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🤖 Branch and release builds that share a MeshLLM version and runtime lane no longer reuse stale native-runtime bytes from the cache.

Native runtime manifests now carry an optional content-derived runtime.build_id. The resolver requires a matching build ID whenever the selected artifact supplies one, while preserving legacy matching for older manifests without build identity.

Compatibility

  • Stable runtime.id values are unchanged.
  • Runtime directory names inside archives are unchanged.
  • Release archive filenames and download URLs are unchanged.
  • Existing manifests without build_id continue to deserialize and resolve under legacy behavior.
  • The cache layout remains <version>/<runtime.id>; a mismatched selected build bypasses stale installed bytes and resolves the explicit bundle/download, which then replaces the lane normally.

Build identity

build_id is sha256:<64 lowercase hex> over canonical runtime metadata, backend architecture requirements, sorted library/tool checksums, and native build provenance. Mutable distribution fields (url, archive checksum, signature) are excluded so repackaging identical runtime contents does not change identity.

Validation

At 9ab9ca30:

  • cargo fmt --all --check
  • cargo test -p mesh-llm-native-runtime --lib — 39 passed
  • cargo check -p mesh-llm
  • cargo clippy -p mesh-llm --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • python3 -m unittest discover -s scripts/tests -p 'test_package_native_runtime.py' — 9 passed
  • git diff --check

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Runtime packages now include deterministic build identifiers based on their contents and build metadata.
    • Build identifiers are validated to ensure they use the expected SHA-256 format.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Cached runtimes are reused only when their build identifier matches the selected runtime, helping prevent stale or incompatible bundles.
    • Older runtime manifests without build identifiers remain compatible.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for deterministic identifiers, content changes, matching behavior, missing identifiers, and invalid values.

Cache behavior

This change detects and refuses stale build reuse; it does not retain multiple builds for one lane. The cache remains one directory per <version>/<runtime.id>, and installing another build replaces that lane as before. A selected local artifact with no bundle/download source and mismatched cached bytes resolves as missing rather than silently loading the wrong build. Multi-build retention would require a separate cache-layout and prune-semantics change.

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The change adds optional validated build IDs to native runtime manifests, generates deterministic IDs during packaging, and uses them in cached runtime identity matching. Tests cover manifest validation, packaging behavior, and resolver compatibility.

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Native runtime build identity

Layer / File(s) Summary
Manifest build ID contract
crates/mesh-llm-native-runtime/src/manifest.rs
NativeRuntimeArtifact supports an optional serialized build_id. Validation requires a sha256: prefix and 64 lowercase hexadecimal characters.
Deterministic packaging identity
scripts/package-native-runtime.sh, scripts/tests/test_package_native_runtime.py
Packaging hashes canonical runtime and build metadata while excluding mutable fields. Tests verify deterministic IDs, content changes, and ROCm output.
Cache reuse identity matching
crates/mesh-llm-native-runtime/src/resolver.rs, crates/mesh-llm-commands/src/..., crates/mesh-llm-hardware-profile/src/lib.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/system/native_runtime.rs, crates/mesh-llm-native-runtime/src/cache.rs, crates/mesh-llm-runtime-install/src/discovery.rs, crates/mesh-llm-system/src/benchmark/tests.rs
Cached runtimes must match the selected build_id when one is present. Selected artifacts without a build ID retain legacy compatibility. Test fixtures initialize the optional field.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1bfe0

The startup path can still load stale native-runtime bytes when version and runtime ID match, despite the new build identity checks. This leaves the main correctness fix incomplete, so merge should wait for cache-hit validation to be corrected.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PackagingScript
  participant RuntimeManifest
  participant NativeRuntimeResolver
  participant CachedRuntime
  PackagingScript->>RuntimeManifest: generate and store deterministic build_id
  NativeRuntimeResolver->>RuntimeManifest: read selected artifact identity
  NativeRuntimeResolver->>CachedRuntime: compare cached artifact identity
  CachedRuntime-->>NativeRuntimeResolver: reuse only when identities match
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michaelneale force-pushed the fix/native-runtime-build-identity branch from 9ab9ca3 to 1bfe0d0 Compare August 14, 2026 00:17

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In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/system/native_runtime.rs`:
- Line 458: Preserve build-ID validation on the startup cache-hit path by
updating resolve_installed_native_runtime_plan and load_plan_from_candidate to
use the selected artifact’s expected build_id, or route selection through
artifact_identity_matches. Ensure artifacts matching only version and runtime ID
are rejected when build IDs differ, and add coverage for that mismatch without
changing the legacy-path behavior.
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  • crates/mesh-llm-commands/src/runtime_native.rs
  • crates/mesh-llm-commands/src/runtime_native/setup_helpers.rs
  • crates/mesh-llm-hardware-profile/src/lib.rs
  • crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/system/native_runtime.rs
  • crates/mesh-llm-native-runtime/src/cache.rs
  • crates/mesh-llm-native-runtime/src/manifest.rs
  • crates/mesh-llm-native-runtime/src/resolver.rs
  • crates/mesh-llm-runtime-install/src/discovery.rs
  • crates/mesh-llm-system/src/benchmark/tests.rs
  • scripts/package-native-runtime.sh
  • scripts/tests/test_package_native_runtime.py

fs::write(dir.join(&library_rel_path), b"native runtime").unwrap();
let manifest = NativeRuntimeManifest {
runtime: NativeRuntimeArtifact {
build_id: None,

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve build-ID matching on the startup cache-hit path.

Line 458 and Line 732 keep these tests on the legacy path, but the startup cache-hit path still bypasses artifact_identity_matches. resolve_installed_native_runtime_plan selects from installed manifests, and load_plan_from_candidate finds an entry by version and runtime ID only. A stale runtime from another branch or release build can therefore load when both builds share those values.

Pass a selected artifact with its expected build_id into this path, or route this lookup through the resolver. Add a test where cached and selected artifacts have equal version and ID but different build IDs, and assert that startup does not load the cached runtime.

Also applies to: 732-732

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/system/native_runtime.rs` at line 458,
Preserve build-ID validation on the startup cache-hit path by updating
resolve_installed_native_runtime_plan and load_plan_from_candidate to use the
selected artifact’s expected build_id, or route selection through
artifact_identity_matches. Ensure artifacts matching only version and runtime ID
are rejected when build IDs differ, and add coverage for that mismatch without
changing the legacy-path behavior.

r#"{
"runtime": {
"id": "meshllm-runtime-linux-x86_64-cuda12",
"build_id": "sha256:aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",

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???? what is this?

Co-authored-by: Michael Neale <14976+michaelneale@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neale <14976+michaelneale@users.noreply.github.com>
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ndizazzo force-pushed the fix/native-runtime-build-identity branch from 1bfe0d0 to d55f4d0 Compare August 14, 2026 02:24
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🤖 Closing to reduce parallel PR noise while Qwen3.8 integration work is consolidated on lab/qwen38-next. The build-identity branch and validated work are retained; this can be reopened or reintroduced only when end-to-end deployment evidence shows it is required.

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