distributed-llm-pretraining-torchtitan

distributed-llm-pretraining-torchtitan is a skill for Claude Code from liortesta/ClawdAgent. It costs 83 tokens per session (2,634 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of distributed-llm-pretraining-torchtitan, Apache-2.0.

A PyTorch-native system for training large language models across many GPUs. Its parallel training methods split model computation and data across hardware so larger models can be trained together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pretrain Llama 3.1, DeepSeek V3, or custom models on one or more machines, with examples ranging from 8 to more than 512 GPUs.
Why use it?
It provides a ready-made setup for distributed pretraining, reducing the custom work needed to coordinate GPUs, save checkpoints, and use features such as Float8 and compiled PyTorch.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/download_hf_assets.py --repo_id meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B --assets tokenizer --hf_token=....

Good fit Use it to pretrain Llama 3.1, DeepSeek V3, or custom models on one or more machines, with examples ranging from 8 to more than 512 GPUs.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liortesta/ClawdAgent
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/liortesta/clawdagent/torchtitan

Made for: Claude Code.

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Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00083 $0.02634
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.01317
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00527
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00263

Measured 7d ago against content hash 530b85ddadfc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

distributed-llm-pretraining-torchtitan scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to distributed-llm-pretraining-torchtitan — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/01-model-architecture/torchtitan/SKILL.md · 359 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 359 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TorchTitan - PyTorch Native Distributed LLM Pretraining

Quick start

TorchTitan is PyTorch's official platform for large-scale LLM pretraining with composable 4D parallelism (FSDP2, TP, PP, CP), achieving 65%+ speedups over baselines on H100 GPUs.

Installation:

# From PyPI (stable)
pip install torchtitan

# From source (latest features, requires PyTorch nightly)
git clone https://github.com/pytorch/torchtitan
cd torchtitan
pip install -r requirements.txt

Download tokenizer:

# Get HF token from https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens
python scripts/download_hf_assets.py --repo_id meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B --assets tokenizer --hf_token=...

Start training on 8 GPUs:

CONFIG_FILE="./torchtitan/models/llama3/train_configs/llama3_8b.toml" ./run_train.sh

Common workflows

Workflow 1: Pretrain Llama 3.1 8B on single node

Copy this checklist:

Single Node Pretraining:
- [ ] Step 1: Download tokenizer
- [ ] Step 2: Configure training
- [ ] Step 3: Launch training
- [ ] Step 4: Monitor and checkpoint

Step 1: Download tokenizer

python scripts/download_hf_assets.py \
  --repo_id meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B \
  --assets tokenizer \
  --hf_token=YOUR_HF_TOKEN

Step 2: Configure training

Edit or create a TOML config file:

# llama3_8b_custom.toml
[job]
dump_folder = "./outputs"
description = "Llama 3.1 8B training"

[model]
name = "llama3"
flavor = "8B"
hf_assets_path = "./assets/hf/Llama-3.1-8B"

[optimizer]
name = "AdamW"
lr = 3e-4

[lr_scheduler]
warmup_steps = 200

[training]
local_batch_size = 2
seq_len = 8192
max_norm = 1.0
steps = 1000
dataset = "c4"

[parallelism]
data_parallel_shard_degree = -1  # Use all GPUs for FSDP

[activation_checkpoint]
mode = "selective"
selective_ac_option = "op"

[checkpoint]
enable = true
folder = "checkpoint"
interval = 500

Step 3: Launch training

# 8 GPUs on single node
CONFIG_FILE="./llama3_8b_custom.toml" ./run_train.sh

# Or explicitly with torchrun
torchrun --nproc_per_node=8 \
  -m torchtitan.train \
  --job.config_file ./llama3_8b_custom.toml

Read the full file on GitHub · 359 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

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distributed-llm-pretraining-torchtitan is a skill published in the GitHub repository liortesta/ClawdAgent (11 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 2,634 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to distributed-llm-pretraining-torchtitan, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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