Critical finding: flipping vllm_service_enabled/state=true/started and restarting llama-swap alongside it broke llama-swap's ability to load ANY of its own generative models -- every /v1/chat/completions request against Qwen3.8-27B-Q4_K_M or Qwen3-8B aux models failed with 'upstream command exited prematurely' (llama-server OOM at spawn, ~1.8GB free on this 24GB card once vLLM's ~22.8GB was claimed). Confirmed by direct A/B: same request 500s with vLLM running, 200s seconds after stopping it. This breaks 21 Hermes agent profiles' aux-model tasks (skills_hub, approval, mcp, title_generation, profile_describer, compression) plus OpenViking's VLM -- a far larger blast radius than Hindsight's single LLM endpoint. Reverted: - vllm_service_enabled/state back to role defaults (false/stopped) -- vLLM stays staged, startable for a brief validated shadow window, NOT safe to leave resident in production. - Hindsight's HINDSIGHT_API_LLM_BASE_URL back to llama-swap (astro-orbiter:8001, Qwen3.8-27B-Q4_K_M) and the API key secret source back to the Nous fallback item (pre-task state) -- the vLLM cutover, while functionally validated in isolation (health, /v1/chat/completions, and a live hindsight_retain+recall round-trip all succeeded), requires continuous vLLM availability which is now known to be unsafe on this card. Comment posted on t_6dff1ecc: teardown remains correctly blocked -- full cutover is not achievable within this card's VRAM budget as currently scoped. Needs a human decision on aux-model migration strategy (see roles/deploy-vllm README's 'Critical architectural finding' section) before any further progress.
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