Add MLX as an autocomplete engine (Cotabby runs mlx_lm.server for you) by senadaruc · Pull Request #868 · FuJacob/cotabby

senadaruc · 2026-10-14T14:47:32Z

Summary

Adds MLX as a fourth autocomplete engine next to Apple Intelligence, Open Source and Local
Endpoint. On an Apple Silicon Mac the user picks "MLX" in Settings → Engine & Model, clicks
Install MLX, picks a model, and Cotabby runs Apple's mlx-lm itself. No terminal needed.

The engine is opt-in. Nothing is installed or launched until the user selects MLX and clicks
Install. On Intel Macs the picker shows "MLX (Unavailable)".

What this is for, measured honestly. The point is MLX-format models (mlx-community
conversions, your own MLX fine-tunes). It is not a big speed win. Measured in Release with
Gemma 4 E4B base, using warm medians over alternating runs:

	Per token	8-token suggestion
`mlx_lm.server` 0.32.0, `mlx-community/gemma-4-e4b-5bit`	25 ms	254 ms
Cotabby's in-process llama.cpp, `gemma-4-E4B-UD-Q5_K_XL.gguf`	27–31 ms	287 ms

How it works

MLXToolchainProvisioner (Services/Runtime/MLX/) uses an existing mlx_lm.server at
version ≥ 0.32.0 when it finds one: Cotabby's own folder, ~/.local/bin, or /opt/homebrew/bin.
If there is none, Install does the following:
- It downloads uv 0.12.18, checks the archive's SHA-256, and verifies the binary's
  code signature (Astral's team ID). A mismatch on either aborts the install.
- It then runs uv tool install mlx-lm==0.32.0 --python 3.12 into
  ~/Library/Application Support/<app>/MLX/. uv brings its own Python, so the system Python is
  never touched.
- A half-finished install does not count as installed: it has to pass the version probe first.
- Remove deletes that folder. Downloaded models stay.
MLXServerManager owns the mlx_lm.server child process:
- Launch: it binds to 127.0.0.1 only on a free port, with HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1 (the server
  never downloads anything) and a capped prompt cache (default 1 GiB).
- Readiness: it polls /v1/models, then sends a warm-up completion before reporting ready.
- Crash: it restarts after 1 s, 5 s and 30 s, and reports failed after 3 failures within
  2 minutes.
- Dead generator: mlx_lm answers 404 while the process stays up. The engine confirms this
  with GET /health before asking for a restart.
- Stop and orphans: SIGTERM, then SIGKILL after 3 s, on engine change and on quit. At launch
  it cleans up a server left behind by a crashed Cotabby (pid file plus a command-line check).
- Logs: a filtered 20-line tail of stderr, kept in memory, is shown as the failure reason.
  Only under -cotabby-debug (the switch that turns on the JSONL logs) is the full stderr also
  appended to ~/Library/Logs/<app>/mlx-server.log (rotated at 2 MB). A normal run writes
  nothing to disk.
MLXModelDownloader works with the shared Hugging Face cache:
- It lists usable MLX models there, using one compatibility rule for cached models, custom repo
  ids and the selected model.
- A model counts as downloaded only when the snapshot refs/main names is complete: every file
  is readable and a sharded model's index finds every shard. The offline server resolves the
  repo id through refs/main.
- Downloads and deletes run through the toolchain's Python and show progress. Delete asks first,
  because the cache is shared with other tools.
- A custom repo id is checked against the Hugging Face API. A pasted model URL, with or without
  https://, is reduced to org/name, and dataset or Space links are refused. A custom model's
  download shows its progress, Cancel and any error under the custom field.
- The catalog offers mlx-community/gemma-4-e4b-5bit (recommended) and gemma-4-e2b-6bit.
MLXServerDesireResolver (pure) turns engine, model, cache cap, toolchain state and cached
models into one "run this server / stop" decision. CotabbyAppEnvironment applies those
decisions in order, so a quick switch away and back cannot reach the manager out of order.
Request path: a second OpenAICompatibleSuggestionEngine instance (Backend.mlx) talks to
the loopback server.
- It sends mlx_lm's sampling fields (top_k, min_p, repetition_penalty, seed, and
  stop: ["\n"] for single-line fields) and ends the stream at a sentence end using
  DecodeStopPolicy.
- These fields are only encoded for MLX, so the endpoint engine's requests do not change.
- SuggestionEngineRouter routes .mlx to this instance. When the server is not ready, the
  request fails at once with the reason, with no fallback to another engine.
Engine rules:
- SuggestionEngineKind.isOnDevice treats MLX as on-device: typing history, the document tail
  and the local visual-context limits apply.
- allowsSpeculativeGeneration keeps predict-ahead and speculative continuation off for MLX, as
  for the endpoint. mlx_lm.server 0.32.0 does stop a request whose client disconnected: the
  handler's next write fails, the request is marked stopped, and the generation thread drops it
  at the next token. But every request runs on that one generation thread, queued or batched
  beside the request the user is waiting for, so speculative requests would delay real
  suggestions. With in-process llama, a speculative decode yields to the real request at once.
- MLX uses the local debounce, not the endpoint's longer pause. A request abandoned mid-typing
  costs the server only about a token before it is dropped, and the stream also ends early at a
  sentence end.
- While MLX is selected, the llama model is unloaded (LocalRuntimeResidencyPolicy), so two
  models never share memory.

Privacy

During generation nothing leaves the Mac: the server listens on 127.0.0.1 and runs offline.
Nothing the user types is written to disk; mlx-server.log exists only under -cotabby-debug.
The network is used only when the user clicks something:

Install downloads uv, mlx-lm and Python.
Download fetches a model from Hugging Face.
Check looks up a custom repo id on the Hugging Face API.

Local access to the server. The server listens on loopback only, with no authentication
(mlx_lm.server 0.32 has no auth option). While it runs, any local process can send it completions
and use the loaded model. That includes processes of another macOS user on the same Mac. Such a
process cannot read Cotabby's prompts or responses: each request is its own HTTP exchange. These
limits apply:

The server runs only while MLX is the selected engine. It stops when the user switches engines
and when Cotabby quits, and an orphan left by a crash is cleaned up at the next launch.
Each launch uses a fresh free port picked by the OS (bind to 127.0.0.1:0), not a fixed,
well-known port.
Before reporting the server ready, MLXServerManager checks that the answering socket belongs
to the process it launched (MLXProcessInspector.ownsTCPSocket). If another program answered on
that port, the launch fails, so Cotabby never sends its prompts to it. This check runs once per
launch, not on every request.

Settings and defaults

New UserDefaults keys: cotabbyMLXModel, cotabbyMLXPromptCacheBytes (default 1 GiB, clamped
to 256 MiB–8 GiB), cotabbyBatteryMLXModel and cotabbyPluggedInMLXModel. All of them are in
the reset list.
An older build that reads the engine raw value mlx falls back the way it does today for unknown
values.
The Engine & Model pane has an MLX section: install state and phase, Install / Remove / Retry,
the failure log tail, catalog and cached models with download, cancel and delete, a custom model
field, and an Advanced prompt-cache cap.
MLX models appear in the power-source pickers, and the Home status card shows the selected MLX
model or the reason MLX is not ready.
The menu bar shows MLX's start-up state and failure reason; it does not show the model.
The Settings attention badge lights up when MLX cannot generate.

Resource usage

The Performance pane's Live Resource Usage adds the MLX server's CPU and memory while it runs,
with the label "CPU and Memory include the MLX server". Without that, an MLX user's graph would
read near zero.
The menu bar popover shows a compact Cotabby uses CPU · RAM · GPU line, adding "incl. MLX"
when the server runs. It samples only while the popover is open, with its own CPU baselines, so
it never disturbs the Performance pane.

Not included / follow-ups

Rewrite with MLX. Selection rewrite is not on main. A later PR can add "Rewrite on every
engine". The per-server pid file and log labels that only a second (rewrite) server needed are
left out.
Performance Tuning integration. It does not exist on main, so the MLX engine's per-request
token and first-token stats are left out. MLX latency is recorded in the existing Performance
metrics under the repo id, like the other engines.
The Performance pane's GPU graph does not include the MLX server yet. CPU and memory do.
Including it needs the store's GPU baseline to restart when the watched pid set changes, which
the menu line's GPUShareTracker already does. That is easy to share in a follow-up.
Not in v1: native in-process MLX (mlx-swift), MLX in onboarding, Hugging Face tokens for
gated or private repos, and the llama-only extras on MLX (prefill while typing, predict-ahead,
speculative continuation).
Not hash-pinned: mlx-lm's transitive Python dependencies are resolved by uv at install time.
uv itself and the mlx-lm version are pinned.

Test plan

Cotabby and Cotabby Dev schemes build (CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO).
The touched and new test classes pass: 388 tests, 0 failures. This covers MLX models, cache
scanner, compatibility, toolchain rules and provisioner, process runner, server manager
(including stop-while-starting, broken generator, orphan cleanup), downloader, desire
resolver, log filter and writer, engine wiring, API client, engine, router, settings, request
factory, selection policy, residency policy, typing history, resource sampling and menu
monitor.
Full suite: 2955 tests, 14 skipped, 1 failure. The one failure is
AXTextGeometryResolverTests.test_resolveCaretRect_returnsRealGeometry_forNativeTextField, a
known failure on this Mac that is unrelated to MLX. It passed in the previous full run
(2950 tests, 0 failures).
swiftlint lint --strict (0.63.2, as in CI) reports no violations, and xcodegen generate
leaves the project unchanged.
The live test MLXLiveEvalTests (real mlx_lm.server) is compiled only with RUN_MLX_EVAL.
It was not run for this PR.
Manual checks, done on the fork's signed Release build (same MLX code, plus the fork's other features), on an M-series Mac:
- Install MLX, select gemma-4-e4b-5bit: ghost text in daily use across apps; first suggestion ~170 ms after a ~8.6 s server start.
- Quit Cotabby and no mlx_lm.server remains. Force-quit (SIGTERM to the app) and relaunch, and the orphan is cleaned up.
- A live dead-generator episode (every request 404 "generation thread died") is what led to the /health-confirmed restart in this PR.
- Not yet re-checked on this branch built from main: engine switch, kill -9 restarts and the 3-failure "failed" state, Remove MLX.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added MLX as an optional, on-device suggestion engine for Apple Silicon.
- Manage the MLX runtime and models in Settings, including installation, downloads, model selection, and prompt-cache size.
- View MLX server status and resource usage, including CPU and memory figures that account for the server.
- Configure MLX models separately for battery and plugged-in power profiles.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The remaining partial-model check should be fixed before merging.

Findings

Partial models appear downloaded ▶

Summary

Adds an opt-in MLX autocomplete engine that Cotabby installs and runs locally.

Apple Silicon users can install MLX and download compatible models from Settings.
MLX suggestions come from a managed local server when the selected model is ready.
MLX has its own engine settings and follows Cotabby's local-context rules.
Resource readouts include the MLX server while it runs.
The repository notes describe the new MLX files without changing app behavior.

Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
  Settings[Engine and model settings] --> Resolver[MLXServerDesireResolver]
  Toolchain[MLXToolchainProvisioner] --> Resolver
  Cache[MLXModelDownloader and cache scan] --> Resolver
  Resolver --> Manager[MLXServerManager]
  Manager --> Server[Loopback mlx_lm.server]
  Request[Suggestion request] --> Router[SuggestionEngineRouter]
  Router --> Engine[OpenAICompatibleSuggestionEngine MLX]
  Manager --> Ready{Server ready?}
  Ready -->|Yes| Engine
  Ready -->|No| Unavailable[Fail with reason; no fallback]
  Engine --> Server

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MLX is a fourth engine kind (raw value "mlx", Apple Silicon only) that counts as on-device: typing history, the document tail and the local visual-context limits stay available to it, while predict-ahead and speculative continuation stay off as for the endpoint. Settings gain the MLX model id, the prompt-cache cap (1 GiB, clamped to 256 MiB...8 GiB) and the per-power-source MLX models. The MLX values (paths, repo ids, catalog, states) and the pure rules (cache scan, model compatibility, toolchain rules, server decision, log filter, generator failure) come with their tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWE41JyPDYvSWqdCX5EM69

…uggestions to it MLXToolchainProvisioner finds a compatible mlx-lm (>= 0.32.0) or installs a pinned mlx-lm 0.32.0 with uv 0.12.18, whose download is SHA-256 checked and whose code signature must name Astral's team. MLXServerManager launches mlx_lm.server on 127.0.0.1 with HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1, waits for readiness and a warm-up, restarts it after a crash or a dead generator (confirmed through /health), stops it on engine change and quit, cleans up an orphan from a crashed launch, and keeps its stderr in mlx-server.log under -cotabby-debug. MLXModelDownloader lists, downloads and deletes MLX models in the Hugging Face cache. A second OpenAICompatibleSuggestionEngine instance talks to the server with mlx_lm's sampling fields and stops the stream at a sentence end; the router sends .mlx to it with no fallback to another engine. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWE41JyPDYvSWqdCX5EM69

…r in resource usage CotabbyAppEnvironment owns the MLX services and drives the server from one pure decision (engine, model, cache cap, toolchain, cached models); AppDelegate starts that work outside the test host, unloads the llama model while MLX runs, and stops the server on quit. Engine & Model gets an MLX section (install/remove/retry, catalog, cached and custom models, prompt-cache cap), and the power-source pickers, Home, the menu bar and the attention badge know MLX. The Performance pane's CPU and memory include the MLX server while it runs, and the menu bar popover shows Cotabby's CPU, RAM and GPU use (with the server) while it is open. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWE41JyPDYvSWqdCX5EM69

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWE41JyPDYvSWqdCX5EM69

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This change adds MLX as an optional on-device suggestion engine for Apple Silicon. It adds toolchain installation, model validation and downloads, server lifecycle management, settings, request routing, and resource monitoring.

Changes: MLX Local Engine

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Engine and settings contracts `Cotabby/Models/Runtime/MLXModels.swift`, `Cotabby/Models/Suggestion/`, `Cotabby/Models/Settings/`, `Cotabby/Support/Settings/*`, `Cotabby/Models/Context/VisualContextModels.swift`	Adds MLX engine capabilities and model configuration, persists the selected model and prompt-cache limit, and supports MLX power profiles.
Toolchain and model management `Cotabby/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXToolchain`, `Cotabby/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXModelDownloader.swift`, `Cotabby/Support/Runtime/MLX/`, `Cotabby/Services/ModelManagement/HuggingFaceAPIClient.swift`	Adds toolchain installation and discovery, cache scanning, repository validation, model downloading, and compatibility checks.
Server lifecycle and process control `Cotabby/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXServer*`, `Cotabby/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXHealthProbe.swift`, `Cotabby/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXProcessRunner.swift`, `Cotabby/Support/Runtime/MLX/MLXServerDesireResolver.swift`	Adds loopback server launch, readiness checks, restart and shutdown handling, and log collection.
MLX suggestion generation `Cotabby/Services/Runtime/OpenAICompatible/`, `Cotabby/Services/Runtime/SuggestionEngineRouter.swift`, `Cotabby/Support/Suggestion/Request/SuggestionRequestFactory.swift`, `Cotabby/Services/History/TypingHistoryStore.swift`, `Cotabby/App/Coordinators/Suggestion/`	Routes MLX requests through the compatible API client with MLX sampling options and streamed stopping. MLX is classified as on-device and does not use speculative generation.
Application and settings integration `Cotabby/App/`, `Cotabby/UI/Settings/`, `Cotabby/UI/Onboarding/*`, `AGENTS.md`, `ARCHITECTURE.md`, `README.md`, `SOURCE_LAYOUT.md`	Connects MLX services to app startup, settings, power profiles, and onboarding. Documentation describes the MLX runtime and its loopback server.
Menu resource monitoring `Cotabby/Models/Runtime/Metrics/`, `Cotabby/Support/Runtime/Hardware/`, `Cotabby/UI/MenuBar/*`, `Cotabby/UI/Settings/Panes/PerformancePaneView.swift`	Samples CPU, memory, and GPU usage for the app and MLX server, and displays resource summaries while the menu is active.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CotabbyAppEnvironment
  participant MLXServerDesireResolver
  participant MLXServerManager
  participant MLXLiveProcessLauncher
  participant MLXHTTPReadinessProbe
  CotabbyAppEnvironment->>MLXServerDesireResolver: Resolve engine, toolchain, model, and cache state
  MLXServerDesireResolver->>CotabbyAppEnvironment: Return server desire
  CotabbyAppEnvironment->>MLXServerManager: Apply server desire
  MLXServerManager->>MLXLiveProcessLauncher: Launch server process
  MLXServerManager->>MLXHTTPReadinessProbe: Poll models and run warm-up completions
  MLXHTTPReadinessProbe->>MLXServerManager: Return readiness result
  MLXServerManager->>CotabbyAppEnvironment: Publish server state

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greptile-apps · 2026-10-14T14:54:03Z

+            let config = readConfig(snapshot.appendingPathComponent("config.json"))
+            switch MLXModelCompatibility.verdict(
+                repoName: repoID.name, fileNames: files, config: config, supportedModelTypes: supportedModelTypes
+            ) {
+            case .compatible(let modelType, let isInstruct):


Partial models appear downloaded

scanDetailed treats a snapshot as downloaded when it contains any .safetensors file. If a shared-cache download stops between files, the config, tokenizer, and some weight shards can remain without an .incomplete blob. The model is then offered for use and may be selected automatically, but cannot load.

Check the weight index's required shards and their readable targets before publishing a cached model. Keep this completeness check separate from the remote compatibility check.

Fixed in 82bf9fb. A new MLXCacheScanner.isComplete check, kept apart from the compatibility
rule, now requires two things:

every snapshot entry resolves to a readable file

a sharded model's model.safetensors.index.json finds every shard it names

A download stopped between files is therefore "not downloaded". Pinned by
test_shardedModelNeedsEveryShardTheIndexNames and test_danglingSnapshotLinkIsNotDownloaded.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @Cotabby/Models/Runtime/MLXModels.swift:
- Around line 82-87: Update the URL parsing in the model-ID normalization logic
to reject Hugging Face URLs whose first path segment is reserved for non-model
routes, such as datasets, spaces, models, or api. Also recognize bare
huggingface.co and www.huggingface.co prefixes without a scheme so valid model
URLs normalize to the same owner/repository ID as scheme-qualified URLs.

Review comments at @Cotabby/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXProcessRunner.swift:
- Around line 59-70: In MLXOutputCollector, buffer the unterminated stderr
remainder as Data and decode only complete lines with the failable UTF-8
initializer, preserving split multi-byte characters; update stdoutText to use
that initializer as well. In Cotabby/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXProcessRunner.swift
lines 59-70, make these changes in appendStderr and stdoutText. In
Cotabby/Support/Runtime/MLX/MLXToolchainRules.swift line 151, update
parseProcArgs to use the failable initializer with an empty-string fallback.

Review comments at @Cotabby/Support/Runtime/Hardware/GPUStatisticsReader.swift:
- Line 176: Replace the three-member tuple used by previous with a private
Reading struct containing the named fields, and update the defer assignment to
construct a Reading value so SwiftLint’s large_tuple violation is removed.

Review comments at @Cotabby/Support/Runtime/MLX/MLXServerDesireResolver.swift:
- Around line 33-41: Reduce the parameter count of
MLXServerDesireResolver.desire by grouping the model and cache inputs into a
single value, such as MLXServerDesireInputs, and pass it alongside engine and
isAppleSilicon; update the call sites to use the grouped inputs.

Review comments at @Cotabby/Support/Settings/SettingsAttentionEvaluator.swift:
- Line 26: Remove the explicit nil initializer from the mlxProblem optional
property so SwiftLint’s implicit_optional_initialization check passes while
preserving its default nil behavior.

Review comments at
@Cotabby/UI/Settings/Panes/Engine/EngineAndModelPaneView+MLX.swift:
- Line 55: Split the overlong string literals in the `EngineAndModelPaneView`
code at the three reported locations into concatenated string segments,
following the adjacent panes’ style, so each source line stays within
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AGENTS.md
ARCHITECTURE.md
Cotabby.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
Cotabby/App/Coordinators/SettingsCoordinator.swift
Cotabby/App/Coordinators/Suggestion/SuggestionCoordinator+Continuation.swift
Cotabby/App/Coordinators/Suggestion/SuggestionCoordinator+TypingPrediction.swift
Cotabby/App/Core/AppDelegate.swift
Cotabby/App/Core/CotabbyApp.swift
Cotabby/App/Core/CotabbyAppEnvironment.swift
Cotabby/Models/Context/VisualContextModels.swift
Cotabby/Models/Runtime/MLXModels.swift
Cotabby/Models/Runtime/Metrics/MenuResourceMonitor.swift
Cotabby/Models/Runtime/Metrics/SystemMetricsStore.swift
Cotabby/Models/Settings/SuggestionSettingsData.swift
Cotabby/Models/Settings/SuggestionSettingsModel.swift
Cotabby/Models/Suggestion/SuggestionEngineModels.swift
Cotabby/Services/History/TypingHistoryStore.swift
Cotabby/Services/ModelManagement/HuggingFaceAPIClient.swift
Cotabby/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXHealthProbe.swift
Cotabby/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXModelDownloader.swift
Cotabby/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXProcessRunner.swift
Cotabby/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXServerLogWriter.swift
Cotabby/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXServerManager.swift
Cotabby/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXToolchainInstaller.swift
Cotabby/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXToolchainProvisioner.swift
Cotabby/Services/Runtime/OpenAICompatible/OpenAICompatibleAPIClient.swift
Cotabby/Services/Runtime/OpenAICompatible/OpenAICompatibleSuggestionEngine.swift
Cotabby/Services/Runtime/SuggestionEngineRouter.swift
Cotabby/Support/Runtime/Hardware/GPUStatisticsReader.swift
Cotabby/Support/Runtime/Hardware/ResourceUsageSummary.swift
Cotabby/Support/Runtime/Hardware/SystemResourceSampler.swift
Cotabby/Support/Runtime/LocalRuntimeResidencyPolicy.swift
Cotabby/Support/Runtime/MLX/MLXCacheScanner.swift
Cotabby/Support/Runtime/MLX/MLXGeneratorFailure.swift
Cotabby/Support/Runtime/MLX/MLXModelCompatibility.swift
Cotabby/Support/Runtime/MLX/MLXServerDesireResolver.swift
Cotabby/Support/Runtime/MLX/MLXServerLogFilter.swift
Cotabby/Support/Runtime/MLX/MLXToolchainRules.swift
Cotabby/Support/Settings/SettingsAttentionEvaluator.swift
Cotabby/Support/Settings/SuggestionEngineSelectionPolicy.swift
Cotabby/Support/Settings/SuggestionSettingsStore.swift
Cotabby/Support/Suggestion/Request/SuggestionRequestFactory.swift
Cotabby/UI/MenuBar/MenuBarPresentationObserver.swift
Cotabby/UI/MenuBar/MenuBarView.swift
Cotabby/UI/Onboarding/Welcome/WelcomeTemplateStepView.swift
Cotabby/UI/Onboarding/Welcome/WelcomeView.swift
Cotabby/UI/Settings/Panes/ContextPaneView.swift
Cotabby/UI/Settings/Panes/Engine/EngineAndModelPaneView+Actions.swift
Cotabby/UI/Settings/Panes/Engine/EngineAndModelPaneView+MLX.swift
Cotabby/UI/Settings/Panes/Engine/EngineAndModelPaneView+Power.swift
Cotabby/UI/Settings/Panes/Engine/EngineAndModelPaneView.swift
Cotabby/UI/Settings/Panes/HomePaneView.swift
Cotabby/UI/Settings/Panes/PerformancePaneView.swift
Cotabby/UI/Settings/SettingsContainerView.swift
Cotabby/UI/Settings/SettingsIndex.swift
CotabbyTests/App/Coordinators/Suggestion/SuggestionCoordinatorTypingPredictionTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Models/Context/PermissionAndContextModelTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Models/Runtime/MLXModelsTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Models/Runtime/Metrics/MenuResourceMonitorTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Models/Settings/SuggestionSettingsMLXTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Models/Suggestion/SuggestionEngineKindTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Models/Suggestion/SuggestionEngineModelsTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Services/History/TypingHistoryStoreTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXEngineWiringTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXLiveEvalTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXModelDownloaderTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXProcessRunnerTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXServerManagerTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Services/Runtime/MLX/MLXToolchainProvisionerTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Services/Runtime/OpenAICompatible/OpenAICompatibleAPIClientTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Services/Runtime/OpenAICompatible/OpenAICompatibleSuggestionEngineTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Services/Runtime/SuggestionEngineRouterTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Support/Runtime/Hardware/GPUStatisticsReaderTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Support/Runtime/Hardware/ResourceUsageSummaryTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Support/Runtime/Hardware/SystemResourceSamplerTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Support/Runtime/LocalRuntimeResidencyPolicyTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Support/Runtime/MLX/MLXCacheScannerTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Support/Runtime/MLX/MLXModelCompatibilityTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Support/Runtime/MLX/MLXServerDesireResolverTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Support/Runtime/MLX/MLXServerLogFilterTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Support/Runtime/MLX/MLXToolchainRulesTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Support/Settings/SettingsAttentionEvaluatorTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Support/Settings/SuggestionEngineSelectionPolicyTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Support/Settings/SuggestionSettingsStoreTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Support/Suggestion/Request/DebouncePolicyTests.swift
CotabbyTests/Support/Suggestion/Request/SuggestionRequestFactoryTests.swift
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The MLX files were added with a script whose project file differs from what xcodegen generates, which fails the XcodeGen drift gate. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWE41JyPDYvSWqdCX5EM69

Wrap long lines (the MLX warm-up prompt uses string line continuations, so its text is unchanged), pass the MLX server decision its inputs as one struct, replace two large tuples with a pipe parameter and a small struct, move the dead-generator handling into its own method, and use failable UTF-8 decoding. The MLX output collector now splits stderr into lines as bytes, so a character cut across two pipe reads is decoded whole. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWE41JyPDYvSWqdCX5EM69

reportBroken cleared the live process and only recorded it as stopping inside a task, so a quit that ran first found nothing to stop and left Python running with its pid file removed. The report now sends SIGTERM and records the process as stopping before it schedules the wait. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWE41JyPDYvSWqdCX5EM69

…complete mlx_lm.server loads the repo id offline, which huggingface_hub resolves through refs/main, so a snapshot without it is no longer offered. A snapshot now counts only when every entry reaches a readable file and a sharded model's index finds every shard, so a download stopped between files is not offered. An unrelated .incomplete blob elsewhere in the repo no longer hides a complete snapshot. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWE41JyPDYvSWqdCX5EM69

A model started from the Other MLX Model field has no catalog row until it is cached, so its download was invisible apart from a disabled button. MLXModelCatalog.downloadWithoutRow picks out that download, and the custom field shows its progress, a Cancel button and its error. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWE41JyPDYvSWqdCX5EM69

A pasted datasets/ or spaces/ link became a wrong id such as datasets/org, and a link copied without its scheme was rejected. Links whose first segment is one of Hugging Face's own pages are now refused, and a scheme-less huggingface.co link is read like a full one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWE41JyPDYvSWqdCX5EM69

…s branch No conflicts. The on-demand rewrite server follows the same rules: it reads the downloader's cache scan (now only a complete refs/main snapshot counts), validates the model id with MLXRepoID (which now rejects dataset and Space links), and the shared quit path in MLXServerManager.shutdownSync(_:) already waits on a process that reportBroken has SIGTERMed and recorded as stopping. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWE41JyPDYvSWqdCX5EM69

- A broken-generator report sends SIGTERM and records the process as stopping synchronously, so a quit right after it still stops Python (with the shared two-server shutdown). - The cache scan counts only the snapshot refs/main names and requires every snapshot entry to be readable and every shard the index names to be present; an unrelated .incomplete blob no longer hides a complete model. - A custom model's download shows its progress, Cancel and error under the custom field (MLXModelCatalog.downloadWithoutRow). - Dataset, Space and other non-model Hugging Face links are refused; a scheme-less huggingface.co link is accepted. - mlx-server.log is written only under -cotabby-debug, for both the autocomplete and the rewrite server; a normal run keeps stderr in memory. - Accurate wording for why MLX gets no speculative requests (shared generation thread, not "keeps decoding"), menu observer without the dead signal enum, and the menu resource monitor docs. - The strict SwiftLint code fixes: byte-wise stderr line splitting in MLXOutputCollector (a UTF-8 character split across reads decodes whole), failable UTF-8 decoding, MLXServerDesireResolver.Input (rewrite controller updated), the dead-generator branch in its own method, no large tuples. Tests from upstream for each fix are included. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ESFr4LTKjn9xyASNmk4Tng

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Rewrite on every engine, reusing autocomplete's model (stacked on #869 and #868) #870

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Reuse MLX's prompt cache after an edit and survive exact cache hits (stacked on #868) #876

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