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Summary

Adds a per-run NVML sampler for one Agoge agoge_run_id. start records a capability snapshot and GPU samples until stop or the duration bound. The trainer stays a separate command. This is not a resident monitor.

Refs #53
Linear: RM-1230

What landed

• tools/f0_gpu_sampler.py: start, stop, and run -- <command>.
• run leaves the trainer in the sampler's process group. It ignores SIGINT while it waits, so a terminal Ctrl+C reaches the trainer once, and it forwards only SIGTERM to that child. Before exec, the child restores SIGPIPE, SIGTTIN, SIGTTOU, SIGXFSZ, SIGINT, and SIGTERM to SIG_DFL. Job control stays with the shell: waitpid does not use WUNTRACED, and a Ctrl+Z stop is not killed. run waits until the trainer exits, then writes clock-skew.json and overhead.json and returns the child's exit code (128+signal when the child is killed).
• Samples are bkl.f0_correlation.v1, stamped with the NVML capability_digest. Missing readings stay null.
• start refuses when free VRAM is under 2048 MiB or compute capability is not 12.0.
• Contract: docs/f0-gpu-sampler.md. MiniCPM5 recipe: recipes/f0-gpu-sampler.md.
• WSL2 Ubuntu 24.04 setup for the same GPU runner labels (self-hosted, Linux, X64, CUDA): scripts/setup-wsl-gpu-runner.sh and recipes/wsl-gpu-runner.md. The script does not install a Linux NVIDIA driver. Workflow labels and tools/gpu_ci_gate.py are unchanged. The new script is an unknown path, so this PR still requires the self-hosted GPU job.

Tests

python3 tools/check_f0_gpu_sampler.py — 24 passed, including a pty stdin read, SIGINT exit 130, SIGTERM exit 143, a child exit of 9, a quiet SIGPIPE from yes into head -n 1 (141), and a pty Ctrl+Z then fg on run -- sleep 2 && echo SURVIVED.

Still open on ShipOfTheseus

Live GPU acceptance is not done here. A person still needs to run recipes/f0-gpu-sampler.md on ShipOfTheseus. This PR does not claim that run. GPU jobs still need nvcc, a GCC 6–15 host compiler, and, for the sanitizer workflow, compute-sanitizer inside the distro.

Cited by: Training Mixture Scientist (Grok Bot).

  

Summary by cubic

Adds a bounded per-run NVML sampler that records device state for one Agoge agoge_run_id as bkl.f0_correlation.v1 JSONL. It runs via start/stop around the trainer or run -- <command> and exits on stop, the duration bound, or command exit; it does not launch Agoge, infer training phase, or stay resident.

Sampler behavior

• Missing readings stay null (unavailable, unsupported, permission_denied, transient_failure, device_lost); the denied, transient, and lost statuses count as invalid in efficiency blocks.
• start refuses below 2048 MiB free VRAM or compute capability below 12.0; --allow-low-headroom records the breach instead.
• run puts the child in its own process group, ignores SIGINT while waiting, and forwards only SIGTERM; with terminal stdin it grants the child the foreground group and returns the child's exit code. A stopped trainer stays stopped until the shell continues it.
• The sampler child and bracketed command spawn via fork plus a literal python3 execvp with detached stdio.
• Session state is written atomically; a reading straddling a stop request is dropped; a SIGTERM landing before the child pid is recorded stays pending; the bracket's sampler thread is a daemon; nvml_live clears its cached VRAM per sample.

Setup and validation

• scripts/setup-wsl-gpu-runner.sh and recipes/wsl-gpu-runner.md register the self-hosted runner in WSL2 Ubuntu 24.04 under the existing labels; both refuse Linux NVIDIA driver packages. A failed dependency install is retried, and a replace aborts unless svc.sh stop and uninstall both succeed.
• CPU CI runs tools/check_f0_gpu_sampler.py against NVML fakes — 26 scenarios including atomic session write, stop during a read, single-delivery forwarded SIGINT/SIGTERM, and pty Ctrl+Z then fg.
• A live idle-GPU smoke on ShipOfTheseus is recorded in docs/f0-gpu-sampler.md: median read 3.0 ms, overhead_ratio 0.003, median jitter 4.7 µs; temperature_memory stays null as unsupported.
• tools/host_cli.py stays off the CPU allowlist so gate-helper edits still require GPU validation.

Refs #53 · Linear: RM-1230

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CodeAnt-AI Description

Add bounded GPU sampling for Agoge training runs

What Changed

• Collects NVML GPU readings for one training run, with start/stop commands or by wrapping a command; sampling ends when stopped or when its duration limit is reached.
• Refuses to start by default when the GPU is not compute capability 12.0 or has less than 2048 MiB free, and records missing readings as null rather than zero.
• Writes samples, timing and overhead summaries, and clock-skew data; wrapped commands retain their exit status and receive forwarded termination signals.
• Adds setup instructions for registering a GPU runner in WSL2 Ubuntu 24.04 without installing a Linux NVIDIA driver.
• Efficiency summaries now exclude permission-denied, transient-failure, and device-lost readings from averages and peaks.

Impact

✅ GPU samples tied to the matching training run
✅ Fewer fabricated zero readings
✅ GPU captures blocked below 2048 MiB free by default

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• Setup scripts:
  • Added scripts/setup-wsl-gpu-runner.sh and recipes/wsl-gpu-runner.md for WSL2 Ubuntu 24.04 self-hosted GPU runner setup
• Efficiency and CI:
  • Permission-denied, transient, and device-lost readings now count as invalid in efficiency blocks; ci-cpu runs check_f0_gpu_sampler.py

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• New Features
  • Added bounded GPU telemetry sampling for individual runs, covering device capability, utilization, memory, throttling, performance, timing, and available headroom.
  • Added an RTX 5080 sampling recipe and WSL2 Ubuntu 24.04 GPU runner setup guidance.
• Bug Fixes
  • Invalid physical readings are excluded from averages and peak calculations rather than treated as zero.
• Documentation
  • Expanded guidance for sampling, telemetry, correlation, CI, and GPU runners.
• Tests
  • Added CPU-only sampler validation to CI and expanded shell script linting.

The pull request adds a bounded per-run NVML GPU sampler, CPU-only fake-backend checks, and telemetry documentation and recipes. It also adds a WSL2 GPU runner setup script and guide, updates CI checks, and changes efficiency aggregation for failed or unrecognized physical readings.

Changes: F0 GPU sampler

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Sample data and prerequisites tools/f0_sampler_support.py, tools/f0_gpu_sample.py, tools/nvml_live.py, tools/f0_efficiency_numbers.py, tools/check_f0_efficiency.py	Defines sampler options, sample fields, run-file helpers, capability and headroom checks, and per-sample NVML reads. The live backend clears cached VRAM data before a new sample. Efficiency aggregation classifies failed or unrecognized physical readings as invalid.
Bounded sampling and session lifecycle tools/f0_gpu_sampler.py, tools/f0_sampler_support.py, tools/f0_sampler_harness.py, tools/check_f0_gpu_sampler.py	Adds start, stop, and run commands, bounded sampling, trainer-command handling, session cleanup, and skew and overhead reporting. CPU checks cover telemetry, timing, limits, signals, process behavior, and session writes.
Validation, CI, and sampler guidance .github/workflows/ci-cpu.yml, tools/gpu_ci_gate.py, README.md, docs/*, recipes/f0-gpu-sampler.md	Adds CPU sampler validation to CI and repository guidance. The documentation and recipe describe sampler operation, canary collection, telemetry correlation, and validation.

WSL2 GPU runner

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Environment validation and runner registration scripts/setup-wsl-gpu-runner.sh	Adds WSL2 and GPU checks, runner download and checksum verification, registration, and service startup behavior.
Runner operation and CI guidance recipes/wsl-gpu-runner.md, docs/CI.md, .github/workflows/ci-lint.yml	Documents WSL2 runner prerequisites, setup, startup, persistence, and verification. Shell linting now includes tracked scripts/*.sh files.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Sampler as f0_gpu_sampler.py
  participant Support as f0_sampler_support.py
  participant NVML as NVML backend
  participant Trainer as Trainer command
  participant Output as JSONL files
  Sampler->>Support: validate options and check capability and headroom
  Sampler->>NVML: collect GPU readings
  Sampler->>Output: append samples and session records
  Sampler->>Trainer: run command while sampling
  Trainer-->>Sampler: return exit status
  Sampler->>Output: write final skew and overhead reports

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Possibly related issues

• RM-760: The pull request adds per-run GPU sampling and capability records, but does not execute RM-760 or add wall-clock and throughput reporting.

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 743ca

The WSL runner setup script can leave a runner without its required dependencies after a failed first run, because reruns skip the install. A failed service stop during replacement can also leave the old service running with its registration files deleted. Fix both before relying on the script. The sampler changes themselves look sound.

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 743ca

The existing restrictions on self-hosted GPU jobs remain intact. However, rerunning the new setup script can execute runner-writable service code as root, and replacement can discard registration metadata before confirming service cleanup. These risks are localized to the runner and require operator action.

Retained concerns

• High · security · inferred: The new setup flow executes svc.sh from the runner-writable installation directory through sudo, including on ordinary reruns that reuse existing files. Code executing as the runner user could modify that script while preserving the version stamp, then obtain root execution when an operator reruns setup and authorizes sudo. Fresh-download verification and the fresh-only dependency-install guard do not protect these service calls. Fork exclusion limits initial exposure but does not protect against compromised same-repository job code.
• Medium · reliability · inferred: RUNNER_REPLACE ignores stop and uninstall failures, then deletes local registration, credential, and service metadata before configuring the replacement. Cleanup failure or subsequent configuration failure can therefore leave local ownership records inconsistent with an existing service. The script attempts cleanup and requests server-side replacement, but does not verify that the previous service is stopped before discarding its metadata; actual residual execution depends on the external service implementation.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The privileged rerun path can expand a runner-user compromise to root within the WSL distro, affecting its runner credentials, service configuration and accessible data. It requires later operator-authorized setup; the evidence does not establish Windows administrator access or cross-tenant compromise.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A compromised job running as the runner user can modify svc.sh in the reused installation. A later setup rerun accepts the existing version marker and invokes that script through sudo. This is a newly added executable path, not evidence that the unchanged workflow newly admits fork code.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The GPU job retains its required/trusted checks, independent same-repository condition, fixed runner labels, and disabled checkout credential persistence. The helper change adds CPU-only sampler paths, while policy files still require GPU validation and unknown paths still fail closed to requiring it.
• observed — Setup rejects runner locations inside the canonicalized checkout and normally refuses direct root invocation. These controls and fresh-archive verification do not make an already-used runner directory immutable.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Ignoring service teardown failures before deleting registration metadata weakens replacement failure containment and recovery. Subsequent server-side replacement is counterevidence against permanent duplicate registration, but cannot establish that local cleanup succeeded when configuration fails.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Separate privileged service management from runner-writable scripts, using root-owned control code and protected service configuration. Do not rely on the reusable extraction marker as an integrity control for privileged callees.
• proposed — Make replacement fail closed on unsuccessful service teardown, preserve recovery metadata until termination is confirmed, and make retryable installation completion distinct from successful archive extraction.

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This PR adds a well-structured, bounded per-run NVML GPU sampler with solid test coverage (18 CPU-CI scenarios covering all major failure modes). The overall design — capability snapshot on start, JSONL sample stream, explicit stop/finalize, STOP-file and signal-based termination — is sound.

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1. process_state — guard-after-use bug (tools/f0_gpu_sampler.py, lines 665–669): text[end + 2:].split() executes before if end < 0 is checked. When rfind(")") returns -1 (malformed /proc/pid/stat), the slice silently returns the wrong fields, making pid_alive unreliable and potentially leaving zombie sampler processes undetected by stop. Fix: move the end < 0 guard before the slice.

2. free_mib — KeyError crash (tools/f0_gpu_sampler.py, line 282): The fallback str(metrics["headroom"]["status"]) raises KeyError if neither "headroom" nor "vram_free" is present in the metrics dict (possible with non-standard backends or future metric set changes). This crashes refusal_reason before any refusal can be recorded. Fix: use .get() with a safe default.

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• The run_bracket early-return path (armed.refused → return armed.code) correctly flows through the finally block, calling close_backend and skipping finalize via the status == "refused" guard. No resource leak.
• overhead_within_budget's mixed integer floor-division and float comparison is correct as implemented.
• The _ints helper correctly excludes float values from timing metrics (all timing values are int by construction).
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## What this repo is
1. **CUDA backend for [`rmems/agoge-forger`](https://github.com/rmems/agoge-forger)** on this RTX 5080: the kernels and engine CUDA paths that make local LLM fine-tuning and training honest on sm_120 / ~16 GB ([docs/KERNELS.md](docs/KERNELS.md), [docs/FORGE_CONSUME.md](docs/FORGE_CONSUME.md)).

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## Primary stack defaults
| Role | Default |
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| CUDA backend / kernel SoT | **this repo** (`docs/KERNELS.md`, `docs/FORGE_CONSUME.md`) |

Source excerpt:
# Forge consume contract (contract revision 1)

## Training ↔ GPU telemetry join (F0)

Versioned JSONL contract: [`f0-correlation-schema.md`](f0-correlation-schema.md)
(`bkl.f0_correlation.v1`). Agoge emits `agoge_marker` records (run id, phase,
step). This lab emits `bkl_gpu_sample` records and a `bkl_clock_skew` report
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## Working rules
7. New release milestones include the version in the title; close only when that tag and release artifacts exist. The 2026-09-22 retirement of historical M1/M2/K0/CI/K1 tracks creates no retrospective releases. See [docs/RELEASE_V0_2_0.md](docs/RELEASE_V0_2_0.md).

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# v0.2.0 — First Agoge CUDA operator: MiniCPM5 + Granite

## Release acceptance

4. Target sm_120; no sm_100, FA4, TMEM, or MIG assumptions. Maintain **at least
   2048 MiB free throughout** each measurement, not only before allocation.
   Serialize training and GPU CI. Missing reserve or competing workloads
   invalidate the measurement. The headroom probe is not an exclusive lock.

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tools/f0_gpu_sample.py: 1

1-144: LGTM!

tools/nvml_live.py: 1

3-6: LGTM!

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docs/f0-correlation-schema.md: 1

43-46: LGTM!

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docs/f0-gpu-sampler.md: 1

1-109: LGTM!

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1-575: LGTM!

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1-107: LGTM!

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74-77: LGTM!

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46-47: LGTM!

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112-116: LGTM!

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85-85: LGTM!

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67-68: LGTM!

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102-108: LGTM!

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11-12: LGTM!

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26-29: LGTM!

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## What this repo is
1. **CUDA backend for [`rmems/agoge-forger`](https://github.com/rmems/agoge-forger)** on this RTX 5080: the kernels and engine CUDA paths that make local LLM fine-tuning and training honest on sm_120 / ~16 GB ([docs/KERNELS.md](docs/KERNELS.md), [docs/FORGE_CONSUME.md](docs/FORGE_CONSUME.md)).

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Correction on my thread replies: the atomic write_json and the semicolon split were described in 74924c1 but did not apply there. They landed in 997e63f, and atomic_session_write now fails against the old in-place write. CPU checks in WSL Ubuntu 24.04: check_f0_gpu_sampler.py 26 passed, and the other 8 ci-cpu F0/gate checks pass.

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tools/f0_sampler_harness.py: 1

197-211: Parent-side cleanup in bash_stop_and_fg is still missing.

If os.write or _drain_pty raises, the function skips os.kill, os.waitpid, and os.close(master). A raising os.read on the pty master (EIO) is a realistic trigger. The Bash child stays unreaped and the master descriptor stays open for the rest of the checker run. Wrap the interaction in try/finally, as the earlier review comment on this function proposed.

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218-220: LGTM!

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