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How to prepare a Flash-Next pack for the strata engine with Unbiased Strata

Build the pack directory and MTP draft directory once so the strata engine can serve Qwen3.8-Flash-Next.

Who it is forAn operator who wants the Flash-Next IQ3_XXS model served by strata and has the upstream GGUF shards on hand.

The problemThe strata engine needs a pack directory and a draft directory that are not made by the front end, and the steps are easy to get wrong.

The outcomeA pack directory and MTP draft directory ready to pass to strata through the --pack and --mtp options.

What you need first

  • Linux x86-64 machine with one NVIDIA GPU (Pascal or newer) and CUDA 12.x
  • git and a C++ build toolchain able to run make build
  • GGUF model files copied to the machine by hand, since the fork does not download them
  • Optional: the mmproj projector file from the same repository as the model, for picture input

Steps

  1. Install the Python tool requirements listed in tools/requirements.txt (numpy and regex), with gguf-py from the submodule.
  2. Run python tools/iq_pack.py --gguf --out with your GGUF path and output directory (add --compat-bf16 for Unsloth files).
  3. Copy the published MTP directory from https://huggingface.co/robertkarl/UnbiasedStrataPacks instead of fetching and quantizing it, or run STRATA_SOURCE=huggingface python tools/mtp_fetch.py fetch --out.
  4. Run python tools/mtp_pack.py --src --experts q2_0 --out /mtp-q2_0.gguf and python tools/mtp_rt.py --gguf /mtp-q2_0.gguf --out /rt, then cp data/draft_vocab.bin /rt/draft_vocab.bin.

Prompt for your agent

In the UnbiasedStrata repo at <repo-path>, prepare the Flash-Next pack from the GGUF shard at <gguf-path> and report the output directory and its file list. Verify that draft_vocab.bin is present in the MTP directory before reporting success.

Caveat. The README's commands leave some arguments blank, so fill in the paths yourself, and the published MTP files are the ones the author hashed, so check your copy against the listed hashes.

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