Where each start script on this machine sources its settings file, and where it first reads a variable.
Read from the 26 scripts on 2026-09-26 (the folder names are the model names; three of the models are retired
but their scripts remain). "sourced at line" is the line that runs the settings file with the shell's dot
command; "first read" is the first line that takes a variable with a default (the ${NAME:-default} form)
outside a comment. The settings files themselves were not opened.

  script (model folder)                      settings file named   sourced at line   first ${VAR:-default} read at line
  DeepSeek-V4-Flash                          line 31              32                33
  GLM-4.7-Flash                              line 35              36                37
  GLM-4.7-Full                               line 67              68                69
  GLM-5.2-UD-IQ1_S                           none                 never             4
  GLM-5.3-Flash                              line 52              53                54
  Gemma-4-26B-A4B                            line 32              33                34
  Inkling-Small                              line 21              22                23
  Kimi-K2.6                                  none                 never             24
  Kimi-K2.7-Code                             none                 never             24
  Kimi-K3                                    none                 never             49
  Laguna-S-2.1                               none                 never             7
  Ling-3.0-flash                             line 74              75                76
  MiniMax-M2.7                               line 76              80                76
  MiniMax-M3                                 none                 never             49
  Mistral-Large-3                            line 22              23                24
  Mistral-Medium-3.5                         line 27              28                29
  Mistral-Small-4                            line 20              21                22
  Muse-Glimmer-30B                           line 49              50                51
  Ornith-1.5-35B                             line 36              37                38
  Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507              line 56              57                58
  Qwen3.5-122B-A10B                          line 24              25                26
  Qwen3.5-397B-A17B                          line 18              19                20
  Qwen3.6-27B                                line 67              68                69
  Qwen3.8-27B                                line 35              36                37
  Qwen3.8-Flash-Next                         line 64              65                70
  gemma-4-31b-it-qat                         line 35              36                37

Count: 26 scripts; 20 name and source a settings file; in 19 of those the file is sourced before
the first variable is read. The one exception in order, MiniMax M2.7, reads the settings file's own location
from the environment first (a variable that names the file), then sources it, then reads every other variable:
the same order for everything but the file's name. Six scripts have no settings file.

==== The pattern, from the Qwen3.6-27B script (lines 66 to 70; settings-file path and prefix redacted)
  66  set -euo pipefail
  67  ENVF=<REDACTED_PATH>/<settings file>
  68  [ -f "$ENVF" ] && . "$ENVF"
  69  CTX="${QWEN36_CTX:-131072}"
  70  HOST="${QWEN36_HOST:-<LOCAL>}"; PORT="${QWEN36_PORT:-<PORT>}"

==== The M2.7 variant (lines 76 to 82)
  76  ENVF="${MINIMAX_M27_ENV_FILE:-<REDACTED_PATH>/<settings file>}"
  77  if [ -n "${MINIMAX_M27_ENV_FILE:-}" ] && [ ! -f "$ENVF" ]; then
  78    echo "ERROR: MINIMAX_M27_ENV_FILE=$ENVF does not exist." >&2; exit 2
  79  fi
  80  [ -f "$ENVF" ] && . "$ENVF"
  81  CTX="${MINIMAX_M27_CTX:-131072}"
  82  NCMOE="${MINIMAX_M27_NCMOE:-59}"

==== What it means, reproduced on 2026-09-26 with a two-line demonstration file that contains only FOO_PORT=8116
$ FOO_PORT=8199 bash -c '. demo.env; PORT="${FOO_PORT:-8116}"; echo ...'
exported FOO_PORT=8199; after sourcing the file the script sees FOO_PORT=8116 and binds 8116
exit code 0

Reading: sourcing runs the file's assignments in the script's own shell, so a plain NAME=value line in the file
replaces whatever the environment carried, and the script then reads the file's value. Nothing prints. The file
winning is the design of these scripts (the file is the operator's control surface); the trap is expecting an
exported variable to win.