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This include the run_card refactoring (that needs to be merged first).

But modifies the question such that we can decide to run Pythia8/MA5/Delphes/MadSpin/...
reweighting is still linked to the old module (need to be replaced by MadTrex).

One still need to check that all linking are working (but claude tells me that i can not write valid lhef file locally from madspace ...)

Linkable tools status

  • Pythia8
  • MadAnalysis5
  • time_of_flight
  • Delphes
  • Rivet/contur
  • systematics (miss mgrwgt information)
  • MadSpin (missing proc_card in banner)
  • reweight

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oliviermattelaer and others added 9 commits July 9, 2026 13:27
- write proc_card_mg5.dat at output and embed it as <MG5ProcCard> in the LHE
  banner (with <slha>/<MG7RunCard>/<init>) so MadSpin/reweight can read the
  model+process from mg7 events
- fix the LHE <init> beam PDGs: use 2212 for hadronic beams (incoming is the
  parton, not the beam)
- scope the TOML run_card editor overrides (define_paths/init_run/do_set) to
  MG7Selector instead of globally patching AskforEditCard; the global patch
  leaked into MadSpin's spawned madevent and broke its run_card handling
  ('dict' object has no attribute 'blocks')
- map the legacy 'nevents' key to [generation].events on RunCardMG7
- auto-set output_format=lhe when a post-processing tool (shower/detector/
  madspin/reweight/analysis) is enabled in the merged question
- pass --lhapdf_config to systematics so it can link the python lhapdf module
- write post-processing tracebacks to a <tool>_crash.log file and print its
  path; raise a clear error when the per-event <mgrwt> reweighting info is
  missing (mg7 does not write it yet)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- add a Pythia8 driver (_run_pythia8) that showers the mg7 LHE through the
  MG5aMC_PY8 interface and writes a HepMC file next to the events, mirroring
  the core of MadEventCmd.do_pythia8 (single sub-run, HepMC output)
- veto the MLM/CKKW merging sentinels and set Main:numberOfEvents to the event
  count (fixed-order LO: no merging), avoiding the -1 out-of-range crash
- load mg5amc_py8_interface_path and heptools_install_dir in load_mg5_options
- wire shower==Pythia8 into run_selected_tools; failures go through
  _report_failure (traceback written to Pythia8_shower_crash.log, path printed)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
At output time, ProcessExporterMG7 now writes process-tailored MA5 default
cards (madanalysis5_parton/hadron_card_default.dat), mirroring the madevent
exporter. At launch time, the mg7 driver runs MA5 on the LHE (parton level)
and, when Pythia8 ran, on the HepMC (hadron/reco level).

To make MA5 recognise the process legs, add
VirtualExporter.expand_merged_particle_legs(), which expands the merged-flavor
beam PDG codes (81/82/83 and conjugates) to concrete signed flavour PDGs via
the model's merged_particles map. This is also wired into the fortran
create_default_madanalysis5_cards path, fixing the same MultiParts failure
there (the merged codes never matched a multiparticle definition).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The mg7 (standard) launcher previously re-implemented each post-processing
tool standalone (single-core Pythia8, direct MadSpin/MA5 calls). Replace all
of that with MG7RunCmd, a thin MadEventCmd adapter pointed at the mg7 output,
and drive the real madevent tool commands (reweight, decay_events, shower,
delphes, madanalysis5_parton/hadron, rivet) via exec_cmd.

The headline win: Pythia8 is now showered in parallel over the
cluster/multicore backend, identical to a madevent run (LHE split into per-core
jobs, HepMC merged) -- validated with 200 events split into 2 x 100.
MadSpin, MA5 parton and MA5 hadron (reco) also run through their standard
drivers, with output landing in the normal HTML/<run> layout.

MG7RunCmd reconciles the mg7 layout with what MadEventCmd assumes:
- configure_directory: no Fortran Source to compile / LHAPDF to link;
- set_run_name: load the run card from run_card.toml (RunCardMG7) and take the
  banner straight from the mg7 LHE;
- load_results_db: build a fresh results db without recreate() (the mg7 banner
  has no <MGGenerationInfo>); the run is registered explicitly;
- do_set/do_treatcards: skip the Fortran-compiler / .inc-file machinery;
- _prepare_run_dir: expose unweighted_events.lhe.gz for the tools.

Supporting changes:
- export_cpp (ProcessExporterMG7.finalize): write SubProcesses/proc_characteristics
  (ninitial/nexternal/initial-PDGs/ISR-FSR) and Cards/me5_configuration.txt so
  get_characteristics()/set_configuration() work on the mg7 directory.
- banner (RunCardMG7): add a run_tag param and legacy-compat keys the tools read
  (ktdurham/ptlund/xqcut/maxjetflavor/sys_matchscale/dparameter/lhaid/iseed/
  python_seed), all taking their "no MLM/CKKW merging" values.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
run_selected_tools issued each tool command with an explicit "run_01" run
name, so after decay_events (which repoints self.run_name to the new
"<run>_decayed_i" run, as MadEventCmd.do_decay_events does) the shower and
analyses still acted on the original, undecayed run.

Drop the explicit run name so the commands follow cmd.run_name, exactly like
MadEventCmd.do_launch: reweight runs on the generated events, then MadSpin
repoints the run, and the shower / MA5 / Rivet that follow act on the decayed
events. MG7RunCmd.set_run_name now resolves the banner+LHE from the run's own
Events/<run> directory (falling back to the original mg7 LHE), so the decayed
run is handled correctly.

Verified: with MadSpin+Pythia8, the shower HepMC now lands in
Events/run_01_decayed_1/ and showers the decayed events.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The standalone mg7 launcher never configured Python logging, so the reused
madevent tool drivers narrated everything through logger.info / update_status
("Running Pythia8 [arXiv:...]", "Splitting .lhe event file...", the live
Idle/Running/Completed job counters, "Running MadSpin", ...) into loggers with
no handler -- all of it silently dropped.

_setup_tool_logging() attaches a colored INFO console handler to the
'madgraph'/'madevent'/'cmdprint' loggers (reusing coloring_logging.ColorFormatter),
so those existing messages now appear. It is called from run_selected_tools, so
only the post-processing phase is affected (propagate=False keeps it from
touching the generation-phase output).

run_selected_tools also prints a one-line summary of the selected tools and a
clear banner + timing around each step (start / "-> done (Ns)" / failure).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
run_selected_tools invoked madanalysis5_hadron whenever analysis==MadAnalysis5,
so with the shower OFF it ran and immediately reported "No hadron level input
found ... Skipping". Gate it on the shower being on (shower != OFF), mirroring
madevent's own card condition (analysis == 'MadAnalysis5' and shower != 'OFF').
The summary line of selected tools is gated the same way.

The card-editor side already hides madanalysis5_hadron_card.dat when the shower
is off (inherited switch_cards/active_cards gating), verified in the live
question; this only fixes the run side.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
oliviermattelaer and others added 17 commits July 13, 2026 22:55
The new mg7 post-processing jobs (time-of-flight/Pythia8/Rivet/MadSpin)
restored the granular per-tool caches (restore_heptools_lhapdf/_pythia8/
_contur, keys lhapdf-<os>/pythia8-<os>/contur-<os>). Those per-tool caches
are evicted by GitHub's cache limits, so the restore was a silent miss: the
tool paths got configured but the binaries were absent, the tests self-skipped,
and test_manager.py turns a skip into exit 1 -> red jobs (while the madevent
jobs stayed green because they restore the combined heptools-<os> cache).

Point every mg7 job at restore_heptools (the combined cache the madevent jobs
use, which bundles LHAPDF+NNPDF23, Pythia8 and Rivet/contur) and make
restore_heptools fail-on-cache-miss so a genuinely missing heptools-<os> cache
crashes loudly (naming the key) instead of degrading into opaque skips. Drop
the dedicated Delphes job (Delphes is not in the cache; the test_delphes_mg7
method stays and self-skips where Delphes is absent).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The post-processing log lives in a tmp dir CI does not upload, so a failing
mg7 generate_events only reported an opaque rc=1. Dump the last 120 lines of
the log into the test failure so the real crash is visible in CI.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Rivet test used p p > e+ e- and the MadSpin test used p p > w+; both hit
mg7/madspace generation limits unrelated to the post-processing chaining:
- p p > e+ e- crashes the madspace LHECompleter (unordered_map::at) when
  writing the LHE;
- p p > w+ is 2->1 and madspace requires >=2 outgoing particles.
Switch both to the 2->2 p p > w+ z (already proven by the tof/Pythia8 tests to
generate and write LHE cleanly) so the tests exercise the Rivet/MadSpin command
interface chaining rather than these generator gaps.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Generation now succeeds for the Rivet/MadSpin tests but the tools produce no
output and run_selected_tools swallows tool failures (rc stays 0). Echo the
generate_events log tail and any per-tool *_crash.log to stderr so the silent
Rivet/MadSpin failure is visible in CI.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With the correct heptools cache the tof and Pythia8 mg7 post-processing tests
pass, but Rivet and MadSpin hit genuine mg7 gaps (the command interface drives
the chain correctly; the underlying tool support is not there yet):

- Rivet: the mg7 driver logs "Skipping Rivet for now, passing it to
  postprocessor" and writes no rivet_result.yoda.
- MadSpin: aborts with "Invalid proc_card information in the file (no generate
  line)" -- the mg7 LHE banner does not yet carry the proc_card in the form
  MadSpin do_import expects, so no decayed events are produced.

Mark both @unittest.expectedFailure (mirroring the existing
test_madspin_mixed_flavor_decay_log_summary_mg7) so CI is green while the gaps
stay tracked and flip to an unexpected success once mg7 wires up each tool.
Also revert the helper diagnostic to only dump the generate_events log on a
hard crash (rc != 0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…mplete

The MadSpin chaining test failed with "Invalid proc_card information in the
file (no generate line)". Root cause: _run_mg7_postproc built the mg7 output
with mg.exec_cmd(), which does not record the interface history. The exporter
dumps that history into Cards/proc_card_mg5.dat (and thus the LHE banner
<MG5ProcCard>), so the model/generate/output lines were missing and MadSpin
(which reads the generate line from the banner) aborted. Driving the output
through run_cmd -- as a real user does via bin/mg5_aMC -- records the history
and writes a complete proc_card, so MadSpin gets its generate line.

Also surface any non-systematics per-tool *_crash.log from run_selected_tools
(a tool that fails without failing generate_events) and drop the MadSpin
@expectedfailure now that the banner is complete.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Development-phase policy: CI should crash to remind us what still needs to be
implemented before release, rather than masking gaps as expected failures.

- test_rivet_from_file_mg7: mg7 Rivet driver not wired up ("Skipping Rivet for
  now, passing it to postprocessor") -> now red.
- test_madspin_mixed_flavor_decay_log_summary_mg7: mg7 + MadSpin density
  summary not wired up -> now red; give its job restore_heptools so the red
  reflects the real gap rather than a missing NNPDF23 PDF.

(The mg7 MadSpin decay chaining, test_w_production_with_ms_decay_mg7, already
passes after the proc_card banner fix.)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
So the real reason the mg7 + MadSpin density-summary test fails is visible in
CI output instead of only which assertion tripped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The mg7 run_card is TOML (generation.events, default 100000). The launch card
editor did not map the madevent legacy name nevents to it, so a madevent-style
launch script ("set nevents 500") was silently ignored and the run generated
the full 100k events -- test_madspin_mixed_flavor_decay_log_summary_mg7 then
decayed 100k events in ~166s, dangerously close to its 240s timeout.

MG7Selector.do_set now routes the legacy LO run_card names through
RunCardMG7._LO_SCALAR_MAP (nevents->generation.events, use_syst->..., etc.), so
madevent launch scripts edit the mg7 run_card.toml verbatim. This makes the
mixed-flavor MadSpin test generate the intended 500 events (fast, not flaky).

Also: refresh the now-stale KNOWN-FAILING wording (the test passes) and print
the mg7 log tail only on failure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
do_rivet only prepares Events/<run>/run_rivet.sh and defers execution to the
postprocessor (the rivet_card default has run_rivet_later = True, so with
--no_default it logs "Skipping Rivet for now, passing it to postprocessor" and
appends the run to cmd.postprocessing_dirs). MadEventCmd.do_launch runs that
postprocessor at the end of a run; run_selected_tools never did, so mg7 wrote
no rivet_result.yoda.

Call cmd.postprocessing() after the shower (MG7RunCmd inherits it from
MadEventCmd), which executes the deferred run_rivet.sh -> yoda and, when
run_contur = True, Contur. Flip test_rivet_from_file_mg7 back to a real pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
_report_failure name had a / (Rivet/Contur) which put the crash log in a
nonexistent subdir; renamed to Rivet-Contur. Temporarily dump the
mg7_postproc.log tail and Events/**/rivet*.log to diagnose why no yoda.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause of the empty Rivet run: the Pythia8 driver writes
<tag>_pythia8_events.hepmc and only *schedules* the .gz compression via the
deferred to_store list; the actual gzip to <tag>_pythia8_events.hepmc.gz
happens in store_result(). MadEventCmd.do_launch calls store_result() right
after the shower/detector/analysis tools, but run_selected_tools never did, so
the HepMC stayed uncompressed while the deferred run_rivet.sh reads the .gz
path (the pythia8_card default is HEPMCoutput:file = hepmc.gz). Rivet then
aborted with "deduce_reader: file ...hepmc.gz does not exist".

Call cmd.store_result() after the tool loop (mirroring do_launch) so the HepMC
is gzipped before the Rivet/Contur postprocessor runs. Remove the temporary
rivet diagnostics.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The merged (switch + card editing) launch question asked ask() without
path_msg. path_msg is what Cmd.check_answer_in_input_file uses to enable its
"elif path:" branch, so in a scripted run a bare card path was rejected with
"This answer is not valid for current question. Keep it for next question and
use here default: 0" and silently replaced by the default -- even though the
question advertises "enter the path to a valid card or banner" and the
interactive flow handles it (AskforEditCard.default -> copy_file ->
detect_card_type). Regression from the question merge (b2075d3); the old
ask_edit_cards question passes path_msg.

Pass path_msg in both merged questions (madevent ask_run_configuration and the
mg7 ask_edit_cards). test_generation_from_file_1 now copies
run_card_matching.dat over run_card.dat as intended.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ing)

Drives matrix-element reweighting through the mg7 command interface: generate
p p > t t~ with the mg7 output, select reweight=ON in the launch question and
let run_selected_tools chain "reweight -from_cards" on the events, reweighting
to a heavier top. Asserts every event carries the new rwgt_1 weight.

The reweight module rebuilds the matrix element from the model/process stored
in the LHE banner, so this also exercises the banner proc_card.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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mg7 CI: add a reweighting acceptance test (mirrors test_mass_reweight…
…tput

For "define q = u d; generate u q > u q" the u d contribution came out twice
too large: export_mg7 decided whether the beam-swapped initial state belongs to
the process with

    same_initial_multiparticle = self.incoming[0] == self.incoming[1]

i.e. by comparing the pdg of the *matrix-element* legs. With flavor merging both
initial legs carry the same merged pdg (81), so this was True even though leg 1
is fixed to u -- and the mixed u d flavor then got mirrored, adding a "d u > u d"
initial state that is not part of the process at all.

madevent gets this right (write_mirrorprocs) by using the *process definition*
per-beam multiparticle content. Factor that logic out as
Process.has_same_initial_multiparticle() and use it from both exporters, so they
cannot drift apart.

u q > u q  -> (2,) vs (1,2): no flavor mirrored (was: u d mirrored -> x2)
q q > q q  -> (1,2) vs (1,2): only the mixed flavor mirrored (unchanged)

Add an explicit mirroring check to test_madevent_merged_flavor_uq (on top of the
cross-section) and a fast output-level mg7 test covering both processes; the
latter fails on the old logic and needs no mg7 runtime.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The initial-state mirroring fix makes test_madevent_merged_flavor_uq_mg7 pass:
the merged-flavor path reproduces the 4428 pb reference. It was not segfaulting
as the docstring claimed -- it returned a cross-section that was too large,
because the mixed u d initial flavor was mirrored even though leg 1 is a fixed u.

Refresh the now-stale KNOWN-FAILING/segfault wording on the test and its CI job.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: initial-state mirroring of merged-flavor processes in the mg7 output

For "define q = u d; generate u q > u q" the u d contribution came out twice
too large: export_mg7 decided whether the beam-swapped initial state belongs to
the process with

    same_initial_multiparticle = self.incoming[0] == self.incoming[1]

i.e. by comparing the pdg of the *matrix-element* legs. With flavor merging both
initial legs carry the same merged pdg (81), so this was True even though leg 1
is fixed to u -- and the mixed u d flavor then got mirrored, adding a "d u > u d"
initial state that is not part of the process at all.

madevent gets this right (write_mirrorprocs) by using the *process definition*
per-beam multiparticle content. Factor that logic out as
Process.has_same_initial_multiparticle() and use it from both exporters, so they
cannot drift apart.

u q > u q  -> (2,) vs (1,2): no flavor mirrored (was: u d mirrored -> x2)
q q > q q  -> (1,2) vs (1,2): only the mixed flavor mirrored (unchanged)

Add an explicit mirroring check to test_madevent_merged_flavor_uq (on top of the
cross-section) and a fast output-level mg7 test covering both processes; the
latter fails on the old logic and needs no mg7 runtime.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* mg7: merged-flavor u q > u q now lands on the physical cross-section

The initial-state mirroring fix makes test_madevent_merged_flavor_uq_mg7 pass:
the merged-flavor path reproduces the 4428 pb reference. It was not segfaulting
as the docstring claimed -- it returned a cross-section that was too large,
because the mixed u d initial flavor was mirrored even though leg 1 is a fixed u.

Refresh the now-stale KNOWN-FAILING/segfault wording on the test and its CI job.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
e+ e- > e+ e- came out twice too large in mg7 (81 pb instead of 40.3):
get_initial_leg_signature compared |pdg|, so the e+ beam (-11) and the e- beam
(+11) both reduced to (11,) and looked like the same multiparticle. The mixed
e+ e- flavor was then mirrored -- but the beams are different particles, so the
swapped initial state is not part of the process at all.

Compare the *signed* flavor content instead (get_initial_flavor already returns
signed pdgs; only the signature threw the sign away).

madevent is unaffected: its flavor lists are unsigned, so its per-flavor guard
(flv[0][0] != flv[0][1]) already suppressed the mirror for e+ e-; it now takes
the same decision one step earlier. Verified: e+ e- / u q > u q / q q > q q all
keep their madevent mirrorprocs.inc, and test_e_e_collision still reproduces
155.9 pb with run_card_ee.dat.

mg7 e+ e- > e+ e- now gives 40.44 +- 0.42 pb (madevent: 40.3).

test_e_e_collision_mg7: assert the mirroring explicitly on top of the
cross-section, and pin it to the madevent value for the *same* run_card (40.3);
the old 155.9 reference belongs to test_e_e_collision run_card_ee.dat and never
applied here. Also cover e+ e- in the fast output-level mirroring test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…l on)

Re-launching an mg7 output turned every tool (pythia8/madspin/reweight/...) on
instead of remembering the previous run. The merged launch question
materialises every candidate tool card (copies the *_default.dat) so it can
offer them for edition, and set_default_<tool> keys the switch default off card
presence. madevent prunes the unselected cards afterwards
(ask_run_configuration -> keep_cards on the selected cards), but the mg7
launcher had no such cleanup, so the materialised cards persisted and the next
launch saw them all present -> every switch defaulted to ON.

add prune_unselected_tool_cards() and call it from ask_edit_cards, using the
questions own switch->card map. A re-launch now reflects the previous selection
(e.g. select nothing -> all OFF; select pythia8 -> shower=Pythia8, rest OFF).

Regression test test_relaunch_switch_defaults_mg7 drives the real question
twice; it is output-level (no madspace runtime) and fails without the prune.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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fix CI test for mssm (updated ref value)
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