release-create-validation-issue

name	release-create-validation-issue
description	Generate a PyTorch release validation checklist issue by pulling open/closed issues from a GitHub milestone and cherry-picks from a release tracker issue. Triggered by mentions of "validation issue", "validation checklist", "release validation", or "release checklist".

Create Validation Issue

Generates the markdown body for a PyTorch release validation checklist issue (like https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/172576) by aggregating data from a GitHub milestone and a cherry-picks release tracker issue.

When to use this skill

Use when the user asks to:

• Create a validation issue or validation checklist for a PyTorch release
• Generate release validation content from a milestone
• Build a release checklist from milestone issues and cherry-picks

Instructions

Step 1: Determine parameters

Collect these parameters from the user. If not provided, ask.

Parameter	Description	Example
Release version	The PyTorch version being released	2.11
Milestone number	GitHub milestone number in pytorch/pytorch	61
Cherry-picks issue	GitHub issue number tracking cherry-picks	175093

Step 2: Fetch all milestone issues (open + closed)

Fetch ALL issues (both open and closed) from the milestone. Paginate through all pages since milestones can have 100+ items.

# Fetch open issues (paginate with page=1,2,3... until empty)
gh api --paginate 'repos/pytorch/pytorch/issues?milestone={MILESTONE}&state=open&per_page=100' \
  --jq '.[] | {number, title, html_url, labels: [.labels[].name], user: .user.login, is_pr: (.pull_request != null)}'

# Fetch closed issues (paginate similarly)
gh api --paginate 'repos/pytorch/pytorch/issues?milestone={MILESTONE}&state=closed&per_page=100' \
  --jq '.[] | {number, title, html_url, labels: [.labels[].name], user: .user.login, is_pr: (.pull_request != null)}'

If gh is not available or not authenticated, use WebFetch against the GitHub API with small page sizes (15-30) and multiple paginated requests to avoid truncation.

Step 3: Fetch cherry-picks from the release tracker

Search for all PRs targeting the release branch to get the complete list of cherry-picks:

# Search for all merged PRs against the release branch (excludes closed-unmerged PRs)
gh api --paginate 'search/issues?q=repo:pytorch/pytorch+is:pr+is:merged+base:release/{VERSION}+sort:created-asc&per_page=50' \
  --jq '.items[] | {number, title, user: .user.login, state}'

Also fetch comments on the cherry-picks issue to cross-reference:

gh api --paginate 'repos/pytorch/pytorch/issues/{CHERRY_PICKS_ISSUE}/comments' \
  --jq '.[] | {user: .user.login, body: .body}'

Step 4: Filter and classify issues

Apply these rules to each issue/PR:

1. Skip [RFC] and [RFD] issues: If the title starts with [RFC] or [RFD], exclude it entirely
2. Skip [release-only] items: Exclude items with [release-only] or [RELEASE X.XX] in the title — these are internal release branch housekeeping
3. Skip routine pin updates: Exclude items like "Update vLLM pinned commit", "Update pinned commit" — these are routine version bumps with no validation signal
4. Skip cherry-pick reverts: Exclude cherry-pick PRs whose title matches [cherry-pick] Revert "..." — these are reverts of previously cherry-picked changes and don't need validation tracking (e.g., [cherry-pick] Revert "[fix] DISABLED test_index ...", [cherry-pick] Revert "[CI] Enable TIMM pretrained model caching ...")
5. Skip unmerged cherry-picks: Exclude cherry-pick PRs that were closed without being merged. When fetching PRs targeting the release branch, check the merged field (or pull_request.merged_at for issue-style results). Only include cherry-picks where merged is true (or merged_at is non-null). Closed-but-unmerged PRs (e.g., [cherry-pick] Reland NCCL 2.29.3 in 2.11 #176699) should be excluded entirely.
6. Skip the release tracker itself: Do not include the release tracker issue
7. Identify cherry-picks: If the PR targets the release branch, or the title contains [cherry-pick], prepend [cherry-pick] to the line
8. Identify high priority: If the issue has a label high priority or the title contains [hi-pri], prepend [hi-pri] to the line
9. Link issues to fixing PRs: If a PR fixes an issue (check PR body for "Fixes #NNNNN" or "Closes #NNNNN"), combine them into a single line with the issue listed first, then the PR URL appended with |
10. Assign PR author: Append - @{author} at the end of each line using the PR/issue author's GitHub username. IMPORTANT: Never use bot accounts (@pytorchbot, @Copilot, @facebook-github-bot) as the author. Cherry-pick PRs are typically created by pytorchbot but the real author is the person who wrote the original trunk PR. To find the real author:
    • Look at the cherry-pick PR's head.ref branch name which follows the pattern cherry-pick-{ORIGINAL_PR_NUMBER}-by-...
    • Fetch the original trunk PR and use its author
    • For @Copilot-authored PRs, use the assigned reviewer or maintainer

Step 5: Format the output

Generate a markdown checklist organized into sections. The header should include a description, links to the milestone, release tracker, release branch, and HUD CI status.

Section ordering (items placed in the FIRST matching section):

1. High Priority — all [hi-pri] items AND all vLLM-related items (titles containing vllm or vLLM, labels containing module: vllm)
2. ONNX — items with [ONNX] in title, module: onnx label, or ONNX-related content (e.g., onnxscript, ONNX export)
3. MPS — items with [MPS] in title, module: mps label, or release notes: mps label
4. ROCm — items with [ROCm] in title, labels containing rocm
5. XPU — items with [XPU] or [xpu] in title, module: xpu label
6. Milestone Issues — remaining non-cherry-pick items from the milestone
7. Cherry-picks — remaining cherry-pick PRs not already placed in a category section above

Header format:

# Release {VERSION} validations checklist and cherry-picks

This issue tracks validation items and cherry-picks for the PyTorch {VERSION} release.

Content is sourced from:
- [Milestone {VERSION}.0](https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/milestone/{MILESTONE}) open and closed issues (excluding [RFC] issues)
- [Release Tracker #{CHERRY_PICKS_ISSUE}](https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/{CHERRY_PICKS_ISSUE}) cherry-picks to the [release/{VERSION}](https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/tree/release/{VERSION}) branch

Release branch CI status: [HUD](https://hud.pytorch.org/hud/pytorch/pytorch/release%2F{VERSION})

Item formatting rules:

• Every item starts with - [ ] (unchecked checkbox)
• Prefixes appear in square brackets: [cherry-pick], [hi-pri]
• Multiple prefixes are stacked: [cherry-pick] [hi-pri]
• Issue URL comes after the title
• If a PR fixes the issue, append PR URL with |: issue_url | pr_url
• Author is appended with - @username

Example lines:

- [ ] [hi-pri] [cuda 13.0 torch 2.10] [torch 2.11] umbrella issue - vLLM CI failures https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/175426 - @atalman
- [ ] [ONNX] Support complex initializers https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/170054 | https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/170231 - @justinchuby
- [ ] [cherry-pick] [MPS] Fix 2-pass SDPA memory corruption by forcing float accumulators https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/175580 - @hvaara
- [ ] [cherry-pick] [ROCm] forward fix #174087, take 4 https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/175159 - @jeffdaily

Step 6: Output

Output the full markdown text to a file (e.g., issue_tracker.txt) so the user can review and copy it into a new GitHub issue. Do NOT create the issue automatically — just generate the text content.

Example usage

Example 1 — Generate for a specific release:

Create validation issue for PyTorch 2.11 using milestone 61 and cherry-picks from issue 175093

Example 2 — Quick reference:

Generate release validation checklist for 2.11

Then the skill will ask for the milestone number and cherry-picks issue if not provided.

Notes

• If gh CLI is not available or not authenticated, use WebFetch against api.github.com with small page sizes (15-30 per page) to avoid AI-summarization truncation
• Milestones can have hundreds of issues; always paginate
• Cherry-pick PRs may appear both in the milestone AND in the cherry-picks tracker — place them in the most specific category section (ONNX, MPS, ROCm, XPU) rather than the generic Cherry-picks section
• Some items may be both [hi-pri] and [cherry-pick] — show both prefixes
• The output is meant to be pasted into a GitHub issue body, so use GitHub-flavored markdown