diff --git a/.github/workflows/poolside-nightly-build.yaml b/.github/workflows/poolside-nightly-build.yaml
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+# basically a partial copy of ./generated-linux-binary-manywheel-nightly.yml
+# as the original version is autogenerated, we would need to manually sync this periodically,
+# but this way we avoid conflicts
+name: poolside-linux-binary-manywheel
+
+
+on:
+  # only manual triggers for now
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+env:
+  # Needed for conda builds
+  ANACONDA_USER: pytorch
+  BINARY_ENV_FILE: /tmp/env
+  BUILD_ENVIRONMENT: linux-binary-manywheel
+  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+  PYTORCH_FINAL_PACKAGE_DIR: /artifacts
+  PYTORCH_ROOT: /pytorch
+  SHA1: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+  SKIP_ALL_TESTS: 1
+  # All vars below are from the auto-generated ./generated-linux-binary-manywheel-nightly.yml
+  PACKAGE_TYPE: manywheel
+  # TODO: This is a legacy variable that we eventually want to get rid of in
+  #       favor of GPU_ARCH_VERSION
+  DESIRED_CUDA: cu126
+  GPU_ARCH_VERSION: 12.6
+  GPU_ARCH_TYPE: cuda
+  # Note: we might need to fix a specific version of this image or build one ourselves
+  DOCKER_IMAGE: pytorch/manylinux-builder:cuda12.6-main
+  USE_SPLIT_BUILD: False
+  PYTORCH_EXTRA_INSTALL_REQUIREMENTS: nvidia-cuda-nvrtc-cu12==12.6.77; platform_system == 'Linux' and platform_machine == 'x86_64' | nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12==12.6.77; platform_system == 'Linux' and platform_machine == 'x86_64' | nvidia-cuda-cupti-cu12==12.6.80; platform_system == 'Linux' and platform_machine == 'x86_64' | nvidia-cudnn-cu12==9.5.1.17; platform_system == 'Linux' and platform_machine == 'x86_64' | nvidia-cublas-cu12==12.6.4.1; platform_system == 'Linux' and platform_machine == 'x86_64' | nvidia-cufft-cu12==11.3.0.4; platform_system == 'Linux' and platform_machine == 'x86_64' | nvidia-curand-cu12==10.3.7.77; platform_system == 'Linux' and platform_machine == 'x86_64' | nvidia-cusolver-cu12==11.7.1.2; platform_system == 'Linux' and platform_machine == 'x86_64' | nvidia-cusparse-cu12==12.5.4.2; platform_system == 'Linux' and platform_machine == 'x86_64' | nvidia-cusparselt-cu12==0.6.3; platform_system == 'Linux' and platform_machine == 'x86_64' | nvidia-nccl-cu12==2.21.5; platform_system == 'Linux' and platform_machine == 'x86_64' | nvidia-nvtx-cu12==12.6.77; platform_system == 'Linux' and platform_machine == 'x86_64' | nvidia-nvjitlink-cu12==12.6.85; platform_system == 'Linux' and platform_machine == 'x86_64'
+
+concurrency:
+  # for now we only allow one build at a time
+  group: poolside-nightly-pytorch-build
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    if: ${{ github.repository_owner == 'poolsideai' }}
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-22.04-64-pytorchci"
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        desired_python: ["3.10", "3.12"]
+        include:
+          - desired_python: "3.10"
+            desired_python_major: "3"
+            desired_python_minor: "10"
+          - desired_python: "3.12"
+            desired_python_major: "3"
+            desired_python_minor: "12" 
+    env:
+      BUILD_NAME: manywheel-py${{ matrix.desired_python_major }}_${{ matrix.desired_python_minor }}-cuda11_8
+      DESIRED_PYTHON: ${{ matrix.desired_python }}
+    timeout-minutes: 210
+    steps:
+      - name: Make the env permanent during this workflow (but not the secrets)
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          {
+            echo "PYTORCH_ROOT=${{ env.PYTORCH_ROOT }}"
+            echo "PACKAGE_TYPE=${{ env.PACKAGE_TYPE }}"
+            echo "DESIRED_CUDA=${{ env.DESIRED_CUDA }}"
+            echo "GPU_ARCH_VERSION=${{ env.GPU_ARCH_VERSION }}"
+            echo "GPU_ARCH_TYPE=${{ env.GPU_ARCH_TYPE }}"
+            echo "DOCKER_IMAGE=${{ env.DOCKER_IMAGE }}"
+            echo "SKIP_ALL_TESTS=${{ env.SKIP_ALL_TESTS }}"
+            echo "DESIRED_PYTHON=${{ env.DESIRED_PYTHON }}"
+            echo "PYTORCH_EXTRA_INSTALL_REQUIREMENTS=${{ env.PYTORCH_EXTRA_INSTALL_REQUIREMENTS }}"
+            echo "ANACONDA_USER=${{ env.ANACONDA_USER }}"
+            echo "BINARY_ENV_FILE=${{ env.BINARY_ENV_FILE }}"
+            echo "BUILD_ENVIRONMENT=${{ env.BUILD_ENVIRONMENT }}"
+            echo "BUILD_NAME=${{ env.BUILD_NAME }}"
+            echo "PR_NUMBER=${{ env.PR_NUMBER }}"
+            echo "PYTORCH_FINAL_PACKAGE_DIR=${{ env.PYTORCH_FINAL_PACKAGE_DIR }}"
+            echo "SHA1=${{ env.SHA1 }}"
+            echo "USE_SPLIT_BUILD=${{ env.use_split_build }}"
+          } >> "${GITHUB_ENV} }}"
+
+      - name: Checkout PyTorch
+        uses: pytorch/pytorch/.github/actions/checkout-pytorch@main
+      - name: Checkout PyTorch to pytorch dir
+        uses: malfet/checkout@silent-checkout
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+          submodules: recursive
+          path: pytorch
+          quiet-checkout: true
+
+      - name: Clean PyTorch checkout
+        run: |
+          # Remove any artifacts from the previous checkouts
+          git clean -fxd
+        working-directory: pytorch
+      - name: Build PyTorch binary
+        run: |
+          set -x
+          
+          mkdir -p ${RUNNER_TEMP}/artifacts
+          container_name=$(docker run \
+            -e BINARY_ENV_FILE \
+            -e BUILD_ENVIRONMENT \
+            -e DESIRED_CUDA \
+            -e DESIRED_DEVTOOLSET \
+            -e DESIRED_PYTHON \
+            -e GITHUB_ACTIONS \
+            -e GPU_ARCH_TYPE \
+            -e GPU_ARCH_VERSION \
+            -e LIBTORCH_VARIANT \
+            -e PACKAGE_TYPE \
+            -e PYTORCH_FINAL_PACKAGE_DIR \
+            -e PYTORCH_ROOT \
+            -e SKIP_ALL_TESTS \
+            -e PYTORCH_EXTRA_INSTALL_REQUIREMENTS \
+            -e USE_SPLIT_BUILD \
+            --tty \
+            --detach \
+            -v "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/pytorch:/pytorch" \
+            -v "${RUNNER_TEMP}/artifacts:/artifacts" \
+            -w / \
+            "${DOCKER_IMAGE}"
+          )
+          docker exec -t -w "${PYTORCH_ROOT}" "${container_name}" bash -c "bash .circleci/scripts/binary_populate_env.sh"
+          if [[ ${BUILD_ENVIRONMENT} == *"aarch64"* ]]; then
+            docker exec -t "${container_name}" bash -c "source ${BINARY_ENV_FILE} && bash /pytorch/.ci/aarch64_linux/aarch64_ci_build.sh"
+          else
+            docker exec -t "${container_name}" bash -c "source ${BINARY_ENV_FILE} && bash /pytorch/.ci/${{ env.PACKAGE_TYPE }}/build.sh"
+          fi
+          docker exec -t "${container_name}" chown -R "$(id -u):$(id -g)" /artifacts
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4.4.0
+        with:
+          name: ${{ env.BUILD_NAME }}
+          if-no-files-found: error
+          path:
+            ${{ runner.temp }}/artifacts/*
+
+      - name: Cleanup docker
+        if: always()
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          # stop the container for clean worker stop
+          # ignore expansion of "docker ps -q" since it could be empty
+          # shellcheck disable=SC2046
+          docker stop $(docker ps -q) || true 
diff --git a/poolside-changes.md b/poolside-changes.md
index 54180ab121e12f..7d58f71d6d6b2f 100644
--- a/poolside-changes.md
+++ b/poolside-changes.md
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 # poolside changes compared to upstream:
 * [16th Dec 2024] Added READMEs describing this fork. [PR](https://github.com/poolsideai/pytorch/pull/1).
+* [17th Dec 2024] Added build Github Actions forkflow. TODO: commit here