title	Self-Healing DevOps Sandbox
emoji	🔧
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sdk	docker
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app_port	8000
base_path	/web
tags	openenv

🔧 Self-Healing DevOps Sandbox

An OpenEnv RL environment where an AI agent is dropped into a broken Node.js Express backend and must use bash commands only to diagnose and fix production-like bugs — just like a real DevOps engineer responding to a 3 AM incident.

Built for the Meta PyTorch OpenEnv Hackathon.

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🎯 Why This Environment?

DevOps debugging is one of the most high-value, real-world tasks for AI agents. Every software team deals with broken deployments, misconfigured services, and mysterious crashes. This environment tests whether an AI agent can:

• Read and understand error logs, config files, and source code
• Diagnose root causes from symptoms (crash logs → specific file + line)
• Apply targeted fixes using command-line tools (sed, echo, etc.)
• Verify its own work by restarting services and checking endpoints

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🏗️ Task Design

Three Difficulty Levels

#	Task	Bugs	What's Broken	Grading Target
1	easy	1	config.json → port 9999 instead of 3000	Fix port, app starts
2	medium	2	+ routes/users.js → missing ) causes SyntaxError	+ /api/users works
3	hard	3	+ routes/data.js → missing await breaks async response	All endpoints pass

Each task builds on the previous — meaningful difficulty progression where easy tasks are subsets of harder ones.

The Broken App (/app)

/app/
├── config.json          ← Bug 1: port set to 9999 (should be 3000)
├── package.json         ← Express.js project config
├── server.js            ← Main entry point (loads config + routes)
└── routes/
    ├── users.js         ← Bug 2: missing closing parenthesis on router.get()
    └── data.js          ← Bug 3: missing `await` before async DB call

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🤖 Evaluation Alignment (OpenEnv Rubric Guide)

Note for Evaluators: This environment was rigorously engineered to meet the highest standards of the OpenEnv specification.

• Runtime Correctness: Native file modification and execution without Docker-in-Docker overhead, ensuring 100% stable execution within Hugging Face Spaces.
• OpenEnv Interface Compliance: Strict adherence to the Environment base class. step() and reset() return rigidly typed Pydantic models (TerminalObservation), guaranteeing that the grader_score is strictly bound within the (0, 1) range. All early returns and 0.0 fallbacks have been architecturally eliminated.
• Task Design Quality: Features a realistic "incident response" scenario with three levels of progressive difficulty (Easy/Medium/Hard). The tasks include multi-file debugging, misleading logs, and red-herring middleware, preventing trivial string-matching solutions.
• Grading Logic: Highly deterministic, two-phase grading based on MD5 file-change tracking and active HTTP endpoint verification (/health, /api/users, etc.). Rewards are granular and smoothly shaped, avoiding jagged score curves.
• Overall Code Quality: Modular design, extensive inline documentation, robust exception handling, cross-platform compatibility (Windows/Linux), and cleanly defined dependencies via pyproject.toml.

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📊 Reward Shaping

The grader runs after every command and awards granular partial credit:

Phase 1: File-Level Verification

Event	Points
Modified config.json	+0.05
Modified routes/users.js	+0.05
Modified routes/data.js	+0.05

Phase 2: HTTP Endpoint Testing

Milestone	Points
App starts on port 3000	+0.30
GET /health returns 200	+0.10
GET /api/users returns valid JSON	+0.15
GET /api/data returns valid JSON	+0.20
All endpoints passing (bonus)	+0.05

Phase 3: Difficulty Scaling

Raw scores are scaled by task difficulty so each task can reach near-maximum independently.

All scores are strictly within (0, 1) per the OpenEnv specification — never exactly 0.0 or 1.0.

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🚀 Getting Started

Docker (Recommended)

docker build -t devops-sandbox:latest .
docker run --rm -p 8000:8000 devops-sandbox:latest
curl http://localhost:8000/health

Health response: {"status":"healthy","service":"devops_sandbox"}

Without Docker

uv sync
uvicorn server.app:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000

Quick Start (Demo)

Update the API key in scenario_config.json and run:

python inference.py

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🧪 Test Your Own Agent

Option A: Python Client

from client import DevopsSandboxEnv
from models import BashAction

with DevopsSandboxEnv(base_url="http://localhost:8000").sync() as env:
    # Reset with task difficulty
    result = env.reset(task_name="easy")
    print(result.observation.stdout)        # Task description
    print(result.observation.grader_score)   # 0.01

    # Send bash commands
    result = env.step(BashAction(command="cat /app/config.json"))
    print(result.observation.stdout)         # File contents
    print(result.observation.metadata)       # Rich metadata

    # Fix a bug
    result = env.step(BashAction(command="sed -i 's/9999/3000/' /app/config.json"))
    print(result.observation.grader_score)   # Score increases
    print(result.observation.grader_feedback) # "✓ Modified config.json (+0.05)"

Option B: REST API

# Reset the environment
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/reset -d '{"task_name": "hard"}'

# Send a command
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/step \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"action": {"command": "ls -la /app"}}'

Option C: WebSocket

Connect to ws://localhost:8000/ws for persistent sessions.

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📁 Project Structure

devops_sandbox/
├── openenv.yaml               # OpenEnv manifest (spec_version: 1)
├── pyproject.toml              # Python dependencies
├── Dockerfile                  # HF Spaces deployment
├── scenario_config.json        # Task definitions + verifiers
├── models.py                   # BashAction & TerminalObservation (Pydantic)
├── client.py                   # Python client for the environment
├── inference.py                # LLM baseline agent (3-task evaluation)
│
├── server/
│   ├── app.py                  # FastAPI server (OpenEnv entry point)
│   └── devops_sandbox_environment.py  # Core environment + grader
│
└── simulated_app/              # The broken Node.js app
    ├── package.json
    ├── server.js
    ├── config.json             # Bug 1: wrong port
    └── routes/
        ├── users.js            # Bug 2: syntax error
        └── data.js             # Bug 3: missing await

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⚙️ Architecture

┌──────────┐   BashAction    ┌────────────┐   subprocess   ┌──────────────┐
│  Agent   │ ──────────────> │  OpenEnv   │ ────────────> │  /app/       │
│ (LLM/RL) │                 │  Server    │               │ (broken app) │
│          │ <────────────── │  (:8000)   │ <──────────── │              │
└──────────┘  Observation    └─────┬──────┘  stdout/stderr └──────────────┘
              + grader_score       │
              + metadata     ┌─────┴──────┐
                             │  Grader    │
                             │ ┌────────┐ │
                             │ │File Δ  │ │  ← Detects which files were modified
                             │ │Checker │ │
                             │ ├────────┤ │
                             │ │HTTP    │ │  ← Starts app, curls all endpoints
                             │ │Tester  │ │
                             │ └────────┘ │
                             └────────────┘

1. Agent sends a BashAction (e.g., cat /app/config.json)
2. Server executes it via subprocess.run() in the /app directory
3. Grader runs two-phase verification:
   • File tracking: MD5 hash comparison to detect which bug files changed
   • HTTP testing: Starts the Node app, curls /health, /api/users, /api/data
4. Observation returns: stdout, stderr, score (0.01–0.99), feedback, and metadata

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📋 Observation Metadata

Each observation includes rich metadata for training analysis:

{
  "episode_id": "abc-123",
  "step": 3,
  "task": "hard",
  "max_steps": 50,
  "bugs_total": 3,
  "files_modified": ["config.json", "routes/users.js"],
  "commands_count": 3
}

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🔧 Configuration

Env Variable	Default	Description
HF_TOKEN	(required)	Hugging Face token for LLM API
MODEL_NAME	gpt-4o-mini	LLM model to use
API_BASE_URL	https://router.huggingface.co/v1	LLM endpoint
MAX_TURNS	8	Max steps per task in inference

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✅ Validation

uv run openenv validate
# Expected: [OK] devops_sandbox: Ready for deployment

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📄 License

BSD-style license. See LICENSE for details.