refactor(models): merge downloaders into one, driven by models.yml

Replace the per-model downloader services with a single downloader
that reads file/url pairs from models.yml. Downloads now go to a
.part file first, so an interrupted run can't leave a truncated
model that later runs skip.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- **`LLAMA_CACHE_RAM`** (`--cache-ram`, MiB) is the host-RAM budget for saved prompt-cache entries. When a slot is reused, llama.cpp parks the old prompt's state in RAM so it can be restored instead of re-prefilled. The llama.cpp default is too small for ~40k-token agent prompts (entries are ~2 GiB each), so entries got evicted and requests re-prefilled in full. Raising it is the only place spare DDR RAM helps; it does not speed up decode. Keep it well below the host's free RAM. Evidence and the A/B method: [`research/qwen3.8-27b-throughput-tuning.md`](research/qwen3.8-27b-throughput-tuning.md).
- **`--jinja`** enables the chat template that tool calling depends on. Without it, tool-use requests fail outright.
- **Tool-calling reliability** of this model family on llama.cpp has open upstream parser bugs: [`research/qwen3.8-27b-tool-calling.md`](research/qwen3.8-27b-tool-calling.md).
- **Speculative decoding (DFlash2):** `--spec-type draft-dflash` with a separate drafter GGUF (`LLAMA_DRAFT_MODEL_FILE`), fetched by `downloader-draft`. It replaced MTP (draft heads inside the target GGUF). `LLAMA_SPEC_N_MAX` is the draft length. Upstream: [llama.cpp#27342](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/27342). Draft acceptance can collapse at high slot counts ([llama.cpp#27117](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/27117)), another reason `LLAMA_PARALLEL` stays low.
- **Speculative decoding (DFlash2):** `--spec-type draft-dflash` with a separate drafter GGUF (`LLAMA_DRAFT_MODEL_FILE`), fetched by the downloader from [`models.yml`](../models.yml). It replaced MTP (draft heads inside the target GGUF). `LLAMA_SPEC_N_MAX` is the draft length. Upstream: [llama.cpp#27342](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/27342). Draft acceptance can collapse at high slot counts ([llama.cpp#27117](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/27117)), another reason `LLAMA_PARALLEL` stays low.
- **No classifier backend:** the separate `qwen-classifier` was removed to free VRAM for the drafter. Anything that needs a small "fast" model must use the main model.
- **No host port**: see [network access → Backends](network-access.md#backends).
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# Operations
> **Source of truth:** [`scripts/update.sh`](../scripts/update.sh), [`.env.example`](../.env.example), and the `speed-bench` service in [`docker-compose.yml`](../docker-compose.yml) with its [`speed-bench/Dockerfile`](../speed-bench/Dockerfile) and [`scripts/bench.sh`](../scripts/bench.sh). This page explains *what the script does and why*; the steps and defaults live in the source. If they disagree, the source wins.
> **Source of truth:** [`scripts/update.sh`](../scripts/update.sh), [`.env.example`](../.env.example), [`models.yml`](../models.yml), and the `speed-bench` service in [`docker-compose.yml`](../docker-compose.yml) with its [`speed-bench/Dockerfile`](../speed-bench/Dockerfile) and [`scripts/bench.sh`](../scripts/bench.sh). This page explains *what the script does and why*; the steps and defaults live in the source. If they disagree, the source wins.
The stack runs on the **server**. After any change to the repo, run `./scripts/update.sh` there: it is the one command that brings the running stack in sync. It's safe to re-run at any time, and it only recreates what changed.
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## Model downloads
Each model file has its own one-off downloader service in the `tools` compose profile. `update.sh` runs them every time. A `test -f` guard skips files that already exist, so re-runs don't re-download. Files live in the named `models` volume, not a host bind-mount. The downloaders run as root because the named volume is created root-owned. There's one service per model, so the small model's job never re-checks the large one.
One `downloader` service in the `tools` compose profile fetches every file listed in [`models.yml`](../models.yml) (`file` + `url` per entry). `update.sh` runs it every time. Files that already exist are skipped, so re-runs don't re-download. To add a model, add an entry there; to load it, point the matching `LLAMA_*_FILE` key in `.env` at the same `file` name. The two are not linked, so a typo means llama-server can't find the file.
- **Partial downloads** go to `<file>.part` and are only renamed once complete. Otherwise an interrupted download would leave a truncated file that the skip check treats as done.
- **Files live in the named `models` volume**, not a host bind-mount. The downloader runs as root because the named volume is created root-owned.
- **It needs internet on each run**: it installs `curl` and `yq` from Alpine's package mirror before reading the list.
## Speed bench