[Doc] Add sphinx build for vllm-ascend (#55)

### What this PR does / why we need it?

This patch enables the doc build for vllm-ascend

- Add sphinx build for vllm-ascend
- Enable readthedocs for vllm-ascend
- Fix CI:
- exclude vllm-empty/tests/mistral_tool_use to skip `You need to agree
to share your contact information to access this model` which introduce
in
314cfade02
- Install test req to fix
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/actions/runs/13304112758/job/37151690770:
      ```
      vllm-empty/tests/mistral_tool_use/conftest.py:4: in <module>
          import pytest_asyncio
      E   ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pytest_asyncio'
      ```
  - exclude docs PR

### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No

### How was this patch tested?
1. test locally:
    ```bash
    # Install dependencies.
    pip install -r requirements-docs.txt
    
    # Build the docs and preview
    make clean; make html; python -m http.server -d build/html/
    ```
    
    Launch browser and open http://localhost:8000/.

2. CI passed with preview:
    https://vllm-ascend--55.org.readthedocs.build/en/55/

Signed-off-by: Yikun Jiang <yikunkero@gmail.com>

.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test.yaml

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ on:
       - '*.txt'
       - '**/*.py'
       - '.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test.yaml'
+      - '!docs/**'
   pull_request:
     branches:
       - "main"
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ on:
       - '*.txt'
       - '**/*.py'
       - '.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test.yaml'
+      - '!docs/**'
 
 # Bash shells do not use ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc so these shells need to be explicitly
 # declared as "shell: bash -el {0}" on steps that need to be properly activated.

.readthedocs.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Read the Docs configuration file
+# See https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config-file/v2.html for details
+
+version: 2
+
+build:
+  os: ubuntu-22.04
+  tools:
+    python: "3.12"
+
+sphinx:
+  configuration: docs/source/conf.py
+  fail_on_warning: true
+# If using Sphinx, optionally build your docs in additional formats such as PDF
+formats: []
+
+# Optionally declare the Python requirements required to build your docs
+python:
+  install:
+    - requirements: docs/requirements-docs.txt

README.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <p align="center">
   <picture>
-    <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/main/docs/logos/vllm-ascend-logo-text-dark.png">
-    <img alt="vllm-ascend" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/main/docs/logos/vllm-ascend-logo-text-light.png" width=55%>
+    <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/main/docs/source/logos/vllm-ascend-logo-text-dark.png">
+    <img alt="vllm-ascend" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/main/docs/source/logos/vllm-ascend-logo-text-light.png" width=55%>
   </picture>
 </p>
 
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ curl http://localhost:8000/v1/models
 **Please refer to [official docs](./docs/index.md) for more details.**
 
 ## Contributing
-See [CONTRIBUTING](./CONTRIBUTING.md) for more details, which is a step-by-step guide to help you set up development environment, build and test.
+See [CONTRIBUTING](docs/source/developer_guide/contributing.md) for more details, which is a step-by-step guide to help you set up development environment, build and test.
 
 We welcome and value any contributions and collaborations:
 - Please feel free comments [here](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/19) about your usage of vLLM Ascend Plugin.

README.zh.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <p align="center">
   <picture>
-    <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/main/docs/logos/vllm-ascend-logo-text-dark.png">
-    <img alt="vllm-ascend" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/main/docs/logos/vllm-ascend-logo-text-light.png" width=55%>
+    <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/main/docs/source/logos/vllm-ascend-logo-text-dark.png">
+    <img alt="vllm-ascend" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/main/docs/source/logos/vllm-ascend-logo-text-light.png" width=55%>
   </picture>
 </p>
 
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ curl http://localhost:8000/v1/models
 **请参阅 [官方文档](./docs/index.md)以获取更多详细信息**
 
 ## 贡献
-有关更多详细信息，请参阅 [CONTRIBUTING](./CONTRIBUTING.md)，可以更详细的帮助您部署开发环境、构建和测试。
+有关更多详细信息，请参阅 [CONTRIBUTING](docs/source/developer_guide/contributing.zh.md)，可以更详细的帮助您部署开发环境、构建和测试。
 
 我们欢迎并重视任何形式的贡献与合作：
 - 您可以在[这里](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/19)反馈您的使用体验。

docs/Makefile

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Minimal makefile for Sphinx documentation
+#
+
+# You can set these variables from the command line, and also
+# from the environment for the first two.
+SPHINXOPTS    ?=
+SPHINXBUILD   ?= sphinx-build
+SOURCEDIR     = source
+BUILDDIR      = _build
+
+# Put it first so that "make" without argument is like "make help".
+help:
+	@$(SPHINXBUILD) -M help "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)
+
+.PHONY: help Makefile
+
+# Catch-all target: route all unknown targets to Sphinx using the new
+# "make mode" option.  $(O) is meant as a shortcut for $(SPHINXOPTS).
+%: Makefile
+	@$(SPHINXBUILD) -M $@ "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)
+

docs/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# vLLM Ascend Plugin documents
+
+## Build the docs
+
+```bash
+# Install dependencies.
+pip install -r requirements-docs.txt
+
+# Build the docs.
+make clean
+make html
+```
+
+## Open the docs with your browser
+
+```bash
+python -m http.server -d build/html/
+```
+
+Launch your browser and open http://localhost:8000/.
+

docs/index.md

@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-# Ascend plugin for vLLM
-vLLM Ascend plugin (vllm-ascend) is a community maintained hardware plugin for running vLLM on the Ascend NPU.
-
-This plugin is the recommended approach for supporting the Ascend backend within the vLLM community. It adheres to the principles outlined in the [[RFC]: Hardware pluggable](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/11162), providing a hardware-pluggable interface that decouples the integration of the Ascend NPU with vLLM.
-
-By using vLLM Ascend plugin, popular open-source models, including Transformer-like, Mixture-of-Expert, Embedding, Multi-modal LLMs can run seamlessly on the Ascend NPU.
-
-## Contents
-
-- [Quick Start](./quick_start.md)
-- [Installation](./installation.md)
-- Usage
-  - [Running vLLM with Ascend](./usage/running_vllm_with_ascend.md)
-  - [Feature Support](./usage/feature_support.md)
-  - [Supported Models](./usage/supported_models.md)

docs/requirements-docs.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+sphinx==6.2.1
+sphinx-argparse==0.4.0
+sphinx-book-theme==1.0.1
+sphinx-copybutton==0.5.2
+sphinx-design==0.6.1
+sphinx-togglebutton==0.3.2
+myst-parser==3.0.1
+msgspec

docs/requirements-test.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+pytest-asyncio
+

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2025 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
+# This file is a part of the vllm-ascend project.
+# Adapted from vllm-project/vllm/docs/source/conf.py
+# Copyright 2023 The vLLM team.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+# -- Path setup --------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+#
+# import os
+# import sys
+# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
+
+# -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
+
+project = 'vllm-ascend'
+copyright = '2025, vllm-ascend team'
+author = 'the vllm-ascend team'
+
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
+release = ''
+
+# -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+
+# Copy from https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/main/docs/source/conf.py
+extensions = [
+    "sphinx.ext.napoleon",
+    "sphinx.ext.intersphinx",
+    "sphinx_copybutton",
+    "sphinx.ext.autodoc",
+    "sphinx.ext.autosummary",
+    "myst_parser",
+    "sphinxarg.ext",
+    "sphinx_design",
+    "sphinx_togglebutton",
+]
+myst_enable_extensions = [
+    "colon_fence",
+]
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#
+# This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
+# Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
+language = 'en'
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+# This pattern also affects html_static_path and html_extra_path.
+exclude_patterns = [
+    '_build',
+    'Thumbs.db',
+    '.DS_Store',
+    '.venv',
+    'README.md',
+    # TODO(yikun): Remove this after zh supported
+    'developer_guide/contributing.zh.md'
+]
+
+# -- Options for HTML output -------------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+#
+html_title = project
+html_theme = 'sphinx_book_theme'
+html_logo = 'logos/vllm-ascend-logo-text-light.png'
+html_theme_options = {
+    'path_to_docs': 'docs/source',
+    'repository_url': 'https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend',
+    'use_repository_button': True,
+    'use_edit_page_button': True,
+}
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+# html_static_path = ['_static']
+
+
+def setup(app):
+    pass

docs/source/developer_guide/contributing.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Contributing to vLLM Ascend plugin
+# Contributing
 
 ## Building and testing
 It's recommended to set up a local development environment to build and test
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ git commit -sm "your commit info"
 
 ### Testing
 
-Although vllm-ascend CI provide integration test on [Ascend](.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test.yaml), you can run it
+Although vllm-ascend CI provide integration test on [Ascend](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/blob/main/.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test.yaml), you can run it
 locally. The simplest way to run these integration tests locally is through a container:
 
 ```bash

docs/source/developer_guide/contributing.zh.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# 为 vLLM 昇腾插件贡献
+# 贡献指南
 
 ## 构建与测试
 我们推荐您在提交PR之前在本地开发环境进行构建和测试。
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ git commit -sm "your commit info"
 ```
 
 ### 测试
-虽然 vllm-ascend CI 提供了对 [Ascend](.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test.yaml) 的集成测试，但您也可以在本地运行它。在本地运行这些集成测试的最简单方法是通过容器：
+虽然 vllm-ascend CI 提供了对 [Ascend](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/blob/main/.github/workflows/vllm_ascend_test.yaml) 的集成测试，但您也可以在本地运行它。在本地运行这些集成测试的最简单方法是通过容器：
 
 ```bash
 # 基于昇腾NPU环境

docs/source/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# Welcome to vLLM Ascend Plugin
+
+:::{figure} ./logos/vllm-ascend-logo-text-light.png
+:align: center
+:alt: vLLM
+:class: no-scaled-link
+:width: 70%
+:::
+
+:::{raw} html
+<p style="text-align:center">
+<strong>vLLM Ascend Plugin
+</strong>
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align:center">
+<script async defer src="https://buttons.github.io/buttons.js"></script>
+<a class="github-button" href="https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend" data-show-count="true" data-size="large" aria-label="Star">Star</a>
+<a class="github-button" href="https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/subscription" data-icon="octicon-eye" data-size="large" aria-label="Watch">Watch</a>
+<a class="github-button" href="https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/fork" data-icon="octicon-repo-forked" data-size="large" aria-label="Fork">Fork</a>
+</p>
+:::
+
+vLLM Ascend plugin (vllm-ascend) is a community maintained hardware plugin for running vLLM on the Ascend NPU.
+
+This plugin is the recommended approach for supporting the Ascend backend within the vLLM community. It adheres to the principles outlined in the [[RFC]: Hardware pluggable](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/11162), providing a hardware-pluggable interface that decouples the integration of the Ascend NPU with vLLM.
+
+By using vLLM Ascend plugin, popular open-source models, including Transformer-like, Mixture-of-Expert, Embedding, Multi-modal LLMs can run seamlessly on the Ascend NPU.
+
+## Documentation
+
+% How to start using vLLM on Ascend NPU?
+:::{toctree}
+:caption: Getting Started
+:maxdepth: 1
+quick_start
+installation
+:::
+
+% What does vLLM Ascend Plugin support?
+:::{toctree}
+:caption: Features
+:maxdepth: 1
+features/suppoted_features
+features/supported_models
+:::
+
+% How to contribute to the vLLM project
+:::{toctree}
+:caption: Developer Guide
+:maxdepth: 1
+developer_guide/contributing
+:::

docs/source/installation.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Installation
 
-### 1. Dependencies
+## Dependencies
 | Requirement  | Supported version | Recommended version | Note |
 | ------------ | ------- | ----------- | ----------- | 
 | Python | >= 3.9 | [3.10](https://www.python.org/downloads/) | Required for vllm |
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@
 | torch-npu    | >= 2.4.0   | [2.5.1rc1](https://gitee.com/ascend/pytorch/releases/tag/v6.0.0.alpha001-pytorch2.5.1)    | Required for vllm-ascend |
 | torch        | >= 2.4.0   | [2.5.1](https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/releases/tag/v2.5.1)      | Required for torch-npu and vllm required |
 
-### 2. Prepare Ascend NPU environment
+## Prepare Ascend NPU environment
 
 Below is a quick note to install recommended version software:
 
-#### Containerized installation
+### Containerized installation
 
 You can use the [container image](https://hub.docker.com/r/ascendai/cann) directly with one line command:
 
@@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ docker run \
 
 You do not need to install `torch` and `torch_npu` manually, they will be automatically installed as `vllm-ascend` dependencies.
 
-#### Manual installation
+### Manual installation
 
 Or follow the instructions provided in the [Ascend Installation Guide](https://ascend.github.io/docs/sources/ascend/quick_install.html) to set up the environment.
 
-### 3. Building
+## Building
 
-#### Build Python package from source
+### Build Python package from source
 
 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend.git
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ cd vllm-ascend
 pip install -e .
 ```
 
-#### Build container image from source
+### Build container image from source
 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend.git
 cd vllm-ascend

docs/source/quick_start.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Quickstart
 
-## 1. Prerequisites
+## Prerequisites
 
 ### Supported Devices
 - Atlas A2 Training series (Atlas 800T A2, Atlas 900 A2 PoD, Atlas 200T A2 Box16, Atlas 300T A2)
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ You will see following message:
 ```
 
 
-## 2. Installation
+## Installation
 
 Prepare:
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ cd ..
 ```
 
 
-## 3. Usage
+## Usage
 
 After vLLM and vLLM Ascend plugin installation, you can start to
 try [vLLM QuickStart](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/getting_started/quickstart.html).

docs/usage/running_vllm_with_ascend.md

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-# Running vLLM with Ascend

pytest.ini

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ norecursedirs =
     vllm-empty/tests/compile
     vllm-empty/tests/lora
     vllm-empty/tests/models
+    vllm-empty/tests/mistral_tool_use
     vllm-empty/tests/multimodal
     vllm-empty/tests/standalone_tests
     vllm-empty/tests/async_engine

requirements-dev.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 -r requirements-lint.txt
 modelscope
 pytest >= 6.0
+pytest-asyncio
+