- add build_engine() to astrai.inference.engine as the single load-place-wire path for InferenceEngine, accepting a checkpoint path or live model/tokenizer plus passthrough engine kwargs
- migrate the server lifespan, generate CLI, humaneval/ifeval evals, and all three demos to build_engine; app._create_engine collapses into a direct call
- export build_engine from astrai and astrai.inference
- parameterize the autoregressive demo with --prompt one-shot continuation plus model path and sampling knobs, exiting cleanly on !exit or EOF
- cover the composition root with unit tests for live-object assembly, kwargs passthrough, and argument validation
- 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
- Propagate stream closure and stop-sequence termination into scheduler cancellation
- Defer active KV release to the scheduler owner and close metrics safely
- Expose lifecycle counters and cover waiting, active, and allocation-race cleanup
- 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
- extract preprocessing config factories into tests/data/factories.py
- keep conftest.py fixtures-only; stop importing builders from it
- promote temp_dir fixture to root conftest for cross-directory reuse
- unify duplicate BPE tokenizer builders into build_test_tokenizer
- merge grpo/dpo online e2e tests into one parametrized integration test
- extract engine mock factory and shared model batch builders
- drop local tempfile usage in favor of shared fixtures
No behavior change: 519 tests pass.