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Part of #569 — adds pinned-revision support to the server-cache metadata fallback.

The engine's revision previously reached the prefetch hook but stopped there. The server returned its default revision, while the engine later looked up the revision it had requested and failed offline with LocalEntryNotFoundError.

This change preserves the requested revision through the client pipeline:

  • EnsureModelDownloaded receives the engine's revision.
  • ListModelFiles and StreamModelFiles receive the immutable commit resolved by the server, preventing a moving branch or tag from mixing commits mid-phase.
  • A server that does not confirm a requested revision fails the install rather than silently installing its default.

Cache layout

Engine requested Result
no revision snapshots/<commit>/ + refs/main
lowercase 40-hex SHA snapshots/<commit>/, no ref
branch, tag, or uppercase SHA snapshots/<commit>/ + refs/<requested revision>

This follows huggingface_hub's cache rule: a lowercase full commit SHA resolves directly by snapshot directory; other revision strings resolve through refs/.

The ref belongs to the request, not the snapshot. Therefore it is also written when an existing snapshot is reused: a commit previously installed under its own SHA has no ref, but a later branch or uppercase-SHA request resolving to that commit still needs one for offline resolution.

Pins other than main leave refs/main untouched, so installing an older revision cannot redirect later unpinned resolution. An explicit revision=main correctly updates refs/main, because that is the ref Hugging Face uses to resolve that branch.

The in-process prefetch record is now keyed by (repo_id, revision), so requests for two revisions of the same model do not reuse each other's snapshot.

_warn_on_revision_mismatch is removed: the client can now request the revision instead of only warning that it cannot.

Not in scope: MX_MODEL_REVISION remains a P2P source-identity label. It accepts arbitrary strings and does not select or pin a Hugging Face revision; use the engine's own revision setting for that.

Validation

  • uv run --no-sync pytest tests/test_hf_snapshot_prefetch_patch.py tests/test_model_prefetch.py tests/test_model_client.py tests/test_model_snapshot.py tests/test_server_cache_strategy.py
    • 198 passed
  • Added coverage for revision forwarding, branch/tag and uppercase-SHA refs, offline resolution, reuse-path ref creation, preservation of refs/main, rejection of an unconfirmed or mismatched commit pin, and separate in-process installs for separate revisions.

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Walkthrough

The model cache now supports revision-aware Hugging Face downloads. Metadata installation validates server-confirmed revisions, prefetch state tracks revisions, snapshots record revision-specific refs, and commit-pinned snapshots resolve directly without relying on refs/main.

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Revision-aware model cache

Layer / File(s) Summary
Revision-specific snapshot storage
modelexpress_client/python/modelexpress/model_snapshot.py, modelexpress_client/python/tests/test_model_snapshot.py
Snapshot publication now writes validated refs for requested revisions. Commit-pinned snapshots skip ref creation and resolve directly from complete snapshot directories. Tests cover branch, commit, offline, and unsafe-ref cases.
Revision-aware installation and reuse
modelexpress_client/python/modelexpress/model_client.py, modelexpress_client/python/modelexpress/model_prefetch.py, modelexpress_client/python/tests/test_model_client.py, modelexpress_client/python/tests/test_model_prefetch.py, docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, docs/DEPLOYMENT.md
Metadata installation forwards and validates requested revisions. Cache reuse records refs, prefetch state is keyed by repository and revision, and documentation describes the revised server-backed flow. Tests cover propagation, mismatch rejection, reuse, and deduplication.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0410e

Revision pinning and cache-reference handling are validated, while the remaining concern is limited to redundant in-process bookkeeping with no user-visible correctness impact. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

Poem

A rabbit hops through refs so neat,
Pins each snapshot, branch, and commit.
refs/main stays safe and still,
While cached revisions fit the bill.
Offline paths now know where to sit.

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modelexpress_client/python/modelexpress/model_prefetch.py (1)

41-42: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider collapsing _installed and _revision_snapshots into one map.

Both containers are written together at Lines 99-101 and cleared together in reset(). Membership in _installed is therefore always equivalent to a key in _revision_snapshots. One map removes the invariant that the two containers must stay in sync.

♻️ Proposed refactor
-_installed: set[tuple[str, str | None]] = set()
-_revision_snapshots: dict[tuple[str, str | None], str] = {}
+_revision_snapshots: dict[tuple[str, str | None], str] = {}

Then in ensure_metadata:

-        if (repo_id, requested) in _installed:
+        if (repo_id, requested) in _revision_snapshots:
             # Later calls in the same process (tokenizer, processor) resolve
             # from the snapshot the first call installed.
             return _known_snapshot(repo_id, requested)
@@
-        _installed.add((repo_id, requested))
         _snapshot_to_repo_id[_normalize(snapshot_path)] = repo_id
         _revision_snapshots[(repo_id, requested)] = _normalize(snapshot_path)

And in reset:

         _snapshot_to_repo_id.clear()
-        _installed.clear()
         _revision_snapshots.clear()
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In `@modelexpress_client/python/modelexpress/model_prefetch.py` around lines 41 -
42, Replace the parallel _installed set and _revision_snapshots map with a
single map keyed by the existing tuple, storing each metadata revision snapshot.
Update ensure_metadata to use map membership and retrieve the stored revision,
and update reset to clear this unified map while preserving current behavior.

Apply the same fix in `@modelexpress_client/python/modelexpress/model_prefetch.py`
around lines 149 - 155.
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In `@modelexpress_client/python/modelexpress/model_prefetch.py`:
- Around line 41-42: Replace the parallel _installed set and _revision_snapshots
map with a single map keyed by the existing tuple, storing each metadata
revision snapshot. Update ensure_metadata to use map membership and retrieve the
stored revision, and update reset to clear this unified map while preserving
current behavior.

Apply the same fix in `@modelexpress_client/python/modelexpress/model_prefetch.py`
around lines 149 - 155.

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@scydas scydas changed the title feat(client): honour the engine's pinned revision feat(client): support the engine's pinned revision Aug 19, 2026
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scydas force-pushed the feat/pin-metadata-revision branch from 0410e34 to 6b62f2a Compare August 20, 2026 02:19
The engine's revision reached the prefetch and stopped there: it was
logged as a mismatch, never sent. The server answered with its default
revision, the snapshot landed under that commit, and the engine's own
lookup -- which asks for the revision it was configured with -- found
nothing and failed under HF_HUB_OFFLINE.

Ask the server for the revision the engine wants. What lands on disk is
then shaped by how the engine will look it up rather than by what the
server answered: snapshots/<commit>/ always, plus refs/<revision> when
the requested revision is not the commit hash itself. That is the rule
huggingface_hub applies to its own cache -- a lowercase 40-hex resolves
by directory name, anything else resolves through refs -- so branches,
tags and uppercase hashes work without a second mechanism.

The ref belongs to the request rather than to the snapshot, so it is
recorded on the reuse path too. A commit installed under its own hash
correctly leaves no ref behind, and a later request for a branch
resolving to that same commit would otherwise reuse the directory and
leave the engine unable to resolve one sitting complete on disk.

A pinned install leaves refs/main alone. The default revision is a
different question, and answering it with a pin would misdirect every
later unpinned resolution sharing the cache. Reuse of a pinned snapshot
looks at snapshots/<commit>/ directly, for the same reason.

Only the first call of a phase carries the engine's string; the manifest
and the stream carry the commit the server resolved it to, so a tag that
moves mid-phase cannot answer them from two different commits. A server
that confirms no revision fails the install rather than quietly serving
its default.

_warn_on_revision_mismatch goes away with the limitation it described.
The in-process install record is keyed by revision as well as repo id,
so a second revision of one model is a second install.

Part of ai-dynamo#569.

Signed-off-by: scyda <chenyang.shi@daocloud.io>

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three small things inline, none of them blocking.

# revision left no ref this one can be found by. Reuse skips
# publish(), so record it here or the engine's lookup fails
# against a directory that is sitting right there.
cache.write_revision_ref(revision, requested_revision)

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on the unpinned path this ends up rewriting a ref that's already correct. resolve_snapshot only returns non-None when read_main_ref() == expected_commit, so by the time we're here main already holds this value, and write_revision_ref -> write_main_ref -> write_ref does a temp file, an fsync, a rename and a directory fsync to land identical bytes.

the pinned path isn't the same - write_revision_ref does skip when requested_revision == commit_hash, and a genuinely new alias is a real write. so this is only about the unpinned reuse case. probably worth an early return when the ref already reads the same hash?

refs_root = self.repo_root / "refs"
_ensure_directory(refs_root, self.cache_root)
temp_ref = refs_root / f"{_TEMP_PREFIX}{uuid.uuid4().hex}"
ref_path = refs_root / safe_relative_path(ref_name)

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now that refs are published under refs/, a slash-bearing revision makes this a nested path, and safe_relative_path deliberately allows slashes so refs/pr/1 works. that leaves file-vs-directory collisions unhandled: if refs/foo already exists as a file and something later writes foo/bar, _ensure_directory's mkdir raises FileExistsError, and in the other order os.replace raises "Is a directory" on refs/foo.

both propagate as raw OSError out of install_metadata_snapshot rather than ModelSnapshotError, so a caller catching the library's own error type won't see it. test_rejects_unsafe_ref_names covers ../escape, /abs, "" and a/../b but not this case.

not sure how reachable it is in practice - depends whether a repo can have a branch foo and a branch foo/bar at once, which git does allow. up to you whether it's worth guarding.

_lock = threading.RLock()
_snapshot_to_repo_id: dict[str, str] = {}
_installed: set[str] = set()
_installed: set[tuple[str, str | None]] = set()

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_installed and _revision_snapshots have the same key domain, are added together at 99-101, cleared together at 148-149, and there's no path that touches one without the other. the only read of _installed at line 89 is equivalent to testing membership in _revision_snapshots, so _installed looks droppable.

_snapshot_to_repo_id is keyed differently and serves repo_id_for, so that one earns its keep.

Snapshot reuse asked write_ref to land bytes the ref already held:
resolve_snapshot matches only when refs/main points at the commit, so
reuse arrives with nothing to change and still paid a temp file, two
fsyncs and a rename. It now returns early when the ref reads the same
hash.

A revision is written under the name the engine asked for, and that
tree is flatter than git's: a tag foo and a branch foo/bar coexist
upstream but cannot both be refs/foo here. Left to the filesystem the
clash surfaced as a bare OSError -- FileExistsError from mkdir one way,
"Is a directory" from os.replace the other -- which a caller catching
ModelSnapshotError never saw. The names are checked against the layout
before the write, rather than converting OSError wholesale and hiding a
full disk behind the cache's own error type.

_installed carried no information _revision_snapshots did not; its only
read was a membership test on the same key.

Signed-off-by: scyda <chenyang.shi@daocloud.io>
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