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Non-user-invocable provider/setup reference for evo backend switching, prerequisite checks, and auth/install guidance.

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Infra Setup

Use this when the user wants to change where experiments run: local worktrees, pool slots, or a remote provider such as Modal, E2B, Daytona, AWS, Azure, SSH, manual, or a custom dotted-path provider.

Goals

  • Be explicit about the target backend/provider.
  • Check prerequisites before mutating evo config.
  • Never install provider SDKs silently.
  • Give one actionable auth command per provider.
  • Keep provider credentials separate from benchmark runtime env.

Flow

  1. Identify the target:
    • worktree or pool means local backends.
    • modal, e2b, ssh:..., or another remote spec means backend=remote.
  2. If the target is remote, parse the provider choice the same way evo CLI does:
  • modal
  • e2b
  • daytona
  • aws
  • azure
  • manual
  • ssh:user@host[:port]
    • another built-in provider name
    • dotted import path for a custom provider
  1. Check whether evo is on PATH and whether it is the expected evo-hq-cli package (evo --version). If the provider SDK is missing, evo's provider loader prints the provider-specific extra or SDK package to install; use that message rather than guessing.
  2. For SDK-backed providers, verify the SDK import only when you can run the check in the same environment that owns the evo executable. If missing, ask the user before installing it.
    • If evo was installed with uv tool or pip/venv, prefer the matching extra on evo-hq-cli:
      • uv-tool: uv tool install --reinstall 'evo-hq-cli[<provider-extra>]'
      • venv / pip: python -m pip install 'evo-hq-cli[<provider-extra>]'
    • If evo was installed with pipx, inject the provider SDK into the same evo-hq-cli environment:
      • pipx: pipx inject evo-hq-cli <provider-sdk>
  3. Check auth and show exactly one provider-specific auth command or setup step. Use references/provider-matrix.md.
  4. Once prerequisites are satisfied, run the explicit config command:
evo config backend remote --provider <provider> --provider-config ...

Or for local backends:

evo config backend worktree
evo config backend pool --workspaces /abs/slot-a,/abs/slot-b
  1. Be explicit that incomplete provider setup usually surfaces on evo new --remote <provider> ..., because that is where remote allocation and bootstrap actually happen.
  2. If the benchmark itself needs application keys, configure runtime env separately with evo env load <path> --all or evo env load <path> --allow KEY1,KEY2. Provider auth provisions the sandbox; runtime env is what benchmark/gate processes see.

Pre-assumptions

Before trying to switch a workspace to a remote provider, confirm the basics:

  • the target backend is clear from the user's request; only ask if the intent is genuinely ambiguous between worktree, pool, and remote
  • the machine running evo has the right provider SDK or transport installed
  • the user has auth for that provider available now, not "somewhere else"
  • the provider-specific minimum config exists
    • modal: auth + optional config
    • e2b: API key + optional config
    • daytona: API key and API URL/target if needed
    • aws: creds, region, image, SSH key pair/private key, and usually network config
    • azure: subscription, resource group, region, SSH key/private key, and VM/image choices
    • ssh: reachable host, working SSH user, and key/port if needed
    • manual: reachable remote endpoint URL and bearer token
  • for SSH-backed VM providers, the guest assumptions are plausible before allocation:
    • the image enables SSH
    • the SSH user matches the image
    • the image architecture matches the selected instance type
    • the host can run evo's remote workspace runtime

Provider notes

See references/provider-matrix.md for the compact provider summary, common config, and provider-specific setup/auth command.