Stage the models once, pull them off the switch

FIXES → HuggingFace throttled to <100 KB/s, or every Mac downloading the same 87GB.

Setup step 5: publish this Mac's models to the share by hardlink, following MANIFEST.txt — Captured from the real gateway on a demo farm

01 Publish from the coordinator

The models publish to the share by hardlink, not copy — 87GB staged in 0.68 seconds using 67MB. MANIFEST.txt is the master list of what every Mac must have.

on the coordinator · once

FARM_ROOT=~/RenderFarm ./seed_farm_assets.sh

02 Let the workers pull

Each worker’s setup.command pulls the models off the switch in minutes instead of days from HuggingFace. Nothing to babysit — the app’s Checks view shows which Macs still need which files.

Done when Every worker’s Checks view shows the manifest satisfied. New Macs sync from the share automatically the first time they join.