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autolab-reporter

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Operate the local Trackio reporter for Autolab HF Jobs. Use when a reporter or planner needs to inspect scores, active jobs, worker anomalies, duplicate launches, or the overall experiment board.

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Use this for the control-plane view of the experiment fleet.

Workflow

  1. Load the local operator env:
    • . ~/.autolab/credentials
  2. Sync the latest HF Jobs into Trackio:
    • uv run scripts/trackio_reporter.py sync --project autolab
  3. Review the human-readable summary:
    • uv run scripts/trackio_reporter.py summary --max-jobs 25
  4. Keep the live dashboard open when monitoring parallel runs:
    • uv run scripts/trackio_reporter.py dashboard --project autolab --mcp-server --no-footer
  5. For continuous reporting:
    • uv run scripts/trackio_reporter.py sync --project autolab --watch --interval 300

What To Watch

  • active experiment jobs versus non-experiment jobs
  • duplicate active jobs for the same experiment or hypothesis
  • prepare jobs that still carry experiment labels, which usually indicate wasted bootstrap work
  • leaderboard entries that actually beat the current local promoted master

Guardrails

  • Treat the reporter as the source of truth for fleet status, not stale shell output from one worker.
  • If the reporter shows anomalies, fix those before launching more work into the same queue.
  • Use the reporter to decide whether parallel capacity is real. A slot occupied by a duplicate or bootstrap job is not useful parallelism.