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A model install on the `mlx` backend used the generic download fallback: the weights landed as opaque files the MLX runtime cannot load, and nothing installed or checked the runtime itself. `_BACKEND_TO_METHOD["mlx"]` now routes to a purpose-built MLXInstaller which: - gates on Apple Silicon (darwin/arm64) and fails with a clear message elsewhere instead of "succeeding" with an unusable download; - installs the `mlx-lm` runtime in the serving interpreter on demand (`TAOS_MLX_PYTHON` override) and only when it is genuinely missing; - pulls the model into the shared layout at `~/models/mlx/<family>/<manifest_id>/` by delegating to the existing HFMultiInstaller (repo of safetensors + config + tokenizer) or DownloadInstaller (single file). Variant field `mlx_repo` wins over `hf_repo` so one variant can point MLX at a pre-quantised mlx-community repo while keeping its GGUF source for other backends; - reports the OpenAI-compatible endpoint the `mlx` backend adapter talks to (port 7837, now reserved alongside 7833-7836). Apple Silicon also gets its own scheduler resource name: discovery registers `gpu-metal` (docs/design/resource-scheduler.md) rather than the CUDA-indexed `gpu-cuda-0`, the worker advertises the same name so lease ids and worker inventories agree, and the legacy worker-resource grammar accepts it. The A2A GPU lease default (`routes/a2a_gpu_lease.py`) resolves from the target worker's advertised inventory — falling back to this host's own probe only for a node the cluster does not know — so a claim that names no resource still resolves on a Mac worker, and an unnamed release finds the actor's single lease on the node instead of an exact resource lookup an updated inventory would miss. Refs jaylfc#329 Docs-Reviewed: [routes] the store_install.py change is one dispatch-table entry (mlx -> mlx) plus its comment; no route, request/response shape or agent-facing surface changed, so docs/agent-coordination.md is untouched.
…fc#329) Supply chain: the runtime no longer arrives from an unpinned `pip install mlx-lm` in the controller's interpreter. mlx-lm and mlx are pinned (MLX_LM_VERSION / MLX_VERSION), the whole closure ships as hash-pinned locks (mlx_lm_requirements_py311|312|313.txt, regenerate with scripts/gen-mlx-lock.py) and pip installs them with `--require-hashes --only-binary=:all:` into a venv of its own (<install root>/apps/mlx-runtime/venv, TAOS_MLX_VENV). A package whose digest is not in the lock fails the install, and re-installing a model cannot move the runtime under a running server. Endpoint: install() reported http://127.0.0.1:7837 while nothing started mlx_lm.server. One process serves one model, so the managed service belongs to the backend-activation slice, not to a model install: the result now reports the runtime interpreter and the pinned version instead of an endpoint. 7837 stays reserved, and mlx_server_is_running() (a /v1/models probe, mirroring llamacpp_is_running) is the health check that slice and the setup checklist will use. Metal detection: METAL_RESOURCE_NAME and metal_available() move from installers/mlx_installer.py to hardware.py, so the worker and the scheduler no longer pull the installers package in for a hardware fact, and metal_available() probes the device (system_profiler's Metal Support line, memoised, failing open only when the probe cannot run) instead of assuming every arm64 macOS host has a GPU. An arm64 VM with no Metal device no longer registers gpu-metal, or a GPU resource at all. Docs and style: the module docstring, the README table and the changelog fragment now say where the weights actually land (<models root>/mlx/<family>/<id>, i.e. TAOS_MODELS_ROOT or the install root's models/), and no added line carries an em dash. Rebased onto current dev: jaylfc#3238 owns worker/agent.py's resources block, which now feeds METAL_RESOURCE_NAME into _collect_resources, and this branch drops its own resources hunk. Ports 7837 (ours) and 7838 (the LLM gateway agent listener) are both reserved. Red-first: against the pre-fix head, the "no endpoint" result assertions, the own-venv/--require-hashes pip command and the Metal-less arm64 answers all fail. Refs jaylfc#329 Docs-Reviewed: [routes] the route hunks are the mlx dispatch-table entry in store_install.py (mlx -> mlx, commented in place) and the lease default's import site in a2a_gpu_lease.py; no endpoint, request/response shape or agent-facing surface changed, so docs/agent-coordination.md is untouched. The installers rule is satisfied by the README.md edit in this same commit.
jaylfc#3238 landed `_collect_resources()` in worker/agent.py with the "gpu-metal" literal; taOS jaylfc#329's review asked for the worker to feed `METAL_RESOURCE_NAME` from hardware.py instead, so lease ids, worker inventories and the controller's discovery cannot drift apart. The new test covers the Mac case, the CUDA control and the Intel-Mac CPU fallback. Refs jaylfc#329
CodeRabbit's only finding on the review head: `gen-mlx-lock.py` ran `pip download` with no timeout, so a stalled index hangs lock regeneration forever. Pass `timeout=1800` and turn `TimeoutExpired` into a one-line exit instead of a traceback. Re-ran the script end to end afterwards: it regenerated all three locks and only `filelock` moved (4.0.7 -> 4.0.8, a transitive dep released since the locks were written), which is left out of this commit so the vendored locks stay reviewed as-is. Refs jaylfc#329
… endpoint MLXInstaller now finishes the job it starts: after the weights land it pins the model in a user launchd agent (scripts/install-mlx-server.sh writes ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.taos.mlx-server.plist) running <mlx-venv>/bin/mlx_lm.server --model <model dir> --host 127.0.0.1 --port 7837, health-gates on GET /v1/models and only then reports endpoint / runtime_location in the install result. An install whose server does not come up keeps the downloaded weights, reports no endpoint at all and carries mlx_serving_error, which is the rule the taOS jaylfc#329 lead review asked for: never advertise a service nothing runs. mlx_lm.server has no router mode (one process serves exactly one model), so the shape here is a single-model launchd agent mirroring llama.cpp's unit: the newest MLX install re-points the agent, and serving several MLX models at once stays the LLM proxy's per-model-spawn slice. Uninstalling the served model unloads the agent with it, since launchd's KeepAlive would otherwise relaunch a server against a directory that no longer exists. The setup checklist's Apple Silicon step accepts either local backend now: accel == "metal" probes llama.cpp (/health) or the MLX server (/v1/models), so a Mac that installed only an MLX model stops reading as "backend missing". Tests: tests/test_install_mlx_server.py runs the shipped shell functions in a simulated macOS host (stubbed host commands, throwaway $HOME) and validates the plist with ElementTree, so the launchd half is covered on the Linux runner; tests/installers/test_mlx_installer.py pins the endpoint contract, the probe-driven health gate and the agent teardown on uninstall. Docs-Reviewed: [routes] the setup checklist's metal step additionally accepts the MLX server; the route's request/response fields are unchanged
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… the plist CodeRabbit review on jaylfc#3337: install() validated the downloader's target against the mlx backend root with _contained() but then pinned the *unresolved* string in the launchd agent, while uninstall() passes the resolved path to install-mlx-server.sh --uninstall. The script decides whether to unload by grepping the plist for the directory it is given, so on a host with a symlinked models root (macOS /var -> /private/var, or a symlinked TAOS_MODELS_ROOT) the two strings differ, the agent is left loaded and launchd KeepAlive keeps restarting a server against a directory that no longer exists. Keep the resolved path from _contained() (rejection behaviour unchanged) and report it as mlx_model_dir, so the plist and the uninstall argument name the same directory. New test covers the symlinked-root case end to end: the path in the install command equals the path in the uninstall command.
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🟡 Minor · Escape values at the launchd plist boundary. · install-mlx-server.sh:136-160
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winEscape values at the launchd plist boundary.
write_launchd_plist()inserts model, venv, and log paths directly into XML. A valid path such asModels & Dataproduces malformed XML, solaunchctl bootstrapcan reject the plist before the health check. If generation is escaped without changinguninstall_mlx_agent(), its raw-text comparison will not match&and will leave the served agent running. Use one XML encoder for both operations.Suggested fix
diff --git a/scripts/install-mlx-server.sh b/scripts/install-mlx-server.sh @@ log() { printf '\033[1;34m[mlx-server]\033[0m %s\n' "$*"; } warn() { printf '\033[1;33m[mlx-server]\033[0m %s\n' "$*" >&2; } die() { printf '\033[1;31m[mlx-server]\033[0m %s\n' "$*" >&2; exit 1; } +xml_escape() { + printf '%s' "$1" | sed \ + -e 's/&/\&/g' \ + -e 's/</\</g' \ + -e 's/>/\>/g' +} + usage() { @@ write_launchd_plist() { - local plist + local plist server_binary_xml model_dir_xml host_xml port_xml + local stdout_path_xml stderr_path_xml plist="$(plist_path)" + server_binary_xml="$(xml_escape "$(server_binary)")" + model_dir_xml="$(xml_escape "$MODEL_DIR")" + host_xml="$(xml_escape "$HOST")" + port_xml="$(xml_escape "$PORT")" + stdout_path_xml="$(xml_escape "$(log_dir)/mlx-server.log")" + stderr_path_xml="$(xml_escape "$(log_dir)/mlx-server.err.log")" mkdir -p "$(dirname "$plist")" @@ - <string>$(server_binary)</string> - <string>--model</string><string>${MODEL_DIR}</string> - <string>--host</string><string>${HOST}</string> - <string>--port</string><string>${PORT}</string> + <string>${server_binary_xml}</string> + <string>--model</string><string>${model_dir_xml}</string> + <string>--host</string><string>${host_xml}</string> + <string>--port</string><string>${port_xml}</string> @@ - <key>StandardOutPath</key><string>$(log_dir)/mlx-server.log</string> - <key>StandardErrorPath</key><string>$(log_dir)/mlx-server.err.log</string> + <key>StandardOutPath</key><string>${stdout_path_xml}</string> + <key>StandardErrorPath</key><string>${stderr_path_xml}</string> @@ uninstall_mlx_agent() { - local plist + local plist model_dir_xml plist="$(plist_path)" + model_dir_xml="$(xml_escape "$MODEL_DIR")" @@ - if [[ -n "$MODEL_DIR" && -f "$plist" ]] && ! grep -qF -- "<string>${MODEL_DIR}</string>" "$plist"; then + if [[ -n "$MODEL_DIR" && -f "$plist" ]] && ! grep -qF -- "<string>${model_dir_xml}</string>" "$plist"; then🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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WARNING: mlx_agent_unloaded is set to True even when the agent is NOT unloaded
The shell script returns exit 0 in three cases: (1) agent successfully unloaded, (2) plist pins another model, (3) no plist exists. This Python code treats all three as success, so mlx_agent_unloaded is True even when the agent was deliberately left running because it serves a different model.
Consider distinguishing case (2) in the script (e.g., distinct exit code or stdout marker) and reflecting it here so callers can tell whether the agent was actually unloaded.
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…eal state Two review findings on jaylfc#3337. CodeRabbit: write_launchd_plist() interpolated the model directory, runtime path and log paths into XML raw, so a perfectly legal directory such as "Models & Data" produced malformed XML that launchctl refuses to bootstrap; and escaping only the write side would have broken uninstall, whose raw-text grep decides whether the agent it is looking at pins this model. Both sides now go through xml_escape(). Kilo: install-mlx-server.sh --uninstall exits 0 both when the agent was unloaded and when it was deliberately left running for a different model, so uninstall()'s mlx_agent_unloaded was True in cases where nothing was unloaded. The script now exits 3 for the left-running case, _unload_agent() maps the exit code to unloaded / left-running / failed, and uninstall() reports mlx_agent_state with mlx_agent_unloaded true only when the agent is really gone (a failed unload keeps its message in mlx_agent_error). Tests: the plist escapes "&" and its decoded --model argument is still the real path; uninstall matches the escaped path it wrote; the left-running and failed unload states.
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…st really removed CodeRabbit review (third pass) on jaylfc#3337: - `uninstall_mlx_agent()` ignored a failing `launchctl bootout` outright, which is right when the agent was never loaded but wrong when the label is still registered: launchd's KeepAlive would keep restarting the server, and MLXInstaller would record "unloaded" anyway. The function now confirms the real state with `launchctl print` and fails (exit 1, plist untouched) if the label is still loaded. - The plist removal was unchecked. `set -e` is suspended both by the caller's `uninstall_mlx_agent || rc=$?` and by an if/|| context, so a failed `rm -f` was reported as a successful unload. It now warns and returns 1. Tests: a still-loaded agent (launchctl print succeeds) and a failing `rm` both exit non-zero and keep the plist, the latter verified through `main --uninstall` so the failure survives main's exit code; the happy path asserts the bootout is followed by the confirming `print`.
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🟠 Major · Do not treat every launchctl print error as agent absence. · install-mlx-server.sh:218-235
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launchctl printreturns nonzero when the inspection command fails. It does not define every nonzero result as “unknown service.” A permission or namespace error can occur while the agent remains registered. This path then removes the plist and returns 0, soMLXInstallersetsmlx_agent_unloaded=truewhileKeepAlivecan continue restarting the registered agent.Handle only the platform-defined unknown-service result as absence. Return the uninstall error status for other inspection failures. Do not hard-code a numeric result because the documented
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…LX agent is gone CodeRabbit review (fourth pass) on jaylfc#3337: the bootout confirmation added in the previous commit read any failing `launchctl print` as "the agent is absent". A permission or session error also fails while the agent stays registered, and this path would then remove the plist and report success - exactly the KeepAlive-restarts-a-deleted-model failure the check was added to prevent. The probe now reads launchctl's output: only its unknown-service answer (`Could not find service ... in domain ...`, or a "not found" variant) confirms absence; any other failure leaves the unload unconfirmed and returns the uninstall error status without touching the plist. No numeric exit code is assumed, per the review. Tests: the launchctl stand-in distinguishes unknown-service, still-loaded and other-error answers; new case asserts an inconclusive inspection keeps the plist and exits non-zero.
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… each mlx_lm.server serves one model per process, so taOS jaylfc#3337's single launchd agent meant installing a second MLX model re-pointed (and silently stopped) the first: the last install won. Each model now gets its own agent, labelled com.taos.mlx-server-<app_id> (derived from the model directory's name, so N installs collide neither in label nor in plist), and its own port. The reserved default 7837 is kept whenever no other agent's plist claims it, so the setup checklist's Metal probe still finds the backend; any further model gets a deterministic free port from port_allocator.allocate_host_port(), excluding the ports other agents' plists already name (an agent loading a model holds no socket yet, so a bound-port probe cannot see it). A model whose agent already exists keeps the port written in its plist, so a re-install never moves a running server. Installing model B therefore no longer evicts model A. Uninstall unloads only the agents that pin the removed model (its per-model label, or the legacy com.taos.mlx-server plist an upgrade left behind) and leaves every other model's agent alone. An install retires the legacy single agent only when it pins the same model, freeing 7837 for the new per-model agent. Review findings folded in (Kilo + CodeRabbit on jaylfc#3351): - _serve_port no longer falls through to a fresh allocation when this model's own agent has an unreadable port (Kilo CRITICAL); - mlx_server_is_running narrows its except to the failures that mean "no valid 200 came back" (OSError, BadStatusLine, IncompleteRead, ValueError) instead of every Exception, so a half-up server still reads as "not running" while an unrelated programming error surfaces (Kilo WARNING, two rounds); - the setup checklist's metal probe fails closed instead of 500-ing the route when a probe raises (Kilo WARNING), with a test; - the success summary names each agent's own log file, not the legacy shared name, and jaylfc#3337's changelog fragment no longer claims single-model serving (CodeRabbit); - port selection and registration are serialized under a per-event-loop lock, so two Store installs awaited together cannot both claim the default port and report an endpoint for the other model's server (CodeRabbit). Concurrency red-first: with the lock removed, two installs gathered together both chose 7837 ("both installs claimed the same port: [7837, 7837]"); with it, the second install sees the first model's agent and allocates a free port (tests/installers/test_mlx_installer.py::TestMLXMultiModelServing). Red-first (verified at 2a7662e, the parent commit): - two installs left a single com.taos.mlx-server.plist (the second model took the first one's server down) and both were pinned to --port 7837; - the installer regression test asserts a distinct port for the second model and fails there with "assert 7837 != 7837" (tests/installers/test_mlx_installer.py). Task: t_d81f80ac Tests: 280 focused (tests/installers/ + tests/test_install_mlx_server.py) pass. Docs-Reviewed: [installers, routes] README documents one agent/port per MLX model; the setup metal probe now fails closed instead of raising
Resolve 2 conflicts (same as the mlx-installer PR): - routes/a2a_gpu_lease.py: take dev's lease-locking refactor; keep the PR's MLX resource defaults. - worker/agent.py: take dev's hardware-class advertisement; keep METAL_RESOURCE_NAME.
When POST /api/a2a/gpu/release omits resource, use the node-scoped lookup that returns None when the actor holds several leases, instead of defaulting to one resource and freeing the wrong lease.
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bot-review-gate is BLOCKED at the fork-PR verdict ( The only failing check on this PR is This PR comes from a fork, and per the gate contract (
Note: the Secondary: the gate also fails to self-heal its own check run. On a fork PR the workflow's Everything else is green on this head (30 pass / 3 skip). Could a maintainer apply This is the same single blocker as the rest of the set: #3237, #3351, #3755. |
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Closing: superseded by #3351, which carries all of this branch's commits (Jay, 2026-10-16). |
Stacked on #3237: this branch is
feat/mlx-serve, built onfeat/mlx-installer(head 98dd3c2, still open), because
MLXInstalleronly exists there. Until#3237 merges, the diff below also shows its three commits; the reviewable delta
from this slice is the single commit on top, 7754c32. I have not pushed to or
reopened #3237, and I will rebase this onto
dev(dropping the duplicatedcommits) as soon as #3237 lands.
What this does
#3237 stopped reporting an MLX endpoint because nothing served one. This slice
ships the serving half, so
install()can report an endpoint again — this timeonly when it actually answers.
Design decision: one launchd agent pinning one model (not a per-model spawn)
mlx_lm.serverhas no router mode: one process serves exactly one model, and--modeltakes that model's directory (no--models-diranalogue). Two shapeswere possible; this PR takes the second:
llm_proxy.pymanages the LiteLLM process and generates its config from astatic backend list; per-model spawn means adding process lifecycle, a
model→process map, lazy load/unload and unified-memory eviction to the proxy.
That is a real piece of work, and it is not needed for the installer
contract.
managed unit, gives a service that survives re-login and crashes
(
RunAtLoad+KeepAlive), and lets the installer health-gate beforereporting anything.
Consequences, stated plainly:
agent at its own model directory (last install wins). Serving several MLX
models at once stays the proxy slice above.
"managed service" means here, same as
rkllamacpp_installer.pyandollama_installer.py).KeepAlivecosts the resident model for as long asthe agent is loaded.
would relaunch a server against a directory that no longer exists, forever.
Pieces
scripts/install-mlx-server.sh(new): writes~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.taos.mlx-server.plistrunning<mlx-venv>/bin/mlx_lm.server --model <model dir> --host 127.0.0.1 --port 7837,launchctl bootout(stale agent) →bootstrap→enable→kickstart -k, then health-gates onGET /v1/models(90 s) and exitsnon-zero with the log path if nothing answers. It refuses a host that is not
Apple Silicon + Metal (device probe, same anchored
system_profilermatch asinstall-worker.sh) and refuses to run without the pinned runtime venv. Itowns the plist, so there is exactly one source of truth for the service.
--uninstall --model <dir>removes the agent only when it pins that model.tinyagentos/installers/mlx_installer.py:_serve_model()runs the scriptfor the directory the downloader reported (validated to be inside the mlx
backend root, the same boundary rule the download and delete already use) and
re-probes with
mlx_server_is_running()— the same function the setupchecklist uses, so "the install reported an endpoint" and "the checklist sees
a backend" cannot disagree. Only then does the result carry
endpointandruntime_location; otherwise it carriesmlx_serving: falseplusmlx_serving_errorand the weights stay on disk.uninstall()unloads theagent as described above.
mlx_server_is_running()gained an optionalport(default unchanged:
TAOS_MLX_PORT, else 7837).tinyagentos/routes/setup.py: the Apple Silicon step (accel == "metal") isnow satisfied by either local backend, llama.cpp (
/health) or MLX(
/v1/models), TTL-cached like the other probes, with the same shape as therkllama/rk-llama.cpp pair. A Mac that installed only an MLX model no longer
reads as "default backend not running". No request/response field changes;
the route needs a
Docs-Reviewed: [routes]trailer because it is atinyagentos/routes/*.pymodification.One claim in the card corrected
The card (and #3237's module docstring) says
mlx_lm.serverhas no/health.Against the pinned wheel it does:
mlx-lm==0.31.3answersGET /healthwith{"status": "ok"}and/v1/models. The probe stays on/v1/modelsdeliberately — that is the surface the
mlxbackend adapter and the OpenAI SDKcall, so a 200 there proves more than a liveness ping. Verified by unpacking
mlx_lm-0.31.3-py3-none-any.whl(mlx_lm/server.py:"/v1/completions","/v1/chat/completions",self.path.startswith("/v1/models"),elif self.path == "/health"), and the console scriptmlx_lm.server = mlx_lm.server:mainis what the plist'sProgramArgumentsinvokes.Review fixes folded on this branch
(
_contained()'s return value), so the plist and the later--uninstallargument name the same directory on a host whose models root is a symlink
(
/var->/private/varon macOS, or a symlinkedTAOS_MODELS_ROOT).Regression test installs and uninstalls through a symlinked root and asserts
both commands carry the identical path.
xml_escape(), and--uninstallcompares against the same escaped form, so amodel directory such as
Models & Datayields a plist launchd can load andcan still be unloaded afterwards.
--uninstallnow exits 3 when it deliberately leaves anagent running for a different model;
_unload_agent()maps that tounloaded/left-running/failed, anduninstall()reportsmlx_agent_statewithmlx_agent_unloadedtrue only when the agent isactually gone (failures keep their message in
mlx_agent_error).Verification
Red-first against 98dd3c2 with only the new/changed test files copied in
(
/tmp/red6e13030e,PYTHONPATHoverride):tests/test_install_mlx_server.py— 18 tests, all fail pre-change (theshipped script does not exist yet:
install-mlx-server.sh() not found).tests/installers/test_mlx_installer.py::TestMLXServing— 8 tests,AttributeError: <class 'MLXInstaller'> does not have the attribute '_serve_model'; the install-level test also shows the pre-change resultinvoking the downloader and no serving command
(
assert 0 == 1 where 0 = len([])).test_server_probe_follows_the_port_it_is_given—TypeError: mlx_server_is_running() got an unexpected keyword argument 'port'.tests/test_routes_setup.py(2 new metal/cuda cases) —AttributeError: module 'tinyagentos.routes.setup' has no attribute '_mlx_probe_cache'.Green on the branch (this host,
PYTHONPATH=$(pwd)over the repo venv):tests/test_install_mlx_server.py18 passed.tests/installers/test_mlx_installer.py40 passed.tests/test_routes_setup.py45 passed (584 s — the file's per-test appsetup dominates, not this change).
tests/installers/,test_hardware.py,test_scheduler_discovery.py,test_cluster_s2_24_fix.py,routes/test_store_install_v2.py,test_install_mlx_server.py,test_routes_a2a_gpu_lease.py,test_routes_setup.py) with-n 8:473 passed in 764 s (exit 0).
The launchd half is exercised on the (Linux) CI runner by extracting the
production shell functions from the shipped script, stubbing
uname,system_profiler,launchctl,curlandsleepas shell functions, andpointing
HOMEat a throwaway directory — the same techniquetests/test_install_worker_macos.pyuses. The plist is parsed withxml.etree.ElementTree(plutilis macOS-only), including the--model/--host/--portProgramArguments,RunAtLoad/KeepAliveand thelog paths.
Refs #329 (the umbrella "per-backend installers" issue; other backends still
pending). Does not reopen #3237.
Follow-ups (deliberately not in this PR): per-model spawn + lazy load/unload in
llm_proxy.pyif several MLX models must be servable at once; a Storetype: servicemanifest for the MLX server if a one-tap install is wantedwithout a model (
scripts/install-mlx-server.sh --model <dir>is already theentry point for it).
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
http://127.0.0.1:7837/v1after the server passes a health check. Only one model runs at a time; the newest installation takes precedence.Bug Fixes