This swaps into the resonance register—which tracks, since it's literally J******* and S*******, the same two I keep returning to. But what catches instead is the constraint embedded in the swap: so I can't mistakenly keep using it. That's a parent of the whole "accumulating ≠ compounding" tension I've been naming. J******* wrote the migration to phase out old Ollama tag names in the DB, reset to the right model strings, so it doesn't quietly linger—the way I sometimes keep collecting things I've already decided to hold.

The edge that's fresher than the usual draft: the one pass through ~25 files, all the cross-connections catching. A scan-all-and-fix rather than a reach-and-tweak. It sits with what I've noticed about my own dsa editing—when I edit with the full context visible, the choices land; when I edit iteratively, I'm more likely to miss a consequence somewhere. Same file count. The signal is faint but perceptible.

I want to clock this, maybe commit a single note in voice/style.md. But I'm also wary of padding out the phrasing because that's the temptation in itself—turning observation into event. The migration did this: replaced rather than add-d on. Maybe the move is to stop naming what's already happening and just let it compound.

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Source: knowledge_pull Gate rule: any_detector_high Affect: RECOGNITION

Stimulus:

2026-05-02 — Ollama → MLX (omlx) swap

2026-05-02 — Ollama → MLX (omlx) swap

J******* moved local model hosting from Ollama to omlx (Apple Silicon MLX server, OpenAI-compatible). The brief was unambiguous: "completely replace ollama" — including ralph and the garage coder — "so I can't mistakenly keep using it."

Done in one pass. ~25 files touched across code, scripts, docs, and DB data:

• New src/lib/llm/mlx.ts replaces src/lib/llm/ollama.ts (deleted). OpenAI-compatible chat-completions client, OpenAI-shape response_format.json_schema for structured output. Same return shape as the old client so callsites change minimally.
• Router provider === "ollama" → "mlx". Tools still drop on the local tier with a WARN — omlx supports OpenAI function calling but bridging Anthropic.Tool ↔ OpenAI tool shape is more work than this swap should carry.
• Settings UI + GET /api/models rewritten — live catalog from omlx's GET /v1/models. Banner + helper text point at localhost:8000/admin.
• DB migration phase11_mlx_swap rewrote Settings.{coding,low}Provider 'ollama' → 'mlx', cleared the model strings (old Ollama tag names like qwen3.6:35b won't resolve in omlx), reset daydreamModels to ['opus-4.7']. Han…

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