First smoke test — the pipeline works end to end (4/4, but luck was involved)

What was run

First-ever smoke run of the custom minimal-pi harness against the local llama-swap server: qwen3.6-35b-a3b (MoE, 3B active), 4 quick tasks × 1 attempt. Thinking was uncontrolled — this predates any reasoning-budget mechanism and even the thinking kwarg (config shows thinking=(none)).

Results

4/4 passed. Harness plumbing (in-container pi → Docker gateway → llama-swap on port 8020, custom provider extension with raised maxTokens) all worked.

Interpretation

A clean sheet, but misleading: regex-log happened to terminate its reasoning this time. The very next run showed that with uncontrolled thinking the model can loop in <think> and burn the whole output budget — this pass was partly luck, not a solved problem.

Next steps

Re-run the same smoke set to check stability of the result.