- extract shared helpers for dataset writers, scheduler construction, thread interleaving, hf roundtrips, and moe configs
- remove about 20 cases whose only assertions were format checks, restated declarations, fake-taxonomy duplicates, or test-local scaffolding
- strengthen weak cases into exact reference comparisons, positional mask checks, and deterministic outcomes
- replace two schedule factory smoke tests with cosine/sgdr formula assertions
- delete root-level CLI tests whose merge-priority facts are covered by tests/config/test_cli.py
- suite shrinks from 857 to 826 items; ruff format, import order, and pytest all green
- Convert protocol and MoE test classes to plain functions
- Add real server/engine integration and generate_async tests
- Isolate test model per test and use pytest tmp_path
- Reset FastAPI engine state after inference tests
- Fix generate_async StopIteration handling on Python 3.12
- Fix HF adapter MoE dense/shared and Gemma qk_norm mapping
- Correct dev dependency httpx2 to httpx
- Eliminate core/ directory into cache/, runtime/, network/ subpackages plus flat modules
- Split cache.py (647 lines) into cache/{buffer,strategy,pool}.py by layer
- Add explicit ContiguousStrategy, make AllocationStrategy a real ABC
- Move TaskCacheState to cache/strategy.py, drop string forward references
- Rename api/ to network/, server.py to app.py
- Move sample.py into runtime/ alongside executor and graph
- Simplify TaskCacheManager.__init__ to single pool param
- Expose pool.strategy and pool.req_pool as public properties
- Fix KVCache import in attention_backend.py (TYPE_CHECKING guard)
- Fix steady-state decode reading uninitialized position_ids on first step
- merge _generate_streaming/_generate_non_streaming into single _generate() with stream flag
- delete dead GenerationRequest class and generate_with_request method
- inline _next_token helper into generate_async
- replace flash-attn double-checked locking with functools.lru_cache
- extract _write_and_gather_kv helper shared by TorchNative/FlashAttn backends
- inline _kv_cache_is_contiguous into its sole call site in FlashAttnBackend
- change default backend priority from flash>cuda>torch to cuda>flash>torch
- add ASTR_BACKEND env var to override default backend at resolve time
- add supports_graph() static method to AttentionBackend ABC, override in CudaBackend
- replace isinstance(get_backend(), CudaBackend) with get_backend().supports_graph() in executor
- add torch.cuda.is_available() guard to CudaBackend.supports()