Let a llama session be shown a picture where the model reads one
A multimodal model is loaded with the `mmproj` found beside its weights -- which is how a repository publishes the pair -- and an attached image rides in the request as an `image_url` data URI, so it reaches a model on another machine without the file going there. Nothing is done for a model without a projector: no captioning, no OCR, no second model. Whether a session takes pictures is measured rather than assumed: `/props`'s `modalities.vision` from the server that loaded the model, in three states, because a model still coming off disk has genuinely not said. Unknown is offered rather than refused -- a control withheld because nobody could ask goes missing from sessions that would have taken it. The answer reaches the phone twice per model as `Event::Images`, so the photo button is withdrawn the moment a model with vision is left rather than at whatever later point the session row is fetched again. A message carrying an image a model cannot read is stopped rather than stripped: `llama-server` refuses the whole request over one image part, and a message sent without its picture would be answered as though the picture had never been mentioned. The phone will not attach one, and the driver refuses it again at the three moments the answer can first exist -- at the door, when a message queued behind a loading model is read, and at the tool boundary a steer enters by. An earlier turn's image folds into a line of words for a model without vision, so switching a conversation onto one does not end it. A projector is filtered out of the models a provider *offers*, since a session started on one is a server that cannot load it; it stays in the machine's own model list, where a file on a disk is managed. Verified against ggml-org/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-GGUF, local and over ssh: "In this picture there is a red circle." Switching that session to Qwen3-0.6B reports `refused`, refuses the next picture with the reason, and still answers an ordinary message.
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@@ -84,6 +84,23 @@ Module-by-module intent is in PLAN.md's "Backend layout".
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decides whether the MTP draft head is a 50% speed-up or a 33% loss; and
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`spec-type = draft-mtp` is conditional on the file actually having a head,
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because asking for one that is not there makes `llama-server` **exit**.
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**A llama session takes a picture only where the model natively reads one**
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(2026-09-20): a multimodal model is loaded with the `mmproj` found beside
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its weights (overridable per model, `off` included), an attachment rides in
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the request as an `image_url` data URI, and nothing at all is done for a
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model without a projector. Four things fall out of it and are easy to get
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wrong again -- whether a session takes pictures is `/props`'s
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`modalities.vision` from the loaded server and never a guess from this side,
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with three states because a loading model has not answered yet
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(`Images::Unknown` is *offered*, since a control withheld because nobody
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could ask is missing from sessions that would have taken it); a message
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carrying an image a model cannot read is **stopped rather than stripped**,
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refused at the door, at the queue and at the steering boundary, because
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`llama-server` refuses the whole request over one part and a message sent
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without its picture is a different message; an earlier turn's image folds
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into a line of words for a model without vision, so switching models does
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not end the conversation; and a projector is filtered out of the models a
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provider *offers*, while staying in the machine's own model list.
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**A llama session's thinking is drawn** (2026-09-19): `reasoning_content`
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becomes `Event::Thinking` deltas closed by an `Event::ThinkingDone` carrying
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the span the *driver* measured, and the phone draws a card that spins while
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