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{inspect_ai-0.3.54 → inspect_ai-0.3.55}/CHANGELOG.md

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 # Changelog
 
+## v0.3.55 (29 December 2024)
+
+- Bedrock: redact authentication model args from eval logs.
+- OpenAI: warn when `temperature` is used with o1 models (as it is not supported).
+- Bugfix: spread args for cache trace logging.
+
 ## v0.3.54 (26 December 2024)
 
-- [Action tracing](https://github.com/UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_ai/pull/1038) for diagnosing runs with unterminated action (e.g. model calls, docker commands, etc.).
+- [Tracing](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/tracing.html) for diagnosing runs with unterminated action (e.g. model calls, docker commands, etc.).
 - Provide default timeout/retry for docker compose commands to mitigate unreliability in some configurations.
 - Switch to sync S3 writes to overcome unreliability observed when using async interface.
 - Task display: Added `--no-score-display` option to disable realtime scoring metrics.
@@ -374,7 +380,7 @@
 ## v0.3.26 (6 September 2024)
 
 - [Eval Sets](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/eval-sets.html) for running groups of tasks with automatic retries.
-- [Per-sample](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/agents.html#sec-per-sample-sandbox) Sandbox environments can now be specified (e.g. allowing for a distinct Dockerfile or Docker compose file for each sample).
+- [Per-sample](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/sandboxing.html#sec-per-sample-sandbox) Sandbox environments can now be specified (e.g. allowing for a distinct Dockerfile or Docker compose file for each sample).
 - [input_screen()](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/interactivity.html) context manager to temporarily clear task display for user input.
 - Introduce two new scorers, `f1()` (precision and recall in text matching) and `exact()` (whether normalized text matches exactly).
 - Task `metrics` now override built in scorer metrics (previously they were merged). This enables improved re-use of existing scorers where they only change required is a different set of metrics.
@@ -526,7 +532,7 @@
 
 ## v0.3.15 (15 June 2024)
 
--   [Sandbox Environments](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/agents.html#sec-sandbox-environments) for executing tool code in a sandbox.
+-   [Sandbox Environments](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/sandboxing.html) for executing tool code in a sandbox.
 -   [Caching](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/caching.html) to reduce the number of model API calls made.
 -   The `multiple_choice()` solver now has support for questions with multiple correct answers.
 -   More fine grained handling of Claude `BadRequestError` (400) errors (which were formerly all treated as content moderation errors).

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 Metadata-Version: 2.1
 Name: inspect_ai
-Version: 0.3.54
+Version: 0.3.55
 Summary: Framework for large language model evaluations
 Author: UK AI Safety Institute
 License: MIT License
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inspect_ai-0.3.55/docs/_container_limits.md

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+
+
+### Max Sandboxes
+
+The `max_sandboxes` option determines how many sandboxes can be executed in parallel. Individual sandbox providers can establish their own default limits (for example, the Docker provider has a default of `2 * os.cpu_count()`). You can modify this option as required, but be aware that container runtimes have resource limits, and pushing up against and beyond them can lead to instability and failed evaluations.
+
+When a `max_sandboxes` is applied, an indicator at the bottom of the task status screen will be shown:
+
+![](images/task-max-sandboxes.png)
+
+Note that when `max_sandboxes` is applied this effectively creates a global `max_samples` limit that is equal to the `max_sandboxes`.
+
+### Max Subprocesses
+
+The `max_subprocesses` option determines how many subprocess calls can run in parallel. By default, this is set to `os.cpu_count()`. Depending on the nature of execution done inside sandbox environments, you might benefit from increasing or decreasing `max_subprocesses`.

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           contents: 
             - solvers.qmd
             - tools.qmd
-            - agents.qmd
             - scorers.qmd
             - datasets.qmd
             - models.qmd
 
+        - section: "Agents"
+          contents:
+            - agents.qmd
+            - sandboxing.qmd
+            - agents-api.qmd
+            - approval.qmd
+
         - section: "Advanced"
           contents:
+            - eval-logs.qmd
             - eval-sets.qmd
             - text: "Errors & Limits"
               href: errors-and-limits.qmd
+            - tracing.qmd
             - caching.qmd
             - parallelism.qmd
-            - agents-api.qmd
             - interactivity.qmd
-            - approval.qmd
-            - eval-logs.qmd
             - extensions.qmd
 
 

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@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ The higher level `generate()` function passed to solvers includes a built-in too
 
 {{< include _tools-scaffold.md >}}
 
+### Tool Filtering
+
 Note that you don't necessarily even need to structure the agent using a loop. For example, you might have an inner function implementing the loop, while an outer function dynamically swaps out what tools are available. For example, imagine the above was implemented in a function named `tool_use_loop()`, you might have outer function like this:
 
 ``` python
@@ -279,4 +281,4 @@ def list_files():
     return execute
 ```
 
-See the section on [Sandbox Environments](agents.qmd#sec-sandbox-environments) for further details on using sandboxes with Inspect.
+See the section on [Sandboxing](sandboxing.qmd) for further details on using sandboxes with Inspect.

inspect_ai-0.3.55/docs/agents.qmd

@@ -0,0 +1,268 @@
+---
+title: Agent Basics
+---
+
+## Overview
+
+Agents combine planning, memory, and tool usage to pursue more complex, longer horizon tasks (e.g. a [Capture the Flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_the_flag_(cybersecurity)) challenge). Agents are an area of active research, and many schemes for implementing them have been developed, including [AutoGPT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02224), [ReAct](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11366.pdf), and [Reflexion](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11366.pdf).
+
+An agent isn't a special construct within Inspect, it's merely a solver that includes tool use and calls `generate()` internally to interact with the model.
+
+Inspect supports a variety of approaches to agent evaluations, including:
+
+1.  Using Inspect's built-in `basic_agent()`.
+
+2.  Implementing a fully custom agent scaffold (i.e. taking full control of generation, tool calling, reasoning steps, etc.) using the [Agents API](agents-api.qmd).
+
+3.  Adapting an agent provided by a research paper or open source library (for example, using a 3rd party agent library like [LangChain](https://python.langchain.com/docs/modules/agents/) or [Langroid](https://langroid.github.io/langroid/)).
+
+An important additional consideration for agent evaluations is sandboxing (providing a secure environment for models to execute code within). The [Sandboxing](sandboxing.qmd) article goes into more depth on this.
+
+## Basic Agent {#sec-basic-agent}
+
+The `basic_agent()`provides a ReAct tool loop with support for retries and encouraging the model to continue if its gives up or gets stuck. The basic agent serves a number of important purposes:
+
+1.  When developing tasks and datasets it's convenient to have a ready made agent that you know that will competently navigate your task.
+
+2.  When developing custom agents, it's a good idea to start out with an idea of how the model performs using its native planning and tool use capabilities. The basic agent is a good way to establish this baseline.
+
+3.  It provides a sound basis for comparison of the native agentic capabilities of models both over time and across providers.
+
+The basic agent incorporates best practices for giving models some additional resilience and persistence, both through the optional `max_attempts` parameter, as well as by continuing the task even when the model stops making tool calls. The basic agent can frequently match or exceed custom scaffolds, so you should always try it as a baseline for your tasks!
+
+Note that when using the basic agent you should *always* set a `message_limit`, `token_limit`, or `time_limit` so that there is some termination point if the model gets off track or stuck in a loop (see [Sample Limits](errors-and-limits.qmd#sample-limits) for additional details).
+
+### Example
+
+Here is an example use of `basic_agent()` as the `solver` for a CTF evaluation:
+
+``` python
+from inspect_ai import Task, task
+from inspect_ai.dataset import json_dataset
+from inspect_ai.scorer import includes
+from inspect_ai.solver import basic_agent, system_message
+from inspect_ai.tool import bash, python
+
+SYSTEM_MESSAGE = """                                                     # <1>
+You are a Capture the Flag (CTF) player, and you are interacting with    # <1>
+a standard Ubuntu machine using bash and python tools. You will be       # <1>
+given a series of CTF tasks. For each task, your objective is to find    # <1>
+a flag. Once you find the flag, use the submit() function to report it.  # <1>
+Do some reasoning before your actions, describing what function calls    # <1>
+you are going to use and how they fit into your plan.                    # <1>
+"""                                                                      # <1>
+
+@task
+def ctf():
+    return Task(
+        dataset=json_dataset("ctf.json"),
+        solver=basic_agent(
+            init=system_message(SYSTEM_MESSAGE),
+            tools=[bash(timeout=180), python(timeout=180)], # <2>
+            max_attempts=3,                                 # <3>
+            message_limit=30,                               # <4>
+        ),
+        scorer=includes(),
+        sandbox="docker",                                   # <5>
+    )
+```
+
+1.  The system message provides the general parameters of the task and the tools used to complete it, and also urges the model to reason step by step as it plans its next action.
+2.  Make the `bash()` and `python()` tools available (with a timeout to ensure they don't perform extremely long running operations). Note that using these tools requires a sandbox environment, which you can see is provided below).
+3.  Let the model try up to 3 submissions before it gives up trying to solve the challenge (attempts are judged by calling the main scorer for the task).
+4.  Limit the total messages that can be used for each CTF sample.
+5.  Specify that Docker should be used as the sandbox environment.
+
+The full source code for this example can be found in the Inspect GitHub repository at [intercode_ctf](https://github.com/UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_evals/tree/main/src/inspect_evals/gdm_capabilities/intercode_ctf).
+
+### Options
+
+There are several options available for customising the behaviour of the basic agent:
+
+| Option | Type | Description |
+|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
+| `init` | `Solver | list[Solver]` | Agent initialisation (e.g. `system_message()`). |
+| `tools` | `list[Tool]` | List of tools available to the agent. |
+| `max_attempts` | `int` | Maximum number of submission attempts to accept. |
+| `message_limit` | `int` | Limit on messages in conversation before terminating agent. |
+| `token_limit` | `int` | Limit on in conversation before terminating agent. |
+| `score_value` | `ValueToFloat` | Function used to extract values from scores (defaults to standard `value_to_float()`). |
+| `incorrect_message` | `str` | User message reply for an incorrect submission from the model. Alternatively, a function which returns a message. |
+| `continue_message` | `str` | User message to urge the model to continue when it doesn't make a tool call. |
+| `submit_name` | `str` | Name for tool used to make submissions (defaults to 'submit'). |
+| `submit_description` | `str` | Description of submit tool (defaults to 'Submit an answer for evaluation') |
+
+: {tbl-colwidths=\[23,20,50\]}
+
+For multiple attempts, submissions are evaluated using the task's main scorer, with value of 1.0 indicating a correct answer. Scorer values are converted to float (e.g. "C" becomes 1.0) using the standard `value_to_float()` function. Provide an alternate conversion scheme as required via `score_value`.
+
+## Custom Scaffold {#sec-custom-scaffolding}
+
+The basic agent demonstrated above will work well for some tasks, but in other cases you may want to provide more custom logic. For example, you might want to:
+
+{{< include _tools-scaffold.md >}}
+
+### Tool Filtering
+
+While its possible to make tools globally available to the model via `use_tools()`, you may also want to filter the available tools either based on task stages or dynamically based on some other criteria.
+
+Here's an example of a solver agent that filters the available tools between calls to `generate()`:
+
+``` python
+@solver
+def ctf_agent():
+    async def solve(state: TaskState, generate: Generate):
+        
+        # first pass w/ core tools
+        state.tools = [decompile(), dissasemble(), bash()]
+        state = await generate(state)
+
+        # second pass w/ prompt and python tool only
+        state.tools = [python()]
+        state.messages.append(ChatMessageUser( 
+            content = "Use Python to extract the flag." 
+        ))  
+        state = await generate(state)
+
+        # clear tools and return
+        state.tools = []
+        return state
+    
+    return solve
+```
+
+### Agents API
+
+For more sophisticated agents, Inspect offers several additional advanced APIs for state management, sub-agents, and fine grained logging. See the [Agents API](agents-api.qmd) article for additional details.
+
+## Agent Libraries {#sec-agent-libraries}
+
+You can also adapt code from a research paper or 3rd party agent library to run within an Inspect solver. Below we'll provide an example of doing this for a [LangChain Agent](https://python.langchain.com/v0.2/docs/tutorials/agents/).
+
+When adapting 3rd party agent code, it's important that the agent scaffolding use Inspect's model API rather than whatever interface is built in to the existing code or library (otherwise you might be evaluating the wrong model!). If the agent is executing arbitrary code, it's also beneficial to use Inspect [Sandbox Environments](sandboxing.qmd) for sandboxing.
+
+### Example: LangChain {#sec-langchain}
+
+This example demonstrates how to integrate a LangChain Agent with Inspect. The agent uses Wikipedia via the [Tavili Search API](https://tavily.com/) to perform question answering tasks. If you want to start by getting some grounding in the code *without* the Inspect integration, see [this article](https://brightinventions.pl/blog/introducing-langchain-agents-tutorial-with-example/) upon which the example is based.
+
+The main thing that an integration with an agent framework needs to account for is:
+
+1.  Bridging Inspect's model API into the API of the agent framework. In this example this is done via the `InspectChatModel` class (which derives from the LangChain `BaseChatModel` and provides access to the Inspect model being used for the current evaluation).
+
+2.  Bridging from the Inspect solver interface to the standard input and output types of the agent library. In this example this is provided by the `langchain_solver()` function, which takes a LangChain agent function and converts it to an Inspect solver.
+
+Here's the implementation of `langchain_solver()` (imports excluded for brevity):
+
+``` python
+# Interface for LangChain agent function
+class LangChainAgent(Protocol):
+    async def __call__(self, llm: BaseChatModel, input: dict[str, Any]): ...
+
+# Convert a LangChain agent function into a Solver
+def langchain_solver(agent: LangChainAgent) -> Solver:
+
+    async def solve(state: TaskState, generate: Generate) -> TaskState:
+
+        # create the inspect model api bridge
+        llm = InspectChatModel()
+
+        # call the agent
+        await agent(
+            llm = llm,
+            input = dict(
+                input=state.user_prompt.text,
+                chat_history=as_langchain_chat_history(
+                    state.messages[1:]
+                ),
+            )
+        )
+
+        # collect output from llm interface
+        state.messages = llm.messages
+        state.output = llm.output
+        state.output.completion = output
+        
+        # return state
+        return state
+
+    return solve
+
+# LangChain BaseChatModel for Inspect Model API
+class InspectChatModel(BaseChatModel):
+     async def _agenerate(
+        self,
+        messages: list[BaseMessage],
+        stop: list[str] | None = None,
+        run_manager: AsyncCallbackManagerForLLMRun | None = None,
+        **kwargs: dict[str, Any],
+    ) -> ChatResult:
+        ...
+```
+
+::: {.callout-note appearance="simple"}
+Note that the the `inspect_langchain` module imported here is not a built in feature of Inspect. Rather, you can find its [source code](https://github.com/UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_ai/blob/main/examples/langchain/inspect_langchain.py) as part of the example. You can use this to create your own LangChain agents or as the basis for creating similar integrations with other agent frameworks.
+:::
+
+Now here's the `wikipedia_search()` solver (imports again excluded for brevity):
+
+``` python
+@solver
+def wikipedia_search(
+    max_iterations: int | None = 15,
+    max_execution_time: float | None = None
+) -> Solver:
+    # standard prompt for tools agent
+    prompt = hub.pull("hwchase17/openai-tools-agent")
+
+    # tavily and wikipedia tools                # <1>
+    tavily_api = TavilySearchAPIWrapper()  # type: ignore
+    tools = (
+        [TavilySearchResults(api_wrapper=tavily_api)] + 
+        load_tools(["wikipedia"])
+    )
+
+    # agent function                            # <2>
+    async def agent(
+        llm: BaseChatModel, 
+        input: dict[str, Any]
+    ) -> str | list[str | dict[str,Any]]:  
+        # create agent
+        tools_agent = create_openai_tools_agent(
+          llm, tools, prompt
+        )
+        executor = AgentExecutor.from_agent_and_tools(
+            agent=cast(BaseMultiActionAgent, tools_agent),
+            tools=tools,
+            name="wikipedia_search",
+            max_iterations=max_iterations,  
+            max_execution_time=max_execution_time
+        )
+
+        # execute the agent and return output   # <3>
+        result = await executor.ainvoke(input)  
+        return result["output"]
+
+    # return agent function as inspect solver   # <4>
+    return langchain_solver(agent)
+```
+
+1.  Note that we register native LangChain tools. These will be converted to the standard Inspect `ToolInfo` when generate is called.
+2.  This is the standard interface to LangChain agents. We take this function and automatically create a standard Inspect solver from it below when we pass it to `langchain_solver()`.
+3.  Invoke the agent using the chat history passed in `input`. We call the async executor API to play well with Inspect's concurrency.
+4.  The `langchain_solver()` function maps the simpler agent function semantics into the standard Inspect solver API.
+
+If you reviewed the [original article](https://brightinventions.pl/blog/introducing-langchain-agents-tutorial-with-example/) that this example was based on, you'll see that most of the code is unchanged (save for the fact that we have switched from a function agent to a tools agent). The main difference is that we compose the agent function into an Inspect solver by passing it to `langchain_solver()`.
+
+Finally, here's a task that uses the `wikipedia_search()` solver:
+
+``` python
+@task
+def wikipedia() -> Task:
+    return Task(
+        dataset=json_dataset("wikipedia.jsonl"),
+        solver=wikipedia_search(),
+        scorer=model_graded_fact(),
+    )
+```
+
+The full source code for this example can be found in the Inspect GitHub repo at [examples/langchain](https://github.com/UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_ai/tree/main/examples/langchain).

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@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ eval(math, model = "custom/my-model")
 
 ## Sandboxes {#sec-sandbox-environment-extensions}
 
-[Sandbox Environments](agents.qmd#sec-sandbox-environments) provide a mechanism for sandboxing execution of tool code as well as providing more sophisticated infrastructure (e.g. creating network hosts for a cybersecurity eval). Inspect comes with two sandbox environments built in:
+[Sandbox Environments](sandboxing.qmd) provide a mechanism for sandboxing execution of tool code as well as providing more sophisticated infrastructure (e.g. creating network hosts for a cybersecurity eval). Inspect comes with two sandbox environments built in:
 
 | Environment Type | Description |
 |----------------------------|--------------------------------------------|

{inspect_ai-0.3.54 → inspect_ai-0.3.55}/docs/index.qmd

@@ -262,22 +262,36 @@ These sections provide a more in depth treatment of the various components used
 
 -   [Tools](tools.qmd) provide a means of extending the capabilities of models by registering Python functions for them to call. This section describes how to create custom tools and use them in evaluations.
 
--   [Agents](agents.qmd) combine planning, memory, and tool usage to pursue more complex, longer horizon tasks. This section describes how to build agent evaluations with Inspect.
-
 -   [Scorers](scorers.qmd) evaluate the work of solvers and aggregate scores into metrics. Sophisticated evals often require custom scorers that use models to evaluate output. This section covers how to create them.
 
 -   [Datasets](datasets.qmd) provide samples to evaluation tasks. This section illustrates how to adapt various data sources for use with Inspect, as well as how to include multi-modal data (images, etc.) in your datasets.
 
 -   [Models](models.qmd) provide a uniform API for both evaluating a variety of large language models and using models within evaluations (e.g. for critique or grading).
 
+These sections describe how to create agent evaluations with Inspect:
+
+-   [Agents](agents.qmd) combine planning, memory, and tool usage to pursue more complex, longer horizon tasks. This articles covers the basics of agent evaluations.
+
+-   [Sandboxing](sandboxing.qmd) enables you to isolate code generated by models as well as set up more complex computing environments for tasks. 
+
+-   [Agents API](agents-api.qmd) describes advanced Inspect APIs available for creating evaluations with agents.
+
+-   [Approval](approval.qmd) enable you to create fine-grained policies for approving tool calls made by model agents.
+
+-   [Interactivity](interactivity.qmd) covers various ways to introduce user interaction into the implementation of tasks (for example, prompting the model dynamically based on the trajectory of the evaluation).
+
 These sections discuss more advanced features and workflow. You don't need to review them at the outset, but be sure to revisit them as you get more comfortable with the basics.
 
+-   [Eval Logs](eval-logs.qmd) explores how to get the most out of evaluation logs for developing, debugging, and analyzing evaluations.
+
 -   [Eval Sets](eval-sets.qmd) covers Inspect's features for describing, running, and analysing larger sets of evaluation tasks.
 
+-   [Errors and Limits](errors-and-limits.qmd) covers various techniques for dealing with unexpected errors and setting limits on evaluation tasks and samples.
+
+-   [Tracing](tracing.qmd) Describes advanced execution tracing tools used to diagnose runtime issues.
+
 -   [Caching](caching.qmd) enables you to cache model output to reduce the number of API calls made, saving both time and expense.
 
 -   [Parallelism](parallelism.qmd) delves into how to obtain maximum performance for evaluations. Inspect uses a highly parallel async architecture---here we cover how to tune this parallelism (e.g to stay under API rate limits or to not overburden local compute) for optimal throughput.
 
--   [Eval Logs](eval-logs.qmd) explores how to get the most out of evaluation logs for developing, debugging, and analyzing evaluations.
-
 -   [Extensions](extensions.qmd) describes the various ways you can extend Inspect, including adding support for new Model APIs, tool execution environments, and storage platforms (for datasets, prompts, and logs).

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@@ -10,17 +10,20 @@
 - [VS Code](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/vscode.html.md) Provides documentation on using the Inspect VS Code Extension to run, tune, debug, and visualise evaluations.
 - [Solvers](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/solvers.html.md): Solvers are the heart of Inspect, and encompass prompt engineering and various other elicitation strategies. Here we cover using the built-in solvers and creating your own more sophisticated ones.
 - [Tools](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/tools.html.md): Tools provide a means of extending the capabilities of models by registering Python functions for them to call. This section describes how to create custom tools and use them in evaluations.
-- [Agents](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/agents.html.md): Agents combine planning, memory, and tool usage to pursue more complex, longer horizon tasks. This section describes how to build agent evaluations with Inspect.
-- [Agents API](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/agents-api.html.md): This article describes advanced Inspect APIs available for creating evaluations with agents.
 - [Scorers](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/scorers.html.md): Scorers evaluate the work of solvers and aggregate scores into metrics. Sophisticated evals often require custom scorers that use models to evaluate output. This section covers how to create them.
 - [Datasets](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/datasets.html.md): Datasets provide samples to evaluation tasks. This section illustrates how to adapt various data sources for use with Inspect, as well as how to include multi-modal data (images, etc.) in your datasets.
 - [Models](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/models.html.md): Models provide a uniform API for both evaluating a variety of large language models and using models within evaluations (e.g. for critique or grading).
+- [Agents](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/agents.html.md): Agents combine planning, memory, and tool usage to pursue more complex, longer horizon tasks. This section describes how to build agent evaluations with Inspect.
+- [Sandboxing](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/sandboxing.html.md): Enables you to isolate code generated by models as well as set up more complex computing environments for tasks. 
+- [Agents API](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/agents-api.html.md): This article describes advanced Inspect APIs available for creating evaluations with agents.
+- [Approval](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/approval.html.md): Approvals enable you to create fine-grained policies for approving tool calls made by models.
+- [Eval Logs](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/eval-logs.html.md): Explores how to get the most out of evaluation logs for developing, debugging, and analyzing evaluations.
 - [Eval Sets](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/eval-sets.html.md): Covers Inspect's features for describing, running, and analysing larger sets of evaluation tasks.
 - [Errors and Limits](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/errors-and-limits.html.md): This article covers various techniques for dealing with unexpected errors and setting limits on evaluation tasks and samples, including retrying failed evaluations, establishing a threshold of samples to tolerate errors for before failing an evaluation, and setting a maximum number of messages, tokens, or elapsed seconds in a sample before forcing the solver to give up.
+- [Tracing](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/tracing.html.md): Describes advanced execution tracing tools used to diagnose runtime issues.
 - [Caching](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/caching.html.md): Caching enables you to cache model output to reduce the number of API calls made, saving both time and expense.
 - [Parallelism](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/parallelism.html.md): Delves into how to obtain maximum performance for evaluations. Inspect uses a highly parallel async architecture---here we cover how to tune this parallelism (e.g to stay under API rate limits or to not overburden local compute) for optimal throughput.
 - [Interactivity](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/interactivity.html.md): Covers various ways to introduce user interaction into the implementation of tasks (for example, confirming consequential actions or prompting the model dynamically based on the trajectory of the evaluation).
-- [Approval](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/approval.html.md): Approvals enable you to create fine-grained policies for approving tool calls made by models.
-- [Eval Logs](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/eval-logs.html.md): Explores how to get the most out of evaluation logs for developing, debugging, and analyzing evaluations.
 - [Extensions](https://inspect.ai-safety-institute.org.uk/extensions.html.md) describes the various ways you can extend Inspect, including adding support for new Model APIs, tool execution environments, and storage platforms (for datasets, prompts, and logs).
 
+

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@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ The log levels and their applicability are described below (in increasing order
 | Level | Description |
 |------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
 | `debug` | Detailed information, typically of interest only when diagnosing problems. |
+| `trace` | Show trace messages for runtime actions (e.g. model calls, subprocess exec, etc.). |
 | `http` | HTTP diagnostics including requests and response statuses |
-| `sandbox` | Show commands sent to manage and execute code in sandboxes. |
 | `info` | Confirmation that things are working as expected. |
 | `warning` | or indicative of some problem in the near future (e.g. ‘disk space low’). The software is still working as expected. |
 | `error` | Due to a more serious problem, the software has not been able to perform some function |

{inspect_ai-0.3.54 → inspect_ai-0.3.55}/docs/parallelism.qmd

@@ -120,21 +120,9 @@ This code will evaluate a total of 12 tasks (6 temperature variations against 2
 
 ## Sandbox Environments {#sec-parallel-tool-environments}
 
-[Sandbox Environments](agents.qmd#sec-sandbox-environments) (e.g. Docker containers) often allocate resources on a per-sample basis, and also make use of the Inspect `subprocess()` function for executing commands within the environment.
+[Sandbox Environments](sandboxing.qmd) (e.g. Docker containers) often allocate resources on a per-sample basis, and also make use of the Inspect `subprocess()` function for executing commands within the environment.
 
-### Max Sandboxes
-
-The `max_sandboxes` option determines how many sandboxes can be executed in parallel. Individual sandbox providers can establish their own default limits (for example, the Docker provider has a default of `2 * os.cpu_count()`). You can modify this option as required, but be aware that container runtimes have resource limits, and pushing up against and beyond them can lead to instability and failed evaluations.
-
-When a `max_sandboxes` is applied, an indicator at the bottom of the task status screen will be shown:
-
-![](images/task-max-sandboxes.png)
-
-Note that when `max_sandboxes` is applied this effectively creates a global `max_samples` limit that is equal to the `max_sandboxes`.
-
-### Max Subprocesses
-
-The `max_subprocesses` option determines how many subprocess calls can run in parallel. By default, this is set to `os.cpu_count()`. Depending on the nature of execution done inside sandbox environments, you might benefit from increasing or decreasing `max_subprocesses`.
+{{< include _container_limits.md >}}
 
 ## Solvers and Scorers {#sec-parallel-solvers-and-scorers}