After the full Phase 3 5-grammar A/B (HE+ 164 + LCB v6 50, n=214 problems
× 5 conditions = 1070 generations), bounded-thinking.yml is updated to
recommend the DeepSeek scratchpad grammar (PLAN/NOTE×0-15/VERDICT FSM at
tools/grammar-eval/deepseek-scratchpad.gbnf) as the default.
Phase 3 results (combined HE+ + LCB v6, all FSM-enforced):
- DeepSeek scratchpad: 87.4% Pass@1 (+1 net vs andthattoo, +4pp on LCB)
- andthattoo G/A/E: 86.9% (the originally-published technique)
- Holiday tagline: 86.4%
- PROMPT_TERSE (no FSM): 82.2% (Phase 2's n=30 win was subset-selection bias)
- FREE (no constraint): 78.0% (baseline)
Phase 1 reproducibility is exact: HE+ FSM Δ +4.3pp / LCB v6 Δ +24.0pp,
both match Phase 1's published numbers — validates the bench harness.
Compose ships unchanged engine-side (same vLLM image, same Genesis stack,
same TQ3 KV, same MTP n=3, same enable_in_reasoning flag). Only the
docstring's recommended-grammar pointer + the on-disk grammar files in
tools/grammar-eval/ change. Three grammars are now validated and available
client-side via extra_body={"structured_outputs": {"grammar": ...}}:
- DeepSeek scratchpad (default, best LCB)
- andthattoo G/A/E (originally-published, ~4× tighter think budget)
- Holiday tagline (extreme 24-token compression, wins LCB by 4pp too)
Combined-accuracy spread is within noise (0.5pp at n=214), so we ship one
compose rather than three siblings — choice is at the client, not at the
compose level.
Bug fix bundled: tools/grammar-eval/subset-bench.py --full --include-lcb
mode now correctly threads dataset kind through run_condition so LCB
problems use mod.run_tests_livecodebench instead of HE+ assertion-based
testing. Without this, the Phase 3 LCB shard crashed with KeyError:
'prompt' on the HE→LCB transition.
This wraps active research on bounded-thinking. Reopen if upstream FSM-
regress cluster behavior changes (Genesis pin bump, vLLM grammar engine
swap, model-family change), or if user demand surfaces for a sibling
compose pinning a non-default grammar.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Client examples
Copy-pasteable snippets for talking to the club-3090 endpoint. The default URL is http://localhost:8020; the served model name is qwen3.6-27b-autoround (vLLM) or qwen3.6-27b-autoround (llama.cpp via the --alias flag we set).
All examples assume:
- Server running:
bash scripts/launch.shis up - API endpoint:
http://localhost:8020(override withOPENAI_BASE_URLenv var or client-sidebase_url)
The endpoint is OpenAI-compatible — anything that speaks OpenAI's /v1/chat/completions API works without modification, just point base_url at the local endpoint.
max_tokens defaults — important if you've enabled thinking
Qwen3.6-27B is a thinking model. The <think>...</think> block before the answer routinely runs 2-4K tokens on medium reasoning, 4-8K on harder coding problems, and can exceed 16K on competition-grade problems. If max_tokens cuts the response off mid-think, the model never reaches the answer and the request looks like an "empty response" or truncated garbage. We hit this exact trap on our LiveCodeBench v6 baseline (docs/STRUCTURED_COT.md caveat section).
Use these defaults:
| Scenario | max_tokens |
|---|---|
| FREE thinking on (default long-text / long-vision composes) | 8192 minimum. 16384 for hard reasoning / competition-grade problems. |
FSM bounded thinking (bounded-thinking.yml) |
4096 is comfortable. The recommended DeepSeek scratchpad grammar uses ~500-1000 think tokens; the andthattoo G/A/E grammar uses ~150. Either fits well below 4096. |
enable_thinking: False |
Set as tight as the answer needs (50-200 typically). |
| Tool-using agents (multi-turn) | 1024-2048 per turn. If a middle turn needs >2K to think, your prompt structure probably needs work. |
The smoke-test examples below use max_tokens: 200 because they ask short questions where thinking + answer fits comfortably. Real workloads should follow the table above.
Quick curl sanity test
curl -sf http://localhost:8020/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "qwen3.6-27b-autoround",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Capital of France?"}],
"max_tokens": 200
}' | jq -r '.choices[0].message.content'
Expected response: a sentence containing Paris. The max_tokens: 200 headroom is intentional — Qwen3.6 thinks before answering by default, so even simple questions burn ~50–150 tokens inside <think>...</think> before reaching the answer. Set tighter (max_tokens: 30) only if you also pass chat_template_kwargs: {"enable_thinking": false} to skip the think block — that's what verify-full.sh does internally.
Python — openai SDK (recommended)
pip install openai
Basic chat
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:8020/v1", api_key="not-needed")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen3.6-27b-autoround",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Write a haiku about tensor cores."}],
max_tokens=120,
temperature=0.6,
top_p=0.95,
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)
Streaming
stream = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen3.6-27b-autoround",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain attention in 100 words."}],
max_tokens=300,
stream=True,
)
for chunk in stream:
delta = chunk.choices[0].delta.content or ""
print(delta, end="", flush=True)
print()
Tool calling
Works on both engines (vLLM with --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder and llama.cpp with --jinja — both ship enabled in the default composes):
tools = [
{
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "get_weather",
"description": "Get current weather in a city",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {"city": {"type": "string"}},
"required": ["city"],
},
},
}
]
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen3.6-27b-autoround",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What's the weather in Tokyo?"}],
tools=tools,
tool_choice="auto",
max_tokens=200,
)
msg = resp.choices[0].message
if msg.tool_calls:
for tc in msg.tool_calls:
print(f"Call {tc.function.name}({tc.function.arguments})")
else:
print(msg.content)
Vision (image input)
vLLM and llama.cpp both auto-load the vision tower / mmproj when configured. Send images as base64 or URLs:
import base64
from pathlib import Path
img_b64 = base64.b64encode(Path("photo.png").read_bytes()).decode()
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen3.6-27b-autoround",
messages=[
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "text", "text": "Describe this image."},
{
"type": "image_url",
"image_url": {"url": f"data:image/png;base64,{img_b64}"},
},
],
}
],
max_tokens=200,
extra_body={"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False}},
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)
Reasoning mode (vLLM with Genesis only)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen3.6-27b-autoround",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Solve: 7x + 14 = 49. Show your reasoning."}],
max_tokens=2048, # FREE thinking on; 2048 fits easy math comfortably. Bump to 8192 for harder reasoning.
extra_body={"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": True}},
)
msg = resp.choices[0].message
print("Reasoning:", getattr(msg, "reasoning_content", "") or "(empty)")
print("Answer: ", msg.content)
Note: llama.cpp emits the
<think>...</think>tokens inline rather than peeling them into a separatereasoning_contentfield. If you need that split, post-process client-side or stick with vLLM.
Python — requests (no SDK)
For environments where you can't install the openai package:
import requests, json
resp = requests.post(
"http://localhost:8020/v1/chat/completions",
headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
json={
"model": "qwen3.6-27b-autoround",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What is 17 × 23?"}],
"max_tokens": 50,
},
timeout=60,
)
print(resp.json()["choices"][0]["message"]["content"])
For streaming, use stream=True and parse SSE lines:
with requests.post(
"http://localhost:8020/v1/chat/completions",
headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
json={"model": "qwen3.6-27b-autoround", "messages": [...], "stream": True, "max_tokens": 200},
stream=True,
) as r:
for line in r.iter_lines():
if not line or not line.startswith(b"data: "):
continue
payload = line[6:]
if payload == b"[DONE]":
break
chunk = json.loads(payload)
delta = chunk["choices"][0]["delta"].get("content", "")
print(delta, end="", flush=True)
TypeScript / Node — openai SDK
npm install openai
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "http://localhost:8020/v1",
apiKey: "not-needed",
});
const resp = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "qwen3.6-27b-autoround",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Quicksort in Rust, please." }],
// FREE thinking is on by default. 4096 covers easy code-gen think+answer;
// 8192 is the safe default for harder coding problems. 800 traps mid-think.
max_tokens: 4096,
temperature: 0.6,
top_p: 0.95,
});
console.log(resp.choices[0].message.content);
Streaming:
const stream = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "qwen3.6-27b-autoround",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "..." }],
max_tokens: 300,
stream: true,
});
for await (const chunk of stream) {
process.stdout.write(chunk.choices[0]?.delta?.content ?? "");
}
process.stdout.write("\n");
Connecting third-party clients
Open WebUI
Settings → Connections → Add OpenAI Connection:
- Base URL:
http://localhost:8020/v1(orhttp://<host-ip>:8020/v1from another machine on your LAN — see Security) - API Key: anything (e.g.
sk-local) — the server doesn't check it - Model:
qwen3.6-27b-autoround
Vision, tool calling, streaming all work through the WebUI's standard flows.
Cline / Roo (VS Code agentic coder)
In the Cline settings panel:
- API Provider: OpenAI Compatible
- Base URL:
http://localhost:8020/v1 - API Key:
sk-local(any non-empty string) - Model ID:
qwen3.6-27b-autoround
Cline sends large tool returns (file reads, web fetches) up to ~25K tokens. As of 2026-05-02 PM (Genesis v7.69 dev tip + vllm#35975 backport), vllm/long-text (180K balanced + MTP K=3) handles these cleanly — 33K AND 50K tool-prefill stress PASS, and 60K single-prompt prefill PASS (the Cliff 2 wall closed at 60K). For one-shot prompts beyond 60K, switch to llamacpp/default (262K, slower) or dual-turbo.yml (262K + 4 streams). See docs/SINGLE_CARD.md, docs/CLIFFS.md, and the VRAM diagram.
Cursor
Settings → Models → Add OpenAI-compatible:
- Override OpenAI Base URL:
http://localhost:8020/v1 - Verify config: click "Verify" — should list
qwen3.6-27b-autoround - Model name:
qwen3.6-27b-autoround
Cursor's "Apply" feature works against this model since tool-calling is supported.
LiteLLM proxy / aider / Continue.dev
All work the same way — OpenAI-compatible endpoint at http://localhost:8020/v1, any non-empty API key. Confirmed working with the default compose.
Security note: network binding
The default composes bind to 0.0.0.0:8020 so other machines on your LAN can connect. If you're on a shared / coffee-shop / coworking network, that exposes your model to anyone who can route to your machine.
To restrict to localhost-only:
# In any docker-compose.*.yml under ports:
ports:
- "127.0.0.1:8020:8000" # was: "8020:8000"
Or override at run-time with --host 127.0.0.1 (llama.cpp) / by editing the compose locally.
See also
models/qwen3.6-27b/README.md— variant matrix + VRAM diagramdocs/SINGLE_CARD.mdanddocs/DUAL_CARD.md— workload → recommended composescripts/launch.sh— interactive variant pickerscripts/health.sh— runtime health probe