Distribute only each stage's GGUF layer slice over HTTP, add sampler and weight-load health telemetry, and harden node-image build, orchestrator provisioning, and the VastAI lease/search path.
- gguf_shard (new): StageShardPlan and plan_stage_shard parse the GGUF directory and compute coalesced per-stage tensor byte ranges; materialize_stage_shard_http fetches only those ranges (plus the header) to build a stage-local GGUF, with planned_fetch_bytes accounting.
- orchestrator_app: build a BTreeMap<u32, StageShardPlan> from the run plan for HuggingFace sources, thread stage_shard_plan through StageProvisionWire and weight-load, emit stage_shard_plan summaries, and add liveness phases (prefetching/fetching_stage_shard, cache_ready, stage_shard_ready).
- worker_node: add a stage-shard-fetcher subcommand and materialize_stage_shard_with_process that spawns the fetcher, streams its stdout/stderr as stage_shard_fetch events (StageShardCacheReady/StageShardReady), caches under MVP_MODEL_CACHE_DIR, and feeds the local shard path into load_weights.
- worker_node: add NODE_SAMPLER_CHANNEL and SamplerHealth telemetry (gpu/cpu/net samplers emit started/waiting/ready/failed) plus structured helper stdout/stderr streaming (wait_for_helper_event/drain_worker_stderr).
- node_image: expand node-image build/push handling for the deploy path.
- tools/vastai: extend lease, search, and types and drop unused pricing code.
Signed-off-by: Zachery Aaron Shores-Chmielewski <zacheryasc@gmail.com>
Zachery Aaron Shores-Chmielewski
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