decisions: pplx-decider v1.1/v1.2 locally, with image and control flags

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Brings the pplx deciders to wally decisions --local and lets the CLI drive the SDK's new decision controls.

• Consumes kit cpp-desktop-v0.20.40 (IDL 1.6.0, plugin API 14) and builds the Apple MLX host from the SDK commit that kit came from (c0cc8eb). The SDK side is decision: pplx-decider v1.1 and v1.2 on MLX, controls and images in the contract (plugin API 14) runanywhere-sdks#993.
• decisions --local now takes --image, and adds --grouping joint|per-question, --max-length, --max-pixels and --min-pixels. They are local only: a cloud run that sets one is refused. A model that cannot honour one refuses the call and names it.
• Catalog: pplx-decider-4b (pplx-decider-flash-v1.2, BF16, text and images), served from the runanywhere HF mirror and pinned to the upload commit, with a SHA-256 for every weight file.
• scripts/test/e2e-modalities.sh gains opt-in decision cases (WALLY_E2E_DECISION, WALLY_E2E_DECISION_IMAGE).

Fixes on the way: the shipped 0.8.10 cannot load mlx-pplx-decider-27b-4bit (its MLX host predates the decider runtime); this build answers with it.

Tested on this Mac against the released kit: ctest 6/6, clippy, fmt, test ledger, versions, bindings and agents-sync checks. End to end with both pplx models: text, image, the controls and the refusals, 5/5. models pull pplx-decider-4b from the mirror into an empty home, then scoring with it, passes.

Known: the Apple MLX job resolves SDK Apple binaries for 0.20.40, and no SDK 0.20.40 release has been published, so that job may fail on the binary download.

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Summary by cubic

Ships as wally 0.8.12: brings the pplx deciders to wally decisions --local, adds image scoring and the SDK's decision controls to the CLI, and fixes the 0.8.10 build, which could not load mlx-pplx-decider-27b-4bit because its MLX host predates the decider runtime.

• --image now works locally, and --grouping joint|per-question, --max-length, --max-pixels and --min-pixels are local-only; setting one in a cloud run is refused, and a model that cannot honor one refuses the call naming it.
• Adds pplx-decider-4b (pplx-decider-flash-v1.2, BF16, text and images) to the catalog, served from the runanywhere HF mirror and pinned to the upload commit, with a SHA-256 for every weight file.
• Consumes kit cpp-desktop-v0.20.40 (IDL 1.6.0, plugin API 14), whose windows-arm64 kit now carries llama.cpp, and builds the Apple MLX host from a fork branch carrying the v0.20.40 Apple binaries and their checksums (siddhesh/kit-0.20.40-swift), with resolved Swift packages mlx-swift-lm 3.31.11 and mlx-audio-swift 0.1.9.
• models now runs the downloaded sibling build of a merged decision row when the named build is not on disk, instead of refusing offline runs like decisions --local; where the catalog hides the other build (MLX builds off Apple), no sibling is expected.
• models rm can now remove a model whose catalog entry was renamed or dropped but that still shows in models list.
• The Anthropic and Codex translators now drop null-valued fields from tool schemas, so MCP tools declaring optional parameters as "default": null no longer break MLX chat templates.
• The Homebrew formula descriptions (stable and beta) now cover both local runs and the RunAnywhere account.
• scripts/test/e2e-modalities.sh gains opt-in decision cases (WALLY_E2E_DECISION, WALLY_E2E_DECISION_IMAGE).

Known limitations

• The Apple MLX job resolves the v0.20.40 Apple binaries from a fork branch, not a published release, so it depends on that branch staying up.

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• New Features
  • Added the Pplx Decider 4B v1.2 model for local decision-making with text and images.
  • Local decision requests now support images and options for grouping, response length, and image-pixel limits.
  • Added CLI options and help text for configuring these controls, including accepted values and defaults.
• Bug Fixes
  • Local image requests are no longer rejected as cloud-only. Invalid option combinations and limits are reported with validation errors.

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📝 Walkthrough

The update advances the C++ kit and IDL pins, adds decision grouping, token and image-pixel controls to local scoring, and maps supported image data URLs into local requests. It adds a Pplx Decider MLX catalog entry and updates CLI validation, help, and end-to-end coverage.

Changes: Local Decision Models

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Decision API and SDK pins src/sys/bindings.rs, versions.toml, .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/release.yml, tests/golden/expected/version__*	The decision bindings add grouping, image inputs, and numeric limits. The C++ kit and IDL pins, CI checkout references, and expected version output are updated.
Pplx Decider model catalog src/catalog/catalog.rs, tests/golden/expected/local__models__list__--all*	The catalog adds a pinned Pplx Decider 4B v1.2 MLX model with a 262,144-token context length. Expected model lists include the entry.
Local decision controls and image scoring src/commands/cmd_decisions.rs, tests/test_decisions_cli.py, tests/golden/expected/help__*, scripts/test/e2e-modalities.sh	Local requests accept grouping, token and pixel limits, and decoded PNG, JPEG, or WebP data URLs. Cloud requests reject local-only controls. Help, validation tests, and end-to-end checks cover the updated behavior.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant run_local
  participant score_loaded_with
  participant local_request
  CLI->>run_local: Submit decision request and local controls
  run_local->>score_loaded_with: Score request with controls
  score_loaded_with->>local_request: Build proto request and decode image data
  local_request-->>score_loaded_with: Return options and image data
  score_loaded_with-->>run_local: Return decision response
  run_local-->>CLI: Return scoring result

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An image request can use the hosted model despite a saved local route, and a rejected command can still change the saved route. Resolve these routing behaviors before merging unless their effects are explicitly accepted.

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🟠 Major · Apply the saved route to image requests. · cmd_decisions.rs:1263

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Apply the saved route to image requests.

If a user has saved the local route and runs wally decisions --image receipt.png without --model, this condition skips the saved route. The request retains the hosted default model, so a signed-in user sends the image to cloud scoring. Local image scoring is now supported. Remove the image exclusion and select a suitable local model when the saved route is local.

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Update the saved-route condition in the `wally decisions` request setup to apply
when `request.images` is present, removing the image exclusion. When the saved
route is local, select a suitable local model for image scoring instead of
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- Line 1347: Move the `controls.is_set()` conflict validation in the decisions
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- Line 1263: Update the saved-route condition in the `wally decisions` request
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