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AGENTS.md

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 Guidance for AI agents working with InferenceX.
 
+> **Temporary language override (highest repository priority):** Until the user explicitly removes this override, ignore any instruction elsewhere in this repository that requires Simplified Chinese or bilingual output, including instructions in later sections, nested agent files, contribution guides, checklists, and templates. Work in English only: do not create or update `_zh.md` files, Chinese documentation, translations, or Chinese text in commits, pull requests, issues, reviews, or comments. Leave existing Chinese content untouched.
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 > **Mandatory reading: [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](CONTRIBUTING.md)** — read it before opening or reviewing any PR. It covers the full PR review flow, the CODEOWNER sign-off process, the `/reuse-sweep-run` merge path, post-merge responsibilities, and critical cluster rules (e.g. never leaving root-owned files on AMD runners).
 
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experimental/CollectiveX/.gitignore

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+__pycache__/
+*.pyc
+results/
+unsupported/
+.shards/
+.collx_workloads/
+.collx_backend/
+/matrix_full.json
+gpucore.*
+
+# Local plans and infrastructure inventory.
+goal.md
+notes.md
+private-infra.md

experimental/CollectiveX/README.md

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+# CollectiveX
+
+CollectiveX is an experimental MoE expert-parallel communication benchmark. It measures dispatch,
+combine, and paired roundtrip latency across EP libraries and accelerator systems, then uploads
+neutral result artifacts.
+
+CollectiveX schedules benchmarks, executes them on real allocations, and uploads the neutral
+artifacts each run emits. It does not validate those artifacts, promote, rank, recommend, select, or
+decide what a consumer displays. Any downstream display or comparison is the consumer's
+responsibility. The full measurement methodology is in [docs/methodology.md](docs/methodology.md).
+
+## Execution Profile
+
+The workload uses packed placement and one pinned `fixed-profile` resource configuration per
+backend/topology; there is no tuning sweep. Dispatch and combine are fixed BF16 on every backend;
+precision is not a swept dimension. Every case runs the single normal-mode contract:
+
+- Normal mode uses `layout-and-dispatch-v1`, rank-deduplicated token payloads, and activation-only
+  combine. Coverage is uniform routing only.
+
+Cases use a fixed timing profile from `configs/suites.yaml`: 128 trials x 8 timed iterations (1024 samples per component)
+with 32 synchronized full roundtrip warmups before each measured component at every trial/point. Component measurement order rotates each
+trial so every timed component occupies every position in the sequence; each iteration takes the
+cross-rank maximum before nearest-rank p50/p90/p95/p99, and roundtrip p99 is the headline latency. A
+keyed BLAKE2b counter produces byte-identical routing and gate weights on every runtime.
+
+Correctness is checked against the reference activation. The combine gate is `rtol=0.05, atol=0.02`
+for the BF16 communication path. Any failed rank or point makes the case ineligible in the result
+it writes.
+
+The matrix covers H100, H200, B200, B300, GB200, GB300, MI300X, MI325X, and MI355X. `sweep_matrix.py` materializes
+the requested SKUs, backends, EP sizes, and token ladders, then extracts strict per-shard controls
+and rejects missing, stale, malformed, or altered shard controls. `--only-sku`, `--exclude-skus`, and
+`--ep-sizes` select a subset; the matrix is generated per dispatch, with no frozen digest or locked
+case count.
+
+| Systems | EP8 | EP16 |
+|---|---|---|
+| H100/H200/B200/B300 | 1x8 NVLink, scale-up | 2x8 NVLink + RDMA, scale-out |
+| MI300X/MI325X/MI355X | 1x8 XGMI, scale-up | 2x8 XGMI + RDMA, scale-out |
+| GB200/GB300 | 2x4 MNNVL, scale-up | 4x4 MNNVL, scale-up |
+
+Physical host count does not determine scope: both GB topologies stay inside one 72-GPU MNNVL
+scale-up domain.
+
+| Backend | Current scope |
+|---|---|
+| DeepEP V2 | PR #605 `ElasticBuffer` plus exact upstream #630 and #640 fixes: LSA for scale-up and GIN for x86 EP16 scale-out |
+| MoRI | AMD EP8 uses IntraNode-family kernels (MI355X IntraNode, MI300X/MI325X asyncLL); EP16 pins InterNodeV1 over 2x8 XGMI + RDMA |
+
+DeepEP V2 means the `ElasticBuffer` implementation introduced by
+[DeepEP PR #605](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepEP/pull/605), not a newer legacy `Buffer` build.
+The pinned source is the [PR #630](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepEP/pull/630) head, whose parent
+is the #605 merge tree, plus the exact one-line library matcher from upstream
+[PR #640](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepEP/pull/640). The first fixes pure scale-up
+initialization when GIN is unavailable; the second prevents NCCL shared-memory mappings from being
+misclassified as duplicate NCCL libraries. Scale-up cases request NCCL Device API LSA and fail closed
+unless the realized LSA team covers the full EP world. x86 EP16 scale-out cases instead require the
+hybrid path with GIN, two logical scale-out domains represented by two physical RDMA ranks, and eight
+scale-up ranks per domain; GB EP16 remains MNNVL scale-up and therefore uses LSA. Whether a given
+SKU/backend/EP cell is attempted is a capability fact; whether it succeeded is decided by the
+benchmark's return code.
+
+## Workflow And Artifacts
+
+`.github/workflows/collectivex-sweep.yml` has two jobs. `setup` generates a public-SKU matrix
+(`backend`, `suites`, `only_sku`, `exclude_skus`, `ep_sizes` inputs) and uploads the matrix.
+`sweep` extracts a strict ignored `.shards/<id>.json` control per matrix entry, executes one
+allocation per shard, fetches pinned DeepEP source before allocation when required, and uploads the
+result artifacts with `always()` so a red or partial run still uploads.
+
+Each shard emits per-case result JSON and a small mechanical summary. A case counts as successful on
+the benchmark's own return code; there is no completeness or privacy validation step, and failed or
+unsupported cells produce no synthetic record. No step promotes a run,
+builds a dataset, or advances a channel; the neutral artifacts are the output. A consumer downloads
+them and decides what to display.
+
+Credentials stay in encrypted config and are never uploaded. Per-step runner logs are kept on the
+runner for postmortem; result artifacts carry only the fields listed in the methodology.
+
+## Runner Configuration
+
+Runner-local Slurm and storage values use a strict per-SKU JSON document at
+`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/inferencex/collectivex.json` or `COLLECTIVEX_OPERATOR_CONFIG`. Unknown runners,
+fields, duplicate keys, and non-JSON input fail closed; configuration is never evaluated as shell.
+GHA passes encrypted `COLLECTIVEX_OPERATOR_CONFIG_V1` content to the launcher, which validates it
+and overlays it, per field, onto the tracked baseline. The secret is optional: when it is absent a
+SKU runs entirely from its tracked baseline, and any field the baseline already supplies needs no
+secret.
+
+All public per-SKU platform data lives in the tracked `configs/platform_config.json` registry:
+identity (vendor/arch/machine/product), fixed placement, launcher, the operator-config fields each
+SKU must supply (`operator_fields`), the tracked baseline values for those fields (`operator` block,
+overridden per field by an operator document/secret when present), and the SKU's scale-out RDMA
+selectors (`network` block, overlaid the same way). A SKU whose `operator` block already covers its
+`operator_fields` needs no secret; SKUs without a complete baseline stay secret-fed and fail closed
+with a `validation-missing-required-*` marker if the secret is gone. `capability.py` derives EP
+topologies from it, and a suite's `platforms: all` in `configs/suites.yaml` resolves to every SKU
+registered there.
+
+Every selected non-MNNVL EP16 placement additionally requires `socket_ifname` and `rdma_devices` for
+its operator-approved fabric; optional `ib_gid_index`, `rdma_service_level`, and `rdma_traffic_class`
+are also allowlisted. Service level and traffic class are mapped into MoRI's RDMA/IO QoS environment.
+CollectiveX does not heuristically select a management route or HCA. After allocation, every
+non-MNNVL scale-out node must prove that all configured interfaces and active HCA ports exist before
+backend setup. Scale-up and MNNVL jobs clear these overrides. Scale-out NCCL/RCCL is pinned to `IB`
+with exact-match HCA selectors so a socket fallback fails instead of being mislabeled as RDMA.
+
+`ib_gid_index` is applied only when every selected HCA port reports an Ethernet link layer, where it
+selects the operator-approved RoCE GID. Native InfiniBand profiles retain explicit HCA and service
+level pinning but leave the RoCE-only GID override unset so NVSHMEM/NCCL can use the native LID path.
+Mixed Ethernet and InfiniBand HCA lists are rejected.
+
+`stage_dir` is a pre-existing, runner-owned, non-symlinked base outside the checkout and workflow
+workspace. It is not group- or world-writable and is visible at the same path on the runner and every
+allocated node. Jobs create only a marked mode-0700 execution child, prove cross-node read/write
+visibility, and remove that exact child after allocation teardown; they never mount the runner
+checkout or create a stage beneath image storage on AMD. When an AMD operator row omits `stage_dir`,
+the runner derives a private base beside its standard `_work` directory on the shared runner
+filesystem; the root-owned squash cache is never used as a repository stage.
+
+H200, B200, and B300 runners may omit `stage_dir`; their isolated execution child is created under a
+runner-owned mode-0700 base in the validated operating-system account home, independent of the
+workflow's temporary `HOME`. H100 may also omit `stage_dir`; its private base is created beside, never
+beneath, the configured shared container directory so it is compute-visible. Canonical B300 execution
+ignores any legacy configured `stage_dir` and always uses the validated compute-visible account-home
+base; an execution-ID suffix isolates parallel B300 workers. Canonical GB300 execution likewise
+ignores its legacy group-writable `stage_dir` and derives an execution-specific private base beneath the
+validated compute-visible account home. Backend preparation runs from that staged tree on every node.
+
+Enroot imports the configured image tag into a per-run-scoped squash keyed by image tag and image
+platform, so one run never reuses another run's imported filesystem. Backend source pins and image
+references live in `configs/backends.json`; the DeepEP V2 build is fetched at the pinned commit,
+verified by the wheel's commit-derived local-version tag and `ElasticBuffer` presence, and cached in
+a cluster-local build cache keyed by architecture, image, and commit. Only the fixed
+`/cx-cache` mount reaches the container.
+
+## Local Checks
+
+```bash
+uv run --with-requirements experimental/CollectiveX/requirements.txt \
+  python -m unittest discover experimental/CollectiveX/tests -p 'test_*.py'
+uv run --with-requirements experimental/CollectiveX/requirements.txt \
+  python experimental/CollectiveX/sweep_matrix.py --backends all --out /tmp/cx-matrix.json >/dev/null
+bash -n experimental/CollectiveX/runtime/*.sh experimental/CollectiveX/launchers/*.sh
+```
+
+Core paths are `capability.py`, `configs/`, `sweep_matrix.py`, `summarize.py`,
+`bench/`, `runtime/`, `launchers/`, and `tests/`.