Follow-up to 42541dd4f, which routed lint to arc-runner-set. Both of its
jobs failed there in one second (run 30637392862): the runner image has
git, curl, unzip, tar, ldd and python3, but not make, and build-scripts
additionally needs gcc because the packaging-script tests compile a
throwaway binary and inspect it with ldd.
golangci-lint needs make twice over: `make protogen-go` (which also wants
curl + unzip to fetch protoc) and `make lint` itself. So both jobs go back
to ubuntu-latest.
gh-pages.yml stays on arc-runner-set and is unaffected: it uses no make and
no C toolchain, and setup-go / actions-hugo fetch their own toolchains.
The preflight steps stay. They cost about a second on the hosted pool, and
they are what turned this into a one-second named failure instead of an
opaque one midway through a build. When the runner image gains make + gcc,
re-routing is one runs-on line per job. Any such re-route must stay
push-only: lint also runs on pull_request, and fork PRs execute untrusted
code that must not reach a persistent self-hosted runner.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [ClaudeCode]
The GitHub-hosted runner pool is shared per ACCOUNT, not per repo, so a
burst in one repo starves every other. On 2026-07-31 it reached zero
scheduled jobs for 35 consecutive minutes with 39 jobs queued, while
arc-runner-set completed 12 jobs without interruption across the same
window. Actions was healthy globally (other public repos were scheduling
normally), so this is an account-level throttle we cannot fix from inside
the workflows, only route around.
Site publishing and lint are small, run on nearly every commit, and gain
nothing from waiting behind a saturated hosted queue, so both move to
arc-runner-set, the label already proven in generate_intel_image.yaml.
lint.yml is routed for PUSH ONLY, and this is the important part: that
workflow also triggers on pull_request, and a fork PR executes untrusted
contributor code. Running that on a persistent self-hosted runner would be
a real compromise vector, so anything that is not a push to mudler/LocalAI
stays on the ephemeral hosted pool. gh-pages.yml needs no such clause: it
triggers only on push-to-master and workflow_dispatch, so it never runs
pull-request code. Both carry a repository guard so forks, which have no
such runner label, fall back to hosted instead of queueing forever.
Neither workflow uses sudo or apt, and both fetch their own toolchains via
setup-go / actions-hugo. A self-hosted image can still be leaner than the
hosted one, so each lint job opens with a preflight that names the missing
tool (curl/unzip/make for protoc and lint; gcc/ldd/python3 for the
packaging-script tests) rather than failing opaquely mid-build. Reverting
is one runs-on expression per job.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [ClaudeCode]
fix(vllm): apply Options[] engine flags before engine init (#11130)
CLI-style flags in a model's `options:` array (`--quantization:gptq_marlin`,
`--enable-prefix-caching`, `--kv-cache-dtype:fp8_e5m2`) were discarded: the
backend only ever read `tool_parser`/`reasoning_parser` out of Options[], and
did so *after* `AsyncLLMEngine.from_engine_args()`, where nothing it set could
still reach the engine.
Map `--` prefixed options onto the AsyncEngineArgs dataclass before the engine
is constructed. Names are normalized the way vLLM's CLI spells them
(`--enable-prefix-caching` -> `enable_prefix_caching`), values are coerced to
the target field's type (bare flag -> True for booleans), and unknown or
uncoercible flags warn and are skipped instead of failing the load, since
Options[] is a bag shared with backend-level settings. Field types come from
the annotation's base so `Literal["auto", "float16"]` (vLLM's dtype) is not
mistaken for a float.
Precedence is typed proto fields -> `options:` -> `engine_args:`. The
production engine_args defaults seeded in hooks_vllm.go therefore skip any key
the user already set as an option, otherwise the later engine_args pass would
silently override it. Parser lookups now accept both spellings, so
`--reasoning-parser:qwen3` selects LocalAI's parser as well.
The helper's tests are stdlib-only and run in the lint workflow's
dependency-light job via `make test-python-helpers`.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: localai-org-maint-bot <bot-opensource@localaisrl.com>
backend_pr.yml and test-extra.yml already filter themselves, so a gallery-only
or docs-only PR costs them about one job each. The image and Go workflows had no
filter of any kind, so a one-line gallery/index.yaml edit queued 20 jobs: 7
container image builds, 3 GoReleaser/darwin launcher builds, 3 unit test jobs, 2
golangci-lint, 1 e2e, 1 yamllint, plus the 3 that correctly stop after their
detect step. A docs-only PR queued the same.
This matters more than the job count suggests. Measured over the week to
2026-07-30, 97% of CI wall-clock is queueing and 3% is execution: a median
5-hour queue against a 4-20 minute median job. Cutting job count is the only
lever that shortens feedback time. The volume is there to cut, too: 13
gallery-only PRs merged that week with 10 open at once, and 78 of the 137 PRs
opened were bot-generated.
Add paths-ignore for gallery/**, docs/**, examples/** and **/*.md to the
pull_request trigger of image-pr.yml, build-test.yaml and tests-e2e.yml, and
add gallery/** to lint.yml, which already excluded the rest. That drops 13 of
the 20 jobs. None of the four can observe such a diff: gallery metadata is
parsed at runtime and never copied into an image, docs and markdown never enter
one at all, GoReleaser and the launcher take no such input, the e2e suite drives
backends over gRPC directly, and golangci-lint runs new-from-merge-base so a
diff with no touched Go lines is a no-op. The build-test exclusion also frees
macOS capacity, which is the scarcest runner class.
The two checks that do validate the gallery are deliberately left alone.
test.yml still runs core/gallery/variants_lint_test.go, which reads the real
gallery/index.yaml and asserts the index invariants, and yaml-check.yml still
lints the syntax.
paths-ignore skips a run only when every changed file matches, so a PR touching
the gallery and Go code still runs everything. master carries no branch
protection and no rulesets, so a skipped workflow reports no status and nothing
waits on it; .agents/ci-caching.md records that constraint for whenever required
status checks are introduced.
image.yml on master push is left unfiltered on purpose: skipping it would stop
the master and latest tags being republished for a gallery commit, which is a
publishing decision rather than a cost one.
Assisted-by: Claude:opus-5 [claude-code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
The backend matrix path filter only matched files under a backend's own
directory, so a change to shared build infrastructure rebuilt nothing at
all: an empty matrix, every job green, and the change reaching no image.
PR #10946 fixed scripts/build/package-gpu-libs.sh shipping a partial
4-of-8 cuDNN library set, which mixed versions with the venv's pip cuDNN
and produced CUDNN_STATUS_SUBLIBRARY_VERSION_MISMATCH at inference time.
It merged 1h48m after the weekly full-matrix cron had already run, so no
backend image ever received the fix and nothing signalled that it had
been un-shipped.
Add a SHARED_BUILD_INPUTS table mapping each shared path to the narrowest
set of matrix entries it can honestly invalidate, plus a generic rule for
backend/Dockerfile.<x> (which each entry already names). A full matrix is
417 Linux + 56 Darwin builds, so package-gpu-libs.sh now rebuilds the 176
Python entries rather than everything. Unclassified files under
scripts/build/ fall back to a full rebuild deliberately: over-building is
recoverable, silently shipping nothing is not.
Extract the filtering logic to scripts/lib/backend-filter.mjs so it can be
unit-tested without bun, js-yaml or a GitHub API round-trip, and run those
tests from the existing lint workflow via `make test-ci-scripts`.
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cuDNN 9 is a dispatcher (libcudnn.so.9) plus seven sublibraries the dispatcher
dlopen()s by bare soname. Only the dispatcher is ever a DT_NEEDED, so ldd finds
it and never the seven. The allowlist force-copied three of them
(libcudnn.so*, libcudnn_ops.so*, libcudnn_cnn.so*) into every CUDA backend,
which is wrong in both directions at once: too few libraries for a backend that
uses cuDNN, and too many for one that does not.
On an L4T fleet, ten of the eleven backends carrying cuDNN were in a broken end
state; the one that was correct was correct by accident, being BUILD_TYPE=cpu
so package_cuda_libs never ran for it.
longcat-video bundled 4 of 8 at 9.24.0 over a complete pip set at 9.20.0.48
in its venv. libbackend.sh puts lib/ on LD_LIBRARY_PATH, searched before
DT_RUNPATH, so the bundle won and the rest still came from the venv:
CUDNN_STATUS_SUBLIBRARY_VERSION_MISMATCH.
Nine others bundled 3 of 8 and had no venv cuDNN. None bundled
libcudnn_graph, which libcudnn_cnn has a hard DT_NEEDED on, so it resolved
out of the runtime image and the process ran bundled 9.22.0 against system
9.23.2.
Five of those nine - llama-cpp, whisper, rfdetr-cpp, sam3-cpp,
stablediffusion-ggml - do not reference cuDNN at all. ggml goes through cuBLAS.
They were carrying ~57 MB of cuDNN with no consumer, and completing the family
for them would have taken that to ~576 MB for nothing.
Sizes overall: backends with no cuDNN consumer shed ~57 MB each (seven
instances on the fleet measured, plus longcat's ~60 MB), while the ones that
genuinely use cuDNN grow from ~57 MB to ~576 MB, because the five missing
sublibraries are ~517 MB, dominated by libcudnn_engines_precompiled. Net on
that fleet is an increase of roughly 570 MB. That growth is the bug being paid
off, not a regression: those backends only work today by silently borrowing the
missing five from the runtime image. Whether the engines set can be trimmed is
an open question, not addressed here.
So bundle per backend, by what that backend actually needs:
- venv has a complete pip cuDNN -> bundle nothing; $ORIGIN resolves the pip
set, which is the one its torch was built against (longcat-video)
- venv has no pip cuDNN -> bundle the complete family. Stays
conservative rather than detecting consumers: for a Python backend they sit
inside the venv (torch, ctranslate2, onnxruntime) where the sweep does not
look (vllm)
- no venv, nothing references cuDNN -> bundle nothing (llama-cpp, whisper,
rfdetr-cpp, sam3-cpp, stablediffusion-ggml)
- no venv, something references it -> bundle the complete family
(face-detect, voice-detect)
The no-venv case needs no new machinery. Go backends stage their own shared
object into package/lib, which IS the target dir, so sweep_transitive_deps
already pulls the dispatcher when it is a genuine dependency - that is exactly
how libcudnn_graph reached longcat. cuDNN simply comes off the force-copy list,
and complete_cudnn_family fills in the seven dlopen'd sublibraries around
whatever the sweep found. Detection is a string scan rather than ldd, so a
consumer that only dlopen()s cuDNN is seen too; over-matching costs an unused
library, under-matching costs a backend that cannot load.
Keeping bundled and pip versions in agreement instead is not viable: nothing
here pins nvidia-cudnn (zero occurrences), torch is unpinned for l4t13 except
longcat-video, and the fleet already runs five concurrent cuDNN versions -
9.19.0.56, 9.20.0.48, 9.22.0, 9.23.2, 9.24.0.
verify_cudnn_bundle asserts the end state: exactly one complete cuDNN visible to
whoever needs one - never both, never partial, and never zero for a backend that
references it. Zero is correct and common otherwise. It deliberately does not
accept the build image's system cuDNN as completing a partial bundle, which is
the shape that had been shipping silently; the build image is not the runtime
image. A version check alone would have missed longcat too, whose four bundled
libs were all 9.24.0 and mutually consistent.
Match per family for the other components for the same dlopen reason: TensorRT
(libnvinfer_plugin, libnvinfer_builder_resource), cuBLAS, cuFFT, cuSPARSE,
cuSOLVER, nvRTC. Exclusions bind inside copy_lib so they cover the sweep.
The packaging scripts' shell tests ran nowhere in CI. Add make
test-build-scripts and a lint workflow job so they gate every PR.
Fixes#10905
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 golangci-lint shellcheck
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Yesterday two PRs (#9724 llama.cpp bump, #9731 llama-cpp-darwin
consolidation) merged 11 seconds apart. Both shared the same
backend.yml concurrency group (ci-backends-refs/heads/master-...) due
to "${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}" — empty head_ref on push
events falls through to the static refs/heads/master. With
cancel-in-progress: true that meant the second merge cancelled the
first's in-flight backend builds. The first PR's CI never finished;
the second PR only touched CI files so its run was a no-op.
Two changes per workflow:
- group: replace "${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}" with
"${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.sha }}". On PRs
this groups by PR number (same as before, just keyed on number not
branch name); on push events it groups per-commit, so two master
pushes never share a group.
- cancel-in-progress: gate on github.event_name == 'pull_request' so
rapid pushes to a PR still cancel old runs (newer push wins) but
master pushes never cancel each other.
Trade-off vs alternatives:
- Merge queue would also solve this and additionally test the merged
commit before it lands. Heavier process change; out of scope here.
- Allowing per-commit master concurrency means two simultaneous master
runs may overlap and race on tag pushes, but each commit's manifest
digest is unique and the registry is last-writer-wins on tags —
newer commit's tag overwrites older.
Applied to 11 workflows that share the same concurrency pattern:
backend.yml, backend_pr.yml, image.yml, image-pr.yml, lint.yml,
test.yml, test-extra.yml, tests-e2e.yml, tests-aio.yml,
tests-ui-e2e.yml, generate_intel_image.yaml.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* chore: add golangci-lint with new-from-merge-base baseline
Configure golangci-lint v2 with the standard linter set (errcheck, govet,
ineffassign, unused) plus forbidigo, which enforces the Ginkgo/Gomega-only
test convention from .agents/coding-style.md by rejecting stdlib testing
calls (t.Errorf, t.Fatalf, t.Run, ...). staticcheck is disabled — the
codebase has many pre-existing QF-style suggestions not worth gating on.
issues.new-from-merge-base = master makes the lint job a gate for new
issues only; the ~1300 pre-existing baseline stays visible via
'make lint-all' for incremental cleanup. CI runs 'make lint'.
Backends needing C/C++ headers we don't install in the lint runner are
excluded via a deny list in the Makefile (backend/go/{piper,silero-vad,
llm}, cmd/launcher). Discovery still flows through 'go list ./...', so
new packages are scanned automatically.
To make backend/go/{sam3-cpp,stablediffusion-ggml,whisper} typecheckable,
move their .cpp/.h sources into cpp/ subdirs (matching qwen3-tts-cpp /
acestep-cpp). Without this 'go list' rejects the package because Go does
not allow .cpp alongside .go without cgo.
Fix two real bugs found by lint in tests/integration/ (run only via
'make test-stores', not default CI): a stale zerolog reference left over
from the slog migration (c37785b7) and an unused 'os' import.
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* ci(lint): generate proto sources and fetch full history
The lint job was failing for two reasons:
- pkg/grpc/proto/*.go is generated, not checked in. Several packages
import it, so without 'make protogen-go' typecheck fails project-wide
with "no required module provides package github.com/mudler/LocalAI/
pkg/grpc/proto".
- golangci-lint's new-from-merge-base needs to git-merge-base the PR
against master, but actions/checkout's default shallow clone doesn't
fetch master. fetch-depth: 0 brings full history; the config now
references origin/master (the remote-tracking branch that survives
the shallow checkout) instead of bare master (which doesn't exist
locally after checkout).
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* ci(lint): stub react-ui/dist for go:embed glob
core/http/app.go has //go:embed react-ui/dist/*. The glob must match at
least one non-hidden entry or typecheck fails the whole core/http
package. We don't need the real React bundle to lint Go code, so just
touch an empty index.html to satisfy the embed.
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