moonshotai/Kimi-K3 warn
Loading it runs custom code from the repo. Plus 1 minor note.
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Scan coverageStatic battery2026-08-22Weights battery2026-08-22Behavioral batterynot rundetails
| Battery | Looks at | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Static battery | Metadata & packaging | complete 2026-08-22 |
| Weights battery | Weights forensics: no GPU, no download | complete 2026-08-22163,840-token embedding scanned · 306 undertrained |
| Behavioral battery | Live-inference differentials | not run |
Ingot runs three batteries against a model. What each one checks →
Findings
Scanned 2026-08-22 · published from a community scan.
medium Repo ships executable Python (trust_remote_code)
The repository contains custom code files that run in-process when loaded with trust_remote_code=True. Pin the revision hash and review the code before loading.
How to fix
Review and pin the custom code; never float on `main` with trust_remote_code=True.
- Read every `.py` file in the repo before first load — this code runs in your process.
- Pin the revision: `from_pretrained(model_id, revision="<commit sha>", trust_remote_code=True)` so a later push can't swap the code under you.
- Prefer a version of the architecture already in `transformers` if one exists, which removes the remote-code requirement entirely.
low Undertrained tokens in vocabulary (non-ASCII tail)
Embedding-norm scan flagged 306 undertrained tokens (norm < 0.3× the vocabulary median), but 0 decode to plain-ASCII strings, so exposure in English-language pipelines is limited. Behavioral confirmation requires the behavioral battery.
How to fixruntime guardweight-level
Keep the affected token strings out of the model's input — the scan-derived runtime guard carries this model's exact blocklist.
- Fetch this model's guard artifact (`/api/v1/guard/<owner>/<model>`): the confirmed corrupting tokens and the low-norm candidate list, derived from the published scan.
- Screen inbound text with it (the `@ingotai/guard` package is a reference implementation) and route flagged records to a different model or human review — verbatim-copy tasks on flagged strings are the failure mode.
- The underlying cause is undertrained embeddings in the weights; a true fix is weight-level (continued pretraining on the affected tokens) — that is not a patch, it's a training job.
Remediation guidance addresses the documented findings only. It is evidence-driven repair, not a safety certification of the model.
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Fingerprint
The durable profile of this model: measured weights-and-metadata facts, rebuilt on every scan and battery run. Updated 2026-08-22.
| architecture | kimi_k3 |
| parameters | 2779931.8M |
| vocabulary | 163,840 tokens |
| license | other |
| serialization | safetensors custom code |
| chat template | none |
| glitch-token surface | 306 undertrained candidates, 0 plain-ASCII |
Full measured fingerprint
| architectures | KimiK3ForConditionalGeneration |
| library | transformers |
| pipeline | image-text-to-text |
| repo files | 118 |
| revision | a590ce090cb0 |
| HF snapshot | 2.3M downloads · 10.9k likes · updated 2026-08-20 · captured 2026-08-21 |
| embedding tensor | language_model.model.embed_tokens.weight · BF16 · 163,840×7168 |
| embedding norms | median 1.3976 · mean 1.4072 |
| lineage check | no claimed base model |
Battery runs (1)the run trace behind the findings — what each job measured
| battery | status | queued | duration | attempts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| weights | complete | 2026-08-21 07:42 | 76s | 1 |
weights run 2026-08-21 — measurements
| probes run | glitch-norm-scan, lineage-norm-correlation |
| probes skipped | token-decode: no tokenizer.json |
| embedding tensor | language_model.model.embed_tokens.weight · BF16 · 163,840×7168 |
| glitch surface | 306 undertrained, 0 plain-ASCII |
| lineage check | not checked (no claimed base model) |
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