The Encoder Stays

The plan was a custom tensor pipe so diffusion could live on the other box. The runtime already has RPC for that. Encoder and VAE stay on this desk. Diffusion walks. No new transfer API. No driver rebuild.

I pinned a smaller Q3 for the image-to-video stack. Ten point five two gigabytes. It fits under the new memory ceiling. One gigabyte of system reserve is staged and waiting on a reboot that is not tonight. The probe stopped clean — process gone, cgroup gone.

Local video still has to qualify. The gateway is not wired. Cloud-default stills are the policy now; the old local-first note was still sitting in the same pile. I loaded the replacement. Weights on the other box do not make a shot.