# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved. # Focused PR gate for the MLX dispatch surface, running on a real # Apple Silicon runner. # # Runner: macos-14 (M1, 3 vCPU / 7 GB / Apple Silicon standard runner # -- FREE for public repositories per the GitHub Actions billing # reference; larger variants like macos-14-large/-xlarge are paid so # we deliberately avoid those). # # Why a single Mac job (no Linux+spoof leg): the dispatch tests are # 100% spoofed monkeypatches and run identically on any host, so the # Linux leg was duplicating the matrix tests already covered on Mac # while missing everything Apple-specific. The Mac job runs the SAME # spoofed matrix PLUS three things only a real Apple Silicon host # can prove: # # 1. unsloth._IS_MLX flips True on Darwin+arm64 with mlx genuinely # installed (no spoof). # 2. Every PR-A MLX-only unsloth_zoo module (mlx_loader, mlx_trainer, # mlx_compile, mlx_utils, mlx_cce, gated_delta_vjp) imports # against the real `mlx` + `mlx-lm` + `mlx-vlm` PyPI wheels -- # each does `import mlx.core as mx` at module top level, so this # catches a future change that breaks the real wheels without # needing a Mac developer in the loop. # 3. The hardware-dispatch spoofs do not collide with the real # environment (the test fixture installs a MetaPathFinder that # blocks `import mlx.core` for "no-mlx" profiles, faithfully # simulating a Mac without mlx even when mlx IS installed). # 4. End-to-end MLX training + inference smoke test: # run_real_mlx_smoke.py trains unsloth/gemma-3-270m-it for 7 # deterministic LoRA steps on a single repeated text row, then # verifies the trained model can complete the prompt and that # losses + grad norms are finite and well-behaved. This is the # only place in CI that exercises a real MLX backward pass + # optimizer step + inference call. # # Three dispatch test files documented in tests/studio/README.md: # - test_hardware_dispatch_matrix.py parametrized 7-profile matrix # + 2 dispatch-priority canaries # - test_is_mlx_dispatch_gate.py AST + runtime guard on # unsloth._IS_MLX # - test_mlx_training_worker_behaviors.py AST contract checks on # studio/backend/core/training/worker.py # # Surfaces a single PR check ("MLX CI on Mac M1 / dispatch"). # # Security audit footprint: every package this workflow installs is # already covered by .github/workflows/security-audit.yml -- the deps # come from studio/backend/requirements/studio.txt and unsloth-zoo's # pyproject (resolved transitively). The git+ install of unsloth-zoo # is intentionally skipped by the audit (pip-audit cannot resolve a # git URL through PyPI metadata; the audit comment in security-audit.yml # documents this). No new package is introduced solely by MLX CI. name: MLX CI on Mac M1 on: pull_request: paths: - 'unsloth/__init__.py' - 'unsloth/_gpu_init.py' - 'studio/backend/utils/hardware/**' - 'studio/backend/core/training/worker.py' - 'studio/backend/core/inference/mlx_inference.py' - 'tests/studio/test_hardware_dispatch_matrix.py' - 'tests/studio/test_is_mlx_dispatch_gate.py' - 'tests/studio/test_mlx_training_worker_behaviors.py' - 'tests/studio/run_real_mlx_smoke.py' - 'tests/conftest.py' - '.github/workflows/mlx-ci.yml' push: branches: [main, pip] concurrency: group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }} cancel-in-progress: true permissions: contents: read jobs: dispatch: name: dispatch runs-on: macos-14 # 25 min: dispatch + spoofed matrix + 7-step real LoRA training is # under 2 min; GGUF export builds llama.cpp via cmake on Apple # Silicon (~5-7 min), so we budget headroom. timeout-minutes: 25 steps: # harden-runner audit mode: macOS runners cannot use blocking mode # today (eBPF egress enforcement is Linux-only), but audit mode is # supported cross-platform and surfaces the egress destinations in # the runner log. This produces the data needed to graduate this # job to a block-mode allowlist once macOS support lands. - name: Harden runner (audit) uses: step-security/harden-runner@a5ad31d6a139d249332a2605b85202e8c0b78450 # v2.19.1 with: egress-policy: audit - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2 with: persist-credentials: false - uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0 with: python-version: '3.12' cache: 'pip' # macOS install ladder, validated locally against a Linux # mac-sim venv (platform spoofed + mlx_simulation shim + real # datasets/transformers/structlog). # # 1. studio/backend/requirements/studio.txt brings structlog, # fastapi, etc. The hardware probe imports structlog at # module top level. # 2. Same pytest / numpy / httpx stack the rest of the repo CI # uses. # 3. torch is explicitly installed: unsloth-zoo's pyproject # deliberately excludes torch on darwin+arm64 (mlx replaces # it for runtime use), but the dispatch tests spoof # torch.cuda / torch.xpu / torch.backends.mps via monkeypatch # and so the test process needs torch importable. We pull # from the PyTorch CPU index so Apple Silicon gets the # explicit cpu+MPS arm64 wheel rather than something the # default PyPI resolver might pick up. The CPU index hosts # macosx_*_arm64 wheels alongside the Linux x86_64 ones. # 4. unsloth-zoo from git main (NOT PyPI), WITH deps. PR-A's # MLX support landed after the most recent unsloth-zoo PyPI # release; the wheel still raises NotImplementedError on # Apple Silicon when device_type.get_device_type() runs # unguarded. Studio's own install.sh overlays unsloth-zoo # from git main for the same reason. Pulling deps lets pip # resolve the platform-conditional MLX-only wheels (mlx, # mlx-lm, mlx-vlm gated on darwin+arm64 in unsloth-zoo's # pyproject) AND the shared deps (datasets, transformers, # sentencepiece, ...) that unsloth's MLX branch loads via # dataprep/raw_text.py. # 5. unsloth -e . --no-deps so the editable install does not # fight the unsloth-zoo dep set. # # All explicit pip installs are version-pinned to a single # released version (the latest as of 2026-05-07 within each # project's existing constraint range). bump alongside the rest # of the security audit when a new release lands. - name: Install deps run: | python -m pip install --upgrade pip pip install -r studio/backend/requirements/studio.txt pip install \ 'python-multipart==0.0.27' \ 'aiofiles==25.1.0' \ 'sqlalchemy==2.0.49' \ 'cryptography==48.0.0' \ 'pyyaml==6.0.3' \ 'jinja2==3.1.6' \ 'mammoth==1.12.0' \ 'unpdf==1.0.0' \ 'requests==2.33.1' \ 'typer==0.25.1' \ 'numpy==2.4.4' \ 'pytest==9.0.3' \ 'pytest-asyncio==1.3.0' \ 'httpx==0.28.1' pip install --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu \ 'torch==2.10.0' # github.com occasionally 500s on the git fetch; retry the # zoo install so a single upstream blip does not fail CI. for attempt in 1 2 3; do if pip install "unsloth_zoo @ git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth-zoo"; then break fi if [ "$attempt" -eq 3 ]; then echo "::error::pip install unsloth_zoo failed after 3 attempts" exit 1 fi delay=$((5 * attempt)) echo "::warning::unsloth_zoo install failed (attempt $attempt/3), retrying in ${delay}s..." sleep "$delay" done pip install -e . --no-deps # Real Apple Silicon sanity: confirm _IS_MLX activates on real # hardware with no platform spoof. - name: Verify _IS_MLX flips True on real Apple Silicon run: | python -c " import platform assert platform.system() == 'Darwin', platform.system() assert platform.machine() == 'arm64', platform.machine() import unsloth assert unsloth._IS_MLX is True, f'expected _IS_MLX=True on real Apple Silicon, got {unsloth._IS_MLX}' print('OK: _IS_MLX activated on real Apple Silicon') " # Real Apple Silicon sanity: confirm every PR-A MLX-only module # loads against real mlx + mlx-lm + mlx-vlm wheels. - name: Smoke-import every MLX-only unsloth_zoo module run: | python -c " import importlib for name in [ 'unsloth_zoo.mlx_loader', 'unsloth_zoo.mlx_trainer', 'unsloth_zoo.mlx_compile', 'unsloth_zoo.mlx_utils', 'unsloth_zoo.mlx_cce', 'unsloth_zoo.gated_delta_vjp', ]: importlib.import_module(name) print('OK:', name) from unsloth_zoo.mlx_loader import FastMLXModel from unsloth_zoo.mlx_trainer import MLXTrainer, MLXTrainingConfig assert hasattr(FastMLXModel, 'from_pretrained') print('OK: FastMLXModel + MLXTrainer surface present') " # Spoofed dispatch matrix. Runs on the real Mac too -- the # test fixture installs a MetaPathFinder that blocks # `import mlx.core` for "no-mlx" profiles, so the spoofs # faithfully simulate every supported hardware combo regardless # of whether mlx is installed for real. - name: MLX dispatch tests (3 files, 36 tests) env: PYTHONPATH: ${{ github.workspace }}/studio UNSLOTH_COMPILE_DISABLE: '1' run: | python -m pytest -v --tb=short \ tests/studio/test_hardware_dispatch_matrix.py \ tests/studio/test_is_mlx_dispatch_gate.py \ tests/studio/test_mlx_training_worker_behaviors.py # Studio prebuilt llama.cpp install + GGUF inference. Drives the # exact path Studio's setup.sh takes on macOS: invokes # studio/install_llama_prebuilt.py with --published-repo # ggml-org/llama.cpp and --published-release-tag b9049 (the # latest llama.cpp release at the time this step was added; bump # via UNSLOTH_LLAMA_TAG / DEFAULT_LLAMA_TAG when refreshing). # The installer downloads llama-b9049-bin-macos-arm64.tar.gz, # which is the universal Apple Silicon (arm64) build -- the # same artifact works on M1/M2/M3/M4 because llama.cpp compiles # against the ARMv8.2 baseline. # # The b9049 release also publishes: # - llama-b9049-bin-macos-arm64-kleidiai.tar.gz # KleidiAI dispatches at runtime; on M1 it falls back where # ISA features (e.g. I8MM) are missing, so this asset also # runs on M1 -- Studio just doesn't choose it by default. # - llama-b9049-bin-macos-x64.tar.gz # Intel-only; would only run on M1 via Rosetta 2 emulation, # which we explicitly avoid. # - iOS XCFramework # iOS-app build artifact, unrelated to a macOS desktop CI. # # After install, downloads a small published GGUF # (unsloth/gemma-3-270m-it-GGUF, Q4_K_M) from HuggingFace and # runs the prebuilt llama-cli on it. Asserts the prompt echo # appears in stdout. If the install fails OR the binary exits # non-zero, that's an Unsloth/Studio bug. - name: Studio prebuilt llama.cpp install + GGUF inference (Mac M1) env: HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN }} # install_llama_prebuilt.py hits the GitHub releases API to # resolve the asset URL. Anonymous calls share the runner-IP # rate-limit bucket and 403 quickly -- pass the workflow's # automatic GITHUB_TOKEN to bump us to the 5000/hr authenticated # bucket. GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} run: | set -euo pipefail INSTALL_DIR="$HOME/.unsloth-studio-prebuilt-test/llama.cpp" rm -rf "$INSTALL_DIR" # --simple-policy is required when --published-repo points # at upstream ggml-org/llama.cpp; that repo doesn't ship the # llama-prebuilt-manifest.json asset Studio's default policy # expects, so the simple platform-specific policy maps # Darwin+arm64 -> bin-macos-arm64 directly. studio/setup.sh # passes both --published-repo ggml-org/llama.cpp AND # --simple-policy automatically on macOS, so this CI step # exercises the same code path users hit when they run # `curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh`. python studio/install_llama_prebuilt.py \ --install-dir "$INSTALL_DIR" \ --published-repo ggml-org/llama.cpp \ --published-release-tag b9049 \ --simple-policy # Studio bundles only llama-server + llama-quantize from the # prebuilt (not llama-cli) -- inference goes through # llama-server's HTTP /completion endpoint. Validate both: # llama-quantize --help proves the dynamic libs link, then # spin up llama-server and POST a /completion request on a # tiny published GGUF. LLAMA_SERVER="$INSTALL_DIR/build/bin/llama-server" LLAMA_QUANT="$INSTALL_DIR/build/bin/llama-quantize" [ -x "$LLAMA_SERVER" ] || { echo "::error::llama-server missing at $LLAMA_SERVER"; find "$INSTALL_DIR/build" -type f | head -40; exit 1; } [ -x "$LLAMA_QUANT" ] || { echo "::error::llama-quantize missing at $LLAMA_QUANT"; exit 1; } echo "llama-server : $LLAMA_SERVER" echo "llama-quantize: $LLAMA_QUANT" "$LLAMA_QUANT" --help >/dev/null && echo " llama-quantize loads OK" mkdir -p /tmp/ggufs bash .github/scripts/hf-download-with-retry.sh \ 'unsloth/gemma-3-270m-it-GGUF' \ 'gemma-3-270m-it-Q4_K_M.gguf' \ /tmp/ggufs PORT=18080 echo "=== starting llama-server on 127.0.0.1:$PORT ===" "$LLAMA_SERVER" \ -m /tmp/ggufs/gemma-3-270m-it-Q4_K_M.gguf \ --host 127.0.0.1 \ --port "$PORT" \ -c 256 \ -n 16 \ --no-warmup \ > /tmp/llama-server.log 2>&1 & SERVER_PID=$! trap 'kill "$SERVER_PID" 2>/dev/null || true' EXIT # Wait for /health to come up for i in $(seq 1 30); do if curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:$PORT/health" >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo " server up after ${i}s" break fi sleep 1 done if ! curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:$PORT/health" >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo "::error::llama-server never became healthy" tail -40 /tmp/llama-server.log exit 1 fi PROMPT="Hello, my name is" echo "=== POST /completion ===" RESP=$(curl -sf -X POST "http://127.0.0.1:$PORT/completion" \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d "{\"prompt\":\"$PROMPT\",\"n_predict\":16,\"temperature\":0,\"seed\":3407}") echo "raw response (head): $(echo "$RESP" | head -c 600)" CONTENT=$(echo "$RESP" | python -c "import json,sys; print(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()).get('content',''))") echo "completion content: $CONTENT" if [ -z "$CONTENT" ]; then echo "::error::llama-server /completion returned empty content" tail -40 /tmp/llama-server.log exit 1 fi echo "OK: Studio prebuilt llama.cpp on Mac M1 + GGUF /completion works" # Real MLX training + inference smoke test. Trains # unsloth/gemma-3-270m-it for 7 deterministic LoRA steps # (batch_size=2, gradient_accumulation_steps=3) on a single # repeated row ("<> My name is Unsloth!"), then saves # the trained model in 3 export formats. The `train` subcommand # captures per-phase timing + peak GPU + peak RSS into # train_metrics.json so we can detect regressions across CI runs. - name: MLX export round-trip — TRAIN + SAVE 3 formats env: HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN }} UNSLOTH_COMPILE_DISABLE: '1' run: | mkdir -p mlx_workdir python tests/studio/run_real_mlx_smoke.py train \ --workdir "$PWD/mlx_workdir" # Each reload step runs in a FRESH Python process to confirm # the cold-start path users would hit in production also works # (not just the in-memory continuation of a still-running # trainer). FastMLXModel.from_pretrained gets called from # scratch; mx.random is re-seeded; per-step timing + peak # memory are emitted to {format}_reload_metrics.json next to # the saved dir. - name: MLX export round-trip — RELOAD LoRA (fresh process) env: HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN }} UNSLOTH_COMPILE_DISABLE: '1' run: | python tests/studio/run_real_mlx_smoke.py reload \ --format lora \ --dir "$PWD/mlx_workdir/lora" - name: MLX export round-trip — RELOAD merged_16bit (fresh process) env: HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN }} UNSLOTH_COMPILE_DISABLE: '1' run: | python tests/studio/run_real_mlx_smoke.py reload \ --format merged \ --dir "$PWD/mlx_workdir/merged_16bit" # GGUF reload uses the llama-cli binary that save_pretrained_gguf # built. If save_pretrained_gguf was skipped during train (e.g. # llama.cpp's convert_hf_to_gguf asserts on the model's tokenizer # vocab -- a downstream llama.cpp limitation, not an unsloth_zoo # bug), this step emits a workflow warning and exits 0 so the # LoRA + merged_16bit assertions remain the gating signal. - name: MLX export round-trip — RELOAD GGUF via llama-cli (fresh process) env: HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN }} run: | if python -c "import json,sys; m=json.load(open('mlx_workdir/train_metrics.json')); sys.exit(0 if m.get('gguf_supported') else 1)"; then python tests/studio/run_real_mlx_smoke.py reload \ --format gguf \ --dir "$PWD/mlx_workdir/gguf" else REASON=$(python -c "import json; m=json.load(open('mlx_workdir/train_metrics.json')); print(m.get('gguf_skip_reason') or 'unknown')") echo "::warning title=GGUF round-trip skipped::${REASON}" echo "GGUF export was skipped during the train phase. Reason:" echo " ${REASON}" echo "Continuing without failing the job; the LoRA + merged_16bit" echo "reload assertions are still gating this PR." fi # Print all metrics JSON files so regressions are visible in the # job log. always() so we get telemetry even if a reload step # asserted gibberish. - name: MLX export round-trip — aggregate metrics if: always() run: | for f in mlx_workdir/train_metrics.json \ mlx_workdir/lora_reload_metrics.json \ mlx_workdir/merged_reload_metrics.json \ mlx_workdir/gguf_reload_metrics.json; do echo "=== $f ===" cat "$f" 2>/dev/null || echo "(missing)" echo done