The macOS Apple Silicon job failed on its first run with
NotImplementedError: Unsloth currently only works on NVIDIA, AMD
and Intel GPUs.
surfaced from `unsloth_zoo.device_type.get_device_type()`. The cause
is the version pin: `pip install 'unsloth_zoo>=2026.5.1'` resolves
to the most recent PyPI wheel, which predates PR #620 and therefore
predates the `_is_mlx_only` gate in `unsloth_zoo/__init__.py` that
short-circuits the GPU device-type probe on Darwin+arm64+mlx.
Switch to `pip install --no-deps "unsloth_zoo @ git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth-zoo"`
so the macOS job sees the merged main branch and exercises the
actual MLX dispatch code. Studio's own `install.sh` does this for
exactly the same reason.
This is also the smoking gun the macOS runner exists to catch:
the spoofed Linux job cannot reproduce a stale PyPI/zoo pairing
because it never imports through device_type. The first real Mac
run found the gap on its first try.
GitHub-hosted macos-14 is the M1 standard runner (3 vCPU, 7 GB RAM,
14 GB storage) and is FREE for public repositories per the GitHub
Actions billing reference. Larger variants (macos-14-large,
macos-14-xlarge) are billed; we deliberately avoid those.
unslothai/unsloth and unslothai/unsloth-zoo are both public, so
adding a single macos-14 job to MLX CI costs zero minutes against
the org's billing quota while closing the only remaining gap the
spoofed Linux job cannot reach: the actual Apple Silicon dispatch
path. Specifically the new mlx-real-apple-silicon job:
- Installs the real mlx and mlx-lm packages from PyPI.
- Verifies platform.system()=='Darwin' and platform.machine()=='arm64'
naturally, with no monkeypatch.
- Imports unsloth and asserts unsloth._IS_MLX is True so the gate
flips on real hardware as it is supposed to.
- Smoke-imports every PR-A MLX-only module: mlx_loader, mlx_trainer,
mlx_compile, mlx_utils, mlx_cce, gated_delta_vjp. These all do
`import mlx.core as mx` at module level; this is the test that
catches a future change to those modules that would only surface
on a real Mac.
- Re-runs the same three dispatch test files the Linux job runs.
The monkeypatch spoofs still apply on real hardware, so this is
also the canary that the spoofs do not collide with the real
environment.
The Linux job is unchanged. Both jobs trigger on the same path
filter; mlx-real-apple-silicon caps at 15 minutes since the mlx
install is heavier than the Linux dep set.
Last security-audit run revealed 4 step-level errors hidden by
continue-on-error (the job reported pass but each fix is real):
1. OSV-Scanner curl 404 -> tar exit 2. v2.x ships a raw binary
(`osv-scanner_linux_amd64`), not a tarball. Drop tar -xzf,
curl -o the binary directly + chmod +x.
2. cargo audit `parse error: TOML parse error at line 5 col 8`
on RUSTSEC-2026-0073.md. cargo-audit 0.21 doesn't parse the
CVSS 4.0 schema used in 2026 advisories. Bump pin to ^0.22.
3. TruffleHog `flag 'no-update' cannot be repeated`. The
trufflesecurity/trufflehog action passes --no-update
internally already; remove our duplicate from extra_args.
4. cyclonedx-py `unrecognized arguments: --schema-version 1.6
--outfile ...`. cyclonedx-bom 4.x renamed to `--sv` for spec
version and `-o` for the output file.
Plus pin every remaining mutable-ref action to a 40-char SHA. The
new GHA pinning verifier flagged 4 third-party + 40 first-party
mutable refs; this commit pins all 44 to the latest SHA *within
the existing major version* (no auto-upgrades). Mappings:
actions/checkout @v4 -> 34e114876b... (v4.3.1)
actions/setup-node @v4 -> 49933ea528... (v4.4.0)
actions/setup-python @v5 -> a26af69be9... (v5.6.0)
actions/stale @v10 -> b5d41d4e1d... (v10.2.0)
actions/upload-artifact @v4 -> ea165f8d65... (v4.6.2)
actions/cache @v4 -> 0057852bfa... (v4.3.0)
swatinem/rust-cache @v2 -> 23869a5bd6... (v2.9.1)
dtolnay/rust-toolchain @stable-> 29eef336d9... (stable @ 2026-05-07)
44 pins applied across 11 workflow files. The pin verifier now
reports zero unpinned `uses:`. Dependabot's github-actions
ecosystem (already configured in .github/dependabot.yml) will
auto-bump these SHAs in weekly batches.
This closes the same attack class that hit litellm 1.82.7: an
attacker who hijacks a tag (as in the aquasecurity/trivy-action
March 2026 incident) cannot redirect our workflows because we no
longer follow tag refs.
The MLX CI workflow listed ``studio/backend/utils/hardware.py`` as a
path filter, but no such file exists. The actual layout is
studio/backend/utils/hardware/
__init__.py
amd.py
hardware.py
nvidia.py
vram_estimation.py
so the filter as written would never match. A reviewer modifying
``hardware/hardware.py`` (where ``detect_hardware``, ``DeviceType``,
and ``IS_ROCM`` actually live) would not trigger MLX CI, which
defeats the point of the focused PR gate.
Replace the broken filter with ``studio/backend/utils/hardware/**``
so any change in the hardware probe directory triggers MLX CI, and
add three sibling triggers that each materially affect dispatch:
- ``unsloth/_gpu_init.py``
Hosts ``from .models import *`` and the ``from .trainer import *``
chain. The trainer.py circular-import fix that landed in
``23550a8`` lives downstream of this file; a future change
here can re-introduce the same bug.
- ``studio/backend/core/inference/mlx_inference.py``
The MLX inference backend itself. It is the actual consumer
of ``unsloth_zoo.mlx_loader.FastMLXModel`` whose contract the
test_mlx_training_worker_behaviors.py AST checks guard.
Local re-run with the fix in place: 36 passed in 0.45s. No other
workflow file or test file is modified.
Mirrors the three files documented in tests/studio/README.md (PR #5307)
into a dedicated workflow so MLX dispatch failures show up as their own
check on PRs rather than getting buried inside Backend CI:
- test_hardware_dispatch_matrix.py 7-profile parametrized matrix
+ 2 dispatch-priority canaries
- test_is_mlx_dispatch_gate.py AST + runtime guard on
unsloth._IS_MLX
- test_mlx_training_worker_behaviors.py worker.py contract checks
Triggers on pull_request when any of unsloth/__init__.py,
studio/backend/utils/hardware.py, studio/backend/core/training/worker.py,
or any of the three test files are touched. Runs on a Linux+CPU runner
with hardware spoofs; no Apple Silicon, real GPU, or real MLX install
required. Locally validated: 36 passed in 0.41s.
permissions: contents: read at the workflow level (matching the rest of
the PR-time CI surface).
