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Type of change: documentation (agent skill)

Aligns the evaluation skill's three remaining upstream-tracked benchmarks —
Terminal-Bench 2.1, SWE-bench Verified and MRCR — with the canonical configs in
nvidia-eval-factory-benchmarking (dl/JoC/competitive_evaluation/…) at main = 92b5474.

GDPVal is deliberately out of scope: it was removed from this skill in #2470. This
replaces #2464, which predated that removal and covered GDPVal too.

Terminal-Bench 2.1 / SWE-bench Verified

  • http_pairs_dump is first in the interceptor chain for both. The TB2.1 recipe said
    it was last, and the shared nel-next.md said the position was per-benchmark. It isn't
    any more — the model fragment upstream puts it first for both.
  • Sandbox region moved to HARBOR_ECS_REGION, and the two benchmarks don't behave the
    same.
    TB2.1's ECR repo name tracks the region
    (463701203462.dkr.ecr.<region>.amazonaws.com/harbor-<region>), so moving the region
    moves both halves. SWE-bench's is pinned to us-west-2/harbor-swebench regardless of
    its sandbox region (default us-east-2). Easy to get backwards, so it's called out on
    both recipes and in the shared reference.
  • Interceptor lists replace wholesale on merge. The reviewed SWE-bench leaf restates
    the model fragment's entire chain to add two entries. Adding system_message without
    re-listing the rest silently drops them — a scoring change that looks like nothing.
  • proxy.model_traffic.capture_request_body belongs on the service leaf, never a
    shared block: a shared services: entry is alias-only with no type and fails the
    service discriminator for every other model's composed config.
  • Canonical MLflow tags now carry task_name: <slug> and
    nemo-evaluator-next-version (from configs/shared/nel_next_containers.yaml), plus
    log_config_params: true.
  • Dropped a stale "per-model configs override concurrency (MiniMax-M2.7 uses 20)" note —
    that config no longer exists. The separate customer-launch track that does exist runs
    repeats: 3 / concurrency: 10 and is not AA-comparable, which is worth saying
    explicitly so its numbers aren't borrowed.

MRCR

  • parallelism is 512, and it is not a server cap. Upstream raised it from 256 so
    1M-token requests queue at the endpoint rather than leaving replicas idle. The skill's
    --max-num-seqs = ceil(parallelism / num_instances / DP) rule happened to give the
    right answer at 256 (ceil(256/4/2) = 32, which is what the golden served) and gives
    the wrong one at 512. Replaced with sizing from what a replica's KV can hold.
  • limit_samples now reaches the gym, via a gated
    {% if config.params.limit_samples is not none %}++limit=…{% endif %}. So MRCR does
    have a sample-limited canary. The prepare pass still runs in full, so it isn't cheap,
    and pass@1 from a limited run isn't a score — both stated.
  • Adds the canonical ++observability_enabled=true / ++model_call_capture_dir
    overrides and a canary check for the resulting artifacts/model_calls.
  • 128K is now its own upstream benchmark (configs/benchmarks/mrcr-128k/) with its
    own manifest key and the condensed benchmark:/prepare_args/run_args schema
    against the gym_runtime container. Noted, with the warning that switching schema
    means switching container — the pre_cmd and inline command: blocks don't apply there.
  • The golden's recorded parallelism: 256 is kept as provenance for the reference
    pass@1 = 26.91, flagged as a throughput difference rather than a scoring one.

Usage

No API change. Regenerating a config from the skill now yields the aligned values:

# recipes/examples/gym/example_mrcr.yaml
evaluation:
  nemo_evaluator_config:
    config:
      params:
        parallelism: 512     # above server capacity on purpose; do NOT derive --max-num-seqs from it
        limit_samples:       # set N for a canary -> forwarded to the gym as ++limit

# recipes/examples/example_eval_next.yaml
benchmarks:
  - sandbox:
      region: ${HARBOR_ECS_REGION:-us-east-1}   # TB2.1's ECR repo name tracks this; SWE-bench's does not

Testing

  • pytest plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/tests/test_nel_gym.py — passes.
  • pre-commit run --files <changed> — passes (yamlfmt, markdownlint, license, symlink sync).
  • Both edited example configs re-validated as parseable YAML, with the changed keys
    (parallelism, limit_samples, the ++limit jinja gate, TB2.1 sandbox block and
    MLflow tags) read back from the parsed documents.
  • Upstream values read from a fresh clone of the eval-factory repo at 92b5474, against
    configs/benchmarks/{terminal-bench-2.1,swe-bench-verified,mrcr,mrcr-128k}/ plus
    configs/shared/nel_next_containers.yaml and the reviewed per-model leaves under
    reviewed_configs/vpr/2026/.

Not run: an actual TB2.1 / SWE-bench / MRCR evaluation. These are skill docs and
templates; the numbers quoted are upstream's own recorded sign-off values, not new
measurements.

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Additional Information

Replaces #2464 (closed — it predated the GDPVal removal in #2470).

Companion internal change: the eval-config skill's Step 3b/3d rows in
Model-Optimizer-Internal, tracked separately.

One judgement call worth a reviewer's eye: the upstream SWE-bench manifest.yaml lists
its metric key as mean/reward, but the certificates for the harbor path record pass@1
(e.g. 0.516). I kept pass@1 as what to report for a nel-next run and documented
mean/reward as the Gym/direct-path key, so the two are never silently compared. If you
know which one the leaderboard actually reads, that note should be tightened.

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  • Documentation
    • Added HARBOR_ECS_REGION guidance for sandbox and AWS region configuration, including benchmark-specific repository behavior.
    • Clarified Terminal-Bench, SWE-bench, and MRCR evaluation setup, including routing, concurrency, parallelism, manifests, and certified metrics.
    • Expanded guidance for request-body capture, model-traffic observability, interceptor ordering, logging, and MLflow metadata.
    • Added support for optional MRCR canary sample limits and documented distinct 1M and 128K benchmark configurations.

… configs

Aligns the evaluation skill's three remaining upstream-tracked benchmarks with
nvidia-eval-factory-benchmarking `main` (92b5474). GDPVal is out of scope here —
it was dropped from this skill in #2470.

Terminal-Bench 2.1 and SWE-bench Verified:
- `http_pairs_dump` is first in the interceptor chain for both; the recipe still
  said last for TB2.1
- sandbox region comes from `HARBOR_ECS_REGION`, but the ECR coupling differs:
  TB2.1's repo name tracks the region, SWE-bench's is pinned to us-west-2
  regardless
- interceptor lists replace wholesale on merge, so a leaf adding one entry must
  restate the chain
- `capture_request_body` belongs on the service leaf, never a shared block
- canonical MLflow tags now include `task_name` and `nemo-evaluator-next-version`
- drops a stale "MiniMax-M2.7 uses concurrency 20" note; that config is gone, and
  the `clu` track that exists now runs repeats 3 / concurrency 10 and is not
  AA-comparable

MRCR:
- canonical `parallelism` is 512, deliberately above total server capacity so
  1M-token requests queue at the endpoint. That invalidates the old
  `ceil(parallelism / num_instances / DP)` rule for `--max-num-seqs`, which was a
  coincidence at 256
- `limit_samples` now reaches the gym via a gated `++limit`, so MRCR does have a
  sample-limited canary
- adds the canonical `observability_enabled` / `model_call_capture_dir` overrides
- 128K is now its own upstream benchmark on the condensed
  `prepare_args`/`run_args` schema

Also records the upstream SWE-bench manifest key (`mean/reward`) alongside the
`pass@1` the harbor certificates carry, so the two are never compared.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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The changes align evaluation environment settings, Harbor recipes, Terminal-Bench and SWE-bench guidance, and MRCR benchmark documentation with updated region, interceptor, observability, parallelism, and metric requirements.

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Evaluation guidance and configuration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Harbor environment and shared reference settings
plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/SKILL.md, plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/env.example, plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/references/nel-next.md
Adds HARBOR_ECS_REGION handling. Documents region-dependent and fixed ECR repositories, the pinned evaluator image, interceptor requirements, request capture, and MLflow fields.
Terminal-Bench and SWE-bench Harbor recipes
plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/examples/example_eval_next.yaml, plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/tasks/aa_next/*
Updates Harbor recipes and task guidance for regions, logging, interceptors, request capture, MLflow tags, backend selection, concurrency, and metric reporting.
MRCR benchmark configuration and canary flow
plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/examples/gym/example_mrcr.yaml, plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/tasks/gym/mrcr.md
Separates the 1M and 128K benchmark variants, decouples client parallelism from replica capacity, and documents bounded rollout collection with observability captures.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer#2464: Updates the same evaluation skill and related Terminal-Bench, SWE-bench, and MRCR configuration guidance.

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🟡 Minor · Replace stale MRCR canary guidance. · SKILL.md:84

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Replace stale MRCR canary guidance.

This line says that limit_samples is inert. The PR forwards limit_samples to Gym. Users will not use the new forwarding when they follow this canary procedure. Update the instruction to use the forwarded field and link to the recipe.

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In `@plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/examples/example_eval_next.yaml`:
- Line 131: Rename the MLflow tag key from nemo-evaluator-next-version to
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- Line 84: Update the gym-path canary guidance in the evaluation skill so it
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add a link to the relevant recipe. Preserve the surrounding canary procedure and
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checkpoint_path: "???"
benchmark: "???"
task_name: "terminal-bench-2.1" # upstream benchmark slug (SWE-bench: swebench-verified)
nemo-evaluator-next-version: "0.5.0.1" # eval_image version, so a score traces to its image

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Use nemo_evaluator_next_version for the MLflow tag. The shared reference identifies the underscore spelling as canonical. The example and both task recipes use the hyphenated spelling instead. nel-next.sh passes the configured tag map to nel export without rewriting the key, so these runs publish a different tag from the one used for canonical dashboard attribution. Update the tag in the example, both task references, and the MLflow guidance at references/nel-next.md:213.

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In `@plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/examples/example_eval_next.yaml`
at line 131, Rename the MLflow tag key from nemo-evaluator-next-version to
nemo_evaluator_next_version in the example recipe, both task recipe references,
and the MLflow guidance, preserving the configured value and existing nel export
behavior.

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