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Overview

Temporarily disable the CI jobs listed below until their transitive dependencies are locked. Keep the job definitions commented out so they can be restored without reconstructing their configuration.

Claims

Package installed by job	Disabled jobs
evalscope==1.10.0	B200/H200 nightly Qwen3.8 accuracy evaluation and MI355 evaluation
helion==1.4.0	H100 and MI250 Helion kernel tests
b12x==1.5.1	DGX Spark nightly b12x linear kernels
torchao==0.18.0 / 0.17.0	H200 MIG, MI300 and MI355 DPX quantization
torch-abi-audit==0.0.1	MI300 Torch Stable ABI Audit
tblib==3.1.0	BMG Example Test that invokes run-intel-ci-test.sh example

• Disable both shared definitions/AMD mirrors and the standalone AMD definitions: 15 job declarations, counting mirrors.
• Keep the NVIDIA Torch Stable ABI Audit and other Intel jobs enabled. The separate Intel pipeline's Example Test does not invoke the script that installs tblib, so it remains enabled.
• Record the 42 test files that lose their last CI job in the test-tethering allowlist, each with the dependency-locking reason.

Validation

Passed:

.venv/bin/python -m pre_commit run --files \
  .buildkite/hardware_tests/intel_xpu_ci/test-intel.yaml \
  .buildkite/test-amd.yaml \
  .buildkite/test_areas/kernels.yaml \
  .buildkite/test_areas/lm_eval.yaml \
  .buildkite/test_areas/quantization.yaml \
  .buildkite/test_areas/torch_abi.yaml \
  tools/pre_commit/test_tethering_allowlist.txt
.venv/bin/python tools/pre_commit/check_buildkite_step_keys.py
git diff --check

Additional local validation parsed every Buildkite YAML file and compared the six changed YAML documents against the base commit: the only semantic changes are removal of the listed job declarations and the AMD-only ABI mirror. The locally available ci-infra read_steps_from_job_dir loader successfully loaded 389 steps across all ci_config*.yaml configurations. No active targeted package-install command remains in the affected definitions.

GPU tests/model evaluations were not run: this changes CI scheduling only, with no model, serving, or test implementation changes. Live Buildkite execution was not tested.

Details

A top-level version pin does not freeze the transitive dependency graph. This is the requested temporary scheduling mitigation, not a dependency-locking fix or a claim that every listed package has a demonstrated vulnerable dependency.

The pipeline generator's Step model does not support a skip field, so this uses the existing commented-out-job convention. Restore the blocks and remove the corresponding temporary allowlist entries once the dependency environments are locked. Coverage is intentionally reduced while these jobs are disabled.

Duplicate-work checks searched open PRs for evalscope, Helion, dependency changes, and CI disablement. No existing PR implementing this disablement was found. #63574 updates dependency floors and lockfiles rather than disabling these jobs; #62077 changes sharding and is also distinct. No issue number was supplied.

AI assistance was used to prepare and validate this change.

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