qflash/README.md

Qflash: OpenAI-compatible gateway for Qwen3.8 models

About

Qflash is a standalone, single-binary gateway that exposes Qwen3.8 model spaces on Hugging Face through a standard OpenAI-compatible API. It automatically detects and supports multiple upstream protocols:

• Gradio /respond endpoints (such as https://microhero-qwen3-8-27b-uncensored-chat.hf.space, running live on ZeroGPU)
• Direct OpenAI /v1/chat/completions endpoints (such as https://apathy-exe-qwen3-8-flash-next.hf.space, running llama-server)
• Gradio /chat_response endpoints (such as https://halvo78-qwen3-8-flash-next-playground.hf.space)

It translates standard /v1/chat/completions and /v1/models requests and Server-Sent Events (SSE) stream protocols into upstream formats, allowing any standard OpenAI-compatible client, agent, or IDE to interface with Qwen3.8 models without modification.

Features

• openai-compatible chat completions (streaming and non-streaming)
• automatic upstream endpoint detection (respond, openai, chat_response)
• deep reasoning extraction with thinking trace passthrough (<think> tags and blockquotes mapped to reasoning_content)
• stateful streaming tool call interception (StreamToolCallFilter) with zero XML or JSON leakage into delta.content
• real-time token streaming with incremental SSE delivery
• support for instruct mode via standard reasoning_effort: "none"
• zero-dependency SOCKS5 proxy client (RFC 1928 / RFC 1929) with domain resolution (socks5h://), IPv4, IPv6, and auth
• bring your own key (BYOK) pass-through support via Authorization: Bearer or CLI flags
• zero-gpu quota authentication via free Hugging Face personal tokens (HF_TOKEN)
• fibonacci backoff retry on transient upstream errors
• zero external dependencies (Go standard library only)

Supported upstream spaces

Space	Model	Hardware	Protocol	Notes
MicroHERO/qwen3.8-27b-uncensored-chat (default)	Qwen3.8-27B Uncensored	ZeroGPU (A10G)	Gradio /respond	Fast live inference (~2-5s), vision projector, uncensored build
apathy-exe/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (~177B)	CPU (OpenMP/AVX512)	Native OpenAI /v1	Full 177B model, single execution slot
apathy-exe/Qwen3.8-27B	Qwen3.8-27B (MTP)	CPU (OpenMP/AVX512)	Native OpenAI /v1	27B model with speculative decoding, single execution slot
Halvo78/qwen3-8-flash-next-playground	Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	CPU basic	Gradio /chat_response	Sandbox client; requires BYOK API key/base URL

Hugging Face ZeroGPU quota note

Spaces running on ZeroGPU provide free compute. Anonymous requests share a small pool per IP address. To avoid quota limits, set a free Hugging Face token:

export HF_TOKEN="hf_..."

Or pass it via the -hf-token flag, or via the Authorization: Bearer hf_... header in your client requests. Personal access tokens can be created for free at https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens.

Installation

You need Go 1.22 or newer (tested on Go 1.26). Install the latest release straight from the Git repository with go install:

go install code.luxferre.top/luxferre/qflash@latest

This fetches the module from https://code.luxferre.top/luxferre/qflash.git and places the qflash binary in $(go env GOPATH)/bin. Make sure that directory is on your PATH.

(Note: If installing right after a new commit has been pushed, bypass any proxy cache with GOPROXY=direct go install code.luxferre.top/luxferre/qflash@latest).

If you prefer to build from a local checkout instead:

git clone https://code.luxferre.top/luxferre/qflash.git
cd qflash
go install .

Alternatively, build directly from source using make:

make qflash

This produces the bin/qflash binary for your platform.

Models served

The gateway advertises the following models under /v1/models:

Model ID	Target model	Description
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored	Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored	Default primary live model (ZeroGPU)
Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	Flash-Next model identifier
qwen3.8-27b-uncensored	Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored	Standard lowercase alias
qwen3.8-flash-next	Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	Flash-Next lowercase alias
qwen-flash-next	Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	Shorthand alias
qwen-flash	Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	Quick convenience alias
qwen	Default model	Generic shorthand alias

Any unlisted custom model name requested by the client is passed through directly.

Usage

Run the gateway:

qflash

By default, this listens on http://127.0.0.1:8080 and connects to https://microhero-qwen3-8-27b-uncensored-chat.hf.space.

Available flags:

• -port — TCP port to listen on (default 8080)
• -endpoint — root URL of upstream space (default https://microhero-qwen3-8-27b-uncensored-chat.hf.space, QFLASH_ENDPOINT env)
• -mode — upstream protocol mode: auto, respond, chat_response, openai (default auto, QFLASH_MODE env)
• -model — exposed model name (default Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored, QFLASH_MODEL env)
• -thinking / -enable-thinking — enable chain-of-thought reasoning by default (default true)
• -hf-token / -token — Hugging Face API token for ZeroGPU quota or private spaces (HF_TOKEN env)
• -api-key — upstream inference engine API key for BYOK mode (OPENAI_API_KEY / QWEN_API_KEY env)
• -base-url — upstream inference engine base URL for BYOK mode (OPENAI_BASE_URL / QWEN_BASE_URL env)
• -socks / -proxy / -socks5 — SOCKS5 proxy URL, e.g. socks5://127.0.0.1:1080 (ALL_PROXY env)
• -user-agent / -ua — custom User-Agent sent to upstream

Endpoints served:

• GET /models and GET /v1/models
• POST /chat/completions and POST /v1/chat/completions

Example request with curl:

curl http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"qwen","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Explain quantum superposition in one sentence."}],"stream":false}'

Streaming example:

curl -N http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"qwen","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Count from 1 to 5."}],"stream":true}'

Instruct mode example (disables thinking):

curl http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"qwen","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}],"reasoning_effort":"none"}'

Using an alternative upstream space:

# Point to apathy-exe CPU llama-server
qflash -endpoint https://apathy-exe-qwen3-8-flash-next.hf.space -mode openai

# Point to Halvo78 playground with your own API credentials
qflash -endpoint https://halvo78-qwen3-8-flash-next-playground.hf.space -api-key "sk-..." -base-url "https://api.openai.com/v1"

Python OpenAI SDK integration:

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="http://localhost:8080/v1",
    api_key="sk-dummy"
)

stream = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Prove that the sum of the first n odd numbers is n^2."}
    ],
    stream=True
)

for chunk in stream:
    delta = chunk.choices[0].delta
    if hasattr(delta, "reasoning_content") and delta.reasoning_content:
        print(f"[THINK] {delta.reasoning_content}", end="", flush=True)
    if delta.content:
        print(delta.content, end="", flush=True)
print()

Credits

Created by Luxferre in 2026, released into the public domain with no warranties.