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          "unchecked, whether Poolside publishes security advisories on GitHub, since GitHub's web pages answered 403 and the API isn't enabled here",
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        "Pass earlier reasoning back as `reasoning_content` in the history, since the card says reasoning may stop in later steps if it's dropped",
        "Sampling per the card is temperature 1.0 and top_k 20",
        "The card warns that Ollama on Apple Silicon may return empty output until llama.cpp#25389 ships",
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          "note": "Laguna-XS-2.1-Q4_K_M.gguf, 20,274,300,032 bytes. The repository also holds a BF16 GGUF of 66.9 GB (96 GB of memory)"
        },
        {
          "name": "ollama laguna-xs-2.1:latest",
          "url": "https://ollama.com/library/laguna-xs-2.1:latest",
          "who": "ollama",
          "precision": "q4_k_m",
          "sizeGB": 20.3,
          "memoryGB": 32,
          "format": "ollama",
          "runsOn": [
            "Ollama"
          ],
          "note": "Ollama shows 20 GB. Its model blob (sha256 1ac7079101fc) is Poolside's Q4_K_M GGUF, so the exact size is Poolside's. The library also has q8_0 (36 GB), bf16 (67 GB) and MLX tags (nvfp4 shown as 20 GB, exact size unpublished, mxfp8 40 GB, mlx-bf16 68 GB). The card warns that ollama run may return empty output on Apple Silicon until llama.cpp#25389 ships"
        },
        {
          "name": "Laguna-XS-2.1-FP8",
          "url": "https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-FP8",
          "who": "publisher",
          "precision": "fp8",
          "sizeGB": 35.3,
          "memoryGB": 48,
          "format": "safetensors"
        },
        {
          "name": "Laguna-XS-2.1",
          "url": "https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1",
          "who": "publisher",
          "precision": "bf16",
          "sizeGB": 66.9,
          "memoryGB": 96,
          "format": "safetensors",
          "runsOn": [
            "vLLM",
            "SGLang",
            "Transformers"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "run": "llama-server -hf poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja -c 131072 --port 8000",
      "runBuild": "Laguna-XS-2.1-GGUF Q4_K_M",
      "checked": "2026-10-21",
      "minMemoryGB": 32
    },
    "family": {
      "lab": "Poolside",
      "family": "Laguna 2 (XS.2, XS 2.1, S 2.1)",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#poolside",
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        {
          "name": "Laguna-S-2.1",
          "url": "https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-S-2.1",
          "params": "117.56B (Hub safetensors count; the name gives only the size class S)",
          "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/laguna-s-2-1"
        },
        {
          "name": "Laguna-S-2.1-base",
          "url": "https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-S-2.1-base",
          "params": "not stated (no safetensors count on the Hub; the instruct model is 117.56B)"
        },
        {
          "name": "Laguna-XS.2",
          "url": "https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS.2",
          "params": "33.44B (Hub safetensors count; the name gives only the size class XS)"
        }
      ],
      "unrestrictedCopies": 1
    },
    "notable": [
      "440,897 downloads in the last 30 days and 545,850 in all on Hugging Face, with 257 likes, on 21 October 2026. Poolside's own GGUF repository had 198,496 downloads in 30 days (https://huggingface.co/api/models/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1)",
      "Ollama's library has it as laguna-xs-2.1, 20 GB for the default Q4_K_M build, with 138.3K downloads on its page on 21 October 2026. The default build's blob is the same file as Poolside's Q4_K_M GGUF (https://ollama.com/library/laguna-xs-2.1/tags)",
      "The card claims 70.9% on SWE-bench Verified, 63.1% on SWE-bench Multilingual, 47.6% on SWE-Bench Pro and 37.5% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, run by Poolside in its own pool harness with patched task images. These are Poolside's numbers, not our measurement (https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1)",
      "The card says the vLLM build must include vllm-project/vllm#47311, or the poolside_v1 tool parser drops some tool calls, and gives the glm47 parser as the fallback on older builds (https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1)",
      "OpenRouter lists poolside/laguna-xs-2.1 and its free variant, served by Poolside, with an expiration date of 31 October 2026 in its model list (https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models)"
    ],
    "area": "models",
    "details": [
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        "label": "Surface graded",
        "value": "The open weights at huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1 and Poolside's FP8, INT4, NVFP4, NVFP4-mlx and GGUF builds, read from the model card, the files and their metadata, the chat template, the licence, Poolside's blog, docs and technical report, and the runtimes' own code on 21 October 2026. Nothing was downloaded or run. Poolside's hosted endpoint on OpenRouter isn't graded"
      },
      {
        "label": "Model",
        "value": "33.4B parameters in total (33,442,617,088 by the Hub's safetensors count), 3B active per token. 40 layers, 10 with global attention and 30 with 512-token sliding-window attention, 256 routed experts (top 8) and one shared expert. Text in, text out. The card calls it an upgraded version of Laguna XS.2, which stays in its own repository"
      },
      {
        "label": "Files",
        "value": "Safetensors shards in BF16 (66.9 GB stored) with chat_template.jinja, and configuration_laguna.py and modeling_laguna.py for trust_remote_code loading, referenced from config.json's auto_map. Separate FP8, INT4, NVFP4 and NVFP4-mlx repositories and a GGUF repository with BF16 and Q4_K_M. No pickle files. Hugging Face lists a SHA-256 for every LFS file"
      },
      {
        "label": "Licence",
        "value": "OpenMDW-1.1, a permissive licence for model materials that isn't OSI-approved. The card also says the model should be used consistently with Poolside's acceptable use policy, but that link redirects to Poolside's Terms of Use, which say Poolside models are licensed under their own licences and aren't Products under those terms"
      },
      {
        "label": "Runtimes",
        "value": "Model code in Transformers (laguna, from 5.7.0), vLLM (from 0.21.0, with poolside_v1 tool and reasoning parsers), SGLang (models/laguna.py in v0.5.22), llama.cpp (the laguna architecture in release b11772) and mlx-lm (v0.32.2), Ollama's library entry laguna-xs-2.1 and an LM Studio catalogue page. The card also gives TensorRT-LLM pre-release instructions"
      },
      {
        "label": "Context",
        "value": "262,144 tokens on the card and in config.json, reached with YaRN (factor 32 over 8,192) on the global-attention layers. Poolside's technical report says the family's context extension was trained to 128K and the last step to 256K was made without training"
      },
      {
        "label": "Tools and reasoning",
        "value": "The template lists tools as JSON inside available_tools and renders each call as tool_call blocks with arg_key and arg_value pairs, looping over every call in a turn. The card shows tools declared through an OpenAI-compatible server and calls returned in tool_calls, with the poolside_v1 parser in vLLM, SGLang and TensorRT-LLM. Thinking turns on or off per request with enable_thinking, and reasoning comes back in reasoning_content. The template defaults to thinking off while generation_config.json sets it on"
      },
      {
        "label": "Hardware",
        "value": "The card says it runs on a Mac with 36 GB of RAM. Poolside's docs estimate 96 GB of GPU memory at FP8 for its own deployments. The repositories hold 66.9 GB in BF16, 35.3 GB in FP8 and 20.3 GB for the Q4_K_M GGUF"
      },
      {
        "label": "Training data",
        "value": "The card links the Laguna M.1/XS.2 technical report, which describes a pool of about 27T unique tokens from web, code, educational, academic and synthetic sources, more than 30T tokens trained, its filtering pipeline and XS.2's data mix. Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 post says S 2.1 used the same pre-training data as XS 2.1 and has a knowledge cut-off in November 2025"
      }
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      "legalEntity": "Poolside, Inc. (named in Poolside's Terms of Use)",
      "domain": "poolside.ai",
      "domainRegistered": "",
      "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
      "terms": "https://poolside.ai/legal/eula",
      "privacy": "https://poolside.ai/legal/privacy",
      "statusPage": "",
      "changelog": "https://docs.poolside.ai/release-notes/models",
      "securityTxt": "valid",
      "checked": "2026-10-21",
      "notes": [
        "The Hugging Face organisation poolside is verified, and Poolside's blog post for this release links its collection there.",
        "Nothing is hosted for this listing, so the OpenMDW-1.1 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.",
        "Poolside's docs keep dated model release notes. The June 2026 entry calls XS 2.1 an incremental update to Laguna XS.2.",
        "security.txt is PGP-signed, names a security contact at poolside.ai and expires on 1 April 2028. The domain's registration date wasn't checked."
      ],
      "score": 71,
      "checks": [
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          "check": "Legal entity named",
          "value": "Poolside, Inc. (named in Poolside's Terms of Use)",
          "points": 20,
          "max": 20,
          "state": "ok"
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        {
          "check": "Domain age",
          "value": "poolside.ai, no registry record we could read",
          "points": 0,
          "max": 15,
          "state": "no"
        },
        {
          "check": "Endpoint on the vendor's domain",
          "value": "no hosted endpoint",
          "points": 0,
          "max": 0,
          "state": "na"
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          "check": "Terms of service",
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          "points": 10,
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          "state": "ok"
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          "check": "Privacy policy",
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          "points": 10,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "ok"
        },
        {
          "check": "Status page",
          "value": "not found",
          "points": 0,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "no"
        },
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          "check": "Changelog",
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          "points": 10,
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