The executor previously claimed it would "optionally hand off" to
datatrove's LocalPipelineExecutor or SlurmPipelineExecutor — but it
already runs phases inline in every code path, and HF Jobs (see
``examples/annotation/run_hf_job.py``) is the actual distribution
strategy. Stop pretending we have an executor selector.
* `executor.py`: drop `select_executor_class`, the "kind" log line, and
the references to LocalPipelineExecutor / SlurmPipelineExecutor.
Module docstring now says distribution is delegated to HF Jobs.
* `config.py`: drop `auto_threshold`, `force_local`, `slurm_partition`,
`slurm_gpus`, `slurm_time`, `workers`. `ExecutorConfig` keeps only
`episode_parallelism`. While here, prune the longer "why" docstrings
on every field down to the load-bearing bits — full story moves to
`docs/source/annotation_pipeline.mdx`.
* `pyproject.toml`: drop `datatrove>=0.4.0,<2.0.0` from the
`[annotations]` extra; the dep was only there for the (never used)
cluster executors. Comment block notes the new HF-Jobs delegation.
* `reader.py`, `lerobot_annotate.py`: drop their own datatrove /
flavor-namespace mentions.
* `docs/source/annotation_pipeline.mdx`:
- remove the flavor-namespace / sidecar paragraph (out of scope —
"multiple revisions = multiple copies" is dataset-level policy);
- remove the "writer drops the legacy `subtask_index` column" note
(already covered by PR 1's intentional-break call-out);
- remove the chat-template + `apply_chat_template(messages, tools=...)`
line (covered by Tools doc);
- replace the "executor picks Local vs Slurm" paragraph with
`--executor.episode_parallelism` and a pointer to HF Jobs;
- rewrite the style→recipe section to talk about "recipes" generically
instead of pinning a specific YAML;
- add a "Running on Hugging Face Jobs" section pointing at
`examples/annotation/run_hf_job.py`;
- add a "Running locally" example matching the CLI's docstring
(`uv run lerobot-annotate --root=... --vlm.model_id=...`);
- extend the paper-inspirations list with Pi0.7 and Steerable VLA
Policies (Zhao 2025) for Module 3.
Tests: same 3 pre-existing failures as before this commit (2 module
assertions still in flight; 1 carryover from PR 1). 41/44 pass.
Pre-commit clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
