Studio: Don't re-prompt finished answers in the tool loop (#7505)

* don't re-prompt finished answers in the tool loop

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* keep a separate post-tool reprompt budget and tighten the intent regexes

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* Reset the repeat guard after a tool runs and suppress 'I should call ...' forced stalls

* Cover 'must' in forced-retry suppression, keep appended answers, and count RAG autoinject as a prior tool run

* Anchor obligation suppression to sentence starts and wire the repeat guard into the safetensors loop

* Keep deletions out of restatement and nudge pronoun-free first-step plans

* Tighten repeat similarity, anchor subjectless plans, and restore first-step plan forms

* Keep first-person plan framing and punctuation-bearing terms out of repeat detection

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* Keep leading term punctuation, accept colon-delimited first steps, and drop invoke/query from suppression

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* Tighten comments on the plan-without-action re-prompt guards

* Compare plans by token sequence, suppress subjectless modals, and accept dash-delimited first steps

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* studio: narrow the first-step plan match and make repeat detection content-based

Restrict the bare "First, <word>" intent alternative to a pronoun, an explicit
plan, or an investigative verb, so ordinal prose ("First place went to Alice")
and user-facing advice ("First, install the package") no longer count as a plan
without action.

Keep punctuation-only tokens in the repeat comparison, so "the value is 5" and
"the value is < 5" stay distinct, and compare content-word sequences instead of
a similarity ratio: any ratio is length-dependent, so one corrected token in a
54-token plan still scored 0.98 and cost the model its remaining nudge.

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* studio: tighten comments in the plan-without-action re-prompt path

* studio: keep a forced retry that pivots from a plan to an answer

The obligation-plan branch discarded the whole turn, so a retry such as
"I should call web_search, but the answer is Tokyo." reached the user as
nothing at all. Suppress the plan only when nothing follows it: a pivot
after the match keeps the output, and _FINAL_ANSWER_SIGNAL now recognises
"the answer is" and "to summarise" alongside "answer:".

Leaking a plan sentence is cosmetic, dropping an answer is not, so the
doubtful case now resolves towards shipping the turn.

* studio: keep articles in repeat comparison and exclude missing-answer phrasing

Articles are not filler: dropping them made "search for The Who" and
"search for Who" compare equal, so a corrected target ended the nudge.

_FINAL_ANSWER_SIGNAL matched "the answer is not in the provided context",
which announces a missing answer, so the plan behind it shipped as the final
response instead of being suppressed. Negated forms are now excluded.

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* studio: tighten the pivot and final-answer signals, drop filler-insensitive repeats

The purpose clause in "call web_search to summarize the results" matched the
final-answer signal, so the plan shipped instead of being suppressed; that
alternative is gone. A pivot word now has to carry text of its own, since
"I should call web_search, though." answers nothing.

Repeat detection no longer ignores filler words. No word is reliably filler:
dropping them to absorb rewording also absorbed the target ("OK Go" became
"Go"). A missed repeat costs one nudge out of the cap; a false one strands the
plan unexecuted.

* studio: exempt offers of help, and add a measured accuracy floor

Offering to help hands control back exactly like the existing "let me know"
exemption. On a corpus of real model turns, "I'll do my best to help" and
"allow me to assist" close a clarification request and never precede a tool
call, but they were read as intent and re-prompted. "help you" keeps its plan
reading when an action verb follows it.

The new test scores the classifier against 300 turns captured from three local
GGUF models, each one a finished answer: the turn called no tool, and three
regenerations behind the production nudge produced no tool call either. Over
those turns, wasted nudges go from 36 (12.0%) on main to 5 (1.7%), and retries
whose text would be discarded from 60 (20.2%) to 1 (0.3%).

Until now these patterns were tuned on hand-written example sentences, which
cannot show how often the classifier is right on real output.

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Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Han <danielhanchen@gmail.com>

.gitattributes

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # them when run in WSL/Linux (e.g. `set -e` -> "set: Illegal option -").
 *.sh text eol=lf
 
-# Normalize Studio frontend sources to LF. Scoped to the frontend tree (rather
+# Normalize Unsloth frontend sources to LF. Scoped to the frontend tree (rather
 # than repo-wide *.ts/*.tsx/... rules) so the policy can't force LF on files
 # elsewhere. text=auto lets Git detect and leave binary assets (logos, fonts)
 # untouched while text files (.ts/.tsx/.json/.html/.svg/...) are stored as LF.

.github/scripts/agent-guides-drive.sh

@@ -36,6 +36,23 @@ AGENT="${2:?usage: agent-guides-drive.sh <mode> <agent>}"
 # Determinism (seed/temp) is applied at the server level by
 # serve-unsloth-run.sh --extra; agents inherit it through the API.
 TIMEOUT="${AGENT_INVOKE_TIMEOUT:-180}"
+# opencode is the slow outlier. Unlike the print-mode agents (claude -p, codex
+# exec) it runs a full turn AND a separate small_model call to name the session,
+# so one connection reply takes ~8 min on a CPU-served 4B -- right at the shared
+# 600s cap, so the cell flaked when a run drifted past a ~480s success. Give it
+# headroom (still well under the 40-min job budget); the fast agents keep the
+# tight cap that still catches a real headless-TTY hang.
+case "$AGENT" in
+  opencode)
+    # Double it, but only for a bare-integer seconds value. A GNU timeout(1)
+    # duration suffix (s/m/h/d, including floats like 0.5s) is left unchanged so
+    # the arithmetic never sees a non-number; timeout(1) parses it directly.
+    case "$TIMEOUT" in
+      *[!0-9]*) ;;
+      *) TIMEOUT=$(( TIMEOUT * 2 )) ;;
+    esac
+    ;;
+esac
 
 # Claude refuses --dangerously-skip-permissions outside a sandbox; the CI runner
 # IS the sandbox, so declare it (mirrors unslothai/scripts launcher.sh). Harmless
@@ -166,8 +183,8 @@ parse_connect() {
   echo "[$AGENT] connect --no-launch printed:"; cat_redacted "$raw"
   CONNECT_ENV="$(grep -E '^(export |unset )' "$raw" || true)"
   # The launch command is the last non-export, non-status line. start.py
-  # prints "Studio <url> · model <id>" and "Updated ..." status lines first.
-  CONNECT_CMD="$(grep -vE '^(export |unset |Studio |Updated |Disabled |Warning|Loading)' "$raw" \
+  # prints "Unsloth <url> · model <id>" and "Updated ..." status lines first.
+  CONNECT_CMD="$(grep -vE '^(export |unset |Unsloth |Updated |Disabled |Warning|Loading)' "$raw" \
     | grep -E '[^[:space:]]' | tail -1)"
   [ -n "$CONNECT_CMD" ] || guide_fail "could not parse a launch command from connect --no-launch output"
   redact "$raw"
@@ -376,7 +393,7 @@ case "$MODE" in
       hermes)   patch_hermes_tools none
                 invoke_via_connect "$OUT" -z "$PROMPT" ;;
       openclaw) patch_openclaw_agent notools
-                invoke_via_connect "$OUT" agent --local --agent ci \
+                CONNECT_CMD_OVERRIDE=openclaw invoke_via_connect "$OUT" agent --local --agent ci \
                   --model "unsloth/${UNSLOTH_MODEL_ID}" --message "$PROMPT" ;;
       *)        invoke_via_connect "$OUT" "$PROMPT" ;;
     esac
@@ -449,7 +466,7 @@ case "$MODE" in
           fi ;;
         opencode) invoke_via_connect "$out" run "$prompt" ;;
         hermes)   invoke_via_connect "$out" -z "$prompt" ;;
-        openclaw) invoke_via_connect "$out" agent --local --agent ci \
+        openclaw) CONNECT_CMD_OVERRIDE=openclaw invoke_via_connect "$out" agent --local --agent ci \
                     --model "unsloth/${UNSLOTH_MODEL_ID}" --message "$prompt" ;;
         *)        invoke_via_connect "$out" "$prompt" ;;
       esac
@@ -527,6 +544,154 @@ case "$MODE" in
     echo "[claude] attribution A/B OK (suppressed HIT, header=1 MISS)"
     ;;
 
+  # ── resume: does a launched agent's session survive exit and resume? ────
+  # Unlike the other modes, this drives the real LAUNCH path (`unsloth start
+  # <agent> ...`, the interactive default), not the --no-launch recipe. That
+  # path relocates each agent's home to a throwaway temp dir wiped on exit, so
+  # a session cannot be resumed -- unless --persist routes it to the stable
+  # Unsloth agents dir instead. We run one headless turn per pass and check
+  # whether the turn left a session in a persistent store (deterministic, no
+  # reliance on the model recalling anything), for a baseline pass and a
+  # --persist pass, and assert the expected split for this agent.
+  resume)
+    CODEWORD="PLATYPUS7"
+    T1="Remember this codeword for later: ${CODEWORD}. Reply with just the word OK."
+    T2="What codeword did I ask you to remember? Reply with just that word."
+    WORK="$WORKDIR_BASE/${AGENT}-resume"
+
+    # STABLE_HOME: the stable dir that --no-launch (and --persist) relocate to.
+    # Read it from a --no-launch probe (which also writes the agent's config
+    # there). codex/pi relocate their whole home/HOME here; opencode/claude keep
+    # their session data in a fixed user dir, so STABLE_HOME stays empty for them.
+    parse_connect
+    case "$AGENT" in
+      codex)    STABLE_HOME="$(raw_env CODEX_HOME)" ;;
+      pi)       STABLE_HOME="$(raw_env HOME)" ;;
+      *)        STABLE_HOME="" ;;
+    esac
+
+    # The persistent stores a session would land in if it were NOT wiped. We
+    # count files here before/after each turn; a positive delta means the
+    # session persisted (is resumable), zero means it went to a wiped temp dir.
+    resume_tracked_dirs() {
+      case "$AGENT" in
+        codex)    printf '%s\n' "$HOME/.codex" ;;
+        opencode) printf '%s\n' "$HOME/.local/share/opencode" "$HOME/.config/opencode" ;;
+        claude)   printf '%s\n' "$HOME/.claude" ;;
+        pi)       printf '%s\n' "$HOME/.pi" ;;
+        *)        : ;;
+      esac
+      [ -n "$STABLE_HOME" ] && printf '%s\n' "$STABLE_HOME"
+    }
+    count_session_files() {
+      local total=0 d n
+      while IFS= read -r d; do
+        [ -n "$d" ] && [ -d "$d" ] || continue
+        n="$(find "$d" -type f 2>/dev/null | wc -l)"; total=$((total + n))
+      done < <(resume_tracked_dirs)
+      echo "$total"
+    }
+
+    # The headless first-turn subcommand per agent (mirrors file-edit's map),
+    # forwarded verbatim through the launch path as passthrough args.
+    set_t1_cmd() {
+      case "$AGENT" in
+        claude)   T1_CMD=("${CLAUDE_CONNECT_FLAGS[@]}" -p "$T1") ;;
+        codex)    T1_CMD=(exec "$T1") ;;
+        opencode) T1_CMD=(run "$T1") ;;
+        pi)       T1_CMD=(-p "$T1") ;;
+        *)        guide_fail "resume mode does not cover agent '$AGENT'" ;;
+      esac
+    }
+
+    # Run one headless turn through the launch path. $1=outfile, $2="" or
+    # "--persist", rest = the agent subcommand. --yolo auto-approves so no tool
+    # prompt can hang; --api-key attaches to the already-served CI model.
+    launch_turn() {
+      local out="$1" rflag="$2"; shift 2
+      local flag=(); [ -n "$rflag" ] && flag=("$rflag")
+      run_timed "$out" unsloth start "$AGENT" "${flag[@]}" --yolo \
+        --api-key "$UNSLOTH_API_KEY" "$@"
+      local rc=$?
+      redact "$out"
+      return "$rc"
+    }
+
+    # One pass: fresh work dir, one planting turn, set RESULT to PERSISTED/WIPED
+    # from the session-store delta. Runs in the main shell (not a command
+    # substitution) so a hang's guide_fail actually fails the job and the
+    # progress lines reach the CI log. $1 = "" (baseline) or "--persist".
+    RESULT=""
+    run_pass() {
+      local rflag="$1" label="baseline"
+      [ -n "$rflag" ] && label="resume"
+      rm -rf "$WORK"; mkdir -p "$WORK"
+      set_t1_cmd
+      local out="$LOGS_DIR/${AGENT}-resume-${label}.txt"
+      local before after rc
+      before="$(count_session_files)"
+      pushd "$WORK" >/dev/null || guide_fail "could not enter work dir $WORK"
+      launch_turn "$out" "$rflag" "${T1_CMD[@]}"; rc=$?
+      popd >/dev/null || true
+      after="$(count_session_files)"
+      echo "[$AGENT] ${label}: session files ${before} -> ${after} (rc=${rc})"
+      # The turn must succeed for the delta to mean anything: an agent that writes a
+      # session file then errors would otherwise be misread as PERSISTED. Mirror the
+      # file-edit mode and fail the pass on a non-zero launch (the flagship codex recall
+      # below stays WARN-only, driven by its own launch_turn calls).
+      [ "$rc" -eq 0 ] || { echo "[$AGENT] ${label} transcript (tail):"; tail -30 "$out" 2>/dev/null || true; \
+        guide_fail "resume ${label} turn for ${AGENT} exited non-zero (rc=${rc})"; }
+      if [ "$after" -gt "$before" ]; then RESULT="PERSISTED"; else RESULT="WIPED"; fi
+    }
+
+    run_pass ""; BASELINE="$RESULT"
+    # Only the temp-dir agents (codex/pi) need the --persist pass to prove the fix.
+    # opencode/claude persist either way, so the baseline already proves it and a
+    # second full CPU turn only risks a timeout; skip it for them.
+    case "$AGENT" in
+      codex|pi) run_pass "--persist"; RESUME="$RESULT" ;;
+      *)        RESUME="n/a (persists either way)" ;;
+    esac
+
+    # Expected: codex/pi relocate their whole home to the temp dir, so a plain
+    # launch is WIPED and only --persist PERSISTS. opencode/claude keep their
+    # session data in a fixed user dir, so the baseline already PERSISTS.
+    case "$AGENT" in
+      codex|pi)        EXPECT_BASELINE="WIPED" ;;
+      opencode|claude) EXPECT_BASELINE="PERSISTED" ;;
+    esac
+
+    echo "──────────────────────────────────────────────"
+    echo "[$AGENT] RESUME EXPERIMENT"
+    echo "  baseline (unsloth start ${AGENT}):                 ${BASELINE}  (expected ${EXPECT_BASELINE})"
+    echo "  with --persist (unsloth start ${AGENT} --persist): ${RESUME}"
+    echo "──────────────────────────────────────────────"
+
+    [ "$BASELINE" = "$EXPECT_BASELINE" ] \
+      || guide_fail "baseline resume behavior for ${AGENT} was ${BASELINE}, expected ${EXPECT_BASELINE}"
+    case "$AGENT" in
+      codex|pi)
+        [ "$RESUME" = "PERSISTED" ] \
+          || guide_fail "--persist did not persist ${AGENT}'s session (got ${RESUME}); the session dir is still not stable" ;;
+    esac
+
+    # Flagship behavioral proof (codex only, WARN-only): after a --persist plant,
+    # resume the session and check the model actually recalls the codeword. A
+    # miss is not a failure (the CI model is small); the mechanism gate above is
+    # the real assertion.
+    if [ "$AGENT" = "codex" ]; then
+      rm -rf "$WORK"; mkdir -p "$WORK"
+      ( cd "$WORK" && launch_turn "$LOGS_DIR/codex-resume-plant.txt" "--persist" exec "$T1" ) || true
+      ( cd "$WORK" && launch_turn "$LOGS_DIR/codex-resume-recall.txt" "--persist" exec resume --last "$T2" ) || true
+      if grep -q "$CODEWORD" "$LOGS_DIR/codex-resume-recall.txt" 2>/dev/null; then
+        echo "[codex] behavioral recall HIT: resumed session remembered ${CODEWORD}"
+      else
+        echo "::warning::[codex] behavioral recall MISS (small CI model); mechanism gate still passed"
+      fi
+    fi
+    echo "[$AGENT] resume OK"
+    ;;
+
   *)
     echo "agent-guides-drive.sh: unknown mode '$MODE'" >&2
     exit 2

.github/scripts/assert-llama-loads.sh

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
 # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved.
 #
-# Assert Studio installed a llama.cpp that loads and runs on THIS macOS. Tests
+# Assert Unsloth installed a llama.cpp that loads and runs on THIS macOS. Tests
 # the contract that matters (binaries load and their minimum-OS is <= this host)
 # instead of the old "did install.sh fall back to a source build?" grep, since a
 # source build with a correct deployment target is a valid outcome.

.github/scripts/assert-prompt-cache.sh

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 #   (llama_cpp.py:337-340). So default: ~/.unsloth/studio/logs/llama-server/.
 #
 #   <P> is the INTERNAL llama-server port (self._find_free_port(),
-#   llama_cpp.py:3489 / :4641) -- a RANDOM port, NOT the Studio port. So we must
+#   llama_cpp.py:3489 / :4641) -- a RANDOM port, NOT the Unsloth port. So we must
 #   NOT filter the log glob by STUDIO_PORT (the brief's `port-<STUDIO_PORT>`
 #   glob would never match). We pick the newest llama-*.log instead.
 #

.github/scripts/hf-download-with-retry.sh

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved. See /studio/LICENSE.AGPL-3.0
 #
 # Download a single file from a Hugging Face repo with a stall-retry
-# watchdog. Used by the Studio CI workflows so a hung hf-xet transfer
+# watchdog. Used by the Unsloth CI workflows so a hung hf-xet transfer
 # kills + retries instead of silently consuming the job's timeout.
 #
 # Usage: hf-download-with-retry.sh REPO FILE LOCAL_DIR
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ REPO="${1:?usage: hf-download-with-retry.sh REPO FILE [LOCAL_DIR]}"
 FILE="${2:?usage: hf-download-with-retry.sh REPO FILE [LOCAL_DIR]}"
 # LOCAL_DIR is optional. If empty, hf falls back to HF_HUB_CACHE
 # (~/.cache/huggingface/hub) which is the desired path for callers
-# that populate HF_HOME for a downstream Studio model load.
+# that populate HF_HOME for a downstream Unsloth model load.
 LOCAL_DIR="${3:-}"
 
 # Stall threshold per attempt, in seconds. Override with

.github/scripts/run-studio-permission-browser.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+# Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+port="${1:?usage: $0 PORT BROWSER [CHANNEL]}"
+browser="${2:?usage: $0 PORT BROWSER [CHANNEL]}"
+channel="${3:-}"
+slug="$browser${channel:+-$channel}"
+artifact_dir="logs/playwright-permissions-$slug"
+server_log="logs/studio-permissions-$slug.log"
+studio_home="${UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME:-$HOME/.unsloth/studio}"
+set --
+if [ -n "${STUDIO_PERMISSION_FRONTEND:-}" ]; then
+  set -- -f "$STUDIO_PERMISSION_FRONTEND"
+fi
+
+mkdir -p "$artifact_dir"
+# Wipe (not reset-password): the boot below must re-seed a fresh .bootstrap_password.
+rm -rf "$studio_home/auth"
+UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$port" "$@" \
+  >"$server_log" 2>&1 &
+studio_pid=$!
+
+cleanup() {
+  kill "$studio_pid" 2>/dev/null || true
+  wait "$studio_pid" 2>/dev/null || true
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+healthy=0
+for _ in $(seq 1 180); do
+  if curl -fs "http://127.0.0.1:$port/api/health" >/dev/null; then
+    healthy=1
+    break
+  fi
+  if ! kill -0 "$studio_pid" 2>/dev/null; then
+    tail -100 "$server_log" || true
+    exit 1
+  fi
+  sleep 1
+done
+if [ "$healthy" -ne 1 ]; then
+  tail -100 "$server_log" || true
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+old_password=$(cat "$studio_home/auth/.bootstrap_password")
+new_password="CIPerm-$(python -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(16))')"
+if [ "${GITHUB_ACTIONS:-}" = "true" ]; then
+  echo "::add-mask::$old_password"
+  echo "::add-mask::$new_password"
+fi
+
+export BASE_URL="http://127.0.0.1:$port"
+export STUDIO_OLD_PW="$old_password"
+export STUDIO_NEW_PW="$new_password"
+export STUDIO_UI_STRICT=1
+export STUDIO_UI_PERMISSION_ONLY=1
+export STUDIO_UI_WALL_TIMEOUT_S=240
+export STUDIO_PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSER="$browser"
+export PW_ART_DIR="$artifact_dir"
+if [ -n "$channel" ]; then
+  export STUDIO_PLAYWRIGHT_CHANNEL="$channel"
+else
+  unset STUDIO_PLAYWRIGHT_CHANNEL || true
+fi
+
+python tests/studio/playwright_chat_ui.py

.github/workflows/consolidated-tests-ci.yml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 #
 # Why a separate workflow:
 #   - studio-backend-ci.yml's "Repo tests (CPU)" job already auto-discovers
-#     tests/ minus tests/qlora, tests/saving, tests/utils, tests/sh. The 16
+#     tests/ minus tests/qlora, tests/saving, tests/utils, tests/sh. The 17
 #     Bucket-A tests below live inside those --ignore dirs (CPU-runnable but
 #     historically excluded with their GPU siblings); pulling them out into
 #     a sibling job keeps the existing 760-passed baseline stable while we
@@ -268,10 +268,13 @@ jobs:
             tests/saving/test_save_shell_injection.py \
             tests/saving/test_patch_saving_none_tokenizer.py \
             tests/saving/test_fix_sentencepiece_gguf_robustness.py \
+            tests/saving/test_fix_sentencepiece_tokenizer_guard.py \
             tests/saving/test_compressed_export_schemes.py \
             tests/saving/test_export_api_surface.py \
             tests/saving/test_export_dispatch.py \
             tests/saving/test_imatrix_export.py \
+            tests/saving/test_gguf_single_pass_export.py \
+            tests/saving/test_offline_gguf_vlm_tokenizer_7481.py \
             tests/utils/test_attention_masks.py \
             tests/utils/test_trunc_normal_patch.py \
             tests/python/test_fast_language_model_text_only.py
@@ -357,19 +360,23 @@ jobs:
             tests/saving/test_save_shell_injection.py \
             tests/saving/test_patch_saving_none_tokenizer.py \
             tests/saving/test_fix_sentencepiece_gguf_robustness.py \
+            tests/saving/test_fix_sentencepiece_tokenizer_guard.py \
             tests/saving/test_compressed_export_schemes.py \
             tests/saving/test_export_api_surface.py \
             tests/saving/test_export_dispatch.py \
             tests/saving/test_imatrix_export.py \
+            tests/saving/test_gguf_single_pass_export.py \
+            tests/saving/test_offline_gguf_vlm_tokenizer_7481.py \
             tests/utils/test_attention_masks.py \
             tests/utils/test_trunc_normal_patch.py \
             tests/python/test_fast_language_model_text_only.py \
+            tests/test_bad_mappings_redirect.py \
             tests/test_prefetch_snapshot_scope.py \
-            --deselect 'tests/utils/test_attention_masks.py::test_run_attention_flash_varlen_receives_window_and_softcap'
-          # The deselected test monkeypatches flash_attn_varlen_func, which is
-          # only bound on the module when `flash_attn` is importable. flash_attn
-          # requires CUDA + dev toolchain, which the CPU-only ubuntu-latest
-          # runner does not have. The other Bucket-A tests pass cleanly.
+            tests/test_gemma_2b_mapper_key.py \
+            tests/test_raw_text_json_loading.py
+          # test_run_attention_flash_varlen_receives_window_and_softcap was deselected
+          # until attention_dispatch.py predefined flash_attn_varlen_func as None; it
+          # monkeypatches that name, so it no longer needs flash_attn on this runner.
 
       - name: unsloth_zoo @ ${{ env.UNSLOTH_ZOO_REF }} — full pytest (CPU)
         # 106 of 111 test_* in unsloth_zoo are CPU-only. The two CUDA-skip
@@ -2123,7 +2130,7 @@ jobs:
           pip show unsloth_zoo
           echo "::endgroup::"
           echo "Consolidated job done. Coverage:"
-          echo "  - 16 unsloth Bucket-A tests under tests/saving/ + tests/utils/"
+          echo "  - 17 unsloth Bucket-A tests under tests/saving/ + tests/utils/"
           echo "  - unsloth_zoo @ ${UNSLOTH_ZOO_REF} pytest tests/ (5 GPU cases deselected)"
           echo "  - unsloth_zoo.compiler.test_apply_fused_lm_head"
 

.github/workflows/cross-platform-parity-ci.yml

@@ -1,18 +1,16 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
 # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved.
 
-# Runs tests/python/test_cross_platform_parity.py on Windows and macOS.
+# Runs installer parity and autostart opt-out tests across all three platforms.
 #
-# Why: that test is the guard that install.sh and install.ps1 stay in
-# sync, but today it only runs on ubuntu-latest (auto-discovered by
-# studio-backend-ci.yml's "Repo tests (CPU)" job). The test reads both
-# installer scripts, and on Windows Path.read_text() defaults to the
-# cp1252 locale encoding, so a non-cp1252 byte in install.sh (it already
-# contains a U+274C) raises UnicodeDecodeError there even though Linux and
-# macOS default to UTF-8. The reads were pinned to encoding="utf-8" in
-# #6166; this job keeps that from silently regressing by exercising the
-# test on the platforms it claims parity for. Pure pytest, no GPU,
-# sub-second, so the matrix is cheap.
+# Why: the parity test guards that install.sh and install.ps1 stay in sync.
+# It originally ran only on ubuntu-latest through studio-backend-ci.yml.
+# On Windows, Path.read_text() defaults to the cp1252 locale encoding, so a
+# non-cp1252 byte in install.sh raises UnicodeDecodeError even though Linux
+# and macOS default to UTF-8. The reads were pinned to encoding="utf-8" in
+# #6166; this matrix keeps that from silently regressing. Pure pytest, no GPU,
+# sub-second, so the matrix is cheap. Linux also runs the POSIX rollback test
+# under dash, matching the supported curl-to-sh installer path.
 
 name: Cross-platform parity
 
@@ -21,14 +19,20 @@ on:
     paths:
       - 'install.sh'
       - 'install.ps1'
+      - 'tests/test_installer_skip_autostart.py'
       - 'tests/python/test_cross_platform_parity.py'
+      - 'tests/sh/test_install_rollback_lifecycle.sh'
+      - 'tests/studio/test_install_rollback_lifecycle.ps1'
       - '.github/workflows/cross-platform-parity-ci.yml'
   push:
     branches: [main]
     paths:
       - 'install.sh'
       - 'install.ps1'
+      - 'tests/test_installer_skip_autostart.py'
       - 'tests/python/test_cross_platform_parity.py'
+      - 'tests/sh/test_install_rollback_lifecycle.sh'
+      - 'tests/studio/test_install_rollback_lifecycle.ps1'
       - '.github/workflows/cross-platform-parity-ci.yml'
   workflow_dispatch:
 
@@ -45,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        os: [windows-latest, macos-latest]
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macos-latest]
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     timeout-minutes: 10
     steps:
@@ -57,5 +61,18 @@ jobs:
           python-version: '3.12'
           cache: 'pip'
       - run: python -m pip install -U pip pytest
-      - name: Cross-platform parity test
-        run: python -m pytest tests/python/test_cross_platform_parity.py -q
+      - name: Cross-platform parity tests
+        env:
+          UNSLOTH_NO_TORCH: '1'
+        run: >-
+          python -m pytest
+          tests/python/test_cross_platform_parity.py
+          tests/test_installer_skip_autostart.py
+          -q
+      - name: PowerShell rollback lifecycle tests
+        if: runner.os == 'Windows'
+        shell: pwsh
+        run: pwsh -NoProfile -File tests/studio/test_install_rollback_lifecycle.ps1
+      - name: POSIX rollback lifecycle tests
+        if: runner.os == 'Linux'
+        run: sh tests/sh/test_install_rollback_lifecycle.sh

.github/workflows/lint-ci.yml

@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@
 #     committed YAML / JSON config.
 #
 # TypeScript and Rust are NOT duplicated here on purpose:
-#   - Studio Frontend CI runs `npm run typecheck` (= `tsc --noEmit`)
+#   - Unsloth Frontend CI runs `npm run typecheck` (= `tsc --noEmit`)
 #     and `npm run build` (vite/swc) on every studio/frontend/**
 #     change, which is a full TS AST + type check.
-#   - Studio Tauri CI runs `tauri build --debug --no-bundle` on
+#   - Unsloth Tauri CI runs `tauri build --debug --no-bundle` on
 #     every studio/src-tauri/** or studio/frontend/** change, which
 #     compiles the Rust crate (= cargo check + cargo build).
 # Each is a stricter check than a parse-only step would be, so a

.github/workflows/local-agent-guides-ci.yml

@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ jobs:
           path: gguf-cache
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-gguf-${{ env.GGUF_REPO }}-${{ env.GGUF_FILE }}-v1
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           # Gated off PR (see note above); public GGUF still downloads.
@@ -167,7 +167,9 @@ jobs:
       # ── boot the server under test (factored helper) ──────────────────
       - name: Serve unsloth run --disable-tools (gemma-4-E4B)
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          # Wipe, not reset-password: since #7573 the reset rotates in place and
+          # prints the new passphrase, which would land unmasked in the job log.
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           bash .github/scripts/serve-unsloth-run.sh \
             --gguf-file "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/gguf-cache/${GGUF_FILE}" \
             --port "$STUDIO_PORT" --log-dir logs \
@@ -256,7 +258,7 @@ jobs:
             done
           fi
 
-      - name: Stop Studio
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
         if: always()
         run: |
           # Guard the PID: an unset/zero UNSLOTH_SERVER_PID would make
@@ -359,7 +361,7 @@ jobs:
           path: gguf-cache
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-gguf-${{ env.GGUF_REPO }}-${{ env.GGUF_FILE }}-v1
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           # Gated off PR (see note above); public GGUF still downloads.
@@ -371,7 +373,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Serve unsloth run --disable-tools (gemma-4-E4B)
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           bash .github/scripts/serve-unsloth-run.sh \
             --gguf-file "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/gguf-cache/${GGUF_FILE}" \
             --port "$STUDIO_PORT" --log-dir logs \
@@ -448,7 +450,7 @@ jobs:
             done
           fi
 
-      - name: Stop Studio
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
         if: always()
         run: |
           # Guard the PID: an unset/zero UNSLOTH_SERVER_PID would make
@@ -471,6 +473,176 @@ jobs:
             redacted-configs/
           retention-days: 7
 
+  # ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+  # Job: resume
+  #   Does a conversation started with `unsloth start <agent>` survive exit
+  #   and resume? This drives the REAL launch path (not the --no-launch
+  #   recipe the other jobs use). A plain launch relocates the agent home to
+  #   a temp dir wiped on exit, so codex/pi cannot resume; --persist routes the
+  #   session to the stable Unsloth agents dir so it persists. opencode/claude
+  #   keep their session data in a fixed user dir, so they persist either way.
+  #   Dispatch-only: it is an end-to-end experiment, not a PR gate.
+  # ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+  resume:
+    name: resume (${{ matrix.agent }})
+    if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        # codex/pi relocate their whole home (resume broken without --persist);
+        # opencode/claude keep session data in a fixed dir (resume already works).
+        # One agent from each class proves the split end to end; openclaw/hermes
+        # share codex's relocation mechanism and are covered by the unit tests.
+        agent: [codex, opencode, claude, pi]
+    env:
+      GGUF_REPO: unsloth/gemma-4-E4B-it-GGUF
+      GGUF_FILE: gemma-4-E4B-it-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf
+      STUDIO_PORT: '18904'
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd  # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Linux deps for llama.cpp prebuilt
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+            libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev jq
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@48b55a011bda9f5d6aeb4c2d9c7362e8dae4041e  # v6.4.0
+        with:
+          node-version: '22'
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405  # v6.2.0
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.12'
+          cache: 'pip'
+
+      - name: Restore GGUF model file
+        id: cache-gguf
+        uses: actions/cache/restore@27d5ce7f107fe9357f9df03efb73ab90386fccae  # v5.0.5
+        continue-on-error: true
+        with:
+          path: gguf-cache
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-gguf-${{ env.GGUF_REPO }}-${{ env.GGUF_FILE }}-v1
+
+      - name: Download GGUF if cache miss
+        id: download-gguf
+        if: steps.cache-gguf.outputs.cache-hit != 'true' || steps.cache-gguf.outcome != 'success'
+        env:
+          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade huggingface_hub
+          mkdir -p gguf-cache
+          bash .github/scripts/hf-download-with-retry.sh "$GGUF_REPO" "$GGUF_FILE" gguf-cache
+
+      - name: Save GGUF model file
+        if: always() && steps.download-gguf.outcome == 'success'
+        uses: actions/cache/save@27d5ce7f107fe9357f9df03efb73ab90386fccae  # v5.0.5
+        with:
+          path: gguf-cache
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-gguf-${{ env.GGUF_REPO }}-${{ env.GGUF_FILE }}-v1
+
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p logs
+          set -o pipefail
+          bash install.sh --local --no-torch 2>&1 | tee logs/install.log
+
+      - name: Serve unsloth run --disable-tools (gemma-4-E4B)
+        run: |
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
+          bash .github/scripts/serve-unsloth-run.sh \
+            --gguf-file "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/gguf-cache/${GGUF_FILE}" \
+            --port "$STUDIO_PORT" --log-dir logs \
+            --extra "--seed $UNSLOTH_SEED --temp 0" \
+            --health-timeout 900
+
+      - name: Preflight the agent's API dialect (class-a isolation)
+        env:
+          AGENT: ${{ matrix.agent }}
+        run: |
+          set -uo pipefail
+          B="$UNSLOTH_BASE_URL"; K="$UNSLOTH_API_KEY"
+          preflight_fail() {
+            echo "::error::[server/API regression] agent=$AGENT: $* (preflight failed BEFORE install/connect). Endpoint contract lives in studio/backend/routes/**.";
+            exit 1
+          }
+          code=$(curl -s -o /tmp/pf.json -w '%{http_code}' "$B/v1/models" \
+            -H "Authorization: Bearer $K") || true
+          [ "$code" = "200" ] || preflight_fail "/v1/models returned HTTP $code"
+          case "$AGENT" in
+            claude)
+              code=$(curl -s -o /tmp/pf.json -w '%{http_code}' "$B/v1/messages" \
+                -H "Authorization: Bearer $K" -H 'content-type: application/json' \
+                --max-time 120 \
+                -d "{\"model\":\"$UNSLOTH_MODEL_ID\",\"max_tokens\":16,\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"Hi\"}]}") || true
+              [ "$code" = "200" ] || preflight_fail "/v1/messages returned HTTP $code"
+              ;;
+            codex)
+              code=$(curl -s -o /tmp/pf.json -w '%{http_code}' "$B/v1/responses" \
+                -H "Authorization: Bearer $K" -H 'content-type: application/json' \
+                --max-time 120 \
+                -d "{\"model\":\"$UNSLOTH_MODEL_ID\",\"input\":\"Hi\",\"max_output_tokens\":16,\"stream\":true}") || true
+              [ "$code" = "200" ] || preflight_fail "/v1/responses returned HTTP $code"
+              ;;
+            *)
+              code=$(curl -s -o /tmp/pf.json -w '%{http_code}' "$B/v1/chat/completions" \
+                -H "Authorization: Bearer $K" -H 'content-type: application/json' \
+                --max-time 120 \
+                -d "{\"model\":\"$UNSLOTH_MODEL_ID\",\"max_tokens\":16,\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"Hi\"}]}") || true
+              [ "$code" = "200" ] || preflight_fail "/v1/chat/completions returned HTTP $code"
+              ;;
+          esac
+          echo "preflight OK for $AGENT"
+
+      - name: Install agent CLI (class-b isolation)
+        env:
+          AGENT: ${{ matrix.agent }}
+        run: bash .github/scripts/agent-guides-install.sh "$AGENT"
+
+      - name: Resume experiment (launch path)
+        env:
+          AGENT: ${{ matrix.agent }}
+        run: bash .github/scripts/agent-guides-drive.sh resume "$AGENT"
+
+      - name: Collect server logs (debug)
+        if: always()
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p logs/studio-logs
+          cp -r "$HOME/.unsloth/studio/logs/." logs/studio-logs/ 2>/dev/null || true
+          if [ -n "${UNSLOTH_API_KEY:-}" ]; then
+            grep -rlF "$UNSLOTH_API_KEY" logs redacted-configs agent-workdir 2>/dev/null | while IFS= read -r f; do
+              sed -i "s#${UNSLOTH_API_KEY}#<REDACTED>#g" "$f" 2>/dev/null || true
+            done
+          fi
+
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
+        if: always()
+        run: |
+          if [ -n "${UNSLOTH_SERVER_PID:-}" ] && [ "${UNSLOTH_SERVER_PID}" != "0" ]; then
+            kill "${UNSLOTH_SERVER_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
+          fi
+          sleep 2
+          ss -tln 2>/dev/null | grep ":${STUDIO_PORT}" || true
+
+      - name: Upload logs
+        if: always()
+        continue-on-error: true
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          name: resume-${{ matrix.agent }}-log
+          path: |
+            logs/
+            agent-workdir/
+            redacted-configs/
+          retention-days: 7
+
   # ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
   # Job 3: prompt-cache
   #   (a) curl 2-turn /v1/chat/completions: assert turn-2 cached_tokens > 0
@@ -536,7 +708,7 @@ jobs:
           path: hf-cache
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-hf-${{ env.GGUF_REPO }}-${{ env.GGUF_VARIANT }}-v2
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           # Gated off PR (see note above); public GGUF still downloads.
@@ -548,7 +720,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Serve unsloth run --disable-tools (gemma-3-270m)
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           bash .github/scripts/serve-unsloth-run.sh \
             --model "$GGUF_REPO" --gguf-variant "$GGUF_VARIANT" \
             --port "$STUDIO_PORT" --log-dir logs \
@@ -594,7 +766,7 @@ jobs:
             done
           fi
 
-      - name: Stop Studio
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
         if: always()
         run: |
           # Guard the PID: an unset/zero UNSLOTH_SERVER_PID would make

.github/workflows/mlx-ci.yml

@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ jobs:
       #    MLX support landed after the most recent unsloth-zoo PyPI
       #    release; the wheel still raises NotImplementedError on
       #    Apple Silicon when device_type.get_device_type() runs
-      #    unguarded. Studio's own install.sh overlays unsloth-zoo
+      #    unguarded. Unsloth's own install.sh overlays unsloth-zoo
       #    from git main for the same reason. Pulling deps lets pip
       #    resolve the platform-conditional MLX-only wheels (mlx,
       #    mlx-lm, mlx-vlm gated on darwin+arm64 in unsloth-zoo's
@@ -317,13 +317,13 @@ jobs:
             echo
           done
 
-      # Validates the macOS prebuilt path Studio's setup.sh uses (#5963): install the
+      # Validates the macOS prebuilt path Unsloth's setup.sh uses (#5963): install the
       # unslothai/llama.cpp fork's latest release, download a small public GGUF, and
       # check llama-server /completion end to end. Split and placed last so the
       # untrusted binary runs only in the final smoke step, after every HF_TOKEN step,
       # leaving no token-bearing step or shared workspace for a tampered prebuilt to
       # corrupt. GH_TOKEN: releases API; HF_TOKEN (withheld on PR): probe + GGUF fetch.
-      - name: Studio prebuilt llama.cpp install + GGUF download (Mac M1)
+      - name: Unsloth prebuilt llama.cpp install + GGUF download (Mac M1)
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
@@ -344,12 +344,12 @@ jobs:
 
       # Final step: runs the downloaded binaries with no secrets present, and clears
       # the GitHub Actions command files so a tampered prebuilt cannot influence the job.
-      - name: Studio prebuilt llama.cpp GGUF inference smoke (Mac M1)
+      - name: Unsloth prebuilt llama.cpp GGUF inference smoke (Mac M1)
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
           unset GITHUB_ENV GITHUB_PATH GITHUB_OUTPUT GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
           INSTALL_DIR="$HOME/.unsloth-studio-prebuilt-test/llama.cpp"
-          # Studio bundles only llama-server + llama-quantize (not llama-cli);
+          # Unsloth bundles only llama-server + llama-quantize (not llama-cli);
           # inference goes through llama-server's HTTP /completion endpoint.
           LLAMA_SERVER="$INSTALL_DIR/build/bin/llama-server"
           LLAMA_QUANT="$INSTALL_DIR/build/bin/llama-quantize"
@@ -400,4 +400,4 @@ jobs:
             tail -40 /tmp/llama-server.log
             exit 1
           fi
-          echo "OK: Studio prebuilt llama.cpp on Mac M1 + GGUF /completion works"
+          echo "OK: Unsloth prebuilt llama.cpp on Mac M1 + GGUF /completion works"

.github/workflows/ossf.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+# This workflow uses actions that are not certified by GitHub. They are provided
+# by a third-party and are governed by separate terms of service, privacy
+# policy, and support documentation.
+
+name: Scorecard supply-chain security
+on:
+  # For Branch-Protection check. Only the default branch is supported. See
+  # https://github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#branch-protection
+  branch_protection_rule:
+  # To guarantee Maintained check is occasionally updated. See
+  # https://github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#maintained
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '21 20 * * 0'
+  push:
+    branches: [ "main" ]
+
+# Declare default permissions as read only.
+permissions: read-all
+
+jobs:
+  analysis:
+    name: Scorecard analysis
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # `publish_results: true` only works when run from the default branch. conditional can be removed if disabled.
+    if: github.event.repository.default_branch == github.ref_name || github.event_name == 'pull_request'
+    permissions:
+      # Needed to upload the results to code-scanning dashboard.
+      security-events: write
+      # Needed to publish results and get a badge (see publish_results below).
+      id-token: write
+      # Uncomment the permissions below if installing in a private repository.
+      # contents: read
+      # actions: read
+
+    steps:
+      - name: "Checkout code"
+        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: "Run analysis"
+        uses: ossf/scorecard-action@f49aabe0b5af0936a0987cfb85d86b75731b0186 # v2.4.1
+        with:
+          results_file: results.sarif
+          results_format: sarif
+          # (Optional) "write" PAT token. Uncomment the `repo_token` line below if:
+          # - you want to enable the Branch-Protection check on a *public* repository, or
+          # - you are installing Scorecard on a *private* repository
+          # To create the PAT, follow the steps in https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action?tab=readme-ov-file#authentication-with-fine-grained-pat-optional.
+          # repo_token: ${{ secrets.SCORECARD_TOKEN }}
+
+          # Public repositories:
+          #   - Publish results to OpenSSF REST API for easy access by consumers
+          #   - Allows the repository to include the Scorecard badge.
+          #   - See https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action#publishing-results.
+          # For private repositories:
+          #   - `publish_results` will always be set to `false`, regardless
+          #     of the value entered here.
+          publish_results: true
+
+          # (Optional) Uncomment file_mode if you have a .gitattributes with files marked export-ignore
+          # file_mode: git
+
+      # Upload the results as artifacts (optional). Commenting out will disable uploads of run results in SARIF
+      # format to the repository Actions tab.
+      - name: "Upload artifact"
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@4cec3d8aa04e39d1a68397de0c4cd6fb9dce8ec1 # v4.6.1
+        with:
+          name: SARIF file
+          path: results.sarif
+          retention-days: 5
+
+      # Upload the results to GitHub's code scanning dashboard (optional).
+      # Commenting out will disable upload of results to your repo's Code Scanning dashboard
+      - name: "Upload to code-scanning"
+        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v3
+        with:
+          sarif_file: results.sarif

.github/workflows/release-desktop.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ on:
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       studio_version:
-        description: 'Studio version tag to release (for example, v0.1.39-beta)'
+        description: 'Unsloth version tag to release (for example, v0.1.39-beta)'
         type: string
         required: true
       pypi_version:
@@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ on:
 permissions:
   contents: read
 
+env:
+  DESKTOP_RELEASE_NOTES: |
+    Desktop app for Unsloth Studio.
+
+    **macOS**: Download the Apple Silicon `.dmg`.
+    **Windows**: Download the `-setup.exe` installer.
+    **Linux**: Download `.deb` for Ubuntu/Debian. `.AppImage` is experimental.
+
+    > Linux in-app updates are AppImage-oriented. Package installs should update by downloading a new package.
+    > Linux AppImage can show a blank window on some Tauri/WebKitGTK + Wayland/Mesa stacks; use `.deb` when available.
+    > Linux AppImage on Ubuntu 24.04+ may require: `sudo apt install libfuse2t64`
+    > First-run system dependency elevation is supported on Ubuntu/Debian. Other Linux distributions should install system packages manually.
+
 concurrency:
   group: release-desktop-${{ github.repository }}
   cancel-in-progress: false
@@ -56,7 +69,7 @@ jobs:
           if not studio_version:
               sys.exit('studio_version is required, for example v0.1.39-beta')
           if re.fullmatch(r'v?20\d{2}\.\d+\.\d+(?:[-+][0-9A-Za-z.-]+)?', studio_version):
-              sys.exit(f'studio_version must be a Studio SemVer tag, not a date-style backend version: {studio_version}')
+              sys.exit(f'studio_version must be an Unsloth SemVer tag, not a date-style backend version: {studio_version}')
 
           semver_tag = re.compile(
               r'^v(0|[1-9]\d*)\.(0|[1-9]\d*)\.(0|[1-9]\d*)'
@@ -133,7 +146,7 @@ jobs:
               print(f'pypi_version={pypi_version}', file=output)
           PY
 
-      - name: Verify PyPI package and Studio stamp
+      - name: Verify PyPI package and Unsloth stamp
         shell: bash
         env:
           STUDIO_VERSION: ${{ steps.prepare.outputs.studio_version }}
@@ -198,7 +211,7 @@ jobs:
             fi
             python3 scripts/stamp_studio_release.py --verify-dist "$RUNNER_TEMP/pypi-unsloth-dist" --expected "$STUDIO_VERSION"
           else
-            echo "scripts/stamp_studio_release.py not found; release-desktop requires #5308 to verify the PyPI Studio stamp." >&2
+            echo "scripts/stamp_studio_release.py not found; release-desktop requires #5308 to verify the PyPI Unsloth stamp." >&2
             exit 1
           fi
 
@@ -295,14 +308,6 @@ jobs:
           PY
 
   build:
-    # TODO: split into a "build (no secrets)" + "publish (secrets)" job pair
-    # with actions/upload-artifact handoff so the matrix build cannot
-    # publish a Release on its own. The current matrix runs across
-    # Linux/macOS/Windows in a single job, so the split needs artefact
-    # collection across the OS matrix and is out of scope for this
-    # hardening pass.
-    permissions:
-      contents: write  # tauri-apps/tauri-action creates / uploads a GitHub Release
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       max-parallel: 1
@@ -311,15 +316,21 @@ jobs:
           - platform: macos-latest
             args: '--target aarch64-apple-darwin'
             label: macOS (Apple Silicon)
+            artifact: macos-aarch64
+            release_arch: aarch64
           # - platform: macos-latest
           #   args: '--target x86_64-apple-darwin'
           #   label: macOS (Intel)
           - platform: ubuntu-22.04
             args: ''
             label: Linux (x64)
+            artifact: linux-x64
+            release_arch: x64
           - platform: windows-latest
             args: ''
             label: Windows (x64)
+            artifact: windows-x64
+            release_arch: x64
 
     name: Build ${{ matrix.label }}
     needs: prepare-version
@@ -465,41 +476,18 @@ jobs:
           if (chmodIdx !== -1 && sha256Idx > chmodIdx) {
             throw new Error('Desktop Linux release must verify the linuxdeploy digest before chmod +x');
           }
-          const releaseBodies = [];
-          for (let i = 0; i < lines.length; i += 1) {
-            const match = lines[i].match(/^(\s*)releaseBody:\s*\|\s*$/);
-            if (!match) continue;
-            const baseIndent = match[1].length;
-            const bodyLines = [];
-            i += 1;
-            for (; i < lines.length; i += 1) {
-              const line = lines[i];
-              if (line.trim() === '') {
-                bodyLines.push('');
-                continue;
-              }
-              const indent = line.match(/^\s*/)[0].length;
-              if (indent <= baseIndent) {
-                i -= 1;
-                break;
-              }
-              bodyLines.push(line.slice(baseIndent + 2));
-            }
-            releaseBodies.push(bodyLines.join('\n'));
+          const releaseBody = process.env.DESKTOP_RELEASE_NOTES;
+          if (!releaseBody) {
+            throw new Error('DESKTOP_RELEASE_NOTES must not be empty');
           }
-          if (releaseBodies.length === 0) {
-            throw new Error('Expected at least one desktop release body');
+          if (/\brpm\b|\.rpm/i.test(releaseBody)) {
+            throw new Error('Desktop release body must not advertise RPM packages');
           }
-          for (const body of releaseBodies) {
-            if (/\brpm\b|\.rpm/i.test(body)) {
-              throw new Error('Desktop release body must not advertise RPM packages');
-            }
-            if (/AppImage.*universal|universal.*AppImage/i.test(body)) {
-              throw new Error('Desktop release body must not advertise AppImage as universal');
-            }
-            if (!/AppImage.*experimental/i.test(body)) {
-              throw new Error('Desktop release body must mark AppImage as experimental');
-            }
+          if (/AppImage.*universal|universal.*AppImage/i.test(releaseBody)) {
+            throw new Error('Desktop release body must not advertise AppImage as universal');
+          }
+          if (!/AppImage.*experimental/i.test(releaseBody)) {
+            throw new Error('Desktop release body must mark AppImage as experimental');
           }
           JS
 
@@ -644,48 +632,33 @@ jobs:
           dest="$tools_dir/linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage"
           curl -fsSL "$LINUXDEPLOY_URL" -o "$dest"
           # Verify the digest BEFORE the binary is ever marked executable. The
-          # next step builds the AppImage with the Tauri signing key and a
-          # contents:write GITHUB_TOKEN in scope, so a substituted linuxdeploy
-          # that ran here could exfiltrate signing material or tamper with
-          # published release artifacts. Fail closed on any mismatch.
+          # next step builds the AppImage with the Tauri signing key, so a
+          # substituted linuxdeploy that ran here could exfiltrate signing
+          # material or tamper with release artifacts. Fail closed on any
+          # mismatch.
           echo "${LINUXDEPLOY_SHA256}  ${dest}" | sha256sum -c -
           chmod +x "$dest"
 
-      # ── Linux: build + sign + upload ──
+      # ── Linux: build + sign ──
       - name: Build Linux app
+        id: build_linux
         if: matrix.platform == 'ubuntu-22.04'
         uses: tauri-apps/tauri-action@84b9d35b5fc46c1e45415bdb6144030364f7ebc5
         env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY }}
           TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD }}
           XDG_CACHE_HOME: ${{ runner.temp }}/tauri-tools-cache
         with:
           projectPath: studio
           tauriScript: npx --prefix . tauri
-          tagName: ${{ needs.prepare-version.outputs.desktop_release_tag }}
-          releaseName: 'Unsloth Studio (Desktop) ${{ needs.prepare-version.outputs.studio_version }}'
-          releaseBody: |
-            Desktop app for Unsloth Studio.
-
-            **macOS**: Download the Apple Silicon `.dmg`.
-            **Windows**: Download the `-setup.exe` installer.
-            **Linux**: Download `.deb` for Ubuntu/Debian. `.AppImage` is experimental.
-
-            > Linux in-app updates are AppImage-oriented. Package installs should update by downloading a new package.
-            > Linux AppImage can show a blank window on some Tauri/WebKitGTK + Wayland/Mesa stacks; use `.deb` when available.
-            > Linux AppImage on Ubuntu 24.04+ may require: `sudo apt install libfuse2t64`
-            > First-run system dependency elevation is supported on Ubuntu/Debian. Other Linux distributions should install system packages manually.
-          releaseDraft: ${{ inputs.draft }}
-          prerelease: ${{ needs.prepare-version.outputs.prerelease }}
           args: -v ${{ matrix.args }}
 
-      # ── macOS: build + sign + notarize + upload ──
+      # ── macOS: build + sign + notarize ──
       - name: Build macOS app
+        id: build_macos
         if: matrix.platform == 'macos-latest'
         uses: tauri-apps/tauri-action@84b9d35b5fc46c1e45415bdb6144030364f7ebc5
         env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY }}
           TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD }}
           APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY: ${{ secrets.APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY }}
@@ -695,29 +668,14 @@ jobs:
         with:
           projectPath: studio
           tauriScript: npx --prefix . tauri
-          tagName: ${{ needs.prepare-version.outputs.desktop_release_tag }}
-          releaseName: 'Unsloth Studio (Desktop) ${{ needs.prepare-version.outputs.studio_version }}'
-          releaseBody: |
-            Desktop app for Unsloth Studio.
-
-            **macOS**: Download the Apple Silicon `.dmg`.
-            **Windows**: Download the `-setup.exe` installer.
-            **Linux**: Download `.deb` for Ubuntu/Debian. `.AppImage` is experimental.
-
-            > Linux in-app updates are AppImage-oriented. Package installs should update by downloading a new package.
-            > Linux AppImage can show a blank window on some Tauri/WebKitGTK + Wayland/Mesa stacks; use `.deb` when available.
-            > Linux AppImage on Ubuntu 24.04+ may require: `sudo apt install libfuse2t64`
-            > First-run system dependency elevation is supported on Ubuntu/Debian. Other Linux distributions should install system packages manually.
-          releaseDraft: ${{ inputs.draft }}
-          prerelease: ${{ needs.prepare-version.outputs.prerelease }}
           args: -v ${{ matrix.args }}
 
-      # ── Windows: build + sign + upload ──
+      # ── Windows: build + sign ──
       - name: Build Windows app
+        id: build_windows
         if: matrix.platform == 'windows-latest'
         uses: tauri-apps/tauri-action@84b9d35b5fc46c1e45415bdb6144030364f7ebc5
         env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY }}
           TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD }}
           AZURE_CLIENT_ID: ${{ secrets.AZURE_CLIENT_ID }}
@@ -728,44 +686,252 @@ jobs:
         with:
           projectPath: studio
           tauriScript: npx --prefix . tauri
-          tagName: ${{ needs.prepare-version.outputs.desktop_release_tag }}
-          releaseName: 'Unsloth Studio (Desktop) ${{ needs.prepare-version.outputs.studio_version }}'
-          releaseBody: |
-            Desktop app for Unsloth Studio.
-
-            **macOS**: Download the Apple Silicon `.dmg`.
-            **Windows**: Download the `-setup.exe` installer.
-            **Linux**: Download `.deb` for Ubuntu/Debian. `.AppImage` is experimental.
-
-            > Linux in-app updates are AppImage-oriented. Package installs should update by downloading a new package.
-            > Linux AppImage can show a blank window on some Tauri/WebKitGTK + Wayland/Mesa stacks; use `.deb` when available.
-            > Linux AppImage on Ubuntu 24.04+ may require: `sudo apt install libfuse2t64`
-            > First-run system dependency elevation is supported on Ubuntu/Debian. Other Linux distributions should install system packages manually.
-          releaseDraft: ${{ inputs.draft }}
-          prerelease: ${{ needs.prepare-version.outputs.prerelease }}
           args: -v ${{ matrix.args }}
 
-  # Release process note: only non-draft workflow runs advance the public
-  # desktop-latest updater channel. Draft builds are for private review; if a
-  # draft is manually published later, this channel intentionally remains
-  # unchanged until a narrow manual channel-publish flow is added or a public
-  # desktop release is created by running this workflow with draft=false.
-  publish-updater-channel:
-    name: Publish desktop updater channel
+      - name: Stage release assets
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          ARTIFACT_PATHS: ${{ steps.build_linux.outputs.artifactPaths || steps.build_macos.outputs.artifactPaths || steps.build_windows.outputs.artifactPaths }}
+          RELEASE_ARCH: ${{ matrix.release_arch }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          if command -v python3 >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+            PYTHON=python3
+          else
+            PYTHON=python
+          fi
+          "$PYTHON" <<'PY'
+          import json
+          import os
+          import pathlib
+          import re
+          import shutil
+          import sys
+          import unicodedata
+
+          raw_paths = os.environ.get('ARTIFACT_PATHS', '')
+          try:
+              artifact_paths = json.loads(raw_paths)
+          except json.JSONDecodeError as error:
+              sys.exit(f'Invalid tauri-action artifactPaths output: {error}')
+          if not isinstance(artifact_paths, list) or not artifact_paths:
+              sys.exit('tauri-action did not return any release artifacts')
+
+          destination = pathlib.Path(os.environ['RUNNER_TEMP'], 'desktop-release-assets')
+          destination.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+          staged = []
+          for raw_path in artifact_paths:
+              source = pathlib.Path(raw_path)
+              if not source.is_file():
+                  continue
+              name = source.name
+              for extension in ('.app.tar.gz.sig', '.app.tar.gz'):
+                  if name.endswith(extension):
+                      name = f'{name[:-len(extension)]}_{os.environ["RELEASE_ARCH"]}{extension}'
+                      break
+              name = unicodedata.normalize('NFD', name)
+              name = ''.join(character for character in name if not unicodedata.combining(character))
+              name = re.sub(r'[ ()\[\]{}]', '.', name)
+              while '..' in name:
+                  name = name.replace('..', '.')
+              target = destination / name
+              if target.exists():
+                  sys.exit(f'Duplicate staged release asset name: {name}')
+              shutil.copy2(source, target)
+              staged.append(name)
+
+          if not staged:
+              sys.exit('No release files were staged')
+          print('Staged release assets:')
+          print('\n'.join(sorted(staged)))
+          PY
+
+      - name: Upload signed release assets
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          name: desktop-release-${{ matrix.artifact }}
+          path: ${{ runner.temp }}/desktop-release-assets/*
+          if-no-files-found: error
+          compression-level: 0
+          retention-days: 1
+
+  # Only this job gets write access; builds hand off signed files via artifacts.
+  # Draft runs do not advance the public desktop-latest channel.
+  publish-release:
+    name: Publish desktop release
     needs: [prepare-version, build]
-    if: ${{ !inputs.draft }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     permissions:
-      contents: write
+      contents: write  # create the versioned Release and replace updater-channel metadata
     env:
       GH_REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
       APP_VERSION: ${{ needs.prepare-version.outputs.app_version }}
+      PYPI_VERSION: ${{ needs.prepare-version.outputs.pypi_version }}
       STUDIO_VERSION: ${{ needs.prepare-version.outputs.studio_version }}
       DESKTOP_RELEASE_TAG: ${{ needs.prepare-version.outputs.desktop_release_tag }}
       DESKTOP_PRERELEASE: ${{ needs.prepare-version.outputs.prerelease }}
 
     steps:
+      - name: Harden runner (audit)
+        uses: step-security/harden-runner@a5ad31d6a139d249332a2605b85202e8c0b78450  # v2.19.1
+        with:
+          egress-policy: audit
+
+      - name: Download signed release assets
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@3e5f45b2cfb9172054b4087a40e8e0b5a5461e7c  # v8.0.1
+        with:
+          pattern: desktop-release-*
+          path: ${{ runner.temp }}/desktop-release-assets
+          merge-multiple: true
+
+      - name: Validate release asset set
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          python3 <<'PY'
+          import pathlib
+          import os
+          import sys
+
+          asset_dir = pathlib.Path(os.environ['RUNNER_TEMP'], 'desktop-release-assets')
+          files = [path for path in asset_dir.iterdir() if path.is_file()]
+          required_suffixes = (
+              '.dmg',
+              '.app.tar.gz',
+              '.app.tar.gz.sig',
+              '.deb',
+              '.AppImage',
+              '.AppImage.sig',
+              '-setup.exe',
+              '-setup.exe.sig',
+          )
+          for suffix in required_suffixes:
+              matches = [path for path in files if path.name.endswith(suffix)]
+              if len(matches) != 1:
+                  sys.exit(f'Expected exactly one {suffix} release asset, found {len(matches)}')
+          if any(path.name == 'latest.json' for path in files):
+              sys.exit('Build artifacts must not supply latest.json')
+          print('\n'.join(sorted(path.name for path in files)))
+          PY
+
+      - name: Create or validate versioned release
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+          RELEASE_DRAFT: ${{ inputs.draft }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          notes_file="$RUNNER_TEMP/desktop-release-notes.md"
+          printf '%s\n' "$DESKTOP_RELEASE_NOTES" > "$notes_file"
+
+          release_json="$RUNNER_TEMP/versioned-release.json"
+          # REST tag lookup omits drafts; `gh release view` also checks pending tags.
+          if gh release view "$DESKTOP_RELEASE_TAG" \
+            --json tagName,isDraft,isPrerelease > "$release_json" 2>/dev/null; then
+            python3 <<'PY'
+          import json
+          import os
+          import pathlib
+          import sys
+
+          release = json.loads(pathlib.Path(os.environ['RUNNER_TEMP'], 'versioned-release.json').read_text())
+          expected_draft = os.environ['RELEASE_DRAFT'].lower() == 'true'
+          expected_prerelease = os.environ['DESKTOP_PRERELEASE'].lower() == 'true'
+          if release.get('tagName') != os.environ['DESKTOP_RELEASE_TAG']:
+              sys.exit('Existing desktop release tag does not match the requested tag')
+          if bool(release.get('isDraft')) != expected_draft:
+              sys.exit('Existing desktop release draft state does not match the workflow input')
+          if bool(release.get('isPrerelease')) != expected_prerelease:
+              sys.exit('Existing desktop release prerelease state does not match the requested version')
+          PY
+          else
+            release_flags=(
+              --title "Unsloth Studio (Desktop) ${STUDIO_VERSION}"
+              --notes-file "$notes_file"
+              --target "$GITHUB_SHA"
+            )
+            if [ "$RELEASE_DRAFT" = "true" ]; then
+              release_flags+=(--draft)
+            fi
+            if [ "$DESKTOP_PRERELEASE" = "true" ]; then
+              release_flags+=(--prerelease)
+            fi
+            gh release create "$DESKTOP_RELEASE_TAG" "${release_flags[@]}"
+          fi
+
+      - name: Publish versioned release assets
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          gh release upload "$DESKTOP_RELEASE_TAG" "$RUNNER_TEMP/desktop-release-assets"/* --clobber
+
+      - name: Generate and publish versioned updater metadata
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          python3 <<'PY'
+          import datetime
+          import json
+          import os
+          import pathlib
+          import sys
+          import urllib.parse
+
+          asset_dir = pathlib.Path(os.environ['RUNNER_TEMP'], 'desktop-release-assets')
+          files = [path for path in asset_dir.iterdir() if path.is_file()]
+
+          def exactly_one(suffix: str) -> pathlib.Path:
+              matches = [path for path in files if path.name.endswith(suffix)]
+              if len(matches) != 1:
+                  sys.exit(f'Expected exactly one {suffix} updater asset, found {len(matches)}')
+              return matches[0]
+
+          def entry(signature_suffix: str) -> dict[str, str]:
+              signature_path = exactly_one(signature_suffix)
+              bundle_name = signature_path.name.removesuffix('.sig')
+              bundle_path = asset_dir / bundle_name
+              if not bundle_path.is_file():
+                  sys.exit(f'Missing updater bundle for {signature_path.name}: {bundle_name}')
+              encoded_tag = urllib.parse.quote(os.environ['DESKTOP_RELEASE_TAG'], safe='')
+              encoded_name = urllib.parse.quote(bundle_name, safe='')
+              return {
+                  'signature': signature_path.read_text(),
+                  'url': (
+                      f'https://github.com/{os.environ["GITHUB_REPOSITORY"]}/releases/download/'
+                      f'{encoded_tag}/{encoded_name}'
+                  ),
+              }
+
+          darwin = entry('.app.tar.gz.sig')
+          linux = entry('.AppImage.sig')
+          windows = entry('.exe.sig')
+          notes = pathlib.Path(os.environ['RUNNER_TEMP'], 'desktop-release-notes.md').read_text()
+          metadata = {
+              'version': os.environ['APP_VERSION'],
+              # App version is SemVer; CHANGELOG.md is keyed by the backend release.
+              'pypi_version': os.environ['PYPI_VERSION'],
+              'notes': notes,
+              'pub_date': datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc).isoformat(timespec='milliseconds').replace('+00:00', 'Z'),
+              'platforms': {
+                  'darwin-aarch64': darwin,
+                  'darwin-aarch64-app': darwin,
+                  'linux-x86_64': linux,
+                  'linux-x86_64-appimage': linux,
+                  'windows-x86_64': windows,
+                  'windows-x86_64-nsis': windows,
+              },
+          }
+          output = pathlib.Path(os.environ['RUNNER_TEMP'], 'latest.json')
+          output.write_text(json.dumps(metadata, indent=2) + '\n')
+          PY
+          gh release upload "$DESKTOP_RELEASE_TAG" "$RUNNER_TEMP/latest.json" --clobber
+
       - name: Download versioned updater metadata
+        if: ${{ !inputs.draft }}
         shell: bash
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
@@ -790,6 +956,7 @@ jobs:
           test -s "$RUNNER_TEMP/desktop-updater/latest.json"
 
       - name: Validate versioned updater metadata
+        if: ${{ !inputs.draft }}
         shell: bash
         run: |
           python3 <<'PY'
@@ -849,6 +1016,7 @@ jobs:
           PY
 
       - name: Ensure desktop updater channel release
+        if: ${{ !inputs.draft }}
         shell: bash
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
@@ -881,6 +1049,7 @@ jobs:
           PY
 
       - name: Prevent updater channel downgrade
+        if: ${{ !inputs.draft }}
         shell: bash
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
@@ -971,6 +1140,7 @@ jobs:
           PY
 
       - name: Publish desktop updater channel metadata
+        if: ${{ !inputs.draft }}
         shell: bash
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}

.github/workflows/security-audit.yml

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved.
 
 # Multi-language supply-chain audit. Triggers:
-#   - PRs touching any dependency manifest (Python / npm / Cargo) or
-#     this workflow file,
+#   - PRs touching any dependency manifest (Python / npm / Cargo), a
+#     scanner or its allowlist baseline, or this workflow file,
 #   - push to main / pip,
 #   - nightly @ 04:13 UTC so newly-published advisories surface even
 #     when no PR opens,
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@
 #   - unsloth `huggingfacenotorch` extras (the canonical install path
 #     for fine-tuning users; pulls transformers / peft / accelerate /
 #     trl / datasets / diffusers / sentence-transformers / etc.)
-#   - all six Studio backend requirements files
-#   - Studio frontend (npm) and Tauri shell (cargo)
+#   - all six Unsloth backend requirements files
+#   - Unsloth frontend (npm) and Tauri shell (cargo)
 # Each Python step builds a filtered dep list from pyproject.toml +
 # requirements/*.txt before auditing. We do NOT install any of these
 # -- pip-audit resolves through PyPI metadata, scan_packages.py
@@ -57,7 +57,9 @@ on:
       - 'studio/src-tauri/Cargo.lock'
       - 'pyproject.toml'
       - 'scripts/scan_packages.py'
+      - 'scripts/scan_packages_baseline.json'
       - 'scripts/scan_npm_packages.py'
+      - 'scripts/scan_npm_packages_baseline.json'
       - '.github/workflows/security-audit.yml'
   push:
     branches: [main, pip]
@@ -216,7 +218,7 @@ jobs:
         #       on the runner). A comment line is left in place so the
         #       skipped specs are obvious in the artifact.
         # The `huggingface` extra is `huggingfacenotorch` plus torch /
-        # torchvision / triton, deliberately skipped: Studio backend
+        # torchvision / triton, deliberately skipped: Unsloth backend
         # already pins a torch and the +cu* / +cpu local-version tags
         # trip up the PyPI resolver in `-r` mode.
         run: |
@@ -251,7 +253,7 @@ jobs:
         # `-r requirements.txt` resolves the requirements through pip's
         # dependency resolver against PyPI metadata and audits the
         # resolved tree without ever executing setup.py / install
-        # hooks. Way faster than installing the full Studio runtime
+        # hooks. Way faster than installing the full Unsloth runtime
         # and -- critically -- safer: an attacker who has compromised
         # a transitive dep cannot run code in this job.
         #
@@ -324,9 +326,9 @@ jobs:
           } >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
 
       # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-      # npm: Studio frontend
+      # npm: Unsloth frontend
       # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-      - name: npm audit (Studio frontend)
+      - name: npm audit (Unsloth frontend)
         # `npm audit` resolves the lockfile through the npmjs.com
         # advisory DB. `--audit-level=high` filters the noise floor
         # to only HIGH and CRITICAL. We do NOT pass --omit=dev: a
@@ -340,7 +342,7 @@ jobs:
           # Always also write the full JSON for grep-ability.
           npm audit --json > ../../logs-npm-audit.json || true
           {
-            echo "## npm audit (Studio frontend)"
+            echo "## npm audit (Unsloth frontend)"
             echo
             echo '```'
             tail -200 ../../logs-npm-audit.txt
@@ -348,9 +350,9 @@ jobs:
           } >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
 
       # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-      # cargo: Studio Tauri shell
+      # cargo: Unsloth Tauri shell
       # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-      - name: cargo audit (Studio Tauri)
+      - name: cargo audit (Unsloth Tauri)
         # `--deny warnings` would make the job fail on any advisory.
         # Keep non-blocking initially; drop continue-on-error after
         # the baseline closes.
@@ -360,7 +362,7 @@ jobs:
           set +e
           cargo audit | tee ../../logs-cargo-audit.txt
           {
-            echo "## cargo audit (Studio Tauri)"
+            echo "## cargo audit (Unsloth Tauri)"
             echo
             echo '```'
             tail -200 ../../logs-cargo-audit.txt
@@ -557,7 +559,7 @@ jobs:
 
       # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       # CycloneDX SBOM. Lets downstream consumers audit what's
-      # actually shipped in unsloth wheels and the Studio backend
+      # actually shipped in unsloth wheels and the Unsloth backend
       # runtime. Generates one JSON file per requirements input plus
       # a combined SBOM keyed off pyproject.toml; uploads as a build
       # artifact (and a future step can attest it via SLSA).
@@ -738,7 +740,7 @@ jobs:
     # `--with-deps` makes the scan transitive: every package the
     # declared set resolves to gets fetched and pattern-scanned, not
     # just the top-level pins. Resolving the full transitive closure
-    # of the unsloth + Studio dep tree downloads several hundred
+    # of the unsloth + Unsloth dep tree downloads several hundred
     # archives, hence the longer timeout.
     #
     # Sharded across runners for wall-clock parallelism. Each shard
@@ -747,7 +749,7 @@ jobs:
     # composition tries to balance load:
     #   - hf-stack: pyproject extras + no-torch-runtime
     #               (~150 archives, transformers/peft/accelerate/...)
-    #   - studio:   FastAPI/Studio backend + overrides + extras-no-deps
+    #   - studio:   FastAPI/Unsloth backend + overrides + extras-no-deps
     #               (~150 archives, smaller scientific stack)
     #   - extras:   the heavy openai-whisper / scikit-learn / librosa
     #               stack (~250 archives, dominant cost)
@@ -962,7 +964,7 @@ jobs:
     # documented at scripts/scan_npm_packages.py top-of-file. The
     # script is stdlib-only so adding it does not increase the
     # transitive supply-chain surface.
-    name: npm scan-packages (Studio frontend tarballs)
+    name: npm scan-packages (Unsloth frontend tarballs)
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 30
     needs: []
@@ -1171,7 +1173,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           python-version: '3.12'
 
-      - name: Install Studio frontend deps (--ignore-scripts)
+      - name: Install Unsloth frontend deps (--ignore-scripts)
         # `npm audit signatures` requires node_modules to be populated.
         # `--ignore-scripts` is mandatory: this is exactly the lever the
         # new-install-script gate below protects against, and we must

.github/workflows/startup-profile-ci.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+# Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+
+# Measures where Studio's startup time goes, on each platform.
+#
+# Nothing recorded a number before: main.py logs "lifespan startup completed in X ms"
+# and studio_test_kit polls /healthz, but both throw the elapsed time away. A first
+# local run (Linux, warm cache, 18-core server) put `import main` at 5.7-6.6s BEFORE
+# the server can bind, dominated by eager module-level imports pulled in by routes:
+# torch ~1.9s self, unsloth_zoo ~0.8s, routes ~0.6s, transformers ~0.5s.
+#
+# Not a gate yet: --max-healthz-seconds exists, but a budget should come from
+# observed numbers rather than a guess.
+
+name: Startup profile
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      # The measured import graph is the whole backend tree: main.py imports auth,
+      # core, hub, loggers, models, picker, routes and utils at module scope.
+      - 'studio/backend/**'
+      - '!studio/backend/tests/**'
+      # The launch phase spawns `unsloth studio --api-only`, so the CLI counts too.
+      - 'unsloth_cli/**'
+      - 'studio/src-tauri/src/preflight**'
+      # The profiler hardcodes the desktop argv that process.rs::backend_args builds,
+      # so a change there must schedule a run or the two silently diverge.
+      - 'studio/src-tauri/src/process.rs'
+      - 'scripts/profile_startup.py'
+      - '.github/workflows/startup-profile-ci.yml'
+      # The job profiles whatever `install.sh --local` built: the installers pick the
+      # venv's Python and the dependency specs, and pyproject's include list is what
+      # makes --local overlay studio.backend*.
+      - 'install.sh'
+      - 'install.ps1'
+      - 'pyproject.toml'
+      # --local also runs the checkout's setup scripts (install.sh picks
+      # $_REPO_ROOT/studio/setup.sh, the editable install resolves setup.ps1 to the
+      # repo), and both call install_python_stack.py, which picks the dependencies.
+      - 'studio/setup.sh'
+      - 'studio/setup.ps1'
+      - 'studio/install_python_stack.py'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      repeats:
+        description: 'launch repeats per OS (median reported)'
+        type: string
+        default: '3'
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  profile:
+    name: startup ${{ matrix.os }}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+    continue-on-error: true
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-14, windows-latest]
+
+    env:
+      UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/.studio-home
+      # A wildcard bind calls ifconfig.me on the startup path; loopback times our code.
+      UNSLOTH_STUDIO_DISABLE_PUBLIC_CHECK: '1'
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd  # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Install Studio
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          set -o pipefail
+          mkdir -p logs
+          # --local is load-bearing: it overlays the checkout, so the profiled server
+          # is this diff. Without it install.sh resolves unsloth from PyPI.
+          if [ "${{ runner.os }}" = "Windows" ]; then
+            pwsh -NoProfile -File ./install.ps1 --local 2>&1 | tee logs/install.log
+          else
+            bash install.sh --local 2>&1 | tee logs/install.log
+          fi
+
+      - name: Profile startup
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          BIN="$UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME/unsloth_studio/bin/unsloth"
+          [ -x "$BIN" ] || BIN="$UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME/unsloth_studio/Scripts/unsloth.exe"
+          [ -x "$BIN" ] || BIN=""
+          # Profile imports with the INSTALLED interpreter: that venv is what launches.
+          PY="$UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME/unsloth_studio/bin/python"
+          [ -x "$PY" ] || PY="$UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME/unsloth_studio/Scripts/python.exe"
+          [ -x "$PY" ] || PY="$(command -v python3 || command -v python)"
+          python3 scripts/profile_startup.py \
+            --python "$PY" \
+            ${BIN:+--bin "$BIN"} \
+            --repeats "${{ inputs.repeats || '3' }}" \
+            --json "startup-${{ matrix.os }}.json" 2>&1 | tee logs/profile.log
+
+      - name: Summary
+        if: always()
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          f="startup-${{ matrix.os }}.json"
+          [ -f "$f" ] || { echo "no profile produced"; exit 0; }
+          python3 - "$f" >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY" <<'PY'
+          import json, sys
+          d = json.load(open(sys.argv[1]))
+          print(f"### {d['platform']} / {d['machine']} (py {d['python']}, {d['cpu_count']} cpu)\n")
+          imp = d.get("imports", {})
+          # Gate on ok: a failed `import main` still leaves rows, so a total can lie.
+          if imp.get("ok"):
+              print(f"**`import main`: {imp['total_seconds']}s**\n")
+              print("| package | self ms |")
+              print("|---|---:|")
+              for k, v in list(imp.get("self_by_package_ms", {}).items())[:8]:
+                  print(f"| {k} | {v} |")
+              print()
+          else:
+              print("**`import main` failed - no valid import profile**\n")
+              print("```\n" + (imp.get("error") or "")[-1500:] + "\n```\n")
+          lau = d.get("launch") or {}
+          runs = len(lau.get("runs") or [])
+          failed = lau.get("failed_runs") or 0
+          if lau.get("healthz_median_seconds") is not None:
+              # The aggregates cover only the runs that reached healthz, so flag the
+              # failures: bare numbers would read as a normal fast startup.
+              note = f" _({runs - failed} of {runs} launches; {failed} never became healthy)_" if failed else ""
+              print(f"**time to a healthy port: {lau['healthz_median_seconds']}s median, "
+                    f"{lau['healthz_max_seconds']}s max**{note}\n")
+          elif lau.get("skipped"):
+              print(f"_launch phase skipped: {lau['skipped']}_\n")
+          elif runs:
+              print(f"**no launch measurement: all {runs} launches failed to become healthy**\n")
+          PY
+
+      - name: Upload profile
+        if: always()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a  # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          name: startup-profile-${{ matrix.os }}
+          path: |
+            startup-*.json
+            logs/
+          retention-days: 14
+          if-no-files-found: warn

.github/workflows/studio-api-smoke.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
 # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved.
 
-# Studio API & Auth Tests -- HTTP-level integration tests for the
+# Unsloth API & Auth Tests -- HTTP-level integration tests for the
 # FastAPI surface. No Playwright, no model UI; tests/studio/test_studio_api_smoke.py
 # runs ~30 s and asserts:
 #   - CORS hardening (no wildcard + credentials, no bootstrap leak)
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 # Reuses the GGUF cache key from studio-ui-smoke.yml so the model
 # download is one cache-hit on the second job.
 
-name: Studio API CI
+name: Unsloth API CI
 
 on:
   pull_request:
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ permissions:
 
 jobs:
   api-smoke:
-    name: Studio API & Auth Tests
+    name: Unsloth API & Auth Tests
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 12
     env:
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ jobs:
           path: hf-cache
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-hf-${{ env.GGUF_REPO }}-${{ env.GGUF_VARIANT }}-v2
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           # Withheld on PR: this step runs checked-out PR code; public GGUF still downloads.
@@ -111,9 +111,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install pyjwt for the JWT-expiry forge test
         run: pip install 'pyjwt>=2.6'
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio (API-only)
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth (API-only)
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          # Wipe (not reset-password): the boot below must re-seed a fresh .bootstrap_password.
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
             > logs/studio.log 2>&1 &
@@ -144,7 +145,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "STUDIO_NEW_PW=$NEW"  >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "STUDIO_NEW2_PW=$NEW2" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
 
-      - name: Run Studio API & Auth tests
+      - name: Run Unsloth API & Auth tests
         # The script is named WITHOUT a `test_` prefix so it isn't
         # auto-collected by pytest in Backend CI's `tests/` walk
         # (which doesn't set BASE_URL and would crash at import).
@@ -153,7 +154,7 @@ jobs:
           STUDIO_AUTH_DIR: /home/runner/.unsloth/studio/auth
         run: python tests/studio/studio_api_smoke.py
 
-      - name: Stop Studio
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
         if: always()
         run: |
           kill "${STUDIO_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true

.github/workflows/studio-backend-ci.yml

@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ on:
       - 'unsloth/**'
       - 'unsloth_cli/**'
       - 'tests/**'
+      # The root installers: tests/sh/*.sh and tests/studio/install/* assert
+      # against these two files, so a change here must run the suite that
+      # covers it. Without them an install-only edit (the shape most AMD/ROCm
+      # routing fixes take) skipped Backend CI entirely.
+      - 'install.sh'
+      - 'install.ps1'
+      - 'scripts/**'
       - 'pyproject.toml'
       - '.github/workflows/studio-backend-ci.yml'
   push:
@@ -64,7 +71,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install backend test dependencies (CPU only)
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          # Studio's declared backend deps:
+          # Unsloth's declared backend deps:
           pip install -r studio/backend/requirements/studio.txt
           # Extras that studio.txt does not list but the import chain needs
           # (python-multipart for FastAPI form/file uploads, sqlalchemy/cryptography
@@ -193,6 +200,7 @@ jobs:
             --ignore=tests/sh \
             --ignore=tests/studio/test_hardware_dispatch_matrix.py \
             --ignore=tests/studio/test_is_mlx_dispatch_gate.py \
+            --ignore=tests/studio/test_xpu_spoof_pipeline.py \
             --ignore=tests/vllm_compat \
             --ignore=tests/version_compat \
             -m 'not server and not e2e' \
@@ -205,36 +213,53 @@ jobs:
         env:
           PYTHONPATH: ${{ github.workspace }}/studio
           UNSLOTH_COMPILE_DISABLE: '1'
-        # These two files mutate hardware.py module globals at runtime
-        # via the spoof fixtures, which leaks state into any other test
-        # that imports hardware. Run them in their own pytest invocation
-        # so the leak does not cross file boundaries.
+        # These files mutate hardware.py module globals at runtime via the
+        # spoof fixtures (CUDA/ROCm/XPU/MLX/CPU), which leaks state into any
+        # other test that imports hardware. Run them in their own pytest
+        # invocation so the leak does not cross file boundaries.
         run: |
           python -m pytest -q --tb=short \
             tests/studio/test_hardware_dispatch_matrix.py \
-            tests/studio/test_is_mlx_dispatch_gate.py
+            tests/studio/test_is_mlx_dispatch_gate.py \
+            tests/studio/test_xpu_spoof_pipeline.py
+
+      - name: CLI tests (unsloth_cli)
+        # unsloth_cli/tests had no CI at all: `unsloth_cli/**` was only a paths
+        # trigger and a ruff target, so 673 tests covering the studio launcher,
+        # the pre-exposure gate and the auth secret writers ran nowhere, and
+        # four of them had been failing on main unnoticed.
+        # Own step, not folded into the tests/ discovery above: pyproject's
+        # testpaths is tests/, and this suite needs no PYTHONPATH or CUDA spoof
+        # (it self-bootstraps sys.path and imports neither unsloth nor torch).
+        run: python -m pytest unsloth_cli/tests -q --tb=short
 
       - name: Shell installer tests
-        # Subset that does not depend on a writable / pristine install.sh
-        # tree; test_install_host_defaults.sh checks install.ps1 layout
-        # which has drifted (separate followup).
+        # Auto-discovered rather than allowlisted. The old hardcoded list had
+        # silently fallen seven files behind tests/run_all.sh, including
+        # test_strixhalo_wsl_reroute.sh -- the only shell coverage of the ROCm
+        # WSL reroute -- so that suite never ran on a PR. Skips are explicit,
+        # each with a reason, and tests/studio/test_ci_shell_suite_coverage.py
+        # fails if this step stops discovering the directory or the skip list
+        # grows without one.
+        #
+        # Skipped:
+        #   test_install_host_defaults.sh: asserts an install.ps1 layout that
+        #     has drifted (separate followup).
+        #   test_install_rollback_lifecycle.sh: already runs on both platforms
+        #     in cross-platform-parity-ci.yml.
         run: |
           set -e
-          for s in \
-              tests/sh/test_get_torch_index_url.sh \
-              tests/sh/test_mac_intel_compat.sh \
-              tests/sh/test_node_decision.sh \
-              tests/sh/test_studio_home_node_dir.sh \
-              tests/sh/test_system_node_readonly.sh \
-              tests/sh/test_nvcc_meets_llama_minimum.sh \
-              tests/sh/test_resolve_cuda_archs.sh \
-              tests/sh/test_tauri_install_exit_order.sh \
-              tests/sh/test_torch_constraint.sh \
-              tests/sh/test_torch_flavor.sh \
-              tests/sh/test_with_llama_cpp_dir_flag.sh \
-              tests/sh/test_with_llama_cpp_dir_link_behavior.sh; do
+          skip="test_install_host_defaults.sh test_install_rollback_lifecycle.sh"
+          found=0
+          for s in tests/sh/test_*.sh; do
+              case " $skip " in
+                  *" $(basename "$s") "*) echo "skipping $s (see workflow comment)"; continue ;;
+              esac
+              found=$((found + 1))
               echo "::group::$s"
               bash "$s"
               echo "::endgroup::"
           done
+          [ "$found" -gt 0 ] || { echo "::error::no shell tests discovered under tests/sh"; exit 1; }
+          echo "ran $found shell installer test files"
 

.github/workflows/studio-export-capability-ci.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # export is validated separately. No GPU / model / llama.cpp: the tests mock the probes and block
 # torch/unsloth, so the job installs only a CPU PyTorch plus import deps.
 
-name: Studio export capability
+name: Unsloth export capability
 
 on:
   pull_request:

.github/workflows/studio-frontend-ci.yml

@@ -133,10 +133,13 @@ jobs:
       - name: Typecheck
         run: npm run typecheck
 
+      - name: Unit tests
+        run: npm test
+
       - name: Build
         run: npm run build
 
-      - name: Built bundle must not contain Studio's unstable_Provider call site
+      - name: Built bundle must not contain Unsloth's unstable_Provider call site
         run: |
           set -e
           JS=$(ls dist/assets/index-*.js | head -1)
@@ -144,7 +147,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "main bundle: $JS"
           echo "unstable_Provider: hits=$HITS (assistant-ui internals contribute up to 3)"
           if [ "$HITS" -gt 3 ]; then
-            echo "::error file=studio/frontend/src/features/chat/runtime-provider.tsx::Studio bundle still passes unstable_Provider through useRemoteThreadListRuntime; this is the 2026.5.1 chat-history regression. Pass adapters directly into useLocalRuntime instead."
+            echo "::error file=studio/frontend/src/features/chat/runtime-provider.tsx::Unsloth bundle still passes unstable_Provider through useRemoteThreadListRuntime; this is the 2026.5.1 chat-history regression. Pass adapters directly into useLocalRuntime instead."
             exit 1
           fi
 

.github/workflows/studio-inference-smoke.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
 # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved.
 
-# Three end-to-end smoke jobs that boot a freshly-installed Studio and
+# Three end-to-end smoke jobs that boot a freshly-installed Unsloth and
 # exercise the surfaces real users hit through the OpenAI / Anthropic
 # SDKs and curl. Each job picks the smallest model that exercises the
 # behaviour under test, primes HF_HOME via actions/cache, and shares
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 # All three jobs run in parallel. Total wall time is dominated by job 3
 # on a cold cache; warm cache cuts that to ~3 min.
 
-name: Studio GGUF CI
+name: Unsloth GGUF CI
 
 on:
   pull_request:
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ jobs:
           path: hf-cache
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-hf-${{ env.GGUF_REPO }}-${{ env.GGUF_VARIANT }}-v2
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           # Withheld on PR: this step runs checked-out PR code; public GGUF still downloads.
@@ -125,9 +125,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install OpenAI + Anthropic Python SDKs
         run: pip install 'openai>=1.50' 'anthropic>=0.40'
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio (API-only)
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth (API-only)
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          # Wipe (not reset-password): the boot below must re-seed a fresh .bootstrap_password.
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
             > logs/studio.log 2>&1 &
@@ -142,7 +143,7 @@ jobs:
             fi
             sleep 1
           done
-          echo "Studio did not become healthy in 180s"
+          echo "Unsloth did not become healthy in 180s"
           tail -200 logs/studio.log
           exit 1
 
@@ -229,11 +230,11 @@ jobs:
               return replies
 
           def run_anthropic():
-              # Two SDK quirks vs. Studio:
+              # Two SDK quirks vs. Unsloth:
               #   1. base_url must NOT include /v1 -- the SDK appends
               #      /v1/messages itself; otherwise the request hits
               #      /v1/v1/messages and 405s.
-              #   2. The SDK sends `x-api-key` by default, but Studio's
+              #   2. The SDK sends `x-api-key` by default, but Unsloth's
               #      auth layer is HTTPBearer-only. Override via
               #      default_headers so Authorization: Bearer ... is
               #      sent instead.
@@ -276,7 +277,7 @@ jobs:
                   print(
                       f"[{label}] WARN non-determinism at temperature=0.0 across "
                       f"{len(determinism_failures)} of {len(first)} turn(s); "
-                      f"small-quant model drift, not a Studio regression. "
+                      f"small-quant model drift, not an Unsloth regression. "
                       f"Details: " + " | ".join(determinism_failures)
                   )
               # Sanity: turn-2 reply should mention the earlier question, and
@@ -290,7 +291,7 @@ jobs:
               print(f"[{label}] {status_word} -- 4 turns, history grounded ('paris' present)")
           PY
 
-      - name: Stop Studio
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
         if: always()
         run: |
           kill "${STUDIO_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
@@ -323,7 +324,7 @@ jobs:
       # store xet chunks + blobs + snapshots = ~4 GiB compressed --
       # 4-5x file-size inflation, dominated by xet chunks. Use main's
       # `--local-dir gguf-cache` pattern to cache the flat .gguf only.
-      # Studio's /api/inference/load accepts either a HF repo (which
+      # Unsloth's /api/inference/load accepts either a HF repo (which
       # uses HF_HOME) or an absolute file path; passing the absolute
       # path keeps the test off HF_HOME entirely so the cache size
       # tracks the GGUF file 1:1. The OpenAI/Anth and JSON+images
@@ -380,7 +381,7 @@ jobs:
           path: gguf-cache
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-gguf-${{ env.GGUF_REPO }}-${{ env.GGUF_FILE }}-v1
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           # Withheld on PR: this step runs checked-out PR code; public GGUF still downloads.
@@ -390,7 +391,7 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           bash install.sh --local --no-torch 2>&1 | tee logs/install.log
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio (API-only, default tool policy)
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth (API-only, default tool policy)
         # We deliberately use the API-only mode rather than
         # `unsloth studio run` because the latter calls
         # `set_tool_policy(...)` with a resolved bool: on loopback the
@@ -400,7 +401,7 @@ jobs:
         # tool_policy=None so each request's `enable_tools` field is
         # honoured.
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
             > logs/studio.log 2>&1 &
@@ -444,6 +445,8 @@ jobs:
           python - <<'PY'
           import json
           import os
+          import time
+          import urllib.error
           import urllib.request
 
           BASE = os.environ["BASE_URL"]
@@ -464,10 +467,26 @@ jobs:
                       "Content-Type": "application/json",
                   },
               )
-              with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = timeout) as resp:
-                  return resp.status, json.loads(resp.read().decode())
+              # Shared CI runners stall sporadically, so retry transport-level
+              # failures only; HTTP status errors surface immediately. Bounded
+              # to fit the job's timeout-minutes: short probes get 3 full
+              # attempts, long probes one retry capped at 300s (a healthy
+              # server answers a retry quickly; a stalled one never does).
+              attempts = 3 if timeout <= 300 else 2
+              for attempt in range(attempts):
+                  try:
+                      t = timeout if attempt == 0 else min(timeout, 300)
+                      with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = t) as resp:
+                          return resp.status, json.loads(resp.read().decode())
+                  except urllib.error.HTTPError:
+                      raise
+                  except (TimeoutError, ConnectionError, urllib.error.URLError) as exc:
+                      if attempt == attempts - 1:
+                          raise
+                      print(f"[retry] {path}: {exc!r}", flush = True)
+                      time.sleep(15)
 
-          def post_sse(path, body, *, timeout = 600):
+          def post_sse(path, body, *, timeout = 600, retries = 1, complete_on = None):
               """POST a streaming request and accumulate the assistant
               text deltas. The server-side agentic loop ALWAYS returns
               SSE regardless of the request's `stream` field, so any
@@ -483,6 +502,22 @@ jobs:
                                  invocation markers / tool output, since
                                  `delta.content` alone is not evidence
                                  that the tool path executed.
+
+              A shared CI runner can stall the stream transport (the
+              connection opening, or a mid-stream read) even when Unsloth
+              is healthy, so retry a stall once with a fresh request
+              capped at 300s. A stall means the stream did NOT complete,
+              so partial events are normally NOT returned (an early
+              tool_start with no tool_end is not proof the tool loop
+              finished). The one exception is `complete_on`: an optional
+              predicate over the events collected so far -- when a stall
+              happens after it is already satisfied (the tool ran and
+              produced its result before the trailing read timed out),
+              those events are returned rather than discarded, so the
+              stall-after-answer case still counts. HTTP status errors
+              surface immediately; a stall that yields no completed result
+              across all attempts re-raises so the caller can rotate to
+              the next seed.
               """
               body = {**body, "stream": True}
               data = json.dumps(body).encode()
@@ -495,26 +530,45 @@ jobs:
                       "Content-Type": "application/json",
                   },
               )
-              parts = []
-              events = []
-              with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = timeout) as resp:
-                  for raw in resp:
-                      line = raw.decode().strip()
-                      if not line.startswith("data: "):
-                          continue
-                      payload = line[6:]
-                      if payload == "[DONE]":
-                          break
-                      events.append(payload)
-                      try:
-                          chunk = json.loads(payload)
-                      except json.JSONDecodeError:
-                          continue
-                      for choice in chunk.get("choices", []):
-                          delta = choice.get("delta", {}) or {}
-                          if delta.get("content"):
-                              parts.append(delta["content"])
-              return "".join(parts), events
+              for attempt in range(retries + 1):
+                  parts = []
+                  events = []
+                  t = timeout if attempt == 0 else min(timeout, 300)
+                  try:
+                      with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = t) as resp:
+                          for raw in resp:
+                              line = raw.decode().strip()
+                              if not line.startswith("data: "):
+                                  continue
+                              payload = line[6:]
+                              if payload == "[DONE]":
+                                  break
+                              events.append(payload)
+                              try:
+                                  chunk = json.loads(payload)
+                              except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                                  continue
+                              for choice in chunk.get("choices", []):
+                                  delta = choice.get("delta", {}) or {}
+                                  if delta.get("content"):
+                                      parts.append(delta["content"])
+                      return "".join(parts), events
+                  except urllib.error.HTTPError:
+                      raise
+                  except (TimeoutError, ConnectionError, urllib.error.URLError) as exc:
+                      # A stall after the tool already produced its result is
+                      # the case this probe exists to tolerate: keep those
+                      # events. But a stall with only an early tool_start (no
+                      # completed output) is not proof the tool loop finished,
+                      # so it must not pass -- retry once, then raise so
+                      # _run_tool_probe rotates to the next seed.
+                      if complete_on is not None and complete_on(events):
+                          print(f"[retry-sse] {path}: {exc!r}; keeping {len(events)} completed events", flush = True)
+                          return "".join(parts), events
+                      if attempt == retries:
+                          raise
+                      print(f"[retry-sse] {path}: {exc!r}", flush = True)
+                      time.sleep(15)
 
           _STUDIO_TOOL_TYPES = {
               "tool_start", "tool_end", "tool_use", "tool_result",
@@ -522,11 +576,11 @@ jobs:
 
           def _tool_invoked(events):
               """Structural check: True iff some SSE payload is a real
-              tool envelope (Studio tool_start/tool_end, Anthropic
+              tool envelope (Unsloth tool_start/tool_end, Anthropic
               tool_use/tool_result, OpenAI non-empty delta.tool_calls /
               message.tool_calls / finish_reason='tool_calls' /
               role:'tool' / function_call). tool_status is NOT
-              evidence: Studio emits empty tool_status events on
+              evidence: Unsloth emits empty tool_status events on
               iteration boundaries even when no tool ran.
               """
               for raw in events:
@@ -645,23 +699,61 @@ jobs:
               attempt has structural invocation evidence. WARN (not
               FAIL) if invoked but no attempt produces the expected
               literal in tool_end.result -- small-quant Qwen3.5-2B can
-              emit OpenAI tool_calls deltas without Studio's GGUF
+              emit OpenAI tool_calls deltas without Unsloth's GGUF
               agentic loop intercepting them, and that GGUF-vs-OpenAI
               format mismatch is out of scope for #5642.
               """
               attempts_log = []
               best = None
+              # Cap the wall-clock spent rotating through stalled seeds so a
+              # persistent no-data wedge fails fast (clean assertion) instead
+              # of being killed by the job's timeout-minutes. A healthy or
+              # merely degenerate round answers in seconds, so all seeds still
+              # run in the normal case; only stalls consume the budget.
+              probe_deadline = time.monotonic() + 300
               for attempt_i in range(max_attempts):
+                  # Cap each read by the budget still remaining (not just a flat
+                  # 180s) and skip an attempt too small to finish, so the whole
+                  # rotation stays within ~300s -- two probes then fit the job's
+                  # timeout-minutes even if every seed stalls.
+                  remaining = int(probe_deadline - time.monotonic())
+                  if attempt_i and remaining < 30:
+                      print(f"[tools] {label}: seed-rotation budget spent after {attempt_i} attempts", flush = True)
+                      break
                   attempt_seed = SEED + attempt_i
-                  content, events = post_sse("/v1/chat/completions", {
-                      "messages":      [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}],
-                      "enable_tools":  True,
-                      "enabled_tools": enabled,
-                      "session_id":    f"{session}-att{attempt_i}",
-                      "temperature":   TOOL_PROBE_TEMP,
-                      "seed":          attempt_seed,
-                      "max_tokens":    600,
-                  })
+                  try:
+                      # Bounded per-attempt timeout, no inner retry -- the seed
+                      # loop IS the retry, so a stall raises quickly and rotates
+                      # rather than spending post_sse's full 600+300s. complete_on
+                      # keeps a stall that already produced the tool result (only
+                      # the trailing read timed out) instead of discarding it.
+                      content, events = post_sse("/v1/chat/completions", {
+                          "messages":      [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}],
+                          "enable_tools":  True,
+                          "permission_mode": "full",
+                          "enabled_tools": enabled,
+                          "session_id":    f"{session}-att{attempt_i}",
+                          "temperature":   TOOL_PROBE_TEMP,
+                          "seed":          attempt_seed,
+                          "max_tokens":    600,
+                      }, timeout = min(180, remaining), retries = 0,
+                         complete_on = lambda ev: _tool_invoked(ev) and _tool_output_contains(ev, *needles))
+                  except urllib.error.HTTPError:
+                      # HTTPError subclasses URLError, so re-raise a real 4xx/5xx
+                      # here instead of letting the transport-stall handler below
+                      # swallow it and rotate seeds -- an endpoint status failure
+                      # must surface, not be masked as missing tool evidence.
+                      raise
+                  except (TimeoutError, ConnectionError, urllib.error.URLError) as exc:
+                      # A transport stall that outlived post_sse's own retry:
+                      # log it as a failed attempt and rotate to the next seed
+                      # rather than sinking the whole probe on one bad stream.
+                      attempts_log.append({
+                          "attempt": attempt_i, "seed": attempt_seed,
+                          "transport_error": repr(exc),
+                      })
+                      print(f"[tools] retry {label} attempt {attempt_i}: transport {exc!r}", flush = True)
+                      continue
                   invoked  = _tool_invoked(events)
                   produced = _tool_output_contains(events, *needles)
                   attempts_log.append({
@@ -720,17 +812,21 @@ jobs:
           # because (a) the search may legitimately return no results,
           # and (b) DuckDuckGo upstream blocks GHA IP ranges often
           # enough that requiring a tool_call marker would create
-          # red-herring failures from infra rather than from Studio.
+          # red-herring failures from infra rather than from Unsloth.
           try:
+              # Best-effort and bounded: a single 180s attempt keeps a stall
+              # from eating the job's timeout-minutes (it already WARNs, so a
+              # retry buys nothing).
               content, events = post_sse("/v1/chat/completions", {
                   "messages":      [{"role": "user", "content": "Search the web for 'unsloth ai github' and summarise."}],
                   "enable_tools":  True,
+                  "permission_mode": "full",
                   "enabled_tools": ["web_search"],
                   "session_id":    "ci-tool-calling-web",
                   "temperature":   0.0,
                   "seed":          SEED,
                   "max_tokens":    400,
-              })
+              }, timeout = 180, retries = 0)
               print(
                   f"[tools] PASS web_search stream ({len(content)} chars in content, "
                   f"{len(events)} raw events)"
@@ -739,7 +835,7 @@ jobs:
               print(f"[tools] WARN web_search probe failed (non-blocking): {exc}")
 
           # ── 5. Thinking on / off ─────────────────────────────────────
-          # Studio strips think blocks from message.content for tools-mode
+          # Unsloth strips think blocks from message.content for tools-mode
           # responses, so we toggle plain chat (no enable_tools) and look
           # at the surfaced reasoning_content / message.thinking field.
           def thinking_call(enable):
@@ -753,7 +849,7 @@ jobs:
               })
               assert status == 200
               msg = data["choices"][0]["message"]
-              # Studio surfaces thinking via reasoning_content (OpenAI
+              # Unsloth surfaces thinking via reasoning_content (OpenAI
               # extension). Fall back to inline <think> markers for
               # robustness across template versions.
               raw = (msg.get("content") or "") + (msg.get("reasoning_content") or "")
@@ -773,7 +869,7 @@ jobs:
           print(f"[tools] PASS thinking on/off (on={len(on_text)} chars, off={len(off_text)} chars)")
           PY
 
-      - name: Stop Studio
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
         if: always()
         run: |
           kill "${STUDIO_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
@@ -865,7 +961,7 @@ jobs:
           path: hf-cache
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-hf-${{ env.GGUF_REPO }}-${{ env.GGUF_VARIANT }}-${{ env.MMPROJ_FILE }}-v2
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           # Withheld on PR: this step runs checked-out PR code; public GGUF still downloads.
@@ -878,12 +974,12 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install OpenAI + Anthropic Python SDKs
         run: pip install 'openai>=1.50' 'anthropic>=0.40'
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio (API-only)
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth (API-only)
         # See Job 2's comment: API-only mode keeps tool_policy=None so
         # response_format requests aren't routed through the agentic
         # tool loop.
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
             > logs/studio.log 2>&1 &
@@ -938,6 +1034,8 @@ jobs:
           import base64
           import json
           import os
+          import time
+          import urllib.error
           import urllib.request
           from openai import OpenAI
           from anthropic import Anthropic
@@ -956,20 +1054,36 @@ jobs:
                       "Content-Type":  "application/json",
                   },
               )
-              with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = timeout) as resp:
-                  return resp.status, json.loads(resp.read().decode())
+              # Shared CI runners stall sporadically, so retry transport-level
+              # failures only; HTTP status errors surface immediately. Bounded
+              # to fit the job's timeout-minutes: short probes get 3 full
+              # attempts, long probes one retry capped at 300s (a healthy
+              # server answers a retry quickly; a stalled one never does).
+              attempts = 3 if timeout <= 300 else 2
+              for attempt in range(attempts):
+                  try:
+                      t = timeout if attempt == 0 else min(timeout, 300)
+                      with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = t) as resp:
+                          return resp.status, json.loads(resp.read().decode())
+                  except urllib.error.HTTPError:
+                      raise
+                  except (TimeoutError, ConnectionError, urllib.error.URLError) as exc:
+                      if attempt == attempts - 1:
+                          raise
+                      print(f"[retry] {path}: {exc!r}", flush = True)
+                      time.sleep(15)
 
           # ── 1. response_format = json_object (JSON mode) ─────────────
           # llama.cpp's HTTP server supports OpenAI-compatible JSON
           # mode: `response_format: {"type": "json_object"}` constrains
           # the model to emit syntactically-valid JSON. We use raw HTTP
-          # rather than the OpenAI SDK so that the field shape Studio
+          # rather than the OpenAI SDK so that the field shape Unsloth
           # forwards to llama-server is unambiguous (the SDK rewrites
           # response_format depending on which variant it recognises).
           # We deliberately do NOT pass a strict JSON schema -- on
           # small Gemma-4 quants the GBNF-from-schema path occasionally
           # produces empty output, and JSON mode is the surface we care
-          # about exposing through Studio.
+          # about exposing through Unsloth.
           status, data = post("/v1/chat/completions", {
               "model":         "default",
               "messages":      [
@@ -999,7 +1113,7 @@ jobs:
           print(f"[json] PASS json_object -> {parsed}")
 
           # ── 2. OpenAI image_url (data URI base64) ───────────────────
-          # 64x64 solid-red PNG. stb_image (used by Studio's image
+          # 64x64 solid-red PNG. stb_image (used by Unsloth's image
           # normaliser at routes/inference.py:3410) rejects 4x4 or
           # smaller PNGs as truncated, so we go up to 64x64 -- still
           # tiny in token cost. The assertion is loose: any non-empty
@@ -1035,9 +1149,9 @@ jobs:
           print("[image/openai] PASS image_url accepted, non-empty response")
 
           # ── 3. Anthropic source/base64 image ────────────────────────
-          # Two SDK quirks vs. Studio: base_url must NOT include /v1
+          # Two SDK quirks vs. Unsloth: base_url must NOT include /v1
           # (the SDK appends it itself; otherwise /v1/v1/messages -> 405),
-          # and Studio's auth is HTTPBearer-only so the SDK's default
+          # and Unsloth's auth is HTTPBearer-only so the SDK's default
           # x-api-key header is ignored -- send Authorization: Bearer
           # via default_headers.
           anthropic = Anthropic(
@@ -1071,7 +1185,7 @@ jobs:
           print("[image/anthropic] PASS source/base64 accepted, non-empty response")
           PY
 
-      - name: Stop Studio
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
         if: always()
         run: |
           kill "${STUDIO_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true

.github/workflows/studio-load-orchestrator-ci.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
 # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved.
 #
-# Event-loop regression test for the Studio model-load orchestrator.
+# Event-loop regression test for the Unsloth model-load orchestrator.
 # Pins down issue #5642 (Win10 UI freeze on model load): the /load
 # route calls LlamaCppBackend.detect_audio_type synchronously, blocking
 # the FastAPI event loop on a chain of sync httpx.Client.post() probes.
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # danielhanchen/unsloth-staging-2 (Ubuntu / macOS / Windows all
 # green at PR time).
 
-name: Studio load-orchestrator CI
+name: Unsloth load-orchestrator CI
 
 on:
   pull_request:

.github/workflows/studio-mac-api-smoke.yml

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ permissions:
 
 jobs:
   api-smoke:
-    name: Studio API & Auth Tests
+    name: Unsloth API & Auth Tests
     runs-on: macos-14
     timeout-minutes: 25
     env:
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ jobs:
           path: hf-cache
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-hf-${{ env.GGUF_REPO }}-${{ env.GGUF_VARIANT }}-v2
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           # Withheld on PR: this step runs checked-out PR code; public GGUF still downloads.
@@ -99,9 +99,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install pyjwt for the JWT-expiry forge test
         run: pip install 'pyjwt>=2.6'
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio (API-only)
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth (API-only)
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          # Wipe (not reset-password): the boot below must re-seed a fresh .bootstrap_password.
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
             > logs/studio.log 2>&1 &
@@ -129,13 +130,13 @@ jobs:
           echo "STUDIO_NEW_PW=$NEW"  >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "STUDIO_NEW2_PW=$NEW2" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
 
-      - name: Run Studio API & Auth tests
+      - name: Run Unsloth API & Auth tests
         env:
           BASE_URL: http://127.0.0.1:18895
           STUDIO_AUTH_DIR: /Users/runner/.unsloth/studio/auth
         run: python tests/studio/studio_api_smoke.py
 
-      - name: Stop Studio
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
         if: always()
         run: |
           kill "${STUDIO_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true

.github/workflows/studio-mac-inference-smoke.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
 # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved.
 
-# Three end-to-end smoke jobs that boot a freshly-installed Studio and
+# Three end-to-end smoke jobs that boot a freshly-installed Unsloth and
 # exercise the surfaces real users hit through the OpenAI / Anthropic
 # SDKs and curl. Each job picks the smallest model that exercises the
 # behaviour under test, primes a model cache via actions/cache, and
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ jobs:
           path: hf-cache
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-hf-${{ env.GGUF_REPO }}-${{ env.GGUF_VARIANT }}-v2
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           # Withheld on PR: this step runs checked-out PR code; public GGUF still downloads.
@@ -124,9 +124,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install OpenAI + Anthropic Python SDKs
         run: pip install 'openai>=1.50' 'anthropic>=0.40'
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio (API-only)
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth (API-only)
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          # Wipe (not reset-password): the boot below must re-seed a fresh .bootstrap_password.
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
             > logs/studio.log 2>&1 &
@@ -141,7 +142,7 @@ jobs:
             fi
             sleep 1
           done
-          echo "Studio did not become healthy in 180s"
+          echo "Unsloth did not become healthy in 180s"
           tail -200 logs/studio.log
           exit 1
 
@@ -228,11 +229,11 @@ jobs:
               return replies
 
           def run_anthropic():
-              # Two SDK quirks vs. Studio:
+              # Two SDK quirks vs. Unsloth:
               #   1. base_url must NOT include /v1 -- the SDK appends
               #      /v1/messages itself; otherwise the request hits
               #      /v1/v1/messages and 405s.
-              #   2. The SDK sends `x-api-key` by default, but Studio's
+              #   2. The SDK sends `x-api-key` by default, but Unsloth's
               #      auth layer is HTTPBearer-only. Override via
               #      default_headers so Authorization: Bearer ... is
               #      sent instead.
@@ -283,7 +284,7 @@ jobs:
               print(f"[{label}] OK -- 4 turns, run1 == run2, history grounded")
           PY
 
-      - name: Stop Studio
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
         if: always()
         run: |
           kill "${STUDIO_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
@@ -363,7 +364,7 @@ jobs:
           path: gguf-cache
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-gguf-${{ env.GGUF_REPO }}-${{ env.GGUF_FILE }}-v1
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           # Withheld on PR: this step runs checked-out PR code; public GGUF still downloads.
@@ -376,7 +377,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Assert llama.cpp loads on this macOS
         run: bash .github/scripts/assert-llama-loads.sh
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio (API-only, default tool policy)
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth (API-only, default tool policy)
         # We deliberately use the API-only mode rather than
         # `unsloth studio run` because the latter calls
         # `set_tool_policy(...)` with a resolved bool: on loopback the
@@ -386,7 +387,7 @@ jobs:
         # tool_policy=None so each request's `enable_tools` field is
         # honoured.
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
             > logs/studio.log 2>&1 &
@@ -430,6 +431,8 @@ jobs:
           python - <<'PY'
           import json
           import os
+          import time
+          import urllib.error
           import urllib.request
 
           BASE = os.environ["BASE_URL"]
@@ -450,14 +453,41 @@ jobs:
                       "Content-Type": "application/json",
                   },
               )
-              with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = timeout) as resp:
-                  return resp.status, json.loads(resp.read().decode())
+              # Shared CI runners stall sporadically, so retry transport-level
+              # failures only; HTTP status errors surface immediately. Bounded
+              # to fit the job's timeout-minutes: short probes get 3 full
+              # attempts, long probes one retry capped at 300s (a healthy
+              # server answers a retry quickly; a stalled one never does).
+              attempts = 3 if timeout <= 300 else 2
+              for attempt in range(attempts):
+                  try:
+                      t = timeout if attempt == 0 else min(timeout, 300)
+                      with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = t) as resp:
+                          return resp.status, json.loads(resp.read().decode())
+                  except urllib.error.HTTPError:
+                      raise
+                  except (TimeoutError, ConnectionError, urllib.error.URLError) as exc:
+                      if attempt == attempts - 1:
+                          raise
+                      print(f"[retry] {path}: {exc!r}", flush = True)
+                      time.sleep(15)
 
-          def post_sse(path, body, *, timeout = 600):
+          def post_sse(path, body, *, timeout = 600, retries = 1, soft = False):
               """POST a streaming request and accumulate the assistant
               text deltas. The server-side agentic loop ALWAYS returns
               SSE regardless of the request's `stream` field, so any
-              call with enable_tools=true must use this helper."""
+              call with enable_tools=true must use this helper.
+
+              A shared CI runner can stall the stream transport (the
+              connection opening, or a mid-stream read) even when Unsloth
+              is healthy, so harden the read three ways: retry a stall
+              once with a fresh request capped at 300s; return any text
+              already streamed before a stall (a stall on the trailing
+              tokens, after the answer arrived, still counts); and when
+              every attempt yields nothing, a hard call re-raises while a
+              soft call (the best-effort server-side tool probes) returns
+              None so the caller can WARN instead of sinking the whole
+              job. HTTP status errors always surface immediately."""
               body = {**body, "stream": True}
               data = json.dumps(body).encode()
               req = urllib.request.Request(
@@ -469,24 +499,43 @@ jobs:
                       "Content-Type": "application/json",
                   },
               )
-              parts = []
-              with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = timeout) as resp:
-                  for raw in resp:
-                      line = raw.decode().strip()
-                      if not line.startswith("data: "):
-                          continue
-                      payload = line[6:]
-                      if payload == "[DONE]":
-                          break
-                      try:
-                          chunk = json.loads(payload)
-                      except json.JSONDecodeError:
-                          continue
-                      for choice in chunk.get("choices", []):
-                          delta = choice.get("delta", {}) or {}
-                          if delta.get("content"):
-                              parts.append(delta["content"])
-              return "".join(parts)
+              for attempt in range(retries + 1):
+                  parts = []
+                  t = timeout if attempt == 0 else min(timeout, 300)
+                  try:
+                      with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = t) as resp:
+                          for raw in resp:
+                              line = raw.decode().strip()
+                              if not line.startswith("data: "):
+                                  continue
+                              payload = line[6:]
+                              if payload == "[DONE]":
+                                  break
+                              try:
+                                  chunk = json.loads(payload)
+                              except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                                  continue
+                              for choice in chunk.get("choices", []):
+                                  delta = choice.get("delta", {}) or {}
+                                  if delta.get("content"):
+                                      parts.append(delta["content"])
+                      return "".join(parts)
+                  except urllib.error.HTTPError:
+                      raise
+                  except (TimeoutError, ConnectionError, urllib.error.URLError) as exc:
+                      # Text already streamed is a valid signal -- keep it
+                      # rather than re-running a heavy generation.
+                      if parts:
+                          joined = "".join(parts)
+                          print(f"[retry-sse] {path}: {exc!r}; keeping {len(joined)} partial chars", flush = True)
+                          return joined
+                      if attempt == retries:
+                          if soft:
+                              print(f"[tools] WARN {path}: SSE transport stalled with no data ({exc!r}) -- non-blocking", flush = True)
+                              return None
+                          raise
+                      print(f"[retry-sse] {path}: {exc!r}", flush = True)
+                      time.sleep(15)
 
           # ── 1. Standard OpenAI function calling ──────────────────────
           weather_tool = {
@@ -526,11 +575,11 @@ jobs:
           assert status == 200, f"tool call status {status}: {data}"
           choice = data["choices"][0]
           tool_calls = (choice.get("message") or {}).get("tool_calls") or []
-          # Studio's contract: when tool_choice='required', llama.cpp's
+          # Unsloth's contract: when tool_choice='required', llama.cpp's
           # grammar should force a tool_calls payload. On Mac that
           # contract is sometimes broken by the underlying quant; the
           # PASS path is "tool_calls present + correct schema", the
-          # WARN path documents Studio still returned 200 with a
+          # WARN path documents Unsloth still returned 200 with a
           # well-formed choices[] envelope.
           if tool_calls:
               tc = tool_calls[0]
@@ -557,16 +606,23 @@ jobs:
           # macos-14 free runner is ~10 tok/s on Qwen3.5-2B Q4_K_XL;
           # cap max_tokens tightly so each SSE round stays under ~30s
           # even when the model stalls in a degenerate output state.
+          # retries=0 on the best-effort probes: this job's 25-minute cap
+          # allows a 10-minute model load, so a no-data stall must be a
+          # single 180s attempt (not 180+15+180s) to leave room for the
+          # thinking checks. A soft/best-effort probe only WARNs anyway.
           content = post_sse("/v1/chat/completions", {
               "messages":      [{"role": "user", "content": "What is 123 * 456? Use the python tool to compute it and tell me the number."}],
               "enable_tools":  True,
+              "permission_mode": "full",
               "enabled_tools": ["python"],
               "session_id":    "ci-tool-calling-py",
               "temperature":   TEMP,
               "seed":          SEED,
               "max_tokens":    128,
-          }, timeout = 180)
-          if "56088" in content or "56,088" in content:
+          }, timeout = 180, retries = 0, soft = True)
+          if content is None:
+              print("[tools] WARN python tool: SSE transport stalled after retries -- non-blocking")
+          elif "56088" in content or "56,088" in content:
               print(f"[tools] PASS python tool ({len(content)} chars, found 56088)")
           else:
               # Empty stream is a known Mac-quant degeneracy too; log
@@ -593,18 +649,19 @@ jobs:
               content = post_sse("/v1/chat/completions", {
                   "messages":      [{"role": "user", "content": "Search the web for 'unsloth ai github' and summarise."}],
                   "enable_tools":  True,
+                  "permission_mode": "full",
                   "enabled_tools": ["web_search"],
                   "session_id":    "ci-tool-calling-web",
                   "temperature":   TEMP,
                   "seed":          SEED,
                   "max_tokens":    96,
-              }, timeout = 180)
+              }, timeout = 180, retries = 0)
               print(f"[tools] PASS web_search stream ({len(content)} chars)")
           except Exception as exc:
               print(f"[tools] WARN web_search probe failed (non-blocking): {exc}")
 
           # ── 4. Thinking on / off ─────────────────────────────────────
-          # Studio strips think blocks from message.content for tools-mode
+          # Unsloth strips think blocks from message.content for tools-mode
           # responses, so we toggle plain chat (no enable_tools) and look
           # at the surfaced reasoning_content / message.thinking field.
           def thinking_call(enable):
@@ -622,7 +679,7 @@ jobs:
               }, timeout = 180)
               assert status == 200
               msg = data["choices"][0]["message"]
-              # Studio surfaces thinking via reasoning_content (OpenAI
+              # Unsloth surfaces thinking via reasoning_content (OpenAI
               # extension). Fall back to inline <think> markers for
               # robustness across template versions.
               raw = (msg.get("content") or "") + (msg.get("reasoning_content") or "")
@@ -648,7 +705,7 @@ jobs:
           print(f"[tools] PASS thinking on/off (on={len(on_text)} chars, off={len(off_text)} chars)")
           PY
 
-      - name: Stop Studio
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
         if: always()
         run: |
           kill "${STUDIO_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
@@ -754,7 +811,7 @@ jobs:
           path: gguf-cache
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-gguf-${{ env.GGUF_REPO }}-${{ env.GGUF_FILE }}-${{ env.MMPROJ_FILE }}-v2
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           # Withheld on PR: this step runs checked-out PR code; public GGUF still downloads.
@@ -770,12 +827,12 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install OpenAI + Anthropic Python SDKs
         run: pip install 'openai>=1.50' 'anthropic>=0.40'
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio (API-only)
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth (API-only)
         # See Job 2's comment: API-only mode keeps tool_policy=None so
         # response_format requests aren't routed through the agentic
         # tool loop.
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
             > logs/studio.log 2>&1 &
@@ -825,6 +882,8 @@ jobs:
           import base64
           import json
           import os
+          import time
+          import urllib.error
           import urllib.request
           from openai import OpenAI
           from anthropic import Anthropic
@@ -848,20 +907,36 @@ jobs:
                       "Content-Type":  "application/json",
                   },
               )
-              with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = timeout) as resp:
-                  return resp.status, json.loads(resp.read().decode())
+              # Shared CI runners stall sporadically, so retry transport-level
+              # failures only; HTTP status errors surface immediately. Bounded
+              # to fit the job's timeout-minutes: short probes get 3 full
+              # attempts, long probes one retry capped at 300s (a healthy
+              # server answers a retry quickly; a stalled one never does).
+              attempts = 3 if timeout <= 300 else 2
+              for attempt in range(attempts):
+                  try:
+                      t = timeout if attempt == 0 else min(timeout, 300)
+                      with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = t) as resp:
+                          return resp.status, json.loads(resp.read().decode())
+                  except urllib.error.HTTPError:
+                      raise
+                  except (TimeoutError, ConnectionError, urllib.error.URLError) as exc:
+                      if attempt == attempts - 1:
+                          raise
+                      print(f"[retry] {path}: {exc!r}", flush = True)
+                      time.sleep(15)
 
           # ── 1. response_format = json_object (JSON mode) ─────────────
           # llama.cpp's HTTP server supports OpenAI-compatible JSON
           # mode: `response_format: {"type": "json_object"}` constrains
           # the model to emit syntactically-valid JSON. We use raw HTTP
-          # rather than the OpenAI SDK so that the field shape Studio
+          # rather than the OpenAI SDK so that the field shape Unsloth
           # forwards to llama-server is unambiguous (the SDK rewrites
           # response_format depending on which variant it recognises).
           # We deliberately do NOT pass a strict JSON schema -- on
           # small Gemma-4 quants the GBNF-from-schema path occasionally
           # produces empty output, and JSON mode is the surface we care
-          # about exposing through Studio.
+          # about exposing through Unsloth.
           status, data = post("/v1/chat/completions", {
               "model":         "default",
               "messages":      [
@@ -933,7 +1008,7 @@ jobs:
               )
 
           # ── 2. OpenAI image_url (data URI base64) ───────────────────
-          # 64x64 solid-red PNG. stb_image (used by Studio's image
+          # 64x64 solid-red PNG. stb_image (used by Unsloth's image
           # normaliser at routes/inference.py:3410) rejects 4x4 or
           # smaller PNGs as truncated, so we go up to 64x64 -- still
           # tiny in token cost. The assertion is loose: any non-empty
@@ -949,11 +1024,11 @@ jobs:
           # The Mac prebuilt llama.cpp server has a known crash when
           # processing image inputs alongside the gemma-4-E2B mmproj
           # (server disconnects mid-completion). This is upstream
-          # llama.cpp behaviour, not Studio. Wrap both SDK calls in
+          # llama.cpp behaviour, not Unsloth. Wrap both SDK calls in
           # try/except so an upstream crash registers as a WARN rather
-          # than failing the whole job. Studio's contract (OpenAI/
+          # than failing the whole job. Unsloth's contract (OpenAI/
           # Anthropic image fields are accepted and forwarded) is
-          # validated by the request body Studio constructs, not by
+          # validated by the request body Unsloth constructs, not by
           # whether llama.cpp can decode it on Mac Metal.
           client = OpenAI(base_url = f"{BASE}/v1", api_key = KEY)
           try:
@@ -979,14 +1054,14 @@ jobs:
           except Exception as exc:
               print(
                   f"[image/openai] WARN image_url SDK call raised: {type(exc).__name__}: "
-                  f"{exc}. Likely upstream llama.cpp Mac+vision crash, NOT a Studio "
-                  f"regression. Studio successfully forwarded the request."
+                  f"{exc}. Likely upstream llama.cpp Mac+vision crash, NOT an Unsloth "
+                  f"regression. Unsloth successfully forwarded the request."
               )
 
           # ── 3. Anthropic source/base64 image ────────────────────────
-          # Two SDK quirks vs. Studio: base_url must NOT include /v1
+          # Two SDK quirks vs. Unsloth: base_url must NOT include /v1
           # (the SDK appends it itself; otherwise /v1/v1/messages -> 405),
-          # and Studio's auth is HTTPBearer-only so the SDK's default
+          # and Unsloth's auth is HTTPBearer-only so the SDK's default
           # x-api-key header is ignored -- send Authorization: Bearer
           # via default_headers.
           anthropic = Anthropic(
@@ -1025,11 +1100,11 @@ jobs:
               print(
                   f"[image/anthropic] WARN anthropic image SDK call raised: "
                   f"{type(exc).__name__}: {exc}. Likely upstream llama.cpp Mac+vision "
-                  f"crash, NOT a Studio regression."
+                  f"crash, NOT an Unsloth regression."
               )
           PY
 
-      - name: Stop Studio
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
         if: always()
         run: |
           kill "${STUDIO_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true

.github/workflows/studio-mac-install-matrix.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
 # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved.
 
-# Proves Studio's llama.cpp install loads on every supported macOS. The heavy
+# Proves Unsloth's llama.cpp install loads on every supported macOS. The heavy
 # app smokes stay single-OS; this matrix covers the OS-version dimension cheaply
 # (install.sh + binary-load assert). Regression guard for the macOS-version
 # selection in studio/install_llama_prebuilt.py.
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           python-version: '3.12'
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           # Withheld on PR: this step runs checked-out PR code; public GGUF still downloads.

.github/workflows/studio-mac-ui-smoke.yml

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ on:
       - 'install.sh'
       - 'pyproject.toml'
       - 'tests/studio/**'
+      - '.github/scripts/run-studio-permission-browser.sh'
       - '.github/workflows/studio-mac-ui-smoke.yml'
   push:
     branches: [main, pip]
@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@ jobs:
           path: hf-cache
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-hf-${{ env.GGUF_REPO }}-${{ env.GGUF_VARIANT }}-v2
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           # Withheld on PR: this step runs checked-out PR code; public GGUF still downloads.
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Assert llama.cpp loads on this macOS
         run: bash .github/scripts/assert-llama-loads.sh
 
-      - name: Install Playwright + Chromium
+      - name: Install Playwright browsers
         # No --with-deps on Mac: that flag installs Linux apt packages.
         # GitHub-hosted macos-14 ships the system frameworks Chromium
         # needs already.
@@ -112,7 +113,7 @@ jobs:
         # in-script retry recover from any residual flakes.
         run: |
           pip install 'playwright>=1.55,<1.58'
-          python -m playwright install chromium
+          python -m playwright install chromium webkit
 
       - name: Patch Playwright pipeTransport.js to tolerate malformed JSON
         # In Playwright 1.55-1.58, pipeTransport.js does
@@ -143,9 +144,10 @@ jobs:
               print(f"pipeTransport.js: patched JSON.parse calls in {path}")
           PY
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          # Wipe (not reset-password): the boot below must re-seed a fresh .bootstrap_password.
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
             > logs/studio.log 2>&1 &
@@ -188,8 +190,8 @@ jobs:
         # dies mid-test, (2) Chromium net::ERR_NO_BUFFER_SPACE when the
         # runner's kernel briefly runs out of socket buffers, and (3) a
         # goto 'interrupted by another navigation' when the SPA auth
-        # guard redirects mid-navigation. The retry FULLY resets Studio
-        # (kill, reset-password, reboot, wait /api/health, re-export
+        # guard redirects mid-navigation. The retry FULLY resets Unsloth
+        # (kill, wipe auth, reboot, wait /api/health, re-export
         # bootstrap pw) before re-running the script. A real test failure
         # (assertion / timeout) does NOT match any pattern so it bypasses
         # retry and surfaces immediately.
@@ -209,10 +211,10 @@ jobs:
                  || grep -q "ERR_NO_BUFFER_SPACE"             logs/playwright_attempt_${attempt}.log \
                  || grep -q "interrupted by another navigation" logs/playwright_attempt_${attempt}.log; } \
                && [ "$attempt" -lt "$max_attempts" ]; then
-              echo "::warning::Playwright flake on attempt ${attempt}; resetting Studio and retrying..."
+              echo "::warning::Playwright flake on attempt ${attempt}; resetting Unsloth and retrying..."
               kill "${STUDIO_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
               sleep 2
-              unsloth studio reset-password
+              rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
               UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
                 > "logs/studio_retry_${attempt}.log" 2>&1 &
               STUDIO_PID=$!
@@ -238,15 +240,19 @@ jobs:
             exit "$rc"
           done
 
-      - name: Stop Studio (chat-ui ends with Shutdown click; this is belt-and-suspenders)
+      - name: Stop Unsloth (chat-ui ends with Shutdown click; this is belt-and-suspenders)
         if: always()
         run: |
           kill "${STUDIO_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
           sleep 2
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio for extra UI tests (port 18897)
+      - name: Cross-browser permission controls
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          bash .github/scripts/run-studio-permission-browser.sh 18895 webkit
+
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth for extra UI tests (port 18897)
+        run: |
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p 18897 \
             > logs/studio_extra.log 2>&1 &
@@ -271,7 +277,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "STUDIO_EXTRA_OLD_PW=$OLD" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "STUDIO_EXTRA_NEW_PW=$NEW" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
 
-      - name: Drive Compare/Recipes/Export/Studio/Settings with Playwright
+      - name: Drive Compare/Recipes/Export/Unsloth/Settings with Playwright
         env:
           BASE_URL: http://127.0.0.1:18897
           STUDIO_OLD_PW: ${{ env.STUDIO_EXTRA_OLD_PW }}
@@ -300,10 +306,10 @@ jobs:
                  || grep -q "ERR_NO_BUFFER_SPACE"             logs/playwright_extra_attempt_${attempt}.log \
                  || grep -q "interrupted by another navigation" logs/playwright_extra_attempt_${attempt}.log; } \
                && [ "$attempt" -lt "$max_attempts" ]; then
-              echo "::warning::Playwright flake on attempt ${attempt}; resetting Studio and retrying..."
+              echo "::warning::Playwright flake on attempt ${attempt}; resetting Unsloth and retrying..."
               kill "${STUDIO_EXTRA_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
               sleep 2
-              unsloth studio reset-password
+              rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
               UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p 18897 \
                 > "logs/studio_extra_retry_${attempt}.log" 2>&1 &
               STUDIO_EXTRA_PID=$!
@@ -327,7 +333,7 @@ jobs:
             exit "$rc"
           done
 
-      - name: Stop second Studio
+      - name: Stop second Unsloth
         if: always()
         run: |
           kill "${STUDIO_EXTRA_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
@@ -343,5 +349,7 @@ jobs:
             logs/studio_extra.log
             logs/install.log
             logs/playwright
+            logs/playwright-permissions-*
             logs/playwright_extra
+            logs/studio-permissions-*.log
           retention-days: 7

.github/workflows/studio-mac-update-smoke.yml

@@ -4,15 +4,15 @@
 # Mac counterpart to studio-update-smoke.yml. Verifies that on a real
 # Apple Silicon (macos-14, M1) runner:
 #
-#   1. install.sh --local --no-torch installs Studio AND auto-fetches
+#   1. install.sh --local --no-torch installs Unsloth AND auto-fetches
 #      the prebuilt llama.cpp Mac binary (llama-bNNNN-bin-macos-arm64
 #      from ggml-org/llama.cpp). Hitting the source-build fallback is
-#      treated as an Unsloth bug -- Studio must always pick the
+#      treated as an Unsloth bug -- Unsloth must always pick the
 #      prebuilt on Mac.
 #   2. unsloth studio update --local is idempotent. Two consecutive
 #      runs both report "prebuilt up to date and validated", no
 #      source-build fallback.
-#   3. The installed Studio still boots and /api/health returns
+#   3. The installed Unsloth still boots and /api/health returns
 #      healthy after the update path.
 
 name: Mac Studio Update CI
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ permissions:
 
 jobs:
   update-idempotency:
-    name: Studio Updating Tests
+    name: Unsloth Updating Tests
     runs-on: macos-14
     timeout-minutes: 30
     steps:
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
           python-version: '3.12'
           cache: 'pip'
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           # Withheld on PR: this step runs checked-out PR code; public GGUF still downloads.
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ jobs:
           grep -qE "prebuilt up to date and validated|prebuilt installed and validated" logs/update2.log
           echo "second update was clean"
 
-      - name: Boot Studio briefly to confirm the install is still usable
+      - name: Boot Unsloth briefly to confirm the install is still usable
         run: |
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p 18891 \
@@ -123,13 +123,13 @@ jobs:
             sleep 1
           done
           if [ -z "$HEALTHY" ]; then
-            echo "Studio failed to come up after \`update\`"
+            echo "Unsloth failed to come up after \`update\`"
             tail -200 logs/studio.log
             kill "$PID" 2>/dev/null || true
             exit 1
           fi
           kill "$PID" 2>/dev/null || true
-          echo "post-update Studio /api/health OK"
+          echo "post-update Unsloth /api/health OK"
 
       - name: Uninstall and verify clean
         # Round-trip through scripts/uninstall.sh on real macOS. As a side

.github/workflows/studio-tauri-smoke.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # stay in release-desktop.yml (manual `workflow_dispatch`) because they need
 # code-signing secrets and ~30 min of runner time each.
 
-name: Studio Tauri CI
+name: Unsloth Tauri CI
 
 on:
   pull_request:
@@ -91,6 +91,16 @@ jobs:
           npm run build
           test -f dist/index.html
 
+      # The crate carries ~100 unit tests (native_file_dialogs, preflight,
+      # install, desktop_auth, ...) that nothing ran until now: this workflow
+      # only ever built. Run them here, where the toolchain and the WebKit dev
+      # packages are already installed, so a broken assertion fails the PR
+      # instead of sitting unnoticed. `--no-fail-fast` reports every failing
+      # test in one run rather than stopping at the first.
+      - name: Rust unit tests (studio/src-tauri)
+        working-directory: studio/src-tauri
+        run: cargo test --no-fail-fast
+
       - name: Tauri debug build (Linux, no bundle, no codesign)
         # `--debug` + `--no-bundle` keeps this lean: compiles the Rust crate,
         # confirms the frontend dist is wired into Tauri, but skips the AppImage

.github/workflows/studio-ui-smoke.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
 # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved.
 
-# End-to-end Studio chat UI smoke via Playwright + Chromium against a
-# headless Linux runner. Boots Studio with the smallest GGUF
+# End-to-end Unsloth chat UI smoke via Playwright + Chromium against a
+# headless Linux runner. Boots Unsloth with the smallest GGUF
 # (gemma-3-270m-it UD-Q4_K_XL, ~254 MiB), drives the actual frontend
 # bundle, and asserts the full bootstrap-password / change-password /
 # send-message / persist-on-reload journey works end to end.
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # frontend-only CI happily pass while the actual user-visible UI is
 # broken (cf. the 2026.5.1 chat-history release).
 
-name: Studio UI CI
+name: Unsloth UI CI
 
 on:
   pull_request:
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ on:
       # The Playwright test files themselves -- a PR that ONLY edits
       # the test must still trigger UI CI.
       - 'tests/studio/**'
+      - '.github/scripts/run-studio-permission-browser.sh'
       - '.github/workflows/studio-ui-smoke.yml'
   push:
     branches: [main, pip]
@@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ jobs:
           path: hf-cache
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-hf-${{ env.GGUF_REPO }}-${{ env.GGUF_VARIANT }}-v2
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           # Withheld on PR: this step runs checked-out PR code; public GGUF still downloads.
@@ -107,17 +108,15 @@ jobs:
           set -o pipefail
           bash install.sh --local --no-torch 2>&1 | tee logs/install.log
 
-      - name: Install Playwright + Chromium
+      - name: Install Playwright browsers
         run: |
           pip install 'playwright>=1.45'
-          # --with-deps installs the OS-level runtime libs Chromium
-          # needs (libnss3, libxkbcommon, etc.). About 30 s on a
-          # warm runner.
-          python -m playwright install --with-deps chromium
+          python -m playwright install --with-deps chromium firefox webkit
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          # Wipe (not reset-password): the boot below must re-seed a fresh .bootstrap_password.
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
             > logs/studio.log 2>&1 &
@@ -147,7 +146,7 @@ jobs:
         # NEW + NEW2 are generated freshly per CI run via secrets.token_urlsafe
         # rather than hardcoded. If a workflow gets compromised, the
         # attacker can't replay a known-good rotated password against
-        # any future / parallel Studio install -- the rotated value
+        # any future / parallel Unsloth install -- the rotated value
         # only ever exists for the lifetime of this single job, masked
         # in the log via ::add-mask::.
         run: |
@@ -165,31 +164,37 @@ jobs:
         env:
           BASE_URL: http://127.0.0.1:18892
           # The test file lives in the repo so it can be run locally
-          # against a freshly-installed Studio (BASE_URL=...; STUDIO_OLD_PW=
+          # against a freshly-installed Unsloth (BASE_URL=...; STUDIO_OLD_PW=
           # $(cat ~/.unsloth/studio/auth/.bootstrap_password); python ...).
           PW_ART_DIR: logs/playwright
           # Strict mode: in CI a missing button / nav / dialog must
           # FAIL the test. Locally the test still runs against partial
-          # Studio installs without STUDIO_UI_STRICT.
+          # Unsloth installs without STUDIO_UI_STRICT.
           STUDIO_UI_STRICT: '1'
         run: |
           mkdir -p logs/playwright
           python tests/studio/playwright_chat_ui.py
 
-      - name: Stop Studio (chat-ui ends with Shutdown click; this is belt-and-suspenders)
+      - name: Stop Unsloth (chat-ui ends with Shutdown click; this is belt-and-suspenders)
         if: always()
         run: |
           kill "${STUDIO_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
           sleep 2
 
+      - name: Cross-browser permission controls
+        run: |
+          bash .github/scripts/run-studio-permission-browser.sh 18893 firefox
+          bash .github/scripts/run-studio-permission-browser.sh 18893 webkit
+          bash .github/scripts/run-studio-permission-browser.sh 18893 chromium chrome
+
       # The chat UI test ends by clicking the Shutdown menuitem, which
       # leaves the server dead. The extra UI test (Compare / Recipes /
-      # Export / Studio / Settings) needs a fresh Studio, so we boot a
+      # Export / Unsloth / Settings) needs a fresh Unsloth, so we boot a
       # second one on a different port. Boot is fast (~3-5s on the
       # warm install we already did) so this adds little wall time.
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio for extra UI tests (port 18894)
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth for extra UI tests (port 18894)
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p 18894 \
             > logs/studio_extra.log 2>&1 &
@@ -214,7 +219,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "STUDIO_EXTRA_OLD_PW=$OLD" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "STUDIO_EXTRA_NEW_PW=$NEW" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
 
-      - name: Drive Compare/Recipes/Export/Studio/Settings with Playwright
+      - name: Drive Compare/Recipes/Export/Unsloth/Settings with Playwright
         env:
           BASE_URL: http://127.0.0.1:18894
           STUDIO_OLD_PW: ${{ env.STUDIO_EXTRA_OLD_PW }}
@@ -227,18 +232,75 @@ jobs:
           mkdir -p logs/playwright_extra
           python tests/studio/playwright_extra_ui.py
 
-      - name: Stop second Studio
+      - name: UI font size scaling regression (Playwright)
+        env:
+          BASE_URL: http://127.0.0.1:18894
+          STUDIO_PW: ${{ env.STUDIO_EXTRA_NEW_PW }}
+          PW_ART_DIR: logs/playwright_fontscale
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p logs/playwright_fontscale
+          python tests/studio/playwright_ui_font_scale.py
+
+      - name: Stop second Unsloth
         if: always()
         run: |
           kill "${STUDIO_EXTRA_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
           sleep 2
 
-      # IME + multilingual paste regression (issue #5318 / PR #5327).
-      # Third Studio on its own port so a hang here cannot poison the
-      # earlier UI tests. No GGUF -- the bug surface is the composer.
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio for IME / i18n tests (port 18896)
+      # Model-picker per-model-config regression (PR #7207 re-land of #6647).
+      # Fourth Unsloth on its own port; loads the tiny GGUF and drives the
+      # picker's run-settings surface: Context Length persists across a reload,
+      # Reset clears the stored override (never pins it), and the infra models
+      # (RAG embedder + llama.cpp probe) stay hidden from the picker.
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth for model-config tests (port 18898)
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
+          mkdir -p logs
+          UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p 18898 \
+            > logs/studio_modelcfg.log 2>&1 &
+          echo "STUDIO_MODELCFG_PID=$!" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+
+      - name: Wait for /api/health on 18898
+        run: |
+          for i in $(seq 1 180); do
+            if curl -fs "http://127.0.0.1:18898/api/health" > /tmp/health4.json; then
+              jq -e '.status == "healthy"' /tmp/health4.json && break
+            fi
+            sleep 1
+          done
+          jq -e '.status == "healthy"' /tmp/health4.json
+
+      - name: Pass bootstrap pw for model-config test
+        run: |
+          NEW="CIModelCfg-$(python -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(16))')"
+          echo "::add-mask::$NEW"
+          echo "STUDIO_MODELCFG_NEW_PW=$NEW" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+
+      - name: Drive model-picker per-model-config with Playwright
+        env:
+          BASE_URL: http://127.0.0.1:18898
+          STUDIO_NEW_PW: ${{ env.STUDIO_MODELCFG_NEW_PW }}
+          PW_ART_DIR: logs/playwright_modelcfg
+          STUDIO_UI_STRICT: '1'
+          GGUF_REPO: ${{ env.GGUF_REPO }}
+          GGUF_VARIANT: ${{ env.GGUF_VARIANT }}
+          STUDIO_MODEL_HINT: gemma-3-270m
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p logs/playwright_modelcfg
+          python tests/studio/playwright_model_config.py
+
+      - name: Stop fourth Unsloth
+        if: always()
+        run: |
+          kill "${STUDIO_MODELCFG_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
+          sleep 2
+
+      # IME + multilingual paste regression (issue #5318 / PR #5327).
+      # Third Unsloth on its own port so a hang here cannot poison the
+      # earlier UI tests. No GGUF -- the bug surface is the composer.
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth for IME / i18n tests (port 18896)
+        run: |
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p 18896 \
             > logs/studio_ime.log 2>&1 &
@@ -256,7 +318,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Pass bootstrap pw for IME / i18n test
         # IME smoke does the change-password against the bootstrap that
-        # Studio's frontend injects into the page, so it only needs the
+        # Unsloth's frontend injects into the page, so it only needs the
         # NEW password.
         run: |
           NEW="CIIme-$(python -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(16))')"
@@ -273,7 +335,7 @@ jobs:
           mkdir -p logs/playwright_ime
           python tests/studio/playwright_chat_ime_i18n.py
 
-      - name: Stop third Studio
+      - name: Stop third Unsloth
         if: always()
         run: |
           kill "${STUDIO_IME_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
@@ -293,10 +355,15 @@ jobs:
           path: |
             logs/studio.log
             logs/studio_extra.log
+            logs/studio_modelcfg.log
             logs/studio_ime.log
             logs/install.log
             logs/server-logs/
             logs/playwright
+            logs/playwright-permissions-*
             logs/playwright_extra
+            logs/playwright_fontscale
+            logs/playwright_modelcfg
             logs/playwright_ime
+            logs/studio-permissions-*.log
           retention-days: 7

.github/workflows/studio-update-smoke.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # This catches regressions in setup.sh's update path that the existing
 # GGUF / wheel jobs would miss because they only invoke install.sh once.
 
-name: Studio Update CI
+name: Unsloth Update CI
 
 on:
   pull_request:
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ permissions:
 
 jobs:
   update-idempotency:
-    name: Studio Updating Tests
+    name: Unsloth Updating Tests
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 15
     steps:
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ jobs:
           # post-step then fatal-errors with "Cache folder path is
           # retrieved for pip but doesn't exist on disk".
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         # Pass the workflow token so the llama.cpp prebuilt installer's
         # GitHub-API call to list releases isn't rate-limited (60/hr
         # unauthenticated). Without this, three consecutive install +
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ jobs:
           grep -qE "prebuilt up to date and validated|prebuilt installed and validated" logs/update2.log
           echo "second update was clean"
 
-      - name: Boot Studio briefly to confirm the install is still usable
+      - name: Boot Unsloth briefly to confirm the install is still usable
         # If `update --local` accidentally broke the venv or wiped the
         # llama-server binary, the server would fail to start here.
         run: |
@@ -138,13 +138,53 @@ jobs:
             sleep 1
           done
           if ! jq -e '.status == "healthy"' /tmp/health.json 2>/dev/null; then
-            echo "Studio failed to come up after `update`"
+            echo "Unsloth failed to come up after `update`"
             tail -200 logs/studio.log
             kill "$PID" 2>/dev/null || true
             exit 1
           fi
           kill "$PID" 2>/dev/null || true
-          echo "post-update Studio /api/health OK"
+          echo "post-update Unsloth /api/health OK"
+
+      - name: A complete install reports itself complete
+        run: |
+          set -o pipefail
+          unsloth studio verify-install
+          unsloth studio desktop-capabilities --json | tee /tmp/caps.json
+          jq -e '.studio_install_ok == true' /tmp/caps.json
+          jq -e '.desktop_manageability_version >= 2' /tmp/caps.json
+
+      - name: An incomplete install must not report itself ready
+        # An installer killed part-way leaves a working CLI but no studio.txt
+        # deps, which the old preflight called ManagedReady. The manifest is
+        # written last, so removing it reproduces that state.
+        run: |
+          set -o pipefail
+          # install.sh's default root, resolved explicitly: `python` on PATH
+          # here is setup-python's, not the managed venv.
+          MANIFEST="$HOME/.unsloth/studio/unsloth_studio/unsloth_install_manifest.json"
+          test -f "$MANIFEST" || { echo "::error::installer never wrote $MANIFEST"; exit 1; }
+          rm -f "$MANIFEST"
+          unsloth studio desktop-capabilities --json | tee /tmp/caps_bad.json
+          jq -e '.studio_install_ok == false' /tmp/caps_bad.json
+          if unsloth studio verify-install; then
+            echo "::error::verify-install passed on an install with no manifest"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "incomplete install correctly reported not-ready"
+
+      - name: Update repairs an incomplete install
+        # `--local` bypasses setup.sh's PyPI version compare, so this asserts
+        # the repair OUTCOME. The non-local fast path the desktop Repair button
+        # uses is covered by tests/studio/install/test_setup_fast_path_guard.py.
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          set -o pipefail
+          unsloth studio update --local 2>&1 | tee logs/update_repair.log
+          unsloth studio verify-install
+          unsloth studio desktop-capabilities --json | jq -e '.studio_install_ok == true'
+          echo "update repaired the incomplete install"
 
       - name: Uninstall and verify clean
         # Round-trip the installer through scripts/uninstall.sh: confirms the

.github/workflows/studio-windows-api-smoke.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # (Section 6) is Linux-only and short-circuits on non-POSIX; the rest
 # is platform-portable.
 
-name: Windows Studio API CI
+name: Windows Unsloth API CI
 
 on:
   pull_request:
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ permissions:
 
 jobs:
   api-smoke:
-    name: Studio API & Auth Tests
+    name: Unsloth API & Auth Tests
     runs-on: windows-latest
     timeout-minutes: 30
     defaults:
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ jobs:
           # studio-windows-update-smoke.yml for the full rationale --
           # creating an empty studio/frontend/dist trips setup.ps1's
           # mtime-based staleness check into "frontend up to date, skip
-          # rebuild" and Studio boots with an empty dist directory.
+          # rebuild" and Unsloth boots with an empty dist directory.
           # Add-MpPreference accepts paths that do not yet exist.
           foreach ($p in @(
             "$env:USERPROFILE\.unsloth",
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ jobs:
             }
           }
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         shell: pwsh
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "install.ps1 installed the Windows prebuilt llama.cpp:"
           cat "$INFO"
 
-      - name: Add Studio shim to GITHUB_PATH
+      - name: Add Unsloth shim to GITHUB_PATH
         # install.ps1's User-PATH update doesn't propagate to a
         # running Git Bash session; export the shim dir so the
         # next `unsloth ...` invocation finds it.
@@ -177,9 +177,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install pyjwt for the JWT-expiry forge test
         run: python -m pip install 'pyjwt>=2.6'
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio (API-only)
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth (API-only)
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          # Wipe (not reset-password): the boot below must re-seed a fresh .bootstrap_password.
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
             > logs/studio.log 2>&1 &
@@ -207,7 +208,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "STUDIO_NEW_PW=$NEW"  >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "STUDIO_NEW2_PW=$NEW2" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
 
-      - name: Run Studio API & Auth tests
+      - name: Run Unsloth API & Auth tests
         # Do NOT pin STUDIO_AUTH_DIR here. The Mac/Linux mirrors
         # hardcode runner-specific paths (/Users/runner/...,
         # /home/runner/...), but on Windows the path is
@@ -219,7 +220,7 @@ jobs:
           BASE_URL: http://127.0.0.1:18895
         run: python tests/studio/studio_api_smoke.py
 
-      - name: Stop Studio
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
         if: always()
         run: |
           kill "${STUDIO_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true

.github/workflows/studio-windows-inference-smoke.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
 # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved.
 
-# Three end-to-end smoke jobs that boot a freshly-installed Studio and
+# Three end-to-end smoke jobs that boot a freshly-installed Unsloth and
 # exercise the surfaces real users hit through the OpenAI / Anthropic
 # SDKs and curl, on the FREE windows-latest runner. Each job picks the
 # smallest model that exercises the behaviour under test, primes
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 #        Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct UD-IQ2_XXS + mmproj-F16 (~1.4 GiB total).
 #        Within the 14 GB windows-latest SSD budget.
 
-name: Windows Studio GGUF CI
+name: Windows Unsloth GGUF CI
 
 on:
   pull_request:
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ jobs:
       STUDIO_PORT: '18888'
       HF_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/hf-cache
       # Force UTF-8 for stdio (Windows defaults to cp1252; hf
-      # download / Studio CLI print "✓" checkmarks and crash
+      # download / Unsloth CLI print "✓" checkmarks and crash
       # otherwise).
       PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
       PYTHONUTF8: '1'
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ jobs:
           # studio-windows-update-smoke.yml for the full rationale --
           # creating an empty studio/frontend/dist trips setup.ps1's
           # mtime-based staleness check into "frontend up to date, skip
-          # rebuild" and Studio boots with an empty dist directory.
+          # rebuild" and Unsloth boots with an empty dist directory.
           # Add-MpPreference accepts paths that do not yet exist.
           foreach ($p in @(
             "$env:USERPROFILE\.unsloth",
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ jobs:
             }
           }
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         shell: pwsh
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "install.ps1 installed the Windows prebuilt llama.cpp:"
           cat "$INFO"
 
-      - name: Add Studio shim to GITHUB_PATH
+      - name: Add Unsloth shim to GITHUB_PATH
         run: |
           SHIM_DIR=~/.unsloth/studio/bin
           if [ ! -f "$SHIM_DIR/unsloth.exe" ]; then
@@ -227,9 +227,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install OpenAI + Anthropic Python SDKs
         run: python -m pip install 'openai>=1.50' 'anthropic>=0.40'
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio (API-only)
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth (API-only)
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          # Wipe (not reset-password): the boot below must re-seed a fresh .bootstrap_password.
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
             > logs/studio.log 2>&1 &
@@ -244,7 +245,7 @@ jobs:
             fi
             sleep 1
           done
-          echo "Studio did not become healthy in 180s"
+          echo "Unsloth did not become healthy in 180s"
           tail -200 logs/studio.log
           exit 1
 
@@ -281,7 +282,7 @@ jobs:
           # Retry the load step a few times so a transient TCP RST during
           # llama-server warm-up (Windows runner image churn,
           # windows-latest -> windows-2025-vs2026 rollout) doesn't fail
-          # the whole job. The Studio backend's _wait_for_health now
+          # the whole job. The Unsloth backend's _wait_for_health now
           # catches httpx.ReadError too; this retry layer covers the
           # cases the backend can't recover from on its own.
           LOAD_OK=0
@@ -382,15 +383,15 @@ jobs:
               print(f"[{label}] OK -- 4 turns, run1 == run2, history grounded")
           PY
 
-      - name: Stop Studio
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
         if: always()
         # Run as cmd so we are not running through the Git Bash shell;
         # Git Bash on windows-latest has been observed to exit 143
         # (SIGTERM) from any inline kill/sleep block, masking a green
-        # test run. The runner reclaims the Studio child process at
+        # test run. The runner reclaims the Unsloth child process at
         # job end either way, so just emit a marker and exit 0.
         shell: cmd
-        run: echo Stop Studio (no-op; runner reclaims STUDIO_PID=%STUDIO_PID% at job end)
+        run: echo Stop Unsloth (no-op; runner reclaims STUDIO_PID=%STUDIO_PID% at job end)
 
       - name: Collect llama-server logs
         if: always()
@@ -398,10 +399,10 @@ jobs:
         # copy must not fail an otherwise-green job.
         continue-on-error: true
         shell: bash
-        # Copy llama-server's own stdout/stderr (teed by Studio under
+        # Copy llama-server's own stdout/stderr (teed by Unsloth under
         # ~/.unsloth/studio/logs/llama-server/) into the workspace so
         # upload-artifact can pick it up. Crucial for diagnosing a
-        # subprocess crash where Studio's traceback only shows the
+        # subprocess crash where Unsloth's traceback only shows the
         # symptom (httpx ReadError) but not the cause.
         run: |
           mkdir -p logs/llama-server
@@ -439,14 +440,14 @@ jobs:
       # (211 s on first run; subsequent runs hit the cache, but the
       # one-time cost recurs every time the cache key bumps). Use
       # main's `--local-dir gguf-cache` pattern: cache the flat .gguf
-      # only, pass an absolute path to Studio's /api/inference/load.
+      # only, pass an absolute path to Unsloth's /api/inference/load.
       # The OpenAI/Anth and JSON+images jobs still cover the
       # gguf_variant resolution path.
       GGUF_REPO: unsloth/Qwen3.5-2B-GGUF
       GGUF_FILE: Qwen3.5-2B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf
       STUDIO_PORT: '18898'
       # Force UTF-8 for stdio (Windows defaults to cp1252; hf
-      # download / Studio CLI print "✓" checkmarks and crash
+      # download / Unsloth CLI print "✓" checkmarks and crash
       # otherwise).
       PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
       PYTHONUTF8: '1'
@@ -507,7 +508,7 @@ jobs:
           # studio-windows-update-smoke.yml for the full rationale --
           # creating an empty studio/frontend/dist trips setup.ps1's
           # mtime-based staleness check into "frontend up to date, skip
-          # rebuild" and Studio boots with an empty dist directory.
+          # rebuild" and Unsloth boots with an empty dist directory.
           # Add-MpPreference accepts paths that do not yet exist.
           foreach ($p in @(
             "$env:USERPROFILE\.unsloth",
@@ -523,7 +524,7 @@ jobs:
             }
           }
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         shell: pwsh
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
@@ -561,7 +562,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "install.ps1 installed the Windows prebuilt llama.cpp:"
           cat "$INFO"
 
-      - name: Add Studio shim to GITHUB_PATH
+      - name: Add Unsloth shim to GITHUB_PATH
         run: |
           SHIM_DIR=~/.unsloth/studio/bin
           if [ ! -f "$SHIM_DIR/unsloth.exe" ]; then
@@ -571,9 +572,9 @@ jobs:
           fi
           cygpath -w "$SHIM_DIR" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio (API-only, default tool policy)
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth (API-only, default tool policy)
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
             > logs/studio.log 2>&1 &
@@ -607,7 +608,7 @@ jobs:
           # raw string, but we cannot embed `\a` etc. in JSON without
           # JSON-string-escaping every backslash. Replace `\` with `/`
           # via bash parameter expansion -- pathlib.Path on Windows
-          # accepts forward slashes natively, so Studio's loader sees
+          # accepts forward slashes natively, so Unsloth's loader sees
           # a normal path.
           GGUF_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE//\\//}/gguf-cache/${GGUF_FILE}"
           ls -lh "$GGUF_PATH"
@@ -634,6 +635,8 @@ jobs:
           python - <<'PY'
           import json
           import os
+          import time
+          import urllib.error
           import urllib.request
 
           BASE = os.environ["BASE_URL"]
@@ -656,10 +659,41 @@ jobs:
                       "Content-Type": "application/json",
                   },
               )
-              with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = timeout) as resp:
-                  return resp.status, json.loads(resp.read().decode())
+              # Shared CI runners stall sporadically, so retry transport-level
+              # failures only; HTTP status errors surface immediately. Bounded
+              # to fit the job's timeout-minutes: short probes get 3 full
+              # attempts, long probes one retry capped at 300s (a healthy
+              # server answers a retry quickly; a stalled one never does).
+              attempts = 3 if timeout <= 300 else 2
+              for attempt in range(attempts):
+                  try:
+                      t = timeout if attempt == 0 else min(timeout, 300)
+                      with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = t) as resp:
+                          return resp.status, json.loads(resp.read().decode())
+                  except urllib.error.HTTPError:
+                      raise
+                  except (TimeoutError, ConnectionError, urllib.error.URLError) as exc:
+                      if attempt == attempts - 1:
+                          raise
+                      print(f"[retry] {path}: {exc!r}", flush = True)
+                      time.sleep(15)
 
-          def post_sse(path, body, *, timeout = 600):
+          def post_sse(path, body, *, timeout = 600, retries = 1, soft = False):
+              # The server-side agentic loop always answers over SSE. A
+              # shared CI runner can stall the stream transport (the
+              # connection opening, or a mid-stream read) even when Unsloth
+              # is healthy, so harden the read three ways:
+              #   * retry a transport stall once with a fresh request,
+              #     capped at 300s (a healthy server answers a retry
+              #     quickly, a wedged one never does);
+              #   * return any text already streamed before a stall, so a
+              #     stall on the trailing tokens -- after the answer
+              #     arrived -- still counts;
+              #   * when every attempt yields nothing, a hard call
+              #     re-raises while a soft call (the best-effort
+              #     server-side tool probes) returns None so the caller
+              #     can WARN instead of sinking the whole job.
+              # HTTP status errors always surface immediately.
               body = {**body, "stream": True}
               data = json.dumps(body).encode()
               req = urllib.request.Request(
@@ -671,24 +705,43 @@ jobs:
                       "Content-Type": "application/json",
                   },
               )
-              parts = []
-              with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = timeout) as resp:
-                  for raw in resp:
-                      line = raw.decode().strip()
-                      if not line.startswith("data: "):
-                          continue
-                      payload = line[6:]
-                      if payload == "[DONE]":
-                          break
-                      try:
-                          chunk = json.loads(payload)
-                      except json.JSONDecodeError:
-                          continue
-                      for choice in chunk.get("choices", []):
-                          delta = choice.get("delta", {}) or {}
-                          if delta.get("content"):
-                              parts.append(delta["content"])
-              return "".join(parts)
+              for attempt in range(retries + 1):
+                  parts = []
+                  t = timeout if attempt == 0 else min(timeout, 300)
+                  try:
+                      with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = t) as resp:
+                          for raw in resp:
+                              line = raw.decode().strip()
+                              if not line.startswith("data: "):
+                                  continue
+                              payload = line[6:]
+                              if payload == "[DONE]":
+                                  break
+                              try:
+                                  chunk = json.loads(payload)
+                              except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                                  continue
+                              for choice in chunk.get("choices", []):
+                                  delta = choice.get("delta", {}) or {}
+                                  if delta.get("content"):
+                                      parts.append(delta["content"])
+                      return "".join(parts)
+                  except urllib.error.HTTPError:
+                      raise
+                  except (TimeoutError, ConnectionError, urllib.error.URLError) as exc:
+                      # Text already streamed is a valid signal -- keep it
+                      # rather than re-running a heavy generation.
+                      if parts:
+                          joined = "".join(parts)
+                          print(f"[retry-sse] {path}: {exc!r}; keeping {len(joined)} partial chars", flush = True)
+                          return joined
+                      if attempt == retries:
+                          if soft:
+                              print(f"[tools] WARN {path}: SSE transport stalled with no data ({exc!r}) -- non-blocking", flush = True)
+                              return None
+                          raise
+                      print(f"[retry-sse] {path}: {exc!r}", flush = True)
+                      time.sleep(15)
 
           # ── 1. Standard OpenAI function calling ──────────────────────
           weather_tool = {
@@ -731,16 +784,24 @@ jobs:
               )
 
           # ── 2. Server-side python tool ───────────────────────────────
+          # Bound each soft probe to a single 180s attempt (timeout=180,
+          # retries=0): this job runs two of them back-to-back under a
+          # 30-minute cap, so the default 600+15+300s per stall could hit
+          # the workflow timeout before the thinking checks run. A soft
+          # probe only WARNs anyway, so a retry buys nothing.
           content = post_sse("/v1/chat/completions", {
               "messages":      [{"role": "user", "content": "What is 123 * 456? Use the python tool to compute it and tell me the number."}],
               "enable_tools":  True,
+              "permission_mode": "full",
               "enabled_tools": ["python"],
               "session_id":    "ci-tool-calling-py",
               "temperature":   TEMP,
               "seed":          SEED,
               "max_tokens":    600,
-          })
-          if "56088" in content or "56,088" in content:
+          }, timeout = 180, retries = 0, soft = True)
+          if content is None:
+              print("[tools] WARN python tool: SSE transport stalled after retries -- non-blocking")
+          elif "56088" in content or "56,088" in content:
               print(f"[tools] PASS python tool ({len(content)} chars, found 56088)")
           else:
               assert content, "python tool: SSE stream empty"
@@ -757,13 +818,16 @@ jobs:
           content = post_sse("/v1/chat/completions", {
               "messages":      [{"role": "user", "content": "Use the terminal tool to run `echo hello-bash-tool` and tell me the exact output."}],
               "enable_tools":  True,
+              "permission_mode": "full",
               "enabled_tools": ["terminal"],
               "session_id":    "ci-tool-calling-bash",
               "temperature":   TEMP,
               "seed":          SEED,
               "max_tokens":    600,
-          })
-          if "hello-bash-tool" in content:
+          }, timeout = 180, retries = 0, soft = True)
+          if content is None:
+              print("[tools] WARN terminal tool: SSE transport stalled after retries -- non-blocking")
+          elif "hello-bash-tool" in content:
               print(f"[tools] PASS terminal tool ({len(content)} chars)")
           else:
               assert content, "terminal tool: SSE stream empty"
@@ -779,12 +843,13 @@ jobs:
               content = post_sse("/v1/chat/completions", {
                   "messages":      [{"role": "user", "content": "Search the web for 'unsloth ai github' and summarise."}],
                   "enable_tools":  True,
+                  "permission_mode": "full",
                   "enabled_tools": ["web_search"],
                   "session_id":    "ci-tool-calling-web",
                   "temperature":   TEMP,
                   "seed":          SEED,
                   "max_tokens":    400,
-              })
+              }, timeout = 180, retries = 0)
               print(f"[tools] PASS web_search stream ({len(content)} chars)")
           except Exception as exc:
               print(f"[tools] WARN web_search probe failed (non-blocking): {exc}")
@@ -818,15 +883,15 @@ jobs:
           print(f"[tools] PASS thinking on/off (on={len(on_text)} chars, off={len(off_text)} chars)")
           PY
 
-      - name: Stop Studio
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
         if: always()
         # Run as cmd so we are not running through the Git Bash shell;
         # Git Bash on windows-latest has been observed to exit 143
         # (SIGTERM) from any inline kill/sleep block, masking a green
-        # test run. The runner reclaims the Studio child process at
+        # test run. The runner reclaims the Unsloth child process at
         # job end either way, so just emit a marker and exit 0.
         shell: cmd
-        run: echo Stop Studio (no-op; runner reclaims STUDIO_PID=%STUDIO_PID% at job end)
+        run: echo Stop Unsloth (no-op; runner reclaims STUDIO_PID=%STUDIO_PID% at job end)
 
       - name: Collect llama-server logs
         if: always()
@@ -834,10 +899,10 @@ jobs:
         # copy must not fail an otherwise-green job.
         continue-on-error: true
         shell: bash
-        # Copy llama-server's own stdout/stderr (teed by Studio under
+        # Copy llama-server's own stdout/stderr (teed by Unsloth under
         # ~/.unsloth/studio/logs/llama-server/) into the workspace so
         # upload-artifact can pick it up. Crucial for diagnosing a
-        # subprocess crash where Studio's traceback only shows the
+        # subprocess crash where Unsloth's traceback only shows the
         # symptom (httpx ReadError) but not the cause.
         run: |
           mkdir -p logs/llama-server
@@ -875,7 +940,7 @@ jobs:
       STUDIO_PORT: '18899'
       HF_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/hf-cache
       # Force UTF-8 for stdio (Windows defaults to cp1252; hf
-      # download / Studio CLI print "✓" checkmarks and crash
+      # download / Unsloth CLI print "✓" checkmarks and crash
       # otherwise).
       PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
       PYTHONUTF8: '1'
@@ -941,7 +1006,7 @@ jobs:
           # studio-windows-update-smoke.yml for the full rationale --
           # creating an empty studio/frontend/dist trips setup.ps1's
           # mtime-based staleness check into "frontend up to date, skip
-          # rebuild" and Studio boots with an empty dist directory.
+          # rebuild" and Unsloth boots with an empty dist directory.
           # Add-MpPreference accepts paths that do not yet exist.
           foreach ($p in @(
             "$env:USERPROFILE\.unsloth",
@@ -957,7 +1022,7 @@ jobs:
             }
           }
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         shell: pwsh
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
@@ -995,7 +1060,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "install.ps1 installed the Windows prebuilt llama.cpp:"
           cat "$INFO"
 
-      - name: Add Studio shim to GITHUB_PATH
+      - name: Add Unsloth shim to GITHUB_PATH
         run: |
           SHIM_DIR=~/.unsloth/studio/bin
           if [ ! -f "$SHIM_DIR/unsloth.exe" ]; then
@@ -1008,9 +1073,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install OpenAI + Anthropic Python SDKs
         run: python -m pip install 'openai>=1.50' 'anthropic>=0.40'
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio (API-only)
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth (API-only)
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
             > logs/studio.log 2>&1 &
@@ -1063,6 +1128,8 @@ jobs:
           import base64
           import json
           import os
+          import time
+          import urllib.error
           import urllib.request
           from openai import OpenAI
           from anthropic import Anthropic
@@ -1082,8 +1149,24 @@ jobs:
                       "Content-Type":  "application/json",
                   },
               )
-              with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = timeout) as resp:
-                  return resp.status, json.loads(resp.read().decode())
+              # Shared CI runners stall sporadically, so retry transport-level
+              # failures only; HTTP status errors surface immediately. Bounded
+              # to fit the job's timeout-minutes: short probes get 3 full
+              # attempts, long probes one retry capped at 300s (a healthy
+              # server answers a retry quickly; a stalled one never does).
+              attempts = 3 if timeout <= 300 else 2
+              for attempt in range(attempts):
+                  try:
+                      t = timeout if attempt == 0 else min(timeout, 300)
+                      with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout = t) as resp:
+                          return resp.status, json.loads(resp.read().decode())
+                  except urllib.error.HTTPError:
+                      raise
+                  except (TimeoutError, ConnectionError, urllib.error.URLError) as exc:
+                      if attempt == attempts - 1:
+                          raise
+                      print(f"[retry] {path}: {exc!r}", flush = True)
+                      time.sleep(15)
 
           # ── 1. response_format = json_object (JSON mode) ─────────────
           status, data = post("/v1/chat/completions", {
@@ -1180,7 +1263,7 @@ jobs:
           except Exception as exc:
               print(
                   f"[image/openai] WARN image_url SDK call raised: {type(exc).__name__}: "
-                  f"{exc}. Studio successfully forwarded the request; failure here is "
+                  f"{exc}. Unsloth successfully forwarded the request; failure here is "
                   f"upstream llama.cpp vision behaviour."
               )
 
@@ -1221,19 +1304,19 @@ jobs:
               print(
                   f"[image/anthropic] WARN anthropic image SDK call raised: "
                   f"{type(exc).__name__}: {exc}. Likely upstream llama.cpp vision "
-                  f"behaviour, NOT a Studio regression."
+                  f"behaviour, NOT an Unsloth regression."
               )
           PY
 
-      - name: Stop Studio
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
         if: always()
         # Run as cmd so we are not running through the Git Bash shell;
         # Git Bash on windows-latest has been observed to exit 143
         # (SIGTERM) from any inline kill/sleep block, masking a green
-        # test run. The runner reclaims the Studio child process at
+        # test run. The runner reclaims the Unsloth child process at
         # job end either way, so just emit a marker and exit 0.
         shell: cmd
-        run: echo Stop Studio (no-op; runner reclaims STUDIO_PID=%STUDIO_PID% at job end)
+        run: echo Stop Unsloth (no-op; runner reclaims STUDIO_PID=%STUDIO_PID% at job end)
 
       - name: Collect llama-server logs
         if: always()
@@ -1241,10 +1324,10 @@ jobs:
         # copy must not fail an otherwise-green job.
         continue-on-error: true
         shell: bash
-        # Copy llama-server's own stdout/stderr (teed by Studio under
+        # Copy llama-server's own stdout/stderr (teed by Unsloth under
         # ~/.unsloth/studio/logs/llama-server/) into the workspace so
         # upload-artifact can pick it up. Crucial for diagnosing a
-        # subprocess crash where Studio's traceback only shows the
+        # subprocess crash where Unsloth's traceback only shows the
         # symptom (httpx ReadError) but not the cause.
         run: |
           mkdir -p logs/llama-server
@@ -1266,7 +1349,7 @@ jobs:
 
   # ── folded from studio-windows-no-vs-smoke.yml: install + run with no Visual Studio ──
   no-vs-cpu:
-    name: Studio install + inference without Visual Studio
+    name: Unsloth install + inference without Visual Studio
     runs-on: windows-latest
     timeout-minutes: 35
     defaults:
@@ -1334,42 +1417,75 @@ jobs:
             try { Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath $p -ErrorAction Stop } catch { }
           }
 
-      - name: Hide Visual Studio + CMake (simulate a host with no build tools)
+      - name: Prepare no-build-tools simulation
         shell: pwsh
         run: |
           $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
-          # A Program Files dir can hold a transient handle (Defender / MSBuild node)
-          # so Rename-Item intermittently fails with "Access is denied"; retry to ride it out.
-          function Rename-WithRetry($Path, $NewName) {
-            for ($i = 1; $i -le 6; $i++) {
-              try { Rename-Item -LiteralPath $Path -NewName $NewName -ErrorAction Stop; return }
-              catch { if ($i -eq 6) { throw }; Start-Sleep -Seconds 3 }
+          $root = Join-Path $env:GITHUB_WORKSPACE 'no-build-tools'
+          $pf = Join-Path $root 'ProgramFiles'
+          $pfx86 = Join-Path $root 'ProgramFilesx86'
+          New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $pf, $pfx86 | Out-Null
+
+          $blocked = [System.Collections.Generic.HashSet[string]]::new([StringComparer]::OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+          foreach ($tool in @('cmake', 'cl.exe')) {
+            foreach ($cmd in (Get-Command $tool -All -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
+              if ($cmd.Source) {
+                $dir = Split-Path -Parent $cmd.Source
+                if ($dir) {
+                  [void] $blocked.Add(
+                    [Environment]::ExpandEnvironmentVariables($dir).Trim().Trim('"').TrimEnd('\'))
+                }
+              }
             }
           }
-          # Rename the Visual Studio install roots (incl. the Installer that holds
-          # vswhere.exe) so Find-VsBuildTools' vswhere + filesystem scan both miss.
-          foreach ($d in @("$env:ProgramFiles\Microsoft Visual Studio", "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Microsoft Visual Studio")) {
-            if (Test-Path -LiteralPath $d) {
-              Rename-WithRetry $d ((Split-Path $d -Leaf) + '.vsoff')
-              Write-Host "Hid VS: $d"
-            }
+          # Normalized comparison so registry spellings (trailing slash,
+          # unexpanded %VAR%) still match.
+          function Test-Blocked([string]$p) {
+            $n = [Environment]::ExpandEnvironmentVariables($p).Trim().Trim('"').TrimEnd('\')
+            return $blocked.Contains($n)
           }
-          # Surgically rename each cmake executable on PATH (not its parent dir --
-          # cmake can share a dir with other shims) so Get-Command cmake fails.
-          $hidden = @()
-          foreach ($c in (Get-Command cmake -All -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
-            if ($c.Source -and (Test-Path -LiteralPath $c.Source)) {
-              Rename-WithRetry $c.Source ((Split-Path $c.Source -Leaf) + '.off')
-              $hidden += $c.Source
-              Write-Host "Hid cmake: $($c.Source)"
-            }
+
+          $pathParts = $env:Path -split [IO.Path]::PathSeparator |
+            Where-Object { $_ -and -not (Test-Blocked $_) }
+          $noBuildToolsPath = $pathParts -join [IO.Path]::PathSeparator
+
+          # install.ps1's Refresh-SessionPath and setup.ps1's Refresh-Environment
+          # rebuild the session Path from these scopes mid-install, so filter
+          # them too. Originals are saved for the cleanup step.
+          foreach ($scope in @('Machine', 'User')) {
+            $orig = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('Path', $scope)
+            if (-not $orig) { continue }
+            Set-Content -LiteralPath (Join-Path $root "orig-path-$scope.txt") -Value $orig -NoNewline
+            $kept = ($orig -split ';' | Where-Object { $_ -and -not (Test-Blocked $_) }) -join ';'
+            [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('Path', $kept, $scope)
+            Write-Host "Filtered $scope Path scope."
+          }
+
+          "NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PROGRAMFILES=$pf" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
+          "NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PROGRAMFILES_X86=$pfx86" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
+          "NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PATH<<NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PATH_EOF" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
+          $noBuildToolsPath | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
+          "NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PATH_EOF" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
+
+          Write-Host "ProgramFiles simulation root: $pf"
+          Write-Host "ProgramFiles(x86) simulation root: $pfx86"
+          if ($blocked.Count -gt 0) {
+            Write-Host "Removed build-tool PATH dirs:"
+            $blocked | Sort-Object | ForEach-Object { Write-Host "  $_" }
+          } else {
+            Write-Host "No cmake or cl.exe PATH dirs found to remove."
           }
-          ("HIDDEN_CMAKE=" + ($hidden -join '|')) | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
 
       - name: Assert Visual Studio + CMake are genuinely undetectable
         shell: pwsh
         run: |
           $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
+          # Set in-script: the runner does not apply step-level env keys with
+          # parentheses (`ProgramFiles(x86)`), so vswhere still found VS.
+          if (-not $env:NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PROGRAMFILES) { Write-Error "NO_BUILD_TOOLS_* env missing (Prepare step did not run?)"; exit 1 }
+          $env:ProgramFiles = $env:NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PROGRAMFILES
+          ${env:ProgramFiles(x86)} = $env:NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PROGRAMFILES_X86
+          $env:Path = $env:NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PATH
           . (Join-Path $env:GITHUB_WORKSPACE 'tests/studio_setup_ps1/Get-FunctionSource.ps1')
           $setup = Join-Path $env:GITHUB_WORKSPACE 'studio/setup.ps1'
           foreach ($fn in @('Resolve-VsGeneratorFromLabel', 'Find-VsBuildTools')) {
@@ -1387,13 +1503,17 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple
           python -c "import torch; print('torch', torch.__version__, 'cuda?', torch.cuda.is_available())"
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch) with no build tools present
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch) with no build tools present
         shell: pwsh
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           # Withheld on PR: this step runs checked-out PR code; public GGUF still downloads.
           HF_TOKEN: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' && secrets.HF_TOKEN || '' }}
         run: |
+          # Set in-script (see the assert step); child processes inherit these.
+          $env:ProgramFiles = $env:NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PROGRAMFILES
+          ${env:ProgramFiles(x86)} = $env:NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PROGRAMFILES_X86
+          $env:Path = $env:NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PATH
           New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path logs | Out-Null
           $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
           & ./install.ps1 --local --no-torch *>&1 | Tee-Object -FilePath logs/install.log
@@ -1419,15 +1539,15 @@ jobs:
           echo "Prebuilt installed with no build tools:"
           cat "$INFO"
 
-      - name: Add Studio shim to GITHUB_PATH
+      - name: Add Unsloth shim to GITHUB_PATH
         run: |
           SHIM_DIR=~/.unsloth/studio/bin
           [ -f "$SHIM_DIR/unsloth.exe" ] || { echo "::error::unsloth.exe shim not found"; ls -la ~/.unsloth/studio/ || true; exit 1; }
           cygpath -w "$SHIM_DIR" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio (API-only)
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth (API-only)
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
             > logs/studio.log 2>&1 &
@@ -1480,24 +1600,24 @@ jobs:
           [ -n "$CONTENT" ] && [ "$CONTENT" != "null" ] || { echo "::error::empty completion"; exit 1; }
           echo "Inference OK without Visual Studio: $CONTENT"
 
-      - name: Restore Visual Studio + CMake
+      - name: Clean no-build-tools simulation
         if: always()
         shell: pwsh
         run: |
-          foreach ($d in @("$env:ProgramFiles\Microsoft Visual Studio", "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Microsoft Visual Studio")) {
-            $off = "$d.vsoff"
-            if (Test-Path -LiteralPath $off) { Rename-Item -LiteralPath $off -NewName (Split-Path $d -Leaf); Write-Host "Restored $d" }
-          }
-          if ($env:HIDDEN_CMAKE) {
-            foreach ($src in ($env:HIDDEN_CMAKE -split '\|')) {
-              if ($src -and (Test-Path -LiteralPath "$src.off")) { Rename-Item -LiteralPath "$src.off" -NewName (Split-Path $src -Leaf) }
+          $root = Join-Path $env:GITHUB_WORKSPACE 'no-build-tools'
+          foreach ($scope in @('Machine', 'User')) {
+            $saved = Join-Path $root "orig-path-$scope.txt"
+            if (Test-Path -LiteralPath $saved) {
+              [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('Path', (Get-Content -LiteralPath $saved -Raw), $scope)
+              Write-Host "Restored $scope Path scope."
             }
           }
+          Remove-Item -LiteralPath $root -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
 
-      - name: Stop Studio
+      - name: Stop Unsloth
         if: always()
         shell: cmd
-        run: echo Stop Studio (no-op; runner reclaims STUDIO_PID=%STUDIO_PID% at job end)
+        run: echo Stop Unsloth (no-op; runner reclaims STUDIO_PID=%STUDIO_PID% at job end)
 
       - name: Collect llama-server logs
         if: always()
@@ -1540,21 +1660,34 @@ jobs:
         with:
           python-version: '3.12'
 
-      - name: Hide Visual Studio
+      - name: Prepare no-build-tools simulation
         shell: pwsh
         run: |
           $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
-          # Retry the rename: a Program Files dir can hold a transient handle that
-          # makes Rename-Item intermittently fail with "Access is denied".
-          function Rename-WithRetry($Path, $NewName) {
-            for ($i = 1; $i -le 6; $i++) {
-              try { Rename-Item -LiteralPath $Path -NewName $NewName -ErrorAction Stop; return }
-              catch { if ($i -eq 6) { throw }; Start-Sleep -Seconds 3 }
+          $root = Join-Path $env:GITHUB_WORKSPACE 'no-build-tools'
+          $pf = Join-Path $root 'ProgramFiles'
+          $pfx86 = Join-Path $root 'ProgramFilesx86'
+          New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $pf, $pfx86 | Out-Null
+
+          $blocked = [System.Collections.Generic.HashSet[string]]::new([StringComparer]::OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+          foreach ($tool in @('cmake', 'cl.exe')) {
+            foreach ($cmd in (Get-Command $tool -All -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
+              if ($cmd.Source) {
+                $dir = Split-Path -Parent $cmd.Source
+                if ($dir) { [void] $blocked.Add($dir) }
+              }
             }
           }
-          foreach ($d in @("$env:ProgramFiles\Microsoft Visual Studio", "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Microsoft Visual Studio")) {
-            if (Test-Path -LiteralPath $d) { Rename-WithRetry $d ((Split-Path $d -Leaf) + '.vsoff'); Write-Host "Hid VS: $d" }
-          }
+
+          $pathParts = $env:Path -split [IO.Path]::PathSeparator |
+            Where-Object { $_ -and -not $blocked.Contains($_) }
+          $noBuildToolsPath = $pathParts -join [IO.Path]::PathSeparator
+
+          "NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PROGRAMFILES=$pf" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
+          "NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PROGRAMFILES_X86=$pfx86" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
+          "NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PATH<<NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PATH_EOF" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
+          $noBuildToolsPath | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
+          "NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PATH_EOF" | Out-File -FilePath $env:GITHUB_ENV -Append -Encoding utf8
 
       - name: Windows CUDA and ROCm prebuilts exist in unslothai/llama.cpp (what GPU users download, no VS)
         env:
@@ -1577,25 +1710,34 @@ jobs:
           echo "Windows CUDA and ROCm prebuilts are available -- GPU users get them without compiling."
 
       - name: The prebuilt resolver runs without Visual Studio
+        shell: pwsh
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
         run: |
+          $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
+          # pwsh: bash cannot export `ProgramFiles(x86)`; set in-script so the
+          # python child inherits the overrides.
+          $env:ProgramFiles = $env:NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PROGRAMFILES
+          ${env:ProgramFiles(x86)} = $env:NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PROGRAMFILES_X86
+          $env:Path = $env:NO_BUILD_TOOLS_PATH
           # Resolver-only (no GPU on hosted runners, so the host resolves to the
           # CPU bundle). The point is that resolution needs no compiler/VS.
           python -m pip install --upgrade huggingface_hub
-          python studio/install_llama_prebuilt.py --resolve-prebuilt latest --output-format json > /tmp/resolve.json || {
-            echo "::error::resolver exited non-zero"; cat /tmp/resolve.json || true; exit 1; }
-          cat /tmp/resolve.json
-          echo "Prebuilt resolver ran with no Visual Studio present."
+          if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { Write-Host "::error::pip install huggingface_hub failed"; exit 1 }
+          python studio/install_llama_prebuilt.py --resolve-prebuilt latest --output-format json > resolve.json
+          if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) {
+            Write-Host "::error::resolver exited non-zero"
+            if (Test-Path resolve.json) { Get-Content resolve.json }
+            exit 1
+          }
+          Get-Content resolve.json
+          Write-Host "Prebuilt resolver ran with no Visual Studio present."
 
-      - name: Restore Visual Studio
+      - name: Clean no-build-tools simulation
         if: always()
         shell: pwsh
         run: |
-          foreach ($d in @("$env:ProgramFiles\Microsoft Visual Studio", "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\Microsoft Visual Studio")) {
-            $off = "$d.vsoff"
-            if (Test-Path -LiteralPath $off) { Rename-Item -LiteralPath $off -NewName (Split-Path $d -Leaf); Write-Host "Restored $d" }
-          }
+          Remove-Item -LiteralPath (Join-Path $env:GITHUB_WORKSPACE 'no-build-tools') -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
 
   # ── folded from studio-setup-ps1-vs2026.yml: setup.ps1 unit tests + real-VS detection + vcredist ──
   pester:
@@ -1747,8 +1889,11 @@ jobs:
           # (step/substep -> Write-StudioStdoutMirror / Get-StudioAnsi).
           $script:StudioVtOk = $false
           $script:UnslothVerbose = $false
+          # Get-HostMachineArch is reached only on the absent path, where
+          # Test-VCRedistInstalled consults it before trusting the System32 DLL, so
+          # part A passes without it and only the clean-box part fails.
           foreach ($fn in @('Get-StudioAnsi', 'Write-StudioStdoutMirror', 'step', 'substep',
-                            'Invoke-SetupCommand', 'Refresh-Environment',
+                            'Invoke-SetupCommand', 'Refresh-Environment', 'Get-HostMachineArch',
                             'Test-VCRedistInstalled', 'Ensure-VCRedist')) {
               $src = Get-FunctionSource -Path $setup -Name $fn
               if (-not $src) { throw "Function '$fn' not found in setup.ps1" }

.github/workflows/studio-windows-ui-smoke.yml

@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
 # Windows counterpart to studio-ui-smoke.yml / studio-mac-ui-smoke.yml.
 # Same Playwright + Chromium end-to-end chat UI flow + extra UI flow,
 # but on the FREE windows-latest runner so we catch Windows-specific
-# regressions in the install path (install.ps1), the Studio CLI's
+# regressions in the install path (install.ps1), the Unsloth CLI's
 # Windows process-management branches, and the llama.cpp prebuilt's
 # Windows HTTP layer.
 
-name: Windows Studio UI CI
+name: Windows Unsloth UI CI
 
 on:
   pull_request:
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ on:
       - 'install.ps1'
       - 'pyproject.toml'
       - 'tests/studio/**'
+      - '.github/scripts/run-studio-permission-browser.sh'
       - '.github/workflows/studio-windows-ui-smoke.yml'
   push:
     branches: [main, pip]
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ jobs:
       GGUF_FILE: gemma-3-270m-it-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf
       STUDIO_PORT: '18896'
       HF_HOME: ${{ github.workspace }}/hf-cache
-      # Force UTF-8 for stdio so Python tools (hf download, Studio
+      # Force UTF-8 for stdio so Python tools (hf download, Unsloth
       # CLI, etc.) can print Unicode characters like the success
       # checkmark "✓". Windows defaults to cp1252 / charmap and
       # any tool that prints "OK ✓" hits a UnicodeEncodeError.
@@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ jobs:
           # studio-windows-update-smoke.yml for the full rationale --
           # creating an empty studio/frontend/dist trips setup.ps1's
           # mtime-based staleness check into "frontend up to date, skip
-          # rebuild" and Studio boots with an empty dist directory.
+          # rebuild" and Unsloth boots with an empty dist directory.
           # Add-MpPreference accepts paths that do not yet exist.
           foreach ($p in @(
             "$env:USERPROFILE\.unsloth",
@@ -148,7 +149,7 @@ jobs:
           Set-Content -LiteralPath (Join-Path $appDir 'launch-studio.vbs') -Value 'WScript.Echo "legacy"' -Encoding Unicode
           Write-Host "seeded legacy launch-studio.vbs at $appDir"
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         # install.ps1 is the supported Windows installer. install.sh
         # has no Windows branch (apt-get / brew calls). The PS1
         # script's `Install-UnslothStudio @args` line at the bottom
@@ -205,7 +206,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "install.ps1 installed the Windows prebuilt llama.cpp:"
           cat "$INFO"
 
-      - name: Assert Studio launcher chain (no VBS, hidden PowerShell shortcut)
+      - name: Assert Unsloth launcher chain (no VBS, hidden PowerShell shortcut)
         # The shortcut launch path is otherwise untested here (the steps below
         # boot `unsloth studio` directly). Guard against re-introducing the VBS
         # that tripped Kaspersky HEUR:Trojan.VBS.Agent.gen and against the .lnk
@@ -234,7 +235,7 @@ jobs:
           }
           Write-Host "launcher chain OK (no VBS; hidden powershell over launch-studio.ps1)"
 
-      - name: Launch Studio via the shortcut and assert health
+      - name: Launch Unsloth via the shortcut and assert health
         # Run the exact command the .lnk stores (hidden PowerShell over
         # launch-studio.ps1) and confirm it brings the backend up. This is the
         # only step that proves the shortcut launch is not silently broken.
@@ -265,10 +266,10 @@ jobs:
             $owner = (Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort $foundPort -State Listen -ErrorAction Stop | Select-Object -First 1).OwningProcess
             if ($owner) { taskkill /PID $owner /T /F 2>$null | Out-Null }
           } catch {}
-          if (-not $foundPort) { throw "Studio did not become healthy when launched via the shortcut" }
-          Write-Host "Studio healthy on port $foundPort (launched via the shortcut)"
+          if (-not $foundPort) { throw "Unsloth did not become healthy when launched via the shortcut" }
+          Write-Host "Unsloth healthy on port $foundPort (launched via the shortcut)"
 
-      - name: Add Studio shim to GITHUB_PATH
+      - name: Add Unsloth shim to GITHUB_PATH
         # install.ps1 puts unsloth.exe at $StudioHome\bin\unsloth.exe
         # and adds that dir to the User PATH via the Windows registry.
         # Registry-level PATH updates don't propagate to a running
@@ -284,7 +285,7 @@ jobs:
           fi
           # GITHUB_PATH wants Windows-style paths; convert via cygpath.
           cygpath -w "$SHIM_DIR" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
-          echo "Added Studio shim dir to PATH: $(cygpath -w "$SHIM_DIR")"
+          echo "Added Unsloth shim dir to PATH: $(cygpath -w "$SHIM_DIR")"
 
       - name: Install Playwright + Chromium
         # No --with-deps on Windows: that flag installs Linux apt
@@ -294,9 +295,10 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install 'playwright>=1.45'
           python -m playwright install chromium
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          # Wipe (not reset-password): the boot below must re-seed a fresh .bootstrap_password.
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p "$STUDIO_PORT" \
             > logs/studio.log 2>&1 &
@@ -339,15 +341,19 @@ jobs:
           mkdir -p logs/playwright
           python tests/studio/playwright_chat_ui.py
 
-      - name: Stop Studio (chat-ui ends with Shutdown click; this is belt-and-suspenders)
+      - name: Stop Unsloth (chat-ui ends with Shutdown click; this is belt-and-suspenders)
         if: always()
         run: |
           kill "${STUDIO_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
           sleep 2
 
-      - name: Reset auth + boot Studio for extra UI tests (port 18897)
+      - name: Edge permission controls
         run: |
-          unsloth studio reset-password
+          bash .github/scripts/run-studio-permission-browser.sh 18895 chromium msedge
+
+      - name: Reset auth + boot Unsloth for extra UI tests (port 18897)
+        run: |
+          rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio/auth
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p 18897 \
             > logs/studio_extra.log 2>&1 &
@@ -372,7 +378,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "STUDIO_EXTRA_OLD_PW=$OLD" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "STUDIO_EXTRA_NEW_PW=$NEW" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
 
-      - name: Drive Compare/Recipes/Export/Studio/Settings with Playwright
+      - name: Drive Compare/Recipes/Export/Unsloth/Settings with Playwright
         env:
           BASE_URL: http://127.0.0.1:18897
           STUDIO_OLD_PW: ${{ env.STUDIO_EXTRA_OLD_PW }}
@@ -386,7 +392,7 @@ jobs:
           mkdir -p logs/playwright_extra
           python tests/studio/playwright_extra_ui.py
 
-      - name: Stop second Studio
+      - name: Stop second Unsloth
         if: always()
         run: |
           kill "${STUDIO_EXTRA_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
@@ -402,5 +408,7 @@ jobs:
             logs/studio_extra.log
             logs/install.log
             logs/playwright
+            logs/playwright-permissions-*
             logs/playwright_extra
+            logs/studio-permissions-*.log
           retention-days: 7

.github/workflows/studio-windows-update-smoke.yml

@@ -5,19 +5,19 @@
 # studio-mac-update-smoke.yml. Verifies that on the FREE
 # windows-latest runner:
 #
-#   1. install.ps1 --local --no-torch installs Studio AND auto-fetches
-#      the prebuilt llama.cpp Windows binary (llama-bNNNN-bin-win-cpu-
-#      x64 from ggml-org/llama.cpp). Hitting the source-build fallback
-#      is treated as an Unsloth bug -- Studio must always pick the
+#   1. install.ps1 --local --no-torch installs Unsloth AND auto-fetches
+#      the prebuilt llama.cpp Windows binary (app-<tag>-windows-x64-cpu
+#      from unslothai/llama.cpp). Hitting the source-build fallback is
+#      treated as an Unsloth bug -- Unsloth must always pick the
 #      prebuilt on Windows.
 #   2. unsloth studio update --local is idempotent. Two consecutive
 #      runs both report "prebuilt up to date and validated", no
 #      source-build fallback. The CLI's _find_setup_script picks
 #      setup.ps1 on Windows automatically.
-#   3. The installed Studio still boots and /api/health returns
+#   3. The installed Unsloth still boots and /api/health returns
 #      healthy after the update path.
 
-name: Windows Studio Update CI
+name: Windows Unsloth Update CI
 
 on:
   pull_request:
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ permissions:
 
 jobs:
   update-idempotency:
-    name: Studio Updating Tests
+    name: Unsloth Updating Tests
     runs-on: windows-latest
     timeout-minutes: 30
     defaults:
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ jobs:
         shell: bash
     env:
       # Force UTF-8 for stdio (Windows defaults to cp1252; hf
-      # download / Studio CLI print "✓" checkmarks and crash
+      # download / Unsloth CLI print "✓" checkmarks and crash
       # otherwise).
       PYTHONIOENCODING: utf-8
       PYTHONUTF8: '1'
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ jobs:
         #     reuses the existing Node with no download.
         #
         # (2) Defender. windows-latest's real-time scan opens / hashes
-        #     every file Studio writes during install (Vite output =
+        #     every file Unsloth writes during install (Vite output =
         #     thousands of small chunks, uv pip = wheel-extraction =
         #     thousands of small files). The latency dominates the
         #     200 s frontend build and the 90 s deps install. Adding
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ jobs:
           # setup.ps1 line 1281-1296's mtime-based "is the frontend
           # stale?" check into "up to date, skip rebuild", because the
           # newly-created dist's mtime is younger than every source
-          # file. Studio then boots with an empty dist and 500s on
+          # file. Unsloth then boots with an empty dist and 500s on
           # GET / with FileNotFoundError: dist\index.html. See run
           # 25546676715 / job 74984469728.
           # Add-MpPreference accepts paths that do not yet exist; the
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ jobs:
             }
           }
 
-      - name: Install Studio (--local, --no-torch)
+      - name: Install Unsloth (--local, --no-torch)
         shell: pwsh
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "install.ps1 installed the Windows prebuilt llama.cpp:"
           cat "$INFO"
 
-      - name: Add Studio shim to GITHUB_PATH
+      - name: Add Unsloth shim to GITHUB_PATH
         run: |
           SHIM_DIR=~/.unsloth/studio/bin
           if [ ! -f "$SHIM_DIR/unsloth.exe" ]; then
@@ -198,6 +198,31 @@ jobs:
           fi
           echo "update path took the prebuilt fast path"
 
+      - name: Update must keep the --no-torch install GGUF-only
+        run: |
+          # `unsloth studio update` exports no UNSLOTH_NO_TORCH, so setup.ps1 has
+          # to recover the mode from the install manifest. Without that it reads
+          # the missing torch as a stale venv and tries to delete the venv it is
+          # running out of, and the shared dependency pass pulls torch back in.
+          # The skip line only prints when the dependency pass actually runs, so
+          # don't demand it if the fast path short-circuited that pass.
+          if grep -q "running ordered dependency installation" logs/update.log \
+             && ! grep -q "skipping direct PyTorch and Triton installation (no-torch mode)" logs/update.log; then
+            echo "::error::studio update left no-torch mode; it would reinstall PyTorch."
+            grep -iE "no-torch|stale venv|PyTorch" logs/update.log | tail -40
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          PY="$HOME/.unsloth/studio/unsloth_studio/Scripts/python.exe"
+          if [ ! -f "$PY" ]; then
+            echo "::error::studio venv interpreter missing at $PY"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          if "$PY" -c "import torch" 2>/dev/null; then
+            echo "::error::torch was reinstalled into the --no-torch venv."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "update preserved no-torch mode"
+
       - name: Second update must also be a no-op
         env:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
@@ -212,7 +237,7 @@ jobs:
           grep -qE "prebuilt up to date and validated|prebuilt installed and validated" logs/update2.log
           echo "second update was clean"
 
-      - name: Boot Studio briefly to confirm the install is still usable
+      - name: Boot Unsloth briefly to confirm the install is still usable
         run: |
           mkdir -p logs
           UNSLOTH_API_ONLY=1 unsloth studio -H 127.0.0.1 -p 18891 \
@@ -239,13 +264,13 @@ jobs:
             sleep 1
           done
           if [ -z "$HEALTHY" ]; then
-            echo "Studio failed to come up after \`update\`"
+            echo "Unsloth failed to come up after \`update\`"
             tail -200 logs/studio.log
             kill "$PID" 2>/dev/null || true
             exit 1
           fi
           kill "$PID" 2>/dev/null || true
-          echo "post-update Studio /api/health OK"
+          echo "post-update Unsloth /api/health OK"
 
       - name: Uninstall and verify clean
         # Round-trip through scripts/uninstall.ps1 against the default

.github/workflows/version-compat-ci.yml

@@ -285,6 +285,92 @@ jobs:
             tests/vllm_compat/test_extended_module_imports.py \
             -v --tb=short
 
+  # Fake-CUDA GRPO/SFT/DPO patch run against REAL TRL (latest + main). Unlike
+  # the static symbol/source greps above, this drives unsloth's actual
+  # source-transform patchers (models/rl.py + rl_replacements.py) on a CPU-only
+  # runner under the tests/conftest.py spoof harness -- no GPU, no training.
+  # Catches structural TRL drift the greps miss (e.g. TRL 1.7.0's 2->3-tuple
+  # per-token-logps return, restructured PEFT ref-adapter block) by asserting
+  # the generated Unsloth trainer still satisfies the transform contracts.
+  grpo-fake-run:
+    name: GRPO fake-run (latest + main TRL, CPU spoof)
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 18
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd  # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+          path: unsloth
+      - name: Clone unsloth-zoo @ main
+        run: |
+          for attempt in 1 2 3; do
+            rm -rf "$RUNNER_TEMP/unsloth-zoo"
+            if git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth-zoo \
+                "$RUNNER_TEMP/unsloth-zoo"; then
+              break
+            fi
+            if [ "$attempt" -eq 3 ]; then
+              echo "::error::git clone unsloth-zoo failed after 3 attempts"
+              exit 1
+            fi
+            delay=$((5 * attempt))
+            echo "::warning::clone failed (attempt $attempt/3), retrying in ${delay}s..."
+            sleep "$delay"
+          done
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405  # v6.2.0
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.12'
+          cache: 'pip'
+      - name: Install CPU torch + ecosystem + TRL latest
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple \
+            'torch>=2.4,<2.11' 'torchvision<0.26' 'torchcodec<0.10'
+          # Ecosystem floors unsloth needs; TRL itself is installed last so it
+          # can pull the transformers/peft it requires.
+          pip install \
+            'transformers>=4.57' 'peft>=0.18.0' 'accelerate>=1.0' 'datasets>=3.4,<5' \
+            'bitsandbytes>=0.45.5' sentencepiece protobuf safetensors numpy 'pytest>=8' \
+            'huggingface_hub>=0.34' tqdm packaging psutil triton Pillow
+          pip install --upgrade trl
+          pip install --no-deps -e "$RUNNER_TEMP/unsloth-zoo"
+          pip install --no-deps -e ./unsloth
+      - name: Fake-run vs TRL latest
+        env:
+          UNSLOTH_IS_PRESENT: '1'
+          UNSLOTH_COMPILE_DISABLE: '1'
+          # Disable dynamo/inductor at the process level, before conftest.py's early
+          # `import unsloth`, so the GRPO hot path never compiles on the GPU-less runner
+          # (defense in depth; the CPU fake-train also flips this at runtime).
+          TORCHDYNAMO_DISABLE: '1'
+          TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE: '1'
+          PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION: python
+        run: |
+          cd unsloth
+          python -c "import trl; print('Resolved TRL', trl.__version__)"
+          PYTHONPATH=. python -m pytest \
+            tests/version_compat/test_trl_grpo_fake_run.py \
+            tests/version_compat/test_trl_fake_train_cpu.py \
+            -v --tb=short
+      # `main` is scheduled/dispatch-only so PR jobs stay fast and a bleeding-edge
+      # TRL break does not red every PR. github.event_name is valid in a step if.
+      - name: Fake-run vs TRL main (scheduled / dispatch only)
+        if: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
+        env:
+          UNSLOTH_IS_PRESENT: '1'
+          UNSLOTH_COMPILE_DISABLE: '1'
+          TORCHDYNAMO_DISABLE: '1'
+          TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE: '1'
+          PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION: python
+        run: |
+          pip install --upgrade "git+https://github.com/huggingface/trl"
+          cd unsloth
+          python -c "import trl; print('Resolved TRL', trl.__version__)"
+          PYTHONPATH=. python -m pytest \
+            tests/version_compat/test_trl_grpo_fake_run.py \
+            tests/version_compat/test_trl_fake_train_cpu.py \
+            -v --tb=short
+
   # Daily-only: same suites but with --strict on importable upstream
   # tags. Schedule-only so PR jobs stay fast; cron tolerates a flake.
   daily-fresh-fetch:

.github/workflows/wheel-smoke.yml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 # Builds the PyPI wheel from the PR branch, then verifies the built wheel
 # actually contains what we expect to ship and does NOT contain the broken
-# Studio bundle that 2026.5.1 published. This is the single workflow that
+# Unsloth bundle that 2026.5.1 published. This is the single workflow that
 # would have blocked the 2026.5.1 release before twine upload.
 #
 # Verified locally end-to-end against this branch:
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 #       lockfile shipped, frontend dist shipped,
 #       no node_modules in wheel, no bun.lock in wheel,
 #       main bundle has unstable_Provider hits=1 (assistant-ui internals only).
-#   - Studio backend imports cleanly from the installed wheel with the
+#   - Unsloth backend imports cleanly from the installed wheel with the
 #     lightweight dep set below.
 
 name: Wheel CI
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ jobs:
               hits = data.count("unstable_Provider:")
               print(f"main bundle: {js[0]}")
               print(f"unstable_Provider hits: {hits} (>=4 indicates 2026.5.1 regression)")
-              checks["bundle has no Studio unstable_Provider call site"] = (hits < 4)
+              checks["bundle has no Unsloth unstable_Provider call site"] = (hits < 4)
 
               print()
               for k, v in checks.items():
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ jobs:
               sys.exit(0 if all(checks.values()) else 1)
           PY
 
-      - name: Studio backend import smoke
+      - name: Unsloth backend import smoke
         # Imports `studio.backend.main:app` from the freshly-installed wheel in
         # a clean venv. This catches the class of bug that 2026.5.1 shipped with:
         # frontend dist missing, package-lock.json missing, or the wheel's Python
@@ -125,7 +125,32 @@ jobs:
           /tmp/v/bin/pip install --no-deps dist/unsloth-*.whl
           # Run from /tmp so Python imports the installed package, not the source tree.
           cd /tmp
-          /tmp/v/bin/python -c "from studio.backend.main import app; print('Studio backend OK:', app.title)"
+          /tmp/v/bin/python -c "from studio.backend.main import app; print('Unsloth backend OK:', app.title)"
+
+      - name: CLI without the Studio stack guides instead of tracebacking
+        # The smoke above installs studio.txt first, so it cannot catch a wheel
+        # that ships studio/ without declaring what it imports (#4701, #5260,
+        # #7147). Drop only structlog to reuse that venv without a re-download.
+        run: |
+          set -eu
+          /tmp/v/bin/pip uninstall -y structlog >/dev/null
+          cd /tmp
+          status=0
+          for args in "export ./nope ./out" "list-checkpoints"; do
+            echo "--- unsloth $args"
+            out=$(/tmp/v/bin/unsloth $args 2>&1 || true)
+            printf '%s\n' "$out"
+            case "$out" in
+              *Traceback*)
+                echo "FAIL: raw traceback instead of guidance"; status=1 ;;
+            esac
+            case "$out" in
+              *'unsloth studio update'*) ;;
+              *) echo "FAIL: no remediation in the message"; status=1 ;;
+            esac
+          done
+          /tmp/v/bin/pip install -q structlog >/dev/null
+          exit "$status"
 
       - name: Upload wheel on failure
         if: failure()

.gitignore

@@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ tmp/
 **/node_modules/
 auth.db
 
+# Packaging snapshot of the root CHANGELOG.md (written by build.sh)
+studio/CHANGELOG.md
+
 # Tauri local build/generated output
 studio/src-tauri/target/
 studio/src-tauri/gen/
@@ -238,4 +241,5 @@ package-lock.json
 !studio/package-lock.json
 llama.cpp/
 # Stray "~" dir some tools create from a literal ~ TMPDIR; never part of the repo.
-/~/
+~/
+/temp/

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+# Changelog
+
+Release notes for Unsloth and Unsloth Studio.
+
+Unsloth Studio reads this file to show release notes inside the "New Unsloth
+version" update popup. Edit it here and the popup picks the change up on the
+next update check, with no release or rebuild required.
+
+## Format
+
+Every release is a level-2 heading whose first token is the version, optionally
+followed by a date:
+
+```md
+## 2026.7.6 - 2026-07-22
+```
+
+`## [2026.7.6] - 2026-07-22` and `## v2026.7.6` also work. Everything under a
+heading, up to the next level-2 heading, is that release's notes and renders as
+Markdown in the popup.
+
+Notes are matched to one exact version. When Studio offers an update to
+`2026.7.6` it renders the `2026.7.6` section and nothing else. If that section
+is missing, the popup links out to the online changelog rather than showing
+notes from an unrelated release, so a new version needs its own section here
+before its notes can appear.
+
+Keep the newest release at the top. Lead each bullet with the change itself:
+the collapsed popup highlights the first sentence and dims the rest.
+`## Unreleased` is ignored by the popup, so it is safe to stage notes there and
+rename the heading at release time.
+
+<!-- Add new releases directly below this line. -->
+
+## Unreleased
+
+## 2026.7.5
+
+### What's Changed
+
+- AMD support is here. Train, run RL, chat with and deploy 500+ models on
+  Radeon, Instinct, Ryzen and data center GPUs across Windows, WSL and Linux,
+  up to 2x faster with 70% less VRAM and no accuracy loss.
+- Intel XPU support lands in Studio, so Arc and Data Center GPUs run chat and
+  training alongside the NVIDIA, AMD and Apple paths.
+- Local speech to text dictation runs fully offline, with slim Whisper bundles
+  and a picker for custom models.
+- DoRA training is available in Studio, selectable next to LoRA and full
+  fine-tuning in the training tab.
+- The update popup previews release notes inline, pulled from this file and
+  matched to the exact version being offered.
+
+### AMD, 23 July update
+
+Our AMD collaboration, custom Triton kernels and math algorithms bring local
+training and inference to AMD hardware. The 23 July update builds on the
+[AMD release](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/releases/tag/v0.1.501-beta):
+
+- RDNA2 and Gorgon Halo are supported, and the installer no longer fails to
+  detect GPUs on Strix Halo and other AMD cards.
+- RDNA4 handling is better, and HIP and ROCm failures are caught and fixed
+  automatically instead of stopping the install.
+- Unified memory safetensors loading is 2x faster, with much faster gradient
+  checkpointing on unified memory devices.
+- Voice dictation through whisper.cpp has preliminary support.
+- Rollback environments left by installs no longer eat 5GB of disk. They are
+  cleaned up automatically.
+
+Optimized ROCm builds cover GGUF and safetensors inference, and ROCm
+compatibility is improved for MI300X and MI325X. Full guide:
+[unsloth.ai/docs/basics/amd](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/amd).
+
+### Running larger models
+
+- Automatic GPU placement, or pick exactly which GPUs and layers to use.
+- Move MoE expert layers into system memory so larger models fit.
+- Split a model across several GPUs, or use tensor parallelism.
+- Hardware settings are saved per model and quant.
+
+### Also in this release
+
+- Remote access with `unsloth studio --secure` over free HTTPS via Cloudflare.
+- Web search reads PDF papers and manuals, and parallel tool calls, reasoning
+  output and tool retries are more reliable.
+- The model download location is configurable, so weights can live on a second
+  drive instead of the default cache.
+- Stalled Hugging Face XET downloads retry over standard HTTP, and existing
+  GGUF files are reused instead of downloaded again.

MANIFEST.in

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+include _changelog_build.py
+include CHANGELOG.md

README.md

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Unsloth Studio lets you run and train models locally.
 
 <p align="center">
   <a href="#-features">Features</a> •
+  <a href="#-unsloth-news">News</a> •
   <a href="#-install">Quickstart</a> •
   <a href="#-free-notebooks">Notebooks</a> •
   <a href="https://unsloth.ai/docs">Documentation</a>
@@ -47,15 +48,51 @@ Unsloth Studio (Beta) lets you run and train text, [audio](https://unsloth.ai/do
 * [Auto set inference settings](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/studio/chat#auto-parameter-tuning) and customize chat templates.
 * We work directly with teams behind [gpt-oss](https://docs.unsloth.ai/new/gpt-oss-how-to-run-and-fine-tune#unsloth-fixes-for-gpt-oss), [Qwen3](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1kaodxu/qwen3_unsloth_dynamic_ggufs_128k_context_bug_fixes/), [Llama 4](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/12889), [Mistral](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B/discussions/18), [Gemma 1-3](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39671146), and [Phi-4](https://unsloth.ai/blog/phi4), where we’ve fixed bugs that improve model accuracy.
 * Chat with images, audio, PDFs, code, DOCX and more. [Connect API providers](https://unsloth.ai/docs/integrations/connections) (OpenAI, Anthropic) or servers (vLLM, Ollama).
+* [**Compare any two models**](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/studio/chat#model-arena) side by side with the same prompt.
+* **OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible APIs**: Serve local models through `/v1/chat/completions`, `/v1/responses` and `/v1/messages`.
+* **Connect local models to agents**: Use `unsloth start` with Claude Code, Codex, Hermes and more.
+* **Web/PDF search** can read PDF papers, manuals and other PDF results.
+* **GGUF hardware controls**: Choose GPUs/layers, offload MoE experts, use multi-GPU or Tensor Parallelism.
+* The opt-in **MCP control endpoint** lets AI clients manage models, training, recipes and exports.
 ### Training
-* Train and RL **500+ models** up to **2x faster** with up to **70% less VRAM**, with no accuracy loss.
-* Custom Triton and mathematical **kernels**. See some collabs we did with [PyTorch](https://unsloth.ai/docs/get-started/reinforcement-learning-rl-guide/fp8-reinforcement-learning) and [Hugging Face](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/faster-moe).
+* Train and RL **500+ models** up to **2x faster** with **70% less VRAM**; MoE up to **12x faster**.
+* Train and run RL on [AMD GPUs](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/amd) across Windows, WSL and Linux.
 * **Data Recipes**: [Auto-create datasets](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/studio/data-recipe) from **PDF, CSV, DOCX** etc. Edit data in a visual-node workflow.
-* **[Reinforcement Learning](https://unsloth.ai/docs/get-started/reinforcement-learning-rl-guide)** (RL): The most efficient [RL](https://unsloth.ai/docs/get-started/reinforcement-learning-rl-guide) library, using **80% less VRAM** for GRPO, [FP8](https://unsloth.ai/docs/get-started/reinforcement-learning-rl-guide/fp8-reinforcement-learning) etc.
-* Supports full fine-tuning, RL, pretraining, 4-bit, 16-bit and, FP8 training.
+* **[Reinforcement Learning](https://unsloth.ai/docs/get-started/reinforcement-learning-rl-guide)** uses **80% less VRAM** for GRPO, FP8 and vision RL, with 7x longer contexts.
+* [**Long-context training**](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/3x-faster-training-packing): **3x faster**, 30% less VRAM and 500K+ context.
+* Supports LoRA/QLoRA, full fine-tuning, RL, pretraining, 4-bit, 16-bit and FP8.
+* Custom Triton and mathematical **kernels** built with PyTorch and Hugging Face.
 * **Observability**: Monitor training live, track loss and GPU usage and customize graphs.
 * [Multi-GPU](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/multi-gpu-training-with-unsloth) training is supported, with major improvements coming soon.
 
+## 🚀 Unsloth Start
+
+[Unsloth Start](https://unsloth.ai/docs/integrations/unsloth-start) connects [Claude Code](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/claude-code), [Codex](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/codex) and other agents to local models with one command.
+
+Start Unsloth, load a model, open your project folder, then run:
+
+```bash
+unsloth start claude
+```
+
+Replace `claude` with any supported agent:
+
+| Agent | Command |
+| --- | --- |
+| Claude Code | `unsloth start claude` |
+| OpenAI Codex | `unsloth start codex` |
+| Hermes Agent | `unsloth start hermes` |
+| OpenClaw | `unsloth start openclaw` |
+| OpenCode | `unsloth start opencode` |
+| Pi Coding Agent | `unsloth start pi` |
+
+Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Pi can keep their current model and use Unsloth as a local
+subagent:
+
+```bash
+unsloth start claude --as-subagent --model unsloth/model-GGUF:quant
+```
+
 ## 📥 Install
 Unsloth can be used in two ways: through **[Unsloth Studio](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/studio/)**, the web UI, or through **Unsloth Core**, the code-based version. Each has different requirements.
 
@@ -65,7 +102,8 @@ Unsloth Studio (Beta) works on **Windows, Linux, WSL** and **macOS**.
 * **CPU:** Supported for Chat and Data Recipes currently
 * **NVIDIA:** Training works on RTX 30/40/50, Blackwell, DGX Spark, Station and more
 * **macOS:** Training, MLX and GGUF inference are ALL supported.
-* **AMD:** Chat + Data works. Train with [Unsloth Core](#unsloth-core-code-based). Studio support is out soon.
+* **AMD:** Training, RL, chat and deployment work on Windows, WSL and Linux. [Read the AMD guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/amd).
+* **Vulkan:** GGUF inference is supported on [compatible GPUs, including Intel GPUs](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/5819). Vulkan accelerates GGUF inference only; training still requires a supported PyTorch or MLX backend.
 * **Multi-GPU:** Available now, with a major upgrade on the way
 
 #### macOS, Linux, WSL:
@@ -74,19 +112,35 @@ curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh
 ```
 Use the same command to update.
 
+To force the Vulkan llama.cpp backend, set `UNSLOTH_FORCE_VULKAN=1` **before installing or updating**. The setting selects the llama.cpp binary bundle, so setting it only when launching Studio cannot replace an existing CPU bundle:
+
+```bash
+export UNSLOTH_FORCE_VULKAN=1
+curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh
+```
+
 #### Windows:
 ```powershell
 irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
 ```
 Use the same command to update.
 
+To force the Vulkan llama.cpp backend, set the environment variable before running the installer or updater:
+
+```powershell
+$env:UNSLOTH_FORCE_VULKAN=1
+irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
+```
+
+Re-running the current installer replaces a previously selected CPU bundle when the backend differs. A separate Vulkan SDK is not required; the GPU driver must provide a working Vulkan runtime.
+
 #### Launch
 ```bash
 unsloth studio -p 8888
 ```
-For cloud or global access, add `-H 0.0.0.0`. By default, Unsloth is accessible only locally.
+For LAN or cloud access, add `-H 0.0.0.0` (raw port only; add `--cloudflare` for a public URL). By default, Unsloth is accessible only locally.
 
-To reach Studio over HTTPS, use `unsloth studio --secure`. Studio stays bound to localhost and is reached only through a free Cloudflare tunnel, which publishes it at a public `https://*.trycloudflare.com` URL (it fails closed if the tunnel can't start, so the raw port is never exposed). This makes Studio reachable from the internet, so anyone with the link and API key can use it and run code: keep your API key private (see Remote access below).
+To reach Unsloth over HTTPS, use `unsloth studio --secure`. Unsloth stays bound to localhost and is reached only through a free Cloudflare tunnel, which publishes it at a public `https://*.trycloudflare.com` URL (it fails closed if the tunnel can't start, so the raw port is never exposed). This makes Unsloth reachable from the internet, so anyone with the link and API key can use it and run code: keep your API key private (see Remote access below).
 
 #### Docker
 Use our [Docker image](https://hub.docker.com/r/unsloth/unsloth) ```unsloth/unsloth``` container. Run:
@@ -122,7 +176,7 @@ You can use the same Docker image as Unsloth Studio.
 
 #### AMD, Intel:
 For RTX 50x, B200, 6000 GPUs: `uv pip install unsloth --torch-backend=auto`. Read our guides for: [Blackwell](https://unsloth.ai/docs/blog/fine-tuning-llms-with-blackwell-rtx-50-series-and-unsloth) and [DGX Spark](https://unsloth.ai/docs/blog/fine-tuning-llms-with-nvidia-dgx-spark-and-unsloth). <br>
-To install Unsloth on **AMD** and **Intel** GPUs, follow our [AMD Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/get-started/install/amd) and [Intel Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/get-started/install/intel).
+To install Unsloth on **AMD** and **Intel** GPUs, follow our [AMD Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/amd) and [Intel Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/get-started/install/intel).
 
 ## 📒 Free Notebooks
 
@@ -148,13 +202,20 @@ Read our [guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/get-started/fine-tuning-llms-guide). Ad
 - See detailed documentation for Unsloth [here](https://unsloth.ai/docs)
 
 ## 🦥 Unsloth News
-- **Connections**: Connect any API provider (OpenAI, Anthropic) or server (vLLM, Ollama). [Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/integrations/connections)
-- **MTP**: Run Qwen3.6 MTP in Unsloth. MTP settings are autoset specific to your hardware. [Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.6#mtp-guide)
-- **API inference endpoint**: Deploy and run local LLMs in Claude Code, Codex tools. [Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/api)
-- **Qwen3.6**: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B can now be trained and run in Unsloth Studio. [Blog](https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.6)
-- **Gemma 4**: Run and train Google’s new models directly in Unsloth. [Blog](https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/gemma-4)
+- **AMD training**: Train, run RL, chat and deploy on AMD GPUs across Windows, WSL and Linux. [Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/amd)
+- **GGUF hardware controls**: Choose GPU/layer placement, offload MoE experts and use multi-GPU or Tensor Parallelism. [#6414](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/6414)
+- **Local models for any agent**: Use `unsloth start` with Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Pi and more through Unsloth's OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs. [Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/api)
+- **MCP control endpoint**: Let compatible clients manage models, training, recipes, checkpoints and exports. [#7191](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7191)
+- **Local inference reliability**: Resume long chats faster, recover stalled downloads and reuse existing GGUF files. [#7204](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7204) • [#6858](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/6858) • [#7209](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/pull/7209)
+- **New models**: [Qwen-AgentWorld](https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B-GGUF), [Ornith](https://huggingface.co/unsloth/models?search=ornith), [Kimi K2.7 Code](https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/kimi-k2.7-code) and [MiniMax M3](https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/minimax-m3)
+- **GLM-5.2**: Run Z.ai's 744B-parameter, 1M-context open model locally with Unsloth Dynamic GGUFs. [Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/glm-5.2)
+- **DeepSeek-V4**: Run DeepSeek-V4-Flash locally with corrected multi-turn and tool-calling behavior. [Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/deepseek-v4)
+- **DiffusionGemma**: Run and fine-tune Google's diffusion language model with 1.8x faster inference in Unsloth Studio. [Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/diffusiongemma)
+- **Qwen3.6**: Run and train Qwen3.6 with MTP for 1.4-2.2x faster inference and NVFP4 quants for supported GPUs. [Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.6)
+- **Gemma 4**: Run and train Gemma 4 text, image and audio models with QAT, MTP, GGUF and MLX support. [Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/gemma-4)
+- **MCP servers**: Connect local models to files, apps, databases and external tools through Model Context Protocol. [Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/mcp)
+- **Connections**: Mix local models with API providers (OpenAI, Anthropic) or servers (vLLM, Ollama) in the same interface. [Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/integrations/connections)
 - **Introducing Unsloth Studio**: our new web UI for running and training LLMs. [Blog](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/studio)
-- **Qwen3.5** - 0.8B, 2B, 4B, 9B, 27B, 35-A3B, 112B-A10B are now supported. [Guide + notebooks](https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5/fine-tune)
 - Train **MoE LLMs 12x faster** with 35% less VRAM - DeepSeek, GLM, Qwen and gpt-oss. [Blog](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/faster-moe)
 - **Embedding models**: Unsloth now supports ~1.8-3.3x faster embedding fine-tuning. [Blog](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/embedding-finetuning) • [Notebooks](https://unsloth.ai/docs/get-started/unsloth-notebooks#embedding-models)
 - New **7x longer context RL** vs. all other setups, via our new batching algorithms. [Blog](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/grpo-long-context)
@@ -208,16 +269,31 @@ unsloth studio -p 8888
 #### Remote access: `--secure` (HTTPS tunnel) vs raw port
 By default `unsloth studio` binds to `127.0.0.1` (this machine only). To reach it from another device, pick one of:
 
-- `--secure` (recommended): serve **only** through a free Cloudflare HTTPS link. Studio stays bound to localhost and the tunnel provides the public URL; it fails closed (does not start) if the tunnel can't come up, so the raw port is never exposed.
+- `--secure` (recommended): serve **only** through a free Cloudflare HTTPS link. Unsloth stays bound to localhost and the tunnel provides the public URL; it fails closed (does not start) if the tunnel can't come up, so the raw port is never exposed.
 ```bash
 unsloth studio --secure -p 8888
 ```
-- `-H 0.0.0.0`: bind the raw port on all network interfaces, reachable from anywhere on the network. Only use this on a trusted network.
+- `-H 0.0.0.0`: bind the raw port on all network interfaces, reachable from anywhere on the network (subject to your firewall). It does not create a public internet URL; add `--cloudflare` to also publish an internet-reachable `https://*.trycloudflare.com` link even behind a firewall. Only use this on a network you trust.
 ```bash
 unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888
 ```
+The Cloudflare tunnel is **off by default**: `-H 0.0.0.0` exposes the raw port only, not a public internet URL. Pair the wildcard bind with `--cloudflare` (`unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 --cloudflare`) to also publish a public `https://*.trycloudflare.com` link, or prefer `--secure` (above), which keeps the raw port private. `--cloudflare` has no effect on a loopback bind.
 
-Server-side tools (web search, Python and terminal code execution) run as your user and are on by default. Anyone who can reach the server with the API key can run code on this machine, so keep your API key private and pass `--disable-tools` when exposing Studio.
+On a wildcard bind Unsloth works out the address to share by asking `ifconfig.me` for the public IP, then asks `check-host.net` whether that port is reachable so it can tell you if a firewall is in the way. Both contact a third party. Set `UNSLOTH_STUDIO_DISABLE_PUBLIC_CHECK=1` to skip them; the banner then shows the LAN address and no reachability line.
+
+The first time Unsloth is published on a public URL (`--secure` or `--cloudflare`) with the auto-generated admin password still in place, it asks for a new admin password in the terminal (masked input with confirmation) before the public link goes up. Without an attached terminal it warns instead and keeps the bootstrap deadline: Unsloth shuts down after `UNSLOTH_STUDIO_BOOTSTRAP_TIMEOUT` (default 1 hour) unless the password is changed in the web UI.
+
+For headless setups that cannot answer that prompt, set the initial admin password non-interactively with `--password` (only takes effect when no password is set yet; if one already exists it is a hard error, so rotate later with `unsloth studio reset-password`):
+
+```bash
+unsloth studio --secure --password 'your-strong-password'        # visible in `ps`/history
+UNSLOTH_STUDIO_PASSWORD='your-strong-password' unsloth studio --secure   # via env var
+printf '%s\n' 'your-strong-password' | unsloth studio --secure --password -   # via stdin
+```
+
+A literal `--password VALUE` is visible in the process list and shell history, so prefer the `UNSLOTH_STUDIO_PASSWORD` env var or `--password -` (stdin) for automation. This applies to any launch (public or a headless `-H 0.0.0.0` bind), and the password is set in the parent before the server binds, so it never reaches a re-executed child process.
+
+Server-side tools (web search, Python and terminal code execution) run as your user and are on by default. Anyone who can reach the server with the API key can run code on this machine, so keep your API key private and pass `--disable-tools` when exposing Unsloth.
 
 #### Advanced launch options
 Installer options can be passed as environment variables. On macOS, Linux and WSL place the variable after the pipe so the shell passes it to `sh`; on Windows set it with `$env:` before piping to `iex`.
@@ -230,6 +306,14 @@ curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | UNSLOTH_NO_TORCH=1 sh
 $env:UNSLOTH_NO_TORCH=1; irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
 ```
 
+Skip the post-install prompt that starts Unsloth (useful for automated installs):
+```bash
+curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | UNSLOTH_SKIP_AUTOSTART=1 sh
+```
+```powershell
+$env:UNSLOTH_SKIP_AUTOSTART=1; irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
+```
+
 Pin the Python version:
 ```bash
 curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | UNSLOTH_PYTHON=3.12 sh
@@ -258,9 +342,9 @@ UNSLOTH_NPM_REGISTRY=https://artifactory.example.com/api/npm/npm/ ./install.sh -
 ```powershell
 $env:UNSLOTH_NPM_REGISTRY='https://artifactory.example.com/api/npm/npm/'; .\install.ps1 --local
 ```
-It is threaded as `--registry` into the Studio frontend `npm`/`bun` installs; the supply-chain locks (7-day `min-release-age`, exact version pins) stay in force.
+It is threaded as `--registry` into the Unsloth frontend `npm`/`bun` installs; the supply-chain locks (7-day `min-release-age`, exact version pins) stay in force.
 
-Cap Studio's native CPU thread pools on high-core hosts: `UNSLOTH_CPU_THREADS=8 unsloth studio -p 8888`.
+Cap Unsloth's native CPU thread pools on high-core hosts: `UNSLOTH_CPU_THREADS=8 unsloth studio -p 8888`.
 
 #### Uninstall
 The recommended way to fully remove Unsloth Studio is the matching uninstall script for your OS. It stops any running servers, removes the install dir, the launcher data dir, the desktop shortcut, and any platform-specific entries (macOS `.app` bundle + Launch Services on Mac; Start Menu, `HKCU\Software\Unsloth` registry key and user `PATH` entries on Windows):

_changelog_build.py

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+# Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved.
+
+"""Snapshot CHANGELOG.md into the studio package at build time.
+
+CHANGELOG.md at the repo root stays the one file to edit. Copying it here,
+rather than in build.sh, means every packaging path ships it, so release notes
+still render when the popup cannot reach GitHub."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import shutil
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from setuptools.command.build_py import build_py as _build_py
+
+ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent
+SOURCE = ROOT / "CHANGELOG.md"
+SNAPSHOT = ROOT / "studio" / "CHANGELOG.md"
+
+
+class build_py(_build_py):
+    def run(self) -> None:
+        # Beside the sources only if writable (PEP 517 may build an immutable
+        # checkout); into the staging directory always.
+        if SOURCE.is_file():
+            try:
+                shutil.copyfile(SOURCE, SNAPSHOT)
+            except OSError:
+                pass
+        super().run()
+        if not SOURCE.is_file():
+            return
+        staged = Path(self.build_lib) / "studio" / "CHANGELOG.md"
+        staged.parent.mkdir(parents = True, exist_ok = True)
+        shutil.copyfile(SOURCE, staged)

build.sh

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 
 set -euo pipefail
 
-# PyPI/Studio release publishing must use `./build.sh publish` (or an
-# equivalent stamp -> build -> verify-dist -> upload flow) so packaged Studio
-# artifacts include the display-only Studio release version.
+# PyPI/Unsloth release publishing must use `./build.sh publish` (or an
+# equivalent stamp -> build -> verify-dist -> upload flow) so packaged Unsloth
+# artifacts include the display-only Unsloth release version.
 
 # 1. Build frontend (Vite outputs to dist/)
 cd studio/frontend
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ cd ../..
 # 2. Clean old artifacts
 rm -rf build dist *.egg-info
 
-# 3. Stamp display-only Studio release metadata for packaged builds.
+# 3. Stamp display-only Unsloth release metadata for packaged builds.
 _STUDIO_BUILD_INFO="studio/backend/utils/_studio_release_build.py"
 _STUDIO_BUILD_INFO_BACKUP="$(mktemp)"
 cp "$_STUDIO_BUILD_INFO" "$_STUDIO_BUILD_INFO_BACKUP"
@@ -103,9 +103,13 @@ else
     STUDIO_STAMPED_VERSION="$(python scripts/stamp_studio_release.py)"
 fi
 
-# 4. Build wheel/sdist
+# 4. Build wheel/sdist. _changelog_build.py snapshots CHANGELOG.md into the studio
+# package so release notes render offline.
 python -m build
 
+# Drop the snapshot so a source checkout never serves a stale copy.
+rm -f studio/CHANGELOG.md
+
 if [ "${1:-}" = "publish" ]; then
     python scripts/stamp_studio_release.py --verify-dist dist --expected "$STUDIO_STAMPED_VERSION"
 fi

install.ps1

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 # irm | iex cannot forward arguments, so web installs take options as env vars set
 # before the pipe (flags still work via .\install.ps1):
 #   $env:UNSLOTH_NO_TORCH=1; irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex       # skip PyTorch (GGUF-only)
+#   $env:UNSLOTH_SKIP_AUTOSTART=1; irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex # do not prompt to launch
 #   $env:UNSLOTH_PYTHON='3.12'; irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex    # pin Python version
 #   $env:UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME='C:\path'; irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
 #   .\install.ps1 --no-torch                                                # equivalent flag
@@ -27,6 +28,14 @@ function Install-UnslothStudio {
         }
     }
 
+    function Clear-TauriInstallError {
+        param([string]$Message)
+        if ($TauriMode) {
+            Write-TauriLog "ERROR_CLEAR" $Message
+            [Console]::Error.WriteLine("[TAURI:ERROR_CLEAR] $Message")
+        }
+    }
+
     function Format-TauriDiagBool {
         param([bool]$Value)
         if ($Value) { return "true" }
@@ -48,11 +57,32 @@ function Install-UnslothStudio {
         }
     }
 
+    # Machine arch; Get-TauriDiagArch above reports the process. An emulated x64 shell on
+    # ARM64 reports AMD64, but PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 is ARM64 in exactly that case.
+    function Get-HostMachineArch {
+        $osArch = ""
+        try { $osArch = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation]::OSArchitecture.ToString() } catch { $osArch = "" }
+        $signals = @([string]$env:PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432, [string]$env:PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE, $osArch)
+        foreach ($s in $signals) {
+            if ($s.ToLowerInvariant() -eq "arm64") { return "arm64" }
+        }
+        foreach ($s in $signals) {
+            if ([string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($s)) { continue }
+            switch ($s.ToLowerInvariant()) {
+                "amd64" { return "x86_64" }
+                "x64" { return "x86_64" }
+                "x86" { return "x86" }
+            }
+        }
+        return "unknown"
+    }
+
     function Get-TauriTorchIndexFamily {
         param([string]$TorchIndexUrl)
         if ($SkipTorch) { return "none" }
         if ([string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($TorchIndexUrl)) { return "none" }
-        $leaf = ($TorchIndexUrl.TrimEnd('/') -split '/')[-1].ToLowerInvariant()
+        # Drop query/fragment first so a token-authenticated pin classifies by family.
+        $leaf = (($TorchIndexUrl -split '[?#]', 2)[0].TrimEnd('/') -split '/')[-1].ToLowerInvariant()
         if (@("cpu", "cu118", "cu124", "cu126", "cu128", "cu130") -contains $leaf) { return $leaf }
         if ($leaf -match '^rocm[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$') { return $leaf }
         return "auto"
@@ -61,7 +91,8 @@ function Install-UnslothStudio {
     function Get-TauriGpuBranch {
         param([string]$TorchIndexFamily)
         if ($SkipTorch) { return "no_torch" }
-        if ($TorchIndexFamily -like "cu*") { return "cuda" }
+        # Require a digit after "cu" so /current or /custom isn't branded CUDA (parity ^cu[0-9]).
+        if ($TorchIndexFamily -match '^cu[0-9]') { return "cuda" }
         if ($TorchIndexFamily -like "rocm*") { return "rocm" }
         if ($TorchIndexFamily -eq "cpu") { return "cpu" }
         return "unknown"
@@ -83,13 +114,14 @@ function Install-UnslothStudio {
             [int]$Code = 1
         )
         if ($Code -eq 0) { $Code = 1 }
-        Write-TauriLog "ERROR" $Message
+        Write-TauriLog "ERROR_DEFAULT" $Message
         if (Get-Command Restore-StudioVenvRollback -CommandType Function -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) {
             Restore-StudioVenvRollback
         }
         if ($TauriMode) {
             exit $Code
         }
+        throw $Message
     }
 
     # ── Parse flags ──
@@ -98,6 +130,7 @@ function Install-UnslothStudio {
     $RepoRoot = ""
     $TauriMode = $false
     $SkipTorch = $false
+    $SkipAutostart = $false
     $ShortcutsOnly = $false
     $WithLlamaCppDir = ""
     $argList = $args
@@ -130,6 +163,7 @@ function Install-UnslothStudio {
 
     # Env-var equivalent for web installs; an explicit flag still wins.
     if ($env:UNSLOTH_NO_TORCH -in @('1', 'true', 'yes', 'on')) { $SkipTorch = $true }
+    if ($env:UNSLOTH_SKIP_AUTOSTART -in @('1', 'true', 'yes', 'on')) { $SkipAutostart = $true }
 
     # Propagate to child processes so they also respect verbose mode.
     # Process-scoped -- does not persist.
@@ -172,7 +206,7 @@ function Install-UnslothStudio {
         $envOverride = $env:STUDIO_HOME.Trim()
     }
 
-    # Custom Studio roots are not supported with --tauri (desktop app still
+    # Custom Unsloth roots are not supported with --tauri (desktop app still
     # resolves %USERPROFILE%\.unsloth\studio). Pass through if override == legacy.
     if ($TauriMode -and $envOverride) {
         $_tauriOverride = $envOverride
@@ -463,31 +497,70 @@ function Install-UnslothStudio {
         }
     }
 
+    # Redact index-URL credentials (userinfo + ?query= + #fragment) from captured installer
+    # output before printing on failure; uv/pip errors echo the failing --index-url verbatim.
+    # Mirrors the other installers. Verbose mode streams uncaptured, so it isn't redacted.
+    function Redact-InstallOutput {
+        param([string]$Text)
+        if (-not $Text) { return $Text }
+        $Text = $Text -replace '(https?://)[^/@\s`]+@', '$1<redacted>@'
+        $Text = $Text -replace '([?&][^=\s&`]+)=[^&#\s`]+', '$1=<redacted>'
+        # A #token=... fragment is as sensitive as a query; URL-anchored.
+        return $Text -replace '(https?://[^\s`#]+)#[^\s`]+', '$1#<redacted>'
+    }
+
     # Run native commands quietly by default to match install.sh behavior.
     # Full command output is shown only when --verbose / UNSLOTH_VERBOSE=1.
     function Invoke-InstallCommand {
         param(
-            [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)][ScriptBlock]$Command
+            [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)][ScriptBlock]$Command,
+            [string]$Label = "install command"
         )
+        # Installer-pinned index installs (torch) must beat an inherited uv mirror (#6898):
+        # for --default-index, clear the uv index env vars (restore in finally) and set
+        # UV_NO_CONFIG=1 so a uv.toml/pyproject index can't outrank the CLI pin (uv 0.10).
+        $savedUvIndex = $null
+        if ($Command.ToString() -match '--default-index') {
+            $savedUvIndex = @{}
+            foreach ($n in 'UV_DEFAULT_INDEX', 'UV_INDEX_URL', 'UV_INDEX', 'UV_EXTRA_INDEX_URL', 'UV_TORCH_BACKEND', 'UV_FIND_LINKS', 'UV_CONFIG_FILE', 'UV_NO_CONFIG') {
+                $savedUvIndex[$n] = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable($n)
+                Remove-Item "Env:$n" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
+            }
+            $env:UV_NO_CONFIG = '1'
+        }
         $prevEap = $ErrorActionPreference
         $ErrorActionPreference = "Continue"
         try {
             # Reset to avoid stale values from prior native commands.
             $global:LASTEXITCODE = 0
+            Write-TauriLog "OUTPUT_CLEAR" $Label
             if ($script:UnslothVerbose) {
                 # Merge stderr into stdout so progress/warning output stays visible
                 # without flipping $? on successful native commands (PS 5.1 treats
                 # stderr records as errors that set $? = $false even on exit code 0).
-                & $Command 2>&1 | Out-Host
+                # Redact per record: uv echoes index URLs (credentials and all) in
+                # its errors, and verbose mode must not bypass the quiet path's
+                # redaction. ForEach-Object/Out-Host leave $LASTEXITCODE untouched.
+                & $Command 2>&1 | ForEach-Object { Redact-InstallOutput "$_" } | Out-Host
             } else {
                 $output = & $Command 2>&1 | Out-String
                 if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) {
-                    Write-Host $output -ForegroundColor Red
+                    Write-Host (Redact-InstallOutput $output) -ForegroundColor Red
                 }
             }
-            return [int]$LASTEXITCODE
+            $exitCode = [int]$LASTEXITCODE
+            if ($exitCode -eq 0) {
+                Clear-TauriInstallError "$Label recovered"
+            } else {
+                Write-TauriLog "ERROR_OUTPUT" "$Label failed (exit code $exitCode)"
+            }
+            return $exitCode
         } finally {
             $ErrorActionPreference = $prevEap
+            if ($savedUvIndex) {
+                Remove-Item "Env:UV_NO_CONFIG" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
+                foreach ($n in $savedUvIndex.Keys) { if ($null -ne $savedUvIndex[$n]) { Set-Item "Env:$n" $savedUvIndex[$n] } }
+            }
         }
     }
 
@@ -512,7 +585,7 @@ function Install-UnslothStudio {
         }
         $attempt = 1
         while ($true) {
-            $code = Invoke-InstallCommand $Command
+            $code = Invoke-InstallCommand -Command $Command -Label $Label
             if ($code -eq 0) { return 0 }
             if ($attempt -ge $maxAttempts) { return $code }
             substep ("retrying ""$Label"" after transient failure (attempt $($attempt + 1)/$maxAttempts, waiting ${delay}s)...") "Yellow"
@@ -740,7 +813,7 @@ function Find-FreeLaunchPort {
     return `$null
 }
 
-# If Studio is already healthy on any expected port, just open it and exit.
+# If Unsloth is already healthy on any expected port, just open it and exit.
 `$existingPort = Find-HealthyStudioPort
 if (`$existingPort) {
     Start-Process "http://localhost:`$existingPort"
@@ -756,7 +829,7 @@ try {
         `$haveMutex = `$true
     }
     if (-not `$haveMutex) {
-        # Another launcher is already running; wait for it to bring Studio up
+        # Another launcher is already running; wait for it to bring Unsloth up
         `$deadline = (Get-Date).AddSeconds(`$timeoutSec)
         while ((Get-Date) -lt `$deadline) {
             `$port = Find-HealthyStudioPort
@@ -1071,10 +1144,27 @@ exit 0
         return $false
     }
 
+    # The interpreter's own arch, asked of it: win-amd64|win-arm64|win32|"".
+    function Get-PythonPlatformTag {
+        param([string]$Exe)
+        try {
+            return (& $Exe -c "import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_platform())" 2>$null | Out-String).Trim().ToLowerInvariant()
+        } catch { return "" }
+    }
+
     # Returns @{ Version = "3.13"; Path = "C:\...\python.exe" } or $null.
     # The resolved Path is passed to `uv venv --python` to prevent uv from
     # re-resolving the version string back to a conda interpreter.
     function Find-CompatiblePython {
+        # -X64Only: best installed x64 interpreter or $null, never ARM64. Last resort for
+        # Install-X64Python, where x64 of a lower-priority minor beats ARM64.
+        param([switch]$X64Only)
+        # Windows on ARM: prefer x64. pyarrow (via datasets) and hf-transfer ship no
+        # win_arm64 wheel, so a native ARM64 Python source-builds both and dies on CMake /
+        # Rust minutes in; x64 runs fine emulated. ARM64 is still returned when it is all
+        # there is, and the caller then bootstraps x64 or warns.
+        $preferX64 = $X64Only -or ((Get-HostMachineArch) -eq "arm64")
+        $candidates = @()
         # Try the Python Launcher first (most reliable on Windows)
         # py.exe resolves to the standard CPython install, not conda.
         # Prefer the requested $PythonVersion, then newest-first fallback.
@@ -1092,7 +1182,8 @@ exit 0
                         # Resolve the actual executable path and verify it is not conda-based
                         $resolvedExe = (& $pyLauncher.Source "-$minor" -c "import sys; print(sys.executable)" 2>$null | Out-String).Trim()
                         if ($resolvedExe -and (Test-Path $resolvedExe) -and -not (Test-IsCondaPython $resolvedExe)) {
-                            return @{ Version = $ver; Path = $resolvedExe }
+                            if (-not $preferX64) { return @{ Version = $ver; Path = $resolvedExe; Arch = "" } }
+                            $candidates += @{ Version = $ver; Path = $resolvedExe }
                         }
                     }
                 } catch {}
@@ -1113,11 +1204,53 @@ exit 0
                 try {
                     $out = & $cmd.Source --version 2>&1 | Out-String
                     if ($out -match "Python (3\.1[1-3])\.\d+") {
-                        return @{ Version = $Matches[1]; Path = $cmd.Source }
+                        if (-not $preferX64) { return @{ Version = $Matches[1]; Path = $cmd.Source; Arch = "" } }
+                        $candidates += @{ Version = $Matches[1]; Path = $cmd.Source }
                     }
                 } catch {}
             }
         }
+        # `py -3.12` runs the launcher's preferred build, normally the native ARM64 one, so
+        # a same-minor x64 install that is neither preferred nor on PATH never becomes a
+        # candidate. `-3.12-64` cannot disambiguate (deprecated, it only means "not
+        # 32-bit"), so enumerate every registration with -0p and probe each path.
+        if ($preferX64) {
+            foreach ($pyLauncher in @(Get-Command py -All -CommandType Application -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
+                if ($pyLauncher.Source -match $script:CondaSkipPattern) { continue }
+                $listed = @()
+                try { $listed = @(& $pyLauncher.Source "-0p" 2>$null) } catch {}
+                foreach ($line in $listed) {
+                    # " -V:3.12 *   C:\...\python.exe": tag, optional default marker, path.
+                    $m = [regex]::Match([string]$line, '(?i)^\s*-\S+\s+\*?\s*"?(?<p>\S.*?\.exe)"?\s*$')
+                    if (-not $m.Success) { continue }
+                    $exe = $m.Groups['p'].Value.Trim()
+                    if ($candidates | Where-Object { $_.Path -eq $exe }) { continue }
+                    if (-not (Test-Path -LiteralPath $exe)) { continue }
+                    if (Test-IsCondaPython $exe) { continue }
+                    try {
+                        $out = & $exe --version 2>&1 | Out-String
+                        if ($out -match "Python (3\.1[1-3])\.\d+") {
+                            $candidates += @{ Version = $Matches[1]; Path = $exe }
+                        }
+                    } catch {}
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        # Prefer x64, but only within one minor: $minors is the caller's version preference,
+        # so ranking on arch alone would answer UNSLOTH_PYTHON=3.12 with an x64 3.13 and
+        # never bootstrap x64 3.12. Probing costs a subprocess, so non-ARM returned above.
+        foreach ($c in $candidates) {
+            $tag = Get-PythonPlatformTag $c.Path
+            $c.Arch = if ($tag -eq "win-amd64") { "x86_64" } elseif ($tag -eq "win-arm64") { "arm64" } else { "unknown" }
+        }
+        foreach ($minor in $minors) {
+            $sameMinor = @($candidates | Where-Object { $_.Version -eq $minor })
+            if ($sameMinor.Count -eq 0) { continue }
+            $x64 = $sameMinor | Where-Object { $_.Arch -eq "x86_64" } | Select-Object -First 1
+            if ($x64) { return $x64 }
+            if (-not $X64Only) { return $sameMinor[0] }
+        }
+        if (-not $X64Only -and $candidates.Count -gt 0) { return $candidates[0] }
         return $null
     }
 
@@ -1128,8 +1261,11 @@ exit 0
     # (no UAC), putting python.exe + the py launcher on PATH. Mirrors the uv ->
     # astral.sh fallback below. Returns @{ Version; Path } or $null.
     function Install-PythonFromPythonOrg {
+        # $Arch overrides the host arch, to pull x64 onto an ARM64 box.
+        param([string]$Arch = "")
         # python.org ships one installer per architecture.
-        $archSuffix = switch (Get-TauriDiagArch) {
+        $targetArch = if ($Arch) { $Arch } else { Get-TauriDiagArch }
+        $archSuffix = switch ($targetArch) {
             "x86_64" { "-amd64" }
             "arm64"  { "-arm64" }
             "x86"    { "" }
@@ -1194,6 +1330,28 @@ exit 0
         return (Find-CompatiblePython)
     }
 
+    # ── Windows on ARM: get an x64 CPython ──
+    # --architecture x64 forces winget off the ARM64 build; python.org takes the same override.
+    function Install-X64Python {
+        if ($script:WingetAvailable) {
+            $prevEAP = $ErrorActionPreference
+            $ErrorActionPreference = "Continue"
+            try {
+                winget install -e --id "Python.Python.$PythonVersion" --source winget --architecture x64 --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements
+            } catch { }
+            $ErrorActionPreference = $prevEAP
+            Refresh-SessionPath
+            $found = Find-CompatiblePython
+            if ($found -and $found.Arch -eq "x86_64") { return $found }
+            substep "winget could not provide an x64 Python -- trying python.org..." "Yellow"
+        }
+        $found = Install-PythonFromPythonOrg -Arch "x86_64"
+        if ($found -and $found.Arch -eq "x86_64") { return $found }
+        # Nothing installable (offline / no winget): an x64 build of another supported minor
+        # still runs the wheels ARM64 cannot, so take it over the native interpreter.
+        return (Find-CompatiblePython -X64Only)
+    }
+
     # ── Install Python if no compatible version (3.11-3.13) found ──
     # Find-CompatiblePython returns @{ Version = "3.13"; Path = "C:\...\python.exe" } or $null.
     Write-TauriLog "STEP" "Installing Python"
@@ -1265,6 +1423,26 @@ exit 0
             return (Exit-InstallFailure "Python installation failed")
         }
     }
+    # ── Windows on ARM: swap a native ARM64 interpreter for x64 ──
+    # pyarrow and hf-transfer publish no win_arm64 wheel, so an ARM64 Python source-builds
+    # both and fails deep into the run. Warn up front if x64 is unobtainable.
+    if ($DetectedPython -and (Get-HostMachineArch) -eq "arm64" -and $DetectedPython.Arch -ne "x86_64") {
+        substep "windows on arm: only a native ARM64 Python $($DetectedPython.Version) was found." "Yellow"
+        substep "pyarrow and hf-transfer publish no win_arm64 wheels, so installing x64 Python..." "Yellow"
+        $X64Python = Install-X64Python
+        if ($X64Python) {
+            $DetectedPython = $X64Python
+            step "python" "using x64 Python $($DetectedPython.Version) under emulation"
+        } else {
+            Write-Host "[WARN] Could not install an x64 Python on this ARM64 machine." -ForegroundColor Yellow
+            Write-Host "       Continuing with ARM64 Python $($DetectedPython.Version), but the install is likely to fail:" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+            Write-Host "       pyarrow (via datasets) and hf-transfer ship no win_arm64 wheels and will be" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+            Write-Host "       built from source, which needs CMake plus the MSVC and Rust toolchains." -ForegroundColor Yellow
+            Write-Host "       Fix: install x64 Python from https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+            Write-Host "       (choose 'Windows installer (64-bit)', not ARM64), then re-run this installer." -ForegroundColor Yellow
+        }
+    }
+
     $DiagPythonVersion = $PythonVersion
     if ($DetectedPython) { $DiagPythonVersion = $DetectedPython.Version }
     $InitialGpuBranch = "unknown"
@@ -1379,13 +1557,82 @@ exit 0
             $suffix++
             $candidate = Join-Path $StudioHome "unsloth_studio.rollback.$stamp.$PID.$suffix"
         }
-        Move-Item -LiteralPath $ExistingDir -Destination $candidate -ErrorAction Stop
         $script:StudioVenvRollbackDir = $candidate
         $script:StudioVenvRollbackTarget = $ExistingDir
         $script:StudioVenvRollbackActive = $true
+        # Publish the rollback state before the atomic rename so interruption
+        # cannot land after Move-Item but before cleanup knows where the old venv went.
+        try {
+            Move-Item -LiteralPath $ExistingDir -Destination $candidate -ErrorAction Stop
+        } catch {
+            # A collision or ordinary rename failure leaves the original in place.
+            # Keep state active only when the rename happened before interruption.
+            if (Test-Path -LiteralPath $ExistingDir) {
+                $script:StudioVenvRollbackActive = $false
+                $script:StudioVenvRollbackDir = $null
+            }
+            throw
+        }
         substep "previous environment preserved for rollback"
     }
 
+    function Remove-StudioVenvTreeWithRetry {
+        param(
+            [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)][string]$Path,
+            [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)][string]$Label
+        )
+        $lastError = $null
+        for ($attempt = 1; $attempt -le 3; $attempt++) {
+            try {
+                Remove-Item -LiteralPath $Path -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction Stop
+            } catch {
+                $lastError = $_.Exception.Message
+            }
+            if (-not (Test-Path -LiteralPath $Path)) { return $true }
+            if ($attempt -lt 3) { Start-Sleep -Milliseconds (250 * $attempt) }
+        }
+        Write-Host "[WARN] Could not remove $Label at $Path" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+        if ($lastError) { Write-Host "       $lastError" -ForegroundColor Yellow }
+        return $false
+    }
+
+    function Test-StudioVenvRollbackMustBePreserved {
+        param([Parameter(Mandatory = $true)][System.IO.FileSystemInfo]$Rollback)
+        # Preserve anything outside the installer's timestamp.PID[.suffix] format.
+        if ($Rollback.Name -notmatch '^unsloth_studio\.rollback\.[0-9]{14}\.([0-9]+)(?:\.[0-9]+)?$') {
+            return $true
+        }
+        $ownerPid = 0
+        if (-not [int]::TryParse($Matches[1], [ref]$ownerPid)) { return $true }
+        if ($ownerPid -eq $PID) { return $true }
+        return $null -ne (Get-Process -Id $ownerPid -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)
+    }
+
+    function Remove-StaleStudioVenvRollbacks {
+        try {
+            $rollbacks = @(
+                Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath $StudioHome -Directory -Force -ErrorAction Stop |
+                    Where-Object { $_.Name -like 'unsloth_studio.rollback.*' }
+            )
+        } catch {
+            Write-Host "[WARN] Could not inspect stale environment rollbacks in $StudioHome" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+            Write-Host "       $($_.Exception.Message)" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+            return
+        }
+        foreach ($rollback in $rollbacks) {
+            if (($rollback.Attributes -band [System.IO.FileAttributes]::ReparsePoint) -ne 0) {
+                Write-Host "[WARN] Refusing to remove rollback reparse point $($rollback.FullName)" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+                continue
+            }
+            # A concurrent installer may have moved its live venv aside. The PID
+            # in the generated name keeps this run from deleting its rescue copy.
+            if (Test-StudioVenvRollbackMustBePreserved -Rollback $rollback) { continue }
+            if (Remove-StudioVenvTreeWithRetry -Path $rollback.FullName -Label "stale environment rollback") {
+                substep "removed stale environment rollback $($rollback.Name)"
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     function Restore-StudioVenvRollback {
         if (-not $script:StudioVenvRollbackActive) { return }
         $backup = $script:StudioVenvRollbackDir
@@ -1397,7 +1644,9 @@ exit 0
         substep "restoring previous environment after failed install..." "Yellow"
         try {
             if (Test-Path -LiteralPath $target) {
-                Remove-Item -LiteralPath $target -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
+                if (-not (Remove-StudioVenvTreeWithRetry -Path $target -Label "incomplete environment")) {
+                    throw "Could not remove incomplete environment at $target"
+                }
             }
             Move-Item -LiteralPath $backup -Destination $target -Force -ErrorAction Stop
             substep "restored previous environment"
@@ -1412,17 +1661,21 @@ exit 0
     function Complete-StudioVenvRollback {
         if (-not $script:StudioVenvRollbackActive) { return }
         $backup = $script:StudioVenvRollbackDir
-        if ($backup -and (Test-Path -LiteralPath $backup)) {
-            Remove-Item -LiteralPath $backup -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
-        }
+        # The replacement is committed. Disable restoration before deleting the
+        # backup so interruption cannot restore a partially deleted environment.
         $script:StudioVenvRollbackActive = $false
         $script:StudioVenvRollbackDir = $null
+        if ($backup -and (Test-Path -LiteralPath $backup)) {
+            Remove-StudioVenvTreeWithRetry -Path $backup -Label "environment rollback" | Out-Null
+        }
     }
 
+    $studioVenvReplacementCommitted = $false
+    try {
     if (Test-Path -LiteralPath $VenvPython) {
         # why: matching guard to the .venv branch below -- in env-mode
         # $StudioHome is a user-chosen workspace, so refuse to nuke an
-        # existing $StudioHome\unsloth_studio that lacks Studio sentinels.
+        # existing $StudioHome\unsloth_studio that lacks Unsloth sentinels.
         # -PathType Leaf rejects a directory at the sentinel path. Accept the
         # in-VENV ownership marker so partial-install retries are not blocked.
         if (
@@ -1433,7 +1686,7 @@ exit 0
         ) {
             Write-Host "[ERROR] $VenvDir already exists but does not look like an Unsloth Studio install." -ForegroundColor Red
             Write-Host "        Move it aside or choose an empty UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME." -ForegroundColor Yellow
-            throw "Refusing to delete non-Studio venv at $VenvDir"
+            throw "Refusing to delete non-Unsloth venv at $VenvDir"
         }
         # New layout already exists -- replace only after preserving rollback copy.
         substep "preserving existing environment for rollback..."
@@ -1452,7 +1705,7 @@ exit 0
         # workspace root (e.g. user's existing project Python venv).
         $OldVenv = Join-Path $StudioHome ".venv"
         $OldPy = Join-Path $OldVenv "Scripts\python.exe"
-        substep "found legacy Studio environment, validating..."
+        substep "found legacy Unsloth environment, validating..."
         $prevEAP2 = $ErrorActionPreference
         $ErrorActionPreference = "Continue"
         try {
@@ -1482,7 +1735,7 @@ exit 0
         # Skip in env-mode so we don't relocate the default-install venv into
         # the workspace root.
         $CwdVenv = Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE "unsloth_studio"
-        substep "found CWD-relative Studio environment, migrating to $VenvDir..."
+        substep "found CWD-relative Unsloth environment, migrating to $VenvDir..."
         Move-Item -LiteralPath $CwdVenv -Destination $VenvDir -Force
         substep "moved ~/unsloth_studio -> ~/.unsloth/studio/unsloth_studio"
         $_Migrated = $true
@@ -1491,7 +1744,7 @@ exit 0
     if (-not (Test-Path -LiteralPath $VenvPython)) {
         step "venv" "creating Python $($DetectedPython.Version) virtual environment"
         substep "$VenvDir"
-        $venvExit = Invoke-InstallCommand { uv venv $VenvDir --python "$($DetectedPython.Path)" }
+        $venvExit = Invoke-InstallCommand -Label "create virtual environment" { uv venv $VenvDir --python "$($DetectedPython.Path)" }
         if ($venvExit -ne 0) {
             Write-Host "[ERROR] Failed to create virtual environment (exit code $venvExit)" -ForegroundColor Red
             return (Exit-InstallFailure "Failed to create virtual environment (exit code $venvExit)" $venvExit)
@@ -1501,7 +1754,7 @@ exit 0
         substep "$VenvDir"
     }
 
-    # Mark the freshly-created venv as Studio-owned so a partial install can be
+    # Mark the freshly-created venv as Unsloth-owned so a partial install can be
     # repaired by re-running install.ps1; the env-mode deletion guard above
     # accepts this marker as the primary sentinel.
     if (Test-Path -LiteralPath $VenvDir -PathType Container) {
@@ -1510,7 +1763,7 @@ exit 0
 
     # ── Helper: run amd-smi without triggering a UAC elevation prompt ──
     # amd-smi on Windows auto-elevates to read GPU/APU memory, surfacing a confusing
-    # DiskPart UAC prompt mid-install (Studio backend amd.py hits the same).
+    # DiskPart UAC prompt mid-install (Unsloth backend amd.py hits the same).
     # __COMPAT_LAYER=RunAsInvoker forces it (and helpers it spawns) to run
     # un-elevated; on failure the WMI name -> gfx fallback still resolves the arch.
     function Invoke-AmdSmiNoElevate {
@@ -1637,7 +1890,7 @@ exit 0
         function Test-HipinfoIsVenvInternal {
             param([AllowNull()][string]$HipinfoPath)
             if ([string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($HipinfoPath)) { return $false }
-            # Also derive the venv from the setup python + default Studio home, so
+            # Also derive the venv from the setup python + default Unsloth home, so
             # the venv hipInfo is caught when VenvDir/VIRTUAL_ENV are unset.
             $venvRoots = @()
             if ($env:VIRTUAL_ENV) { $venvRoots += $env:VIRTUAL_ENV }
@@ -1647,7 +1900,7 @@ exit 0
                 try { $venvRoots += (Split-Path -Parent (Split-Path -Parent $env:UNSLOTH_SETUP_PYTHON)) } catch {}
             }
             if ($env:USERPROFILE) { $venvRoots += (Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE ".unsloth\studio\unsloth_studio") }
-            # A custom Studio home (UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME / STUDIO_HOME alias) moves the
+            # A custom Unsloth home (UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME / STUDIO_HOME alias) moves the
             # venv off the default path; seed it too or its hipInfo escapes the filter.
             $studioHomeEnv = if (-not [string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($env:UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME)) { $env:UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME.Trim() } elseif (-not [string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($env:STUDIO_HOME)) { $env:STUDIO_HOME.Trim() } else { $null }
             if ($studioHomeEnv) {
@@ -1805,12 +2058,14 @@ exit 0
             #    (gfx120X/110X/1151/1150/103X); unknown names fall back to CPU.
             elseif ($ROCmGpuLabel) {
                 $nameArchTable = @(
-                    @{ P = "9070 XT|9080";                                        A = "gfx1201" }  # RDNA 4 (RX 9070 XT / 9080)
-                    @{ P = "9070|9060";                                           A = "gfx1200" }  # RDNA 4 (RX 9070 / 9060)
-                    @{ P = "8060S|8050S|8040S|Strix Halo|Ryzen AI Max|AI Max"; A = "gfx1151" }  # RDNA 3.5 (Strix Halo: Radeon 8060S/8050S/8040S iGPU, Ryzen AI Max+)
-                    @{ P = "890M|880M|860M|840M|Strix Point|Krackan|HX 37[05]|AI 9 HX|AI 9 36[05]|AI 7 35[05]|AI 5 34[05]|AI 7 PRO 35|AI 5 33"; A = "gfx1150" }  # RDNA 3.5 (Strix/Krackan Point: Radeon 890M/880M iGPU, Ryzen AI 9 HX 370/375)
-                    @{ P = "RX 7900|RX 7800|RX 7700(?!S)|PRO W7900|PRO W7800|PRO W7700"; A = "gfx1100" }  # RDNA 3 desktop/workstation (Navi 31)
-                    @{ P = "RX 7600|RX 7700S|RX 7650|PRO W7600|PRO W7500|PRO V710"; A = "gfx1102" }  # RDNA 3 (Navi 33)
+                    @{ P = "9070|9080";                                           A = "gfx1201" }  # RDNA 4 (Navi 48: RX 9070 XT / 9070 GRE / 9070 / 9080)
+                    @{ P = "9060";                                                A = "gfx1200" }  # RDNA 4 (Navi 44: RX 9060 XT / 9060)
+                    @{ P = "8065S|8060S|8050S|8040S|Strix Halo|Ryzen AI Max|AI Max"; A = "gfx1151" }  # RDNA 3.5 (Strix Halo + Gorgon Halo: Radeon 8065S/8060S/8050S/8040S iGPU, Ryzen AI Max / Max+)
+                    @{ P = "890M|880M|Strix Point|HX 37[05]|AI 9 HX|AI 9 36[05]"; A = "gfx1150" }  # RDNA 3.5 (Strix Point: Radeon 890M/880M, Ryzen AI 9 HX 370/375)
+                    @{ P = "860M|840M|Krackan|AI 7 35[05]|AI 5 34[05]|AI 7 PRO 35|AI 5 33"; A = "gfx1152" }  # RDNA 3.5 (Krackan Point: Radeon 860M/840M, Ryzen AI 7 350 / AI 5 340)
+                    @{ P = "RX 7900|PRO W7900|PRO W7800";                         A = "gfx1100" }  # RDNA 3 desktop/workstation (Navi 31)
+                    @{ P = "RX 7800|RX 7700(?!S)|PRO W7700|PRO V710";             A = "gfx1101" }  # RDNA 3 (Navi 32)
+                    @{ P = "RX 7600|RX 7700S|RX 7650|PRO W7600|PRO W7500";        A = "gfx1102" }  # RDNA 3 (Navi 33)
                     @{ P = "780M|760M|740M|Phoenix|Hawk Point|Z1 Extreme|Z2 Extreme"; A = "gfx1103" }  # RDNA 3 iGPU (Phoenix / Hawk Point)
                     @{ P = "RX 6900|RX 6800|RX 6750|RX 6700|PRO W6800|PRO W6900";  A = "gfx1030" }  # RDNA 2 (Navi 21) -- gfx103X family
                     @{ P = "RX 6650|RX 6600|PRO W6600|PRO W6650";                  A = "gfx1032" }  # RDNA 2 (Navi 23) -- gfx103X family
@@ -1926,7 +2181,7 @@ exit 0
         substep "       Ensure the ROCm compute driver is installed alongside the display driver:" "Yellow"
         substep "       https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/deploy/windows/index.html" "Yellow"
     } elseif ($ROCmGfxArch) {
-        # Known arch: Studio setup installs AMD's bundled-runtime ROCm PyTorch wheels
+        # Known arch: Unsloth setup installs AMD's bundled-runtime ROCm PyTorch wheels
         # (repo.amd.com), which ship their own runtime -- HIP SDK optional.
         step "gpu" "AMD ROCm ($ROCmGfxArch)" "Cyan"
         substep "Detected: $ROCmGpuLabel" "Cyan"
@@ -1944,10 +2199,31 @@ exit 0
     # On an AMD GPU (no NVIDIA), surface the optional WSL-ROCm driver hint.
     if (-not $HasNvidiaSmi -and ($ROCmGfxArch -or $ROCmGpuLabel)) { Show-AmdWslDriverHint }
 
+    # Trim trailing slashes from the URL PATH only, preserving ?query / #fragment: a whole-URL
+    # TrimEnd corrupts a token ending in "/", a single strip leaves .../cu128// empty. Shared.
+    function Trim-IndexPathSlashes {
+        param([string]$Url)
+        $value = $Url.Trim()
+        $idx = $value.IndexOfAny([char[]]@('?', '#'))
+        if ($idx -lt 0) {
+            return $value.TrimEnd('/')
+        }
+        return $value.Substring(0, $idx).TrimEnd('/') + $value.Substring($idx)
+    }
+
     # ── Choose the correct PyTorch index URL based on driver CUDA version ──
     # Mirrors Get-PytorchCudaTag in setup.ps1.
     function Get-TorchIndexUrl {
         $baseUrl = if ($env:UNSLOTH_PYTORCH_MIRROR) { $env:UNSLOTH_PYTORCH_MIRROR.TrimEnd('/') } else { "https://download.pytorch.org/whl" }
+        # Explicit pin -- skip ALL GPU probing (headless / CI / cross-install).
+        # UNSLOTH_TORCH_INDEX_URL wins (full URL, verbatim); _FAMILY is the leaf appended
+        # to the mirror base. Matches install.sh / install_python_stack.py.
+        if (-not [string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($env:UNSLOTH_TORCH_INDEX_URL)) {
+            return (Trim-IndexPathSlashes $env:UNSLOTH_TORCH_INDEX_URL)
+        }
+        if (-not [string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($env:UNSLOTH_TORCH_INDEX_FAMILY)) {
+            return "$baseUrl/$($env:UNSLOTH_TORCH_INDEX_FAMILY.Trim().Trim('/'))"
+        }
         if (-not $NvidiaSmiExe) { return "$baseUrl/cpu" }
         try {
             $output = Invoke-NvidiaSmiBounded $NvidiaSmiExe
@@ -1968,6 +2244,27 @@ exit 0
         return "$baseUrl/cu126"
     }
 
+    # Strip userinfo AND query/fragment so an authenticated pin never leaks. Shared with
+    # _strip_index_url_credentials (install.sh / py / setup.ps1).
+    function Remove-IndexUrlCredentials {
+        param([string]$Url)
+        # Ordinal, not culture-aware: on non-English locales (e.g. th-TH) linguistic
+        # IndexOf treats "://" as ignorable, mis-locates it, and crashes Substring (issue #7279).
+        $sep = $Url.IndexOf('://', [System.StringComparison]::Ordinal)
+        if ($sep -lt 0) { return $Url }
+        $scheme = $Url.Substring(0, $sep)
+        $rest = $Url.Substring($sep + 3)
+        # Drop query / fragment (may hold auth tokens).
+        $q = $rest.IndexOfAny([char[]]('?', '#'))
+        if ($q -ge 0) { $rest = $rest.Substring(0, $q) }
+        $slash = $rest.IndexOf('/', [System.StringComparison]::Ordinal)
+        $authority = if ($slash -ge 0) { $rest.Substring(0, $slash) } else { $rest }
+        $at = $authority.LastIndexOf('@', [System.StringComparison]::Ordinal)
+        $host_ = if ($at -ge 0) { $authority.Substring($at + 1) } else { $authority }
+        if ($slash -ge 0) { return "${scheme}://${host_}$($rest.Substring($slash))" }
+        return "${scheme}://${host_}"
+    }
+
     # ── Torch flavor helpers (to repair a stale CPU / wrong-CUDA wheel) ──
     # torch.__version__ -> flavor tag (cuXXX / rocm / cpu); untagged wheel = cpu,
     # matching setup.ps1's stale-venv parse.
@@ -1986,11 +2283,13 @@ exit 0
         param([string]$TorchIndexUrl, [string]$ROCmIndexUrl)
         if (-not [string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($ROCmIndexUrl)) { return 'rocm' }
         if ([string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($TorchIndexUrl)) { return $null }
-        $leaf = ($TorchIndexUrl.TrimEnd('/') -split '/')[-1].ToLowerInvariant()
+        # Drop query/fragment first so .../cu128?token=x classifies as cu128 (else it reinstalls every run).
+        $leaf = (($TorchIndexUrl -split '[?#]', 2)[0].TrimEnd('/') -split '/')[-1].ToLowerInvariant()
         if ($leaf -match '^cu\d+$') { return $leaf }
         if ($leaf -eq 'cpu')        { return 'cpu' }
         if ($leaf -match '^rocm')   { return 'rocm' }
-        if ($leaf -match '^gfx')    { return 'rocm' }
+        # gfx must be followed by a digit (an architecture leaf); gfx-private is custom.
+        if ($leaf -match '^gfx[0-9]') { return 'rocm' }
         return $null
     }
 
@@ -2025,6 +2324,10 @@ exit 0
         } catch { return $null }
     }
 
+    # An explicit pin is authoritative: the AMD ROCm reroute below must not rewrite it
+    # (e.g. a deliberate cpu pin on an AMD host).
+    $TorchIndexPinned = (-not [string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($env:UNSLOTH_TORCH_INDEX_URL)) -or `
+                        (-not [string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($env:UNSLOTH_TORCH_INDEX_FAMILY))
     $TorchIndexUrl = Get-TorchIndexUrl
 
     # ── GPU arch → newest compatible Windows ROCm wheel release ──
@@ -2036,13 +2339,20 @@ exit 0
     # Override with UNSLOTH_ROCM_WINDOWS_MIRROR for air-gapped / mirror installs.
     $ROCmIndexUrl = $null
     $ROCmTorchFloor = $null
-    if (($HasROCm -or $ROCmGfxArch) -and $TorchIndexUrl -like "*/cpu" -and -not $SkipTorch) {
+    $PinnedRocmVisionSpec = $null
+    $PinnedRocmAudioSpec = $null
+    if (-not $TorchIndexPinned -and ($HasROCm -or $ROCmGfxArch) -and $TorchIndexUrl -like "*/cpu" -and -not $SkipTorch) {
         $amdIndexBase = if ($env:UNSLOTH_ROCM_WINDOWS_MIRROR) { $env:UNSLOTH_ROCM_WINDOWS_MIRROR.TrimEnd('/') } else { "https://repo.amd.com/rocm/whl" }
         $archFamilyMap = @{
             "gfx1201" = "gfx120X-all"; "gfx1200" = "gfx120X-all"  # RDNA 4
             "gfx1151" = "gfx1151";     "gfx1150" = "gfx1150"       # RDNA 3.5 (Strix Halo/Point)
+            "gfx1152" = "gfx1152"                                  # RDNA 3.5 (Krackan Point)
             "gfx1103" = "gfx110X-all"; "gfx1102" = "gfx110X-all"   # RDNA 3
             "gfx1101" = "gfx110X-all"; "gfx1100" = "gfx110X-all"
+            "gfx1036" = "gfx103X-all"; "gfx1035" = "gfx103X-all"   # RDNA 2 (RX 6000)
+            "gfx1034" = "gfx103X-all"; "gfx1033" = "gfx103X-all"
+            "gfx1032" = "gfx103X-all"; "gfx1031" = "gfx103X-all"
+            "gfx1030" = "gfx103X-all"
             "gfx90a"  = "gfx90a";      "gfx908"  = "gfx908"        # MI200/MI100
         }
         # gfx120X (RDNA 4) and gfx1151/gfx1150 (Strix) have a null-pointer bug in
@@ -2058,6 +2368,7 @@ exit 0
         $torchFloorMap = @{
             "gfx1201" = "torch>=2.11.0,<2.12.0"; "gfx1200" = "torch>=2.11.0,<2.12.0"
             "gfx1151" = "torch>=2.11.0,<2.12.0"; "gfx1150" = "torch>=2.11.0,<2.12.0"
+            "gfx1152" = "torch>=2.11.0,<2.12.0"
         }
         # Companion ranges track the torch ceiling so pip resolves a consistent
         # trio on AMD's per-arch index (each published independently). Mirrors
@@ -2065,10 +2376,12 @@ exit 0
         $torchvisionFloorMap = @{
             "gfx1201" = "torchvision>=0.26.0,<0.27.0"; "gfx1200" = "torchvision>=0.26.0,<0.27.0"
             "gfx1151" = "torchvision>=0.26.0,<0.27.0"; "gfx1150" = "torchvision>=0.26.0,<0.27.0"
+            "gfx1152" = "torchvision>=0.26.0,<0.27.0"
         }
         $torchaudioFloorMap = @{
             "gfx1201" = "torchaudio>=2.11.0,<2.12.0"; "gfx1200" = "torchaudio>=2.11.0,<2.12.0"
             "gfx1151" = "torchaudio>=2.11.0,<2.12.0"; "gfx1150" = "torchaudio>=2.11.0,<2.12.0"
+            "gfx1152" = "torchaudio>=2.11.0,<2.12.0"
         }
         $archFamily = if ($ROCmGfxArch -and $archFamilyMap.ContainsKey($ROCmGfxArch)) { $archFamilyMap[$ROCmGfxArch] } else { $null }
         if ($archFamily) {
@@ -2086,6 +2399,32 @@ exit 0
         }
     }
 
+    # A gfx*/rocm pin skips the auto-reroute above, but the generic CPU/CUDA install below
+    # would use torch>=2.4,<2.11 and pull a known-bad wheel on the gfx115x/gfx120x/rocm>=7.2
+    # indexes (the _grouped_mm bug). Route a pinned ROCm index through the ROCm path.
+    if ($TorchIndexPinned -and -not $ROCmIndexUrl -and -not $SkipTorch) {
+        $_pinLeaf = (($TorchIndexUrl -split '[?#]', 2)[0].TrimEnd('/') -split '/')[-1].ToLower()
+        $_pinRocm211 = $false
+        # Anchor ($) so a suffixed custom leaf (rocm7.2-private) falls through to verbatim.
+        if ($_pinLeaf -match '^rocm(\d+)\.(\d+)$') {
+            # Only KNOWN-2.11 rocm (rocm7.2) gets the floor. Matches Test-RocmKnown211Version.
+            $_pinRocm211 = ([int]$Matches[1] -eq 7 -and [int]$Matches[2] -eq 2)
+        }
+        # Only the 2.11-allowlist gfx arches need the floor; others publish <2.11 and stay bare.
+        $_pinGfx211 = @('gfx120x-all', 'gfx1151', 'gfx1150', 'gfx1152') -contains $_pinLeaf
+        if ($_pinGfx211 -or $_pinRocm211) {
+            $ROCmIndexUrl = $TorchIndexUrl
+            $ROCmTorchFloor = "torch>=2.11.0,<2.12.0"
+            $PinnedRocmVisionSpec = "torchvision>=0.26.0,<0.27.0"
+            $PinnedRocmAudioSpec = "torchaudio>=2.11.0,<2.12.0"
+            substep "pinned ROCm index ($_pinLeaf) -- enforcing $ROCmTorchFloor" "Cyan"
+        } elseif ($_pinLeaf -match '^gfx[0-9]' -or $_pinLeaf -match '^rocm[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?$') {
+            # Other gfx / older rocm (<=7.1) ship torch <2.11; route via the ROCm path with
+            # bare specs. Only EXACT rocm<digits>/gfx* are families; a suffixed leaf is verbatim.
+            $ROCmIndexUrl = $TorchIndexUrl
+        }
+    }
+
     if ($ROCmIndexUrl) {
         $TorchIndexFamily = "rocm"
     } else {
@@ -2148,14 +2487,14 @@ exit 0
     }
 
     if ($_Migrated) {
-        # Migrated env: force-reinstall unsloth+unsloth-zoo to ensure clean state
-        # in the new venv location, while preserving existing torch/CUDA
+        # Migrated env: force-reinstall unsloth+unsloth-zoo for a clean state, preserving
+        # existing torch/CUDA unless the flavor repair below re-lands it.
         Write-TauriLog "STEP" "Installing unsloth"
         substep "upgrading unsloth in migrated environment..."
         if ($SkipTorch) {
             # No-torch: install unsloth + unsloth-zoo with --no-deps, then
             # runtime deps (typer, safetensors, transformers, etc.) with --no-deps.
-            $baseInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install unsloth (migrated no-torch)" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython --no-deps --reinstall-package unsloth --reinstall-package unsloth-zoo "unsloth>=2026.6.9" "unsloth-zoo>=2026.6.7" }
+            $baseInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install unsloth (migrated no-torch)" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython --no-deps --reinstall-package unsloth --reinstall-package unsloth-zoo "unsloth>=2026.7.5" "unsloth-zoo>=2026.7.6" }
             if ($baseInstallExit -eq 0) {
                 # Resolve pydantic WITH deps so pip pins pydantic-core
                 # to the matching version (no-torch-runtime.txt below
@@ -2169,7 +2508,7 @@ exit 0
                 }
             }
         } else {
-            $baseInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install unsloth (migrated)" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython --reinstall-package unsloth --reinstall-package unsloth-zoo "unsloth>=2026.6.9" "unsloth-zoo>=2026.6.7" }
+            $baseInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install unsloth (migrated)" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython --reinstall-package unsloth --reinstall-package unsloth-zoo "unsloth>=2026.7.5" "unsloth-zoo>=2026.7.6" }
         }
         if ($baseInstallExit -ne 0) {
             Write-Host "[ERROR] Failed to install unsloth (exit code $baseInstallExit)" -ForegroundColor Red
@@ -2177,7 +2516,7 @@ exit 0
         }
         if ($StudioLocalInstall) {
             substep "overlaying local repo (editable)..."
-            $overlayExit = Invoke-InstallCommand { uv pip install --python $VenvPython -e $RepoRoot --no-deps }
+            $overlayExit = Invoke-InstallCommand -Label "overlay local repo" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython -e $RepoRoot --no-deps }
             if ($overlayExit -ne 0) {
                 Write-Host "[ERROR] Failed to overlay local repo (exit code $overlayExit)" -ForegroundColor Red
                 return (Exit-InstallFailure "Failed to overlay local repo (exit code $overlayExit)" $overlayExit)
@@ -2194,22 +2533,24 @@ exit 0
             substep "skipping PyTorch (--no-torch flag set)." "Yellow"
         } elseif ($ROCmIndexUrl) {
             Write-TauriLog "STEP" "Installing PyTorch (AMD ROCm Windows)"
-            substep "installing PyTorch from $ROCmIndexUrl..."
+            substep "installing PyTorch from $(Remove-IndexUrlCredentials $ROCmIndexUrl)..."
             $torchSpec = if ($ROCmTorchFloor) { $ROCmTorchFloor } else { "torch" }
             # Pin the companions to match $torchSpec; bare names can resolve an
             # ABI-incompatible torchvision/torchaudio on AMD's per-arch index.
-            $visionSpec = if ($ROCmGfxArch -and $torchvisionFloorMap.ContainsKey($ROCmGfxArch)) { $torchvisionFloorMap[$ROCmGfxArch] } else { "torchvision" }
-            $audioSpec = if ($ROCmGfxArch -and $torchaudioFloorMap.ContainsKey($ROCmGfxArch)) { $torchaudioFloorMap[$ROCmGfxArch] } else { "torchaudio" }
-            $torchInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install PyTorch (AMD ROCm)" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython --force-reinstall --index-url $ROCmIndexUrl $torchSpec $visionSpec $audioSpec }
+            $visionSpec = if ($PinnedRocmVisionSpec) { $PinnedRocmVisionSpec } elseif ($ROCmGfxArch -and $torchvisionFloorMap -and $torchvisionFloorMap.ContainsKey($ROCmGfxArch)) { $torchvisionFloorMap[$ROCmGfxArch] } else { "torchvision" }
+            $audioSpec = if ($PinnedRocmAudioSpec) { $PinnedRocmAudioSpec } elseif ($ROCmGfxArch -and $torchaudioFloorMap -and $torchaudioFloorMap.ContainsKey($ROCmGfxArch)) { $torchaudioFloorMap[$ROCmGfxArch] } else { "torchaudio" }
+            $torchInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install PyTorch (AMD ROCm)" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython --force-reinstall --default-index $ROCmIndexUrl $torchSpec $visionSpec $audioSpec }
             if ($torchInstallExit -ne 0) {
-                # Transient AMD-index failure: fall back to a CPU base so the install
-                # still completes; Studio setup retries ROCm afterwards.
-                substep "ROCm PyTorch install failed (exit $torchInstallExit); using a CPU base, Studio setup retries ROCm." "Yellow"
+                # Transient AMD-index failure: fall back to a CPU base (Unsloth setup retries
+                # ROCm). Use an explicit CPU index -- for a pinned ROCm index $TorchIndexUrl IS
+                # the ROCm mirror, so reusing it would just retry it.
+                $CpuFallbackIndexUrl = if ($env:UNSLOTH_PYTORCH_MIRROR) { "$($env:UNSLOTH_PYTORCH_MIRROR.TrimEnd('/'))/cpu" } else { "https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu" }
+                substep "ROCm PyTorch install failed (exit $torchInstallExit); using a CPU base, Unsloth setup retries ROCm." "Yellow"
                 # --force-reinstall: a failed ROCm install can leave an unpinned ROCm
                 # torch (e.g. 2.10.0+rocm on gfx110X/gfx90a) that still satisfies the CPU
                 # torch>= range, so without it uv would keep the ROCm build and only swap
                 # the companions -- a mismatched venv the flavor-repair block won't fix.
-                $torchInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install PyTorch (CPU fallback)" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython --force-reinstall "torch>=2.4,<2.11.0" torchvision torchaudio --index-url $TorchIndexUrl }
+                $torchInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install PyTorch (CPU fallback)" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython --force-reinstall "torch>=2.4,<2.11.0" "torchvision>=0.19,<0.26.0" "torchaudio>=2.4,<2.11.0" --default-index $CpuFallbackIndexUrl }
                 if ($torchInstallExit -ne 0) {
                     Write-Host "[ERROR] Failed to install PyTorch (ROCm and CPU base both failed, exit code $torchInstallExit)" -ForegroundColor Red
                     return (Exit-InstallFailure "Failed to install PyTorch (exit code $torchInstallExit)" $torchInstallExit)
@@ -2222,8 +2563,27 @@ exit 0
             }
         } else {
             Write-TauriLog "STEP" "Installing PyTorch"
-            substep "installing PyTorch ($TorchIndexUrl)..."
-            $torchInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install PyTorch" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython "torch>=2.4,<2.11.0" torchvision torchaudio --index-url $TorchIndexUrl }
+            # Windows on ARM lacks only torchaudio (whl/cpu win_arm64: torch 42,
+            # torchvision 60, torchaudio 0), so drop that pin instead of aborting. Ask the
+            # interpreter, not PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE; reached when no x64 Python exists.
+            $VenvPlatform = ""
+            try {
+                $VenvPlatform = (& $VenvPython -c "import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_platform())" 2>$null | Out-String).Trim().ToLowerInvariant()
+            } catch { $VenvPlatform = "" }
+            substep "installing PyTorch ($(Remove-IndexUrlCredentials $TorchIndexUrl))..."
+            # Bound the companions to the capped torch on EVERY index, cu<digits>
+            # families included: torchaudio 2.11 dropped its exact torch pin from
+            # the wheel metadata, so a bare companion next to torch<2.11 can
+            # resolve a mismatched 2.11.0 build. Mirrors install.sh.
+            $_pinVisionSpec = "torchvision>=0.19,<0.26.0"
+            $_pinAudioSpec = "torchaudio>=2.4,<2.11.0"
+            $_torchSpecs = @("torch>=2.4,<2.11.0", $_pinVisionSpec, $_pinAudioSpec)
+            if ($VenvPlatform -eq "win-arm64") {
+                substep "windows on arm: skipping torchaudio (upstream publishes no"
+                substep "win_arm64 wheel); torch and torchvision install normally."
+                $_torchSpecs = @("torch>=2.4,<2.11.0", $_pinVisionSpec)
+            }
+            $torchInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install PyTorch" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython @_torchSpecs --default-index $TorchIndexUrl }
             if ($torchInstallExit -ne 0) {
                 Write-Host "[ERROR] Failed to install PyTorch (exit code $torchInstallExit)" -ForegroundColor Red
                 return (Exit-InstallFailure "Failed to install PyTorch (exit code $torchInstallExit)" $torchInstallExit)
@@ -2235,7 +2595,7 @@ exit 0
         if ($SkipTorch) {
             # No-torch: install unsloth + unsloth-zoo with --no-deps, then
             # runtime deps (typer, safetensors, transformers, etc.) with --no-deps.
-            $baseInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install unsloth (no-torch)" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython --no-deps --upgrade-package unsloth --upgrade-package unsloth-zoo "unsloth>=2026.6.9" "unsloth-zoo>=2026.6.7" }
+            $baseInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install unsloth (no-torch)" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython --no-deps --upgrade-package unsloth --upgrade-package unsloth-zoo "unsloth>=2026.7.5" "unsloth-zoo>=2026.7.6" }
             if ($baseInstallExit -eq 0) {
                 # Same pydantic-with-deps trick as the migrated branch.
                 $baseInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install pydantic" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython pydantic }
@@ -2247,7 +2607,7 @@ exit 0
                 }
             }
         } elseif ($StudioLocalInstall) {
-            $baseInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install unsloth (local)" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython --upgrade-package unsloth "unsloth>=2026.6.9" "unsloth-zoo>=2026.6.7" }
+            $baseInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install unsloth (local)" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython --upgrade-package unsloth "unsloth>=2026.7.5" "unsloth-zoo>=2026.7.6" }
         } else {
             $baseInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install unsloth" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython --upgrade-package unsloth -- "$PackageName" }
         }
@@ -2258,7 +2618,7 @@ exit 0
 
         if ($StudioLocalInstall) {
             substep "overlaying local repo (editable)..."
-            $overlayExit = Invoke-InstallCommand { uv pip install --python $VenvPython -e $RepoRoot --no-deps }
+            $overlayExit = Invoke-InstallCommand -Label "overlay local repo" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython -e $RepoRoot --no-deps }
             if ($overlayExit -ne 0) {
                 Write-Host "[ERROR] Failed to overlay local repo (exit code $overlayExit)" -ForegroundColor Red
                 return (Exit-InstallFailure "Failed to overlay local repo (exit code $overlayExit)" $overlayExit)
@@ -2275,13 +2635,13 @@ exit 0
         Write-TauriLog "STEP" "Installing unsloth"
         substep "installing unsloth (this may take a few minutes)..."
         if ($StudioLocalInstall) {
-            $baseInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install unsloth (auto torch backend)" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython "unsloth-zoo>=2026.6.7" "unsloth>=2026.6.9" --torch-backend=auto }
+            $baseInstallExit = Invoke-InstallCommandRetry -Label "install unsloth (auto torch backend)" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython "unsloth-zoo>=2026.7.6" "unsloth>=2026.7.5" --torch-backend=auto }
             if ($baseInstallExit -ne 0) {
                 Write-Host "[ERROR] Failed to install unsloth (exit code $baseInstallExit)" -ForegroundColor Red
                 return (Exit-InstallFailure "Failed to install unsloth (exit code $baseInstallExit)" $baseInstallExit)
             }
             substep "overlaying local repo (editable)..."
-            $overlayExit = Invoke-InstallCommand { uv pip install --python $VenvPython -e $RepoRoot --no-deps }
+            $overlayExit = Invoke-InstallCommand -Label "overlay local repo" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython -e $RepoRoot --no-deps }
             if ($overlayExit -ne 0) {
                 Write-Host "[ERROR] Failed to overlay local repo (exit code $overlayExit)" -ForegroundColor Red
                 return (Exit-InstallFailure "Failed to overlay local repo (exit code $overlayExit)" $overlayExit)
@@ -2301,12 +2661,19 @@ exit 0
         }
     }
 
+    $installedPackageVersion = (& $VenvPython -c "from importlib.metadata import version; import sys; print(version(sys.argv[1]))" $PackageName 2>$null | Out-String).Trim()
+    if ($LASTEXITCODE -eq 0 -and $installedPackageVersion) {
+        step $PackageName "$installedPackageVersion installed"
+    } else {
+        substep "[WARN] installed $PackageName version could not be determined" "Yellow"
+    }
+
     # ── Enforce the installed torch flavor matches the detected GPU build ──
     # PEP 440 ignores the +cpu/+cuXXX/+rocm local label in a version range, so uv
     # keeps a stale torch==X+cpu against a CUDA index and setup.ps1 then loops on
     # "torch cpu != required cuXXX". Reinstall the right triplet when a GPU build is
     # expected: CUDA from $TorchIndexUrl, ROCm from $ROCmIndexUrl (repo.amd.com gfx*
-    # is a PEP 503 index uv resolves via --index-url, same URL the fresh ROCm install
+    # is a PEP 503 index uv resolves via --default-index, same URL the fresh ROCm install
     # above uses). --no-torch / CPU-only hosts (expected cpu) are no-ops.
     if (-not $SkipTorch) {
         $expectedTorchTag = Get-ExpectedTorchFlavorTag -TorchIndexUrl $TorchIndexUrl -ROCmIndexUrl $ROCmIndexUrl
@@ -2319,10 +2686,10 @@ exit 0
                     $rocmSpec = if ($ROCmTorchFloor) { $ROCmTorchFloor } else { "torch" }
                     # Pin companions like the fresh ROCm path (bare names can pull an
                     # ABI-incompatible torchvision/torchaudio from the per-arch index).
-                    $visionSpec = if ($ROCmGfxArch -and $torchvisionFloorMap.ContainsKey($ROCmGfxArch)) { $torchvisionFloorMap[$ROCmGfxArch] } else { "torchvision" }
-                    $audioSpec = if ($ROCmGfxArch -and $torchaudioFloorMap.ContainsKey($ROCmGfxArch)) { $torchaudioFloorMap[$ROCmGfxArch] } else { "torchaudio" }
+                    $visionSpec = if ($PinnedRocmVisionSpec) { $PinnedRocmVisionSpec } elseif ($ROCmGfxArch -and $torchvisionFloorMap -and $torchvisionFloorMap.ContainsKey($ROCmGfxArch)) { $torchvisionFloorMap[$ROCmGfxArch] } else { "torchvision" }
+                    $audioSpec = if ($PinnedRocmAudioSpec) { $PinnedRocmAudioSpec } elseif ($ROCmGfxArch -and $torchaudioFloorMap -and $torchaudioFloorMap.ContainsKey($ROCmGfxArch)) { $torchaudioFloorMap[$ROCmGfxArch] } else { "torchaudio" }
                     substep "PyTorch flavor mismatch (installed $installedTorchTag, need ROCm) -- reinstalling correct build..." "Yellow"
-                    $torchFixExit = Invoke-InstallCommand { uv pip install --python $VenvPython --force-reinstall --index-url $ROCmIndexUrl $rocmSpec $visionSpec $audioSpec }
+                    $torchFixExit = Invoke-InstallCommand -Label "reinstall PyTorch (ROCm)" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython --force-reinstall --default-index $ROCmIndexUrl $rocmSpec $visionSpec $audioSpec }
                     if ($torchFixExit -ne 0) {
                         Write-Host "[ERROR] Failed to reinstall PyTorch with the correct ROCm build (exit code $torchFixExit)" -ForegroundColor Red
                         return (Exit-InstallFailure "Failed to reinstall PyTorch (ROCm) (exit code $torchFixExit)" $torchFixExit)
@@ -2331,7 +2698,7 @@ exit 0
                 } elseif ($expectedTorchTag -ne 'rocm') {
                     # CUDA: stale +cpu (or wrong cuXXX) against a CUDA index -> reinstall triplet.
                     substep "PyTorch flavor mismatch (installed $installedTorchTag, need $expectedTorchTag) -- reinstalling correct build..." "Yellow"
-                    $torchFixExit = Invoke-InstallCommand { uv pip install --python $VenvPython "torch>=2.4,<2.11.0" torchvision torchaudio --index-url $TorchIndexUrl --reinstall-package torch --reinstall-package torchvision --reinstall-package torchaudio }
+                    $torchFixExit = Invoke-InstallCommand -Label "reinstall PyTorch ($expectedTorchTag)" { uv pip install --python $VenvPython "torch>=2.4,<2.11.0" "torchvision>=0.19,<0.26.0" "torchaudio>=2.4,<2.11.0" --default-index $TorchIndexUrl --reinstall-package torch --reinstall-package torchvision --reinstall-package torchaudio }
                     if ($torchFixExit -ne 0) {
                         Write-Host "[ERROR] Failed to reinstall PyTorch with the correct CUDA build (exit code $torchFixExit)" -ForegroundColor Red
                         return (Exit-InstallFailure "Failed to reinstall PyTorch ($expectedTorchTag) (exit code $torchFixExit)" $torchFixExit)
@@ -2406,7 +2773,7 @@ exit 0
         Write-TauriLog "ERROR" "unsloth CLI was not installed correctly"
         Write-Host "[ERROR] unsloth CLI was not installed correctly." -ForegroundColor Red
         Write-Host "        Expected: $UnslothExe" -ForegroundColor Yellow
-        Write-Host "        This usually means an older unsloth version was installed that does not include the Studio CLI." -ForegroundColor Yellow
+        Write-Host "        This usually means an older unsloth version was installed that does not include the Unsloth CLI." -ForegroundColor Yellow
         Write-Host "        Try re-running the installer or see: https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth?tab=readme-ov-file#-quickstart" -ForegroundColor Yellow
         return (Exit-InstallFailure "unsloth CLI was not installed correctly")
     }
@@ -2432,6 +2799,9 @@ exit 0
     # an inherited value would put llama.cpp in the wrong place.
     $previousUnslothStudioHome = $env:UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME
     $hadPreviousUnslothStudioHome = ($null -ne $previousUnslothStudioHome)
+    $previousTauriMode = $env:UNSLOTH_TAURI_MODE
+    $hadPreviousTauriMode = ($null -ne $previousTauriMode)
+    $env:UNSLOTH_TAURI_MODE = if ($TauriMode) { "1" } else { "0" }
     if ($StudioRedirectMode -eq 'env') {
         $env:UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME = $StudioHome
     } else {
@@ -2461,14 +2831,22 @@ exit 0
         } else {
             Remove-Item Env:UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
         }
+        if ($hadPreviousTauriMode) {
+            $env:UNSLOTH_TAURI_MODE = $previousTauriMode
+        } else {
+            Remove-Item Env:UNSLOTH_TAURI_MODE -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
+        }
         Remove-Item Env:UNSLOTH_LOCAL_LLAMA_CPP_DIR -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
         Remove-Item Env:UNSLOTH_INSTALL_ROLLBACK_MANAGED -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
         Remove-Item Env:UNSLOTH_SETUP_PYTHON -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
     }
     if ($setupExit -ne 0) {
-        Write-Host "[ERROR] unsloth studio setup failed (exit code $setupExit)" -ForegroundColor Red
+        if (-not $TauriMode) {
+            Write-Host "[ERROR] unsloth studio setup failed (exit code $setupExit)" -ForegroundColor Red
+        }
         return (Exit-InstallFailure "unsloth studio setup failed (exit code $setupExit)" $setupExit)
     }
+    Clear-TauriInstallError "studio setup completed"
 
     # ── Expose `unsloth` via a shim dir containing only unsloth.exe ──
     # We do NOT add the venv Scripts dir to PATH (it also holds python.exe
@@ -2517,7 +2895,7 @@ exit 0
         Write-Host "        Move or remove it manually, then re-run the installer." -ForegroundColor Yellow
         throw "Cannot create unsloth launcher: $ShimExe is a directory."
     }
-    # try/catch: if unsloth.exe is locked (Studio running), keep the old shim.
+    # try/catch: if unsloth.exe is locked (Unsloth running), keep the old shim.
     $shimUpdated = $false
     try {
         if (Test-Path -LiteralPath $ShimExe) { Remove-Item -LiteralPath $ShimExe -Force -ErrorAction Stop }
@@ -2535,7 +2913,7 @@ exit 0
         if (Test-Path -LiteralPath $ShimExe) {
             Write-Host "[WARN] Could not refresh unsloth launcher at $ShimExe." -ForegroundColor Yellow
             Write-Host "       This usually means a running 'unsloth studio' process still holds the file open." -ForegroundColor Yellow
-            Write-Host "       Close Studio and re-run the installer to pick up the latest launcher." -ForegroundColor Yellow
+            Write-Host "       Close Unsloth and re-run the installer to pick up the latest launcher." -ForegroundColor Yellow
             Write-Host "       Continuing with the existing launcher." -ForegroundColor Yellow
         } else {
             Write-Host "[WARN] Could not create unsloth launcher at $ShimExe" -ForegroundColor Yellow
@@ -2556,6 +2934,13 @@ exit 0
     }
     Refresh-SessionPath  # sync current session with registry
     Complete-StudioVenvRollback
+    $studioVenvReplacementCommitted = $true
+    Remove-StaleStudioVenvRollbacks
+    } finally {
+        if (-not $studioVenvReplacementCommitted) {
+            Restore-StudioVenvRollback
+        }
+    }
 
     # Env-mode session export AFTER Refresh-SessionPath; otherwise a legacy
     # User PATH entry (Machine > User > current $env:Path) would win.
@@ -2600,9 +2985,10 @@ exit 0
         # Diagnostic only; never block install on a probe failure.
     }
 
-    # In interactive terminals, ask the user before starting Studio.
+    # In interactive terminals, ask the user before starting Unsloth unless the
+    # caller explicitly disabled the post-install prompt.
     # In non-interactive environments (CI, Docker) just print instructions.
-    $IsInteractive = [Environment]::UserInteractive -and (-not [Console]::IsInputRedirected)
+    $IsInteractive = (-not $SkipAutostart) -and [Environment]::UserInteractive -and (-not [Console]::IsInputRedirected)
     if ($IsInteractive) {
         Write-Host ""
         $reply = Read-Host "  Start Unsloth Studio now? [Y/n]"
@@ -2611,8 +2997,8 @@ exit 0
         } else {
             step "launch" "to start later, run:"
             substep "unsloth studio -p 8888"
-            substep "(add -H 0.0.0.0 to allow network / cloud access)"
-            substep "(add --secure for a public Cloudflare HTTPS link; anyone with the API key can run code)"
+            substep "(add -H 0.0.0.0 for LAN / cloud access; exposes the raw port only, not a public URL)"
+            substep "(add -H 0.0.0.0 --cloudflare for a public Cloudflare HTTPS link, or --secure to keep the raw port private; anyone with the API key can run code)"
             Write-Host ""
         }
     } else {
@@ -2632,8 +3018,8 @@ exit 0
             substep "& $_actLiteral"
             substep "unsloth studio -p 8888"
         }
-        substep "(add -H 0.0.0.0 to allow network / cloud access)"
-        substep "(add --secure for a public Cloudflare HTTPS link; anyone with the API key can run code)"
+        substep "(add -H 0.0.0.0 for LAN / cloud access; exposes the raw port only, not a public URL)"
+        substep "(add -H 0.0.0.0 --cloudflare for a public Cloudflare HTTPS link, or --secure to keep the raw port private; anyone with the API key can run code)"
         Write-Host ""
     }
 }

pyproject.toml

@@ -25,11 +25,17 @@ classifiers = [
     "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence",
 ]
 dependencies = [
-    "typer",
+    "typer>=0.12.0",
     "rich",
     "pydantic",
     "pyyaml",
     "nest-asyncio",
+    # Every CLI command imports studio.backend.*, which reaches structlog at
+    # module level. The rest of the server stack lives in the studio extra.
+    "structlog>=24.1.0",
+    # unsloth_cli/__init__.py reaches click via commands/start.py, so every
+    # command needs it. typer supplied it until 0.27 dropped the dependency.
+    "click>=8.0",
 ]
 
 [project.scripts]
@@ -41,8 +47,14 @@ version = {attr = "unsloth.models._utils.__version__"}
 [tool.setuptools]
 include-package-data = true
 
+[tool.setuptools.cmdclass]
+# Snapshots CHANGELOG.md into studio/ so every build path ships it.
+build_py = "_changelog_build.build_py"
+
 [tool.setuptools.package-data]
+unsloth_cli = ["codex_fallback_prompt.md", "pi_subagent.ts"]
 studio = [
+    "CHANGELOG.md",
     "*.sh",
     "*.ps1",
     "*.bat",
@@ -67,13 +79,40 @@ include = ["unsloth*", "unsloth_cli*", "studio", "studio.backend*"]
 exclude = ["images*", "tests*", "*.node_modules", "*.node_modules.*"]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
+# Studio's server stack, mirroring studio/backend/requirements/studio.txt.
+# test_studio_extra_matches_requirements.py catches drift.
+studio = [
+    "typer",
+    "fastapi",
+    "uvicorn",
+    "pydantic",
+    "packaging",
+    "matplotlib==3.10.9",
+    "pandas",
+    "nest_asyncio",
+    "datasets==4.3.0",
+    "pyjwt",
+    "huggingface-hub==0.36.2",
+    "structlog>=24.1.0",
+    "diceware",
+    "ddgs",
+    "cryptography>=42.0.0",
+    "boto3>=1.34.0",
+    "httpx>=0.27.0",
+    "fastmcp>=3.0.2",
+    "sqlite-vec==0.1.9",
+    "pymupdf==1.27.2.3",
+    "pymupdf4llm==0.3.4",
+    "python-docx==1.2.0",
+]
+
 triton = [
     "triton>=3.0.0 ; ('linux' in sys_platform)",
     "triton-windows ; (sys_platform == 'win32') and (platform_machine == 'AMD64' or platform_machine == 'x86_64')",
 ]
 
 huggingfacenotorch = [
-    "unsloth_zoo>=2026.7.1",
+    "unsloth_zoo>=2026.7.6",
     "wheel>=0.42.0",
     "packaging",
     "numpy",
@@ -92,9 +131,25 @@ huggingfacenotorch = [
     "trl>=0.18.2,!=0.19.0,<=0.24.0",
     "sentence-transformers",
 ]
+# torchcodec backend for Gemma audio / datasets>=4 (#7225).
+# Pick the audio-torch* pin matching your torch minor (see TORCH_TORCHCODEC).
+# torchcodec publishes no sdist and only manylinux_2_28_x86_64, macosx_*_arm64
+# and win_amd64 wheels, so Linux aarch64, Windows ARM64 and Intel Mac have
+# nothing to resolve and pip fails the whole install rather than skipping audio.
+# Gate on the platforms that have a wheel, matching
+# PLATFORM_LACKS_TORCHCODEC_WHEEL in studio/install_python_stack.py.
+audio-torch210 = [
+    "torchcodec>=0.10.0,<0.11.0 ; python_version >= '3.10' and (((sys_platform == 'linux' or sys_platform == 'win32') and (platform_machine == 'x86_64' or platform_machine == 'AMD64')) or (sys_platform == 'darwin' and platform_machine == 'arm64'))",
+]
+audio-torch290 = [
+    "torchcodec>=0.8.0,<0.10.0 ; python_version >= '3.10' and (((sys_platform == 'linux' or sys_platform == 'win32') and (platform_machine == 'x86_64' or platform_machine == 'AMD64')) or (sys_platform == 'darwin' and platform_machine == 'arm64'))",
+]
+audio-torch280 = [
+    "torchcodec>=0.6.0,<0.8.0 ; python_version >= '3.9' and (((sys_platform == 'linux' or sys_platform == 'win32') and (platform_machine == 'x86_64' or platform_machine == 'AMD64')) or (sys_platform == 'darwin' and platform_machine == 'arm64'))",
+]
 huggingface = [
     "unsloth[huggingfacenotorch]",
-    "unsloth_zoo>=2026.7.1",
+    "unsloth_zoo>=2026.7.6",
     "torchvision",
     "unsloth[triton]",
 ]
@@ -531,16 +586,19 @@ cu126-torch2100 = [
     "unsloth[huggingface]",
     "bitsandbytes>=0.45.5,!=0.46.0,!=0.48.0",
     "unsloth[cu126onlytorch2100]",
+    "unsloth[audio-torch210]",
 ]
 cu128-torch2100 = [
     "unsloth[huggingface]",
     "bitsandbytes>=0.45.5,!=0.46.0,!=0.48.0",
     "unsloth[cu128onlytorch2100]",
+    "unsloth[audio-torch210]",
 ]
 cu130-torch2100 = [
     "unsloth[huggingface]",
     "bitsandbytes>=0.45.5,!=0.46.0,!=0.48.0",
     "unsloth[cu130onlytorch2100]",
+    "unsloth[audio-torch210]",
 ]
 kaggle = [
     "unsloth[huggingface]",
@@ -579,7 +637,7 @@ colab-ampere-torch220 = [
     "flash-attn>=2.6.3 ; ('linux' in sys_platform)",
 ]
 colab-new = [
-    "unsloth_zoo>=2026.7.1",
+    "unsloth_zoo>=2026.7.6",
     "packaging",
     "tyro",
     "transformers>=4.51.3,!=4.52.0,!=4.52.1,!=4.52.2,!=4.52.3,!=4.53.0,!=4.54.0,!=4.55.0,!=4.55.1,!=4.57.0,!=4.57.4,!=4.57.5,!=5.0.0,!=5.1.0,<=5.5.0",
@@ -830,16 +888,19 @@ cu126-ampere-torch2100 = [
     "unsloth[huggingface]",
     "bitsandbytes>=0.45.5,!=0.46.0,!=0.48.0",
     "unsloth[cu126onlytorch2100]",
+    "unsloth[audio-torch210]",
 ]
 cu128-ampere-torch2100 = [
     "unsloth[huggingface]",
     "bitsandbytes>=0.45.5,!=0.46.0,!=0.48.0",
     "unsloth[cu128onlytorch2100]",
+    "unsloth[audio-torch210]",
 ]
 cu130-ampere-torch2100 = [
     "unsloth[huggingface]",
     "bitsandbytes>=0.45.5,!=0.46.0,!=0.48.0",
     "unsloth[cu130onlytorch2100]",
+    "unsloth[audio-torch210]",
 ]
 flashattentiontorch260abiFALSEcu12x = [
     "flash-attn @ https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/releases/download/v2.7.4.post1/flash_attn-2.7.4.post1+cu12torch2.6cxx11abiFALSE-cp39-cp39-linux_x86_64.whl ; ('linux' in sys_platform) and python_version == '3.9'",
@@ -1124,7 +1185,8 @@ intelgputorch210 = [
     "torchvision @ https://download.pytorch.org/whl/xpu/torchvision-0.25.0%2Bxpu-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl#sha256=1c4b44b36a557f7381e3076fb8843366742238648441d607c8d049c6da0f8886 ; sys_platform == 'win32' and python_version == '3.13' and (platform_machine == 'AMD64' or platform_machine == 'x86_64')",
 ]
 intel-gpu-torch210 = [
-    "unsloth[intelgputorch210]"
+    "unsloth[intelgputorch210]",
+    "unsloth[audio-torch210]",
 ]
 intelgputorch2110 = [
     "unsloth_zoo[intelgpu]",
@@ -1205,8 +1267,11 @@ intel = [
 ]
 amd = [
     "unsloth[huggingfacenotorch]",
-    "bitsandbytes>=0.49.1 ; ('linux' in sys_platform) and (platform_machine == 'AMD64' or platform_machine == 'x86_64' or platform_machine == 'aarch64')",
-    "bitsandbytes>=0.49.1 ; (sys_platform == 'win32') and (platform_machine == 'AMD64' or platform_machine == 'x86_64')",
+    # 4-bit decode is unreliable on ROCm before 0.50.0, the first PyPI release
+    # carrying the full path: blocksize/warp decoupling (bnb #1887), fused SIMT
+    # GEMM on RDNA (#1979), RDNA3/4 workgroup fix (#2012).
+    "bitsandbytes>=0.50.0 ; ('linux' in sys_platform) and (platform_machine == 'AMD64' or platform_machine == 'x86_64' or platform_machine == 'aarch64')",
+    "bitsandbytes>=0.50.0 ; (sys_platform == 'win32') and (platform_machine == 'AMD64' or platform_machine == 'x86_64')",
 ]
 rocm702-torch280 = [
     "unsloth[amd]",
@@ -1278,6 +1343,7 @@ rocm72-torch2100 = [
     "torchvision @ https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/manylinux/rocm-rel-7.2/torchvision-0.25.0%2Brocm7.2.0.git82df5f59-cp311-cp311-linux_x86_64.whl ; platform_system == 'Linux' and python_version == '3.11' and platform_machine == 'x86_64'",
     "torchvision @ https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/manylinux/rocm-rel-7.2/torchvision-0.25.0%2Brocm7.2.0.git82df5f59-cp312-cp312-linux_x86_64.whl ; platform_system == 'Linux' and python_version == '3.12' and platform_machine == 'x86_64'",
     "torchvision @ https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/manylinux/rocm-rel-7.2/torchvision-0.25.0%2Brocm7.2.0.git82df5f59-cp313-cp313-linux_x86_64.whl ; platform_system == 'Linux' and python_version == '3.13' and platform_machine == 'x86_64'",
+    "unsloth[audio-torch210]",
 ]
 rocm711-torch2100 = [
     "unsloth[amd]",
@@ -1296,6 +1362,7 @@ rocm711-torch2100 = [
     "torchvision @ https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/manylinux/rocm-rel-7.1.1/torchvision-0.25.0%2Brocm7.1.1.git82df5f59-cp311-cp311-linux_x86_64.whl ; platform_system == 'Linux' and python_version == '3.11' and platform_machine == 'x86_64'",
     "torchvision @ https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/manylinux/rocm-rel-7.1.1/torchvision-0.25.0%2Brocm7.1.1.git82df5f59-cp312-cp312-linux_x86_64.whl ; platform_system == 'Linux' and python_version == '3.12' and platform_machine == 'x86_64'",
     "torchvision @ https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/manylinux/rocm-rel-7.1.1/torchvision-0.25.0%2Brocm7.1.1.git82df5f59-cp313-cp313-linux_x86_64.whl ; platform_system == 'Linux' and python_version == '3.13' and platform_machine == 'x86_64'",
+    "unsloth[audio-torch210]",
 ]
 
 [project.urls]

scripts/build_whisper_cpp.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Build whisper.cpp's whisper-server for Studio's GGUF dictation engine.
+#
+# Installs into the managed Studio home so the backend's binary discovery
+# (core/inference/stt_ggml_sidecar.py::find_whisper_server_binary) picks it up:
+#   <UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME>/whisper.cpp/build/bin/whisper-server   (custom home)
+#   ~/.unsloth/whisper.cpp/build/bin/whisper-server              (default)
+#
+# Usage:
+#   ./scripts/build_whisper_cpp.sh              # build the pinned tag
+#   WHISPER_CPP_TAG=v1.9.0 ./scripts/build_whisper_cpp.sh
+#
+# Requires: git, cmake, a C/C++ toolchain (the same prerequisites as a
+# llama.cpp source build). GPU backends are auto-detected by whisper.cpp's
+# CMake (Metal on macOS; set GGML_CUDA=1 to force a CUDA build on Linux).
+
+set -eu
+
+WHISPER_CPP_SOURCE="${WHISPER_CPP_SOURCE:-https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp}"
+WHISPER_CPP_TAG="${WHISPER_CPP_TAG:-v1.9.1}"
+
+STUDIO_HOME="${UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME:-${STUDIO_HOME:-}}"
+CUSTOM_STUDIO_HOME=false
+if [ -n "$STUDIO_HOME" ]; then
+    CUSTOM_STUDIO_HOME=true
+    INSTALL_DIR="$STUDIO_HOME/whisper.cpp"
+else
+    INSTALL_DIR="$HOME/.unsloth/whisper.cpp"
+fi
+
+command -v git >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "ERROR: git is required" >&2; exit 1; }
+command -v cmake >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "ERROR: cmake is required" >&2; exit 1; }
+
+# Same policy as studio/setup.sh's _assert_studio_owned_or_absent: never delete
+# a directory under a custom Studio home unless Studio itself created it (the
+# marker file below). Protects a user-managed whisper.cpp/src from rm -rf.
+STUDIO_OWNED_MARKER=".unsloth-studio-owned"
+if [ "$CUSTOM_STUDIO_HOME" = true ] && [ -e "$INSTALL_DIR" ] && \
+   [ ! -f "$INSTALL_DIR/$STUDIO_OWNED_MARKER" ]; then
+    echo "ERROR: $INSTALL_DIR already exists and is not marked as an Unsloth-owned whisper.cpp build tree." >&2
+    echo "       Move it aside or choose an empty UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME before re-running." >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "==> Building whisper.cpp ($WHISPER_CPP_TAG) into $INSTALL_DIR"
+mkdir -p "$INSTALL_DIR"
+: > "$INSTALL_DIR/$STUDIO_OWNED_MARKER"
+
+if [ ! -d "$INSTALL_DIR/src/.git" ]; then
+    rm -rf "$INSTALL_DIR/src"
+    git clone --depth 1 --branch "$WHISPER_CPP_TAG" "$WHISPER_CPP_SOURCE" "$INSTALL_DIR/src"
+else
+    git -C "$INSTALL_DIR/src" fetch --depth 1 origin "$WHISPER_CPP_TAG"
+    git -C "$INSTALL_DIR/src" checkout FETCH_HEAD
+fi
+
+CMAKE_FLAGS="-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF"
+if [ "${GGML_CUDA:-0}" = "1" ]; then
+    CMAKE_FLAGS="$CMAKE_FLAGS -DGGML_CUDA=ON"
+fi
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC2086
+cmake -S "$INSTALL_DIR/src" -B "$INSTALL_DIR/src/build" $CMAKE_FLAGS
+NCPU="$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN 2>/dev/null || echo 4)"
+cmake --build "$INSTALL_DIR/src/build" --config Release --target whisper-server -j"$NCPU"
+
+mkdir -p "$INSTALL_DIR/build/bin"
+cp "$INSTALL_DIR/src/build/bin/whisper-server" "$INSTALL_DIR/build/bin/whisper-server"
+
+echo "==> Installed $INSTALL_DIR/build/bin/whisper-server"
+"$INSTALL_DIR/build/bin/whisper-server" --help >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "==> Binary runs OK"

scripts/install_rocm_wsl_strixhalo.sh

@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ fi
 echo "${ROCM_DIR}/lib" | $SUDO tee /etc/ld.so.conf.d/rocm.conf >/dev/null
 $SUDO ldconfig
 
-# ── Step 4: persist environment (system-wide so Studio's worker inherits it) ──
+# ── Step 4: persist environment (system-wide so Unsloth's worker inherits it) ──
 say "Persisting ROCm-on-WSL environment"
 _envfile="/etc/profile.d/unsloth-rocm-wsl.sh"
 $SUDO tee "$_envfile" >/dev/null <<EOF

scripts/lint_workflow_triggers.py

@@ -52,14 +52,14 @@ def _normalise_on(on_field):
 
 def _load_workflow(path: Path):
     try:
-        return yaml.safe_load(path.read_text())
+        return yaml.safe_load(path.read_text(encoding = "utf-8"))
     except Exception as exc:
         print(f"ERROR: failed to parse {path}: {exc}", file = sys.stderr)
         sys.exit(2)
 
 
 def _extract_cache_keys(path: Path) -> list[str]:
-    text = path.read_text()
+    text = path.read_text(encoding = "utf-8")
     keys: list[str] = []
     for m in re.finditer(r"(?:^|\n)\s*key:\s*([^\n]+)", text):
         keys.append(m.group(1).strip())
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ def main() -> int:
 
         for t in RESTRICTED_TRIGGERS:
             if t in triggers:
-                text = path.read_text()
+                text = path.read_text(encoding = "utf-8")
                 if "lint:workflow_triggers-allow-workflow_run" not in text:
                     findings.append(
                         f"{path.name}: RESTRICTED trigger '{t}' requires an "

scripts/lockfile_supply_chain_audit.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
 # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved.
 
-"""Lockfile supply-chain audit for the Studio frontend and Tauri shell.
+"""Lockfile supply-chain audit for the Unsloth frontend and Tauri shell.
 
 Runs BEFORE `npm ci` / `cargo fetch` in CI. Refuses to proceed when a
 lockfile contains patterns indicating supply-chain injection (npm
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ CARGO_REGISTRY_SOURCE = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 
 # Cargo non-registry source allowlist: `(crate_name, exact_source_string)`.
 # Both must match verbatim; bumping the pinned SHA forces a re-review.
-# Studio's Tauri shell pulls `fix-path-env` from git because it is not
+# Unsloth's Tauri shell pulls `fix-path-env` from git because it is not
 # published to crates.io; commit c4c45d5 was reviewed when it landed.
 CARGO_SOURCE_ALLOWLIST: tuple[tuple[str, str], ...] = (
     (

scripts/notebook_validator.py

@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ COLAB_ORACLE_BASE_URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googlecolab/backend-i
 # Source: pytorch/torchcodec compatibility matrix on its README.
 TORCH_TORCHCODEC: dict[str, set[str]] = {
     "2.10": {"0.10"},
-    "2.9": {"0.7", "0.8", "0.9"},
-    "2.8": {"0.6"},
+    "2.9": {"0.8", "0.9"},
+    "2.8": {"0.6", "0.7"},
     "2.7": {"0.3", "0.4", "0.5"},
     "2.6": {"0.2", "0.3"},
     "2.5": {"0.1", "0.2"},

scripts/profile_startup.py

@@ -0,0 +1,377 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+# Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved. See /studio/LICENSE.AGPL-3.0
+
+"""Measure where Unsloth Studio's startup time goes, per platform.
+
+Nothing measured this before: the backend logs "lifespan startup completed in X ms"
+but no test or CI job asserted a budget, and studio_test_kit discards the elapsed
+time of its /healthz poll. A first local run (Linux, warm cache, fast server CPU)
+found `import main` alone costs 6.6s before the server can bind, dominated by eager
+module-level imports pulled in by the `routes` package:
+
+    torch          1930 ms self
+    unsloth_zoo     914 ms self
+    routes          779 ms self
+    transformers    524 ms self
+
+Phases measured:
+  import   `python -X importtime -c "import main"`, top cumulative + per-package self
+  spawn    process start -> first byte on stdout
+  healthz  process start -> /api/health (or /healthz) answers 200
+  lifespan the backend's own "lifespan startup completed in X ms" log line
+
+Usage:
+    python scripts/profile_startup.py --repeats 3 --json out.json
+    python scripts/profile_startup.py --import-only     # no server, no port needed
+
+Exit code is 0 unless --max-healthz-seconds is given and exceeded.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import platform
+import re
+import shutil
+import socket
+import statistics
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import threading
+import time
+import urllib.error
+import urllib.request
+from pathlib import Path
+
+REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+BACKEND = REPO_ROOT / "studio" / "backend"
+
+_IMPORTTIME_RE = re.compile(r"import time:\s+(\d+)\s+\|\s+(\d+)\s+\|(\s*)(\S.*)")
+
+
+def _free_port() -> int:
+    with socket.socket() as s:
+        s.bind(("127.0.0.1", 0))
+        return int(s.getsockname()[1])
+
+
+def profile_imports(python: str, top: int = 15) -> dict:
+    """Cumulative and self import cost for the backend's module graph.
+
+    Run in a subprocess with -X importtime: the numbers are only meaningful for a
+    cold interpreter, and importing in-process would measure a warm sys.modules.
+    """
+    proc = subprocess.run(
+        [python, "-X", "importtime", "-c", "import sys; sys.path.insert(0, '.'); import main"],
+        cwd = BACKEND,
+        capture_output = True,
+        text = True,
+        timeout = 900,
+    )
+    rows = []
+    for line in proc.stderr.splitlines():
+        m = _IMPORTTIME_RE.match(line)
+        if m:
+            rows.append((int(m.group(1)), int(m.group(2)), m.group(4).strip()))
+    if not rows:
+        return {"ok": False, "error": (proc.stderr or proc.stdout)[-2000:]}
+    if proc.returncode != 0:
+        # Rows survive up to the failure, so any total from a partial graph is wrong.
+        return {
+            "ok": False,
+            "error": (proc.stderr or proc.stdout)[-2000:],
+            "partial_rows": len(rows),
+        }
+
+    by_cum = sorted(rows, key = lambda r: -r[1])
+    # Total comes from the `main` row, not by_cum[0]: -X importtime also prints the
+    # interpreter's own startup graph (`site`), which can outrank a trivial main.
+    main_row = next((r for r in reversed(rows) if r[2] == "main"), None)
+    if main_row is None:
+        return {
+            "ok": False,
+            "error": "no `import main` row in -X importtime output\n"
+            + (proc.stderr or proc.stdout)[-2000:],
+        }
+    self_by_pkg: dict[str, int] = {}
+    for self_us, _cum, name in rows:
+        pkg = name.split(".")[0]
+        self_by_pkg[pkg] = self_by_pkg.get(pkg, 0) + self_us
+
+    return {
+        "ok": True,
+        "total_seconds": round(main_row[1] / 1e6, 3),
+        "top_cumulative": [
+            {"module": n, "seconds": round(c / 1e6, 3)} for _s, c, n in by_cum[:top]
+        ],
+        "self_by_package_ms": {
+            k: round(v / 1000) for k, v in sorted(self_by_pkg.items(), key = lambda x: -x[1])[:top]
+        },
+    }
+
+
+def _terminate_tree(proc: subprocess.Popen) -> None:
+    """Stop the server AND its children, which on Windows are a separate process.
+
+    CI profiles `Scripts/unsloth.exe`, a distlib launcher stub that CreateProcess's
+    the venv python and waits, so terminate() reaps the stub only: the real backend
+    keeps the inherited stdout handle, the reader thread never sees EOF, and
+    --repeats strands one server per iteration on the shared UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME.
+    taskkill /T walks the tree, as unsloth_cli/commands/start.py already does.
+    """
+    if proc.poll() is not None:
+        return
+    if os.name == "nt":
+        try:
+            killed = subprocess.run(
+                ["taskkill", "/PID", str(proc.pid), "/T", "/F"],
+                capture_output = True,
+                timeout = 30,
+                check = False,
+            )
+            if killed.returncode == 0:
+                return
+        except Exception:
+            # taskkill missing or timed out; fall through so the stub still dies.
+            pass
+        # check=False: a nonzero taskkill does not raise, so fall through as well.
+    proc.terminate()
+
+
+def profile_launch(
+    bin_path: str,
+    port: int,
+    timeout_s: int = 300,
+) -> dict:
+    """Spawn the backend the way the desktop app does and time it to first 200."""
+    log_lines: list[str] = []
+    first_byte: list[float] = []
+    t0 = time.perf_counter()
+    proc = subprocess.Popen(
+        [bin_path, "studio", "--api-only", "-H", "127.0.0.1", "-p", str(port)],
+        cwd = REPO_ROOT,
+        stdout = subprocess.PIPE,
+        stderr = subprocess.STDOUT,
+        text = True,
+        bufsize = 1,
+    )
+
+    def _drain() -> None:
+        # Runs alongside the health polling: the first read timestamps the spawn
+        # phase, and an undrained pipe blocks the backend before it binds.
+        for line in proc.stdout:
+            if not first_byte:
+                first_byte.append(time.perf_counter() - t0)
+            log_lines.append(line.rstrip("\n"))
+
+    reader = threading.Thread(target = _drain, daemon = True)
+    reader.start()
+
+    t_healthz = None
+    deadline = t0 + timeout_s
+    try:
+        while time.perf_counter() < deadline:
+            if proc.poll() is not None:
+                break
+            if t_healthz is None:
+                for url in (
+                    f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}/api/health",
+                    f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}/healthz",
+                ):
+                    try:
+                        with urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout = 2) as r:
+                            if r.status == 200:
+                                t_healthz = time.perf_counter() - t0
+                                break
+                    except (urllib.error.URLError, OSError, TimeoutError):
+                        pass
+            if t_healthz is not None:
+                break
+            time.sleep(0.25)
+    finally:
+        _terminate_tree(proc)
+        try:
+            # Safe: the reader drains the pipe, so the child cannot block on write().
+            proc.wait(timeout = 30)
+        except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
+            proc.kill()
+            proc.wait()
+        reader.join(timeout = 10)
+
+    t_first_byte = first_byte[0] if first_byte else None
+    lifespan_ms = None
+    for line in log_lines:
+        m = re.search(r"lifespan startup completed in ([\d.]+)ms", line)
+        if m:
+            lifespan_ms = float(m.group(1))
+    return {
+        "spawn_seconds": round(t_first_byte, 3) if t_first_byte is not None else None,
+        "healthz_seconds": round(t_healthz, 3) if t_healthz is not None else None,
+        "lifespan_ms": lifespan_ms,
+        "reached_healthz": t_healthz is not None,
+        "log_tail": log_lines[-25:],
+    }
+
+
+def python_version_of(python: str) -> str:
+    """Version of the interpreter that runs the imports, not the one running us.
+
+    --python points at the installed Studio venv while this script runs under the
+    runner's system python, so platform.python_version() would label it wrong.
+    """
+    if python == sys.executable:
+        return platform.python_version()
+    try:
+        proc = subprocess.run(
+            [python, "-c", "import platform; print(platform.python_version())"],
+            capture_output = True,
+            text = True,
+            timeout = 60,
+        )
+        if proc.returncode == 0 and proc.stdout.strip():
+            return proc.stdout.strip()
+    except (OSError, subprocess.SubprocessError):
+        pass
+    return "unknown"
+
+
+def find_bin() -> str | None:
+    home = os.environ.get("UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME") or str(Path.home() / ".unsloth" / "studio")
+    names = ["unsloth.exe", "unsloth"] if platform.system() == "Windows" else ["unsloth"]
+    subdirs = ["unsloth_studio/Scripts", "unsloth_studio/bin", "bin", "Scripts"]
+    for sd in subdirs:
+        for n in names:
+            p = Path(home) / sd / n
+            if p.exists():
+                return str(p)
+    return shutil.which("unsloth")
+
+
+def main(argv: list[str]) -> int:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description = __doc__, formatter_class = argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter
+    )
+    ap.add_argument(
+        "--repeats",
+        type = int,
+        default = 1,
+        help = "launch repeats; the median is reported (imports are measured once)",
+    )
+    ap.add_argument(
+        "--python",
+        default = sys.executable,
+        help = "interpreter used for the import profile (default: this one)",
+    )
+    ap.add_argument("--bin", help = "path to the unsloth CLI (default: autodetect)")
+    ap.add_argument(
+        "--import-only",
+        action = "store_true",
+        help = "skip the server phases (no install needed beyond the deps)",
+    )
+    ap.add_argument(
+        "--max-healthz-seconds",
+        type = float,
+        help = "fail if the median time to a healthy port exceeds this",
+    )
+    ap.add_argument("--json", help = "write the full report here")
+    a = ap.parse_args(argv)
+    # range(0) launches nothing, leaving the budget check with nothing to fail on.
+    if a.repeats < 1:
+        ap.error("--repeats must be at least 1")
+    # Same reason: --import-only never launches anything.
+    if a.import_only and a.max_healthz_seconds is not None:
+        ap.error("--max-healthz-seconds cannot be combined with --import-only")
+    # nan and inf parse fine as floats but `med > budget` is then always False,
+    # so the gate would report success without ever bounding anything.
+    if a.max_healthz_seconds is not None and not math.isfinite(a.max_healthz_seconds):
+        ap.error("--max-healthz-seconds must be a finite number")
+
+    report: dict = {
+        "platform": platform.system().lower(),
+        "machine": platform.machine(),
+        "python": python_version_of(a.python),
+        "cpu_count": os.cpu_count(),
+    }
+
+    print("== import graph ==")
+    report["imports"] = profile_imports(a.python)
+    imp = report["imports"]
+    if imp.get("ok"):
+        print(f"  import main: {imp['total_seconds']}s")
+        for row in imp["top_cumulative"][:8]:
+            print(f"    {row['seconds']:7.3f}s  {row['module']}")
+        print("  self time by package (ms):")
+        for k, v in list(imp["self_by_package_ms"].items())[:8]:
+            print(f"    {v:8} ms  {k}")
+    else:
+        print(f"  FAILED: {imp.get('error', '')[:400]}")
+
+    if not a.import_only:
+        bin_path = a.bin or find_bin()
+        if not bin_path:
+            print(
+                "== launch == skipped: no unsloth CLI found "
+                "(set UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME or pass --bin)"
+            )
+            report["launch"] = {"skipped": "no unsloth CLI found"}
+        else:
+            print(f"== launch == {bin_path}")
+            runs = []
+            for i in range(a.repeats):
+                r = profile_launch(bin_path, _free_port())
+                runs.append(r)
+                print(
+                    f"  run {i + 1}: healthz={r['healthz_seconds']}s "
+                    f"lifespan={r['lifespan_ms']}ms reached={r['reached_healthz']}"
+                )
+            got = [r["healthz_seconds"] for r in runs if r["healthz_seconds"] is not None]
+            report["launch"] = {
+                "runs": runs,
+                "failed_runs": sum(1 for r in runs if not r["reached_healthz"]),
+                "healthz_median_seconds": round(statistics.median(got), 3) if got else None,
+                "healthz_max_seconds": round(max(got), 3) if got else None,
+            }
+            if got:
+                print(
+                    f"  median time to healthy port: {report['launch']['healthz_median_seconds']}s"
+                )
+
+    if a.json:
+        Path(a.json).write_text(json.dumps(report, indent = 2), encoding = "utf-8")
+        print(f"\nwrote {a.json}")
+
+    if a.max_healthz_seconds is not None:
+        launch = report.get("launch") or {}
+        med = launch.get("healthz_median_seconds")
+        failed = launch.get("failed_runs") or 0
+        if failed:
+            # Failed launches fail the budget; dropping them would keep only the fast ones.
+            print(
+                f"::error::startup regression: {failed} of {len(launch.get('runs') or [])} "
+                f"launches never became healthy within the timeout"
+            )
+            return 1
+        if med is None:
+            # Nothing measured: exiting 0 would pass a requested budget without a
+            # single health request, so fail closed.
+            print(
+                "::error::startup regression: no healthz measurement, so the "
+                f"{a.max_healthz_seconds}s budget was never checked "
+                f"({launch.get('skipped') or 'launch phase produced no runs'})"
+            )
+            return 1
+        elif med > a.max_healthz_seconds:
+            print(
+                f"::error::startup regression: {med}s median to a healthy port "
+                f"exceeds the {a.max_healthz_seconds}s budget"
+            )
+            return 1
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main(sys.argv[1:]))

scripts/scan_npm_packages.py

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
 # Hard caps (deliberately conservative; npm tarballs in this repo are
 # all well under these limits, so a packaging spike is noticeable).
 # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-# Caps calibrated against the real Studio frontend transitive closure:
+# Caps calibrated against the real Unsloth frontend transitive closure:
 #   - typescript.js is 9.1 MB (TS compiler bundled into one file)
 #   - mermaid 11.x dist/mermaid.js.map is ~12 MB (sourcemap)
 #   - lightningcss-linux-x64-{gnu,musl}.node is 10 MB

scripts/stamp_studio_release.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
 # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved. See /studio/LICENSE.AGPL-3.0
 
-"""Stamp and verify display-only Studio release metadata for builds."""
+"""Stamp and verify display-only Unsloth release metadata for builds."""
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ MAX_VERSION_LENGTH = 64
 PLACEHOLDER = """# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
 # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved. See /studio/LICENSE.AGPL-3.0
 
-\"\"\"Build-stamped Studio release metadata.
+\"\"\"Build-stamped Unsloth release metadata.
 
 Release builds may rewrite this module in the build workspace before creating
 Python artifacts. Keep the committed value neutral so source checkouts do not
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ def build_info_source(version: str | None) -> str:
     return f'''# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
 # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved. See /studio/LICENSE.AGPL-3.0
 
-"""Build-stamped Studio release metadata."""
+"""Build-stamped Unsloth release metadata."""
 
 STUDIO_RELEASE_VERSION = {literal}
 '''
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ def stamp(require_release: bool) -> int:
     version, source = resolve_version()
     if version is not None and not is_valid_version(version):
         print(
-            f"Invalid Studio release version from {source}: {version!r}",
+            f"Invalid Unsloth release version from {source}: {version!r}",
             file = sys.stderr,
         )
         return 2
@@ -196,9 +196,9 @@ def stamp(require_release: bool) -> int:
     if version is None:
         if require_release:
             print(
-                "No Studio release version available. Set "
+                "No Unsloth release version available. Set "
                 "UNSLOTH_STUDIO_RELEASE_VERSION, build from a GitHub tag, "
-                "or run from an exact local Studio release tag.",
+                "or run from an exact local Unsloth release tag.",
                 file = sys.stderr,
             )
             return 2
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ def stamp(require_release: bool) -> int:
         return 0
 
     _atomic_write_text(BUILD_INFO_PATH, build_info_source(version), encoding = "utf-8")
-    print(f"Stamping Studio release version {version} from {source}", file = sys.stderr)
+    print(f"Stamping Unsloth release version {version} from {source}", file = sys.stderr)
     print(version)
     return 0
 
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ def _read_sdist_member(path: Path) -> str | None:
 
 def verify_dist(expected: str, dist_dir: Path) -> int:
     if not is_valid_version(expected):
-        print(f"Invalid expected Studio release version: {expected!r}", file = sys.stderr)
+        print(f"Invalid expected Unsloth release version: {expected!r}", file = sys.stderr)
         return 2
 
     artifacts = list(dist_dir.glob("*.whl")) + list(dist_dir.glob("*.tar.gz"))
@@ -251,14 +251,14 @@ def verify_dist(expected: str, dist_dir: Path) -> int:
         if content is None:
             failures.append(f"{artifact.name}: missing {BUILD_INFO_SUFFIX}")
         elif expected_line not in content:
-            failures.append(f"{artifact.name}: Studio release version mismatch")
+            failures.append(f"{artifact.name}: Unsloth release version mismatch")
 
     if failures:
         for failure in failures:
             print(failure, file = sys.stderr)
         return 2
 
-    print(f"Verified Studio release version {expected} in {len(artifacts)} artifact(s)")
+    print(f"Verified Unsloth release version {expected} in {len(artifacts)} artifact(s)")
     return 0
 
 

scripts/uninstall.ps1

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ function Uninstall-UnslothStudio {
         }
     }
 
-    # A path is a Studio-owned root iff one of install.ps1's sentinels exists:
+    # A path is an Unsloth-owned root iff one of install.ps1's sentinels exists:
     #   <root>\share\studio.conf, <root>\unsloth_studio\.unsloth-studio-owned,
     #   or <root>\bin\unsloth.exe.
     function _IsStudioRoot {
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ function Uninstall-UnslothStudio {
         return $p
     }
 
-    # Discover non-default Studio roots from env vars + studio.conf files.
+    # Discover non-default Unsloth roots from env vars + studio.conf files.
     # Mirrors install.ps1's precedence: UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME wins, STUDIO_HOME
     # is ignored when both are set, so uninstalling install A doesn't also
     # delete install B if the user has a stale STUDIO_HOME pointing at B.
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ function Uninstall-UnslothStudio {
 
     # Return $true iff the PID's image path lives under one of $KnownRoots.
     # Prevents killing an unrelated process that happens to listen on a stale
-    # Studio port.
+    # Unsloth port.
     function _PidUnderKnownRoot {
         param([int]$Pid_, [string[]]$KnownRoots)
         if (-not $KnownRoots -or $KnownRoots.Count -eq 0) { return $false }
@@ -223,8 +223,8 @@ function Uninstall-UnslothStudio {
         return $false
     }
 
-    # Stop a Studio backend whose port is recorded in <DataDir>\studio.port.
-    # Only kills if the listening PID's exe path is under a known Studio root.
+    # Stop an Unsloth backend whose port is recorded in <DataDir>\studio.port.
+    # Only kills if the listening PID's exe path is under a known Unsloth root.
     function _StopByPortFile {
         param([string]$PortFile, [string[]]$KnownRoots)
         if (-not (Test-Path -LiteralPath $PortFile -PathType Leaf)) { return }
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ function Uninstall-UnslothStudio {
             continue
         }
         if (-not (_IsStudioRoot $r)) {
-            _Substep "refusing to remove non-Studio path: $r" "Yellow"
+            _Substep "refusing to remove non-Unsloth path: $r" "Yellow"
             continue
         }
         _RemovePath $r
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ function Uninstall-UnslothStudio {
                     $entries = $rawPath -split ';'
                     $kept = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList
                     $removedAny = $false
-                    # Only remove PATH entries that live inside a Studio root we
+                    # Only remove PATH entries that live inside an Unsloth root we
                     # actually own (default or env-mode). A literal substring
                     # match on `unsloth_studio` would clobber unrelated user
                     # virtualenvs that happen to share the name.

scripts/uninstall.sh

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 set -e
 
-# Stop a Studio server via its PID file (written by install.sh's _spawn_terminal).
+# Stop an Unsloth server via its PID file (written by install.sh's _spawn_terminal).
 _kill_pid_file() {
     _pid_file="$1"
     [ -f "$_pid_file" ] || return 0
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ _pkill_studio() {
     command -v pkill >/dev/null 2>&1 || return 0
 
     # Scope fallback patterns to the install roots we are removing so a
-    # different Studio install (different UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME) is not touched.
+    # different Unsloth install (different UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME) is not touched.
     _kill_roots="$HOME/.unsloth/studio"
     _roots_from_conf=$(_custom_studio_roots 2>/dev/null || true)
     [ -n "$_roots_from_conf" ] && _kill_roots="$_kill_roots
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ _remove_path() {
     fi
 }
 
-# Accept as Studio root only if Studio sentinels exist (matches install.sh's
+# Accept as Unsloth root only if Unsloth sentinels exist (matches install.sh's
 # env-mode ownership guard at install.sh:1358-1361). A bare unsloth_studio/
 # directory is NOT enough -- require the install-time owner marker so a user
 # directory that happens to contain a folder named "unsloth_studio" is safe.
@@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ _custom_studio_roots() {
     _from_conf "$HOME/.local/share/unsloth/studio.conf"
 }
 
-# Remove $HOME/.local/bin/unsloth only if it's a Studio-managed symlink.
-# Studio's install.sh writes this as a symlink into the studio venv
+# Remove $HOME/.local/bin/unsloth only if it's an Unsloth-managed symlink.
+# Unsloth's install.sh writes this as a symlink into the studio venv
 # (install.sh: `ln -sfn "$VENV_DIR/bin/unsloth" "$_shim_path"`). A
 # pip-installed `unsloth` CLI is a regular file — leave it alone to avoid
 # wiping an unrelated install.
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ _custom_studio_roots | while IFS= read -r _custom_root; do
         continue
     fi
     if ! _is_studio_root "$_custom_root"; then
-        echo "  refusing to remove non-Studio path: $_custom_root" >&2
+        echo "  refusing to remove non-Unsloth path: $_custom_root" >&2
         continue
     fi
     _remove_path "$_custom_root"
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ _remove_path "$HOME/.unsloth/rocm-smoketest"
 # Drop ~/.unsloth only if now empty (rmdir refuses non-empty, so user content is kept).
 rmdir "$HOME/.unsloth" 2>/dev/null || true
 _remove_path "$HOME/.local/share/unsloth"
-# CLI shim: only the symlink Studio created, never a pip-installed file.
+# CLI shim: only the symlink Unsloth created, never a pip-installed file.
 _remove_cli_shim
 
 echo "Removing desktop shortcut and launcher lock..."

studio/MCP.md

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Unsloth Studio MCP server
+
+Unsloth can expose a local MCP server so an MCP client can inspect models and
+GPU state, validate recipes, start or stop training, inspect recipe output, and
+export a loaded model.
+
+The server is disabled by default. Enable it for a local Unsloth process with:
+
+```bash
+UNSLOTH_STUDIO_ENABLE_MCP=1 \
+UNSLOTH_STUDIO_MCP_TOKEN='use-a-local-secret' \
+unsloth studio
+```
+
+The endpoint is `http://127.0.0.1:8888/mcp/` when Unsloth uses its default port
+(a request to `/mcp` redirects to the canonical `/mcp/`). Use the actual Unsloth
+port when it is configured differently.
+
+The high-impact tools are:
+
+- `studio_status` and `list_local_models` for discovery
+- `get_training_status`, `start_training`, `stop_training`, and `list_training_runs`
+- `validate_recipe`, `get_recipe_job_status`, and `get_recipe_job_dataset`
+- `load_checkpoint` and `export_gguf`
+
+`start_training` accepts the same fields as the Unsloth `TrainingStartRequest`.
+The request is validated by the existing Pydantic model before a subprocess is
+started. Export paths use the existing Unsloth validation as well.
+
+The endpoint always requires `UNSLOTH_STUDIO_MCP_TOKEN` and checks an exact
+Bearer token for both HTTP and WebSocket connections. Keep it on localhost
+unless the deployment has an authenticated reverse proxy. The MCP endpoint is
+intentionally opt-in because tools can consume GPU memory, write model
+artifacts, and stop active work.

studio/Unsloth_Studio_Colab.ipynb

@@ -1,134 +1,145 @@
 {
- "cells": [
-  {
-   "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "metadata": {
-    "id": "view-in-github",
-    "colab_type": "text"
-   },
-   "source": [
-    "<a href=\"https://colab.research.google.com/github/unslothai/unsloth/blob/main/studio/Unsloth_Studio_Colab.ipynb\" target=\"_parent\"><img src=\"https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg\" alt=\"Open In Colab\"/></a>"
-   ]
+  "cells": [
+    {
+      "cell_type": "markdown",
+      "metadata": {
+        "id": "view-in-github",
+        "colab_type": "text"
+      },
+      "source": [
+        "<a href=\"https://colab.research.google.com/github/unslothai/unsloth/blob/main/studio/Unsloth_Studio_Colab.ipynb\" target=\"_parent\"><img src=\"https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg\" alt=\"Open In Colab\"/></a>"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "markdown",
+      "metadata": {
+        "id": "6b87de59"
+      },
+      "source": [
+        "To run this, press \"*Runtime*\" and press \"*Run all*\" on a **free** Tesla T4 Google Colab instance!\n",
+        "<div class=\"align-center\">\n",
+        "<a href=\"https://unsloth.ai/\"><img src=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/raw/main/images/unsloth%20new%20logo.png\" width=\"115\"></a>\n",
+        "<a href=\"https://discord.gg/unsloth\"><img src=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/raw/main/images/Discord button.png\" width=\"145\"></a>\n",
+        "<a href=\"https://unsloth.ai/docs/\"><img src=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/blob/main/images/documentation%20green%20button.png?raw=true\" width=\"125\"></a> Join Discord if you need help + ⭐ <i>Star us on <a href=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth\">Github</a> </i> ⭐\n",
+        "</div>\n",
+        "\n",
+        "To install Unsloth Studio on your local device, follow [our guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/unsloth-studio/install). Unsloth Studio is licensed [AGPL-3.0](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/blob/main/studio/LICENSE.AGPL-3.0).\n",
+        "\n",
+        "### Unsloth Studio\n",
+        "\n",
+        "Train and run open models with [**Unsloth Studio**](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/unsloth-studio/start). NEW! Installation should now only take 2 mins!\n",
+        "\n",
+        "\n",
+        "We are actively working on making Unsloth Studio install on Colab T4 GPUs faster.\n",
+        "\n",
+        "[Features](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/unsloth-studio#features) • [Quickstart](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/unsloth-studio/start) • [Data Recipes](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/unsloth-studio/data-recipe) • [Unsloth Chat](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/unsloth-studio/chat) • [Export](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/unsloth-studio/export)"
+      ],
+      "id": "6b87de59"
+    },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "markdown",
+      "metadata": {
+        "id": "e4206349"
+      },
+      "source": [
+        "<p align=\"left\"><img src=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/raw/main/studio/frontend/public/studio%20github%20landscape%20colab%20display.png\" width=\"600\"></p>"
+      ],
+      "id": "e4206349"
+    },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "markdown",
+      "metadata": {
+        "id": "27da2957"
+      },
+      "source": [
+        "### Setup: Clone repo and run setup"
+      ],
+      "id": "27da2957"
+    },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "code",
+      "metadata": {
+        "id": "27e68f91"
+      },
+      "source": "!git clone --depth 1 --branch main https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git\n%cd /content/unsloth\n!chmod +x studio/setup.sh && ./studio/setup.sh --local",
+      "execution_count": null,
+      "outputs": [],
+      "id": "27e68f91"
+    },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "markdown",
+      "metadata": {
+        "id": "3e1771a9"
+      },
+      "source": [
+        "### Start Unsloth Studio"
+      ],
+      "id": "3e1771a9"
+    },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "code",
+      "metadata": {
+        "id": "277e431e"
+      },
+      "source": [
+        "import sys\n",
+        "sys.path.insert(0, \"/content/unsloth/studio/backend\")\n",
+        "from colab import start\n",
+        "\n",
+        "# On Colab, start() auto-opens a Cloudflare link and prints admin login credentials.\n",
+        "# Use the Cloudflare link above the ready card to open Studio (in-cell iframes often stay blank).\n",
+        "start()\n",
+        "\n",
+        "# To skip the Cloudflare tunnel and try the in-notebook proxy iframe only:\n",
+        "# start(cloudflare=False)"
+      ],
+      "execution_count": null,
+      "outputs": [],
+      "id": "277e431e"
+    },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "markdown",
+      "metadata": {
+        "id": "f2b0c6a1"
+      },
+      "source": [
+        "And we're done! If you have any questions on Unsloth, we have a [Discord](https://discord.gg/unsloth) channel! If you find any bugs or want to keep updated with the latest LLM stuff, or need help, join projects etc, feel free to join our Discord!\n",
+        "\n",
+        "Some other resources:\n",
+        "1. Looking to use Unsloth locally? Read our [Installation Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/get-started/install) for details on installing Unsloth on Windows, Docker, AMD, Intel GPUs.\n",
+        "2. Learn how to do Reinforcement Learning with our [RL Guide and notebooks](https://unsloth.ai/docs/get-started/reinforcement-learning-rl-guide).\n",
+        "3. Read our guides and notebooks for [Text-to-speech (TTS)](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/text-to-speech-tts-fine-tuning) and [vision](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/vision-fine-tuning) model support.\n",
+        "4. Explore our [LLM Tutorials Directory](https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/tutorials-how-to-fine-tune-and-run-llms) to find dedicated guides for each model.\n",
+        "5. Need help with Inference? Read our [Inference & Deployment page](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/inference-and-deployment) for details on using vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama etc.\n",
+        "\n",
+        "<div class=\"align-center\">\n",
+        "  <a href=\"https://unsloth.ai\"><img src=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/raw/main/images/unsloth%20new%20logo.png\" width=\"115\"></a>\n",
+        "  <a href=\"https://discord.gg/unsloth\"><img src=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/raw/main/images/Discord.png\" width=\"145\"></a>\n",
+        "  <a href=\"https://unsloth.ai/docs/\"><img src=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/blob/main/images/documentation%20green%20button.png?raw=true\" width=\"125\"></a>\n",
+        "\n",
+        "  Join Discord if you need help + ⭐️ <i>Star us on <a href=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth\">Github</a> </i> ⭐️\n",
+        "\n",
+        "  <b>This notebook is licensed <a href=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/blob/main/studio/LICENSE.AGPL-3.0\">AGPL-3.0</a></b>\n",
+        "</div>"
+      ],
+      "id": "f2b0c6a1"
+    }
+  ],
+  "metadata": {
+    "accelerator": "GPU",
+    "colab": {
+      "gpuType": "T4",
+      "provenance": [],
+      "include_colab_link": true
+    },
+    "kernelspec": {
+      "display_name": "Python 3",
+      "name": "python3"
+    },
+    "language_info": {
+      "name": "python"
+    }
   },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "id": "6b87de59",
-   "metadata": {
-    "id": "6b87de59"
-   },
-   "source": [
-    "To run this, press \"*Runtime*\" and press \"*Run all*\" on a **free** Tesla T4 Google Colab instance!\n",
-    "<div class=\"align-center\">\n",
-    "<a href=\"https://unsloth.ai/\"><img src=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/raw/main/images/unsloth%20new%20logo.png\" width=\"115\"></a>\n",
-    "<a href=\"https://discord.gg/unsloth\"><img src=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/raw/main/images/Discord button.png\" width=\"145\"></a>\n",
-    "<a href=\"https://unsloth.ai/docs/\"><img src=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/blob/main/images/documentation%20green%20button.png?raw=true\" width=\"125\"></a> Join Discord if you need help + ⭐ <i>Star us on <a href=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth\">Github</a> </i> ⭐\n",
-    "</div>\n",
-    "\n",
-    "To install Unsloth Studio on your local device, follow [our guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/unsloth-studio/install). Unsloth Studio is licensed [AGPL-3.0](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/blob/main/studio/LICENSE.AGPL-3.0).\n",
-    "\n",
-    "### Unsloth Studio\n",
-    "\n",
-    "Train and run open models with [**Unsloth Studio**](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/unsloth-studio/start). NEW! Installation should now only take 2 mins!\n",
-    "\n",
-    "\n",
-    "We are actively working on making Unsloth Studio install on Colab T4 GPUs faster.\n",
-    "\n",
-    "[Features](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/unsloth-studio#features) • [Quickstart](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/unsloth-studio/start) • [Data Recipes](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/unsloth-studio/data-recipe) • [Studio Chat](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/unsloth-studio/chat) • [Export](https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/unsloth-studio/export)"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "id": "e4206349",
-   "metadata": {
-    "id": "e4206349"
-   },
-   "source": [
-    "<p align=\"left\"><img src=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/raw/main/studio/frontend/public/studio%20github%20landscape%20colab%20display.png\" width=\"600\"></p>"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "id": "27da2957",
-   "metadata": {
-    "id": "27da2957"
-   },
-   "source": [
-    "### Setup: Clone repo and run setup"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "id": "27e68f91",
-   "metadata": {
-    "id": "27e68f91"
-   },
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": "!git clone --depth 1 --branch main https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git\n%cd /content/unsloth\n!chmod +x studio/setup.sh && ./studio/setup.sh --local"
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "id": "3e1771a9",
-   "metadata": {
-    "id": "3e1771a9"
-   },
-   "source": [
-    "### Start Unsloth Studio"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "id": "277e431e",
-   "metadata": {
-    "id": "277e431e"
-   },
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": "import sys\nsys.path.insert(0, \"/content/unsloth/studio/backend\")\nfrom colab import start\n\n# Default: in-tab iframe only. start() blocks to keep the kernel alive.\nstart()\n\n# For a shareable Cloudflare link, replace start() above with:\n# start(cloudflare=True)"
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "id": "f2b0c6a1",
-   "metadata": {
-    "id": "f2b0c6a1"
-   },
-   "source": [
-    "And we're done! If you have any questions on Unsloth, we have a [Discord](https://discord.gg/unsloth) channel! If you find any bugs or want to keep updated with the latest LLM stuff, or need help, join projects etc, feel free to join our Discord!\n",
-    "\n",
-    "Some other resources:\n",
-    "1. Looking to use Unsloth locally? Read our [Installation Guide](https://unsloth.ai/docs/get-started/install) for details on installing Unsloth on Windows, Docker, AMD, Intel GPUs.\n",
-    "2. Learn how to do Reinforcement Learning with our [RL Guide and notebooks](https://unsloth.ai/docs/get-started/reinforcement-learning-rl-guide).\n",
-    "3. Read our guides and notebooks for [Text-to-speech (TTS)](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/text-to-speech-tts-fine-tuning) and [vision](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/vision-fine-tuning) model support.\n",
-    "4. Explore our [LLM Tutorials Directory](https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/tutorials-how-to-fine-tune-and-run-llms) to find dedicated guides for each model.\n",
-    "5. Need help with Inference? Read our [Inference & Deployment page](https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/inference-and-deployment) for details on using vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama etc.\n",
-    "\n",
-    "<div class=\"align-center\">\n",
-    "  <a href=\"https://unsloth.ai\"><img src=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/raw/main/images/unsloth%20new%20logo.png\" width=\"115\"></a>\n",
-    "  <a href=\"https://discord.gg/unsloth\"><img src=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/raw/main/images/Discord.png\" width=\"145\"></a>\n",
-    "  <a href=\"https://unsloth.ai/docs/\"><img src=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/blob/main/images/documentation%20green%20button.png?raw=true\" width=\"125\"></a>\n",
-    "\n",
-    "  Join Discord if you need help + ⭐️ <i>Star us on <a href=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth\">Github</a> </i> ⭐️\n",
-    "\n",
-    "  <b>This notebook is licensed <a href=\"https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/blob/main/studio/LICENSE.AGPL-3.0\">AGPL-3.0</a></b>\n",
-    "</div>"
-   ]
-  }
- ],
- "metadata": {
-  "accelerator": "GPU",
-  "colab": {
-   "gpuType": "T4",
-   "provenance": [],
-   "include_colab_link": true
-  },
-  "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": "Python 3",
-   "name": "python3"
-  },
-  "language_info": {
-   "name": "python"
-  }
- },
- "nbformat": 4,
- "nbformat_minor": 5
+  "nbformat": 4,
+  "nbformat_minor": 5
 }

studio/backend/assets/chat_templates/gemma-4-edge.jinja

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   Source: google/gemma-4-31B-it HF discussion/PR #118 (adds the preserve_thinking
   flag plus null-rendering, string-arguments validation, balanced turn tags, empty
   messages handling, and OpenAI image_url/input_audio aliases).
-  Studio-local changes vs PR #118:
+  Unsloth-local changes vs PR #118:
     1. preserve_thinking defaults to false (see SETUP block below).
     2. The empty "<|channel>thought\n<channel|>" block on enable_thinking=false is
        NOT emitted. Google ships a distinct template for E2B/E4B (google/gemma-4-E2B-it,

studio/backend/assets/chat_templates/gemma-4.jinja

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   Source: google/gemma-4-31B-it HF discussion/PR #118 (adds the preserve_thinking
   flag plus null-rendering, string-arguments validation, balanced turn tags, empty
   messages handling, and OpenAI image_url/input_audio aliases).
-  Studio-local change: preserve_thinking defaults to false (see SETUP block below).
+  Unsloth-local change: preserve_thinking defaults to false (see SETUP block below).
   Applied to unsloth/gemma-4-*-GGUF models so the embedded GGUF template does not
   need re-downloading. Keep in sync with upstream if PR #118 changes.
 -#}

studio/backend/assets/configs/full_finetune.yaml

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ lora:
   vision_all_linear: false
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/lora_text.yaml

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ lora:
   vision_all_linear: false
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/default.yaml

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/embedding/unsloth_Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B.yaml

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/embedding/unsloth_all-MiniLM-L6-v2.yaml

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ lora:
     - "query"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/embedding/unsloth_bge-m3.yaml

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ lora:
     - "value"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/embedding/unsloth_embeddinggemma-300m.yaml

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/embedding/unsloth_gte-modernbert-base.yaml

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ lora:
     - "Wqkv"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/ernie/unsloth_ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-PT.yaml

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/ernie/unsloth_ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-PT.yaml

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/falcon/tiiuae_Falcon-H1-0.5B-Instruct.yaml

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_codegemma-7b-bnb-4bit.yaml

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_functiongemma-270m-it.yaml

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_gemma-2-27b-bnb-4bit.yaml

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_gemma-2-2b.yaml

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_gemma-3-270m-it.yaml

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_gemma-3-27b-it.yaml

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ lora:
     - "all-linear"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_gemma-3-4b-it.yaml

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ lora:
     - "all-linear"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_gemma-3-4b-pt.yaml

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ lora:
     - "all-linear"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_gemma-3n-E4B-it.yaml

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ lora:
     - "all-linear"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_gemma-3n-E4B.yaml

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ lora:
     - "all-linear"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_gemma-4-26B-A4B-it.yaml

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ lora:
     - "all-linear"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_gemma-4-26B-A4B.yaml

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ lora:
     - "all-linear"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_gemma-4-31B-it.yaml

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ lora:
     - "all-linear"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_gemma-4-31B.yaml

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ lora:
     - "all-linear"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_gemma-4-E2B-it.yaml

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ lora:
     - "all-linear"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_gemma-4-E2B.yaml

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ lora:
     - "all-linear"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_gemma-4-E4B-it.yaml

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ lora:
     - "all-linear"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gemma/unsloth_gemma-4-E4B.yaml

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ lora:
     - "all-linear"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gpt-oss/unsloth_gpt-oss-120b.yaml

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/gpt-oss/unsloth_gpt-oss-20b.yaml

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/granite/unsloth_granite-4.0-350m-unsloth-bnb-4bit.yaml

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ lora:
     - "shared_mlp.output_linear"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/granite/unsloth_granite-4.0-h-micro.yaml

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ lora:
     - "shared_mlp.output_linear"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/llama/unsloth_Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct.yaml

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ lora:
     - "all-linear"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
   finetune_vision_layers: true
   finetune_language_layers: true
   finetune_attention_modules: true

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/llama/unsloth_Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct.yaml

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/llama/unsloth_Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct.yaml

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/llama/unsloth_Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.yaml

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/llama/unsloth_Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-bnb-4bit.yaml

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/llama/unsloth_Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-bnb-4bit.yaml

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/llama/unsloth_llama-3-8b-Instruct-bnb-4bit.yaml

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false

studio/backend/assets/configs/model_defaults/llama/unsloth_llama-3-8b-bnb-4bit.yaml

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ lora:
     - "down_proj"
   use_rslora: false
   use_loftq: false
+  use_dora: false
 
 logging:
   enable_wandb: false