Recurring confusion all day: the SPA lives in an open tab until reload, so
after a gateway rebuild/update users kept seeing (and benchmarking with!) an
old interface — "where is the feature", "why are the test ids old". The meta
endpoint now carries the process start timestamp; the existing 20s health
poll compares it, and when the gateway has restarted the tab shows a fixed
banner: "The gateway was updated — this page is running an older interface"
with a one-click Reload. 2 strings in all 7 languages.
Routing semantics fix observed live: a task rule ("code → cheap model") was
pinning even high-complexity prompts to the cheap model — the tier system
never got a say. At tier=high the tier chain now leads and the task rule
demotes to fallback; low/medium keep task-rule-first. Unit-tested both ways.
The benchmark's hard probes are now GENERATED per run from two pools
(science: protein folding / telescope scheduling / materials discovery;
ops: epidemic logistics / grid markets / climate risk) with rotating domains
and numbers. Two findings against the live router drove this: ambiguity
carries the biggest weight in the complexity score, so interdisciplinary
prompts rate high reliably (0.52-0.66) while single-domain "hard" prompts
classify too confidently and sink to medium; and any fixed wording loses
novelty on every repeat. Their labels are null — straddling task labels is
precisely what makes them high, so classification is not judged.
Verified end-to-end: full run 100% answers, 13/13 classification, both hard
probes high → routed to the expensive model (one of them over a code task
rule), at $0.0018 each thanks to the tiny route-judge token budget.
Two "hard" probes (full suite only): a compiler-backend design and a security
protocol design, each dense enough for the router's complexity model to rate
them high. They are judged on the ROUTER's decision (judge: "route") — pass
means tier=high was reached and the request went to the big model; the answer
itself is not scored (open-ended essays aren't keyword-judgeable, and
reasoning models happily burn 3000+ thinking tokens on them — measured). With
max_tokens kept tiny the probes cost cents even on the priciest model, while
the cost column tells the whole story: $0.0148 for the high-tier request next
to $0.00005 for the easy ones.
Each run picks a random variant of the prompt: the router deliberately scores
familiar text as less novel, so a fixed wording would decay to medium over
repeated runs. In pinned-models mode route-judged tests are skipped.
Also: creative-writing budget 96→512 (deepseek was spending the whole cap
thinking and returning an empty poem), and when a model does burn its entire
budget inside <think> the table now says so ("budget spent on reasoning")
instead of the misleading "empty answer".
Server-side (cortiq-router prod, both replicas rolling-restarted): the high
band started at 0.66 while the complexity model tops out ~0.65 on the hardest
single prompts — high was unreachable. Band boundary moved to 0.50 based on
measured distribution (easy 0.25-0.36, medium 0.37-0.49, hard 0.50-0.65);
config backed up as config.prod.toml.bak-tiers.
Three false signals in benchmark results, all seen on a live run:
- Reasoning models were scored ❌ because the per-test max_tokens cap cut
them mid-<think> before the actual answer. Every run now gets +256 tokens
of headroom; non-thinking models stop at EOS as before, thinking ones get
to finish (math-mult on nanbeige: false 0/1 → honest 1/1).
- When the router degraded (timeout → fallback chain) the table showed
"✗ degraded" and counted it against classification accuracy. There was no
classification to judge — such rows now show a muted "⚠ router degraded"
with an explanatory tooltip and are excluded from the accuracy KPI.
- Costs below $0.0001 (cheap flash models) collapsed to "$0.0000". money
formatting now grows precision until two significant digits survive
($0.000035 instead of $0.0000).
2 new strings in all 7 languages.
Creating a key now asks only account, rate limit and optional custom value —
allow_models is sent empty (= all models). Per-key model restrictions stay
editable in Settings for whoever actually needs them.
The one-click model benchmark showed "error" even though cortiq bench ran
fine: the parser expected the JSON result on a single line, while newer
cortiq releases pretty-print it across many. Extraction now finds the last
balanced JSON object anywhere in the mixed CLI output (both formats work).
Also hardened tok/s selection: steady decode speed (decode_tok_s_steady)
is preferred over incl-prefill, and the loose "contains tok+per" fallback —
which would happily report allocs_per_token=769 as tok/s — now only matches
*tok_s* / *tokens_per* fields.
The "connect your app" card in the API-keys view now leads with auto-setup
scripts for popular coding harnesses, each pre-filled with this gateway's URL
and the freshly created key:
Claude Code — env exports (the gateway speaks Anthropic /v1/messages
natively; the protocol is now ON by default, and when a config has it
off the tab shows a warning with a one-click Enable button)
Codex — appends a [model_providers.cortiq] block to ~/.codex/config.toml
OpenCode — writes the provider into opencode.json
Continue — appends the model to ~/.continue/config.yaml
Cline — the exact values to paste into the extension settings
The gateway also detects which harnesses are already present on its machine
(binaries across PATH + common install dirs, config files under home) via
GET /admin/api/harnesses: installed tabs get a ✓, and the status line under
the snippet says "installed" or "already configured for this gateway" when
the harness config mentions cortiq. Works on Linux/macOS/Windows.
curl / python / javascript SDK snippets stay as before. 16 new strings in
all 7 languages.
Cost showed $0 for every streamed request: the X-Cortiq-Cost-USD header is
written before generation, when the cost cannot be known. The gateway now
ships the final number in a closing SSE event (`cortiq_cost_usd`, alongside
the token estimate when the provider sent no usage), and the console prefers
it over the header. Money renders with 4 decimals, the last two in a smaller
font — $0.0006 stays readable instead of collapsing to $0.
Timeouts, both ends: the router default was 800 ms, silently degrading every
prompt the hosted router escalates to its oracle (~10 s) — now 15 s. Provider
clients had NO timeout at all (a dead OpenRouter host hung requests forever) —
now a 10 s connect timeout, with no overall cap so long generations and
streams are never cut.
Benchmark history: per-run × and a Clear-all button. Logs view: a clear
button backed by DELETE /admin/api/logs.
The benchmark now leads with the product's actual feature. Two explicit modes:
🧭 Smart routing (default) — every probe goes through cortiq-auto; each row
shows the router's task label judged against the expected one (✓/✗ with
"expected: …"), the complexity tier, the chosen model with what that
request cost, and a task-rule badge when a routing rule fired. KPIs:
answer quality, classification accuracy, TTFT, tok/s and money spent,
plus a "requests went to" distribution with per-model cost.
🎯 Individual models — the old head-to-head comparison, now as the clearly
separate option (model checkboxes appear only here).
The suite covers all 8 taxonomy labels (added summarization, creative-writing
and chitchat probes; expected labels annotated per test). Results are LIVE:
the table grows a row after every test (with a small fade-in), the progress
card shows the prompt being asked, and a 🏁 verdict toast lands at the end
with the score and the total spend.
12 new strings in all 7 languages.
The old standalone benchmark.html (Russian-only, Tailwind+Chart.js from CDNs,
never shipped in the crate) becomes a proper sidebar view. Same scoring ideas,
reimplemented: keyword checks with |-synonyms, think-tag stripping, tail-loop
detection, pass/partial/fail — plus what the old page never had: runs go
through the LIVE pipeline (pinned per model, streamed), so every test also
measures tok/s and time-to-first-token with the gateway's real token counts.
A built-in suite of 12 language-neutral probes (math, logic, code, QA,
instruction-following, extraction, translation, JSON formatting); the ⚡ quick
mode runs the 6 short ones — about a minute on a local model. Results: score
bars per model sorted best-first, a per-test grid (click a cell for the full
answer), previous runs and custom tests kept in the browser.
22 new strings in all 7 languages.
The router has always returned two signals — task label and complexity tier —
but only the tier picked models. [routing.tasks] adds `label → ordered models`:
a matching rule's models lead the candidate chain and the tier chain follows as
fallback, so pinning translations to a local model never weakens failover.
Requests whose chain was headed by a task rule report
route_source "router+task-rule".
The Routing page grows a per-task editor built from the account's LIVE
taxonomy (GET /v1/taxonomies via the new /admin/api/routing/labels proxy;
built-in label set when the router is unreachable), with localized task names,
each task's share of 7-day traffic, "by complexity (no rule)" as the explicit
empty state, and custom labels for other taxonomies. Deleting a model scrubs
it from task rules like it always did from tiers.
Also fixes the default config pointing at a placeholder localhost:8080 router
with a nonexistent taxonomy — a fresh install now targets the hosted allaigate
router (IP endpoint, verify_tls off, data-assistant, 12 s oracle timeout) and
degrades gracefully until a key is set. Verified end-to-end against the live
router: translation → task-rule model, math → tier path.
16 new strings in all 7 languages.
Fifteen changes aimed at the first day of real use:
- Import and media jobs persist to <data>/jobs-*.json and reload on start
(running ones settle as errors); the Register button no longer vanishes
because the gateway restarted.
- Docker ships the cortiq binary (built in the builder stage) — local .cmf
chat models and image/video generation now work in containers, where
auto-install never could (no cargo in the runtime image). libvulkan1 added
for optional GPU offload.
- Open admin console on 0.0.0.0 without a token now warns in the log and
shows a dismissible banner — the VPS footgun is at least labeled.
- "Restart gateway" button in Settings: stops managed model servers, spawns
a fresh copy (bind retried while the port frees), Docker relies on the
container restart policy instead.
- Dashboard "System" panel: CPU sparkline + load, RAM (with the gateway's
own RSS), free disk at the models dir — sampled by sysinfo every 2 s.
- Featured model cards warn "not enough disk" / "may not fit in RAM" before
the download, from the same live snapshot.
- Log viewer in the sidebar: a 500-line in-memory ring fed by a second
ANSI-free tracing layer; filter, level, pause, copy.
- Update check: crates.io polled twice a day, the console shows an
"update available" notice.
- Media generations queue up (with position shown) instead of being
rejected; progress gained an honest ETA from measured throughput.
- Generation gallery under the image/video tabs: lazy PPM thumbnails,
click to reopen with seed/steps, delete.
- Playground chat is a real dialogue now: history is resent, bubbles,
Clear, Cmd/Ctrl+Enter.
- "Connect your app" snippets (curl / Python / JS) on the keys page, with
the real key inlined right after creation.
- One-click benchmark on the Models page via `cortiq bench --json`.
- Config export now downloads the actual gateway.toml (comments intact);
import accepts TOML (validated, hot-reloaded) and the legacy JSON.
- Streaming token counts are exact when the model server provides usage
(cortiq-server patch, shipped separately); the gateway fallback now
counts content chunks (1/token on cortiq) instead of chars/4.
Wizard's Finish lands on the Playground. 37 new strings in all 7 languages.
The infosave collection now ships media models (Lumina-Image-2.0, MiniMax-H3
Turbo) that cortiq runs via `imagine`/`animate` CLI, not `cortiq serve`. The
gateway grows a media API: local .cmf files are classified by `cortiq info`
(chat/image/video, cached), generations run as tracked jobs with step progress
parsed from stdout, one at a time, cancellable, outputs under <data>/media.
The playground becomes three tabs. Image: width/height/steps/CFG/seed, live
progress, result rendered from P6 PPM to a canvas in the browser (PNG export
via toBlob). Video: frames/steps/quality/seed plus optional first/last
keyframes (rasterized to PPM client-side); the MJPEG+PCM AVI is decoded in JS
and played on a canvas synced to the wav — no ffmpeg on either side (mp4 remux
happens opportunistically when ffmpeg exists). A metrics card shows resolution,
steps, seed, total time, time per step/frame and file size.
Chat metrics: the local cortiq server sends no usage chunk in streams, so
token counts showed 0/0. tap_stream now injects one OpenAI-shaped usage event
ahead of [DONE] with the gateway's ~4-chars/token estimate, flagged
`cortiq_estimated`; the UI renders it as "≈ N / M" and adds tok/s and
time-to-first-token. Registration skips media packs (a `cortiq serve` entry
for a diffusion model would only fail) in both Register and the wizard's
Finish.
36 new UI strings translated across all 7 languages.
`cargo fmt --all -- --check` and `cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings` are
CI gates and both were failing on this release's code.
- rustfmt across the files touched by the release
- `.split('/').last()` walks the whole iterator on a DoubleEndedIterator; use
`.next_back()` (4 sites in the setup/featured + delete handlers)
- `set_progress` had two identical branches; the intent is "take the first
reading, then only move forward", which is one condition
release.yml published unconditionally on a version tag, so a version already on
crates.io (released by hand, or a re-run of the job) failed the workflow — a
version can never be re-uploaded. It now checks the registry and skips instead.
Startup no longer needs arguments: the config is created on first launch, a busy
port is swapped for a free one, the console is open by default, and the browser
lands on a setup wizard that downloads a ready-made .cmf model and wires it into
routing (managed server + routing.default) when you press Finish.
Download progress was reported from curl's own meter, which prints a full
0→100% bar for the -L redirect hop before the transfer starts — so every job
showed 100% and then hung. Progress now comes from bytes on disk against the
size from the HuggingFace tree (or a HEAD request).
The UI and the gateway also disagreed about the output file name, so a finished
download never marked its card as downloaded; the gateway now returns the exact
stem and the UI sends it back verbatim for download, progress and delete.
Featured models are read live from the infosave HF account in both the wizard
and Import, and all 432 UI strings now exist in every one of the 7 languages.
- pin builder and runtime to the same Debian release (trixie): the floating
rust:1-slim builder drifted to a newer glibc than the bookworm runtime, so
freshly built images crashed on start with 'GLIBC_2.39 not found'
- install curl in the runtime image — ready-.cmf imports download with it
- keep all gateway state under /app/data (CORTIQ_GATEWAY_HOME) and run as
root so bind-mounted host folders on Docker Desktop are writable; pass
--user 10001 to harden when not bind-mounting
- persist /app/data via a cortiq-data volume in docker-compose
- fail imports immediately with the path and reason when the models dir
cannot be created, and annotate curl exit codes 23/22 with readable hints
- exclude local models/*.cmf from the docker build context
Two bugs:
1. run_stream() never merged per-model/server config (think_budget,
temperature, etc.) into the request — unlike run_inner(). Now both
paths apply the same config merge.
2. to_wire() was missing the enable_thinking bool conversion line
(lost in a prior revert). Restored: think_budget=0 → enable_thinking=false.
- New Advanced controls on the import page: O(1) attention spec (off / all /
deep N / explicit layer list) plus the --o1-m / --o1-window / --o1-sink knobs
with validated defaults (32 / 128 / 4) and explanatory hints.
- Backend passes --o1* to the native `cortiq convert`; fails fast with clear
messages when combined with Python-only options, used on GGUF imports, or
when the installed cortiq predates 0.2.0 (the hint needs the new runtime).
- The hint is recorded in the .cmf header (weights byte-identical); the runtime
applies it at load. Verified end-to-end: converted a model with --o1 all and
the runtime logged "o1 nystrom attention: 2/2 layer(s)".
- Stats snapshot now computes the KPI totals AND the breakdown from the
in-window per-minute buckets (previously they used all-time accumulators, so
switching 1h/24h/7d changed only the chart, not the numbers). Buckets now
carry failovers + per-group breakdown; Prometheus keeps all-time counters.
- New DELETE /admin/api/stats clears all in-memory stats and truncates the
JSONL log; the dashboard gets a "Clear logs" button (with confirm).
- The model id is now auto-filled from the model name as you type, and if left
blank it's derived on save (slug of the last path segment, e.g.
"qwen/qwen3.7-max" → "qwen3-7-max") — saving no longer errors on a blank id.
- probe/test auth failures (401 / "User not found" / "No auth") now append a
hint to check the API key (for OpenRouter: use an inference key, not a
provisioning/management key).
- ui.js: mount() now wraps non-node children in text nodes (like h()), so
mount(el, "") no longer throws in appendChild — this is what broke the
"Add model" form (applyDefaults cleared a status via mount(x,"")).
- probe_model: resolve managed local models too (they are synthesized into the
registry, not [[models]]) — probing them no longer returns "model not found".
- models.js: await reload() after delete so the row is removed immediately.
- Providers: add openrouter (https://openrouter.ai/api/v1) and lmstudio
(http://localhost:1234/v1), both OpenAI-compatible. Selecting a provider now
auto-fills its verified base URL, cost tier and default capabilities.
- API key is typed directly in the form and stored securely as a secret under the
provider's env name — no manual env var to manage.
- New POST /admin/api/provider/models validates the key and lists the provider's
models; a "Test & load models" button fills a searchable dropdown. The model
field now sits below the key (some providers list models from the key).
- Fuller capability set: tools, vision, audio, reasoning, json, caching.
- New GET /admin/api/cmf/files lists the .cmf files (and tensor-dir .cmf) under
models_dir, with sizes.
- Settings → Local models: the per-row model field is now a dropdown of those
files instead of a hand-typed path, and auto-fills the id from the filename.
- The gateway can now run several local .cmf models at once: a [[cmf.servers]]
list, one supervised `cortiq serve` per entry on its own port, each registered
in the pool and independently routable/pinnable. The single legacy
local_model/local_port still works (back-compat via effective_servers()).
- Settings → Local models is now a rows editor (id · path · port + check · threads
· GPU) with add/remove and per-server serving status.
- Deleting a managed model stops just its server and removes its file — unless
another model still points at the same file (shared-file guard).
- A pinned playground model that is unavailable now errors clearly instead of
silently answering from the managed local model (route_source no longer lies).
- The managed CMF model is surfaced in GET /admin/api/models (marked "managed",
shown read-only in the UI) so the real running model is visible and pinnable
without a hand-maintained [[models]] entry; a fresh install still lists nothing.
- Deleting a model now removes its local .cmf physically (file or tensor-dir);
deleting the managed model also stops the server and clears the [cmf] config.
Routing is stripped of the deleted id so the config still validates.
- import.rs / promotion.rs: sort_by(|a,b| b.k.cmp(&a.k)) -> sort_by_key(Reverse(k))
- pipeline.rs: skip_while(!p).next() -> find(p)
Behaviour-preserving; completes the CI fix started by the cargo fmt commit.
- Settings: "?" help tooltips on every option; router key auto-probes the
connection right after saving (no more hanging "unavailable")
- Local models card reworked into 3 clear steps (install cortiq → add model →
run locally); removed the hand-entered .cmf path / pool-id fields — models
are added via the Import tab and the managed server registers them
- Fresh install ships an EMPTY model pool; the local .cmf is auto-registered by
the managed CMF server, so it needs no static [[models]] entry
- New: port-availability check — GET /admin/api/cmf/port + "Check port" button
with next-free-port suggestion. bind()+connect() probe so Docker-proxied /
dual-stack ports (e.g. 8081) are correctly detected as occupied
- /admin/api/cmf now reports the serving model + port; card shows "▶ serving …"
- On-demand runtime install: POST /admin/api/cmf/install
The crates.io/release build shipped a STALE frontend (committed web/js was behind
the working tree), so the admin console hung on load. Commit the current working
web/js (app, api, dashboard, login, import view, i18n de/es/fr/tr/zh, css) and the
backend WIP (import.rs, admin/assets.rs) so the released console matches the dev
build. Verified: clean `cargo build --release`, empty-pool start, working
dashboard served.
- config.rs: validate() no longer errors on zero models — an empty pool is
allowed (warns instead), so the admin console comes up on a fresh install and
the user adds models in /admin -> Models (or points [cmf] at a local .cmf).
- gateway.example.toml: ships an EMPTY pool (no seed cmf-local/local-embed, empty
routing), so `cp example -> gateway.toml && run` shows an empty list — what a
new user expects.
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