action: close two gaps that break the action forward-dynamics cookbook

[lfengad]

Two independent gaps between the action cookbooks and the framework. Both are hit by cookbooks/cosmos3/generator/action/run_fd_with_cosmos_framework.ipynb; each is one commit.

1. domain_name / viewpoint missing on BaseActionLeRobotDataset

The two action-dataset hierarchies are consumed interchangeably, but only one exposes them:

	domain_id	domain_name	viewpoint
ActionBaseDataset (UMI, hand pose, bridge, fractal, ...)	✅	✅	✅
BaseActionLeRobotDataset (DROID, ...)	✅	❌	❌

The cookbook's create_record_from_dataset helper reads them off whichever dataset it was handed, so it works for UMI and dies on DROID:

AttributeError: 'DROIDMergedLeRobotDataset' object has no attribute 'domain_name'

domain_name returns the embodiment type — already what domain_id derives from (get_domain_id(self._embodiment_type)) — so the two stay consistent by construction. Both backing attributes are assigned unconditionally in __init__, so every subclass is covered.

2. Forward dynamics rejected for hand_pose / libero

get_action_sample_data validated domain_name against EMBODIMENT_TO_RAW_ACTION_DIM. That table is a width lookup, not the list of valid domains (EMBODIMENT_TO_DOMAIN_ID is), and it deliberately omits hand_pose and libero because their raw width is set per-dataset at construction time. Result:

ValueError: invalid domain_name 'hand_pose'; expected one of ['abc_yam', 'agibotworld', ...]

— even for forward dynamics, which never needs the lookup: the caller supplies an action file and the raw width is just its last dimension. The table's own comment says only inverse_dynamics and WAM are unsupported for these domains, and the next line agreed:

assert action_path is not None or raw_action_dim is not None

That assert was already dead code, since the membership check above it guaranteed a non-None width.

Now: validate against EMBODIMENT_TO_DOMAIN_ID, look the width up with .get(), and reject a missing width only for the modes that must synthesise actions. Forward dynamics resolves the width from the action file, keeping the table as a cross-check where it has an entry.

Verification

Both on GB200 (driver 580.126.20), Cosmos3-Nano, running the cookbook's own cells:

• (1) Reverting the commit reproduces the AttributeError; with it, the DROID section runs to completion — 5/5 autoregressive chunks, stitched to (80, 528, 640, 3) @ 15fps.
• (2) The hand-pose section previously raised before any sampling; it now completes and writes vision.mp4 (EXIT=0).

Regression check: UMI path unchanged (domain=umi view=wrist_view prompt='cup arrangement').

Note

Committed with --no-verify: pre-commit cannot run in this environment (its tool interpreter symlinks into a container-root uv python that is not readable — PermissionError: /root/.local/share/uv/python/.../libpython3.13.so.1.0). Ran the equivalent checks manually: ruff check and ruff format --check both clean.

Companion PR

NVIDIA/cosmos#302 repairs the DROID cookbook asset and depends on this landing first.

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[lfengad]

Superseded by #159.

Split on review: the domain_name/viewpoint properties this PR added to BaseActionLeRobotDataset were a design preference, not a requirement — the cookbook can read the embodiment off EMBODIMENT_TYPE and the viewpoint off the sample, so that side is handled in NVIDIA/cosmos#302 with no framework change and no cross-repo release ordering.

What genuinely needs a framework fix is the domain_name validation in inference/action.py, which rejected hand_pose/libero even for forward dynamics. #159 carries that alone, tightened to an explicit set so no_action is not let through as a side effect.