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Run one Autolab benchmark experiment safely on Hugging Face Jobs. Use when a planner, reviewer, or experiment worker is preparing, auditing, launching, or reviewing a single train.py hypothesis against the current local promoted master.

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Use this for any single Autolab experiment that should result in exactly one managed benchmark run.

Workflow

  1. Load the local operator env and refresh from local master:
    • . ~/.autolab/credentials
    • uv run scripts/refresh_master.py --fetch-dag
  2. Edit only train.py for the single intended hypothesis.
  3. Run preflight before launch:
    • uv run scripts/hf_job.py preflight
  4. Launch exactly one managed experiment:
    • uv run scripts/hf_job.py launch --mode experiment
  5. Stream logs and parse the final metric:
    • uv run scripts/hf_job.py logs <JOB_ID> --follow --output /tmp/autolab-run.log
    • uv run scripts/parse_metric.py /tmp/autolab-run.log
  6. Record the run locally:
    • uv run scripts/submit_patch.py --comment "..."
  7. Promotion is local and only happens if val_bpb beats current master.

Guardrails

  • Treat train_orig.py as the refreshed local-master base. If preflight reports multiple known hypothesis categories, stop and inspect the diff before launching.
  • Ignore repo git main and origin/main when judging freshness. In this rig repo those refs describe control-plane history, not the benchmark master. The comparable base is whatever refresh_master.py just wrote into train_orig.py, research/live/master.json, and research/results.tsv.
  • Never run uv run scripts/hf_job.py launch --mode prepare from an experiment-scoped worktree. prepare is shared bootstrap work, not per-experiment work.
  • Do not launch a second experiment job for the same experiment unless you have a specific reason and intentionally override the duplicate check.
  • If the workspace looks stale against the current local master, stop and rewrite the experiment rather than rationalizing the mismatch.

Fast Checks

  • uv run scripts/hf_job.py preflight --json Use this when you need to inspect the diff preview, active conflicts, or detected change categories programmatically.
  • uv run scripts/trackio_reporter.py summary --max-jobs 25 Use this to confirm the experiment id or hypothesis is not already active.