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Follow-up to #19217. Align CUTLASS MoE activation handling and shared kernel tests with the selected implementation. Preserve public activation IDs and apply SwiGLU clamp limits when either neutral alpha/beta parameter is omitted. Initialize capture-local defaults safely, including when the first forward is captured and an eager forward runs before replay.

Backend selection rejects unsupported activation, quantization, scaling, clamping, and LoRA combinations before execution. These capability checks also cover B12x NVFP4 prefill when it uses CUTLASS. Selection and execution share one prefill-routing predicate, and rejections identify the candidate and execution path. Communication auto-selection falls back to AllGather/ReduceScatter when all-to-all is unsupported; explicitly forced incompatible methods fail before strategy allocation. Keep construction validation as a backstop and release communication resources on validation failures.

Direct fused_moe callers that omit the unpadded output dimension now derive it after correcting the INT8 weight-only hidden size. Shared kernel tests retain numerical checks while accounting for atomic finalization and local expert IDs in profiler routing maps.

Validation on H100 with GCC 13.3.0, CUDA 13.2.78, and SM90a:

  • Native library and MoE test targets built in both configurations.
  • 251 CPU tests passed, including communication selection, compatibility fallback, and B12x routing.
  • 14 activation/routing GPU cases passed in each configuration, including alpha-only clamping and capture-before-eager replay.
  • Complete additional MoE CTest variant: 274 passed, 195 expected skips, zero failures across 469 cases. The two formerly failing paths also passed 30 repetitions each.
  • Pre-commit checks passed. CPU and H100/B200 regressions are registered in CI.

The additional kernel test variant is intentionally discovered by CTest to catch compatibility regressions. Its full local H100 run took approximately 7.25 minutes; this adds MoE test time to the kernel stage.

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  • The change supports OSS and bundled CUTLASS MoE builds. The CMake targets and Torch operator select the matching kernel interfaces.
  • The native operator maps activation IDs, rejects unsupported inputs, and provides neutral SwiGLU alpha or beta values when omitted. It caches defaults outside CUDA graph capture and uses capture-local defaults during capture.
  • Python records the build mode in MoEEnvironment and its fingerprint. When the native build-mode probe is unavailable, Python assumes OSS mode.
  • Backend eligibility checks cover activation, quantization, scaling, clamping, LoRA, and all-to-all support. B12x prefill selection uses a shared routing predicate.
  • Communication selection falls back to AllGather/ReduceScatter when all-to-all is unsupported. Forced incompatible methods fail validation, and ConfigurableMoE releases initialized communication resources if validation fails.
  • The shared kernel tests use build-specific runners and account for local expert IDs and profiler workspace mappings.
  • No current review findings were supplied. Build and test results in the objectives are author-reported, not independently verified.

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  • Test changes: mixtureOfExpertsTest.cu adjusts build-specific runners, quantization setup, profiler checks, and guards for OSS-only cases. test_moe_backend.py adds routing round-trip and public activation-ID tests, including CUDA graph capture and replay. test_moe_impl.py adds build-mode, quantization, communication, probe, and environment-fingerprint tests. test_cute_dsl_b12x_moe_backend.py updates its routing-predicate stub.
  • Test lists: l0_b200.yml and l0_h100.yml add routing and activation-ID tests. l0_cpu.yml adds nine targeted MoE tests. No manual-QA list changes were supplied.
  • Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The tests cover key routing, activation, build-mode, and communication paths. The supplied evidence does not establish test execution results or full coverage of all rejection and resource-cleanup paths.

Per-File QA Perspective

  • cpp/tensorrt_llm/CMakeLists.txt — Verify each build mode links the intended MoE source library.
  • cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/cutlass_kernels/CMakeLists.txt — Verify the host-only MoE target builds with the intended CUDA architecture and target options when OSS kernels are disabled.
  • cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/moe/cutlass/moe_kernels.cu — Verify TLLM_MOE_NO_GEMM excludes GEMM implementations but retains required routing and helper code.
  • cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/moe/cutlass/moeOp.cpp — Verify build-specific activation mapping and rejection behavior, SwiGLU defaults, cache and graph-capture behavior, and is_oss_cutlass_moe() in both build modes.
  • cpp/tests/CMakeLists.txt — Verify TEST_PREFIX changes discovered names when provided and preserves discovery for callers that omit it.
  • cpp/tests/unit_tests/kernels/CMakeLists.txt — Verify the internal MoE test target is available in the intended build and uses the Internal. prefix.
  • cpp/tests/unit_tests/kernels/moe/mixtureOfExpertsTest.cu — Verify build-specific runners, quantization setup, profiler routing checks, and OSS-only test guards. This C++ test file is not listed in the supplied Python integration test lists.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/MOE_DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md — Check that documented build limitations and runtime behavior match the implementation.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/configurable_moe.py — Verify communication resources are released on validation errors and retained after successful validation.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/fused_moe_cutlass.py — Verify build-dependent eligibility, all-to-all validation, and the documented unsupported feature paths.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/impl_contract.py — Verify the environment and deployment fields remain consistent across fingerprints and resolution reports.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/impl_environment.py — Verify native build probing, unavailable-probe fallback, and cache reset behavior.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/moe_resolution.py — Verify force_dynamic_quantization is copied from model configuration into deployment resolution.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/communication/communication_factory.py — Verify forced-method errors and the all-gather fallback when all-to-all is disallowed.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/impl_blocks.py — Verify the execution-contract mixin reports all-to-all support as intended.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/fused_moe_cute_dsl_b12x.py — Verify the shared prefill predicate selects CUTLASS only for the intended quantization and token-count conditions.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_moe_backend.py — Covers routing permutation/restoration, public activation IDs, and clamped activation graph replay. Listed in B200 and H100 CI.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_moe_impl.py — Covers build-mode eligibility, dynamic quantization, communication selection and validation, native-probe fallback, and environment fingerprints. Related tests are listed in CPU CI.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/moe/test_cute_dsl_b12x_moe_backend.py — Updates the routing-predicate stub to include quantization state. No integration test-list entry was supplied for this unit test.
  • tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml — Adds routing round-trip and public activation-ID tests to the B200 pre-merge list.
  • tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml — Adds nine targeted MoE tests for build-mode resolution, B12x routing and LoRA rejection, dynamic quantization, communication, and environment fingerprinting.
  • tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml — Adds routing round-trip and public activation-ID tests to the H100 pre-merge MPI list.

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The change adds build and runtime support for internal CUTLASS MoE kernels when OSS MoE GEMM is disabled. It detects the active build mode, applies mode-specific capability checks and runner calls, and updates C++ and Python test coverage.

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Internal CUTLASS MoE support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Build the internal kernel target
cpp/tensorrt_llm/CMakeLists.txt, cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/cutlass_kernels/CMakeLists.txt, cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/moe/cutlass/moe_kernels.cu
When OSS CUTLASS MoE GEMM is disabled, CMake builds and links moe_host_src. A compile guard excludes GEMM implementations from that target.
Adapt native runner inputs and calls
cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/moe/cutlass/moeOp.cpp
The native operator maps activation IDs, validates internal-kernel inputs, selects mode-specific runner and tactic interfaces, and supplies default SwiGLU parameters. It rejects unsupported quantization modes and routed-expert LoRA for internal kernels.
Resolve build mode and gate capabilities
tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/impl_contract.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/impl_environment.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/moe_resolution.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/fused_moe_cutlass.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/fused_moe_cute_dsl_b12x.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/configurable_moe.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/communication/communication_factory.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/impl_blocks.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/MOE_DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md
The environment records the native build mode, and deployment construction records dynamic quantization. Python eligibility, prefill routing, and communication selection apply mode-specific checks. Failed configurable-MoE validation destroys an initialized communication strategy.
Adapt and register MoE tests
cpp/tests/*, tests/unittest/_torch/moe/*, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/*
C++ tests select compatible APIs and cases by build mode. Python tests cover routing, activations, build-mode resolution, quantization restrictions, and communication selection. Integration lists register the tests.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant collect_moe_environment
  participant is_oss_cutlass_moe
  participant CutlassFusedMoE
  participant CommunicationFactory
  collect_moe_environment->>is_oss_cutlass_moe: Query kernel build mode
  is_oss_cutlass_moe-->>collect_moe_environment: Return OSS mode flag
  collect_moe_environment->>CutlassFusedMoE: Provide environment capability
  CutlassFusedMoE->>CutlassFusedMoE: Check implementation eligibility
  CutlassFusedMoE->>CommunicationFactory: Create strategy with all-to-all capability
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The change adds internal CUTLASS MoE support while rejecting unsupported configurations before execution. The inspected routing, activation, and output-shape paths preserve their contracts, so no material user-facing merge risk remains.

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181-182: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a clamped case with only one SwiGLU parameter.

The test covers both omitted parameters and both provided parameters. It does not cover the path where one parameter is provided and the other receives a neutral default. Add one parameterized case with swiglu_alpha set to one, swiglu_beta=None, and a clamp limit.

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Description needs to be a real one. The current body is a generated review summary that itself says the build/test claims were not independently verified. Please replace it with: which change broke the USING_OSS_CUTLASS_MOE_GEMM=OFF build, how the OFF build was validated for this PR (compiler, archs, which gtests and which Python tests ran against the bundled archive), and the feature-rejection list. The option defaults ON in cpp/CMakeLists.txt:83 and no pipeline under jenkins/ or scripts/ flips it, so the new #else branches in moeOp.cpp, the TLLM_MOE_NO_GEMM split, and the internal-gtest changes have no CI coverage. That is how the breakage went unnoticed in the first place. A compile-only OFF stage, or at least a named internal pipeline that runs it, would prevent the next one; please say what the plan is.

Unmentioned OSS-path change. unpadded_hidden_size_val moved below the INT8-WoQ hidden_size fixup in both runMoe overloads. CutlassFusedMoE always passes the value so nothing changes for the layer, but direct fused_moe callers that omit it now get the corrected fallback. Worth a line in the description.

CI time. mixtureOfExpertsInternalTest was gated on INTERNAL_CUTLASS_KERNELS_PATH; it now builds and is discovered in every OSS build, and test_unit_tests.py runs everything ctest finds under the kernels dir. Expect MoE gtest time in that stage to roughly double. If that is intended, note it; if not, consider a label/filter so the internal variant runs only where the archive is the thing under test.

Docs: the developer guide update covers the new limitations; no release-note entry needed since user-visible behavior is only clearer errors.

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Stamp on behalf of runtime devs, delegating proper review to @NVIDIA/trt-llm-moe-devs; please ping me if you think this is not accurate

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Approving — the comments below are optional touch-ups, not blockers.

All five earlier threads are addressed in the current code; replies are on the threads.

Two whole-PR notes, neither blocking:

OFF-build adaptor has no CI guard. Everything under #if !defined(USING_OSS_CUTLASS_MOE_GEMM) in cpp/tensorrt_llm/thop/moe/cutlass/moeOp.cpp (activation ID translation, validateInternalMoeInputs, the neutral alpha/beta defaults and their capture-vs-eager handling) compiles only when the option is OFF, and CI builds with the default ON (cpp/CMakeLists.txt:83). The new Internal. gtest covers the tarball's kernel library, and test_cutlass_moe_public_activation_ids on H100/B200 runs against the OSS adaptor, so the capture-before-eager fix is verified only by your local run. That is acceptable for this PR, but please say so in the description so the next person touching the OFF path knows the coverage boundary.

Pre-merge cost of the Internal variant. cpp/tests/unit_tests/kernels/CMakeLists.txt now builds mixtureOfExpertsInternalTest in every OSS build (a second compile of a heavy TU) and CTest discovers all its cases, adding about 7 minutes to the H100 kernel stage. I would keep the basic permute/activation cases pre-merge and move LargeMixtureOfExpertsTest/parallelism variants of the Internal prefix to post-merge, but I will defer to whoever owns the kernel stage budget.

Description matches the diff (INT8-woq unpadded-size reorder, cmake, test prefix, test-list registrations are all mentioned), and the developer guide documents the OFF-build feature matrix.

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One kernel-compatibility issue with the B12x prefill fallback; details inline.

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CutlassFusedMoE was one 1161-line class serving eleven quantization formats,
with a _QUANT_SUPPORT_TABLE interpreter deciding at runtime which of them the
current problem was. Nothing in the type system said which format a given call
would run, and the class was simultaneously three unrelated things: a technique
identity, the CUTLASS family literal users write in YAML, and the resolver
fallback that absorbed every format nobody else claimed.

Replace it with a cutlass/ subpackage: an abstract CutlassFusedMoEBase plus one
leaf per format, each declaring its own descriptor, SM support, dtypes,
can_implement and quant method. The base takes the scheduler kind,
capabilities and input requirement off the descriptor, so each has one source,
and keeps the defaults most leaves run with: a pass-through quantize_input and
a run_moe that issues torch.ops.trtllm.fused_moe with the leaf's
FusedMoeOpFlags. A format whose kernel differs only in those flags declares
them and nothing else; the leaves that differ further override the two
methods. The table interpreter and the has_* branching in the base have no
callers left and are gone. The one fused_moe call is the base's
_run_fused_moe_op, kept apart from run_moe because it also takes what the
run_moe contract does not carry: dequantized weights, a dynamic FC2 scale and
LoRA operands. It and the activation quantizers more than one format uses sit
in cutlass/base.py beside those defaults, and the eligibility predicates that
replace the table live in cutlass/eligibility.py, which uses the identity gate
shared with the other families. fused_moe_cutlass.py shrinks to an alias
module, so CutlassFusedMoE keeps naming the family for every issubclass gate
outside the package.

fp8_block_scales becomes two leaves, because the one name covered two different
kernels: SM90 runs a Hopper grouped GEMM and SM120 an internal Triton grouped
GEMM, and neither is a CUTLASS kernel. They are named for what they run --
deepgemm.cuda.hopper_grouped_gemm.fp8_block_scales and
trtllm.triton.grouped_gemm.fp8_block_scales -- but both stay in
BACKEND_FAMILY[CUTLASS]. That is deliberate: the family literal is what users
write in checked-in configs (31 H200 configs pin moe_backend: CUTLASS for
fp8_block_scales), and AUTO reaches the same code path, so moving them out
would break both. Migrating the SM90 leaf to the DEEPGEMM family is a
follow-up. FALLBACK_IMPL likewise had to be redefined: it named the widest-
coverage class, which after the split is only an abstract base, so it becomes
FALLBACK_IMPLS over the leaves. With that many fallbacks,
MoEResolutionReport.degraded_from reports the requested implementations'
rejection -- the highest-priority one that declined for a reason other than
the format or the SM -- rather than whichever fallback leaf declined last. On
SM100 the SM120-only b12x leaves lead the CUTEDSL family, and their SM
rejection would otherwise stand in for CuteDslFusedMoE's. The SM120 Triton
leaf declares only what its kernel runs, SwiGLU and GeGLU without activation
constants, and does not take the alltoall output workspace, because its
run_moe returns the kernel's own tensor.

The open-source-kernel checks (NVIDIA#19753) and SM107 MXFP8 (NVIDIA#19953), which landed
on the old class, move into the same declarations. One family gate,
eligibility.check_oss_cutlass_build, runs in every leaf after its support
gates, so a format or SM mismatch is never blamed on the build. A leaf sets
requires_oss_cutlass_build when the bundled internal kernel archive has no
kernel for its format (MXFP8, W4A8_MXFP4_MXFP8, W4A16_MXFP4, W4A8_AWQ), and
uses_dynamic_fc2_scale when its run_moe hands the op a dynamic FC2 scale
(NVFP4). Because the latter is the leaf's declaration rather than a
QuantAlgo.NVFP4 comparison, it also covers the NVFP4_AWQ and NVFP4_ARC
checkpoints that leaf serves. supports_alltoall and validate_configurable_moe
sit on CutlassFusedMoEBase. The B12x NVFP4 leaf, the only one that routes
prefill through CUTLASS, declares _prefill_uses_cutlass and runs the same
gate, so _route_to_cutlass stays a shape predicate.

A leaf is fixed when the layer is built, so the model must pass the layer's
final quantization -- its quant_config_dict entry and any exclude_modules
match -- to create_moe as override_quant_config.
modeling_utils.moe_experts_quant_config does that lookup with the same match
apply_layerwise_quant_config uses, so the two agree whenever the model passes
the experts' name as __post_init__ sees it; Qwen3MoE and NemotronHMOE call it,
so a MIXED_PRECISION checkpoint such as Qwen3-30B-A3B W4A8 builds on the
W4A8_AWQ leaf. This is a behavior change for CUTLASS: the old class re-derived
its quant method from whatever quant_config the layer ended up with after
__post_init__, while a leaf cannot. The leaves now refuse a layer whose format
moved, in create_weights, through impl_contract.require_layer_quant_format,
which is the check TRTLLM-Gen already ran, hoisted so both families share one
definition. ConfigurableMoE now copies the model config shallowly for an
override, because Qwen3MoE passes one for every layer and a deep copy cloned
the whole per-weight quant_config_dict each time.

The B12x backend is split the same way, because it reached MoEImplBase through
CutlassFusedMoE and called its methods unbound -- calls that stop existing once
run_moe sinks. Its two formats do not share an execution path: NVFP4 routes
prefill chunks to the CUTLASS NVFP4 grouped GEMM and decode to b12x, while
W4A16_NVFP4 never leaves the b12x kernel. So CuteDslB12xNvfp4FusedMoE inherits
the CUTLASS NVFP4 leaf on purpose and CuteDslB12xW4a16Nvfp4FusedMoE deliberately
does not; it keeps CutlassFusedMoEBase only for construction, while its weight
lifecycle comes from MoEWeightOwnerMixin as for every implementation. What
they share -- the gates, the format check, the quant method and the decode
call -- sits in CuteDslB12xFusedMoEBase, a mixin because the leaves differ in
exactly which CUTLASS ancestor they carry; the old name aliases it so external
issubclass gates still match both. Both leaves consume the FC1 buffer the
CUTLASS NVFP4 weight pipeline padded, so the shared gate runs the FC1
row-alignment check for both formats. Giving the pair its own identity belongs
to the CuteDSL item; until then neither leaf publishes a descriptor, so the
NVFP4 one cannot read as its CUTLASS parent.

Routed-expert MoE LoRA moves to CutlassMoELoraMixin. It is fused into
torch.ops.trtllm.fused_moe for unquantized and per-tensor-FP8 weights only, yet
its ~320 lines sat in the base where the other ten leaves inherited machinery
they can never reach. _run_fused_moe_op takes the LoRA operands as an explicit
lora_kwargs argument, which only the mixin's run_moe passes, so no other leaf
depends on the mixin. The leaves that never set the LoRA state are already
handled by the readers outside the package, which probe with getattr rather
than assume. The CUDA-graph workspace reservation builds its FusedMoeRunner
key from the leaf's FusedMoeOpFlags and a leaf-declared input dtype, the
same inputs _run_fused_moe_op hands the op.

Four existing bugs surfaced once each format had one leaf, and are fixed:
- The SM120 Triton leaf compared global slot ids against the local expert
  count under alltoall, so every rank but the first computed no expert output
  and -1 padding counted as local. It now localizes by slot_start on every
  path.
- The b12x NVFP4 decode path dropped an NVFP4_AWQ checkpoint's pre-quant
  scale, which the CUTLASS prefill path applies. Decode now applies it too.
- ConfigurableMoE did not expose the backend's _moe_lora_enabled, so the
  torch.compile MoE LoRA guard in MoE.forward never fired for a wrapped
  backend. It now forwards the backend's state.
- The FC1 row-alignment gate covered NVFP4 only, but W4A16_NVFP4 weights go
  through the same loader, which pads the fused gate/up buffer at the bottom;
  an unaligned shard (intermediate_size 768 at moe_tp_size 8) split gate/up on
  the wrong row. The CUTLASS and B12x W4A16_NVFP4 leaves now decline it.

Step3p7MoE no longer asks the backend for its routed SwiGLU clamp when its
Python experts own the layer: the backend never runs those experts, and the
clamp kept the SM120 FP8 block-scale leaf, which takes no clamp, from holding
the weights the Python path dequantizes.

Callers that pinned the class follow the same rule: modeling_llama_min_latency
picks its leaf by format via cutlass_leaf, which names the registered formats
when none serves, and the bench_moe backend lookup returns leaves the way
moe_test_utils does. bench_moe_comm only calls quantize_input, which the two
fp8_block_scales leaves share, so it takes the first leaf of the format in
resolution order; its deepseek_v3 profile keeps running on every SM. The
Nemotron-H VL EPLB test likewise pins the W4A16_NVFP4 leaf.

Tests: moe_test_utils maps CUTLASS to the leaf find_cutlass_leaf returns, and
test_moe_impl.py checks that every family member, the twelve CUTLASS leaves
included, is what the registry returns for the identity it publishes, that
the CUTLASS literal picks a leaf by format and, for fp8_block_scales, by SM,
that a TRTLLM-Gen leaf, a CUTLASS leaf and both B12x leaves refuse a layer
whose format moved, and that a CUTEDSL request degraded on SM100 reports
CuteDslFusedMoE's rejection. The build-mode tests keep their names and check
the leaf that serves each format, and test_cutlass_leaf_declarations also pins
each leaf's build declarations. test_moe_backend.py drives run_moe on CPU, with
the op replaced, for every leaf that calls torch.ops.trtllm.fused_moe, the
W4A16 NVFP4 leaf's dequantized path included; it and the b12x backend test
cover the fixes above. test_qwen3_next_moe_quant.py expects the leaf a CUTLASS
resolution returns rather than the family name. Pure-CPU tests that no CI list
ran are marked cpu_only.

MOE_DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md follows the new layout: a file map for the cutlass/
leaves and a section on why a layer's format is fixed when it is built. The
trtllm-moe-develop skill stops restating the guide, which it already requires
reading, and keeps what the guide does not carry: the workflow (required
context, guide-update checklist, design gate, review template, test
selection), an owner-boundary table, which selection rules a test or
import-time check enforces and which only review catches, the imported-kernel
ABI checklist, and the EPLB CPU staging and communication checkpointing
details. Its reference keeps only code pointers, and the one fact only the
skill stated -- an impl_id pin is a resolve_moe_impl argument alone -- moves
into the guide.

Not in this change, and recorded for the follow-ups: resolve_moe_backend
preference rules, the 31 H200 configs, and the family migration of the SM90
leaf.

Signed-off-by: xxi <xxi@nvidia.com>
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