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 The answer reaches the phone twice per model as `Event::Images`, so the photo button is withdrawn the moment a model with vision is left rather than at whatever later point the session row is fetched again.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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of the file — on the machine that will serve it, in the round trip the spawn
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was already making — and `params["speculative"] = "off"` is the way out.
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- **A picture goes to a model that natively reads one, and nowhere else**
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(2026-09-20). Vision here is a multimodal model loaded with its projector:
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`mmproj` in that model's preset section, found beside the weights because
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that is how a repository publishes the pair, and overridable per model —
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another file name, or `off` — in the machines tab's provider view. Nothing
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is done for a model without one: no captioning, no OCR, no second model.
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An attached image rides in the request as an `image_url` content part with
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a data URI, which is what reaches a model on another machine without
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shipping the file there.
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- **Whether a session takes pictures is measured, not assumed.**
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`/props`'s `modalities.vision` is the loaded server's own answer, and it
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is the only one worth having: the projector is loaded over there, and
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this side cannot see whether it worked. Three states, because a model
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still coming off disk has genuinely not said — `Images::Unknown` is
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offered rather than refused, since withholding the control on a session
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nobody could ask about hides it on models that read pictures perfectly
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well. The answer reaches the phone twice per model, as `Event::Images`:
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unknown the moment the old model is left, then the new server's answer.
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- **A message carrying an image a model cannot read is stopped, not
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stripped.** `llama-server` refuses the whole request over one image part,
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and a message sent without its picture would be answered as though the
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picture had never been mentioned. The phone will not attach one (the
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photo item is disabled with the reason on it, and the share sheet and
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file chooser refuse the same), and the driver refuses it again where it
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arrives — at the door, when a message that queued behind a loading model
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is read, and at the tool boundary a steer enters by, because those are
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the three moments the answer can first exist.
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- **An earlier turn's image becomes a line of words for a model without
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vision**, so that switching a conversation onto one does not end it. It
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is a statement that there was an attachment, not a description of it.
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- **A projector is not a model.** It is filtered out of what a provider
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offers a spawn or a model change, since a session started on one is a
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server that cannot load it, and it stays in the machine's own model list,
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which is where a file on a disk is managed.
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### Models (2026-08-28, rebuilt per machine 2026-09-19)
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- **A download belongs to the model, not to the request.** Keyed by
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