skippy-quantize: compose-mtp — splice an MTP draft into a sharded target GGUF

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What you can do now

skippy-quantize compose-mtp can build the self-contained composite GGUF issue #1425 asks for: a quantized sharded target (e.g. Nemotron 3 Super UD-Q4_K_XL) plus an MTP/NextN draft head folded in as the final block — no native ABI change, no re-quantization, target bytes preserved verbatim. scripts/hf-skippy-mtp-compose-job.py runs the whole package build (convert head → compose → attach probe → stream-publish) as an HF Job.

How it works

• Rewrites the last shard's header/tensor table and stream-copies its data; GGUF tensor offsets are data-section-relative, so re-serialization preserves them. MTP tensors append at aligned offsets as blk.N with the renamed nextn/per-block names.
• --metadata-shard/--metadata-output: llama.cpp splits keep the global KV (block_count, tokenizer) only in shard 1 — verified against the unsloth UD-Q4_K_XL target where shards 2–3 carry only split.* KVs. The bump (88→89) and --set-kv overrides (nemotron_h_moe.nextn_predict_layers=1) are applied there, never double-applied.
• Drafts already positioned at the target block are accepted verbatim — the pinned llama.cpp converter's --mtp export for the Nemotron MTPv2 head emits exactly that (verified in .deps/llama.cpp/conversion/nemotron.py).
• GgufKv::Raw preserves metadata value types without typed variants losslessly.

Validation

• cargo test -p skippy-quantize — 162 passed (5 new: round-trip bytes, KV overrides, rename refusal/acceptance, sharded metadata patch).
• cargo clippy -p skippy-quantize --all-targets -- -D warnings clean.
• Target/draft tensor names cross-checked against the actual Hub artifacts (unsloth GGUF shard headers, NVIDIA MTPv2 safetensors index) and the pinned converter mapping.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added a unified radix-based cache for resident and recurrent state with prefix matching, deduplication, reference tracking, and LRU eviction.
  • Added MTP-to-GGUF composition tooling, composite KV pages, K-index metadata, and mixed iteration-batch execution.
  • Added certification batteries, automated upstream canary repair, and reproducible cache A/B benchmarks.

• Bug Fixes

  • Prevented partial session-state updates when token-count validation fails.
  • Improved MTP composition reliability by staging required tokenizer files.

• Documentation

  • Added unified cache and canary repair guidance.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This change replaces separate cache indexes with a unified radix cache, updates runtime and KV-page ABIs, adds composite page support, introduces GGUF MTP composition tooling, and expands canary certification, automated repair, and radix-cache benchmarking.

Changes

Unified radix cache

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Radix cache topology and server integration crates/skippy-cache/*, crates/skippy-server/src/kv_integration/*, crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/*	Adds UnifiedRadixCache, namespace-aware identities, resident and recurrent entries, reference tracking, eviction, blob storage, sequence pooling, rollback, telemetry, and updated cache tests.
Radix design contract docs/design/SKIPPY_UNIFIED_RADIX_CACHE.md	Documents radix topology, component rules, invariants, implementation sequence, and verification criteria.

Runtime and ABI updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Runtime descriptors and atomic updates crates/skippy-ffi/src/*, crates/skippy-runtime/src/*	Adds indexed-KV fields and flags, validates descriptor consistency, supports older serialized descriptors, and makes batch token-count updates atomic.
Staged and composite runtime patches third_party/llama.cpp/patches/*	Adds staged execution, indexed KV-page handling, composite ISWA pages, mixed iteration execution, model support, build wiring, and related tests.

GGUF MTP composition

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Composition engine and CLI crates/skippy-quantize/src/*	Adds compose-mtp to read GGUF files, preserve metadata, rename and append MTP tensors, patch block counts and metadata shards, and emit reports.
Hugging Face composition job scripts/hf-skippy-mtp-compose-job.py	Adds repository preparation, quantizer building, MTP conversion, shard recomposition, validation, and uploads.

Upstream canary certification

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Canary workflow and repair .github/workflows/llama-upstream-canary.yml, .github/actionlint.yaml, scripts/llama-canary-agent-repair.sh, ci/llama-canary/*	Moves certification to a trusted self-hosted runner, verifies preinstalled tools and HF_CACHE, gates pin updates on the family battery, and runs bounded automated patch repair.
Family certification battery scripts/skippy-family-battery.sh, scripts/family-certify.sh, evals/skippy-radix-cache-models.json	Adds manifest-driven certification, two cache-hit repeats, activation-width fallback, and six model cases.

Radix benchmark

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Benchmark harness and tests evals/skippy-radix-cache-ab.py, evals/skippy-radix-cache-models.json, scripts/tests/test_skippy_radix_cache_ab.py	Adds old/new server comparison across cache modes, workloads, concurrency levels, telemetry, output parity, cache preservation, and acceptance gates.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 9929a

The PR adds composite GGUF publication and related runtime and CI changes, but it can reuse a stale MTP source on repeated builds and still contains unresolved correctness, availability, and workflow-isolation risks that could produce invalid artifacts, destabilize runtime behavior, or execute untrusted content with write access; it is not merge-ready without fixes or explicit acceptance.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant SkippyServer
  participant UnifiedRadixCache
  participant NativeRuntime
  Client->>SkippyServer: submit generation request
  SkippyServer->>UnifiedRadixCache: lookup namespace and token IDs
  UnifiedRadixCache-->>SkippyServer: return resident or recurrent match
  SkippyServer->>NativeRuntime: restore or execute cached state
  NativeRuntime-->>SkippyServer: return outputs and cache state
  SkippyServer->>UnifiedRadixCache: record or release entry

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CanaryWorkflow
  participant PrepareLlama
  participant LlamaCanaryAgentRepair
  participant SkippyFamilyBattery
  CanaryWorkflow->>PrepareLlama: apply upstream patch queue
  PrepareLlama-->>CanaryWorkflow: preparation result
  CanaryWorkflow->>LlamaCanaryAgentRepair: repair failed queue
  LlamaCanaryAgentRepair->>SkippyFamilyBattery: run certification battery
  SkippyFamilyBattery-->>LlamaCanaryAgentRepair: certification result

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third_party/llama.cpp/patches/0001-Add-staged-model-graph-and-family-support.patch (1)

561-581: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the seq_id bounds check before indexing seq_output_count.

llama_context::decode() indexes seq_output_count[seq_id] before calling balloc->init(). The latter validates batch.seq_id[i][s], so an invalid negative or oversized seq_id can cause an out-of-bounds vector access first.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In
`@third_party/llama.cpp/patches/0001-Add-staged-model-graph-and-family-support.patch`
around lines 561 - 581, Restore the seq_id validity guard in
llama_context::decode before incrementing or otherwise indexing
seq_output_count, rejecting negative IDs and IDs greater than or equal to
n_seq_max. Preserve the existing one-output-per-sequence validation for valid
sequence IDs.

🧹 Nitpick comments (3)

evals/skippy-radix-cache-ab.py (1)

395-395: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Replace the inline lambdas and the loop-body closure to clear the lint findings.

Ruff reports E731 for numeric (Line 395) and fmt (Line 875), and B023 for the loop-variable capture in pooled (Line 624) and fmt (Line 875). The captures are safe today because each closure runs inside the same iteration, so behavior is unchanged. Move the three helpers to module-level defs that take their inputs as parameters. This clears the lint findings and removes the late-binding hazard for future edits.

♻️ Proposed refactor

+def numeric(attrs: list[dict[str, Any]], key: str) -> list[int]:
+    return [int(row[key]) for row in attrs if isinstance(row.get(key), (int, float))]
+
+
+def pooled(summaries: list[dict[str, Any]], name: str) -> list[float]:
+    return [
+        float(value)
+        for summary in summaries
+        for value in summary.get(name, [])
+        if isinstance(value, (int, float))
+    ]
+
+
+def fmt(row: dict[str, Any], key: str) -> str:
+    value = row.get(key)
+    return f"{value:.1f}" if isinstance(value, (int, float)) else "n/a"

Then call numeric(attrs, "skippy.kv.matched_prefix_tokens"), pooled(summaries, "ttft_ms"), and fmt(row, "ttft_ms_p50") at the existing sites.

Also applies to: 621-627, 875-875

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@evals/skippy-radix-cache-ab.py` at line 395, Replace the inline numeric,
pooled, and fmt lambdas or loop-body closures with module-level def helpers that
accept their data and key inputs explicitly. Update the existing call sites to
use numeric(attrs, "skippy.kv.matched_prefix_tokens"), pooled(summaries,
"ttft_ms"), and fmt(row, "ttft_ms_p50"), preserving current behavior while
clearing E731 and B023.

Source: Linters/SAST tools

crates/skippy-quantize/src/compose_mtp.rs (1)

359-367: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

array_element_size rejects INT8 and INT16 arrays.

read_kv accepts GGUF_TYPE_INT8 as a scalar (Line 276), but this function has no INT8 arm, so an INT8 metadata array makes the whole command fail with "unsupported GGUF array element type 1". The behavior fails closed, so no file is corrupted. Adding the two missing 1-byte and 2-byte widths removes an avoidable hard stop.

♻️ Proposed addition

     Ok(match element_type {
-        GGUF_TYPE_UINT8 | GGUF_TYPE_BOOL => 1,
-        GGUF_TYPE_UINT16 => 2,
+        GGUF_TYPE_UINT8 | GGUF_TYPE_INT8 | GGUF_TYPE_BOOL => 1,
+        GGUF_TYPE_UINT16 => 2,

Note that INT16 (type 3) is also absent from both read_kv and this table.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@crates/skippy-quantize/src/compose_mtp.rs` around lines 359 - 367, Update
array_element_size to support GGUF_TYPE_INT8 with width 1 and GGUF_TYPE_INT16
with width 2, alongside the existing unsigned widths. Preserve the
unsupported-type error for all other element types.

crates/skippy-quantize/src/gguf_metadata.rs (1)

229-236: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The Raw arm cannot represent array values losslessly.

This arm writes a scalar header followed by bytes. For a scalar value_type (UINT8, INT8, INT64, FLOAT64) that is a correct round-trip. For value_type == GGUF_TYPE_ARRAY the GGUF encoding also requires an element type (u32) and an element count (u64) before the payload. read_kv_array in crates/skippy-quantize/src/compose_mtp.rs (Lines 345-354) builds GgufKv::Raw with value_type: GGUF_TYPE_ARRAY and stores only the element payload, so those two fields are dropped here and the written file is malformed.

The root cause is on the read side. I raise the fix at crates/skippy-quantize/src/compose_mtp.rs Lines 345-354.

Consider making the invariant explicit here so a future caller cannot pass an array type into this arm.

🛡️ Optional guard for the scalar-only invariant

         GgufKv::Raw {
             key,
             value_type,
             bytes,
         } => {
+            ensure!(
+                *value_type != GGUF_TYPE_ARRAY,
+                "GGUF metadata {key:?}: Raw cannot carry an array value; the element type and count are not stored"
+            );
             write_scalar_header(writer, key, *value_type)?;
             writer.write_all(bytes)?;
         }

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In `@crates/skippy-quantize/src/gguf_metadata.rs` around lines 229 - 236, Update
read_kv_array so GgufKv::Raw retains the complete GGUF array representation,
including element type and element count, instead of storing only the payload
bytes; ensure the writer’s Raw arm receives scalar values only and cannot be
given GGUF_TYPE_ARRAY, preserving lossless array round-tripping.

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/llama-upstream-canary.yml:
- Around line 8-14: Add scripts/family-certify.sh to the on.push.paths filter in
the llama-upstream-canary workflow, alongside the existing
skippy-family-battery.sh and related canary scripts, so changes to the invoked
certification script trigger the canary.
- Around line 21-30: Add a job-level condition to latest-upstream requiring
github.ref to equal refs/heads/main, so workflow_dispatch runs only for the main
branch while preserving the existing runner and workflow behavior.

In `@crates/skippy-cache/src/radix.rs`:
- Around line 636-645: Update the partial-edge branch in the nearest-resident
lookup around nearest_resident_descendant so that when the child lookup returns
None, it falls back to checking resident descendants of node using path and
records the branch-point match at consumed. Preserve the existing child result
and break behavior when a descendant is found.

In `@crates/skippy-quantize/src/compose_mtp.rs`:
- Around line 345-354: Preserve GGUF array metadata in the Raw construction at
crates/skippy-quantize/src/compose_mtp.rs:345-354 by prepending the element type
and count in little-endian form to the payload bytes, and add a UINT64-array
round-trip test. In the Raw-writing arm at
crates/skippy-quantize/src/gguf_metadata.rs:229-236, continue writing value_type
and bytes verbatim and add an ensure validating the read-side array-header
invariant.
- Around line 180-188: Update apply_override to return an error when an existing
key’s value is not U32, instead of silently returning unchanged; retain
replacement for U32 keys and insertion for missing keys. Propagate this Result
through plan_metadata and its callers so composition reports the type mismatch
rather than succeeding.
- Around line 419-424: Update the block-size mappings for Q2_K through Q6_K in
the quantization type mapping so each uses 256 elements, matching the pinned
ggml QK_K and blck_size values; leave the existing byte sizes unchanged.

In `@crates/skippy-runtime/src/activation.rs`:
- Around line 135-152: In the activation flow around the native batch calls,
move the updated_counts computation and overflow validation before each native
call, including the second block identified by its corresponding updated_counts
logic. Keep the collected values available, invoke the native call, require
ensure_ok to succeed, then assign the counts to request.session.token_count so
failed validation or native calls leave session state unchanged.

In `@crates/skippy-runtime/src/types.rs`:
- Around line 202-207: Extend RuntimeKvPageDesc::validate_payload to validate
each RuntimeKvPageComponentDesc’s k_idx_row_bytes against its flags using the
KV_PAGE_FLAG_HAS_K_IDX invariant, covering both composite components. Preserve
the existing page-level validation and return the same kind of validation error
for any component mismatch.

In `@crates/skippy-server/src/kv_integration/config.rs`:
- Around line 121-156: Update store_exact_radix_record to reject or return
immediately when pending.token_ids is empty, before calling dedupe_into or
UnifiedRadixCache::insert_recurrent, so empty exact-state records are never
inserted or cause a worker panic. Preserve normal storage and eviction behavior
for non-empty token paths.

In `@scripts/hf-skippy-mtp-compose-job.py`:
- Around line 148-155: Validate that HF_TOKEN is present at the beginning of
main, before ensure_build_tools, ensure_python_deps, prepare_repos,
build_skippy_quantize, convert_mtp, or compose run; fail clearly if it is
missing, while keeping upload’s existing token usage unchanged.
- Around line 108-113: Update target_shards to filter the target directory glob
using args.target_basename, ensuring only the intended sharded GGUF files are
returned; preserve the existing minimum-shard validation and ordering used by
compose.

In `@scripts/llama-canary-agent-repair.sh`:
- Around line 99-105: Update pr_comment to track whether the resource came from
current_pr or the fallback ensure_pr path; use gh pr comment for an existing
pull request and gh issue comment when ensure_pr returns an issue number,
preserving the existing non-failing behavior.
- Around line 108-117: Update run_battery so certification does not use stale
artifacts: remove the --skip-build option from scripts/skippy-family-battery.sh,
or ensure every successful scripts/prepare-llama.sh path runs
scripts/build-llama.sh and rebuilds the statically linked certification binaries
before invoking the battery. Preserve the existing log capture, summary output,
and exit-code behavior.

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Outside diff comments:
In
`@third_party/llama.cpp/patches/0001-Add-staged-model-graph-and-family-support.patch`:
- Around line 561-581: Restore the seq_id validity guard in
llama_context::decode before incrementing or otherwise indexing
seq_output_count, rejecting negative IDs and IDs greater than or equal to
n_seq_max. Preserve the existing one-output-per-sequence validation for valid
sequence IDs.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/skippy-quantize/src/compose_mtp.rs`:
- Around line 359-367: Update array_element_size to support GGUF_TYPE_INT8 with
width 1 and GGUF_TYPE_INT16 with width 2, alongside the existing unsigned
widths. Preserve the unsupported-type error for all other element types.

In `@crates/skippy-quantize/src/gguf_metadata.rs`:
- Around line 229-236: Update read_kv_array so GgufKv::Raw retains the complete
GGUF array representation, including element type and element count, instead of
storing only the payload bytes; ensure the writer’s Raw arm receives scalar
values only and cannot be given GGUF_TYPE_ARRAY, preserving lossless array
round-tripping.

In `@evals/skippy-radix-cache-ab.py`:
- Line 395: Replace the inline numeric, pooled, and fmt lambdas or loop-body
closures with module-level def helpers that accept their data and key inputs
explicitly. Update the existing call sites to use numeric(attrs,
"skippy.kv.matched_prefix_tokens"), pooled(summaries, "ttft_ms"), and fmt(row,
"ttft_ms_p50"), preserving current behavior while clearing E731 and B023.

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• crates/skippy-ffi/src/state.rs
• crates/skippy-quantize/src/compose_mtp.rs
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• crates/skippy-runtime/src/types.rs
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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To configure a GitHub Actions workflow to run only when files in specific paths are changed, you use the paths or paths-ignore filters within the on. configuration of your workflow file [1][2]. Key Rules and Syntax: 1. Path Filtering Location: These filters are defined at the workflow level under the push, pull_request, or pull_request_target events [3][4]. They cannot be applied to individual jobs; the entire workflow is triggered based on these filters [5]. 2. Paths vs. Paths-Ignore: You cannot use both paths and paths-ignore for the same event in a single workflow [6][2]. - Use paths to include specific file patterns [2]. - Use paths-ignore to exclude specific file patterns [2]. 3. Combining Inclusion and Exclusion: If you need to both include and exclude patterns for the same event, use the paths filter and prefix your exclusion patterns with the! character [2]. When using this syntax, you must include at least one non-negated (positive) pattern [6][5]. 4. Multiple Filters: If you define both branches (or branches-ignore) and path filters, the workflow will only run if both criteria are satisfied [2][4]. 5. Tag Pushes: Path filters are not evaluated for pushes of tags [3][2]. Example: This configuration triggers the workflow when files in sub-project/ are changed, but ignores changes specifically within sub-project/docs/ [2][5]. on: push: paths: - 'sub-project/' - '!sub-project/docs/' If you require more granular control—such as triggering specific jobs based on path changes rather than the entire workflow—the official documentation recommends using external actions like paths-filter [7][5].

Citations:

• 1: https://docs.github.com/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions
• 2: https://docs.github.com/actions/using-workflows/triggering-a-workflow
• 3: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/workflow-syntax
• 4: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/events-that-trigger-workflows
• 5: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63822219/how-to-run-github-actions-workflow-only-if-the-pushed-files-are-in-a-specific-fo
• 6: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/workflow-syntax?use_case=
• 7: https://github.com/dorny/paths-filter

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Add scripts/family-certify.sh to the push path filter.

The battery step invokes this script through scripts/skippy-family-battery.sh. A main push that changes only scripts/family-certify.sh matches none of the configured on.push.paths, so the canary does not run for that change.

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In @.github/workflows/llama-upstream-canary.yml around lines 8 - 14, Add
scripts/family-certify.sh to the on.push.paths filter in the
llama-upstream-canary workflow, alongside the existing skippy-family-battery.sh
and related canary scripts, so changes to the invoked certification script
trigger the canary.

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Inline comments:
In `@scripts/hf-skippy-mtp-compose-job.py`:
- Around line 113-126: Recreate the staged directory before populating it in the
staging flow: remove any existing mtp-src directory and then create it anew
before iterating over args.mtp_source and downloading tokenizer files. Preserve
the existing symlink creation behavior while ensuring reused work directories
cannot retain links from a previous invocation.

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Needs revision. The sharded output metadata has a loader-blocking mismatch called out inline.

Follow-ups:

• Add a sharded fixture that contains split.tensors.count, then load the composed output with llama.cpp.
• Compose MTP isn't exercised by current CI or the HF job tests.
• The current Linux run also has a deterministic skippy-server test failure. Please rerun the full matrix after the metadata fix.

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[i386]

Review fixes pushed in 61799e4 (+ job logging in dacfbdc):

• split.tensors.count is now bumped by the appended MTP tensor count when patching the metadata shard (and in the target KV when no metadata shard is given). Covered in patches_metadata_shard_for_sharded_targets, whose fixture now carries split.tensors.count and asserts the bumped total. The composed output is exercised end-to-end by the job's validate-mtp-attach probe (full llama.cpp-side attach path); happy to add an in-repo loader fixture on top if you want the check in CI too.
• GgufKv::Raw arrays now preserve the GGUF array header (element type + element count) inside the raw bytes so the round-trip no longer shifts subsequent KV entries (raw_array_metadata_round_trips_with_array_header).
• --set-kv against an existing non-u32 key now errors instead of silently no-oping (set_kv_override_errors_on_non_u32_existing_key).

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Fixes Applied Successfully

Fixed 8 file(s) based on 12 unresolved review comments.

Files modified:

• crates/skippy-cache/src/radix.rs
• crates/skippy-quantize/src/compose_mtp.rs
• crates/skippy-quantize/src/gguf_metadata.rs
• crates/skippy-runtime/src/activation.rs
• crates/skippy-runtime/src/types.rs
• crates/skippy-server/src/kv_integration/config.rs
• scripts/hf-skippy-mtp-compose-job.py
• scripts/llama-canary-agent-repair.sh

Commit: 980d6b5dcf3e028cab1ab3dbaff677351058fd5f

The changes have been pushed to the feat/skippy-compose-mtp branch.

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⚠️ 1 file(s) could not be committed — the agent does not have permission to push to .github/workflows/. Please apply these changes manually:

.github/workflows/llama-upstream-canary.yml — 2 changes:

Lines 10–15

       - "third_party/llama.cpp/upstream.txt"
       - "ci/llama-canary/**"
       - "scripts/skippy-family-battery.sh"
+      - "scripts/family-certify.sh"
       - "scripts/llama-canary-agent-repair.sh"
       - ".github/workflows/llama-upstream-canary.yml"
   workflow_dispatch:

Lines 28–33

 jobs:
   latest-upstream:
     runs-on: [self-hosted, family-certify]
+    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
     # Ceiling covers the repair path: agent turns plus up to
     # CANARY_REPAIR_MAX_TURNS+1 full battery runs in the repair loop.
     timeout-minutes: 960

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[i386]

Local repro complete — root causes 1 & 2 fixed, full pipeline verified

The failed job 7 path is now reproduced and passing locally against the real checkpoint (nvidia Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16-MTPv2 draft + unsloth UD-Q4_K_XL trunk shards), no remote jobs spent.

Root cause 1 (draft load): the upstream MTPv2 repo carries no token_embd/lm_head (1040 keys, only mtp.layers.*); the nemotron loaders created token_embd/output_norm as required tensors for the draft load → check_tensor_dims: token_embd.weight not found. Fix (patch 0028): mark shared trunk tensors TENSOR_NOT_REQUIRED when mtp_only, skip the duplicate-embedding fallback; the MTP graph borrows trunk tok_embd/output via ctx_other.

Root cause 2 (draft context, found by the local repro): the llama_context constructor gates ctx_other propagation by arch (GEMMA4_ASSISTANT, EAGLE3/DFLASH, INKLING) — no NEMOTRON_H_MOE clause. The attach path set ctx_other, the constructor silently dropped it, and graph_mtp aborted at reserve time: nemotron-h-moe.cpp:31 GGML_ASSERT(tok_embd_w != nullptr ...). Fix (patch 0029): add the missing clause, gated on LLAMA_CONTEXT_TYPE_MTP like INKLING.

Verified end-to-end on this machine (patched queue through 0029, cpu static ABI build):

convert --mtp → compose-mtp (--mtp-block 88, 89+1 layers) → validate-mtp-attach
✅ MTP attach valid: parts=3 layers=89 mtp_layers=1 projector=none session_created=true

scripts/tests: 549 passed, 7 skipped. Commits: 0028 + 0029 on this branch (2e949a20).

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Fixed 1 file(s) based on 1 unresolved review comment.

Files modified:

• scripts/hf-skippy-mtp-compose-job.py

Commit: 7dcab0810542cfc04e3d2fa202c23b2285124ba1

The changes have been pushed to the feat/skippy-compose-mtp branch.

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