megatron-commit-tracker

Megatron Commit Tracker

Collect the smallest correct upstream change set from the official Megatron-LM repository and hand off a normalized artifact to downstream skills. Treat branch as a first-class input for every mode.

Core Rules

• Use the official upstream repository as the source of truth: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM.
• Require a target branch unless the user gives a PR or commit that can be resolved unambiguously.
• Normalize every request into one change-set object before doing any semantic analysis.
• Keep this skill mechanical. Do not summarize feature evolution here.
• Prefer PR and range/time-window modes over single-commit mode for feature tracking.
• Treat megatron main as valid for exploration, but do not imply that it has a strict MindSpeed mapping.

Supported Request Modes

Resolve the user request into exactly one of these modes:

1. pr Use when the user specifies a PR number or a merge request URL.
2. commit Use when the user specifies one commit SHA and wants to inspect that change in branch context.
3. range Use when the user specifies base_sha..head_sha.
4. time_window Use when the user specifies a branch plus a period such as last 7 days.
5. scheduled Use when an automation is checking a branch incrementally.

Required Output

Produce a normalized change-set artifact in JSON or markdown code block form with these fields when available:

{
  "repo": "NVIDIA/Megatron-LM",
  "branch": "core_v0.12.1",
  "source_type": "pr",
  "selector": {
    "pr": 1234,
    "commit": null,
    "base_sha": null,
    "head_sha": null,
    "since": null,
    "until": null
  },
  "resolved": {
    "commits": ["sha1", "sha2"],
    "head_sha": "sha2",
    "base_sha": "sha0"
  },
  "analysis_mode": "summary"
}

Also include a compact table of:

• commit SHA
• author
• authored date
• title
• touched files count

Workflow

1. Parse the user request into one supported mode.
2. Resolve the request against the named Megatron branch.
3. Confirm that the branch context is explicit in the output.
4. Collect only the raw upstream artifacts needed downstream: commit list, merge metadata, changed files, base/head SHAs, and any linked PR metadata.
5. Stop after normalization unless the user explicitly asks for deeper analysis.

Branch Handling

• Never silently substitute main for another branch.
• Verify the exact branch string against the official remote before fetch-heavy work when the requested name comes from local conventions or release notes.
• If the user gives a commit without branch context, try to infer the branch only when it is unambiguous. Otherwise state that branch confirmation is needed.
• For periodic tracking, store state by repo + branch, never by repository alone.
• For main, frame the result as exploratory upstream tracking, not strict migration-ready alignment.

Handoff

Pass the normalized change-set to:

• $megatron-change-analyzer for feature evolution and change classification
• $megatron-impact-mapper only after change analysis has identified relevant events

References

• Read branch-tracking.md for branch-aware request normalization and scheduling guidance.
• Run normalize_change_request.py when a deterministic change-set structure is needed.
• Run list_remote_branches.py to verify the exact branch names exposed by the official upstream remote before assuming a branch alias is fetchable.
• Run fetch_upstream_changes.py to collect commit metadata from the official upstream repository without manually rebuilding Git queries each time.