Phase 4 of the modernization plan: institutionalize the 3-tier strategy
so future changes are guarded automatically, and pin down the
self-hosted M2 path the maintainer's hardware needs.
Tier dispatch
- Makefile targets test-unit / test-smoke / test-m2 / bench (plus
ci-tier0 / ci-tier1 wrappers that echo env first). check-macos-arm
fails fast on non-Apple-Silicon hosts.
Tier 1 smoke
- tests/smoke/test_synthetic_unet.py: builds a TinyUNet (conv-in,
time/text projections, conv-out), traces it, ct.convert to
mlprogram + fp16 CPU_ONLY, loads back via CoreMLModel and asserts
expected_inputs + named output. Runs in ~2s; auto-skips on
non-Apple-Silicon. Catches coremltools / ml-stable-diffusion API
drift without needing a real SD checkpoint or the ANE.
GitHub Actions
- .github/workflows/tier0.yml: ubuntu-latest on every push/PR, ~10
min budget, minimal-deps install (torch==2.0.1, numpy<1.25, pytest)
-> pytest -m unit.
- .github/workflows/tier1.yml: macos-14 (M1) on push/PR; opt-in via
run-tier1 label on labeled PRs to spare external-doc PRs.
- .github/workflows/tier2.yml: self-hosted [macOS, ARM64, coreml] on
PR label run-m2 / nightly cron / workflow_dispatch. Starts ComfyUI
with --cpu-vae, runs pytest -m m2 + bench/run.py, uploads bench
results.
Integration coverage moved
- Removed tests/integration/test_basic_conversion_1_5.py: it required
an MPS reference image (broken on macOS 26 + torch 2.0.1, see
Phase 1 Gate) and a checkpoint the maintainer doesn't have on disk
(dreamshaper_8). The same coverage now lives in
tests/m2/test_golden_image.py: deterministic numerical pass/fail
(SHA256 + PSNR fallback) against a stored golden, Core ML pipeline
only. No more human eyeballing.
Docs
- docs/ci-m2.md: one-time runner registration steps, COMFY_DIR
persistence, baseline model pre-conversion, trigger semantics, what
to do when the runner is offline, and the migration note from
integration -> m2 golden.
Sanity check
- Temporarily set convert_to="BREAKAGE_CANARY_NOT_A_REAL_FORMAT" in
the smoke test; Tier 1 surfaced
NotImplementedError: Backend converter BREAKAGE_CANARY_NOT_A_REAL_FORMAT not implemented
immediately. Reverted.
Local verification
- make test-unit -> 88/88 passed in 2.09s
- make test-smoke -> 1/1 passed in 1.99s