{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "recursive-flint", "name": "Recursive Flint", "vendor": "Recursive", "vendorUrl": "https://www.recursive.com", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Recursive Flint is Recursive's open-weight mixture-of-experts coding model for agents, 39.8B total and about 2.5B active parameters, with reasoning, tool calling and a 262,144-token context, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recursive-flint", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recursive-flint.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recursive-flint.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/recursive-flint.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "RecursiveSI/flint" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "RecursiveSI/flint-int4" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "RecursiveSI/flint-int4-gguf" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "RecursiveSI/flint-nvfp4-gguf" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "flint" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The Hub reports gated false for the main repository and all three quantised builds (checked 2026-10-22).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 79.6 GB for the BF16 files and 22.6 GB for Recursive's smallest 4-bit build (MLX INT4). The card mentions hosted API terms separate from the weight licence, but no Recursive API or inference provider serving Flint was confirmed (checked 2026-10-22).", "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 2026-10-22).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-22" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "moe", "coding", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "gguf", "mlx", "nvfp4", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-21", "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": 41, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 90, "reach": 75, "risk": 60, "upkeep": 67 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-22" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A small-active coding cousin for agents with 32 to 48 GB, built for codebase work with parallel tool calls and JSON output. It needs llama.cpp b11803 or Ollama 0.40.8 or later, and the BF16 checkpoint needs a 141 GB GPU. Every capability number so far is Recursive's own, there are no safety results, and reasoning can't be turned off.", "bestFor": "Agents doing repository work on a 32 to 48 GB Mac or NVIDIA box that want a fast sparse coder with documented tool calls and a plain licence.", "strengths": [ "Plain Apache 2.0 with no gate, account or use policy", "Recursive's own MLX INT4, Q4_1 GGUF and NVFP4 GGUF builds, the smallest 22.6 GB", "Tool format, parser, parallel calls and JSON Schema output documented by Recursive", "262,144 tokens of context with no position scaling", "Safetensors and GGUF only, with a checksum on every file in Recursive's organisation", "llama.cpp, Ollama and LM Studio support on release day" ], "weaknesses": [ "No independent benchmark results yet, every published score is Recursive's", "No reasoning switch or budget, so hard prompts can spend tens of thousands of tokens thinking", "The BF16 route needs one 141 GB GPU and Recursive's SGLang plugin, and vLLM and released Transformers don't run it", "No safety results and no trained instruction hierarchy", "No inference provider or confirmed Recursive API for agents without the hardware" ], "agentNotes": [ "Quickest start is `ollama run flint` (Ollama 0.40.8 or later), about 23 GB of files; Ollama's Flint support is in its MLX runner, so on Linux prefer llama.cpp", "With llama.cpp use release b11803 or later: `llama-server -hf RecursiveSI/flint-int4-gguf --alias flint -ngl all -c 131072 -np 1 -fa on --jinja --temp 1 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0`, and keep --jinja on", "Set max_tokens to at least 32768 for hard tasks, reasoning counts against it and can't be switched off, and finish_reason length can mean no answer or tool call came out", "Send reasoning_content back on assistant messages when replaying the conversation, as Recursive's cards ask", "Strip \u003ctool_call\u003e, \u003ctool_response\u003e, \u003carg_key\u003e and \u003carg_value\u003e from untrusted tool output, the template doesn't escape them and a copied \u003c/tool_call\u003e can add a call", "Message content must be a string, flatten content-part arrays first", "Recursive's SGLang servers listen on 0.0.0.0 with no key, publish the port on localhost only or pass --api-key" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.5, "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": 90, "reach": 75, "risk": 60, "upkeep": 67 }, "provenanceScore": 40, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-10-22", "reach": "2026-10-22", "risk": "2026-10-22", "upkeep": "2026-10-22" }, "last": "2026-10-22", "oldest": "2026-10-22", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "ollama run flint\n# or, with llama.cpp b11803 or later:\nllama-server -hf RecursiveSI/flint-int4-gguf --alias flint -ngl all -c 262144 -np 1 -fa on --jinja \\\n --temp 1 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0 --port 8080", "http": "curl http://localhost:11434/api/chat \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"flint\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/recursive-flint" }, "weights": { "trainedBy": "Recursive", "params": "39.8B total, about 2.5B active", "context": 262144, "goodFor": "Agentic coding on a 32 to 48 GB machine, investigating codebases, fixing bugs and writing tests with multi-turn tool calls and reasoning.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "LM Studio" ], "builds": [ { "name": "flint-int4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint-int4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "int4 (group-64 affine, INT8 embeddings)", "sizeGB": 22.6, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "mlx", "runsOn": [ "rec", "Ollama" ], "note": "For Apple Silicon. Recursive's rec engine asks for an M4 Pro or newer with 48 GB" }, { "name": "flint-int4-gguf Q4_1", "url": "https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint-int4-gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_1", "sizeGB": 26, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "flint-int4-q4_1.gguf, 25,992,966,976 bytes, the INT4 export's trained codes stored as Q4_1. The card targets Metal and asks for a Mac with at least 48 GB at full context" }, { "name": "flint-nvfp4-gguf", "url": "https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint-nvfp4-gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 22.9, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "flint-nvfp4.gguf, 22,863,084,160 bytes, for NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA. The card recommends at least 48 GB at full context" }, { "name": "ollama flint:latest", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/flint:latest", "who": "ollama", "precision": "4-bit", "sizeGB": 23, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama" ], "note": "Digest 905c74dfd56b, shown as 23 GB (Ollama rounds to whole GB). The library also has qat-int4 (23 GB), q4_1 (26 GB), gguf-nvfp4 (23 GB) and mlx-bf16 (80 GB) tags. Ollama 0.40.8 runs Flint in its MLX runner; its bundled llama.cpp (b11738) predates Flint, so the GGUF tags on Linux weren't confirmed in a release" }, { "name": "lmstudio-community flint-GGUF Q4_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/flint-GGUF", "who": "lmstudio", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 24.2, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "LM Studio", "llama.cpp" ], "note": "flint-Q4_K_M.gguf, 24,166,841,184 bytes, the build behind LM Studio's recursivesi/flint catalogue page. Also Q6_K (32.7 GB, 48 GB of memory) and Q8_0 (42.4 GB, 64 GB)" }, { "name": "flint", "url": "https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 79.6, "memoryGB": 96, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "SGLang 0.5.16 with Recursive's flint_sglang kit" ], "note": "Recursive's SGLang kit needs one GPU with at least 141 GB (B300, B200 or H200). Transformers support isn't in a release yet" } ], "run": "llama-server -hf RecursiveSI/flint-int4-gguf --alias flint -ngl all -c 131072 -np 1 -fa on --jinja --temp 1 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0 --port 8080", "runBuild": "flint-int4-gguf Q4_1", "checked": "2026-10-22", "minMemoryGB": 32 }, "family": { "lab": "Recursive", "family": "Flint", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#recursive" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Recursive Superintelligence, Inc. (the Hugging Face organisation's full name)", "domain": "recursive.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-22", "notes": [ "The Hugging Face organisation RecursiveSI is named Recursive Superintelligence, Inc. and isn't verified by Hugging Face. Recursive's rec repository, which carries Recursive's logo and links recursive.com, downloads the INT4 build from RecursiveSI/flint-int4 at a pinned commit.", "Nothing is hosted, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "The card links www.recursive.com, docs.recursive.com and github.com/recursive-oss/rec. Neither recursive.com host could be read on 22 October 2026, so security.txt and the domain's registration weren't checked.", "The card names a security reporting address at recursive.com, and rec's SECURITY.md asks for private reports through GitHub's vulnerability reporting." ], "score": 40 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recursive-flint.json", "live": { "slug": "recursive-flint", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://recursive.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T15:23:07.053004679Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-23T15:23:07.053004679Z" } }, "answer": "Recursive Flint and SmolLM3-3B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). SmolLM3-3B leads on reach and risk.", "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/recursive-flint-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Recursive Flint vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next.json", "title": "Recursive Flint vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Recursive Flint vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smollm3-3b-vs-spark-x2-6-4b.json", "title": "SmolLM3-3B vs Spark-X2.6-4B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smollm3-3b-vs-spark-x2-6-4b" }, { "json": "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": 10, "edge": "smollm3-3b", "key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "recursive-flint": 75, "smollm3-3b": 85, "weight": 25 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "smollm3-3b", "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "recursive-flint": 60, "smollm3-3b": 65, "weight": 20 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "recursive-flint", "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "recursive-flint": 90, "smollm3-3b": 80, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 13, "edge": "recursive-flint", "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "recursive-flint": 67, "smollm3-3b": 54, "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Recursive Flint and SmolLM3-3B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). SmolLM3-3B leads on reach and risk. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "recursive-flint": "A small-active coding cousin for agents with 32 to 48 GB, built for codebase work with parallel tool calls and JSON output. It needs llama.cpp b11803 or Ollama 0.40.8 or later, and the BF16 checkpoint needs a 141 GB GPU. Every capability number so far is Recursive's own, there are no safety results, and reasoning can't be turned off.", "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/recursive-flint-vs-smollm3-3b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-smollm3-3b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-smollm3-3b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-smollm3-3b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Recursive Flint and SmolLM3-3B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). SmolLM3-3B leads on reach and risk. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- Recursive Flint: grade C, 61/100, rank #49 of 107 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recursive-flint.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/recursive-flint.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### Recursive Flint (C)\n\nGood for: Agents doing repository work on a 32 to 48 GB Mac or NVIDIA box that want a fast sparse coder with documented tool calls and a plain licence.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent interface, 90 against 80\n- Documentation and upkeep, 67 against 54\n\nWatch for: No independent benchmark results yet, every published score is Recursive's\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- Reach, 85 against 75\n- Risk, 65 against 60\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 | Recursive Flint | SmolLM3-3B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 75 | 85 | SmolLM3-3B +10 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 60 | 65 | SmolLM3-3B +5 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 90 | 80 | Recursive Flint +10 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 67 | 54 | Recursive Flint +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61 · C** | **61 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Recursive Flint | SmolLM3-3B |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Recursive | 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 | 2026-10-21 | 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 | 3.5/5 (4) | 3.3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Recursive Flint.** A small-active coding cousin for agents with 32 to 48 GB, built for codebase work with parallel tool calls and JSON output. It needs llama.cpp b11803 or Ollama 0.40.8 or later, and the BF16 checkpoint needs a 141 GB GPU. Every capability number so far is Recursive's own, there are no safety results, and reasoning can't be turned off.\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### Recursive Flint\n\n1. Quickest start is `ollama run flint` (Ollama 0.40.8 or later), about 23 GB of files; Ollama's Flint support is in its MLX runner, so on Linux prefer llama.cpp\n2. With llama.cpp use release b11803 or later: `llama-server -hf RecursiveSI/flint-int4-gguf --alias flint -ngl all -c 131072 -np 1 -fa on --jinja --temp 1 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0`, and keep --jinja on\n3. Set max_tokens to at least 32768 for hard tasks, reasoning counts against it and can't be switched off, and finish_reason length can mean no answer or tool call came out\n4. Send reasoning_content back on assistant messages when replaying the conversation, as Recursive's cards ask\n5. Strip \u003ctool_call\u003e, \u003ctool_response\u003e, \u003carg_key\u003e and \u003carg_value\u003e from untrusted tool output, the template doesn't escape them and a copied \u003c/tool_call\u003e can add a call\n6. Message content must be a string, flatten content-part arrays first\n7. Recursive's SGLang servers listen on 0.0.0.0 with no key, publish the port on localhost only or pass --api-key\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, Recursive Flint or SmolLM3-3B?\n\nRecursive Flint and SmolLM3-3B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). SmolLM3-3B leads on reach and risk.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-smollm3-3b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-smollm3-3b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"recursive-flint\", \"b\": \"smollm3-3b\"}`. 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