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Storing a Gym or Harbor taskset meant bundling its reward metric with CloudpickleMetricBundlePackager() — the opt-in our own docs frame as "shipping custom code" — for a metric the platform owns. The three agent-eval metrics had the same problem.

None of them is custom. Their entire state is JSON-able scalars, so they belong in MetricVariants alongside the other 23 built-ins. This promotes five.

Changes

Metric Type string (unchanged) Config
GymRewardMetric gym_reward output_name
HarborRewardMetric harbor_reward output_name
AgentPhaseSuccessMetric agent_phase_success
EvidencePresenceMetric evidence_presence evidence_name, output_name, require_non_empty
SkillUsedMetric skill_used trace_evidence

Each gains a MetricType member and a config model in values/metrics.py; its runtime class re-parents onto that config. The type strings are exactly what these metrics already emitted, so nothing moves on the wire — what changes is that they bundle inline and rehydrate without executing pickled code.

Breaking: the metric_type override is gone

Field(discriminator="type") cannot express a per-caller type string, so type is now a fixed Literal. GymRewardMetric(metric_type=...) and subclass-level metric_type = ... no longer work.

It was used in one place repo-wide — a test fixture — and cost every caller the cloudpickle opt-in. The test that asserted the namespacing now asserts what replaced it.

The interesting part: where these classes had to live

The two reward metrics could not simply subclass MetricBase where they were. MetricBase drags the dataset-schema stack (jinja2, jsonschema), and harbor_runtime sits on the optimizer's light import path — guarded by test_agent_eval_import_does_not_pull_the_execution_stack, which went red the moment I re-parented in place:

AssertionError: heavy dependencies pulled into the agent_eval path: ['jinja2', 'jsonschema']

That guard exists for a real reason — "every module loaded here is a package whose import failure becomes an SDK-path failure at evaluation time" — so the fix was to respect it, not weaken it:

  • Both reward metrics now live in metrics/runner_rewards.py, on the heavy side.
  • harbor_runtime and gym/results.py re-export them via module __getattr__, with a TYPE_CHECKING declaration so from ...harbor_runtime import HarborRewardMetric still works and still type-checks.
  • The two default-metric construction sites import locally.

Net effect: the light path stays light, no import location breaks, and ty resolves the re-exports.

The other three metrics are not on that path, so they re-parent in place.

The skill's metric list deliberately does not gain these

That page is about choosing a scorer for your data, and none of these is a choice — they arrive with the runner or the harness. test_skill_examples records the reasoning beside the existing tunable-rag-evaluator exemption rather than silently widening the exclusion set.

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  • Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
  • Code change with documentation updates
  • Documentation only
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  • CI, build, or test infrastructure

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  • 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: no user-facing doc currently tells anyone to reach for the cloudpickle packager for these metrics. docs(evaluator): document the Gym and Fabric runners, fix the runner protocol #1420 documents the Gym submission path and carries the cloudpickle line; once this lands that becomes a one-word edit, noted there.

Added: a parametrized test asserting all five bundle inline and rehydrate identically with non-default configuration (a metric that survives bundling only with defaults would still lose the caller's settings), and a test that the fixed discriminator now rejects a caller-supplied type.

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  • tools/lint/lint-sdk-vendored.shPASS (make vendor run; the SDK mirror is in this diff)
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  • make refresh-openapi — no drift; the plugin spec carries no metric-type names
  • tools/lint/lint-openapi.sh — fails locally with mapfile: command not found. Pre-existing and environmental: macOS ships bash 3.2 and mapfile is a bash 4 builtin. Reproduced identically on an unmodified checkout.

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  • New Features

    • Added reward metrics for Gym and Harbor runtimes with configurable output names and continuous scoring.
    • Added metrics for agent phase success, evidence presence, and skill usage.
    • Enabled inline serialization and configuration of built-in evaluation metrics.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Preserved reliable handling of missing or invalid evidence, traces, and runner rewards.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for metric validation, serialization, configuration preservation, round-trip behavior, and metric selection.

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Changes

The SDK now models agent-evaluation and runner-reward metrics with shared MetricBase types and fixed MetricType discriminators. Gym and Harbor rewards use a shared module with lazy runtime imports. Tests cover inline serialization, configuration preservation, and discriminator validation.

Metric consolidation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Metric contracts and registration
packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/src/nemo_evaluator_sdk/agent_eval/metrics.py, packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/src/nemo_evaluator_sdk/enums.py, packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/src/nemo_evaluator_sdk/metrics/runner_rewards.py, packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/src/nemo_evaluator_sdk/metrics/types.py
Agent-evaluation, Gym, and Harbor metrics use declarative MetricBase fields and fixed discriminators. Five metric types are registered in MetricVariants.
Runner reward migration
packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/src/nemo_evaluator_sdk/agent_eval/runtimes/gym/*, packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/src/nemo_evaluator_sdk/agent_eval/runtimes/harbor_runtime.py
Gym and Harbor runtime defaults use shared metrics with lazy construction. Harbor retains lazy module-level re-export behavior.
Serialization and selection validation
packages/nemo_evaluator_sdk/tests/agent_eval/test_metrics.py, plugins/nemo-evaluator/tests/test_skill_examples.py
Tests validate inline metric round trips, fixed discriminator rejection, configured-field preservation, and curated metric exclusions.

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34-37: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the TYPE_CHECKING-only metric import.

Use the existing Metric import as the return type for _harbor_reward_metric. This removes the quoted annotation and the TYPE_CHECKING-only import without changing the light import path.

Proposed change
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
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-if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from nemo_evaluator_sdk.metrics.runner_rewards import HarborRewardMetric
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 ...
-def _harbor_reward_metric() -> "HarborRewardMetric":
+def _harbor_reward_metric() -> Metric:

As per coding guidelines, “DO NOT import these types under TYPE_CHECKING. Instead prefer to import types a regular import when possible.”

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Storing a Gym or Harbor taskset meant bundling its reward metric with
`CloudpickleMetricBundlePackager()` -- the opt-in the docs correctly frame as
"shipping custom code" -- for a metric the platform owns. Same for the three
agent-eval metrics. None of them is custom: their entire state is JSON-able
scalars, so they belong in `MetricVariants` alongside the other 23 built-ins.

Promotes five: `GymRewardMetric`, `HarborRewardMetric`, `AgentPhaseSuccessMetric`,
`EvidencePresenceMetric`, `SkillUsedMetric`. Each gains a `MetricType` member and
subclasses `MetricBase` directly, carrying its own discriminator and fields.

No separate config class. The `values/` config + `metrics/` runtime split exists
to keep heavy runtime deps out of the config layer -- `metrics/bleu.py` imports
sacrebleu at module scope, so `values.metrics.BLEU` stays importable without it.
These five add no deps over their config, every config class in that module has
exactly one consumer (its own runtime subclass), and no values-level union
requires them to be co-located, so the split would be indirection that buys
nothing. The type strings are unchanged from what the metrics already emitted
(`gym_reward`, `harbor_reward`, ...), so nothing moves on the wire; what changes
is that they now bundle inline and rehydrate without executing pickled code.

BREAKING: `type` is now a fixed discriminator, so the `metric_type` override is
gone. `Field(discriminator="type")` cannot express a per-caller type string. The
override was used in exactly one place repo-wide -- a test fixture -- and cost
every caller the cloudpickle opt-in.

The two reward metrics could not simply subclass `MetricBase` where they lived.
`MetricBase` drags the dataset-schema stack (jinja2, jsonschema), and
`harbor_runtime` is on the optimizer's light import path, guarded by
`test_agent_eval_import_does_not_pull_the_execution_stack`. Defining them there
turned that test red. They now live in `metrics/runner_rewards.py` on the heavy
side, and `harbor_runtime` re-exports `HarborRewardMetric` through a module
`__getattr__` with a `TYPE_CHECKING` declaration, so `from ...harbor_runtime
import HarborRewardMetric` still works and still type-checks while the light path
stays light. The two default-metric construction sites import locally for the
same reason.

`gym/results.py` gets no such shim. It declares no `__all__`, never published
`GymRewardMetric` as part of its surface, and nothing imports the metric from
that path -- the deep-path imports are all private helpers. The public path is
`from ...runtimes.gym import GymRewardMetric`, which the package `__init__`
serves from the canonical module.

The skill's curated metric list deliberately does not gain these five. That page
is about choosing a scorer for your data, and none of them is a choice -- they
arrive with the runner or the harness. `test_skill_examples` records the
reasoning next to the existing `tunable-rag-evaluator` exemption.

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Signed-off-by: Sandy Chapman <schapman@nvidia.com>
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