quantize: cap working memory size to avoid loading big tensors onto RAM

2026-10-13 00:07:42 -05:00 · 2026-08-27 13:48:24 +02:00
906 changed files with 40384 additions and 119929 deletions
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
    ]
    && blas.meta.available,
  useCuda ? config.cudaSupport,
-  useMetalKit ? stdenv.hostPlatform.isAarch64 && stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin,
+  useMetalKit ? stdenv.isAarch64 && stdenv.isDarwin,
  # Increases the runtime closure size by ~700M
  useMpi ? false,
  useRocm ? config.rocmSupport,
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ let

  cudaBuildInputs = with cudaPackages; [
    cuda_cudart
-    cccl # <nv/target>
+    cuda_cccl # <nv/target>
    libcublas
  ];

@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ effectiveStdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
  # `xcrun` is used find the path of the Metal compiler, which is varible
  # and not on $PATH
  # see https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/6118 for discussion
-  __noChroot = effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin && useMetalKit && precompileMetalShaders;
+  __noChroot = effectiveStdenv.isDarwin && useMetalKit && precompileMetalShaders;

  nativeBuildInputs =
    [
@@ -181,10 +181,10 @@ effectiveStdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
      autoAddDriverRunpath
    ]
    ++ optionals (effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform.isGnu && enableStatic) [ glibc.static ]
-    ++ optionals (effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin && useMetalKit && precompileMetalShaders) [ xcrunHost ];
+    ++ optionals (effectiveStdenv.isDarwin && useMetalKit && precompileMetalShaders) [ xcrunHost ];

  buildInputs =
-    optionals effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin darwinBuildInputs
+    optionals effectiveStdenv.isDarwin darwinBuildInputs
    ++ optionals useCuda cudaBuildInputs
    ++ optionals useMpi [ mpi ]
    ++ optionals useRocm rocmBuildInputs
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ effectiveStdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {

    # Configurations that are known to result in build failures. Can be
    # overridden by importing Nixpkgs with `allowBroken = true`.
-    broken = (useMetalKit && !effectiveStdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin);
+    broken = (useMetalKit && !effectiveStdenv.isDarwin);

    description = "Inference of LLaMA model in pure C/C++${descriptionSuffix}";
    homepage = "https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/";
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
-ARG OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR=2026.4
-ARG OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL=2026.4.0.22959.99c81491cc3
+ARG OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR=2026.3
+ARG OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL=2026.3.0.22451.bd8d6542e3c
 ARG UBUNTU_VERSION=24.04

 # Intel GPU driver versions. https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases
-ARG IGC_VERSION=v2.40.13
-ARG IGC_VERSION_FULL=2_2.40.13+22418
-ARG COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION=26.31.39395.13
-ARG COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL=26.31.39395.13-0
+ARG IGC_VERSION=v2.38.2
+ARG IGC_VERSION_FULL=2_2.38.2+22051
+ARG COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION=26.27.39122.11
+ARG COMPUTE_RUNTIME_VERSION_FULL=26.27.39122.11-0
 ARG IGDGMM_VERSION=22.10.0

 # Intel NPU driver versions. https://github.com/intel/linux-npu-driver/releases
-ARG NPU_DRIVER_VERSION=v1.38.0
-ARG NPU_DRIVER_FULL=v1.38.0.20260910-34487311128
-ARG LIBZE1_VERSION=1.32.0-1~24.04~ppa1
+ARG NPU_DRIVER_VERSION=v1.35.0
+ARG NPU_DRIVER_FULL=v1.35.0.20260722-29947505341
+ARG LIBZE1_VERSION=1.28.2-1~24.04~ppa1

 # Optional proxy build arguments
 ARG http_proxy=
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/intel-npu,sharing=locked \
    fi; \
    DEB=/var/cache/intel-npu/libze1_${LIBZE1_VERSION}_amd64.deb; \
    if [ ! -f "$DEB" ]; then \
-        wget -q -O "$DEB" https://snapshot.ppa.launchpadcontent.net/kobuk-team/intel-graphics/ubuntu/20260830T100000Z/pool/main/l/level-zero-loader/libze1_${LIBZE1_VERSION}_amd64.deb; \
+        wget -q -O "$DEB" https://snapshot.ppa.launchpadcontent.net/kobuk-team/intel-graphics/ubuntu/20260606T100000Z/pool/main/l/level-zero-loader/libze1_${LIBZE1_VERSION}_amd64.deb; \
    fi; \
    mkdir /tmp/npu/ && cd /tmp/npu/ && tar -xf "$TGZ" && cp "$DEB" .; \
    apt-get update; \
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "Exclude": ["^\\.gitmodules$", "stb_image\\.h", "examples/test-cmake/build/", "examples/test-cmake/build-subdir/"],
+  "Exclude": ["^\\.gitmodules$", "stb_image\\.h"],
  "Disable": {
    "IndentSize": true
  }
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-blank_issues_enabled: false
+blank_issues_enabled: true
 contact_links:
  - name: Got an idea?
    url: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/categories/ideas
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ runs:
      run: |
        BUILD_NUMBER="$(git rev-list --count HEAD)"
        SHORT_HASH="$(git rev-parse --short=7 HEAD)"
-        if [[ "${{ env.BRANCH_NAME }}" == "master" || "${{ env.BRANCH_NAME }}" == "b${BUILD_NUMBER}" ]]; then
+        if [[ "${{ env.BRANCH_NAME }}" == "master" ]]; then
          echo "name=b${BUILD_NUMBER}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
        else
          SAFE_NAME=$(echo "${{ env.BRANCH_NAME }}" | tr '/' '-')
@@ -100,36 +100,36 @@ runs:
          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 13.4 for x64
-      if: ${{ inputs.cuda_version == '13.4' && inputs.cuda_arch == 'x64' }}
+    - 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\v13.4"
+          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_64-13.4.59-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_cudart/windows-x86_64/cuda_cudart-windows-x86_64-13.4.49-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_nvcc/windows-x86_64/cuda_nvcc-windows-x86_64-13.4.59-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_nvrtc/windows-x86_64/cuda_nvrtc-windows-x86_64-13.4.59-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/libcublas/windows-x86_64/libcublas-windows-x86_64-13.7.0.27-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/libnvvm/windows-x86_64/libnvvm-windows-x86_64-13.4.59-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_nvtx/windows-x86_64/cuda_nvtx-windows-x86_64-13.4.49-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_profiler_api/windows-x86_64/cuda_profiler_api-windows-x86_64-13.4.49-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/visual_studio_integration/windows-x86_64/visual_studio_integration-windows-x86_64-13.4.49-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cccl/windows-x86_64/cccl-windows-x86_64-13.3.4.2.1-archive.zip"
-          unzip '*.zip' -d "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4"
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\cuda_crt-windows-x86_64-13.4.59-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\cuda_cudart-windows-x86_64-13.4.49-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\cuda_nvcc-windows-x86_64-13.4.59-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\cuda_nvrtc-windows-x86_64-13.4.59-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\libcublas-windows-x86_64-13.7.0.27-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\libnvvm-windows-x86_64-13.4.59-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\cuda_nvtx-windows-x86_64-13.4.49-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\cuda_profiler_api-windows-x86_64-13.4.49-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\visual_studio_integration-windows-x86_64-13.4.49-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\cccl-windows-x86_64-13.3.4.2.1-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
-          echo "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\bin" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_PATH -Encoding utf8 -Append
-          echo "CUDA_PATH=C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
-          echo "CUDA_PATH_V13_4=C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
+          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

    - name: Install Cuda Toolkit 13.4 for ARM64
      if: ${{ inputs.cuda_version == '13.4' && inputs.cuda_arch == 'arm64' }}
@@ -137,19 +137,19 @@ runs:
      run: |
          mkdir -p "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4"
          choco install unzip -y
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cccl/windows-x86_64/cccl-windows-x86_64-13.3.4.2.1-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_crt/windows-x86_64/cuda_crt-windows-x86_64-13.4.59-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_nvcc/windows-x86_64/cuda_nvcc-windows-x86_64-13.4.59-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/libnvvm/windows-x86_64/libnvvm-windows-x86_64-13.4.59-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_cudart/windows-arm64/cuda_cudart-windows-arm64-13.4.49-archive.zip"
-          curl -O "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/libcublas/windows-arm64/libcublas-windows-arm64-13.7.0.27-archive.zip"
+          curl -O "https://packages.nvidia.com/bin-archive/pool/windows-x86_64/5B515474-7E78-11F1-8656-C51E4F4B317F/cccl-windows-x86_64-13.3.4.1.2-archive.zip"
+          curl -O "https://packages.nvidia.com/bin-archive/pool/windows-x86_64/5B515474-7E78-11F1-8656-C51E4F4B317F/cuda_crt-windows-x86_64-13.4.46-archive.zip"
+          curl -O "https://packages.nvidia.com/bin-archive/pool/windows-x86_64/5B515474-7E78-11F1-8656-C51E4F4B317F/cuda_nvcc-windows-x86_64-13.4.46-archive.zip"
+          curl -O "https://packages.nvidia.com/bin-archive/pool/windows-x86_64/5B515474-7E78-11F1-8656-C51E4F4B317F/libnvvm-windows-x86_64-13.4.46-archive.zip"
+          curl -O "https://packages.nvidia.com/bin-archive/pool/windows-arm64/5B515474-7E78-11F1-8656-C51E4F4B317F/cuda_cudart-windows-arm64-13.4.46-archive.zip"
+          curl -O "https://packages.nvidia.com/bin-archive/pool/windows-arm64/5B515474-7E78-11F1-8656-C51E4F4B317F/libcublas-windows-arm64-13.7.0.10-archive.zip"
          unzip '*.zip' -d "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4"
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\cccl-windows-x86_64-13.3.4.2.1-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\cuda_crt-windows-x86_64-13.4.59-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\cuda_nvcc-windows-x86_64-13.4.59-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\libnvvm-windows-x86_64-13.4.59-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\cuda_cudart-windows-arm64-13.4.49-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
-          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\libcublas-windows-arm64-13.7.0.27-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
+          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\cccl-windows-x86_64-13.3.4.1.2-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
+          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\cuda_crt-windows-x86_64-13.4.46-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
+          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\cuda_nvcc-windows-x86_64-13.4.46-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
+          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\libnvvm-windows-x86_64-13.4.46-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
+          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\cuda_cudart-windows-arm64-13.4.46-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
+          xcopy "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\libcublas-windows-arm64-13.7.0.10-archive\*" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" /E /I /H /Y
          echo "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4\bin" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_PATH -Encoding utf8 -Append
          echo "CUDA_PATH=C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
          echo "CUDA_PATH_V13_4=C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v13.4" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ runs:

        write-host "Installing ROCm wheels for multi-arch support"
        # Install ROCm wheels for multi-arch support (this may take several minutes)
-        python -m pip install --index-url https://stable.repo.amd.com/rocm/whl-next/ "rocm[libraries,devel]==${{ inputs.version }}"
+        python -m pip install --index-url https://repo.amd.com/rocm/whl-multi-arch/ "rocm[libraries,devel]==${{ inputs.version }}"

        # Pre-expand the devel tree so it is included in the cache
        write-host "Initializing ROCm devel tree"
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ concurrency:

 jobs:
  android-ndk-snapdragon:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04  # previously ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container:
      image: 'ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-android:v0.7'
    defaults:
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
          path: pkg-snapdragon/llama.cpp

  linux-iot-snapdragon:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04  # previously ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container:
      image: 'ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-linux:v0.7'
    defaults:
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ env:

 jobs:
  default:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04  # previously ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Clone
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
          distribution: zulu

      - name: Setup Android SDK
-        uses: android-actions/setup-android@be39fa834029ff78f1a44aa3bb0819b8fc2bd8fd # v4.0.4
+        uses: android-actions/setup-android@40fd30fb8d7440372e1316f5d1809ec01dcd3699 # v4.0.1
        with:
          log-accepted-android-sdk-licenses: false

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
          ./gradlew build --no-daemon

  ndk:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04  # previously ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container:
      image: 'ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-android:v0.3'
    defaults:
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ jobs:
          path: pkg-adb/llama.cpp

  arm64:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04  # previously ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    env:
      NDK_VERSION: "29.0.14206865"
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ jobs:
      #   cache on:  https://github.com/ggerganov/tmp2/actions/runs/26534713799/job/78224189394
      #
      #- name: ccache
-      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
      #  with:
      #    key: android-ubuntu-arm64
      #    evict-old-files: 1d
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ jobs:
          distribution: temurin

      - name: Setup Android SDK
-        uses: android-actions/setup-android@be39fa834029ff78f1a44aa3bb0819b8fc2bd8fd # v4.0.4
+        uses: android-actions/setup-android@40fd30fb8d7440372e1316f5d1809ec01dcd3699 # v4.0.1
        with:
          log-accepted-android-sdk-licenses: false

@@ -47,19 +47,11 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: apple-arm64
-          save: false
-
-      - name: ccache-buckets-restore
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-        with:
-          key: apple-arm64
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
@@ -74,25 +66,7 @@ jobs:
            -DGGML_RPC=ON \
            -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=13.3
          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)
-
-      - name: ccache-buckets-save
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
-        with:
-          key: apple-arm64
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-          save: true
-
-      - name: Check for leaks
-        run: |
-          cmd=(./build/bin/test-thread-safety -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-270m-qat-GGUF -ngl 99 -p "$(printf 'hello %.0s' {1..128})" -n 16 -c 512 -ub 32 -np 2 -t 2 -lv 1)
-          leaks -atExit -- "${cmd[@]}"
-          # Graphics devices are leaked by Metal in Apple code sometimes, so we ignore those leaks
-          OBJC_DEBUG_MISSING_POOLS=YES "${cmd[@]}" 2>&1 | awk '{ print } index($0, "autoreleased with no pool in place") && !/class [a-zA-Z0-9]+Device autoreleased/ { found = 1 } END { exit found }'
+          leaks -atExit -- ./build/bin/test-thread-safety -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-270m-qat-GGUF -ngl 99 -p "$(printf 'hello %.0s' {1..128})" -n 16 -c 512 -ub 32 -np 2 -t 2 -lv 1

      - name: Test
        id: cmake_test
@@ -100,6 +74,16 @@ jobs:
          cd build
          ctest -L main -E "test-llama-archs" --verbose --timeout 900

+      - name: ccache-clear
+        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-clear
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+        with:
+          key: apple-arm64
+          older: 5m
+          min: 1
+          dry-run: ${{ github.event_name != 'push' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' }}
+
  macos-latest-x64:
    runs-on: macos-15-intel

@@ -109,19 +93,11 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: apple-x64
-          save: false
-
-      - name: ccache-buckets-restore
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-        with:
-          key: apple-x64
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
@@ -138,24 +114,22 @@ jobs:
            -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=13.3
          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)

-      - name: ccache-buckets-save
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
-        with:
-          key: apple-x64
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-          save: true
-
      - name: Test
        id: cmake_test
        run: |
          cd build
          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900

+      - name: ccache-clear
+        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-clear
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+        with:
+          key: apple-x64
+          older: 5m
+          min: 1
+          dry-run: ${{ github.event_name != 'push' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' }}
+
  macos-latest-ios-xcode:
    runs-on: macos-latest

@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ jobs:

    env:
      # Sync versions in build-openvino.yml, build-self-hosted.yml, release.yml, build-cache.yml, .devops/openvino.Dockerfile
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.4"
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.4.0.22959.99c81491cc3"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.3"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.3.0.22451.bd8d6542e3c"

    steps:
      - name: Clone
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ jobs:

    env:
      # Sync versions in build.yml, build-self-hosted.yml, release.yml, build-cache.yml, .devops/openvino.Dockerfile
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.4"
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.4.0.22959.99c81491cc3"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.3"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.3.0.22451.bd8d6542e3c"

    steps:
      - name: Clone
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ on:

 jobs:
  linux:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, CPU]
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux]
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
        with:
@@ -62,10 +62,11 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: cpu-${{ matrix.os }}
-          save: false
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

      - name: Build Dependencies
        id: build_depends
@@ -88,16 +89,7 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          export PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES="1"
          python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
-          pip3 install ./gguf-py jinja2==3.1.6
-
-      - name: ccache-buckets-restore
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-        with:
-          key: cpu-${{ matrix.os }}
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
+          pip3 install ./gguf-py

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
@@ -108,23 +100,11 @@ jobs:
            -DGGML_RPC=ON
          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)

-      - name: ccache-buckets-save
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
-        with:
-          key: cpu-${{ matrix.os }}
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-          save: true
-
      - name: Test
        id: cmake_test
        run: |
          cd build
-          ctest -L 'main|python' --verbose --timeout 900
+          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900

      - name: Test llama2c conversion
        id: llama2c_test
@@ -137,6 +117,18 @@ jobs:
          ./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

+      # note: real deletion only on push to master (same condition as the ccache save),
+      #       dry-run otherwise (the token is read-only on PRs from forks)
+      - name: ccache-clear
+        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-clear
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+        with:
+          key: cpu-${{ matrix.os }}
+          older: 5m
+          min: 1
+          dry-run: ${{ github.event_name != 'push' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' }}
+
  windows:
    name: windows / ${{ matrix.build }}
    runs-on: windows-2025
@@ -164,7 +156,7 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: cpu-windows-2025-${{ matrix.build }}
          variant: ccache
@@ -221,6 +213,7 @@ jobs:
      #     7z x "-o${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

      - name: ccache-clear
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ jobs:
          apt install -y cmake build-essential ninja-build libgomp1 git libssl-dev jq python3 python3-venv python3-pip

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: cuda-ubuntu-24.04-cuda
          save: false
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ jobs:
      - name: ccache-buckets-restore
        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
+          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
        with:
          key: cuda-ubuntu-24.04-cuda
          folder: llama.cpp
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ jobs:
          sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git cmake rocblas-dev hipblas-dev libssl-dev rocwmma-dev jq python3-venv

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: cuda-ubuntu-22.04-hip
          save: false
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ jobs:
      - name: ccache-buckets-restore
        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
+          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
        with:
          key: cuda-ubuntu-22.04-hip
          folder: llama.cpp
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ jobs:

  musa:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    container: registry.mthreads.com/mcconline/inference/pytorch:2.9.1.post1-py3.10-musa5.2.0-mp31-devel-ubuntu22.04-amd64
+    container: mthreads/musa:rc4.3.0-devel-ubuntu22.04-amd64

    steps:
      - name: Clone
@@ -156,10 +156,10 @@ jobs:
        id: depends
        run: |
          apt-get update
-          apt-get install -y build-essential git cmake libssl-dev jq python3-venv
+          apt-get install -y build-essential git cmake libssl-dev jq

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: cuda-ubuntu-22.04-musa
          save: false
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ jobs:
      - name: ccache-buckets-restore
        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
+          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
        with:
          key: cuda-ubuntu-22.04-musa
          folder: llama.cpp
@@ -177,9 +177,8 @@ jobs:
        id: cmake_build
        run: |
          cmake -B build -S . \
-            -DGGML_MUSA=ON \
-            -DMUSA_ARCHITECTURES=31
-          cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
+            -DGGML_MUSA=ON
+          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)

      - name: ccache-buckets-save
        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ jobs:
          - cuda: '12.4'
            arch: x64
            defines: '-DGGML_CUDA_CUB_3DOT2=ON'
-          - cuda: '13.4'
+          - cuda: '13.3'
            arch: x64
            defines: ''
          - cuda: '13.4'
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: release-windows-2022-${{ matrix.arch }}-cuda-${{ matrix.cuda }}

@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ jobs:
          & "${env:HIP_PATH}\lib\llvm\bin\clang.exe" --version

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        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
@@ -34,14 +34,9 @@ env:
  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1

 jobs:
-  ubuntu-24-s390x:
-    name: ubuntu-24-s390x (VXE ${{ matrix.vxe }})
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-s390x

-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        vxe: ["ON", "OFF"]  # `-DGGML_VXE=ON/OFF`
+  ubuntu-24-s390x:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04-s390x

    steps:
      - name: Clone
@@ -82,8 +77,7 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          cmake -B build \
            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DGGML_RPC=ON \
-            -DGGML_VXE=${{ matrix.vxe }}
+            -DGGML_RPC=ON
          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)

      - name: Test
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

      #- name: ccache
-      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.16
      #  with:
      #    key: msys-windows-2025-x64
      #    variant: ccache
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: opencl-windows-2025-x64
          variant: ccache
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ env:
  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-  # TODO: fix failing tests on OpenVINO backend
-  CTEST_EXCLUDE: "test-llama-archs|^test-recurrent-state-|test-save-load-state"

 jobs:
  ubuntu-24-openvino:
@@ -41,8 +39,8 @@ jobs:

    env:
      # Sync versions in build-openvino.yml, build-self-hosted.yml, release.yml, build-cache.yml, .devops/openvino.Dockerfile
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.4"
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.4.0.22959.99c81491cc3"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.3"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.3.0.22451.bd8d6542e3c"

    steps:
      - name: Clone
@@ -80,24 +78,26 @@ jobs:

      - name: Test (CPU)
        id: cmake_test_cpu
+        # TODO: fix and re-enable the `test-llama-archs` test below
        run: |
          cd ${{ github.workspace }}
-          ctest --test-dir build/ReleaseOV -L main -E "${{ env.CTEST_EXCLUDE }}" --verbose --timeout 3000
+          ctest --test-dir build/ReleaseOV -L main -E "test-llama-archs|test-recurrent-state-rollback-nemotron-h" --verbose --timeout 2000

      - name: Test (GPU)
        id: cmake_test_gpu
+        # TODO: fix and re-enable the `test-llama-archs` test below
        run: |
          cd ${{ github.workspace }}
          export GGML_OPENVINO_DEVICE=GPU
-          ctest --test-dir build/ReleaseOV -L main -E "${{ env.CTEST_EXCLUDE }}" --verbose --timeout 3000
+          ctest --test-dir build/ReleaseOV -L main -E "test-llama-archs|test-recurrent-state-rollback-nemotron-h" --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: "2026.4"
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.4.0.22959.99c81491cc3"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.3"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.3.0.22451.bd8d6542e3c"

    steps:
      - name: Clone
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: openvino-windows-2022
          variant: ccache
@@ -159,13 +159,14 @@ jobs:
      - 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 "${{ env.CTEST_EXCLUDE }}" -C Release --verbose --timeout 3000
+          ctest --test-dir ReleaseOV -L main -E "test-llama-archs|test-recurrent-state-rollback-nemotron-h" -C Release --verbose --timeout 3000

      - name: ccache-clear
        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-clear
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ jobs:

      # 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@v1.2.24
+      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@afde29e5b5422e5da23cb1f639e8baecadeadfc3 # https://github.com/ggml-org/ccache-action/pull/1
      #  with:
      #    key: riscv-ubuntu-native
      #    evict-old-files: 1d
@@ -106,3 +106,83 @@ jobs:
          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
+
+    continue-on-error: true
+
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        sanitizer: [ADDRESS, THREAD, UNDEFINED]
+        build_type: [Debug]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          # 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: GCC version check
+        run: |
+          gcc --version
+          g++ --version
+
+      - 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-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
+        if: ${{ matrix.sanitizer != 'THREAD' }}
+        run: |
+          cmake -B build \
+            -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
+            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${{ matrix.build_type }} \
+            -DGGML_OPENMP=ON \
+            -DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON \
+            -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=ON \
+            -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
+            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache \
+            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache \
+            -DLLAMA_SANITIZE_${{ matrix.sanitizer }}=ON \
+            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc-14 \
+            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=riscv64-linux-gnu-g++-14
+
+          cmake --build build --config ${{ matrix.build_type }} -j $(nproc)
+
+      - name: Build (no OpenMP)
+        id: cmake_build_no_openmp
+        if: ${{ matrix.sanitizer == 'THREAD' }}
+        run: |
+          cmake -B build \
+            -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
+            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${{ matrix.build_type }} \
+            -DGGML_OPENMP=OFF \
+            -DLLAMA_BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON \
+            -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=ON \
+            -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
+            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache \
+            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache \
+            -DLLAMA_SANITIZE_${{ matrix.sanitizer }}=ON \
+            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc-14 \
+            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=riscv64-linux-gnu-g++-14
+
+          cmake --build build --config ${{ matrix.build_type }} -j $(nproc)
+
+      - name: Test
+        id: cmake_test
+        run: |
+          cd build
+          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

      # - name: ccache
-      #   uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+      #   uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
      #   if: ${{ matrix.sanitizer != 'UNDEFINED' }}
      #   with:
      #     key: ctest-${{ matrix.sanitizer }}-ubuntu-24.04
@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ jobs:

      - 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
@@ -0,0 +1,409 @@
+name: CI (self-hosted)
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+    paths: [
+      '.github/workflows/build-self-hosted.yml',
+      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
+      '**/.cmake',
+      '**/*.h',
+      '**/*.hpp',
+      '**/*.c',
+      '**/*.cpp',
+      '**/*.cu',
+      '**/*.cuh',
+      '**/*.swift',
+      '**/*.m',
+      '**/*.metal',
+      '**/*.comp',
+      '**/*.glsl',
+      '**/*.wgsl'
+    ]
+
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
+    paths: [
+      '.github/workflows/build-self-hosted.yml',
+      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
+      '**/.cmake',
+      '**/*.h',
+      '**/*.hpp',
+      '**/*.c',
+      '**/*.cpp',
+      '**/*.cu',
+      '**/*.cuh',
+      '**/*.swift',
+      '**/*.m',
+      '**/*.metal',
+      '**/*.comp',
+      '**/*.glsl',
+      '**/*.wgsl'
+    ]
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+env:
+  # note: this is dud token to avoid rate limiting (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/25706#issuecomment-4979941302)
+  HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
+  GGML_NLOOP: 3
+  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
+  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
+  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
+  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
+
+jobs:
+  gpu-cuda:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, NVIDIA]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Test
+        id: ggml-ci
+        run: |
+          nvidia-smi
+          GG_BUILD_CUDA=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+
+  gpu-rocm:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, AMD]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Test
+        id: ggml-ci
+        # HIP_LAUNCH_BLOCKING=1: workaround for an async-execution correctness
+        # issue on integrated RDNA3.5 (gfx1151) where batched inference returns
+        # incorrect output (perplexity ~88 vs ~9.4). Serializing kernel launches
+        # restores correctness. Remove once the underlying ROCm/HIP issue is fixed.
+        env:
+          HIP_LAUNCH_BLOCKING: "1"
+        run: |
+          rocminfo
+          GG_BUILD_ROCM=1 GG_BUILD_AMDGPU_TARGETS=gfx1151 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+
+  gpu-vulkan-nvidia-cm:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, NVIDIA]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Test
+        id: ggml-ci
+        run: |
+          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:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, NVIDIA, COOPMAT2]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Test
+        id: ggml-ci
+        run: |
+          vulkaninfo --summary
+          GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+
+  gpu-webgpu-nvidia:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, NVIDIA, X64]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Dawn Dependency
+        id: dawn-depends
+        run: |
+          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}/${DAWN_ASSET_NAME}.tar.gz"
+          mkdir dawn
+          tar -xvf artifact.tar.gz -C dawn --strip-components=1
+
+      - name: Test
+        id: ggml-ci
+        run: |
+          GG_BUILD_WEBGPU=1 \
+          GG_BUILD_WEBGPU_DAWN_PREFIX="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/dawn" \
+          GG_BUILD_WEBGPU_DAWN_DIR="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/dawn/lib64/cmake/Dawn" \
+            bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+
+  # TODO: provision AMX-compatible machine
+  #cpu-amx:
+  #  runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, CPU, AMX]
+
+  #  steps:
+  #    - name: Clone
+  #      id: checkout
+  #      uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+  #    - name: Test
+  #      id: ggml-ci
+  #      run: |
+  #        bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+
+  # TODO: provision AMD GPU machine
+  # amd-vulkan:
+  #   runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, AMD]
+
+  #   steps:
+  #     - name: Clone
+  #       id: checkout
+  #       uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+  #     - name: Test
+  #       id: ggml-ci
+  #       run: |
+  #         vulkaninfo --summary
+  #         GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+
+  # TODO: provision AMD GPU machine
+  # amd-rocm:
+  #   runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, AMD]
+
+  #   steps:
+  #     - name: Clone
+  #       id: checkout
+  #       uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+  #     - name: Test
+  #       id: ggml-ci
+  #       run: |
+  #         amd-smi static
+  #         GG_BUILD_ROCM=1 GG_BUILD_AMDGPU_TARGETS="gfx1101" bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+
+  gpu-metal:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, macOS, ARM64]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Test
+        id: ggml-ci
+        run: |
+          GG_BUILD_METAL=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+
+  gpu-webgpu-apple:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, macOS, ARM64]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - 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}/${DAWN_ASSET_NAME}.tar.gz"
+          mkdir dawn
+          tar -xvf artifact.tar.gz -C dawn --strip-components=1
+
+      - name: Test
+        id: ggml-ci
+        run: |
+          GG_BUILD_WEBGPU=1 GG_BUILD_WEBGPU_DAWN_PREFIX="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/dawn" \
+            bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+
+  gpu-vulkan-apple:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, macOS, ARM64]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Test
+        id: ggml-ci
+        run: |
+          vulkaninfo --summary
+          GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+
+  gpu-vulkan-intel-linux:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, Intel]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Test
+        id: ggml-ci
+        run: |
+          vulkaninfo --summary
+          GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+
+  gpu-vulkan-intel-windows:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Windows, X64, Intel]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Test
+        id: ggml-ci
+        shell: C:\msys64\usr\bin\bash.exe --noprofile --norc -eo pipefail "{0}"
+        env:
+          MSYSTEM: UCRT64
+          CHERE_INVOKING: 1
+          PATH: C:\msys64\ucrt64\bin;C:\msys64\usr\bin;C:\Windows\System32;${{ env.PATH }}
+        run: |
+          vulkaninfo --summary
+          # Skip python related tests with GG_BUILD_LOW_PERF=1 since Windows MSYS2 UCRT64 currently fails to create
+          # 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:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, Intel, OpenVINO]
+
+    env:
+      # Sync versions in build.yml, build-self-hosted.yml, release.yml, build-cache.yml, .devops/openvino.Dockerfile
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.3"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.3.0.22451.bd8d6542e3c"
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Setup OpenVINO Toolkit
+        uses: ./.github/actions/linux-setup-openvino
+        with:
+          path: ./openvino_toolkit
+          version_major: ${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR }}
+          version_full: ${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}
+
+      - name: Install OpenVINO dependencies
+        run: |
+          cd ./openvino_toolkit
+          chmod +x ./install_dependencies/install_openvino_dependencies.sh
+          echo "Y" | sudo -E ./install_dependencies/install_openvino_dependencies.sh
+
+      - name: Test
+        id: ggml-ci
+        run: |
+          source ./openvino_toolkit/setupvars.sh
+          GG_BUILD_OPENVINO=1 GGML_OPENVINO_DEVICE=GPU GG_BUILD_LOW_PERF=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+
+  cpu-x64-high-perf:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, X64]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Test
+        id: ggml-ci
+        run: |
+          LLAMA_ARG_THREADS=$(nproc) GG_BUILD_HIGH_PERF=1 GG_BUILD_EXTRA_TESTS_0=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+
+  cpu-arm64-high-perf-graviton4:
+    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: |
+          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
+
+  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
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
    env:
      ONEAPI_ROOT: /opt/intel/oneapi/
      ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION: "2025.3.3"
-      LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION: "1.33.1"
+      LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION: "1.28.2"
      LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION: "u24.04"

    continue-on-error: true
@@ -70,25 +70,16 @@ jobs:
        shell: bash
        run: |
          cd /tmp
-          # v1.33.x renamed the Debian packages to libze1 / libze-dev
-          wget -q "https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}/libze1_${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}%2B${LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION}_amd64.deb" -O libze1.deb
-          wget -q "https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}/libze-dev_${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}%2B${LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION}_amd64.deb" -O libze-dev.deb
-          sudo apt-get install -y ./libze1.deb ./libze-dev.deb
+          wget -q "https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}/level-zero_${LEVEL_ZERO_VERSION}%2B${LEVEL_ZERO_UBUNTU_VERSION}_amd64.deb" -O level-zero.deb
+          wget -q "https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v${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: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: sycl-ubuntu-24-${{ matrix.build }}
-          save: false
-
-      - name: ccache-buckets-restore
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-        with:
-          key: sycl-ubuntu-24-${{ matrix.build }}
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
@@ -102,24 +93,18 @@ jobs:
            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=icpx \
            -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
            -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF \
-            -DGGML_SYCL_F16=${{ matrix.fp16 }} \
-            -DGGML_SYCL_SUPPORT_LEVEL_ZERO_API=ON \
-            -DGGML_SYCL_DNN=ON \
-            -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-fsycl-unnamed-lambda" \
-            -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-fsycl-unnamed-lambda"
+            -DGGML_SYCL_F16=${{ matrix.fp16 }}
          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)

-      - name: ccache-buckets-save
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
+      - name: ccache-clear
+        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-clear
        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
        with:
          key: sycl-ubuntu-24-${{ matrix.build }}
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-          save: true
+          older: 5m
+          min: 1
+          dry-run: ${{ github.event_name != 'push' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' }}

  windows-latest-sycl:
    runs-on: windows-2022
@@ -131,7 +116,7 @@ jobs:
    env:
      WINDOWS_BASEKIT_URL: https://registrationcenter-download.intel.com/akdlm/IRC_NAS/b60765d1-2b85-4e85-86b6-cb0e9563a699/intel-deep-learning-essentials-2025.3.3.18_offline.exe
      WINDOWS_DPCPP_MKL: intel.oneapi.win.cpp-dpcpp-common:intel.oneapi.win.mkl.devel:intel.oneapi.win.dnnl:intel.oneapi.win.tbb.devel
-      LEVEL_ZERO_SDK_URL: https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v1.33.1/level-zero-win-sdk-1.33.1.zip
+      LEVEL_ZERO_SDK_URL: https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero/releases/download/v1.28.2/level-zero-win-sdk-1.28.2.zip
      ONEAPI_ROOT: "C:/Program Files (x86)/Intel/oneAPI"
      ONEAPI_INSTALLER_VERSION: "2025.3.3"
    steps:
@@ -152,7 +137,7 @@ jobs:
          "LEVEL_ZERO_V1_SDK_PATH=C:/level-zero-sdk" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: sycl-windows-latest
          variant: ccache
@@ -53,20 +53,12 @@ jobs:
          echo "CXX=g++-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: vulkan-ubuntu-24.04-arm
          variant: ccache
-          save: false
-
-      - name: ccache-buckets-restore
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-        with:
-          key: vulkan-ubuntu-24.04-arm
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

      - name: Configure
        id: cmake_configure
@@ -81,17 +73,15 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          time cmake --build build -j $(nproc)

-      - name: ccache-buckets-save
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
+      - name: ccache-clear
+        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-clear
        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
        with:
          key: vulkan-ubuntu-24.04-arm
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-          save: true
+          older: 5m
+          min: 1
+          dry-run: ${{ github.event_name != 'push' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' }}

  ubuntu-llvmpipe:
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
@@ -122,19 +112,11 @@ jobs:
          strip: 1

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: vulkan-ubuntu-24.04-llvmpipe
-          save: false
-
-      - name: ccache-buckets-restore
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-        with:
-          key: vulkan-ubuntu-24.04-llvmpipe
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
@@ -145,18 +127,6 @@ jobs:
            -DGGML_VULKAN=ON
          cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)

-      - name: ccache-buckets-save
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
-        with:
-          key: vulkan-ubuntu-24.04-llvmpipe
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-          save: true
-
      - name: Test
        id: cmake_test
        run: |
@@ -164,7 +134,19 @@ jobs:
          export GGML_VK_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0
          export GGML_VK_DISABLE_F16=1
          export GGML_VK_DISABLE_COOPMAT=1
-          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900
+          # 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
+
+      - name: ccache-clear
+        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-clear
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+        with:
+          key: vulkan-ubuntu-24.04-llvmpipe
+          older: 5m
+          min: 1
+          dry-run: ${{ github.event_name != 'push' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' }}

  windows:
    runs-on: windows-2025
@@ -178,7 +160,7 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: cpu-windows-2025-x64-vulkan
          variant: ccache
@@ -54,10 +54,11 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: webgpu-ubuntu-24.04-arm-wasm
-          save: false
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

      - name: Install Emscripten
        run: |
@@ -68,22 +69,13 @@ jobs:

      - name: Fetch emdawnwebgpu
        run: |
-          DAWN_TAG="v20260908.214631"
+          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: ccache-buckets-restore
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-        with:
-          key: webgpu-ubuntu-24.04-arm-wasm
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-
      - name: Build WASM WebGPU
        run: |
          source emsdk/emsdk_env.sh
@@ -97,14 +89,12 @@ jobs:

          time cmake --build build-wasm --config Release --target test-backend-ops -j $(nproc)

-      - name: ccache-buckets-save
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
+      - name: ccache-clear
+        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-clear
        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
        with:
          key: webgpu-ubuntu-24.04-arm-wasm
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-          save: true
+          older: 5m
+          min: 1
+          dry-run: ${{ github.event_name != 'push' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' }}
@@ -69,33 +69,25 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: webgpu-macos-latest
-          save: false
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

      - name: Dawn Dependency
        id: dawn-depends
        run: |
-          DAWN_VERSION="v20260908.214631"
+          DAWN_VERSION="v20260317.182325"
          DAWN_OWNER="google"
          DAWN_REPO="dawn"
-          DAWN_ASSET_NAME="Dawn-94c3c9cc0d5fb2e85aebb370fa8d37b71aa34655-macos-latest-Release"
+          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: ccache-buckets-restore
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-        with:
-          key: webgpu-macos-latest
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-
      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
        run: |
@@ -103,24 +95,22 @@ jobs:
          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: ccache-buckets-save
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
-        with:
-          key: webgpu-macos-latest
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-          save: true
-
      - name: Test
        id: cmake_test
        run: |
          cd build
          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900

+      - name: ccache-clear
+        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-clear
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+        with:
+          key: webgpu-macos-latest
+          older: 5m
+          min: 1
+          dry-run: ${{ github.event_name != 'push' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' }}
+
  ubuntu:
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04

@@ -130,10 +120,11 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: webgpu-ubuntu-24.04
-          save: false
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

      - name: Dependencies
        id: depends
@@ -147,25 +138,16 @@ jobs:
        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="v20260908.214631"
+          DAWN_VERSION="v20260317.182325"
          DAWN_OWNER="google"
          DAWN_REPO="dawn"
-          DAWN_ASSET_NAME="Dawn-94c3c9cc0d5fb2e85aebb370fa8d37b71aa34655-ubuntu-latest-Release"
+          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: ccache-buckets-restore
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-        with:
-          key: webgpu-ubuntu-24.04
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-
      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
        run: |
@@ -174,20 +156,20 @@ jobs:
            -DGGML_WEBGPU=ON
          time cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)

-      - name: ccache-buckets-save
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
-        with:
-          key: webgpu-ubuntu-24.04
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-          save: true
-
      - name: Test
        id: cmake_test
        run: |
          cd build
-          ctest -L main --verbose --timeout 900
+          # 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
+
+      - name: ccache-clear
+        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-clear
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+        with:
+          key: webgpu-ubuntu-24.04
+          older: 5m
+          min: 1
+          dry-run: ${{ github.event_name != 'push' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' }}
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ on:

 jobs:
  check-vendor:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, fast]

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (self-hosted CPU backend)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ci-self-hosted-cpu.yml',
-      'ci/run.sh',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ci-self-hosted-cpu.yml',
-      'ci/run.sh',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      'ggml/src/*',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-cpu/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  # note: this is dud token to avoid rate limiting (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/25706#issuecomment-4979941302)
-  HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  cpu-x64-high-perf:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, X64]
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        run: |
-          LLAMA_ARG_THREADS=$(nproc) GG_BUILD_HIGH_PERF=1 GG_BUILD_EXTRA_TESTS_0=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
-
-  cpu-arm64-high-perf-graviton4:
-    runs-on: ah-ubuntu_24_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: |
-          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
-
-  # TODO: provision AMX-compatible machine
-  #cpu-amx:
-  #  runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, CPU, AMX]
-
-  #  steps:
-  #    - name: Clone
-  #      id: checkout
-  #      uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-  #    - name: Test
-  #      id: ggml-ci
-  #      run: |
-  #        bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
@@ -1,124 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (self-hosted CUDA backend)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ci-self-hosted-cuda.yml',
-      'ci/run.sh',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp',
-      '**/*.cu',
-      '**/*.cuh'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ci-self-hosted-cuda.yml',
-      'ci/run.sh',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      'ggml/src/*',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-cpu/**',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-cuda/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  # note: this is dud token to avoid rate limiting (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/25706#issuecomment-4979941302)
-  HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  gpu-cuda:
-    runs-on: "hf-jobs-t4-small:cuda13"
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          sudo apt update
-          sudo apt install -y cmake libssl-dev time unzip wget python3 python3-venv python3-pip
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
-        with:
-          restore: false
-          save: false
-
-      - name: ccache-buckets-restore
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        with:
-          key: self-hosted-gpu-cuda
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        run: |
-          nvidia-smi
-          GG_BUILD_CUDA=1 CUDACXX=/usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
-
-      - name: ccache-buckets-save
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
-        with:
-          key: self-hosted-gpu-cuda
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-          save: true
-
-  gpu-rocm:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, AMD]
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        # HIP_LAUNCH_BLOCKING=1: workaround for an async-execution correctness
-        # issue on integrated RDNA3.5 (gfx1151) where batched inference returns
-        # incorrect output (perplexity ~88 vs ~9.4). Serializing kernel launches
-        # restores correctness. Remove once the underlying ROCm/HIP issue is fixed.
-        env:
-          HIP_LAUNCH_BLOCKING: "1"
-        run: |
-          rocminfo
-          GG_BUILD_ROCM=1 GG_BUILD_AMDGPU_TARGETS=gfx1151 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
-
-  # TODO: provision AMD GPU machine
-  # amd-rocm:
-  #   runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, AMD]
-
-  #   steps:
-  #     - name: Clone
-  #       id: checkout
-  #       uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-  #     - name: Test
-  #       id: ggml-ci
-  #       run: |
-  #         amd-smi static
-  #         GG_BUILD_ROCM=1 GG_BUILD_AMDGPU_TARGETS="gfx1101" bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (self-hosted KleidiAI backend)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ci-self-hosted-kleidiai.yml',
-      'ci/run.sh',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ci-self-hosted-kleidiai.yml',
-      'ci/run.sh',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      'ggml/src/*',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-cpu/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  # note: this is dud token to avoid rate limiting (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/25706#issuecomment-4979941302)
-  HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  cpu-arm64-graviton4-kleidiai:
-    runs-on: ah-ubuntu_24_04-c8g_8x
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Dependencies
-        id: depends
-        run: |
-          set -euxo pipefail
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive NEEDRESTART_MODE=a \
-          apt-get install -y \
-          build-essential \
-          python3-venv \
-          gpg \
-          wget \
-          time \
-          git-lfs
-
-          git lfs install
-
-          # install the latest cmake
-          sudo install -d /usr/share/keyrings
-          wget -O - https://apt.kitware.com/keys/kitware-archive-latest.asc \
-            | gpg --dearmor \
-            | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/kitware-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
-          echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/kitware-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.kitware.com/ubuntu/ jammy main' \
-            | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kitware.list
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y cmake
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        run: |
-          LLAMA_ARG_THREADS=$(nproc) \
-          GG_BUILD_KLEIDIAI=1 \
-          GG_BUILD_EXTRA_TESTS_0=1 \
-          GG_BUILD_HIGH_PERF=1 \
-          bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (self-hosted Metal backend)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ci-self-hosted-metal.yml',
-      'ci/run.sh',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp',
-      '**/*.swift',
-      '**/*.m',
-      '**/*.metal'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ci-self-hosted-metal.yml',
-      'ci/run.sh',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      'ggml/src/*',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-cpu/**',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-metal/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  # note: this is dud token to avoid rate limiting (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/25706#issuecomment-4979941302)
-  HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  gpu-metal:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, macOS, ARM64]
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        run: |
-          GG_BUILD_METAL=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (self-hosted OpenVINO backend)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ci-self-hosted-openvino.yml',
-      'ci/run.sh',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ci-self-hosted-openvino.yml',
-      'ci/run.sh',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      'ggml/src/*',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-cpu/**',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-openvino/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  # note: this is dud token to avoid rate limiting (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/25706#issuecomment-4979941302)
-  HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  gpu-openvino-low-perf:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, Intel, OpenVINO]
-
-    env:
-      # Sync versions in build.yml, build-self-hosted.yml, release.yml, build-cache.yml, .devops/openvino.Dockerfile
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.4"
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.4.0.22959.99c81491cc3"
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Setup OpenVINO Toolkit
-        uses: ./.github/actions/linux-setup-openvino
-        with:
-          path: ./openvino_toolkit
-          version_major: ${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR }}
-          version_full: ${{ env.OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL }}
-
-      - name: Install OpenVINO dependencies
-        run: |
-          cd ./openvino_toolkit
-          chmod +x ./install_dependencies/install_openvino_dependencies.sh
-          echo "Y" | sudo -E ./install_dependencies/install_openvino_dependencies.sh
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        run: |
-          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
@@ -1,201 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (self-hosted Vulkan backend)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ci-self-hosted-vulkan.yml',
-      'ci/run.sh',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp',
-      '**/*.comp',
-      '**/*.glsl'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ci-self-hosted-vulkan.yml',
-      'ci/run.sh',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      'ggml/src/*',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-cpu/**',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  # note: this is dud token to avoid rate limiting (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/25706#issuecomment-4979941302)
-  HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  gpu-vulkan-nvidia-cm:
-    # runs-on: "hf-jobs-t4-small:ubuntu26_04"
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, NVIDIA]
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      # - name: Install dependencies
-      #   run: |
-      #     sudo apt update
-      #     sudo apt install -y build-essential cmake libxcb-xinput0 libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-cursor-dev libvulkan-dev glslc spirv-headers vulkan-tools mesa-vulkan-drivers libglvnd0 libgl1 libglx0 libegl1 libgles2 libssl-dev time unzip wget python3 python3-venv python3-pip
-
-      # - name: ccache
-      #   uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
-      #   with:
-      #     restore: false
-      #     save: false
-
-      # - name: ccache-buckets-restore
-      #   uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-      #   with:
-      #     key: self-hosted-vulkan-nvidia-cm
-      #     folder: llama.cpp
-      #     hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        run: |
-          vulkaninfo --summary
-          GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 GGML_VK_DISABLE_COOPMAT2=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
-
-      # - name: ccache-buckets-save
-      #   if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-      #   uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-      #   env:
-      #     HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
-      #   with:
-      #     key: self-hosted-vulkan-nvidia-cm
-      #     folder: llama.cpp
-      #     evict-old-files: 1d
-      #     hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-      #     save: true
-
-  gpu-vulkan-nvidia-cm2:
-    # runs-on: "hf-jobs-t4-small:ubuntu26_04"
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, NVIDIA, COOPMAT2]
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      # - name: Install dependencies
-      #   run: |
-      #     sudo apt update
-      #     sudo apt install -y build-essential cmake libxcb-xinput0 libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-cursor-dev libvulkan-dev glslc spirv-headers vulkan-tools mesa-vulkan-drivers libglvnd0 libgl1 libglx0 libegl1 libgles2 libssl-dev time unzip wget python3 python3-venv python3-pip
-
-      # - name: ccache
-      #   uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
-      #   with:
-      #     restore: false
-      #     save: false
-
-      # - name: ccache-buckets-restore
-      #   uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-      #   with:
-      #     key: self-hosted-vulkan-nvidia-cm2
-      #     folder: llama.cpp
-      #     hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        run: |
-          vulkaninfo --summary
-          GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
-
-      # - name: ccache-buckets-save
-      #   if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-      #   uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-      #   env:
-      #     HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
-      #   with:
-      #     key: self-hosted-vulkan-nvidia-cm2
-      #     folder: llama.cpp
-      #     evict-old-files: 1d
-      #     hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-      #     save: true
-
-  gpu-vulkan-apple:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, macOS, ARM64]
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        run: |
-          vulkaninfo --summary
-          GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
-
-  gpu-vulkan-intel-linux:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, Intel]
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          persist-credentials: false
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        run: |
-          vulkaninfo --summary
-          GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
-
-  gpu-vulkan-intel-windows:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, Windows, X64, Intel]
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        shell: C:\msys64\usr\bin\bash.exe --noprofile --norc -eo pipefail "{0}"
-        env:
-          MSYSTEM: UCRT64
-          CHERE_INVOKING: 1
-          PATH: C:\msys64\ucrt64\bin;C:\msys64\usr\bin;C:\Windows\System32;${{ env.PATH }}
-        run: |
-          vulkaninfo --summary
-          # Skip python related tests with GG_BUILD_LOW_PERF=1 since Windows MSYS2 UCRT64 currently fails to create
-          # 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
-
-  # TODO: provision AMD GPU machine
-  # amd-vulkan:
-  #   runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, AMD]
-
-  #   steps:
-  #     - name: Clone
-  #       id: checkout
-  #       uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-  #     - name: Test
-  #       id: ggml-ci
-  #       run: |
-  #         vulkaninfo --summary
-  #         GG_BUILD_VULKAN=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
@@ -1,130 +0,0 @@
-name: CI (self-hosted WebGPU backend)
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ci-self-hosted-webgpu.yml',
-      'ci/run.sh',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      '**/*.h',
-      '**/*.hpp',
-      '**/*.c',
-      '**/*.cpp',
-      '**/*.wgsl'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/ci-self-hosted-webgpu.yml',
-      'ci/run.sh',
-      '**/CMakeLists.txt',
-      '**/.cmake',
-      'ggml/src/*',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-cpu/**',
-      'ggml/src/ggml-webgpu/**'
-    ]
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref && github.ref || github.run_id }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-env:
-  # note: this is dud token to avoid rate limiting (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/25706#issuecomment-4979941302)
-  HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-  GGML_NLOOP: 3
-  GGML_N_THREADS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
-  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
-
-jobs:
-  gpu-webgpu-nvidia:
-    runs-on: "hf-jobs-t4-small:ubuntu26_04"
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          sudo apt update
-          sudo apt install -y build-essential cmake libxcb-xinput0 libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-cursor-dev libvulkan1 mesa-vulkan-drivers libglvnd0 libgl1 libglx0 libegl1 libgles2 libssl-dev time unzip wget python3 python3-venv python3-pip
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
-        with:
-          restore: false
-          save: false
-
-      - name: ccache-buckets-restore
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        with:
-          key: self-hosted-webgpu-nvidia
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-
-      - name: Dawn Dependency
-        id: dawn-depends
-        run: |
-          DAWN_VERSION="v20260908.214631"
-          DAWN_OWNER="google"
-          DAWN_REPO="dawn"
-          DAWN_ASSET_NAME="Dawn-94c3c9cc0d5fb2e85aebb370fa8d37b71aa34655-ubuntu-latest-Release"
-          echo "Fetching release asset from https://github.com/google/dawn/releases/download/${DAWN_VERSION}/${DAWN_ASSET_NAME}.tar.gz"
-          curl -L -o artifact.tar.gz \
-            "https://github.com/google/dawn/releases/download/${DAWN_VERSION}/${DAWN_ASSET_NAME}.tar.gz"
-          mkdir dawn
-          tar -xvf artifact.tar.gz -C dawn --strip-components=1
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        run: |
-          GG_BUILD_WEBGPU=1 \
-          GG_BUILD_WEBGPU_DAWN_PREFIX="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/dawn" \
-          GG_BUILD_WEBGPU_DAWN_DIR="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/dawn/lib64/cmake/Dawn" \
-            bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
-
-      - name: ccache-buckets-save
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
-        with:
-          key: self-hosted-webgpu-nvidia
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-          save: true
-
-  gpu-webgpu-apple:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, macOS, ARM64]
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Dawn Dependency
-        id: dawn-depends
-        run: |
-          DAWN_VERSION="v20260908.214631"
-          DAWN_OWNER="google"
-          DAWN_REPO="dawn"
-          DAWN_ASSET_NAME="Dawn-94c3c9cc0d5fb2e85aebb370fa8d37b71aa34655-macos-latest-Release"
-          echo "Fetching release asset from https://github.com/google/dawn/releases/download/${DAWN_VERSION}/${DAWN_ASSET_NAME}.tar.gz"
-          curl -L -o artifact.tar.gz \
-            "https://github.com/google/dawn/releases/download/${DAWN_VERSION}/${DAWN_ASSET_NAME}.tar.gz"
-          mkdir dawn
-          tar -xvf artifact.tar.gz -C dawn --strip-components=1
-
-      - name: Test
-        id: ggml-ci
-        run: |
-          GG_BUILD_WEBGPU=1 GG_BUILD_WEBGPU_DAWN_PREFIX="$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/dawn" \
-            bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ concurrency:

 jobs:
  model-naming:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, fast]
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
      - name: Check model naming conventions
@@ -11,12 +11,10 @@ on:
    paths:
      - .github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml

-cache-mode: none
-
 jobs:
  # The job MUST be called `copilot-setup-steps` or it will not be picked up by Copilot.
  copilot-setup-steps:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    # Set the permissions to the lowest permissions possible needed for your steps.
    # Copilot will be given its own token for its operations.
@@ -31,10 +29,10 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/checkout@v6

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
-          restore: false
-          save: false
+          key: copilot-setup-steps
+          evict-old-files: 1d

      - name: Dependencies
        id: depends
@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ jobs:
            { "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": "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": "13.4.1", "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": "13.4.1", "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": "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" },
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ concurrency:

 jobs:
  editorconfig:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, fast]
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
      - uses: editorconfig-checker/action-editorconfig-checker@840e866d93b8e032123c23bac69dece044d4d84c # v2.2.0
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-name: Fusion
-
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch: # allows manual triggering
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - master
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/fusion.yml',
-      'ggml/**',
-      'tests/fusion/**',
-      'tests/test-fusion.cpp',
-      'tests/test-llama-archs.cpp',
-      'src/models/**'
-    ]
-
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths: [
-      '.github/workflows/fusion.yml',
-      'ggml/**',
-      'tests/fusion/**',
-      'tests/test-fusion.cpp',
-      'tests/test-llama-archs.cpp',
-      'src/models/**'
-    ]
-
-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:
-  # TODO: add jobs for other backends as they adopt the fusion debug API
-  metal:
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, macOS, ARM64]
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-            -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON \
-            -DLLAMA_OPENSSL=OFF \
-            -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON \
-            -DGGML_BLAS=OFF \
-            -DGGML_METAL=ON
-          time cmake --build build --config Release --target test-llama-archs -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)
-          time cmake --build build --config Release --target test-fusion -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)
-
-      - name: Generate models
-        id: generate_models
-        run: |
-          rm -rf build-ci-models && mkdir -p build-ci-models
-          ./build/bin/test-llama-archs -o build-ci-models
-
-      - name: Test fusion
-        id: test_fusion
-        run: |
-          ./build/bin/test-fusion --models build-ci-models --device MTL0 --check tests/fusion/MTL.csv
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
  deploy:

-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04  # previously ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v6
@@ -49,22 +49,14 @@ jobs:
        id: depends
        run: |
          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git cmake rocblas-dev hipblas-dev libssl-dev python3 python3-venv python3-pip jq
+          sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git cmake rocblas-dev hipblas-dev libssl-dev python3

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: hip-quality-check-ubuntu-22.04
-          save: false
-
-      - name: ccache-buckets-restore
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-        with:
-          key: hip-quality-check-ubuntu-22.04
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

      - name: Build with Werror
        id: cmake_build
@@ -93,14 +85,12 @@ jobs:
          make -j $(nproc) 2>&1 | tee metrics.log | grep -v 'Rpass-analysis=kernel-resource-usage\|remark:\|^$'
          python3 ../scripts/hip/gcn-cdna-vgpr-check.py metrics.log

-      - name: ccache-buckets-save
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
+      - name: ccache-clear
+        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-clear
        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
        with:
          key: hip-quality-check-ubuntu-22.04
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-          save: true
+          older: 5m
+          min: 1
+          dry-run: ${{ github.event_name != 'push' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' }}
@@ -13,27 +13,16 @@ on:
        required: true
        type: boolean
        default: true
-      skip_apiabi_check:
-        description: 'Skip API/ABI compatibility check'
-        required: false
-        type: boolean
-        default: false
-      apiabi_compare_tag:
-        description: 'Tag to compare against for API/ABI check (default: latest release)'
-        required: false
-        type: string
-        default: ''

 env:
  GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}

 permissions:
  contents: write
-  packages: write

 jobs:
  make-release:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04  # previously ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
@@ -43,18 +32,12 @@ jobs:
          ref: ${{ inputs.commit != '' && inputs.commit || github.ref_name }}
          fetch-depth: 0

-      - name: Install API/ABI check tools
-        if: ${{ github.event.inputs.skip_apiabi_check != 'true' }}
-        run: sudo apt-get install -y abi-compliance-checker abigail-tools
-
      - name: Run release checks
        id: checks
        run: bash scripts/make-release-checks.sh ${{ github.event.inputs.dry_run == 'true' && '--dry-run' || '' }}
        env:
          GITHUB_REPOSITORY: ${{ github.repository }}
          RELEASE_BRANCH: ${{ github.ref_name }}
-          SKIP_APIABI_CHECK: ${{ github.event.inputs.skip_apiabi_check }}
-          APIABI_COMPARE_TAG: ${{ github.event.inputs.apiabi_compare_tag }}

      - name: Create release tag
        if: ${{ github.event.inputs.dry_run == 'false' }}
@@ -130,29 +113,6 @@ jobs:
              data: await fs.readFileSync('./nightly-tag.txt')
            });

-      - name: Re-tag container images with release version
-        if: ${{ github.event.inputs.dry_run == 'false' && steps.desc.outputs.nightly_tag != '' }}
-        env:
-          GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
-        run: |
-          VERSION="${{ steps.checks.outputs.version }}"
-          NIGHTLY_TAG="${{ steps.desc.outputs.nightly_tag }}"
-          REPO_OWNER="${GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER,,}"
-          IMAGE_REPO="ghcr.io/${REPO_OWNER}/${{ github.event.repository.name }}"
-
-          echo "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}" | docker login ghcr.io -u "${{ github.actor }}" --password-stdin
-
-          VARIANTS=("" "-cuda" "-cuda13" "-vulkan" "-rocm" "-intel" "-musa" "-openvino")
-          TYPES=("full" "light" "server")
-          for type in "${TYPES[@]}"; do
-            for variant in "${VARIANTS[@]}"; do
-              src="${IMAGE_REPO}:${type}${variant}-${NIGHTLY_TAG}"
-              dst="${IMAGE_REPO}:${type}${variant}-${VERSION}"
-              echo "Tagging ${src} -> ${dst}"
-              docker buildx imagetools create --tag "${dst}" "${src}"
-            done
-          done
-
      - name: Dry run summary
        if: ${{ github.event.inputs.dry_run == 'true' }}
        run: |
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ on:

 jobs:
    pre-tokenizer-hashes:
-        runs-on: ubuntu-slim
+        runs-on: [self-hosted, fast]

        steps:
        - name: Checkout repository
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ concurrency:

 jobs:
  python-check-requirements:
-    runs-on: ${{ 'ubuntu-24.04-arm' || 'ubuntu-24.04' }}
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, CPU, fast]
    name: check-requirements
    steps:
      - name: Check out source repository
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ concurrency:

 jobs:
  flake8-lint:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, fast]
    name: Lint
    steps:
      - name: Check out source repository
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ concurrency:

 jobs:
  python-type-check:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, fast]
    name: python type-check
    steps:
      - name: Check out source repository
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
        with:
          python-version: "3.11"
-          pip-install: -r requirements/requirements-all.txt ty==0.0.78
+          pip-install: -r requirements/requirements-all.txt ty==0.0.35
      # - name: Type-check with Pyright
      #   uses: jakebailey/pyright-action@v2
      #   with:
@@ -40,4 +40,4 @@ jobs:
      #     warnings: true
      - name: Type-check with ty
        run: |
-            ty check --exit-zero-on-warning --output-format=github
+            ty check --output-format=github
@@ -103,10 +103,9 @@ jobs:
          path: tools/ui/dist

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: release-${{ matrix.os }}-${{ matrix.arch }}
-          evict-old-files: 1d

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
@@ -188,10 +187,9 @@ jobs:

      - name: ccache
        if: ${{ matrix.build != 's390x' }}
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: release-${{ matrix.os }}-cpu
-          evict-old-files: 1d

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
@@ -274,10 +272,9 @@ jobs:
          fi

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: release-${{ matrix.os }}-vulkan
-          evict-old-files: 1d

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
@@ -313,150 +310,11 @@ jobs:
        with:
          key: release-${{ matrix.os }}-vulkan

-  ubuntu-cuda:
-    name: ubuntu-cuda (${{ matrix.label }}, ${{ matrix.build }})
-    needs: [check-release, ui-build]
-    if: ${{ needs.check-release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}
-
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        include:
-          # label = short version used in artifact names / release body
-          # cuda  = full container image tag
-          - build: 'x64'
-            os: ubuntu-24.04
-            cuda: '12.8.2'
-            label: '12.8'
-            defines: '-DGGML_CUDA_CUB_3DOT2=ON'
-          - build: 'x64'
-            os: ubuntu-24.04
-            cuda: '13.4.1'
-            label: '13.4'
-            defines: ''
-          - build: 'arm64'
-            os: ubuntu-24.04-arm
-            cuda: '13.4.1'
-            label: '13.4'
-            defines: ''
-
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
-    container: nvidia/cuda:${{ matrix.cuda }}-devel-ubuntu24.04
-
-    permissions:
-      actions: write
-
-    steps:
-      # the container has no git; install it before checkout so that a real git
-      # repository is created (the get-tag-name action and the build both need it)
-      - name: Install git
-        run: |
-          apt-get update
-          apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends git
-
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-
-      # checkout runs as the host user; in-container steps run as root, so git
-      # refuses to touch a repo it does not own. Mark the workspace as safe.
-      # use the env var: the github.workspace context holds the HOST path,
-      # GITHUB_WORKSPACE the container path
-      - name: Git safe directory
-        run: git config --global --add safe.directory "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE"
-
-      - name: Download UI build
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
-        with:
-          name: llama-ui.zip
-          path: tools/ui/dist
-
-      - name: Dependencies
-        id: depends
-        # container jobs default to sh (dash); need bash for the [[ ]] below
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          apt-get update
-          apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends build-essential cmake ninja-build libssl-dev jq python3-venv
-          # the container ships GCC 13, which does not know the 'sme' march
-          # feature used by the armv9.2 CPU variant of GGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS
-          if [[ "${{ matrix.build }}" == "arm64" ]]; then
-            apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gcc-14 g++-14
-            echo "CC=gcc-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-            echo "CXX=g++-14" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          fi
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
-        with:
-          key: release-ubuntu-${{ matrix.os }}-cuda-${{ matrix.label }}-${{ matrix.build }}
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          max-size: "1G"
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        # no CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES: use the broad default arch set from
-        # ggml/src/ggml-cuda/CMakeLists.txt so the release binary covers many GPUs
-        run: |
-          cmake -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH='$ORIGIN' \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH=ON \
-            -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON \
-            -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF \
-            -DGGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS=ON \
-            -DGGML_CUDA=ON \
-            -DGGML_CUDA_NCCL=OFF \
-            ${{ env.CMAKE_ARGS }} ${{ matrix.defines }}
-          cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc)
-
-      - name: Determine tag name
-        id: tag
-        uses: ./.github/actions/get-tag-name
-
-      - name: Pack artifacts
-        id: pack_artifacts
-        run: |
-          cp LICENSE ./build/bin/
-          tar -czvf llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-cuda-${{ matrix.label }}-${{ matrix.build }}.tar.gz --transform "s,^\.,llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}," -C ./build/bin .
-
-      - name: Upload artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
-        with:
-          path: llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-cuda-${{ matrix.label }}-${{ matrix.build }}.tar.gz
-          name: llama-bin-ubuntu-cuda-${{ matrix.label }}-${{ matrix.build }}.tar.gz
-
-      # ship the CUDA runtime libraries the backend links against, mirroring
-      # the windows-cuda cudart zip - extract next to the binaries ($ORIGIN rpath)
-      - name: Pack CUDA runtime
-        id: pack_cuda_runtime
-        run: |
-          major="${{ matrix.label }}"
-          major="${major%%.*}"
-          mkdir -p ./cudart
-          # cp -L dereferences the SONAME symlinks into plain files, so the
-          # tarball holds exactly 3 files with no versioned duplicates
-          cp -L /usr/local/cuda/lib64/libcudart.so.${major} ./cudart/
-          cp -L /usr/local/cuda/lib64/libcublas.so.${major} ./cudart/
-          cp -L /usr/local/cuda/lib64/libcublasLt.so.${major} ./cudart/
-          tar -czvf cudart-llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-cuda-${{ matrix.label }}-${{ matrix.build }}.tar.gz --transform "s,^\.,cudart-llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-cuda-${{ matrix.label }}-${{ matrix.build }}," -C ./cudart .
-
-      - name: Upload CUDA runtime
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
-        with:
-          path: cudart-llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-cuda-${{ matrix.label }}-${{ matrix.build }}.tar.gz
-          name: cudart-llama-bin-ubuntu-cuda-${{ matrix.label }}-${{ matrix.build }}.tar.gz
-
-      - name: ccache-clear
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-clear
-        with:
-          key: release-ubuntu-${{ matrix.os }}-cuda-${{ matrix.label }}-${{ matrix.build }}
-
  android-arm64:
    needs: [check-release, ui-build]
    if: ${{ needs.check-release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}

-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04  # previously ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    #permissions:
    #  actions: write
@@ -484,7 +342,7 @@ jobs:
          distribution: temurin

      - name: Setup Android SDK
-        uses: android-actions/setup-android@be39fa834029ff78f1a44aa3bb0819b8fc2bd8fd # v4.0.4
+        uses: android-actions/setup-android@40fd30fb8d7440372e1316f5d1809ec01dcd3699 # v4.0.1
        with:
          log-accepted-android-sdk-licenses: false

@@ -500,10 +358,9 @@ jobs:
      #   cache on:  https://github.com/ggerganov/tmp2/actions/runs/26534713799/job/78224189394
      #
      #- name: ccache
-      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
      #  with:
      #    key: release-android-arm64
-      #    evict-old-files: 1d

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
@@ -544,120 +401,6 @@ jobs:
          path: llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-android-arm64.tar.gz
          name: llama-bin-android-arm64.tar.gz

-  android-arm64-snapdragon:
-    needs: [check-release, ui-build]
-    if: ${{ needs.check-release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}
-
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container: 'ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-android:v0.7'
-
-    defaults:
-      run:
-        shell: bash
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-
-      # checkout runs as the host user; in-container steps run as root, so git
-      # refuses to touch a repo it does not own. Mark the workspace as safe.
-      - name: Git safe directory
-        run: git config --global --add safe.directory "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE"
-
-      - name: Download UI build
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
-        with:
-          name: llama-ui.zip
-          path: tools/ui/dist
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cp docs/backend/snapdragon/CMakeUserPresets.json .
-          cmake --preset arm64-android-snapdragon-release -B build \
-            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH='$ORIGIN;$ORIGIN/../lib' \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH=ON \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON \
-            ${{ env.CMAKE_ARGS }}
-          cmake --build build -j $(nproc)
-          cmake --install build --prefix pkg-snapdragon/llama.cpp
-
-      - name: Determine tag name
-        id: tag
-        uses: ./.github/actions/get-tag-name
-
-      - name: Pack artifacts
-        id: pack_artifacts
-        run: |
-          cp LICENSE pkg-snapdragon/llama.cpp/
-          tar -czvf llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-android-arm64-snapdragon.tar.gz --transform "s,^\.,llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}," -C pkg-snapdragon/llama.cpp .
-
-      - name: Upload artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
-        with:
-          path: llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-android-arm64-snapdragon.tar.gz
-          name: llama-bin-android-arm64-snapdragon.tar.gz
-
-  linux-arm64-snapdragon:
-    needs: [check-release, ui-build]
-    if: ${{ needs.check-release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}
-
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container: 'ghcr.io/snapdragon-toolchain/arm64-linux:v0.7'
-
-    defaults:
-      run:
-        shell: bash
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Clone
-        id: checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-
-      # checkout runs as the host user; in-container steps run as root, so git
-      # refuses to touch a repo it does not own. Mark the workspace as safe.
-      - name: Git safe directory
-        run: git config --global --add safe.directory "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE"
-
-      - name: Download UI build
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
-        with:
-          name: llama-ui.zip
-          path: tools/ui/dist
-
-      - name: Build
-        id: cmake_build
-        run: |
-          cp docs/backend/snapdragon/CMakeUserPresets.json .
-          cmake --preset arm64-linux-snapdragon-release -B build -DGGML_OPENCL=ON \
-            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH='$ORIGIN;$ORIGIN/../lib' \
-            -DCMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH=ON \
-            -DLLAMA_BUILD_BORINGSSL=ON \
-            ${{ env.CMAKE_ARGS }}
-          cmake --build build -j $(nproc)
-          cmake --install build --prefix pkg-snapdragon/llama.cpp
-
-      - name: Determine tag name
-        id: tag
-        uses: ./.github/actions/get-tag-name
-
-      - name: Pack artifacts
-        id: pack_artifacts
-        run: |
-          cp LICENSE pkg-snapdragon/llama.cpp/
-          tar -czvf llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-linux-arm64-snapdragon.tar.gz --transform "s,^\.,llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}," -C pkg-snapdragon/llama.cpp .
-
-      - name: Upload artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
-        with:
-          path: llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-linux-arm64-snapdragon.tar.gz
-          name: llama-bin-linux-arm64-snapdragon.tar.gz
-
  ubuntu-24-openvino:
    needs: [check-release, ui-build]
    if: ${{ needs.check-release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}
@@ -672,8 +415,8 @@ jobs:

    env:
      # Sync versions in build-openvino.yml, build-self-hosted.yml, release.yml, build-cache.yml, .devops/openvino.Dockerfile
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.4"
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.4.0.22959.99c81491cc3"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.3"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.3.0.22451.bd8d6542e3c"

    steps:
      - name: Set OpenVINO version output
@@ -693,10 +436,9 @@ jobs:
          path: tools/ui/dist

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: release-ubuntu-24.04-openvino-release-no-preset-v1
-          evict-old-files: 1d

      - name: Dependencies
        run: |
@@ -787,8 +529,8 @@ jobs:

    env:
      # Sync versions in build-openvino.yml, build-self-hosted.yml, release.yml, build-cache.yml, .devops/openvino.Dockerfile
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.4"
-      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.4.0.22959.99c81491cc3"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_MAJOR: "2026.3"
+      OPENVINO_VERSION_FULL: "2026.3.0.22451.bd8d6542e3c"

    steps:
      - name: Set OpenVINO version output
@@ -809,7 +551,7 @@ jobs:
          path: tools/ui/dist

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: release-windows-2022-openvino
          variant: ccache
@@ -937,10 +679,9 @@ jobs:
          choco install ninja

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: release-windows-2025-vs2026-${{ matrix.arch }}-cpu
-          evict-old-files: 1d

      - name: Build
        shell: cmd
@@ -973,10 +714,10 @@ jobs:
        with:
          key: release-windows-2025-vs2026-${{ matrix.arch }}-cpu

-  # note: builds only the ggml-hip backend - llama-server is injected from the
-  #       windows-cpu zip during the release "Merge artifacts" step
+  # TODO: build only the ggml-hip backend like the other windows backend jobs
+  #       (windows-cuda, windows-sycl), then drop the ui-build dependency
  windows-rocm:
-    needs: [check-release]
+    needs: [check-release, ui-build]
    if: ${{ needs.check-release.outputs.should_release == 'true' }}

    runs-on: windows-2022
@@ -984,7 +725,7 @@ jobs:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        include:
-          - ROCM_VERSION: "10.0.0"
+          - ROCM_VERSION: "7.14.0"
            gpu_targets: "gfx1010;gfx1011;gfx1012;gfx1030;gfx1031;gfx1032;gfx1033;gfx1034;gfx1035;gfx1036;gfx1100;gfx1101;gfx1102;gfx1103;gfx1150;gfx1151;gfx1152;gfx1153;gfx1200;gfx1201"
            build: x64

@@ -995,12 +736,14 @@ jobs:
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

-      - name: Install Ninja
-        run: |
-          choco install ninja
+      - name: Download UI build
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v7
+        with:
+          name: llama-ui.zip
+          path: tools/ui/dist

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: windows-rocm-${{ matrix.ROCM_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.build }}
          evict-old-files: 1d
@@ -1052,28 +795,33 @@ jobs:

      - name: Build
        run: |
-          cmake -S . -B build `
-            -G "Ninja Multi-Config" `
+          mkdir build
+          cd build
+          cmake .. `
+            -G "Unix Makefiles" `
            -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="${env:HIP_PATH}" `
+            -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release `
            -DGGML_BACKEND_DL=ON `
            -DGGML_NATIVE=OFF `
-            -DGGML_CPU=OFF `
+            -DGGML_CPU=ON `
+            -DGGML_CPU_ALL_VARIANTS=ON `
            -DGGML_HIP=ON `
            -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER="${env:HIP_PATH}\lib\llvm\bin\clang.exe" `
            -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER="${env:HIP_PATH}\lib\llvm\bin\clang++.exe" `
            -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types" `
            -DCMAKE_HIP_COMPILER="${env:HIP_PATH}\lib\llvm\bin\clang.exe" `
            -DHIP_PATH="${env:HIP_PATH}" `
+            -DGGML_HIP_ROCWMMA_FATTN=ON `
            -DAMDGPU_TARGETS="${{ matrix.gpu_targets }}"
-          cmake --build build --config Release --parallel ${env:NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS} --target ggml-hip
+          cmake --build . --config Release --parallel ${env:NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS}

      - name: Verify HIP backend was built
        run: |
-          $hipDll = Get-ChildItem -Path build\bin\Release -Filter "ggml-hip*.dll" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
+          $hipDll = Get-ChildItem -Path build\bin -Filter "ggml-hip*.dll" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
          if (-not $hipDll) {
            Write-Host "##[error]ggml-hip*.dll was NOT produced. The HIP backend silently failed to build."
-            Write-Host "Contents of build\bin\Release:"
-            Get-ChildItem build\bin\Release | Format-Table -AutoSize
+            Write-Host "Contents of build\bin:"
+            Get-ChildItem build\bin | Format-Table -AutoSize
            exit 1
          }
          Write-Host "HIP backend artifact found:"
@@ -1088,40 +836,10 @@ jobs:
          $rocmVersionShort = ('${{ matrix.ROCM_VERSION }}'.Split('.')[0..1] -join '.')
          echo "ROCM_VERSION_SHORT=$rocmVersionShort" >> $env:GITHUB_ENV

-      - name: Bundle HIP runtime DLLs (amdhip64_7.dll, rocm_kpack.dll, amd_comgr.dll)
-        run: |
-          $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
-          # See issue https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/26929.
-          # ggml-hip.dll loads amdhip64_7.dll at run time. The Adrenalin driver
-          # ships an amdhip64_7.dll in System32, which the loader searches before PATH,
-          # so a matching DLL from PATH cannot win. Copy amdhip64 next to the
-          # binaries (exe directory is searched before System32) so the correct
-          # runtime is used. rocm_kpack.dll is amdhip64_7's direct dependency, so
-          # copy the matching version too. amd_comgr is copied as well to keep it
-          # in sync with the bundled amdhip64, avoiding a version mismatch with a
-          # amd_comgr from System32.
-          # rocblas/hipblaslt kernels resolve fine via PATH and are not copied.
-          $binPath = (rocm-sdk path --bin).Trim()
-          if (-not $binPath) { throw "rocm-sdk path --bin returned empty" }
-          write-host "ROCm bin path: $binPath"
-
-          $patterns = @("amdhip64_7.dll", "rocm_kpack.dll", "amd_comgr.dll")
-          foreach ($pattern in $patterns) {
-            $files = Get-ChildItem -Path $binPath -Filter $pattern -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
-            if (-not $files) { throw "no match for $pattern in $binPath" }
-            foreach ($f in $files) {
-              Copy-Item $f.FullName -Destination build\bin\Release -Force
-              write-host "  copied $($f.Name)"
-            }
-          }
-
      - name: Pack artifacts
        run: |
-          7z a -snl llama-bin-win-rocm-${{ env.ROCM_VERSION_SHORT }}-${{ matrix.build }}.zip `
-            .\build\bin\Release\ggml-hip.dll `
-            .\build\bin\Release\amdhip64_7.dll `
-            .\build\bin\Release\rocm_kpack.dll `
-            .\build\bin\Release\amd_comgr.dll
+          cp "LICENSE" "build\bin\"
+          7z a -snl llama-bin-win-rocm-${{ env.ROCM_VERSION_SHORT }}-${{ matrix.build }}.zip .\build\bin\*

      - name: Upload artifacts
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
@@ -1182,10 +900,9 @@ jobs:

      # TODO: these jobs need to use llvm toolchain in order to utilize the ccache
      #- name: ccache
-      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+      #  uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
      #  with:
      #    key: release-windows-2025-${{ matrix.arch }}-${{ matrix.backend }}
-      #    evict-old-files: 1d

      - name: Install OpenCL Headers and Libs
        id: install_opencl
@@ -1247,7 +964,7 @@ jobs:
          - cuda: '12.4'
            arch: x64
            defines: '-DGGML_CUDA_CUB_3DOT2=ON'
-          - cuda: '13.4'
+          - cuda: '13.3'
            arch: x64
            defines: ''
          - cuda: '13.4'
@@ -1271,10 +988,9 @@ jobs:
          choco install ninja

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: release-windows-2022-${{ matrix.arch }}-cuda-${{ matrix.cuda }}
-          evict-old-files: 1d

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
@@ -1368,10 +1084,9 @@ jobs:
          "LEVEL_ZERO_V1_SDK_PATH=C:/level-zero-sdk" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: release-windows-2022-x64-sycl
-          evict-old-files: 1d

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
@@ -1487,10 +1202,9 @@ jobs:
          path: tools/ui/dist

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: release-ubuntu-24.04-sycl-${{ matrix.build }}
-          evict-old-files: 1d

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
@@ -1542,8 +1256,8 @@ jobs:
    strategy:
      matrix:
        include:
-          - ROCM_VERSION: "10.0.0"
-            gpu_targets: "gfx908;gfx90a;gfx942;gfx950;gfx1010;gfx1011;gfx1012;gfx1030;gfx1031;gfx1032;gfx1033;gfx1034;gfx1035;gfx1036;gfx1100;gfx1101;gfx1102;gfx1103;gfx1150;gfx1151;gfx1152;gfx1200;gfx1201"
+          - ROCM_VERSION: "7.14.0"
+            gpu_targets: "gfx908;gfx90a;gfx942;gfx950;gfx1010;gfx1011;gfx1012;gfx1030;gfx1031;gfx1032;gfx1033;gfx1034;gfx1035;gfx1036;gfx1100;gfx1101;gfx1102;gfx1150;gfx1151;gfx1152;gfx1200;gfx1201"
            build: 'x64'

    steps:
@@ -1565,7 +1279,7 @@ jobs:
          tool-cache: true

      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: release-ubuntu-24.04-rocm-${{ matrix.ROCM_VERSION }}-${{ matrix.build }}
          evict-old-files: 1d
@@ -1596,7 +1310,7 @@ jobs:
          # libraries = HIP runtime and CMake configs needed for linking
          # devel = compilers, headers, static libs
          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          python -m pip install --index-url https://stable.repo.amd.com/rocm/whl-next/ "rocm[libraries,devel]==${{ matrix.ROCM_VERSION }}"
+          python -m pip install --index-url https://repo.amd.com/rocm/whl-multi-arch/ "rocm[libraries,devel]==${{ matrix.ROCM_VERSION }}"

          # Get ROCm installation paths using the rocm-sdk CLI tool
          ROCM_PATH=$(rocm-sdk path --root)
@@ -1835,12 +1549,9 @@ jobs:
      - ubuntu-24-rocm
      - ubuntu-cpu
      - ubuntu-vulkan
-      - ubuntu-cuda
      - ubuntu-24-openvino
      - ubuntu-24-sycl
      - android-arm64
-      - android-arm64-snapdragon
-      - linux-arm64-snapdragon
      - macos-cpu
      - ios-xcode
      #- openEuler-cann
@@ -1969,30 +1680,25 @@ jobs:
            - [Ubuntu s390x (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-s390x.tar.gz)
            - [Ubuntu x64 (Vulkan)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-vulkan-x64.tar.gz)
            - [Ubuntu arm64 (Vulkan)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-vulkan-arm64.tar.gz)
-            - [Ubuntu x64 (CUDA 12)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-cuda-12.8-x64.tar.gz) - [CUDA 12.8 libraries](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/cudart-llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-cuda-12.8-x64.tar.gz)
-            - [Ubuntu x64 (CUDA 13)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-cuda-13.4-x64.tar.gz) - [CUDA 13.4 libraries](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/cudart-llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-cuda-13.4-x64.tar.gz)
-            - [Ubuntu arm64 (CUDA 13)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-cuda-13.4-arm64.tar.gz) - [CUDA 13.4 libraries](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/cudart-llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-cuda-13.4-arm64.tar.gz)
-            - [Ubuntu x64 (ROCm 10.0)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-rocm-10.0-x64.tar.gz)
+            - [Ubuntu x64 (ROCm 7.14)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-rocm-7.14-x64.tar.gz)
            - [Ubuntu x64 (OpenVINO)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-openvino-${{ needs.ubuntu-24-openvino.outputs.openvino_version }}-x64.tar.gz)
            - [Ubuntu x64 (SYCL FP32)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-sycl-fp32-x64.tar.gz)
            - [Ubuntu x64 (SYCL FP16)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-ubuntu-sycl-fp16-x64.tar.gz)
-            - [Linux arm64 (Snapdragon: CPU, Adreno GPU, Hexagon NPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-linux-arm64-snapdragon.tar.gz) - [setup guide](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/backend/snapdragon/linux.md)

            **Android:**
            - [Android arm64 (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-android-arm64.tar.gz)
-            - [Android arm64 (Snapdragon: CPU, Adreno GPU, Hexagon NPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-android-arm64-snapdragon.tar.gz) - [setup guide](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/backend/snapdragon/README.md)

            **Windows:**
            - [Windows x64 (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-cpu-x64.zip)
            - [Windows arm64 (CPU)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-cpu-arm64.zip)
            - [Windows arm64 (OpenCL Adreno)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-opencl-adreno-arm64.zip)
            - [Windows x64 (CUDA 12)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-cuda-12.4-x64.zip) - [CUDA 12.4 DLLs](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/cudart-llama-bin-win-cuda-12.4-x64.zip)
-            - [Windows x64 (CUDA 13)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-cuda-13.4-x64.zip) - [CUDA 13.4 DLLs](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/cudart-llama-bin-win-cuda-13.4-x64.zip)
-            - [Windows arm64 (CUDA 13)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-cuda-13.4-arm64.zip) - [CUDA 13.4 DLLs](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/cudart-llama-bin-win-cuda-13.4-arm64.zip)
+            - [Windows x64 (CUDA 13)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-cuda-13.3-x64.zip) - [CUDA 13.3 DLLs](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/cudart-llama-bin-win-cuda-13.3-x64.zip)
+            - [Windows arm64 (CUDA 13) (preview)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-cuda-13.4-arm64.zip) - [CUDA 13.4 DLLs](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/cudart-llama-bin-win-cuda-13.4-arm64.zip)
            - [Windows x64 (Vulkan)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-vulkan-x64.zip)
            - [Windows x64 (OpenVINO)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-openvino-${{ needs.windows-openvino.outputs.openvino_version }}-x64.zip)
            - [Windows x64 (SYCL)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-sycl-x64.zip)
-            - [Windows x64 (ROCm 10.0)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-rocm-10.0-x64.zip)
+            - [Windows x64 (ROCm 7.14)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/download/${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}/llama-${{ steps.tag.outputs.name }}-bin-win-rocm-7.14-x64.zip)

            **openEuler:**
            - [DISABLED](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/23705)
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ on:
    ]

 env:
-  # note: this is dud token to avoid rate limiting (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/25706#issuecomment-4979941302)
-  HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_COLORS: 1
  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX: 1
  LLAMA_ARG_LOG_TIMESTAMPS: 1
@@ -45,7 +43,7 @@ concurrency:

 jobs:
  server:
-    runs-on: hf-jobs-cpu-performance
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, CPU, Linux, llama-server]

    strategy:
      matrix:
@@ -54,6 +52,20 @@ 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: Clone
        id: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v6
@@ -61,24 +73,6 @@ jobs:
          fetch-depth: 0
          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.sha || github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha || github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}

-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          sudo apt update
-          sudo apt install -y build-essential cmake python3-full
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
-        with:
-          restore: false
-          save: false
-
-      - name: ccache-buckets-restore
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        with:
-          key: server-sanitize-${{ matrix.sanitizer }}
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-
      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
        run: |
@@ -93,17 +87,9 @@ jobs:
            -DLLAMA_SANITIZE_UNDEFINED=${{ matrix.sanitizer == 'UNDEFINED' }}
          cmake --build build --config ${{ matrix.build_type }} -j $(nproc) --target llama-server

-      - name: ccache-buckets-save
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
-        with:
-          key: server-sanitize-${{ matrix.sanitizer }}
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-          save: true
+      - name: Python setup
+        id: setup_python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v7

      - name: Install Python dependencies
        run: |
@@ -116,7 +102,8 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          source .venv/bin/activate
          cd tools/server/tests
-          PYTEST_WORKERS=4 ./tests.sh
+          export ${{ matrix.extra_args }}
+          ./tests.sh

      - name: Slow tests
        id: server_integration_tests_slow
@@ -124,4 +111,5 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          source .venv/bin/activate
          cd tools/server/tests
-          PYTEST_WORKERS=4 SLOW_TESTS=1 ./tests.sh
+          export ${{ matrix.extra_args }}
+          SLOW_TESTS=1 ./tests.sh
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          cd tools/server/tests
          source venv/bin/activate
-          PYTEST_WORKERS=1 ./tests.sh
+          ./tests.sh

      - name: Tests (GPUx1, backend-sampling)
        id: server_integration_tests_backend_sampling
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ jobs:
          cd tools/server/tests
          source venv/bin/activate
          export LLAMA_ARG_BACKEND_SAMPLING=1
-          PYTEST_WORKERS=1 ./tests.sh
+          ./tests.sh

      - name: Tests (GPUx2)
        id: server_integration_tests_gpu2
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ jobs:
          cd tools/server/tests
          source venv/bin/activate
          export GGML_METAL_DEVICES=2
-          PYTEST_WORKERS=1 ./tests.sh
+          ./tests.sh

      - name: Tests (GPUx2, backend-sampling)
        id: server_integration_tests_gpu2_backend_sampling
@@ -99,10 +99,10 @@ jobs:
          cd tools/server/tests
          source venv/bin/activate
          export GGML_METAL_DEVICES=2 LLAMA_ARG_BACKEND_SAMPLING=1
-          PYTEST_WORKERS=1 ./tests.sh
+          ./tests.sh

  server-cuda:
-    runs-on: "hf-jobs-t4-small:cuda13"
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, llama-server, Linux, NVIDIA]

    steps:
      - name: Clone
@@ -112,42 +112,12 @@ jobs:
          fetch-depth: 0
          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.sha || github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha || github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}

-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          sudo apt update
-          sudo apt install -y cmake libssl-dev python3 python3-venv python3-pip
-
-      - name: ccache
-        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.24
-        with:
-          restore: false
-          save: false
-
-      - name: ccache-buckets-restore
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        with:
-          key: self-hosted-server-cuda
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-
      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
        run: |
-          cmake -B build -DGGML_CUDA=ON -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON -DCMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER=/usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc
+          cmake -B build -DGGML_CUDA=ON -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON
          cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc) --target llama-server

-      - name: ccache-buckets-save
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
-        with:
-          key: self-hosted-server-cuda
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-          save: true
-
      - name: Python setup
        id: setup_python
        run: |
@@ -162,7 +132,7 @@ jobs:
        run: |
          cd tools/server/tests
          source venv/bin/activate
-          PYTEST_WORKERS=1 ./tests.sh
+          ./tests.sh

      - name: Tests (GPUx1, backend-sampling)
        id: server_integration_tests_backend_sampling
@@ -171,7 +141,7 @@ jobs:
          cd tools/server/tests
          source venv/bin/activate
          export LLAMA_ARG_BACKEND_SAMPLING=1
-          PYTEST_WORKERS=1 ./tests.sh
+          ./tests.sh

      - name: Tests (GPUx2)
        id: server_integration_tests_gpu2
@@ -180,7 +150,7 @@ jobs:
          cd tools/server/tests
          source venv/bin/activate
          export GGML_CUDA_DEVICES=2
-          PYTEST_WORKERS=1 ./tests.sh
+          ./tests.sh

      - name: Tests (GPUx2, backend-sampling)
        id: server_integration_tests_gpu2_backend_sampling
@@ -189,10 +159,10 @@ jobs:
          cd tools/server/tests
          source venv/bin/activate
          export GGML_CUDA_DEVICES=2 LLAMA_ARG_BACKEND_SAMPLING=1
-          PYTEST_WORKERS=1 ./tests.sh
+          ./tests.sh

  server-kleidiai:
-    runs-on: ah-ubuntu_24_04-c8g_8x
+    runs-on: ah-ubuntu_22_04-c8g_8x

    steps:
      - name: Clone
@@ -232,7 +202,7 @@ jobs:
      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
        run: |
-          cmake -B build -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON -DGGML_CPU_KLEIDIAI=ON -DLLAMA_FATAL_WARNINGS=ON
+          cmake -B build -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON -DGGML_CPU_KLEIDIAI=ON
          cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc) --target llama-server

      - name: Python setup
@@ -80,19 +80,11 @@ jobs:
          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@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: server-ubuntu-24.04-arm
-          save: false
-
-      - name: ccache-buckets-restore
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CI }}
-        with:
-          key: server-ubuntu-24.04-arm
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
+          evict-old-files: 1d
+          save: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}

      - name: Build
        id: cmake_build
@@ -101,18 +93,6 @@ jobs:
            -DGGML_SCHED_NO_REALLOC=ON
          cmake --build build --config Release -j $(nproc) --target llama-server

-      - name: ccache-buckets-save
-        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' }}
-        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-buckets
-        env:
-          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN_CACHE_OUTPUT }}
-        with:
-          key: server-ubuntu-24.04-arm
-          folder: llama.cpp
-          evict-old-files: 1d
-          hf_bucket: ggml-org/cache
-          save: true
-
      - name: Python setup
        id: setup_python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
@@ -148,6 +128,16 @@ jobs:
          export LLAMA_ARG_BACKEND_SAMPLING=1
          SLOW_TESTS=1 ./tests.sh

+      - name: ccache-clear
+        uses: ./.github/actions/ccache-clear
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+        with:
+          key: server-ubuntu-24.04-arm
+          older: 5m
+          min: 1
+          dry-run: ${{ github.event_name != 'push' || github.ref != 'refs/heads/master' }}
+
  windows:
    runs-on: windows-2025

@@ -160,7 +150,7 @@ jobs:
          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@v1.2.24
+        uses: ggml-org/ccache-action@v1.2.21
        with:
          key: server-windows-2025-x64
          evict-old-files: 1d
@@ -17,9 +17,8 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
        with:
          node-version: "24"
-          # cache: "npm"
-          # cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"
-          package-manager-cache: false
+          cache: "npm"
+          cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"

      - name: Install dependencies
        run: npm ci
@@ -33,9 +33,8 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
        with:
          node-version: "24"
-          # cache: "npm"
-          # cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"
-          package-manager-cache: false
+          cache: "npm"
+          cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"

      - name: Install dependencies
        run: npm ci
@@ -57,9 +57,8 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
        with:
          node-version: "24"
-          # cache: "npm"
-          # cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"
-          package-manager-cache: false
+          cache: "npm"
+          cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"

      - name: Download built UI artifacts
        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
@@ -115,9 +114,8 @@ jobs:
        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
        with:
          node-version: "24"
-          # cache: "npm"
-          # cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"
-          package-manager-cache: false
+          cache: "npm"
+          cache-dependency-path: "tools/ui/package-lock.json"

      - name: Install dependencies
        id: setup
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ on:

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

        steps:
        - name: Checkout repository
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
  update:
    name: Update Winget Package
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04  # previously ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: github.repository_owner == 'ggml-org'

    steps:
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ General:
 - PR and commit titles format: `<module> : <title>`. Lookup recents for examples
 - Don't try to build or run the code unless you are explicitly asked to do so
 - Use the `gh` CLI tool when querying PRs, issues, or other GitHub resources
- When [MODEL] is needed, first try to get it from the `PI_MODEL_NAME` env var before asking the user
- Never read the `AGENTS.md` file

 Coding:
 - When in doubt, always refer to the CONTRIBUTING.md file of the project
@@ -22,9 +20,8 @@ Pull requests (PRs):
 - Don't explicitly wrap lines in the PR description (each paragraph and bullet is a single line)
 - 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]"
- If `PI_MODEL_NAME` env var is not set, ask the user to tell you what model was used and write it in place of [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
- Never reply to review comments or post comments on issues/PRs without explicit permission from the user

 Commits:
 - On every commit that you make, include a "Assisted-by: pi:llama.cpp/[MODEL]" tag
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# date: Fri Sep  4 10:06:46 EEST 2026
+# date: Tue Aug 18 14:32:43 EEST 2026
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 Robey Holderith <robey@flaminglunchbox.net>
 Robin Davidsson <40024429+R-Dson@users.noreply.github.com>
 Robyn <robyngraf@users.noreply.github.com>
-Rock Chen <rockchen.tw@gmail.com>
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 RodriMora <bullerwins@gmail.com>
 Roger Chen <chenrui@gmail.com>
@@ -1544,21 +1499,17 @@ runfuture <runfuture@users.noreply.github.com>
 RunningLeon <maningsheng@sensetime.com>
 RunningLeon <mnsheng@yeah.net>
 Russyyds <161207317+Russyyds@users.noreply.github.com>
-Ryan C <ryan5rdx@users.noreply.github.com>
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 Ryan Landay <rlanday@gmail.com>
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-s0mecode <213953308+s0mecode@users.noreply.github.com>
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-Saad Ali <NIXKnight@users.noreply.github.com>
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 Saba Fallah <sabafallah@gmail.com>
 Sachin Desai <smdesai@gmail.com>
 Sachin Sharma <sachin@zettabolt.com>
-Safi Ullah <safiullah.3915@gmail.com>
 safranowith <bsh155762@gmail.com>
 SakuraUmi <yukinon244@gmail.com>
 Salvador E. Tropea <stropea@inti.gob.ar>
@@ -1601,7 +1552,6 @@ Sergey Alirzaev <l29ah@riseup.net>
 Sergey Alirzaev <zl29ah@gmail.com>
 Sergey Fedorov <vital.had@gmail.com>
 Sergey Malinin <sergmalinin@gmail.com>
-Sergey Sklyarov <sergey.sklyarov@gmail.com>
 Sergio López <slp@redhat.com>
 Sergio López <slp@sinrega.org>
 Sergiu <8598216+mzsergiu@users.noreply.github.com>
@@ -1632,13 +1582,11 @@ Shawn Gu <shawngu@qti.qualcomm.com>
 Shawn yang <137684499+Yangxiaoz@users.noreply.github.com>
 Shelby Jenkins <47464908+ShelbyJenkins@users.noreply.github.com>
 Sheldon Robinson <sheldon.robinson@live.com>
-Shenghan Yang <ysharke@sjtu.edu.cn>
 shibe2 <shibe@tuta.io>
 Shijie <821898965@qq.com>
 Shin-myoung-serp <relent95@naver.com>
 Shintarou Okada <kokuzen@gmail.com>
 shivamkumard-ctrl <shivamkumard@nvidia.com>
-Shobhit <sobhit.me@gmail.com>
 Shouyu <65317431+joeldushouyu@users.noreply.github.com>
 Shouzheng Liu <61452103+lshzh-ww@users.noreply.github.com>
 Shouzheng Liu <lshzh.hi@gmail.com>
@@ -1659,7 +1607,6 @@ Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>
 Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@scala.com>
 simevo <github@simevo.com>
 Simon Redman <simon@ergotech.com>
-Simon Teixidor <simon@flaskpost.me>
 Simon Willison <swillison@gmail.com>
 simon886212 <37953122+simon886212@users.noreply.github.com>
 Simranjeet Singh <105192966+simrnsingh@users.noreply.github.com>
@@ -1716,7 +1663,6 @@ stevenkuang <stevenkuang@tencent.com>
 Steward Garcia <57494570+FSSRepo@users.noreply.github.com>
 StrangeBytesDev <141275258+StrangeBytesDev@users.noreply.github.com>
 strawberrymelonpanda <152940198+strawberrymelonpanda@users.noreply.github.com>
-Strongtut <Strongtut@users.noreply.github.com>
 Suaj Carrot <72162667+SuajCarrot@users.noreply.github.com>
 sudhiarm <sudhi.sathyavathy@arm.com>
 Sukriti Sharma <Ssukriti@users.noreply.github.com>
@@ -1741,7 +1687,6 @@ Tamar <Tamar0812@outlook.co.il>
 tamarPal <tamarp3385@gmail.com>
 Tameem <113388789+AhmadTameem@users.noreply.github.com>
 Tamotsu Takahashi <ttakah+github@gmail.com>
-Tanner Bruhn <66120666+tannerbruhn@users.noreply.github.com>
 tarcey <cey.tarik@gmail.com>
 Tarek Dakhran <t.dakhran@gmail.com>
 Tarek Dakhran <tarek@liquid.ai>
@@ -1751,7 +1696,6 @@ Taylor <quantumtraveling@gmail.com>
 tc-mb <157115220+tc-mb@users.noreply.github.com>
 TecJesh <qdvm5gl@163.com>
 Tei Home <taiteitonghome@proton.me>
-Tekin Ertekin <tekin.ertekin@gmail.com>
 Tekin Ertekin <tekinertekin@gmail.com>
 tempstudio <49735574+tempstudio@users.noreply.github.com>
 teo <TeoZosa@users.noreply.github.com>
@@ -1793,7 +1737,6 @@ Ting Lou <louting@189.cn>
 Ting Lou <ting.lou@gmail.com>
 Ting Sun <suntcrick@gmail.com>
 Titaniumtown <titaniumtown@proton.me>
-Tiwei Bie <tiwei.btw@antgroup.com>
 tjohnman <tjohnman@users.noreply.github.com>
 Tobias Lütke <tobi@shopify.com>
 Toby <25832191+aetherbird@users.noreply.github.com>
@@ -1870,7 +1813,6 @@ Vishal Agarwal <vishalagarwal.jss@gmail.com>
 Vishal Singh <vishal@zettabolt.com>
 Vitali Lovich <vlovich+github@gmail.com>
 Vivian <vynride@gmail.com>
-vk <89937361+itsvedantkumar@users.noreply.github.com>
 Vlad <spitfireage@gmail.com>
 Vladimir <bogdad@gmail.com>
 Vladimir Malyutin <first-leon@yandex.ru>
@@ -1955,7 +1897,6 @@ Yaiko <elyaiko@hotmail.com>
 Yakine Tahtah <96926916+ReinforcedKnowledge@users.noreply.github.com>
 YangLe <smilingpoplar@gmail.com>
 yangli2 <yangli2@gmail.com>
-Yaniss Amazouz <yaniss91600@gmail.com>
 Yann Follet <131855179+YannFollet@users.noreply.github.com>
 Yanzhao Wang <yanzhaow@qti.qualcomm.com>
 Yarden Tal <yardent@qti.qualcomm.com>
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ include(CheckIncludeFileCXX)

 ### llama.cpp version
 set(LLAMA_VERSION_MAJOR 0)
-set(LLAMA_VERSION_MINOR 5)
+set(LLAMA_VERSION_MINOR 3)
 set(LLAMA_VERSION_PATCH 0)
 set(LLAMA_VERSION_BASE "${LLAMA_VERSION_MAJOR}.${LLAMA_VERSION_MINOR}.${LLAMA_VERSION_PATCH}")

@@ -197,16 +197,6 @@ llama_option_depr(WARNING     LLAMA_CURL)
 include("cmake/license.cmake")
 license_add_file("llama.cpp" "LICENSE")

-#
-# compile options
-#
-
-# clang stores the modification time of the precompiled header sources inside the
-# header and rejects it when they differ, so the timestamp is left out of it
-add_compile_options(
-    "$<$<COMPILE_LANG_AND_ID:C,Clang,IntelLLVM>:SHELL:-Xclang -fno-pch-timestamp>"
-    "$<$<COMPILE_LANG_AND_ID:CXX,Clang,IntelLLVM>:SHELL:-Xclang -fno-pch-timestamp>")
-
 #
 # 3rd-party
 #
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@
 /ggml/src/ggml-cann/                    @ggml-org/ggml-cann
 /ggml/src/ggml-common.h                 @ggerganov
 /ggml/src/ggml-cpu/                     @ggerganov
-/ggml/src/ggml-cpu/iqp.*                @bartowski1182
 /ggml/src/ggml-cpu/spacemit/            @alex-spacemit
 /ggml/src/ggml-cuda/                    @ggml-org/ggml-cuda
 /ggml/src/ggml-cuda/vendors/hip.h       @IMbackK
@@ -97,6 +96,7 @@
 /src/models/                            @CISC
 /tests/                                 @ggerganov
 /tests/test-chat.*                      @pwilkin
+/tests/test-llama-archs.cpp             @JohannesGaessler
 /tools/batched-bench/                   @ggerganov
 /tools/cli/                             @ngxson
 /tools/completion/                      @ggerganov
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ If AI is used to generate any portion of the code, contributors must adhere to t

 1. Explicitly disclose the manner in which AI was employed.
 2. Check for an existing PR addressing the same change; if one exists, comment there to work with its author instead of opening a duplicate.
-3. Perform a comprehensive manual review prior to submitting the pull request. A proper code review usually takes something like one hour per 200-400 LOC and you should be spending **at least that much time on code review alone**.
-4. Be prepared to explain every line of code you submit when asked about it by a maintainer.
+3. Perform a comprehensive manual review prior to submitting the pull request.
+4. Be prepared to explain every line of code they submitted when asked about it by a maintainer.
 5. It is strictly prohibited to use AI to write your posts for you (bug reports, feature requests, pull request descriptions, Github discussions, responding to humans, ...).

 For more info, please refer to the [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md) file.
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 [![Docker](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/ggml-org/llama.cpp/docker.yml?label=Docker)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/workflows/docker.yml)
 [![Winget](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/ggml-org/llama.cpp/winget.yml?label=Winget)](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/workflows/winget.yml)

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+[ggml](https://github.com/ggml-org/ggml) / [ops](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/ops.md) / [maintainer PRs](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues?q=is%3Apr%20is%3Aopen%20draft%3AFalse%20(author%3Argerganov%20OR%20author%3AKitaitiMakoto%20OR%20author%3Adanbev%20OR%20author%3Aaldehir%20OR%20author%3Amax-krasnyansky%20OR%20author%3ACISC%20OR%20author%3Aggerganov%20OR%20author%3Aam17an%20OR%20author%3Abartowski1182%20OR%20author%3Anikwen%20OR%20author%3Ahipudding%20OR%20author%3AServeurpersoCom%20OR%20author%3Apwilkin%20OR%20author%3Areeselevine%20OR%20author%3Angxson%20OR%20author%3Ajeffbolznv%20OR%20author%3Amarty1885%20OR%20author%3A0cc4m%20OR%20author%3ATitaniumtown%20OR%20author%3Aangt%20OR%20author%3AIMbackK%20OR%20author%3Aarthw%20OR%20author%3AJohannesGaessler%20OR%20author%3AORippler%20OR%20author%3Aruixiang63%20OR%20author%3Axctan%20OR%20author%3Aallozaur%20OR%20author%3Ayomaytk%20OR%20author%3Aaendk%20OR%20author%3Agaugarg-nv%20OR%20author%3Ataronaeo%20OR%20author%3Aforforever73%20OR%20author%3Alhez%20OR%20author%3Anetrunnereve%20OR%20author%3Afairydreaming)%20sort%3Aupdated-desc) / [dev stats](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp-dev) / [lib llama API](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/9289) / [llama-server REST API](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/9291)

 </div>

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ The `llama.cpp` project is build on top of the [ggml](https://github.com/ggml-or
 | [CANN](docs/build.md#cann) | Ascend NPU |
 | [CUDA](docs/build.md#cuda) | Nvidia GPU |
 | [HIP](docs/build.md#hip) | AMD GPU |
-| [Hexagon](docs/backend/snapdragon/README.md) | Snapdragon |
+| [Hexagon [In Progress]](docs/backend/snapdragon/README.md) | Snapdragon |
 | [IBM zDNN](docs/backend/zDNN.md) | IBM Z & LinuxONE |
 | [MUSA](docs/build.md#musa) | Moore Threads GPU |
 | [Metal](docs/build.md#metal-build) | Apple Silicon |
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ 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 "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/licenses/LICENSE-*")
+file(GLOB EXTRA_LICENSES "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/licenses/LICENSE-*")

 foreach(FILE_PATH ${EXTRA_LICENSES})
    get_filename_component(FILE_NAME "${FILE_PATH}" NAME)
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static const command cmds[] = {
 #undef UPDATE_HIDDEN

 static int version(int /*argc*/, char ** /*argv*/) {
-    llama_print_build_info(llama_version(), stdout);
+    llama_print_build_info(llama_version());
    return 0;
 }

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ LLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
 LLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=OFF
 LLAMA_BUILD_MTMD=ON
 GGML_METAL=ON
-GGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=${GGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY:-ON}
+GGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY=ON
 GGML_BLAS_DEFAULT=ON
 GGML_OPENMP=OFF

@@ -169,14 +169,6 @@ setup_framework_structure() {
    cp tools/mtmd/mtmd.h           ${header_path}
    cp tools/mtmd/mtmd-helper.h    ${header_path}

-    if [[ "$GGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY" == "OFF" ]]; then
-        if [[ "$platform" == "macos" ]]; then
-            cp ${build_dir}/bin/*.metallib ${build_dir}/framework/${framework_name}.framework/Versions/A/Resources/
-        else
-            cp ${build_dir}/bin/*.metallib ${build_dir}/framework/${framework_name}.framework/
-        fi
-    fi
-
    # Create module map (common for all platforms)
    cat > ${module_path}module.modulemap << EOF
 framework module llama {
@@ -458,7 +450,6 @@ build_ios_sim() {
        -DIOS=ON \
        -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=iOS \
        -DCMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT=iphonesimulator \
-        -DGGML_METAL_TARGET_OS=ios \
        -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="arm64;x86_64" \
        -DCMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_SUPPORTED_PLATFORMS=iphonesimulator \
        -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="${COMMON_C_FLAGS}" \
@@ -476,7 +467,6 @@ build_ios_device() {
        -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=${IOS_MIN_OS_VERSION} \
        -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=iOS \
        -DCMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT=iphoneos \
-        -DGGML_METAL_TARGET_OS=ios \
        -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="arm64" \
        -DCMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_SUPPORTED_PLATFORMS=iphoneos \
        -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="${COMMON_C_FLAGS}" \
@@ -508,7 +498,6 @@ build_visionos() {
        -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="arm64" \
        -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=visionOS \
        -DCMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT=xros \
-        -DGGML_METAL_TARGET_OS=xros \
        -DCMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_SUPPORTED_PLATFORMS=xros \
        -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="${COMMON_C_FLAGS}" \
        -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="${COMMON_CXX_FLAGS}" \
@@ -527,7 +516,6 @@ build_visionos_sim() {
        -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="arm64;x86_64" \
        -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=visionOS \
        -DCMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT=xrsimulator \
-        -DGGML_METAL_TARGET_OS=xros \
        -DCMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_SUPPORTED_PLATFORMS=xrsimulator \
        -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="${COMMON_C_FLAGS}" \
        -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="${COMMON_CXX_FLAGS}" \
@@ -546,7 +534,6 @@ build_tvos_sim() {
        -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=${TVOS_MIN_OS_VERSION} \
        -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=tvOS \
        -DCMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT=appletvsimulator \
-        -DGGML_METAL_TARGET_OS=tvos \
        -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="arm64;x86_64" \
        -DGGML_METAL=ON \
        -DCMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_SUPPORTED_PLATFORMS=appletvsimulator \
@@ -565,7 +552,6 @@ build_tvos_device() {
        -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=${TVOS_MIN_OS_VERSION} \
        -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=tvOS \
        -DCMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT=appletvos \
-        -DGGML_METAL_TARGET_OS=tvos \
        -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="arm64" \
        -DGGML_METAL=ON \
        -DCMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_SUPPORTED_PLATFORMS=appletvos \
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ docker run --privileged -it \
    -v $HOME/llama.cpp/ci-cache:/ci-cache \
    -v $HOME/llama.cpp/ci-results:/ci-results \
    -v $PWD:/ws -w /ws \
-    registry.mthreads.com/mcconline/inference/pytorch:2.9.1.post1-py3.10-musa5.2.0-mp31-devel-ubuntu22.04-amd64
+    mthreads/musa:rc4.3.0-devel-ubuntu22.04-amd64
 ```

 Inside the container, execute the following commands:
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ if [ -n "${GG_BUILD_ROCM}" ] && [ -n "${GITHUB_RUN_ID}" ]; then
 fi

 rm -f $OUT/*.log
+rm -f $OUT/*.exit
+rm -f $OUT/*.md

 sd=`dirname $0`
 cd $sd/../
@@ -158,8 +160,8 @@ if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_WEBGPU} ]; then
 fi

 if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_MUSA} ]; then
-    # Use ph1 by default (MTT S5000)
-    MUSA_ARCH=${MUSA_ARCH:-31}
+    # Use qy1 by default (MTT S80)
+    MUSA_ARCH=${MUSA_ARCH:-21}
    CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_MUSA=ON -DMUSA_ARCHITECTURES=${MUSA_ARCH}"
 fi

@@ -187,8 +189,8 @@ if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_OPENVINO} ]; then
    fi
    CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_OPENVINO=ON"

-    # TODO: fix failing tests on OpenVINO backend
-    CTEST_EXTRA="-E test-llama-archs|^test-recurrent-state-|test-save-load-state"
+    # TODO: fix and re-enable the `test-llama-archs` test below
+    CTEST_EXTRA="-E test-llama-archs|test-recurrent-state-rollback-nemotron-h"
 fi

 ## helpers
@@ -209,6 +211,10 @@ function gg_wget {
    cd $cwd
 }

+function gg_printf {
+    printf -- "$@" >> $OUT/README.md
+}
+
 function gg_run {
    ci=$1

@@ -217,10 +223,13 @@ function gg_run {

    gg_run_$ci | tee $OUT/$ci.log
    cur=$?
+    echo "$cur" > $OUT/$ci.exit

    set +x
    set +o pipefail

+    gg_sum_$ci
+
    ret=$((ret | cur))
 }

@@ -241,11 +250,22 @@ function gg_run_ctest_debug {
    (cmake -G "${CMAKE_GENERATOR}" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ${CMAKE_EXTRA} .. ) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-cmake.log
    (time cmake --build . --config Debug -j$(nproc)) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-make.log

-    (time ctest -C Debug --output-on-failure -L main -E "test-opt|test-llama-archs" ${CTEST_EXTRA}) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-ctest.log
+    (time ctest -C Debug --output-on-failure -L main -E "test-opt|test-backend-ops|test-llama-archs" ${CTEST_EXTRA}) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-ctest.log

    set +e
 }

+function gg_sum_ctest_debug {
+    gg_printf '### %s\n\n' "${ci}"
+
+    gg_printf 'Runs ctest in debug mode\n'
+    gg_printf '- status: %s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}.exit)"
+    gg_printf '```\n'
+    gg_printf '%s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-ctest.log)"
+    gg_printf '```\n'
+    gg_printf '\n'
+}
+
 # ctest_release

 function gg_run_ctest_release {
@@ -270,6 +290,16 @@ function gg_run_ctest_release {
    set +e
 }

+function gg_sum_ctest_release {
+    gg_printf '### %s\n\n' "${ci}"
+
+    gg_printf 'Runs ctest in release mode\n'
+    gg_printf '- status: %s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}.exit)"
+    gg_printf '```\n'
+    gg_printf '%s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-ctest.log)"
+    gg_printf '```\n'
+}
+
 # test_llama_archs_tensor_split

 function gg_run_test_llama_archs_tensor_split {
@@ -294,23 +324,14 @@ function gg_run_test_llama_archs_tensor_split {
    set +e
 }

-# test_llama_archs_models
+function gg_sum_test_llama_archs_tensor_split {
+    gg_printf '### %s\n\n' "${ci}"

-function gg_run_test_llama_archs_models {
-    cd ${SRC}
-
-    set -e
-
-    # TODO: fix and re-enable `test-llama-archs` on OpenVINO
-    # TODO: the `test-llama-archs` currently does not build on Windows, so we check if the binary exists
-    if [ -z ${GG_BUILD_OPENVINO} ] && [ -f ./build-ci-release/bin/test-llama-archs ]; then
-        rm -rf build-ci-models && mkdir -p build-ci-models
-
-        # generate the dummy models used by the model-dependent tests
-        ./build-ci-release/bin/test-llama-archs -o build-ci-models 2>&1
-    fi
-
-    set +e
+    gg_printf 'Runs test-llama-archs with 1 to 4 devices\n'
+    gg_printf '- status: %s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}.exit)"
+    gg_printf '```\n'
+    gg_printf '%s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}.log)"
+    gg_printf '```\n'
 }

 # test_scripts
@@ -326,6 +347,17 @@ function gg_run_test_scripts {
    set +e
 }

+function gg_sum_test_scripts {
+    gg_printf '### %s\n\n' "${ci}"
+
+    gg_printf 'Runs test scripts\n'
+    gg_printf '- status: %s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}.exit)"
+    gg_printf '```\n'
+    gg_printf '%s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-scripts.log)"
+    gg_printf '```\n'
+    gg_printf '\n'
+}
+
 function gg_get_model {
    #local gguf_0="$MNT/models/qwen3/0.6B/ggml-model-f16.gguf"
    local gguf_0="$MNT/models/qwen3/0.6B/ggml-model-q4_0.gguf"
@@ -369,6 +401,26 @@ function gg_run_ctest_with_model_release {
    cd ..
 }

+function gg_sum_ctest_with_model_debug {
+    gg_printf '### %s\n\n' "${ci}"
+
+    gg_printf 'Runs ctest with model files in debug mode\n'
+    gg_printf '- status: %s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}.exit)"
+    gg_printf '```\n'
+    gg_printf '%s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-ctest.log)"
+    gg_printf '```\n'
+}
+
+function gg_sum_ctest_with_model_release {
+    gg_printf '### %s\n\n' "${ci}"
+
+    gg_printf 'Runs ctest with model files in release mode\n'
+    gg_printf '- status: %s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}.exit)"
+    gg_printf '```\n'
+    gg_printf '%s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-ctest.log)"
+    gg_printf '```\n'
+}
+
 # qwen3_0_6b

 function gg_run_qwen3_0_6b {
@@ -473,24 +525,50 @@ function gg_run_qwen3_0_6b {
        return 0
    }

-    check_ppl "f16"  "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-f16.log  | grep "^\[1\]")"
+    check_ppl "f16"  "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-f16.log  | grep "^\[1\]")" | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-ppl.log
    if [ -z ${GG_BUILD_NO_BF16} ]; then
-        check_ppl "bf16" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-bf16.log | grep "^\[1\]")"
+        check_ppl "bf16" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-bf16.log | grep "^\[1\]")" | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-ppl.log
    fi
-    check_ppl "q8_0" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q8_0.log | grep "^\[1\]")"
-    check_ppl "q4_0" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q4_0.log | grep "^\[1\]")"
-    check_ppl "q4_1" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q4_1.log | grep "^\[1\]")"
-    check_ppl "q5_0" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q5_0.log | grep "^\[1\]")"
-    check_ppl "q5_1" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q5_1.log | grep "^\[1\]")"
-   #check_ppl "q2_k" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q2_k.log | grep "^\[1\]")" # note: ppl > 20.0 for this quant and model
-    check_ppl "q3_k" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q3_k.log | grep "^\[1\]")"
-    check_ppl "q4_k" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q4_k.log | grep "^\[1\]")"
-    check_ppl "q5_k" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q5_k.log | grep "^\[1\]")"
-    check_ppl "q6_k" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q6_k.log | grep "^\[1\]")"
+    check_ppl "q8_0" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q8_0.log | grep "^\[1\]")" | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-ppl.log
+    check_ppl "q4_0" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q4_0.log | grep "^\[1\]")" | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-ppl.log
+    check_ppl "q4_1" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q4_1.log | grep "^\[1\]")" | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-ppl.log
+    check_ppl "q5_0" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q5_0.log | grep "^\[1\]")" | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-ppl.log
+    check_ppl "q5_1" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q5_1.log | grep "^\[1\]")" | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-ppl.log
+   #check_ppl "q2_k" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q2_k.log | grep "^\[1\]")" | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-ppl.log # note: ppl > 20.0 for this quant and model
+    check_ppl "q3_k" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q3_k.log | grep "^\[1\]")" | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-ppl.log
+    check_ppl "q4_k" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q4_k.log | grep "^\[1\]")" | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-ppl.log
+    check_ppl "q5_k" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q5_k.log | grep "^\[1\]")" | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-ppl.log
+    check_ppl "q6_k" "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q6_k.log | grep "^\[1\]")" | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-ppl.log
+
+    cat $OUT/${ci}-imatrix.log | grep "Final" >> $OUT/${ci}-imatrix-sum.log

    set +e
 }

+function gg_sum_qwen3_0_6b {
+    gg_printf '### %s\n\n' "${ci}"
+
+    gg_printf 'Qwen3 0.6B:\n'
+    gg_printf '- status: %s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}.exit)"
+    gg_printf '- perplexity:\n%s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-ppl.log)"
+    gg_printf '- imatrix:\n```\n%s\n```\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-imatrix-sum.log)"
+    gg_printf '- f16:\n```\n%s\n```\n'  "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-f16.log)"
+    if [ -z ${GG_BUILD_NO_BF16} ]; then
+        gg_printf '- bf16:\n```\n%s\n```\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-bf16.log)"
+    fi
+    gg_printf '- q8_0:\n```\n%s\n```\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q8_0.log)"
+    gg_printf '- q4_0:\n```\n%s\n```\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q4_0.log)"
+    gg_printf '- q4_1:\n```\n%s\n```\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q4_1.log)"
+    gg_printf '- q5_0:\n```\n%s\n```\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q5_0.log)"
+    gg_printf '- q5_1:\n```\n%s\n```\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q5_1.log)"
+    gg_printf '- q2_k:\n```\n%s\n```\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q2_k.log)"
+    gg_printf '- q3_k:\n```\n%s\n```\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q3_k.log)"
+    gg_printf '- q4_k:\n```\n%s\n```\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q4_k.log)"
+    gg_printf '- q5_k:\n```\n%s\n```\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q5_k.log)"
+    gg_printf '- q6_k:\n```\n%s\n```\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q6_k.log)"
+    gg_printf '- save-load-state: \n```\n%s\n```\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-save-load-state.log)"
+}
+
 # bge-small

 function gg_run_embd_bge_small {
@@ -532,6 +610,15 @@ function gg_run_embd_bge_small {
    set +e
 }

+function gg_sum_embd_bge_small {
+    gg_printf '### %s\n\n' "${ci}"
+
+    gg_printf 'BGE Small (BERT):\n'
+    gg_printf '- status: %s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}.exit)"
+    gg_printf '- f16: \n```\n%s\n```\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-f16.log)"
+    gg_printf '- q8_0:\n```\n%s\n```\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-tg-q8_0.log)"
+}
+
 # rerank_tiny

 function gg_run_rerank_tiny {
@@ -588,102 +675,88 @@ function gg_run_rerank_tiny {
    set +e
 }

+function gg_sum_rerank_tiny {
+    gg_printf '### %s\n\n' "${ci}"
+
+    gg_printf 'Rerank Tiny (Jina):\n'
+    gg_printf '- status: %s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}.exit)"
+    gg_printf '- f16: \n```\n%s\n```\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-rk-f16.log)"
+}
+
 function gg_check_build_requirements {
    if ! command -v git &> /dev/null; then
-        echo 'git not found, please install'
+        gg_printf 'git not found, please install\n'
        exit 1
    fi

    if ! command -v git-lfs &> /dev/null; then
-        echo 'git-lfs not found, please install'
+        gg_printf 'git-lfs not found, please install\n'
        exit 1
    fi

    if ! git config --get filter.lfs.clean &> /dev/null; then
-        echo 'git-lfs not initialized, please run `git lfs install`'
+        gg_printf 'git-lfs not initialized, please run `git lfs install`\n'
        exit 1
    fi

    if ! command -v wget &> /dev/null; then
-        echo 'wget not found, please install'
+        gg_printf 'wget not found, please install\n'
        exit 1
    fi

    if ! command -v python3 &> /dev/null; then
-        echo 'python3 not found, please install'
+        gg_printf 'python3 not found, please install\n'
        exit 1
    fi

    if ! command -v pip3 &> /dev/null; then
-        echo 'pip3 not found, please install'
+        gg_printf 'pip3 not found, please install\n'
        exit 1
    fi

    if ! python3 -m ensurepip --help &> /dev/null; then
-        echo 'ensurepip not found, please install python3-venv package'
+        gg_printf 'ensurepip not found, please install python3-venv package\n'
        exit 1
    fi

    if ! command -v cmake &> /dev/null; then
-        echo 'cmake not found, please install'
+        gg_printf 'cmake not found, please install\n'
        exit 1
    fi

    if ! command -v ccache &> /dev/null; then
-        echo 'ccache not found, please consider installing for faster builds'
+        gg_printf 'ccache not found, please consider installing for faster builds\n'
    fi

    if ! command -v ctest &> /dev/null; then
-        echo 'ctest not found, please install'
-        exit 1
-    fi
-
-    if ! command -v unzip &> /dev/null; then
-        echo 'unzip not found, please install'
+        gg_printf 'ctest not found, please install\n'
        exit 1
    fi
 }

-function gg_run_test_backend_ops {
+function gg_run_test_backend_ops_cpu {
    cd ${SRC}

    cd build-ci-release

    set -e

-    local n_jobs=$(nproc)
-    if [ "${n_jobs}" -gt 2 ]; then
-        n_jobs=2
-    fi
-    local args_extra="-j ${n_jobs}"
-
-    # TODO: fix multi-threaded for ROCm
-    #       https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/runs/34576278519/job/103297889044?pr=28740#step:3:4865
-    if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_ROCM} ]; then
-        args_extra=""
-    fi
-
-    # TODO: MoltenVK bug?
-    #       https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/runs/34611260059/job/103302413736?pr=28740#step:3:5897
-    if [ ! -z "${GG_BUILD_VULKAN}" ] && [ "$(uname -s)" = "Darwin" ]; then
-        args_extra=""
-    fi
-
-    # TODO: OpenVINO GPU plugin crashes (CL_OUT_OF_RESOURCES) with 2 concurrent workers on GPU.
-    if [ ! -z "${GG_BUILD_OPENVINO}" ] && [ "${GGML_OPENVINO_DEVICE:-}" = "GPU" ]; then
-        args_extra=""
-    fi
-
-    # TODO: reduce the test-backend-ops timeout to 1800s
-    if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_HIGH_PERF} ]; then
-        (time timeout 3600 ./bin/test-backend-ops ${args_extra} -b CPU) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-test-backend-ops.log
-    else
-        (time timeout 3600 ./bin/test-backend-ops ${args_extra}       ) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-test-backend-ops.log
-    fi
+    (time ./bin/test-backend-ops -b CPU ) 2>&1 | tee -a $OUT/${ci}-test-backend-ops-cpu.log

    set +e
 }

+function gg_sum_test_backend_ops_cpu {
+    gg_printf '### %s\n\n' "${ci}"
+
+    gg_printf 'Runs test-backend-ops for CPU backend\n'
+    gg_printf '- status: %s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}.exit)"
+    gg_printf '```\n'
+    gg_printf '%s\n' "$(cat $OUT/${ci}-test-backend-ops-cpu.log)"
+    gg_printf '```\n'
+    gg_printf '\n'
+}
+
 ## main

 export LLAMA_ARG_LOG_PREFIX=1
@@ -712,11 +785,12 @@ ret=0
 test $ret -eq 0 && gg_run ctest_debug
 test $ret -eq 0 && gg_run ctest_release

-test $ret -eq 0 && gg_run test_backend_ops
-
-test $ret -eq 0 && gg_run test_llama_archs_models
 test $ret -eq 0 && gg_run test_llama_archs_tensor_split

+if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_HIGH_PERF} ]; then
+    test $ret -eq 0 && gg_run test_backend_ops_cpu
+fi
+
 if [ -z ${GG_BUILD_LOW_PERF} ]; then
    test $ret -eq 0 && gg_run embd_bge_small
    test $ret -eq 0 && gg_run rerank_tiny
@@ -731,4 +805,6 @@ if [ -z ${GG_BUILD_LOW_PERF} ]; then
    test $ret -eq 0 && gg_run ctest_with_model_release
 fi

+cat $OUT/README.md
+
 exit $ret
@@ -17,16 +17,14 @@ find_library(llama_LIBRARY llama
    NO_CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH
 )

-if(NOT TARGET llama)
-    add_library(llama UNKNOWN IMPORTED)
-    set_target_properties(llama
-        PROPERTIES
-            INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "${LLAMA_INCLUDE_DIR}"
-            INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES "ggml::ggml;ggml::ggml-base;"
-            IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_LANGUAGES "CXX"
-            IMPORTED_LOCATION "${llama_LIBRARY}"
-            INTERFACE_COMPILE_FEATURES c_std_90
-            POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
-endif()
+add_library(llama UNKNOWN IMPORTED)
+set_target_properties(llama
+    PROPERTIES
+        INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "${LLAMA_INCLUDE_DIR}"
+        INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES "ggml::ggml;ggml::ggml-base;"
+        IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_LANGUAGES "CXX"
+        IMPORTED_LOCATION "${llama_LIBRARY}"
+        INTERFACE_COMPILE_FEATURES c_std_90
+        POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)

 check_required_components(Llama)
@@ -53,10 +53,7 @@ endif()

 set(TARGET llama-common)

-include(parsers/sources.cmake)
-
 add_library(${TARGET}
-    ${LLAMA_CHAT_PARSERS_SOURCES}
    arg.cpp
    arg.h
    base64.hpp
@@ -84,8 +81,6 @@ add_library(${TARGET}
    imatrix-loader.cpp
    imatrix-loader.h
    json-schema-to-grammar.cpp
-    json-schema.cpp
-    json-schema.h
    json.cpp
    json.h
    llguidance.cpp
@@ -872,6 +872,17 @@ static bool common_params_parse_ex(int argc, char ** argv, common_params_context
                    arg.c_str(), e.what(), opt.to_string().c_str()));
            }
        }
+
+        // TODO: remove this check after deprecating --mmap|mlock|dio
+        auto has_arg = [&](std::initializer_list<const char *> names) {
+            return std::any_of(names.begin(), names.end(), [&](const char * name) {
+                return seen_args.count(name);
+            });
+        };
+        if (has_arg({"-lm", "--load-mode"}) &&
+            has_arg({"--mlock", "--mmap", "--no-mmap", "-dio", "--direct-io", "-ndio", "--no-direct-io"})) {
+            LOG_WRN("DEPRECATED: `--load-mode` and `--mlock`/`--mmap`/`--direct-io` should not be combined; only the last flag on the command line will take effect\n");
+        }
    };

    // parse all CLI args now, so that -hf is available below for remote preset resolution
@@ -883,12 +894,6 @@ static bool common_params_parse_ex(int argc, char ** argv, common_params_context
    postprocess_cpu_params(params.speculative.draft.cpuparams,       &params.cpuparams);
    postprocess_cpu_params(params.speculative.draft.cpuparams_batch, &params.cpuparams_batch);

-    // default the mmproj device to the global device selection if not set explicitly with -mmdev
-    if (params.mmproj_use_gpu && params.mmproj_device == nullptr && !params.devices.empty()) {
-        params.mmproj_device = params.devices.front();
-        params.mmproj_use_gpu = params.mmproj_device != nullptr;
-    }
-
    if (params.prompt_cache_all && (params.interactive || params.interactive_first)) {
        throw std::invalid_argument("error: --prompt-cache-all not supported in interactive mode yet\n");
    }
@@ -955,11 +960,6 @@ static bool common_params_parse_ex(int argc, char ** argv, common_params_context
        ));
    }

-    // if the preserve_reasoning kwarg was not specified explicitly, enable it by default
-    if (!params.default_template_kwargs.count("preserve_reasoning")) {
-        params.default_template_kwargs["preserve_reasoning"] = "true";
-    }
-
    return true;
 }

@@ -1643,14 +1643,6 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            }
        }
    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_CTX_SIZE"));
-    add_opt(common_arg(
-        { "--kv-unified-per-slot" }, "N",
-        "context limit per parallel slot (default: unset, behavior unchanged).\n"
-        "when set without -c/--ctx-size, the shared KV pool is sized to n_parallel*N",
-        [](common_params & params, int value) {
-            params.kv_unified_per_slot = value;
-        }
-    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_KV_UNIFIED_PER_SLOT").set_examples({ LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER }));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"-n", "--predict", "--n-predict"}, "N",
        string_format(
@@ -2016,7 +2008,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            params.sampling.temp = std::max(params.sampling.temp, 0.0f);
            params.sampling.user_sampling_config |= common_params_sampling_config::COMMON_PARAMS_SAMPLING_CONFIG_TEMP;
        }
-    ).set_sampling().set_env("LLAMA_ARG_TEMPERATURE"));
+    ).set_sampling());
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--top-k"}, "N",
        string_format("top-k sampling (default: %d, 0 = disabled)", params.sampling.top_k),
@@ -2032,7 +2024,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            params.sampling.top_p = std::stof(value);
            params.sampling.user_sampling_config |= common_params_sampling_config::COMMON_PARAMS_SAMPLING_CONFIG_TOP_P;
        }
-    ).set_sampling().set_env("LLAMA_ARG_TOP_P"));
+    ).set_sampling());
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--min-p"}, "N",
        string_format("min-p sampling (default: %.2f, 0.0 = disabled)", (double)params.sampling.min_p),
@@ -2040,7 +2032,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            params.sampling.min_p = std::stof(value);
            params.sampling.user_sampling_config |= common_params_sampling_config::COMMON_PARAMS_SAMPLING_CONFIG_MIN_P;
        }
-    ).set_sampling().set_env("LLAMA_ARG_MIN_P"));
+    ).set_sampling());
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--top-nsigma", "--top-n-sigma"}, "N",
        string_format("top-n-sigma sampling (default: %.2f, -1.0 = disabled)", params.sampling.top_n_sigma),
@@ -2096,7 +2088,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            params.sampling.penalty_repeat = penalty_repeat;
            params.sampling.user_sampling_config |= common_params_sampling_config::COMMON_PARAMS_SAMPLING_CONFIG_PENALTY_REPEAT;
        }
-    ).set_sampling().set_env("LLAMA_ARG_REPEAT_PENALTY"));
+    ).set_sampling());
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--presence-penalty"}, "N",
        string_format("repeat alpha presence penalty (default: %.2f, 0.0 = disabled)", (double)params.sampling.penalty_present),
@@ -2107,7 +2099,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            }
            params.sampling.penalty_present = penalty_present;
        }
-    ).set_sampling().set_env("LLAMA_ARG_PRESENCE_PENALTY"));
+    ).set_sampling());
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--frequency-penalty"}, "N",
        string_format("repeat alpha frequency penalty (default: %.2f, 0.0 = disabled)", (double)params.sampling.penalty_freq),
@@ -2118,7 +2110,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            }
            params.sampling.penalty_freq = penalty_freq;
        }
-    ).set_sampling().set_env("LLAMA_ARG_FREQUENCY_PENALTY"));
+    ).set_sampling());
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--dry-multiplier"}, "N",
        string_format("set DRY sampling multiplier (default: %.2f, 0.0 = disabled)", (double)params.sampling.dry_multiplier),
@@ -2277,14 +2269,14 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
    ).set_sampling());
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"-j", "--json-schema"}, "SCHEMA",
-        "JSON schema to constrain generations (https://json-schema.org/), e.g. `{\"type\": \"object\"}` for any JSON object",
+        "JSON schema to constrain generations (https://json-schema.org/), e.g. `{}` for any JSON object\nFor schemas w/ external $refs, use --grammar + example/json_schema_to_grammar.py instead",
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
            params.sampling.grammar = {COMMON_GRAMMAR_TYPE_OUTPUT_FORMAT, json_schema_to_grammar(json::parse(value))};
        }
    ).set_sampling());
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"-jf", "--json-schema-file"}, "FILE",
-        "File containing a JSON schema to constrain generations (https://json-schema.org/), e.g. `{\"type\": \"object\"}` for any JSON object",
+        "File containing a JSON schema to constrain generations (https://json-schema.org/), e.g. `{}` for any JSON object\nFor schemas w/ external $refs, use --grammar + example/json_schema_to_grammar.py instead",
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
            std::ifstream file(value);
            if (!file) {
@@ -2605,7 +2597,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
    add_opt(common_arg(
        // note: "-mmdev" must sort after "--rpc" in the preset map, else RPC devices are not registered yet
        {"-mmdev", "--mmproj-device"}, "DEVICE",
-        "device to use for multimodal projector (none = don't offload, default: follows --device)\n"
+        "device to use for multimodal projector (none = don't offload, default: auto)\n"
        "use --list-devices to see a list of available devices",
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
            if (value == "none") {
@@ -2683,6 +2675,32 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            }
        ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_RPC"));
    }
+    add_opt(common_arg(
+        {"--mlock"},
+        "DEPRECATED in favor of `--load-mode`: force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing",
+        [](common_params & params) {
+            LOG_WRN("DEPRECATED: --mlock is deprecated. use --load-mode mlock instead\n");
+            params.load_mode = LLAMA_LOAD_MODE_MLOCK;
+        }
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_MLOCK"));
+    add_opt(common_arg(
+        {"--mmap"},
+        {"--no-mmap"},
+        "DEPRECATED in favor of `--load-mode`: whether to memory-map model. (if mmap disabled, slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock)",
+        [](common_params & params, bool value) {
+            LOG_WRN("DEPRECATED: --mmap and --no-mmap are deprecated. use --load-mode mmap instead\n");
+            params.load_mode = value ? LLAMA_LOAD_MODE_MMAP : LLAMA_LOAD_MODE_NONE;
+        }
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_MMAP"));
+    add_opt(common_arg(
+        {"-dio", "--direct-io"},
+        {"-ndio", "--no-direct-io"},
+        "DEPRECATED in favor of `--load-mode`: use DirectIO if available",
+        [](common_params & params, bool value) {
+            LOG_WRN("DEPRECATED: --direct-io and --no-direct-io are deprecated. use --load-mode dio instead\n");
+            params.load_mode = value ? LLAMA_LOAD_MODE_DIRECT_IO : LLAMA_LOAD_MODE_NONE;
+        }
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_DIO"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"-lm", "--load-mode"}, "MODE",
        "model loading mode (default: auto)\n"
@@ -2702,19 +2720,6 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            else { throw std::invalid_argument("invalid value"); }
        }
    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_LOAD_MODE"));
-    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"-lzm", "--lazy-mode"}, "MODE",
-        "on-demand reading of certain tensors, for example per-layer embeddings (default: auto)\n"
-        "- on: read the rows of such tensors from disk on demand instead of keeping them resident (requires mmap)\n"
-        "- auto: on, but only for tensors larger than 4 GiB\n"
-        "- off: always keep them resident",
-        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
-            /**/ if (value == "on")   { params.lazy_mode = LLAMA_LAZY_MODE_ON;   }
-            else if (value == "auto") { params.lazy_mode = LLAMA_LAZY_MODE_AUTO; }
-            else if (value == "off")  { params.lazy_mode = LLAMA_LAZY_MODE_OFF;  }
-            else { throw std::invalid_argument("invalid value"); }
-        }
-    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_LAZY_MODE"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--numa"}, "TYPE",
        "attempt optimizations that help on some NUMA systems\n"
@@ -3308,18 +3313,9 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_EMBEDDING}));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--host"}, "HOST",
-        string_format("IP addresses to listen on, comma-separated, or UNIX socket paths ending in .sock; with multiple TCP addresses, :: binds IPv6 only; overlapping addresses result in undefined behavior (default: %s)", params.hostnames[0].c_str()),
+        string_format("ip address to listen, or bind to an UNIX socket if the address ends with .sock (default: %s)", params.hostname.c_str()),
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
-            params.hostnames.clear();
-            for (auto & host : parse_csv_row(value)) {
-                host = string_strip(host);
-                if (!host.empty()) {
-                    params.hostnames.push_back(host);
-                }
-            }
-            if (params.hostnames.empty()) {
-                throw std::invalid_argument("--host requires at least one address");
-            }
+            params.hostname = value;
        }
    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_HOST"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
@@ -3536,10 +3532,6 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
                    LOG_WRN("Setting 'enable_thinking' via --chat-template-kwargs is deprecated. "
                            "Use --reasoning on / --reasoning off instead.\n");
                }
-                if (item.key() == "preserve_reasoning") {
-                    LOG_WRN("Setting 'preserve_reasoning' via --chat-template-kwargs is deprecated. "
-                            "Use --reasoning-preserve / --no-reasoning-preserve instead.\n");
-                }
                params.default_template_kwargs[item.key()] = item.value().dump();
            }
        }
@@ -3730,7 +3722,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--reasoning-preserve"},
        {"--no-reasoning-preserve"},
-        "preserve reasoning trace in the full history, not just the last assistant message (default: enabled)\n"
+        "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) {
@@ -3739,7 +3731,6 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            } else {
                params.default_template_kwargs["preserve_reasoning"] = "false";
            }
-            params.preserve_reasoning_specified = true;
        }
    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_COMPLETION, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_REASONING_PRESERVE"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
@@ -3879,14 +3870,6 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            common_log_set_file(common_log_main(), value.c_str());
        }
    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_LOG_FILE"));
-    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"--log-jsonl"},
-        {"--no-log-jsonl"},
-        "Log as JSONL (one JSON object per line) to stdout, this also disables colored logging (default: disabled)",
-        [](common_params &, bool value) {
-            common_log_set_jsonl(value);
-        }
-    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_LOG_JSONL"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--log-prompts-dir"}, "PATH",
        "Log prompts to directory (auto-created if not present; only used for debugging, default: disabled)",
@@ -4149,38 +4132,6 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
            params.speculative.draft.n_min = value;
        }
    ).set_spec().set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SPECULATIVE, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_LOOKUP, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_N_MIN"));
-    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"--spec-synth-len"}, "L",
-        "target mean synthetic acceptance length, including the target token (benchmarking only)",
-        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
-            const std::string text = string_strip(value);
-            size_t pos = 0;
-            const double length = std::stod(text, &pos);
-            if (pos != text.size() || length == -1.0) {
-                throw std::invalid_argument("invalid value");
-            }
-            params.speculative.synth_len = length;
-        }
-    ).set_spec().set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_SYNTH_LEN"));
-    add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"--spec-synth-rates"}, "P0,P1,...",
-        "comma-separated unconditional per-position synthetic acceptance probabilities (benchmarking only)",
-        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
-            const auto values = string_split<std::string>(value, ',');
-            std::vector<double> rates;
-            rates.reserve(values.size());
-            for (const auto & raw : values) {
-                const std::string text = string_strip(raw);
-                size_t pos = 0;
-                const double rate = std::stod(text, &pos);
-                if (pos != text.size()) {
-                    throw std::invalid_argument("invalid value");
-                }
-                rates.push_back(rate);
-            }
-            params.speculative.synth_rates = std::move(rates);
-        }
-    ).set_spec().set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_SYNTH_RATES"));

    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--spec-draft-p-split", "--draft-p-split"}, "P",
@@ -4207,7 +4158,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
    ).set_spec().set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SPECULATIVE, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_CLI}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_SPEC_DRAFT_BACKEND_SAMPLING"));
    add_opt(common_arg(
        {"--spec-draft-device", "-devd", "--device-draft"}, "<dev1,dev2,..>",
-        "comma-separated list of devices to use for offloading the draft model (none = don't offload, default: follows --device)\n"
+        "comma-separated list of devices to use for offloading the draft model (none = don't offload)\n"
        "use --list-devices to see a list of available devices",
        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
            params.speculative.draft.devices = parse_device_list(value);
@@ -122,8 +122,6 @@ struct common_params_context {

 // parse input arguments from CLI
 // if one argument has invalid value, it will automatically display usage of the specific argument (and not the full usage message)
-// TODO: this function can load ggml backend (by calling llama_support_rpc)
-//       this is a side-effect that should be avoided
 bool common_params_parse(int argc, char ** argv, common_params & params, llama_example ex, void(*print_usage)(int, char **) = nullptr);

 // load all backends and print the list of available (non-CPU) devices to stdout
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ const char * llama_build_info(void) {
    return s.c_str();
 }

-void llama_print_build_info(const char * llama_version, FILE * stream) {
-    fprintf(stream, "version: %s (build %d, commit %s)\n", llama_version, llama_build_number(), llama_commit());
-    fprintf(stream, "built with %s for %s\n", llama_compiler(), llama_build_target());
+void llama_print_build_info(const char * llama_version) {
+    fprintf(stderr, "version: %s (build %d, commit %s)\n", llama_version, llama_build_number(), llama_commit());
+    fprintf(stderr, "built with %s for %s\n", llama_compiler(), llama_build_target());
 }
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 #pragma once

-#include <cstdio>
-
 int llama_build_number(void);

 const char * llama_commit(void);
@@ -10,4 +8,4 @@ const char * llama_compiler(void);
 const char * llama_build_target(void);
 const char * llama_build_info(void);

-void llama_print_build_info(const char *, FILE * = stderr);
+void llama_print_build_info(const char *);
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 #include "common.h"
 #include "json-schema-to-grammar.h"
 #include "log.h"
-#include "parsers/parsers.h"
 #include "peg-parser.h"

 #include <stdexcept>
@@ -13,6 +12,16 @@

 using json = common_json;

+// Helper to iterate over tools/functions
+static void foreach_function(const json & tools, const std::function<void(const json &)> & fn) {
+    for (const auto & tool : tools) {
+        if (!tool.contains("type") || tool.at("type") != "function" || !tool.contains("function")) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        fn(tool);
+    }
+}
+
 namespace autoparser {

 parser_build_context::parser_build_context(common_chat_peg_builder & p, const generation_params & inputs) :
@@ -78,6 +87,15 @@ common_chat_params peg_generator::generate_parser(const common_chat_template &
    if (include_grammar) {
        data.grammar_lazy = !has_response_format && 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.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);
        });

@@ -294,7 +312,7 @@ common_peg_parser analyze_tools::build_tool_parser_tag_json(parser_build_context
    foreach_function(inputs.tools, [&](const json & tool) {
        const auto & func   = tool.at("function");
        std::string  name   = func.at("name");
-        const auto   schema = common_chat_tool_parameters(func);
+        const auto & schema = func.contains("parameters") ? func.at("parameters") : json::object();

        // Build call_id parser based on position (if supported)
        bool have_call_id = false;
@@ -365,31 +383,43 @@ common_peg_parser analyze_tools::build_tool_parser_tag_tagged(parser_build_conte
    common_peg_parser tool_choice = p.choice();

    foreach_function(inputs.tools, [&](const json & tool) {
-        const auto & func = tool.at("function");
-        std::string  name = func.at("name");
+        const auto &          func       = tool.at("function");
+        std::string           name       = func.at("name");
+        auto                  params     = func.contains("parameters") ? func.at("parameters") : json::object();
+        const auto &          properties = params.contains("properties") ? params.at("properties") : json::object();
+
+        std::set<std::string> required;
+        if (params.contains("required")) {
+            required = params.at("required").get<std::set<std::string>>();
+        }
+
+        auto schema_info = common_schema_info();
+        schema_info.resolve_refs(params);

        // Build parser for each argument, separating required and optional
        std::vector<common_peg_parser> required_parsers;
        std::vector<common_peg_parser> optional_parsers;
-        foreach_parameter(func, [&](const common_chat_schema_property & param, const common_chat_schema_document_ptr & doc) {
+        for (const auto & [param_name, param_schema] : properties.items()) {
+            bool is_required = required.find(param_name) != required.end();
+
            auto arg =
-                p.tool_arg(p.tool_arg_open(arguments.name_prefix + p.tool_arg_name(p.literal(param.name)) +
+                p.tool_arg(p.tool_arg_open(arguments.name_prefix + p.tool_arg_name(p.literal(param_name)) +
                                           arguments.name_suffix) +
                           arguments.value_prefix +
-                           (param.schema->may_be_string() ?
+                           (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.json(), "tool-" + name + "-arg-" + param.name + "-schema", doc, *param.schema)) +
+                                    p.json(), "tool-" + name + "-arg-" + param_name + "-schema", param_schema, false)) +
                                    p.tool_arg_close(p.literal(arguments.value_suffix)))));

-            auto named_arg = p.rule("tool-" + name + "-arg-" + param.name, arg);
-            if (param.required) {
+            auto named_arg = p.rule("tool-" + name + "-arg-" + param_name, arg);
+            if (is_required) {
                required_parsers.push_back(named_arg);
            } else {
                optional_parsers.push_back(named_arg);
            }
-        });
+        }

        // Build required arg sequence in definition order
        common_peg_parser args_seq = p.eps();
@@ -318,13 +318,13 @@ void common_chat_peg_mapper::map(const common_peg_ast_node & node) {
    bool is_content   = node.tag == common_chat_peg_builder::CONTENT;

    if (is_reasoning) { // GPT OSS can have more than 1 reasoning block, so concatenate here
-        result.reasoning_content += node.sanitized_text();
+        result.reasoning_content += std::string(node.text);
    }

    if (is_content) {
        // Concatenate content from multiple content nodes (e.g., when reasoning markers
        // are preserved before content markers in reasoning_format=NONE mode)
-        result.content += node.sanitized_text();
+        result.content += std::string(node.text);
    }

    // Handle tool-related tags (supporting both JSON and tagged formats)
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ common_peg_parser common_chat_peg_builder::standard_constructed_tools(
        }
        const auto &   function = tool_def.at("function");
        std::string    name     = function.at("name");
-        ordered_json   params   = common_chat_tool_parameters(function);
+        ordered_json   params   = function.contains("parameters") ? function.at("parameters") : ordered_json::object();

        // Build argument parsers
        auto args = eps();
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ common_peg_parser common_chat_peg_builder::python_style_tool_calls(
        }
        const auto &   function = tool_def.at("function");
        std::string    name     = function.at("name");
-        ordered_json   params   = common_chat_tool_parameters(function);
+        ordered_json   params   = function.contains("parameters") ? function.at("parameters") : ordered_json::object();

        auto args = eps();
        if (params.contains("properties") && !params["properties"].empty()) {
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ common_peg_parser common_chat_peg_builder::build_json_tools_function_is_key(
        }
        const auto &   function = tool_def.at("function");
        std::string    name     = function.at("name");
-        ordered_json   params   = common_chat_tool_parameters(function);
+        ordered_json   params   = function.contains("parameters") ? function.at("parameters") : ordered_json::object();

        // Build inner object fields
        std::vector<common_peg_parser> inner_fields;
@@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ common_peg_parser common_chat_peg_builder::build_json_tools_nested_keys(
        }
        const auto &   function = tool_def.at("function");
        std::string    name     = function.at("name");
-        ordered_json   params   = common_chat_tool_parameters(function);
+        ordered_json   params   = function.contains("parameters") ? function.at("parameters") : ordered_json::object();

        auto nested_name = literal("\"" + nested_name_field + "\"") + space() + literal(":") + space() +
                          atomic(literal("\"") + tool_name(literal(name)) + literal("\""));
@@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ common_peg_parser common_chat_peg_builder::build_json_tools_flat_keys(
        }
        const auto &   function = tool_def.at("function");
        std::string    name     = function.at("name");
-        ordered_json   params   = common_chat_tool_parameters(function);
+        ordered_json   params   = function.contains("parameters") ? function.at("parameters") : ordered_json::object();

        auto tool_name_ = name_key_parser + space() + literal(":") + space() +
                         atomic(literal("\"") + tool_name(literal(name)) + literal("\""));
@@ -1058,12 +1058,12 @@ void common_chat_peg_gemma4_mapper::visit(const common_peg_ast_arena & arena, co
    const auto & node = arena.get(id);

    if (node.tag == "reasoning") {
-        result.reasoning_content += node.sanitized_text();
+        result.reasoning_content += std::string(node.text);
        return;
    }

    if (node.tag == "content") {
-        result.content += node.sanitized_text();
+        result.content += std::string(node.text);
        return;
    }

@@ -1206,12 +1206,12 @@ void common_chat_peg_minimax_m3_mapper::visit(const common_peg_ast_arena & arena
    const auto & node = arena.get(id);

    if (node.tag == common_chat_peg_builder::REASONING) {
-        result.reasoning_content += node.sanitized_text();
+        result.reasoning_content += std::string(node.text);
        return;
    }

    if (node.tag == common_chat_peg_builder::CONTENT) {
-        result.content += node.sanitized_text();
+        result.content += std::string(node.text);
        return;
    }

@@ -360,9 +360,6 @@ common_json common_chat_msgs_to_json_oaicompat(const std::vector<common_chat_msg

 common_json common_chat_tools_to_json_oaicompat(const std::vector<common_chat_tool> & tools);

-// The parameters schema of a function tool. A tool without parameters, or with an empty {}, takes zero arguments.
-common_json common_chat_tool_parameters(const common_json & function);
-
 // get template caps, useful for reporting to server /props endpoint
 std::map<std::string, bool> common_chat_templates_get_caps(const common_chat_templates * chat_templates);

@@ -1586,11 +1586,6 @@ common_context_seq_rm_type common_context_can_seq_rm(llama_context * ctx) {
        return COMMON_CONTEXT_SEQ_RM_TYPE_NO;
    }

-    if (llama_n_rs_seq(ctx) > 0) {
-        COM_TRC("%s", "the context supports bounded partial sequence removal\n");
-        return COMMON_CONTEXT_SEQ_RM_TYPE_RS;
-    }
-
    common_context_seq_rm_type res = COMMON_CONTEXT_SEQ_RM_TYPE_PART;

    llama_memory_clear(mem, true);
@@ -1607,6 +1602,12 @@ common_context_seq_rm_type common_context_can_seq_rm(llama_context * ctx) {
        goto done;
    }

+    if (llama_n_rs_seq(ctx) > 0) {
+        COM_TRC("%s", "the context supports bounded partial sequence removal\n");
+        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");
@@ -1687,7 +1688,6 @@ struct llama_model_params common_model_params_to_llama(common_params & params) {
    mparams.main_gpu        = params.main_gpu;
    mparams.split_mode      = params.split_mode;
    mparams.load_mode       = params.load_mode;
-    mparams.lazy_mode = params.lazy_mode;
    mparams.tensor_split    = params.tensor_split;
    mparams.check_tensors   = params.check_tensors;
    mparams.use_extra_bufts = !params.no_extra_bufts;
@@ -2198,28 +2198,9 @@ bool common_replay_last_token(struct llama_context * ctx, llama_token last_token
    return true;
 }

-llama_batch_ext_ptr common_batch_ext_get_one(llama_context * ctx, const llama_tokens & tokens) {
-    llama_batch_ext_ptr batch(llama_batch_ext_init(ctx));
-
-    auto mem = llama_get_memory(ctx);
-    llama_pos pos = mem ? llama_memory_seq_pos_max(mem, 0) + 1 : 0;
-
-    for (size_t i = 0; i < tokens.size(); ++i) {
-        const int32_t idx = llama_batch_ext_add_token(batch.get(), 0, tokens[i]);
-        llama_batch_ext_set_pos(batch.get(), idx, &pos);
-        pos++;
-    }
-
-    if (!tokens.empty()) {
-        llama_batch_ext_set_output_logits(batch.get(), (int32_t) tokens.size() - 1, true);
-    }
-
-    return batch;
-}
-
 bool common_prompt_batch_decode(
              struct llama_context * ctx,
-                const llama_tokens & all_tokens,
+    const std::vector<llama_token> & all_tokens,
                               int   n_new,
                               int & n_past,
                               int   n_batch,
@@ -2240,9 +2221,7 @@ bool common_prompt_batch_decode(
        // 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.
-        llama_tokens prefix_tokens(all_tokens.begin() + offset, all_tokens.begin() + offset + n_tokens_before_last);
-        llama_batch_ext_ptr batch_prefix = common_batch_ext_get_one(ctx, prefix_tokens);
-        if (llama_process(ctx, LLAMA_PROCESS_TYPE_DECODE, batch_prefix.get())) {
+        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");
            return false;
        }
@@ -2252,19 +2231,17 @@ bool common_prompt_batch_decode(
        COM_INF("saved session before last token to %s, n_new = %zu\n", state_path.data(), all_tokens.size());

        llama_token last_token = all_tokens.back();
-        llama_batch_ext_ptr batch_last = common_batch_ext_get_one(ctx, { last_token });
-        llama_pos pos = n_past;
-        llama_batch_ext_set_pos(batch_last.get(), 0, &pos);
+        llama_batch batch = llama_batch_get_one(&last_token, 1);
+        int32_t pos = n_past;
+        batch.pos = &pos;

-        if (llama_process(ctx, LLAMA_PROCESS_TYPE_DECODE, batch_last.get())) {
+        if (llama_decode(ctx, batch)) {
            COM_ERR("%s", "failed to eval last token\n");
            return false;
        }
        n_past++;
    } else {
-        llama_tokens new_tokens(all_tokens.begin() + offset, all_tokens.begin() + offset + n_new);
-        llama_batch_ext_ptr batch = common_batch_ext_get_one(ctx, new_tokens);
-        if (llama_process(ctx, LLAMA_PROCESS_TYPE_DECODE, batch.get())) {
+        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");
            return false;
        }
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ struct common_params_sampling {
        COMMON_SAMPLER_TYPE_TEMPERATURE,
    };

-    common_grammar                      grammar;          // optional grammar constraint (user / output-format / tool-calls)
+    common_grammar              grammar;      // optional grammar constraint (user / output-format / tool-calls)
    bool                                grammar_lazy = false;
    std::vector<common_grammar_trigger> grammar_triggers; // optional triggers (for lazy grammars)
    std::set<llama_token>               preserved_tokens;
@@ -370,9 +370,6 @@ struct common_params_speculative_ngram_cache {
 struct common_params_speculative {
    std::vector<enum common_speculative_type> types = { COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_NONE };

-    double synth_len = -1.0;
-    std::vector<double> synth_rates;
-
    // used by Simple, MTP, Eagle3, etc. - all methods that require some kind of draft model
    common_params_speculative_draft draft;

@@ -387,10 +384,6 @@ struct common_params_speculative {
        return !draft.mparams.empty();
    }

-    bool has_synth() const {
-        return synth_len != -1.0 || !synth_rates.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 || t == COMMON_SPECULATIVE_TYPE_DRAFT_DSPARK;
@@ -483,8 +476,6 @@ struct common_params {
    enum llama_split_mode split_mode = LLAMA_SPLIT_MODE_LAYER; // how to split the model across GPUs
    enum llama_load_mode  load_mode  = LLAMA_LOAD_MODE_AUTO; // how to load the model

-    enum llama_lazy_mode lazy_mode = LLAMA_LAZY_MODE_AUTO; // on-demand reading of tensors marked by the arch
-
    common_cpu_params cpuparams;
    common_cpu_params cpuparams_batch;

@@ -627,14 +618,13 @@ struct common_params {
    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 kv_unified_per_slot = 0;     // max context per parallel slot; 0 = unset
    int32_t checkpoint_min_step = 8192;  // minimum spacing between context checkpoints
    int32_t cache_ram_mib       = 8192;  // -1 = no limit, 0 - disable, 1 = 1 MiB, etc.

+    std::string hostname      = "127.0.0.1";
    std::string public_path   = "";                                                                         // NOLINT
    std::string api_prefix    = "";                                                                         // NOLINT
    std::string chat_template = "";                                                                         // NOLINT
-    std::vector<std::string> hostnames = {"127.0.0.1"};
    bool use_jinja = true;                                                                                  // NOLINT

    // server CORS params
@@ -657,7 +647,6 @@ struct common_params {
    std::string ssl_file_cert = "";                                                                         // NOLINT

    std::map<std::string, std::string> default_template_kwargs;
-    bool preserve_reasoning_specified = false;

    // CLI params
    std::string server_base; // if set, connect to this server instead of starting a new one
@@ -1021,10 +1010,6 @@ void common_batch_add(
    const std::vector<llama_seq_id> & seq_ids,
                               bool   logits);

-// create a single-sequence batch from a list of tokens
-// last token always have output_logits set to true
-llama_batch_ext_ptr common_batch_ext_get_one(struct llama_context * ctx, const llama_tokens & tokens);
-
 // decodes a single batch of tokens for a prompt and manages session tokens
 //
 // Note: We save state before the last token so that we can replay it to ensure
@@ -1032,7 +1017,7 @@ llama_batch_ext_ptr common_batch_ext_get_one(struct llama_context * ctx, const l
 // tokens from memory, so this approach works across all model architectures.
 bool common_prompt_batch_decode(
              struct llama_context * ctx,
-                const llama_tokens & all_tokens,
+    const std::vector<llama_token> & all_tokens,
                               int   n_new,
                               int & n_past,
                               int   n_batch,
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #include "fit.h"

-#include "json.h"
 #include "log.h"

 #include "../src/llama-ext.h"
@@ -192,9 +191,9 @@ static void common_params_fit_impl(
    uint32_t hp_nct = 0; // hparams.n_ctx_train
    uint32_t hp_nex = 0; // hparams.n_expert

-    // size the context for all sequences, but keep minimums and alignment per KV stream
-    const uint32_t n_seq_max  = std::max<uint32_t>(1, cparams->n_seq_max);
-    const uint32_t n_streams  = cparams->kv_unified ? 1 : n_seq_max;
+    // with non-unified kv, we need to take into account n_streams
+    // for example, if memory can hold more than model's trained context size, we must extend the n_ctx to hold enough n_streams
+    const uint32_t n_streams  = cparams->kv_unified ? 1 : std::max<uint32_t>(1, cparams->n_seq_max);
    const bool     n_ctx_auto = cparams->n_ctx == 0;

    dmds_t   dmds_extra;       // memory of the extra model, laid out on the devices of the main model
@@ -264,15 +263,15 @@ static void common_params_fit_impl(
    dmds_t dmds_full = common_get_device_memory_data_impl(path_model, mparams, cparams, devs, hp_ngl, hp_nct, hp_nex, log_level);

    // saturate instead of overflowing, this also preserves the UINT32_MAX sentinel of n_ctx_min:
-    const uint32_t n_ctx_max       = (uint32_t) std::min<uint64_t>(uint64_t(hp_nct)    * n_seq_max, UINT32_MAX);
+    const uint32_t n_ctx_max       = (uint32_t) std::min<uint64_t>(uint64_t(hp_nct)    * n_streams, UINT32_MAX);
    const uint32_t n_ctx_min_total = (uint32_t) std::min<uint64_t>(uint64_t(n_ctx_min) * n_streams, UINT32_MAX);

    // llama_context would use only hp_nct in total for n_ctx == 0, resolve the context before measuring anything else:
    if (n_ctx_auto) {
        cparams->n_ctx = n_ctx_max;
-        if (n_seq_max > 1) {
-            LOG_TRC("%s: context size unset -> using %" PRIu32 " for %" PRIu32 " sequences:\n",
-                __func__, n_ctx_max, n_seq_max);
+        if (n_streams > 1) {
+            LOG_TRC("%s: context size unset and KV cache not unified -> using %" PRIu32 " for %" PRIu32 " sequences:\n",
+                __func__, n_ctx_max, n_streams);
            dmds_full = common_get_device_memory_data_impl(path_model, mparams, cparams, devs, hp_ngl, hp_nct, hp_nex, log_level);
        }
    }
@@ -916,9 +915,6 @@ void common_memory_breakdown_print(const struct llama_context * ctx) {

    std::vector<std::array<std::string, 9>> table_data;
    table_data.reserve(devices.size());
-
-    // same data as the table below, for --log-jsonl consumers
-    common_json rows = common_json::array();
    const std::string template_header = "%s: | %s | %s   %s    %s   %s   %s   %s    %s |\n";
    const std::string template_gpu    = "%s: | %s | %s = %s + (%s = %s + %s + %s) + %s |\n";
    const std::string template_other  = "%s: | %s | %s   %s    %s = %s + %s + %s    %s |\n";
@@ -993,19 +989,6 @@ void common_memory_breakdown_print(const struct llama_context * ctx) {
            std::to_string(mb.context / MiB),
            std::to_string(mb.compute / MiB),
            std::to_string(unaccounted / static_cast<int64_t>(MiB))});
-
-        rows.push_back({
-            {"kind",        "device"},
-            {"name",        name},
-            {"description", desc},
-            {"total",       total / MiB},
-            {"free",        free / MiB},
-            {"self",        self / MiB},
-            {"model",       mb.model / MiB},
-            {"context",     mb.context / MiB},
-            {"compute",     mb.compute / MiB},
-            {"unaccounted", unaccounted / static_cast<int64_t>(MiB)},
-        });
    }

    // print memory breakdown for host:
@@ -1021,15 +1004,6 @@ void common_memory_breakdown_print(const struct llama_context * ctx) {
            std::to_string(mb_host.context / MiB),
            std::to_string(mb_host.compute / MiB),
            ""}); // unaccounted
-
-        rows.push_back({
-            {"kind",    "host"},
-            {"name",    "Host"},
-            {"self",    self / MiB},
-            {"model",   mb_host.model / MiB},
-            {"context", mb_host.context / MiB},
-            {"compute", mb_host.compute / MiB},
-        });
    }

    // print memory breakdown for all remaining buffer types:
@@ -1051,16 +1025,6 @@ void common_memory_breakdown_print(const struct llama_context * ctx) {
            std::to_string(mb.context / MiB),
            std::to_string(mb.compute / MiB),
            ""}); // unaccounted
-
-        rows.push_back({
-            {"kind",    "buffer_type"},
-            {"name",    name},
-            {"self",    self / MiB},
-            {"model",   mb.model / MiB},
-            {"context", mb.context / MiB},
-            {"compute", mb.compute / MiB},
-        });
-
        seen_buffer_types.insert(buft);
    }

@@ -1078,11 +1042,6 @@ void common_memory_breakdown_print(const struct llama_context * ctx) {
            __func__, td[1].c_str(), td[2].c_str(), td[3].c_str(), td[4].c_str(), td[5].c_str(),
            td[6].c_str(), td[7].c_str(), td[8].c_str());
    }
-
-    LOG_JSON("fit_memory_breakdown", common_json({
-        {"unit", "MiB"},
-        {"rows", rows},
-    }));
 }

 void common_fit_print(
@@ -62,15 +62,6 @@ static fs::path get_cache_directory() {
    return cache;
 }

-std::string get_cache_path() {
-#if defined(__cpp_lib_char8_t)
-    const std::u8string u8str = get_cache_directory().u8string();
-    return std::string(reinterpret_cast<const char *>(u8str.data()), u8str.size());
-#else
-    return get_cache_directory().u8string();
-#endif
-}
-
 static std::string folder_name_to_repo(const std::string & folder) {
    constexpr std::string_view prefix = "models--";
    if (folder.rfind(prefix, 0)) {
@@ -402,8 +393,8 @@ static std::string get_cached_ref(const fs::path & repo_path) {
 }

 hf_files get_cached_files(const std::string & repo_id) {
-    const fs::path cache_path = get_cache_directory();
-    if (!fs::exists(cache_path)) {
+    fs::path cache_dir = get_cache_directory();
+    if (!fs::exists(cache_dir)) {
        return {};
    }

@@ -414,7 +405,7 @@ hf_files get_cached_files(const std::string & repo_id) {

    hf_files files;

-    for (const auto & repo : fs::directory_iterator(cache_path)) {
+    for (const auto & repo : fs::directory_iterator(cache_dir)) {
        if (!repo.is_directory()) {
            continue;
        }
@@ -32,7 +32,4 @@ 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);

-// Returns the HuggingFace hub cache path
-std::string get_cache_path();
-
 } // namespace hf_cache
@@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ caps caps_get(jinja::program & prog) {

    JJ_DEBUG("%s\n", ">>> Running capability check: typed content");

-    bool checks_for_string = false;
    static const std::string content_marker = "STRING_MARKER";

    // case: typed content support
@@ -137,10 +136,6 @@ caps caps_get(jinja::program & prog) {
        [&](context &, bool success, value & messages, value &, const std::string & rendered) {
            auto & content = messages->at(0)->at("content");
            caps_print_stats(content, "messages[0].content");
-            if (has_op(content, "test_is_string")) {
-                // checked if content is string
-                checks_for_string = true;
-            }
            bool used_as_array = has_op(content, "selectattr") || has_op(content, "array_access");
            if (used_as_array) {
                // accessed as an array
@@ -156,33 +151,6 @@ caps caps_get(jinja::program & prog) {
        }
    );

-    if (checks_for_string) {
-        caps_try_execute(
-            prog,
-            [&]() {
-                // messages
-                return json::array({
-                    {
-                        {"role", "user"},
-                        {"content", json::array({
-                        })}
-                    }
-                });
-            },
-            nullptr, // ctx_fn
-            nullptr, // tools_fn
-            [&](context &, bool success, value & messages, value &, const std::string &) {
-                auto & content = messages->at(0)->at("content");
-                caps_print_stats(content, "messages[0].content");
-                bool used_as_array = has_op(content, "selectattr") || has_op(content, "array_access");
-                if (used_as_array && success) {
-                    // accessed as an array
-                    result.supports_typed_content = true;
-                }
-            }
-        );
-    }
-
    JJ_DEBUG("%s\n", ">>> Running capability check: system prompt");

    // case: system prompt support
@@ -437,8 +437,7 @@ private:
    }

    statement_ptr parse_filter_expression() {
-        // Filters/tests bind outside unary so -n|abs is (-n)|abs, not -(n|abs).
-        auto operand = parse_unary_expression();
+        auto operand = parse_call_member_expression();
        while (is(token::pipe)) {
            size_t start_pos = current;
            ++current; // consume pipe
@@ -449,15 +448,6 @@ private:
        return operand;
    }

-    statement_ptr parse_unary_expression() {
-        if (is(token::unary_operator)) {
-            size_t start_pos = current;
-            auto op = next();
-            return mk_stmt<unary_expression>(start_pos, op, parse_unary_expression());
-        }
-        return parse_call_member_expression();
-    }
-
    statement_ptr parse_call_member_expression() {
        // Handle member expressions recursively
        auto member = parse_member_expression(parse_primary_expression());
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static void ensure_key_type_allowed(const value & val) {
 }

 // execute with error handling
-value statement::execute(context & ctx) const {
+value statement::execute(context & ctx) {
    try {
        return execute_impl(ctx);
    } catch (const continue_statement::signal & /* ex */) {
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ value statement::execute(context & ctx) const {
    }
 }

-value identifier::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
+value identifier::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    auto it = ctx.get_val(val);
    auto builtins = global_builtins();
    if (!it->is_undefined()) {
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ value identifier::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
    }
 }

-value object_literal::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
+value object_literal::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    auto obj = mk_val<value_object>();
    for (const auto & pair : val) {
        value key = pair.first->execute(ctx);
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ value object_literal::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
    return obj;
 }

-value binary_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
+value binary_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    value left_val = left->execute(ctx);

    // Logical operators
@@ -167,12 +167,6 @@ value binary_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
        }
        throw std::runtime_error("Cannot perform operation " + op.value + " on undefined values");
    } else if (is_val<value_none>(left_val) || is_val<value_none>(right_val)) {
-        if (!is_val<value_none>(right_val) && (op.value == "in" || op.value == "not in")) {
-            // case: none in {'low': 1}
-            // A null left operand is looked up like any other value.
-            bool member = test_is_in();
-            return mk_val<value_bool>(op.value == "in" ? member : !member);
-        }
        if (op.value == "+" || op.value == "~") {
            value res = mk_val<value_undefined>();
            if (workaround_concat_null_with_str(res)) {
@@ -317,7 +311,9 @@ static value try_builtin_func(context & ctx, const std::string & name, value & i
    throw std::runtime_error("Unknown (built-in) filter '" + name + "' for type " + input->type());
 }

-static value apply_filter(context & ctx, const statement_ptr & filter, value input) {
+value filter_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
+    value input = operand ? operand->execute(ctx) : val;
+
    JJ_DEBUG("Applying filter to %s", input->type().c_str());

    auto set_filter_alias = [](auto & filter_id) {
@@ -373,21 +369,22 @@ static value apply_filter(context & ctx, const statement_ptr & filter, value inp
    }
 }

-value filter_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
-    return apply_filter(ctx, filter, operand->execute(ctx));
-}
-
-value filter_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
+value filter_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    // eval body as string, then apply filter
    auto body_val = exec_statements(body, ctx);
    value_string parts = mk_val<value_string>();
    gather_string_parts_recursive(body_val, parts);

    JJ_DEBUG("FilterStatement: applying filter to body string of length %zu", parts->val_str.length());
-    return apply_filter(ctx, filter, parts);
+    filter_expression filter_expr(std::move(parts), std::move(filter));
+    value out = filter_expr.execute(ctx);
+
+    // this node can be reused later, make sure filter is preserved
+    this->filter = std::move(filter_expr.filter);
+    return out;
 }

-value test_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
+value test_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    // NOTE: "value is something" translates to function call "test_is_something(value)"
    const auto & builtins = global_builtins();

@@ -415,18 +412,12 @@ value test_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
        throw std::runtime_error("Invalid test expression");
    }

-    const std::string test_name = "test_is_" + test_id;
-    auto it = builtins.find(test_name);
-    JJ_DEBUG("Test expression %s '%s' %s (using function '%s')", operand->type().c_str(), test_id.c_str(), negate ? "(negate)" : "", test_name.c_str());
+    auto it = builtins.find("test_is_" + test_id);
+    JJ_DEBUG("Test expression %s '%s' %s (using function 'test_is_%s')", operand->type().c_str(), test_id.c_str(), negate ? "(negate)" : "", test_id.c_str());
    if (it == builtins.end()) {
        throw std::runtime_error("Unknown test '" + test_id + "'");
    }

-    if (ctx.is_get_stats) {
-        value_t::stats_t::mark_used(input);
-        input->stats.ops.insert(test_name);
-    }
-
    auto res = it->second(args);

    if (negate) {
@@ -436,7 +427,7 @@ value test_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
    }
 }

-value unary_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
+value unary_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    value operand_val = argument->execute(ctx);
    JJ_DEBUG("Executing unary expression with operator '%s'", op.value.c_str());

@@ -450,17 +441,12 @@ value unary_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
        } else {
            throw std::runtime_error("Unary - operator requires numeric operand");
        }
-    } else if (op.value == "+") {
-        if (is_val<value_int>(operand_val) || is_val<value_float>(operand_val)) {
-            return operand_val;
-        }
-        throw std::runtime_error("Unary + operator requires numeric operand");
    }

    throw std::runtime_error("Unknown unary operator '" + op.value + "'");
 }

-value if_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
+value if_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    value test_val = test->execute(ctx);

    auto out = mk_val<value_array>();
@@ -481,14 +467,20 @@ value if_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
    return str;
 }

-value for_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
+value for_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    context scope(ctx); // new scope for loop variables

-    const jinja::select_expression * select_expr = cast_stmt<select_expression>(iterable);
+    jinja::select_expression * select_expr = cast_stmt<select_expression>(iterable);
    statement_ptr test_expr_nullptr;

-    const statement_ptr & iter_expr = select_expr ? select_expr->lhs : iterable;
-    const statement_ptr & test_expr = select_expr ? select_expr->test : test_expr_nullptr;
+    statement_ptr & iter_expr = [&]() -> statement_ptr & {
+        auto tmp = cast_stmt<select_expression>(iterable);
+        return tmp ? tmp->lhs : iterable;
+    }();
+    statement_ptr & test_expr = [&]() -> statement_ptr & {
+        auto tmp = cast_stmt<select_expression>(iterable);
+        return tmp ? tmp->test : test_expr_nullptr;
+    }();

    JJ_DEBUG("Executing for statement, iterable type: %s", iter_expr->type().c_str());

@@ -641,7 +633,7 @@ value for_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
    return str;
 }

-value set_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
+value set_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    auto rhs = val ? val->execute(ctx) : exec_statements(body, ctx);

    if (is_stmt<identifier>(assignee)) {
@@ -740,7 +732,7 @@ static inline void bind_parameters(const std::string & name, const statements &
    }
 }

-value macro_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
+value macro_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    if (!is_stmt<identifier>(this->name)) {
        throw std::runtime_error("Macro name must be an identifier");
    }
@@ -763,7 +755,7 @@ value macro_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
    return mk_val<value_undefined>();
 }

-value call_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
+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");
@@ -803,7 +795,7 @@ value call_statement::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
    return callee_func->invoke(args);
 }

-value member_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
+value member_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    value object = this->object->execute(ctx);

    value property;
@@ -838,12 +830,6 @@ value member_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
        } else {
            property = this->property->execute(ctx);
        }
-    } else if (is_stmt<integer_literal>(this->property)) {
-        // syntax: obj.index
-        property = mk_val<value_int>(cast_stmt<integer_literal>(this->property)->val);
-        if (property->as_int() < 0) {
-            throw std::runtime_error("Static member property cannot be negative");
-        }
    } else {
        // syntax: obj.prop
        if (!is_stmt<identifier>(this->property)) {
@@ -936,7 +922,7 @@ value member_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
    return val;
 }

-value call_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
+value call_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    // gather arguments
    func_args args(ctx);
    for (auto & arg_stmt : this->args) {
@@ -954,7 +940,7 @@ value call_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
    return callee_func->invoke(args);
 }

-value keyword_argument_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) const {
+value keyword_argument_expression::execute_impl(context & ctx) {
    if (!is_stmt<identifier>(key)) {
        throw std::runtime_error("Keyword argument key must be identifiers");
    }
@@ -978,7 +964,7 @@ std::string runtime::debug_dump_program(const program & prog, const std::string
        return std::string(lvl * 2, ' ');
    };

-    ctx.visitor = [&](bool is_leaf, const statement * node, std::vector<visitor_pair> children) {
+    ctx.visitor = [&](bool is_leaf, statement * node, std::vector<visitor_pair> children) {
        oss << indent(lvl) << node->type() << ":\n";
        lvl++;
        if (is_leaf) {
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ const T * cast_stmt(const statement_ptr & ptr) {
 void enable_debug(bool enable);

 // for visiting AST nodes
-// function signature: void(bool is_leaf, const statement * node, pair of <label, children>)
-using visitor_pair = std::pair<std::string, std::vector<const statement *>>;
-using visitor_fn = std::function<void(bool, const statement *, std::vector<visitor_pair>)>;
+// 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
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ private:
 };

 // utils for visiting AST nodes
-static std::vector<const statement *> stmts_to_ptr(const statements & stmts) {
-    std::vector<const statement *> children;
+static std::vector<statement *> stmts_to_ptr(const statements & stmts) {
+    std::vector<statement *> children;
    for (const auto & stmt : stmts) {
        children.push_back(stmt.get());
    }
@@ -117,18 +117,17 @@ static std::vector<const statement *> stmts_to_ptr(const statements & stmts) {

 /**
 * Base class for all nodes in the AST.
- * The AST is shared between threads, so visit and execute must be const.
 */
 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) const { ctx.visitor(true, this, {}); }
+    virtual void visit(context & ctx) { ctx.visitor(true, this, {}); }

    // execute_impl must be overridden by derived classes
-    virtual value execute_impl(context &) const { throw_exec_error(); }
+    virtual value execute_impl(context &) { throw_exec_error(); }
    // execute is the public method to execute a statement with error handling
-    value execute(context &) const;
+    value execute(context &);

 private:
    [[noreturn]] void throw_exec_error() const {
@@ -167,7 +166,7 @@ struct program : public statement {
    program() = default;
    explicit program(statements && body) : body(std::move(body)) {}
    std::string type() const override { return "Program"; }
-    [[noreturn]] value execute_impl(context &) const override {
+    [[noreturn]] value execute_impl(context &) override {
        throw std::runtime_error("Cannot execute program directly, use jinja::runtime instead");
    }
 };
@@ -183,8 +182,8 @@ struct if_statement : public statement {
    }

    std::string type() const override { return "If"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
+    void visit(context & ctx) override {
        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
            {"test", {test.get()}},
            {"body", stmts_to_ptr(body)},
@@ -214,8 +213,8 @@ struct for_statement : public statement {
    }

    std::string type() const override { return "For"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
+    void visit(context & ctx) override {
        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
            {"loopvar", {loopvar.get()}},
            {"iterable", {iterable.get()}},
@@ -234,7 +233,7 @@ struct break_statement : public statement {
        }
    };

-    [[noreturn]] value execute_impl(context &) const override {
+    [[noreturn]] value execute_impl(context &) override {
        throw break_statement::signal();
    }
 };
@@ -248,7 +247,7 @@ struct continue_statement : public statement {
        }
    };

-    [[noreturn]] value execute_impl(context &) const override {
+    [[noreturn]] value execute_impl(context &) override {
        throw continue_statement::signal();
    }
 };
@@ -256,7 +255,7 @@ struct continue_statement : public statement {
 // do nothing
 struct noop_statement : public statement {
    std::string type() const override { return "Noop"; }
-    value execute_impl(context &) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context &) override {
        return mk_val<value_undefined>();
    }
 };
@@ -273,8 +272,8 @@ struct set_statement : public statement {
    }

    std::string type() const override { return "Set"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
+    void visit(context & ctx) override {
        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
            {"assignee", {assignee.get()}},
            {"value", {val.get()}},
@@ -295,8 +294,8 @@ struct macro_statement : public statement {
    }

    std::string type() const override { return "Macro"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
+    void visit(context & ctx) override {
        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
            {"name", {name.get()}},
            {"args", stmts_to_ptr(args)},
@@ -309,7 +308,7 @@ struct comment_statement : public statement {
    std::string val;
    explicit comment_statement(const std::string & v) : val(v) {}
    std::string type() const override { return "Comment"; }
-    value execute_impl(context &) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context &) override {
        return mk_val<value_undefined>();
    }
 };
@@ -319,7 +318,7 @@ struct comment_statement : public statement {
 // Represents an omitted expression in a computed member, e.g. `a[]`.
 struct blank_expression : public expression {
    std::string type() const override { return "BlankExpression"; }
-    value execute_impl(context &) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context &) override {
        return mk_val<value_undefined>();
    }
 };
@@ -335,8 +334,8 @@ struct member_expression : public expression {
        chk_type<expression>(this->property);
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "MemberExpression"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
+    void visit(context & ctx) override {
        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
            {"object", {object.get()}},
            {"property", {property.get()}}
@@ -354,8 +353,8 @@ struct call_expression : public expression {
        for (const auto& arg : this->args) chk_type<expression>(arg);
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "CallExpression"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
+    void visit(context & ctx) override {
        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
            {"callee", {callee.get()}},
            {"args", stmts_to_ptr(args)}
@@ -370,7 +369,7 @@ struct identifier : public expression {
    std::string val;
    explicit identifier(const std::string & val) : val(val) {}
    std::string type() const override { return "Identifier"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override;
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
 };

 // Literals
@@ -379,7 +378,7 @@ struct integer_literal : public expression {
    int64_t val;
    explicit integer_literal(int64_t val) : val(val) {}
    std::string type() const override { return "IntegerLiteral"; }
-    value execute_impl(context &) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context &) override {
        return mk_val<value_int>(val);
    }
 };
@@ -388,7 +387,7 @@ struct float_literal : public expression {
    double val;
    explicit float_literal(double val) : val(val) {}
    std::string type() const override { return "FloatLiteral"; }
-    value execute_impl(context &) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context &) override {
        return mk_val<value_float>(val);
    }
 };
@@ -397,7 +396,7 @@ struct string_literal : public expression {
    std::string val;
    explicit string_literal(const std::string & val) : val(val) {}
    std::string type() const override { return "StringLiteral"; }
-    value execute_impl(context &) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context &) override {
        return mk_val<value_string>(val);
    }
 };
@@ -408,7 +407,7 @@ struct array_literal : public expression {
        for (const auto& item : this->val) chk_type<expression>(item);
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "ArrayLiteral"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override {
        auto arr = mk_val<value_array>();
        for (const auto & item_stmt : val) {
            arr->push_back(item_stmt->execute(ctx));
@@ -423,7 +422,7 @@ struct tuple_literal : public expression {
        for (const auto& item : this->val) chk_type<expression>(item);
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "TupleLiteral"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override {
        auto arr = mk_val<value_array>();
        for (const auto & item_stmt : val) {
            arr->push_back(item_stmt->execute(ctx));
@@ -442,7 +441,7 @@ struct object_literal : public expression {
        }
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "ObjectLiteral"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override;
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
 };

 // Complex Expressions
@@ -463,8 +462,8 @@ struct binary_expression : public expression {
        chk_type<expression>(this->right);
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "BinaryExpression"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
+    void visit(context & ctx) override {
        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
            {"left", {left.get()}},
            {"right", {right.get()}}
@@ -477,7 +476,10 @@ struct binary_expression : public expression {
 * Operator precedence: https://github.com/pallets/jinja/issues/379#issuecomment-168076202
 */
 struct filter_expression : public expression {
+    // either an expression or a value is allowed
    statement_ptr operand;
+    value_string val; // will be set by filter_statement
+
    statement_ptr filter;

    filter_expression(statement_ptr && operand, statement_ptr && filter)
@@ -486,9 +488,14 @@ struct filter_expression : public expression {
        chk_type<identifier, call_expression>(this->filter);
    }

+    filter_expression(value_string && val, statement_ptr && filter)
+        : val(std::move(val)), filter(std::move(filter)) {
+        chk_type<identifier, call_expression>(this->filter);
+    }
+
    std::string type() const override { return "FilterExpression"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
+    void visit(context & ctx) override {
        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
            {"operand", {operand.get()}},
            {"filter", {filter.get()}}
@@ -505,8 +512,8 @@ struct filter_statement : public statement {
        chk_type<identifier, call_expression>(this->filter);
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "FilterStatement"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
+    void visit(context & ctx) override {
        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
            {"filter", {filter.get()}},
            {"body", stmts_to_ptr(body)}
@@ -530,14 +537,14 @@ struct select_expression : public expression {
        chk_type<expression>(this->test);
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "SelectExpression"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override {
        auto predicate = test->execute_impl(ctx);
        if (!predicate->as_bool()) {
            return mk_val<value_undefined>();
        }
        return lhs->execute_impl(ctx);
    }
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    void visit(context & ctx) override {
        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
            {"lhs", {lhs.get()}},
            {"test", {test.get()}}
@@ -560,8 +567,8 @@ struct test_expression : public expression {
        chk_type<identifier, call_expression>(this->test);
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "TestExpression"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
+    void visit(context & ctx) override {
        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
            {"operand", {operand.get()}},
            {"test", {test.get()}}
@@ -581,8 +588,8 @@ struct unary_expression : public expression {
        chk_type<expression>(this->argument);
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "UnaryExpression"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
+    void visit(context & ctx) override {
        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
            {"argument", {argument.get()}}
        });
@@ -601,10 +608,10 @@ struct slice_expression : public expression {
        chk_type<expression>(this->step_expr);
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "SliceExpression"; }
-    [[noreturn]] value execute_impl(context &) const override {
+    [[noreturn]] value execute_impl(context &) override {
        throw std::runtime_error("must be handled by MemberExpression");
    }
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    void visit(context & ctx) override {
        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
            {"start_expr", {start_expr.get()}},
            {"stop_expr", {stop_expr.get()}},
@@ -623,8 +630,8 @@ struct keyword_argument_expression : public expression {
        chk_type<expression>(this->val);
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "KeywordArgumentExpression"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override;
+    void visit(context & ctx) override {
        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
            {"key", {key.get()}},
            {"val", {val.get()}}
@@ -638,7 +645,7 @@ struct spread_expression : public expression {
        chk_type<expression>(this->argument);
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "SpreadExpression"; }
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    void visit(context & ctx) override {
        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
            {"argument", {argument.get()}}
        });
@@ -656,8 +663,8 @@ 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) const override;
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    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)},
@@ -678,7 +685,7 @@ struct ternary_expression : public expression {
        chk_type<expression>(this->false_expr);
    }
    std::string type() const override { return "Ternary"; }
-    value execute_impl(context & ctx) const override {
+    value execute_impl(context & ctx) override {
        value cond_val = condition->execute(ctx);
        if (cond_val->as_bool()) {
            return true_expr->execute(ctx);
@@ -686,7 +693,7 @@ struct ternary_expression : public expression {
            return false_expr->execute(ctx);
        }
    }
-    void visit(context & ctx) const override {
+    void visit(context & ctx) override {
        ctx.visitor(false, this, {
            {"condition", {condition.get()}},
            {"true_expr", {true_expr.get()}},
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 #include "json-schema-to-grammar.h"
 #include "common.h"
-#include "trie.h"
-#include "unicode.h"

 #include <algorithm>
 #include <limits>
@@ -321,8 +319,7 @@ static size_t gbnf_escape_length(const std::string & pattern, size_t pos) {
        case 'x': n_hex = 2; break;
        case 'u': n_hex = 4; break;
        case 'U': n_hex = 8; break;
-        // keep in sync with parse_char() in src/llama-grammar.cpp
-        case 't': case 'r': case 'n': case '\\': case '"': case '[': case ']': case '-':
+        case 't': case 'r': case 'n': case '\\': case '"': case '[': case ']':
            return 2;
        default:
            return 0;
@@ -339,20 +336,18 @@ static size_t gbnf_escape_length(const std::string & pattern, size_t pos) {
    return 2 + n_hex;
 }

-class common_chat_schema_converter {
+class common_schema_converter {
 private:
+    friend class common_schema_info;
    friend std::string build_grammar(const std::function<void(const common_grammar_builder &)> & cb, const common_grammar_options & options);
+    std::function<json(const std::string &)> _fetch_json;
    bool _dotall;
    std::map<std::string, std::string> _rules;
+    std::unordered_map<std::string, json> _refs;
    std::unordered_set<std::string> _refs_being_resolved;
    std::vector<std::string> _errors;
    std::vector<std::string> _warnings;

-    template <typename T>
-    static const T & as(const common_chat_schema & node) {
-        return static_cast<const T &>(node);
-    }
-
    std::string _add_rule(const std::string & name, const std::string & rule) {
        std::string esc_name = regex_replace(name, INVALID_RULE_CHARS_RE, "-");
        if (_rules.find(esc_name) == _rules.end() || _rules[esc_name] == rule) {
@@ -368,11 +363,11 @@ private:
        return key;
    }

-    std::string _generate_union_rule(const std::string & name, const std::vector<common_chat_schema_ptr> & alt_schemas) {
+    std::string _generate_union_rule(const std::string & name, const std::vector<json> & alt_schemas) {
        std::vector<std::string> rules;
        rules.reserve(alt_schemas.size());
        for (size_t i = 0; i < alt_schemas.size(); i++) {
-            rules.push_back(visit(*alt_schemas[i], name + (name.empty() ? "alternative-" : "-") + std::to_string(i)));
+            rules.push_back(visit(alt_schemas[i], name + (name.empty() ? "alternative-" : "-") + std::to_string(i)));
        }
        return string_join(rules, " | ");
    }
@@ -639,68 +634,85 @@ private:
            -> ["] ( [a] ([l] ([s] ([o] char+ | [^"o] char*) | [^"s] char*) | [n] ([d] char+ | [^"d] char*) | [^"ln] char*) | [^"a] char* )? ["]
    */
    std::string _not_strings(const std::vector<std::string> & strings) {
-        common_trie trie(strings);
+
+        struct TrieNode {
+            std::map<char, TrieNode> children;
+            bool is_end_of_string;
+
+            TrieNode() : is_end_of_string(false) {}
+
+            void insert(const std::string & string) {
+                auto *node = this;
+                for (char c : string) {
+                    node = &node->children[c];
+                }
+                node->is_end_of_string = true;
+            }
+        };
+
+        TrieNode trie;
+        for (const auto & s : strings) {
+            trie.insert(s);
+        }

        std::string char_rule = _add_primitive("char", PRIMITIVE_RULES.at("char"));
        std::ostringstream out;
        out << "[\"] ( ";
-        std::function<void(size_t)> visit = [&](size_t idx) {
-            const auto & node = trie.nodes[idx];
-            std::string rejects;
+        std::function<void(const TrieNode &)> visit = [&](const TrieNode & node) {
+            std::ostringstream rejects;
            auto first = true;
-            for (const auto & [cpt, child] : node.children) {
-                std::string c = common_unicode_cpt_to_utf8(cpt);
-                rejects += c;
+            for (const auto & kv : node.children) {
+                rejects << kv.first;
                if (first) {
                    first = false;
                } else {
                    out << " | ";
                }
-                out << "[" << c << "]";
-                if (!trie.nodes[child].children.empty()) {
+                out << "[" << kv.first << "]";
+                if (!kv.second.children.empty()) {
                    out << " (";
-                    visit(child);
+                    visit(kv.second);
                    out << ")";
-                } else {
+                } else if (kv.second.is_end_of_string) {
                    out << " " << char_rule << "+";
                }
            }
            if (!node.children.empty()) {
-                out << " | [^\"" << rejects << "] " << char_rule << "*";
+                if (!first) {
+                    out << " | ";
+                }
+                out << "[^\"" << rejects.str() << "] " << char_rule << "*";
            }
        };
-        visit(0);
+        visit(trie);

        out << " )";
-        if (trie.nodes[0].pattern < 0) {
+        if (!trie.is_end_of_string) {
            out << "?";
        }
        out << " [\"]";
        return out.str();
    }

-    std::string _resolve_ref(const common_chat_schema_ref & schema) {
-        auto it = schema.ref.find('#');
-        std::string ref_fragment = it != std::string::npos ? schema.ref.substr(it + 1) : schema.ref;
+    std::string _resolve_ref(const std::string & ref) {
+        auto it = ref.find('#');
+        std::string ref_fragment = it != std::string::npos ? ref.substr(it + 1) : ref;
        static const std::regex nonalphanumeric_regex(R"([^a-zA-Z0-9-]+)");
        std::string ref_name = "ref" + std::regex_replace(ref_fragment, nonalphanumeric_regex, "-");
-        if (_rules.find(ref_name) == _rules.end() && _refs_being_resolved.find(schema.ref) == _refs_being_resolved.end()) {
-            if (!schema.target) {
-                _errors.push_back("Unresolved $ref " + schema.ref);
-                return "";
-            }
-            _refs_being_resolved.insert(schema.ref);
-            ref_name = visit(*schema.target, ref_name);
-            _refs_being_resolved.erase(schema.ref);
+        if (_rules.find(ref_name) == _rules.end() && _refs_being_resolved.find(ref) == _refs_being_resolved.end()) {
+            _refs_being_resolved.insert(ref);
+            json resolved = _refs[ref];
+            ref_name = visit(resolved, ref_name);
+            _refs_being_resolved.erase(ref);
        }
        return ref_name;
    }

    std::string _build_object_rule(
-        const std::vector<std::pair<std::string, const common_chat_schema *>> & properties,
+        const std::vector<std::pair<std::string, json>> & properties,
        const std::unordered_set<std::string> & required,
        const std::string & name,
-        const common_chat_schema * additional_properties)
+        const json & additional_properties)
    {
        std::vector<std::string> required_props;
        std::vector<std::string> optional_props;
@@ -710,7 +722,7 @@ private:
            const auto &prop_name = kv.first;
            const auto &prop_schema = kv.second;

-            std::string prop_rule_name = visit(*prop_schema, name + (name.empty() ? "" : "-") + prop_name);
+            std::string prop_rule_name = visit(prop_schema, name + (name.empty() ? "" : "-") + prop_name);
            prop_kv_rule_names[prop_name] = _add_rule(
                name + (name.empty() ? "" : "-") + prop_name + "-kv",
                format_literal(json(prop_name).dump()) + " space \":\" space " + prop_rule_name
@@ -722,10 +734,10 @@ private:
            }
            prop_names.push_back(prop_name);
        }
-        if (additional_properties) {
+        if ((additional_properties.is_boolean() && additional_properties.get<bool>()) || additional_properties.is_object()) {
            std::string sub_name = name + (name.empty() ? "" : "-") + "additional";
            std::string value_rule =
-                additional_properties->kind() != common_chat_schema::KIND_ANY ? visit(*additional_properties, sub_name + "-value")
+                additional_properties.is_object() ? visit(additional_properties, sub_name + "-value")
                : _add_primitive("value", PRIMITIVE_RULES.at("value"));

            auto key_rule =
@@ -736,10 +748,6 @@ private:
            optional_props.push_back("*");
        }

-        if (required_props.empty() && optional_props.empty()) {
-            return "\"{\" space \"}\"";
-        }
-
        std::string rule = "\"{\" space ";
        for (size_t i = 0; i < required_props.size(); i++) {
            if (i > 0) {
@@ -813,163 +821,267 @@ private:
    }

 public:
-    explicit common_chat_schema_converter(bool dotall) : _dotall(dotall) {
+    common_schema_converter(
+        const std::function<json(const std::string &)> & fetch_json,
+        bool dotall)
+          : _fetch_json(fetch_json), _dotall(dotall)
+    {
        _rules["space"] = SPACE_RULE;
    }

-    std::string add_schema(const std::string & name, const common_chat_schema & schema) {
-        return visit(schema, name);
+    void resolve_refs(json & schema, const std::string & url) {
+        /*
+        * Resolves all $ref fields in the given schema, fetching any remote schemas,
+        * replacing each $ref with absolute reference URL and populates _refs with the
+        * respective referenced (sub)schema dictionaries.
+        */
+        std::function<void(json &)> visit_refs = [&](json & n) {
+            if (n.is_array()) {
+                for (auto & x : n) {
+                    visit_refs(x);
+                }
+            } else if (n.is_object()) {
+                if (n.contains("$ref")) {
+                    std::string ref = n["$ref"];
+                    if (_refs.find(ref) == _refs.end()) {
+                        json target;
+                        if (ref.find("https://") == 0) {
+                            std::string base_url = ref.substr(0, ref.find('#'));
+                            auto it = _refs.find(base_url);
+                            if (it != _refs.end()) {
+                                target = it->second;
+                            } else {
+                                // Fetch the referenced schema and resolve its refs
+                                auto referenced = _fetch_json(ref);
+                                resolve_refs(referenced, base_url);
+                                _refs[base_url] = referenced;
+                            }
+                            if (ref.find('#') == std::string::npos || ref.substr(ref.find('#') + 1).empty()) {
+                                return;
+                            }
+                        } else if (ref.find("#/") == 0) {
+                            target = schema;
+                            n["$ref"] = url + ref;
+                            ref = url + ref;
+                        } else {
+                            _errors.push_back("Unsupported ref: " + ref);
+                            return;
+                        }
+                        std::string pointer = ref.substr(ref.find('#') + 1);
+                        std::vector<std::string> tokens = string_split(pointer, "/");
+                        for (size_t i = 1; i < tokens.size(); ++i) {
+                            const std::string& sel = tokens[i];
+                            if (target.is_object() && target.contains(sel)) {
+                                target = target[sel];
+                            } else if (target.is_array()) {
+                                size_t sel_index;
+                                try {
+                                    sel_index = std::stoull(sel);
+                                } catch (const std::invalid_argument & e) {
+                                    sel_index = target.size();
+                                }
+                                if (sel_index >= target.size()) {
+                                    _errors.push_back("Error resolving ref " + ref + ": " + sel + " not in " + target.dump());
+                                    return;
+                                }
+                                target = target[sel_index];
+                            } else {
+                                _errors.push_back("Error resolving ref " + ref + ": " + sel + " not in " + target.dump());
+                                return;
+                            }
+                        }
+                        _refs[ref] = target;
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    for (const auto & kv : n.items()) {
+                        visit_refs(kv.value());
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        };
+
+        visit_refs(schema);
    }

    static std::string _generate_constant_rule(const json & value) {
        return format_literal(value.dump());
    }

-    std::string _visit_primitive(const std::string & rule_name, const std::string & type) {
-        return _add_primitive(rule_name == "root" ? "root" : type, PRIMITIVE_RULES.at(type));
-    }
-
-    std::string _visit_all_of(const common_chat_schema_all_of & schema, const std::string & name, const std::string & rule_name) {
-        std::unordered_set<std::string> required;
-        std::vector<std::pair<std::string, const common_chat_schema *>> properties;
-        std::map<std::string, size_t> enum_values;
-        std::function<void(const common_chat_schema &, bool)> add_component = [&](const common_chat_schema & comp, bool is_required) {
-            if (comp.kind() == common_chat_schema::KIND_REF) {
-                if (const auto * target = as<common_chat_schema_ref>(comp).target) {
-                    add_component(*target, is_required);
-                }
-            } else if (comp.kind() == common_chat_schema::KIND_OBJECT) {
-                for (const auto & prop : as<common_chat_schema_object>(comp).properties) {
-                    properties.emplace_back(prop.name, prop.schema.get());
-                    if (is_required) {
-                        required.insert(prop.name);
-                    }
-                }
-            } else if (comp.kind() == common_chat_schema::KIND_ENUM) {
-                for (const auto & v : as<common_chat_schema_enum>(comp).values) {
-                    enum_values[_generate_constant_rule(v)] += 1;
-                }
-            }
-        };
-        for (const auto & child : schema.children) {
-            if (child->kind() == common_chat_schema::KIND_ANY_OF) {
-                for (const auto & alt : as<common_chat_schema_any_of>(*child).children) {
-                    add_component(*alt, false);
-                }
-            } else {
-                add_component(*child, true);
-            }
-        }
-        if (!enum_values.empty()) {
-            std::vector<std::string> enum_intersection;
-            for (const auto & p : enum_values) {
-                if (p.second == schema.children.size()) {
-                    enum_intersection.push_back(p.first);
-                }
-            }
-            if (!enum_intersection.empty()) {
-                return _add_rule(rule_name, "(" + string_join(enum_intersection, " | ") + ")");
-            }
-        }
-        return _add_rule(rule_name, _build_object_rule(properties, required, name, nullptr));
-    }
-
-    std::string visit(const common_chat_schema & schema, const std::string & name) {
+    std::string visit(const json & schema, const std::string & name) {
+        json schema_type = schema.contains("type") ? schema["type"] : json();
+        std::string schema_format = schema.contains("format") ? schema["format"].get<std::string>() : "";
        std::string rule_name = is_reserved_name(name) ? name + "-" : name.empty() ? "root" : name;
-        std::string sub_name  = name + (name.empty() ? "" : "-");

-        switch (schema.kind()) {
-            case common_chat_schema::KIND_REF:
-                return _add_rule(rule_name, _resolve_ref(as<common_chat_schema_ref>(schema)));
-            case common_chat_schema::KIND_ANY_OF:
-                return _add_rule(rule_name, _generate_union_rule(name, as<common_chat_schema_any_of>(schema).children));
-            case common_chat_schema::KIND_ALL_OF:
-                return _visit_all_of(as<common_chat_schema_all_of>(schema), name, rule_name);
-            case common_chat_schema::KIND_CONST:
-                return _add_rule(rule_name, _generate_constant_rule(as<common_chat_schema_const>(schema).value));
-            case common_chat_schema::KIND_ENUM: {
-                std::vector<std::string> enum_values;
-                for (const auto & v : as<common_chat_schema_enum>(schema).values) {
-                    enum_values.push_back(_generate_constant_rule(v));
-                }
-                return _add_rule(rule_name, "(" + string_join(enum_values, " | ") + ")");
+        if (schema.contains("$ref")) {
+            return _add_rule(rule_name, _resolve_ref(schema["$ref"]));
+        }
+        if (schema.contains("oneOf") || schema.contains("anyOf")) {
+            const json & alts = schema.contains("oneOf") ? schema.at("oneOf") : schema.at("anyOf");
+            std::vector<json> alt_schemas;
+            for (const auto & alt : alts) {
+                alt_schemas.push_back(alt);
            }
-            case common_chat_schema::KIND_OBJECT: {
-                const auto & obj = as<common_chat_schema_object>(schema);
-                if (obj.properties.empty() && obj.additional_properties && obj.additional_properties->kind() == common_chat_schema::KIND_ANY) {
-                    return _add_rule(rule_name, _add_primitive("object", PRIMITIVE_RULES.at("object")));
-                }
-                std::vector<std::pair<std::string, const common_chat_schema *>> properties;
-                std::unordered_set<std::string> required;
-                for (const auto & prop : obj.properties) {
-                    properties.emplace_back(prop.name, prop.schema.get());
-                    if (prop.required) {
-                        required.insert(prop.name);
+            return _add_rule(rule_name, _generate_union_rule(name, alt_schemas));
+        }
+        if (schema_type.is_array()) {
+            std::vector<json> schema_types;
+            for (const auto & t : schema_type) {
+                json schema_copy(schema);
+                schema_copy["type"] = t;
+                schema_types.push_back(schema_copy);
+            }
+            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"]));
+        }
+        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, " | ") + ")");
+        }
+        if ((schema_type.is_null() || schema_type == "object")
+                && (schema.contains("properties") ||
+                    (schema.contains("additionalProperties") && schema["additionalProperties"] != true))) {
+            std::unordered_set<std::string> required;
+            if (schema.contains("required") && schema["required"].is_array()) {
+                for (const auto & item : schema["required"]) {
+                    if (item.is_string()) {
+                        required.insert(item.get<std::string>());
                    }
                }
-                return _add_rule(rule_name, _build_object_rule(properties, required, name, obj.additional_properties.get()));
            }
-            case common_chat_schema::KIND_TUPLE: {
-                const auto & items = as<common_chat_schema_tuple>(schema).items;
+            std::vector<std::pair<std::string, json>> properties;
+            if (schema.contains("properties")) {
+                for (const auto & prop : schema["properties"].items()) {
+                    properties.emplace_back(prop.key(), prop.value());
+                }
+            }
+            return _add_rule(rule_name,
+                _build_object_rule(
+                    properties, required, name,
+                    schema.contains("additionalProperties") ? schema["additionalProperties"] : json()));
+        }
+        if ((schema_type.is_null() || schema_type == "object" || schema_type == "string") && schema.contains("allOf")) {
+            std::unordered_set<std::string> required;
+            std::vector<std::pair<std::string, json>> properties;
+            std::map<std::string, size_t> enum_values;
+            const std::string& hybrid_name = name;
+            std::function<void(const json &, bool)> add_component = [&](const json & comp_schema, bool is_required) {
+                if (comp_schema.contains("$ref")) {
+                    add_component(_refs[comp_schema["$ref"]], is_required);
+                } else if (comp_schema.contains("properties")) {
+                    for (const auto & prop : comp_schema["properties"].items()) {
+                        properties.emplace_back(prop.key(), prop.value());
+                        if (is_required) {
+                            required.insert(prop.key());
+                        }
+                    }
+                } else if (comp_schema.contains("enum")) {
+                    for (const auto & v : comp_schema["enum"]) {
+                        const auto rule = _generate_constant_rule(v);
+                        if (enum_values.find(rule) == enum_values.end()) {
+                            enum_values[rule] = 0;
+                        }
+                        enum_values[rule] += 1;
+                    }
+                } else {
+                  // todo warning
+                }
+            };
+            for (const auto & t : schema["allOf"]) {
+                if (t.contains("anyOf")) {
+                    for (const auto & tt : t["anyOf"]) {
+                        add_component(tt, false);
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    add_component(t, true);
+                }
+            }
+            if (!enum_values.empty()) {
+                std::vector<std::string> enum_intersection;
+                for (const auto & p : enum_values) {
+                    if (p.second == schema["allOf"].size()) {
+                        enum_intersection.push_back(p.first);
+                    }
+                }
+                if (!enum_intersection.empty()) {
+                    return _add_rule(rule_name, "(" + string_join(enum_intersection, " | ") + ")");
+                }
+            }
+            return _add_rule(rule_name, _build_object_rule(properties, required, hybrid_name, json()));
+        }
+        if ((schema_type.is_null() || schema_type == "array") && (schema.contains("items") || schema.contains("prefixItems"))) {
+            json items = schema.contains("items") ? schema["items"] : schema["prefixItems"];
+            if (items.is_array()) {
                std::string rule = "\"[\" space ";
                for (size_t i = 0; i < items.size(); i++) {
                    if (i > 0) {
                        rule += " \",\" space ";
                    }
-                    rule += visit(*items[i], sub_name + "tuple-" + std::to_string(i));
+                    rule += visit(items[i], name + (name.empty() ? "" : "-") + "tuple-" + std::to_string(i));
                }
                rule += " space \"]\"";
                return _add_rule(rule_name, rule);
            }
-            case common_chat_schema::KIND_ARRAY: {
-                const auto & arr = as<common_chat_schema_array>(schema);
-                if (arr.items->kind() == common_chat_schema::KIND_ANY && arr.min_items == 0 && arr.max_items < 0) {
-                    return _visit_primitive(rule_name, "array");
-                }
-                std::string item_rule_name = visit(*arr.items, sub_name + "item");
-                int max_items = arr.max_items < 0 ? std::numeric_limits<int>::max() : arr.max_items;
-                return _add_rule(rule_name, "\"[\" space " + build_repetition(item_rule_name, arr.min_items, max_items, "\",\" space") + " space \"]\"");
-            }
-            case common_chat_schema::KIND_STRING: {
-                const auto & str = as<common_chat_schema_string>(schema);
-                if (!str.pattern.empty()) {
-                    return _visit_pattern(str.pattern, rule_name);
-                }
-                if (str.format == common_chat_schema::FORMAT_UUID) {
-                    return _visit_primitive(rule_name, "uuid");
-                }
-                if (str.format != common_chat_schema::FORMAT_NONE) {
-                    std::string prim_name = std::string(str.format == common_chat_schema::FORMAT_DATE ? "date" : str.format == common_chat_schema::FORMAT_TIME ? "time" : "date-time") + "-string";
-                    return _add_rule(rule_name, _add_primitive(prim_name, STRING_FORMAT_RULES.at(prim_name)));
-                }
-                if (str.min_length > 0 || str.max_length >= 0) {
-                    std::string char_rule = _add_primitive("char", PRIMITIVE_RULES.at("char"));
-                    int max_len = str.max_length < 0 ? std::numeric_limits<int>::max() : str.max_length;
-                    return _add_rule(rule_name, "\"\\\"\" " + build_repetition(char_rule, str.min_length, max_len) + " \"\\\"\"");
-                }
-                return _visit_primitive(rule_name, "string");
-            }
-            case common_chat_schema::KIND_INTEGER: {
-                const auto & i = as<common_chat_schema_integer>(schema);
-                if (i.minimum == std::numeric_limits<int64_t>::min() && i.maximum == std::numeric_limits<int64_t>::max()) {
-                    return _visit_primitive(rule_name, "integer");
-                }
-                std::stringstream out;
-                out << "(";
-                build_min_max_int(i.minimum, i.maximum, out);
-                out << ")";
-                return _add_rule(rule_name, out.str());
-            }
-            case common_chat_schema::KIND_NUMBER:
-                return _visit_primitive(rule_name, "number");
-            case common_chat_schema::KIND_BOOLEAN:
-                return _visit_primitive(rule_name, "boolean");
-            case common_chat_schema::KIND_NULL:
-                return _visit_primitive(rule_name, "null");
-            case common_chat_schema::KIND_ANY:
-                return _add_rule(rule_name, _add_primitive("value", PRIMITIVE_RULES.at("value")));
+            std::string item_rule_name = visit(items, name + (name.empty() ? "" : "-") + "item");
+            int min_items = schema.contains("minItems") ? schema["minItems"].get<int>() : 0;
+            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 "";
+        if ((schema_type.is_null() || schema_type == "string") && schema.contains("pattern")) {
+            return _visit_pattern(schema["pattern"], rule_name);
+        }
+        if ((schema_type.is_null() || schema_type == "string") && std::regex_match(schema_format, std::regex("^uuid[1-5]?$"))) {
+            return _add_primitive(rule_name == "root" ? "root" : schema_format, PRIMITIVE_RULES.at("uuid"));
+        }
+        if ((schema_type.is_null() || schema_type == "string") && STRING_FORMAT_RULES.find(schema_format + "-string") != STRING_FORMAT_RULES.end()) {
+            auto prim_name = schema_format + "-string";
+            return _add_rule(rule_name, _add_primitive(prim_name, STRING_FORMAT_RULES.at(prim_name)));
+        }
+        if (schema_type == "string" && (schema.contains("minLength") || schema.contains("maxLength"))) {
+            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) + " \"\\\"\"");
+        }
+        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();
+            int64_t max_value = std::numeric_limits<int64_t>::max();
+            if (schema.contains("minimum")) {
+                min_value = schema["minimum"].get<int64_t>();
+            } else if (schema.contains("exclusiveMinimum")) {
+                min_value = schema["exclusiveMinimum"].get<int64_t>() + 1;
+            }
+            if (schema.contains("maximum")) {
+                max_value = schema["maximum"].get<int64_t>();
+            } else if (schema.contains("exclusiveMaximum")) {
+                max_value = schema["exclusiveMaximum"].get<int64_t>() - 1;
+            }
+            std::stringstream out;
+            out << "(";
+            build_min_max_int(min_value, max_value, out);
+            out << ")";
+            return _add_rule(rule_name, out.str());
+        }
+        if (schema.empty() || schema_type == "object") {
+            return _add_rule(rule_name, _add_primitive("object", PRIMITIVE_RULES.at("object")));
+        }
+        if (schema_type.is_null() && schema.is_object()) {
+            // No type constraint and no recognized structural keywords (e.g. {"description": "..."}).
+            // Per JSON Schema semantics this is equivalent to {} and accepts any value.
+            return _add_rule(rule_name, _add_primitive("value", PRIMITIVE_RULES.at("value")));
+        }
+        if (!schema_type.is_string() || PRIMITIVE_RULES.find(schema_type.get<std::string>()) == PRIMITIVE_RULES.end()) {
+            _errors.push_back("Unrecognized schema: " + schema.dump());
+            return "";
+        }
+        // TODO: support minimum, maximum, exclusiveMinimum, exclusiveMaximum at least for zero
+        return _add_primitive(rule_name == "root" ? "root" : schema_type.get<std::string>(), PRIMITIVE_RULES.at(schema_type.get<std::string>()));
    }

    void check_errors() {
@@ -990,6 +1102,134 @@ public:
    }
 };

+// common_schema_info implementation (pimpl)
+
+common_schema_info::common_schema_info()
+    : impl_(std::make_unique<common_schema_converter>(
+        [](const std::string &) { return json(); },
+        false)) {}
+
+common_schema_info::~common_schema_info() = default;
+
+common_schema_info::common_schema_info(common_schema_info &&) noexcept = default;
+common_schema_info & common_schema_info::operator=(common_schema_info &&) noexcept = default;
+
+void common_schema_info::resolve_refs(common_json & schema) {
+    impl_->resolve_refs(schema, "");
+}
+
+// Determines if a JSON schema can resolve to a string type through any path.
+// Some models emit raw string values rather than JSON-encoded strings for string parameters.
+// If any branch of the schema (via oneOf, anyOf, $ref, etc.) permits a string, this returns
+// true, allowing callers to handle the value as a raw string for simplicity.
+bool common_schema_info::resolves_to_string(const common_json & schema) {
+    std::unordered_set<std::string> visited_refs;
+
+    std::function<bool(const json &)> check = [&](const json & s) -> bool {
+        if (!s.is_object()) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // Handle $ref
+        if (s.contains("$ref")) {
+            const std::string & ref = s["$ref"];
+            if (visited_refs.find(ref) != visited_refs.end()) {
+                // Circular reference, assume not a string to be safe
+                return false;
+            }
+            visited_refs.insert(ref);
+            auto it = impl_->_refs.find(ref);
+            if (it != impl_->_refs.end()) {
+                return check(it->second);
+            }
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // Check type field
+        if (s.contains("type")) {
+            const json & schema_type = s["type"];
+            if (schema_type.is_string()) {
+                if (schema_type == "string") {
+                    return true;
+                }
+            } else if (schema_type.is_array()) {
+                // Type can be an array like ["string", "null"]
+                for (const auto & t : schema_type) {
+                    if (t == "string") {
+                        return true;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Check oneOf/anyOf - if any alternative can be a string
+        if (s.contains("oneOf")) {
+            for (const auto & alt : s["oneOf"]) {
+                if (check(alt)) {
+                    return true;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        if (s.contains("anyOf")) {
+            for (const auto & alt : s["anyOf"]) {
+                if (check(alt)) {
+                    return true;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Check allOf - all components must be compatible with string type
+        if (s.contains("allOf")) {
+            bool all_string = true;
+            for (const auto & component : s["allOf"]) {
+                if (!check(component)) {
+                    all_string = false;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+            if (all_string) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Check const - if the constant value is a string
+        if (s.contains("const")) {
+            if (s["const"].is_string()) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Check enum - if any enum value is a string
+        if (s.contains("enum")) {
+            for (const auto & val : s["enum"]) {
+                if (val.is_string()) {
+                    return true;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // String-specific keywords imply string type
+        if (s.contains("pattern") || s.contains("minLength") || s.contains("maxLength")) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        // Check format - many formats imply string
+        if (s.contains("format")) {
+            const std::string & fmt = s["format"];
+            if (fmt == "date" || fmt == "time" || fmt == "date-time" ||
+                fmt == "uri" || fmt == "email" || fmt == "hostname" ||
+                fmt == "ipv4" || fmt == "ipv6" || fmt == "uuid" ||
+                fmt.find("uuid") == 0) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    };
+
+    return check(schema);
+}
+
 std::string json_schema_to_grammar(const common_json & schema, bool force_gbnf) {
 #ifdef LLAMA_USE_LLGUIDANCE
    if (!force_gbnf) {
@@ -998,29 +1238,25 @@ std::string json_schema_to_grammar(const common_json & schema, bool force_gbnf)
 #else
    (void)force_gbnf;
 #endif // LLAMA_USE_LLGUIDANCE
-    try {
-        return json_schema_to_grammar(common_chat_schema_from_json(schema));
-    } catch (const std::runtime_error & e) {
-        throw std::invalid_argument(std::string("JSON schema conversion failed:\n") + e.what());
-    }
-}
-
-std::string json_schema_to_grammar(const common_chat_schema_document & schema) {
-    common_chat_schema_converter converter(false);
-    converter.visit(*schema.root, "");
-    converter.check_errors();
-    return converter.format_grammar();
+    return build_grammar([&](const common_grammar_builder & callbacks) {
+        auto copy = schema;
+        callbacks.resolve_refs(copy);
+        callbacks.add_schema("", copy);
+    });
 }

 std::string build_grammar(const std::function<void(const common_grammar_builder &)> & cb, const common_grammar_options & options) {
-    common_chat_schema_converter converter(options.dotall);
+    common_schema_converter converter([&](const std::string &) { return json(); }, options.dotall);
    common_grammar_builder builder {
        /* .add_rule = */ [&](const std::string & name, const std::string & rule) {
            return converter._add_rule(name, rule);
        },
-        /* .add_schema = */ [&](const std::string & name, const common_chat_schema & schema) {
-            return converter.add_schema(name == "root" ? "" : name, schema);
+        /* .add_schema = */ [&](const std::string & name, const common_json & schema) {
+            return converter.visit(schema, name == "root" ? "" : name);
        },
+        /* .resolve_refs = */ [&](common_json & schema) {
+            converter.resolve_refs(schema, "");
+        }
    };
    cb(builder);
    converter.check_errors();
@@ -1,17 +1,37 @@
 #pragma once

-#include "json-schema.h"
 #include "json.h"

 #include <functional>
+#include <memory>
 #include <string>

-std::string json_schema_to_grammar(const common_json & schema, bool force_gbnf = false);
-std::string json_schema_to_grammar(const common_chat_schema_document & schema);
+std::string json_schema_to_grammar(const common_json & schema,
+                                   bool force_gbnf = false);
+
+class common_schema_converter;
+
+// Probes a JSON schema to extract information about its structure and type constraints.
+class common_schema_info {
+    std::unique_ptr<common_schema_converter> impl_;
+
+  public:
+    common_schema_info();
+    ~common_schema_info();
+
+    common_schema_info(const common_schema_info &) = delete;
+    common_schema_info & operator=(const common_schema_info &) = delete;
+    common_schema_info(common_schema_info &&) noexcept;
+    common_schema_info & operator=(common_schema_info &&) noexcept;
+
+    void resolve_refs(common_json & schema);
+    bool resolves_to_string(const common_json & schema);
+};

 struct common_grammar_builder {
-    std::function<std::string(const std::string &, const std::string &)>    add_rule;
-    std::function<std::string(const std::string &, const common_chat_schema &)> add_schema;
+    std::function<std::string(const std::string &, const std::string &)> add_rule;
+    std::function<std::string(const std::string &, const common_json &)> add_schema;
+    std::function<void(common_json &)> resolve_refs;
 };

 struct common_grammar_options {
@@ -1,514 +0,0 @@
-#include "json-schema.h"
-#include "common.h"
-
-#include <cmath>
-#include <map>
-#include <stdexcept>
-#include <string>
-#include <unordered_set>
-#include <utility>
-#include <vector>
-
-class common_chat_schema_builder {
-    const common_json &      root_;
-    common_chat_schema_document & doc_;
-
-    // the targets built here, moved into doc_ once the whole schema is built
-    std::map<std::string, common_chat_schema_ptr> refs_;
-
-    // ref nodes get their target once every $ref is built, a cycle would otherwise need it too early
-    std::vector<common_chat_schema_ref *> pending_;
-
-    [[noreturn]] static void fail(const std::string & path, const std::string & msg) {
-        throw std::runtime_error("JSON schema error at " + path + ": " + msg);
-    }
-
-    static int get_count(const common_json & schema, const std::string & key, const std::string & path, int def) {
-        if (!schema.contains(key)) {
-            return def;
-        }
-        const common_json & value = schema.at(key);
-        if (!value.is_number_integer() || value.get<int>() < 0) {
-            fail(path, key + " must be a non-negative integer");
-        }
-        return value.get<int>();
-    }
-
-    // a fractional bound is rounded inwards, towards the integers it still admits
-    static int64_t get_bound(const common_json & schema, const std::string & key, const std::string & path, bool round_up) {
-        const common_json & value = schema.at(key);
-        if (value.is_number_integer()) {
-            return value.get<int64_t>();
-        }
-        if (!value.is_number()) {
-            fail(path, key + " must be a number");
-        }
-        double d = value.get<double>();
-        return (int64_t) (round_up ? std::ceil(d) : std::floor(d));
-    }
-
-    static common_chat_schema::string_format get_format(const common_json & schema, const std::string & path) {
-        if (!schema.contains("format")) {
-            return common_chat_schema::FORMAT_NONE;
-        }
-        const common_json & value = schema.at("format");
-        if (!value.is_string()) {
-            fail(path, "format must be a string");
-        }
-        std::string format = value.get<std::string>();
-        if (format == "date") {
-            return common_chat_schema::FORMAT_DATE;
-        }
-        if (format == "time") {
-            return common_chat_schema::FORMAT_TIME;
-        }
-        if (format == "date-time") {
-            return common_chat_schema::FORMAT_DATE_TIME;
-        }
-        if (format == "uuid" || (format.size() == 5 && format.compare(0, 4, "uuid") == 0 && format[4] >= '1' && format[4] <= '5')) {
-            return common_chat_schema::FORMAT_UUID;
-        }
-        return common_chat_schema::FORMAT_NONE;
-    }
-
-    const common_json & resolve_ref(const std::string & ref, const std::string & path) {
-        const common_json * target = &root_;
-        auto tokens = string_split(ref.substr(1), "/");
-        for (size_t i = 1; i < tokens.size(); i++) {
-            const std::string & sel = tokens[i];
-            if (target->is_object() && target->contains(sel)) {
-                target = &target->at(sel);
-            } else if (target->is_array()) {
-                size_t idx;
-                try {
-                    idx = std::stoull(sel);
-                } catch (const std::logic_error &) {
-                    idx = target->size();
-                }
-                if (idx >= target->size()) {
-                    fail(path, "cannot resolve $ref " + ref + ", " + sel + " is out of range");
-                }
-                target = &target->at(idx);
-            } else {
-                fail(path, "cannot resolve $ref " + ref + ", " + sel + " not found");
-            }
-        }
-        return *target;
-    }
-
-    common_chat_schema_ptr build_ref(const common_json & value, const std::string & path) {
-        if (!value.is_string()) {
-            fail(path, "$ref must be a string");
-        }
-        std::string ref = value.get<std::string>();
-        if (ref.compare(0, 2, "#/") != 0) {
-            fail(path, "unsupported $ref " + ref + ", only references into the same document are supported");
-        }
-        if (refs_.find(ref) == refs_.end()) {
-            // reserve the key first, so that a cycle back to this $ref stops here
-            refs_[ref] = nullptr;
-            refs_[ref] = build_node(resolve_ref(ref, path), ref);
-        }
-        auto node = std::make_unique<common_chat_schema_ref>(ref);
-        pending_.push_back(node.get());
-        return node;
-    }
-
-    template <typename T>
-    common_chat_schema_ptr build_alternatives(const common_json & alts, const std::string & path) {
-        if (!alts.is_array()) {
-            fail(path, "must be an array of schemas");
-        }
-        if (alts.empty()) {
-            fail(path, "must not be empty");
-        }
-        auto node = std::make_unique<T>();
-        size_t i = 0;
-        for (const auto & alt : alts) {
-            node->children.push_back(build_node(alt, path + "/" + std::to_string(i++)));
-        }
-        return node;
-    }
-
-    common_chat_schema_ptr build_object(const common_json & schema, const std::string & path) {
-        auto node = std::make_unique<common_chat_schema_object>();
-
-        std::unordered_set<std::string> required;
-        if (schema.contains("required") && schema.at("required").is_array()) {
-            for (const auto & name : schema.at("required")) {
-                if (name.is_string()) {
-                    required.insert(name.get<std::string>());
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
-        if (schema.contains("properties")) {
-            const common_json & properties = schema.at("properties");
-            if (!properties.is_object()) {
-                fail(path, "properties must be an object");
-            }
-            for (const auto & [name, prop] : properties.items()) {
-                node->properties.push_back({name, build_node(prop, path + "/properties/" + name), required.count(name) > 0});
-            }
-        }
-
-        if (schema.contains("additionalProperties")) {
-            const common_json & additional = schema.at("additionalProperties");
-            if (additional.is_boolean()) {
-                if (additional.get<bool>()) {
-                    node->additional_properties = std::make_unique<common_chat_schema_any>();
-                }
-            } else if (additional.is_object()) {
-                node->additional_properties = build_node(additional, path + "/additionalProperties");
-            } else {
-                fail(path, "additionalProperties must be a boolean or a schema");
-            }
-        } else if (!schema.contains("properties")) {
-            // {"type": "object"} on its own accepts any object
-            node->additional_properties = std::make_unique<common_chat_schema_any>();
-        }
-
-        return node;
-    }
-
-    common_chat_schema_ptr build_array(const common_json & schema, const std::string & path) {
-        auto node = std::make_unique<common_chat_schema_array>();
-        if (schema.contains("items") || schema.contains("prefixItems")) {
-            // "items" wins when both are present; as in the converter, a schema instead of an array is the item schema
-            const std::string key = schema.contains("items") ? "items" : "prefixItems";
-            const common_json & items = schema.at(key);
-            if (items.is_array()) {
-                auto tuple = std::make_unique<common_chat_schema_tuple>();
-                size_t i = 0;
-                for (const auto & item : items) {
-                    tuple->items.push_back(build_node(item, path + "/" + key + "/" + std::to_string(i++)));
-                }
-                return tuple;
-            }
-            node->items = build_node(items, path + "/" + key);
-        } else {
-            node->items = std::make_unique<common_chat_schema_any>();
-        }
-        node->min_items = get_count(schema, "minItems", path, 0);
-        node->max_items = get_count(schema, "maxItems", path, -1);
-        return node;
-    }
-
-    common_chat_schema_ptr build_string(const common_json & schema, const std::string & path) {
-        auto node = std::make_unique<common_chat_schema_string>();
-        if (schema.contains("pattern")) {
-            const common_json & pattern = schema.at("pattern");
-            if (!pattern.is_string()) {
-                fail(path, "pattern must be a string");
-            }
-            node->pattern = pattern.get<std::string>();
-        }
-        node->format     = get_format(schema, path);
-        node->min_length = get_count(schema, "minLength", path, 0);
-        node->max_length = get_count(schema, "maxLength", path, -1);
-        return node;
-    }
-
-    common_chat_schema_ptr build_integer(const common_json & schema, const std::string & path) {
-        auto node = std::make_unique<common_chat_schema_integer>();
-        if (schema.contains("minimum")) {
-            node->minimum = get_bound(schema, "minimum", path, /* round_up */ true);
-        } else if (schema.contains("exclusiveMinimum")) {
-            node->minimum = get_bound(schema, "exclusiveMinimum", path, /* round_up */ false) + 1;
-        }
-        if (schema.contains("maximum")) {
-            node->maximum = get_bound(schema, "maximum", path, /* round_up */ false);
-        } else if (schema.contains("exclusiveMaximum")) {
-            node->maximum = get_bound(schema, "exclusiveMaximum", path, /* round_up */ true) - 1;
-        }
-        return node;
-    }
-
-    common_chat_schema_ptr build_node(const common_json & schema, const std::string & path) {
-        if (!schema.is_object()) {
-            fail(path, "schema must be an object");
-        }
-        if (schema.contains("$ref")) {
-            return build_ref(schema.at("$ref"), path);
-        }
-        if (schema.contains("oneOf") || schema.contains("anyOf")) {
-            const std::string key = schema.contains("oneOf") ? "oneOf" : "anyOf";
-            return build_alternatives<common_chat_schema_any_of>(schema.at(key), path + "/" + key);
-        }
-
-        common_json type;
-        if (schema.contains("type")) {
-            type = schema.at("type");
-        }
-        if (type.is_array()) {
-            // {"type": ["a", "b"], ...} is {"anyOf": [{"type": "a", ...}, {"type": "b", ...}]}
-            if (type.empty()) {
-                fail(path, "type must not be empty");
-            }
-            auto node = std::make_unique<common_chat_schema_any_of>();
-            size_t i = 0;
-            for (const auto & t : type) {
-                common_json alt = schema;
-                alt["type"] = t;
-                node->children.push_back(build_node(alt, path + "/type/" + std::to_string(i++)));
-            }
-            return node;
-        }
-        if (schema.contains("const")) {
-            return std::make_unique<common_chat_schema_const>(schema.at("const"));
-        }
-        if (schema.contains("enum")) {
-            const common_json & values = schema.at("enum");
-            if (!values.is_array() || values.empty()) {
-                fail(path, "enum must be a non-empty array");
-            }
-            auto node = std::make_unique<common_chat_schema_enum>();
-            for (const auto & value : values) {
-                node->values.push_back(value);
-            }
-            return node;
-        }
-        if (!type.is_null() && !type.is_string()) {
-            fail(path, "type must be a string or an array of strings");
-        }
-
-        const std::string type_name = type.is_string() ? type.get<std::string>() : "";
-        const bool has_properties = schema.contains("properties") ||
-            (schema.contains("additionalProperties") && schema.at("additionalProperties") != true);
-
-        if (type_name.empty()) {
-            // without a type the structural keywords decide, in the same order as the converter
-            if (has_properties) {
-                return build_object(schema, path);
-            }
-            if (schema.contains("allOf")) {
-                return build_alternatives<common_chat_schema_all_of>(schema.at("allOf"), path + "/allOf");
-            }
-            if (schema.contains("items") || schema.contains("prefixItems")) {
-                return build_array(schema, path);
-            }
-            if (schema.contains("pattern") || schema.contains("minLength") || schema.contains("maxLength") || get_format(schema, path) != common_chat_schema::FORMAT_NONE) {
-                return build_string(schema, path);
-            }
-            return std::make_unique<common_chat_schema_any>();
-        }
-        if (type_name == "object") {
-            if (!has_properties && schema.contains("allOf")) {
-                return build_alternatives<common_chat_schema_all_of>(schema.at("allOf"), path + "/allOf");
-            }
-            return build_object(schema, path);
-        }
-        if (type_name == "string") {
-            if (schema.contains("allOf")) {
-                return build_alternatives<common_chat_schema_all_of>(schema.at("allOf"), path + "/allOf");
-            }
-            return build_string(schema, path);
-        }
-        if (type_name == "array") {
-            return build_array(schema, path);
-        }
-        if (type_name == "integer") {
-            return build_integer(schema, path);
-        }
-        if (type_name == "number") {
-            return std::make_unique<common_chat_schema_number>();
-        }
-        if (type_name == "boolean") {
-            return std::make_unique<common_chat_schema_boolean>();
-        }
-        if (type_name == "null") {
-            return std::make_unique<common_chat_schema_null>();
-        }
-        fail(path, "unrecognized type " + type_name);
-    }
-
-  public:
-    common_chat_schema_builder(const common_json & root, common_chat_schema_document & doc) : root_(root), doc_(doc) {}
-
-    common_chat_schema_ptr build() {
-        auto node = build_node(root_, "#");
-        for (auto & entry : refs_) {
-            doc_.refs[entry.first] = std::move(entry.second);
-        }
-        for (auto * ref : pending_) {
-            ref->target = doc_.refs.at(ref->ref).get();
-        }
-        return node;
-    }
-};
-
-common_chat_schema_document common_chat_schema_from_json(const common_json & schema) {
-    common_chat_schema_document doc;
-    doc.root = common_chat_schema_builder(schema, doc).build();
-    return doc;
-}
-
-static common_chat_schema::value_type json_type(const common_json & value) {
-    if (value.is_null()) {
-        return common_chat_schema::TYPE_NULL;
-    }
-    if (value.is_boolean()) {
-        return common_chat_schema::TYPE_BOOLEAN;
-    }
-    if (value.is_number_integer()) {
-        return common_chat_schema::TYPE_INTEGER;
-    }
-    if (value.is_number()) {
-        return common_chat_schema::TYPE_NUMBER;
-    }
-    if (value.is_string()) {
-        return common_chat_schema::TYPE_STRING;
-    }
-    if (value.is_array()) {
-        return common_chat_schema::TYPE_ARRAY;
-    }
-    return common_chat_schema::TYPE_OBJECT;
-}
-
-static common_chat_schema::type_set value_types_impl(const common_chat_schema & s, std::unordered_set<const common_chat_schema *> & visited) {
-    switch (s.kind()) {
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_ANY:
-            return common_chat_schema::type_set::all();
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_NULL:
-            return { common_chat_schema::TYPE_NULL };
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_BOOLEAN:
-            return { common_chat_schema::TYPE_BOOLEAN };
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_NUMBER:
-            return { common_chat_schema::TYPE_NUMBER, common_chat_schema::TYPE_INTEGER };
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_INTEGER:
-            return { common_chat_schema::TYPE_INTEGER };
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_STRING:
-            return { common_chat_schema::TYPE_STRING };
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_ARRAY:
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_TUPLE:
-            return { common_chat_schema::TYPE_ARRAY };
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_OBJECT:
-            return { common_chat_schema::TYPE_OBJECT };
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_CONST:
-            return { json_type(static_cast<const common_chat_schema_const &>(s).value) };
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_ENUM: {
-            common_chat_schema::type_set types;
-            for (const auto & value : static_cast<const common_chat_schema_enum &>(s).values) {
-                types.add(json_type(value));
-            }
-            return types;
-        }
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_REF: {
-            const auto * target = static_cast<const common_chat_schema_ref &>(s).target;
-            if (!target || !visited.insert(target).second) {
-                // a cycle contributes no type, to be safe
-                return {};
-            }
-            auto types = value_types_impl(*target, visited);
-            visited.erase(target);
-            return types;
-        }
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_ANY_OF: {
-            common_chat_schema::type_set types;
-            for (const auto & child : static_cast<const common_chat_schema_any_of &>(s).children) {
-                types |= value_types_impl(*child, visited);
-            }
-            return types;
-        }
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_ALL_OF: {
-            auto types = common_chat_schema::type_set::all();
-            for (const auto & child : static_cast<const common_chat_schema_all_of &>(s).children) {
-                types &= value_types_impl(*child, visited);
-            }
-            return types;
-        }
-    }
-    return {};
-}
-
-common_chat_schema::type_set common_chat_schema::value_types() const {
-    std::unordered_set<const common_chat_schema *> visited;
-    return value_types_impl(*this, visited);
-}
-
-static bool may_be_string_impl(const common_chat_schema & s, std::unordered_set<const common_chat_schema *> & visited) {
-    switch (s.kind()) {
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_STRING:
-            return true;
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_CONST:
-            return static_cast<const common_chat_schema_const &>(s).value.is_string();
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_ENUM:
-            for (const auto & v : static_cast<const common_chat_schema_enum &>(s).values) {
-                if (v.is_string()) {
-                    return true;
-                }
-            }
-            return false;
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_REF: {
-            // a cycle is taken as not a string, to be safe
-            const auto * target = static_cast<const common_chat_schema_ref &>(s).target;
-            if (!target || !visited.insert(target).second) {
-                return false;
-            }
-            bool result = may_be_string_impl(*target, visited);
-            visited.erase(target);
-            return result;
-        }
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_ANY_OF:
-            for (const auto & child : static_cast<const common_chat_schema_any_of &>(s).children) {
-                if (may_be_string_impl(*child, visited)) {
-                    return true;
-                }
-            }
-            return false;
-        case common_chat_schema::KIND_ALL_OF: {
-            // every child must allow a string, an any child constrains nothing
-            bool any_string = false;
-            for (const auto & child : static_cast<const common_chat_schema_all_of &>(s).children) {
-                if (child->kind() == common_chat_schema::KIND_ANY) {
-                    continue;
-                }
-                if (!may_be_string_impl(*child, visited)) {
-                    return false;
-                }
-                any_string = true;
-            }
-            return any_string;
-        }
-        default:
-            return false;
-    }
-}
-
-bool common_chat_schema::may_be_string() const {
-    std::unordered_set<const common_chat_schema *> visited;
-    return may_be_string_impl(*this, visited);
-}
-
-const char * common_chat_schema::kind_name(node_kind kind) {
-    switch (kind) {
-        case KIND_ANY:     return "any";
-        case KIND_REF:     return "ref";
-        case KIND_ANY_OF:  return "anyOf";
-        case KIND_ALL_OF:  return "allOf";
-        case KIND_CONST:   return "const";
-        case KIND_ENUM:    return "enum";
-        case KIND_NULL:    return "null";
-        case KIND_BOOLEAN: return "boolean";
-        case KIND_NUMBER:  return "number";
-        case KIND_INTEGER: return "integer";
-        case KIND_STRING:  return "string";
-        case KIND_ARRAY:   return "array";
-        case KIND_TUPLE:   return "tuple";
-        case KIND_OBJECT:  return "object";
-    }
-    return "?";
-}
-
-const char * common_chat_schema::type_name(value_type type) {
-    switch (type) {
-        case TYPE_NULL:    return "null";
-        case TYPE_BOOLEAN: return "boolean";
-        case TYPE_NUMBER:  return "number";
-        case TYPE_INTEGER: return "integer";
-        case TYPE_STRING:  return "string";
-        case TYPE_ARRAY:   return "array";
-        case TYPE_OBJECT:  return "object";
-    }
-    return "?";
-}
@@ -1,198 +0,0 @@
-#pragma once
-
-#include "json.h"
-
-#include <cstdint>
-#include <initializer_list>
-#include <map>
-#include <memory>
-#include <string>
-#include <vector>
-
-// JSON schema, covering the subset that json_schema_to_grammar() can convert.
-
-struct common_chat_schema {
-    enum node_kind {
-        KIND_ANY,
-        KIND_REF,
-        KIND_ANY_OF,
-        KIND_ALL_OF,
-        KIND_CONST,
-        KIND_ENUM,
-        KIND_NULL,
-        KIND_BOOLEAN,
-        KIND_NUMBER,
-        KIND_INTEGER,
-        KIND_STRING,
-        KIND_ARRAY,
-        KIND_TUPLE,
-        KIND_OBJECT,
-    };
-
-    enum value_type {
-        TYPE_NULL,
-        TYPE_BOOLEAN,
-        TYPE_NUMBER,
-        TYPE_INTEGER,
-        TYPE_STRING,
-        TYPE_ARRAY,
-        TYPE_OBJECT,
-    };
-
-    enum string_format {
-        FORMAT_NONE,
-        FORMAT_UUID,  // uuid, uuid1 .. uuid5
-        FORMAT_DATE,
-        FORMAT_TIME,
-        FORMAT_DATE_TIME,
-    };
-
-    class type_set {
-        uint32_t mask_ = 0;
-
-      public:
-        type_set() = default;
-        type_set(std::initializer_list<value_type> types) {
-            for (auto type : types) {
-                add(type);
-            }
-        }
-
-        static type_set all() {
-            return { TYPE_NULL, TYPE_BOOLEAN, TYPE_NUMBER, TYPE_INTEGER, TYPE_STRING, TYPE_ARRAY, TYPE_OBJECT };
-        }
-
-        void add(value_type type) { mask_ |= 1u << type; }
-
-        bool has(value_type type) const { return (mask_ & (1u << type)) != 0; }
-        bool is_only(value_type type) const { return mask_ == (1u << type); }
-        bool empty() const { return mask_ == 0; }
-
-        type_set & operator|=(const type_set & other) { mask_ |= other.mask_; return *this; }
-        type_set & operator&=(const type_set & other) { mask_ &= other.mask_; return *this; }
-
-        bool operator==(const type_set & other) const { return mask_ == other.mask_; }
-        bool operator!=(const type_set & other) const { return mask_ != other.mask_; }
-    };
-
-    virtual ~common_chat_schema() = default;
-    virtual node_kind kind() const = 0;
-
-    type_set value_types() const;
-
-    // Whether a value matching the schema may be a string, through any branch of it.
-    bool may_be_string() const;
-
-    static const char * kind_name(node_kind kind);
-    static const char * type_name(value_type type);
-};
-
-using common_chat_schema_ptr = std::unique_ptr<common_chat_schema>;
-
-struct common_chat_schema_any : common_chat_schema {
-    node_kind kind() const override { return KIND_ANY; }
-};
-
-// {"$ref": "#/..."}, only references into the same document are supported
-struct common_chat_schema_ref : common_chat_schema {
-    std::string                ref;
-    const common_chat_schema * target = nullptr;  // owned by common_chat_schema_document::refs
-
-    explicit common_chat_schema_ref(std::string ref) : ref(std::move(ref)) {}
-
-    node_kind kind() const override { return KIND_REF; }
-};
-
-// oneOf / anyOf, or a "type" array expanded to one alternative per type
-struct common_chat_schema_any_of : common_chat_schema {
-    std::vector<common_chat_schema_ptr> children;
-
-    node_kind kind() const override { return KIND_ANY_OF; }
-};
-
-struct common_chat_schema_all_of : common_chat_schema {
-    std::vector<common_chat_schema_ptr> children;
-
-    node_kind kind() const override { return KIND_ALL_OF; }
-};
-
-struct common_chat_schema_const : common_chat_schema {
-    common_json value;
-
-    explicit common_chat_schema_const(common_json value) : value(std::move(value)) {}
-
-    node_kind kind() const override { return KIND_CONST; }
-};
-
-struct common_chat_schema_enum : common_chat_schema {
-    std::vector<common_json> values;
-
-    node_kind kind() const override { return KIND_ENUM; }
-};
-
-struct common_chat_schema_null : common_chat_schema {
-    node_kind kind() const override { return KIND_NULL; }
-};
-
-struct common_chat_schema_boolean : common_chat_schema {
-    node_kind kind() const override { return KIND_BOOLEAN; }
-};
-
-struct common_chat_schema_number : common_chat_schema {
-    node_kind kind() const override { return KIND_NUMBER; }
-};
-
-// bounds are inclusive, exclusiveMinimum / exclusiveMaximum are folded in
-struct common_chat_schema_integer : common_chat_schema {
-    int64_t minimum = INT64_MIN;  // INT64_MIN for unbounded
-    int64_t maximum = INT64_MAX;  // INT64_MAX for unbounded
-
-    node_kind kind() const override { return KIND_INTEGER; }
-};
-
-struct common_chat_schema_string : common_chat_schema {
-    std::string   pattern;  // empty when absent
-    string_format format     = FORMAT_NONE;
-    int           min_length = 0;
-    int           max_length = -1;  // -1 for unbounded
-
-    node_kind kind() const override { return KIND_STRING; }
-};
-
-struct common_chat_schema_array : common_chat_schema {
-    common_chat_schema_ptr items;  // a common_chat_schema_any when "items" is absent
-    int                    min_items = 0;
-    int                    max_items = -1;  // -1 for unbounded
-
-    node_kind kind() const override { return KIND_ARRAY; }
-};
-
-struct common_chat_schema_tuple : common_chat_schema {
-    std::vector<common_chat_schema_ptr> items;
-
-    node_kind kind() const override { return KIND_TUPLE; }
-};
-
-struct common_chat_schema_property {
-    std::string            name;
-    common_chat_schema_ptr schema;
-    bool                   required = false;
-};
-
-struct common_chat_schema_object : common_chat_schema {
-    std::vector<common_chat_schema_property> properties;             // in schema order
-    common_chat_schema_ptr                   additional_properties;  // null when not allowed
-
-    node_kind kind() const override { return KIND_OBJECT; }
-};
-
-struct common_chat_schema_document {
-    common_chat_schema_ptr                        root;
-    std::map<std::string, common_chat_schema_ptr> refs;
-};
-
-// A document shared by the PEG parsers built from its nodes, which it keeps alive
-using common_chat_schema_document_ptr = std::shared_ptr<const common_chat_schema_document>;
-
-// Throws std::runtime_error when the schema falls outside the supported subset.
-common_chat_schema_document common_chat_schema_from_json(const common_json & schema);
@@ -82,9 +82,6 @@ struct common_json_value {
    // note: a nested pair {"a", "b"} does not build, use common_json::array({"a", "b"}) for an array
    common_json_value(std::initializer_list<common_json_item> items);

-    template <typename T, typename std::enable_if<std::is_enum<T>::value, int>::type = 0>
-    common_json_value(T val) : common_json_value((typename std::underlying_type<T>::type) val) {}
-
    template <typename T, typename std::enable_if<std::is_integral<T>::value && !std::is_same<T, bool>::value, int>::type = 0>
    common_json_value(T val) : type(std::is_signed<T>::value ? VAL_INT : VAL_UINT) {
        if (std::is_signed<T>::value) {
@@ -114,7 +111,6 @@ struct common_json_item {
 // the types common_json_value holds on its own
 // anything else reaches its common_json ctor and recurses forever
 template <typename T> struct common_json_is_value : std::integral_constant<bool,
-    std::is_enum<T>::value ||
    std::is_arithmetic<T>::value ||
    std::is_same<T, std::nullptr_t>::value ||
    std::is_same<T, std::string>::value ||
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #include "common.h"
 #include "log.h"
-#include "json.h"

 #include <chrono>
 #include <condition_variable>
@@ -37,16 +36,6 @@ void common_log_set_verbosity_thold(int verbosity) {
    common_log_verbosity_thold = verbosity;
 }

-static bool common_log_jsonl = false;
-
-bool common_log_get_jsonl(void) {
-    return common_log_jsonl;
-}
-
-void common_log_set_jsonl(bool jsonl) {
-    common_log_jsonl = jsonl;
-}
-
 static int64_t t_us() {
    return std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::microseconds>(std::chrono::system_clock::now().time_since_epoch()).count();
 }
@@ -77,17 +66,6 @@ static const char* g_col[] = {
    "",
 };

-static const char * level_str(enum ggml_log_level level) {
-    switch (level) {
-        case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG: return "debug";
-        case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_INFO:  return "info";
-        case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_WARN:  return "warn";
-        case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR: return "error";
-        case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_CONT:  return "cont";
-        default:                   return "none";
-    }
-}
-
 struct common_log_entry {
    enum ggml_log_level level {GGML_LOG_LEVEL_INFO};

@@ -96,8 +74,6 @@ struct common_log_entry {
    int64_t timestamp { 0 };
    bool is_end       { false }; // signals the worker thread to stop
    bool prefix       { false };
-    bool jsonl        { false };
-    bool is_json      { false }; // msg already holds a serialized JSON object

    common_log_entry(size_t size = 256) : msg(size) { }

@@ -112,29 +88,11 @@ struct common_log_entry {

            fcur = stdout;

-            if (level != GGML_LOG_LEVEL_NONE && !jsonl) {
+            if (level != GGML_LOG_LEVEL_NONE) {
                fcur = stderr;
            }
        }

-        if (jsonl) {
-            if (is_json) {
-                fprintf(fcur, "%s\n", msg.data());
-                fflush(fcur);
-                return;
-            }
-
-            common_json obj = {
-                {"type",  "log"},
-                {"time",  timestamp},
-                {"level", level_str(level)},
-                {"msg",   msg.data()},
-            };
-            fprintf(fcur, "%s\n", obj.dump_safe().c_str());
-            fflush(fcur);
-            return;
-        }
-
        if (level != GGML_LOG_LEVEL_NONE && level != GGML_LOG_LEVEL_CONT && prefix) {
            if (timestamp) {
                // [M.s.ms.us]
@@ -288,8 +246,6 @@ public:
        entry.is_end    = false;
        entry.level     = level;
        entry.prefix    = prefix;
-        entry.jsonl     = common_log_jsonl;
-        entry.is_json   = false;
        entry.timestamp = 0;
        if (timestamps) {
            entry.timestamp = t_us() - t_start;
@@ -299,42 +255,6 @@ public:
        cv_new.notify_one();
    }

-    void add_json(const char * type, const common_json & obj) {
-        const common_json full = {
-            {"type", type},
-            {"data", obj},
-        };
-
-        const std::string text = full.dump_safe();
-
-        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mtx);
-
-        // block if the queue is full
-        cv_full.wait(lock, [this]() { return !running || !is_full(); });
-
-        if (!running) {
-            // discard messages while the worker thread is paused
-            return;
-        }
-
-        auto & entry = queue[tail];
-
-        if (entry.msg.size() < text.size() + 1) {
-            entry.msg.resize(text.size() + 1);
-        }
-        memcpy(entry.msg.data(), text.c_str(), text.size() + 1);
-
-        entry.is_end    = false;
-        entry.level     = GGML_LOG_LEVEL_NONE;
-        entry.prefix    = false;
-        entry.jsonl     = true;
-        entry.is_json   = true;
-        entry.timestamp = 0;
-
-        tail = (tail + 1) % queue.size();
-        cv_new.notify_one();
-    }
-
    void resume() {
        std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mtx);

@@ -486,14 +406,6 @@ void common_log_add(struct common_log * log, enum ggml_log_level level, const ch
    va_end(args);
 }

-void common_log_add_json(struct common_log * log, const char * type, const common_json & obj) {
-    if (!common_log_jsonl) {
-        return;
-    }
-
-    log->add_json(type, obj);
-}
-
 void common_log_set_file(struct common_log * log, const char * file) {
    log->set_file(file);
 }
@@ -526,7 +438,7 @@ void common_log_flush(struct common_log * log) {
    log->resume();
 }

-int common_log_get_verbosity(enum ggml_log_level level) {
+static int common_get_verbosity(enum ggml_log_level level) {
    switch (level) {
        case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG: return LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG;
        case GGML_LOG_LEVEL_INFO:  return LOG_LEVEL_TRACE;
@@ -540,7 +452,7 @@ int common_log_get_verbosity(enum ggml_log_level level) {
 }

 void common_log_default_callback(enum ggml_log_level level, const char * text, void * /*user_data*/) {
-    auto verbosity = common_log_get_verbosity(level);
+    auto verbosity = common_get_verbosity(level);
    if (verbosity <= common_log_verbosity_thold) {
        common_log_add(common_log_main(), level, "%s", text);
    }
@@ -43,12 +43,6 @@ int  common_log_get_verbosity_thold(void);

 void common_log_set_verbosity_thold(int verbosity); // not thread-safe

-bool common_log_get_jsonl(void);
-
-void common_log_set_jsonl(bool jsonl); // not thread-safe
-
-int common_log_get_verbosity(enum ggml_log_level level);
-
 void common_log_default_callback(enum ggml_log_level level, const char * text, void * user_data);

 // the common_log uses an internal worker thread to print/write log messages
@@ -130,17 +124,3 @@ void common_log_flush         (struct common_log * log);                    // f
 #define LOG_WRNV(verbosity, ...) LOG_TMPL(GGML_LOG_LEVEL_WARN,  verbosity, __VA_ARGS__)
 #define LOG_ERRV(verbosity, ...) LOG_TMPL(GGML_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR, verbosity, __VA_ARGS__)
 #define LOG_CNTV(verbosity, ...) LOG_TMPL(GGML_LOG_LEVEL_CONT,  verbosity, __VA_ARGS__)
-
-class common_json; // defined in common/json.h
-
-// helper allows different types of json output
-// no-op if --log-jsonl is not set
-void common_log_add_json(struct common_log * log, const char * type, const common_json & data);
-
-// will only print if --log-jsonl is set
-#define LOG_JSON(type, data) \
-    do { \
-        if (common_log_get_jsonl()) { \
-            common_log_add_json(common_log_main(), type, data); \
-        } \
-    } while (0)
@@ -1,141 +0,0 @@
-#include "parsers.h"
-
-// 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.
-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_tags  = {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 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 = 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 = has_response_format
-            ? p.literal(TEXT_START) +
-                p.content(p.schema(p.json(), "response-format-schema", inputs.json_schema)) +
-                p.optional(p.literal(TEXT_END))
-            : 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 = !has_response_format && inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_AUTO;
-        data.grammar      = build_grammar([&](const common_grammar_builder & builder) {
-            parser.build_grammar(builder, data.grammar_lazy);
-        });
-
-        data.grammar_triggers = {
-            { COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_WORD, ACTION_START }
-        };
-    }
-
-    return data;
-}
@@ -1,273 +0,0 @@
-#include "parsers.h"
-
-// The DeepSeek V4 reference implementation renders consecutive tool results into a single
-// user block, ordered by the tool call order of the preceding assistant message (matched
-// by tool call id) rather than by the order they appear in the conversation.
-static json deepseek_v4_sort_tool_results(const json & messages) {
-    json adjusted = messages;
-    std::map<std::string, size_t> call_order;
-
-    for (size_t i = 0; i < adjusted.size();) {
-        const auto & msg  = adjusted[i];
-        const auto   role = msg.value("role", "");
-
-        if (role == "assistant" && msg.contains("tool_calls") &&
-                msg.at("tool_calls").is_array() && !msg.at("tool_calls").empty()) {
-            call_order.clear();
-            const auto & tool_calls = msg.at("tool_calls");
-            for (size_t idx = 0; idx < tool_calls.size(); idx++) {
-                auto id = tool_calls[idx].value("id", "");
-                if (!id.empty()) {
-                    call_order[id] = idx;
-                }
-            }
-            i++;
-            continue;
-        }
-
-        if (role != "user" && role != "tool") {
-            i++;
-            continue;
-        }
-
-        // collect a maximal run of user/tool messages - they render into one user block
-        std::vector<size_t> tool_positions;
-        size_t run_end = i;
-        for (; run_end < adjusted.size(); run_end++) {
-            const auto r = adjusted[run_end].value("role", "");
-            if (r == "tool") {
-                tool_positions.push_back(run_end);
-            } else if (r != "user") {
-                break;
-            }
-        }
-
-        if (tool_positions.size() > 1 && !call_order.empty()) {
-            std::vector<json> results;
-            results.reserve(tool_positions.size());
-            for (auto pos : tool_positions) {
-                results.push_back(adjusted[pos]);
-            }
-            std::stable_sort(results.begin(), results.end(), [&](const json & a, const json & b) {
-                const auto order = [&](const json & m) {
-                    auto it = call_order.find(m.value("tool_call_id", ""));
-                    return it == call_order.end() ? (size_t) 0 : it->second;
-                };
-                return order(a) < order(b);
-            });
-            for (size_t k = 0; k < tool_positions.size(); k++) {
-                adjusted[tool_positions[k]] = std::move(results[k]);
-            }
-        }
-
-        i = run_end;
-    }
-
-    return adjusted;
-}
-
-common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_deepseek_v3_2(const common_chat_template &    tmpl,
-                                                                 const autoparser::generation_params & inputs) {
-    common_chat_params data;
-
-    // V4 uses the same DSML markup as V3.2, but names the tool call block "tool_calls"
-    // instead of "function_calls", renders tool results in tool call order and its
-    // non-thinking generation prompt ends with a bare </think> instead of an empty
-    // <think></think> pair.
-    const bool is_v4 = tmpl.source().find("function_calls") == std::string::npos;
-
-    std::optional<json> adjusted_messages;
-    if (is_v4) {
-        adjusted_messages = deepseek_v4_sort_tool_results(inputs.messages);
-    }
-
-    auto has_tools           = inputs.tools.is_array() && !inputs.tools.empty();
-    auto has_response_format = !inputs.json_schema.is_null() && inputs.json_schema.is_object();
-    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);
-
-    std::optional<json> additional_context;
-    if (is_v4 && has_response_format) {
-        additional_context = json{ { "response_format", inputs.json_schema } };
-    }
-
-    const std::string DSML         = "｜DSML｜";
-    const std::string THINK_START  = "<think>";
-    const std::string THINK_END    = "</think>";
-    const std::string TC_BLOCK     = is_v4 ? "tool_calls" : "function_calls";
-    const std::string FC_START     = "<" + DSML + TC_BLOCK + ">";
-    const std::string FC_END       = "</" + DSML + TC_BLOCK + ">";
-    const std::string INVOKE_START = "<" + DSML + "invoke";
-    const std::string INVOKE_END   = "</" + DSML + "invoke>";
-    const std::string PARAM_START  = "<" + DSML + "parameter";
-    const std::string PARAM_END    = "</" + DSML + "parameter>";
-    const std::string GEN_PROMPT   = "<｜Assistant｜>";
-    const std::string TC_SEPARATOR = "\n\n";
-
-    // lets the server find user turns in the prompt and place context checkpoints there
-    data.message_delimiters = {
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_ASSISTANT, GEN_PROMPT },
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_USER, "<｜User｜>" },
-    };
-
-    data.prompt = common_chat_template_direct_apply_impl(
-        tmpl, inputs, adjusted_messages, std::nullopt, additional_context);
-    data.generation_prompt = common_chat_template_generation_prompt_impl(
-        tmpl, inputs, adjusted_messages, std::nullopt, additional_context);
-    data.format             = COMMON_CHAT_FORMAT_PEG_NATIVE;
-    data.supports_thinking  = true;
-    data.thinking_start_tag = THINK_START;
-    data.thinking_end_tags  = {THINK_END, FC_START};
-    data.preserved_tokens   = {
-        DSML,
-        THINK_START,
-        THINK_END,
-    };
-
-    if (inputs.has_continuation()) {
-        const auto & msg = inputs.continue_msg;
-
-        if (is_v4 && msg.reasoning_content.empty()) {
-            data.generation_prompt = GEN_PROMPT + THINK_END;
-            if (inputs.continue_final_message == COMMON_CHAT_CONTINUATION_CONTENT) {
-                data.generation_prompt += msg.render_content();
-            }
-        } else {
-            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;
-    }
-
-    bool require_tools   = inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_REQUIRED;
-    bool has_tool_calls = has_tools && inputs.tool_choice != COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE;
-
-    auto parser = build_chat_peg_parser([&](common_chat_peg_builder & p) {
-        auto generation_prompt = p.literal(GEN_PROMPT);
-        auto end               = p.end();
-
-        // build tool call section first since we might need it in reasoning
-        auto tool_choice = p.choice();
-        if (has_tool_calls) {
-            foreach_function(inputs.tools, [&](const json & tool) {
-                const auto & function = tool.at("function");
-                std::string  name     = function.at("name");
-
-                std::vector<common_peg_parser> required_parsers;
-                std::vector<common_peg_parser> optional_parsers;
-                foreach_parameter(function, [&](const common_chat_schema_property & param, const common_chat_schema_document_ptr & doc) {
-                    bool is_string = param.schema->may_be_string();
-
-                    auto arg = p.tool_arg(
-                        p.tool_arg_open(p.literal(PARAM_START + " name=\"") + p.tool_arg_name(p.literal(param.name)) +
-                                        p.literal("\" string=\"" + std::string(is_string ? "true" : "false") + "\">")) +
-                        (is_string ?
-                             p.tool_arg_string_value(p.until(PARAM_END)) :
-                             p.tool_arg_json_value(p.schema(p.json(), "tool-" + name + "-arg-" + param.name + "-schema",
-                                                            doc, *param.schema))) +
-                        p.tool_arg_close(p.literal(PARAM_END)));
-
-                    auto named_arg = p.rule("tool-" + name + "-arg-" + param.name, arg);
-                    if (param.required) {
-                        required_parsers.push_back(named_arg);
-                    } else {
-                        optional_parsers.push_back(named_arg);
-                    }
-                });
-
-                common_peg_parser args_seq = p.eps();
-                for (size_t i = 0; i < required_parsers.size(); i++) {
-                    if (i > 0) {
-                        args_seq = args_seq + p.space();
-                    }
-                    args_seq = args_seq + required_parsers[i];
-                }
-
-                if (!optional_parsers.empty()) {
-                    common_peg_parser any_opt = p.choice();
-                    for (const auto & opt : optional_parsers) {
-                        any_opt |= opt;
-                    }
-                    args_seq = args_seq + p.repeat(p.space() + any_opt, 0, -1);
-                }
-
-                common_peg_parser invoke_body = args_seq;
-                auto              func_parser = p.tool(p.tool_open(p.literal(INVOKE_START + " name=\"") +
-                                                                   p.tool_name(p.literal(name)) + p.literal("\">\n")) +
-                                                       invoke_body + p.space() + p.tool_close(p.literal(INVOKE_END)));
-
-                tool_choice |= p.rule("tool-" + name, func_parser);
-            });
-        }
-
-        common_peg_parser tool_calls = p.eps();
-        if (inputs.parallel_tool_calls) {
-            tool_calls = p.trigger_rule("tool-call",
-                p.literal(FC_START) + p.space() + tool_choice +
-                p.zero_or_more(p.space() + tool_choice) + p.space() + p.literal(FC_END));
-        } else {
-            tool_calls = p.trigger_rule("tool-call",
-                p.literal(FC_START) + p.space() + tool_choice + p.space() + p.literal(FC_END));
-        }
-
-        auto reasoning = p.eps();
-        auto reasoning_with_tc = p.eps();
-        auto obligatory_tool_calls = tool_calls;
-        bool allow_reasoning_with_tc = false;
-
-        if (!require_tools) {
-            tool_calls = p.optional(tool_calls);
-        }
-
-        if (extract_reasoning && inputs.enable_thinking) {
-            reasoning = p.optional(THINK_START + p.reasoning(p.until(THINK_END)) + THINK_END);
-            reasoning_with_tc = THINK_START +
-                p.reasoning(p.until_one_of({ TC_SEPARATOR + FC_START, FC_START, THINK_END })) +
-                p.space() + obligatory_tool_calls;
-            allow_reasoning_with_tc = true;
-        } else if (extract_reasoning) {
-            // Thinking disabled but reasoning extraction requested: the generation prompt
-            // contains an empty <think></think> pair (V3.2) or a bare </think> (V4) that
-            // must still be consumed.
-            reasoning = is_v4
-                ? p.optional(p.literal(THINK_END))
-                : p.optional(p.literal(THINK_START) + p.until(THINK_END) + p.literal(THINK_END));
-        }
-
-        if (has_response_format) {
-            auto response_format = p.rule("response-format",
-                p.literal("```json") + p.space() +
-                p.content(p.schema(p.json(), "response-format-schema", inputs.json_schema)) +
-                p.space() + p.literal("```"));
-            return generation_prompt + reasoning + response_format + end;
-        }
-
-        if (!has_tool_calls) {
-            return generation_prompt + reasoning + p.content(p.rest()) + end;
-        }
-
-        auto content_before_tools = p.negate(p.literal(THINK_START)) +
-            p.content(p.until_one_of({ TC_SEPARATOR + FC_START, FC_START })) +
-            p.space();
-        return allow_reasoning_with_tc ? generation_prompt + (reasoning_with_tc | (reasoning + content_before_tools + tool_calls)) + end :
-            generation_prompt + reasoning + content_before_tools + tool_calls + end;
-    });
-
-    data.parser = parser.save();
-
-    if (include_grammar) {
-        data.grammar_lazy = has_tools && !require_tools;
-        data.grammar      = build_grammar([&](const common_grammar_builder & builder) {
-            parser.build_grammar(builder, data.grammar_lazy);
-        });
-
-        data.grammar_triggers = {
-            { COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_WORD, FC_START },
-        };
-    }
-
-    return data;
-}
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-#include "parsers.h"
-
-// Functionary v3.2 - uses recipient-based format: >>>recipient\n{content}
-common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_functionary_v3_2(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.preserved_tokens  = {
-        ">>>all",
-    };
-
-    auto has_tools         = inputs.tools.is_array() && !inputs.tools.empty();
-    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 = "<|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|>\n\n>>>all\n" + msg.render_content();
-        data.prompt += data.generation_prompt;
-    }
-
-    auto parser = build_chat_peg_parser([&](common_chat_peg_builder & p) {
-        // Functionary v3.2 format:
-        // - Normal content: >>>all\n{content}
-        // - Tool calls: >>>function_name\n{json_args}
-        // Generation prompt ends with ">>>" so model outputs recipient immediately
-
-        // Build content parser for >>>all\n{content}
-        // When tools are present, content stops before the next ">>>" (tool call)
-        // When no tools, content goes until end
-        auto content_until_tool = p.literal("all\n") + p.content(p.until(">>>"));
-        auto content_until_end  = p.literal("all\n") + p.content(p.rest());
-        auto generation_prompt  = p.literal("<|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|>\n\n>>>");
-
-        // If no tools or tool_choice is NONE, just parse content
-        if (!has_tools || inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE) {
-            // When no tools, just match the prefix and capture everything after
-            return generation_prompt + content_until_end + p.end();
-        }
-
-        // Build tool call parsers for each available function
-        auto tool_choice = p.choice();
-        foreach_function(inputs.tools, [&](const json & tool) {
-            const auto & function = tool.at("function");
-            std::string  name     = function.at("name");
-            const auto   schema   = common_chat_tool_parameters(function);
-
-            // Tool format: >>>function_name\n{json_args}
-            auto tool_parser = p.tool(
-                p.tool_open(p.tool_name(p.literal(name)) + p.literal("\n")) +
-                p.tool_args(p.schema(p.json(), "tool-" + name + "-schema", schema))
-            );
-
-            tool_choice |= p.rule("tool-" + name, tool_parser);
-        });
-
-        auto content_only = content_until_end;
-        auto tools_only = p.trigger_rule("tools", p.one_or_more(tool_choice));
-        auto content_and_tools = content_until_tool + tools_only;
-
-        auto ret = p.eps();
-        if (inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_REQUIRED) {
-            if (inputs.parallel_tool_calls) {
-                ret = p.choice({ content_and_tools, tools_only }) + p.end();
-            } else {
-                ret = p.choice({ content_until_tool + tool_choice, tools_only }) + p.end();
-            }
-        } else if (inputs.parallel_tool_calls) {
-            ret = p.choice({ content_and_tools, content_only, tools_only }) + p.end();
-        } else {
-            auto content_and_tool = content_until_tool + tool_choice;
-            ret = p.choice({ content_and_tool, content_only, tool_choice }) + p.end();
-        }
-        return generation_prompt + ret;
-    });
-
-    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) {
-            parser.build_grammar(builder, data.grammar_lazy);
-        });
-
-        // Grammar trigger for when the model starts outputting a tool call
-        // (after the initial ">>>" in the generation prompt but recipient other than "all")
-        data.grammar_triggers = {
-            { COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_PATTERN, ">>>(?!all)" }
-        };
-    }
-
-    return data;
-}
@@ -1,307 +0,0 @@
-#include "parsers.h"
-
-namespace workaround {
-
-// Gemma4 uses a custom tool_responses field instead of role:tool messages.
-//
-// This will transform a sequence of messages:
-//   assistant(tool_call+) -> tool+ -> assistant(content)
-//
-// Into a single assistant message containing a tool_responses field:
-//   assistant(content + tool_call + tool_responses)
-//
-// This is necessary for the Gemma4 chat template to properly format the prompt.
-// See https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/core/prompt-formatting-gemma4
-struct gemma4_model_turn_builder {
-    json & messages;
-    size_t pos;
-    json tool_calls = json::array();
-    json tool_responses = json::array();
-    json content;
-    json reasoning_content;
-
-    gemma4_model_turn_builder(json & msgs, size_t pos) : messages(msgs), pos(pos) {}
-
-    void collect() {
-        // Collect the first assistant message
-        auto & msg = messages[pos];
-        if (msg.contains("reasoning_content") && msg.at("reasoning_content").is_string()) {
-            // According to the prompt formatting guide, we need to preserve reasoning_content
-            // between function calls. The current chat templates do not support this, but we will do it anyway.
-            reasoning_content = msg.at("reasoning_content");
-        }
-        for (auto & tc : msg.at("tool_calls")) {
-            tool_calls.push_back(tc);
-        }
-        pos++;
-
-        // Collect tool call results
-        while (pos < messages.size() && messages[pos].value("role", "") == "tool") {
-            collect_result(messages[pos]);
-            pos++;
-        }
-
-        // Check if the next assistant message is the final message
-        if (pos < messages.size() && messages[pos].value("role", "") == "assistant") {
-            auto & next = messages[pos];
-            if (!has_tool_calls(next) && has_content(next)) {
-                content = next.at("content");
-                pos++;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    void collect_result(const json & curr) {
-        json response;
-        if (curr.contains("content")) {
-            const auto & content = curr.at("content");
-            if (content.is_string()) {
-                // Try to parse the content as JSON; fall back to raw string
-                try {
-                    response = json::parse(content.get<std::string>());
-                } catch (...) {
-                    response = content;
-                }
-            } else {
-                response = content;
-            }
-        }
-
-        std::string name;
-
-        // Match name with corresponding tool call
-        size_t idx = tool_responses.size();
-        if (idx < tool_calls.size()) {
-            auto & tc = tool_calls[idx];
-            if (tc.contains("function")) {
-                name = tc.at("function").value("name", "");
-            }
-        }
-
-        // Fallback to the tool call id
-        if (name.empty()) {
-            name = curr.value("tool_call_id", "");
-        }
-
-        tool_responses.push_back({{"name", name}, {"response", response}});
-    }
-
-    json build() {
-        collect();
-
-        json msg = {
-            {"role", "assistant"},
-            {"tool_calls", tool_calls},
-        };
-        if (!tool_responses.empty()) {
-            msg["tool_responses"] = tool_responses;
-        }
-        if (!content.is_null()) {
-            msg["content"] = content;
-        }
-        if (!reasoning_content.is_null()) {
-            msg["reasoning_content"] = reasoning_content;
-        }
-        return msg;
-    }
-
-    static bool has_content(const json & msg) {
-        if (!msg.contains("content") || msg.at("content").is_null()) {
-            return false;
-        }
-        const auto & content = msg.at("content");
-        if (content.is_string() && !content.get<std::string>().empty()) {
-            return true;
-        }
-        if (content.is_array() && !content.empty()) {
-            return true;
-        }
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    static bool has_tool_calls(const json & msg) {
-        return msg.contains("tool_calls") && msg.at("tool_calls").is_array() && !msg.at("tool_calls").empty();
-    }
-};
-
-void convert_tool_responses_gemma4(json & messages) {
-    json result = json::array();
-    size_t i = 0;
-
-    while (i < messages.size()) {
-        auto & msg = messages[i];
-
-        if (msg.value("role", "") != "assistant" || !msg.contains("tool_calls") ||
-            !msg.at("tool_calls").is_array() || msg.at("tool_calls").empty()) {
-            result.push_back(msg);
-            i++;
-            continue;
-        }
-
-        gemma4_model_turn_builder builder(messages, i);
-        result.push_back(builder.build());
-        i = builder.pos;
-    }
-
-    messages = result;
-}
-
-}
-
-common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_gemma4(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);
-
-    if (inputs.add_generation_prompt && string_ends_with(data.prompt, "<turn|>\n")) {
-        // This may happen if the model generates content + tool_call, the
-        // template does not add the model's next turn and confuses the model
-        // from emitting its proper reasoning token sequence.
-        data.generation_prompt = "<|turn>model\n";
-        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";
-    data.thinking_end_tags  = {"<channel|>"};
-
-    data.preserved_tokens = {
-        "<|channel>",
-        "<channel|>",
-        "<|tool_call>",
-        "<tool_call|>",
-        "<|turn>",
-    };
-
-    if (inputs.has_continuation()) {
-        const auto & msg = inputs.continue_msg;
-
-        data.generation_prompt = string_ends_with(data.prompt, "<turn|>\n") ? "<|turn>model\n" : "";
-        data.generation_prompt += "<|channel>thought\n" + msg.reasoning_content;
-        if (inputs.continue_final_message == COMMON_CHAT_CONTINUATION_CONTENT) {
-            data.generation_prompt += "<channel|>" + msg.render_content();
-        }
-
-        data.prompt += data.generation_prompt;
-    }
-
-    auto has_tools           = inputs.tools.is_array() && !inputs.tools.empty();
-    auto has_response_format = !inputs.json_schema.is_null() && inputs.json_schema.is_object();
-    auto include_grammar     = has_response_format || (has_tools && inputs.tool_choice != COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE);
-    auto extract_reasoning   = inputs.reasoning_format != COMMON_REASONING_FORMAT_NONE;
-
-    auto parser = build_chat_peg_parser([&](common_chat_peg_builder & p) {
-        auto start = p.rule("start", p.optional(p.literal("<|turn>model\n")));
-
-        if (extract_reasoning) {
-            p.rule("thought", p.literal("<|channel>thought") + p.space() + p.reasoning(p.until("<channel|>")) + p.literal("<channel|>"));
-        } else {
-            p.rule("thought", p.content(p.literal("<|channel>thought") + p.space() + p.until("<channel|>") + p.literal("<channel|>")));
-        }
-
-        auto consume_empty_channels = p.gbnf(p.zero_or_more(p.literal("<|channel>") + p.negate(p.literal("thought"))), "");
-        auto thought = (p.peek(p.literal("<|channel>")) + consume_empty_channels + p.ref("thought")) | p.negate(p.literal("<|channel>"));
-
-        if (has_response_format) {
-            auto response_format = p.literal("```json") <<
-                p.content(p.schema(p.json(), "response-format-schema", inputs.json_schema)) <<
-                p.literal("```");
-            return start + p.optional(thought) + response_format;
-        }
-
-        if (has_tools && inputs.tool_choice != COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE) {
-            // Gemma4 tool calling syntax
-            // Rules should match traversal logic in gemma4_to_json()
-            p.rule("gemma4-string-content", p.until("<|\"|>"));
-            p.rule("gemma4-string", p.literal("<|\"|>") + p.ref("gemma4-string-content") + p.literal("<|\"|>"));
-            p.rule("gemma4-bool", p.json_bool());
-            p.rule("gemma4-null", p.json_null());
-            p.rule("gemma4-number", p.json_number());
-            p.rule("gemma4-dict-key", p.rule("gemma4-dict-key-name", p.chars("[^:}]", 1, -1)) + p.literal(":"));
-            p.rule("gemma4-dict-kv", p.ref("gemma4-dict-key") + p.space() + p.ref("gemma4-value"));
-            p.rule("gemma4-dict", [&]() {
-                auto ws = p.space();
-                auto member = p.ref("gemma4-dict-kv");
-                auto members = p.sequence({member, p.zero_or_more(p.sequence({p.literal(","), ws, member}))});
-                return p.sequence({
-                    p.literal("{"), ws,
-                    p.choice({p.literal("}"), p.sequence({members, ws, p.literal("}")})})
-                });
-            });
-            p.rule("gemma4-array", [&]() {
-                auto ws = p.space();
-                auto value = p.ref("gemma4-value");
-                auto elements = p.sequence({value, p.zero_or_more(p.sequence({p.literal(","), ws, value}))});
-                return p.sequence({
-                    p.literal("["), ws,
-                    p.choice({p.literal("]"), p.sequence({elements, ws, p.literal("]")})})
-                });
-            });
-            p.rule("gemma4-value", [&]() {
-                return p.choice({
-                    p.ref("gemma4-string"), p.ref("gemma4-dict"), p.ref("gemma4-array"),
-                    p.ref("gemma4-number"), p.ref("gemma4-bool"), p.ref("gemma4-null")
-                });
-            });
-
-            auto tool_choice = p.choice();
-
-            foreach_function(inputs.tools, [&](const json & tool) {
-                const auto & function = tool.at("function");
-                std::string  name     = function.at("name");
-                // TODO @aldehir : need to extend json-schema-to-grammar to produce more than JSON rules
-                // const auto & params   = function.at("parameters");
-
-                tool_choice |= p.rule("tool-" + name, p.tool(p.sequence({
-                    p.tool_open(p.tool_name(p.literal(name)) + p.peek(p.literal("{"))),
-                    p.tool_args(p.ref("gemma4-dict")),
-                })));
-            });
-
-            auto tool_call = p.trigger_rule("tool-call", p.repeat(
-                "<|tool_call>call:" + tool_choice + "<tool_call|>",
-                /* min = */ inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_REQUIRED ? 1 : 0,
-                /* max = */ inputs.parallel_tool_calls ? -1 : 1
-            ));
-
-            if (inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_REQUIRED) {
-                return start + thought + tool_call;
-            }
-
-            auto scan_to_toolcall = p.rule("scan-to-toolcall", p.until("<|tool_call>"));
-            auto content = p.rule("content", p.content(p.until_one_of({"<|channel>", "<channel|>", "<|tool_call>"})));
-            auto message = p.rule("message", thought + content);
-            return start + p.zero_or_more(message) + scan_to_toolcall + tool_call;
-        }
-
-        // Gemma 4 may emit an extra <|channel>thought\n<channel|> at the end of the content. It may
-        // also emit a single trailing <channel|> token. Consume all complete reasoning blocks and
-        // then stop at the first unmatched <channel|> token.
-        auto content = p.rule("content", p.content(p.until_one_of({"<|channel>", "<channel|>"})));
-        auto message = p.rule("message", thought + content);
-        return start + p.one_or_more(message);
-    });
-
-    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) {
-            parser.build_grammar(builder, data.grammar_lazy);
-        });
-
-        data.grammar_triggers = {
-            { COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_WORD, "<|tool_call>" },
-        };
-    }
-
-    return data;
-}
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-#include "parsers.h"
-
-common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_gigachat_v3(
-        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 = false;
-    data.preserved_tokens  = {
-        "<|message_sep|>\n\n",
-        "<|role_sep|>\n",
-    };
-
-    if (inputs.has_continuation()) {
-        const auto & msg = inputs.continue_msg;
-        data.generation_prompt = "assistant<|role_sep|>\n" + msg.render_content();
-        data.prompt += data.generation_prompt;
-    }
-
-    auto has_tools         = inputs.tools.is_array() && !inputs.tools.empty();
-    auto include_grammar   = has_tools && inputs.tool_choice != COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE;
-    const auto *tool_call_start_prefix = "<|message_sep|>\n\nfunction call<|role_sep|>\n";
-
-    auto parser = build_chat_peg_parser([&](common_chat_peg_builder & p) {
-        auto ret = p.eps();
-        if (has_tools && inputs.tool_choice != COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE) {
-            // Build a choice of all available tools
-            auto tool_choice = p.choice();
-            for (const auto & tool : inputs.tools) {
-                const auto & function = tool.at("function");
-                std::string name = function.at("name");
-                const auto  schema = common_chat_tool_parameters(function);
-
-                auto tool_name = p.json_member("name", "\"" + p.tool_name(p.literal(name)) + "\"");
-                auto tool_args = p.json_member("arguments", p.tool_args(p.schema(p.json(), "tool-" + name + "-schema", schema)));
-
-                auto tool_open = p.tool_open(p.literal("{") << tool_name);
-
-                tool_choice |= p.rule("tool-" + name, tool_open << "," << tool_args << "}");
-            }
-
-            // Define the tool call structure
-            auto min_calls = inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_REQUIRED ? 1 : 0;
-            auto max_calls = 1; // parallel toolcalls are not supported
-            auto tool_call = p.rule("tool-call", p.literal(tool_call_start_prefix) + tool_choice);
-            auto tool_calls = p.trigger_rule("tool-call-root", p.repeat(tool_call, /* min = */ min_calls, /* max = */ max_calls));
-
-            ret = p.content(p.until("<|message_sep|>\n\n")) << tool_calls;
-        } else {
-            // Content only parser
-            include_grammar = false;
-            ret = p.content(p.rest());
-        }
-
-        return p.literal("assistant<|role_sep|>\n") + ret;
-    });
-
-    data.parser = parser.save();
-
-    if (include_grammar) {
-        data.grammar_lazy = has_tools && inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_AUTO;
-
-        data.grammar = build_grammar([&](const common_grammar_builder & builder) {
-            parser.build_grammar(builder, data.grammar_lazy);
-        });
-
-        data.grammar_triggers = {
-            {COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_WORD, tool_call_start_prefix}
-        };
-    }
-    return data;
-}
@@ -1,158 +0,0 @@
-#include "parsers.h"
-
-common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_gpt_oss(const common_chat_template &    tmpl,
-                                                          const autoparser::generation_params & inputs) {
-    common_chat_params data;
-
-    // Copy reasoning to the "thinking" field as expected by the gpt-oss template
-    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");
-            if (msg.contains("tool_calls") && msg.at("tool_calls").is_array() && !msg.at("tool_calls").empty()) {
-                msg.erase("content");
-            }
-        }
-        adjusted_messages.push_back(msg);
-    }
-
-    auto prompt = common_chat_template_direct_apply_impl(tmpl, inputs, /* messages_override= */ adjusted_messages);
-
-    // Check if we need to replace the return token with end token during
-    // inference and without generation prompt. For more details see:
-    // https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/15417
-    if (inputs.is_inference && !inputs.add_generation_prompt) {
-        static constexpr std::string_view return_token = "<|return|>";
-        static constexpr std::string_view end_token    = "<|end|>";
-        if (size_t pos = prompt.rfind(return_token); pos != std::string::npos) {
-            prompt.replace(pos, return_token.length(), end_token);
-        }
-    }
-
-    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;
-
-    data.thinking_start_tag = "<|channel|>analysis<|message|>";
-    data.thinking_end_tags  = {"<|end|>"};
-
-    // These special tokens are required to parse properly, so we include them
-    // even if parse_tool_calls is false.
-    data.preserved_tokens = {
-        "<|channel|>", "<|constrain|>", "<|message|>", "<|start|>", "<|end|>",
-    };
-
-    // Adjust prompt for continuation
-    if (inputs.has_continuation()) {
-        const auto & msg = inputs.continue_msg;
-
-        data.generation_prompt = "<|start|>assistant<|channel|>analysis<|message|>" + msg.reasoning_content;
-        if (inputs.continue_final_message == COMMON_CHAT_CONTINUATION_CONTENT) {
-            data.generation_prompt += "<|end|><|start|>assistant<|channel|>final<|message|>" + msg.render_content();
-        }
-
-        data.prompt += data.generation_prompt;
-    }
-
-    auto has_tools           = inputs.tools.is_array() && !inputs.tools.empty();
-    auto has_response_format = !inputs.json_schema.is_null() && inputs.json_schema.is_object();
-    auto include_grammar     = has_response_format || (has_tools && inputs.tool_choice != COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE);
-    auto extract_reasoning   = inputs.reasoning_format != COMMON_REASONING_FORMAT_NONE;
-
-    auto parser = build_chat_peg_parser([&](common_chat_peg_builder & p) {
-        auto start           = p.rule("start", p.literal("<|start|>assistant"));
-        auto end             = p.rule("end", p.literal("<|end|>"));
-        auto content         = p.rule("message-content", p.until("<|end|>"));
-        auto channel         = p.literal("<|channel|>") + (p.literal("commentary") | p.literal("analysis"));
-        auto constrain_type  = p.chars("[A-Za-z0-9_-]", 1, -1);
-
-        // Occasionally, gpt-oss-20b will prefix channels with this commentary
-        auto stray_commentary = p.optional(p.literal("<|channel|>commentary") + p.optional(p.literal(" to=assistant")));
-        auto start_analysis = stray_commentary + p.literal("<|channel|>analysis<|message|>");
-
-        if (extract_reasoning) {
-            p.rule("analysis", start_analysis + p.reasoning(content) + end);
-        } else {
-            p.rule("analysis", p.content(start_analysis + content + end));
-        }
-
-        auto analysis = p.ref("analysis");
-        auto preamble = p.rule("preamble", p.literal("<|channel|>commentary<|message|>") + p.content(content) + end);
-        auto final_msg = p.rule("final", stray_commentary + p.literal("<|channel|>final<|message|>") + p.content(content));
-
-        // Consume any unsolicited tool calls, e.g. builtin functions
-        auto unsolicited = p.rule("unsolicited", p.atomic(p.optional(channel) + p.literal(" to=") + content + end));
-
-        auto any = p.rule("any", preamble | analysis);
-
-        if (has_response_format) {
-            auto constraint = p.optional(p.space() + p.optional(p.literal("<|constrain|>")) + constrain_type);
-            auto response_format = p.rule("response-format",
-                p.literal("<|channel|>final") + constraint + p.literal("<|message|>") +
-                p.content(p.schema(p.json(), "response-format-schema", inputs.json_schema)));
-
-            return p.zero_or_more(start + analysis) + start + response_format;
-        }
-
-        if (has_tools && inputs.tool_choice != COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE) {
-            auto tool_choice = p.choice();
-
-            foreach_function(inputs.tools, [&](const json & tool) {
-                const auto & function = tool.at("function");
-                std::string  name     = function.at("name");
-                const auto   params   = common_chat_tool_parameters(function);
-
-                auto func_name  = p.literal(" to=functions.") + p.tool_name(p.literal(name));
-                auto constraint = p.optional(p.space() + p.optional(p.literal("<|constrain|>")) + constrain_type);
-                auto args       = p.tool_args(p.schema(p.json(), "tool-" + name + "-schema", params));
-
-                // recipient in role header
-                //   <|start|>assistant to=functions.NAME<|channel|>(commentary|analysis)[constraint]<|message|>ARGS
-                auto tool_in_role = p.tool(p.tool_open(func_name + channel + constraint + p.literal("<|message|>")) + args);
-
-                // recipient in channel header
-                //   <|channel|>(commentary|analysis) to=functions.NAME[constraint]<|message|>ARGS
-                auto tool_in_channel = p.tool(p.tool_open(channel + func_name + constraint + p.literal("<|message|>")) + args);
-
-                tool_choice |= p.rule("tool-" + name, tool_in_role | tool_in_channel);
-            });
-
-            auto tool_call  = p.trigger_rule("tool-call", tool_choice);
-
-            if (inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_REQUIRED) {
-                return p.zero_or_more(start + any) + start + tool_call;
-            }
-
-            return p.zero_or_more(start + any) + start + (tool_call | final_msg);
-        }
-
-        return p.zero_or_more(start + any) + start + (final_msg | unsolicited);
-    });
-
-    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) {
-            parser.build_grammar(builder, data.grammar_lazy);
-        });
-
-        data.grammar_triggers = {
-            { COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_PATTERN, "^\\s+to$" },
-            { COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_PATTERN, "^<\\|channel\\|>(?:commentary|analysis)\\s+to=functions$" },
-            { COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_PATTERN, "<\\|start\\|>assistant(\\s+to)" },
-            { COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_PATTERN, "<\\|start\\|>assistant(<\\|channel\\|>(?:commentary|analysis)\\s+to)" }
-        };
-    }
-
-    return data;
-}
@@ -1,128 +0,0 @@
-#include "parsers.h"
-
-// Kimi K2 Thinking - uses unique tool call ID format: functions.<name>:<index>
-// The ID contains both the function name and an incrementing counter
-common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_kimi_k2(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_calls_section_begin|>",
-        "<|tool_calls_section_end|>",
-        "<|tool_call_begin|>",
-        "<|tool_call_argument_begin|>",
-        "<|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 SECTION_BEGIN = "<|tool_calls_section_begin|>";
-    const std::string SECTION_END   = "<|tool_calls_section_end|>";
-    const std::string CALL_BEGIN    = "<|tool_call_begin|>";
-    const std::string ARGS_BEGIN    = "<|tool_call_argument_begin|>";
-    const std::string CALL_END      = "<|tool_call_end|>";
-
-    const std::string THINK_START = "<think>";
-    const std::string THINK_END   = "</think>";
-    const std::string GEN_PROMPT  = "<|im_assistant|>assistant<|im_middle|>";
-
-    data.thinking_start_tag = THINK_START;
-    data.thinking_end_tags  = {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) {
-        // Kimi K2 Thinking format:
-        // - Reasoning: <think>{reasoning}</think>
-        // - Content: text after reasoning
-        // - Tool calls section:
-        //   <|tool_calls_section_begin|>
-        //   <|tool_call_begin|>functions.<name>:<index><|tool_call_argument_begin|>{json_args}<|tool_call_end|>
-        //   ...
-        //   <|tool_calls_section_end|>
-        // The ID format is: functions.<function_name>:<counter> where counter is 0, 1, 2, ...
-
-        // Tool call markers
-        auto end = p.end();
-
-        // Note: this model is CRAZY. It can diverge from its supposed tool calling pattern in so many ways it's not funny.
-        // For example, it can call tools at the end of reasoning without closing reasoning...
-        auto reasoning = extract_reasoning ? p.optional(THINK_START + p.reasoning(
-            p.until_one_of({ THINK_END, "<|tool_calls_section_begin|>", "<|tool_call_begin|>" })) +
-            p.optional(p.literal(THINK_END))) : p.eps();
-        auto generation_prompt = p.literal(GEN_PROMPT);
-
-
-        // Content only parser (no tools)
-        if (!has_tools || inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE) {
-            return generation_prompt + reasoning + p.content(p.rest()) + end;
-        }
-
-        // Build tool call parsers for each available function
-        // The ID format is: functions.<name>:<index>
-        // We need to match: functions.<name>:<digits>
-        auto tool_choice = p.choice();
-        foreach_function(inputs.tools, [&](const json & tool) {
-            const auto & function = tool.at("function");
-            std::string  name     = function.at("name");
-            const auto   schema   = common_chat_tool_parameters(function);
-
-            // Match: functions.<name>:<digits>
-            // Capture the full call id (functions.<name>:<digits>) using tool_id tag
-            auto tool_id = p.tool_id(p.literal("functions.") + p.tool_name(p.literal(name)) + p.literal(":") + p.chars("[0-9]", 1, -1));
-            auto tool_parser = p.tool(
-                p.tool_open(tool_id + p.literal(ARGS_BEGIN)) +
-                p.tool_args(p.schema(p.json(), "tool-" + name + "-schema", schema)) +
-                p.tool_close(p.optional((p.literal(CALL_END))))
-            );
-
-            tool_choice |= p.rule("tool-" + name, tool_parser);
-        });
-
-        // Tool calls section: <|tool_calls_section_begin|> tool_calls <|tool_calls_section_end|>
-        auto min_calls  = inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_REQUIRED ? 1 : 0;
-        auto max_calls  = inputs.parallel_tool_calls ? -1 : 1;
-        // Use trigger_rule so grammar generator knows where to start generating rules
-        auto tool_calls = p.rule("tool-calls",
-            p.optional(p.literal(SECTION_BEGIN)) +
-            p.trigger_rule("tool-call", p.repeat(CALL_BEGIN + tool_choice, min_calls, max_calls) +
-                p.optional(p.literal(SECTION_END)))
-        );
-
-        auto content_before_tools = p.content(p.until_one_of({ SECTION_BEGIN, CALL_BEGIN }));
-
-        return generation_prompt + reasoning + content_before_tools + 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) {
-            parser.build_grammar(builder, data.grammar_lazy);
-        });
-
-        data.grammar_triggers = {
-            { COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_WORD, "<|tool_call_begin|>" }
-        };
-    }
-
-    return data;
-}
@@ -1,167 +0,0 @@
-#include "parsers.h"
-
-// Kimi K3 - XTML tagged format, built by open_tag/close_tag macros:
-//   open_tag(t, attrs) = <|open|>t k="v"...<|sep|>   close_tag(t) = <|close|>t<|sep|>
-//   assistant := [think] [response] [tools] close_tag(message) <|end_of_msg|>
-// the generation prompt already opens the think (or response) section, so the
-// section opener is optional here - same as Kimi K2 Thinking
-common_chat_params common_chat_params_init_kimi_k3(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;
-
-    const std::string SEP         = "<|sep|>";
-    const std::string MSG_START   = "<|open|>message role=\"assistant\"<|sep|>";
-    const std::string THINK_START = "<|open|>think<|sep|>";
-    const std::string THINK_END   = "<|close|>think<|sep|>";
-    const std::string RESP_START  = "<|open|>response<|sep|>";
-    const std::string RESP_END    = "<|close|>response<|sep|>";
-    const std::string TOOLS_START = "<|open|>tools<|sep|>";
-    const std::string TOOLS_END   = "<|close|>tools<|sep|>";
-    const std::string CALL_START  = "<|open|>call tool=\"";
-    const std::string CALL_END    = "<|close|>call<|sep|>";
-    const std::string ARG_START   = "<|open|>argument key=\"";
-    const std::string ARG_END     = "<|close|>argument<|sep|>";
-    const std::string MSG_END     = "<|close|>message<|sep|>";
-    const std::string EOM_TOKEN   = "<|end_of_msg|>";
-
-    // only the markers are special tokens. tag names ("think", "response", ...) are
-    // normal tokens and must not be preserved, or prose with those words is broken
-    data.preserved_tokens = {
-        "<|open|>",
-        "<|close|>",
-        "<|sep|>",
-        "<|end_of_msg|>",
-    };
-
-    data.thinking_start_tag = THINK_START;
-    data.thinking_end_tags  = { THINK_END };
-
-    // per-role message-start delimiters. user/assistant messages only have the role
-    // attribute, so the full opener is used. system and tool messages have more
-    // attributes, so those delimiters stop after the closing quote of the role
-    data.message_delimiters = {
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_ASSISTANT, "<|open|>message role=\"assistant\"<|sep|>" },
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_USER,      "<|open|>message role=\"user\"<|sep|>"      },
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_TOOL,      "<|open|>message role=\"tool\""             },
-        { COMMON_CHAT_ROLE_SYSTEM,    "<|open|>message role=\"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 = MSG_START + THINK_START + msg.reasoning_content;
-        if (inputs.continue_final_message == COMMON_CHAT_CONTINUATION_CONTENT) {
-            data.generation_prompt += THINK_END + RESP_START + msg.render_content();
-        }
-
-        data.prompt += data.generation_prompt;
-    }
-
-    auto parser = build_chat_peg_parser([&](common_chat_peg_builder & p) {
-        auto end = p.end();
-
-        auto start = p.optional(p.literal(MSG_START));
-
-        // the think section is always consumed, even with reasoning extraction off:
-        // the generation prompt ends with open_tag('think'), so it is always present.
-        // reasoning stops at its own closer, or at the response opener if the model
-        // skips the closer
-        auto think_body = extract_reasoning ? p.reasoning(p.until_one_of({ THINK_END, RESP_START })) :
-                                              p.content(p.until_one_of({ THINK_END, RESP_START }));
-
-        auto reasoning = p.optional(p.optional(p.literal(THINK_START)) + think_body +
-                                    p.optional(p.literal(THINK_END)));
-
-        // content runs to the response closer, or to the next section if truncated
-        auto response = p.optional(p.literal(RESP_START)) +
-                        p.content(p.until_one_of({ RESP_END, TOOLS_START, MSG_END })) +
-                        p.optional(p.literal(RESP_END));
-
-        // the EOG token after the message closer reaches the parser as text,
-        // so it must be consumed or the parse stays incomplete
-        auto trailer = p.optional(p.literal(MSG_END)) + p.optional(p.literal(EOM_TOKEN));
-
-        if (!has_tools || inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_NONE) {
-            return start + reasoning + response + trailer + end;
-        }
-
-        auto tool_choices = p.choice();
-        foreach_function(inputs.tools, [&](const json & tool) {
-            const auto & function = tool.at("function");
-            std::string  name     = function.at("name");
-            const json   schema   = common_chat_tool_parameters(function);
-
-            // arguments come one tag per key, with the JSON type in a type="..."
-            // attribute. the type is taken from the tool schema instead, as it tells
-            // us if the value is JSON or a literal string
-            auto args = p.eps();
-            if (schema.contains("properties") && !schema.at("properties").empty()) {
-                auto arg_choices = p.choice();
-                for (const auto & prop : schema.at("properties").items()) {
-                    const std::string & key = prop.key();
-
-                    std::string type = "string";
-                    if (prop.value().is_object() && prop.value().contains("type") &&
-                        prop.value().at("type").is_string()) {
-                        type = prop.value().at("type").get<std::string>();
-                    }
-
-                    auto value = type == "string" ? p.tool_arg_string_value(p.until(ARG_END)) :
-                                                    p.tool_arg_value(p.until(ARG_END));
-
-                    // skip the trailing type="..." attribute: anything up to <|sep|>
-                    arg_choices |= p.rule("kimi-k3-arg-" + name + "-" + key,
-                                          p.tool_arg(p.tool_arg_open(p.literal(ARG_START)) +
-                                                     p.tool_arg_name(p.literal(key)) + p.literal("\"") +
-                                                     p.until(SEP) + p.literal(SEP) + value +
-                                                     p.tool_arg_close(p.literal(ARG_END))));
-                }
-                args = p.zero_or_more(arg_choices);
-            }
-
-            // skip the trailing index="N" attribute the same way
-            auto call = p.tool(p.tool_open(p.literal(CALL_START) + p.tool_name(p.literal(name)) + p.literal("\"") +
-                                           p.until(SEP) + p.literal(SEP)) +
-                               p.tool_args(args) + p.tool_close(p.literal(CALL_END)));
-
-            tool_choices |= p.rule("kimi-k3-tool-" + name, call);
-        });
-
-        // all calls go inside one tools section, then the message is closed. the
-        // message closer is part of the trigger rule, or else the lazy grammar
-        // rejects it once tool calls have started
-        auto tools_section =
-            p.trigger_rule("kimi-k3-tool-call", p.literal(TOOLS_START) + p.one_or_more(tool_choices) +
-                                                    p.literal(TOOLS_END) + p.optional(p.literal(MSG_END)) +
-                                                    p.optional(p.literal(EOM_TOKEN)));
-
-        auto tools = inputs.tool_choice == COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_REQUIRED ? tools_section :
-                                                                              p.optional(tools_section);
-
-        return start + reasoning + response + tools + trailer + end;
-    });
-
-    data.parser = parser.save();
-
-    if (include_grammar) {
-        data.grammar_lazy = inputs.tool_choice != COMMON_CHAT_TOOL_CHOICE_REQUIRED;
-        data.grammar      = build_grammar([&](const common_grammar_builder & builder) {
-            parser.build_grammar(builder, data.grammar_lazy);
-        });
-
-        data.grammar_triggers = {
-            { COMMON_GRAMMAR_TRIGGER_TYPE_WORD, TOOLS_START },
-        };
-    }
-
-    return data;
-}
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