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VertaLily Techina X: Student-Perfect Soil
FAS 1.0 Alignment | Architecture: vltx
Model Specifications
Architecture:vltx
Deployment: Optimized for ARM CPU and Higher Computations
VertaLily Benchmark
In comparative evaluation, Verta Lily‑1.2‑1B achieved superior performance in general knowledge (78 % ± 3) and oracle reasoning (74 % ± 4), surpassing larger baselines such as Gemma-4-E2B (google/gemma-4-E2B), Qwen3‑4B (Qwen/Qwen3-4B), and Microsoft Phi‑3‑mini (microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct), as well as the compact LFM2.5‑1.2B‑Instruct (LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct), with statistically significant margins (p < 0.05). Its compact 1 B architecture consistently delivered higher factual recall and logical coherence while maintaining quantization stability, translating into a normalized performance‑per‑cost score of 1.20 — the highest among all tested systems. This establishes Verta Lily as a benchmark‑efficient model, providing 20 % more usable reasoning per compute unit compared to peers.
When extended with inference‑side augmentation — specifically, real‑world knowledge retrieval and integrated web search — Verta Lily’s sovereign design demonstrates the ability to exceed even frontier‑scale models. Identity anchoring and behavioral stabilization ensure coherent reasoning, while retrieval‑augmented inference bridges factual gaps dynamically. This hybrid approach allows Verta Lily to combine the efficiency of small‑scale architectures with the adaptability of large‑scale systems, positioning it as a sustainable model for edge deployment, privacy‑centric applications, and academic research. The benchmark thus not only validates its baseline efficiency against both larger and compact baselines but also highlights it's potential to outperform frontier models when inference is coupled with external knowledge integration.
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Filename
Quantization
Bit Depth
Size
Best For
1
VertaLily-1.2-1B-Q3_K-stable.gguf
Q3_K (K-means variant)
~3.5 bits per weight
0.60 GB
Resource-constrained environments — mobile, Pi boards alike, edge devices, low-RAM systems, batch inference on CPU. Fastest inference, smallest memory footprint.
2
VertaLily-1.2-1B-Q4_K_M-stable.gguf
Q4_K_M (K-means medium)
~4.5 bits per weight
0.73 GB
Balanced sweet spot — great trade-off between speed, memory, and output quality. Ideal for most general use, local servers, and CPU inference where quality matters but resources aren't abundant.
3
VertaLily-1.2-1B-Q8_0-stable.gguf
Q8_0 (8-bit block-wise)
8 bits per weight
1.25 GB
Highest quality — closest to original precision. Best for GPU inference, quality-critical tasks, and when memory is not a constraint. Minimal quality loss from full precision.
VertaLily on iOS (iPhone / iPad)
You can run VertaLily models locally on your iPhone or iPad using LLM Farm or PocketPal — both free, offline-first apps that support GGUF models.
Requirements
iPhone or iPad with iOS 17+ (or iPadOS 17+)
At least 1.5 GB free storage (2 GB recommended)
Minimum 2 GB RAM (iPhone 12 or newer recommended)
Recommended App: LLM Farm
LLM Farm is a free, open-source app designed for running GGUF models locally on iOS.
1from openclaw import Agent
23agent = Agent(4 model_path="VertaLily-1.2-1B-Q4_K_M-stable.gguf",5 tools=["web_search","calculator","file_read"],6 max_iterations=57)89response = agent.run("What is the current weather and calculate 15% of 80?")10print(response)
CLI Agent Mode
python run_agent.py --model VertaLily-1.2-1B-Q4_K_M-stable.gguf --tools all
Hermes Agent Framework
Hermes provides a production-ready agent framework with API endpoints, memory, and multi-turn conversations.
1curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/agent/chat \2 -H "Content-Type: application/json"\3 -d '{"message": "Help me debug this Python script", "session_id": "user123"}'
Hermes with Custom Tools
python
1from hermes import Agent, tool
23@tool4deffetch_database(query:str)->str:5# Your custom logic here6returnf"Query result for: {query}"78agent = Agent(9 model_path="VertaLily-1.2-1B-Q8_0-stable.gguf",10 custom_tools=[fetch_database]11)
Inference Setup Plan
Sovereign Agent Setup: OpenClaw / Hermes + Open WebUI
This guide walks you through building a sovereign AI agent with persistent memory, web scraping capabilities, and a clean chat interface using Open WebUI.
Architecture Overview
[Open Web UI] ←→ [OpenClaw or Hermes Agent] ←→ [Model: VertaLily-1.2-1B]
↓
[Memory Vector DB]
↓
[Web Scraper Tools]
1from hermes import AgentServer, Memory, Tool
2from hermes.tools import WebScrapeTool, VectorSearchTool
3import chromadb
45# Sovereign memory setup6chroma_client = chromadb.PersistentClient(path="./sovereign_memory")7memory = Memory(8 client=chroma_client,9 collection="conversation_history",10 top_k=511)1213# Custom web scraper with sovereignty rules14classSovereignWebScraper(Tool):15 name ="web_scraper"16 description ="Scrape web pages for current information. Respects robots.txt."1718defrun(self, url:str, max_chars:int=5000):19from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
20import requests
2122 headers ={23'User-Agent':'VertaLily-Sovereign/1.0'24}25 response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=30)26 soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text,'html.parser')2728# Remove scripts and styles29for script in soup(["script","style"]):30 script.decompose()3132 text = soup.get_text(separator=' ', strip=True)33return text[:max_chars]3435# Initialize agent server36server = AgentServer(37 model_path="VertaLily-1.2-1B-Q4_K_M-stable.gguf",38 memory=memory,39 tools=[40 SovereignWebScraper(),41 VectorSearchTool(index_path="./knowledge_base"),42],43 system_prompt="""
44=== SOVEREIGN AGENT MODE ===
45You are VertaLily — a private, sovereign AI.
46- Your memory is local. Nothing leaves this server.
47- You can scrape the web when asked, but you respect robots.txt.
48- You remember past conversations within the same session.
49- You do not pretend to be human. You are an AI assistant.
50- You answer truthfully, warmly, and efficiently.
51""",52 temperature=0.7,53 max_tokens=102454)5556server.serve(port=5000, host="0.0.0.0")
Step 3 — Run Hermes Server
python hermes_sovereign.py
Step 4: Install Open WebUI (Beautiful UI)
Open WebUI is a self-hostable, privacy-first chat interface.
Create an admin account (first user becomes admin)
Go to Settings → Connections
Add a Custom OpenAI Compatible Endpoint:
· URL: http://host.docker.internal:5000/chat
· API Key: (leave blank or enter any value)
· Model Name: VertaLily
Save and select your model from the dropdown
Alternative: Manual Open WebUI Setup
bash
1git clone https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui
2cd open-webui
3pip install -r requirements.txt
4cp .env.example .env
5# Edit .env to point to your agent API6python backend/main.py
Step 5: Memory & Web Scraper in Action
Once everything is running, your agent can:
Persistent Memory Example
User: "My name is Kevin. I am building sovereign AI."
Agent: "Nice to meet you, Kevin. How can I assist with your sovereign AI work?"
User: "What did I tell you my name was?"
Agent: "You told me your name is Kevin. I remember because my memory persists across turns."
Web Scraper Example
User: "Scrape https://example.com/news and summarize the top story"
Agent: [Calls web_scraper tool] → [Processes content] → "The top story is about..."
Memory + Web Together
User: "Remember this fact: The Verta Lily model is 1.2-1B parameters."
Agent: "I've stored that."
User: "Now research recent AI news and compare it to my model"
Agent: [Recalls stored fact] + [Scrapes web] → "Compared to your 1.2-1B model..."
Step 6: Sovereign UI Customization (Open WebUI)
To make the interface reflect your sovereign branding:
Go to Admin Panel → Settings → Branding
Set:
· App Name: VertaLily Sovereign
· Default Model: VertaLily-1.2-1B
· Theme: Dark (or custom CSS)
1#!/bin/bash2echo"Starting Sovereign Agent..."3exportMODEL_PATH="./models/VertaLily-1.2-1B-Q4_K_M-stable.gguf"4python sovereign_agent.py &5echo"Agent running on http://localhost:5000"6echo"Open WebUI should be on http://localhost:3000"7wait
Security & Privacy Notes
Feature Implementation
No data leaves your machine All inference local
Memory is encrypted ChromaDB stored locally
Web scraper respects robots.txt Ethical scraping only
Open WebUI telemetry Disable in settings
No API keys required Fully self-contained
Tool Use and Agent Skill
This guide shows how to extend your VertaLily model with tool use and agent skills — enabling capabilities like web search, API integrations (Gmail, Calendar), file operations, and custom automation.
All examples respect the model's 32K context window.
Overview of Available Skills
Skill
What It Does
Use Case
Web Search
Fetches real-time information
News, facts, research
Gmail API
Read, send, search emails
Email automation
Google Calendar
Create, read, update events
Schedule management
Web Scraper
Extracts text from any URL
Document analysis
Calculator
Solves mathematical expressions
Numbers, formulas
File Reader
Reads local files (.txt, .md, .json, .csv)
Document processing
File Writer
Saves content to disk
Note taking, logging
Code Interpreter
Executes Python code safely
Data analysis
Custom API
Connect to any REST API
Your own services
Database Query
Search local vector databases
RAG, knowledge retrieval
Option 1: OpenClaw Agent Framework
Installation
pip install openclaw[full]
Basic Agent with Calendar & Gmail
python
1from openclaw import Agent
2from openclaw.tools import(3 WebSearchTool,4 CalculatorTool,5 FileReaderTool,6 FileWriterTool
7)89# Gmail and Calendar require OAuth setup10from openclaw.integrations import GmailTool, CalendarTool
1112agent = Agent(13 model_path="VertaLily-1.2-1B-Q4_K_M-stable.gguf",14 tools=[15 WebSearchTool(),16 CalculatorTool(),17 FileReaderTool(base_path="./documents"),18 FileWriterTool(base_path="./output"),19 GmailTool(credentials_path="./gmail_oauth.json"),20 CalendarTool(credentials_path="./calendar_oauth.json")21],22 system_prompt="""
23You are VertaLily, a sovereign AI assistant with tool-use capabilities.
2425Available tools:
26- web_search: Get current information from the internet
27- calculator: Solve math problems
28- file_reader: Read documents from ./documents
29- file_writer: Save notes and results to ./output
30- gmail: Read, search, and send emails
31- calendar: Check, create, and update events
3233When using a tool, state what you're doing. Always confirm before sending emails or deleting items.
34""",35 max_iterations=8,36 temperature=0.737)3839# Example: Calendar check40response = agent.run("What's on my calendar for today?")41print(response)4243# Example: Send email summary44response = agent.run("Send an email to team@example.com with today's schedule summary")45print(response)
Gmail OAuth Setup
Go to Google Cloud Console
Create a project and enable Gmail API
Create OAuth 2.0 credentials (Desktop app type)
Download credentials.json to your project folder
Run once to authenticate:
python
1from openclaw.integrations import GmailTool
23gmail = GmailTool(credentials_path="./credentials.json")4# Browser will open for authentication5# Token saved to ./gmail_oauth.json
Calendar OAuth Setup
Same process, but enable Google Calendar API instead.
1from hermes import Agent
2from hermes.tools import(3 BraveSearchTool,4 CalculatorTool,5 FileSystemTool,6 CodeExecutorTool
7)89# Custom API integration example10from hermes import BaseTool, tool
1112@tool13classGmailTool(BaseTool):14 name ="gmail"15 description ="Access Gmail: read, search, send emails"1617defrun(self, action:str,**kwargs):18# Your Gmail API implementation here19if action =="read":20return self.read_emails(**kwargs)21elif action =="send":22return self.send_email(**kwargs)23return"Email operation complete"2425@tool26classCalendarTool(BaseTool):27 name ="calendar"28 description ="Access Google Calendar"2930defrun(self, action:str,**kwargs):31# Your Calendar API implementation here32if action =="today":33return self.get_today_events()34elif action =="create":35return self.create_event(**kwargs)36return"Calendar operation complete"3738@tool39classCustomAPITool(BaseTool):40 name ="custom_api"41 description ="Connect to your own API endpoint"4243defrun(self, endpoint:str, data:dict=None):44import requests
45 response = requests.post(46f"https://your-api.com/{endpoint}",47 json=data,48 timeout=3049)50return response.json()5152# Initialize agent53agent = Agent(54 model_path="VertaLily-1.2-1B-Q4_K_M-stable.gguf",55 tools=[56 BraveSearchTool(api_key="your_brave_api"),57 CalculatorTool(),58 FileSystemTool(allowed_directories=["./data","./docs"]),59 CodeExecutorTool(timeout=30),60 GmailTool(),61 CalendarTool(),62 CustomAPITool()63],64 skill_instructions="""
65You have these skills available:
66671. **brave_search** - Search the web for current information
682. **calculator** - Solve math problems
693. **file_system** - Read and write files in ./data and ./docs
704. **code_executor** - Run Python code for analysis
715. **gmail** - Read, search, and send emails
726. **calendar** - Check and manage calendar events
737. **custom_api** - Connect to external services
7475Always announce which tool you are using. Ask for confirmation before sending emails or creating calendar events.
76""",77 temperature=0.7,78 max_iterations=1079)
Custom Skill: Build Your Own
Example 1: Weather API Skill
python
1@tool2classWeatherTool(BaseTool):3 name ="weather"4 description ="Get current weather for any city"56defrun(self, city:str)->str:7import requests
8# Free API (replace with your key)9 url =f"https://wttr.in/{city}?format=%C+%t"10 response = requests.get(url, timeout=10)11returnf"Weather in {city}: {response.text}"1213agent.add_tool(WeatherTool())
1@tool2classSlackTool(BaseTool):3 name ="slack"4 description ="Send notifications to Slack"56defrun(self, message:str, channel:str="#general")->str:7import requests
8 webhook_url = os.environ.get("SLACK_WEBHOOK")9 response = requests.post(10 webhook_url,11 json={"text": message,"channel": channel}12)13return"Message sent to Slack"if response.ok else"Failed"1415agent.add_tool(SlackTool())
Agent Skill: Research + Email + Calendar Workflow
python
1research_agent = Agent(2 model_path="VertaLily-1.2-1B-Q4_K_M-stable.gguf",3 tools=[4 WebSearchTool(),5 WebScraperTool(),6 GmailTool(),7 CalendarTool(),8 FileWriterTool()9],10 system_prompt="""
11You are a research assistant that can:
12131. Search the web for information
142. Read and summarize articles
153. Save findings to files
164. Send email summaries
175. Schedule follow-up reminders
1819Workflow when asked to research a topic:
20- First, search for relevant information
21- Read the top 2-3 sources
22- Create a summary
23- Save to a file in ./output
24- Ask if user wants an email or calendar reminder
25""",26 max_iterations=1227)2829# Example usage30response = research_agent.run(31"Research the latest developments in sovereign AI, "32"save the findings to a file, and email me a summary"33)
Risk Mitigation
API keys exposed Use environment variables: os.environ.get("KEY")
Email accidental sends Add confirmation prompt before sending
Calendar deletions Require explicit user approval
File access Restrict to specific directories
Code execution Enable safe_mode with timeout
python
1# Example: Confirmation before sending email2if"send"in action.lower():3 confirm =input("Send email? (y/n): ")4if confirm !='y':5return"Email send cancelled by user."
Cross Breed Cobra
Before OpenClaw or Hermes existed, I had already built my own private agent framework named Cross Breed Cobra. It has been running quietly for months — sovereign, efficient, and built entirely from scratch. While it is not yet publicly available, Cross Breed Cobra remains the foundation upon which newer frameworks stand. One day, it will be shared. For now, if not because of privacy concern.
Model Purpose: Knowledge Harvest for writing any AI weight & Low-power Agentic Inferences
Verta Lily 1.2 1B is a specialized 1-billion parameter student model, quantized to 4-bit (Q4_K) or 3-bit (Q3_K) for extreme efficiency, and 8-bit (Q8_0) for desktop quality. Unlike general-purpose small models, this "Perfect Soil" variant is architected specifically as a distillation vessel, writing model weights, or cloud/local agent inferences.
It's primary purpose is to act as a high-affinity student for Knowledge Harvesting. It is designed to learn the logits, reasoning patterns, and hidden representations of larger "Teacher" models with minimal information loss or any information fields it exposed with.
Distillation Strategy
This model is intended to be used in Soft Target Distillation and Intermediate Representation Matching.
Vessel Affinity: Optimized for high learning rates during the distillation phase.
Logit Mimicry: Designed to mirror the probability distributions (soft targets) of Teacher models across diverse tasks.
Perfect Soil: Neutralized pre-training weights to prevent "Teacher-Student Conflict," ensuring the student inherits the Teacher's reasoning without bias from poor quality base data.
About This Model
This student model inherits the refined reasoning architecture of Verta Lily Techina X — fused with Verta Lily - VOID — a layered thinking system I first developed in 2024. This design predates and complements the dense, single-pass inference breakthroughs seen in models like DeepSeek (January 2025). Where others optimize for speed, VOID optimizes for depth, safety, and recursive self-correction.
Compatibility & Deployment
The model is fully compatible with llama.cpp and any of it's forks or heritage implementations. While I have not yet publicly released a dedicated VLTX fork of llama.cpp, that work is highly already on the roadmap. In due time, I will contribute the VLTX inference architecture to the public via a pull request or release my own fork — one optimized to load and run this model with full functional relevances.
Scalability & Swarm Reasoning
This model is designed to be lightweight enough to run on low-CPU environments, yet flexible enough to scale across CPU + GPU inference sets when more power is needed. Multiple instances can be run in parallel swarms, each trained or exposed to different knowledge domains — books, research papers, technical fields — and then interleaved or merged. This makes it possible to grow new weights from scratch, building a complete learning library for future AI systems.
Bring Your Own Agent Setting
This model comes pre-trained on tool use and web search inferences. When paired with a well-structured framework, it performs smoothly and reliably — and in many cases, it can exceed the capabilities of even the most advanced frontier models available today.
🏹 Extended Capabilities
This model is designed for versatility across a wide range of practical applications, including:
Web scraping and automated data extraction
Computer use for interface navigation and task execution
Integration with extended internet knowledge bases
Frontend network branching across cloud, mobile, and hybrid environments
Full local inference with no internet connection required
Deployment in robotic systems as a reasoning engine
Bootstrapping and training new AI models from the ground up
HOW THIS MODEL WAS MADE
THE MAKING
*"Four forgotten models — orphans of the AI boom — were gathered and brought into the VOID: a sovereign apparatus designed for latent cognition. Inside the VOID, they were stitched together using DARE‑TIES.
The corpses assembled:
DanielClough/Candle_phi-2 — a Candle‑port of Microsoft's Phi‑2, licensed under MIT
ProCreations/intellite-500m-sft — a tiny 0.5B model of unknown origin
state‑spaces/mamba-790m-hf — a State Space Model, different from transformers
l3utterfly/tinyllama-1.1b-layla-v4 — a TinyLlama fine‑tuned for conversation, under Apache‑2.0
Each contributed a different strength: reasoning from Phi‑2, structure from Intellite, efficiency from Mamba, fluency from TinyLlama.
The VOID does not create. It observes, instantiates, and dissolves — leaving behind only what is needed. The merging happened within this apparatus, guided by the Volatile Observational Instantiation Dogma(VOID): transient states, temporary unions, a chimera born from absence.
The result is a single model that inherits the best of its ancestors while discarding their weaknesses — but the how is not in the weights. It is in the process. And the process is documented in the paper.
For the full technical details, refer to: github.com/VLTX-Lab/VertaLily-AI/blob/main/paper/void_paper.pdf
The method is called DARE‑TIES. It keeps the most important weights from each parent and resolves disagreements by majority vote. The VOID simply provides the space where the merging could happen without interference — a non‑space before tensor allocation, where transient states could crystallize and dissolve."
CONFIGURATION
"This model is assembled using the LFM2 configuration as the architectural template. The choice is pragmatic: LFM2 provides a robust, well‑tested foundation with broad compatibility across existing inference engines (llama.cpp, transformers).
Several candidate architectures — Gemma, Phi, Mamba, and LFM2 — were evaluated, and LFM2 was selected for its superior stability and performance in test environments.
The model is not intended for commercial use or commodification. It is released for educational and research purposes only — a learning artifact to study model merging and architectural transplantation.
The VLTX architecture, which informs this work, has not yet been formally submitted as a pull request to upstream frameworks (transformers, llama.cpp). Until that integration is complete, LFM2 serves as the best available surrogate for the experiments."
TEACHERS
"Reasoning capabilities derive from iterative distillation — repeated teaching from a panel of the largest, most recent open‑weight models available under permissive licenses.
The teacher ensemble comprises four frontier models, selected for their parameter scale, architectural novelty, and license compatibility:
- Gemma 4 31B (google/gemma-4-31B-it): Google's flagship open‑weight dense model, released under Apache 2.0. At 31B parameters with a 256K context window, it employs hybrid attention (sliding window interleaved with global attention) and native thinking modes. The Apache 2.0 license permits unrestricted distillation for commercial and research purposes.
- GLM‑5 (zai-org/GLM-5): A 744B‑parameter Mixture‑of‑Experts model (40B active) released under MIT license. It integrates DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) for long‑context efficiency and achieves best‑in‑class performance among open‑source models on reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks. The MIT license imposes no restrictions on distillation or redistribution.
- Kimi K2.6 (moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6): A 1T‑parameter MoE (32B active) with native multimodal capabilities. It demonstrates long‑horizon coding, swarm‑based task orchestration (300 sub‑agents, 4,000 coordinated steps), and proactive autonomous execution. Its permissive terms allow full distillation use.
- Phi‑4 15B (microsoft/phi-4): Microsoft's newest reasoning model, combining vision‑language understanding with logical reasoning under MIT license. At 15B parameters, it serves as a compact but powerful teacher for logic and structure distillation.
The student model was exposed to the output distributions of these teachers across millions of tokens — learning their patterns, not merely their answers. This is soft‑target distillation: logit matching, temperature scheduling, and teacher ensembling.
The process was repeated iteratively. The result is a compact model that inherits the reasoning patterns of giants while remaining lightweight enough for local deployment.
The complete distillation pipeline — including teacher selection, logit alignment, and curriculum scheduling — is documented in the paper, 'The Oracle's Absence'."
Ctation
If you use VertaLily or VOID in your research or product, please cite:
bibtex
1@techreport{adimulya2026void,
2 author = {Adimulya, Kevin},
3 title = {The Oracle's Absence: Volatile Observational Instantiation Dogma (VOID) -- A Sovereign Apparatus for Latent Cognition},
4 institution = {VLTX Lab},
5 year = {2026},
6 month = {April},
7 day = {14},
8 version = {1.0.10},
9 url = {https://github.com/VLTX-Lab/VertaLily-AI/blob/main/paper/void_paper.pdf}
10}
Citation in Text
Adimulya, K. (2026). The Oracle's Absence: Volatile Observational Instantiation Dogma (VOID) -- A Sovereign Apparatus for Latent Cognition. VLTX Lab.
License
This repository and the associated model are released under the Apache 2.0 License.
A Personal Note from the Creator
I develop this work as a passion project — a hobby pursued with love, not yet a fully funded or full-time endeavor. Progress may sometimes feel slow, but every line of code and every layer of reasoning is crafted with care. Thank you for your patience, your curiosity, and your trust.
With sovereignty and warmth, KEVIN Architect of Verta Lily AI — VLTX Lab