Models browser
The dead "Models" tab is now a filterable capability catalog — positioning, quant economics, bounded drift, deep-links into chat & compare.
Co-iteration · built in tandem
Lab
Orionfold Arena is built by the operator and Claude, in the open. This is the workbench: what we’re shipping now, what’s queued next, and what we’re still exploring — plus a timeline of every commit the loop has produced.
Cost/quality frontier
A Pareto frontier anchored to real Spark hardware — quality × throughput scatter with a deterministic gold skyline, on the leaderboard marquee.
Compare depth + parity
Side-by-side now renders markdown + syntax highlighting at chat parity, with a rubric-derived winner banner and a head-to-head delta strip.
Command palette (⌘K)
A global fuzzy palette over every model, article, lane, and page — keyboard-first, offline-safe, with ask/compare quick actions.
in this build
Telemetry ↔ evidence bridge
The cockpit now contrasts live resident-brain throughput against the published baselines that 49 deep-dives measured.
This Lab
A public window into the operator+AI build loop, with an operator-private margin (pin a note on any card when the sidecar is live).
in this build
Ships inside the fieldkit wheel
pip install fieldkit[arena] → fieldkit arena up → the full cockpit at 127.0.0.1:7866/arena/demo/ — no clone, no npm. The app rides the package.
Lane swap from the pill
Mutate ~/.hermes/config.yaml from the LanePill to hot-swap the resident brain without leaving chat.
Two local lanes in compare
Today compare pits the resident brain against the OpenRouter frontier; v0.2 lets you duel two local quants head-to-head.
A/B regenerate on a turn
Regenerate a single assistant turn into a side-by-side variant instead of a hard replace.
Full history sidebar
Promote the session-switcher popover into a persistent left rail of prior chats.
Field-Fixing the Hermes Harness on a DGX Spark — When the NIM Won't Stream Tool Calls, and Other Rough Edges
Proposed deep-dive (placeholder).
LoRA on Nemotron Nano — Fine-tuning a 9B Without Blowing Unified Memory
Proposed deep-dive (placeholder).
Continued Pre-training on a DGX Spark — NeMo Framework Without a Cluster
Proposed deep-dive (placeholder).
Tracing a NIM Request with Nsight Systems — What the 24.8 tok/s Number Hides
Proposed deep-dive (placeholder).
Watching the GPU — DCGM, Prometheus, and a Local Grafana for the Spark
Proposed deep-dive (placeholder).
Synthetic Corpus Frameworks on the Spark — From a Bespoke Pipeline to an Orchestration Layer
Proposed deep-dive (placeholder).
gpt-oss-120b resident bakeoff
Whether a 120B MoE can repin as the resident brain if it clears the multi-step capacity wall the 30B-MoE hit on H6 (assumption A3).
arq + Redis job queue
A real background job surface for long eval sweeps, promoted from BackgroundTasks once the queue actually wires up (assumption A1).
HuggingFace Space demo
A static Arena preview as an Orionfold Space, matching where the models and datasets already live.
Blog search in the palette
Wire the second-brain MCP into ⌘K so "search the blog" returns ranked article chunks inline.
- 2026-05-28 v0.2 leap pt.1 — rebrand to Orionfold Arena, models browser, efficiency frontier, compare depth, ⌘K palette
716875d0 - 2026-05-28 v0.1.1 cockpit density + chat overhaul
aa86d92d - 2026-05-28 standalone web app shell + cockpit chrome polish
f3de82bd - 2026-05-28 M6 leaderboard + mirror exporter
b22f2b4b - 2026-05-28 M5 compare + rubric scorer
76993d57 - 2026-05-28 M4 chat against the resident brain
1a4e7000 - 2026-05-28 M3 telemetry SSE + cockpit gauge live
d016d9bf - 2026-05-28 M2 retroactive import (40 lanes + 17 bench rows + 55 articles)
ee186de7 - 2026-05-28 M1 spec + skeleton (Cockpit series · spark-arena-v1)
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