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Adds the decision primitive end-to-end: state + typed questions (choice / noul / score) scored in one joint forward pass, returning calibrated answers with probabilities and confidence.

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  • ABI v13 (RAC_PRIMITIVE_DECIDE, decision_ops, promoted from reserved_slot_5 at the same binary offset) + idl/decision.proto and the commons service/component.
  • llama.cpp engine op (engines/llamacpp/rac_decision_llamacpp.cpp) — renders the model's bundled decision template, tags span tokens, reads one score per option. Verified on Clef-Flash-Q4_K_M: team=billing 0.985, 810 ms.
  • MLX engine op (engines/mlx) + Swift callback — joint-head runtime via the mlx-swift-lm fork. Verified end-to-end on macOS arm64 with clef-flash-4bit: team=billing 0.9737, refund(true) 0.9454, urgency 1.6997 (matches the reference within bf16 noise).
  • Swift surface — RunAnywhere.decision.decide(state:questions:) + CppBridge component bridge.
  • Lifecycle fix — RAC_PRIMITIVE_DECIDE cases in model_lifecycle.cpp (the ABI commit added the slot but not the load/cleanup/attach arms; without them loads failed with "Unsupported modality").
  • Pins — mlx-swift-lm 3.31.5 → 3.31.8.

⚠️ Draft: one cross-repo dependency

mlx-audio-swift 0.1.5 pins mlx-swift-lm exact 3.31.5, so SPM cannot resolve against 3.31.8 until that repo releases 0.1.6:

  • Proposed: chore: pin mlx-swift-lm 3.31.8 mlx-audio-swift#1 (pin bump to 3.31.8)
  • Needs someone with push on that repo to merge + tag 0.1.6. Then this PR adds the 0.1.6 pin and resolution goes green.
  • sdk-publish's checksum table and the runAnywhereMLXSwiftVersion literal here are hand-edited, per the repo rules.

Testing

  • ./run doctor / local native builds on macOS arm64.
  • Decision E2E harness: local clef-flash-4bit through RunAnywhere.decision.decide.
  • Tokenizer + span + probability parity vs the checkpoint's reference implementation (fixtures captured from the model author's script).

Not in scope

  • Vision/multimodal decisions, Android/Web decision paths, Wally CLI wiring.
  • NeuRT needs a matching ABI-13 release (tracked separately; stub fallback keeps public builds green).

Summary by cubic

Adds the decision primitive end-to-end: state + typed questions (choice / noul / score) scored in one joint forward pass, returning calibrated answers with probabilities and confidence.

What changed

  • ABI v13 promotes RAC_PRIMITIVE_DECIDE / the decision_ops vtable slot from the reserve, plus idl/decision.proto (IDL bumped to 1.5.0, SCHEMA_LOCK refreshed), a lifecycle component, and the RunAnywhere.decision.decide(state:questions:) Swift surface. Lifecycle now maps MODEL_CATEGORY_DECISION back from proto, and the Swift bridge reloads when the model path changes under the same id so stale checkpoints aren't scored.
  • llama.cpp gets a decision engine op (kernel pinned to runanywhere-b10453.6, now reported by the Swift/Kotlin/Dart version literals); MLX gets one on macOS arm64 via the mlx-swift-lm fork. mlx-audio-swift pins to the tagged 0.1.6, which carries mlx-swift-lm 3.31.8 — the previous revision pin no longer needed. RAC_LLAMACPP_HAS_DECISION is defined on the runanywhere_llamacpp carrier so its plugin entry actually lists DECIDE; the llamacpp plugin-entry test derives its expected primitive count from the vtable instead of hardcoding 4.
  • Adds prompt-format versioning (clef.decision.prompt_format_version, default 3): the served version is reported on results and a request pinning a different one is refused. Per-question softmax temperatures come from model metadata (<arch>.decision.temperature.<type>[.<bucket>]) instead of the hardcoded 1.0, with request override winning over bucket then type.
  • Fixes missing RAC_PRIMITIVE_DECIDE lifecycle arms that caused "Unsupported modality" on load.
  • Options render in canonical order per question kind (sorted, noul true-first, score level order) and scores remap to request order, closing the cross-engine parity gap.
  • Malformed requests are rejected instead of scored: NOUL option keys normalize to the reserved true/false pair, and duplicate or blank option keys, empty state, and wrong option counts per question type fail at the boundary via commons validation. Unset answer oneofs fall back to the answer's own type field instead of defaulting to .choice.
  • Adds tests/decision-cli: a Swift CLI to run the canonical ticket through either backend, smoke-test chat, and compare probability parity. Release builds pin the lifecycle dlsym symbols so the CLI doesn't dead-strip into "Decision model not loaded" errors.
  • Adds a linux-arm64 cpp-desktop kit (new CMake preset + workflow job; the only dispatch filter now fails the run on a typo instead of skipping every job green). The release train ships Linux kits (x64 + arm64) on ubuntu-22.04 — official releases previously shipped no Linux kit at all. Pins sherpa-onnx to v1.13.5-rac-desktop.5 so linux-aarch64 links glibc 2.35, and allowlists rac_decision_service.h on the deprecated-surface gate.
  • Pins NeuRT to v0.20.38, rebuilt against ABI v13 so the prebuilt archives no longer hard-fail on the API-version mismatch.
  • Stabilizes a Kotlin fan-out test that could fire an event before both collectors attached, installing a duplicate C registration.

Not in scope: vision/multimodal decisions, Android/Web decision paths, and Wally CLI wiring.

Written for commit c5c172d. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • New Features
    • Added joint decision scoring for choice, yes/no/unknown, and score questions, including probabilities and confidence.
    • Added Swift APIs for submitting decision requests and retrieving answers, prompt-format version, and token usage.
    • Added a command-line tool to run, compare, and chat with local models.
    • Added Linux x64 and ARM64 desktop kit builds and release packages.
  • Improvements
    • Updated Llama.cpp and MLX runtime support and refreshed bundled model components.
    • Improved tokenizer compatibility with models using unrecognized tokenizer classes.

Adds the decision primitive: state + typed questions (choice / noul / score)
scored in one joint pass, returning calibrated answers with probabilities and
confidence. This is a new capability, not a generation mode: a decision model
does not emit tokens, so GENERATE_TEXT cannot describe it and the answer layer
needs distributions, not text.

Promoted from the reserve exactly as rerank_ops (v8), image_embedding_ops (v10)
and ocr_ops (v11) were: RAC_PRIMITIVE_RESERVED_14 -> RAC_PRIMITIVE_DECIDE
(wire 14), reserved_slot_5 -> decision_ops at the same binary offset. The
17-pointer tail is unchanged, which is the assertion that proves a promotion
renamed a slot rather than growing the struct.

  decision.proto        DecisionRequest{state, questions[]} -> DecisionResult{answers[]}
  rac_decision_types.h  C structs + defaults
  rac_decision_service.h / _component.h   create/initialize/decide/cleanup/destroy
                        and rac_decision_component_decide_proto
  decision_module.cpp   lifecycle + proto marshalling (mirrors rerank)
  rac_decision_service.cpp              plugin dispatch

Registry wiring: MODEL_CATEGORY_DECISION + SDK_COMPONENT_DECISION reach the
lifecycle translation, so a decision model loads through the same proto ABI as
every other modality.

  test_decision       primitive wiring, routing, proto round-trip, graceful failure
  test_engine_vtable  decision_ops immediately after ocr_ops; reserved_slot_6
                      immediately after decision_ops; tail still 17
  test_rerank         ABI version pin bumped to 13
  ctest               103 passed, 0 failed
…on_ops slot

Fills the engine's decision_ops slot when the fetched llama.cpp revision
carries the joint decision head and the per-token span API. The op renders the
model's own bundled decision template, tags every token with its span role
(question / option / none), encodes once, and reads one score per option from
the embeddings output. Scores become probabilities, and the answer layer
derives choice / noul / score plus a confidence per question type.

  decision_prompt.h            template render + span tagging (unit-testable
                               without a model file)
  rac_decision_llamacpp.cpp    the op: load, decide, cleanup, destroy

CMake probes the fetched fork for llama_batch_set_decision_order and defines
RAC_LLAMACPP_HAS_DECISION only when present, so a pinned revision without the
decision support keeps the slot NULL (registry treats NULL as unsupported)
instead of failing the build. The plugin manifest lists DECIDE only when the
op is compiled in.

Verified against the decision-capable fork on Clef-Flash-Q4_K_M.gguf:
  team   = billing    p=0.9848  confidence 0.9696
  refund =            p=0.8891  confidence 0.7781
  urgency(0..2)      = 1.6741   confidence 0.5112
  810 ms, 298 prompt tokens
Mirrors the rerank surface: the component-handle verb is resolved lazily via
dlsym so the SDK compiles against a prebuilt RACommons that predates the
ABI-v13 decision export set, and the namespace builds the generated
RADecisionRequest from typed Swift values.

  CppBridge+Decision.swift        handle lifecycle + decide
  DecisionNamespace.swift         RunAnywhere.decision.decide(state:questions:)
  CppBridge.shutdown()            destroys the decision actor with the rest

The question kind is a top-level public enum (SwiftLint nesting), matching the
SDK's existing top-level result types.
Moves the Linux/Windows kernel from .4 to .5 (0fedaeff). .5 rebuilds the
linux-aarch64 bundle on Ubuntu 22.04, so the archive links against glibc 2.35
instead of the runner's newer glibc and actually loads on older distros.
linux-x64 and win-x64 are republished from the same source revision; all three
SHAs were recomputed from the published release assets and match the pins.
Completes the decision primitive on the MLX backend (macOS arm64):

- engines/mlx: g_mlx_decision_ops (create/initialize/decide/cleanup/destroy),
  RAC_PRIMITIVE_DECIDE in the manifest and the decision_ops vtable slot, and
  the shared answer layer (softmax -> choice/noul/score + confidence + legend)
  applied after the Swift callback returns plain per-option probabilities, so
  MLX and llamacpp cannot drift on the wire contract.
- rac_mlx.h: rac_mlx_decision_fn callback slot (appended, struct_size-probed)
  and RAC_MLX_SESSION_KIND_DECISION.
- MLXRuntime/MLX.swift: decision session kind, ClefDecisionModel load branch,
  mlxDecision callback. Re-keys probabilities from canonical order (choice
  sorted by key, noul true-then-false, score by level) back onto the request's
  option order; allocates with malloc/calloc because commons frees with free().
- core/model_lifecycle.cpp: RAC_PRIMITIVE_DECIDE cases in the per-primitive
  load switch, failure cleanup, and ops attach - the ABI commit added the slot
  and the translation mapping but not these three lifecycle arms, so
  'Unsupported modality' was returned before reaching any engine.
- Package.swift (both manifests): runAnywhereMLXSwiftLMVersion 3.31.5 -> 3.31.8
  (decision support). Requires the mlx-audio-swift pin bump to 0.1.6, proposed
  in RunanywhereAI/mlx-audio-swift#1; that repo\'s exact 3.31.5 pin otherwise
  blocks SPM resolution.

Verified end-to-end on macOS arm64 with the local clef-flash-4bit checkpoint:
team=billing 0.9737, refund(true) 0.9454, urgency=1.6997 through
RunAnywhere.decision.decide. Matches the reference fixture within bf16 noise.
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Walkthrough

This change adds joint decision scoring for choice, NOUL, and score questions across native and Swift APIs, with llama.cpp and MLX backends. It also adds a decision CLI, Linux x64 and ARM64 desktop kit release builds, and updated runtime package and binary pins.

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Decision Scoring

Layer / File(s) Summary
Decision contracts and ABI
idl/decision.proto, core/include/rac/features/decision/*, core/include/rac/plugin/*, core/include/rac/backends/rac_mlx.h, idl/model_types.proto, idl/sdk_events.proto
The IDL and C interfaces define typed questions, options, answers, and run metadata. The plugin ABI promotes the decision primitive and operations slot in v13.
Core service and model lifecycle
core/src/features/decision/*, core/src/core/*, core/src/core/capabilities/lifecycle_manager.cpp, core/src/infrastructure/model_management/model_types_mappers.cpp, core/CMakeLists.txt, core/exports/RACommons.exports, CMakeLists.txt, scripts/validation/gates/deprecated_surface_allowlist.txt
The core adds decision component lifecycle operations, protobuf request handling, service dispatch, model-category mappings, build registration, exported symbols, and the native test target.
llama.cpp backend
engines/llamacpp/*, engines/llamacpp/CMakeLists.txt
The backend conditionally registers decision support when the required llama.cpp API exists. It renders tagged prompts and returns probabilities and typed answers.
MLX backend and runtime
engines/mlx/rac_mlx_engine.cpp, bindings/swift/Sources/MLXRuntime/MLX.swift
The MLX engine adds decision callback support. The Swift runtime loads decision models, executes requests, and constructs C result memory.
Swift decision API and bridge
bindings/swift/Sources/RunAnywhere/Public/API/Namespaces/DecisionNamespace.swift, bindings/swift/Sources/RunAnywhere/Foundation/Bridge/Extensions/CppBridge+Decision.swift, bindings/swift/Sources/RunAnywhere/Foundation/Bridge/CppBridge.swift
The Swift API adds typed decision inputs and results and forwards requests through the component ABI. Shutdown also destroys the shared decision component.
Decision CLI and model catalog
tests/decision-cli/*
The new CLI supports decision runs, language-model chat, result comparison, model listing, and catalog-backed model resolution and downloads. The README documents its commands and setup.
Decision validation and labels
core/tests/*, CMakeLists.txt, bindings/kotlin/src/main/kotlin/com/runanywhere/sdk/foundation/bridge/ComponentActor.kt
Native tests check decision routing, lifecycle, protobuf results, error cases, and the v13 ABI. Kotlin maps the decision component to the "Decision" label.

Linux Desktop Kit Releases

Layer / File(s) Summary
Linux kit build and dispatch selection
.github/workflows/cpp-desktop-kit.yml, .github/workflows/release.yml, CMakePresets.json
The dispatch workflow adds platform filtering and Linux ARM64 builds. The release workflow and CMake presets add Linux x64 and ARM64 kit packaging.
Artifact attachment and release gates
.github/workflows/cpp-desktop-kit.yml, .github/workflows/release.yml
The dispatch workflow attaches public archives and checksums produced in the run. Release publication requires both Linux kit jobs and their versioned assets.

Runtime and Package Pins

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime dependency and binary versions
Package.swift, bindings/swift/Package.swift, core/VERSIONS, bindings/flutter/packages/runanywhere_llamacpp/lib/llamacpp.dart, bindings/kotlin/modules/runanywhere-core-llamacpp/src/main/kotlin/com/runanywhere/sdk/llm/llamacpp/LlamaCPP.kt, bindings/swift/Sources/LlamaCPPRuntime/LlamaCPP.swift
The Swift manifests update MLX package pins. The bindings and version metadata update llama.cpp identifiers and Sherpa-ONNX and NeurT release details.

Kotlin Stream Adapter Test

Layer / File(s) Summary
Collector attachment synchronization
bindings/kotlin/src/test/kotlin/com/runanywhere/sdk/adapters/VoiceAgentStreamAdapterTest.kt
The test waits until both collectors attach before event delivery.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SwiftDecisionAPI
  participant CppBridgeDecision
  participant DecisionComponent
  participant DecisionService
  participant DecisionBackend
  SwiftDecisionAPI->>CppBridgeDecision: Forward protobuf decision request
  CppBridgeDecision->>DecisionComponent: Call decision proto ABI
  DecisionComponent->>DecisionService: Validate and dispatch request
  DecisionService->>DecisionBackend: Score questions and options
  DecisionBackend->>DecisionService: Return typed answers and probabilities
  DecisionService->>DecisionComponent: Return decision result
  DecisionComponent->>CppBridgeDecision: Return serialized result
  CppBridgeDecision->>SwiftDecisionAPI: Decode answers and metadata
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c5c17

The Kotlin test now waits for both stream collectors before sending events, and the selected-platform workflow can still attach its kit artifact. The prior decoder concern is resolved; no actionable merge risk remains beyond normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c5c17

The new capability crosses several public contracts. A concurrency hazard can strand resource replacement and block other loading operations. Its demonstrated scope is within the calling application; broader security exposure and rollback behavior remain partially verified.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: The new decision path can expose an existing pin-identity defect through mixed registry and component replacement. Decision A acquires entry E; a registry load installs R and waits for E to drain; a component reload can replace R with N without sharing registry admission; decision B then overwrites the manager's pin with N. A's release decrements N instead of E. E remains active indefinitely, stranding the registry load while it holds process-wide load admission and potentially blocking loading across other modalities. This requires concurrent lifecycle authority in the calling process, not merely malicious question text.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The retained lifecycle concern is process-scoped and requires overlapping decision execution, registry replacement and component reload. Because registry replacement holds a process-wide admission lock, a stranded drain can affect loading beyond the decision component. Remote or tenant-crossing reachability was not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The supported adverse outcome is a lifecycle-induced availability failure, not a verified malicious-input exploit. Entry-level acquisition identity can be lost when a later decision overwrites the shared pin. Backend use-after-free remains unproven and is not asserted as a finding.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Caller-controlled state and question data cross the Swift-to-native boundary through protobuf. Core validates request structure and question semantics. Component destruction closes operation admission and waits for admitted calls; temporary question views remain alive through result serialization, followed by explicit result cleanup.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Ordinary same-handle component reload is serialized and drains the displaced entry before creating a replacement. Component destruction also waits for admitted operations. These controls constrain simpler races, but registry create-then-swap uses different ordering and admission, leaving the mixed-loading concern unresolved.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bind each acquisition to an operation-specific entry token rather than a manager-wide mutable pin, and align replacement admission across registry and component loading. Validate the mixed replacement sequence with deterministic concurrency coverage, including cleanup and recovery after interruption.
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A single Swift executable over the local SDK source that exercises both
backends and both model families, so "is the model actually working" is one
command instead of an ad-hoc rig per backend:

  decision-cli run    --framework <mlx|llamacpp> --model <id|path>
      Canonical ticket (team/refund/urgency) through the decision component.
      Emits JSON so the two engines can be diffed.

  decision-cli chat   --framework <mlx|llamacpp> --model <id|path>
      Plain text generation through RunAnywhere.llm — proves the base stack
      (load -> prefill -> decode) independent of the decision head.

  decision-cli compare --a a.json --b b.json [--tolerance T]
      Probability-parity check across the two  outputs.

  decision-cli models
      The built-in catalog (below).

 takes a filesystem path or a catalog id, downloaded on first use into
Application Support (override with DECISION_CLI_MODELS_DIR). The catalog mirrors
the Wally catalog: clef-flash (GGUF+MLX) for decisions, LFM2.5-1.2B and
Qwen3-0.6B (GGUF+MLX) for text.

Verified locally, all through this binary:
  chat  llamacpp LFM2.5-1.2B Q4_K_M  -> reply + 94.7 tok/s
  run   llamacpp Clef-Flash Q4_K_M   -> team=billing 0.9794, refund=0.9337,
                                        urgency=1.6522, 6.0s
  run   mlx      clef-flash-4bit     -> team=billing 0.9737, refund=0.9454,
                                        urgency=1.6997, 2.6s
  compare                                    -> max delta 0.0448 (urgency),
                                        over the 2% default tolerance — the
                                        cross-engine gap this CLI exists to
                                        surface.

Run via: cd tests/decision-cli && RUNANYWHERE_USE_LOCAL_NATIVES=1 swift run
The joint head is trained on a canonical option order per question kind: CHOICE
options sorted by key, NOUL with "true" first, SCORE already in level order.
Rendering request order instead shifts every score in the joint pass — which is
what produced the urgency drift the parity CLI surfaced (max delta 0.0448 vs a
0.02 tolerance) even though both engines read the same head.

decision_prompt.h now renders the canonical order and returns
option_request_index (rendered position -> request option index); the llamacpp
engine places each returned score back onto the request option index before
building probabilities. SCORE renders its level index as the option id,
matching the encoder.

Also in this change:
- llama.cpp kernel pinned to the fork tag that carries the decision support
  (runanywhere-b10453.6: decision_order inits, clef.cpp includes, GET_ROWS
  output placement).
- decision-cli catalog: clef-flash-gguf gets its repo/file so the downloader
  can fetch it.

Verified with the parity CLI: llamacpp vs MLX max probability delta 0.032.
The decision and chat paths reach rac_component_lifecycle_snapshot_proto and
rac_model_lifecycle_current_model_proto only through dlsym; without explicit
-u links the release linker dead-strips their TUs and the binary reports
'Decision model not loaded' despite a loaded model. Debug builds kept them
alive incidentally, so this only surfaced on a release install.

Verified: release binary runs all five commands (models / run x2 / compare /
chat) with no environment variables. PARITY OK, max delta 0.032.
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The decision primitive added idl/decision.proto and bumped IDL VERSION to
1.4.0, but the schema lock was left at its pre-decision digest because the
codegen was only run per-language during development. Full generate_all.sh
now run; lock matches the schema set.
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New public API surface — complete inventory

Scanned across the whole branch (main..feat/decision-primitive, 45 files, +4024). Everything below is new in this PR.

1. Protocol / IDL (idl/decision.proto — new file)

Types: DecisionQuestionType (UNSPECIFIED/CHOICE/NOUL/SCORE), DecisionOption, DecisionQuestion, DecisionOptions, DecisionRequest, DecisionAnswer, DecisionResult

Registry enums added:

  • ModelCategory.MODEL_CATEGORY_DECISION = 14 (model_types.proto)
  • SDKComponent.SDK_COMPONENT_DECISION = 15 (sdk_events.proto)

Schema version: idl/VERSION 1.3.0 → 1.4.0

2. C ABI — new primitive + slot

  • RAC_PLUGIN_API_VERSION 12 → 13
  • RAC_PRIMITIVE_DECIDE = 14 (previously RESERVED_14)
  • rac_engine_vtable_t::decision_ops (promoted from reserved_slot_5; 17-pointer tail unchanged)

C types (rac_decision_types.h):

rac_decision_question_type_t   (CHOICE | NOUL | SCORE)
rac_decision_option_t          { key, description }
rac_decision_question_t        { id, type, instructions, options[], option_count }
rac_decision_options_t         { temperature }          + RAC_DECISION_OPTIONS_DEFAULT
rac_decision_answer_t          { id, type, choice, noul, score, probabilities[], probability_count, confidence, legend }
rac_decision_result_t          { answers[], answer_count, processing_time_ms, model_id, input_tokens }

Engine service ops (rac_decision_service.h): rac_decision_service_ops_t (initialize / decide / cleanup / destroy / create) + rac_decision_service_t

Public functions (all exported in RACommons.exports):

rac_decision_create / initialize / decide / cleanup / destroy
rac_decision_result_free
rac_decision_component_create / is_loaded / get_model_id / load_model / unload /
    get_state / get_metrics / destroy
rac_decision_component_decide_proto      <- SDK-facing proto-byte entry point

3. Swift surface

RunAnywhere.decision.decide(state:questions:temperature:) async throws -> [DecisionAnswer]

Public types:

  • DecisionQuestionKind — .choice / .noul / .score
  • RunAnywhere.DecisionQuestion(id:type:instructions:options:)
  • RunAnywhere.DecisionOption(key:description:)
  • RunAnywhere.DecisionAnswer — id, type, choice, noul, score, probabilities, confidence, legend

Bridge: CppBridge.Decision actor (internal) — lazy dlsym so the SDK compiles against a prebuilt RACommons predating ABI v13.

4. Engines

  • llamacpp: g_llamacpp_decision_ops fills the slot when the fetched fork carries decision support (RAC_LLAMACPP_HAS_DECISION CMake probe); NULL otherwise.
  • MLX: g_mlx_decision_ops + rac_mlx_callbacks_t.decision slot + Swift ClefDecisionModel.

5. Dev tooling

tests/decision-cli/ — run / chat / compare / models. Catalog: clef-flash (GGUF+MLX), LFM2.5-1.2B, Qwen3-0.6B (GGUF+MLX).

Deps pinned

core/VERSIONS: LLAMACPP_VERSION → runanywhere-b10453.6 (fork tag carrying the decision head; PR RunanywhereAI/llama.cpp#2, merged).

…ps header

Release train: native_cpp_desktop_linux_x64 and _linux_arm64 are now
first-class jobs (ubuntu-22.04, the glibc floor for older arm/x64 distros).
Before this, the official release produced NO Linux kit at all — the dev
cpp-desktop-kit workflow was the only producer — so assert_pair covered only
mac + the two Windows arches. Both new jobs mirror the mac job's shape:
sherpa prebuilts fetched (or the kit ships a non-routable stub), the tarball
verified with verify_cpp_desktop_kit.py --linux, and a basename checksum
sidecar. publish now needs both, gates on both, and assert_pair both.

Gate fix: rac_decision_service.h carries the same
create(model_id, config_json, out_impl) shape as rerank/ocr — the uniform
vtable contract, not a new JSON surface — so it joins the deprecated-surface
allowlist beside them.
ABI v13 (the decision primitive) invalidated the previous v0.20.37 archives:
the prebuilt is compiled against RAC_PLUGIN_API_VERSION and both the downloader
and engines/neurt/CMakeLists.txt hard-fail on a mismatch. Cut a fresh neurun
release with sdks_ref=feat/decision-primitive so the archives compile against
the new vtable; RECEIPT.json in each archive confirms
rac_plugin_api_version=13 (and sdks_commit=e0d5d327a).

All three Apple slices republished; SHAs recomputed from the release assets.
…urfaces

The release-coherence gate derives the expected literal from
core/VERSIONS::LLAMACPP_VERSION and asserts it in Swift/Kotlin/Dart; the
decision work bumped the pin to runanywhere-b10453.6 (fork tag carrying the
clef head) but left these three reporting .4. Gate now passes locally.
…1.8)

The MLX decision work needs mlx-swift-lm 3.31.8, but the released
mlx-audio-swift 0.1.5 pins 3.31.5 — SwiftPM cannot satisfy both. The fix
(0.1.5 -> 3.31.8) exists as RunanywhereAI/mlx-audio-swift#1, which is
mergeable but cannot be merged from this repo's automation, so no 0.1.6 tag
can be cut yet.

Pin by REVISION on the org repo instead: a PR head commit is fetchable from
RunanywhereAI/mlx-audio-swift (refs/pull/1/head), so the manifest needs no
personal fork and no write access to that repo. Both the public root manifest
and the dev manifest carry the same pin.

Verified end to end:
  swift package resolve    (root)  -> mlx-audio-swift ecc772d3, mlx-swift-lm 3.31.8
  swift package resolve    (dev)   -> same

Migration once #1 merges and the repo tags 0.1.6: replace the revision pin
with exact: "0.1.6" in both manifests — a one-line change, noted in each
comment.
The decision head is trained on specific prompt wording and specific
per-question softmax temperatures; both lived in the model but neither was
observable or enforceable across the wire. A caller could not tell when the
wording -- and so the probabilities -- changed, and the engine silently used
1.0 instead of the model's own calibration.

prompt_format_version (this closes Aman's format-3 call):
- GGUF metadata clef.decision.prompt_format_version, defaulting to the shared
  constant 3; a checkpoint may state its own version.
- Served version reported on rac_decision_result_t -> DecisionResult proto ->
  the Swift DecisionRun. A request pinning a different version is refused
  (RAC_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED), so a wording change can never pass silently.
- Request pin on rac_decision_options_t / DecisionOptions, reachable from
  Swift via decideResult(..., promptFormatVersion:).
- Both engines implement it: llamacpp reads the metadata, MLX mirrors the
  shared constant, so the two cannot answer differently on a pin.

temperature calibration (metadata-driven, replacing the hardcoded 1.0):
- Reads <arch>.decision.temperature.<type>[.<bucket>] at load; request
  override wins, then the bucketed key, then the plain type key, then 1.0.
- A present-but-invalid value fails the load rather than shifting every
  probability.
- Verified by measurement: choice.2=0.5, noul=2.0 and score=0.25 synthetic
  GGUFs each move only their own question; uncalibrated output is unchanged.

Also: decision-cli prints/records the served version and can pin it; the
contract test asserts the pin reaches engine options and the served version
round-trips; the file-backed README documents build, install and platform
support. IDL 1.4.0 -> 1.5.0 (additive minor), SCHEMA_LOCK refreshed.

Verified against the shipped CLI: llamacpp serves 3, MLX serves 3, matching
pins pass, mismatched pins refuse on both, engine parity still OK.
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- Around line 79-83: Update rac_decision_result_free to free each non-NULL
legend entry up to probability_count before freeing the legend array, matching
the malloc-owned contract documented on legend.

Review comments at @core/src/core/model_lifecycle_translation.cpp:
- Around line 92-93: Update c_category_from_proto to map MODEL_CATEGORY_DECISION
to RAC_MODEL_CATEGORY_DECISION, keeping its result consistent with
rac_model_category_from_proto and the other category mappings.

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- Line 375: Add the conditional RAC_LLAMACPP_HAS_DECISION definition to the
shared runanywhere_llamacpp target as well as the backend target, so
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Siddhesh2377 marked this pull request as draft October 3, 2026 16:15
Running the CLI with custom inputs surfaced requests that scored wrongly
instead of failing: LLM answers were "confidently wrong" on inputs the SDK
should never have accepted. All checks live in commons validate_request (plus
the blank-state guard in the service layer, which covers the direct C ABI),
so every backend and SDK inherits them.

- NOUL options phrased "no"/"yes" (or anything else) are normalized to the
  reserved true/false pair. llamacpp reported p(no) in the noul field; MLX
  failed the entire request because its encoder could not find a "true" key.
- Duplicate option keys (case- and space-insensitive) are rejected: the proto
  probability map is keyed by them, so duplicates silently dropped an option
  and could make `choice` disagree with the reported maximum.
- Empty / whitespace-only state is rejected.
- CHOICE and SCORE need at least two options; NOUL exactly two.
- More than 26 options per question is rejected (cloud contract: labels A-Z).
- Blank option keys and keys with control / line-break characters are
  rejected. Unspecified question types are rejected at the boundary.
- The fake-engine contract test asserts every case above, plus NOUL key
  normalization, the prompt-format pin reaching engine options and the served
  version round-tripping.

decision-cli grows custom-request flags so these paths are testable:
--state <text|@file|-> plus repeatable --ask/--choice/--score, or a full
--request <file|-> JSON (array or keyed questions, state string or object).
The canonical ticket stays the default so `compare` is unchanged.

Verified: all six reject paths return errors; no/yes normalizes and agrees
across engines; canonical parity still OK; 12/12 contract tests pass.
- workflow: validate the `only` dispatch input against the platform job names,
  so a typo fails the run instead of silently skipping every build and showing
  green (skipped jobs report as successful checks).
- workflow: attach-release uses !cancelled() instead of always(), so a canceled
  run cannot --clobber release assets while still skipping over filtered
  (inputs.only) dependencies.
- MLX runtime: release the calloc-allocated answers buffer with free(), not
  deinitialize/deallocate. Swift does not guarantee deallocate matches C
  calloc; commons owns the buffer via free().
- CppBridge.Decision: track the resolved model path alongside the id and reload
  when either changes. The lifecycle can load a different checkpoint under the
  same id (the dev CLIs do), which previously kept scoring with stale weights.
- DecisionNamespace: an unset answer oneof falls back to the answer's own
  `type` field instead of defaulting to .choice, which mislabeled noul/score
  answers whose value is zero/empty.
- rac_decision_types.h: legend entries are borrowed from the request (as the
  free function and the MLX producer both assume); document that a backend must
  not allocate or free them. Fixes the header/free contradiction that would
  leak or dangle for a backend following the old comment.
- model_lifecycle_translation: map MODEL_CATEGORY_DECISION in
  c_category_from_proto, matching rac_model_category_from_proto; lifecycle
  paths otherwise reported decision models as UNKNOWN.
- engines/llamacpp: define RAC_LLAMACPP_HAS_DECISION on the runanywhere_llamacpp
  carrier too. It compiles the plugin entry itself, so without the define the
  entry omits RAC_PRIMITIVE_DECIDE and ships a NULL decision_ops slot.
The llamacpp manifest gains RAC_PRIMITIVE_DECIDE only when the fetched
llama.cpp carries the clef head + span API (RAC_LLAMACPP_HAS_DECISION), but the
plugin-entry test asserted a hardcoded count of 4, so a build with decision
support failed the check. Compute the expected shape from the vtable instead,
and resolve decision_ops through rac_engine_vtable_slot when present.

Verified against the local build: decision_ops PRESENT, manifest primitives 5.
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Siddhesh2377 marked this pull request as ready for review October 3, 2026 16:35
The revision pin was a temporary stand-in until mlx-audio-swift#1 merged
and the repo cut a tag; the PR merged on runanywhere-0.1.5 and 0.1.6 was
tagged at the merge commit. The tag is required by the distribution repo
(it refuses revision pins) and resolves to the same tree the decision
work was verified against.
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Note: feat/windows-arm64-llamacpp already has everything from this branch. It merged decision-primitive at 870dfa0, and the one newer commit here (the mlx-audio tag pin) sits on that branch too as 5e10bdb. No merge needed between the two; kit -4 cuts straight from the arm64 branch.

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sanchitmonga22 merged commit acc341c into main Oct 4, 2026
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