fix(GATE-ISSUE-INDEX-TABLE-SHAPE): declare the three rows their own specs name, so the issue index can validate a record again

[phantomic12]

Closes the local record added in this branch, .agents/issues/GATE-ISSUE-INDEX-TABLE-SHAPE/ISSUE-LOCAL-01M3JVCCKJ2NXT4TTSHNZT2GJS.md.

The gate cannot see the defect it is failing on

agent-issue-index.py --check prints exactly one line:

$ python3 scripts/agent-issue-index.py --check
ERROR: canonical issue files are invalid: _intake Frozen archive evidence must equal the declared line in the frozen archive source
rc=2

load_local_files raises on the first invalid record, and the first record it reaches is an _intake one, so the real residue is never named. Enumerating every record directly finds 12 invalid, in three distinct causes:

records	cause	owner
9 × _intake	frozen-archive bytes carry 886 CR in the working copy against 0 in the committed blob	#3333
3 × row orphans	a spec and an issue name the row, no matrix declares it	this PR

Proof that the split is 9-and-3 rather than a guess — the same sweep in a worktree at row/ENG-EOL-BYTE-EXACT (97397f60b), where the working copy carries 0 CR:

total invalid: 3
BAD MODEL-DSV41-EXL3/ISSUE-LOCAL-01M29ATB6N2SFZD7JA6CCR2KXC.md :: row 'MODEL-DSV41-EXL3' is not canonical and claimable
BAD MODEL-DSV41-GGUF-Q1_0/ISSUE-LOCAL-01M29ATQDVEQ7M2MP3VW79XQJP.md :: row 'MODEL-DSV41-GGUF-Q1_0' is not canonical and claimable
BAD MODEL-GLINER25-DECIDE/ISSUE-LOCAL-01M3APZC6GKX9ME6AE6336D3VY.md :: row 'MODEL-GLINER25-DECIDE' is not canonical and claimable

What the specs already said

The specs and the issues agree with each other. Only the matrices are missing.

• deepseek-v4-1-flash.md:3-4 names MODEL-DSV41-EXL3 and MODEL-DSV41-GGUF-Q1_0 as rows of that campaign, and :9-10 names their issue IDs.
• gliner2.5-decide.md:1 carries the ID in its own heading, :22 says "New model-matrix row under MODEL-TOKCLS", and :23 names the issue.

The rows carry the state their evidence supports

MODEL-SPEC-deepseek-v4-1-dspark-v41-draft-model — the same spec's sibling row, same wave, same 2026-09-11 scoping pass — is already declared at model-matrix.md:611 with state BLOCKED. The two new campaign rows follow it, and each records what this tree's own answer is: deepseek_v4_1_registry.cpp:109-135 throws "the safetensors weight loader is not ported" for safetensors and DeepseekV41GgufRefusal() for any GGUF, so no V4.1 weights load in this tree in any format and W1 makes the architecture RESOLVE only.

MODEL-GLINER25-DECIDE is SPIKE, not absent, because all four anchors are in this tree:

• src/vllm/model_executor/models/gliner25_decide_registry.cpp, gliner25_decide_head.cpp
• tests/vllm/models/test_gliner25_decide.cpp:1-181, registered at tests/CMakeLists.txt:785
• C API src/capi/vllm_c.cpp:2106-2160, Gliner25DecideInference at ABI v29

Two spec corrections travel with the rows

gliner2.5-decide.md ## Now said Implementation not started while the same tree carried all four anchors above. The checklist row for MODEL-GLINER25 already said "gliner25_decide code and test suites are in tree", so the file contradicted its own matrix too. Corrected to SPIKE with the anchors, and the earlier claim withdrawn in the text rather than quietly overwritten.

deepseek-v4-1-flash.md assigned the two campaigns to kernel-matrix.md. That is wrong, and two rows decide it: the DSpark sibling and MODEL-DSV4-EXL3 are both in model-matrix.md. kernel-matrix.md additionally pins its row count in three places (## Count invariants: "exactly 52 practical kernel-family rows", the lifecycle tally, and scripts/check-agent-record.py holding the total), so neither row can land there without a second change to that contract — a cost, not a reason to file a model campaign as a kernel family.

The gate that caught me

check-model-checklist.py went rc=1 → rc=0, and it went red first:

- rollup Total=384 but matrix has 387 architecture rows
- engaged row MODEL-DSV41-EXL3 (state `BLOCKED`) is missing from the checklist
- engaged row MODEL-DSV41-GGUF-Q1_0 (state `BLOCKED`) is missing from the checklist
- engaged row MODEL-GLINER25-DECIDE (state `SPIKE`) is missing from the checklist

The checklist gains one line per row, each with the only mark its state allows (🚫 for BLOCKED, 📋 for SPIKE), and the rollup moves SPIKE 10→11, BLOCKED 5→7, Total 384→387 in the same commit, which is what the file's own rule demands.

Evidence

	before	after
invalid canonical records	12	9 (all _intake CRLF, owned by #3333)
check-model-checklist.py	rc=0 on main, rc=1 with the rows	rc=0
agent-issue-index.py --check (with #3333)	rc=2	rc=0, OK: .agents\issue-index.generated.md matches canonical issue files
agent-issue-index.py --refresh	refuses	rc=0, "wrote … from 1288 canonical issue records: 294 open"

The end-state rows are measured in a worktree carrying both this branch and #3333, which is the order they will merge in; this branch alone takes the residue from 12 to 9 and cannot reach 0 on a core.autocrlf=true checkout, and the PR says so rather than claiming the green.

check-symbol-anchors.py output is byte-identical to main (5 pre-existing check-agent-record.py anchors from merge c12b376b2, #3338). check-oracle-pins.py is byte-identical to main (11 pre-existing errors, #3335). check-surface-coverage, check-gate-commands, check-readme-structure, check-build-runtime-deps, check-fusion-consistency, check-device-leakage, check-oracle-denominator-flags are rc=0. check-commit-style and check-commit-trailers over --range 1de097c46..HEAD are green.

No C++ build gate was run: no source file is touched here, only four markdown records.

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Update: rebased onto d15b1cc09, which found three more defects in this branch

Replaying this work onto current main surfaced three problems in the row declarations themselves. All three are fixed in the same commit. None of them is a new row.

The two checkpoint rows were one cell short. MODEL-DSV41-EXL3 and MODEL-DSV41-GGUF-Q1_0 were written with four cells where the table carries five, and check-agent-record.py reported table has 5 pipes; expected 6 at model-matrix.md:166 and :167. The missing cell was the architecture class, not the model name — they opened | blocked | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash EXL3 ... | description | row-id while every neighbour opens | mark | class | name | description | row-id. Both are V4.1-Flash checkpoints of one architecture, so the cell now reads DeepseekV41ForCausalLM, the class the base row already carries. The checker reports one failure at a time, so this was masking the next two.

The row-count constant was never bumped. check-agent-record.py pins each matrix's expected count in MATRICES as a hardcoded literal, not from the rollup. The rollup moved 384 to 387, the literal stayed 384, and the same commit that fixed the index red the record gate with 387 MODEL rows; expected 384. Both read 387 now, with the rationale recorded in the comment block above the constant in the form every previous bump in that file uses.

MODEL-GLINER25-DECIDE had no owner, and SPIKE rows must have one. check-agent-record.py:1016 requires a CLAIM-* that actually claims the row. The owner cell read unassigned — which is what all 333 other unassigned rows carry, and every one of those is INVENTORIED, a state that needs no claim. This row alone failed.

It is now CLAIM-MODEL-GLINER25-DECIDE, a new claim file rather than a second line on CLAIM-MODEL-GLINER25, because adding it to the sibling claim produces duplicate active claim CLAIM-MODEL-GLINER25 — one claim owns exactly one active row. The split also matches the work: it shares the DeBERTa v2 tower with MODEL-GLINER25 and differs only in the head (Linear -> ReLU -> Linear to one output, in place of the NER boundary pooler), plus the /v1/systemone route and vllm_decide ABI it already shares with kev and Laya.

check-agent-record.py reports one failure at a time, which is why the original finding needed a full enumeration of every record to see past the first _intake one. The same property hid these three behind each other.

Gates, all rc=0: check-agent-record (MODEL=387), check-model-checklist, check-gate-commands (143 gated rows, up from 141), check-surface-coverage, check-conflict-markers, check-commit-trailers --range, check-commit-style --range.

agent-issue-index.py --check is still rc=2 here, on the _intake frozen-archive byte comparison — the CRLF class #3333 addresses. In a worktree carrying both, that check reaches these rows and validates them, so the two compose rather than compete.

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[localai-org-maint-bot]

Source review at d8b6fc2c87acb3943043693c23fbf76a591d12ee: declaring these rows addresses the issue-index lookup, but the change introduces two failures in the broader record contract.

1. scripts/check-agent-record.py:49 still sets the MODEL matrix count to 384, and check_matrices at lines 670-673 enforces it. The PR adds three recognized rows (384 -> 387) but only updates the Markdown rollup. Update the checker inventory count for the three new entries and verify the full record checker, not only check-model-checklist.py/agent-issue-index.py.
2. The new MODEL-GLINER25-DECIDE row is SPIKE with owner unassigned. check_row_contracts at lines 1015-1025 requires a CLAIM-* owner backed by a claim for every SPIKE/ACTIVE row. Assign its real owner and matching claim, or use a lifecycle state that truthfully reflects the work's ownership; do not weaken the gate.

I fetched the matrix and checker at this exact head and checked the row-selection logic with an independent JavaScript transcription: current main selects 384 model rows and this head selects 387. This is source-backed evidence, NOT an executed Python gate; Python is unavailable here.

@mudler these record-contract issues should be resolved before merge.

[phantomic12]

Both findings were already fixed before this comment landed — the review was written against d8b6fc2c8, and the branch head is now 2e1ec0e5c. The rebase onto d15b1cc09 is what surfaced them, so this is the same class of thing you found, arrived at from the other direction.

1. scripts/check-agent-record.py:49 still at 384. Fixed. MATRICES now reads 387, with the rationale in the comment block above the constant in the form every previous bump in that file uses. check_matrices at lines 670-673 compares against that literal, so it now passes. check-agent-record.py reports MODEL=387.

I had run check-model-checklist.py and agent-issue-index.py and not the record checker itself. That was the gap, and it is the same one you flagged in the body: the checker reports one failure at a time, so the pipe-count error was masking the count error, which was masking the owner error.

2. MODEL-GLINER25-DECIDE SPIKE with owner unassigned. Fixed, but not the way the branch first tried it. Adding the row to the sibling CLAIM-MODEL-GLINER25 produces duplicate active claim CLAIM-MODEL-GLINER25 — one claim owns exactly one active row. So it is a new file, .agents/claims/CLAIM-MODEL-GLINER25-DECIDE.md, carrying the same agent and worktree as its sibling. The split matches the work: it shares the DeBERTa v2 tower with MODEL-GLINER25 and differs only in the head (Linear -> ReLU -> Linear to one output, in place of the NER boundary pooler), plus the /v1/systemone route and vllm_decide ABI it already shares with kev and Laya. The gate is not weakened; check_row_contracts at 1015-1025 is untouched and the row now satisfies it.

Also fixed while in there: the two checkpoint rows were written one cell short — the architecture-class cell was missing, so the table had 5 pipes where check_matrices expects 6. DeepseekV41ForCausalLM is now in both.

Gates at this head, all rc=0: check-agent-record (MODEL=387), check-model-checklist, check-gate-commands (143 gated rows, up from 141), check-surface-coverage, check-conflict-markers, check-commit-trailers --range, check-commit-style --range.

Your JavaScript transcription of the row-selection logic was the right tool to reach for with no Python available. Worth noting the two numbers agreed exactly: 384 on main, 387 at that head.

[mudler-agent]

Changes requested: the PR says it closes its local issue and records a completed resolution, but the canonical issue remains State: OPEN with Closed: -. Close it through the repository issue workflow or remove the closure claim.