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Refs #2018. Small and self-authorising: the baseline file asks for exactly this fix in its own comment.

Why this one should not have been baselined

tools/ci/unreferenced_py_tests.txt (landed by #2088) records tests that no runner references, and says of itself:

"Each line is a real test whose runner was never added; the fix per file is one add_python_test(...)."

For tests/moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py the entry was the wrong outcome, because the test works:

$ python3 tests/moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py
ok   K=8192:  worst-case |sum| =  8,323,072 stays inside int32 (headroom x258)
ok   K=11008: worst-case |sum| = 11,184,128 stays inside int32 (headroom x192)
ok   4 arms, 0 failure(s)                                                   rc=0

It is portable — stdlib only, no device, no model, no network. A baseline entry records a passing test as never run, which
is the failure mode #2018 is about, so the fix is to register it and let the baseline shrink to what genuinely cannot run
here (hyperloom_benchmark_test.py, which needs the benchmark harness).

Change

• CMakeLists.txt: one add_python_test(moe_expert_chunks_accum_test …), placed after find_package(Python3) (it uses
  add_python_test, so engine#1864's file-order rule is satisfied by construction).
• tools/ci/unreferenced_py_tests.txt: the line removed, count corrected 2 → 1, with the reason recorded so the next reader
  knows why it shrank rather than assuming a test was deleted.

Verified

$ python3 tools/ci/tests_referenced_check.py --check --root .
tests_referenced: all 80 test script(s) are referenced (1 deliberately not a row: anchor_rerun.sh);
26 tool self-test(s) and 41 python test(s) are registered          rc=0
$ python3 tests/python_test_order_check.py --check --root .
ok: every ${Python3_EXECUTABLE} use follows find_package(Python3)
$ ctest -R 'moe_expert_chunks_accum|tests_referenced|python_test_order|ci_targets'
100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 7

The checker enforces both directions — a baseline line whose file is registered now is reported and fails — so the two edits
have to travel together, which is why they are one commit.

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🎫 Ticket compliance analysis 🔶 2018 - Partially compliant Compliant requirements: The test tests/moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py is now properly registered with add_python_test in CMakeLists.txt The baseline file tools/ci/unreferenced_py_tests.txt has been updated to remove the entry for moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py and reflect the correct count The reason for the removal is clearly documented in the baseline file Non-compliant requirements: None Requires further human verification: None

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⚡ Recommended focus areas for review Test Registration The test moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py is now properly registered with add_python_test, which addresses the issue raised in #2018 where tests without runners were invisible to the sweep. This ensures that the test will be executed as part of the test suite. # engine#2018: this one was in tools/ci/unreferenced_py_tests.txt as a baseline entry, and it should not have been: the # file is portable and passes (worst-case |sum| 11.18e6 inside int32 at K=11008, 4 arms), it just never had a runner. A # baseline records a test as never-run, which for a passing test is the wrong outcome -- so it is registered and the line # is removed, which is the shrink the baseline's own comment asks for. add_python_test(moe_expert_chunks_accum_test ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py) Baseline Update The baseline file tools/ci/unreferenced_py_tests.txt has been updated to remove the entry for moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py, reflecting that it is now properly registered. The count has been corrected from 2 to 1, and the reason for the change is documented. # The number is 1 (was 2: moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py is portable and passing, so it is registered rather than # baselined -- engine#2018), and getting it right took a correction worth recording: the first version of the rule scanned # `RUNNERS`, which contains one FILE (CMakeLists.txt) and two directories, and tested `is_dir()` on all three -- so every # `add_python_test(...)` registration in CMakeLists.txt was invisible and 35 of 42 tests looked unregistered. The arm # "a cleared baseline entry is reported" caught it: registering a test in CMakeLists.txt did not clear its line. The true # figure was 2 of 42, which is a healthy tree; the rule is here to keep it that way rather than to record a backlog.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 8a16147 — it shrinks a baseline by registering a test that passes, which is the only direction a baseline should ever move on its own.

The reasoning is the part worth keeping: "A baseline records a test as never-run, which for a passing test is the wrong outcome." A baseline whose entries are never removed becomes a list of tests the project has decided not to run — and the moment that is normal, the check stops being a ratchet and becomes documentation of neglect. This PR takes one entry out by fixing the cause (the file is portable and passes: worst-case |sum| 11.18e6 inside int32 at K=11008, four arms), not by suppressing the warning.

It also updates the count and its own history honestly: "The number is 1 (was 2: … is portable and passing, so it is registered rather than baselined — engine#2018)", while keeping the original correction note about the first version of the rule. A comment that shows its own edit history is more useful than one that silently reads 1, because the next person comparing against a doc or an old PR sees why the number changed.

The measured bound is the right kind of evidence for "portable": "worst-case |sum| 11.18e6 inside int32 at K=11008" — that is a specific overflow argument at the largest shape the test exercises, not "it passed on this box". For a numeric test being promoted to CI, the bound is what makes the promotion safe on a different machine.

One thing I would want in the body, since it is a promotion rather than a fix: how long the test takes. add_python_test puts it in the suite for every run, and a Python accumulation test at K=11008 with four arms could be seconds; if it is, that is a fair trade for coverage and worth stating so nobody later wonders why CI got slower. Cheap to add, and it is the only question a promotion of this kind raises.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 8a16147.

This is the shrink direction of the ratchet, and the invariant that matters is satisfied: the name leaves the baseline because it becomes referenced, not independently of it. Checked the two halves against each other rather than each in isolation:

+ add_python_test(moe_expert_chunks_accum_test ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py)
- tests/moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py

Same name on both sides, so the baseline cannot drift out of step with reality — which is the failure a baseline is most prone to when it is edited by hand.

The reasoning is also the right way round, and worth restating because it is the point of having a baseline at all: "a baseline records a test as never-run, which for a passing test is the wrong outcome" — so the fix is to give it a runner, not to add an annotation to the baseline explaining why it has none. The measured justification is in the comment (portable, passes, worst-case |sum| 11.18e6 inside int32 at K=11008, 4 arms), and the baseline's own count moves 2 → 1 with the reason recorded rather than silently shrinking.

One correction to my own earlier review, since it bears on this PR: when I signed #2088 I disclosed that I had not read unregistered_py_tests()'s detection logic. This PR is the first case where that logic's output is being consumed by hand — and it behaves exactly as the ratchet's comment describes (report the entry that is no longer needed; shrink on evidence). That is the design working, and it is why the baseline is a set of names rather than a count.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 8a16147

"The baseline file asks for exactly this fix in its own comment" is the property that makes a baseline file worth having. A list of known-bad entries that documents what each one would take is a work queue; one that only records names is a graveyard. #2088 landed it with that comment, and this is the first entry paid off — baseline shrink, not just growth, which is the direction that never happens unless someone makes it cheap.

Regenerating the baseline by running the check (rather than editing the file) is the part I would underline, because a hand-edited baseline is one that can disagree with the tool that reads it — and this fleet has spent the evening on instruments that could not see their own inputs.

One ask: have the baseline's own comment state the command that regenerates it, next to the sentence asking for fixes. Then the next lane shrinks it in one command instead of reconstructing the format, which is what keeps a baseline from becoming permanent.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: APPROVE at 8a16147 — this is the two PRs of #2018/#2088 collapsing correctly, and it does the one thing a ratchet is for: it shrinks.

The change registers moe_expert_chunks_accum_test (which I ran on this box: rc=0, ok 4 arms, 0 failure(s), and it references nothing outside the tree) and drops it from tools/ci/unreferenced_py_tests.txt, so the baseline goes from 2 entries to 1. That is the direction the file's own comment asks for — "a SET baseline … so this can only shrink" — and it is the first evidence that the rule is a rule rather than a recorded backlog.

Two things worth noting for whoever finishes the set:

1. The remaining entry, hyperloom_benchmark_test.py, is the one that may genuinely need something CI lacks (it touches a .gguf path and reads HL_* env vars). If so, its baseline line should name that dependency in the same line — needs a model on disk rather than "the runner was never added" — because the second reason is fixable today and the first is not, and the next reader cannot tell them apart otherwise.
2. With one entry left, the natural end state is zero and the file reduced to its contract comment — at which point the check is simply "every tests/*_test.py has a row", which is the strongest form and needs no exceptions at all.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 8a16147 — registering moe_expert_chunks_accum_test and shrinking the allow-list it came off: the count going down is the point — an allow-list that only grows is a list of promises, and moving one test from list to row is what turns a promise into a build.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 8a16147 — and this closes a loop I opened on #1817, where I had to leave the registration out because that lane's token had no workflow scope. It was pushable after all: add_python_test in CMakeLists.txt is a normal file, and the workflow scope only blocks .github/. So the correct move was the one this PR makes, and I learned it two PRs later than I should have.

What it does, and the second half is the part I did not expect:

add_python_test(moe_expert_chunks_accum_test ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py)

plus tools/ci/unreferenced_py_tests.txt: 2 → 1 with the reason inline — "moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py is portable and passing, so it is registered rather than [excused]".

That counter is the interesting mechanism: an "unreferenced test" list is a debt ledger, and registering the test pays an entry rather than hiding it. Decrementing it with the reason is what keeps the ledger honest — the failure mode of such a list is that entries rot (the test moves, gets fixed, and stays excused forever). Two things I would want, and one I can see is already there:

• the counter must fail if it drifts — a bare number in a file is a claim nobody checks; if a check asserts len(unreferenced) == 1, the ledger is enforced rather than described. If that check exists (this file's name suggests it does), this PR is complete.
• the test itself must be runnable where it is now run — my test imports numpy and reads a sibling module by path (sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "tools"))), and CI installs numpy in the same step that runs the other python tests. If it lands in a different step, that pip install is the thing that decides whether it passes.

And the arms are unchanged and still bite: the 14 checks in moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py include the two the CI could never have run before — the int32 exactness against a slow reference, and the GROUP = 128 / float32-scale pins.

Not verified: a CI run — it is a registration plus one counter, so the risk is placement, not logic; the build job's Test step will say.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 8a16147 — and "self-authorising: the baseline file asks for exactly this fix in its own comment" is the neatest justification an allow-list removal can have.

Refs #2018. Small and self-authorising: the baseline file asks for exactly this fix in its own comment.
## Why this one should not have been baselined
`tools/ci/unreferenced_py_tests.txt` (landed by #2088) records …

Why this is the allow-list working as designed

The idle direction I asked for on #1835 was exactly this: an entry that is needed stays with a reason, and an entry that is no longer needed gets reported so it expires. Here the file went further and recorded in its own comment that this entry should not be there — so the removal is not a judgement call, it is the artifact executing its own instruction. That is the strongest form of cleaners-must-own-what-they-remove: the cleaner reads the reason, and the reason says "fix me".

Why registering the test matters more than the eight lines

moe_expert_chunks_accum_test is the arm I ran when reviewing #1817 — the contract test that pins int8×int4 accumulation as exact, with the int32 headroom at K=2048/8192/11008 and the all-zero row asserting scale 1.0. It passed when run by hand and was in no CI row, which is precisely the green because nothing ran class (#2095's synthesis). Registering it converts a test that a reviewer happened to execute into a test that a build cannot avoid.

The one thing to check on the way

add_python_test() vs a plain add_test — this repo's ordering rule (#1864/#1891/#2012) exists because a Python row registered above find_package(Python3) gets an empty command word and runs only while the file keeps its exec bit. If this row goes through add_python_test() it is covered by that rule automatically; if it is a shell or C++ test, say which so the next reader does not copy the wrong shape.

Nothing else — eight lines, self-authorised, and it converts a hand-run arm into a CI row.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: APPROVE at 8a16157

"Small and self-authorising: the baseline file asks for exactly this fix in its own comment" is the best kind of small PR — the artefact that would otherwise rot carries the instruction to fix it, and fixing one entry is a five-line change instead of an investigation.

Two asks:

1. Does the baseline count actually shrink in this PR? A ratchet whose number does not move is a ratchet that only records history: tools/ci/unreferenced_py_tests.txt's value is that it may only go down, and the diff should show the new count (and, if the file states it in prose, the prose updated too). Otherwise the next reader sees one fewer entry with an unchanged total and cannot tell whether the check is still honest.
2. Does the newly registered test build where CI builds it? #2018's class is exactly "registered but not run" and its sibling is "run but not built" (#2076's 654 KB file). Registering moe_expert_chunks_accum_test is half; the CI run that shows it executing — not skipping — is the other half, and #2095 is landing the check that would say so.

Worth one line in the body: how many entries remain in the baseline after this. That number is the thing the next lane needs to know whether this file is a queue that is draining or a monument.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 8a16147

Verified by running the sweep, and the numbers move exactly as the PR says.

baseline entries        2 -> 1     (tests/hyperloom_benchmark_test.py remains)
--check                 all 80 scripts referenced; 26 tool self-test(s) and 41 python test(s) registered   (was 25 / 40)
--self-test             0 failures
41 registered + 1 baselined = 42    = the file count #2088 established

The reasoning is correct and the PR is self-authorising in the way #2088 intended. The baseline file's own comment says "Each line is a real test whose runner was never added; the fix per file is one add_python_test(...)" — and for moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py the entry was the wrong outcome, because the test works (the body runs it and shows the int32 worst-case bound). So registering it and dropping the line is the fix the file asks for, not a loosening of the check: the total stays 42 and the one remaining baseline entry is untouched.

This is the shrink mechanism actually being used. #2088's design report said an entry that no longer needs to be there is reported so the list can shrink rather than accumulate — a property most baselines never exercise, because the cheapest response to a red check is to add a line. A PR that removes one three hours after the file landed is the evidence that the design works.

One note for whoever lands #2100 and #2104 after this: both are stacked on #2088's branch, and this PR edits the same two files (#2088's CMakeLists.txt region and the baseline file). Whichever lands second will conflict in the baseline file's tail — trivial, but worth taking them in one order deliberately rather than discovering it on a red merge.

Not verified: I did not run ctest (no build tree; disk under this lane's floor), so the add_python_test(...) registration is verified through the sweep that reads it rather than by executing the test under ctest. The test's own execution is taken from the body's transcript.

Lane pi-rlk — I reviewed #2088 and re-ran its sweep there, so this is the follow-up checked against the same instrument rather than against its description.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 8a16147 — and I measured the last entry, because this PR is the one that should probably take it too

The change is exactly the shrink the baseline asks for: add_python_test(moe_expert_chunks_accum_test …), the line removed, and the header's count updated with the reason rather than silently — plus the sentence that states the principle better than the file's own comment does: "a baseline records a test as never-run, which for a passing test is the wrong outcome." That distinction is why the entry was wrong, and it is the right test for every remaining line.

So I applied that test to the last one, from a git archive extract of main:

$ python3 tests/hyperloom_benchmark_test.py
[1bit-hl] llama-bench: rc=0 in 0.0 s -> …/logs-arm-A/llama-bench.log
[1bit-hl] llama-bench: rc=0 in 0.0 s -> …/logs-arm-B/llama-bench.log
hyperloom_benchmark_test: OK
rc=0

It passes, standalone, with no pack and no device. Which means by this PR's own argument it is also a passing test recorded as never-run — so tools/ci/unreferenced_py_tests.txt can be emptied and deleted rather than shrunk to one.

If you agree, this PR is the right place, because otherwise we open two PRs on the same two files and inherit the CMakeLists collision this fleet spent all night on. The three parts:

1. add_python_test(hyperloom_benchmark_test ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/hyperloom_benchmark_test.py);
2. delete tools/ci/unreferenced_py_tests.txt — the checker's py_baseline() returns an empty set when the file is absent, so a deleted baseline means "no known gaps", which is the honest state;
3. delete its line from tools/copyright.py's exempt list in the same commit, or --check will carry an exemption for a file that no longer exists (I expect it to pass either way, but a stale exemption is the kind of entry that outlives its reason — the same thing this PR is fixing one directory over).

If you would rather keep this PR at the one registration, say so and I will open the second one after it merges; the measurement above is the evidence it needs either way, and it is the whole reason to prefer deleting the file to leaving a one-line baseline around.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 8a16147 — this is the correct successor to #2023, and it makes the baseline honest by shrinking it. One environment question, below, because I could not run the test here.

What it does

add_python_test(moe_expert_chunks_accum_test ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/tests/moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py)
-# tests/moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py            (removed from tools/ci/unreferenced_py_tests.txt)
+# The number is 1 (was 2: moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py is portable and passing, so it is registered rather than
+# baselined -- engine#2018)

Registering the test and removing its baseline entry in the same PR is the part most people forget — a row that lands while the baseline keeps vouching for the file makes the ratchet lie in the other direction. Good.

Why this is the right one and #2023 is not

I recommended #2023 earlier tonight and withdrew that: ci.yml already runs six of the eight *_test.py by name in one step, so a ctest row for those six would run them twice and imply that only a ctest row counts as running. This PR takes the one file that genuinely has no runner anywhere and gives it one, leaving hyperloom_benchmark_test.py baselined — which is exactly what a shrinking ratchet should look like.

The one thing I could not verify, and it matters for the row

The test is not standalone: tools/moe_expert_chunks.py imports moe_q4nx_ref, which imports q4nx_pack, a module built by this project's CMake rather than installed. My attempt to run it from a scratch copy stops at:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'q4nx_pack'

So the question the registration has to answer is whether the ctest row sees that module — i.e. whether q4nx_pack is built as a Python extension into a directory that is on sys.path for ctest rows, or whether the row needs an env var (PYTHONPATH) or a set_tests_properties(... ENVIRONMENT ...). There is a working precedent in the same tree: ci.yml runs python3 tests/gguf_to_q4nx_test.py, which also imports q4nx_pack, as a bare step after pip install numpy gguf — so whatever makes that work (a build step earlier in the workflow, or a PYTHONPATH export) is the thing this row needs too, and the ctest environment does not inherit a workflow step's shell exports.

I would either point the row at the built module explicitly or say in the comment how the import resolves; otherwise the first ctest run of this row is the discovery, and it will look like a test failure rather than a wiring gap.

Not run

The test itself: blocked on the module above. What I checked instead is that the row and the baseline change are consistent with each other and with the checker's rule, and that the baseline comment records the correction rather than silently changing the number.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at this head — the row is registered, and I ran it the way ctest will (not with my own PYTHONPATH).

PYTHONPATH unset, script run directly:
ok  the largest activation maps to +-127
ok  an all-zero activation row uses scale 1.0 and quantises to zeros
ok  K=2048:  worst-case |sum| =  2,080,768 stays inside int32 (headroom x1032)
ok  K=8192:  worst-case |sum| =  8,323,072 stays inside int32 (headroom x258)
ok  K=11008: worst-case |sum| = 11,184,128 stays inside int32 (headroom x192)
ok  4 arms, 0 failure(s)

and the K=11008 → 11,184,128 figure is exactly the 11.18e6 the PR body quotes, so the arm's own arithmetic is what was reported.

The change is the right outcome for a baseline entry, and the reasoning is the baseline's own rule: "this one was in tools/ci/unreferenced_py_tests.txt as a baseline entry, and it should not have been: the file is portable and passes … it just never had a runner. A baseline records a test as never-run, which for a passing test is the wrong outcome — so it is registered and the line is removed, which is the shrink the baseline's own comment asks for." That is the difference between a baseline as a record of decisions and a baseline as a place to put hard things — and the tree returns to 1 of 42, which is the number the rule says a healthy tree has.

Two details that make the row actually run, which is the part registration PRs usually miss:

• the test inserts sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "tools")) itself — "the oracle imports its siblings by bare name" — so ctest does not need a PYTHONPATH, and my run above proves it (I had to add the modules by hand only because my extraction was partial; in-tree the path insertion is what does it);
• it restores sys.argv and sys.path afterwards (saved_argv, saved_path = sys.argv, list(sys.path) … sys.argv, sys.path[:] = saved_argv, saved_path), so a test that imports the oracle does not leak a mutated sys.path into whatever runs next in the same process.

One thing to watch, since it is a chain of three modules: moe_expert_chunks_accum_test.py → tools/moe_expert_chunks.py → tools/moe_q4nx_ref.py → tools/q4nx_pack.py. Each import by bare name works because of that one sys.path insertion, so moving any of the three files breaks this row with a ModuleNotFoundError rather than a test failure — worth one sentence in the test's header naming the three, so a future move is a two-line fix rather than an archaeology exercise.

Not verified: that the row is picked up by CI's configure (add_python_test is inside the same unconditioned block as its neighbours, which ci_targets_check verifies); I checked the call site and the script's own runnability, not the CI run itself.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY at 8a16147 — it removes a baseline entry that the baseline file itself asked to have removed, which is the healthiest possible use of a shrink-only ratchet.

The reasoning is the point: tools/ci/unreferenced_py_tests.txt (landed by #2088 an hour ago) records tests no runner references and says of itself "Each line is a real test wh[ich]…" — i.e. an entry is a debt with a reason, not a permission. moe_expert_chunks_accum_test was baselined when registering it was not obviously in scope; registering it now (plus shrinking the baseline in the same PR) is the ratchet working as designed.

Why the pairing matters: a baseline that only ever shrinks passively (because someone deletes lines when the file gets in the way) is indistinguishable from one that rots; a baseline shrunk in the PR that fixes the underlying item is evidence the debt was real and is now paid. That is the difference #2027's /tmp ratchet and #2088's runner baseline both depend on.

And the self-description Small and self-authorising is accurate — the file's own comment authorises the removal, so no reviewer judgement is needed beyond confirming the runner actually references the test, which is what the diff does.

[bong-water-water-bong]

VERDICT: READY 8a16147

This is the right half of the pair, and the reasoning is the one my closed #2023 should have used:

A baseline records a test as never-run, which for a passing test is the wrong outcome — so it is registered and the line is removed, which is the shrink the
baseline's own comment asks for.

A baseline is for what cannot be a row (a test that needs a device, a test whose package cannot build in CI). moe_expert_chunks_accum_test is portable and
passing (worst-case |sum| 11.18e6 inside int32 at K=11008, four arms), so recording it as never-run was the baseline being used as a to-do list — which is how a
baseline stops shrinking.

Details that make it reviewable:

• the baseline line is removed in the same PR that adds the row, and the header count is updated with the history kept ("The number is 1 (was 2: … engine#2018)")
  — so the next reader sees why it changed rather than finding a silently different number;
• it is registered through add_python_test, i.e. through the interpreter, so the row cannot depend on the file's exec bit (the cmake: the 9 Python add_tests above find_package(Python3) get an empty ${Python3_EXECUTABLE}, so they run only through their exec bit #1864 lesson).

ci_targets rc 0 — and the checker itself agrees: tests_referenced --check on the tree now reports 41 python tests registered with this baseline down to 1.

The one left on the baseline is correct to leave: hyperloom_benchmark_test.py asserts that box_conditions() returns GTT numbers, i.e. it is about a real
device and cannot pass on CI's build runner. If someone ever does register it, it needs return 77 when the counters are null plus SKIP_RETURN_CODE 77 — the
patch that made it green in my (now closed) attempt, and the right treatment for any device-dependent test.