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Dragon batches can now reuse GPU placement, worker lifecycle handling, and terminal-record audits for other cuPhoton workloads. Hashed file-backed descriptors keep worker launch arguments compact even for large batches.

This builds on #10. Local validation passed lint, the focused Dragon and bulk tests, and 1,286 CPU tests; live Dragon and GPU execution remain pending.

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The change adds generic Dragon work-item coordination, verified file-backed launch descriptors, configurable backend and schema handling, and optional terminal-record validators. The XPOIS wrapper delegates execution to the generic coordinator. Tests cover these paths.

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Dragon workload workflow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Generic coordinator and XPOIS integration
src/cuphoton/xpois/dragon.py, tests/xpois/test_dragon.py
Adds run_dragon_work_items, validates generic inputs, normalizes run metadata, and updates the XPOIS wrapper to delegate work-item execution.
Verified worker launch descriptors
src/cuphoton/xpois/dragon.py, tests/xpois/test_dragon.py
Creates descriptors, verifies descriptor integrity and worker identity before execution, writes failure artifacts, and enforces the 96 KiB launch-argument limit.
Configurable shard execution and auditing
src/cuphoton/xpois/dragon.py, tests/xpois/test_dragon.py
Uses caller-selected backends and record and shard schemas. Optional success and failure validators contribute problems to audit errors.

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5480e

The new generic Dragon coordinator lets other workloads reuse GPU placement and auditing, and the XPOIS path delegates to it. For generic callers, a custom record validator that raises on a malformed worker record can abort the run without writing summary.json. Extreme timeout inputs can also fail after leaving a partial run directory. Callers are not told which terminal-record fields the audit always requires. Isolating validator failures before merge is advisable. The timeout and documentation gaps are smaller follow-ups.

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324-332: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the terminal-record fields that every caller must emit.

_audit_terminal_record_contract still requires requested_backend, backend, device, runtime, timings_sec, and wall_sec on each success record (lines 1350-1377). These checks run for all callers, not only XPOIS. A package workload that emits a different record shape passes record_schema successfully but always audits as failed, with no hint about the missing fields. The docstring documents only the worker call signature.

State the required success-record fields in the docstring so callers can satisfy the audit.

📝 Proposed docstring addition
     order. Launch descriptors require a shared filesystem.
+
+    Item records must also carry the audited success fields
+    ``requested_backend``, ``backend``, ``device``, ``runtime``,
+    ``timings_sec``, and ``wall_sec``; ``success_record_validator`` and
+    ``failed_record_validator`` add workload-specific checks on top.
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In `@src/cuphoton/xpois/dragon.py` around lines 324 - 332, Update the coordinator
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In `@src/cuphoton/xpois/dragon.py`:
- Around line 324-332: Update the coordinator docstring near the worker-call
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🟡 Minor · Document the invariant audit fields for generic workloads. · dragon.py:680-682

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Document the invariant audit fields for generic workloads.

record_schema and shard_schema change the expected schema identifier, but the audits still require the established common fields. Successful item records must include requested_backend, backend, device, runtime, timings_sec, and wall_sec. A generic worker that emits only workload-specific fields will produce a failed batch after its work succeeds. Document this contract in run_dragon_work_items, including the validator return contract. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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In `@src/cuphoton/xpois/dragon.py` around lines 680 - 682, Document in
run_dragon_work_items that successful item records must retain the common audit
fields requested_backend, backend, device, runtime, timings_sec, and wall_sec
regardless of record_schema or shard_schema, and state the validator return
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fields.

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🟡 Minor · Reject an overflowing join_timeout_sec before writing run metadata. · dragon.py:417

src/cuphoton/xpois/dragon.py:417
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Reject an overflowing join_timeout_sec before writing run metadata.

Each input timeout can be finite while their sum becomes inf. The run.json write calls strict json_mapping, so it raises before ProcessGroup is created. This leaves an accepted extreme input with a failed, partially created run instead of reaching an infinite join.

Suggested fix
-    join_timeout_sec = float(worker_timeout_sec + result_timeout_sec)
+    join_timeout_sec = float(worker_timeout_sec + result_timeout_sec)
+    if not math.isfinite(join_timeout_sec):
+        raise ValueError(
+            "worker_timeout_sec + result_timeout_sec must be finite"
+        )
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In `@tests/xpois/test_dragon.py`:
- Line 1534: Update _FakeTemplate so its argdata is derived from the serialized
args supplied to the fake, preserving the same byte representation and length
that run_dragon_work_items would inspect. Ensure oversized serialized arguments
are detected through this fake path rather than relying on a constant or
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The two focused regressions pass. The oversized-argument test injects a byte buffer above 96 KiB and checks rejection before initialization and process-group cleanup. The separate 300 KB workload test checks that payload data stays in the descriptor file and the launcher receives five compact arguments. Exact Dragon serializer and queue behavior remains an integration coverage gap; this CPU fake does not qualify it.

For the timeout sum, two 1e308 inputs are rejected by strict JSON before any process group is constructed. Earlier rejection would improve the diagnostic and avoid partial run directories for that pathological configuration. I am deferring that improvement within this change’s scope.

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Approving: the PR tree is byte-identical to the open GitLab branch for every file it touches, and my earlier findings remain as posted. Merge after the internal MR is merged so the histories match.

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🟡 Minor · Reject an overflowing join timeout before creating run_dir. · dragon.py:409-439

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Reject an overflowing join timeout before creating run_dir.

worker_timeout_sec and result_timeout_sec are validated separately. Two finite values such as 1e308 pass, but their sum becomes inf. Strict JSON then rejects run.json after run_dir.mkdir, leaving partial artifacts and no DragonBatchResult.

Check join_timeout_sec with math.isfinite before creating the run directory.

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Factor whole-item placement and terminal audits for package-defined
workers. Pass hashed file-backed shard descriptors to keep launch
arguments compact while preserving spatial XPOIS contracts.

Allow workload-specific record schemas and validators, and retain
released Dragon initialization and existing cleanup behavior.

Signed-off-by: Trent Nelson <trentn@nvidia.com>
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