Land the first working two-stage pipeline-parallel run over VastAI, wiring a real inter-stage data path with observability, a max-price offer cap, and remote-image reuse.
- orchestrator_app: raise the VastAI pipeline-stage cap from 1 to 2 and let VastAI pipeline planning resolve the HuggingFace GGUF from the default local cached-model metadata path instead of requiring host mounts; add --vastai-max-dph-total (CLI/env/TOML) config.
- vastai_provisioning: make complete_bootstrap a no-op so the SSH bootstrap log tail stays alive past runtime-ready until node stop, preserving post-ready worker logs; add a test asserting the tail is only stopped on NodeStop.
- worker_node: emit data-path NodeEvents across the pipeline (iroh_edge_stream_arrived/bytes_read/bytes_sent, egress_ring_read, ingress_ring_write) with edge/byte metadata.
- tools/vastai: add max_dph_total (PP_MAX_DPH_TOTAL) to SelectionPolicy, the reachable-offer filter, and the search query, and improve the empty-pool error message.
- xtask: pass --skip-rebuild for the VastAI scenario and gate it on a new require_vastai_data_path_facts plus GPU facts (ring install, activation object load/step, interstage handoff, iroh edge read/sent).
- mvp_chat: add ChatModelConfig (model id/gguf/tokenizer/max-context) forwarded to the orchestrator; for VastAI + skip-rebuild, emit skip events and reuse the remote node image without a local build.
Signed-off-by: Zachery Aaron Shores-Chmielewski <zacheryasc@gmail.com>
Zachery Aaron Shores-Chmielewski
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