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Summary

Fabric runners supersede the Codex agent-eval runner: FabricRunnerTarget already drives the Codex CLI (and Hermes, Claude, …) via harness.adapter_id, with trajectory capture and a container story the standalone runner never had. Keeping both meant two ways to do the same thing, one of them strictly worse. This removes the Codex runner from the Evaluator.

Before: target: {kind: "codex"} resolved to CodexCliAgentRuntime (or, on a sk-… OPENAI_API_KEY, the openai-agents DockerSandboxAgentRuntime). After: that kind no longer exists; the equivalent run is target: {kind: "fabric", config: {harness: {adapter_id: "nvidia.fabric.codex"}}}.

Related Issue

AALGO-500

Changes

  • Delete agent_eval/runtimes/codex/ — the Codex CLI runtimes and resolve_codex_runtime.
  • Remove CodexRunnerTarget from the plugin's target union and every branch that keyed off it (agent_evaluate._resolve_target, result_persistence._agent_target_fields, target_agent_identity).
  • Delete examples/codex_docker/, and the --agent codex / --runtime / --list-agent-models path from the ProfBench example.
  • Delete the four Codex-only SDK test modules and the three Codex-gated integration tests.

ProfBench keeps a coding-agent candidate. Rather than leaving the example model-only, --agent fabric-codex generates candidate answers with the Codex CLI driven through FabricAgentRuntime (adapter_id: nvidia.fabric.codex). Details in "Design calls" below.

DockerSandboxAgentRuntime and the agent-runtimes extra are untouched — see below. AALGO-500 also asks to rename "Sandbox" to "Docker Sandbox"; that is deliberately not done here, also below.

No dependency change: both lockfiles are byte-identical to main.

Design calls worth a reviewer's attention

  • This is a wire-contract break, on purpose. A previously submitted or queued spec carrying target.kind: "codex" now fails AgentEvalSpec validation (and new submissions of that shape 422). There is no migration: the runner it names is gone, so the job could not run either way, and silently rewriting a user's target to a different runner would be worse than a clear validation error. Already-persisted results are unaffected — AgentEvalResultEntity.target_kind is an unrestricted string, so existing "codex" records still read back.

  • Tests that used a Codex target merely as some runner now use a Fabric one via a shared _runner_target() helper. The submit-side coverage the deleted integration tests carried (subprocess backend → completion → result persistence; server-side MetricRef resolution) is already held by test_submit_over_taskset_ref_resolves_and_scores, which does both against an IGW mock provider.

  • DockerSandboxAgentRuntime is left alone, along with its agent-runtimes extra (openai-agents[docker]) and the ProfBench README section that drives it. I initially deleted it: the Codex resolver's DOCKER_SANDBOX branch was its only in-repo caller, it defaulted to a Codex model, and its extra existed for nothing else. But it is a separate public runner — its own module outside runtimes/codex/, its own runner_info() name (docker_sandbox), its own tests, its own row in the shipped-runner contract test, and neither it nor its tests mention Codex anywhere. AALGO-500 asks to remove the Codex runner; retiring an OpenAI-Agents-SDK runner is a separate call and should be its own ticket. It is now a public runner with no in-repo constructor, since resolve_codex_runtime is gone.

  • The ProfBench agent arm needed the prompt framing moved. The old Codex runner took a prompt_builder, which ProfBench used to say "return only the final answer text; no analysis, markdown fences, tool logs, or commentary" — it grades one block of text against a rubric, so tool chatter scores as a worse answer. FabricAgentRuntime has no such seam: it sends inputs["instruction"] verbatim, deliberately. So the framing now lives in the task, applied only to the agent arm — the baseline and live-judge arms score recorded responses that were never prompted that way, and framing them would change what is being compared. If a second benchmark hits this, a prompt-shaping hook on FabricAgentRuntime is the better fix; not worth the SDK surface for one caller.

  • The "rename Sandbox to Docker Sandbox" half of AALGO-500 is not in this PR. I tried it (runtimes/sandbox/ → runtimes/docker_sandbox/, AsyncSandbox → AsyncDockerSandbox) and backed it out: those are the two things in that package that are not Docker-specific. AsyncSandbox holds any SandboxProvider and never touches Docker, and the package is contract + facade + a providers/ directory that already labels its backends (DockerSandboxProvider, DockerComposeSandboxProvider). The rename made imports read runtimes.docker_sandbox.providers.docker import DockerSandboxProvider and put the neutral SandboxProvider Protocol behind a Docker-named path.

    The one genuinely Docker-specific thing hiding in the neutral contract is SANDBOX_RUNTIME_RETURN_CODE = 125 in sandbox/base.py — 125 is Docker's "could not run the container" exit code, presented as a backend-neutral sentinel. Both its consumers are Docker providers; a Kubernetes backend has no 125. That's the rename worth doing, and it belongs in its own change rather than riding along with a deletion.

Type of Change

  • Code change with documentation updates

Quality Gates

  • Tests added or updated for changed behavior
  • Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
  • Tests not applicable — justification:
  • Documentation updated for user-visible behavior
  • Documentation not applicable — justification:

Docs updated: the evaluator skill's SKILL.md, references/agent-evaluation.md (target table + example spec), references/troubleshooting.md, the example spec asset, the ProfBench README, and the sandbox package README.

Verification

  • Pull request title follows the repository's Conventional Commit format
  • Every commit includes an appropriate Signed-off-by: trailer
  • uv run pre-commit run -a passes, or any blocked checks are identified below
  • Targeted tests pass, or tests are marked not applicable above
  • No secrets, API keys, or credentials are included

Targeted validation:

Command Result
uv run --frozen pytest packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/tests plugins/nemo-evaluator/tests 2460 passed, 37 skipped
ProfBench baseline mode, real run (--limit 1) 1 task / 3 trials, overall 0.333, dashboards written
ProfBench fabric-codex candidate, real run on a ProfBench task COMPLETED trial, 969 chars of answer text, no tool logs or fences; workspace + result evidence captured
uv run --frozen ruff check / ruff format --check (evaluator SDK, plugin, skills) pass
tools/lint/lint-python-types.sh (the CI ty entrypoint) pass
tools/lint/lint-sdk-vendored.sh pass — vendored SDK regenerated via make vendor, no drift
tools/lint/lint-python-sdk.sh pass — OpenAPI spec + Stainless config up to date
make refresh-openapi regenerated; CodexRunnerTarget gone from both target unions and its schema
uv lock --check (root, with the pinned uv 0.9.14) pass — no dependency change; both lockfiles match main byte for byte
uv run pre-commit run -a 2 hooks blocked locally — see below

One integration module, test_publish_to_intake.py, errors at session-fixture setup when a Docker daemon is present: its ClickHouse provisioning script fails. That file is not in this diff and the failure is in fixture setup, before any test body — unrelated to this change, but flagging it rather than dropping it.

Two pre-commit hooks could not run on this machine, both for missing local tooling rather than anything in the diff:

  • Helm Docs — helm-docs is not installed (Please install helm-docs to run the pre-commit hook!). This diff touches no file under k8s/.
  • Run UI lint-staged — mise ERROR No version is set for shim: pnpm. This diff touches no file under web/.

Every other hook passed, including ruff, ruff format, ty, uv-lock, uv-lock-check, copyright headers, and the config-reference-doc check.

tools/lint/lint-openapi.sh also could not run locally: it uses mapfile, which needs bash 4+ and macOS ships bash 3.2 (mapfile: command not found). The spec was regenerated with make refresh-openapi and left the tree clean, and lint-python-sdk.sh validated the spec against the Stainless config.

Reviewed with an independent model over the full diff across two passes. Findings: two stale lockfiles still advertising the removed agent-runtimes extra (fixed), and the kind: "codex" wire-contract break, which is the intended behavior described above.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Breaking Changes

    • Removed legacy Codex CLI and Docker runner options from agent evaluations.
    • Replaced Codex runner targets with NeMo Fabric runner targets.
    • Removed Codex-specific example workflows and configuration options.

  • New Features

    • Added Fabric Codex support to ProfBench with read-only sandboxing and configurable models.
    • Task inputs now support additional custom fields and metadata values of any JSON type.
    • Gym evaluations automatically use the appropriate tasks image.

  • Documentation

    • Updated setup, troubleshooting, and evaluation guidance for Fabric-based runners.

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The pull request removes Codex CLI and Docker runtime support. ProfBench now uses FabricAgentRuntime with Fabric Codex. Evaluator schemas, target models, persistence, tests, examples, and documentation now use Fabric targets.

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ProfBench Fabric runner
packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/profbench/*, packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/codex_docker/example.py		 Replaces Codex runtime selection with FabricAgentRuntime, answer-only task framing, read-only sandboxing, and updated CLI options. Removes the Codex Docker example.
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plugins/nemo-evaluator/openapi/openapi.yaml, plugins/nemo-evaluator/src/nemo_evaluator/jobs/*, plugins/nemo-evaluator/src/nemo_evaluator/entities.py, packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/src/nemo_evaluator_sdk/agent_eval/runtimes/gym/runtime.py		 Removes CodexRunnerTarget from schemas, unions, target resolution, and persistence. Adds Gym-specific task-image selection.
Validation and regression coverage
plugins/nemo-evaluator/tests/*, packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/tests/*		 Removes Codex runtime coverage. Updates fixtures and assertions to Fabric targets, preserves legacy Codex result parsing, adds taskset-reference coverage, and tests Gym image selection.
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skills/nemo-evaluator-plugin/*, packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/profbench/README.md		 Updates examples, target tables, ProfBench instructions, troubleshooting guidance, and submission documentation for Fabric targets and the nvidia.fabric.codex harness.

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plugins/nemo-evaluator/tests/test_skill_examples.py (1)

164-165: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the Fabric harness adapter.

The current assertions accept any FabricRunnerTarget. Add an assertion for spec.target.config["harness"]["adapter_id"] so the test detects a regression to the wrong harness.

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In `@plugins/nemo-evaluator/tests/test_skill_examples.py` around lines 164 - 165,
Update the assertions for spec.target in the relevant skill example test to
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In `@packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/profbench/README.md`:
- Line 13: Update the ProfBench README to use the locked uv environment
throughout: at packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/profbench/README.md lines
13-13, replace the pip install alternative with uv sync --frozen --package
nemo-evaluator-sdk --extra fabric; at lines 18-20, run the default module via uv
run --frozen --package nemo-evaluator-sdk python -m; and at lines 54-58, run the
Fabric module via uv run --frozen --package nemo-evaluator-sdk --extra fabric
python -m.

In `@packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/profbench/runner.py`:
- Around line 263-265: Update the input preparation logic around task.model_copy
so instruction falls back to task.intent when task.inputs does not provide it,
while retaining the existing instruction value when present and prepending
PROFBENCH_CANDIDATE_PREAMBLE in both cases. Add a regression test covering a
task whose inputs omit instruction.

In `@plugins/nemo-evaluator/tests/sdk/test_result_sdk_resources.py`:
- Line 34: Retain legacy Codex coverage alongside the Fabric cases: in
plugins/nemo-evaluator/tests/sdk/test_result_sdk_resources.py lines 34-34, add a
target_kind="codex" API payload that parses as AgentEvalResult, and at lines
105-105 assert that payload remains retrievable; in
plugins/nemo-evaluator/tests/test_result_entity.py lines 44-45, keep a legacy
Codex entity fixture, and at lines 54-55 verify it survives JSON serialization
and restoration.

Apply the same fix in `@plugins/nemo-evaluator/tests/test_result_persistence.py`
at line 94: Covers a raw legacy persisted-result payload without the removed
target class.

In `@plugins/nemo-evaluator/tests/test_result_persistence.py`:
- Line 188: Update the FabricRunnerTarget fixture in test_result_persistence.py
to provide a complete agent.yaml configuration, including the selected harness
adapter under config.harness.adapter_id. Keep the existing metadata and model
values unchanged.

In `@skills/nemo-evaluator-plugin/SKILL.md`:
- Around line 154-156: Document GymRunnerTarget in both platform-target
locations: add it to the target union in skills/nemo-evaluator-plugin/SKILL.md
lines 154-156, and add its corresponding row to the platform-target table in
skills/nemo-evaluator-plugin/references/agent-evaluation.md lines 107-109.
Preserve the existing target/trials guidance and table structure.

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- Around line 164-165: Update the assertions for spec.target in the relevant
skill example test to verify that spec.target.config["harness"]["adapter_id"]
matches the expected Fabric harness adapter identifier, while preserving the
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packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/profbench/README.md (1)

13-13: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use documentation substitutions for product names.

These lines add hardcoded product names in prose, including NeMo Fabric, Codex CLI, and OpenAI Agents SDK. Replace prose names with configured substitutions. Keep API identifiers and command values literal.

As per coding guidelines, “Never hardcode product names; use substitutions in Sphinx configuration.”

Also applies to: 51-51, 63-63, 69-73

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In `@packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/profbench/README.md` at line 13, Update
the prose product references in the README, including NeMo Fabric, Codex CLI,
and OpenAI Agents SDK, to use the configured Sphinx substitutions. Keep API
identifiers, command names, and command-line values such as fabric-codex and
codex literal, and apply the same change to the referenced lines.

Source: Coding guidelines

packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/profbench/runner.py (1)

43-43: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Align the documented --agent-model format. The Codex adapter accepts both gpt-5.4 and openai/gpt-5.4; the default is valid. Align the CLI help and README, but do not change the runtime or add a Fabric dependency test.

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In `@packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/profbench/runner.py` at line 43, Align
the documented --agent-model format with the Codex adapter’s supported gpt-5.4
and openai/gpt-5.4 forms without changing DEFAULT_FABRIC_CODEX_MODEL or runtime
behavior. Update the CLI help at
packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/profbench/runner.py lines 244 and 341-346,
and the corresponding README guidance at
packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/profbench/README.md lines 54-58 and 63;
packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/profbench/runner.py line 43 requires no
direct change.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/profbench/README.md`:
- Line 13: Update the prose product references in the README, including NeMo
Fabric, Codex CLI, and OpenAI Agents SDK, to use the configured Sphinx
substitutions. Keep API identifiers, command names, and command-line values such
as fabric-codex and codex literal, and apply the same change to the referenced
lines.

In `@packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/profbench/runner.py`:
- Line 43: Align the documented --agent-model format with the Codex adapter’s
supported gpt-5.4 and openai/gpt-5.4 forms without changing
DEFAULT_FABRIC_CODEX_MODEL or runtime behavior. Update the CLI help at
packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/profbench/runner.py lines 244 and 341-346,
and the corresponding README guidance at
packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/examples/profbench/README.md lines 54-58 and 63;
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refactor(evaluator): remove the Codex agent-eval runner
6fffd17 
Fabric runners supersede it: `FabricRunnerTarget` drives the Codex CLI (and
Hermes, Claude, ...) through `harness.adapter_id`, so a dedicated Codex runner
is a second way to do the same thing with none of Fabric's harness coverage,
trajectory capture, or container story.

Removes `agent_eval/runtimes/codex/`, `CodexRunnerTarget` and its plugin wiring,
and the codex-only example and integration tests. Tests that used a Codex target
merely as "some runner" now use a Fabric one; the submit-side coverage they
carried is already held by the taskset-ref and model-target tests.

`DockerSandboxAgentRuntime` stays. It is an OpenAI Agents SDK runner that the
Codex resolver happened to be the only in-repo caller of, not part of the Codex
runner itself, so removing it is a separate decision from this one.

ProfBench keeps a coding-agent candidate: `--agent fabric-codex` generates
candidates with the Codex CLI through `FabricAgentRuntime`. `FabricAgentRuntime`
sends `inputs["instruction"]` verbatim, so the answer-only framing the old runner
supplied via `prompt_builder` now lives in the task, and only on the agent arm --
the baseline and live-judge arms score recorded responses that were never
prompted that way. Trajectory capture is off, so that arm needs no `nemo-relay`
gateway; the config carries a default model because the Codex adapter refuses to
start without a provider.

Signed-off-by: Sandy Chapman <schapman@nvidia.com>
@SandyChapman
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@SandyChapman @claude
docs(evaluator): document the Gym runner and fix the runner protocol
92b392e 
The Gym runner shipped with no documentation. "Gym" appeared nowhere in
`docs/`, even though `GymAgentTaskRunner` sits alongside the Callable and
Harbor runners in the SDK and `GymRunnerTarget` alongside Codex, Fabric, and
Harbor in the job spec.

Targets and Runners was also wrong about the one thing readers copy from it.
`AgentTaskRunner` is a two-member protocol -- `run_tasks` *and* `runner_info` --
but the page called it "the one-method protocol", showed only `run_tasks`, and
its `EchoRunner` example omitted `runner_info`. That example does not work:
being `@runtime_checkable`, the protocol rejects the class, and the run dies
with `NotImplementedError: unsupported agent-eval target type: EchoRunner`,
naming neither the protocol nor the missing method. Fixed, and the failure mode
is now stated so the error is searchable.

Adds "Evaluate a NeMo Gym Environment" beside the Harbor page, which had the
same shape already: an example README in `examples/gym/` and no doc. It covers
install and the `PATH` constraint, credentials, task discovery, the config
reference, results, output directories, the two-step Gym invocation, and
submission as a platform job.

Adds "Evaluate with a NeMo Fabric Harness" alongside it. Fabric was the other
shipped runner with no documentation at all -- absent from the whole `docs/`
tree despite covering four harnesses through one config. The page documents the
adapter map, the agent-config shape, the ATIF trajectory that distinguishes this
runner, and the sandboxed `FabricContainerRuntime`.

Codex and the OpenAI-Agents Docker sandbox are deliberately left undocumented:
the Codex runner is being removed in #1419, and `DockerSandboxAgentRuntime` is
stranded by the same PR (it existed only as the `sk-...`-key branch of ProfBench's
Codex path) and is expected to follow it.

The Fabric page is verified the same way: its config and run blocks execute
verbatim against a real Fabric -> Codex -> Relay evaluation, producing a
completed trial with an `atif` trajectory. That caught two defects in the draft --
`work_dir` needed a `Path`, and the example task declared `metrics=[]`, which the
evaluator rejects outright. `FabricContainerRuntime` is documented from source
rather than run: its own tests use a fake sandbox provider, so there was nothing
live to exercise.

Everything here was executed rather than read. A throwaway venv with
`nemo-gym` installed ran three live evaluations against mcqa, which caught four
errors in my own draft: `agent_config` was `configs/simple_agent.yaml` where the
real value is `responses_api_agents/simple_agent/configs/simple_agent.yaml`;
`result.summary.scores` does not iterate scores (`.scores.scores` does);
`work_dir` needs a `Path`; and the page never showed how to set an output
directory at all. The score names, the 0-100 vs 0-1 scale note, and the
`gym_run/` artifact list are copied from real output. The taskset-submission block
is executed verbatim in review too -- it stores five tasks from the bundled mcqa
dataset and the job side rebuilds all five rows from them. The submission snippet was
executed verbatim against #1315's branch, and two more traps came out of it: a
task cannot be named after `task.id` (a 64-char hash starting with a digit,
against a 63-char cap requiring a leading letter), and `GymRewardMetric` is not
a built-in type so the inline packager rejects it.

Two fixes outside the docs tree, both found while sourcing from the example:

`examples/gym/README.md` said to install Gym "in the same environment as the
SDK". The source says the opposite, and it is right -- Gym imports Ray at module
load and nemo-platform excludes Ray by constraint. Its "Next steps" also linked
`runtimes/gym_runtime.py`, which became the `runtimes/gym/` package; split into
live links to `config.py` and `runtime.py`.

The reuse guard's `FileExistsError` told the caller to "give each run a fresh
output_dir". There is no such parameter -- it is `AgentEvalRunConfig.work_dir`
-- so the message sent readers looking for an argument that does not exist.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Sandy Chapman <schapman@nvidia.com>
SandyChapman added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 20, 2026
@SandyChapman @claude
docs(evaluator): document the Gym runner and fix the runner protocol
86c0596 
The Gym runner shipped with no documentation. "Gym" appeared nowhere in
`docs/`, even though `GymAgentTaskRunner` sits alongside the Callable and
Harbor runners in the SDK and `GymRunnerTarget` alongside Codex, Fabric, and
Harbor in the job spec.

Targets and Runners was also wrong about the one thing readers copy from it.
`AgentTaskRunner` is a two-member protocol -- `run_tasks` *and* `runner_info` --
but the page called it "the one-method protocol", showed only `run_tasks`, and
its `EchoRunner` example omitted `runner_info`. That example does not work:
being `@runtime_checkable`, the protocol rejects the class, and the run dies
with `NotImplementedError: unsupported agent-eval target type: EchoRunner`,
naming neither the protocol nor the missing method. Fixed, and the failure mode
is now stated so the error is searchable.

Adds "Evaluate a NeMo Gym Environment" beside the Harbor page, which had the
same shape already: an example README in `examples/gym/` and no doc. It covers
install and the `PATH` constraint, credentials, task discovery, the config
reference, results, output directories, the two-step Gym invocation, and
submission as a platform job.

Adds "Evaluate with a NeMo Fabric Harness" alongside it. Fabric was the other
shipped runner with no documentation at all -- absent from the whole `docs/`
tree despite covering four harnesses through one config. The page documents the
adapter map, the agent-config shape, the ATIF trajectory that distinguishes this
runner, and the sandboxed `FabricContainerRuntime`.

Codex and the OpenAI-Agents Docker sandbox are deliberately left undocumented:
the Codex runner is being removed in #1419, and `DockerSandboxAgentRuntime` is
stranded by the same PR (it existed only as the `sk-...`-key branch of ProfBench's
Codex path) and is expected to follow it.

The Fabric page is verified the same way: its config and run blocks execute
verbatim against a real Fabric -> Codex -> Relay evaluation, producing a
completed trial with an `atif` trajectory. That caught two defects in the draft --
`work_dir` needed a `Path`, and the example task declared `metrics=[]`, which the
evaluator rejects outright. `FabricContainerRuntime` is documented from source
rather than run: its own tests use a fake sandbox provider, so there was nothing
live to exercise.

Everything here was executed rather than read. A throwaway venv with
`nemo-gym` installed ran three live evaluations against mcqa, which caught four
errors in my own draft: `agent_config` was `configs/simple_agent.yaml` where the
real value is `responses_api_agents/simple_agent/configs/simple_agent.yaml`;
`result.summary.scores` does not iterate scores (`.scores.scores` does);
`work_dir` needs a `Path`; and the page never showed how to set an output
directory at all. The score names, the 0-100 vs 0-1 scale note, and the
`gym_run/` artifact list are copied from real output. The taskset-submission block
is executed verbatim in review too -- it stores five tasks from the bundled mcqa
dataset and the job side rebuilds all five rows from them. The submission snippet was
executed verbatim against #1315's branch, and two more traps came out of it: a
task cannot be named after `task.id` (a 64-char hash starting with a digit,
against a 63-char cap requiring a leading letter), and `GymRewardMetric` is not
a built-in type so the inline packager rejects it.

Two fixes outside the docs tree, both found while sourcing from the example:

`examples/gym/README.md` said to install Gym "in the same environment as the
SDK". The source says the opposite, and it is right -- Gym imports Ray at module
load and nemo-platform excludes Ray by constraint. Its "Next steps" also linked
`runtimes/gym_runtime.py`, which became the `runtimes/gym/` package; split into
live links to `config.py` and `runtime.py`.

The reuse guard's `FileExistsError` told the caller to "give each run a fresh
output_dir". There is no such parameter -- it is `AgentEvalRunConfig.work_dir`
-- so the message sent readers looking for an argument that does not exist.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Sandy Chapman <schapman@nvidia.com>
SandyChapman added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 20, 2026
@SandyChapman @claude
docs(evaluator): document the Gym runner and fix the runner protocol
054aa98 
The Gym runner shipped with no documentation. "Gym" appeared nowhere in
`docs/`, even though `GymAgentTaskRunner` sits alongside the Callable and
Harbor runners in the SDK and `GymRunnerTarget` alongside Codex, Fabric, and
Harbor in the job spec.

Targets and Runners was also wrong about the one thing readers copy from it.
`AgentTaskRunner` is a two-member protocol -- `run_tasks` *and* `runner_info` --
but the page called it "the one-method protocol", showed only `run_tasks`, and
its `EchoRunner` example omitted `runner_info`. That example does not work:
being `@runtime_checkable`, the protocol rejects the class, and the run dies
with `NotImplementedError: unsupported agent-eval target type: EchoRunner`,
naming neither the protocol nor the missing method. Fixed, and the failure mode
is now stated so the error is searchable.

Adds "Evaluate a NeMo Gym Environment" beside the Harbor page, which had the
same shape already: an example README in `examples/gym/` and no doc. It covers
install and the `PATH` constraint, credentials, task discovery, the config
reference, results, output directories, the two-step Gym invocation, and
submission as a platform job.

Adds "Evaluate with a NeMo Fabric Harness" alongside it. Fabric was the other
shipped runner with no documentation at all -- absent from the whole `docs/`
tree despite covering four harnesses through one config. The page documents the
adapter map, the agent-config shape, the ATIF trajectory that distinguishes this
runner, and the sandboxed `FabricContainerRuntime`.

Codex and the OpenAI-Agents Docker sandbox are deliberately left undocumented:
the Codex runner is being removed in #1419, and `DockerSandboxAgentRuntime` is
stranded by the same PR (it existed only as the `sk-...`-key branch of ProfBench's
Codex path) and is expected to follow it.

The Fabric page is verified the same way: its config and run blocks execute
verbatim against a real Fabric -> Codex -> Relay evaluation, producing a
completed trial with an `atif` trajectory. That caught two defects in the draft --
`work_dir` needed a `Path`, and the example task declared `metrics=[]`, which the
evaluator rejects outright. `FabricContainerRuntime` is documented from source
rather than run: its own tests use a fake sandbox provider, so there was nothing
live to exercise.

Everything here was executed rather than read. A throwaway venv with
`nemo-gym` installed ran three live evaluations against mcqa, which caught four
errors in my own draft: `agent_config` was `configs/simple_agent.yaml` where the
real value is `responses_api_agents/simple_agent/configs/simple_agent.yaml`;
`result.summary.scores` does not iterate scores (`.scores.scores` does);
`work_dir` needs a `Path`; and the page never showed how to set an output
directory at all. The score names, the 0-100 vs 0-1 scale note, and the
`gym_run/` artifact list are copied from real output. The taskset-submission block
is executed verbatim in review too -- it stores five tasks from the bundled mcqa
dataset and the job side rebuilds all five rows from them. The submission snippet was
executed verbatim against #1315's branch, and two more traps came out of it: a
task cannot be named after `task.id` (a 64-char hash starting with a digit,
against a 63-char cap requiring a leading letter), and `GymRewardMetric` is not
a built-in type so the inline packager rejects it.

Two fixes outside the docs tree, both found while sourcing from the example:

`examples/gym/README.md` said to install Gym "in the same environment as the
SDK". The source says the opposite, and it is right -- Gym imports Ray at module
load and nemo-platform excludes Ray by constraint. Its "Next steps" also linked
`runtimes/gym_runtime.py`, which became the `runtimes/gym/` package; split into
live links to `config.py` and `runtime.py`.

The reuse guard's `FileExistsError` told the caller to "give each run a fresh
output_dir". There is no such parameter -- it is `AgentEvalRunConfig.work_dir`
-- so the message sent readers looking for an argument that does not exist.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Sandy Chapman <schapman@nvidia.com>
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