diff --git a/deploy/mavend.json b/deploy/mavend.json
index 501e2dc..246b69f 100644
--- a/deploy/mavend.json
+++ b/deploy/mavend.json
@@ -39,6 +39,23 @@
     "proxy": "socks5://192.168.240.1:10808"
   },
 
+  "//workstation": [
+    "The big model on the desk PC (bugmachine, 7900 GRE 16GB), fronted by",
+    "mavgpud on port 8080. It runs gemma-4-12b and it is preferred over the",
+    "resident Qwen3-1.7B for routing and replies whenever the card is free.",
+    "The machine is never assumed up: it sleeps, and the card is often held by",
+    "a CPT run, in which case mavgpud answers 503 and Maven falls back to the",
+    "resident model without saying so. Deleting this block restores exactly",
+    "the behaviour homesrv had before it existed.",
+    "Addressed by LAN address, not container name: mavgpud runs on another",
+    "machine and there is no shared docker network to name it on."
+  ],
+  "workstation": {
+    "url": "http://192.168.1.105:8080",
+    "probe": "15s",
+    "timeout": "90s"
+  },
+
   "//search": [
     "The live web, searched after his own notes and before Kiwix. Only the",
     "query string leaves the box — never a note, a fact, the persona block or",
diff --git a/docs/offload.md b/docs/offload.md
index 4c6a6c8..32291fe 100644
--- a/docs/offload.md
+++ b/docs/offload.md
@@ -125,7 +125,12 @@ Then the embedder above, **whisper.cpp** in `mavsttd`, and **piper** in `mavttsd
    `internal/netaddr` landed in PR #92. A seam address now carries its own scheme,
    and a scheme-less one is still unix. A tcp seam requires a shared token, because
    the filesystem permission that authenticated the unix socket is gone.
-2. **The resident model** (#485). Biggest quality delta. A 16GB card runs a 7-14B,
+2. **The resident model** (#485). Half wired, 02-08-2026. A `workstation` block
+   builds an `llm.Pair` in `modelSeam` (`cmd/mavend/voicewire.go`), and routing
+   and replies complete through it. Both are the silent half of the rule. The
+   naming half is not wired. A world question still goes to the resident model
+   through `PhraseQuery`, and the fixture measurement has not been run.
+   Biggest quality delta. A 16GB card runs a 7-14B,
    which fixes what the 1.7B gets wrong: world knowledge, and the persona the CPT
    targets. The degradation path is already written and measured, since the
    classifier scores 68.8% full accuracy at p50 16.6µs on its own.