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From: kxkm <kxkm@kxkm-ai.tailde1d6.ts.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 09:41:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add CLAUDE.md

Build commands, distributed flags, conventions.
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+# CLAUDE.md
+
+This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.
+
+## What This Is
+
+Distributed llama.cpp fork — ring-topology pipeline parallelism for 70B+ LLM inference across heterogeneous home clusters. 15x faster than vanilla llama.cpp on large models. Uses ZeroMQ for comms, HiGHS for workload optimization, BitSqueeze for compression.
+
+## Build
+
+```bash
+# Makefile (preferred)
+make -j$(nproc)                              # basic
+make USE_HIGHS=1 -j$(nproc)                 # rank 0 (head device, required for scheduler)
+make GGML_CUDA=1 -j$(nproc)                 # with GPU
+make GGML_CUDA=1 USE_HIGHS=1 -j$(nproc)     # rank 0 + GPU
+make LLAMA_DEBUG=1 -j$(nproc)               # debug build
+
+# CMake alternative
+cmake -B build && cmake --build build -j$(nproc)
+cd build && ctest                            # tests
+```
+
+## Run
+
+```bash
+# Single device (degrades to llama.cpp)
+./llama-cli -m model.gguf -c 1024 -p "prompt" -n 256 -ngl 30
+
+# Distributed ring
+./llama-cli -m model.gguf --world N --rank R --master IP --next NEXT_IP --prefetch [--gpu-mem GB]
+
+# Server mode (rank 0 only, OpenAI-compatible)
+./llama-server -m model.gguf --world 2 --rank 0 --master IP --next IP --prefetch --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080
+
+# Profiling
+./profile-tool -m model.gguf
+```
+
+## Where to Look
+
+| Task | Location |
+|------|----------|
+| Core inference + networking | `src/` — llama.cpp, network-utils.cpp |
+| Public headers | `include/` — llama.h, zmq.hpp, Highs.h, bitsqueeze.h, profiler.h |
+| GGML tensor library | `ggml/` |
+| Example binaries | `examples/` — main, server, speculative, perplexity, batched |
+| Tests | `tests/` — CTest |
+| Python model conversion | `gguf-py/`, convert scripts at root |
+| Models | `models/` (~19GB) |
+
+## Fork-Specific Flags
+
+`--world`, `--rank`, `--master`, `--next`, `--prefetch`, `--force`, `--gpu-mem`, `--data-port` (9000), `--signal-port` (10000), `--keep-out-in-cuda`, `-lw`/`--n-layer-window`, `--splits`
+
+## Conventions
+
+- Focus: distributed inference optimization, especially networking (send/recv compression)
+- Fork-specific changes must be documented in `CHANGES.md`
+- Capture new flags and compatibility notes
+- Python scripts: Poetry-managed (`pyproject.toml`), Python >=3.9