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Background

Family-owned whole-network adapters need a reproducible native SDK and a small set of model-agnostic build/runtime mechanics. Dependency provisioning must not occur during a model build, and installing an SDK must not imply model qualification.

Exit Criteria

  • Provision the official Edge-LLM 0.10.1 snapshot natively, with optional ONNX tools and explicit platform/capability admission.
  • Keep model selection, topology, orchestration and validation in the owning families; preserve ordinary builds when the optional SDK is disabled.
  • Transport explicit companion inputs without silently substituting a different execution variant.

Implementation

  • Add optional CMake provisioning and installed-package reuse for revision e8b29522938901f6df19ebeedd4b69bc8edbcd97, including exact JSON-header compatibility checks.
  • Add immutable named local checkpoints and an opt-in family build entrypoint, plus CLI arguments that carry those inputs without interpreting them.
  • Add bounded-memory bundle extraction and keep executable C++ diagnostics separate from result output.
  • Update Python API, build-pipeline and runtime documentation. Test changes remain in existing repository test files; additional package-configuration checks were retained as local validation recipes.

Change categories

  • Model or runtime behavior
  • Public API
  • ABI
  • Bundle or artifact format
  • Dependencies
  • Documentation only
  • CI or developer tooling

Validation

Commands and Results

  • python -m pytest tools/tests/test_architecture.py core/builder/tests/test_build.py -q: 106 passed.
  • Native SDK provisioning on SM80 and SM120: passed; 16 local package-configuration cases passed, including incompatible header/platform/capability rejection.
  • ctest --test-dir build -R '^(bundle_format_v1|cli)$' --output-on-failure: 2 passed against matching generic source files.
  • python -m tools.model_ci validate: valid.
  • npm --prefix website run test:model-support: 7 passed.
  • npm --prefix website run build: passed, including 34 diagram checks.
  • git diff --cached --check: passed before commit.

Hardware, Environment, and Revisions

Tested source is head ee91e1c71da243b0aaf7983a61cc2498b549adf7, based on 730286693249502319888859c4fdb5b42d2d2104. Native Linux SDK builds used SM80 and SM120, CUDA 13.3, TensorRT 11.1.0.106, and official GitHub Edge-LLM 0.10.1 at e8b29522938901f6df19ebeedd4b69bc8edbcd97. Exact vendored JSON revision: 55f93686c01528224f448c19128836e7df245f72. Node20 was used for documentation. No model precision, dataset, or checkpoint is qualified by this generic PR.

Not Run / Remaining Gaps

Community CPU / Required and TRTMC Internal CI / Automated premerge gate both passed on the recorded head. Model inference and independent quality evidence belong to dependent family PRs; this generic PR does not register or qualify those pairs. Other GPU architectures, cross-compilation and full catalog coverage are not validated.

Contributor Self-Review

  • I have completed a self-review of this change.

Self-reviewed the pinned native SDK provisioning, header compatibility checks, model-agnostic companion-input contract, bounded bundle extraction, and documented validation scope.

Notes For Future Readers

  • This is the generic prerequisite for separate passing-only model-family PRs. It deliberately makes no catalog-wide model, quality or performance claim.
  • Edge provisioning is opt-in and native-only. Model builds never install missing SDK dependencies.
  • Same-version development JSON headers can be ABI-incompatible with the pinned SDK; retain the content check rather than replacing it with a version-only check.
  • Exact-head TRTMC Internal CI / Automated premerge gate passed. This is the protected premerge result, not merely a successful bridge dispatch, and does not independently qualify model profiles.
  • Documentation website source is updated here; deployment remains tied to an approved merge. No merge or auto-merge is requested.

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  • High

The opt-in SDK introduces a pinned upstream native/Python dependency stack and generic public build/runtime contracts. Header-ABI admission and existing runtime tests mitigate compatibility risks, but family integration and exact-head CI remain separate obligations.

Provision the official pinned SDK through CMake with optional ONNX tools and native platform, capability, and exact JSON-header checks. Keep package discovery and dependency setup separate from model builds.

Transport explicit family-owned companion inputs without shared model dispatch. Add bounded bundle extraction and separate executable diagnostics from machine-readable results. Document the optional build/runtime workflow and extend existing tests.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Calafato <jcalafato@nvidia.com>
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Summary

Adds optional native provisioning and installed-package reuse for the pinned Edge-LLM 0.10.1 SDK.

The change:

  • Adds opt-in CMake provisioning and compatibility checks.
  • Supports optional full kernel coverage and ONNX tooling.
  • Adds BuildExecutionInputs and NamedCheckpoint.
  • Adds the optional family-owned build_with_inputs hook.
  • Preserves the existing build path when execution inputs are absent.
  • Adds bounded-memory bundle section copying.
  • Separates CLI diagnostics from machine-readable results.
  • Updates tests and documentation.

Architecture impact

  • Family-owned behavior: Families interpret execution variants, validate companion compatibility, select models, build networks, orchestrate runtime behavior, and perform validation.
  • Shared surfaces: Core build dispatch validates and transports execution inputs. The bundle reader adds generic section copying. The CLI changes output stream handling.
  • Dependency direction: Optional CMake provisioning adds dependencies on CUDA, TensorRT, Python, exact nlohmann-json headers, and the native GPU architecture. ONNX support adds export dependencies.
  • Affected consumers: Python build callers, CLI users of --execution-variant and --companion, family implementations, bundle readers, and consumers of machine-readable CLI output.
  • Open blast-radius questions: The supplied evidence does not resolve all model-family integrations, native SDK and TensorRT combinations, unsupported architectures, cross-compilation workflows, or full catalog coverage.

Review status

HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED

REVIEW.md requires this outcome when material ownership, compatibility, or blast-radius questions remain unresolved. No current review findings or test execution results were supplied, so severity counts and completion status are unavailable.

Walkthrough

The change adds optional Edge-LLM provisioning, explicit build execution inputs, bundle section streaming, and separate CLI result and diagnostic streams. It also adds compatibility validation, installation metadata, tests, and documentation for these capabilities.

Changes

Edge-LLM provisioning

Layer / File(s) Summary
CMake integration and package targets
CMakeLists.txt, cmake/EdgeLLM.cmake, cmake/edgellm/EdgeLLMConfig.cmake.in
CMake can optionally provision or reuse pinned Edge-LLM components and exposes EdgeLLM::Core and EdgeLLM::Plugin.
Native compatibility validation
cmake/edgellm/CheckNative.cmake, cmake/edgellm/EdgeLLMConfig.cmake.in
Validation checks TensorRT, CUDA architecture, GPU compatibility, and nlohmann-json headers.
Build, installation, and documentation
cmake/edgellm/Prepare.cmake.in, cmake/edgellm/Install.cmake.in, cmake/edgellm/README.md, tools/tests/test_architecture.py, website/docs/user-guides/configure-runtime.md
The scripts build isolated dependencies, optional kernels and ONNX tooling, install package artifacts, write metadata, and document configuration and restrictions.

Explicit build execution inputs

Layer / File(s) Summary
Execution contracts and platform helpers
core/builder/tensorrt_model_connect/build.py, core/builder/tensorrt_model_connect/__init__.py
NamedCheckpoint and BuildExecutionInputs validate identifiers, roles, tuples, and local directories. The package exports both types and adds environment, CMake-prefix, and platform-detection helpers.
Execution-aware dispatch
core/builder/tensorrt_model_connect/build.py, core/builder/tests/test_build.py
The build function dispatches explicit inputs to a callable family build_with_inputs hook and preserves ordinary builds and transaction handling.
CLI options and pipeline documentation
core/builder/tensorrt_model_connect/build_cli.py, core/builder/tests/test_build.py, website/docs/api/python-builder.md, website/docs/architecture/build-pipeline.md
The CLI accepts an execution variant and local companion checkpoints. Parsing rejects invalid combinations and preserves existing defaults.

Bundle section streaming

Layer / File(s) Summary
Named section copy API
core/runtime/include/trtmc/bundle.h, core/runtime/bundle/bundle_format.cpp, core/runtime/tests/test_bundle_format_v1.cpp
BundleReader::copy_section streams a named section through bounded memory and reports missing sections and I/O failures. Tests cover chunk boundaries, empty sections, truncation, and destination failures.

CLI output separation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Result and diagnostic stream routing
apps/cli/main.cpp
The CLI keeps machine-readable results on the original console buffer, redirects std::cout to std::cerr, flushes results, and returns the CLI status.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CMake
  participant EdgeLLM
  participant InstalledPackage
  CMake->>EdgeLLM: configure pinned dependency
  EdgeLLM->>InstalledPackage: install libraries, headers, and metadata
  InstalledPackage->>CMake: provide EdgeLLM::Core and EdgeLLM::Plugin
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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant BuildCLI
  participant BuildAPI
  participant FamilyModule
  User->>BuildCLI: provide execution variant and companions
  BuildCLI->>BuildAPI: pass BuildExecutionInputs
  BuildAPI->>FamilyModule: invoke build_with_inputs
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ee91e

EdgeLLM consumers can link against a mixed TensorRT installation and fail during linking or runtime. Native platform detection also fails on Linux hosts without os-release metadata. Resolve these compatibility issues before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 8 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 19.23% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 52 functions across 9 files. (10 skipped:… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (8 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding optional native Edge-LLM SDK support.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is complete and follows the repository template. It covers background, exit criteria, implementation, change categories, validation results, environment and revisions, remaining gaps, …
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Family Ownership Boundary ✅ Passed No family ownership violation is introduced. The authoritative diff changes no path under families/ and does not edit a family registry, switch, source list, or strategy map. The new core contract i…
Shared Semantic Neutrality ✅ Passed PASS. The changed shared code remains model-agnostic. BuildExecutionInputs and NamedCheckpoint validate only generic types, identifier format, role uniqueness, and local directory availability. `b…
Benchmark Validation Integrity ✅ Passed PASS. The authoritative PR diff does not modify benchmark, performance, metric, workload, reporting, or benchmark validation paths. It adds native SDK compatibility checks, explicit build-input valida…
Shared Change Blast Radius ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes shared surfaces, so the check applies. The description identifies a concrete model-agnostic need: reproducible optional SDK provisioning, explicit execution-input transp…
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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 19.23% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 52 functions across 9 files. (10 skipped: 10 unsupported.)


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In `@cmake/edgellm/EdgeLLMConfig.cmake.in`:
- Around line 34-36: Update the TensorRT discovery around
EdgeLLM_TRT_INCLUDE_DIR, EdgeLLM_TRT_LIBRARY, and EdgeLLM_PARSER_LIBRARY to
resolve all three artifacts from a single selected SDK root. Ensure the root
contains the header and both libraries, restrict each search with
NO_DEFAULT_PATH, and preserve the existing required-failure behavior when any
artifact is missing.

In `@core/builder/tensorrt_model_connect/build.py`:
- Line 167: Update detect_local_platform so platform.freedesktop_os_release() is
wrapped to catch OSError and use an empty release mapping, preserving the
existing platform.release() fallback when Linux os-release files are
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  • CMakeLists.txt
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  • core/builder/tensorrt_model_connect/build.py
  • core/builder/tensorrt_model_connect/build_cli.py
  • core/builder/tests/test_build.py
  • core/runtime/bundle/bundle_format.cpp
  • core/runtime/include/trtmc/bundle.h
  • core/runtime/tests/test_bundle_format_v1.cpp
  • tools/tests/test_architecture.py
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Comment on lines +34 to +36
find_path(EdgeLLM_TRT_INCLUDE_DIR NvInfer.h HINTS "$ENV{TRT_ROOT}" "@TRTMC_EDGELLM_TRT_ROOT@" PATH_SUFFIXES include REQUIRED)
find_library(EdgeLLM_TRT_LIBRARY nvinfer HINTS "$ENV{TRT_ROOT}" "@TRTMC_EDGELLM_TRT_ROOT@" PATH_SUFFIXES lib lib64 REQUIRED)
find_library(EdgeLLM_PARSER_LIBRARY nvonnxparser HINTS "$ENV{TRT_ROOT}" "@TRTMC_EDGELLM_TRT_ROOT@" PATH_SUFFIXES lib lib64 REQUIRED)

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Resolve all TensorRT artifacts from one SDK root.

The preceding TRTMC_EDGELLM_TRT_ROOT check only requires include/NvInfer.h. These independent searches use HINTS without NO_DEFAULT_PATH. If the hinted root lacks a library, CMake can select that header and obtain nvinfer or nvonnxparser from another installation. _edgellm_trt_version validates only the selected headers, so the mixed selection can pass the version check and cause link-time or ABI/runtime failures.

Resolve one root first. Require all three artifacts under that root, and restrict the searches with NO_DEFAULT_PATH.

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In `@cmake/edgellm/EdgeLLMConfig.cmake.in` around lines 34 - 36, Update the
TensorRT discovery around EdgeLLM_TRT_INCLUDE_DIR, EdgeLLM_TRT_LIBRARY, and
EdgeLLM_PARSER_LIBRARY to resolve all three artifacts from a single selected SDK
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device = checked(runtime.cudaGetDevice())
gpu = checked(runtime.cudaGetDeviceProperties(device))
cuda = checked(runtime.cudaRuntimeGetVersion())
release = platform.freedesktop_os_release() if sys.platform == "linux" else {}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Handle a missing Linux os-release file.

platform.freedesktop_os_release() raises OSError when neither supported file can be read. The current call prevents detect_local_platform() from returning its available platform.release() fallback on such Linux hosts. (docs.python.org)

Catch OSError and use an empty release mapping.

Proposed fix
-    release = platform.freedesktop_os_release() if sys.platform == "linux" else {}
+    try:
+        release = platform.freedesktop_os_release() if sys.platform == "linux" else {}
+    except OSError:
+        release = {}
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release = platform.freedesktop_os_release() if sys.platform == "linux" else {}
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release = platform.freedesktop_os_release() if sys.platform == "linux" else {}
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In `@core/builder/tensorrt_model_connect/build.py` at line 167, Update
detect_local_platform so platform.freedesktop_os_release() is wrapped to catch
OSError and use an empty release mapping, preserving the existing
platform.release() fallback when Linux os-release files are unavailable.

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