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 | Secret store backend, and where the v0 file's key lives. straylight has no secrets manager today. | M3 |
 | Whether cloud-led sessions are ever allowed, and for which data classes. | M6 |
-| Where the M5b embedding model runs. The brief says a separate `llama-server` instance, but under the shared router it would be a third model against `--models-max 2` and could unload Ornith or Laguna. | M5b |
+| Where the M5b embedding model runs. The brief says a separate `llama-server` instance, but under the shared router it would be a third model against `--models-max 2` and could unload Ornith or Laguna. Owner's note, 2026-09-17: more compute is likely by then (possibly one to three DGX Spark machines), so do not design around today's memory limit. | M5b |
 
 ## Applied to the design brief