Serve a model with MAX launches an OpenAI-compatible HTTP server for a model. It handles tokenization, batching, KV cache, and the whole serving stack. You point it at a checkpoint and, if the model isn't built into MAX, at a custom architecture package. This skill takes you from "no environment" to "server answering requests," and helps you choose flags that fit the specific model instead of guessing. The guiding principle: start from the smallest command that could work, then add flags only when the model or the hardware forces you to . MAX auto-detects most things (dtype, sequence length,…