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Outcome

Make Nemotron 3.5 Super VL NVFP4 + MTP the default for new single-DGX-Station installations. Keep Ultra available explicitly and retain Ultra for paired Stations. Existing running installations are not migrated.

Reason

Merged PR #13279 delivered the integration with its preset disabled. This follow-up enables selection and updates the separate Express installer default, including reboot resume and topology discovery.

Related issues

Refs #12492. Follows #13279.

Changes

  • Enable the existing pinned Super VL recipe as an experimental automatic single-Station preset; preserve the image, checkpoint, template, authentication, media restrictions, and reviewed-code verification.
  • Respect explicit Ultra/DeepSeek choices and preserve paired-Station Ultra and Spark behavior.
  • Distinguish an unresolved platform menu default from an already materialized fixed recipe so choosing another model does not fail the fixed-command guard. Native installer regression tests cover both default and explicit Super VL selection.
  • Update default-selection, reboot-resume, storage, and Station smoke-test fixtures. Preserve exact command/model identity, timeout, ownership, and cleanup checks. The smoke requests an 8,192-token output budget for the thinking-enabled recipe.
  • Update the release record to distinguish historical Station results from this candidate's pending live qualification.
  • Preserve the verified catalog identity when vLLM reports the guarded launcher's temporary snapshot path. Unmanaged endpoints and mismatched receipts still fail Station intent binding.
  • Derive unattended OpenClaw image inputs from the existing model catalog. Explicit input overrides and interactive choices remain unchanged.

Verification

  • On 5a478b3ed0177ee19ec1878bf8c883854b1913b4, npx vitest run --project cli src/lib/inference/vllm src/lib/inference/serving src/lib/inference/local-vllm-auth.test.ts src/lib/inference/vllm-managed-recovery.test.ts src/lib/onboard/setup-nim-vllm.test.ts src/lib/onboard/inference-input-capability.test.ts src/lib/onboard/station-express-resume.test.ts src/lib/state/onboard-session-station-express.test.ts src/lib/onboard/machine/handlers/provider-inference-station-express.test.ts --project integration test/inference/managed/super-vl-catalog.test.ts test/automation/pull-requests/growth-guardrails.test.ts test/onboarding/detect-vllm-profile.test.ts --project installer-integration test/installer-integration/install-express-noninteractive.test.ts test/installer-integration/install-express-prompt.test.ts test/installer-integration/install-station-pair-preparation.test.ts test/installer-integration/install-station-controller-binding.test.ts --project e2e-support test/e2e/support/dgx-station-express.test.ts — 60 files passed; 1,639 tests passed, 1 existing Darwin skip (the setsid no-controlling-TTY case).
  • CLI TypeScript check with an 8 GiB heap: passed.
  • Changed TypeScript lint/format checks, shell syntax, and git diff --check: passed.
  • Normal commit hooks, publication validation, and CLI TypeScript publication checks passed through a credential-isolated wrapper. No hooks were bypassed. GitHub verified all three repair commits.
  • Diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials. No dependency or image pin changed.

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Not yet merge-ready. The single-Station default Accept decision records scope and ownership; it does not waive qualification or independent approval.

The clean-host Station Express test passed on 847b239e3ca1362a4c1b0a34a7cd32a3490ab8e4: automatic Super VL selection, authenticated model startup, managed OpenClaw sandbox delivery, routed inference, and cleanup. Cleanup used the canonical ownership-checked fallback to remove the test's orphan OpenClaw state volume. The original demo containers and model health were restored. This was a focused local Station test, not the full GitHub E2E matrix.

On 5a478b3ed0177ee19ec1878bf8c883854b1913b4, the complete local Station run passed in 1,023 seconds. Fresh Express onboarding, native OpenClaw main file/image tests, stop/start, and rebuild passed. The same run then installed an npm archive of the candidate and used that installed CLI for onboarding, file/image tests, and another rebuild. Eight agent turns made 29 successful tool calls, zero tool failures, and no model fallback. Independent checks verified zero, one, and two trailing newlines and file persistence. Cleanup passed, using the canonical ownership-checked fallback for the test's orphan state volume.

No manual agent overrides were applied. Both installation paths generated text-and-image input, 49,152 context tokens, 4,096 output tokens, Tool Search disabled, and the generic client defaults (thinkingDefault: off, reasoning: false). The server still reported reasoning tokens. The default tool set was available (37 tools initially, 38 after rebuild); the exercised tools were write, read, and edit. Generated settings survived rebuild.

The installed npm archive was not a source symlink, had no Git checkout, and reported the tested commit in dist/build-identity.json. No package files were supplemented. Archive SHA-256: c7567525d7d4eb2cb87c448ef68652f42d817c58c16dc5ea5d6582b9f1ccec48. Packaged onboarding used the prepared host and retained managed model; it was not a second empty-host bootstrap. The managed sandbox image came from the independently published d1c1843147ba40a7d67c1a48affbba7c899010d9 cohort, digest sha256:f79b0973b0572db7efafef54e1bec12ad8f735136d793835919f3ad1847caa18. The recipe's public vLLM image and checkpoint pins were unchanged. Evidence is retained under default-agent-vKIypM in the private Station qualification records. These local results do not establish hosted CI or review approval.

Historical hardware evidence at cb8f90438e362659b4a14f4b2ad9f66769c74b4d covers native recipe installation, authentication/recovery/restart, direct endpoint tests, and full-tool OpenClaw file/image flows on the final public image. That OpenClaw run explicitly disabled Tool Search and configured serial tool calls. It is not evidence that the new default onboarding path supplies those settings. The development npm package's fallback sandbox-build failure remains unresolved; a source-checkout onboarding pass does not fix it. The denied-local-media HTTP 500 vs 400 mismatch is unchanged and outside this PR.

Sensitive paths: scripts/install.sh, the Super VL model/preset/release record under managed-inference/, and the changed src/lib/inference/ and src/lib/onboard/ runtime/tests. Self-review covers selection, explicit overrides, reboot persistence, paired topology, fixed-command restrictions, verified receipt identity, and generated image inputs. Canonical comparison base: 31f972d1f0f42a2657df56550c919833f4d6481e. The model-code, authentication, and network restrictions remain enforced. Rebecca, Senthil, and CodeRabbit reviewed 921341529; independent review of the repairs remains required. No approval or waiver is claimed. scripts/prepare-dgx-station-host.sh is unchanged.

The live test remains the existing dgx-station-express case: its real boundaries are native installer execution, managed Docker command identity, routed inference, and owned cleanup on a clean Station. Deterministic selection and helper validation stay in the mapped fast tests. No live assertion or cleanup ownership predicate was removed.


Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas prekshiv@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now the experimental default for new single-DGX-Station Express installations, with an approximately 75 GB download.
    • Explicit Ultra and DeepSeek selections remain available. Qualified dual-Station setups continue to use distributed Ultra, and Spark configurations are unchanged.
    • Setup can identify image-input support for recognized multimodal models without prompting during unattended installation.
    • Existing installations are not migrated automatically.
  • Documentation
    • Updated setup guidance to describe the single-Station Super VL default and dual-Station Ultra requirements.

Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
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DGX Station Express now defaults to Nemotron 3.5 Super VL for new single-Station installs. Explicit model choices remain available. The changes update pair discovery and resume behavior, runtime selection, onboarding identity handling, release records, and related tests.

Changes: Station Super VL default

Layer / File(s) Summary
Catalog qualification and release state
managed-inference/models/*, managed-inference/presets/*, managed-inference/recipes/*, test/inference/managed/super-vl-catalog.test.ts
The preset is experimental, hardware-validated, and automatically selectable on qualified Station hardware. The release record describes the default-selection scope, qualification evidence, and remaining gates.
Express model selection and resume
scripts/install.sh, test/installer-integration/install-express-noninteractive.test.ts, test/installer-integration/install-express-prompt.test.ts, test/installer-integration/install-station-pair-preparation.test.ts, test/installer-integration/install-station-controller-binding.test.ts
Station Express selects Super VL when no peer is explicitly configured. Implicit selection remains eligible for pair discovery and is saved as auto for resume. Explicit selections remain unchanged.
vLLM model and install handling
src/lib/inference/vllm*.ts, src/lib/inference/vllm*.test.ts
Station’s arm64 default changes to Super VL. Tests cover explicit model selection, Spark rejection, native installation, and storage checks. Fixed-command classification now considers automatic runtime variants.
Onboarding model identity and capability
src/lib/inference/local.ts, src/lib/inference/serving/vllm-host-local-lifecycle.ts, src/lib/onboard/inference-input-capability.ts, src/lib/onboard/setup-nim-vllm.ts, related tests
Host-local recovery carries validated serving metadata into provider bindings. Onboarding uses that metadata to validate model identity and sets multimodal input capability for recognized models in non-interactive mode.
Station and Express validation
test/e2e/docs/dgx-station-dispatch.md, test/e2e/live/dgx-express.test.ts, test/e2e/mock-parity.json, test/e2e/support/dgx-station-express*, test/onboarding/detect-vllm-profile.test.ts
Station smoke and Express test expectations now target Super VL. The smoke request uses an 8192-token limit and disables parallel tool calls.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Installer as install.sh
  participant Configure as configure_station_express_model
  participant Pair as ensure_station_express_pair
  participant Receipt as resume receipt
  Installer->>Configure: Resolve Express model selection
  Configure-->>Installer: Return selected model and intent
  Installer->>Pair: Prepare pair and discover topology
  Pair-->>Installer: Return pair availability
  opt Implicit Super VL selection
    Installer->>Receipt: Save selector as auto
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Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/NemoClaw#8399: Introduced the host-local vLLM lifecycle that this PR extends to recover serving metadata.
  • NVIDIA/NemoClaw#13279: Added the Super VL model and Station preset that this PR changes to experimental automatic selection.

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Suggested reviewers: ericksoa, sandl99

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COMMENT for commit 921341529f54ab98cfd35b60eb589bec404f8ddc against base d1c1843147ba40a7d67c1a48affbba7c899010d9.

I found no blocking defect in the reviewed code paths. The change preserves explicit Ultra and DeepSeek choices, paired-Station Ultra, existing-install behavior, bearer authentication, immutable model and image identity, reviewed-code verification, fixed serving arguments after recipe materialization, topology discovery across reboot, and owned E2E cleanup.

I cannot approve this revision yet:

  • Product scope is not accepted for this default change. The linked October 15 decision explicitly says not to change the Station default and requires a separate reviewed default-selection decision. The release record refers to a subsequent maintainer request but does not link an auditable Accept record. Record the reason, placement, accountable maintainer, and validation plan in the linked issue or design decision before approval.
  • The exact-head installer integration job fails at install-station-controller-binding.test.ts:452. The legacy-single-head path correctly retains Ultra, but the production message now says using single-Station model nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b while the test expects using the existing single-Station Ultra recipe. This appears mechanical: update the expectation or preserve the legacy wording, then rerun the job.
  • The PR Review Advisor has not published an exact-head E2E recommendation. The PR already identifies dgx-station-express as the required clean-host qualification, and no run for this commit is available. That run must cover the automatic default and generated agent settings on 9213415 before approval.
  • Required CI and CodeQL are still running. The earlier growth-guardrail failure was a 10-second hook timeout; later exact-head growth-guardrail runs passed, so I do not treat it as PR-attributable.

Security review:

  • PASS: secrets and credentials, input validation and data sanitization, authentication and authorization, error handling and logging, cryptography and data protection, and configuration safety.
  • WARNING: dependencies use the unchanged digest-pinned public ARM64 vLLM nightly and revision-bound reviewed model code. Security testing and system security remain contingent on CodeQL and clean-host Station qualification for the automatic activation path.
  • FAIL: none.

This is a contingent review, not an approval. If the scope decision is recorded, the test failure is repaired, exact-head CI and Advisor-selected E2E evidence pass, and the head remains unchanged, I see no other blocker in the current diff.

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@rsliter — I approve making Super VL the default for new single DGX Station installations, with Ultra retained as an explicit option and the paired-Station default. I am the accountable maintainer for this scope.

Decision: Accept. The auditable default-selection decision is now recorded on #12492, including reason, placement, ownership, compatibility/security boundaries, and validation requirements. It supersedes the earlier exclusion of a Station-default change for this PR only.

This resolves the product-scope decision, not the remaining approval gates. Candidate 921341529f54ab98cfd35b60eb589bec404f8ddc was attempted on the clean Station test environment, but installation stopped at OS preflight on an existing failed sssd-pam.socket, before Super VL installation. Fresh-default onboarding and generated OpenClaw settings are therefore still unqualified. The installer-test expectation repair, required CI, and Advisor/E2E evidence remain required; no waiver or merge approval is being claimed.

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Commit under review: 921341529f54ab98cfd35b60eb589bec404f8ddc against base d1c1843147ba40a7d67c1a48affbba7c899010d9. CHANGES_REQUESTED. The accepted scope decision permits this bounded single-Station default, with qualification before merge.

  1. The automatic default has not passed its required Station qualification. The candidate's clean-Station attempt stopped at the existing failed sssd-pam.socket during OS preflight, before model installation. The accepted decision requires a candidate-bound Express install that checks the automatic choice, generated OpenClaw settings, routed inference, and lifecycle cleanup. Complete that qualification on the commit proposed for merge. The historical native recipe and manually configured OpenClaw run do not establish the new default-onboarding path. The alternative is to keep automatic selection disabled until qualification is available.
  2. The exact-commit test suite fails on two stale expectations. The installer integration job fails at test/installer-integration/install-station-controller-binding.test.ts:452: the legacy Ultra path prints using single-Station model nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b, while the test expects the former wording. CLI shard 8 fails at test/onboarding/detect-vllm-profile.test.ts:48: the Station default now resolves to the pinned Super VL vLLM image, while the test expects the former Ultra image. Update these expectations to preserve their intended behavior checks, then rerun the applicable required checks.

Initial code inspection found the explicit model choices, pair discovery across reboot, and fixed recipe command guard in place. I am completing the remaining security, documentation, and cross-issue review. This review does not establish required-CI eligibility or merge approval.

Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
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Additional validation finding on commit 921341529f54ab98cfd35b60eb589bec404f8ddc: test/e2e/support/dgx-station-express.ts:398-427 sends a direct curl request from the sandbox and supplies max_tokens and parallel_tool_calls itself. It does not inspect the generated OpenClaw configuration or send a request through the OpenClaw agent. A passing dgx-station-express smoke would therefore establish routed endpoint behavior, but it would not satisfy the accepted decision's generated-OpenClaw-settings requirement.

Please provide candidate-bound fresh-Express evidence that checks the effective generated OpenClaw settings and exercises the agent with those settings, or extend the Station qualification to do so. Record the packaged sandbox-delivery result as required by the release record. The prior OpenClaw run used manual settings and cannot fill this gap.

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The default-agent and packaged-CLI qualification requested in review now passes on 5a478b3ed0177ee19ec1878bf8c883854b1913b4.

  • Fresh single-Station Express installation selected Super VL automatically and delivered the managed OpenClaw sandbox.
  • The generated main agent used text/image inputs, 49,152 context tokens, 4,096 output tokens, and Tool Search disabled. No manual agent overrides were applied.
  • Source and installed-npm-package paths completed eight agent turns with 29 successful write/read/edit calls, zero tool failures, and no model fallback. Independent checks verified image ordering and exact file bytes, including trailing newlines.
  • Stop/start and both source/package rebuilds preserved files and generated settings. Packaged onboarding used the already prepared host and managed model; the archive was not a checkout symlink and received no supplemental files.
  • Test cleanup passed. The original demo containers and model health were restored afterward.

The tested CLI is this PR's commit. The ARM64 managed sandbox came from the independently published d1c1843 cohort; the public vLLM image and checkpoint pins are unchanged. This proves the managed-image package path, not the historical fallback Docker-build path. The PR description records the image/archive identities and test scope.

The repairs also fix the two stale CI assertions, retain verified model identity through the reviewed snapshot launcher, and supply catalog-declared image inputs during unattended OpenClaw onboarding. Local regression results: 1,639 passed, one existing Darwin skip. Normal publication hooks passed; all three repair commits are GitHub-verified.

New hosted CI and automated review are still running. This is test evidence, not a request to waive checks or dismiss the existing human reviews.

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Approved for commit 5a478b3ed0177ee19ec1878bf8c883854b1913b4 as an independent code review. The repair commits align both stale Station-default test expectations, preserve the reviewed checkpoint identity through the verified host-local serving receipt, and derive unattended image inputs from the catalog. I found no new critical security or correctness issue in the changed paths.

The accepted #12492 decision covers this bounded default. The author's exact-commit Station qualification receipt reports automatic Express selection, generated OpenClaw settings, agent-routed text/image and file operations, packaged CLI onboarding, rebuild, and owned cleanup. This addresses my prior qualification request.

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PR Review Advisor finished for commit 5a478b3. Include the Advisor findings in the complete PR feedback collection. Verify and group valid findings before repair.

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Advisor disposition for 5a478b3

All nine reports from run 38839794036, attempt 1, have been collected and read. Artifact digests and candidate provenance were verified. Six reports are clear; three contain findings.

Prekshi directed us to defer findings that can safely be follow-ups. On that basis, no source change is proposed for these three findings:

  • Architecture ownership: the installer and catalog both select Super VL today. The finding describes divergence after a future catalog-default change, not a mismatch in this candidate. Consolidating that ownership is a follow-up. It must retain pair discovery, resume behavior, and explicit selections.
  • Delivery metadata: two Station workflow descriptions still name Ultra. The actual smoke selects and checks Super VL; these descriptions do not select the model or change test execution. Correct the coverage descriptions in a follow-up. Until then, use the candidate-bound Super VL receipt linked below, not these stale descriptions, to identify the tested model.
  • Public documentation: the Station guides still describe Ultra as the default. Defer this to the repository's Docs / Author Post-Merge Catch-Up path. The required correction is: new single Station -> Super VL; paired Station and explicit Ultra selection -> Ultra; no migration of existing installations. This also covers the command reference, prompt asset, and release entry identified by Advisor.

The final-candidate Station evidence is recorded at #13295 (comment). It covers fresh Express installation, the generated default OpenClaw agent, installed npm package onboarding, image/file tools, restart, rebuild, cleanup, and restoration. Main CI and security checks passed. Senthil approved this commit; CodeRabbit has no remaining actionable finding.

This disposition does not change Advisor's result or waive a required check. Advisor remains failed on these three findings. Image/runtime and self-hosted qualification checks are still running. No merge, check override, human-review dismissal, or rerun was performed.

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## Outcome

Station Express leaves automatic single-Station model selection to the
serving catalog, which selects Super VL NVFP4. Explicit choices,
qualified-pair Ultra, legacy Ultra preservation, and reboot-resume
intent remain unchanged.

## Reason

[PR #13295](#13295) made Super VL
the single-Station default. The installer still duplicated that
selection, and some documentation named older defaults. This follow-up
addresses the three deferred findings [recorded on the parent
PR](#13295 (comment)).

## Changes

- Leave automatic selectors unset until the catalog or qualified-pair
decision selects a recipe. Persist `auto` across reboot resume.
- Preserve explicit selections, legacy Ultra workloads, pair
qualification, and refusal paths.
- Assert the upstream Super VL workflow descriptions through the
planner's output.
- Correct the vLLM guides, model-selector reference, and generated
provider tables.
- Resolve conflicts with main
`876e20ef733444b3a9c141242c84e1f16b6a7722`. Preserve upstream workflow
validation, input-modality guidance, native-local inference changes, and
platform prompt assets. All three prompt links retain upstream's
immutable revision `2593269511c4c850a60cb2423a436be1f2fb9da9`.

No model weights, runtime pins, recipe arguments, host-preparation
behavior, live E2E assertions, or support status change. Super VL
remains Experimental. No new selection mechanism or configuration state
is added.

## Verification

Candidate: `024115d9a85ed376c529d942166db7dcf698177e`.

- `npm run build:cli` — passed.
- The following suite — **1,168 passed, one existing skip across 44
files**. It covers installer selection and resume, explicit choices,
pair handling, controller ordering, catalog resolution, fixed recipes,
workflow descriptions, and the full generation suite.

```sh
node_modules/.bin/vitest run \
  --project installer-integration --project e2e-support --project cli --project integration \
  test/installer-integration/install-express-noninteractive.test.ts \
  test/installer-integration/install-express-prompt.test.ts \
  test/installer-integration/install-station-pair-preparation.test.ts \
  test/installer-integration/install-station-controller-binding.test.ts \
  test/e2e/support/dgx-station-workflow-boundary.test.ts \
  src/lib/inference/vllm-models.test.ts \
  src/lib/inference/vllm-runtime-selection.test.ts \
  src/lib/inference/vllm-fixed-catalog-install.test.ts \
  test/inference/managed/super-vl-catalog.test.ts \
  test/generation
```

- `npm run docs` — passed, zero errors and two warnings. Checked the
generated OpenClaw, Hermes, and Deep Agents guides.
- Git-blob comparison and SHA-256 checks — all three platform prompt
assets match their pinned content byte-for-byte.
- `bash -n scripts/install.sh` and diff whitespace checks — passed.
- Normal signed-commit hooks — passed. A formatter changed one
assertion's wrapping; its nine tests passed again before committing.
- Normal pre-push hooks — publication validation and CLI TypeScript
checks passed. Unchanged plugin and JavaScript checks were skipped by
normal path selection.
- Tests and hooks use a clean environment and a filesystem boundary
denying credential reads. Local tests also deny external network access.
- The reviewed diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials; the
normal secret-scanning hook passed.
- [Main CI for this
candidate](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/38854900105)
passed, including all 12 CLI shards and static checks. Required PR
checks are green.

## Review notes

Compared with canonical main `876e20ef733444b3a9c141242c84e1f16b6a7722`,
the sensitive changed path is `scripts/install.sh`. Local self-review
covered the complete diff and adjacent selection/resume paths.
CodeRabbit completed its review of `024115d9a` with no actionable
comments. All nine [current Advisor specialist
reports](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/38856630789)
succeeded and reported no findings; the no-blockers gate passed.
Independent human approval remains required.

On prior commit `74d722cd73424b7d1bb50d77d0cd2eff65617059`, main CI
passed and CodeRabbit reported no blocking code finding. Its substring
suggestion is incorporated into the conflicting documentation test.

All nine [Advisor specialist
reports](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/38853230457)
were collected. Eight were clear. The documentation finding claimed the
old prompt pin lacked Super VL guidance, but [the pinned Station
asset](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/blob/1da4f9270377dd1760f76d4fbf2a59ece23adbba/docs/resources/prompt-assets/dgx-station.md)
already contains the new-install Super VL, qualified-pair Ultra, and
legacy Ultra rules. The authenticated contents API and local Git agree
on blob `f4725b1e2ae9e7dc2c8e10d1a5d95d684a83b581`. The merge now
retains upstream's newer, byte-matched prompt asset and pin. No review
was dismissed or check weakened.

No fresh live Station qualification is claimed for this follow-up. The
parent's hardware evidence is not relabeled as testing this commit.
Advisor live-test suggestions remain recommendations, not completed
evidence.

The unchanged candidate has completed required CI and automated review
and is ready for human review. The optional [managed-image
workflow](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/actions/runs/38854900121)
still has three all-agent activation jobs running; no failure is
observed, and those pending jobs are not claimed as passed.

---
Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>

<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
-->
## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* DGX Station installs now select a model based on available topology:
new single-Station installs use the catalog’s Experimental Nemotron 3.5
Super VL default, while a qualified two-Station pair selects distributed
Nemotron Ultra.
* Existing single-Station Ultra workloads stay on Ultra, and explicit
model choices remain authoritative.
* **Documentation**
* Updated setup guidance covers model options, pair qualification, and
the approximate 75 GB Super VL download.
* **Tests**
* Expanded coverage for automatic model selection, Station-pair
qualification, and installer resume behavior.
<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->

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Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
@wscurran wscurran added area: providers Inference provider integrations and provider behavior area: security Security controls, permissions, secrets, or hardening feature PR adds or expands user-visible functionality integration: openclaw OpenClaw integration behavior platform: dgx-station Affects DGX Station hardware or workflows labels Oct 26, 2026
@wscurran wscurran added the provider: vllm vLLM local or hosted provider behavior label Oct 26, 2026
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