Add retry support for infrastructure errors in vf-eval#750
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nice! this looks clean, 2 minor comments
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Description
Adds --max-retries CLI flag to retry rollouts when vf.InfraError occurs.
I've opted to only retry on
vf.InfraErrorright now, as we don't assure yet that anyvf.Erroris retry-able.Changes:
Behavior:
Usage:
vf-eval my-env --max-retries 3
Type of Change
Testing
uv run pytestlocally.Checklist
Additional Notes
Note
Adds configurable retries for transient infrastructure failures.
maybe_retry()inutils/async_utils.py(tenacity-based exponential backoff + jitter) and applies it toEnvironment.generate()by wrappingrun_rollout/run_groupmax_retriesthroughEnvironment.generate/evaluate/evaluate_sync,EvalConfig(verifiers/types.py), andrun_evaluation--max-retriesinverifiers/scripts/eval.py; default0docs/evaluation.md,docs/reference.md) to document the flag and config fieldstests/test_environment.py,tests/test_eval_cli.py)Written by Cursor Bugbot for commit adc524a. This will update automatically on new commits. Configure here.