{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "carbon-x", "name": "Carbon-X", "vendor": "Hugging Face (HuggingFaceBio)", "vendorUrl": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Carbon-X is Hugging Face's open-weight 14.8B language model for DNA, a fine-tune of Qwen3-14B that reads raw DNA in a chat and answers in English about variant effects and regulatory regions, with a 40,960-token context, under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/carbon-x.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The Hub reports gated false for HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X and HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF (checked 2026-10-23). The Python tokenizer fetches Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Base's tokenizer at a pinned revision on first load, which is also ungated.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0, and the base Qwen3-14B is Apache 2.0 too. Hugging Face sells no per-call access to it and no inference provider serves it. Running it costs the hardware, 29.6 GB for the BF16 safetensors and 9.6 GB for the publisher's smallest GGUF, Q4_K_M (checked 2026-10-23).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-23).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-23" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "dna", "genomics", "biology", "fine-tune", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "gguf", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-22", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1201, "categoryRank": 30, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 35, "reach": 90, "risk": 65, "upkeep": 77 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-23" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A DNA specialist cousin that another agent calls for variant-effect and sequence questions, with DNA kept on the machine. Hugging Face's Q4_K_M GGUF needs about 12 GB and Q8_0 about 19 GB, on llama.cpp b11742 or later. It isn't clinically validated, it isn't trained for tool calls or reasoning, and the card contradicts its own GGUF repository on llama.cpp support.", "bestFor": "Agents that need a second opinion on DNA variants and regulatory regions on a 16 to 24 GB machine, without sending sequences to a hosted model.", "strengths": [ "Hugging Face's own GGUFs at four precisions, the smallest about 12 GB with a fifth added", "Runs in released llama.cpp, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers", "Apache 2.0 on the model and its Qwen3-14B base, nothing gated", "A ready-made skill, an OpenAI-style tool example and an Inspect example for calling it from another agent", "Mid-training data listed by source with shares of 302B tokens" ], "weaknesses": [ "Not clinically validated and no wet-lab validation reported", "The Python tokenizer needs trust_remote_code, and llama.cpp before b11742 tokenizes DNA wrongly", "Not trained for tool calling, structured output or reasoning", "The card says llama.cpp is unsupported while the publisher's GGUF repository says it is", "No inference provider or hosted API, and no knowledge cut-off" ], "agentNotes": [ "Quickest start is `llama-server -hf HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF:Q8_0 -ngl 99 -c 40960 --jinja --chat-template-kwargs '{\"enable_thinking\": false}' --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0`, on llama.cpp b11742 or later", "With vLLM or Transformers pass trust_remote_code, and expect the tokenizer to fetch Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Base at a pinned revision on first load", "Keep enable_thinking false and the card's sampling (temperature 0.6, top_p 0.95, top_k 20), the settings every reported result used", "Keep DNA in files and pass sequences by name, compute positions and base changes in code and send them as context, the card says the model miscounts long sequences", "Only A, C, G and T form 6-mers, so filter N and other IUPAC codes first or they become a single oov token", "Strip the dna tags from answers if you need bare sequence, llama.cpp keeps them in the text", "Cap max_tokens for next-base questions, long DNA generation is slow and degrades" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61 } ], "editorialScores": { "interface": 35, "reach": 90, "risk": 65, "upkeep": 77 }, "provenanceScore": 53, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-10-23", "reach": "2026-10-23", "risk": "2026-10-23", "upkeep": "2026-10-23" }, "last": "2026-10-23", "oldest": "2026-10-23", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "# llama.cpp b11742 or later (older builds tokenize DNA wrongly):\nllama-server -hf HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF:Q8_0 -ngl 99 -c 40960 --jinja \\\n --chat-template-kwargs '{\"enable_thinking\": false}' \\\n --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0 --port 8080\n# or, with vLLM:\nvllm serve HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X --trust-remote-code", "http": "curl http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Is this sequence more likely coding or non-coding? ATGGCGCTGTGGATGCGCCTCCTG\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/carbon-x" }, "sameCompany": [ "hugging-face-inference-endpoints", "smollm3-3b" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Hugging Face with Zhongguancun Academy and TIGEM / University of Naples Federico II", "builtOn": "Qwen/Qwen3-14B (vocabulary extension, mid-training, supervised fine-tune and GRPO; base Apache 2.0, declared in the card's metadata)", "params": "14.8B", "context": 40960, "goodFor": "A DNA specialist another agent calls, for variant-effect questions, regulatory regions and next-base prediction on raw DNA kept on local hardware.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "Carbon-X-GGUF Q4_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 9.64, "memoryGB": 12, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "carbon-x-q4_k_m.gguf, 9,636,318,080 bytes. Embedding and output tensors stay at Q8_0. The publisher's own runs put it lowest of the builds on FrontierVEP (67.8) and NextBase (38.6)" }, { "name": "Carbon-X-GGUF Q6_K", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q6_k", "sizeGB": 12.56, "memoryGB": 16, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "carbon-x-q6_k.gguf, 12,555,946,880 bytes" }, { "name": "Carbon-X-GGUF Q5_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q5_k_m", "sizeGB": 11.05, "memoryGB": 16, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "carbon-x-q5_k_m.gguf, 11,051,895,680 bytes" }, { "name": "Carbon-X-GGUF Q8_0", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 15.76, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "carbon-x-q8_0.gguf, 15,755,742,080 bytes, the build the publisher recommends" }, { "name": "Carbon-X", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 29.64, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM", "Transformers" ], "note": "Needs trust_remote_code for the custom HybridDNATokenizer, and Transformers v5 or later. The card says it fits one 80 GB GPU" }, { "name": "Carbon-X-GGUF BF16", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 29.65, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "carbon-x-bf16.gguf, 29,651,012,480 bytes. llama.cpp b11742 or later" } ], "run": "llama-server -hf HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF:Q8_0 -ngl 99 -c 40960 --jinja --chat-template-kwargs '{\"enable_thinking\": false}' --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0 --port 8080", "runBuild": "Carbon-X-GGUF Q8_0", "checked": "2026-10-23", "minMemoryGB": 12 }, "family": { "lab": "Hugging Face (Carbon)", "family": "Carbon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#huggingface-bio", "others": [ { "name": "Carbon-A-1.2B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-A-1.2B", "params": "1.2B" }, { "name": "Carbon-8B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-8B", "params": "8.3B" }, { "name": "Carbon-3B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-3B", "params": "3.5B" }, { "name": "Carbon-500M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M", "params": "0.5B" } ] }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Hugging Face (the HuggingFaceBio organisation, named Hugging Face Biology Research on the Hub)", "domain": "huggingface.co", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-23", "notes": [ "The HuggingFaceBio organisation isn't verified on the Hub. It has 27 members, Hugging Face staff among them, and the huggingface/carbon GitHub repository links its Carbon models.", "Nothing is hosted, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "huggingface.co/.well-known/security.txt names a security contact and expires in 2030.", "No changelog. The main repository's history shows one commit on 22 October 2026; the merged pull requests show earlier commits on 21 and 22 October, so the history was squashed. Registration of huggingface.co wasn't checked." ], "score": 53 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.json", "live": { "slug": "carbon-x", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://huggingface.co/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2030-07-01T08:42:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T15:25:11.273582159Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-23T15:25:11.273582159Z" } }, "answer": "Carbon-X and SmolLM3-3B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). SmolLM3-3B leads on agent interface.", "b": { "slug": "smollm3-3b", "name": "SmolLM3-3B", "vendor": "Hugging Face", "vendorUrl": "https://huggingface.co", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "SmolLM3-3B is Hugging Face's open-weight dense 3B instruct model with switchable reasoning, tool calling and a 65,536-token native context, published in BF16 safetensors under Apache 2.0 with its training data and recipes.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/smollm3-3b.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-ONNX" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The repository is not gated (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 6.15 GB for the BF16 files (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "small", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "multilingual", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "onnx", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2025-09-10", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1201, "categoryRank": 42, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 80, "reach": 85, "risk": 65, "upkeep": 54 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A tiny, fully open cousin with documented tool calling and switchable thinking, for local subtasks and routing on laptops and CPUs. It needs about 8 GB in BF16, or under 3 GB in Hugging Face's 4-bit ONNX build for ONNX Runtime. The main risks are a 64K native context, no safety results and no repository changes since September 2025.", "bestFor": "Agents that want a small, fully transparent tool-calling cousin on a laptop, CPU or edge device", "strengths": [ "Training data, mixture weights, configs and intermediate checkpoints all published", "Plain Apache 2.0, no gate, no account", "About 7.4 GB in BF16, with Hugging Face's own ONNX builds down to 4-bit for ONNX Runtime", "Tool-call format and vLLM parser documented on the card", "Thinking turns off per request", "Safetensors only, with a SHA-256 for each shard and a Jinja template" ], "weaknesses": [ "65,536 tokens trained; 131,072 needs a YaRN edit to config.json", "No change to the files since 10 September 2025 and no publisher reply in discussions since November 2025", "No safety evaluation or agent-use guidance", "No structured-output documentation", "No Ollama or LM Studio catalogue entry and no hosted provider", "The chat template renders tool results 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smollm3-3b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "SmolLM3-3B vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smollm3-3b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smollm3-3b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next.json", "title": "SmolLM3-3B vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smollm3-3b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smollm3-3b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "SmolLM3-3B vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smollm3-3b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b" } ], "scores": [ { "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "pending": true, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 5, "carbon-x": 90, "edge": "carbon-x", "key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "smollm3-3b": 85, "weight": 25 }, { "by": 0, "carbon-x": 65, "edge": "", "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "smollm3-3b": 65, "weight": 20 }, { "by": 45, "carbon-x": 35, "edge": "smollm3-3b", "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "smollm3-3b": 80, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 23, "carbon-x": 77, "edge": "carbon-x", "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "smollm3-3b": 54, "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Carbon-X and SmolLM3-3B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). SmolLM3-3B leads on agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "carbon-x": "A DNA specialist cousin that another agent calls for variant-effect and sequence questions, with DNA kept on the machine. Hugging Face's Q4_K_M GGUF needs about 12 GB and Q8_0 about 19 GB, on llama.cpp b11742 or later. It isn't clinically validated, it isn't trained for tool calls or reasoning, and the card contradicts its own GGUF repository on llama.cpp support.", "smollm3-3b": "A tiny, fully open cousin with documented tool calling and switchable thinking, for local subtasks and routing on laptops and CPUs. It needs about 8 GB in BF16, or under 3 GB in Hugging Face's 4-bit ONNX build for ONNX Runtime. The main risks are a 64K native context, no safety results and no repository changes since September 2025." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/carbon-x-vs-smollm3-3b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/carbon-x-vs-smollm3-3b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/carbon-x-vs-smollm3-3b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/carbon-x-vs-smollm3-3b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Carbon-X and SmolLM3-3B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). SmolLM3-3B leads on agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- Carbon-X: grade C, 61/100, rank #38 of 107 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/carbon-x.json\n- SmolLM3-3B: grade C, 61/100, rank #50 of 107 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/smollm3-3b.json\n- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md\n- All 3023 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Carbon-X (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that need a second opinion on DNA variants and regulatory regions on a 16 to 24 GB machine, without sending sequences to a hosted model.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 90 against 85\n- Documentation and upkeep, 77 against 54\n\nWatch for: Not clinically validated and no wet-lab validation reported\n\n### SmolLM3-3B (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that want a small, fully transparent tool-calling cousin on a laptop, CPU or edge device\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent interface, 80 against 35\n\nWatch for: 65,536 tokens trained; 131,072 needs a YaRN edit to config.json\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Carbon-X | SmolLM3-3B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 90 | 85 | Carbon-X +5 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 65 | 65 | even |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 35 | 80 | SmolLM3-3B +45 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 77 | 54 | Carbon-X +23 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61 · C** | **61 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Carbon-X | SmolLM3-3B |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Hugging Face (HuggingFaceBio) | Hugging Face |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-22 | 2025-09-10 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3.3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Carbon-X.** A DNA specialist cousin that another agent calls for variant-effect and sequence questions, with DNA kept on the machine. Hugging Face's Q4_K_M GGUF needs about 12 GB and Q8_0 about 19 GB, on llama.cpp b11742 or later. It isn't clinically validated, it isn't trained for tool calls or reasoning, and the card contradicts its own GGUF repository on llama.cpp support.\n\n**SmolLM3-3B.** A tiny, fully open cousin with documented tool calling and switchable thinking, for local subtasks and routing on laptops and CPUs. It needs about 8 GB in BF16, or under 3 GB in Hugging Face's 4-bit ONNX build for ONNX Runtime. The main risks are a 64K native context, no safety results and no repository changes since September 2025.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Carbon-X\n\n1. Quickest start is `llama-server -hf HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF:Q8_0 -ngl 99 -c 40960 --jinja --chat-template-kwargs '{\"enable_thinking\": false}' --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0`, on llama.cpp b11742 or later\n2. With vLLM or Transformers pass trust_remote_code, and expect the tokenizer to fetch Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Base at a pinned revision on first load\n3. Keep enable_thinking false and the card's sampling (temperature 0.6, top_p 0.95, top_k 20), the settings every reported result used\n4. Keep DNA in files and pass sequences by name, compute positions and base changes in code and send them as context, the card says the model miscounts long sequences\n5. Only A, C, G and T form 6-mers, so filter N and other IUPAC codes first or they become a single oov token\n6. Strip the dna tags from answers if you need bare sequence, llama.cpp keeps them in the text\n7. Cap max_tokens for next-base questions, long DNA generation is slow and degrades\n\n### SmolLM3-3B\n\n1. Start it with `vllm serve HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser=hermes`, or tool calls come back as text\n2. Pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false for short tasks, since thinking is on by default; a `/think` or `/no_think` flag in the system prompt overrides the kwarg\n3. Put earlier tool calls in the assistant message content, since the template ignores a `tool_calls` field when it renders history\n4. Add the YaRN `rope_scaling` block (factor 2.0, original 65536) to config.json before sending more than 65,536 tokens\n5. Use temperature 0.6 and top_p 0.95, the card's recommended sampling\n6. Needs Transformers v4.53.0 or later; for llama.cpp use a GGUF from ggml-org or another converter, since Hugging Face publishes none\n7. Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Carbon-X or SmolLM3-3B?\n\nCarbon-X and SmolLM3-3B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). 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