Running SWE-Agent with Apptainer

sweagent-apptainer.md

Running SWE-Agent with Apptainer

Notes on how to use SWE-Agent with Apptainer (because for some HPC, docker is not available).

Running single task runs

Like a DockerFile, we can configure a container using a definition file. Save the snippet below as sweagent.def.

Bootstrap: docker
From: python:3.12

%post
    git clone https://github.com/SWE-agent/SWE-agent.git
	cd SWE-agent/
	python -m pip install --upgrade pip && pip install --editable .
	cd ../

%environment
    alias ll="ls -l"

Build the apptainer image.

apptainer build sweagent.sif sweagent.def

Then we can run sweagent using the container.

apptainer exec --fakeroot --writable-tmpfs sweagent.sif \
	python -m sweagent run \
		--env.deployment.type=local \
		--config /path/to/agent/config \
		--config config/coding_challenge.yaml \
		... \
		--actions.apply_patch_locally=True

--fakeroot allows to use sudo level access and --writable-tmpfs enables temporary writing that won't change the apptainer image permanently.

--env.deployment.type=local is what allows to forgo using docker, but running it in apptainer should still afford the expected safety measures.

Inference

With example from SWE-Gym sample idx 1

apptainer exec --fakeroot --writable-tmpfs sweagent.sif
python -m sweagent run
--env.deployment.type=local
--env.repo.github_url=https://github.com/getmoto/moto/
--env.repo.base_commit=7f6c9cb1deafb280fe7fcc7551c38e397f11a706
--problem_statement.path=problem_statement.md
--config config/claude.yaml
--config config/coding_challenge.yaml
--actions.apply_patch_locally=True

Need to Figure out

Evaluating on the Swe-Bench works by pulling individual docker instance for each problem, this will not work with the current method.