ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF · Hugging Face

Source: https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF

Chirp Chirp! 🐦 We are introducing Ornith-1.5, a major step toward building foundation models through end-to-end self-improvement.

Ornith-1.5 extends Ornith-1.0 (which was developed on top of Qwen3.5 and Gemma4 with additional continued pretraining, mid-training, and post-training) by expanding the self-improvement loop from scaffold and rollout optimization to jointly optimizing task generation, scaffold construction, and solution rollouts. Rather than relying on a fixed set of human-curated tasks and manually designed harnesses, Ornith-1.5 continuously generates new training tasks, discovers effective strategies for solving them, and improves the policy through reinforcement learning. For more details on the task, harness, and rollout reward design, please refer to ourblog.

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#ornith-15-9b-1Ornith 1.5 9B

This model card documentsOrnith-1.5-9B, the most lightweight member of the Ornith-1.5 family — a 9B dense model designed for efficient single-GPU deployment, and edge-deployable on mobile devices via its quantized Ornith-1.5-9B-Mobile variant.

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#benchmarksBenchmarks

Ornith-1.5-9BOrnith-1.0-9BQwen3.5-9BQwen3.6-35B-A3BGemma-4-31BCodingTerminal-Bench 2.1(Terminus-2)46.243.121.352.542.1Terminal-Bench 2.1(Claude Code)4740.618.949.2-SWE-bench Verified70.669.453.273.452SWE-bench Pro47.542.931.349.535.7SWE-bench Multilingual54.45239.767.251.7NL2Repo32.427.216.229.415.5SWE Atlas - QnA20.617.99.215.5-ReasoningHLE(no tools)20.216.814.721.419.5HLE(with tools)30.526.424.528.926.5GPQA Diamond86.482.581.78684.3AgenticMCP-Atlas54.249.446.862.855Toolathlon-Verified41.233.429.641.752.8WideSearch59.555.853.660.154.2BrowseComp56.444.841.562-ClawEval66.563.153.268.748.5* All results reported for Ornith-1.5 are averaged over five independent runs. * Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Terminus-2): We evaluate Terminal-Bench 2.1 using the Harbor/Terminus-2 framework with parser=json, temperature=1.0, top_p=1.0, and a 128K context window. Each run uses a 4-hour timeout with 32 CPU cores and 48GB RAM, and results are averaged over 5 runs. We adjust the Qwen chat template to ensure consistency between training and inference (https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B/blob/main/chat_template.jinja), and modify Harbor to align with vLLM’s reasoning_content key. * Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Claude Code): We evaluate Terminal-Bench 2.1 using Claude Code 2.1.126 with parser=json, temperature=1.0, top_p=1.0, max_new_tokens=131072. Results are averaged over 5 runs. Again, Qwen chat template needs to be modified. * SWE-Bench Verified, Pro and Multilingual: using OpenHands harness with temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, 256k context window. Anti-hacking safeguards are applied throughout evaluation: Git history is removed from the local repository image to prevent access to prior solutions or commits; network access is disabled, preventing the model from retrieving external information or resources. * DeepSWE: Evaluated using the Claude Code harness with temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, and a 256K context window. * SWE Atlas QnA: using mini SWE agent harness with temp=1.0, top_p=0.95, 128K context window. Results are averaged over 5 runs. * NL2Repo: with temperature=1.0, top_p=1.0, 400K context, 48K output. Access to specified GitHub repositories and pip packages is blocked to prevent reward hacking. * HLE: Evaluated using Claude 4.6 Opus as the judge model. * MCP-Atlas: All models were evaluated in thinking mode on the 500-task public subset, with a 10-minute timeout per task. We use Claude 4.8 Opus as the judge model. * Toolathlon-Verified: We use the official evaluation service with the maximum token limit set to 128K. * ClawEval: An agentic code benchmark over real-user task distributions; temp=0.6 and 256K context.

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#quickstartQuickstart

📝 NOTE

Ornith-1.5-9Bis areasoning model: by default the assistant turn opens with a<think\> … </think\>block before the final answer. The serving recipes below enable a reasoning parser so the chain-of-thought is returned in a separatereasoning\_contentfield, and a tool-call parser so the model’s<tool\_call\>blocks are surfaced as OpenAI-styletool\_calls.

Serving Ornith-1.5-9B requires recent runtimes:

• Transformers≥ 5.8.1
• vLLM≥ 0.19.1
• SGLang≥ 0.5.9

Recommended sampling parameters:

• For general tasks:temperature=1\.0,top\_p=0\.95,top\_k=20,min\_p=0\.0,presence\_penalty=1\.5,repetition\_penalty=1\.0
• For precise coding tasks:temperature=0\.6,top\_p=0\.95,top\_k=20,min\_p=0\.0,presence\_penalty=0\.0,repetition\_penalty=1\.0

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#serving-ornith-15-9bServing Ornith-1.5-9B

Ornith-1.5-9B is a dense ~9B model (≈19 GB in bf16), so it serves on asingle 80GB GPU. The recipes below stand up an OpenAI-compatible server; add\-\-tensor\-parallel\-size/\-\-tpif you want to shard across more GPUs.

• vLLM

vllm serve ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B --served-model-name Ornith-1.5-9B --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 --max-model-len 262144 --gpu-memory-utilization 0.90 --enable-prefix-caching --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_xml --reasoning-parser qwen3 --trust-remote-code

• SGLang

python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B --served-model-name Ornith-1.5-9B --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 --context-length 262144 --mem-fraction-static 0.85 --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --reasoning-parser qwen3

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#for-long-contextFor Long-Context

Ornith-1.5-9B handles context windows of up to 262,144 tokens. When a task’s combined input and output must go beyond this limit, we suggest extending the effective window with RoPE scaling — YaRN is the technique we validate against, and it is already built into both vLLM and SGLang. With a scaling factor of 4.0, the usable window grows to roughly 1M tokens.

You can turn YaRN on in either of two ways:

• **Edit the checkpoint’sconfig\.json.**Add arope\_scalingblock to the model configuration: { "rope_scaling": { "rope_type": "yarn", "factor": 4.0, "original_max_position_embeddings": 262144 } }
• **Override at launch time.**Leave the checkpoint untouched and extend the serve commands above with the equivalent flags. vLLM: VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN=1 vllm serve ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B ... --hf-overrides '{"rope_scaling": {"rope_type": "yarn", "factor": 4.0, "original_max_position_embeddings": 262144}}' --max-model-len 1000000 SGLang: SGLANG_ALLOW_OVERWRITE_LONGER_CONTEXT_LEN=1 python -m sglang.launch_server ... --json-model-override-args '{"rope_scaling": {"rope_type": "yarn", "factor": 4.0, "original_max_position_embeddings": 262144}}' --context-length 1000000

📝 NOTE

Open-source runtimes implement YaRNstatically: the same scaling factor is applied to every request regardless of its length, which can slightly hurt quality on ordinary-length inputs. Only enablerope\_scalingwhen your workload genuinely needs the longer window, and sizefactorto match it — the target window is roughlyfactor× 262,144, so if your requests top out around 524,288 tokens,factor: 2\.0is the better setting.

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#using-ornith-15-9b-via-the-chat-completions-apiUsing Ornith-1.5-9B via the Chat Completions API

Once a vLLM or SGLang server is running, talk to it with any OpenAI-compatible client.

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#basic-usageBasic Usage

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1",
    api_key="EMPTY",  # any non-empty string works for a local server
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="Ornith-1.5-9B",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Write a one-line Python lambda that squares a number."}
    ],
    temperature=0.6,
    top_p=0.95,
    max_tokens=1024,
)

message = response.choices[0].message
# reasoning_content holds the <think> trace; content holds the final answer.
print("reasoning:", getattr(message, "reasoning_content", None))
print("answer:", message.content)

You can also stream tokens, or hand the model tools — Ornith-1.5-9B emits well-formed function calls that the server parses into the standardtool\_callsfield:

tools = [
    {
        "type": "function",
        "function": {
            "name": "get_weather",
            "description": "Get the current weather for a city",
            "parameters": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {"city": {"type": "string"}},
                "required": ["city"],
            },
        },
    }
]

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="Ornith-1.5-9B",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What is the weather in Paris right now?"}],
    tools=tools,
    tool_choice="auto",
    temperature=0.6,
    max_tokens=2048,
)

tool_call = response.choices[0].message.tool_calls[0]
print(tool_call.function.name, tool_call.function.arguments)
# -> get_weather {"city": "Paris"}

You can point any OpenAI-compatible SDK (Python, Node.js, etc.) orcurlat the same/v1/chat/completionsendpoint.

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#agentic-usageAgentic Usage

Ornith-1.5-9B exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with tool calling, it works out of the box with standard agent frameworks.

Examples of using Ornith with agents:

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#ollamaOllama

ollama run ornith-1.5:9b

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#atomicchatAtomic.chat

# Both runtimes load a GGUF build of Ornith (publish one at ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF).

# llama.cpp — serve an OpenAI-compatible API on port 8000.
llama-server -hf hf.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF --port 8000 -c 262144

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#llamacppllama.cpp

# Both runtimes load a GGUF build of Ornith (publish one at ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF).

# llama.cpp — serve an OpenAI-compatible API on port 8000.
llama-server -hf hf.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF --port 8000 -c 262144

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#hermes-agentHermes Agent

# Hermes talks to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — point it at your Ornith server.
export OPENAI_BASE_URL="http://localhost:8000/v1"
export OPENAI_API_KEY="EMPTY"
export MODEL="ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B"

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#openclawOpenClaw

# OpenClaw talks to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — point it at your Ornith server.
export OPENAI_BASE_URL="http://localhost:8000/v1"
export OPENAI_API_KEY="EMPTY"
export OPENAI_MODEL="ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B"

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#unsloth-studioUnsloth Studio

pip install unsloth

# Load Ornith for fast local inference or fine-tuning (Python):
#   from unsloth import FastLanguageModel
#   model, tokenizer = FastLanguageModel.from_pretrained(
#       "unsloth/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF",
#       max_seq_length=262144,
#       load_in_4bit=True,
#   )

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#coding-clisCoding CLIs

Ornith-1.5-9B is optimized for terminal-based coding agents. Point any OpenAI-compatible coding CLI at your Ornith-1.5-9B endpoint (setOPENAI\_BASE\_URLandOPENAI\_API\_KEY) to understand large codebases, automate tedious work, and ship faster.

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#opencodeOpenCode

# Register your local Ornith endpoint as a provider in ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json:
#
# {
#   "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
#   "provider": {
#     "ornith": {
#       "npm": "@ai-sdk/openai-compatible",
#       "name": "Ornith (local)",
#       "options": { "baseURL": "http://localhost:8000/v1", "apiKey": "EMPTY" },
#       "models": { "ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B": { "name": "Ornith-1.5-9B" } }
#     }
#   }
# }

opencode

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF#citationCitation

If you find our work helpful, feel free to give us a cite.

@misc{ornith_1_5,
    title = {{Ornith-1.5}: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement},
    url = {https://ornith.ai/ornith_1_5.html},
    author = {{Ornith Team}},
    year = {2026}
}