Skippy Family Certification

skippy-family-certification

Use this skill for end-to-end family certification, not a one-off correctness smoke. Certification means collecting evidence for full-model parity, staged activation handoff, recurrent/hybrid state behavior, topology constraints, selected-device behavior, and package materialization.

Workflow

1. Inspect the model with skippy-runtime::ModelInfo or the model-package helpers before choosing split points. Keep topology policy in crates/skippy-topology.

2. Prefer reviewed capability data in crates/skippy-topology/capabilities/reviewed-family-capabilities.json. Do not enable default staged splits for a family without reviewed evidence.

3. For dense models, validate at least one representative two-stage boundary and one multi-stage boundary. For recurrent or hybrid families, validate recurrent ranges explicitly and treat recurrent owners as topology-affinity constraints.

4. Compare staged output against full-model execution with the correctness harness when it is present. In this mesh repo, some standalone skippy harness crates may still be migration candidates; do not invent replacement commands without checking cargo metadata.

Decision Rules

Default activation wire dtype is f16. Treat q8 as per-family and per-split opt-in only after exactness evidence exists.

Do not recommend transferring recurrent state during normal decode unless the family has explicit reviewed evidence for it. Prefer sticky recurrent ownership and route future tokens for the same sequence back to those owners.

Keep lifecycle phases separate for large models: inspect/materialize, drop any full source model, then launch staged serving. Avoid holding a full source GGUF resident while testing staged servers.