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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 The answer reaches the phone twice per model as `Event::Images`, so the photo button is withdrawn the moment a model with vision is left rather than at whatever later point the session row is fetched again.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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