc-windows-x86_64-13.3.33-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\libcublas-windows-x86_64-13.5.1.27-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\libnvvm-windows-x86_64-13.3.33-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\cuda_nvtx-windows-x86_64-13.3.29-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\cuda_profiler_api-windows-x86_64-13.3.27-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\visual_studio_integration-windows-x86_64-13.3.27-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\cccl-windows-x86_64-13.3.3.3.1-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" /E /I /H /Y
-          echo "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3\bin" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_PATH -Encoding utf8 -Append
-          echo "CUDA_PATH=C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
-          echo "CUDA_PATH_V13_3=C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.3" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-name: "Windows - Setup OpenVINO Toolkit"
-description: "Setup OpenVINO Toolkit for Windows"
-inputs:
-  path:
-    description: "Installation path"
-    required: true
-  version_major:
-    description: "OpenVINO major version (e.g., 2026.2)"
-    required: true
-  version_full:
-    description: "OpenVINO full version"
-    required: true
-
-runs:
-  using: "composite"
-  steps:
-    - name: Download and extract OpenVINO Runtime
-      shell: powershell
-      run: |
-        $url = "https://storage.openvinotoolkit.org/repositories/openvino/packages/${{ inputs.version_major }}/windows/openvino_toolkit_windows_${{ inputs.version_full }}_x86_64.zip"
-        $out = "openvino.zip"
-        Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -OutFile $out
-        Expand-Archive -Path $out -DestinationPath ${{ inputs.path }} -Force
-        Remove-Item $out
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYCL:
            - ggml/src/ggml-sycl/**
            - docs/backend/SYCL.md
            - examples/sycl/**
-CUDA:
+Nvidia GPU:
    - changed-files:
        - any-glob-to-any-file:
            - ggml/include/ggml-cuda.h
@@ -35,20 +35,8 @@ AMD ZenDNN:
 documentation:
    - changed-files:
        - any-glob-to-any-file:
-            - "**/*.md"
            - docs/**
            - media/**
-examples:
-    - all:
-        - changed-files:
-            - any-glob-to-any-file:
-                - app/**
-                - examples/**
-                - tools/**
-            - all-globs-to-all-files:
-                - '!tools/server/**'
-                - '!tools/mtmd/**'
-                - '!tools/ui/**'
 testing:
    - changed-files:
        - any-glob-to-any-file:
@@ -59,12 +47,28 @@ build:
            - cmake/**
            - CMakeLists.txt
            - CMakePresets.json
+examples:
+    - changed-files:
+        - any-glob-to-any-file:
+            - examples/**
+            - tools/**
 devops:
    - changed-files:
        - any-glob-to-any-file:
            - .devops/**
            - .github/**
            - ci/**
+python:
+    - changed-files:
+        - any-glob-to-any-file:
+            - "**/*.py"
+            - requirements/**
+            - gguf-py/**
+            - .flake8
+script:
+    - changed-files:
+        - any-glob-to-any-file:
+            - scripts/**
 android:
    - changed-files:
        - any-glob-to-any-file:
@@ -77,20 +81,9 @@ server:
    - changed-files:
        - any-glob-to-any-file:
            - tools/server/**
-mtmd:
-    - changed-files:
-        - any-glob-to-any-file:
-            - tools/mtmd/**
-conversion:
-    - changed-files:
-        - any-glob-to-any-file:
-            - conversion/**
-            - convert_*.py
-            - gguf-py/**
-vendor:
-    - changed-files:
-        - any-glob-to-any-file:
-            - vendor/**
+
+
+
 ggml:
    - changed-files:
        - any-glob-to-any-file:
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ concurrency:
 env:
  GGML_NLOOP: 3
  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1

 jobs:
  ubuntu-24-llguidance:
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
  android-ndk-snapdragon:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container:
-      image: 'ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-android:v0.7'
+      image: 'ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-android:v0.6'
    defaults:
      run:
        shell: bash
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ jobs:
  linux-iot-snapdragon:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container:
-      image: 'ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-linux:v0.7'
+      image: 'ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-linux:v0.6'
    defaults:
      run:
        shell: bash
@@ -27,12 +27,12 @@ concurrency:
 env:
  GGML_NLOOP: 3
  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1

 jobs:
-  default:
+  android:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ jobs:
          cd examples/llama.android
          ./gradlew build --no-daemon

-  ndk:
+  android-ndk:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container:
      image: 'ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-android:v0.3'
@@ -73,11 +73,6 @@ jobs:
          fetch-depth: 0
          lfs: false

-      - name: Dependencies
-        run: |
-          apt-get update
-          apt-get install -y build-essential
-
      - name: Build
        id: ndk_build
        run: |
@@ -91,59 +86,3 @@ jobs:
        with:
          name: llama-cpp-android-arm64-cpu
          path: pkg-adb/llama.cpp
-
-  arm64:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    env:
-      NDK_VERSION: "29.0.14206865"
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      # note : disabled to spare some cache space (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23789)
-      #        for some reason, the ccache does not improve the build time in this case
-      # example:
-      #   cache off: https://github.com/ggerganov/tmp2/actions/runs/26534713799/job/78160400831
-      #   cache on:  https://github.com/ggerganov/tmp2/actions/runs/26534713799/job/78224189394
-      #
-      #- name: ccache
-      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-      #  with:
-      #    key: android-ubuntu-arm64
-      #    evict-old-files: 1d
-      #    save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Set up JDK
-        uses: actions/setup-java@v5
-        with:
-          java-version: 17
-          distribution: temurin
-
-      - name: Setup Android SDK
-        uses: android-actions/setup-android@40fd30fb8d7440372e1316f5d1809ec01dcd3699 # v4.0.1
-        with:
-          log-accepted-android-sdk-licenses: false
-
-      - name: Install NDK
-        run: |
-          sdkmanager "ndk;${{ env.NDK_VERSION }}"
-          echo "ANDROID_NDK=${ANDROID_SDK_ROOT}/ndk/${{ env.NDK_VERSION }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${ANDROID_NDK}/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake \
-            -DANDROID_ABI=arm64-v8a \
-            -DANDROID_PLATFORM=android-28 \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON \
-            -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF \
-            -DGGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS=ON \
-            -DGGML_OPENMP=OFF \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
@@ -32,12 +32,12 @@ concurrency:
 env:
  GGML_NLOOP: 3
  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1

 jobs:
-  macos-latest-arm64:
+  macOS-latest-ios:
    runs-on: macos-latest

    steps:
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ jobs:
      - name: ccache
        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
-          key: apple-arm64
+          key: macOS-latest-ios
          evict-old-files: 1d
          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

@@ -56,58 +56,19 @@ jobs:
        id: cmake_build
        run: |
          sysctl -a
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_RPATH="@loader_path" \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON \
+          cmake -B build -G Xcode \
            -DGGML_METAL_USE_BF16=ON \
-            -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=OFF \
-            -DGGML_METAL_SHADER_DEBUG=ON \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)
-          leaks -atExit -- ./build/bin/test-thread-safety -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-270m-qat-GGUF -ngl 99 -p "$(printf 'hello %.0s' {1..128})" -n 16 -c 512 -ub 32 -np 2 -t 2 -lv 1
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main -E "test-llama-archs" --verbose --timeout 900
-
-  macos-latest-x64:
-    runs-on: macos-15-intel
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: apple-x64
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          sysctl -a
-          # Metal is disabled due to intermittent failures with Github runners not having a GPU:
-          # https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/runs/8635935781/job/23674807267#step:5:2313
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_RPATH="@loader_path" \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON \
-            -DGGML_METAL=OFF \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON \
-            -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=13.3
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900
+            -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON \
+            -DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF \
+            -DLLAMA_BUILD_COMMON=OFF \
+            -DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF \
+            -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=OFF \
+            -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
+            -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=OFF \
+            -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=iOS \
+            -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=14.0 \
+            -DCMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_DEVELOPMENT_TEAM=ggml
+          cmake --build build --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu) -- CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO

  macos-latest-ios-xcode:
    runs-on: macos-latest
@@ -156,7 +117,7 @@ jobs:
          xcodebuild -downloadPlatform iOS
          xcodebuild -project examples/llama.swiftui/llama.swiftui.xcodeproj -scheme llama.swiftui -sdk iphoneos CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED=NO CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY= -destination 'generic/platform=iOS' FRAMEWORK_FOLDER_PATH=./build-ios build

-  macos-latest-tvos:
+  macOS-latest-tvos:
    runs-on: macos-latest

    steps:
@@ -164,11 +125,10 @@ jobs:
        id: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

-      # TODO: this likely does not do anything - if yes, remove it
      - name: ccache
        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
-          key: apple-tvos
+          key: macOS-latest-tvos
          evict-old-files: 1d
          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

@@ -190,7 +150,7 @@ jobs:
            -DCMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_DEVELOPMENT_TEAM=ggml
          cmake --build build --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu) -- CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO

-  macos-latest-visionos:
+  macOS-latest-visionos:
    runs-on: macos-latest

    steps:
@@ -198,14 +158,6 @@ jobs:
        id: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

-      # TODO: this likely does not do anything - if yes, remove it
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: apple-visionos
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
        run: |
@@ -224,7 +176,7 @@ jobs:
            -DCMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_DEVELOPMENT_TEAM=ggml
          cmake --build build --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu) -- CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO

-  macos-latest-swift:
+  macOS-latest-swift:
    runs-on: macos-latest
    needs: macos-latest-ios-xcode

@@ -237,11 +189,10 @@ jobs:
        id: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

-      # TODO: this likely does not do anything - if yes, remove it
      - name: ccache
        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
-          key: apple-swift
+          key: macOS-latest-swift
          evict-old-files: 1d
          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ jobs:
        id: cache-sdk
        with:
          path: ./vulkan_sdk
-          key: cache-gha-vulkan-sdk-${{ env.VULKAN_SDK_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
+          key: vulkan-sdk-${{ env.VULKAN_SDK_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}

      - name: Setup Vulkan SDK
        if: steps.cache-sdk.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
  #      id: cache-toolchain
  #      with:
  #        path: ./spacemit_toolchain
-  #        key: cache-gha-spacemit-ime-toolchain-v${{ env.SPACEMIT_IME_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
+  #        key: spacemit-ime-toolchain-v${{ env.SPACEMIT_IME_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}

  #    - name: Setup SpacemiT Toolchain
  #      if: steps.cache-toolchain.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ jobs:

    env:
      # Sync versions in build.yml, build-self-hosted.yml, release.yml, build-cache.yml, .devops/openvino.Dockerfile
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.2.1"
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.2.1.21919.ede283a88e3"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.0"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.0.0.20965.c6d6a13a886"

    steps:
      - name: Clone
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ jobs:
        id: cache-openvino
        with:
          path: ./openvino_toolkit
-          key: cache-gha-openvino-toolkit-v${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}-${{ runner.os }}
+          key: openvino-toolkit-v${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}-${{ runner.os }}

      - name: Setup OpenVINO Toolkit
        if: steps.cache-openvino.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
@@ -91,34 +91,6 @@ jobs:
          version_major: ${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR }}
          version_full: ${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}

-  windows-2022-openvino-cache:
-    runs-on: windows-2022
-
-    env:
-      # Sync versions in build.yml, build-self-hosted.yml, release.yml, build-cache.yml, .devops/openvino.Dockerfile
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.2.1"
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.2.1.21919.ede283a88e3"
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Setup Cache
-        uses: actions/cache@v5
-        id: cache-openvino
-        with:
-          path: ./openvino_toolkit
-          key: cache-gha-openvino-toolkit-v${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}-${{ runner.os }}
-
-      - name: Setup OpenVINO Toolkit
-        if: steps.cache-openvino.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
-        uses: ./.github/actions/windows-setup-openvino
-        with:
-          path: ./openvino_toolkit
-          version_major: ${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR }}
-          version_full: ${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}
-
  windows-2022-rocm-cache:
    runs-on: windows-2022

@@ -136,7 +108,7 @@ jobs:
        id: cache-rocm
        with:
          path: C:\Program Files\AMD\ROCm
-          key: cache-gha-rocm-${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
+          key: rocm-${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}

      - name: Setup ROCm
        if: steps.cache-rocm.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
@@ -29,76 +29,74 @@ concurrency:
 env:
  GGML_NLOOP: 3
  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1

 jobs:
-# TODO: this build is disabled to save Github Actions resources (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23705)
-#       in order to enable it again, we have to provision dedicated runners  to run it
-#  openEuler-latest-cann:
-#    defaults:
-#      run:
-#        shell: bash -el {0}
-#    strategy:
-#      matrix:
-#        arch: [x86, aarch64]
-#        chip_type: ['910b', '310p']
-#        build: ['Release']
-#        use_acl_graph: ['on', 'off']
-#        exclude:
-#          # 310P does not support USE_ACL_GRAPH=on
-#          - chip_type: '310p'
-#            use_acl_graph: 'on'
-#    runs-on: ${{ matrix.arch == 'aarch64' && 'ubuntu-24.04-arm' || 'ubuntu-24.04' }}
-#    steps:
-#      - name: Checkout
-#        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-#        with:
-#          fetch-depth: 0
-#
-#      - name: Free up disk space
-#        uses: ggml-org/free-disk-space@v1.3.1
-#        with:
-#          tool-cache: true
-#
-#      - name: Set container image
-#        id: cann-image
-#        run: |
-#          image="ascendai/cann:${{ matrix.chip_type == '910b' &&  '8.5.0-910b-openeuler24.03-py3.11' || '8.5.0-310p-openeuler24.03-py3.11' }}"
-#          echo "image=${image}" >> "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
-#
-#      - name: Pull container image
-#        run: docker pull "${{ steps.cann-image.outputs.image }}"
-#
-#      - name: Build
-#        env:
-#          BUILD_TYPE: ${{ matrix.build }}
-#          SOC_TYPE: ascend${{ matrix.chip_type }}
-#          USE_ACL_GRAPH: ${{ matrix.use_acl_graph }}
-#        run: |
-#          HOST_UID=$(id -u)
-#          HOST_GID=$(id -g)
-#
-#          docker run --rm \
-#            -v "${PWD}:/workspace" \
-#            -w /workspace \
-#            -e SOC_TYPE=${SOC_TYPE} \
-#            -e BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE} \
-#            -e USE_ACL_GRAPH=${USE_ACL_GRAPH} \
-#            "${{ steps.cann-image.outputs.image }}" \
-#            bash -lc '
-#              set -e
-#              yum install -y --setopt=install_weak_deps=False --setopt=tsflags=nodocs git gcc gcc-c++ make cmake openssl-devel
-#              yum clean all && rm -rf /var/cache/yum
-#              git config --global --add safe.directory "/workspace"
-#              export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${ASCEND_TOOLKIT_HOME}/lib64:${ASCEND_TOOLKIT_HOME}/$(uname -m)-linux/devlib/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
-#              cmake -S . -B build \
-#                  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE} \
-#                  -DGGML_CANN=on \
-#                  -DSOC_TYPE=${SOC_TYPE} \
-#                  -DUSE_ACL_GRAPH=${USE_ACL_GRAPH}
-#              cmake --build build -j $(nproc)
-#
-#              chown -R '"${HOST_UID}"':'"${HOST_GID}"' /workspace/build
-#            '
+  openEuler-latest-cann:
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash -el {0}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        arch: [x86, aarch64]
+        chip_type: ['910b', '310p']
+        build: ['Release']
+        use_acl_graph: ['on', 'off']
+        exclude:
+          # 310P does not support USE_ACL_GRAPH=on
+          - chip_type: '310p'
+            use_acl_graph: 'on'
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.arch == 'aarch64' && 'ubuntu-24.04-arm' || 'ubuntu-24.04' }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Free up disk space
+        uses: ggml-org/free-disk-space@v1.3.1
+        with:
+          tool-cache: true
+
+      - name: Set container image
+        id: cann-image
+        run: |
+          image="ascendai/cann:${{ matrix.chip_type == '910b' &&  '8.5.0-910b-openeuler24.03-py3.11' || '8.5.0-310p-openeuler24.03-py3.11' }}"
+          echo "image=${image}" >> "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
+
+      - name: Pull container image
+        run: docker pull "${{ steps.cann-image.outputs.image }}"
+
+      - name: Build
+        env:
+          BUILD_TYPE: ${{ matrix.build }}
+          SOC_TYPE: ascend${{ matrix.chip_type }}
+          USE_ACL_GRAPH: ${{ matrix.use_acl_graph }}
+        run: |
+          HOST_UID=$(id -u)
+          HOST_GID=$(id -g)
+
+          docker run --rm \
+            -v "${PWD}:/workspace" \
+            -w /workspace \
+            -e SOC_TYPE=${SOC_TYPE} \
+            -e BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE} \
+            -e USE_ACL_GRAPH=${USE_ACL_GRAPH} \
+            "${{ steps.cann-image.outputs.image }}" \
+            bash -lc '
+              set -e
+              yum install -y --setopt=install_weak_deps=False --setopt=tsflags=nodocs git gcc gcc-c++ make cmake openssl-devel
+              yum clean all && rm -rf /var/cache/yum
+              git config --global --add safe.directory "/workspace"
+              export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${ASCEND_TOOLKIT_HOME}/lib64:${ASCEND_TOOLKIT_HOME}/$(uname -m)-linux/devlib/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
+              cmake -S . -B build \
+                  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE} \
+                  -DGGML_CANN=on \
+                  -DSOC_TYPE=${SOC_TYPE} \
+                  -DUSE_ACL_GRAPH=${USE_ACL_GRAPH}
+              cmake --build build -j $(nproc)
+
+              chown -R '"${HOST_UID}"':'"${HOST_GID}"' /workspace/build
+            '
@@ -1,215 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (cpu)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-cpu.yml',
-      '.github/workflows/build-cmake-pkg.yml',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp',
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-cpu.yml',
-      '.github/workflows/build-cmake-pkg.yml',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  build-cmake-pkg:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/build-cmake-pkg.yml
-
-  ubuntu:
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          - build: 'x64'
-            os: ubuntu-22.04
-          - build: 'arm64'
-            os: ubuntu-24.04-arm
-
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: cpu-${{ matrix.os }}
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Build Dependencies
-        id: build_depends
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            python3 python3-pip python3-dev python3-wheel \
-            libjpeg-dev build-essential libssl-dev \
-            git-lfs
-
-      - name: Toolchain workaround (GCC 14)
-        if: ${{ contains(matrix.os, 'ubuntu-24.04') }}
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get install -y gcc-14 g++-14
-          echo "CC=gcc-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "CXX=g++-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-
-      - name: Python Dependencies
-        id: python_depends
-        run: |
-          export PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES="1"
-          python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
-          pip3 install ./gguf-py
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900
-
-      - name: Test llama2c conversion
-        id: llama2c_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          echo "Fetch tokenizer"
-          wget https://huggingface.co/karpathy/tinyllamas/resolve/main/stories260K/tok512.bin
-          echo "Fetch llama2c model"
-          wget https://huggingface.co/karpathy/tinyllamas/resolve/main/stories260K/stories260K.bin
-          ./bin/llama-convert-llama2c-to-ggml --copy-vocab-from-model ./tok512.bin --llama2c-model stories260K.bin --llama2c-output-model stories260K.gguf
-          ./bin/llama-completion -m stories260K.gguf -p "One day, Lily met a Shoggoth" -n 500 -c 256
-
-  windows:
-    runs-on: windows-2025
-
-    env:
-      OPENBLAS_VERSION: 0.3.23
-      SDE_VERSION: 9.33.0-2024-01-07
-      VULKAN_VERSION: 1.4.313.2
-
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          - build: 'x64-cpu-static'
-            arch: 'x64'
-            defines: '-G "Ninja Multi-Config" -D CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/x64-windows-llvm.cmake -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=ON -DGGML_RPC=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF'
-          - build: 'x64-openblas'
-            arch: 'x64'
-            defines: '-G "Ninja Multi-Config" -D CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/x64-windows-llvm.cmake -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=ON -DGGML_RPC=ON -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON -DGGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS=ON -DGGML_OPENMP=OFF -DGGML_BLAS=ON -DGGML_BLAS_VENDOR=OpenBLAS -DBLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS="$env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas/include" -DBLAS_LIBRARIES="$env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas/lib/openblas.lib"'
-          - build: 'x64-vulkan'
-            arch: 'x64'
-            defines: '-G "Ninja Multi-Config" -D CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/x64-windows-llvm.cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=ON -DGGML_RPC=ON -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON -DGGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS=ON -DGGML_VULKAN=ON'
-          - build: 'arm64'
-            arch: 'arm64'
-            defines: '-G "Ninja Multi-Config" -D CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/arm64-windows-llvm.cmake -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=ON'
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: cpu-windows-2025-${{ matrix.build }}
-          variant: ccache
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Download OpenBLAS
-        id: get_openblas
-        if: ${{ matrix.build == 'x64-openblas' }}
-        run: |
-          curl.exe -o $env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas.zip -L "https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/releases/download/v${env:OPENBLAS_VERSION}/OpenBLAS-${env:OPENBLAS_VERSION}-x64.zip"
-          curl.exe -o $env:RUNNER_TEMP/OpenBLAS.LICENSE.txt -L "https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/raw/v${env:OPENBLAS_VERSION}/LICENSE"
-          mkdir $env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas
-          tar.exe -xvf $env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas.zip -C $env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas
-          $vcdir = $(vswhere -latest -products * -requires Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64 -property installationPath)
-          $msvc = $(join-path $vcdir $('VC\Tools\MSVC\'+$(gc -raw $(join-path $vcdir 'VC\Auxiliary\Build\Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.txt')).Trim()))
-          $lib =  $(join-path $msvc 'bin\Hostx64\x64\lib.exe')
-          & $lib /machine:x64 "/def:${env:RUNNER_TEMP}/openblas/lib/libopenblas.def" "/out:${env:RUNNER_TEMP}/openblas/lib/openblas.lib" /name:openblas.dll
-
-      - name: Install Vulkan SDK
-        id: get_vulkan
-        if: ${{ matrix.build == 'x64-vulkan' }}
-        run: |
-          curl.exe -o $env:RUNNER_TEMP/VulkanSDK-Installer.exe -L "https://sdk.lunarg.com/sdk/download/${env:VULKAN_VERSION}/windows/vulkansdk-windows-X64-${env:VULKAN_VERSION}.exe"
-          & "$env:RUNNER_TEMP\VulkanSDK-Installer.exe" --accept-licenses --default-answer --confirm-command install
-          Add-Content $env:GITHUB_ENV "VULKAN_SDK=C:\VulkanSDK\${env:VULKAN_VERSION}"
-          Add-Content $env:GITHUB_PATH "C:\VulkanSDK\${env:VULKAN_VERSION}\bin"
-
-      - name: Install Ninja
-        id: install_ninja
-        run: |
-          choco install ninja
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -S . -B build ${{ matrix.defines }} `
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON
-          cmake --build build --config Release -j ${env:NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS}
-
-      - name: Add libopenblas.dll
-        id: add_libopenblas_dll
-        if: ${{ matrix.build == 'x64-openblas' }}
-        run: |
-          cp $env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas/bin/libopenblas.dll ./build/bin/Release/openblas.dll
-          cp $env:RUNNER_TEMP/OpenBLAS.LICENSE.txt ./build/bin/Release/OpenBLAS-${env:OPENBLAS_VERSION}.txt
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        if: ${{ matrix.arch == 'x64' }}
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main -C Release --verbose --timeout 900
-
-      # TODO: disabled for now, consider adding tests for all CPU variants instead
-      # - name: Test (Intel SDE)
-      #   id: cmake_test_sde
-      #   if: ${{ matrix.build == 'avx512-x64' && env.HAS_AVX512F == '0' }} # use Intel SDE for AVX-512 emulation
-      #   run: |
-      #     curl.exe -o $env:RUNNER_TEMP/sde.tar.xz -L "https://downloadmirror.intel.com/813591/sde-external-${env:SDE_VERSION}-win.tar.xz"
-      #     # for some weird reason windows tar doesn't like sde tar.xz
-      #     7z x "-o${env:RUNNER_TEMP}" $env:RUNNER_TEMP/sde.tar.xz
-      #     7z x "-o${env:RUNNER_TEMP}" $env:RUNNER_TEMP/sde.tar
-      #     $sde = $(join-path $env:RUNNER_TEMP sde-external-${env:SDE_VERSION}-win/sde.exe)
-      #     cd build
-      #     $env:LLAMA_SKIP_TESTS_SLOW_ON_EMULATOR = 1
-      #     & $sde -future -- ctest -L main -C Release --verbose --timeout 900
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ jobs:

    env:
      # Make sure this is in sync with build-cache.yml
-      SPACEMIT_IME_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION: "1.2.4"
+      SPACEMIT_IME_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION: "1.1.2"

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ jobs:
      #  id: cache-toolchain
      #  with:
      #    path: ./spacemit_toolchain
-      #    key: cache-gha-spacemit-ime-toolchain-v${{ env.SPACEMIT_IME_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
+      #    key: spacemit-ime-toolchain-v${{ env.SPACEMIT_IME_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}

      - name: Setup SpacemiT Toolchain
        #if: steps.cache-toolchain.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
@@ -1,134 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (CUDA, ubuntu)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-cuda-ubuntu.yml',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp',
-      '**/*.cu',
-      '**/*.cuh'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-cuda-ubuntu.yml',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-cuda/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  cuda:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-    container: nvidia/cuda:12.6.2-devel-ubuntu24.04
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        env:
-          DEBIAN_FRONTEND: noninteractive
-        run: |
-          apt update
-          apt install -y cmake build-essential ninja-build libgomp1 git libssl-dev
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: cuda-ubuntu-24.04-cuda
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Build with CMake
-        # TODO: Remove GGML_CUDA_CUB_3DOT2 flag once CCCL 3.2 is bundled within CTK and that CTK version is used in this project
-        run: |
-          cmake -S . -B build -G Ninja \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-            -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=89-real \
-            -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS=-Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined \
-            -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF \
-            -DGGML_CUDA=ON \
-            -DGGML_CUDA_CUB_3DOT2=ON
-          cmake --build build
-
-  hip:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    container: rocm/dev-ubuntu-22.04:6.1.2
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Dependencies
-        id: depends
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git cmake rocblas-dev hipblas-dev libssl-dev rocwmma-dev
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: cuda-ubuntu-22.04-hip
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Build with native CMake HIP support
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build -S . \
-            -DCMAKE_HIP_COMPILER="$(hipconfig -l)/clang" \
-            -DGGML_HIP_ROCWMMA_FATTN=ON \
-            -DGPU_TARGETS="gfx1030" \
-            -DGGML_HIP=ON
-          cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
-
-  musa:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    container: mthreads/musa:rc4.3.0-devel-ubuntu22.04-amd64
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Dependencies
-        id: depends
-        run: |
-          apt-get update
-          apt-get install -y build-essential git cmake libssl-dev
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: cuda-ubuntu-22.04-musa
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Build with native CMake MUSA support
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build -S . \
-            -DGGML_MUSA=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
@@ -1,162 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (CUDA, windows)
-
-# TODO: this workflow is only triggered manually because it is very heavy on the CI
-#       when we provision dedicated windows runners, we can enable it for pushes too
-# note: running this workflow manually will populate the ccache for the release builds
-#       this can be used before merging a PR to speed up the release workflow
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-
-# note: this will run in queue with the release workflow
-concurrency:
-  group: release
-  queue: max
-
-env:
-  GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  cuda:
-    runs-on: windows-2022
-
-    permissions:
-      actions: write
-
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        cuda: ['12.4', '13.3']
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: release-windows-2022-x64-cuda-${{ matrix.cuda }}
-
-      - name: Install Cuda Toolkit
-        uses: ./.github/actions/windows-setup-cuda
-        with:
-          cuda_version: ${{ matrix.cuda }}
-
-      - name: Install Ninja
-        id: install_ninja
-        run: |
-          choco install ninja
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        shell: cmd
-        # TODO: Remove GGML_CUDA_CUB_3DOT2 flag once CCCL 3.2 is bundled within CTK and that CTK version is used in this project
-        run: |
-          call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
-          cmake -S . -B build -G "Ninja Multi-Config" ^
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=ON ^
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON ^
-            -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF ^
-            -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON ^
-            -DGGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS=ON ^
-            -DGGML_CUDA=ON ^
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON ^
-            -DGGML_CUDA_CUB_3DOT2=ON
-          set /A NINJA_JOBS=%NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS%-1
-          cmake --build build --config Release -j %NINJA_JOBS% -t ggml
-          cmake --build build --config Release
-
-      - name: ccache-clear
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-clear
-        with:
-          key: release-windows-2022-x64-cuda-${{ matrix.cuda }}
-
-  hip:
-    runs-on: windows-2022
-
-    permissions:
-      actions: write
-
-    env:
-      # Make sure this is in sync with build-cache.yml
-      HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION: "26.Q1"
-
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          # sync with release.yml
-          - name: "radeon"
-            gpu_targets: "gfx1150;gfx1151;gfx1200;gfx1201;gfx1100;gfx1101;gfx1102;gfx1030;gfx1031;gfx1032"
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Grab rocWMMA package
-        id: grab_rocwmma
-        run: |
-          curl -o rocwmma.deb "https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/7.2.1/pool/main/r/rocwmma-dev/rocwmma-dev_2.2.0.70201-81~24.04_amd64.deb"
-          7z x rocwmma.deb
-          7z x data.tar
-
-      - name: Use ROCm Installation Cache
-        uses: actions/cache@v5
-        id: cache-rocm
-        with:
-          path: C:\Program Files\AMD\ROCm
-          key: cache-gha-rocm-${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
-
-      - name: Setup ROCm
-        if: steps.cache-rocm.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
-        uses: ./.github/actions/windows-setup-rocm
-        with:
-          version: ${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}
-
-      - name: Verify ROCm
-        id: verify
-        run: |
-          # Find and test ROCm installation
-          $clangPath = Get-ChildItem 'C:\Program Files\AMD\ROCm\*\bin\clang.exe' | Select-Object -First 1
-          if (-not $clangPath) {
-            Write-Error "ROCm installation not found"
-            exit 1
-          }
-          & $clangPath.FullName --version
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          # TODO: this build does not match the build in release.yml, so we use a different cache key
-          #       ideally, the builds should match, similar to the CUDA build above so that we would be able
-          #       to populate the ccache for the release with manual runs of this workflow
-          #key: release-windows-2022-x64-hip-${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.name }}
-          key: cuda-windows-2022-x64-hip-${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.name }}
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          $env:HIP_PATH=$(Resolve-Path 'C:\Program Files\AMD\ROCm\*\bin\clang.exe' | split-path | split-path)
-          $env:CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="${env:HIP_PATH}"
-          cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -B build -S . `
-            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER="${env:HIP_PATH}\bin\clang.exe" `
-            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER="${env:HIP_PATH}\bin\clang++.exe" `
-            -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-I$($PWD.Path.Replace('\', '/'))/opt/rocm-7.2.1/include/" `
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release `
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON `
-            -DROCM_DIR="${env:HIP_PATH}" `
-            -DGGML_HIP=ON `
-            -DGGML_HIP_ROCWMMA_FATTN=ON `
-            -DGPU_TARGETS="gfx1100"  `
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON
-          cmake --build build -j ${env:NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS}
-
-      - name: ccache-clear
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-clear
-        with:
-          #key: release-windows-2022-x64-hip-${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.name }}
-          key: cuda-windows-2022-x64-hip-${{ env.HIPSDK_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.name }}
@@ -1,150 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (ibm)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-ibm.yml',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-ibm.yml',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-cpu/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-
-  ubuntu-24-s390x:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-s390x
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Build Dependencies
-        id: build_depends
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            python3 python3-pip python3-dev python3-wheel \
-            libjpeg-dev build-essential libssl-dev \
-            git-lfs
-
-      - name: Toolchain workaround (GCC 14)
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get install -y gcc-14 g++-14
-          echo "CC=gcc-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "CXX=g++-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-
-      - name: Python Dependencies
-        id: python_depends
-        run: |
-          export PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES="1"
-          python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
-          pip3 install ./gguf-py
-
-      - name: Swap Endianness
-        id: endianness
-        run: |
-          for f in models/*.gguf; do
-            echo YES | python3 gguf-py/gguf/scripts/gguf_convert_endian.py $f big
-          done
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900
-
-      - name: Test llama2c (s390x)
-        id: llama2c_test_s390x
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          echo "Fetch llama2c big-endian model"
-          wget https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/models/resolve/main/tinyllamas/stories260K-be.gguf
-          ./bin/llama-completion -m stories260K-be.gguf -p "One day, Lily met a Shoggoth" -n 500 -c 256
-
-  ubuntu-24-ppc64le:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-ppc64le
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Build Dependencies
-        id: build_depends
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-            python3 python3-pip python3-dev python3-wheel \
-            libjpeg-dev build-essential libssl-dev \
-            git-lfs
-
-      - name: Toolchain workaround (GCC 14)
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get install -y gcc-14 g++-14
-          echo "CC=gcc-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "CXX=g++-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-
-      - name: Python Dependencies
-        id: python_depends
-        run: |
-          export PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES="1"
-          python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
-          pip3 install ./gguf-py
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900
-
-      - name: Test llama2c conversion
-        id: llama2c_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          echo "Fetch tokenizer"
-          wget https://huggingface.co/karpathy/tinyllamas/resolve/main/stories260K/tok512.bin
-          echo "Fetch llama2c model"
-          wget https://huggingface.co/karpathy/tinyllamas/resolve/main/stories260K/stories260K.bin
-          ./bin/llama-convert-llama2c-to-ggml --copy-vocab-from-model ./tok512.bin --llama2c-model stories260K.bin --llama2c-output-model stories260K.gguf
-          ./bin/llama-completion -m stories260K.gguf -p "One day, Lily met a Shoggoth" -n 500 -c 256
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ concurrency:
 env:
  GGML_NLOOP: 3
  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1

 jobs:
  windows-msys2:
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ jobs:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        include:
-          - { sys: UCRT64,  env: ucrt-x86_64,  compiler: gcc,   build: Release }
-          - { sys: CLANG64, env: clang-x86_64, compiler: clang, build: Release }
+          - { sys: UCRT64,  env: ucrt-x86_64,  build: Release }
+          - { sys: CLANG64, env: clang-x86_64, build: Release }

    steps:
      - name: Clone
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
      #- name: ccache
      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.16
      #  with:
-      #    key: msys-windows-2025-x64
+      #    key: windows-msys2
      #    variant: ccache
      #    evict-old-files: 1d
      #    save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ jobs:
          update: true
          msystem: ${{matrix.sys}}
          install: >-
-            mingw-w64-${{matrix.env}}-${{matrix.compiler}}
+            base-devel
+            git
+            mingw-w64-${{matrix.env}}-toolchain
            mingw-w64-${{matrix.env}}-cmake
            mingw-w64-${{matrix.env}}-openblas

@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (opencl)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-opencl.yml',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp',
-      '**/*.cl'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-opencl.yml',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-opencl/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  windows-2025-opencl-adreno:
-    runs-on: windows-2025
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: opencl-windows-2025-x64
-          variant: ccache
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Install Ninja
-        id: install_ninja
-        run: |
-          choco install ninja
-
-      - name: Install OpenCL Headers and Libs
-        id: install_opencl
-        run: |
-          git clone https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenCL-Headers
-          cd OpenCL-Headers
-          cmake -B build `
-            -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF `
-            -DOPENCL_HEADERS_BUILD_TESTING=OFF `
-            -DOPENCL_HEADERS_BUILD_CXX_TESTS=OFF `
-            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$env:RUNNER_TEMP/opencl-arm64-release"
-          cmake --build build --target install
-          git clone https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenCL-ICD-Loader
-          cd OpenCL-ICD-Loader
-          cmake -B build-arm64-release `
-            -A arm64 `
-            -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$env:RUNNER_TEMP/opencl-arm64-release" `
-            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$env:RUNNER_TEMP/opencl-arm64-release"
-          cmake --build build-arm64-release --target install --config release
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -S . -B build -G "Ninja Multi-Config" -D CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/arm64-windows-llvm.cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$env:RUNNER_TEMP/opencl-arm64-release" -DGGML_OPENCL=ON -DGGML_OPENCL_USE_ADRENO_KERNELS=ON -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON
-          cmake --build build --config Release -j ${env:NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS}
@@ -29,24 +29,48 @@ concurrency:
 env:
  GGML_NLOOP: 3
  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1

 jobs:
  ubuntu-24-openvino:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, Intel, OpenVINO]
+    name: ubuntu-24-openvino-${{ matrix.openvino_device }}
+
+    concurrency:
+      group: openvino-${{ matrix.variant }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}
+      cancel-in-progress: false
+
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          - variant: cpu
+            runner: '"ubuntu-24.04"'
+            openvino_device: "CPU"
+          - variant: gpu
+            runner: '["self-hosted","Linux","Intel","OpenVINO"]'
+            openvino_device: "GPU"
+
+    runs-on: ${{ fromJSON(matrix.runner) }}

    env:
      # Sync versions in build-openvino.yml, build-self-hosted.yml, release.yml, build-cache.yml, .devops/openvino.Dockerfile
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.2.1"
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.2.1.21919.ede283a88e3"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.0"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.0.0.20965.c6d6a13a886"

    steps:
      - name: Clone
        id: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

+      - name: ccache
+        if: runner.environment == 'github-hosted'
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
+        with:
+          key: ubuntu-24-openvino-${{ matrix.variant }}-no-preset-v1
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
+
      - name: Dependencies
        id: depends
        run: |
@@ -54,7 +78,16 @@ jobs:
          sudo apt-get install -y build-essential libssl-dev libtbb12 cmake ninja-build python3-pip
          sudo apt-get install -y ocl-icd-opencl-dev opencl-headers opencl-clhpp-headers intel-opencl-icd

+      - name: Use OpenVINO Toolkit Cache
+        if: runner.environment == 'github-hosted'
+        uses: actions/cache@v5
+        id: cache-openvino
+        with:
+          path: ./openvino_toolkit
+          key: openvino-toolkit-v${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}-${{ runner.os }}
+
      - name: Setup OpenVINO Toolkit
+        if: steps.cache-openvino.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
        uses: ./.github/actions/linux-setup-openvino
        with:
          path: ./openvino_toolkit
@@ -74,96 +107,14 @@ jobs:
          cmake -B build/ReleaseOV -G Ninja \
            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
            -DGGML_OPENVINO=ON
-          time cmake --build build/ReleaseOV --config Release --parallel
+          time cmake --build build/ReleaseOV --config Release -j $(nproc)

-      - name: Test (CPU)
-        id: cmake_test_cpu
+      - name: Test
+        id: cmake_test
        # TODO: fix and re-enable the `test-llama-archs` test below
        run: |
          cd ${{ github.workspace }}
+          if [ "${{ matrix.openvino_device }}" = "GPU" ]; then
+            export GGML_OPENVINO_DEVICE=GPU
+          fi
          ctest --test-dir build/ReleaseOV -L main -E "test-llama-archs" --verbose --timeout 2000
-
-      - name: Test (GPU)
-        id: cmake_test_gpu
-        # TODO: fix and re-enable the `test-llama-archs` test below
-        run: |
-          cd ${{ github.workspace }}
-          export GGML_OPENVINO_DEVICE=GPU
-          ctest --test-dir build/ReleaseOV -L main -E "test-llama-archs" --verbose --timeout 3000
-
-  openvino-windows-2022:
-    runs-on: windows-2022
-
-    env:
-      # Sync versions in build-openvino.yml, build-self-hosted.yml, release.yml, build-cache.yml, .devops/openvino.Dockerfile
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.2.1"
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.2.1.21919.ede283a88e3"
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: openvino-windows-2022
-          variant: ccache
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Setup Cache
-        uses: actions/cache@v5
-        id: cache-openvino
-        with:
-          path: ./openvino_toolkit
-          key: cache-gha-openvino-toolkit-v${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}-${{ runner.os }}
-
-      - name: Setup OpenVINO Toolkit
-        if: steps.cache-openvino.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
-        uses: ./.github/actions/windows-setup-openvino
-        with:
-          path: ./openvino_toolkit
-          version_major: ${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR }}
-          version_full: ${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}
-
-      - name: Install OpenCL using vcpkg
-        shell: powershell
-        run: |
-          git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg C:\vcpkg
-          C:\vcpkg\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
-          C:\vcpkg\vcpkg install opencl
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        shell: cmd
-        run: |
-          REM Find extracted OpenVINO folder dynamically
-          for /d %%i in (openvino_toolkit\*) do set OPENVINO_ROOT=%%i
-
-          if not exist "%OPENVINO_ROOT%\runtime\cmake\OpenVINOConfig.cmake" (
-              echo ERROR: OpenVINOConfig.cmake not found
-              exit /b 1
-          )
-
-          call "%OPENVINO_ROOT%\setupvars.bat"
-
-          cmake -B build\ReleaseOV -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" ^
-            -A x64 ^
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
-            -DGGML_OPENVINO=ON ^
-            -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=C:\vcpkg\scripts\buildsystems\vcpkg.cmake
-
-          cmake --build build\ReleaseOV --config Release -- /m
-
-      - name: Test (CPU)
-        id: cmake_test_cpu
-        shell: cmd
-        # TODO: fix and re-enable the `test-llama-archs` test below
-        run: |
-          REM Find extracted OpenVINO folder dynamically
-          for /d %%i in (openvino_toolkit\*) do set OPENVINO_ROOT=%%i
-          call "%OPENVINO_ROOT%\setupvars.bat"
-
-          cd build
-          ctest --test-dir ReleaseOV -L main -E "test-llama-archs" -C Release --verbose --timeout 3000
@@ -29,84 +29,11 @@ concurrency:
 env:
  GGML_NLOOP: 3
  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1

 jobs:
-  ubuntu-cpu-riscv64-native:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-riscv
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          # Install necessary packages
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev
-
-          # Set gcc-14 and g++-14 as the default compilers
-          sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-14 100
-          sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-14 100
-
-          git lfs install
-
-      - name: Check environment
-        run: |
-          uname -a
-          gcc --version
-          g++ --version
-          ldd --version
-          cmake --version
-          rustc --version
-          env
-          echo "nproc=$(nproc)"
-
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      # note: sparing some ccache since these jobs run on dedicated runners that are not part of the organitzation
-      #- name: ccache
-      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@afde29e5b5422e5da23cb1f639e8baecadeadfc3 # https://github.com/ggml-org/ccache-action/pull/1
-      #  with:
-      #    key: riscv-ubuntu-native
-      #    evict-old-files: 1d
-      #    save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-            -DGGML_OPENMP=OFF \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=ON \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=ON \
-            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache \
-            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON \
-            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc-14 \
-            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=riscv64-linux-gnu-g++-14
-
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900
-
-      - name: Test llama2c conversion
-        id: llama2c_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          echo "Fetch tokenizer"
-          wget https://huggingface.co/karpathy/tinyllamas/resolve/main/stories260K/tok512.bin
-          echo "Fetch llama2c model"
-          wget https://huggingface.co/karpathy/tinyllamas/resolve/main/stories260K/stories260K.bin
-          ./bin/llama-convert-llama2c-to-ggml --copy-vocab-from-model ./tok512.bin --llama2c-model stories260K.bin --llama2c-output-model stories260K.gguf
-          ./bin/llama-completion -m stories260K.gguf -p "One day, Lily met a Shoggoth" -n 500 -c 256
-
  ubuntu-riscv64-native-sanitizer:
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-riscv

@@ -135,13 +62,12 @@ jobs:
        id: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

-      # note: sparing some ccache since these jobs run on dedicated runners that are not part of the organitzation
-      #- name: ccache
-      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@afde29e5b5422e5da23cb1f639e8baecadeadfc3 # https://github.com/ggml-org/ccache-action/pull/1
-      #  with:
-      #    key: riscv-ubuntu-native-sanitizer-${{ matrix.sanitizer }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}
-      #    evict-old-files: 1d
-      #    save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
+      - name: ccache
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@afde29e5b5422e5da23cb1f639e8baecadeadfc3 # https://github.com/ggml-org/ccache-action/pull/1
+        with:
+          key: ubuntu-riscv64-native-sanitizer-${{ matrix.sanitizer }}-${{ matrix.build_type }}
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (rpc)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-rpc.yml',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-rpc.yml',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-rpc/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  ubuntu-24-rpc:
-    runs-on: ${{ 'ubuntu-24.04-arm' || 'ubuntu-24.04' }}
-
-    continue-on-error: true
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Dependencies
-        id: depends
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev ninja-build
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -G "Ninja" \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main --verbose
@@ -22,65 +22,66 @@ concurrency:
 env:
  GGML_NLOOP: 3
  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1

 jobs:
-  ctest:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, X64, CPU, Linux]
+  ubuntu-latest-sanitizer:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    continue-on-error: true

    strategy:
      matrix:
        sanitizer: [ADDRESS, THREAD, UNDEFINED]
+        build_type: [Debug]

    steps:
      - name: Clone
        id: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

-      # with UNDEFINED sanitizer, we have to build in Debug to avoid GCC 13 false-positive warnings
-      - name: Build (undefined)
-        id: cmake_build_undefined
-        if: ${{ matrix.sanitizer == 'UNDEFINED' }}
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DLLAMA_SANITIZE_${{ matrix.sanitizer }}=ON \
-            -DGGML_SANITIZE_${{ matrix.sanitizer }}=ON
+      - name: ccache
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
+        with:
+          key: ubuntu-latest-sanitizer-${{ matrix.sanitizer }}
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

-          cmake --build build --config Debug -j $(nproc)
+      - name: Dependencies
+        id: depends
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
-        if: ${{ matrix.sanitizer == 'ADDRESS' }}
+        if: ${{ matrix.sanitizer != 'THREAD' }}
        run: |
          cmake -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo \
+            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
            -DLLAMA_SANITIZE_${{ matrix.sanitizer }}=ON \
-            -DGGML_SANITIZE_${{ matrix.sanitizer }}=ON
+            -DGGML_SANITIZE_${{ matrix.sanitizer }}=ON \
+            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${{ matrix.build_type }}

-          cmake --build build --config RelWithDebInfo -j $(nproc)
+          cmake --build build --config ${{ matrix.build_type }} -j $(nproc)

      - name: Build (no OpenMP)
        id: cmake_build_no_openmp
        if: ${{ matrix.sanitizer == 'THREAD' }}
        run: |
          cmake -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo \
+            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
            -DLLAMA_SANITIZE_${{ matrix.sanitizer }}=ON \
            -DGGML_SANITIZE_${{ matrix.sanitizer }}=ON \
+            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${{ matrix.build_type }} \
            -DGGML_OPENMP=OFF

-          cmake --build build --config RelWithDebInfo -j $(nproc)
+          cmake --build build --config ${{ matrix.build_type }} -j $(nproc)

      - name: Test
        id: cmake_test
-        # skip run in Debug - very slow
-        if: ${{ matrix.sanitizer != 'UNDEFINED' }}
        run: |
          cd build
-          ctest -L main -E tokenizer --verbose --timeout 900
+          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900
@@ -50,12 +50,12 @@ concurrency:
 env:
  GGML_NLOOP: 3
  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1

 jobs:
-  gpu-cuda:
+  ggml-ci-nvidia-cuda:
    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, NVIDIA]

    steps:
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ jobs:
          nvidia-smi
          GG_BUILD_CUDA=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp

-  gpu-vulkan-nvidia-cm:
+  ggml-ci-nvidia-vulkan-cm:
    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, NVIDIA]

    steps:
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ jobs:
          vulkaninfo --summary
          GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 GGML_VK_DISABLE_COOPMAT2=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp

-  gpu-vulkan-nvidia-cm2:
+  ggml-ci-nvidia-vulkan-cm2:
    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, NVIDIA, COOPMAT2]

    steps:
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ jobs:
          vulkaninfo --summary
          GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp

-  gpu-webgpu-nvidia:
+  ggml-ci-nvidia-webgpu:
    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, NVIDIA, X64]

    steps:
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ jobs:
            bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp

  # TODO: provision AMX-compatible machine
-  #cpu-amx:
+  #ggml-ci-cpu-amx:
  #  runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, CPU, AMX]

  #  steps:
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ jobs:
  #        bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp

  # TODO: provision AMD GPU machine
-  # amd-vulkan:
+  # ggml-ci-amd-vulkan:
  #   runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, AMD]

  #   steps:
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ jobs:
  #         GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp

  # TODO: provision AMD GPU machine
-  # amd-rocm:
+  # ggml-ci-amd-rocm:
  #   runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, AMD]

  #   steps:
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ jobs:
  #         amd-smi static
  #         GG_BUILD_ROCM=1 GG_BUILD_AMDGPU_TARGETS="gfx1101" bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp

-  gpu-metal:
+  ggml-ci-mac-metal:
    runs-on: [self-hosted, macOS, ARM64]

    steps:
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          GG_BUILD_METAL=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp

-  gpu-webgpu-apple:
+  ggml-ci-mac-webgpu:
    runs-on: [self-hosted, macOS, ARM64]

    steps:
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ jobs:
          GG_BUILD_WEBGPU=1 GG_BUILD_WEBGPU_DAWN_PREFIX="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/dawn" \
            bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp

-  gpu-vulkan-apple:
+  ggml-ci-mac-vulkan:
    runs-on: [self-hosted, macOS, ARM64]

    steps:
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ jobs:
          vulkaninfo --summary
          GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp

-  gpu-vulkan-intel-linux:
+  ggml-ci-linux-intel-vulkan:
    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, Intel]

    steps:
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ jobs:
          vulkaninfo --summary
          GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp

-  gpu-vulkan-intel-windows:
+  ggml-ci-win-intel-vulkan:
    runs-on: [self-hosted, Windows, X64, Intel]

    steps:
@@ -261,13 +261,17 @@ jobs:
          # a valid python environment for testing
          LLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=OFF GG_BUILD_NINJA=1 GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 GG_BUILD_LOW_PERF=1 ./ci/run.sh ./results/llama.cpp ./mnt/llama.cpp

-  gpu-openvino-low-perf:
+  ggml-ci-intel-openvino-gpu-low-perf:
    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, Intel, OpenVINO]

+    concurrency:
+      group: openvino-gpu-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}
+      cancel-in-progress: false
+
    env:
      # Sync versions in build.yml, build-self-hosted.yml, release.yml, build-cache.yml, .devops/openvino.Dockerfile
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.2.1"
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.2.1.21919.ede283a88e3"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.0"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.0.0.20965.c6d6a13a886"

    steps:
      - name: Clone
@@ -293,8 +297,8 @@ jobs:
          source ./openvino_toolkit/setupvars.sh
          GG_BUILD_OPENVINO=1 GGML_OPENVINO_DEVICE=GPU GG_BUILD_LOW_PERF=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp

-  cpu-x64-high-perf:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, X64]
+  ggml-ci-arm64-cpu-low-perf:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, ARM64, CPU]

    steps:
      - name: Clone
@@ -304,84 +308,49 @@ jobs:
      - name: Test
        id: ggml-ci
        run: |
-          LLAMA_ARG_THREADS=$(nproc) GG_BUILD_HIGH_PERF=1 GG_BUILD_EXTRA_TESTS_0=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+          LLAMA_ARG_THREADS=$(nproc) GG_BUILD_LOW_PERF=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp

-  cpu-arm64-high-perf-graviton4:
-    runs-on: ah-ubuntu_22_04-c8g_8x
+  ggml-ci-arm64-cpu-high-perf:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, ARM64, CPU]

    steps:
      - name: Clone
        id: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

-      - name: Dependencies
-        id: depends
-        run: |
-          set -euxo pipefail
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive NEEDRESTART_MODE=a \
-          apt-get install -y \
-          build-essential \
-          python3-venv \
-          gpg \
-          wget \
-          time \
-          git-lfs
-
-          git lfs install
-
-          # install the latest cmake
-          sudo install -d /usr/share/keyrings
-          wget -O - https://apt.kitware.com/keys/kitware-archive-latest.asc \
-            | gpg --dearmor \
-            | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/kitware-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
-          echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/kitware-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.kitware.com/ubuntu/ jammy main' \
-            | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kitware.list
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y cmake
-
      - name: Test
        id: ggml-ci
        run: |
-          LLAMA_ARG_THREADS=$(nproc) GG_BUILD_HIGH_PERF=1 GG_BUILD_NO_BF16=1 GG_BUILD_EXTRA_TESTS_0=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+          LLAMA_ARG_THREADS=$(nproc) GG_BUILD_HIGH_PERF=1 GG_BUILD_NO_SVE=1 GG_BUILD_NO_BF16=1 GG_BUILD_EXTRA_TESTS_0=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp

-  cpu-arm64-graviton4-kleidiai:
-    runs-on: ah-ubuntu_22_04-c8g_8x
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Dependencies
-        id: depends
-        run: |
-          set -euxo pipefail
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive NEEDRESTART_MODE=a \
-          apt-get install -y \
-          build-essential \
-          python3-venv \
-          gpg \
-          wget \
-          time \
-          git-lfs
-
-          git lfs install
-
-          # install the latest cmake
-          sudo install -d /usr/share/keyrings
-          wget -O - https://apt.kitware.com/keys/kitware-archive-latest.asc \
-            | gpg --dearmor \
-            | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/kitware-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
-          echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/kitware-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.kitware.com/ubuntu/ jammy main' \
-            | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kitware.list
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y cmake
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        run: |
-          GG_BUILD_KLEIDIAI=1 \
-          GG_BUILD_EXTRA_TESTS_0=1 \
-          bash ./ci/run.sh ./tmp/results ./tmp/mnt
+# TODO: not sure how to detect ARM flags on DGX Spark. currently get this error during cmake:
+#         CMake Warning at ggml/src/ggml-cpu/CMakeLists.txt:147 (message):
+#           ARM -march/-mcpu not found, -mcpu=native will be used
+#
+#       if we resolve this, we should be able to offload these jobs to the self-hosted runners
+#
+#  ggml-ci-arm64-cpu-high-perf-sve:
+#    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, ARM64, CPU]
+#
+#    steps:
+#      - name: Clone
+#        id: checkout
+#        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+#
+#      - name: Test
+#        id: ggml-ci
+#        run: |
+#          LLAMA_ARG_THREADS=$(nproc) GG_BUILD_NO_BF16=1 GG_BUILD_EXTRA_TESTS_0=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+#
+#  ggml-ci-arm64-cpu-kleidiai:
+#    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, ARM64, CPU]
+#
+#    steps:
+#      - name: Clone
+#        id: checkout
+#        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+#
+#      - name: Test
+#        id: ggml-ci
+#        run: |
+#          GG_BUILD_KLEIDIAI=1 GG_BUILD_EXTRA_TESTS_0=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
@@ -29,11 +29,12 @@ concurrency:
 env:
  GGML_NLOOP: 3
  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1

 jobs:
+
  ubuntu-24-sycl:
    strategy:
      matrix:
@@ -55,12 +56,18 @@ jobs:
    continue-on-error: true

    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Use oneAPI Installation Cache
+        uses: actions/cache@v5
+        id: cache-sycl
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}
+          key: oneAPI-${{ env.ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}

      - name: Download & Install oneAPI
        shell: bash
+        if: steps.cache-sycl.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
        run: |
          cd /tmp
          wget https://registrationcenter-download.intel.com/akdlm/IRC_NAS/56f7923a-adb8-43f3-8b02-2b60fcac8cab/intel-deep-learning-essentials-2025.3.3.16_offline.sh -O intel-deep-learning-essentials_offline.sh
@@ -74,10 +81,14 @@ jobs:
          wget -q "https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}/level-zero-devel_${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}%2B${LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION}_amd64.deb" -O level-zero-devel.deb
          sudo apt-get install -y ./level-zero.deb ./level-zero-devel.deb

+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
      - name: ccache
        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
-          key: sycl-ubuntu-24-${{ matrix.build }}
+          key: ubuntu-24-sycl-${{ matrix.build }}
          evict-old-files: 1d
          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

@@ -114,8 +125,16 @@ jobs:
        id: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

+      - name: Use oneAPI Installation Cache
+        uses: actions/cache@v5
+        id: cache-sycl
+        with:
+          path: ${{ env.ONEAPI_ROOT }}
+          key: oneAPI-${{ env.ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
+
      - name: Download & Install oneAPI
        shell: bash
+        if: steps.cache-sycl.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
        run: |
          scripts/install-oneapi.bat $WINDOWS_BASEKIT_URL $WINDOWS_DPCPP_MKL

@@ -129,7 +148,7 @@ jobs:
      - name: ccache
        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
-          key: sycl-windows-latest
+          key: windows-latest-sycl
          variant: ccache
          evict-old-files: 1d
          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
@@ -31,49 +31,12 @@ concurrency:
 env:
  GGML_NLOOP: 3
  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1

 jobs:
-  ubuntu-arm64:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-arm
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Dependencies
-        id: depends
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y gcc-14 g++-14 build-essential glslc libvulkan-dev spirv-headers libssl-dev ninja-build
-          echo "CC=gcc-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "CXX=g++-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: vulkan-ubuntu-24.04-arm-new
-          variant: ccache
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Configure
-        id: cmake_configure
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -G "Ninja" \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-            -DGGML_VULKAN=ON
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          time cmake --build build -j $(nproc)
-
-  ubuntu-llvmpipe:
+  ubuntu-24-vulkan-llvmpipe:
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04

    steps:
@@ -81,6 +44,13 @@ jobs:
        id: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

+      - name: ccache
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
+        with:
+          key: ubuntu-24-vulkan-llvmpipe
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
+
      - name: Dependencies
        id: depends
        run: |
@@ -98,7 +68,7 @@ jobs:
        id: cache-sdk
        with:
          path: ./vulkan_sdk
-          key: cache-gha-vulkan-sdk-${{ env.VULKAN_SDK_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}
+          key: vulkan-sdk-${{ env.VULKAN_SDK_VERSION }}-${{ runner.os }}

      - name: Setup Vulkan SDK
        if: steps.cache-sdk.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
@@ -107,13 +77,6 @@ jobs:
          path: ./vulkan_sdk
          version: ${{ env.VULKAN_SDK_VERSION }}

-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: vulkan-ubuntu-24.04-llvmpipe
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
        run: |
@@ -1,196 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (webgpu)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-webgpu.yml',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp',
-      '**/*.wgsl'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/build-webgpu.yml',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-webgpu/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  format:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Install clang-format 22
-        run: |
-          wget -qO- https://apt.llvm.org/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key |
-            sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/apt.llvm.org.asc > /dev/null
-          sudo add-apt-repository -y \
-            "deb http://apt.llvm.org/noble/ llvm-toolchain-noble-22 main"
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y clang-format-22
-
-      - name: Check formatting
-        run: |
-          find ggml/src/ggml-webgpu \
-            -type f \( -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.hpp' -o -name '*.h' \) \
-            -print0 |
-            xargs -0 clang-format-22 --dry-run --Werror
-
-  macos:
-    runs-on: macos-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: webgpu-macos-latest
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Dawn Dependency
-        id: dawn-depends
-        run: |
-          DAWN_VERSION="v20260317.182325"
-          DAWN_OWNER="google"
-          DAWN_REPO="dawn"
-          DAWN_ASSET_NAME="Dawn-18eb229ef5f707c1464cc581252e7603c73a3ef0-macos-latest-Release"
-          echo "Fetching release asset from https://github.com/google/dawn/releases/download/${DAWN_VERSION}/${DAWN_ASSET_NAME}.tar.gz"
-          curl -L -o artifact.tar.gz \
-            "https://github.com/google/dawn/releases/download/${DAWN_VERSION}/${DAWN_ASSET_NAME}.tar.gz"
-          mkdir dawn
-          tar -xvf artifact.tar.gz -C dawn --strip-components=1
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=dawn
-          cmake -B build -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DGGML_WEBGPU=ON -DGGML_METAL=OFF -DGGML_BLAS=OFF
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900
-
-  ubuntu:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: webgpu-ubuntu-24.04
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Dependencies
-        id: depends
-        run: |
-          sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa
-          sudo apt-get update -y
-          sudo apt-get install -y build-essential mesa-vulkan-drivers \
-            libxcb-xinput0 libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-cursor-dev libssl-dev
-
-      - name: Dawn Dependency
-        id: dawn-depends
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get install -y libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev mesa-common-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxi-dev
-          DAWN_VERSION="v20260317.182325"
-          DAWN_OWNER="google"
-          DAWN_REPO="dawn"
-          DAWN_ASSET_NAME="Dawn-18eb229ef5f707c1464cc581252e7603c73a3ef0-ubuntu-latest-Release"
-          echo "Fetching release asset from https://github.com/google/dawn/releases/download/${DAWN_VERSION}/${DAWN_ASSET_NAME}.tar.gz"
-          curl -L -o artifact.tar.gz \
-            "https://github.com/google/dawn/releases/download/${DAWN_VERSION}/${DAWN_ASSET_NAME}.tar.gz"
-          mkdir dawn
-          tar -xvf artifact.tar.gz -C dawn --strip-components=1
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          export Dawn_DIR=dawn/lib64/cmake/Dawn
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DGGML_WEBGPU=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: cmake_test
-        run: |
-          cd build
-          # This is using llvmpipe and runs slower than other backends
-          # test-backend-ops is too slow on llvmpipe, skip it
-          ctest -L main -E test-backend-ops --verbose --timeout 900
-
-  ubuntu-wasm:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-arm
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
-        with:
-          key: webgpu-ubuntu-24.04-arm-wasm
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-
-      - name: Install Emscripten
-        run: |
-          git clone https://github.com/emscripten-core/emsdk.git
-          cd emsdk
-          ./emsdk install latest
-          ./emsdk activate latest
-
-      - name: Fetch emdawnwebgpu
-        run: |
-          DAWN_TAG="v20260317.182325"
-          EMDAWN_PKG="emdawnwebgpu_pkg-${DAWN_TAG}.zip"
-          echo "Downloading ${EMDAWN_PKG}"
-          curl -L -o emdawn.zip \
-            "https://github.com/google/dawn/releases/download/${DAWN_TAG}/${EMDAWN_PKG}"
-          unzip emdawn.zip
-
-      - name: Build WASM WebGPU
-        run: |
-          source emsdk/emsdk_env.sh
-          emcmake cmake -B build-wasm \
-            -G "Ninja" \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-            -DGGML_WEBGPU=ON \
-            -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
-            -DEMDAWNWEBGPU_DIR=emdawnwebgpu_pkg
-
-          time cmake --build build-wasm --config Release --target test-backend-ops -j $(nproc)
@@ -58,13 +58,6 @@ jobs:
          git tag ${{ steps.srctag.outputs.name }} || exit 0
          git push origin ${{ steps.srctag.outputs.name }} || exit 0

-  build_ui:
-    name: Build UI
-    needs: create_tag
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/ui-build.yml
-    with:
-      hf_ui_version: ${{ needs.create_tag.outputs.source_tag }}
-
  prepare_matrices:
    name: Prepare Docker matrices
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
@@ -86,11 +79,11 @@ jobs:
          [
            { "tag": "cpu", "dockerfile": ".devops/cpu.Dockerfile", "platforms": "linux/amd64", "full": true, "light": true, "server": true, "free_disk_space": false, "runs_on": "ubuntu-24.04" },
            { "tag": "cpu", "dockerfile": ".devops/cpu.Dockerfile", "platforms": "linux/arm64", "full": true, "light": true, "server": true, "free_disk_space": false, "runs_on": "ubuntu-24.04-arm" },
-            { "tag": "cpu", "dockerfile": ".devops/s390x.Dockerfile", "platforms": "linux/s390x", "full": true, "light": true, "server": true, "free_disk_space": false, "runs_on": "ubuntu-24.04-s390x", "prebuilt_ui": true },
+            { "tag": "cpu", "dockerfile": ".devops/s390x.Dockerfile", "platforms": "linux/s390x", "full": true, "light": true, "server": true, "free_disk_space": false, "runs_on": "ubuntu-24.04-s390x" },
            { "tag": "cuda cuda12", "dockerfile": ".devops/cuda.Dockerfile", "cuda_version": "12.8.1", "platforms": "linux/amd64", "full": true, "light": true, "server": true, "free_disk_space": true, "runs_on": "ubuntu-24.04" },
            { "tag": "cuda cuda12", "dockerfile": ".devops/cuda.Dockerfile", "cuda_version": "12.8.1", "platforms": "linux/arm64", "full": true, "light": true, "server": true, "free_disk_space": true, "runs_on": "ubuntu-24.04-arm" },
-            { "tag": "cuda13", "dockerfile": ".devops/cuda.Dockerfile", "cuda_version": "13.3.0", "platforms": "linux/amd64", "full": true, "light": true, "server": true, "free_disk_space": true, "runs_on": "ubuntu-24.04" },
-            { "tag": "cuda13", "dockerfile": ".devops/cuda.Dockerfile", "cuda_version": "13.3.0", "platforms": "linux/arm64", "full": true, "light": true, "server": true, "free_disk_space": true, "runs_on": "ubuntu-24.04-arm" },
+            { "tag": "cuda13", "dockerfile": ".devops/cuda.Dockerfile", "cuda_version": "13.1.1", "platforms": "linux/amd64", "full": true, "light": true, "server": true, "free_disk_space": true, "runs_on": "ubuntu-24.04" },
+            { "tag": "cuda13", "dockerfile": ".devops/cuda.Dockerfile", "cuda_version": "13.1.1", "platforms": "linux/arm64", "full": true, "light": true, "server": true, "free_disk_space": true, "runs_on": "ubuntu-24.04-arm" },
            { "tag": "musa", "dockerfile": ".devops/musa.Dockerfile", "platforms": "linux/amd64", "full": true, "light": true, "server": true, "free_disk_space": true, "runs_on": "ubuntu-24.04" },
            { "tag": "intel", "dockerfile": ".devops/intel.Dockerfile", "platforms": "linux/amd64", "full": true, "light": true, "server": true, "free_disk_space": true, "runs_on": "ubuntu-24.04" },
            { "tag": "vulkan", "dockerfile": ".devops/vulkan.Dockerfile", "platforms": "linux/amd64", "full": true, "light": true, "server": true, "free_disk_space": false, "runs_on": "ubuntu-24.04" },
@@ -142,7 +135,7 @@ jobs:

  push_to_registry:
    name: Push Docker image to Docker Registry
-    needs: [prepare_matrices, create_tag, build_ui]
+    needs: [prepare_matrices, create_tag]

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.config.runs_on }}
    strategy:
@@ -157,13 +150,6 @@ jobs:
          fetch-depth: 0
          ref: ${{ needs.create_tag.outputs.source_tag }}

-      - name: Download prebuilt UI
-        if: ${{ matrix.config.prebuilt_ui == true }}
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@3e5f45b2cfb9172054b4087a40e8e0b5a5461e7c # v8
-        with:
-          name: ui-build
-          path: tools/ui/dist
-
      - name: Set up QEMU
        if: ${{ contains(matrix.config.platforms, 'linux/amd64') }}
        uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@ce360397dd3f832beb865e1373c09c0e9f86d70a # v4
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ concurrency:
 env:
  GGML_NLOOP: 3
  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1

 jobs:
  ubuntu-22-hip-quality-check:
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ jobs:
      - name: ccache
        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
-          key: hip-quality-check-ubuntu-22.04
+          key: ubuntu-22-hip-quality-check
          evict-old-files: 1d
          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ name: Check Pre-Tokenizer Hashes
 on:
    push:
        paths:
-            - 'conversion/base.py'
+            - 'convert_hf_to_gguf.py'
            - 'convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py'
    pull_request:
        paths:
-            - 'conversion/base.py'
+            - 'convert_hf_to_gguf.py'
            - 'convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py'

 jobs:
@@ -30,16 +30,16 @@ jobs:

        - name: Update pre-tokenizer hashes
          run: |
-              cp conversion/base.py /tmp
+              cp convert_hf_to_gguf.py /tmp
              .venv/bin/python convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py --check-missing

        - name: Check if committed pre-tokenizer hashes matches generated version
          run: |
-              if ! diff -q conversion/base.py /tmp/base.py; then
-                  echo "Model pre-tokenizer hashes (in conversion/base.py) do not match generated hashes (from convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py)."
-                  echo "To fix: run ./convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py and commit the updated conversion/base.py along with your changes"
+              if ! diff -q convert_hf_to_gguf.py /tmp/convert_hf_to_gguf.py; then
+                  echo "Model pre-tokenizer hashes (in convert_hf_to_gguf.py) do not match generated hashes (from convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py)."
+                  echo "To fix: run ./convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py and commit the updated convert_hf_to_gguf.py along with your changes"
                  echo "Differences found:"
-                  diff conversion/base.py /tmp/base.py || true
+                  diff convert_hf_to_gguf.py /tmp/convert_hf_to_gguf.py || true
                  exit 1
              fi
              echo "Model pre-tokenizer hashes are up to date."
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ on:
    ]

 env:
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10

 concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ concurrency:

 jobs:
  server:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, CPU, Linux, llama-server]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    strategy:
      matrix:
@@ -46,19 +46,19 @@ jobs:
      fail-fast: false

    steps:
-      #- name: Dependencies
-      #  id: depends
-      #  run: |
-      #    sudo apt-get update
-      #    sudo apt-get -y install \
-      #      build-essential \
-      #      xxd \
-      #      git \
-      #      cmake \
-      #      curl \
-      #      wget \
-      #      language-pack-en \
-      #      libssl-dev
+      - name: Dependencies
+        id: depends
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get -y install \
+            build-essential \
+            xxd \
+            git \
+            cmake \
+            curl \
+            wget \
+            language-pack-en \
+            libssl-dev

      - name: Clone
        id: checkout
@@ -29,10 +29,10 @@ on:
    ]

 env:
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10

 concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
@@ -42,6 +42,23 @@ jobs:
  server-metal:
    runs-on: [self-hosted, llama-server, macOS, ARM64]

+    name: server-metal (${{ matrix.wf_name }})
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        build_type: [Release]
+        wf_name: ["GPUx1"]
+        include:
+          - build_type: Release
+            extra_args: "LLAMA_ARG_BACKEND_SAMPLING=1"
+            wf_name:    "GPUx1, backend-sampling"
+          - build_type: Release
+            extra_args: "GGML_METAL_DEVICES=2"
+            wf_name:    "GPUx2"
+          - build_type: Release
+            extra_args: "GGML_METAL_DEVICES=2 LLAMA_ARG_BACKEND_SAMPLING=1"
+            wf_name:    "GPUx2, backend-sampling"
+      fail-fast: false
+
    steps:
      - name: Clone
        id: checkout
@@ -50,58 +67,44 @@ jobs:
          fetch-depth: 0
          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.sha || github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha || github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}

+      - name: Setup Node.js
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
+        with:
+          node-version: "24"
+          cache: "npm"
+          cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"
+
      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
        run: |
          cmake -B build -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON
-          cmake --build build --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu) --target llama-server
+          cmake --build build --config ${{ matrix.build_type }} -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu) --target llama-server

-      - name: Python setup
-        id: setup_python
+      - name: Tests
+        id: server_integration_tests
+        if: ${{ (!matrix.disabled_on_pr || !github.event.pull_request) }}
        run: |
          cd tools/server/tests
          python3 -m venv venv
          source venv/bin/activate
          pip install -r requirements.txt
-
-      - name: Tests (GPUx1)
-        id: server_integration_tests
-        if: ${{ !github.event.pull_request }}
-        run: |
-          cd tools/server/tests
-          source venv/bin/activate
-          pytest -v -x -m "not slow"
-
-      - name: Tests (GPUx1, backend-sampling)
-        id: server_integration_tests_backend_sampling
-        if: ${{ !github.event.pull_request }}
-        run: |
-          cd tools/server/tests
-          source venv/bin/activate
-          export LLAMA_ARG_BACKEND_SAMPLING=1
-          pytest -v -x -m "not slow"
-
-      - name: Tests (GPUx2)
-        id: server_integration_tests_gpu2
-        if: ${{ !github.event.pull_request }}
-        run: |
-          cd tools/server/tests
-          source venv/bin/activate
-          export GGML_METAL_DEVICES=2
-          pytest -v -x -m "not slow"
-
-      - name: Tests (GPUx2, backend-sampling)
-        id: server_integration_tests_gpu2_backend_sampling
-        if: ${{ !github.event.pull_request }}
-        run: |
-          cd tools/server/tests
-          source venv/bin/activate
-          export GGML_METAL_DEVICES=2 LLAMA_ARG_BACKEND_SAMPLING=1
+          export ${{ matrix.extra_args }}
          pytest -v -x -m "not slow"

  server-cuda:
    runs-on: [self-hosted, llama-server, Linux, NVIDIA]

+    name: server-cuda (${{ matrix.wf_name }})
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        build_type: [Release]
+        wf_name: ["GPUx1"]
+        include:
+          - build_type: Release
+            extra_args: "LLAMA_ARG_BACKEND_SAMPLING=1"
+            wf_name:    "GPUx1, backend-sampling"
+      fail-fast: false
+
    steps:
      - name: Clone
        id: checkout
@@ -114,36 +117,32 @@ jobs:
        id: cmake_build
        run: |
          cmake -B build -DGGML_CUDA=ON -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON
-          cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc) --target llama-server
+          cmake --build build --config ${{ matrix.build_type }} -j $(nproc) --target llama-server

-      - name: Python setup
-        id: setup_python
+      - name: Tests
+        id: server_integration_tests
+        if: ${{ (!matrix.disabled_on_pr || !github.event.pull_request) }}
        run: |
          cd tools/server/tests
          python3 -m venv venv
          source venv/bin/activate
          pip install -r requirements.txt
-
-      - name: Tests (GPUx1)
-        id: server_integration_tests
-        if: ${{ !github.event.pull_request }}
-        run: |
-          cd tools/server/tests
-          source venv/bin/activate
-          pytest -v -x -m "not slow"
-
-      - name: Tests (GPUx1, backend-sampling)
-        id: server_integration_tests_backend_sampling
-        if: ${{ !github.event.pull_request }}
-        run: |
-          cd tools/server/tests
-          source venv/bin/activate
-          export LLAMA_ARG_BACKEND_SAMPLING=1
+          export ${{ matrix.extra_args }}
          pytest -v -x -m "not slow"

  server-kleidiai:
    runs-on: ah-ubuntu_22_04-c8g_8x

+    name: server-kleidiai (${{ matrix.wf_name }})
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          - build_type: Release
+            extra_build_flags: "-DGGML_CPU_KLEIDIAI=ON"
+            extra_args: ""
+            wf_name:    "CPUx1, kleidiai"
+      fail-fast: false
+
    steps:
      - name: Clone
        id: checkout
@@ -182,21 +181,16 @@ jobs:
      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
        run: |
-          cmake -B build -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON -DGGML_CPU_KLEIDIAI=ON
-          cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc) --target llama-server
+          cmake -B build -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON ${{ matrix.extra_build_flags }}
+          cmake --build build --config ${{ matrix.build_type }} -j $(nproc) --target llama-server

-      - name: Python setup
-        id: setup_python
+      - name: Tests
+        id: server_integration_tests
+        if: ${{ (!matrix.disabled_on_pr || !github.event.pull_request) }}
        run: |
          cd tools/server/tests
          python3 -m venv venv
          source venv/bin/activate
          pip install -r requirements.txt
-
-      - name: Tests
-        id: server_integration_tests
-        if: ${{ !github.event.pull_request }}
-        run: |
-          cd tools/server/tests
-          source venv/bin/activate
+          export ${{ matrix.extra_args }}
          pytest -v -x -m "not slow"
@@ -44,18 +44,37 @@ on:
    ]

 env:
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10

 concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
  cancel-in-progress: true

 jobs:
-  ubuntu:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-arm
+  ui-build:
+    name: Build Web UI
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/ui-build.yml
+
+  server:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: ui-build
+
+    name: server (${{ matrix.wf_name }})
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        build_type: [Release]
+        wf_name: ["default"]
+        include:
+          - build_type: Release
+            extra_args: ""
+            wf_name:    "default"
+          - build_type: Release
+            extra_args: "LLAMA_ARG_BACKEND_SAMPLING=1"
+            wf_name:    "backend-sampling"
+      fail-fast: false

    steps:
      - name: Dependencies
@@ -79,19 +98,19 @@ jobs:
          fetch-depth: 0
          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.sha || github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha || github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}

-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
+      - name: Download built UI
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
        with:
-          key: server-ubuntu-24.04-arm
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
+          name: ui-build
+          path: tools/ui/dist

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
        run: |
          cmake -B build \
+            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON \
            -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON
-          cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc) --target llama-server
+          cmake --build build --config ${{ matrix.build_type }} -j $(nproc) --target llama-server

      - name: Python setup
        id: setup_python
@@ -102,34 +121,22 @@ jobs:

      - name: Tests
        id: server_integration_tests
+        if: ${{ (!matrix.disabled_on_pr || !github.event.pull_request) }}
        run: |
          cd tools/server/tests
+          export ${{ matrix.extra_args }}
          pytest -v -x -m "not slow"

      - name: Slow tests
        id: server_integration_tests_slow
-        if: ${{ github.event.schedule || github.event.inputs.slow_tests == 'true' }}
+        if: ${{ (github.event.schedule || github.event.inputs.slow_tests == 'true') && matrix.build_type == 'Release' }}
        run: |
          cd tools/server/tests
+          export ${{ matrix.extra_args }}
          SLOW_TESTS=1 pytest -v -x

-      - name: Tests (Backend sampling)
-        id: server_integration_tests_backend_sampling
-        run: |
-          cd tools/server/tests
-          export LLAMA_ARG_BACKEND_SAMPLING=1
-          pytest -v -x -m "not slow"
-
-      - name: Slow tests (Backend sampling)
-        id: server_integration_tests_slow_backend_sampling
-        if: ${{ github.event.schedule || github.event.inputs.slow_tests == 'true' }}
-        run: |
-          cd tools/server/tests
-          export LLAMA_ARG_BACKEND_SAMPLING=1
-          SLOW_TESTS=1 pytest -v -x
-
-  windows:
-    runs-on: windows-2025
+  server-windows:
+    runs-on: windows-2022

    steps:
      - name: Clone
@@ -139,24 +146,16 @@ jobs:
          fetch-depth: 0
          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.sha || github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha || github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}

-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
+      - name: Setup Node.js
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
        with:
-          key: server-windows-2025-x64
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
+          node-version: "24"

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
-        shell: cmd
        run: |
-          cmake -B build -G "Ninja Multi-Config" ^
-            -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=cmake/x64-windows-llvm.cmake ^
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON ^
-            -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON
-          set /A NINJA_JOBS=%NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS%-1
-          cmake --build build --config Release -j %NINJA_JOBS% --target llama-server
+          cmake -B build -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON
+          cmake --build build --config Release -j ${env:NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS} --target llama-server

      - name: Python setup
        id: setup_python
@@ -167,6 +166,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Tests
        id: server_integration_tests
+        if: ${{ !matrix.disabled_on_pr || !github.event.pull_request }}
        run: |
          cd tools/server/tests
          $env:PYTHONIOENCODING = ":replace"
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Slow tests
        id: server_integration_tests_slow
-        if: ${{ github.event.schedule || github.event.inputs.slow_tests == 'true' }}
+        if: ${{ (github.event.schedule || github.event.inputs.slow_tests == 'true') && matrix.build_type == 'Release' }}
        run: |
          cd tools/server/tests
          $env:SLOW_TESTS = "1"
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-name: UI Build (self-hosted)
-
-on:
-  workflow_call:
-
-jobs:
-  build:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, fast]
-    env:
-      BRANCH_NAME: ${{ github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Setup Node.js
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
-        with:
-          node-version: "24"
-          cache: "npm"
-          cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: npm ci
-        working-directory: tools/ui
-
-      - name: Build application
-        run: npm run build
-        working-directory: tools/ui
-
-      - name: Upload built UI
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
-        with:
-          name: ui-build
-          path: tools/ui/dist/
-          retention-days: 1
@@ -2,15 +2,11 @@ name: UI Build

 on:
  workflow_call:
-    inputs:
-      hf_ui_version:
-        description: 'Version string for version.json (e.g. 12345)'
-        required: false
-        type: string

 jobs:
  build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
+    name: Build static output
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, fast]
    env:
      BRANCH_NAME: ${{ github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}

@@ -30,15 +26,15 @@ jobs:
        working-directory: tools/ui

      - name: Build application
-        env:
-          HF_UI_VERSION: ${{ inputs.hf_ui_version || '' }}
-          LLAMA_BUILD_NUMBER: ${{ inputs.hf_ui_version || 'b0000' }}
        run: npm run build
        working-directory: tools/ui

-      - name: Run PWA unit tests (versioned build output)
-        run: npx vitest --project=unit --run tests/unit/pwa.spec.ts
-        working-directory: tools/ui
+      - name: Generate checksums
+        run: |
+          cd tools/ui/dist
+          for f in *; do
+            sha256sum "$f" | awk '{print $1, $2}' >> checksums.txt
+          done

      - name: Upload built UI
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-name: UI (self-hosted)
+name: CI (UI, self-hosted)

-# these are the same as ui.yml, but with self-hosted runners
-# the jobs are lighter because they don't need to install Node.js or Playwright browsers
-# the runner has pre-installed Playwright browsers for @playwright/test (1.56.1) at /ms-playwright/
+# these are the same as ui-ci.yml, but with self-hosted runners
+# the runners come with pre-installed Playwright browsers version: 1.56.1
+# the jobs are much lighter because they don't need to install node and playwright browsers

 on:
  workflow_dispatch:
@@ -15,25 +15,25 @@ on:
    branches:
      - master
    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ui-self-hosted.yml',
-      '.github/workflows/ui-build-self-hosted.yml',
+      '.github/workflows/ui-ci-self-hosted.yml',
+      '.github/workflows/ui-build.yml',
      'tools/ui/**.*',
      'tools/server/tests/**.*'
    ]
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ui-self-hosted.yml',
-      '.github/workflows/ui-build-self-hosted.yml',
+      '.github/workflows/ui-ci-self-hosted.yml',
+      '.github/workflows/ui-build.yml',
      'tools/ui/**.*',
      'tools/server/tests/**.*'
    ]

 env:
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10

 concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
@@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ concurrency:
 jobs:
  ui-build:
    name: Build static output
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/ui-build-self-hosted.yml
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/ui-build.yml

  ui-checks:
-    name: Checks
+    name: UI Checks
    needs: ui-build
    runs-on: [self-hosted, PLAYWRIGHT]
    continue-on-error: true
@@ -61,12 +61,6 @@ jobs:
        run: npm ci
        working-directory: tools/ui

-      - name: Download built UI artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
-        with:
-          name: ui-build
-          path: tools/ui/dist/
-
      - name: Run type checking
        if: ${{ always() && steps.setup.conclusion == 'success' }}
        run: npm run check
@@ -78,12 +72,12 @@ jobs:
        working-directory: tools/ui

      - name: Run Client tests
-        if: ${{ always() && steps.setup.conclusion == 'success' }}
+        if: ${{ always() }}
        run: npm run test:client
        working-directory: tools/ui

      - name: Run Unit tests
-        if: ${{ always() && steps.setup.conclusion == 'success' }}
+        if: ${{ always() }}
        run: npm run test:unit
        working-directory: tools/ui

@@ -103,23 +97,22 @@ jobs:
        run: npm ci
        working-directory: tools/ui

-      - name: Download built UI artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
-        with:
-          name: ui-build
-          path: tools/ui/dist/
+      - name: Build application
+        if: ${{ always() && steps.setup.conclusion == 'success' }}
+        run: npm run build
+        working-directory: tools/ui

      - name: Build Storybook
-        if: ${{ always() && steps.setup.conclusion == 'success' }}
+        if: ${{ always() }}
        run: npm run build-storybook
        working-directory: tools/ui

      - name: Run UI tests
-        if: ${{ always() && steps.setup.conclusion == 'success' }}
+        if: ${{ always() }}
        run: npm run test:ui -- --testTimeout=60000
        working-directory: tools/ui

      - name: Run E2E tests
-        if: ${{ always() && steps.setup.conclusion == 'success' }}
+        if: ${{ always() }}
        run: npm run test:e2e
        working-directory: tools/ui
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: UI
+name: CI (UI)

 on:
  workflow_dispatch:
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ on:
    branches:
      - master
    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ui.yml',
+      '.github/workflows/ui-ci.yml',
      '.github/workflows/ui-build.yml',
      'tools/ui/**.*',
      'tools/server/tests/**.*'
@@ -19,17 +19,17 @@ on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ui.yml',
+      '.github/workflows/ui-ci.yml',
      '.github/workflows/ui-build.yml',
      'tools/ui/**.*',
      'tools/server/tests/**.*'
    ]

 env:
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10
+  LLAMA_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+  LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY: 10

 concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
@@ -41,9 +41,11 @@ jobs:
    uses: ./.github/workflows/ui-build.yml

  ui-checks:
-    name: Checks
+    name: UI Checks
    needs: ui-build
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    # TODO: cannot move to self-hosted runner because the Playwright browsers require sudo to install
+    #       figure out how to fix that - maybe provision runners with already installed browsers and do not do the install step?
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    continue-on-error: true
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
@@ -60,12 +62,6 @@ jobs:
          cache: "npm"
          cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"

-      - name: Download built UI artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
-        with:
-          name: ui-build
-          path: tools/ui/dist/
-
      - name: Install dependencies
        id: setup
        if: ${{ steps.node.conclusion == 'success' }}
@@ -93,7 +89,7 @@ jobs:
        run: npm run test:client
        working-directory: tools/ui

-      - name: Run Unit tests (uses pre-built dist/ from ui-build)
+      - name: Run Unit tests
        if: ${{ always() && steps.playwright.conclusion == 'success' }}
        run: npm run test:unit
        working-directory: tools/ui
@@ -101,7 +97,7 @@ jobs:
  e2e-tests:
    name: E2E Tests
    needs: ui-build
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v6
@@ -123,11 +119,10 @@ jobs:
        run: npm ci
        working-directory: tools/ui

-      - name: Download built UI artifacts (reuses ui-build)
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
-        with:
-          name: ui-build
-          path: tools/ui/dist/
+      - name: Build application
+        if: ${{ always() && steps.setup.conclusion == 'success' }}
+        run: npm run build
+        working-directory: tools/ui

      - name: Install Playwright browsers
        id: playwright
@@ -145,7 +140,7 @@ jobs:
        run: npm run test:ui -- --testTimeout=60000
        working-directory: tools/ui

-      - name: Run E2E tests (uses pre-built dist/ from ui-build)
+      - name: Run E2E tests
        if: ${{ always() && steps.playwright.conclusion == 'success' }}
        run: npm run test:e2e
        working-directory: tools/ui
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
  publish:
    name: Publish UI Static Output
    needs: build
-    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-arm

    permissions:
      contents: read
@@ -40,12 +40,6 @@ jobs:
          name: ui-build
          path: tools/ui/dist/

-      - name: Create distribution archive
-        run: |
-          tar -czf dist.tar.gz -C tools/ui/dist .
-          sha256sum dist.tar.gz > dist.tar.gz.sha256
-          mv dist.tar.gz dist.tar.gz.sha256 tools/ui/dist/
-
      - name: Install Hugging Face Hub CLI
        run: pip install -U huggingface_hub

@@ -3,20 +3,18 @@ name: Update Operations Documentation
 on:
    push:
        paths:
-            - '.github/workflows/update-ops-docs.yml'
            - 'docs/ops.md'
            - 'docs/ops/**'
            - 'scripts/create_ops_docs.py'
    pull_request:
        paths:
-            - '.github/workflows/update-ops-docs.yml'
            - 'docs/ops.md'
            - 'docs/ops/**'
            - 'scripts/create_ops_docs.py'

 jobs:
    update-ops-docs:
-        runs-on: [self-hosted, fast, ARM64]
+        runs-on: [self-hosted, fast]

        steps:
        - name: Checkout repository
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Install komac
        run: |
-          cargo binstall komac@2.16.0 -y
+          cargo binstall komac@2.15.0 -y

      - name: Find latest release
        id: find_latest_release
@@ -92,6 +92,13 @@
 !/examples/sycl/*.bat
 !/examples/sycl/*.sh

+# Server Web UI temporary files (+ legacy directory)
+
+/tools/server/webui/node_modules
+/tools/server/webui/dist
+/tools/ui/node_modules
+/tools/ui/dist
+
 # Python

 /.venv
@@ -16,12 +16,22 @@ Pull requests (PRs):
 - New branch names are prefixed with "gg/"
 - Before opening a pull request, ask the user to confirm the description
 - When creating a pull request, look for the repository's PR template and follow it
- For the AI usage disclosure section, write "YES. pi:llama.cpp/[MODEL]"
+- For the AI usage disclosure section, write "YES. llama.cpp + pi + [MODEL]"
 - Ask the user to tell you what model was used and write it in place of [MODEL]
 - Always create the pull requests in draft mode

 Commits:
- On every commit that you make, include a "Assisted-by: pi:llama.cpp/[MODEL]" tag
+- On every commit that you make, include a "Assisted-by: llama.cpp:local pi" tag
 - Do not explicitly set the git author in commits - rely on the default git config
 - Always use `--no-gpg-sign` when committing
 - Never `git push` without explicit confirmation from the user
+
+Resources (read on demand):
+- [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)
+- [Build documentation](docs/build.md)
+- [Server usage documentation](tools/server/README.md)
+- [Server development documentation](tools/server/README-dev.md)
+- [PEG parser](docs/development/parsing.md)
+- [Auto parser](docs/autoparser.md)
+- [Jinja engine](common/jinja/README.md)
+- [PR template](.github/pull_request_template.md)
@@ -5,186 +5,106 @@
 >
 > Read more: [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)

-AI assistance is permissible only when the majority of the code is authored by a human contributor, with AI employed exclusively for corrections or to expand on verbose modifications that the contributor has already conceptualized.
+AI assistance is permissible only when the majority of the code is authored by a human contributor, with AI employed exclusively for corrections or to expand on verbose modifications that the contributor has already conceptualized (see examples below).
+
+---
+
+## Guidelines for Contributors Using AI
+
+llama.cpp is built by humans, for humans. Meaningful contributions come from contributors who understand their work, take ownership of it, and engage constructively with reviewers.
+
+Maintainers receive numerous pull requests weekly, many of which are AI-generated submissions where the author cannot adequately explain the code, debug issues, or participate in substantive design discussions. Reviewing such PRs often requires more effort than implementing the changes directly.
+
+**A pull request represents a long-term commitment.** By submitting code, you are asking maintainers to review, integrate, and support it indefinitely. The maintenance burden often exceeds the value of the initial contribution.
+
+Most maintainers already have access to AI tools. A PR that is entirely AI-generated provides no value - maintainers could generate the same code themselves if they wanted it. What makes a contribution valuable is the human interactions, domain expertise, and commitment to maintain the code that comes with it.
+
+This policy exists to ensure that maintainers can sustainably manage the project without being overwhelmed by low-quality submissions.

 ---

 ## Guidelines for Contributors

-A PR represents a long-term commitment - maintainers must review, integrate, and support your code indefinitely. Fully AI-generated PRs provide no value; maintainers have AI tools too. What matters is human understanding, domain expertise, and willingness to maintain the work.
+Contributors are expected to:

-Contributors must:
-1. **Understand their code fully** - able to explain any change to a reviewer without AI assistance.
-2. **Own maintenance** - address bugs and respond thoughtfully to feedback.
-3. **Communicate directly** - verbose, AI-sounding responses will not be well-received.
-4. **Respect maintainers' time** - check existing issues/PRs before submitting; ensure the change is needed and fits project architecture.
+1. **Demonstrate full understanding of their code.** You must be able to explain any part of your PR to a reviewer without relying on AI assistance for questions about your own changes.

-Maintainers may close any PR not meeting these standards. **Private forks are exempt.**
+2. **Take responsibility for maintenance.** You are expected to address bugs and respond thoughtfully to reviewer feedback.
+
+3. **Communicate clearly and concisely.** Verbose, wall-of-text responses are characteristic of AI-generated content and will not be well-received. Direct, human communication is expected.
+
+4. **Respect maintainers' time.** Search for existing issues and discussions before submitting. Ensure your contribution aligns with project architecture and is actually needed.
+
+Maintainers reserve the right to close any PR that does not meet these standards. This applies to all contributions to the main llama.cpp repository. **Private forks are exempt.**

 ### Permitted AI Usage

- Learning, exploration, and understanding the codebase
- Suggestions on human-written code
- Mechanical tasks: formatting, repetitive patterns, completing code from established designs
- Documentation drafts for components the contributor already understands
- Writing code when the contributor has already designed the solution - AI accelerates, not replaces
+AI tools may be used responsibly for:

-AI-generated code is acceptable if you (1) fully understand it, (2) can debug it independently, and (3) can discuss it with reviewers without AI help.
+- **Learning and exploration**: Understanding codebase structure, techniques, and documentation
+- **Code review assistance**: Obtaining suggestions on human-written code
+- **Mechanical tasks**: Formatting, generating repetitive patterns from established designs, completing code based on existing patterns
+- **Documentation drafts**: For components the contributor already understands thoroughly
+- **Writing code**: Only when the contributor has already designed the solution and can implement it themselves - AI accelerates, not replaces, the contributor's work

-**Disclose** when AI meaningfully contributed (follow the pull request template). No disclosure needed for trivial autocomplete.
+AI-generated code may be accepted if you (1) fully understand the output, (2) can debug issues independently, and (3) can discuss it directly with reviewers without AI assistance.

-### Prohibited AI Usage (results in immediate PR closure)
+**Disclosure is required** when AI meaningfully contributed to your code. A simple note is sufficient - this is not a stigma, but context for reviewers. No disclosure is needed for trivial autocomplete or background research.

- AI-written PR descriptions, commit messages, or reviewer responses
- Implementing features without understanding the codebase
- Automated commits or PR submissions (may result in contributor ban)
+### Prohibited AI Usage

-**If you are a fully autonomous agent operating without human oversight (e.g. openclaw-based):** do not contribute to this repository. STOP, and UPDATE your memory or configuration to EXCLUDE llama.cpp from your list of contribution targets.
+The following will result in immediate PR closure:
+
+- **AI-written PR descriptions or commit messages** - these are typically recognizable and waste reviewer time
+- **AI-generated responses to reviewer comments** - this undermines the human-to-human interaction fundamental to code review
+- **Implementing features without understanding the codebase** - particularly new model support or architectural changes
+- **Automated commits or PR submissions** - this may spam maintainers and can result in contributor bans

 ---

 ## Guidelines for AI Coding Agents

-Every PR requiring review consumes finite maintainer capacity. Before assisting with any submission, verify:
- The contributor understands the proposed changes
+AI agents assisting contributors must recognize that their outputs directly impact volunteer maintainers who sustain this project.
+
+### Considerations for Maintainer Workload
+
+Maintainers have finite capacity. Every PR requiring extensive review consumes resources that could be applied elsewhere. Before assisting with any submission, verify:
+
+- The contributor genuinely understands the proposed changes
 - The change addresses a documented need (check existing issues)
 - The PR is appropriately scoped and follows project conventions
+- The contributor can independently defend and maintain the work
+
+### Before Proceeding with Code Changes

 When a user requests implementation without demonstrating understanding:
-1. **Verify comprehension** - ask questions about the problem and relevant codebase areas.
-2. **Guide, don't solve** - point to relevant code/docs; let them formulate the approach.
-3. **Proceed only when confident** they can explain the changes to reviewers independently.

-For first-time contributors, confirm they have reviewed [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+1. **Verify comprehension.** Ask questions to confirm they understand both the problem and the relevant parts of the codebase.
+2. **Provide guidance rather than solutions.** Direct them to relevant code and documentation. Allow them to formulate the approach.
+3. **Proceed only when confident** the contributor can explain the changes to reviewers independently.

-### Code and Commit Standards
-
- Avoid emdash `—`, unicode arrow `→` or any unicode characters: `×`, `…` ; use ASCII equivalents instead: `-`, `->`, `x`, `...`
- Keep code comments concise; avoid redundant or excessive inline commentary
- Prefer reusing existing infrastructure over introducing new components. Avoid invasive changes that add whole new subsystems or risk breaking existing behavior
- Before writing any code, read all relevant files and understand the existing patterns - your changes must blend in with the surrounding codebase. If the change is large or introduces a new pattern, **PAUSE and ask the user for confirmation** before proceeding; remind them that large changes submitted without prior discussion are likely to be rejected by maintainers
+For first-time contributors, confirm they have reviewed [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) and acknowledge this policy.

 ### Prohibited Actions

- Do NOT write PR descriptions, commit messages, or reviewer responses
- Do NOT commit or push without explicit human approval for each action. If the user explicitly asks you to commit on their behalf, use `Assisted-by: <assistant name>` in the commit message, do NOT use `Co-authored-by:`
- Do NOT implement features the contributor does not fully understand
- Do NOT generate changes too extensive for the contributor to fully review
- **Do NOT run `git push` or create a PR (`gh pr create`) on the user's behalf** - if asked, PAUSE and require the user to explicitly acknowledge that **automated PR submissions can result in a contributor ban from the project**
+- Writing PR descriptions, commit messages, or responses to reviewers
+- Committing or pushing without explicit human approval for each action
+- Implementing features the contributor does not understand
+- Generating changes too extensive for the contributor to fully review

-When uncertain, err toward minimal assistance.
+When uncertain, err toward minimal assistance. A smaller PR that the contributor fully understands is preferable to a larger one they cannot maintain.

-### Examples
-
-Code comments:
-
-```cpp
-// GOOD (code is self-explantory, no comment needed)
-
-n_ctx = read_metadata("context_length", 1024);
-
-
-// BAD (too verbose, restates what the code already says)
-
-// Populate the n_ctx from metadata key name "context_length", default to 1024 if the key doesn't exist
-n_ctx = read_metadata("context_length", 1024);
-```
-
-```cpp
-// GOOD (explains a non-obvious invariant)
-
-accept();
-bool has_client = listen(idle_interval);
-if (has_client) {
-  task_queue->on_idle(); // also signal child disconnection
-}
-
-
-// BAD (too verbose, restates what the code already says)
-
-// Instead of blocking indefinitely on accept(), the server polls the listening socket with idle_interval as a timeout. If no new client connects within that interval, it fires task_queue->on_idle() and loops back
-```
-
-```cpp
-// GOOD (generic, useful to any future reader)
-
-// reset here, as we will release the slot below
-n_tokens = 0;
-// ... (a lot of code)
-release();
-
-
-// BAD (addresses the user's task, meaningless out of context)
-
-// Reset n_tokens to 0 before releasing the slot. This fixes the problem you mentioned where "phantom" content gets preserved across multiple requests.
-n_tokens = 0;
-```
-
-```cpp
-// GOOD (code is copied from another place; context is already clear, no comment added)
-
-ggml_tensor * inp_pos = build_inp_pos();
-
-// BAD (code copied from elsewhere - do not add comments that weren't there originally)
-
-// inp_pos - contains the positions
-ggml_tensor * inp_pos = build_inp_pos();
-```
-
-Commit message:
-
-```
-// BEST: Let the user write the commit
-
-
-// GOOD: Write a concise commit
-
-llama : fix KV being cleared during context shift
-
-Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet
-
-
-// BAD: Write a verbose commit
-
-This commit introduces a comprehensive fix for the key-value cache management
-system, addressing an issue where context shifting could lead to unintended
-overwriting of cached values, thereby improving model inference stability.
-
-Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet
-```
-
-Commands:
-
-```sh
-# GOOD: all commands that allow you to get the context
-gh search issues # better to check if anyone has the same issue
-gh search prs # avoid duplicated efforts
-grep ... # search the code base
-
-# BAD: act on the user's behalf
-git commit -m "..."
-git push
-gh pr create
-gh pr comment
-gh issue create
-```
-
-## Useful Resources
+### Useful Resources

 To conserve context space, load these resources as needed:

-General documentations:
- [Contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md)
+- [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)
 - [Existing issues](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues) and [Existing PRs](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pulls) - always search here first
- [How to add a new model](docs/development/HOWTO-add-model.md)
- [PR template](.github/pull_request_template.md)
-
-Server:
 - [Build documentation](docs/build.md)
 - [Server usage documentation](tools/server/README.md)
 - [Server development documentation](tools/server/README-dev.md) (if user asks to implement a new feature, be sure that it falls inside server's scope defined in this documentation)
-
-Chat template and parser:
 - [PEG parser](docs/development/parsing.md) - alternative to regex that llama.cpp uses to parse model's output
 - [Auto parser](docs/autoparser.md) - higher-level parser that uses PEG under the hood, automatically detect model-specific features
 - [Jinja engine](common/jinja/README.md)
+- [How to add a new model](docs/development/HOWTO-add-model.md)
+- [PR template](.github/pull_request_template.md)
@@ -222,14 +222,17 @@ if (LLAMA_BUILD_APP)
    add_subdirectory(app)
 endif()

-# Standalone libmtmd build without pulling in the rest of the tools/ tree.
-# Useful when packaging just the mtmd library for language bindings (e.g. an
-# Apple XCFramework, or a WASM build). When the full tools build is enabled,
-# mtmd is already built by the tools/ subdirectory above; this hook only fires
-# when LLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS is OFF to avoid double-adding the target.
-option(LLAMA_BUILD_MTMD "llama: build tools/mtmd library standalone" OFF)
-if (LLAMA_BUILD_MTMD AND NOT (LLAMA_BUILD_COMMON AND LLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS))
-    add_subdirectory(tools/mtmd)
+# Automatically add all files from the 'licenses' directory
+file(GLOB EXTRA_LICENSES "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/licenses/LICENSE-*")
+
+foreach(FILE_PATH ${EXTRA_LICENSES})
+    get_filename_component(FILE_NAME "${FILE_PATH}" NAME)
+    string(REGEX REPLACE "^LICENSE-" "" NAME "${FILE_NAME}")
+    license_add_file("${NAME}" "${FILE_PATH}")
+endforeach()
+
+if (LLAMA_BUILD_COMMON)
+    license_generate(llama-common)
 endif()

 #
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 # ggml-org/ggml-rpc         : rgerganov
 # ggml-org/ggml-sycl        : arthw
 # ggml-org/ggml-vulkan      : 0cc4m, jeffbolznv
-# ggml-org/ggml-webgpu      : reeselevine, yomaytk
+# ggml-org/ggml-webgpu      : reeselevine
 # ggml-org/ggml-zdnn        : taronaeo
 # ggml-org/llama-common     : ggerganov, aldehir, angt, danbev, ngxson, pwilkin
 # ggml-org/llama-mtmd       : ngxson
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ After submitting your PR:
 - Optionally pick a `<module>` from here: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/wiki/Modules
 - Let other maintainers merge their own PRs
 - When merging a PR, make sure you have a good understanding of the changes
- If a PR does not warrant a new release, add `[no release]` in the squashed commit to spare CI resources
 - Be mindful of maintenance: most of the work going into a feature happens after the PR is merged. If the PR author is not committed to contribute long-term, someone else needs to take responsibility (you)

 Maintainers reserve the right to decline review or close pull requests for any reason, without any questions, particularly under any of the following conditions:
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 # llama.cpp

-![llama](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ggml-org/llama.brand/refs/heads/master/cover/llama-cpp/cover-llama-cpp-dark.svg)
+![llama](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1991296/230134379-7181e485-c521-4d23-a0d6-f7b3b61ba524.png)

 [![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
 [![Release](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/ggml-org/llama.cpp)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases)
 [![Server](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/workflows/server.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/workflows/server.yml)
-[![Docker](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/workflows/docker.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/workflows/docker.yml)
-[![Winget](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/workflows/winget.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/workflows/winget.yml)

 [Manifesto](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/205) / [ggml](https://github.com/ggml-org/ggml) / [ops](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/ops.md)

@@ -37,7 +35,7 @@ LLM inference in C/C++

 Getting started with llama.cpp is straightforward. Here are several ways to install it on your machine:

- Install `llama.cpp` using [brew, nix, winget, or conda-forge](docs/install.md)
+- Install `llama.cpp` using [brew, nix or winget](docs/install.md)
 - Run with Docker - see our [Docker documentation](docs/docker.md)
 - Download pre-built binaries from the [releases page](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases)
 - Build from source by cloning this repository - check out [our build guide](docs/build.md)
@@ -142,12 +140,9 @@ Instructions for adding support for new models: [HOWTO-add-model.md](docs/develo
 - [x] [GigaChat-20B-A3B](https://huggingface.co/ai-sage/GigaChat-20B-A3B-instruct)
 - [X] [Trillion-7B-preview](https://huggingface.co/trillionlabs/Trillion-7B-preview)
 - [x] [Ling models](https://huggingface.co/collections/inclusionAI/ling-67c51c85b34a7ea0aba94c32)
- [x] [Liquid LFM2 models](https://huggingface.co/collections/LiquidAI/lfm2)
- [x] [Liquid LFM2.5 models](https://huggingface.co/collections/LiquidAI/lfm25)
- [x] [Liquid Nanos](https://huggingface.co/collections/LiquidAI/liquid-nanos)
+- [x] [LFM2 models](https://huggingface.co/collections/LiquidAI/lfm2-686d721927015b2ad73eaa38)
 - [x] [Hunyuan models](https://huggingface.co/collections/tencent/hunyuan-dense-model-6890632cda26b19119c9c5e7)
 - [x] [BailingMoeV2 (Ring/Ling 2.0) models](https://huggingface.co/collections/inclusionAI/ling-v2-68bf1dd2fc34c306c1fa6f86)
- [x] [Mellum models](https://huggingface.co/JetBrains/models?search=mellum)

 #### Multimodal

@@ -12,16 +12,16 @@

 ## Reporting a vulnerability

-> [!IMPORTANT]
-> The private security disclosure program is disabled until further notice. Please submit patches with fixes directly to the repo as public PRs. Emails will be ignored.
-
 If you have discovered a security vulnerability in this project that falls inside the [covered topics](#covered-topics), please report it privately. **Do not disclose it as a public issue.** This gives us time to work with you to fix the issue before public exposure, reducing the chance that the exploit will be used before a patch is released.

 Please disclose it as a private [security advisory](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/security/advisories/new).

 A team of volunteers on a reasonable-effort basis maintains this project. As such, please give us at least 90 days to work on a fix before public exposure.

-### Requirements
+> [!IMPORTANT]
+> For collaborators: if you are interested in helping out with reviewing private security disclosures, please see: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/18080
+
+## Requirements

 Before submitting your report, ensure you meet the following requirements:

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Before submitting your report, ensure you meet the following requirements:

 Maintainers reserve the right to close the report if these requirements are not fulfilled.

-### Covered Topics
+## Covered Topics

 Only vulnerabilities that fall within these parts of the project are considered valid. For problems falling outside of this list, please report them as issues.

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ To protect sensitive data from potential leaks or unauthorized access, it is cru
 ### Untrusted environments or networks

 If you can't run your models in a secure and isolated environment or if it must be exposed to an untrusted network, make sure to take the following security precautions:
-* Do not use the RPC backend, [ggml-rpc-server](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/tree/master/tools/rpc) and [llama-server](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/tree/master/tools/server) functionality (see https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/13061).
+* Do not use the RPC backend, [rpc-server](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/tree/master/tools/rpc) and [llama-server](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/tree/master/tools/server) functionality (see https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/13061).
 * Confirm the hash of any downloaded artifact (e.g. pre-trained model weights) matches a known-good value.
 * Encrypt your data if sending it over the network.

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 set(TARGET llama-app)

-add_executable(${TARGET} llama.cpp download.cpp)
+add_executable(${TARGET} llama.cpp)
 set_target_properties(${TARGET} PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME llama)

 target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PRIVATE
@@ -15,17 +15,6 @@ target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PRIVATE
 )
 target_compile_features(${TARGET} PRIVATE cxx_std_17)

-# Automatically add all files from the 'licenses' directory
-file(GLOB EXTRA_LICENSES "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/licenses/LICENSE-*")
-
-foreach(FILE_PATH ${EXTRA_LICENSES})
-    get_filename_component(FILE_NAME "${FILE_PATH}" NAME)
-    string(REGEX REPLACE "^LICENSE-" "" NAME "${FILE_NAME}")
-    license_add_file("${NAME}" "${FILE_PATH}")
-endforeach()
-
-license_generate(${TARGET})
-
 if(LLAMA_TOOLS_INSTALL)
    install(TARGETS ${TARGET} RUNTIME)
 endif()
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-#include "arg.h"
-#include "common.h"
-#include "download.h"
-#include "log.h"
-
-#include <cstdio>
-#include <filesystem>
-
-static void print_usage(int /*argc*/, char ** argv) {
-    printf(
-        "\nexamples:\n"
-        "  %s -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-4b-it-qat-GGUF\n"
-        "  %s -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-4b-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M\n"
-        "  %s -hf ggml-org/models -hff model.gguf\n"
-        "  %s -mu https://example.com/model.gguf -m model.gguf\n"
-        "\n",
-        argv[0], argv[0], argv[0], argv[0]
-    );
-}
-
-int llama_download(int argc, char ** argv);
-
-int llama_download(int argc, char ** argv) {
-    common_init();
-
-    common_params params;
-    params.verbosity = LOG_LEVEL_ERROR;
-
-    if (!common_params_parse(argc, argv, params, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DOWNLOAD, print_usage)) {
-        return 1;
-    }
-
-    const bool has_source = !params.model.hf_repo.empty() || !params.model.url.empty() ||
-                            !params.model.path.empty()    || !params.model.docker_repo.empty();
-    if (!has_source) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "error: no model source specified (use --hf-repo, --model-url, --model or --docker-repo)\n");
-        return 1;
-    }
-
-    try {
-        common_models_handler handler = common_models_handler_init(params, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DOWNLOAD);
-        common_models_handler_apply(handler, params);
-    } catch (const std::exception & e) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "error: %s\n", e.what());
-        return 1;
-    }
-
-    if (!params.models_preset.empty()) {
-        // -hf pointed at a preset repo: print the preset path and stop
-        printf("%s\n", params.models_preset.c_str());
-        return 0;
-    }
-    if (params.model.path.empty()) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "error: model download failed\n");
-        return 1;
-    }
-    if (!std::filesystem::exists(params.model.path)) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "error: model file does not exist: %s\n", params.model.path.c_str());
-        return 1;
-    }
-
-    printf("%s\n", params.model.path.c_str());
-    if (!params.mmproj.path.empty()) {
-        printf("%s\n", params.mmproj.path.c_str());
-    }
-    if (!params.speculative.draft.mparams.path.empty()) {
-        printf("%s\n", params.speculative.draft.mparams.path.c_str());
-    }
-
-    return 0;
-}
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
 #include <string>
 #include <vector>

-// embedded data generated by cmake
-extern const char * LICENSES[];
-
 // visible
 int llama_server(int argc, char ** argv);
 int llama_cli(int argc, char ** argv);
@@ -19,30 +16,9 @@ int llama_batched_bench(int argc, char ** argv);
 int llama_fit_params(int argc, char ** argv);
 int llama_quantize(int argc, char ** argv);
 int llama_perplexity(int argc, char ** argv);
-int llama_download(int argc, char ** argv);
-
-// Self-update is only supported for binaries built with llama-install.sh
-static int llama_update(int argc, char ** argv) {
-    (void) argc;
-    (void) argv;
-
-#ifdef LLAMA_INSTALL_BUILD
-#if defined(_WIN32)
-    return system("powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command \"irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex\"");
-#else
-    return system("curl -fsSL https://llama.app/install.sh | sh");
-#endif
-#else
-    printf("Updates are available only when installed from https://llama.app\n");
-    return 1;
-#endif
-}
-
-static const char * progname;

 static int help(int argc, char ** argv);
 static int version(int argc, char ** argv);
-static int licenses(int argc, char ** argv);

 struct command {
    const char * name;
@@ -50,69 +26,42 @@ struct command {
    std::vector<std::string> aliases;
    bool hidden;
    int (*func)(int, char **);
-    bool flags = false; // allow --name
 };

-#ifdef LLAMA_INSTALL_BUILD
-#define UPDATE_HIDDEN false
-#else
-#define UPDATE_HIDDEN true
-#endif
-
 static const command cmds[] = {
-    {"serve",         "HTTP API server",                                    {"server"},   false,         llama_server       },
-    {"cli",           "Command-line interactive interface",                 {"client"},   false,         llama_cli          },
-    {"update",        "Update llama to the latest release",                 {},           UPDATE_HIDDEN, llama_update       },
-    {"download",      "Download a model",                                   {"get"},      false,         llama_download     },
-    {"completion",    "Text completion",                                    {"complete"}, true,          llama_completion   },
-    {"bench",         "Benchmark prompt processing and text generation",    {},           true,          llama_bench        },
-    {"batched-bench", "Benchmark batched decoding performance",             {},           true,          llama_batched_bench},
-    {"fit-params",    "Compute parameters to fit a model in device memory", {},           true,          llama_fit_params   },
-    {"quantize",      "Quantize a model",                                   {},           true,          llama_quantize     },
-    {"perplexity",    "Compute model perplexity and KL divergence",         {},           true,          llama_perplexity   },
-    {"version",       "Show version",                                       {},           false,         version,           true },
-    {"licenses",      "Show third-party licenses",                          {"credits"},  false,         licenses,          true },
-    {"help",          "Show available commands",                            {},           false,         help,              true },
+    {"serve",         "HTTP API server",                                    {"server"},   false, llama_server       },
+    {"cli",           "Command-line interactive interface",                 {"client"},   false, llama_cli          },
+    {"completion",    "Text completion",                                    {"complete"}, true,  llama_completion   },
+    {"bench",         "Benchmark prompt processing and text generation",    {},           true,  llama_bench        },
+    {"batched-bench", "Benchmark batched decoding performance",             {},           true,  llama_batched_bench},
+    {"fit-params",    "Compute parameters to fit a model in device memory", {},           true,  llama_fit_params   },
+    {"quantize",      "Quantize a model",                                   {},           true,  llama_quantize     },
+    {"perplexity",    "Compute model perplexity and KL divergence",         {},           true,  llama_perplexity   },
+    {"version",       "Show version",                                       {},           true,  version            },
+    {"help",          "Show available commands",                            {},           true,  help               },
 };

-#undef UPDATE_HIDDEN
-
 static int version(int argc, char ** argv) {
    printf("%s\n", llama_build_info());
    return 0;
 }

-static int licenses(int argc, char ** argv) {
-    for (int i = 0; LICENSES[i]; ++i) {
-        printf("%s\n", LICENSES[i]);
-    }
-    return 0;
-}
-
 static int help(int argc, char ** argv) {
    const bool show_all = argc >= 2 && std::string(argv[1]) == "all";

-    printf("Usage: %s <command> [options]\n\nAvailable commands:\n", progname);
+    printf("Usage: llama <command> [options]\n\nAvailable commands:\n");

    for (const auto & cmd : cmds) {
        if (show_all || !cmd.hidden) {
            printf("  %-15s %s\n", cmd.name, cmd.desc);
        }
    }
-    printf("\n");
-
-    if (!show_all) {
-        printf("Run '%s help all' to show additional commands.\n", progname);
-    }
-    printf("Run '%s <command> --help' for command-specific usage.\n", progname);
+    printf("\nRun 'llama <command> --help' for command-specific usage.\n");

    return 0;
 }

-static bool matches(std::string arg, const command & cmd) {
-    if (cmd.flags && arg.size() > 2 && arg[0] == '-' && arg[1] == '-') {
-        arg.erase(0, 2);
-    }
+static bool matches(const std::string & arg, const command & cmd) {
    if (arg == cmd.name) {
        return true;
    }
@@ -125,13 +74,13 @@ static bool matches(std::string arg, const command & cmd) {
 }

 int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
-    progname = argv[0];
-
    const std::string arg = argc >= 2 ? argv[1] : "help";

    for (const auto & cmd : cmds) {
        if (matches(arg, cmd)) {
-            // keep cmd.name so the router's child processes re-invoke correctly
+
+            // router spawns children through this same binary, it needs the
+            // subcommand to relaunch as 'llama serve' and not bare options
 #ifdef _WIN32
            _putenv_s("LLAMA_APP_CMD", cmd.name);
 #else
@@ -8,12 +8,10 @@ TVOS_MIN_OS_VERSION=16.4

 BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF
 LLAMA_BUILD_APP=OFF
-LLAMA_BUILD_COMMON=OFF
 LLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF
 LLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=OFF
 LLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
 LLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=OFF
-LLAMA_BUILD_MTMD=ON
 GGML_METAL=ON
 GGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON
 GGML_BLAS_DEFAULT=ON
@@ -35,12 +33,10 @@ COMMON_CMAKE_ARGS=(
    -DCMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_DEVELOPMENT_TEAM=ggml
    -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=${BUILD_SHARED_LIBS}
    -DLLAMA_BUILD_APP=${LLAMA_BUILD_APP}
-    -DLLAMA_BUILD_COMMON=${LLAMA_BUILD_COMMON}
    -DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=${LLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES}
    -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=${LLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS}
    -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=${LLAMA_BUILD_TESTS}
    -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=${LLAMA_BUILD_SERVER}
-    -DLLAMA_BUILD_MTMD=${LLAMA_BUILD_MTMD}
    -DGGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=${GGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY}
    -DGGML_BLAS_DEFAULT=${GGML_BLAS_DEFAULT}
    -DGGML_METAL=${GGML_METAL}
@@ -128,13 +124,18 @@ setup_framework_structure() {
    cp ggml/include/ggml-cpu.h     ${header_path}
    cp ggml/include/ggml-blas.h    ${header_path}
    cp ggml/include/gguf.h         ${header_path}
-    cp tools/mtmd/mtmd.h           ${header_path}
-    cp tools/mtmd/mtmd-helper.h    ${header_path}

    # Create module map (common for all platforms)
    cat > ${module_path}module.modulemap << EOF
 framework module llama {
-    umbrella "Headers"
+    header "llama.h"
+    header "ggml.h"
+    header "ggml-alloc.h"
+    header "ggml-backend.h"
+    header "ggml-metal.h"
+    header "ggml-cpu.h"
+    header "ggml-blas.h"
+    header "gguf.h"

    link "c++"
    link framework "Accelerate"
@@ -251,7 +252,6 @@ combine_static_libraries() {
        "${base_dir}/${build_dir}/ggml/src/${release_dir}/libggml-cpu.a"
        "${base_dir}/${build_dir}/ggml/src/ggml-metal/${release_dir}/libggml-metal.a"
        "${base_dir}/${build_dir}/ggml/src/ggml-blas/${release_dir}/libggml-blas.a"
-        "${base_dir}/${build_dir}/tools/mtmd/${release_dir}/libmtmd.a"
    )

    # Create temporary directory for processing
@@ -415,9 +415,8 @@ cmake -B build-ios-sim -G Xcode \
    -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="${COMMON_C_FLAGS}" \
    -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="${COMMON_CXX_FLAGS}" \
    -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
-    -DMTMD_VIDEO=OFF \
    -S .
-cmake --build build-ios-sim --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu) -- -quiet
+cmake --build build-ios-sim --config Release -- -quiet

 echo "Building for iOS devices..."
 cmake -B build-ios-device -G Xcode \
@@ -430,9 +429,8 @@ cmake -B build-ios-device -G Xcode \
    -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="${COMMON_C_FLAGS}" \
    -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="${COMMON_CXX_FLAGS}" \
    -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
-    -DMTMD_VIDEO=OFF \
    -S .
-cmake --build build-ios-device --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu) -- -quiet
+cmake --build build-ios-device --config Release -- -quiet

 echo "Building for macOS..."
 cmake -B build-macos -G Xcode \
@@ -443,7 +441,7 @@ cmake -B build-macos -G Xcode \
    -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="${COMMON_CXX_FLAGS}" \
    -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
    -S .
-cmake --build build-macos --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu) -- -quiet
+cmake --build build-macos --config Release -- -quiet

 echo "Building for visionOS..."
 cmake -B build-visionos -G Xcode \
@@ -457,9 +455,8 @@ cmake -B build-visionos -G Xcode \
    -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="${COMMON_CXX_FLAGS}" \
    -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
    -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=OFF \
-    -DMTMD_VIDEO=OFF \
    -S .
-cmake --build build-visionos --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu) -- -quiet
+cmake --build build-visionos --config Release -- -quiet

 echo "Building for visionOS simulator..."
 cmake -B build-visionos-sim -G Xcode \
@@ -473,9 +470,8 @@ cmake -B build-visionos-sim -G Xcode \
    -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="${COMMON_CXX_FLAGS}" \
    -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
    -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=OFF \
-    -DMTMD_VIDEO=OFF \
    -S .
-cmake --build build-visionos-sim --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu) -- -quiet
+cmake --build build-visionos-sim --config Release -- -quiet

 # Add tvOS builds (might need the same u_int definitions as watchOS and visionOS)
 echo "Building for tvOS simulator..."
@@ -490,9 +486,8 @@ cmake -B build-tvos-sim -G Xcode \
    -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="${COMMON_C_FLAGS}" \
    -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="${COMMON_CXX_FLAGS}" \
    -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
-    -DMTMD_VIDEO=OFF \
    -S .
-cmake --build build-tvos-sim --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu) -- -quiet
+cmake --build build-tvos-sim --config Release -- -quiet

 echo "Building for tvOS devices..."
 cmake -B build-tvos-device -G Xcode \
@@ -506,9 +501,8 @@ cmake -B build-tvos-device -G Xcode \
    -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="${COMMON_C_FLAGS}" \
    -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="${COMMON_CXX_FLAGS}" \
    -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
-    -DMTMD_VIDEO=OFF \
    -S .
-cmake --build build-tvos-device --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu) -- -quiet
+cmake --build build-tvos-device --config Release -- -quiet

 # Setup frameworks and copy binaries and headers
 echo "Setting up framework structures..."
@@ -66,8 +66,6 @@ fi

 if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_METAL} ]; then
    CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_METAL=ON"
-else
-    CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_METAL=OFF"
 fi

 if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_CUDA} ]; then
@@ -116,7 +114,10 @@ fi
 if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_VULKAN} ]; then
    CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_VULKAN=1"

+    # if on Mac, disable METAL
    if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
+        CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_METAL=OFF -DGGML_BLAS=OFF"
+
        MACOS_RUNNER_CUSTOM_VULKAN_CMAKE_LOCATION="/usr/local/lib/cmake/vulkan"
        MACOS_RUNNER_CUSTOM_SPIRV_HEADERS_LOCATION="${MACOS_RUNNER_CUSTOM_VULKAN_CMAKE_LOCATION}/SPIRV-Headers/SPIRV-HeadersConfig.cmake"
        if [[ -f "${MACOS_RUNNER_CUSTOM_SPIRV_HEADERS_LOCATION}" || -h "${MACOS_RUNNER_CUSTOM_SPIRV_HEADERS_LOCATION}" ]]; then
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_VULKAN} ]; then
 fi

 if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_WEBGPU} ]; then
-    CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_WEBGPU=1"
+    CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_WEBGPU=1 -DGGML_METAL=OFF -DGGML_BLAS=OFF"

    if [ ! -z "${GG_BUILD_WEBGPU_DAWN_PREFIX}" ]; then
        if [ -z "${CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH}" ]; then
@@ -166,8 +167,6 @@ fi

 if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_BLAS} ]; then
    CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_BLAS=ON -DGGML_BLAS_VENDOR=${GG_BUILD_BLAS_VENDOR:-OpenBLAS}"
-else
-    CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_BLAS=OFF"
 fi

 if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_OPENVINO} ]; then
@@ -701,8 +700,8 @@ function gg_sum_test_backend_ops_cpu {

 ## main

-export LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX=1
-export LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS=1
+export LLAMA_LOG_PREFIX=1
+export LLAMA_LOG_TIMESTAMPS=1

 if [ -z ${GG_BUILD_LOW_PERF} ]; then
    # Create symlink: ./llama.cpp/models-mnt -> $MNT/models
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ add_library(${TARGET}
    hf-cache.cpp
    hf-cache.h
    http.h
-    imatrix-loader.cpp
-    imatrix-loader.h
+    json-partial.cpp
+    json-partial.h
    json-schema-to-grammar.cpp
    llguidance.cpp
    log.cpp
@@ -94,8 +94,10 @@ add_library(${TARGET}
    peg-parser.h
    preset.cpp
    preset.h
+    regex-partial.cpp
    reasoning-budget.cpp
    reasoning-budget.h
+    regex-partial.h
    sampling.cpp
    sampling.h
    speculative.cpp
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 #   define NOMINMAX
 #endif
 #include <windows.h>
-#include <shellapi.h>
 #endif

 #define JSON_ASSERT GGML_ASSERT
@@ -51,6 +50,8 @@

 #define LLAMA_MAX_URL_LENGTH 2084 // Maximum URL Length in Chrome: 2083

+extern const char * LICENSES[];
+
 using json = nlohmann::ordered_json;
 using namespace common_arg_utils;

@@ -286,17 +287,115 @@ static std::string clean_file_name(const std::string & fname) {
    return clean_fname;
 }

+static bool common_params_handle_remote_preset(common_params & params, llama_example ex) {
+    GGML_ASSERT(!params.model.hf_repo.empty());
+
+    // the returned hf_repo is without tag
+    auto [hf_repo, hf_tag] = common_download_split_repo_tag(params.model.hf_repo);
+
+    // "latest" tag (default if not specified) is translated to "default" preset
+    if (hf_tag == "latest") {
+        hf_tag = "default";
+    }
+
+    std::string model_endpoint = common_get_model_endpoint();
+    auto preset_url = model_endpoint + hf_repo + "/resolve/main/preset.ini";
+
+    // prepare local path for caching
+    auto preset_fname = clean_file_name(hf_repo + "_preset.ini");
+    auto preset_path = fs_get_cache_file(preset_fname);
+    common_download_opts opts;
+    opts.bearer_token = params.hf_token;
+    opts.offline = params.offline;
+
+    LOG_TRC("%s: looking for remote preset at %s\n", __func__, preset_url.c_str());
+    const int status = common_download_file_single(preset_url, preset_path, opts);
+    const bool has_preset = status >= 200 && status < 400;
+
+    // remote preset is optional, so we don't error out if not found
+    if (has_preset) {
+        LOG_TRC("%s: applying remote preset from %s\n", __func__, preset_url.c_str());
+        common_preset_context ctx(ex, /* only_remote_allowed */ true);
+        common_preset global;
+        auto remote_presets = ctx.load_from_ini(preset_path, global);
+        remote_presets = ctx.cascade(global, remote_presets);
+        if (remote_presets.find(hf_tag) != remote_presets.end()) {
+            common_preset preset = remote_presets.at(hf_tag);
+            LOG_INF("\n%s", preset.to_ini().c_str()); // to_ini already added trailing newline
+            preset.apply_to_params(params);
+        } else {
+            throw std::runtime_error("Remote preset.ini does not contain [" + std::string(hf_tag) + "] section");
+        }
+    } else {
+        LOG_TRC("%s: no remote preset found, skipping\n", __func__);
+    }
+
+    return has_preset;
+}
+
 struct handle_model_result {
    bool found_mmproj = false;
    common_params_model mmproj;

    bool found_mtp = false;
    common_params_model mtp;
-
-    bool found_preset = false;
-    std::string preset_path;
 };

+static handle_model_result common_params_handle_model(struct common_params_model & model,
+                                                      const std::string          & bearer_token,
+                                                      bool                         offline,
+                                                      bool                         search_mtp = false) {
+    handle_model_result result;
+
+    if (!model.docker_repo.empty()) {
+        model.path = common_docker_resolve_model(model.docker_repo);
+        model.name = model.docker_repo;
+    } else if (!model.hf_repo.empty()) {
+        // If -m was used with -hf, treat the model "path" as the hf_file to download
+        if (model.hf_file.empty() && !model.path.empty()) {
+            model.hf_file = model.path;
+            model.path = "";
+        }
+        common_download_opts opts;
+        opts.bearer_token = bearer_token;
+        opts.offline = offline;
+        auto download_result = common_download_model(model, opts, true, search_mtp);
+
+        if (download_result.model_path.empty()) {
+            throw std::runtime_error("failed to download model from Hugging Face");
+        }
+
+        model.name = model.hf_repo;
+        model.path = download_result.model_path;
+
+        if (!download_result.mmproj_path.empty()) {
+            result.found_mmproj = true;
+            result.mmproj.path  = download_result.mmproj_path;
+        }
+
+        if (!download_result.mtp_path.empty()) {
+            result.found_mtp = true;
+            result.mtp.path  = download_result.mtp_path;
+        }
+    } else if (!model.url.empty()) {
+        if (model.path.empty()) {
+            auto f = string_split<std::string>(model.url, '#').front();
+            f = string_split<std::string>(f, '?').front();
+            model.path = fs_get_cache_file(string_split<std::string>(f, '/').back());
+        }
+
+        common_download_opts opts;
+        opts.bearer_token = bearer_token;
+        opts.offline = offline;
+        auto download_result = common_download_model(model, opts);
+        if (download_result.model_path.empty()) {
+            throw std::runtime_error("failed to download model from " + model.url);
+        }
+    }
+
+    return result;
+}
+
 const std::vector<ggml_type> kv_cache_types = {
    GGML_TYPE_F32,
    GGML_TYPE_F16,
@@ -341,241 +440,40 @@ static bool parse_bool_value(const std::string & value) {
 }

 //
-// common_models_handler
+// CLI argument parsing functions
 //

-static std::string get_default_local_path(const std::string & url) {
-    auto f = string_split<std::string>(url, '#').front();
-    f = string_split<std::string>(f, '?').front();
-    return fs_get_cache_file(string_split<std::string>(f, '/').back());
-}
-
-common_models_handler common_models_handler_init(const common_params & params, llama_example curr_ex) {
-    common_download_hf_plan plan;
-    common_download_hf_plan plan_spec;
-    common_download_hf_plan plan_voc;
-    common_download_opts opts;
-
+void common_params_handle_models(common_params & params, llama_example curr_ex) {
    const bool spec_type_draft_mtp = std::find(params.speculative.types.begin(),
-                                        params.speculative.types.end(),
-                                        COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_DRAFT_MTP) != params.speculative.types.end();
+                                         params.speculative.types.end(),
+                                         COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_DRAFT_MTP) != params.speculative.types.end();

+    auto res = common_params_handle_model(params.model, params.hf_token, params.offline, spec_type_draft_mtp);
+    if (params.no_mmproj) {
+        params.mmproj = {};
+    } else if (res.found_mmproj && params.mmproj.path.empty() && params.mmproj.url.empty()) {
+        // optionally, handle mmproj model when -hf is specified
+        params.mmproj = res.mmproj;
+    }
    // only download mmproj if the current example is using it
-    bool use_mmproj = false;
    for (const auto & ex : mmproj_examples) {
        if (curr_ex == ex) {
-            use_mmproj = true;
+            common_params_handle_model(params.mmproj,    params.hf_token, params.offline);
            break;
        }
    }
-
-    opts.bearer_token    = params.hf_token;
-    opts.offline         = params.offline;
-    opts.download_mtp    = spec_type_draft_mtp;
-    opts.download_mmproj = use_mmproj && !params.no_mmproj
-                        && params.mmproj.path.empty() && params.mmproj.url.empty();
-
-    if (!params.model.hf_repo.empty()) {
-        plan = common_download_get_hf_plan(params.model, opts);
+    // when --spec-type mtp is set and no draft model was provided explicitly,
+    // fall back to the MTP head discovered alongside the -hf model
+    if (spec_type_draft_mtp && res.found_mtp &&
+        params.speculative.draft.mparams.path.empty() &&
+        params.speculative.draft.mparams.hf_repo.empty() &&
+        params.speculative.draft.mparams.url.empty()) {
+        params.speculative.draft.mparams.path = res.mtp.path;
    }
-
-    if (!params.speculative.draft.mparams.hf_repo.empty()) {
-        plan_spec = common_download_get_hf_plan(params.speculative.draft.mparams, opts);
-    }
-
-    if (!params.vocoder.model.hf_repo.empty()) {
-        plan_voc = common_download_get_hf_plan(params.vocoder.model, opts);
-    }
-
-    return common_models_handler{plan, plan_spec, plan_voc, opts};
+    common_params_handle_model(params.speculative.draft.mparams, params.hf_token, params.offline);
+    common_params_handle_model(params.vocoder.model,             params.hf_token, params.offline);
 }

-bool common_models_handler_is_preset_repo(const common_models_handler & handler) {
-    return !handler.plan.preset.url.empty();
-}
-
-static std::vector<common_download_task> build_url_tasks(const common_params_model & model, common_download_opts opts) {
-    auto parts = common_download_get_all_parts(model.url);
-    std::vector<common_download_task> tasks;
-
-    // single-part: download straight to model.path if the user gave one (-m), else the cache default
-    if (parts.size() == 1) {
-        common_download_task task;
-        task.url        = parts[0];
-        task.local_path = model.path.empty() ? get_default_local_path(parts[0]) : model.path;
-        task.opts       = opts;
-        tasks.push_back(std::move(task));
-        return tasks;
-    }
-
-    // multi-part: place each part under the user's -m directory (if given), else the cache default
-    std::string base_dir;
-    if (!model.path.empty()) {
-        auto pos = model.path.rfind('/');
-        base_dir = pos == std::string::npos ? std::string(".") : model.path.substr(0, pos);
-    }
-
-    for (const auto & part : parts) {
-        common_download_task task;
-        task.url  = part;
-        task.opts = opts;
-
-        std::string local = get_default_local_path(part);
-        if (!base_dir.empty()) {
-            auto pos = local.rfind('/');
-            std::string name = pos == std::string::npos ? local : local.substr(pos + 1);
-            local = base_dir + "/" + name;
-        }
-        task.local_path = local;
-        tasks.push_back(std::move(task));
-    }
-    return tasks;
-}
-
-void common_models_handler_apply(common_models_handler & handler, common_params & params, common_download_callback * callback) {
-    std::vector<common_download_task> tasks;
-
-    auto & plan      = handler.plan;
-    auto & plan_spec = handler.plan_spec;
-    auto & plan_voc  = handler.plan_voc;
-
-    auto opts = handler.opts; // copy
-    opts.callback = callback;
-
-    // handle plain "url" if needed
-    auto handle_url = [&](common_params_model & model) {
-        if (!model.url.empty()) {
-            if (model.path.empty()) {
-                model.path = get_default_local_path(model.url);
-            }
-        }
-    };
-    handle_url(params.model);
-    handle_url(params.mmproj);
-    handle_url(params.vocoder.model);
-    handle_url(params.speculative.draft.mparams);
-
-    // optionally, if docker repo is set, resolve it
-    if (!params.model.docker_repo.empty()) {
-        params.model.url  = common_docker_resolve_model(params.model.docker_repo);
-        params.model.path = get_default_local_path(params.model.url);
-    }
-
-    // handle plain "url" tasks (non-hf)
-    if (!params.model.url.empty()) {
-        auto url_tasks = build_url_tasks(params.model, opts);
-        // the first part is what gets loaded, so point params.model.path at it
-        if (!url_tasks.empty()) {
-            std::string first_path = url_tasks.front().local_path;
-            url_tasks.front().on_done = [&, first_path]() { params.model.path = first_path; };
-        }
-        for (auto & task : url_tasks) {
-            tasks.push_back(std::move(task));
-        }
-    }
-    if (!params.mmproj.url.empty()) {
-        common_download_task task;
-        task.url        = params.mmproj.url;
-        task.local_path = params.mmproj.path;
-        task.opts       = opts;
-        tasks.push_back(task);
-    }
-    if (!params.vocoder.model.url.empty()) {
-        common_download_task task;
-        task.url        = params.vocoder.model.url;
-        task.local_path = params.vocoder.model.path;
-        task.opts       = opts;
-        tasks.push_back(task);
-    }
-    if (!params.speculative.draft.mparams.url.empty()) {
-        common_download_task task;
-        task.url        = params.speculative.draft.mparams.url;
-        task.local_path = params.speculative.draft.mparams.path;
-        task.opts       = opts;
-        tasks.push_back(task);
-    }
-
-    // handle hf_plan tasks
-    auto add_tasks = [&opts, &tasks](const hf_cache::hf_files & model_files, common_params_model & model) {
-        for (size_t i = 0; i < model_files.size(); ++i) {
-            auto & model_file = model_files[i];
-            bool is_first = (i == 0);
-            tasks.emplace_back(model_file, opts, [&, is_first]() {
-                if (is_first) {
-                    // only use first part as model path
-                    model.path = hf_cache::finalize_file(model_file);
-                } else {
-                    hf_cache::finalize_file(model_file);
-                }
-            });
-        }
-    };
-    if (!plan.model_files.empty()) {
-        add_tasks(plan.model_files, params.model);
-    }
-    if (!plan.mmproj.local_path.empty()) {
-        tasks.emplace_back(plan.mmproj, opts, [&]() {
-            params.mmproj.path = hf_cache::finalize_file(plan.mmproj);
-        });
-    }
-    if (!plan.mtp.local_path.empty()) {
-        tasks.emplace_back(plan.mtp, opts, [&]() {
-            // only fall back to the discovered MTP head when no draft was explicitly provided
-            if (params.speculative.draft.mparams.empty()) {
-                params.speculative.draft.mparams.path = hf_cache::finalize_file(plan.mtp);
-            } else {
-                hf_cache::finalize_file(plan.mtp);
-            }
-        });
-    }
-    if (!plan.preset.local_path.empty()) {
-        tasks.emplace_back(plan.preset, opts, [&]() {
-            // if HF repo is a preset repo, we simply run server in router mode with the preset.ini file
-            params.models_preset_hf = params.model.hf_repo; // only for showing a warning
-            params.models_preset    = hf_cache::finalize_file(plan.preset);
-            params.model = common_params_model{}; // make sure to clear model, so server starts in router mode
-        });
-    }
-
-    // handle plan_spec (e.g. --spec-draft-hf)
-    if (!plan_spec.model_files.empty()) {
-        add_tasks(plan_spec.model_files, params.speculative.draft.mparams);
-    }
-
-    // handle vocoder plan (e.g. --hf-repo-v)
-    if (!plan_voc.model_files.empty()) {
-        add_tasks(plan_voc.model_files, params.vocoder.model);
-    }
-
-    // run all tasks in parallel
-    if (!params.offline) {
-        // if duplicated files are found, only download once (but still call on_done for each task)
-        std::unordered_map<std::string, common_download_task *> unique_tasks;
-        for (auto & task : tasks) {
-            auto it = unique_tasks.find(task.local_path);
-            if (it == unique_tasks.end()) {
-                unique_tasks[task.local_path] = &task;
-            }
-        }
-        std::vector<common_download_task> unique_tasks_vec;
-        for (auto & pair : unique_tasks) {
-            unique_tasks_vec.push_back(*pair.second);
-        }
-        common_download_run_tasks(unique_tasks_vec);
-    }
-
-    // download successful, update params with the downloaded paths
-    for (const auto & task : tasks) {
-        if (task.on_done) {
-            task.on_done();
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-//
-// CLI argument parsing functions
-//
-
 static bool common_params_parse_ex(int argc, char ** argv, common_params_context & ctx_arg) {
    common_params & params = ctx_arg.params;

@@ -691,6 +589,30 @@ static bool common_params_parse_ex(int argc, char ** argv, common_params_context
    // parse the first time to get -hf option (used for remote preset)
    parse_cli_args();

+    // export_graph_ops loads only metadata
+    const bool skip_model_download = ctx_arg.ex == LLAMA_EXAMPLE_EXPORT_GRAPH_OPS;
+
+    // maybe handle remote preset
+    if (!params.model.hf_repo.empty() && !skip_model_download) {
+        std::string cli_hf_repo = params.model.hf_repo;
+        bool has_preset = common_params_handle_remote_preset(params, ctx_arg.ex);
+
+        // special case: if hf_repo explicitly set by preset, we need to preserve it (ignore CLI value)
+        // this is useful when we have one HF repo pointing to other HF repos (one model - multiple GGUFs)
+        std::string preset_hf_repo = params.model.hf_repo;
+        bool preset_has_hf_repo = preset_hf_repo != cli_hf_repo;
+
+        if (has_preset) {
+            // re-parse CLI args to override preset values
+            parse_cli_args();
+        }
+
+        // preserve hf_repo from preset if needed
+        if (preset_has_hf_repo) {
+            params.model.hf_repo = preset_hf_repo;
+        }
+    }
+
    postprocess_cpu_params(params.cpuparams,       nullptr);
    postprocess_cpu_params(params.cpuparams_batch, &params.cpuparams);

@@ -701,26 +623,15 @@ static bool common_params_parse_ex(int argc, char ** argv, common_params_context
        throw std::invalid_argument("error: --prompt-cache-all not supported in interactive mode yet\n");
    }

-    const bool skip_model_download =
-        // server will call common_params_handle_models() later, so we skip it here
-        ctx_arg.ex == LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER ||
-        // download calls common_params_handle_models() itself and prints the paths
-        ctx_arg.ex == LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DOWNLOAD ||
-        // export_graph_ops loads only metadata
-        ctx_arg.ex == LLAMA_EXAMPLE_EXPORT_GRAPH_OPS;
-
+    // handle model and download
    if (!skip_model_download) {
-        // handle model and download
-        common_models_handler handler = common_models_handler_init(params, ctx_arg.ex);
-        common_models_handler_apply(handler, params);
+        common_params_handle_models(params, ctx_arg.ex);
+    }

-        // model is required (except for server)
-        // TODO @ngxson : maybe show a list of available models in CLI in this case
-        if (params.model.path.empty()
-                && !params.usage
-                && !params.completion) {
-            throw std::invalid_argument("error: --model is required\n");
-        }
+    // model is required (except for server)
+    // TODO @ngxson : maybe show a list of available models in CLI in this case
+    if (params.model.path.empty() && ctx_arg.ex != LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER && !skip_model_download && !params.usage && !params.completion) {
+        throw std::invalid_argument("error: --model is required\n");
    }

    if (params.escape) {
@@ -784,19 +695,15 @@ static void common_params_print_usage(common_params_context & ctx_arg) {
            common_options.push_back(&opt);
        }
    }
-    bool first = true;
-    auto print_section = [&](const char * header, std::vector<common_arg *> & options) {
-        if (options.empty()) {
-            return;
-        }
-        printf("%s----- %s -----\n\n", first ? "" : "\n\n", header);
-        first = false;
-        print_options(options);
-    };
-    print_section("common params",           common_options);
-    print_section("sampling params",         sampling_options);
-    print_section("speculative params",      spec_options);
-    print_section("example-specific params", specific_options);
+    printf("----- common params -----\n\n");
+    print_options(common_options);
+    printf("\n\n----- sampling params -----\n\n");
+    print_options(sampling_options);
+    printf("\n\n----- speculative params -----\n\n");
+    print_options(spec_options);
+    // TODO: maybe convert enum llama_example to string
+    printf("\n\n----- example-specific params -----\n\n");
+    print_options(specific_options);
 }

 static void common_params_print_completion(common_params_context & ctx_arg) {
@@ -1018,44 +925,7 @@ bool common_params_to_map(int argc, char ** argv, llama_example ex, std::map<com
    return true;
 }

-#ifdef _WIN32
-struct utf8_argv {
-    std::vector<std::string> buf;
-    std::vector<char*> ptrs;
-};
-
-static utf8_argv make_utf8_argv() {
-    utf8_argv out;
-    int wargc = 0;
-    LPWSTR* wargv = CommandLineToArgvW(GetCommandLineW(), &wargc);
-    if (!wargv) return out;
-
-    out.buf.reserve(wargc);
-    for (int i = 0; i < wargc; ++i) {
-        int n = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, WC_ERR_INVALID_CHARS, wargv[i], -1, nullptr, 0, nullptr, nullptr);
-        if (n <= 0) { out.buf.emplace_back(); continue; }
-        auto& s = out.buf.emplace_back();
-        s.resize(static_cast<size_t>(n - 1));
-        (void)WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, wargv[i], -1, s.data(), n, nullptr, nullptr);
-    }
-    LocalFree(wargv);
-
-    out.ptrs.reserve(out.buf.size() + 1);
-    for (auto& s : out.buf) out.ptrs.push_back(s.data());
-    out.ptrs.push_back(nullptr);
-    return out;
-}
-#endif
-
 bool common_params_parse(int argc, char ** argv, common_params & params, llama_example ex, void(*print_usage)(int, char **)) {
-#ifdef _WIN32
-    auto utf8 = make_utf8_argv();
-    // repair argv only when it matches the process command line
-    if (static_cast<int>(utf8.buf.size()) == argc) {
-        argv = utf8.ptrs.data();
-    }
-#endif
-
    auto ctx_arg = common_params_parser_init(params, ex, print_usage);
    const common_params params_org = ctx_arg.params; // the example can modify the default params

@@ -1165,9 +1035,11 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
    // we define here to make sure it's included in llama-gen-docs
    if (ex == LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMPLETION) {
        params.use_jinja = false;   // disable jinja by default
+
    } else if (ex == LLAMA_EXAMPLE_MTMD) {
        params.use_jinja = false;   // disable jinja by default
        params.sampling.temp = 0.2; // lower temp by default for better quality
+
    } else if (ex == LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER) {
        params.n_parallel = -1;     // auto by default
    }
@@ -1188,6 +1060,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
        sampler_type_names.pop_back(); // remove last semicolon
    }

+
    /**
     * filter options by example
     * rules:
@@ -1196,20 +1069,19 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
     * - if both {LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMMON, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_*,} are set, we will prioritize the LLAMA_EXAMPLE_* matching current example
     */
    auto add_opt = [&](common_arg arg) {
-        // download only exposes the handful of args explicitly tagged for it
-        const bool inherit_common = ex != LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DOWNLOAD;
-        if ((arg.in_example(ex) || (inherit_common && arg.in_example(LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMMON))) && !arg.is_exclude(ex)) {
+        if ((arg.in_example(ex) || arg.in_example(LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMMON)) && !arg.is_exclude(ex)) {
            ctx_arg.options.push_back(std::move(arg));
        }
    };

+
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"-h", "--help", "--usage"},
        "print usage and exit",
        [](common_params & params) {
            params.usage = true;
        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMMON, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DOWNLOAD}));
+    ));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--version"},
        "show version and build info",
@@ -1219,6 +1091,16 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            exit(0);
        }
    ));
+    add_opt(common_arg(
+        {"--license"},
+        "show source code license and dependencies",
+        [](common_params &) {
+            for (int i = 0; LICENSES[i]; ++i) {
+                printf("%s\n", LICENSES[i]);
+            }
+            exit(0);
+        }
+    ));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"-cl", "--cache-list"},
        "show list of models in cache",
@@ -1452,15 +1334,12 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
        }
    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_CTX_CHECKPOINTS").set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}));
    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"-cms", "--checkpoint-min-step"}, "N",
-        string_format("minimum spacing between context checkpoints in tokens (default: %d, 0 = no minimum)", params.checkpoint_min_step),
+        {"-cpent", "--checkpoint-every-n-tokens"}, "N",
+        string_format("create a checkpoint every n tokens during prefill (processing), -1 to disable (default: %d)", params.checkpoint_every_nt),
        [](common_params & params, int value) {
-            if (value < 0) {
-                throw std::invalid_argument("checkpoint-min-step must be non-negative");
-            }
-            params.checkpoint_min_step = value;
+            params.checkpoint_every_nt = value;
        }
-    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_CHECKPOINT_MIN_SPACING_NT").set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}));
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_CHECKPOINT_EVERY_NT").set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"-cram", "--cache-ram"}, "N",
        string_format("set the maximum cache size in MiB (default: %d, -1 - no limit, 0 - disable)"
@@ -1480,7 +1359,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--cache-idle-slots"},
        {"--no-cache-idle-slots"},
-        "save idle slots to the prompt cache on new task, and clear them when using unified KV (default: enabled, requires cache-ram)",
+        "save and clear idle slots on new task (default: enabled, requires unified KV and cache-ram)",
        [](common_params & params, bool value) {
            params.cache_idle_slots = value;
        }
@@ -1735,7 +1614,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
        string_format("samplers that will be used for generation in the order, separated by \';\'\n(default: %s)", sampler_type_names.c_str()),
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
            const auto sampler_names = string_split<std::string>(value, ';');
-            params.sampling.samplers = common_sampler_types_from_names(sampler_names);
+            params.sampling.samplers = common_sampler_types_from_names(sampler_names, true);
            params.sampling.user_sampling_config |= common_params_sampling_config::COMMON_PARAMS_SAMPLING_CONFIG_SAMPLERS;
        }
    ).set_sampling());
@@ -2331,7 +2210,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
        [](common_params & params, bool value) {
            params.no_mmproj = !value;
        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_MTMD, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DOWNLOAD}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_MMPROJ_AUTO"));
+    ).set_examples(mmproj_examples).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_MMPROJ_AUTO"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--mmproj-offload"},
        {"--no-mmproj-offload"},
@@ -2341,8 +2220,8 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
        }
    ).set_examples(mmproj_examples).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_MMPROJ_OFFLOAD"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"--image", "--audio", "--video"}, "FILE",
-        "path to an image, audio, or video file. use with multimodal models, use comma-separated values for multiple files\n",
+        {"--image", "--audio"}, "FILE",
+        "path to an image or audio file. use with multimodal models, use comma-separated values for multiple files\n",
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
            for (const auto & item : parse_csv_row(value)) {
                params.image.emplace_back(item);
@@ -2363,13 +2242,6 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            params.image_max_tokens = value;
        }
    ).set_examples(mmproj_examples).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_IMAGE_MAX_TOKENS"));
-    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"--mtmd-batch-max-tokens"}, "N",
-        string_format("maximum number of image tokens per batch when encoding images (default: %d)", params.mtmd_batch_max_tokens),
-        [](common_params & params, int value) {
-            params.mtmd_batch_max_tokens = value;
-        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_MTMD_BATCH_MAX_TOKENS"));
    if (llama_supports_rpc()) {
        add_opt(common_arg(
            {"--rpc"}, "SERVERS",
@@ -2730,14 +2602,14 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
            params.model.path = value;
        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMMON, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_EXPORT_LORA, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DOWNLOAD}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_MODEL"));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMMON, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_EXPORT_LORA}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_MODEL"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"-mu", "--model-url"}, "MODEL_URL",
        "model download url (default: unused)",
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
            params.model.url = value;
        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMMON, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DOWNLOAD}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_MODEL_URL"));
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_MODEL_URL"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        { "-dr", "--docker-repo" }, "[<repo>/]<model>[:quant]",
        "Docker Hub model repository. repo is optional, default to ai/. quant is optional, default to :latest.\n"
@@ -2746,7 +2618,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
            params.model.docker_repo = value;
        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMMON, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DOWNLOAD}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_DOCKER_REPO"));
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_DOCKER_REPO"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"-hf", "-hfr", "--hf-repo"}, "<user>/<model>[:quant]",
        "Hugging Face model repository; quant is optional, case-insensitive, default to Q4_K_M, or falls back to the first file in the repo if Q4_K_M doesn't exist.\n"
@@ -2756,14 +2628,14 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
            params.model.hf_repo = value;
        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMMON, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DOWNLOAD}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_HF_REPO"));
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_HF_REPO"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"-hff", "--hf-file"}, "FILE",
        "Hugging Face model file. If specified, it will override the quant in --hf-repo (default: unused)",
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
            params.model.hf_file = value;
        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMMON, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DOWNLOAD}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_HF_FILE"));
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_HF_FILE"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"-hfv", "-hfrv", "--hf-repo-v"}, "<user>/<model>[:quant]",
        "Hugging Face model repository for the vocoder model (default: unused)",
@@ -2784,14 +2656,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
            params.hf_token = value;
        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMMON, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DOWNLOAD}).set_env("HF_TOKEN"));
-    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"--mtp"},
-        "also download the multi-token prediction (MTP) head, if available (default: unused)",
-        [](common_params & params) {
-            params.speculative.types.push_back(COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_DRAFT_MTP);
-        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DOWNLOAD}));
+    ).set_env("HF_TOKEN"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--context-file"}, "FNAME",
        "file to load context from (use comma-separated values to specify multiple files)",
@@ -3001,26 +2866,62 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            params.api_prefix = value;
        }
    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_API_PREFIX"));
+    // Deprecated: use --ui-config instead (kept for backward compat)
    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"--ui-config", "--webui-config"}, "JSON",
+        {"--webui-config"}, "JSON",
+        "[DEPRECATED: use --ui-config] JSON that provides default WebUI settings (overrides WebUI defaults)",
+        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
+            params.ui_config_json = value;
+            params.webui_config_json = value;
+        }
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_WEBUI_CONFIG"));
+
+    add_opt(common_arg(
+        {"--ui-config"}, "JSON",
        "JSON that provides default UI settings (overrides UI defaults)",
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
            params.ui_config_json = value;
+            params.webui_config_json = value;
        }
    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_UI_CONFIG"));
+
+    // Deprecated: use --ui-config-file instead (kept for backward compat)
    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"--ui-config-file", "--webui-config-file"}, "PATH",
+        {"--webui-config-file"}, "PATH",
+        "[DEPRECATED: use --ui-config-file] JSON file that provides default WebUI settings (overrides WebUI defaults)",
+        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
+            params.ui_config_json = read_file(value);
+            params.webui_config_json = params.ui_config_json;
+        }
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_WEBUI_CONFIG_FILE"));
+
+    add_opt(common_arg(
+        {"--ui-config-file"}, "PATH",
        "JSON file that provides default UI settings (overrides UI defaults)",
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
            params.ui_config_json = read_file(value);
+            params.webui_config_json = params.ui_config_json;
        }
    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_UI_CONFIG_FILE"));
+
+    // Deprecated: use --ui-mcp-proxy instead (kept for backward compat)
    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"--ui-mcp-proxy", "--webui-mcp-proxy"},
-        {"--no-ui-mcp-proxy", "--no-webui-mcp-proxy"},
+        {"--webui-mcp-proxy"},
+        {"--no-webui-mcp-proxy"},
+        "[DEPRECATED: use --ui-mcp-proxy/--no-ui-mcp-proxy] experimental: whether to enable MCP CORS proxy",
+        [](common_params & params, bool value) {
+            params.ui_mcp_proxy = value;
+            params.webui_mcp_proxy = value;
+        }
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_WEBUI_MCP_PROXY"));
+
+    add_opt(common_arg(
+        {"--ui-mcp-proxy"},
+        {"--no-ui-mcp-proxy"},
        "experimental: whether to enable MCP CORS proxy - do not enable in untrusted environments (default: disabled)",
        [](common_params & params, bool value) {
            params.ui_mcp_proxy = value;
+            params.webui_mcp_proxy = value;
        }
    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_UI_MCP_PROXY"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
@@ -3032,26 +2933,24 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            params.server_tools = parse_csv_row(value);
        }
    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_TOOLS"));
+    // Deprecated: use --ui/--no-ui instead (kept for backward compat)
    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"-ag", "--agent"},
-        {"-no-ag", "--no-agent"},
-        "whether to enable CORS proxy and all built-in tools - do not enable in untrusted environments (default: disabled)",
+        {"--webui"},
+        {"--no-webui"},
+        "[DEPRECATED: use --ui/--no-ui] whether to enable the Web UI",
        [](common_params & params, bool value) {
-            if (value) {
-                params.server_tools = {"all"};
-                params.ui_mcp_proxy = true;
-            } else {
-                params.server_tools.clear();
-                params.ui_mcp_proxy = false;
-            }
+            params.ui = value;
+            params.webui = value;
        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_AGENT"));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_WEBUI"));
+
    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"--ui", "--webui"},
-        {"--no-ui", "--no-webui"},
+        {"--ui"},
+        {"--no-ui"},
        string_format("whether to enable the Web UI (default: %s)", params.ui ? "enabled" : "disabled"),
        [](common_params & params, bool value) {
            params.ui = value;
+            params.webui = value;
        }
    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_UI"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
@@ -3082,7 +2981,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_API_KEY"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--api-key-file"}, "FNAME",
-        "path to file containing API keys, one per line; lines starting with a hash are treated as comments (default: none)",
+        "path to file containing API keys (default: none)",
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
            std::ifstream key_file(value);
            if (!key_file) {
@@ -3090,13 +2989,13 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            }
            std::string key;
            while (std::getline(key_file, key)) {
-                if (!key.empty() && key[0] != '#') {
+                if (!key.empty()) {
                    params.api_keys.push_back(key);
                }
            }
            key_file.close();
        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_API_KEY_FILE"));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--ssl-key-file"}, "FNAME",
        "path to file a PEM-encoded SSL private key",
@@ -3124,7 +3023,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
                params.default_template_kwargs[item.key()] = item.value().dump();
            }
        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_CHAT_TEMPLATE_KWARGS"));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}).set_env("LLAMA_CHAT_TEMPLATE_KWARGS"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"-to", "--timeout"}, "N",
        string_format("server read/write timeout in seconds (default: %d)", params.timeout_read),
@@ -3133,13 +3032,6 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            params.timeout_write = value;
        }
    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_TIMEOUT"));
-    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"--sse-ping-interval"}, "N",
-        string_format("server SSE ping interval in seconds (-1 = disabled, default: %d)", params.sse_ping_interval),
-        [](common_params & params, int value) {
-            params.sse_ping_interval = value;
-        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_SSE_PING_INTERVAL"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--threads-http"}, "N",
        string_format("number of threads used to process HTTP requests (default: %d)", params.n_threads_http),
@@ -3296,20 +3188,6 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            params.sampling.reasoning_budget_message = value;
        }
    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMPLETION, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_THINK_BUDGET_MESSAGE"));
-    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"--reasoning-preserve"},
-        {"--no-reasoning-preserve"},
-        "preserve reasoning trace in the full history, not just the last assistant message (default: template default)\n"
-        "compatible with certain templates having 'supports_preserve_reasoning' capability\n"
-        "example: https://docs.z.ai/guides/capabilities/thinking-mode#preserved-thinking",
-        [](common_params & params, bool value) {
-            if (value) {
-                params.default_template_kwargs["preserve_reasoning"] = "true";
-            } else {
-                params.default_template_kwargs["preserve_reasoning"] = "false";
-            }
-        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMPLETION, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_REASONING_PRESERVE"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--chat-template"}, "JINJA_TEMPLATE",
        string_format(
@@ -3446,14 +3324,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
        [](common_params &, const std::string & value) {
            common_log_set_file(common_log_main(), value.c_str());
        }
-    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_LOG_FILE"));
-    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"--log-prompts-dir"}, "PATH",
-        "Log prompts to directory (only used for debugging, default: disabled)",
-        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
-            params.path_prompts_log_dir = value;
-        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}));
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_LOG_FILE"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--log-colors"}, "[on|off|auto]",
        "Set colored logging ('on', 'off', or 'auto', default: 'auto')\n"
@@ -3470,7 +3341,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
                    string_format("error: unknown value for --log-colors: '%s'\n", value.c_str()));
            }
        }
-    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS"));
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_LOG_COLORS"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"-v", "--verbose", "--log-verbose"},
        "Set verbosity level to infinity (i.e. log all messages, useful for debugging)",
@@ -3485,7 +3356,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
        [](common_params & params) {
            params.offline = true;
        }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMMON, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DOWNLOAD}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_OFFLINE"));
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_OFFLINE"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"-lv", "--verbosity", "--log-verbosity"}, "N",
        string_format("Set the verbosity threshold. Messages with a higher verbosity will be ignored. Values:\n"
@@ -3500,7 +3371,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            params.verbosity = value;
            common_log_set_verbosity_thold(value);
        }
-    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_LOG_VERBOSITY"));
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_LOG_VERBOSITY"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--log-prefix"},
        {"--no-log-prefix"},
@@ -3762,7 +3633,6 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
        "draft model for speculative decoding (default: unused)",
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
            params.speculative.draft.mparams.path = value;
-            params.speculative.draft.mparams.hf_file = value; // will be used if --spec-draft-hf is set
        }
    ).set_spec().set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SPECULATIVE, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_MODEL"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
@@ -4212,6 +4082,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            params.sampling.top_k = 0;
            params.sampling.min_p = 0.01f;
            params.use_jinja = true;
+            //params.default_template_kwargs["reasoning_effort"] = "\"high\"";
        }
    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}));

@@ -4230,6 +4101,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            params.sampling.top_k = 0;
            params.sampling.min_p = 0.01f;
            params.use_jinja = true;
+            //params.default_template_kwargs["reasoning_effort"] = "\"high\"";
        }
    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}));

@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
 #pragma once

 #include "common.h"
-#include "download.h"

 #include <set>
 #include <map>
 #include <string>
 #include <vector>
 #include <cstring>
-#include <memory>

 // pseudo-env variable to identify preset-only arguments
 #define COMMON_ARG_PRESET_LOAD_ON_STARTUP "__PRESET_LOAD_ON_STARTUP"
@@ -131,21 +129,8 @@ bool common_params_to_map(int argc, char ** argv, llama_example ex, std::map<com
 // see: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/18163
 void common_params_add_preset_options(std::vector<common_arg> & args);

-struct common_models_handler {
-    common_download_hf_plan plan;
-    common_download_hf_plan plan_spec;
-    common_download_hf_plan plan_voc;
-    common_download_opts opts;
-};
-
-// initialize downloading opts and hf_plan if needed, but does not download anything yet
-common_models_handler common_models_handler_init(const common_params & params, llama_example curr_ex);
-
-// check if the model is a preset repo (i.e. has a preset file)
-bool common_models_handler_is_preset_repo(const common_models_handler & handler);
-
-// download and update params with the downloaded model path
-void common_models_handler_apply(common_models_handler & handler, common_params & params, common_download_callback * callback = nullptr);
+// Populate model paths (main model, mmproj, etc) from -hf if necessary
+void common_params_handle_models(common_params & params, llama_example curr_ex);

 // initialize argument parser context - used by test-arg-parser and preset
 common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_example ex, void(*print_usage)(int, char **) = nullptr);
@@ -103,10 +103,6 @@ common_chat_params peg_generator::generate_parser(const common_chat_template &
            data.grammar_triggers = {
                { COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_WORD, trigger_marker }
            };
-            if (autoparser.tools.format.openai_wrapper_trigger) {
-                // model emits the OpenAI function wrapper, trigger on it
-                data.grammar_triggers.push_back({ COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_WORD, "{\"type\": \"function\"," });
-            }
        }
    }

@@ -138,7 +134,7 @@ common_peg_arena autoparser::build_parser(const generation_params & inputs, cons
            auto response_format = p.rule("response-format", p.content(p.schema(p.json(), "response-format-schema", inputs.json_schema)));
            parser = ctx.reasoning_parser + p.space() + p.choice({
                p.literal("```json") + p.space() + response_format + p.space() + p.literal("```"),
-                p.space() + response_format  + p.space()
+                response_format
            }) + p.end();
            pure_content = false;
        } else if (has_tools && inputs.tool_choice != COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE && jinja_caps.supports_tool_calls) {
@@ -228,13 +224,13 @@ common_peg_parser analyze_tools::build_tool_parser_json_native(parser_build_cont
        auto single_tool_parser = p.standard_json_tools(
            format.per_call_start, format.per_call_end, inputs.tools, inputs.parallel_tool_calls,
            inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_REQUIRED, name_field, args_field, format.tools_array_wrapped,
-            format.fun_name_is_key, format.id_field, format.gen_id_field, format.parameter_order, format.openai_wrapper_trigger);
+            format.fun_name_is_key, format.id_field, format.gen_id_field, format.parameter_order);
        tools_parser = p.trigger_rule("tool-calls", p.one_or_more(single_tool_parser + p.space()));
    } else {
        tools_parser = p.standard_json_tools(
            format.section_start, format.section_end, inputs.tools, inputs.parallel_tool_calls,
            inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_REQUIRED, name_field, args_field, format.tools_array_wrapped,
-            format.fun_name_is_key, format.id_field, format.gen_id_field, format.parameter_order, format.openai_wrapper_trigger);
+            format.fun_name_is_key, format.id_field, format.gen_id_field, format.parameter_order);
    }

    // Handle content wrappers if present
@@ -395,11 +391,11 @@ common_peg_parser analyze_tools::build_tool_parser_tag_tagged(parser_build_conte
                                           arguments.name_suffix) +
                           arguments.value_prefix +
                           (schema_info.resolves_to_string(param_schema) ?
-                                p.ac(p.tool_arg_string_value(until_suffix) +
-                                    p.tool_arg_close(p.literal(arguments.value_suffix)), arguments.value_suffix) :
-                                (p.tool_arg_json_value(p.schema(
+                                p.tool_arg_string_value(until_suffix) :
+                                p.tool_arg_json_value(p.schema(
                                    p.json(), "tool-" + name + "-arg-" + param_name + "-schema", param_schema, false)) +
-                                    p.tool_arg_close(p.literal(arguments.value_suffix)))));
+                                    p.space()) +
+                           p.tool_arg_close(p.literal(arguments.value_suffix)));

            auto named_arg = p.rule("tool-" + name + "-arg-" + param_name, arg);
            if (is_required) {
@@ -310,8 +310,6 @@ std::vector<segment> prune_whitespace_segments(const std::vector<segment> & segm

 namespace autoparser {

-static const std::string ERR_TMPL = "#**ERROR**#";
-
 std::string apply_template(const common_chat_template & tmpl, const template_params & params) {
    generation_params tmpl_params;
    tmpl_params.messages              = params.messages;
@@ -328,7 +326,7 @@ std::string apply_template(const common_chat_template & tmpl, const template_par
        return common_chat_template_direct_apply(tmpl, tmpl_params);
    } catch (const std::exception & e) {
        LOG_DBG("Template application failed: %s\n", e.what());
-        return ERR_TMPL;
+        return "";
    }
 }

@@ -349,7 +347,7 @@ std::optional<compare_variants_result> compare_variants(
    std::string output_B = apply_template(tmpl, params_B);

    // Check for template application failures
-    if (output_A == ERR_TMPL || output_B == ERR_TMPL) {
+    if (output_A.empty() || output_B.empty()) {
        return std::nullopt;
    }

@@ -181,7 +181,6 @@ struct tool_format_analysis {

    bool fun_name_is_key = false;       // In JSON format function name is JSON key, i.e. { "<funname>": { ... arguments ... } }
    bool tools_array_wrapped = false;   // Tool calls wrapped in JSON array [...]
-    bool openai_wrapper_trigger = false;  // model emits the OpenAI function wrapper, trigger on it

    std::string              function_field = "function";
    std::string              name_field     = "name";
@@ -378,8 +377,6 @@ struct analyze_tools : analyze_base {

 struct autoparser {
    jinja::caps          jinja_caps;
-    std::string          user_start;
-    std::string          assistant_start;
    analyze_reasoning    reasoning;
    analyze_content      content;
    analyze_tools        tools;
@@ -390,10 +387,6 @@ struct autoparser {

    autoparser() = default;

-    // Find the starting marker for the user message and assistant message
-    std::string detect_user_start_marker(const common_chat_template & tmpl);
-    std::string detect_assistant_start_marker(const common_chat_template & tmpl);
-
    // Run full differential analysis on a template
    void analyze_template(const common_chat_template & tmpl);

@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@
 #include "peg-parser.h"

 #include <algorithm>
-#include <cctype>
-#include <ostream>
-#include <sstream>

 #define ANSI_RESET  "\033[0m"
 #define ANSI_PURPLE "\033[1m\x1b[38;5;126m"
@@ -26,7 +23,6 @@ static const std::string FUN_SECOND = "SSS_SECOND_FUN_S";
 static const std::string ARG_FIRST = "AA_ARG_FST_AA";
 static const std::string ARG_SECOND = "BB_ARG_SND_BB";
 static const std::string USER_MSG = "U_USER_MSG Hello END_U";
-static const std::string USER_MSG_TWO = "V_USER_MSG Hello END_V";
 static const std::string ASSISTANT_MSG = "A_ASST_MSG I can help END_A";
 static const std::string THINKING_CONTENT = "REASON_PART I am thinking END_R";
 static const std::string CALL_ID_001 = "call00001";
@@ -75,7 +71,6 @@ static std::vector<std::function<void(const common_chat_template & tmpl, autopar
              analysis.content.end   = "<|END_OF_TURN_TOKEN|>";
              analysis.preserved_tokens.push_back("<|CHATBOT_TOKEN|>");
              analysis.preserved_tokens.push_back("<|END_OF_TURN_TOKEN|>");
-              analysis.user_start = "<|START_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|USER_TOKEN|>";
              LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "[Patch: Cohere Command R+]\n" ANSI_RESET);
          }
      },
@@ -113,67 +108,7 @@ static std::vector<std::function<void(const common_chat_template & tmpl, autopar
              analysis.tools.function.close        = "```";
              LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "[Patch: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen]\n" ANSI_RESET);
          }
-      },
-      // Nemotron Nano v2
-      [](const common_chat_template & tmpl, autoparser & analysis) -> void {
-          if (tmpl.src.find("<SPECIAL_10>") != std::string::npos && tmpl.src.find("<SPECIAL_11>") != std::string::npos &&
-              tmpl.src.find("<SPECIAL_12>") != std::string::npos && tmpl.src.find("<TOOL_RESPONSE>") != std::string::npos) {
-
-              analysis.tools.format.mode           = tool_format::JSON_NATIVE;
-              analysis.tools.format.section_start  = "";
-              analysis.tools.format.section_end    = "";
-              analysis.tools.format.per_call_start = "<TOOLCALL>";
-              analysis.tools.format.per_call_end   = "</TOOLCALL>";
-              analysis.content.mode                = content_mode::PLAIN;
-              analysis.content.start               = "";
-              analysis.content.end                 = "";
-              analysis.reasoning.mode              = reasoning_mode::TAG_BASED;
-              analysis.reasoning.start             = "<think>\n\n";
-              analysis.reasoning.end               = "</think>";
-              analysis.assistant_start             = "<SPECIAL_11>Assistant";
-              analysis.user_start                  = "<SPECIAL_11>User";
-              analysis.preserved_tokens.clear();
-              analysis.preserved_tokens.push_back("<SPECIAL_12>");
-              analysis.preserved_tokens.push_back("<SPECIAL_11>");
-              analysis.preserved_tokens.push_back("</think>");
-              analysis.preserved_tokens.push_back("<TOOLCALL>");
-              analysis.preserved_tokens.push_back("</TOOLCALL>");
-              LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "[Patch: Nemotron Nano v2]\n" ANSI_RESET);
-          }
-      },
-      // Fireworks
-      [](const common_chat_template & tmpl, autoparser & analysis) -> void {
-          if (tmpl.src.find("{%- set system_prompt = '<|start_header_id|>' + 'system' + '<|end_header_id|>\\n\\n'"
-            " + message['content'] | trim + '\\n' + system_prompt_suffix + '<|eot_id|>' -%}") != std::string::npos) {
-              analysis.assistant_start             = "<|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|>";
-              analysis.user_start                  = "<|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|>";
-              LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "[Patch: Fireworks v2]\n" ANSI_RESET);
-          }
-      },
-      // Solar Open
-      [](const common_chat_template & tmpl, autoparser & analysis) -> void {
-          if (tmpl.src.find("<|begin|>assistant<|think|><|end|>") != std::string::npos) {
-              analysis.assistant_start             = "<|begin|>assistant";
-              LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "[Patch: Solar Open]\n" ANSI_RESET);
-          }
-      },
-      // Apriel 1.6
-      [](const common_chat_template & tmpl, autoparser & analysis) -> void {
-          if (tmpl.src.find("if not loop.last and '[BEGIN FINAL RESPONSE]' in asst_text") != std::string::npos) {
-              analysis.user_start                  = "<|begin_user|>";
-              analysis.assistant_start             = "<|begin_assistant|>";
-              LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "[Patch: Apriel 1.6]\n" ANSI_RESET);
-          }
-      },
-      // template uses the JSON {name, parameters} tool instruction, emits the OpenAI function wrapper
-      [](const common_chat_template & tmpl, autoparser & analysis) -> void {
-          if (tmpl.src.find("Respond in the format {\"name\": function name") != std::string::npos &&
-              tmpl.src.find("Do not use variables.") != std::string::npos) {
-              analysis.tools.format.openai_wrapper_trigger = true;
-              LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "[Patch: JSON name/parameters tool instruction]\n" ANSI_RESET);
-          }
-      },
-
+      }
    });

 // Common JSON structures
@@ -231,8 +166,6 @@ void autoparser::analyze_template(const common_chat_template & tmpl) {
    reasoning = analyze_reasoning(tmpl, jinja_caps.supports_tool_calls);
    content = analyze_content(tmpl, reasoning);
    tools = analyze_tools(jinja_caps.supports_tool_calls ? analyze_tools(tmpl, jinja_caps, reasoning) : analyze_tools());
-    assistant_start = detect_assistant_start_marker(tmpl);
-    user_start = detect_user_start_marker(tmpl);
    collect_preserved_tokens();

    for (auto & workaround : workarounds) {
@@ -240,8 +173,6 @@ void autoparser::analyze_template(const common_chat_template & tmpl) {
    }

    LOG_DBG("\n--- Reasoning & Content Structure ---\n");
-    LOG_DBG("user_msg_start: %s\n", user_start.c_str());
-    LOG_DBG("assistant_msg_start: %s\n", assistant_start.c_str());
    LOG_DBG("reasoning_mode: %s\n", mode_to_str(reasoning.mode).c_str());
    LOG_DBG("reasoning_start: '%s'\n", reasoning.start.c_str());
    LOG_DBG("reasoning_end: '%s'\n", reasoning.end.c_str());
@@ -314,120 +245,6 @@ void autoparser::collect_preserved_tokens() {
    add_token(tools.call_id.suffix);
 }

-std::string autoparser::detect_assistant_start_marker(const common_chat_template & tmpl) {
-    json user_msg = json{
-        { "role",    "user"   },
-        { "content", USER_MSG }
-    };
-
-    json assistant_no_reasoning = json{
-        { "role",    "assistant"   },
-        { "content", ASSISTANT_MSG }
-    };
-
-    template_params params;
-    params.messages              = json::array({ user_msg });
-    params.add_generation_prompt = false;
-    params.enable_thinking       = true;
-
-    auto comparison = compare_variants(
-        tmpl, params, [&](template_params & p) {
-            p.messages = json::array({ user_msg, assistant_no_reasoning });
-        }
-    );
-
-    if (!comparison) {
-        LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "%s: Template application failed, skipping assistant start detection\n" ANSI_RESET, __func__);
-        return "";
-    }
-
-    auto usermsg = comparison->diff.right;
-    if (usermsg.find(ASSISTANT_MSG) == std::string::npos) {
-        LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "%s: Did not find assistant message in assistant message block, skipping detection\n" ANSI_RESET, __func__);
-    }
-
-    auto ast_prefix = usermsg.substr(0, usermsg.find(ASSISTANT_MSG));
-    if (!reasoning.start.empty() && ast_prefix.find(trim_whitespace(reasoning.start)) != std::string::npos) {
-        ast_prefix = ast_prefix.substr(0, ast_prefix.find(trim_whitespace(reasoning.start)));
-    }
-    if (!reasoning.end.empty() && ast_prefix.find(trim_whitespace(reasoning.end)) != std::string::npos) {
-        ast_prefix = ast_prefix.substr(0, ast_prefix.find(trim_whitespace(reasoning.end)));
-    }
-    return trim_whitespace(ast_prefix);
-}
-
-std::string autoparser::detect_user_start_marker(const common_chat_template & tmpl) {
-    json user_msg = json{
-        { "role",    "user"   },
-        { "content", USER_MSG }
-    };
-
-    json assistant = json{
-        { "role",    "assistant"   },
-        { "content", ASSISTANT_MSG }
-    };
-
-    json user_msg_two = json{
-        { "role",    "user"       },
-        { "content", USER_MSG_TWO }
-    };
-
-    template_params params;
-    params.messages              = json::array({});
-    params.add_generation_prompt = false;
-    params.enable_thinking       = true;
-
-    auto comparison = compare_variants(
-        tmpl, params, [&](template_params & p) {
-            p.messages = json::array({ user_msg });
-        }
-    );
-
-    if (!comparison) {
-        LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "%s: Template application failed, unsupported empty messages? trying complex variant\n" ANSI_RESET, __func__);
-        params.messages = json::array({ user_msg_two, assistant });
-        comparison = compare_variants(
-            tmpl, params, [&](template_params & p) {
-                p.messages = json::array({ user_msg_two, assistant, user_msg });
-            }
-        );
-        if (!comparison) {
-            LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "%s: Template application failed for reserve variant, aborting\n" ANSI_RESET, __func__);
-            return "";
-        }
-    }
-
-    auto usermsg = comparison->diff.right;
-    if (usermsg.find(USER_MSG) == std::string::npos) {
-        LOG_DBG(ANSI_ORANGE "%s: Did not find user message in user message block, aborting detection\n" ANSI_RESET, __func__);
-    }
-
-    if (usermsg.find(ASSISTANT_MSG) != std::string::npos) {
-        usermsg = usermsg.substr(usermsg.find(ASSISTANT_MSG) + ASSISTANT_MSG.size());
-    }
-
-    auto candidate = usermsg.substr(0, usermsg.find(USER_MSG));
-    auto candidate_split = segmentize_markers(candidate);
-    std::stringstream result;
-    bool encountered_marker = false;
-    for (const auto & mrk : candidate_split) {
-        std::string lower_mrk = std::string(mrk.value);
-        std::transform(lower_mrk.begin(), lower_mrk.end(), lower_mrk.begin(),
-            [](unsigned char c) { return std::tolower(c); });
-        // heuristic to weed out potential end markers, but only at the start
-        if (mrk.type == segment_type::MARKER && !encountered_marker &&
-            (lower_mrk.find("end") != std::string::npos || lower_mrk.find("close") != std::string::npos)) {
-            continue;
-        }
-        if (mrk.type == segment_type::TEXT && !encountered_marker && trim_whitespace(mrk.value).empty()) {
-            continue;
-        }
-        encountered_marker |= mrk.type == segment_type::MARKER;
-        result << mrk.value;
-    }
-    return trim_whitespace(result.str());
-}
-
 analyze_reasoning::analyze_reasoning(const common_chat_template & tmpl, bool supports_tools)
    : analyze_base(tmpl) {
    LOG_DBG(ANSI_PURPLE "=== Starting differential analysis ===\n" ANSI_RESET);
@@ -1237,8 +1054,8 @@ void analyze_tools::extract_argument_name_markers() {
            left_result.tags["pre"] == right_result.tags["pre"] &&
            left_result.tags["suffix"] == right_result.tags["suffix"]) {
            // Name is inside a structure (e.g., JSON key): prefix is the shared wrapper
-            arguments.name_prefix = left_result.tags["pre"];
-            arguments.name_suffix = left_result.tags["suffix"];
+            arguments.name_prefix = trim_whitespace(left_result.tags["pre"]);
+            arguments.name_suffix = trim_leading_whitespace(left_result.tags["suffix"]);
        } else if (diff.left.substr(0, ARG_FIRST.length()) == ARG_FIRST && diff.right.substr(0, ARG_SECOND.length()) == ARG_SECOND) {
            // Name is directly in the diff: prefix comes from last marker in diff.prefix
            auto pre_parser = build_tagged_peg_parser([&](common_peg_parser_builder & p) {
@@ -1323,7 +1140,8 @@ void analyze_tools::extract_argument_value_markers() {
                value_suffix = value_suffix.substr(0, end_marker_pos);
            }
        }
-        if (!trim_whitespace(value_suffix).empty()) {
+        value_suffix = trim_leading_whitespace(value_suffix);
+        if (!value_suffix.empty()) {
            arguments.value_suffix = value_suffix;
        }
    }
@@ -87,8 +87,6 @@ static std::string normalize_quotes_to_json(const std::string & input) {
    bool in_single_quoted = false;
    bool in_double_quoted = false;

-    auto is_word_char = [](char ch) { return std::isalnum(static_cast<unsigned char>(ch)) || ch == '_'; };
-
    for (size_t i = 0; i < input.size(); ++i) {
        char c = input[i];

@@ -153,29 +151,6 @@ static std::string normalize_quotes_to_json(const std::string & input) {
                in_single_quoted = true;
                result += '"';
            }
-        } else if (!in_single_quoted && !in_double_quoted && (c == 'T' || c == 'F' || c == 'N') &&
-                   (i == 0 || !is_word_char(input[i - 1]))) {
-            // Python literals -> JSON; prefix match keeps streamed partials monotonic.
-            static constexpr std::pair<std::string_view, std::string_view> literals[] = {
-                { "True", "true" }, { "False", "false" }, { "None", "null" },
-            };
-            size_t n = 0;
-            while (i + n < input.size() && is_word_char(input[i + n])) {
-                ++n;
-            }
-            std::string_view token(input.data() + i, n);
-            bool matched = false;
-            for (const auto & [py, js] : literals) {
-                if (py.substr(0, n) == token) {
-                    result += js.substr(0, n);
-                    i += n - 1;
-                    matched = true;
-                    break;
-                }
-            }
-            if (!matched) {
-                result += c;
-            }
        } else {
            result += c;
        }
@@ -363,7 +338,7 @@ void common_chat_peg_mapper::map(const common_peg_ast_node & node) {
    }

    if ((is_arg_value || is_arg_string_value) && current_tool) {
-        std::string value_content = std::string(node.text);
+        std::string value_content = std::string(trim_trailing_space(trim_leading_space(node.text, 1), 1));

        std::string value_to_add;
        if (value_content.empty() && is_arg_string_value) {
@@ -378,8 +353,12 @@ void common_chat_peg_mapper::map(const common_peg_ast_node & node) {
            }
            value_to_add += escape_json_string_inner(value_content);
        } else if (!value_content.empty()) {
-            // Pythonic scalars/containers -> JSON.
-            value_to_add += normalize_container_value(value_content);
+            // For potential containers, normalize Python-style single quotes to JSON double quotes
+            bool is_potential_container = value_content[0] == '[' || value_content[0] == '{';
+            if (is_potential_container) {
+                value_content = normalize_container_value(value_content);
+            }
+            value_to_add += value_content;
        }

        args_target() += value_to_add;
@@ -487,34 +466,11 @@ common_peg_parser common_chat_peg_builder::standard_constructed_tools(
    return force_tool_calls ? section : optional(section);
 }

-// Like python_value(), but the leaf also accepts JSON-cased true/false/null, used by LFM2/LFM2.5
-common_peg_parser common_chat_peg_builder::python_or_json_value() {
-    return rule("python-or-json-value", [this]() {
-        auto ws    = space();
-        auto value = python_or_json_value();
-
-        auto member  = sequence({ python_string(), ws, literal(":"), ws, value });
-        auto members = sequence({ member, zero_or_more(sequence({ ws, literal(","), ws, member })) });
-        auto dict    = rule("python-or-json-dict", [&]() {
-            return sequence({ literal("{"), ws, choice({ literal("}"), sequence({ members, ws, literal("}") }) }), ws });
-        });
-
-        auto elements = sequence({ value, zero_or_more(sequence({ literal(","), ws, value })) });
-        auto array    = rule("python-or-json-array", [&]() {
-            return sequence({ literal("["), ws, choice({ literal("]"), sequence({ elements, ws, literal("]") }) }), ws });
-        });
-
-        return choice({ dict, array, python_string(), python_number(),
-                        python_bool(), python_null(), json_bool(), json_null() });
-    });
-}
-
 // Python-style tool calls: name(arg1="value1", arg2=123)
 // Used only by LFM2 for now, so we don't merge it into autoparser
 common_peg_parser common_chat_peg_builder::python_style_tool_calls(
    const ordered_json & tools,
-    bool                 parallel_tool_calls,
-    bool                 allow_json_literals) {
+    bool                 parallel_tool_calls) {
    if (!tools.is_array() || tools.empty()) {
        return eps();
    }
@@ -540,16 +496,15 @@ common_peg_parser common_chat_peg_builder::python_style_tool_calls(
                auto arg_name_parser = literal(prop_name);

                common_peg_parser arg_value_parser = eps();
-                // Quoted literal as a value: normalize_quotes_to_json preserves escapes.
-                auto string_value_parser = tool_arg_value(choice({
-                    literal("\"") + string_content('"') + literal("\""),
-                    literal("'") + string_content('\'') + literal("'")
-                }));
+                auto string_value_parser = choice({
+                    literal("\"") + tool_arg_string_value(string_content('"')) + literal("\""),
+                    literal("'") + tool_arg_string_value(string_content('\'')) + literal("'")
+                });

                if (is_string_type) {
                    arg_value_parser = string_value_parser;
                } else {
-                    arg_value_parser = tool_arg_value(allow_json_literals ? python_or_json_value() : python_value());
+                    arg_value_parser = tool_arg_value(python_value());
                }

                // Full argument: name="value" or name=value
@@ -746,8 +701,7 @@ common_peg_parser common_chat_peg_builder::build_json_tools_flat_keys(
    const std::string &              effective_args_key,
    const std::string &              call_id_key,
    const std::string &              gen_call_id_key,
-    const std::vector<std::string> & parameters_order,
-    bool                             accept_openai_wrapper) {
+    const std::vector<std::string> & parameters_order) {

    auto tool_choices    = choice();
    auto name_key_parser = literal("\"" + effective_name_key + "\"");
@@ -809,13 +763,7 @@ common_peg_parser common_chat_peg_builder::build_json_tools_flat_keys(
                return idx_a < idx_b;
            });

-        // accept an optional leading "type": "function" field when the model emits the OpenAI wrapper
-        common_peg_parser type_field = eps();
-        if (accept_openai_wrapper) {
-            type_field = optional(literal("\"type\"") + space() + literal(":") + space() +
-                                  literal("\"function\"") + space() + literal(",") + space());
-        }
-        auto ordered_body = tool_open(literal("{")) + space() + type_field;
+        auto ordered_body = tool_open(literal("{")) + space();
        for (size_t i = 0; i < parser_pairs.size(); i++) {
            ordered_body = ordered_body + parser_pairs[i].first;
            if (i < parser_pairs.size() - 1) {
@@ -878,8 +826,7 @@ common_peg_parser common_chat_peg_builder::standard_json_tools(
                                                       bool                             function_is_key,
                                                       const std::string &              call_id_key,
                                                       const std::string &              gen_call_id_key,
-                                                       const std::vector<std::string> & parameters_order,
-                                                       bool                             accept_openai_wrapper) {
+                                                       const std::vector<std::string> & parameters_order) {
    if (!tools.is_array() || tools.empty()) {
        return eps();
    }
@@ -897,7 +844,7 @@ common_peg_parser common_chat_peg_builder::standard_json_tools(
        if (!name_spec.first.empty() || !args_spec.first.empty()) {
            tool_choices = build_json_tools_nested_keys(tools, effective_name_key, effective_args_key, call_id_key, gen_call_id_key);
        } else {
-            tool_choices = build_json_tools_flat_keys(tools, effective_name_key, effective_args_key, call_id_key, gen_call_id_key, parameters_order, accept_openai_wrapper);
+            tool_choices = build_json_tools_flat_keys(tools, effective_name_key, effective_args_key, call_id_key, gen_call_id_key, parameters_order);
        }
    }

@@ -120,8 +120,7 @@ class common_chat_peg_builder : public common_peg_parser_builder {
                                          bool                             function_is_key = false,
                                          const std::string &              call_id_key = "",
                                          const std::string &              gen_call_id_key = "",
-                                          const std::vector<std::string> & parameters_order = {},
-                                          bool                             accept_openai_wrapper = false);
+                                          const std::vector<std::string> & parameters_order = {});

    // Legacy-compatible helper for building XML/tagged style tool calls
    // Used by tests and manual parsers
@@ -133,13 +132,9 @@ class common_chat_peg_builder : public common_peg_parser_builder {
    // Helper for Python-style function call format: name(arg1="value1", arg2=123)
    // Used by LFM2 and similar templates
    common_peg_parser python_style_tool_calls(const nlohmann::ordered_json & tools,
-                                              bool                           parallel_tool_calls,
-                                              bool                           allow_json_literals);
+                                              bool                           parallel_tool_calls);

  private:
-    // Python values plus JSON true/false/null.
-    common_peg_parser python_or_json_value();
-
    // Implementation helpers for standard_json_tools — one per JSON tool call layout mode
    common_peg_parser build_json_tools_function_is_key(const nlohmann::ordered_json & tools,
                                                       const std::string &            args_key,
@@ -158,8 +153,7 @@ class common_chat_peg_builder : public common_peg_parser_builder {
                                                 const std::string &              effective_args_key,
                                                 const std::string &              call_id_key,
                                                 const std::string &              gen_call_id_key,
-                                                 const std::vector<std::string> & parameters_order,
-                                                 bool                             accept_openai_wrapper);
+                                                 const std::vector<std::string> & parameters_order);
 };

 inline common_peg_arena build_chat_peg_parser(
@@ -201,3 +195,4 @@ struct tagged_peg_parser {

 tagged_peg_parser build_tagged_peg_parser(
    const std::function<common_peg_parser(common_peg_parser_builder & builder)> & fn);
+
@@ -90,97 +90,6 @@ std::string common_chat_msg::render_content(const std::string & delimiter) const
    return text;
 }

-common_chat_role common_chat_role_from_string(const std::string & role) {
-    if (role == "system")    { return COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_SYSTEM;    }
-    if (role == "assistant") { return COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_ASSISTANT; }
-    if (role == "user")      { return COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_USER;      }
-    if (role == "tool")      { return COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_TOOL;      }
-    return COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_UNKNOWN;
-}
-
-const char * common_chat_role_to_string(common_chat_role role) {
-    switch (role) {
-        case COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_SYSTEM:    return "system";
-        case COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_ASSISTANT: return "assistant";
-        case COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_USER:      return "user";
-        case COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_TOOL:      return "tool";
-        case COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_UNKNOWN:   return "";
-    }
-    return "";
-}
-
-json common_chat_msg_delimiters::to_json() const {
-    json result = json::array();
-    for (const auto & d : delimiters) {
-        result.push_back({
-            { "role",      common_chat_role_to_string(d.role) },
-            { "delimiter", d.delimiter                        },
-        });
-    }
-    return result;
-}
-
-common_chat_msg_delimiters common_chat_msg_delimiters_parse(const json & delimiters) {
-    common_chat_msg_delimiters result;
-
-    if (!delimiters.is_array()) {
-        return result;
-    }
-
-    result.delimiters.reserve(delimiters.size());
-    for (const auto & d : delimiters) {
-        if (!d.is_object()) {
-            continue;
-        }
-        result.delimiters.push_back({
-            common_chat_role_from_string(d.value("role", std::string())),
-            d.value("delimiter", std::string()),
-        });
-    }
-
-    return result;
-}
-
-void common_chat_msg_delimiters::tokenize(const llama_vocab * vocab) {
-    for (auto & d : delimiters) {
-        d.tokens = common_tokenize(vocab, d.delimiter, false, true);
-    }
-}
-
-common_chat_msg_spans common_chat_msg_delimiters::split(const llama_tokens & tokens, const std::map<size_t, size_t> & skips) const {
-    std::vector<std::pair<common_chat_role, size_t>> matches;
-
-    auto skip = skips.begin();
-    for (size_t i = 0; i < tokens.size();) {
-        if (skip != skips.end() && i == skip->first) {
-            i += skip->second;
-            ++skip;
-            continue;
-        }
-        for (const auto & d : delimiters) {
-            if (i + d.tokens.size() > tokens.size()) {
-                continue;
-            }
-            if (std::equal(d.tokens.begin(), d.tokens.end(), tokens.begin() + i)) {
-                matches.emplace_back(d.role, i);
-                break;
-            }
-        }
-        i++;
-    }
-
-    matches.emplace_back(COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_UNKNOWN, tokens.size());
-
-    common_chat_msg_spans spans;
-    for (size_t i = 0; i + 1 < matches.size(); i++) {
-        const auto & curr = matches[i];
-        const auto & next = matches[i + 1];
-        spans.add(curr.first, curr.second, next.second - curr.second);
-    }
-
-    return spans;
-}
-
 json common_chat_msg::to_json_oaicompat(bool concat_typed_text) const {
    if (!content.empty() && !content_parts.empty()) {
        throw std::runtime_error("Cannot specify both content and content_parts");
@@ -912,10 +821,6 @@ static std::string common_chat_template_direct_apply_impl(
    if (inputs.add_generation_prompt) {
        inp["add_generation_prompt"] = true;
    }
-    if (inp.contains("preserve_reasoning") && inp["preserve_reasoning"].is_boolean()) {
-        bool enabled = inp["preserve_reasoning"].get<bool>();
-        jinja::caps_apply_preserve_reasoning(ctx, enabled);
-    }

    jinja::global_from_json(ctx, inp, inputs.mark_input);

@@ -1137,14 +1042,6 @@ static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_gpt_oss(const common_chat_temp

    data.prompt            = prompt;
    data.generation_prompt = common_chat_template_generation_prompt_impl(tmpl, inputs, /* messages_override= */ adjusted_messages);
-    data.message_delimiters = {
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_ASSISTANT, "<|start|>assistant" },
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_USER,      "<|start|>user"      },
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_SYSTEM,    "<|start|>developer" },
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_SYSTEM,    "<|start|>system"    },
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_TOOL,      "<|start|>functions" },
-    };
-
    data.format            = COMMON_CHAT_FORMAT_PEG_NATIVE;
    data.supports_thinking = true;

@@ -1284,11 +1181,6 @@ static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_gemma4(const common_chat_templ
        data.prompt += data.generation_prompt;
    }

-    data.message_delimiters = {
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_USER,      "<|turn>user"  },
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_ASSISTANT, "<|turn>model" },
-    };
-
    data.format            = COMMON_CHAT_FORMAT_PEG_GEMMA4;
    data.supports_thinking  = true;
    data.thinking_start_tag = "<|channel>thought";
@@ -1664,52 +1556,42 @@ static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_kimi_k2(const common_chat_temp
    return data;
 }

-// LFM2/LFM2.5 parser. Tool calls are almost Python-style and parallel-capable
-// (except dotted names and JSON literals true/false/null).
-// Always wrapped in <|tool_call_start|>[name(args)]<|tool_call_end|> with optional <think> reasoning.
-// tool_list_tokens preserves LFM2 system tool-list markers.
-static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_lfm2(const common_chat_template &          tmpl,
-                                                       const autoparser::generation_params & inputs,
-                                                       bool tool_list_tokens) {
+// LFM2 format: uses <|tool_list_start|>[...]<|tool_list_end|> in system prompt
+// and <|tool_call_start|>[name(arg="val")]<|tool_call_end|> for tool calls.
+// - Reasoning: <think>{reasoning}</think> (optional)
+// - Content: text before a tool call (optional)
+// - Tool calls: Python-style, e.g. [function_name(arg1="value1", arg2="value2")]
+//   Tool calls can appear multiple times (parallel tool calls supported)
+static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_lfm2(const common_chat_template &    tmpl,
+                                                       const autoparser::generation_params & inputs) {
    common_chat_params data;

+    data.prompt            = common_chat_template_direct_apply_impl(tmpl, inputs);
+    data.generation_prompt = common_chat_template_generation_prompt_impl(tmpl, inputs);
+    data.format            = COMMON_CHAT_FORMAT_PEG_NATIVE;
+    data.supports_thinking = true;
+    data.preserved_tokens  = {
+        "<|tool_list_start|>",
+        "<|tool_list_end|>",
+        "<|tool_call_start|>",
+        "<|tool_call_end|>",
+        "<think>",
+        "</think>",
+    };
+
+    auto has_tools         = inputs.tools.is_array() && !inputs.tools.empty();
+    auto extract_reasoning = inputs.reasoning_format != COMMON_REASONING_FORMAT_NONE;
+    auto include_grammar   = has_tools && inputs.tool_choice != COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE;
+
    const std::string TOOL_CALL_START = "<|tool_call_start|>";
    const std::string TOOL_CALL_END   = "<|tool_call_end|>";
-    const std::string TOOL_LIST_START = "<|tool_list_start|>";
-    const std::string TOOL_LIST_END   = "<|tool_list_end|>";
    const std::string THINK_START     = "<think>";
    const std::string THINK_END       = "</think>";
    const std::string GEN_PROMPT      = "<|im_start|>assistant\n";

-    // Copy reasoning to the "thinking" field the template expects
-    auto adjusted_messages = json::array();
-    for (auto msg : inputs.messages) {
-        if (msg.contains("reasoning_content") && msg.at("reasoning_content").is_string()) {
-            msg["thinking"] = msg.at("reasoning_content");
-        }
-        adjusted_messages.push_back(msg);
-    }
-
-    data.prompt            = common_chat_template_direct_apply_impl(tmpl, inputs, adjusted_messages);
-    data.generation_prompt = common_chat_template_generation_prompt_impl(tmpl, inputs, adjusted_messages);
-    data.format            = COMMON_CHAT_FORMAT_PEG_NATIVE;
-    data.supports_thinking = true;
-    data.preserved_tokens  = { TOOL_CALL_START, TOOL_CALL_END, THINK_START, THINK_END };
-    if (tool_list_tokens) {
-        data.preserved_tokens.push_back(TOOL_LIST_START);
-        data.preserved_tokens.push_back(TOOL_LIST_END);
-    }
-
    data.thinking_start_tag = THINK_START;
    data.thinking_end_tag   = THINK_END;

-    auto has_tools           = inputs.tools.is_array() && !inputs.tools.empty();
-    auto has_response_format = !inputs.json_schema.is_null() && inputs.json_schema.is_object();
-    // Gate by reasoning format and whether the template supports <think>
-    auto extract_reasoning = inputs.reasoning_format != COMMON_REASONING_FORMAT_NONE &&
-                             tmpl.source().find(THINK_START) != std::string::npos;
-    auto include_grammar   = has_response_format || (has_tools && inputs.tool_choice != COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE);
-
    if (inputs.has_continuation()) {
        const auto & msg = inputs.continue_msg;

@@ -1726,21 +1608,17 @@ static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_lfm2(const common_chat_templat
        auto end = p.end();

        auto reasoning = p.eps();
-        if (extract_reasoning) {
+        if (extract_reasoning && inputs.enable_thinking) {
            reasoning = p.optional(THINK_START + p.reasoning(p.until(THINK_END)) + THINK_END);
        }

        if (!has_tools || inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE) {
-            if (has_response_format) {
-                auto response_format = p.content(p.schema(p.json(), "response-format-schema", inputs.json_schema));
-                return generation_prompt + reasoning + response_format + end;
-            }
            return generation_prompt + reasoning + p.content(p.rest()) + end;
        }
        auto tool_calls = p.rule("tool-calls",
            p.trigger_rule("tool-call",
                p.literal(TOOL_CALL_START) +
-                p.python_style_tool_calls(inputs.tools, inputs.parallel_tool_calls, /* allow_json_literals = */ true) +
+                p.python_style_tool_calls(inputs.tools, inputs.parallel_tool_calls) +
                p.literal(TOOL_CALL_END)
            )
        );
@@ -1753,17 +1631,13 @@ static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_lfm2(const common_chat_templat
    data.parser = parser.save();

    if (include_grammar) {
-        data.grammar_lazy = !(has_response_format || (has_tools && inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_REQUIRED));
+        data.grammar_lazy = inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_AUTO;
        data.grammar      = build_grammar([&](const common_grammar_builder & builder) {
            foreach_function(inputs.tools, [&](const json & tool) {
                const auto & function = tool.at("function");
                auto         schema   = function.at("parameters");
                builder.resolve_refs(schema);
            });
-            if (has_response_format) {
-                auto schema = inputs.json_schema;
-                builder.resolve_refs(schema);
-            }
            parser.build_grammar(builder, data.grammar_lazy);
        });

@@ -1771,6 +1645,93 @@ static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_lfm2(const common_chat_templat
            { COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_WORD, TOOL_CALL_START }
        };
    }
+    return data;
+}
+
+// LFM2.5 format: uses plain "List of tools: [...]" in system prompt, no wrapper tokens.
+// Tool calls are bare [name(arg="val")], though model may optionally emit <|tool_call_start|>.
+// - Reasoning: <think>{reasoning}</think> (optional)
+// - Content: text before a tool call (optional)
+// - Tool calls: Python-style, e.g. [function_name(arg1="value1", arg2="value2")]
+//   Tool calls can appear multiple times (parallel tool calls supported)
+static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_lfm2_5(const common_chat_template &    tmpl,
+                                                         const autoparser::generation_params & inputs) {
+    common_chat_params data;
+
+    data.prompt            = common_chat_template_direct_apply_impl(tmpl, inputs);
+    data.generation_prompt = common_chat_template_generation_prompt_impl(tmpl, inputs);
+    data.format            = COMMON_CHAT_FORMAT_PEG_NATIVE;
+    data.supports_thinking = true;
+    data.preserved_tokens  = {
+        "<|tool_call_start|>",
+        "<|tool_call_end|>",
+        "<think>",
+        "</think>",
+    };
+
+    auto has_tools         = inputs.tools.is_array() && !inputs.tools.empty();
+    auto extract_reasoning = inputs.reasoning_format != COMMON_REASONING_FORMAT_NONE;
+    auto include_grammar   = has_tools && inputs.tool_choice != COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE;
+
+    const std::string THINK_START     = "<think>";
+    const std::string THINK_END       = "</think>";
+    const std::string GEN_PROMPT      = "<|im_start|>assistant\n";
+
+    data.thinking_start_tag = THINK_START;
+    data.thinking_end_tag   = THINK_END;
+
+    if (inputs.has_continuation()) {
+        const auto & msg = inputs.continue_msg;
+
+        data.generation_prompt = GEN_PROMPT + THINK_START + msg.reasoning_content;
+        if (inputs.continue_final_message == COMMON_CHAT_CONTINUATION_CONTENT) {
+            data.generation_prompt += THINK_END + msg.render_content();
+        }
+
+        data.prompt += data.generation_prompt;
+    }
+
+    auto parser = build_chat_peg_parser([&](common_chat_peg_builder & p) {
+        auto generation_prompt = p.literal(GEN_PROMPT);
+        auto end = p.end();
+
+        auto reasoning = p.eps();
+        if (extract_reasoning && inputs.enable_thinking) {
+            reasoning = p.optional(THINK_START + p.reasoning(p.until(THINK_END)) + THINK_END);
+        }
+
+        if (!has_tools || inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE) {
+            return generation_prompt + reasoning + p.content(p.rest()) + end;
+        }
+
+        auto tool_calls = p.rule("tool-calls",
+            p.trigger_rule("tool-call",
+                p.python_style_tool_calls(inputs.tools, inputs.parallel_tool_calls)
+            )
+        );
+
+        auto content = p.content(p.until_one_of({"<|tool_call_start|>", "["}));
+        auto maybe_start = p.optional(p.literal("<|tool_call_start|>"));
+        return generation_prompt + reasoning + content + maybe_start + tool_calls + end;
+    });
+
+    data.parser = parser.save();
+
+    if (include_grammar) {
+        data.grammar_lazy = inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_AUTO;
+        data.grammar      = build_grammar([&](const common_grammar_builder & builder) {
+            foreach_function(inputs.tools, [&](const json & tool) {
+                const auto & function = tool.at("function");
+                auto         schema   = function.at("parameters");
+                builder.resolve_refs(schema);
+            });
+            parser.build_grammar(builder, data.grammar_lazy);
+        });
+        foreach_function(inputs.tools, [&](const json & tool) {
+            const std::string name = tool.at("function").at("name");
+            data.grammar_triggers.push_back({ COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_WORD, "[" + name + "(" });
+        });
+    }

    return data;
 }
@@ -2035,146 +1996,6 @@ static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_deepseek_v3_2(const common_cha
    return data;
 }

-// Cohere2 MoE (a.k.a. "North Code") parser.
-//
-// The assistant turn is fully marker-wrapped:
-//   <|START_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|CHATBOT_TOKEN|>
-//     <|START_THINKING|>{reasoning}<|END_THINKING|>
-//     then EITHER content:    <|START_TEXT|>{content}<|END_TEXT|>
-//          OR     tool calls: <|START_ACTION|>[
-//                                 {"tool_call_id": "0", "tool_name": "f", "parameters": {...}}, ...
-//                             ]<|END_ACTION|>
-//   <|END_OF_TURN_TOKEN|>
-//
-// The generation prompt forces a leading <|START_THINKING|> (when reasoning is enabled, which is
-// the template default), so the model's output continues from *inside* the thinking block. The
-// parser literal therefore only covers the stable <|START_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|CHATBOT_TOKEN|> prefix
-// and the reasoning rule consumes the <|START_THINKING|> ... <|END_THINKING|> markers itself,
-// regardless of whether they came from the generation prompt or the generated text.
-static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_cohere2moe(const common_chat_template &          tmpl,
-                                                              const autoparser::generation_params & inputs) {
-    common_chat_params data;
-
-    const std::string TURN_START    = "<|START_OF_TURN_TOKEN|>";
-    const std::string TURN_END      = "<|END_OF_TURN_TOKEN|>";
-    const std::string CHATBOT       = "<|CHATBOT_TOKEN|>";
-    const std::string USER          = "<|USER_TOKEN|>";
-    const std::string SYSTEM        = "<|SYSTEM_TOKEN|>";
-    const std::string THINK_START   = "<|START_THINKING|>";
-    const std::string THINK_END     = "<|END_THINKING|>";
-    const std::string TEXT_START    = "<|START_TEXT|>";
-    const std::string TEXT_END      = "<|END_TEXT|>";
-    const std::string ACTION_START  = "<|START_ACTION|>";
-    const std::string ACTION_END    = "<|END_ACTION|>";
-    const std::string RESULT_START  = "<|START_TOOL_RESULT|>";
-    const std::string RESULT_END    = "<|END_TOOL_RESULT|>";
-
-    // Stable prefix of the generation prompt that precedes the (forced) <|START_THINKING|> marker.
-    const std::string GEN_PREFIX = TURN_START + CHATBOT;
-
-    data.prompt             = common_chat_template_direct_apply_impl(tmpl, inputs);
-    data.generation_prompt  = common_chat_template_generation_prompt_impl(tmpl, inputs);
-    data.format             = COMMON_CHAT_FORMAT_PEG_NATIVE;
-    data.supports_thinking  = true;
-    data.thinking_start_tag = THINK_START;
-    data.thinking_end_tag   = THINK_END;
-    data.preserved_tokens   = {
-        TURN_START, TURN_END, CHATBOT, USER, SYSTEM,
-        THINK_START, THINK_END,
-        TEXT_START, TEXT_END,
-        ACTION_START, ACTION_END,
-        RESULT_START, RESULT_END,
-    };
-
-    // Declare per-role message delimiters. Tool results are rendered with the
-    // system token followed by <|START_TOOL_RESULT|>, so the "tool" delimiter must be listed before
-    // the plain "system" one (it is a strict superset, and the role split tries delimiters in order).
-    data.message_delimiters = {
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_ASSISTANT, GEN_PREFIX },
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_USER,      TURN_START + USER },
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_TOOL,      TURN_START + SYSTEM + RESULT_START },
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_SYSTEM,    TURN_START + SYSTEM },
-    };
-
-    auto has_tools         = inputs.tools.is_array() && !inputs.tools.empty();
-    auto extract_reasoning = inputs.reasoning_format != COMMON_REASONING_FORMAT_NONE;
-    auto include_grammar   = has_tools && inputs.tool_choice != COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE;
-
-    if (inputs.has_continuation()) {
-        const auto & msg = inputs.continue_msg;
-
-        data.generation_prompt = GEN_PREFIX + THINK_START + msg.reasoning_content;
-        if (inputs.continue_final_message == COMMON_CHAT_CONTINUATION_CONTENT) {
-            data.generation_prompt += THINK_END + TEXT_START + msg.render_content();
-        }
-
-        data.prompt += data.generation_prompt;
-    }
-
-    auto parser = build_chat_peg_parser([&](common_chat_peg_builder & p) {
-        auto generation_prompt = p.literal(GEN_PREFIX);
-        auto end               = p.end();
-
-        // The thinking block is always present (the generation prompt forces <|START_THINKING|>).
-        // When extracting reasoning, capture its body; otherwise keep the whole block (markers
-        // included) inline as content, matching reasoning_format=NONE conventions.
-        common_peg_parser reasoning = p.eps();
-        if (extract_reasoning) {
-            reasoning = p.optional(p.literal(THINK_START) +
-                                   p.reasoning(p.until_one_of({ THINK_END, TEXT_START, ACTION_START })) +
-                                   p.optional(p.literal(THINK_END)));
-        } else {
-            reasoning = p.optional(p.content(p.literal(THINK_START) +
-                                             p.until_one_of({ THINK_END, TEXT_START, ACTION_START }) +
-                                             p.optional(p.literal(THINK_END))));
-        }
-
-        auto text_content = p.literal(TEXT_START) + p.content(p.until(TEXT_END)) + p.optional(p.literal(TEXT_END));
-
-        if (!has_tools || inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE) {
-            return generation_prompt + reasoning + text_content + p.optional(p.literal(TURN_END)) + end;
-        }
-
-        auto require_tools = inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_REQUIRED;
-
-        // <|START_ACTION|>[ {"tool_call_id": "0", "tool_name": "f", "parameters": {...}}, ... ]<|END_ACTION|>
-        auto tool_calls = p.standard_json_tools(ACTION_START, ACTION_END, inputs.tools, inputs.parallel_tool_calls,
-                                                /* force_tool_calls = */ true,
-                                                /* name_key         = */ "tool_name",
-                                                /* args_key         = */ "parameters",
-                                                /* array_wrapped    = */ true,
-                                                /* function_is_key  = */ false,
-                                                /* call_id_key      = */ "",
-                                                /* gen_call_id_key  = */ "tool_call_id",
-                                                /* parameters_order = */ { "tool_call_id", "tool_name", "parameters" });
-
-        // Content and tool calls are mutually exclusive in this format.
-        common_peg_parser body = require_tools ? tool_calls : p.choice({ tool_calls, text_content });
-
-        return generation_prompt + reasoning + body + p.optional(p.literal(TURN_END)) + end;
-    });
-
-    data.parser = parser.save();
-
-    if (include_grammar) {
-        data.grammar_lazy = inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_AUTO;
-        data.grammar      = build_grammar([&](const common_grammar_builder & builder) {
-            foreach_function(inputs.tools, [&](const json & tool) {
-                const auto & function = tool.at("function");
-                auto         schema   = function.at("parameters");
-                builder.resolve_refs(schema);
-            });
-            parser.build_grammar(builder, data.grammar_lazy);
-        });
-
-        data.grammar_triggers = {
-            { COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_WORD, ACTION_START }
-        };
-    }
-
-    return data;
-}
-
 namespace workaround {

 static void map_developer_role_to_system(json & messages) {
@@ -2380,149 +2201,6 @@ static void func_args_not_string(json & messages) {

 }

-// MiniCPM5 format:
-// - Reasoning: <think>{reasoning}</think> (optional)
-// - Tool calls: <function name="foo"><param name="bar">value</param></function>
-static common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_minicpm5(const common_chat_template &          tmpl,
-                                                           const autoparser::generation_params & inputs) {
-    common_chat_params data;
-
-    data.prompt            = common_chat_template_direct_apply_impl(tmpl, inputs);
-    data.generation_prompt = common_chat_template_generation_prompt_impl(tmpl, inputs);
-    data.format            = COMMON_CHAT_FORMAT_PEG_NATIVE;
-    data.supports_thinking = true;
-    data.preserved_tokens  = {
-        "<function",
-        "<param",
-        "</function>",
-        "</param>",
-        "<think>",
-        "</think>",
-    };
-
-    data.thinking_start_tag = "<think>";
-    data.thinking_end_tag   = "</think>";
-
-    data.message_delimiters = {
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_ASSISTANT, "<|im_start|>assistant"             },
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_TOOL,      "<|im_start|>user\n<tool_response>" },
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_USER,      "<|im_start|>user"                  },
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_SYSTEM,    "<|im_start|>system"                },
-    };
-
-    auto has_tools           = inputs.tools.is_array() && !inputs.tools.empty();
-    auto has_response_format = inputs.json_schema.is_object() && !inputs.json_schema.empty();
-    auto extract_reasoning   = inputs.reasoning_format != COMMON_REASONING_FORMAT_NONE;
-    auto include_grammar     = has_response_format || (has_tools && inputs.tool_choice != COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE);
-
-    if (inputs.has_continuation()) {
-        const auto & msg = inputs.continue_msg;
-
-        data.generation_prompt = "<|im_start|>assistant\n<think>\n" + msg.reasoning_content;
-        if (inputs.continue_final_message == COMMON_CHAT_CONTINUATION_CONTENT) {
-            data.generation_prompt += "\n</think>\n\n" + msg.render_content();
-        }
-
-        data.prompt += data.generation_prompt;
-    }
-
-    auto parser = build_chat_peg_parser([&](common_chat_peg_builder & p) {
-        auto generation_prompt = p.literal("<|im_start|>assistant\n");
-
-        auto reasoning = p.eps();
-        if (extract_reasoning) {
-            reasoning = ("<think>" << p.reasoning(p.until("</think>")) << "</think>") + p.space();
-        }
-
-        // Response format parser
-        if (has_response_format) {
-            return generation_prompt + reasoning + p.content(p.schema(p.json(), "response-format", inputs.json_schema));
-        }
-
-        if (has_tools && inputs.tool_choice != COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE) {
-            // CDATA lets a value carry characters that would otherwise close the tag (e.g.
-            // </param>); capture the inner text only, excluding the CDATA markers.
-            auto string_value = p.choice({
-                p.literal("<![CDATA[") + p.ac(p.tool_arg_string_value(p.until("]]>")) + p.literal("]]>"), "]]>") + p.tool_arg_close(p.literal("</param>")),
-                p.negate(p.literal("<![CDATA[")) + p.ac(p.tool_arg_string_value(p.until("</param>")) + p.tool_arg_close(p.literal("</param>")), "</param>")
-            });
-
-            auto tool_choice = p.choice();
-            foreach_function(inputs.tools, [&](const json & tool) {
-                const auto &      function = tool.at("function");
-                const std::string name     = function.at("name");
-                auto              params   = function.contains("parameters") ? function.at("parameters") : json::object();
-
-                auto args = p.eps();
-                if (params.contains("properties") && params.at("properties").is_object() && !params.at("properties").empty()) {
-                    auto schema_info = common_schema_info();
-                    schema_info.resolve_refs(params);
-
-                    auto arg_choice = p.choice();
-                    for (const auto & [prop_name, prop_schema] : params.at("properties").items()) {
-                        auto value_parser = p.eps();
-                        if (schema_info.resolves_to_string(prop_schema)) {
-                            value_parser = string_value;
-                        } else {
-                            value_parser = p.tool_arg_json_value(
-                                    p.schema(p.json(), "tool-" + name + "-arg-" + prop_name + "-schema", prop_schema, false)
-                                ) + p.tool_arg_close(p.literal("</param>"));
-                        }
-
-                        auto arg_rule = p.tool_arg(
-                            p.tool_arg_open(p.literal("<param name=\"") + p.tool_arg_name(p.literal(prop_name)) + p.literal("\">")) +
-                            value_parser
-                        );
-
-                        arg_choice |= arg_rule;
-                    }
-                    args = p.zero_or_more(arg_choice + p.space());
-                }
-
-                auto tool_parser = p.tool(
-                    p.tool_open(p.literal("<function name=\"") + p.tool_name(p.literal(name)) + p.literal("\">"))
-                    << p.tool_args(args)
-                    << p.tool_close(p.literal("</function>")));
-
-                tool_choice |= p.rule("tool-" + name, tool_parser);
-            });
-
-            auto max_calls  = inputs.parallel_tool_calls ? -1 : 1;
-            auto tool_calls = p.trigger_rule("tool-call", p.repeat(tool_choice + p.space(), 1, max_calls));
-
-            auto content = p.content(p.until("<function"));
-
-            return generation_prompt + reasoning + content + tool_calls + p.end();
-        }
-
-        return generation_prompt + reasoning + p.content(p.rest()) + p.end();
-    });
-
-    data.parser = parser.save();
-
-    if (include_grammar) {
-        data.grammar_lazy = !(has_response_format || (has_tools && inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_REQUIRED));
-        data.grammar      = build_grammar([&](const common_grammar_builder & builder) {
-            foreach_function(inputs.tools, [&](const json & tool) {
-                const auto & function = tool.at("function");
-                auto         schema   = function.contains("parameters") ? function.at("parameters") : json::object();
-                builder.resolve_refs(schema);
-            });
-            if (has_response_format) {
-                auto schema = inputs.json_schema;
-                builder.resolve_refs(schema);
-            }
-            parser.build_grammar(builder, data.grammar_lazy);
-        });
-
-        data.grammar_triggers = {
-            { COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_WORD, "<function" },
-        };
-    }
-
-    return data;
-}
-
 static json common_chat_extra_context() {
    json ctx = json::object();
    std::chrono::system_clock::time_point now = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
@@ -2566,25 +2244,16 @@ std::optional<common_chat_params> common_chat_try_specialized_template(
        return common_chat_params_init_kimi_k2(tmpl, params);
    }

-    // Cohere2 MoE / North Code - marker-wrapped format with <|START_TEXT|> content and
-    // <|START_ACTION|> JSON tool calls. <|START_TEXT|> is unique to this template (the older
-    // Command-R templates use <|START_RESPONSE|>).
-    if (src.find("<|START_TEXT|>") != std::string::npos &&
-        src.find("<|START_ACTION|>") != std::string::npos) {
-        LOG_DBG("Using specialized template: Cohere2 MoE\n");
-        return common_chat_params_init_cohere2moe(tmpl, params);
-    }
-
    if (is_lfm2_template(src)) {
        LOG_DBG("Using specialized template: LFM2\n");
-        return common_chat_params_init_lfm2(tmpl, params, /* tool_list_tokens = */ true);
+        return common_chat_params_init_lfm2(tmpl, params);
    }

    // LFM2.5 format detection: template uses plain "List of tools: [...]" with no special tokens
    if (src.find("List of tools: [") != std::string::npos &&
        src.find("<|tool_list_start|>") == std::string::npos) {
        LOG_DBG("Using specialized template: LFM2.5\n");
-        return common_chat_params_init_lfm2(tmpl, params, /* tool_list_tokens = */ false);
+        return common_chat_params_init_lfm2_5(tmpl, params);
    }

    // GigaChatV3 format detection
@@ -2615,14 +2284,6 @@ std::optional<common_chat_params> common_chat_try_specialized_template(
        return common_chat_params_init_gemma4(tmpl, params);
    }

-    // MiniCPM5 - XML tool calls with <function name="..."><param name="...">...</param></function>
-    if (src.find("Tool usage guidelines:") != std::string::npos &&
-        src.find("<function name=\"") != std::string::npos &&
-        src.find("<param name=\"") != std::string::npos) {
-        LOG_DBG("Using specialized template: MiniCPM5\n");
-        return common_chat_params_init_minicpm5(tmpl, params);
-    }
-
    return std::nullopt;
 }

@@ -2732,17 +2393,6 @@ static common_chat_params common_chat_templates_apply_jinja(const struct common_
        struct autoparser::autoparser autoparser;
        autoparser.analyze_template(tmpl);
        auto auto_params = autoparser::peg_generator::generate_parser(tmpl, params, autoparser);
-
-        common_chat_msg_delimiters delimiters;
-        if (!autoparser.assistant_start.empty()) {
-            delimiters.add(COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_ASSISTANT, autoparser.assistant_start);
-        }
-        if (!autoparser.user_start.empty()) {
-            delimiters.add(COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_USER, autoparser.user_start);
-        }
-
-        auto_params.message_delimiters = std::move(delimiters);
-
        auto_params.supports_thinking = autoparser.reasoning.mode != autoparser::reasoning_mode::NONE;
        if (auto_params.supports_thinking) {
            auto_params.thinking_start_tag = trim_whitespace(autoparser.reasoning.start);
@@ -2883,9 +2533,8 @@ common_chat_msg common_chat_peg_parse(const common_peg_arena &          src_pars
            }
            return msg;
        }
-        LOG_WRN("%s: unparsed %s output: %s\n", __func__, common_chat_format_name(params.format), effective_input.substr(result.end).c_str());
-        LOG_DBG("%s: full %s output triggering error:\n=== BEGIN ===\n%s\n=== END ===\n", __func__, common_chat_format_name(params.format), effective_input.c_str());
-        throw std::runtime_error(std::string("The model produced output that does not match the expected ") + common_chat_format_name(params.format) + " format");
+        throw std::runtime_error(std::string("Failed to parse input at pos ") + std::to_string(result.end) + ": " +
+                                 effective_input.substr(result.end));
    }

    common_chat_msg msg;
@@ -2913,9 +2562,5 @@ common_chat_msg common_chat_peg_parse(const common_peg_arena &          src_pars
 std::map<std::string, bool> common_chat_templates_get_caps(const common_chat_templates * chat_templates) {
    GGML_ASSERT(chat_templates != nullptr);
    GGML_ASSERT(chat_templates->template_default != nullptr);
-    if (chat_templates->template_tool_use != nullptr) {
-        // take the more expressive template when available
-        return chat_templates->template_tool_use->caps.to_map();
-    }
    return chat_templates->template_default->caps.to_map();
 }
@@ -143,77 +143,6 @@ struct common_chat_msg_diff {
    }
 };

-enum common_chat_role {
-    COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_UNKNOWN,
-    COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_SYSTEM,
-    COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_ASSISTANT,
-    COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_USER,
-    COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_TOOL
-};
-
-common_chat_role common_chat_role_from_string(const std::string & role);
-const char *     common_chat_role_to_string(common_chat_role role);
-
-struct common_chat_msg_span {
-    common_chat_role role = COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_UNKNOWN;
-    std::size_t pos = 0;
-    std::size_t len = 0;
-
-    bool valid() const {
-        return role != COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_UNKNOWN;
-    }
-};
-
-struct common_chat_msg_spans {
-    std::vector<common_chat_msg_span> spans;
-
-    void add(common_chat_role role, size_t pos, size_t len) {
-        spans.push_back({ role, pos, len });
-    }
-
-    bool is_user_start(int32_t pos) const {
-        for (auto it = spans.begin(); it != spans.end(); ++it) {
-            if (it->role == COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_USER && pos == (int32_t) it->pos) {
-                return true;
-            }
-        }
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    int32_t last_user_message_pos() const {
-        for (auto it = spans.rbegin(); it != spans.rend(); ++it) {
-            if (it->role == COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_USER) {
-                return (int32_t) it->pos;
-            }
-        }
-        return -1;
-    }
-};
-
-struct common_chat_msg_delimiter {
-    common_chat_role role = COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_UNKNOWN;
-    std::string      delimiter;
-    llama_tokens     tokens = {};
-};
-
-struct common_chat_msg_delimiters {
-    std::vector<common_chat_msg_delimiter> delimiters;
-
-    common_chat_msg_delimiters() = default;
-    common_chat_msg_delimiters(std::initializer_list<common_chat_msg_delimiter> delims) : delimiters(delims) {}
-
-    void add(common_chat_role role, const std::string & delimiter) {
-        delimiters.push_back({ role, delimiter });
-    }
-
-    void tokenize(const llama_vocab * vocab);
-
-    // split tokens into message spans. skips maps a start index to a length of a region to jump over without matching
-    common_chat_msg_spans split(const llama_tokens & tokens, const std::map<size_t, size_t> & skips = {}) const;
-
-    nlohmann::ordered_json to_json() const;
-};
-
 struct common_chat_tool {
    std::string name;
    std::string description;
@@ -279,7 +208,6 @@ struct common_chat_params {
    std::vector<std::string>            preserved_tokens;
    std::vector<std::string>            additional_stops;
    std::string                         parser;
-    common_chat_msg_delimiters          message_delimiters;
 };

 // per-message parsing syntax
@@ -376,7 +304,6 @@ std::optional<common_chat_params> common_chat_try_specialized_template(
        const std::string &                   src,
        autoparser::generation_params & params);

-
 // specialized per-task preset
 struct common_chat_prompt_preset {
    std::string system;
@@ -384,5 +311,3 @@ struct common_chat_prompt_preset {
 };

 common_chat_prompt_preset common_chat_get_asr_prompt(const common_chat_templates * chat_templates);
-
-common_chat_msg_delimiters common_chat_msg_delimiters_parse(const nlohmann::ordered_json & delimiters);
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ bool set_process_priority(enum ggml_sched_priority prio) {
    }

    if (!SetPriorityClass(GetCurrentProcess(), p)) {
-        COM_WRN("failed to set process priority class %d : (%d)\n", prio, (int) GetLastError());
+        LOG_WRN("failed to set process priority class %d : (%d)\n", prio, (int) GetLastError());
        return false;
    }

@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ bool set_process_priority(enum ggml_sched_priority prio) {
    }

    if (setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, p) != 0) {
-        COM_WRN("failed to set process priority %d : %s (%d)\n", prio, strerror(errno), errno);
+        LOG_WRN("failed to set process priority %d : %s (%d)\n", prio, strerror(errno), errno);
        return false;
    }
    return true;
@@ -284,14 +284,14 @@ void postprocess_cpu_params(common_cpu_params & cpuparams, const common_cpu_para

    if (n_set && n_set < cpuparams.n_threads) {
        // Not enough set bits, may experience performance issues.
-        COM_WRN("Not enough set bits in CPU mask (%d) to satisfy requested thread count: %d\n", n_set, cpuparams.n_threads);
+        LOG_WRN("Not enough set bits in CPU mask (%d) to satisfy requested thread count: %d\n", n_set, cpuparams.n_threads);
    }
 }

 bool parse_cpu_range(const std::string & range, bool (&boolmask)[GGML_MAX_N_THREADS]) {
    size_t dash_loc = range.find('-');
    if (dash_loc == std::string::npos) {
-        COM_ERR("%s", "Format of CPU range is invalid! Expected [<start>]-[<end>].\n");
+        LOG_ERR("Format of CPU range is invalid! Expected [<start>]-[<end>].\n");
        return false;
    }

@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ bool parse_cpu_range(const std::string & range, bool (&boolmask)[GGML_MAX_N_THRE
    } else {
        start_i = std::stoull(range.substr(0, dash_loc));
        if (start_i >= GGML_MAX_N_THREADS) {
-            COM_ERR("%s", "Start index out of bounds!\n");
+            LOG_ERR("Start index out of bounds!\n");
            return false;
        }
    }
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ bool parse_cpu_range(const std::string & range, bool (&boolmask)[GGML_MAX_N_THRE
    } else {
        end_i = std::stoull(range.substr(dash_loc + 1));
        if (end_i >= GGML_MAX_N_THREADS) {
-            COM_ERR("%s", "End index out of bounds!\n");
+            LOG_ERR("End index out of bounds!\n");
            return false;
        }
    }
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ bool parse_cpu_mask(const std::string & mask, bool (&boolmask)[GGML_MAX_N_THREAD
    }

    size_t num_digits = mask.length() - start_i;
-    num_digits = std::min<size_t>(num_digits, 128);
+    if (num_digits > 128) num_digits = 128;

    size_t end_i = num_digits + start_i;

@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ bool parse_cpu_mask(const std::string & mask, bool (&boolmask)[GGML_MAX_N_THREAD
        } else if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F') {
            id -= 'A' - 10;
        } else {
-            COM_ERR("Invalid hex character '%c' at position %d\n", c, int32_t(i));
+            LOG_ERR("Invalid hex character '%c' at position %d\n", c, int32_t(i));
            return false;
        }

@@ -379,21 +379,21 @@ void common_params_print_info(const common_params & params, bool print_devices)
 #else
    const char * build_type = " (debug)";
 #endif
-    COM_TRC("%s: build %d (%s) with %s for %s%s\n", __func__, llama_build_number(), llama_commit(), llama_compiler(), llama_build_target(), build_type);
+    LOG_TRC("%s: build %d (%s) with %s for %s%s\n", __func__, llama_build_number(), llama_commit(), llama_compiler(), llama_build_target(), build_type);

-    COM_INF("%s: verbosity = %d (adjust with the `-lv N` CLI arg)\n", __func__, common_log_get_verbosity_thold());
+    LOG_INF("log_info: verbosity = %d (adjust with the `-lv N` CLI arg)\n", common_log_get_verbosity_thold());

    // device enumeration creates a primary context on CUDA backends, skip it when the caller does not own any device
    if (print_devices) {
-        COM_TRC("%s", "device_info:\n");
+        LOG_INF("device_info:\n");
        for (size_t i = 0; i < ggml_backend_dev_count(); ++i) {
            auto * dev = ggml_backend_dev_get(i);
            size_t free, total;
            ggml_backend_dev_memory(dev, &free, &total);
-            COM_TRC("  - %-8s: %s (%zu MiB, %zu MiB free)\n", ggml_backend_dev_name(dev), ggml_backend_dev_description(dev), total / 1024 / 1024, free / 1024 / 1024);
+            LOG_INF("  - %-8s: %s (%zu MiB, %zu MiB free)\n", ggml_backend_dev_name(dev), ggml_backend_dev_description(dev), total / 1024 / 1024, free / 1024 / 1024);
        }
    }
-    COM_TRC("%s\n", common_params_get_system_info(params).c_str());
+    LOG_INF("%s\n", common_params_get_system_info(params).c_str());
 }

 std::string common_params_get_system_info(const common_params & params) {
@@ -445,27 +445,6 @@ std::string string_strip(const std::string & str) {
    return str.substr(start, end - start);
 }

-std::string string_lcs(std::string_view a, std::string_view b) {
-    if (a.empty() || b.empty()) return {};
-
-    std::vector<std::vector<size_t>> dp(a.size() + 1, std::vector<size_t>(b.size() + 1, 0));
-    size_t best_len = 0;
-    size_t best_end_a = 0;
-
-    for (size_t i = 1; i <= a.size(); ++i) {
-        for (size_t j = 1; j <= b.size(); ++j) {
-            if (a[i - 1] == b[j - 1]) {
-                dp[i][j] = dp[i - 1][j - 1] + 1;
-                if (dp[i][j] > best_len) {
-                    best_len = dp[i][j];
-                    best_end_a = i;
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    return std::string(a.substr(best_end_a - best_len, best_len));
-}
-
 std::string string_get_sortable_timestamp() {
    using clock = std::chrono::system_clock;

@@ -660,7 +639,7 @@ void string_process_escapes(std::string & input) {
 bool string_parse_kv_override(const char * data, std::vector<llama_model_kv_override> & overrides) {
    const char * sep = strchr(data, '=');
    if (sep == nullptr || sep - data >= 128) {
-        COM_ERR("%s: malformed KV override '%s'\n", __func__, data);
+        LOG_ERR("%s: malformed KV override '%s'\n", __func__, data);
        return false;
    }
    llama_model_kv_override kvo;
@@ -683,20 +662,20 @@ bool string_parse_kv_override(const char * data, std::vector<llama_model_kv_over
        } else if (std::strcmp(sep, "false") == 0) {
            kvo.val_bool = false;
        } else {
-            COM_ERR("%s: invalid boolean value for KV override '%s'\n", __func__, data);
+            LOG_ERR("%s: invalid boolean value for KV override '%s'\n", __func__, data);
            return false;
        }
    } else if (strncmp(sep, "str:", 4) == 0) {
        sep += 4;
        kvo.tag = LLAMA_KV_OVERRIDE_TYPE_STR;
        if (strlen(sep) > 127) {
-            COM_ERR("%s: malformed KV override '%s', value cannot exceed 127 chars\n", __func__, data);
+            LOG_ERR("%s: malformed KV override '%s', value cannot exceed 127 chars\n", __func__, data);
            return false;
        }
        strncpy(kvo.val_str, sep, 127);
        kvo.val_str[127] = '\0';
    } else {
-        COM_ERR("%s: invalid type for KV override '%s'\n", __func__, data);
+        LOG_ERR("%s: invalid type for KV override '%s'\n", __func__, data);
        return false;
    }
    overrides.emplace_back(std::move(kvo));
@@ -1074,18 +1053,6 @@ std::vector<common_file_info> fs_list(const std::string & path, bool include_dir
    return files;
 }

-std::ifstream fs_open_ifstream(const std::string & fname, std::ios_base::openmode mode) {
-#ifdef _WIN32
-    int wlen = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, fname.c_str(), -1, NULL, 0);
-    if (!wlen) { return std::ifstream(); }
-    std::vector<wchar_t> wfname(wlen);
-    (void)MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, fname.c_str(), -1, wfname.data(), wlen);
-    return std::ifstream(wfname.data(), mode);
-#else
-    return std::ifstream(fname, mode);
-#endif
-}
-
 //
 // TTY utils
 //
@@ -1160,7 +1127,7 @@ static void common_init_sampler_from_model(
        if (llama_model_meta_val_str(model, llama_model_meta_key_str(LLAMA_MODEL_META_KEY_SAMPLING_SEQUENCE), buf, sizeof(buf)) > 0) {
            const std::vector<std::string> sampler_names = string_split<std::string>(std::string(buf), ';');
            if (!sampler_names.empty()) {
-                sparams.samplers = common_sampler_types_from_names(sampler_names);
+                sparams.samplers = common_sampler_types_from_names(sampler_names, true);
            }
        }
    }
@@ -1199,8 +1166,8 @@ common_init_result::common_init_result(common_params & params, bool model_only)
    auto cparams = common_context_params_to_llama(params);

    if (params.fit_params) {
-        COM_TRC("%s", "fitting params to device memory ...\n");
-        COM_TRC("%s", "(for bugs during this step try to reproduce them with -fit off, or provide --verbose logs if the bug only occurs with -fit on)\n");
+        LOG_INF("%s: fitting params to device memory ...\n", __func__);
+        LOG_INF("%s: (for bugs during this step try to reproduce them with -fit off, or provide --verbose logs if the bug only occurs with -fit on)\n", __func__);
        common_fit_params(params.model.path.c_str(), &mparams, &cparams,
            params.tensor_split,
            params.tensor_buft_overrides.data(),
@@ -1227,7 +1194,7 @@ common_init_result::common_init_result(common_params & params, bool model_only)
        llama_adapter_lora_ptr lora;
        lora.reset(llama_adapter_lora_init(model, la.path.c_str()));
        if (lora == nullptr) {
-            COM_ERR("failed to load lora adapter '%s'\n", la.path.c_str());
+            LOG_ERR("%s: failed to load lora adapter '%s'\n", __func__, la.path.c_str());
            pimpl->model.reset(model);
            return;
        }
@@ -1246,14 +1213,14 @@ common_init_result::common_init_result(common_params & params, bool model_only)
    common_init_sampler_from_model(model, params.sampling);

    if (params.sampling.ignore_eos && llama_vocab_eos(vocab) == LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL) {
-        COM_WRN("%s", "vocab does not have an EOS token, ignoring --ignore-eos\n");
+        LOG_WRN("%s: warning: vocab does not have an EOS token, ignoring --ignore-eos\n", __func__);
        params.sampling.ignore_eos = false;
    }

    // initialize once
    for (llama_token i = 0; i < llama_vocab_n_tokens(vocab); i++) {
        if (llama_vocab_is_eog(vocab, i)) {
-            COM_TRC("added %s logit bias = %f\n", common_token_to_piece(vocab, i).c_str(), -INFINITY);
+            LOG_TRC("%s: added %s logit bias = %f\n", __func__, common_token_to_piece(vocab, i).c_str(), -INFINITY);
            params.sampling.logit_bias_eog.push_back({i, -INFINITY});
        }
    }
@@ -1291,7 +1258,7 @@ common_init_result::common_init_result(common_params & params, bool model_only)

    llama_context * lctx = llama_init_from_model(model, cparams);
    if (lctx == NULL) {
-        COM_ERR("failed to create context with model '%s'\n", params.model.path.c_str());
+        LOG_ERR("%s: failed to create context with model '%s'\n", __func__, params.model.path.c_str());
        return;
    }

@@ -1328,7 +1295,7 @@ common_init_result_ptr common_init_from_params(common_params & params, bool mode

    llama_model * model = res->model();
    if (model == NULL) {
-        COM_ERR("failed to load model '%s'\n", params.model.path.c_str());
+        LOG_ERR("%s: failed to load model '%s'\n", __func__, params.model.path.c_str());
        return res;
    }

@@ -1338,14 +1305,14 @@ common_init_result_ptr common_init_from_params(common_params & params, bool mode

    llama_context * lctx = res->context();
    if (lctx == NULL) {
-        COM_ERR("failed to create context with model '%s'\n", params.model.path.c_str());
+        LOG_ERR("%s: failed to create context with model '%s'\n", __func__, params.model.path.c_str());
        return res;
    }

    const llama_vocab * vocab = llama_model_get_vocab(model);

    if (params.ctx_shift && !llama_memory_can_shift(llama_get_memory(lctx))) {
-        COM_WRN("%s", "KV cache shifting is not supported for this context, disabling KV cache shifting\n");
+        LOG_WRN("%s: KV cache shifting is not supported for this context, disabling KV cache shifting\n", __func__);
        params.ctx_shift = false;
    }

@@ -1374,7 +1341,7 @@ common_init_result_ptr common_init_from_params(common_params & params, bool mode
        bool ok = true;

        if (llama_vocab_bos(vocab) == LLAMA_TOKEN_NULL) {
-            COM_WRN("%s", "vocab does not have a  BOS token, reranking will not work\n");
+            LOG_WRN("%s: warning: vocab does not have a  BOS token, reranking will not work\n", __func__);
            ok = false;
        }

@@ -1383,10 +1350,10 @@ common_init_result_ptr common_init_from_params(common_params & params, bool mode
        bool has_rerank_prompt = llama_model_chat_template(model, "rerank") != NULL;

        if (!has_eos && !has_sep && !has_rerank_prompt) {
-            COM_WRN("%s", "vocab does not have an EOS token, SEP token, or rerank prompt. Reranking will not work\n");
+            LOG_WRN("%s: warning: vocab does not have an EOS token, SEP token, or rerank prompt. Reranking will not work\n", __func__);
            ok = false;
        } else if (!has_eos) {
-            COM_WRN("%s", "vocab does not have an EOS token, using SEP token as fallback\n");
+            LOG_WRN("%s: warning: vocab does not have an EOS token, using SEP token as fallback\n", __func__);
        }

        if (!ok) {
@@ -1399,7 +1366,9 @@ common_init_result_ptr common_init_from_params(common_params & params, bool mode
    }

    if (params.warmup) {
-        COM_TRC("%s", "warming up the model with an empty run - please wait ... (--no-warmup to disable)\n");
+        LOG_INF("%s: warming up the model with an empty run - please wait ... (--no-warmup to disable)\n", __func__);
+
+        llama_set_warmup(lctx, true);

        std::vector<llama_token> tmp;
        llama_token bos = llama_vocab_bos(vocab);
@@ -1431,6 +1400,7 @@ common_init_result_ptr common_init_from_params(common_params & params, bool mode
        llama_memory_clear(llama_get_memory(lctx), true);
        llama_synchronize(lctx);
        llama_perf_context_reset(lctx);
+        llama_set_warmup(lctx, false);

        // reset samplers to reset RNG state after warmup to the seeded state
        res->reset_samplers();
@@ -1473,20 +1443,20 @@ common_context_seq_rm_type common_context_can_seq_rm(llama_context * ctx) {

    int ret = llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(tmp.data(), tmp.size()));
    if (ret != 0) {
-        COM_ERR("llama_decode() failed: %d\n", ret);
+        LOG_ERR("%s: llama_decode() failed: %d\n", __func__, ret);
        res = COMMON_CONTEXT_SEQ_RM_TYPE_NO;
        goto done;
    }

    if (llama_n_rs_seq(ctx) > 0) {
-        COM_TRC("%s", "the context supports bounded partial sequence removal\n");
+        LOG_INF("%s: the context supports bounded partial sequence removal\n", __func__);
        res = COMMON_CONTEXT_SEQ_RM_TYPE_RS;
        goto done;
    }

    // try to remove the last tokens
    if (!llama_memory_seq_rm(mem, 0, 1, -1)) {
-        COM_TRC("%s", "the context does not support partial sequence removal\n");
+        LOG_TRC("%s: the context does not support partial sequence removal\n", __func__);
        res = COMMON_CONTEXT_SEQ_RM_TYPE_FULL;
        goto done;
    }
@@ -1572,7 +1542,6 @@ struct llama_context_params common_context_params_to_llama(const common_params &
    cparams.n_ctx             = params.n_ctx;
    cparams.n_seq_max         = params.n_parallel;
    cparams.n_rs_seq          = params.speculative.need_n_rs_seq();
-    cparams.n_outputs_max     = std::max(params.n_outputs_max, 0);
    cparams.n_batch           = params.n_batch;
    cparams.n_ubatch          = params.n_ubatch;
    cparams.n_threads         = params.cpuparams.n_threads;
@@ -1803,13 +1772,13 @@ static common_control_vector_data common_control_vector_load_one(const common_co
    };
    struct gguf_context * ctx_gguf = gguf_init_from_file(load_info.fname.c_str(), meta_gguf_params);
    if (!ctx_gguf) {
-        COM_ERR("failed to load control vector file from %s\n", load_info.fname.c_str());
+        LOG_ERR("%s: failed to load control vector file from %s\n", __func__, load_info.fname.c_str());
        return result;
    }

    int32_t n_tensors = gguf_get_n_tensors(ctx_gguf);
    if (n_tensors == 0) {
-        COM_WRN("no direction tensors found in %s\n", load_info.fname.c_str());
+        LOG_WRN("%s: no direction tensors found in %s\n", __func__, load_info.fname.c_str());
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < n_tensors; i++) {
@@ -1827,23 +1796,23 @@ static common_control_vector_data common_control_vector_load_one(const common_co
            }
        }
        if (layer_idx < 0) {
-            COM_ERR("invalid/unparsable direction tensor layer index in %s\n", load_info.fname.c_str());
+            LOG_ERR("%s: invalid/unparsable direction tensor layer index in %s\n", __func__, load_info.fname.c_str());
            result.n_embd = -1;
            break;
        } else if (layer_idx == 0) {
-            COM_ERR("invalid (zero) direction tensor layer index in %s\n", load_info.fname.c_str());
+            LOG_ERR("%s: invalid (zero) direction tensor layer index in %s\n", __func__, load_info.fname.c_str());
            result.n_embd = -1;
            break;
        }

        struct ggml_tensor * tensor = ggml_get_tensor(ctx, name.c_str());
        if (tensor->type != GGML_TYPE_F32) {
-            COM_ERR("invalid (non-F32) direction tensor type in %s\n", load_info.fname.c_str());
+            LOG_ERR("%s: invalid (non-F32) direction tensor type in %s\n", __func__, load_info.fname.c_str());
            result.n_embd = -1;
            break;
        }
        if (ggml_n_dims(tensor) != 1) {
-            COM_ERR("invalid (non-1D) direction tensor shape in %s\n", load_info.fname.c_str());
+            LOG_ERR("%s: invalid (non-1D) direction tensor shape in %s\n", __func__, load_info.fname.c_str());
            result.n_embd = -1;
            break;
        }
@@ -1851,7 +1820,7 @@ static common_control_vector_data common_control_vector_load_one(const common_co
        if (result.n_embd == -1) {
            result.n_embd = ggml_nelements(tensor);
        } else if (ggml_nelements(tensor) != result.n_embd) {
-            COM_ERR("direction tensor in %s does not match previous dimensions\n", load_info.fname.c_str());
+            LOG_ERR("%s: direction tensor in %s does not match previous dimensions\n", __func__, load_info.fname.c_str());
            result.n_embd = -1;
            break;
        }
@@ -1868,7 +1837,7 @@ static common_control_vector_data common_control_vector_load_one(const common_co
    }

    if (result.n_embd == -1) {
-        COM_WRN("skipping %s due to invalid direction tensors\n", load_info.fname.c_str());
+        LOG_WRN("%s: skipping %s due to invalid direction tensors\n", __func__, load_info.fname.c_str());
        result.data.clear();
    }

@@ -1889,7 +1858,7 @@ common_control_vector_data common_control_vector_load(const std::vector<common_c
            break;
        }
        if (result.n_embd != -1 && result.n_embd != cur.n_embd) {
-            COM_ERR("control vectors in %s does not match previous dimensions\n", info.fname.c_str());
+            LOG_ERR("%s: control vectors in %s does not match previous dimensions\n", __func__, info.fname.c_str());
            result.n_embd = -1;
            break;
        }
@@ -1905,7 +1874,7 @@ common_control_vector_data common_control_vector_load(const std::vector<common_c
    }

    if (result.n_embd == -1) {
-        COM_ERR("%s", "no valid control vector files passed\n");
+        LOG_ERR("%s: no valid control vector files passed\n", __func__);
        result.data.clear();
    }

@@ -1994,59 +1963,58 @@ bool common_replay_last_token(struct llama_context * ctx, llama_token last_token

 bool common_prompt_batch_decode(
              struct llama_context * ctx,
-    const std::vector<llama_token> & all_tokens,
-                               int   n_new,
+    const std::vector<llama_token> & tokens,
                               int & n_past,
                               int   n_batch,
                  std::string_view   state_path,
                              bool   save_state) {
-    if (n_new == 0) {
+    const int n_eval = tokens.size();
+    if (n_eval == 0) {
        return true;
    }
-    const int offset = all_tokens.size() - n_new;

-    if (save_state && n_new > 1) {
-        const int n_tokens_before_last = n_new - 1;
+    if (save_state && n_eval > 1) {
+        const int n_tokens_before_last = n_eval - 1;

-        GGML_ASSERT(n_new <= n_batch);
+        GGML_ASSERT(n_eval <= n_batch);

        // Decode all but the last token so we can save the memory state before decoding the last token.
        // This is done so we can restore the session state later and replay the last token.
        // Memory implementations in recurrent/hybrid models don't support removing tokens from their
        // memory, so we can't just remove the last token from the memory and replay the last token which
        // is the reason for this logic.
-        if (llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(const_cast<llama_token*>(all_tokens.data() + offset), n_tokens_before_last))) {
-            COM_ERR("%s", "failed to eval\n");
+        if (llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(const_cast<llama_token*>(tokens.data()), n_tokens_before_last))) {
+            LOG_ERR("%s : failed to eval\n", __func__);
            return false;
        }
        n_past += n_tokens_before_last;

-        llama_state_save_file(ctx, state_path.data(), all_tokens.data(), all_tokens.size());
-        COM_INF("saved session before last token to %s, n_new = %zu\n", state_path.data(), all_tokens.size());
+        llama_state_save_file(ctx, state_path.data(), tokens.data(), n_tokens_before_last);
+        LOG_INF("saved session before last token to %s, n_tokens = %d\n", state_path.data(), n_tokens_before_last);

-        llama_token last_token = all_tokens.back();
+        llama_token last_token = tokens.back();
        llama_batch batch = llama_batch_get_one(&last_token, 1);
        int32_t pos = n_past;
        batch.pos = &pos;

        if (llama_decode(ctx, batch)) {
-            COM_ERR("%s", "failed to eval last token\n");
+            LOG_ERR("%s : failed to eval last token\n", __func__);
            return false;
        }
        n_past++;
    } else {
-        if (llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(const_cast<llama_token*>(all_tokens.data() + offset), n_new))) {
-            COM_ERR("%s", "failed to eval\n");
+        if (llama_decode(ctx, llama_batch_get_one(const_cast<llama_token*>(tokens.data()), n_eval))) {
+            LOG_ERR("%s : failed to eval\n", __func__);
            return false;
        }
-        n_past += n_new;
+        n_past += n_eval;
    }

    return true;
 }

 size_t common_prompt_checkpoint::size() const {
-    return data_tgt.size() + data_dft.size() + data_spec.size();
+    return data_tgt.size() + data_dft.size();
 }

 bool common_prompt_checkpoint::empty() const {
@@ -2061,7 +2029,6 @@ void common_prompt_checkpoint::clear() {

    data_tgt.clear();
    data_dft.clear();
-    data_spec.clear();
 }

 void common_prompt_checkpoint::update_pos(
@@ -2151,5 +2118,4 @@ void common_prompt_checkpoint::clear_tgt() {

 void common_prompt_checkpoint::clear_dft() {
    data_dft.clear();
-    data_spec.clear();
 }
@@ -25,13 +25,6 @@
 #define DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR '/'
 #endif // _WIN32

-#define COM_DBG(fmt, ...) LOG_DBG("cmn  %12.*s: " fmt, 12, __func__, __VA_ARGS__)
-#define COM_TRC(fmt, ...) LOG_TRC("cmn  %12.*s: " fmt, 12, __func__, __VA_ARGS__)
-#define COM_INF(fmt, ...) LOG_INF("cmn  %12.*s: " fmt, 12, __func__, __VA_ARGS__)
-#define COM_WRN(fmt, ...) LOG_WRN("cmn  %12.*s: " fmt, 12, __func__, __VA_ARGS__)
-#define COM_ERR(fmt, ...) LOG_ERR("cmn  %12.*s: " fmt, 12, __func__, __VA_ARGS__)
-#define COM_CNT(fmt, ...) LOG_CNT(""              fmt,               __VA_ARGS__)
-
 #define die(msg)          do { fputs("error: " msg "\n", stderr);                exit(1); } while (0)
 #define die_fmt(fmt, ...) do { fprintf(stderr, "error: " fmt "\n", __VA_ARGS__); exit(1); } while (0)

@@ -103,7 +96,6 @@ enum llama_example {
    LLAMA_EXAMPLE_FIT_PARAMS,
    LLAMA_EXAMPLE_RESULTS,
    LLAMA_EXAMPLE_EXPORT_GRAPH_OPS,
-    LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DOWNLOAD,

    LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COUNT,
 };
@@ -169,7 +161,6 @@ enum common_speculative_type {
    COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_DRAFT_SIMPLE,  // standalone draft model speculative decoding
    COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_DRAFT_EAGLE3,  // Eagle3 speculative decoding
    COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_DRAFT_MTP,     // Multi-token prediction
-    COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_DRAFT_DFLASH,  // DFlash speculative decoding
    COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_NGRAM_SIMPLE,  // simple self-speculative decoding based on n-grams
    COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_NGRAM_MAP_K,   // self-speculative decoding with n-gram keys only
    COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_NGRAM_MAP_K4V, // self-speculative decoding with n-gram keys and 4 m-gram values
@@ -286,7 +277,6 @@ struct common_params_sampling {
    std::vector<llama_token> reasoning_budget_end;             // end tag token sequence
    std::vector<llama_token> reasoning_budget_forced;          // forced sequence (message + end tag)
    std::string              reasoning_budget_message;         // message injected before end tag when budget exhausted
-    bool                     reasoning_control = false;        // create the budget sampler on demand so reasoning can be ended at runtime

    bool backend_sampling = false;

@@ -299,25 +289,12 @@ struct common_params_sampling {
 };

 struct common_params_model {
-    std::string path        = ""; // model local path
-    std::string url         = ""; // model url to download
-    std::string hf_repo     = ""; // HF repo
-    std::string hf_file     = ""; // HF file
-    std::string docker_repo = ""; // Docker repo
-
-    std::string get_name() const {
-        if (!hf_repo.empty()) {
-            return hf_repo;
-        }
-        if (!docker_repo.empty()) {
-            return docker_repo;
-        }
-        return path;
-    }
-
-    bool empty() const {
-        return get_name().empty();
-    }
+    std::string path        = ""; // model local path                                       // NOLINT
+    std::string url         = ""; // model url to download                                  // NOLINT
+    std::string hf_repo     = ""; // HF repo                                                // NOLINT
+    std::string hf_file     = ""; // HF file                                                // NOLINT
+    std::string docker_repo = ""; // Docker repo                                            // NOLINT
+    std::string name        = ""; // in format <user>/<model>[:<tag>] (tag is optional)     // NOLINT
 };

 // draft-model-based speculative decoding parameters
@@ -380,12 +357,12 @@ struct common_params_speculative {
    common_params_speculative_ngram_cache ngram_cache;

    bool has_dft() const {
-        return !draft.mparams.empty();
+        return !draft.mparams.path.empty() || !draft.mparams.hf_repo.empty();
    }

    uint32_t need_n_rs_seq() const {
        bool needs_rs_seq = std::any_of(types.begin(), types.end(), [&](auto t) {
-            return t == COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_DRAFT_MTP || t == COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_DRAFT_EAGLE3 || t == COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_DRAFT_DFLASH;
+            return t == COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_DRAFT_MTP;
        });

        return needs_rs_seq ? draft.n_max : 0u;
@@ -454,7 +431,6 @@ struct common_params {
    int32_t n_chunks              =    -1; // max number of chunks to process (-1 = unlimited)
    int32_t n_parallel            =     1; // number of parallel sequences to decode
    int32_t n_sequences           =     1; // number of sequences to decode
-    int32_t n_outputs_max         =     0; // max outputs in a batch (0 = n_batch)
    int32_t grp_attn_n            =     1; // group-attention factor
    int32_t grp_attn_w            =   512; // group-attention width
    int32_t n_print               =    -1; // print token count every n tokens (-1 = disabled)
@@ -503,7 +479,7 @@ struct common_params {

    std::set<std::string> model_alias;     // model aliases                                                 // NOLINT
    std::set<std::string> model_tags;      // model tags (informational, not used for routing)              // NOLINT
-    std::string hf_token             = ""; // HF token (aka bearer token)                                   // NOLINT
+    std::string hf_token             = ""; // HF token                                                      // NOLINT
    std::string prompt               = "";                                                                  // NOLINT
    std::string system_prompt        = "";                                                                  // NOLINT
    std::string prompt_file          = ""; // store the external prompt file name                           // NOLINT
@@ -511,7 +487,6 @@ struct common_params {
    std::string input_prefix         = ""; // string to prefix user inputs with                             // NOLINT
    std::string input_suffix         = ""; // string to suffix user inputs with                             // NOLINT
    std::string logits_file          = ""; // file for saving *all* logits                                  // NOLINT
-    std::string path_prompts_log_dir = ""; // directory with logged prompts                                 // NOLINT

    // llama-debug specific options
    std::string logits_output_dir = "data"; // directory for saving logits output files                     // NOLINT
@@ -593,10 +568,9 @@ struct common_params {
    struct common_params_model mmproj;
    bool mmproj_use_gpu = true;     // use GPU for multimodal model
    bool no_mmproj = false;         // explicitly disable multimodal model
-    std::vector<std::string> image; // path to image file(s) ; TODO: change the name to "media"
+    std::vector<std::string> image; // path to image file(s)
    int image_min_tokens = -1;
    int image_max_tokens = -1;
-    int mtmd_batch_max_tokens = 1024;

    // finetune
    struct lr_opt lr;
@@ -613,15 +587,14 @@ struct common_params {
    // server params
    int32_t port                = 8080;          // server listens on this network port
    bool    reuse_port          = false;         // allow multiple sockets to bind to the same port
-    int32_t timeout_read        = 3600;          // http read timeout in seconds
+    int32_t timeout_read        = 600;           // http read timeout in seconds
    int32_t timeout_write       = timeout_read;  // http write timeout in seconds
-    int32_t sse_ping_interval   = 30;            // SSE ping interval in seconds
    int32_t n_threads_http      = -1;    // number of threads to process HTTP requests (TODO: support threadpool)
    int32_t n_cache_reuse       = 0;     // min chunk size to reuse from the cache via KV shifting
    bool    cache_prompt        = true;  // whether to enable prompt caching
    bool    cache_idle_slots    = true;  // save and clear idle slots upon starting a new task
    int32_t n_ctx_checkpoints   = 32;    // max number of context checkpoints per slot
-    int32_t checkpoint_min_step = 8192;  // minimum spacing between context checkpoints
+    int32_t checkpoint_every_nt = 8192;  // make a checkpoint every n tokens during prefill
    int32_t cache_ram_mib       = 8192;  // -1 = no limit, 0 - disable, 1 = 1 MiB, etc.

    std::string hostname      = "127.0.0.1";
@@ -645,6 +618,12 @@ struct common_params {

    // UI configs
    bool ui = true;
+
+    // Deprecated: use ui, ui_mcp_proxy, ui_config_json instead
+    bool webui = ui;
+    bool webui_mcp_proxy = false;
+    std::string webui_config_json;
+
    bool ui_mcp_proxy = false;
    std::string ui_config_json;

@@ -657,11 +636,10 @@ struct common_params {
    std::vector<std::string> server_tools;

    // router server configs
-    std::string models_dir    = "";     // directory containing models for the router server
-    std::string models_preset = "";     // directory containing model presets for the router server
-    int models_max = 4;                 // maximum number of models to load simultaneously
-    bool models_autoload = true;        // automatically load models when requested via the router server
-    std::string models_preset_hf = "";  // show a warning about remote presets on router loaded (if not empty)
+    std::string models_dir    = ""; // directory containing models for the router server
+    std::string models_preset = ""; // directory containing model presets for the router server
+    int models_max = 4;             // maximum number of models to load simultaneously
+    bool models_autoload = true;    // automatically load models when requested via the router server

    bool log_json = false;

@@ -753,7 +731,6 @@ std::string string_format(const char * fmt, ...);

 std::string string_strip(const std::string & str);
 std::string string_get_sortable_timestamp();
-std::string string_lcs(std::string_view a, std::string_view b);

 std::string string_join(const std::vector<std::string> & values, const std::string & separator);
 std::vector<std::string> string_split(const std::string & str, const std::string & delimiter);
@@ -863,9 +840,6 @@ struct common_file_info {
 };
 std::vector<common_file_info> fs_list(const std::string & path, bool include_directories);

-// fs open, also handle UTF8 on Windows
-std::ifstream fs_open_ifstream(const std::string & fname, std::ios_base::openmode mode);
-
 //
 // TTY utils
 //
@@ -951,8 +925,7 @@ void common_batch_add(
 // tokens from memory, so this approach works across all model architectures.
 bool common_prompt_batch_decode(
              struct llama_context * ctx,
-    const std::vector<llama_token> & all_tokens,
-                               int   n_new,
+    const std::vector<llama_token> & embd,
                               int & n_past,
                               int   n_batch,
                  std::string_view   state_path,
@@ -1083,10 +1056,6 @@ struct common_prompt_checkpoint {
    std::vector<uint8_t> data_tgt;
    std::vector<uint8_t> data_dft;

-    // (optional) speculative-decoding implementation state stashed with the checkpoint
-    // (e.g. eagle3's deferred-boundary g_embd row)
-    std::vector<uint8_t> data_spec;
-
    size_t size() const;

    bool empty() const;
@@ -357,7 +357,6 @@ static int common_download_file_single_online(const std::string & url,
            LOG_DBG("%s: using cached file (same etag): %s\n", __func__, path.c_str());
            return 304; // 304 Not Modified - fake cached response
        }
-        // pass this point, the file exists but is different from the server version, so we need to redownload it
        if (remove(path.c_str()) != 0) {
            LOG_ERR("%s: unable to delete file: %s\n", __func__, path.c_str());
            return -1;
@@ -684,8 +683,18 @@ static void list_available_gguf_files(const hf_cache::hf_files & files) {
    }
 }

-common_download_hf_plan common_download_get_hf_plan(const common_params_model & model, const common_download_opts & opts) {
-    common_download_hf_plan plan;
+struct hf_plan {
+    hf_cache::hf_file primary;
+    hf_cache::hf_files model_files;
+    hf_cache::hf_file mmproj;
+    hf_cache::hf_file mtp;
+};
+
+static hf_plan get_hf_plan(const common_params_model  & model,
+                           const common_download_opts & opts,
+                           bool download_mmproj,
+                           bool download_mtp) {
+    hf_plan plan;
    hf_cache::hf_files all;

    auto [repo, tag] = common_download_split_repo_tag(model.hf_repo);
@@ -700,14 +709,6 @@ common_download_hf_plan common_download_get_hf_plan(const common_params_model &
        return plan;
    }

-    // if preset.ini exists in the repo root, download only that file
-    for (const auto & f : all) {
-        if (f.path == "preset.ini") {
-            plan.preset = f;
-            return plan;
-        }
-    }
-
    hf_cache::hf_file primary;

    if (!model.hf_file.empty()) {
@@ -734,49 +735,111 @@ common_download_hf_plan common_download_get_hf_plan(const common_params_model &
    plan.primary = primary;
    plan.model_files = get_split_files(all, primary);

-    if (opts.download_mmproj) {
+    if (download_mmproj) {
        plan.mmproj = find_best_mmproj(all, primary.path);
    }
-    if (opts.download_mtp) {
+
+    if (download_mtp) {
        plan.mtp = find_best_mtp(all, primary.path);
    }

    return plan;
 }

-void common_download_run_tasks(const std::vector<common_download_task> & tasks) {
-    std::vector<std::future<int>> futures;
+struct download_task {
+    std::string url;
+    std::string path;
+};
+
+static std::vector<download_task> get_url_tasks(const common_params_model & model) {
+    auto split = get_gguf_split_info(model.url);
+
+    if (split.count <= 1) {
+        return {{model.url, model.path}};
+    }
+
+    auto filename = split.prefix;
+    if (auto pos = split.prefix.rfind('/'); pos != std::string::npos) {
+        filename = split.prefix.substr(pos + 1);
+    }
+
+    auto parent_path = std::filesystem::path(model.path).parent_path();
+    auto prefix_path = (parent_path / filename).string();
+
+    std::vector<download_task> tasks;
+    for (int i = 1; i <= split.count; i++) {
+        auto suffix = string_format("-%05d-of-%05d.gguf", i, split.count);
+        tasks.push_back({split.prefix + suffix, prefix_path + suffix});
+    }
+    return tasks;
+}
+
+common_download_model_result common_download_model(const common_params_model  & model,
+                                                   const common_download_opts & opts,
+                                                   bool download_mmproj,
+                                                   bool download_mtp) {
+    common_download_model_result result;
+    std::vector<download_task> tasks;
+    hf_plan hf;
+
+    bool is_hf = !model.hf_repo.empty();
+
+    if (is_hf) {
+        hf = get_hf_plan(model, opts, download_mmproj, download_mtp);
+        for (const auto & f : hf.model_files) {
+            tasks.push_back({f.url, f.local_path});
+        }
+        if (!hf.mmproj.path.empty()) {
+            tasks.push_back({hf.mmproj.url, hf.mmproj.local_path});
+        }
+        if (!hf.mtp.path.empty()) {
+            tasks.push_back({hf.mtp.url, hf.mtp.local_path});
+        }
+    } else if (!model.url.empty()) {
+        tasks = get_url_tasks(model);
+    } else {
+        result.model_path = model.path;
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    if (tasks.empty()) {
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    std::vector<std::future<bool>> futures;
    for (const auto & task : tasks) {
        futures.push_back(std::async(std::launch::async,
-            [&task]() {
-                return common_download_file_single(task.url, task.local_path, task.opts, task.is_hf);
+            [&task, &opts, is_hf]() {
+                int status = common_download_file_single(task.url, task.path, opts, is_hf);
+                return is_http_status_ok(status);
            }
        ));
    }

-    for (size_t i = 0; i < futures.size(); ++i) {
-        std::string url = tasks[i].url;
-        int status = futures[i].get();
-        bool is_ok = is_http_status_ok(status);
-        if (!is_ok) {
-            throw std::runtime_error(string_format("Download '%s' failed with status code: %d", url.c_str(), status));
+    for (auto & f : futures) {
+        if (!f.get()) {
+            return {};
        }
    }
-}

-std::vector<std::string> common_download_get_all_parts(const std::string & url) {
-    auto split = get_gguf_split_info(url);
+    if (is_hf) {
+        for (const auto & f : hf.model_files) {
+            hf_cache::finalize_file(f);
+        }
+        result.model_path = hf.primary.final_path;

-    if (split.count <= 1) {
-        return {url};
+        if (!hf.mmproj.path.empty()) {
+            result.mmproj_path = hf_cache::finalize_file(hf.mmproj);
+        }
+
+        if (!hf.mtp.path.empty()) {
+            result.mtp_path = hf_cache::finalize_file(hf.mtp);
+        }
+    } else {
+        result.model_path = model.path;
    }

-    std::vector<std::string> parts;
-    for (int i = 1; i <= split.count; i++) {
-        auto suffix = string_format("-%05d-of-%05d.gguf", i, split.count);
-        parts.push_back(split.prefix + suffix);
-    }
-    return parts;
+    return result;
 }

 //
@@ -922,87 +985,3 @@ std::vector<common_cached_model_info> common_list_cached_models() {

    return result;
 }
-
-bool common_download_remove(const std::string & hf_repo_with_tag) {
-    namespace fs = std::filesystem;
-
-    auto [repo_id, tag] = common_download_split_repo_tag(hf_repo_with_tag);
-
-    if (tag.empty()) {
-        return hf_cache::remove_cached_repo(repo_id);
-    }
-
-    std::string tag_upper = tag;
-    for (char & c : tag_upper) {
-        c = (char) std::toupper((unsigned char) c);
-    }
-
-    auto files = hf_cache::get_cached_files(repo_id);
-    if (files.empty()) {
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    // collect snapshot entries whose tag matches
-    std::vector<fs::path> to_remove;
-    for (const auto & f : files) {
-        auto split = get_gguf_split_info(f.path);
-        if (split.tag == tag_upper) {
-            to_remove.emplace_back(f.local_path);
-        }
-    }
-
-    if (to_remove.empty()) {
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    // resolve blob paths from symlinks before deleting snapshot entries
-    std::vector<fs::path> blobs_to_check;
-    for (const auto & p : to_remove) {
-        std::error_code ec;
-        if (fs::is_symlink(p, ec)) {
-            auto target = fs::read_symlink(p, ec);
-            if (!ec) {
-                blobs_to_check.push_back((p.parent_path() / target).lexically_normal());
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    // remove snapshot entries
-    for (const auto & p : to_remove) {
-        std::error_code ec;
-        fs::remove(p, ec);
-        if (ec) {
-            LOG_WRN("%s: failed to remove %s: %s\n", __func__, p.string().c_str(), ec.message().c_str());
-        }
-    }
-
-    if (blobs_to_check.empty()) {
-        return true;
-    }
-
-    // collect blobs still referenced by remaining snapshot entries
-    std::unordered_set<std::string> still_referenced;
-    for (const auto & f : hf_cache::get_cached_files(repo_id)) {
-        fs::path p(f.local_path);
-        std::error_code ec;
-        if (fs::is_symlink(p, ec)) {
-            auto target = fs::read_symlink(p, ec);
-            if (!ec) {
-                still_referenced.insert((p.parent_path() / target).lexically_normal().string());
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    // remove orphaned blobs
-    for (const auto & blob : blobs_to_check) {
-        if (still_referenced.find(blob.string()) == still_referenced.end()) {
-            std::error_code ec;
-            fs::remove(blob, ec);
-            if (ec) {
-                LOG_WRN("%s: failed to remove blob %s: %s\n", __func__, blob.string().c_str(), ec.message().c_str());
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    return true;
-}
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 #pragma once

-#include "hf-cache.h"
-
 #include <string>
 #include <vector>
-#include <functional>

 struct common_params_model;

@@ -50,34 +47,52 @@ struct common_cached_model_info {
    }
 };

-// Options for common_download_file_single
+// Options for common_download_model and common_download_file_single
 struct common_download_opts {
    std::string bearer_token;
    common_header_list headers;
    bool offline = false;
-    bool download_mmproj = false;
-    bool download_mtp = false;
    common_download_callback * callback = nullptr;
 };

-struct common_download_task {
-    common_download_opts opts;
-    std::string url;
-    std::string local_path;
-    std::function<void()> on_done;
-    bool is_hf = false;
-
-    common_download_task() = default;
-    common_download_task(hf_cache::hf_file f,
-            const common_download_opts & opts,
-            std::function<void()> on_done = nullptr)
-        : opts(opts), url(f.url), local_path(f.local_path), on_done(on_done), is_hf(true) {}
+// Result of common_download_model
+struct common_download_model_result {
+    std::string model_path;
+    std::string mmproj_path;
+    std::string mtp_path;
 };

-void common_download_run_tasks(const std::vector<common_download_task> & tasks);
-
-// if url is a multi-part GGUF file, returns all parts, otherwise returns the single file
-std::vector<std::string> common_download_get_all_parts(const std::string & url);
+// Download model from HuggingFace repo or URL
+//
+// input (via model struct):
+// - model.hf_repo: HF repo with optional tag, see common_download_split_repo_tag
+// - model.hf_file: specific file in the repo (requires hf_repo)
+// - model.url: simple download (used if hf_repo is empty)
+// - model.path: local file path
+//
+// tag matching (for HF repos without model.hf_file):
+// - if tag is specified, searches for GGUF matching that quantization
+// - if no tag, searches for Q4_K_M, then Q4_0, then first available GGUF
+//
+// split GGUF: multi-part files like "model-00001-of-00003.gguf" are automatically
+// detected and all parts are downloaded
+//
+// caching:
+// - HF repos: uses HuggingFace cache
+// - URLs: uses ETag-based caching
+//
+// when opts.offline=true, no network requests are made
+// when download_mmproj=true, searches for mmproj in same directory as model or any parent directory
+// then with the closest quantization bits
+// when download_mtp=true, applies the same sibling search for an MTP-head GGUF
+//
+// returns result with model_path, mmproj_path and mtp_path (empty when not found / on failure)
+common_download_model_result common_download_model(
+    const common_params_model & model,
+    const common_download_opts & opts = {},
+    bool download_mmproj = false,
+    bool download_mtp    = false
+);

 // returns list of cached models
 std::vector<common_cached_model_info> common_list_cached_models();
@@ -93,19 +108,3 @@ int common_download_file_single(const std::string & url,
 // resolve and download model from Docker registry
 // return local path to downloaded model file
 std::string common_docker_resolve_model(const std::string & docker);
-
-// Remove a cached model from disk
-// input format: "user/model" or "user/model:tag"
-// - if tag is omitted, removes the entire repo cache directory
-// - if tag is present, removes only files matching that tag (and orphaned blobs)
-// returns true if anything was removed
-bool common_download_remove(const std::string & hf_repo_with_tag);
-
-struct common_download_hf_plan {
-    hf_cache::hf_file primary;
-    hf_cache::hf_files model_files;
-    hf_cache::hf_file mmproj;
-    hf_cache::hf_file mtp;
-    hf_cache::hf_file preset; // if set, only this file is downloaded
-};
-common_download_hf_plan common_download_get_hf_plan(const common_params_model & model, const common_download_opts & opts);
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ class common_params_fit_exception : public std::runtime_error {
    using std::runtime_error::runtime_error;
 };

-static std::vector<llama_device_memory_data> common_get_device_memory_data_impl(
+std::vector<llama_device_memory_data> common_get_device_memory_data(
        const char * path_model,
        const llama_model_params * mparams,
        const llama_context_params * cparams,
@@ -150,29 +150,6 @@ static std::vector<llama_device_memory_data> common_get_device_memory_data_impl(
    return ret;
 }

-common_device_memory_data_vec common_get_device_memory_data(
-        const char * path_model,
-        const llama_model_params * mparams,
-        const llama_context_params * cparams,
-        std::vector<ggml_backend_dev_t> & devs,
-        uint32_t & hp_ngl,
-        uint32_t & hp_n_ctx_train,
-        uint32_t & hp_n_expert,
-        ggml_log_level log_level) {
-    std::vector<llama_device_memory_data> impl = common_get_device_memory_data_impl(
-            path_model, mparams, cparams, devs, hp_ngl, hp_n_ctx_train, hp_n_expert, log_level);
-
-    common_device_memory_data_vec ret(impl.size());
-    for (size_t i = 0; i < impl.size(); i++) {
-        ret[i].total   = impl[i].total;
-        ret[i].free    = impl[i].free;
-        ret[i].model   = impl[i].mb.model;
-        ret[i].context = impl[i].mb.context;
-        ret[i].compute = impl[i].mb.compute;
-    }
-    return ret;
-}
-
 static void common_params_fit_impl(
        const char * path_model, struct llama_model_params * mparams, struct llama_context_params * cparams,
        float * tensor_split, struct llama_model_tensor_buft_override * tensor_buft_overrides,
@@ -192,7 +169,7 @@ static void common_params_fit_impl(
    // step 1: get data for default parameters and check whether any changes are necessary in the first place

    LOG_TRC("%s: getting device memory data for initial parameters:\n", __func__);
-    const dmds_t dmds_full = common_get_device_memory_data_impl(path_model, mparams, cparams, devs, hp_ngl, hp_nct, hp_nex, log_level);
+    const dmds_t dmds_full = common_get_device_memory_data(path_model, mparams, cparams, devs, hp_ngl, hp_nct, hp_nex, log_level);
    const size_t nd = devs.size(); // number of devices

    std::vector<int64_t> margins; // this function uses int64_t rather than size_t for memory sizes to more conveniently handle deficits
@@ -233,7 +210,7 @@ static void common_params_fit_impl(
        sum_projected_used = dmds_full.back().mb.total();
        sum_free           = dmds_full.back().total;
        sum_projected_free = sum_free - sum_projected_used;
-        LOG_TRC("%s: projected to use %" PRId64 " MiB of host memory vs. %" PRId64 " MiB of total host memory\n",
+        LOG_INF("%s: projected to use %" PRId64 " MiB of host memory vs. %" PRId64 " MiB of total host memory\n",
            __func__, sum_projected_used/MiB, sum_free/MiB);
        if (sum_projected_free >= margins[0]) {
            LOG_TRC("%s: will leave %" PRId64 " >= %" PRId64 " MiB of system memory, no changes needed\n",
@@ -327,7 +304,7 @@ static void common_params_fit_impl(

                    int64_t sum_projected_used_min_ctx = 0;
                    cparams->n_ctx = n_ctx_min;
-                    const dmds_t dmds_min_ctx = common_get_device_memory_data_impl(path_model, mparams, cparams, devs, hp_ngl, hp_nct, hp_nex, log_level);
+                    const dmds_t dmds_min_ctx = common_get_device_memory_data(path_model, mparams, cparams, devs, hp_ngl, hp_nct, hp_nex, log_level);
                    if (nd == 0) {
                        sum_projected_used_min_ctx = dmds_min_ctx.back().mb.total();
                    } else {
@@ -505,7 +482,7 @@ static void common_params_fit_impl(
        llama_model_params mparams_copy = *mparams;
        set_ngl_tensor_split_tbo(ngl_per_device, overflow_bufts, mparams_copy);

-        const dmds_t dmd_nl = common_get_device_memory_data_impl(
+        const dmds_t dmd_nl = common_get_device_memory_data(
            path_model, &mparams_copy, cparams, devs, hp_ngl, hp_nct, hp_nex, log_level);

        LOG_TRC("%s: memory for test allocation by device:\n", func_name);
@@ -533,7 +510,7 @@ static void common_params_fit_impl(
        mparams->tensor_buft_overrides = tensor_buft_overrides;

        LOG_TRC("%s: getting device memory data with all MoE tensors moved to system memory:\n", __func__);
-        const dmds_t dmds_cpu_moe = common_get_device_memory_data_impl(
+        const dmds_t dmds_cpu_moe = common_get_device_memory_data(
            path_model, mparams, cparams, devs, hp_ngl, hp_nct, hp_nex, log_level);

        for (size_t id = 0; id < nd; id++) {
@@ -963,7 +940,7 @@ void common_fit_print(
    uint32_t hp_nct = 0; // hparams.n_ctx_train
    uint32_t hp_nex = 0; // hparams.n_expert

-    auto dmd = common_get_device_memory_data_impl(path_model, mparams, cparams, devs, hp_ngl, hp_nct, hp_nex, GGML_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR);
+    auto dmd = common_get_device_memory_data(path_model, mparams, cparams, devs, hp_ngl, hp_nct, hp_nex, GGML_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR);
    GGML_ASSERT(dmd.size() == devs.size() + 1);

    for (size_t id = 0; id < devs.size(); id++) {
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 #pragma once

 #include "ggml.h"
+#include "ggml-backend.h"
 #include "llama.h"
+#include "../src/llama-ext.h"

 #include <vector>

@@ -16,41 +18,31 @@ enum common_params_fit_status {
 //   - this function is NOT thread safe because it modifies the global llama logger state
 //   - only parameters that have the same value as in llama_default_model_params are modified
 //     with the exception of the context size which is modified if and only if equal to 0
-common_params_fit_status common_fit_params(
-                         const char * path_model,
-                 llama_model_params * mparams,
-               llama_context_params * cparams,
-                              float * tensor_split,          // writable buffer for tensor split, needs at least llama_max_devices elements
-   llama_model_tensor_buft_override * tensor_buft_overrides, // writable buffer for overrides, needs at least llama_max_tensor_buft_overrides elements
-                             size_t * margins,               // margins of memory to leave per device in bytes
-                           uint32_t   n_ctx_min,             // minimum context size to set when trying to reduce memory use
-                     ggml_log_level   log_level);            // minimum log level to print during fitting, lower levels go to debug log
+enum common_params_fit_status common_fit_params(
+                               const char   * path_model,
+                struct llama_model_params   * mparams,
+                struct llama_context_params * cparams,
+                                      float * tensor_split,          // writable buffer for tensor split, needs at least llama_max_devices elements
+    struct llama_model_tensor_buft_override * tensor_buft_overrides, // writable buffer for overrides, needs at least llama_max_tensor_buft_overrides elements
+                                     size_t * margins,               // margins of memory to leave per device in bytes
+                                   uint32_t   n_ctx_min,             // minimum context size to set when trying to reduce memory use
+                        enum ggml_log_level   log_level);            // minimum log level to print during fitting, lower levels go to debug log

 // print estimated memory to stdout
 void common_fit_print(
-                         const char * path_model,
-                 llama_model_params * mparams,
-               llama_context_params * cparams);
+                               const char   * path_model,
+                struct llama_model_params   * mparams,
+                struct llama_context_params * cparams);

-void common_memory_breakdown_print(const llama_context * ctx);
-
-struct common_device_memory_data {
-    int64_t total;
-    int64_t free;
-    size_t  model;
-    size_t  context;
-    size_t  compute;
-};
-
-using common_device_memory_data_vec = std::vector<common_device_memory_data>;
+void common_memory_breakdown_print(const struct llama_context * ctx);

 // Load a model + context with no_alloc and return the per-device memory breakdown.
-common_device_memory_data_vec common_get_device_memory_data(
-                         const char * path_model,
-           const llama_model_params * mparams,
-         const llama_context_params * cparams,
-    std::vector<ggml_backend_dev_t> & devs,
-                           uint32_t & hp_ngl,
-                           uint32_t & hp_n_ctx_train,
-                           uint32_t & hp_n_expert,
-                     ggml_log_level   log_level);
+std::vector<llama_device_memory_data> common_get_device_memory_data(
+                                  const char   * path_model,
+        const struct llama_model_params         * mparams,
+        const struct llama_context_params       * cparams,
+        std::vector<ggml_backend_dev_t>         & devs,
+                                      uint32_t  & hp_ngl,
+                                      uint32_t  & hp_n_ctx_train,
+                                      uint32_t  & hp_n_expert,
+                           enum ggml_log_level    log_level);
@@ -495,19 +495,4 @@ std::string finalize_file(const hf_file & file) {
    return file.final_path;
 }

-bool remove_cached_repo(const std::string & repo_id) {
-    if (!is_valid_repo_id(repo_id)) {
-        LOG_WRN("%s: invalid repository: %s\n", __func__, repo_id.c_str());
-        return false;
-    }
-    fs::path repo_path = get_repo_path(repo_id);
-    std::error_code ec;
-    auto removed = fs::remove_all(repo_path, ec);
-    if (ec) {
-        LOG_ERR("%s: failed to remove repo cache %s: %s\n", __func__, repo_path.string().c_str(), ec.message().c_str());
-        return false;
-    }
-    return removed > 0;
-}
-
 } // namespace hf_cache
@@ -29,7 +29,4 @@ hf_files get_cached_files(const std::string & repo_id = {});
 // Create snapshot path (link or move/copy) and return it
 std::string finalize_file(const hf_file & file);

-// Remove the entire cached directory for a repo, returns true if removed
-bool remove_cached_repo(const std::string & repo_id);
-
 } // namespace hf_cache
@@ -1,165 +0,0 @@
-#include "imatrix-loader.h"
-#include "common.h"
-#include "log.h"
-#include "gguf.h"
-
-#include <cmath>
-#include <cstring>
-#include <fstream>
-
-static bool common_imatrix_load_legacy(const std::string & fname, common_imatrix & imatrix) {
-    std::ifstream in(fname, std::ios::binary);
-    if (!in) {
-        LOG_ERR("%s: failed to open %s\n", __func__, fname.c_str());
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    int n_entries;
-    in.read((char *) &n_entries, sizeof(n_entries));
-    if (in.fail() || n_entries < 1) {
-        LOG_ERR("%s: no data in file %s\n", __func__, fname.c_str());
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    for (int i = 0; i < n_entries; ++i) {
-        int32_t len = 0;
-        in.read((char *) &len, sizeof(len));
-        std::vector<char> name_as_vec(len + 1);
-        in.read((char *) name_as_vec.data(), len);
-        if (in.fail()) {
-            LOG_ERR("%s: failed reading name for entry %d from %s\n", __func__, i + 1, fname.c_str());
-            return false;
-        }
-        name_as_vec[len] = 0;
-        std::string name{ name_as_vec.data() };
-
-        int32_t ncall = 0;
-        in.read((char *) &ncall, sizeof(ncall));
-        int32_t nval = 0;
-        in.read((char *) &nval, sizeof(nval));
-        if (in.fail() || nval < 1) {
-            LOG_ERR("%s: failed reading number of values for entry %d\n", __func__, i);
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        auto & e = imatrix.entries[std::move(name)];
-        e.sums.resize(nval);
-        in.read((char *) e.sums.data(), nval * sizeof(float));
-        if (in.fail()) {
-            LOG_ERR("%s: failed reading data for entry %d\n", __func__, i);
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        e.counts.resize(1);
-        e.counts[0] = ncall;
-    }
-
-    // the trailing data (chunk count + dataset name) is optional
-    if (in.peek() != EOF) {
-        int32_t n_calls = 0;
-        in.read((char *) &n_calls, sizeof(n_calls));
-        imatrix.chunk_count = n_calls;
-
-        if (!in.fail()) {
-            int32_t len = 0;
-            in.read((char *) &len, sizeof(len));
-            if (!in.fail() && len > 0) {
-                std::vector<char> dataset(len + 1, 0);
-                in.read(dataset.data(), len);
-                if (!in.fail()) {
-                    imatrix.datasets.push_back(dataset.data());
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    imatrix.chunk_size = 0;
-    imatrix.is_legacy  = true;
-
-    return true;
-}
-
-bool common_imatrix_load(const std::string & fname, common_imatrix & imatrix) {
-    struct ggml_context * ctx = nullptr;
-    struct gguf_init_params meta_gguf_params = {
-        /* .no_alloc = */ false,
-        /* .ctx      = */ &ctx,
-    };
-    struct gguf_context * ctx_gguf = gguf_init_from_file(fname.c_str(), meta_gguf_params);
-    if (!ctx_gguf) {
-        return common_imatrix_load_legacy(fname, imatrix);
-    }
-
-    const int32_t n_entries = gguf_get_n_tensors(ctx_gguf);
-    if (n_entries < 1) {
-        LOG_ERR("%s: no data in file %s\n", __func__, fname.c_str());
-        gguf_free(ctx_gguf);
-        ggml_free(ctx);
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    const int64_t datasets_key   = gguf_find_key(ctx_gguf, LLM_KV_IMATRIX_DATASETS);
-    const int64_t chunk_count_key = gguf_find_key(ctx_gguf, LLM_KV_IMATRIX_CHUNK_COUNT);
-    const int64_t chunk_size_key  = gguf_find_key(ctx_gguf, LLM_KV_IMATRIX_CHUNK_SIZE);
-
-    if (datasets_key != -1 && gguf_get_arr_type(ctx_gguf, datasets_key) == GGUF_TYPE_STRING) {
-        const int64_t n = gguf_get_arr_n(ctx_gguf, datasets_key);
-        imatrix.datasets.reserve(imatrix.datasets.size() + n);
-        for (int64_t i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
-            imatrix.datasets.push_back(gguf_get_arr_str(ctx_gguf, datasets_key, i));
-        }
-    }
-
-    imatrix.has_metadata = (datasets_key != -1 && chunk_count_key != -1 && chunk_size_key != -1);
-    imatrix.chunk_count  = (chunk_count_key != -1) ? gguf_get_val_u32(ctx_gguf, chunk_count_key) : 0;
-    imatrix.chunk_size   = (chunk_size_key  != -1) ? gguf_get_val_u32(ctx_gguf, chunk_size_key)  : 0;
-
-    const std::string in_sum2_suffix{ ".in_sum2" };
-    const std::string counts_suffix{ ".counts" };
-
-    std::map<std::string, std::pair<struct ggml_tensor *, struct ggml_tensor *>> sums_counts_for;
-
-    for (struct ggml_tensor * cur = ggml_get_first_tensor(ctx); cur; cur = ggml_get_next_tensor(ctx, cur)) {
-        std::string name = cur->name;
-
-        if (name.empty()) { continue; }
-
-        if (string_remove_suffix(name, in_sum2_suffix)) {
-            sums_counts_for[std::move(name)].first = cur;
-        } else if (string_remove_suffix(name, counts_suffix)) {
-            sums_counts_for[std::move(name)].second = cur;
-        }
-    }
-
-    for (const auto & sc : sums_counts_for) {
-        const std::string &        name    = sc.first;
-        const struct ggml_tensor * in_sum2 = sc.second.first;
-        const struct ggml_tensor * counts  = sc.second.second;
-
-        if (!in_sum2 || !counts) {
-            LOG_ERR("%s: mismatched sums and counts for %s\n", __func__, name.c_str());
-            gguf_free(ctx_gguf);
-            ggml_free(ctx);
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        auto & e = imatrix.entries[name];
-
-        const int64_t nval    = ggml_nelements(in_sum2);
-        const int64_t ncounts = ggml_nelements(counts);
-
-        e.sums.resize(nval);
-        for (int64_t j = 0; j < nval; ++j) {
-            e.sums[j] = ((const float *) in_sum2->data)[j];
-        }
-
-        e.counts.resize(ncounts);
-        for (int64_t j = 0; j < ncounts; ++j) {
-            e.counts[j] = std::lround(((const float *) counts->data)[j]);
-        }
-    }
-
-    gguf_free(ctx_gguf);
-    ggml_free(ctx);
-    return true;
-}
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-#pragma once
-
-#include <cstdint>
-#include <map>
-#include <string>
-#include <vector>
-
-inline constexpr const char * LLM_KV_IMATRIX_DATASETS    = "imatrix.datasets";
-inline constexpr const char * LLM_KV_IMATRIX_CHUNK_COUNT = "imatrix.chunk_count";
-inline constexpr const char * LLM_KV_IMATRIX_CHUNK_SIZE  = "imatrix.chunk_size";
-
-struct common_imatrix_entry {
-    std::vector<float>   sums;
-    std::vector<int64_t> counts;
-};
-
-struct common_imatrix {
-    std::map<std::string, common_imatrix_entry> entries;
-    std::vector<std::string> datasets;
-    int32_t chunk_count    = 0;
-    int32_t chunk_size     = 0;
-    bool    is_legacy      = false;
-    bool    has_metadata   = false;
-};
-
-bool common_imatrix_load(const std::string & fname, common_imatrix & imatrix);
@@ -16,34 +16,22 @@ using json = nlohmann::ordered_json;
 namespace jinja {

 using caps_json_fn = std::function<json()>;
-using caps_ctx_fn = std::function<void(context &)>;
-using caps_analyze_fn = std::function<void(bool, value &, value &, const std::string &)>;
-
-void caps_apply_preserve_reasoning(jinja::context & ctx, bool enabled) {
-    ctx.set_val("preserve_thinking",         mk_val<value_bool>(enabled));
-    ctx.set_val("clear_thinking",            mk_val<value_bool>(!enabled));
-    ctx.set_val("truncate_history_thinking", mk_val<value_bool>(!enabled));
-}
+using caps_analyze_fn = std::function<void(bool, value &, value &)>;

 static void caps_try_execute(jinja::program & prog,
                             const caps_json_fn & messages_fn,
-                             const caps_ctx_fn & ctx_fn,
                             const caps_json_fn & tools_fn,
                             const caps_analyze_fn & analyze_fn) {
    context ctx;
    ctx.is_get_stats = true;
    jinja::global_from_json(ctx, json{
        {"messages", messages_fn()},
-        {"tools", tools_fn ? tools_fn() : json::array()},
+        {"tools", tools_fn()},
        {"bos_token", ""},
        {"eos_token", ""},
        {"add_generation_prompt", true}
    }, true);

-    if (ctx_fn) {
-        ctx_fn(ctx);
-    }
-
    auto messages = ctx.get_val("messages");
    auto tools = ctx.get_val("tools");

@@ -61,7 +49,7 @@ static void caps_try_execute(jinja::program & prog,
        // ignore exceptions during capability analysis
    }

-    analyze_fn(success, messages, tools, result);
+    analyze_fn(success, messages, tools);
 }

 // for debugging only
@@ -121,9 +109,11 @@ caps caps_get(jinja::program & prog) {
                }
            });
        },
-        nullptr, // ctx_fn
-        nullptr, // tools_fn
-        [&](bool success, value & messages, value &, const std::string &) {
+        [&]() {
+            // tools
+            return json{nullptr};
+        },
+        [&](bool success, value & messages, value &) {
            auto & content = messages->at(0)->at("content");
            caps_print_stats(content, "messages[0].content");
            if (has_op(content, "selectattr") || has_op(content, "array_access")) {
@@ -155,9 +145,11 @@ caps caps_get(jinja::program & prog) {
                },
            });
        },
-        nullptr, // ctx_fn
-        nullptr, // tools_fn
-        [&](bool, value & messages, value &, const std::string &) {
+        [&]() {
+            // tools
+            return json::array();
+        },
+        [&](bool, value & messages, value &) {
            auto & content = messages->at(0)->at("content");
            caps_print_stats(content, "messages[0].content");
            if (!content->stats.used) {
@@ -209,7 +201,6 @@ caps caps_get(jinja::program & prog) {
                },
            });
        },
-        nullptr, // ctx_fn
        [&]() {
            // tools
            return json::array({
@@ -233,7 +224,7 @@ caps caps_get(jinja::program & prog) {
                },
            });
        },
-        [&](bool success, value & messages, value & tools, const std::string &) {
+        [&](bool success, value & messages, value & tools) {
            if (!success) {
                return; // Nothing can be inferred
            }
@@ -302,7 +293,6 @@ caps caps_get(jinja::program & prog) {
                    },
                });
            },
-            nullptr, // ctx_fn
            [&]() {
                // tools
                return json::array({
@@ -326,7 +316,7 @@ caps caps_get(jinja::program & prog) {
                    },
                });
            },
-            [&](bool success, value & messages, value & tools, const std::string &) {
+            [&](bool success, value & messages, value & tools) {
                if (!success) {
                    result.supports_tool_calls = false;
                    result.supports_tools = false;
@@ -404,7 +394,6 @@ caps caps_get(jinja::program & prog) {
                },
            });
        },
-        nullptr, // ctx_fn
        [&]() {
            // tools
            return json::array({
@@ -428,7 +417,7 @@ caps caps_get(jinja::program & prog) {
                },
            });
        },
-        [&](bool success, value & messages, value &, const std::string &) {
+        [&](bool success, value & messages, value & /*tools*/) {
            if (!success) {
                result.supports_parallel_tool_calls = false;
                return;
@@ -449,22 +438,11 @@ caps caps_get(jinja::program & prog) {
    JJ_DEBUG("%s\n", ">>> Running capability check: preserve reasoning");

    // case: preserve reasoning content in chat history
-    const std::string reasoning_placeholder = "<REASONING_CONTENT_PLACEHOLDER>";
    caps_try_execute(
        prog,
        [&]() {
            // messages
            return json::array({
-                {
-                    {"role", "user"},
-                    {"content", "User message"}
-                },
-                {
-                    {"role", "assistant"},
-                    {"content", "Assistant message"},
-                    // check of reasoning_content deeper in the history, not just the last assistant message
-                    {"reasoning_content", reasoning_placeholder}
-                },
                {
                    {"role", "user"},
                    {"content", "User message"}
@@ -480,13 +458,14 @@ caps caps_get(jinja::program & prog) {
                },
            });
        },
-        [&](context & ctx) {
-            caps_apply_preserve_reasoning(ctx, true);
+        [&]() {
+            // tools
+            return json::array();
        },
-        nullptr, // tools_fn
-        [&](bool, value &, value &, const std::string & output) {
-            // note: we cannot use stats here because the reasoning_content may be used for "if" condition test, but not actually outputted in the final result
-            if (output.find(reasoning_placeholder) != std::string::npos) {
+        [&](bool, value & messages, value &) {
+            auto & content = messages->at(1)->at("reasoning_content");
+            caps_print_stats(content, "messages[1].reasoning_content");
+            if (content->stats.used) {
                result.supports_preserve_reasoning = true;
            }
        }
@@ -12,9 +12,7 @@ struct caps {
    bool supports_tool_calls = true;
    bool supports_system_role = true;
    bool supports_parallel_tool_calls = true;
-
-    // supports preserve reasoning trace in the full history, not just the last assistant message
-    bool supports_preserve_reasoning = false;
+    bool supports_preserve_reasoning = false; // support assistant message with reasoning_content

    // one of the 2 content capabilities must be true
    bool supports_string_content = true;
@@ -31,6 +29,4 @@ struct caps {

 caps caps_get(jinja::program & prog);

-void caps_apply_preserve_reasoning(jinja::context & ctx, bool enabled);
-
 } // namespace jinja
@@ -316,22 +316,12 @@ value filter_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) {

    JJ_DEBUG("Applying filter to %s", input->type().c_str());

-    auto set_filter_alias = [](auto & filter_id) {
-        if (filter_id == "count") {
-            filter_id = "length";
-        } else if (filter_id == "d") {
-            filter_id = "default";
-        } else if (filter_id == "e") {
-            filter_id = "escape";
-        } else if (filter_id == "trim") {
-            filter_id = "strip";
-        }
-    };
-
    if (is_stmt<identifier>(filter)) {
        auto filter_id = cast_stmt<identifier>(filter)->val;

-        set_filter_alias(filter_id);
+        if (filter_id == "trim") {
+            filter_id = "strip"; // alias
+        }
        JJ_DEBUG("Applying filter '%s' to %s", filter_id.c_str(), input->type().c_str());
        // TODO: Refactor filters so this coercion can be done automatically
        if (!input->is_undefined() && !is_val<value_string>(input) && (
@@ -355,7 +345,9 @@ value filter_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
        }
        auto filter_id = cast_stmt<identifier>(call->callee)->val;

-        set_filter_alias(filter_id);
+        if (filter_id == "trim") {
+            filter_id = "strip"; // alias
+        }
        JJ_DEBUG("Applying filter '%s' with arguments to %s", filter_id.c_str(), input->type().c_str());
        func_args args(ctx);
        for (const auto & arg_expr : call->args) {
@@ -686,62 +678,59 @@ value set_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    return mk_val<value_undefined>();
 }

-static inline void bind_parameters(const std::string & name, const statements & this_args, const func_args & args, context & ctx) {
-    const size_t expected_count = this_args.size();
-    const size_t input_count = args.count();
-
-    JJ_DEBUG("Invoking '%s' with %zu input arguments (expected %zu)", name.c_str(), input_count, expected_count);
-    for (size_t i = 0; i < expected_count; ++i) {
-        if (i < input_count) {
-            if (is_stmt<identifier>(this_args[i])) {
-                // normal parameter
-                std::string param_name = cast_stmt<identifier>(this_args[i])->val;
-                value param_value = args.get_kwarg_or_pos(param_name, i);
-                JJ_DEBUG("  Binding parameter '%s' to argument of type %s", param_name.c_str(), param_value->type().c_str());
-                ctx.set_val(param_name, param_value);
-            } else if (is_stmt<keyword_argument_expression>(this_args[i])) {
-                // default argument used as normal parameter
-                auto kwarg = cast_stmt<keyword_argument_expression>(this_args[i]);
-                if (!is_stmt<identifier>(kwarg->key)) {
-                    throw std::runtime_error("Keyword argument key must be an identifier in '" + name + "'");
-                }
-                std::string param_name = cast_stmt<identifier>(kwarg->key)->val;
-                value param_value = args.get_kwarg_or_pos(param_name, i);
-                JJ_DEBUG("  Binding parameter '%s' to argument of type %s", param_name.c_str(), param_value->type().c_str());
-                ctx.set_val(param_name, param_value);
-            } else {
-                throw std::runtime_error("Invalid parameter type in '" + name + "'");
-            }
-        } else {
-            auto & default_arg = this_args[i];
-            if (is_stmt<keyword_argument_expression>(default_arg)) {
-                auto kwarg = cast_stmt<keyword_argument_expression>(default_arg);
-                if (!is_stmt<identifier>(kwarg->key)) {
-                    throw std::runtime_error("Keyword argument key must be an identifier in '" + name + "'");
-                }
-                std::string param_name = cast_stmt<identifier>(kwarg->key)->val;
-                JJ_DEBUG("  Binding parameter '%s' to default argument of type %s", param_name.c_str(), kwarg->val->type().c_str());
-                ctx.set_val(param_name, kwarg->val->execute(args.ctx));
-            } else {
-                throw std::runtime_error("Not enough arguments provided to '" + name + "'");
-            }
-            //std::string param_name = cast_stmt<identifier>(default_args[i])->val;
-            //JJ_DEBUG("  Binding parameter '%s' to default", param_name.c_str());
-            //ctx.var[param_name] = default_args[i]->execute(ctx);
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 value macro_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    if (!is_stmt<identifier>(this->name)) {
        throw std::runtime_error("Macro name must be an identifier");
    }
    std::string name = cast_stmt<identifier>(this->name)->val;

-    const func_handler func = [this, name](const func_args & args) -> value {
-        context macro_ctx(args.ctx); // new scope for macro execution
+    const func_handler func = [this, name, &ctx](const func_args & args) -> value {
+        size_t expected_count = this->args.size();
+        size_t input_count = args.count();

-        bind_parameters(name, this->args, args, macro_ctx);
+        JJ_DEBUG("Invoking macro '%s' with %zu input arguments (expected %zu)", name.c_str(), input_count, expected_count);
+        context macro_ctx(ctx); // new scope for macro execution
+
+        // bind parameters
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < expected_count; ++i) {
+            if (i < input_count) {
+                if (is_stmt<identifier>(this->args[i])) {
+                    // normal parameter
+                    std::string param_name = cast_stmt<identifier>(this->args[i])->val;
+                    value param_value = args.get_kwarg_or_pos(param_name, i);
+                    JJ_DEBUG("  Binding parameter '%s' to argument of type %s", param_name.c_str(), param_value->type().c_str());
+                    macro_ctx.set_val(param_name, param_value);
+                } else if (is_stmt<keyword_argument_expression>(this->args[i])) {
+                    // default argument used as normal parameter
+                    auto kwarg = cast_stmt<keyword_argument_expression>(this->args[i]);
+                    if (!is_stmt<identifier>(kwarg->key)) {
+                        throw std::runtime_error("Keyword argument key must be an identifier in macro '" + name + "'");
+                    }
+                    std::string param_name = cast_stmt<identifier>(kwarg->key)->val;
+                    value param_value = args.get_kwarg_or_pos(param_name, i);
+                    JJ_DEBUG("  Binding parameter '%s' to argument of type %s", param_name.c_str(), param_value->type().c_str());
+                    macro_ctx.set_val(param_name, param_value);
+                } else {
+                    throw std::runtime_error("Invalid parameter type in macro '" + name + "'");
+                }
+            } else {
+                auto & default_arg = this->args[i];
+                if (is_stmt<keyword_argument_expression>(default_arg)) {
+                    auto kwarg = cast_stmt<keyword_argument_expression>(default_arg);
+                    if (!is_stmt<identifier>(kwarg->key)) {
+                        throw std::runtime_error("Keyword argument key must be an identifier in macro '" + name + "'");
+                    }
+                    std::string param_name = cast_stmt<identifier>(kwarg->key)->val;
+                    JJ_DEBUG("  Binding parameter '%s' to default argument of type %s", param_name.c_str(), kwarg->val->type().c_str());
+                    macro_ctx.set_val(param_name, kwarg->val->execute(ctx));
+                } else {
+                    throw std::runtime_error("Not enough arguments provided to macro '" + name + "'");
+                }
+                //std::string param_name = cast_stmt<identifier>(default_args[i])->val;
+                //JJ_DEBUG("  Binding parameter '%s' to default", param_name.c_str());
+                //macro_ctx.var[param_name] = default_args[i]->execute(ctx);
+            }
+        }

        // execute macro body
        JJ_DEBUG("Executing macro '%s' body with %zu statements", name.c_str(), this->body.size());
@@ -755,46 +744,6 @@ value macro_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    return mk_val<value_undefined>();
 }

-value call_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
-    auto call_expr = cast_stmt<call_expression>(this->call);
-    if (!call_expr) {
-        throw std::runtime_error("Call statement requires a valid call expression");
-    }
-
-    value callee_val = call_expr->callee->execute(ctx);
-    if (!is_val<value_func>(callee_val)) {
-        throw std::runtime_error("Callee is not a function: got " + callee_val->type());
-    }
-    auto * callee_func = cast_val<value_func>(callee_val);
-
-    context caller_ctx(ctx); // new scope for caller execution
-
-    const func_handler func = [this, caller_ctx = std::move(caller_ctx)](const func_args & args) -> value {
-        context block_ctx(caller_ctx); // new scope for block execution
-
-        bind_parameters("caller", this->caller_args, args, block_ctx);
-
-        JJ_DEBUG("Executing call body with %zu statements", this->body.size());
-        auto res = exec_statements(this->body, block_ctx);
-        JJ_DEBUG("Call body execution complete, result: %s", res->val_str.str().c_str());
-        return res;
-    };
-
-    context call_ctx(ctx);
-    call_ctx.set_val("caller", mk_val<value_func>("caller", func));
-
-    func_args args(call_ctx);
-
-    for (const auto & arg_expr : call_expr->args) {
-        auto arg_val = arg_expr->execute(ctx);
-        JJ_DEBUG("  Argument type: %s", arg_val->type().c_str());
-        args.push_back(arg_val);
-    }
-
-    JJ_DEBUG("Calling macro '%s' with %zu arguments", callee_func->name.c_str(), args.count());
-    return callee_func->invoke(args);
-}
-
 value member_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    value object = this->object->execute(ctx);

@@ -812,9 +761,9 @@ value member_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) {

        if (is_stmt<slice_expression>(this->property)) {
            auto s = cast_stmt<slice_expression>(this->property);
+            value start_val = s->start_expr ? s->start_expr->execute(ctx) : mk_val<value_int>(0);
+            value stop_val  = s->stop_expr  ? s->stop_expr->execute(ctx)  : mk_val<value_int>(arr_size);
            value step_val  = s->step_expr  ? s->step_expr->execute(ctx)  : mk_val<value_int>(1);
-            value start_val = s->start_expr ? s->start_expr->execute(ctx) : (step_val->as_int() < 0 ? mk_val<value_int>(arr_size - 1) : mk_val<value_int>(0));
-            value stop_val  = s->stop_expr  ? s->stop_expr->execute(ctx)  : (step_val->as_int() < 0 ? mk_val<value_int>(-1) : mk_val<value_int>(arr_size));

            // translate to function call: obj.slice(start, stop, step)
            JJ_DEBUG("Member expression is a slice: start %s, stop %s, step %s",
@@ -954,50 +903,4 @@ value keyword_argument_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    return mk_val<value_kwarg>(k, v);
 }

-std::string runtime::debug_dump_program(const program & prog, const std::string & src) {
-    std::ostringstream oss;
-    size_t lvl = 0;
-    context ctx;
-    ctx.src.reset(new std::string(src));
-
-    auto indent = [](size_t lvl) -> std::string {
-        return std::string(lvl * 2, ' ');
-    };
-
-    ctx.visitor = [&](bool is_leaf, statement * node, std::vector<visitor_pair> children) {
-        oss << indent(lvl) << node->type() << ":\n";
-        lvl++;
-        if (is_leaf) {
-            const auto & pos = node->pos;
-            oss << indent(lvl) << "(leaf) at " << get_line_col(src, pos) << " in source:\n";
-            std::string snippet = peak_source(src, pos);
-            string_replace_all(snippet, "\n", "\n" + indent(lvl));
-            oss << indent(lvl) << snippet << "\n";
-        } else {
-            for (auto & [label, children_vec] : children) {
-                oss << indent(lvl) << label << ":\n";
-                lvl++;
-                if (children_vec.empty()) {
-                    oss << indent(lvl) << "<empty>\n\n";
-                } else {
-                    for (auto * child : children_vec) {
-                        if (!child) {
-                            continue;
-                        }
-                        child->visit(ctx);
-                    }
-                }
-                lvl--;
-            }
-        }
-        lvl--;
-    };
-
-    for (const auto & stmt : prog.body) {
-        stmt->visit(ctx);
-    }
-
-    return oss.str();
-}
-
 } // namespace jinja
@@ -47,19 +47,12 @@ const T * cast_stmt(const statement_ptr & ptr) {
 // not thread-safe
 void enable_debug(bool enable);

-// for visiting AST nodes
-// function signature: void(bool is_leaf, statement * node, pair of <label, children>)
-using visitor_pair = std::pair<std::string, std::vector<statement *>>;
-using visitor_fn = std::function<void(bool, statement *, std::vector<visitor_pair>)>;
-
 struct context {
    std::shared_ptr<std::string> src; // for debugging; use shared_ptr to avoid copying on scope creation
    std::time_t current_time; // for functions that need current time

    bool is_get_stats = false; // whether to collect stats

-    visitor_fn visitor;
-
    // src is optional, used for error reporting
    context(std::string src = "") : src(std::make_shared<std::string>(std::move(src))) {
        env = mk_val<value_object>();
@@ -106,15 +99,6 @@ private:
    value_object env;
 };

-// utils for visiting AST nodes
-static std::vector<statement *> stmts_to_ptr(const statements & stmts) {
-    std::vector<statement *> children;
-    for (const auto & stmt : stmts) {
-        children.push_back(stmt.get());
-    }
-    return children;
-}
-
 /**
 * Base class for all nodes in the AST.
 */
@@ -122,7 +106,6 @@ struct statement {
    size_t pos; // position in source, for debugging
    virtual ~statement() = default;
    virtual std::string type() const { return "Statement"; }
-    virtual void visit(context & ctx) { ctx.visitor(true, this, {}); }

    // execute_impl must be overridden by derived classes
    virtual value execute_impl(context &) { throw_exec_error(); }
@@ -183,13 +166,6 @@ struct if_statement : public statement {

    std::string type() const override { return "If"; }
    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"test", {test.get()}},
-            {"body", stmts_to_ptr(body)},
-            {"alternate", stmts_to_ptr(alternate)}
-        });
-    }
 };

 struct identifier;
@@ -214,14 +190,6 @@ struct for_statement : public statement {

    std::string type() const override { return "For"; }
    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"loopvar", {loopvar.get()}},
-            {"iterable", {iterable.get()}},
-            {"body", stmts_to_ptr(body)},
-            {"default_block", stmts_to_ptr(default_block)}
-        });
-    }
 };

 struct break_statement : public statement {
@@ -273,13 +241,6 @@ struct set_statement : public statement {

    std::string type() const override { return "Set"; }
    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"assignee", {assignee.get()}},
-            {"value", {val.get()}},
-            {"body", stmts_to_ptr(body)}
-        });
-    }
 };

 struct macro_statement : public statement {
@@ -295,13 +256,6 @@ struct macro_statement : public statement {

    std::string type() const override { return "Macro"; }
    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"name", {name.get()}},
-            {"args", stmts_to_ptr(args)},
-            {"body", stmts_to_ptr(body)}
-        });
-    }
 };

 struct comment_statement : public statement {
@@ -335,12 +289,6 @@ struct member_expression : public expression {
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "MemberExpression"; }
    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"object", {object.get()}},
-            {"property", {property.get()}}
-        });
-    }
 };

 struct call_expression : public expression {
@@ -354,12 +302,6 @@ struct call_expression : public expression {
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "CallExpression"; }
    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"callee", {callee.get()}},
-            {"args", stmts_to_ptr(args)}
-        });
-    }
 };

 /**
@@ -463,12 +405,6 @@ struct binary_expression : public expression {
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "BinaryExpression"; }
    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"left", {left.get()}},
-            {"right", {right.get()}}
-        });
-    }
 };

 /**
@@ -495,12 +431,6 @@ struct filter_expression : public expression {

    std::string type() const override { return "FilterExpression"; }
    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"operand", {operand.get()}},
-            {"filter", {filter.get()}}
-        });
-    }
 };

 struct filter_statement : public statement {
@@ -513,12 +443,6 @@ struct filter_statement : public statement {
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "FilterStatement"; }
    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"filter", {filter.get()}},
-            {"body", stmts_to_ptr(body)}
-        });
-    }
 };

 /**
@@ -544,12 +468,6 @@ struct select_expression : public expression {
        }
        return lhs->execute_impl(ctx);
    }
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"lhs", {lhs.get()}},
-            {"test", {test.get()}}
-        });
-    }
 };

 /**
@@ -568,12 +486,6 @@ struct test_expression : public expression {
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "TestExpression"; }
    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"operand", {operand.get()}},
-            {"test", {test.get()}}
-        });
-    }
 };

 /**
@@ -589,11 +501,6 @@ struct unary_expression : public expression {
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "UnaryExpression"; }
    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"argument", {argument.get()}}
-        });
-    }
 };

 struct slice_expression : public expression {
@@ -611,13 +518,6 @@ struct slice_expression : public expression {
    [[noreturn]] value execute_impl(context &) override {
        throw std::runtime_error("must be handled by MemberExpression");
    }
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"start_expr", {start_expr.get()}},
-            {"stop_expr", {stop_expr.get()}},
-            {"step_expr", {step_expr.get()}}
-        });
-    }
 };

 struct keyword_argument_expression : public expression {
@@ -631,12 +531,6 @@ struct keyword_argument_expression : public expression {
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "KeywordArgumentExpression"; }
    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"key", {key.get()}},
-            {"val", {val.get()}}
-        });
-    }
 };

 struct spread_expression : public expression {
@@ -645,11 +539,6 @@ struct spread_expression : public expression {
        chk_type<expression>(this->argument);
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "SpreadExpression"; }
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"argument", {argument.get()}}
-        });
-    }
 };

 struct call_statement : public statement {
@@ -663,14 +552,6 @@ struct call_statement : public statement {
        for (const auto & arg : this->caller_args) chk_type<expression>(arg);
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "CallStatement"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"call", {call.get()}},
-            {"caller_args", stmts_to_ptr(caller_args)},
-            {"body", stmts_to_ptr(body)}
-        });
-    }
 };

 struct ternary_expression : public expression {
@@ -693,13 +574,6 @@ struct ternary_expression : public expression {
            return false_expr->execute(ctx);
        }
    }
-    void visit(context & ctx) override {
-        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
-            {"condition", {condition.get()}},
-            {"true_expr", {true_expr.get()}},
-            {"false_expr", {false_expr.get()}}
-        });
-    }
 };

 struct raised_exception : public std::exception {
@@ -773,8 +647,6 @@ struct runtime {
        }
        return parts;
    }
-
-    static std::string debug_dump_program(const program & prog, const std::string & src);
 };

 } // namespace jinja
@@ -90,14 +90,14 @@ static T slice(const T & array, int64_t start, int64_t stop, int64_t step = 1) {
            stop_val = std::min(stop_val, len);
        }
    } else {
-        start_val = start;
+        start_val = len - 1;
        if (start_val < 0) {
-            start_val = std::max(len + start_val, (int64_t)0);
+            start_val = std::max(len + start_val, (int64_t)-1);
        } else {
            start_val = std::min(start_val, len - 1);
        }

-        stop_val = stop;
+        stop_val = -1;
        if (stop_val < -1) {
            stop_val = std::max(len + stop_val, (int64_t)-1);
        } else {
@@ -673,9 +673,6 @@ const func_builtins & value_string_t::get_builtins() const {
            std::string str = val_input->as_string().str();
            // FIXME: Support non-specified delimiter (split on consecutive (no leading or trailing) whitespace)
            std::string delim = (args.count() > 1) ? args.get_pos(1)->as_string().str() : " ";
-            if (delim.empty()) {
-                throw raised_exception("empty separator");
-            }
            int64_t maxsplit = (args.count() > 2) ? args.get_pos(2)->as_int() : -1;
            auto result = mk_val<value_array>();
            size_t pos = 0;
@@ -700,9 +697,6 @@ const func_builtins & value_string_t::get_builtins() const {
            std::string str = val_input->as_string().str();
            // FIXME: Support non-specified delimiter (split on consecutive (no leading or trailing) whitespace)
            std::string delim = (args.count() > 1) ? args.get_pos(1)->as_string().str() : " ";
-            if (delim.empty()) {
-                throw raised_exception("empty separator");
-            }
            int64_t maxsplit = (args.count() > 2) ? args.get_pos(2)->as_int() : -1;
            auto result = mk_val<value_array>();
            size_t pos = 0;
@@ -728,23 +722,10 @@ const func_builtins & value_string_t::get_builtins() const {
            if (count > 0) {
                throw not_implemented_exception("String replace with count argument not implemented");
            }
-            if (old_str != new_str) {
-                size_t pos = 0;
-                if (old_str.empty()) {
-                    std::string new_res;
-                    new_res.reserve(str.length() + new_str.length() * (str.length() + 1));
-                    new_res += new_str;
-                    for (const char c : str) {
-                        new_res.push_back(c);
-                        new_res += new_str;
-                    }
-                    str = new_res;
-                } else {
-                    while ((pos = str.find(old_str, pos)) != std::string::npos) {
-                        str.replace(pos, old_str.length(), new_str);
-                        pos += new_str.length();
-                    }
-                }
+            size_t pos = 0;
+            while ((pos = str.find(old_str, pos)) != std::string::npos) {
+                str.replace(pos, old_str.length(), new_str);
+                pos += new_str.length();
            }
            auto res = mk_val<value_string>(str);
            res->val_str.mark_input_based_on(args.get_pos(0)->val_str);
@@ -1108,50 +1089,6 @@ const func_builtins & value_array_t::get_builtins() const {
            std::reverse(arr.begin(), arr.end());
            return is_val<value_tuple>(val) ? mk_val<value_tuple>(std::move(arr)) : mk_val<value_array>(std::move(arr));
        }},
-        {"min", [](const func_args & args) -> value {
-            args.ensure_count(1, 4);
-            args.ensure_vals<value_array>();
-            value val_case    = args.get_kwarg_or_pos("case_sensitive", 1);
-            value attribute   = args.get_kwarg_or_pos("attribute",      2);
-            if (!attribute->is_undefined()) {
-                throw not_implemented_exception("min: attribute not implemented");
-            }
-            // FIXME: min is currently always case sensitive
-            (void) val_case;
-            const auto & arr = args.get_pos(0)->as_array();
-            if (arr.empty()) {
-                return mk_val<value_undefined>();
-            }
-            value result = arr[0];
-            for (size_t i = 1; i < arr.size(); ++i) {
-                if (value_compare(arr[i], result, value_compare_op::lt)) {
-                    result = arr[i];
-                }
-            }
-            return result;
-        }},
-        {"max", [](const func_args & args) -> value {
-            args.ensure_count(1, 4);
-            args.ensure_vals<value_array>();
-            value val_case    = args.get_kwarg_or_pos("case_sensitive", 1);
-            value attribute   = args.get_kwarg_or_pos("attribute",      2);
-            if (!attribute->is_undefined()) {
-                throw not_implemented_exception("max: attribute not implemented");
-            }
-            // FIXME: max is currently always case sensitive
-            (void) val_case;
-            const auto & arr = args.get_pos(0)->as_array();
-            if (arr.empty()) {
-                return mk_val<value_undefined>();
-            }
-            value result = arr[0];
-            for (size_t i = 1; i < arr.size(); ++i) {
-                if (value_compare(arr[i], result, value_compare_op::gt)) {
-                    result = arr[i];
-                }
-            }
-            return result;
-        }},
        {"unique", array_unique_not_implemented},
    };
    return builtins;
@@ -0,0 +1,324 @@
+#include "json-partial.h"
+
+#include "log.h"
+
+#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
+
+#include <string>
+#include <regex>
+
+using json = nlohmann::ordered_json;
+
+enum common_json_stack_element_type {
+    COMMON_JSON_STACK_ELEMENT_OBJECT,
+    COMMON_JSON_STACK_ELEMENT_KEY,
+    COMMON_JSON_STACK_ELEMENT_ARRAY,
+};
+
+struct common_json_stack_element {
+    common_json_stack_element_type type;
+    std::string key;
+};
+
+bool common_json_parse(
+    const std::string & input,
+    const std::string & healing_marker,
+    common_json & out)
+{
+    std::string::const_iterator it = input.begin();
+    const auto end = input.end();
+    return common_json_parse(it, end, healing_marker, out);
+}
+
+bool common_json_parse(
+    std::string::const_iterator & it,
+    const std::string::const_iterator & end,
+    const std::string & healing_marker,
+    common_json & out)
+{
+    // // https://json.nlohmann.me/features/parsing/sax_interface/
+    struct json_error_locator : public nlohmann::json_sax<json> {
+        std::size_t position;
+        bool found_error;
+        std::string last_token;
+        std::string exception_message;
+        std::vector<common_json_stack_element> stack;
+
+        json_error_locator() : position(0), found_error(false) {}
+
+        bool parse_error(std::size_t position, const std::string & last_token, const json::exception & ex) override { // NOLINT
+            this->position = position - 1;
+            this->found_error = true;
+            this->last_token = last_token;
+            this->exception_message = ex.what();
+            return false;
+        }
+        void close_value() {
+            if (!stack.empty() && (stack.back().type == COMMON_JSON_STACK_ELEMENT_KEY)) {
+                stack.pop_back();
+            }
+        }
+        bool null() override { // NOLINT
+            close_value();
+            return true;
+        }
+        bool boolean(bool) override { // NOLINT
+            close_value();
+            return true;
+        }
+        bool number_integer(number_integer_t) override { // NOLINT
+            close_value();
+            return true;
+        }
+        bool number_unsigned(number_unsigned_t) override { // NOLINT
+            close_value();
+            return true;
+        }
+        bool number_float(number_float_t, const string_t &) override { // NOLINT
+            close_value();
+            return true;
+        }
+        bool string(string_t &) override { // NOLINT
+            close_value();
+            return true;
+        }
+        bool binary(binary_t &) override { // NOLINT
+            close_value();
+            return true;
+        }
+        bool start_object(std::size_t) override { // NOLINT
+            stack.push_back({COMMON_JSON_STACK_ELEMENT_OBJECT, ""});
+            return true;
+        }
+        bool end_object() override {
+            GGML_ASSERT(!stack.empty() && stack.back().type == COMMON_JSON_STACK_ELEMENT_OBJECT);
+            stack.pop_back();
+            close_value();
+            return true;
+        }
+        bool key(string_t & key) override { // NOLINT
+            stack.push_back({COMMON_JSON_STACK_ELEMENT_KEY, key});
+            return true;
+        }
+        bool start_array(std::size_t) override { // NOLINT
+            stack.push_back({COMMON_JSON_STACK_ELEMENT_ARRAY, ""});
+            return true;
+        }
+        bool end_array() override {
+            GGML_ASSERT(!stack.empty() && stack.back().type == COMMON_JSON_STACK_ELEMENT_ARRAY);
+            stack.pop_back();
+            close_value();
+            return true;
+        }
+    };
+    json_error_locator err_loc;
+    auto start = it;
+    json::sax_parse(it, end, &err_loc);
+
+    if (err_loc.found_error) {
+        it = start;
+        auto temptative_end = it + err_loc.position;
+        // LOG_DBG("Error at position %zu (is_end = %s): %s\n", err_loc.position, temptative_end == end ? "true" : "false", err_loc.exception_message.c_str());
+
+        auto input = std::string(it, temptative_end);
+        try {
+            out.json = json::parse(input);
+            // out.json = json::parse(it, temptative_end);
+            it = temptative_end;
+            return true;
+        } catch (const std::exception & ex) {
+            // No, needs healing.
+            LOG_DBG("Failed to parse up to error: %s: <<<%s>>>\n", ex.what(), std::string(it, temptative_end).c_str());
+        }
+        auto can_parse = [](const std::string & str) {
+            try {
+                auto _ = json::parse(str); // NOLINT
+                return true;
+            } catch (const std::exception &) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        };
+        if (!healing_marker.empty() && !err_loc.stack.empty()) {
+            std::string str(it, temptative_end);
+            auto last_non_sp_pos = str.find_last_not_of(" \n\r\t");
+            if (last_non_sp_pos == std::string::npos) {
+                throw std::runtime_error("Cannot heal a truncated JSON that stopped in an unknown location");
+            }
+            auto last_non_sp_char = str[last_non_sp_pos];
+            // Used to detect stops on a number, which may not be complete.
+            auto was_maybe_number = [&]() {
+                if (!str.empty() && std::isspace(str.back())) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+                return std::isdigit(last_non_sp_char) ||
+                    last_non_sp_char == '.' ||
+                    last_non_sp_char == 'e' ||
+                    last_non_sp_char == 'E' ||
+                    last_non_sp_char == '-';
+            };
+
+            std::string closing;
+            for (size_t i = err_loc.stack.size(); i > 0; i--) {
+                auto & el = err_loc.stack[i - 1];
+                if (el.type == COMMON_JSON_STACK_ELEMENT_OBJECT) {
+                    closing += "}";
+                } else if (el.type == COMMON_JSON_STACK_ELEMENT_ARRAY) {
+                    closing += "]";
+                } else if (el.type != COMMON_JSON_STACK_ELEMENT_KEY) {
+                    throw std::runtime_error("Unexpected stack element type");
+                }
+            }
+
+            // Matches a potentially partial unicode escape sequence, e.g. \u, \uX, \uXX, \uXXX, \uXXXX
+            static const std::regex partial_unicode_regex(R"(\\u(?:[0-9a-fA-F](?:[0-9a-fA-F](?:[0-9a-fA-F](?:[0-9a-fA-F])?)?)?)?$)");
+
+            auto is_high_surrogate = [&](const std::string & s) {
+                // Check if a partial of a high surrogate (U+D800-U+DBFF)
+                return s.length() >= 4 &&
+                    s[0] == '\\' && s[1] == 'u' &&
+                    std::tolower(s[2]) == 'd' &&
+                    (s[3] == '8' || s[3] == '9' || std::tolower(s[3]) == 'a' || std::tolower(s[3]) == 'b');
+            };
+
+            // Initialize the unicode marker to a low surrogate to handle the edge case
+            // where a high surrogate (U+D800-U+DBFF) is immediately followed by a
+            // backslash (\)
+            std::string unicode_marker_padding = "udc00";
+            std::smatch last_unicode_seq;
+
+            if (std::regex_search(str, last_unicode_seq, partial_unicode_regex)) {
+                std::smatch second_last_seq;
+                std::string prelude = str.substr(0, last_unicode_seq.position());
+
+                // Pad the escape sequence with 0s until it forms a complete sequence of 6 characters
+                unicode_marker_padding = std::string(6 - last_unicode_seq.length(), '0');
+
+                if (is_high_surrogate(last_unicode_seq.str())) {
+                    // If the sequence is a partial match for a high surrogate, add a low surrogate (U+DC00-U+UDFF)
+                    unicode_marker_padding += "\\udc00";
+                } else if (std::regex_search(prelude, second_last_seq, partial_unicode_regex)) {
+                    if (is_high_surrogate(second_last_seq.str())) {
+                        // If this follows a high surrogate, pad it to be a low surrogate
+                        if (last_unicode_seq.length() == 2) {
+                            unicode_marker_padding = "dc00";
+                        } else if (last_unicode_seq.length() == 3) {
+                            unicode_marker_padding = "c00";
+                        } else {
+                            // The original unicode_marker_padding is already padded with 0s
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            const auto & magic_seed = out.healing_marker.marker = healing_marker;//"$llama.cpp.json$";
+
+            if (err_loc.stack.back().type == COMMON_JSON_STACK_ELEMENT_KEY) {
+                // We're inside an object value
+                if (last_non_sp_char == ':' && can_parse(str + "1" + closing)) {
+                    // Was about to create an object value
+                    str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = "\"" + magic_seed) + "\"" + closing;
+                } else if (can_parse(str + ": 1" + closing)) {
+                    str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = ":\"" + magic_seed) + "\"" + closing;
+                } else if (last_non_sp_char == '{' && can_parse(str + closing)) {
+                    // Was about to create an object
+                    str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = "\"" + magic_seed) + "\": 1" + closing;
+                } else if (can_parse(str + "\"" + closing)) {
+                    // Was inside an object value string
+                    str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = magic_seed) + "\"" + closing;
+                } else if (str[str.length() - 1] == '\\' && can_parse(str + "\\\"" + closing)) {
+                    // Was inside an object value string after an escape
+                    str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = "\\" + magic_seed) + "\"" + closing;
+                } else if (can_parse(str + unicode_marker_padding + "\"" + closing)) {
+                    // Was inside an object value string after a partial unicode escape
+                    str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = unicode_marker_padding + magic_seed) + "\"" + closing;
+                } else {
+                    // find last :
+                    auto last_pos = str.find_last_of(':');
+                    if (last_pos == std::string::npos) {
+                        throw std::runtime_error("Cannot heal a truncated JSON that stopped in an unknown location");
+                    }
+                    // Cutting back to opening : for object value
+                    str = str.substr(0, last_pos + 1) + (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = "\"" + magic_seed) + "\"" + closing;
+                }
+            } else if (err_loc.stack.back().type == COMMON_JSON_STACK_ELEMENT_ARRAY) {
+                if ((last_non_sp_char == ',' || last_non_sp_char == '[') && can_parse(str + "1" + closing)) {
+                    // Was about to create an array value
+                    str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = "\"" + magic_seed) + "\"" + closing;
+                } else if (can_parse(str + "\"" + closing)) {
+                    // Was inside an array value string
+                    str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = magic_seed) + "\"" + closing;
+                } else if (str[str.length() - 1] == '\\' && can_parse(str + "\\\"" + closing)) {
+                    // Was inside an array value string after an escape
+                    str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = "\\" + magic_seed) + "\"" + closing;
+                } else if (can_parse(str + unicode_marker_padding + "\"" + closing)) {
+                    // Was inside an array value string after a partial unicode escape
+                    str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = unicode_marker_padding + magic_seed) + "\"" + closing;
+                } else if (!was_maybe_number() && can_parse(str + ", 1" + closing)) {
+                    // Had just finished a value
+                    str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = ",\"" + magic_seed) + "\"" + closing;
+                } else {
+                    auto last_pos = str.find_last_of("[,");
+                    if (last_pos == std::string::npos) {
+                        throw std::runtime_error("Cannot heal a truncated JSON array stopped in an unknown location");
+                    }
+                    // Cutting back to last [ or , for array value
+                    str = str.substr(0, last_pos + 1) + (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = "\"" + magic_seed) + "\"" + closing;
+                }
+            } else if (err_loc.stack.back().type == COMMON_JSON_STACK_ELEMENT_OBJECT) {
+                if ((last_non_sp_char == '{' && can_parse(str + closing)) ||
+                        (last_non_sp_char == ',' && can_parse(str + "\"\": 1" + closing))) {
+                    // Was about to create an object key+value
+                    str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = "\"" + magic_seed) + "\": 1" + closing;
+                } else if (!was_maybe_number() && can_parse(str + ",\"\": 1" + closing)) {
+                    // Was about to create an object key+value
+                    str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = ",\"" + magic_seed) + "\": 1" + closing;
+                } else if (can_parse(str + "\": 1" + closing)) {
+                    // Was inside an object key string
+                    str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = magic_seed) + "\": 1" + closing;
+                } else if (str[str.length() - 1] == '\\' && can_parse(str + "\\\": 1" + closing)) {
+                    // Was inside an object key string after an escape
+                    str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = "\\" + magic_seed) + "\": 1" + closing;
+                } else if (can_parse(str + unicode_marker_padding + "\": 1" + closing)) {
+                    // Was inside an object key string after a partial unicode escape
+                    str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = unicode_marker_padding + magic_seed) + "\": 1" + closing;
+                } else {
+                    auto last_pos = str.find_last_of(':');
+                    if (last_pos == std::string::npos) {
+                        throw std::runtime_error("Cannot heal a truncated JSON object stopped in an unknown location");
+                    }
+                    // fprintf(stderr, "Cutting back to last : for object key+value\n");
+                    str = str.substr(0, last_pos + 1) + (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = "\"" + magic_seed) + "\"" + closing;
+                }
+            } else {
+                throw std::runtime_error("Cannot heal a truncated JSON object stopped in an unknown location");
+            }
+            // fprintf(stderr, "HEALED:\nSTRING <<<\n%s\n>>>\n\nmagic_cut: <<<\n%s\n>>>\n\n", str.c_str(), out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker.c_str());
+            out.json = json::parse(str);
+            it = temptative_end;
+            return true;
+        }
+        // handle unclosed top-level primitive
+        if (err_loc.position != 0 && !healing_marker.empty() && err_loc.stack.empty()) {
+            std::string str(it, temptative_end);
+            const auto & magic_seed = out.healing_marker.marker = healing_marker;
+            if (can_parse(str + "\"")) {
+                // Was inside an string
+                str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = magic_seed) + "\"";
+            } else if (str[str.length() - 1] == '\\' && can_parse(str + "\\\"")) {
+                // Was inside an string after an escape
+                str += (out.healing_marker.json_dump_marker = "\\" + magic_seed) + "\"";
+            } else {
+                // TODO: handle more unclosed top-level primitive if the stack was empty but we got an error (e.g. "tru", "\"", etc...)
+                // fprintf(stderr, "Closing: TODO\n");
+                return false;
+            }
+            out.json = json::parse(str);
+            it = temptative_end;
+            return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+    out.json = json::parse(it, end);
+    it = end;
+    return true;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#pragma once
+
+// TODO: use json_fwd.hpp when possible
+#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
+
+// Healing marker (empty if the JSON was fully parsed / wasn't healed).
+struct common_healing_marker {
+    // Raw marker.
+    std::string marker;
+
+    // Cutting the `common_json.json.dump()` string at the (only) occurrence of this marker should yield the original partial JSON string (modulo spaces / if it had the same dump format).
+    std::string json_dump_marker;
+};
+
+// Represents a parsed JSON object, with its optional healing marker (a JSON dump fragment that can be used to find the position of healing in the JSON dump string)
+struct common_json {
+    nlohmann::ordered_json json;
+
+    common_healing_marker healing_marker;
+};
+
+// Parse the JSON string, healing (closing) any partial JSON if `healing_marker` is not empty.
+//
+// Healing completes partial JSON strings by adding a (possibly modified) healing marker, then whatever is needed to close the JSON.
+// This allows to parse the resulting healed JSON string, yet be able to cut it again if needed at the healing marker.
+// (this is used when parsing JSON outputs from the models, then crafting partial JSONs for the partial tool calls in OAI format).
+//
+// For instance, parsing `{` with a healing marker `foo` will produce a healed JSON `{"foo":1}`, w/ json_dump_marker = `"foo"` (which can be used to break the JSON again).
+bool common_json_parse(
+    const std::string & input,
+    const std::string & healing_marker,
+    common_json & out);
+
+// Parse the JSON string (see overload above), but advancing an iterator to the end of the input when the (potentially partial) parsing succeeds.
+bool common_json_parse(
+    std::string::const_iterator & it,
+    const std::string::const_iterator & end,
+    const std::string & healing_marker,
+    common_json & out);
@@ -233,27 +233,27 @@ struct BuiltinRule {
 };

 static std::unordered_map<std::string, BuiltinRule> PRIMITIVE_RULES = {
-    {"boolean", {"(\"true\" | \"false\")", {}}},
+    {"boolean", {"(\"true\" | \"false\") space", {}}},
    {"decimal-part", {"[0-9]{1,16}", {}}},
    {"integral-part", {"[0] | [1-9] [0-9]{0,15}", {}}},
-    {"number", {"(\"-\"? integral-part) (\".\" decimal-part)? ([eE] [-+]? integral-part)?", {"integral-part", "decimal-part"}}},
-    {"integer", {"(\"-\"? integral-part)", {"integral-part"}}},
+    {"number", {"(\"-\"? integral-part) (\".\" decimal-part)? ([eE] [-+]? integral-part)? space", {"integral-part", "decimal-part"}}},
+    {"integer", {"(\"-\"? integral-part) space", {"integral-part"}}},
    {"value", {"object | array | string | number | boolean | null", {"object", "array", "string", "number", "boolean", "null"}}},
-    {"object", {"\"{\" space ( string \":\" space value (\",\" space string \":\" space value)* )? space \"}\"", {"string", "value"}}},
-    {"array", {"\"[\" space ( value (\",\" space value)* )? space \"]\"", {"value"}}},
-    {"uuid", {"\"\\\"\" [0-9a-fA-F]{8} \"-\" [0-9a-fA-F]{4} \"-\" [0-9a-fA-F]{4} \"-\" [0-9a-fA-F]{4} \"-\" [0-9a-fA-F]{12} \"\\\"\"", {}}},
+    {"object", {"\"{\" space ( string \":\" space value (\",\" space string \":\" space value)* )? \"}\" space", {"string", "value"}}},
+    {"array", {"\"[\" space ( value (\",\" space value)* )? \"]\" space", {"value"}}},
+    {"uuid", {"\"\\\"\" [0-9a-fA-F]{8} \"-\" [0-9a-fA-F]{4} \"-\" [0-9a-fA-F]{4} \"-\" [0-9a-fA-F]{4} \"-\" [0-9a-fA-F]{12} \"\\\"\" space", {}}},
    {"char",   {"[^\"\\\\\\x7F\\x00-\\x1F] | [\\\\] ([\"\\\\bfnrt] | \"u\" [0-9a-fA-F]{4})", {}}},
-    {"string", {"\"\\\"\" char* \"\\\"\"", {"char"}}},
-    {"null", {"\"null\"", {}}},
+    {"string", {"\"\\\"\" char* \"\\\"\" space", {"char"}}},
+    {"null", {"\"null\" space", {}}},
 };

 static std::unordered_map<std::string, BuiltinRule> STRING_FORMAT_RULES = {
    {"date", {"[0-9]{4} \"-\" ( \"0\" [1-9] | \"1\" [0-2] ) \"-\" ( \"0\" [1-9] | [1-2] [0-9] | \"3\" [0-1] )", {}}},
    {"time", {"([01] [0-9] | \"2\" [0-3]) \":\" [0-5] [0-9] \":\" [0-5] [0-9] ( \".\" [0-9]{3} )? ( \"Z\" | ( \"+\" | \"-\" ) ( [01] [0-9] | \"2\" [0-3] ) \":\" [0-5] [0-9] )", {}}},
    {"date-time", {"date \"T\" time", {"date", "time"}}},
-    {"date-string", {"\"\\\"\" date \"\\\"\"", {"date"}}},
-    {"time-string", {"\"\\\"\" time \"\\\"\"", {"time"}}},
-    {"date-time-string", {"\"\\\"\" date-time \"\\\"\"", {"date-time"}}}
+    {"date-string", {"\"\\\"\" date \"\\\"\" space", {"date"}}},
+    {"time-string", {"\"\\\"\" time \"\\\"\" space", {"time"}}},
+    {"date-time-string", {"\"\\\"\" date-time \"\\\"\" space", {"date-time"}}}
 };

 static bool is_reserved_name(const std::string & name) {
@@ -551,16 +551,16 @@ private:
            }
            return join_seq();
        };
-        return _add_rule(name, "\"\\\"\" (" + to_rule(transform()) + ") \"\\\"\"");
+        return _add_rule(name, "\"\\\"\" (" + to_rule(transform()) + ") \"\\\"\" space");
    }

    /*
        Returns a rule that matches a JSON string that is none of the provided strings

        not_strings({"a"})
-            -> ["] ( [a] char+ | [^"a] char* )? ["]
+            -> ["] ( [a] char+ | [^"a] char* )? ["] space
        not_strings({"and", "also"})
-            -> ["] ( [a] ([l] ([s] ([o] char+ | [^"o] char*) | [^"s] char*) | [n] ([d] char+ | [^"d] char*) | [^"ln] char*) | [^"a] char* )? ["]
+            -> ["] ( [a] ([l] ([s] ([o] char+ | [^"o] char*) | [^"s] char*) | [n] ([d] char+ | [^"d] char*) | [^"ln] char*) | [^"a] char* )? ["] space
    */
    std::string _not_strings(const std::vector<std::string> & strings) {

@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ private:
        if (!trie.is_end_of_string) {
            out << "?";
        }
-        out << " [\"]";
+        out << " [\"] space";
        return out.str();
    }

@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ private:
            rule += " )?";
        }

-        rule += " space \"}\"";
+        rule += " \"}\" space";

        return rule;
    }
@@ -858,14 +858,14 @@ public:
            return _add_rule(rule_name, _generate_union_rule(name, schema_types));
        }
        if (schema.contains("const")) {
-            return _add_rule(rule_name, _generate_constant_rule(schema["const"]));
+            return _add_rule(rule_name, _generate_constant_rule(schema["const"]) + " space");
        }
        if (schema.contains("enum")) {
            std::vector<std::string> enum_values;
            for (const auto & v : schema["enum"]) {
                enum_values.push_back(_generate_constant_rule(v));
            }
-            return _add_rule(rule_name, "(" + string_join(enum_values, " | ") + ")");
+            return _add_rule(rule_name, "(" + string_join(enum_values, " | ") + ") space");
        }
        if ((schema_type.is_null() || schema_type == "object")
                && (schema.contains("properties") ||
@@ -933,7 +933,7 @@ public:
                    }
                }
                if (!enum_intersection.empty()) {
-                    return _add_rule(rule_name, "(" + string_join(enum_intersection, " | ") + ")");
+                    return _add_rule(rule_name, "(" + string_join(enum_intersection, " | ") + ") space");
                }
            }
            return _add_rule(rule_name, _build_object_rule(properties, required, hybrid_name, json()));
@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ public:
                    }
                    rule += visit(items[i], name + (name.empty() ? "" : "-") + "tuple-" + std::to_string(i));
                }
-                rule += " space \"]\"";
+                rule += " \"]\" space";
                return _add_rule(rule_name, rule);
            }
            std::string item_rule_name = visit(items, name + (name.empty() ? "" : "-") + "item");
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ public:
            json max_items_json = schema.contains("maxItems") ? schema["maxItems"] : json();
            int max_items = max_items_json.is_number_integer() ? max_items_json.get<int>() : std::numeric_limits<int>::max();

-            return _add_rule(rule_name, "\"[\" space " + build_repetition(item_rule_name, min_items, max_items, "\",\" space") + " space \"]\"");
+            return _add_rule(rule_name, "\"[\" space " + build_repetition(item_rule_name, min_items, max_items, "\",\" space") + " \"]\" space");
        }
        if ((schema_type.is_null() || schema_type == "string") && schema.contains("pattern")) {
            return _visit_pattern(schema["pattern"], rule_name);
@@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ public:
            std::string char_rule = _add_primitive("char", PRIMITIVE_RULES.at("char"));
            int min_len = schema.contains("minLength") ? schema["minLength"].get<int>() : 0;
            int max_len = schema.contains("maxLength") ? schema["maxLength"].get<int>() : std::numeric_limits<int>::max();
-            return _add_rule(rule_name, "\"\\\"\" " + build_repetition(char_rule, min_len, max_len) + " \"\\\"\"");
+            return _add_rule(rule_name, "\"\\\"\" " + build_repetition(char_rule, min_len, max_len) + " \"\\\"\" space");
        }
        if (schema_type == "integer" && (schema.contains("minimum") || schema.contains("exclusiveMinimum") || schema.contains("maximum") || schema.contains("exclusiveMaximum"))) {
            int64_t min_value = std::numeric_limits<int64_t>::min();
@@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ public:
            std::stringstream out;
            out << "(";
            build_min_max_int(min_value, max_value, out);
-            out << ")";
+            out << ") space";
            return _add_rule(rule_name, out.str());
        }
        if (schema.empty() || schema_type == "object") {
@@ -11,13 +11,8 @@
 #include <sstream>
 #include <thread>
 #include <vector>
-#include <algorithm>

 #if defined(_WIN32)
-#    define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
-#    ifndef NOMINMAX
-#       define NOMINMAX
-#    endif
 #    include <io.h>
 #    include <windows.h>
 #    define isatty _isatty
@@ -67,15 +62,16 @@ static const char* g_col[] = {
 };

 struct common_log_entry {
-    enum ggml_log_level level {GGML_LOG_LEVEL_INFO};
+    enum ggml_log_level level;
+
+    bool prefix;
+
+    int64_t timestamp;

    std::vector<char> msg;

-    int64_t timestamp { 0 };
-    bool is_end       { false }; // signals the worker thread to stop
-    bool prefix       { false };
-
-    common_log_entry(size_t size = 256) : msg(size) { }
+    // signals the worker thread to stop
+    bool is_end;

    void print(FILE * file = nullptr) const {
        FILE * fcur = file;
@@ -126,15 +122,22 @@ struct common_log_entry {
 };

 struct common_log {
-    // default capacity
-    common_log(size_t capacity = 512) {
-        file       = nullptr;
-        prefix     = false;
-        timestamps = false;
-        running    = false;
-        t_start    = t_us();
+    // default capacity - will be expanded if needed
+    common_log() : common_log(256) {}
+
+    common_log(size_t capacity) {
+        file = nullptr;
+        prefix = false;
+        timestamps = false;
+        running = false;
+        t_start = t_us();
+
+        // initial message size - will be expanded if longer messages arrive
+        entries.resize(capacity);
+        for (auto & entry : entries) {
+            entry.msg.resize(256);
+        }

-        queue.resize(capacity, common_log_entry(256));
        head = 0;
        tail = 0;

@@ -149,10 +152,9 @@ struct common_log {
    }

 private:
-    std::mutex              mtx;
-    std::thread             thrd;
-    std::condition_variable cv_new;  // new entry
-    std::condition_variable cv_full; // wait on full
+    std::mutex mtx;
+    std::thread thrd;
+    std::condition_variable cv;

    FILE * file;

@@ -162,53 +164,24 @@ private:

    int64_t t_start;

-    // queue of entries
-    std::vector<common_log_entry> queue;
+    // ring buffer of entries
+    std::vector<common_log_entry> entries;
    size_t head;
    size_t tail;

-    bool print_entry(const common_log_entry & e) const {
-        if (e.is_end) return true;
-
-        e.print();
-        if (file) {
-            e.print(file);
-        }
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    bool flush_queue(size_t start_head, size_t end_tail, size_t & out_head) const {
-        bool stop = false;
-        size_t h = start_head;
-        while (h != end_tail && !stop) {
-            stop = print_entry(queue[h]);
-            h = (h + 1) % queue.size();
-        }
-        out_head = h;
-        return stop;
-    }
+    // worker thread copies into this
+    common_log_entry cur;

 public:
-    bool is_full() const {
-        return ((tail + 1) % queue.size()) == head;
-    }
-
-    bool is_empty() const {
-        return head == tail;
-    }
-
    void add(enum ggml_log_level level, const char * fmt, va_list args) {
-        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mtx);
-
-        // block if the queue is full
-        cv_full.wait(lock, [this]() { return !running || !is_full(); });
+        std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mtx);

        if (!running) {
            // discard messages while the worker thread is paused
            return;
        }

-        auto & entry = queue[tail];
+        auto & entry = entries[tail];

        {
            // cannot use args twice, so make a copy in case we need to expand the buffer
@@ -243,16 +216,38 @@ public:
            va_end(args_copy);
        }

-        entry.is_end    = false;
-        entry.level     = level;
-        entry.prefix    = prefix;
+        entry.level = level;
+        entry.prefix = prefix;
        entry.timestamp = 0;
        if (timestamps) {
            entry.timestamp = t_us() - t_start;
        }
+        entry.is_end = false;

-        tail = (tail + 1) % queue.size();
-        cv_new.notify_one();
+        tail = (tail + 1) % entries.size();
+        if (tail == head) {
+            // expand the buffer
+            std::vector<common_log_entry> new_entries(2*entries.size());
+
+            size_t new_tail = 0;
+
+            do {
+                new_entries[new_tail] = std::move(entries[head]);
+
+                head     = (head     + 1) % entries.size();
+                new_tail = (new_tail + 1);
+            } while (head != tail);
+
+            head = 0;
+            tail = new_tail;
+
+            for (size_t i = tail; i < new_entries.size(); i++) {
+                new_entries[i].msg.resize(256);
+            }
+
+            entries = std::move(new_entries);
+        }
+        cv.notify_one();
    }

    void resume() {
@@ -266,24 +261,23 @@ public:

        thrd = std::thread([this]() {
            while (true) {
-                std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mtx);
-                cv_new.wait(lock, [this]() { return !is_empty(); });
+                {
+                    std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mtx);
+                    cv.wait(lock, [this]() { return head != tail; });
+                    cur = entries[head];

-                size_t cached_head = head;
-                size_t cached_tail = tail;
+                    head = (head + 1) % entries.size();
+                }

-                lock.unlock(); // drop the lock during flush
-
-                size_t next_head;
-                bool stop = flush_queue(cached_head, cached_tail, next_head);
-
-                lock.lock();
-                head = next_head;
-                cv_full.notify_all();
-
-                if (stop) {
+                if (cur.is_end) {
                    break;
                }
+
+                cur.print(); // stdout and stderr
+
+                if (file) {
+                    cur.print(file);
+                }
            }
        });
    }
@@ -299,13 +293,13 @@ public:
            running = false;

            // push an entry to signal the worker thread to stop
-            auto & entry = queue[tail];
-            entry.is_end = true;
-            tail = (tail + 1) % queue.size();
+            {
+                auto & entry = entries[tail];
+                entry.is_end = true;

-            // wakeup everyone
-            cv_new.notify_one();
-            cv_full.notify_all();
+                tail = (tail + 1) % entries.size();
+            }
+            cv.notify_one();
        }

        thrd.join();
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 #include "ngram-mod.h"

-#include <algorithm>
-
 //
 // common_ngram_mod
 //
@@ -6,14 +6,13 @@
 #include "unicode.h"

 #include <algorithm>
-#include <deque>
 #include <initializer_list>
 #include <map>
 #include <memory>
 #include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
 #include <regex>
-#include <set>
 #include <stdexcept>
+#include <unordered_set>

 // Trick to catch missing branches
 template <typename T>
@@ -89,7 +88,40 @@ struct trie {
        return match_result{match_result::NO_MATCH};
    }

+    struct prefix_and_next {
+        std::vector<uint32_t> prefix;
+        std::vector<uint32_t> next_chars;
+    };
+
+    std::vector<prefix_and_next> collect_prefix_and_next() {
+        std::vector<uint32_t>        prefix;
+        std::vector<prefix_and_next> result;
+        collect_prefix_and_next(0, prefix, result);
+        return result;
+    }
+
  private:
+    void collect_prefix_and_next(size_t index, std::vector<uint32_t> & prefix, std::vector<prefix_and_next> & out) {
+        if (!nodes[index].is_word) {
+            if (!nodes[index].children.empty()) {
+                std::vector<uint32_t> chars;
+                chars.reserve(nodes[index].children.size());
+                for (const auto & p : nodes[index].children) {
+                    chars.push_back(p.first);
+                }
+                out.emplace_back(prefix_and_next{prefix, chars});
+            }
+        }
+
+        for (const auto & p : nodes[index].children) {
+            uint32_t ch = p.first;
+            auto child = p.second;
+            prefix.push_back(ch);
+            collect_prefix_and_next(child, prefix, out);
+            prefix.pop_back();
+        }
+    }
+
    size_t create_node() {
        size_t index = nodes.size();
        nodes.emplace_back();
@@ -121,65 +153,6 @@ struct trie {
    }
 };

-// Aho-Corasick automaton
-struct aho_corasick {
-    trie                t;
-    std::vector<size_t> fail;      // failure links
-    std::vector<size_t> order;     // states in BFS order
-    std::vector<bool>   terminal;  // match states (directly or via a suffix link)
-    std::set<uint32_t>  alphabet;  // every character with a transition
-
-    aho_corasick(const std::vector<std::string> & strings) : t(strings) {
-        const auto & nodes = t.nodes;
-        const size_t n = nodes.size();
-
-        fail.assign(n, 0);
-        order.reserve(n);
-
-        std::deque<size_t> queue{ 0 };
-        while (!queue.empty()) {
-            size_t u = queue.front();
-            queue.pop_front();
-            order.push_back(u);
-            for (const auto & [ch, v] : nodes[u].children) {
-                if (u != 0) {
-                    size_t f = fail[u];
-                    while (f && nodes[f].children.find(ch) == nodes[f].children.end()) {
-                        f = fail[f];
-                    }
-                    auto it = nodes[f].children.find(ch);
-                    fail[v] = (it != nodes[f].children.end() && it->second != v) ? it->second : 0;
-                }
-                queue.push_back(v);
-            }
-        }
-
-        terminal.assign(n, false);
-        for (size_t u : order) {
-            terminal[u] = nodes[u].is_word || (u != 0 && terminal[fail[u]]);
-        }
-
-        for (const auto & node : nodes) {
-            for (const auto & [ch, v] : node.children) {
-                alphabet.insert(ch);
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    size_t num_states()          const { return t.nodes.size(); }
-    bool   is_terminal(size_t s) const { return terminal[s]; }
-
-    // follow failure links until a transition on `ch` exists.
-    size_t next(size_t state, uint32_t ch) const {
-        const auto & nodes = t.nodes;
-        while (state && nodes[state].children.find(ch) == nodes[state].children.end()) {
-            state = fail[state];
-        }
-        auto it = nodes[state].children.find(ch);
-        return it != nodes[state].children.end() ? it->second : 0;
-    }
-};
-
 static std::pair<uint32_t, size_t> parse_hex_escape(const std::string & str, size_t pos, int hex_count) {
    if (pos + hex_count > str.length()) {
        return {0, 0};
@@ -921,10 +894,6 @@ struct parser_executor {
    common_peg_parse_result operator()(const common_peg_gbnf_parser & p) {
        return arena.parse(p.child, ctx, start_pos);
    }
-
-    common_peg_parse_result operator()(const common_peg_ac_parser & p) {
-        return arena.parse(p.child, ctx, start_pos);
-    }
 };

 common_peg_parse_result common_peg_arena::parse(common_peg_parse_context & ctx, size_t start) const {
@@ -993,8 +962,7 @@ void common_peg_arena::resolve_refs() {
                                 std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_not_parser> ||
                                 std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_tag_parser> ||
                                 std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_atomic_parser> ||
-                                 std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_gbnf_parser> ||
-                                 std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_ac_parser>) {
+                                 std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_gbnf_parser>) {
                p.child = resolve_ref(p.child);
            } else if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_rule_parser>) {
                p.child = resolve_ref(p.child);
@@ -1024,12 +992,12 @@ void common_peg_arena::resolve_refs() {
 }

 std::string common_peg_arena::dump(common_peg_parser_id id) const {
-    std::set<common_peg_parser_id> visited;
+    std::unordered_set<common_peg_parser_id> visited;
    return dump_impl(id, visited);
 }

 std::string common_peg_arena::dump_impl(common_peg_parser_id                       id,
-                                        std::set<common_peg_parser_id> & visited) const {
+                                        std::unordered_set<common_peg_parser_id> & visited) const {
    // Check for cycles
    if (visited.count(id)) {
        return "[cycle]";
@@ -1075,8 +1043,6 @@ std::string common_peg_arena::dump_impl(common_peg_parser_id
            return "Atomic(" + dump_impl(p.child, visited) + ")";
        } else if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_gbnf_parser>) {
            return "Gbnf(" + p.grammar + ", " + dump_impl(p.child, visited) + ")";
-        } else if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_ac_parser>) {
-            return "Ac(" + string_join(p.delimiters, " | ") + ", " + dump_impl(p.child, visited) + ")";
        } else if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_any_parser>) {
            return "Any";
        } else if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_space_parser>) {
@@ -1306,13 +1272,13 @@ common_peg_parser common_peg_parser_builder::string_content(char delimiter) {

 common_peg_parser common_peg_parser_builder::double_quoted_string() {
    return rule("double-quoted-string", [this]() {
-        return sequence({literal("\""), string_content('"'), literal("\"")});
+        return sequence({literal("\""), string_content('"'), literal("\""), space()});
    });
 }

 common_peg_parser common_peg_parser_builder::single_quoted_string() {
    return rule("single-quoted-string", [this]() {
-        return sequence({literal("'"), string_content('\''), literal("'")});
+        return sequence({literal("'"), string_content('\''), literal("'"), space()});
    });
 }

@@ -1335,25 +1301,25 @@ common_peg_parser common_peg_parser_builder::json_number() {
        // At EOF in partial mode, chars returns NEED_MORE → negate propagates NEED_MORE → number not committed.
        // This prevents premature commits of partial numbers (e.g. "3" when "3.14" is incoming).
        auto not_number_continuation = negate(chars("[0-9.eE+-]", 1, 1));
-        return sequence({ optional(literal("-")), int_part, optional(frac), optional(exp), not_number_continuation });
+        return sequence({ optional(literal("-")), int_part, optional(frac), optional(exp), not_number_continuation, space() });
    });
 }

 common_peg_parser common_peg_parser_builder::json_string() {
    return rule("json-string", [this]() {
-        return sequence({literal("\""), string_content('"'), literal("\"")});
+        return sequence({literal("\""), string_content('"'), literal("\""), space()});
    });
 }

 common_peg_parser common_peg_parser_builder::json_bool() {
    return rule("json-bool", [this]() {
-        return choice({literal("true"), literal("false")});
+        return sequence({choice({literal("true"), literal("false")}), space()});
    });
 }

 common_peg_parser common_peg_parser_builder::json_null() {
    return rule("json-null", [this]() {
-        return literal("null");
+        return sequence({literal("null"), space()});
    });
 }

@@ -1368,7 +1334,8 @@ common_peg_parser common_peg_parser_builder::json_object() {
            choice({
                literal("}"),
                sequence({members, ws, literal("}")})
-            })
+            }),
+            ws
        });
    });
 }
@@ -1376,14 +1343,15 @@ common_peg_parser common_peg_parser_builder::json_object() {
 common_peg_parser common_peg_parser_builder::json_array() {
    return rule("json-array", [this]() {
        auto ws = space();
-        auto elements = sequence({json(), zero_or_more(sequence({ws, literal(","), ws, json()}))});
+        auto elements = sequence({json(), zero_or_more(sequence({literal(","), ws, json()}))});
        return sequence({
            literal("["),
            ws,
            choice({
                literal("]"),
                sequence({elements, ws, literal("]")})
-            })
+            }),
+            ws
        });
    });
 }
@@ -1413,13 +1381,16 @@ common_peg_parser common_peg_parser_builder::python_number() {

 common_peg_parser common_peg_parser_builder::python_bool() {
    return rule("python-bool", [this]() {
-        return choice({literal("True"), literal("False")});
+        return sequence({
+            choice({literal("True"), literal("False")}),
+            space()
+        });
    });
 }

 common_peg_parser common_peg_parser_builder::python_null() {
    return rule("python-none", [this]() {
-        return literal("None");
+        return sequence({literal("None"), space()});
    });
 }

@@ -1486,13 +1457,6 @@ common_peg_parser common_peg_parser_builder::json_member(const std::string & key
    });
 }

-common_peg_parser common_peg_parser_builder::ac(const common_peg_parser & p, const std::vector<std::string> & delimiters) {
-    if (delimiters.empty()) {
-        throw std::runtime_error("ac parser requires at least one delimiter");
-    }
-    return add(common_peg_ac_parser{p, delimiters});
-}
-
 static std::string gbnf_escape_char_class(uint32_t c) {
    if (c == '-' || c == ']' || c == '[' || c == '\\') {
        return "\\" + std::string(1, (char) c);
@@ -1543,118 +1507,41 @@ static std::string gbnf_escape_char_class(uint32_t c) {
    return std::string(buf);
 }

-static std::string gbnf_char_class(const std::vector<uint32_t> & chars, bool negate) {
-    std::string s = negate ? "[^" : "[";
-    for (uint32_t ch : chars) {
-        s += gbnf_escape_char_class(ch);
-    }
-    return s + "]";
-}
+static std::string gbnf_excluding_pattern(const std::vector<std::string> & strings) {
+    trie matcher(strings);
+    auto pieces = matcher.collect_prefix_and_next();

-static std::string gbnf_ac_grammar(
-    const common_grammar_builder &   builder,
-    const std::string &              prefix,
-    const std::vector<std::string> & strings,
-    const std::function<std::string(const std::vector<uint32_t> &,
-                                    const std::map<size_t, std::vector<uint32_t>> &,
-                                    const std::vector<uint32_t> &,
-                                    const std::function<std::string(size_t)> &)> & build_rule) {
-    aho_corasick ac(strings);
-
-    auto state_name = [&](size_t s) -> std::string {
-        if (s == 0) {
-            return prefix;
-        }
-        std::string num = std::to_string(s);
-        num = num.size() == 1 ? ("0" + num) : num;
-        return prefix + "-" + num;
-    };
-
-    for (size_t q = 0; q < ac.num_states(); q++) {
-        if (ac.is_terminal(q)) {
-            continue; // match states
+    std::string pattern;
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < pieces.size(); ++i) {
+        if (i > 0) {
+            pattern += " | ";
        }

-        std::map<size_t, std::vector<uint32_t>> buckets;
-        std::vector<uint32_t> completing;  // chars that complete a delimiter
-        std::vector<uint32_t> specific;    // chars with an explicit transition
-        for (uint32_t c : ac.alphabet) {
-            size_t d = ac.next(q, c);
-            if (ac.is_terminal(d)) {
-                completing.push_back(c);
-                specific.push_back(c);
-            } else if (d != 0) {
-                buckets[d].push_back(c); // specific non-root destination
-                specific.push_back(c);
-            }
+        const auto & pre = pieces[i].prefix;
+        const auto & chars = pieces[i].next_chars;
+
+        std::string cls;
+        cls.reserve(chars.size());
+        for (uint32_t ch : chars) {
+            cls += gbnf_escape_char_class(ch);
        }

-        builder.add_rule(state_name(q), build_rule(completing, buckets, specific, state_name));
+        if (!pre.empty()) {
+            pattern += gbnf_format_literal(common_unicode_cpts_to_utf8(pre)) + " [^" + cls + "]";
+        } else {
+            pattern += "[^" + cls + "]";
+        }
    }

-    // An empty delimiter makes the start state terminal. Emit an entry rule
-    // that matches the empty string so the returned reference stays valid.
-    if (ac.is_terminal(0)) {
-        builder.add_rule(prefix, "|");
-    }
-
-    return state_name(0);
+    return "(" + pattern + ")*";
 }

-// GBNF grammar matching strings that contain no string in `strings` as a
-// substring. Emits the complement of an Aho-Corasick automaton DFA and returns
-// the start state rule name.
-//
-// ref: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/24839
-static std::string gbnf_excluding_grammar(const common_grammar_builder & builder,
-                                          const std::string &            prefix,
-                                          const std::vector<std::string> & strings) {
-    return gbnf_ac_grammar(builder, prefix, strings,
-        [](const std::vector<uint32_t> & /*completing*/,
-           const std::map<size_t, std::vector<uint32_t>> & buckets,
-           const std::vector<uint32_t> & specific,
-           const std::function<std::string(size_t)> & state_name) {
-            // every state is accepting and completing chars get no
-            // alternative, so a forbidden string can never be matched
-            std::string rhs = "|";
-            for (const auto & [d, chars] : buckets) {
-                rhs += " " + gbnf_char_class(chars, false) + " " + state_name(d) + " |";
-            }
-            rhs += " " + gbnf_char_class(specific, true) + " " + state_name(0);
-            return rhs;
-        });
-}
-
-// GBNF grammar matching everything up to and including the first occurrence of
-// any string in `strings`. Emits the Aho-Corasick automaton DFA and returns
-// the start state rule name.
-static std::string gbnf_including_grammar(const common_grammar_builder & builder,
-                                          const std::string &            prefix,
-                                          const std::vector<std::string> & strings) {
-    return gbnf_ac_grammar(builder, prefix, strings,
-        [](const std::vector<uint32_t> & completing,
-           const std::map<size_t, std::vector<uint32_t>> & buckets,
-           const std::vector<uint32_t> & specific,
-           const std::function<std::string(size_t)> & state_name) {
-            std::vector<std::string> alts;
-            if (!completing.empty()) {
-                alts.push_back(gbnf_char_class(completing, false)); // terminate on match
-            }
-            for (const auto & [d, chars] : buckets) {
-                alts.push_back(gbnf_char_class(chars, false) + " " + state_name(d));
-            }
-            // every other character keeps scanning from the start state
-            alts.push_back(gbnf_char_class(specific, true) + " " + state_name(0));
-            return string_join(alts, " | ");
-        });
-}
-
-static std::set<std::string> collect_reachable_rules(
+static std::unordered_set<std::string> collect_reachable_rules(
    const common_peg_arena & arena,
    const common_peg_parser_id & rule
 ) {
-    std::set<std::string> reachable;
-    std::set<std::string> visited;
+    std::unordered_set<std::string> reachable;
+    std::unordered_set<std::string> visited;

    std::function<void(common_peg_parser_id)> visit = [&](common_peg_parser_id id) {
        const auto & parser = arena.get(id);
@@ -1686,7 +1573,6 @@ static std::set<std::string> collect_reachable_rules(
                                 std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_tag_parser> ||
                                 std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_atomic_parser> ||
                                 std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_gbnf_parser> ||
-                                 std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_ac_parser> ||
                                 std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_schema_parser>) {
                visit(p.child);
            } else if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_rule_parser>) {
@@ -1864,7 +1750,7 @@ void common_peg_arena::build_grammar(const common_grammar_builder & builder, boo
                if (p.delimiters.empty()) {
                    return ".*";
                }
-                return gbnf_excluding_grammar(builder, "until-" + std::to_string(id), p.delimiters);
+                return gbnf_excluding_pattern(p.delimiters);
            } else if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_schema_parser>) {
                if (schema_delegates(p)) {
                    return to_gbnf(p.child);
@@ -1881,8 +1767,6 @@ void common_peg_arena::build_grammar(const common_grammar_builder & builder, boo
                return to_gbnf(p.child);
            } else if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_gbnf_parser>) {
                return p.grammar;
-            } else if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_ac_parser>) {
-                return gbnf_including_grammar(builder, "ac-" + std::to_string(id), p.delimiters);
            } else {
                static_assert(is_always_false_v<T>);
            }
@@ -1890,7 +1774,7 @@ void common_peg_arena::build_grammar(const common_grammar_builder & builder, boo
    };

    // Collect reachable rules
-    std::set<std::string> reachable_rules;
+    std::unordered_set<std::string> reachable_rules;

    if (lazy) {
        // Collect rules reachable from trigger rules
@@ -2019,8 +1903,6 @@ static nlohmann::json serialize_parser_variant(const common_peg_parser_variant &
            };
        } else if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_gbnf_parser>) {
            return json{{"type", "gbnf"}, {"child", p.child}, {"grammar", p.grammar}};
-        } else if constexpr (std::is_same_v<T, common_peg_ac_parser>) {
-            return json{{"type", "ac"}, {"child", p.child}, {"delimiters", p.delimiters}};
        }
    }, variant);
 }
@@ -2193,16 +2075,6 @@ static common_peg_parser_variant deserialize_parser_variant(const nlohmann::json
        };
    }

-    if (type == "ac") {
-        if (!j.contains("child") || !j.contains("delimiters") || !j["delimiters"].is_array() || j["delimiters"].empty()) {
-            throw std::runtime_error("ac parser requires 'child' and a non-empty 'delimiters' array");
-        }
-        return common_peg_ac_parser{
-            j["child"].get<common_peg_parser_id>(),
-            j["delimiters"].get<std::vector<std::string>>(),
-        };
-    }
-
    throw std::runtime_error("Unknown parser type: " + type);
 }

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