Record: DSH provider findings — 2026-08-26

Task 03 output. Comparison of the live ~/.dsh/settings.yaml llm-pi-ai.beast section against sources/config/dsh-settings-beast.example.yaml (verified 2026-08-26, router captures refreshed after the llama.cpp 0.3.0-dev rebuild).

Current state (verified 2026-08-26)

• The five short-id entries (coder32, r1-14b, gpt-oss-120b, r1-70b, gemma-26b) are now valid: the tuned routers expose exactly these aliases, and their contextWindow/maxTokens match the presets. No change needed for those.
• BEAST_API_KEY credential: not yet set anywhere (env, ~/.dsh/.credentials.yaml, or .env) — requests fail with MISSING_CREDENTIAL until a value is stored (any non-empty string works; llama.cpp ignores auth until --api-key is added to the router).

Problems in the live section

1. Deleted models still listed (bare ids of models removed by the 2026-08-26 cache discard; the router no longer lists them and a request would fail or trigger a re-download):
   • bartowski/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M
   • unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-GGUF:Q4_K_M
   • unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-GGUF:Q4_K_M
   • unsloth/Qwen3.5-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M, unsloth/Qwen3.5-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_S
   • unsloth/gpt-oss-120b-GGUF:Q4_K_M, unsloth/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF:Q4_K_M
2. Existing models with bare entries inherit 262144/32768 defaults that exceed every preset: Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M, unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B-GGUF:Q4_K_XL, unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-GGUF:Q4_K_XL, unsloth/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_XL, unsloth/Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF:Q4_K_M, unsloth/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_XL, unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_XL, unsloth/gemma-4-E2B/E4B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_XL, unsloth/gpt-oss-120b-GGUF:Q4_K_XL, unsloth/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF:Q4_K_XL — each needs explicit capacities or an alias.
3. Missing new presets: coder14, devstral (both live on the router) are not in the live list.

Recommended fix (the human applies)

Replace the whole beast.models list with the 11 aliased entries in sources/config/dsh-settings-beast.example.yaml (aliases route on the tuned routers, capacities match presets). Optionally add the athena provider route from the same example for low-latency local models. Store BEAST_API_KEY (and ATHENA_API_KEY) in the DSH Models settings.

Verification

• GET http://beast.lan:2001/v1/models lists the 11 aliases with preset contexts (captures refreshed).
• Chat completion through the coder32 alias answered correctly on beast (verified 2026-08-26).
• make test passes.