---
license: apache-2.0
library_name: knot
tags:
  - knot
  - resident
  - gnosis-key-quant
  - aether
  - forkjoin-ai
  - edge-deployment
pipeline_tag: text-generation
---

# Resident KNOTs

> A collection of **resident GKQ (Gnosis Key-Quant) `.knot`** artifacts kept warm on the [Aether](https://github.com/forkjoin-ai/aether) distributed-inference mesh — single-file, self-describing weight containers streamed to edge nodes via HTTP `Range` requests.

## Contents

| Knot | Path |
|---|---|
| `gemma4-gkq.knot` | `models/gemma4-gkq.knot` |
| `llama-gkq.knot` | `models/llama-gkq.knot` |
| `phi3-gkq.knot` | `models/phi3-gkq.knot` |
| `qwen-gkq.knot` | `models/qwen-gkq.knot` |

## About

KNOT is the sovereign weight format loaded natively by Aether. Spec: [KNOT_FORMAT.md](https://github.com/forkjoin-ai/aether/blob/main/docs/model-cards/KNOT_FORMAT.md).

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