Three-arm harness under scripts/native-bakeoff/:
- arm A: /api/chat with JSON tools (current default)
- arm B: /api/generate raw:true with canonical HF jinja template rendered directly
- arm C: google-deepmind/gemma JAX ToolSampler (env-gated, JAX required)
Interim finding from A+B sweep on matt-strix gemma4:26b Q4: Ollama's
bidirectional JSON↔native tool-call translator is faithful. The "long"
multi-tool task produces identical behavior (7 steps / 6 tools) on both
arms. Earlier arm-B parser bug that looked like a divergence was a
harness issue: preserving the model's <|channel>thought\n<channel|>
prefix as assistant content tripped the jinja template's
tool_response-following conditional, appending a spurious <turn|>\n
that corrupted the next step's prompt. Fixed by dropping the channel
prefix on the assistant message.
Arm C left as scaffolded-but-not-run — the JAX/bf16 reference path
would answer "does the GGUF runtime diverge from DeepMind's
implementation" but requires a separate env with the `gemma` PyPI
package. Parked pending SDXL eviction or vast-h100 session.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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