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nemo agents package on a Fabric agent has never worked from a source checkout. It pins the installed nemo-platform version into the image, which from a checkout is something like 0.3.0.post402.dev0+062f0ac6e8 — a PEP 440 local identifier that no package index is allowed to host. You'd wait several minutes for the base image and apt-get, then get an opaque uv resolver error.

The guard meant to catch this only tested for 0.0.0 (nemo-platform not installed at all), so every dev build walked past it.

Now it fails in under a second, naming the version and the way out. Release installs are unaffected; NAT packaging is untouched.

Summary

Fabric packaging pins nemo-platform[nemo-agents-plugin]=={contract_version} inside the image and resolves it from a package index, where contract_version is whatever importlib.metadata reports on the build host. From a source checkout that is a setuptools-scm version like 0.3.0.post402.dev0+062f0ac6e8 — and PEP 440 local version identifiers are not permitted on public indexes, so the pin can never resolve. The build spent minutes pulling a base image and running apt-get before failing inside Docker with an opaque uv resolver error.

The existing guard only caught "0.0.0", the sentinel for nemo-platform not being installed at all. Every dev build sailed through it — which is the state of anyone working in this repository. This makes the check reject any version an index cannot serve, and fail at render time with a message that names the offending version.

Related Issue

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Changes

  • template.py: replace the inline contract_version == "0.0.0" check in render_fabric_dockerfile with require_installable_contract_version(), which rejects PEP 440 local version identifiers (+062f0ac6e8) and developmental releases (.dev0) in addition to the existing sentinel. Published pre-releases (0.4.0rc1) are still accepted — those upload normally. The not-installed case keeps its original message so the two failures stay distinguishable.
  • Add UNRESOLVED_CONTRACT_VERSION and ALLOW_UNPUBLISHED_CONTRACT_VERSION_ENV constants rather than repeating the "0.0.0" literal and the env-var name.
  • conftest.py: autouse fixture pinning get_contract_version() to a released version for the unit suite, since a source checkout no longer renders a Fabric Dockerfile by default. Tests that assert on the rejection re-patch it themselves.
  • README.md: document the released-nemo-platform prerequisite next to the existing Docker requirement, explain what a source checkout does and how to proceed, and add the new environment variable to the reference. The packaging section previously told users to uv sync from the checkout, which is exactly the state that now fails.
  • Widen two **kwargs annotations in test_container.py and the jinja globals assignment in template.py, which ty rejects when those files are checked on their own (the pre-commit hook checks staged files individually).

Before and after

Previously, from any source checkout:

#9 3.921 Need to get 72.7 MB of archives.
...minutes later...
ERROR: failed to solve: ... we can conclude that your requirements are unsatisfiable

Now, immediately, before Docker is invoked:

Error: The installed nemo-platform version '0.3.0.post402.dev0+062f0ac6e8' is a local
build identifier, which package indexes do not serve. Fabric packaging pins this exact
version inside the image, so the build would fail while resolving it. Install a released
nemo-platform to package an agent, or set
NEMO_AGENTS_ALLOW_UNPUBLISHED_CONTRACT_VERSION=1 if your index serves this version.

Scope of the check

The two conditions are deliberately separate:

Case Built-in template --template
nemo-platform not installed (0.0.0) rejected rejected
local identifier / .dev release rejected, override available allowed
released version, including rc allowed allowed

nemo-platform not being installed is rejected unconditionally — the override cannot bypass it, because there is no version for any index to serve, only the placeholder. A caller-supplied --template is exempt from the installability check: it may install a wheel directly or omit the pin entirely, and this module does not get to assume its contents. It is still subject to the unresolved-version check, which is the pre-existing behaviour.

Note for reviewers

NEMO_AGENTS_ALLOW_UNPUBLISHED_CONTRACT_VERSION=1 is an escape hatch rather than an absolute block, on the assumption that an internal index may legitimately host dev wheels; a hard rejection would break that workflow with no recourse. Happy to drop it and make the rejection unconditional if that assumption is wrong.

Scope note: this only affects the Fabric path. NAT packaging installs uv pip install . plus nvidia-nat[most]==${NAT_VERSION}, a genuinely published version, and is untouched.

Type of Change

  • Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
  • Code change with documentation updates
  • Documentation only
  • Contributor tooling or automation
  • CI, build, or test infrastructure

Quality Gates

  • Tests added or updated for changed behavior
  • Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
  • Tests not applicable — justification:
  • Documentation updated for user-visible behavior
  • Documentation not applicable — justification:

Verification

  • Pull request title follows the repository's Conventional Commit format
  • Every commit includes an appropriate Signed-off-by: trailer
  • uv run pre-commit run -a passes, or any blocked checks are identified below
  • Targeted tests pass, or tests are marked not applicable above
  • No secrets, API keys, or credentials are included

Targeted validation:

Command Result
uv run pytest plugins/nemo-agents/tests/unit 1170 passed, 2 failed — both test_port_allocation.py, which bind()s a socket and is blocked by the local sandbox. Verified passing (13/13) with the sandbox disabled; unrelated to this change.
uv run pytest .../test_container.py 154 passed (17 new, covering the guard, the override's limits, and the custom-template exemption)
uv run pytest .../test_fabric_package_validation.py 26 passed
uv run ruff check plugins/nemo-agents/ All checks passed
uv run ruff format --check plugins/nemo-agents/ 198 files already formatted
uv run --frozen ty check on every changed file All checks passed — template.py went from 3 pre-existing diagnostics to 0
uv run nemo agents package --agent <fabric>.yaml --tag x:test Fails immediately with the new message instead of after a multi-minute Docker build
NEMO_AGENTS_ALLOW_UNPUBLISHED_CONTRACT_VERSION=1 uv run nemo agents package ... --no-build Renders, pinning nemo-platform[nemo-agents-plugin]==0.3.0.post402.dev0+062f0ac6e8 — override path confirmed

All pre-commit hooks pass on the commit itself, including ty. Two hooks are blocked in this environment and were skipped for the git push only, neither related to this change:

  • uv-lock — requires exactly uv 0.9.14 on PATH; this machine has 0.9.30. No dependency files are touched by this PR and the uv-lock-check drift hook passes.
  • helm-docs — the helm-docs binary is not installed locally. No Helm files are touched.

Related: PR #1464 also edits the two **kwargs annotations in test_container.py, so whichever of the two merges second may need a trivial conflict resolution there.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fabric agent packaging now verifies that the required nemo-platform version is installable.
    • Improved diagnostics identify unpublished, development, or unresolved versions, including checkout-based versions.
  • New Features

    • Added an opt-in override for unpublished contract versions.
    • Custom templates may omit strict version pinning when appropriate.
    • Development-version detection now handles additional capitalization and version formats.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded guidance on version requirements, checkout builds, overrides, and related packaging errors.

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Walkthrough

Fabric packaging now validates that pinned nemo-platform versions are installable. Custom templates and an environment variable can bypass unpublished-version checks. Tests and documentation cover version validation and platform-hosted packaging.

Changes

Fabric contract validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Contract version validation and rendering
plugins/nemo-agents/src/nemo_agents_plugin/container/template.py
Added shared version constants and installability validation. Built-in Fabric templates reject unresolved, local, and development versions unless an applicable bypass is enabled.
Validation coverage and packaging guidance
plugins/nemo-agents/tests/unit/conftest.py, plugins/nemo-agents/tests/unit/test_container.py, plugins/nemo-agents/README.md
Added coverage for version formats, overrides, custom templates, rendering, and validation expectations. Documented released-version requirements and platform-hosted Fabric packaging.

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e4d36

The change makes Fabric packaging fail immediately for unpublished contract versions while preserving released-version packaging and an explicit override path; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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Move this HOW-TO into its own page.

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In `@plugins/nemo-agents/src/nemo_agents_plugin/container/template.py`:
- Around line 689-694: Update the contract-version validation around
contract_version to parse versions with packaging.version.Version and reject any
version whose is_devrelease or local attribute is set, covering undotted
development releases such as 1.2.3dev0 and local build identifiers. Add
packaging as a direct runtime dependency and extend the rejection tests with
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Fabric packaging pins `nemo-platform[nemo-agents-plugin]=={contract_version}`
inside the image and resolves it from a package index, where
`contract_version` is whatever `importlib.metadata` reports on the build host.
From a source checkout that is a setuptools-scm version such as
`0.3.0.post402.dev0+062f0ac6e8`. PEP 440 local identifiers are not permitted on
public indexes, so the pin can never resolve — the build ran for minutes and
then failed inside Docker with an opaque uv resolver error.

The existing guard only caught `0.0.0`, the sentinel for nemo-platform not
being installed at all, and let every dev build through — which is the case for
anyone working in this repository.

Reject local identifiers and developmental releases at render time, alongside
the existing sentinel, with a message that names the offending version and what
to do about it. Published pre-releases are still allowed. Set
`NEMO_AGENTS_ALLOW_UNPUBLISHED_CONTRACT_VERSION=1` to override when building
against an index that does serve the version.

Fabric rendering tests now run against a released version via an autouse
fixture, since a checkout no longer renders by default. Also widen two
`**kwargs` annotations and the jinja globals assignment that `ty` rejects when
these files are checked on their own.

Signed-off-by: mschwab <mschwab@nvidia.com>
PEP 440 makes the dev segment's separator optional, so `1.2.3dev0`,
`1.2.3-dev0` and `1.2.3_dev0` are all development releases that normalize
to `1.2.3.dev0`. The `".dev" in version` substring check accepted all three.

Report every disqualifying reason rather than the first. A source checkout
resolves to something like `0.4.0.post15.dev0+f736067204`, which is both a
local build identifier and a development release, so the `elif` could only
ever name the first of the two.

Inline the env var name at its two use sites.

Signed-off-by: mschwab <mschwab@nvidia.com>
PEP 440 normalizes version identifiers to lowercase, so `1.2.3.DEV0` is the
same developmental release as `1.2.3.dev0`. The dev-segment pattern was
case-sensitive, so every uppercase spelling passed the guard and produced the
unresolvable pin the guard exists to prevent.

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build identifier and the old wording. A checkout version trips both conditions,
and the validator reports both. Paste the emitted text verbatim and drop the
guidance the message already carries.

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