Merge commit '5fe10364e4022149103a0f2697e48a5b915cea56' into chore/bump-mcore-dev-260812

Author: svcnemo-autobot

.github/actions/test-template/action.yml

@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ runs:
           HF_HOME=/home/ubuntu/.cache/huggingface
           NEMO_HOME=/home/ubuntu/.cache/nemo
         fi
+        HF_MODULES_CACHE=/home/ubuntu/.cache/huggingface/modules
 
         cmd=$(cat <<RUN_TEST_EOF
         #!/bin/bash
@@ -136,6 +137,7 @@ runs:
           --env GHA_RUNNER=${{ inputs.runner }} \
           --env HYDRA_FULL_ERROR=1 \
           --env HF_HOME=$HF_HOME \
+          --env HF_MODULES_CACHE=$HF_MODULES_CACHE \
           --env NEMO_HOME=$NEMO_HOME \
           --env RUN_ID=${{ github.run_id }} \
           --env UV_NO_SYNC=1 \

.github/scripts/test_docker_dependency_layers.sh

@@ -249,6 +249,8 @@ grep -q 'HF_HOME=/home/TestData/HF_HOME' "$composite_action"
 grep -q 'NEMO_HOME=/home/TestData/nemo_home' "$composite_action"
 grep -q 'HF_HOME=/home/ubuntu/.cache/huggingface' "$composite_action"
 grep -q 'NEMO_HOME=/home/ubuntu/.cache/nemo' "$composite_action"
+grep -q 'HF_MODULES_CACHE=/home/ubuntu/.cache/huggingface/modules' "$composite_action"
+grep -q -- '--env HF_MODULES_CACHE=\$HF_MODULES_CACHE' "$composite_action"
 
 # The baseline dependency layer must be structurally independent of the mutable
 # dispatched checkout. CI validates the ordering statically so this regression