extro-sim — Python client

Install

# hosted archive (the console serves the packaged client at /package.zip)
pip install https://extropic.dev/package.zip
# or from a checkout of the repo
pip install ./clients/python

Not on PyPI yet — the hosted zip is the install path until pip install extro-sim lands there (the distribution name; it imports as extro_sim).

Do NOT pip install extropic — the PyPI package by that name is an unrelated squatted package (no client API, no console script). Always install from the repo as above. Post-install smoke check: python -c "import extro_sim; print(extro_sim.DEFAULT_API_URL)"

Defaults are baked for the production deployment (api.extropic.dev); no configuration needed. Auth is extro-sim auth (browser login, stored session) — and a job submitted from an interactive terminal without a session triggers the same flow automatically. Set STAGING=1 to target the staging deployment (api.staging.extropic.dev) instead.

A first-class Python interface to the Extropic thermodynamic compute cloud. Decorate a function, then run it on the cloud with .remote() / .submit().

import extro_sim as xtr

xtr.configure(api_url="https://api.extropic.dev", token="<supabase-jwt>")

@xtr.job(tier="cpu", timeout_s=120)
def add(a, b):
    return {"sum": a + b}

add(2, 3)            # {"sum": 5}  — runs locally, like any function
add.local(2, 3)      # {"sum": 5}  — explicit local run
add.remote(2, 3)     # {"sum": 5}  — runs on Extropic, blocks for the result

job = add.submit(2, 3)   # fire-and-forget, returns a handle
job.state                # "running" | "succeeded" | ...
job.result()             # blocks, returns {"sum": 5}
job.cancel()

Configuration

xtr.configure(...) or environment variables:

Hardware

Pass tier= to @xtr.job — labels state the hardware explicitly:

cpu (1 vCPU · 4 GB) · l4 (4 vCPU · 16 GB · 1×L4) · a100 (8 vCPU · 64 GB · 1×A100 80GB) · h100 (8 vCPU · 64 GB · 1×H100)

GPU tiers: JAX must be the CUDA build

A plain pip install thrml (or jax) pulls CPU-only jaxlib — on the GPU tiers the GPU sits idle and JAX silently runs on cpu:0. Install the CUDA 13 extra explicitly:

pip install "jax[cuda13]" thrml

Avoid jax[cuda12]: on newer GPUs it runs, but cuBLAS < 13.2 has a known concurrent-kernel TMEM bug (silent data corruption warning at import). Sanity check inside the job before doing real work:

import jax
assert jax.default_backend() == "gpu", jax.devices()

API contract notes

• Rate limits: submit bursts can 429 — raised as typed RateLimited with .retry_after (seconds). Submits are never retried automatically (a blind retry could double-submit); honor retry_after when fanning out.
• Auth expiry: if the stored session can't be refreshed the client raises extro_sim.auth.AuthExpired before any request — run extro-sim auth login.
• GET /jobs/{id}/result currently returns the full job record (not a narrow result view); Job.result() handles either shape.
• DELETE /jobs/{id} means cancellation requested — the response may still show pending/running; poll until terminal (cancelled).
• /healthz requires auth by design; there is no anonymous health probe.
• output & tracebacks: stdout, stderr and result are artifacts — durable objects in the store, synced while the job runs and always flushed before the runner exits (a failed flush errors the job rather than losing bytes). Job.follow() subscribes to all three from the store (chunks a few seconds behind live; ends with the result / raises the terminal error); Job.stream_logs(stream=...) follows one stream and uses the live per-job tunnel (runner_url on the view) when present for lower latency, artifact polling otherwise. On failure the full Python traceback is an artifact and rides in the JobFailed message (e.traceback).
• status polling never false-fails: Job.result()/.wait() treat a 429 during polling as retry-after-and-continue, never as a job failure — a rate-limited poll of a healthy running job must not report it dead.
• You are never billed before compute starts: a job stays pending (unbilled, hold only) until its sandbox is actually allocated. If the backend can't provide capacity within the start deadline the job ends at_capacity — retryable, $0 charged. timeout_s counts from when your code's sandbox exists, not from submit.

Errors

.result() raises a typed error for non-success states: JobFailed, OutOfCredits, AtCapacity (retry later), JobCancelled — all subclasses of ExtropicError. A 503 on submit also raises AtCapacity.

CLI

Installing the client (from the repo — see Install above) also installs the extro-sim command — submit · supervise · collect:

submit/run ship the file's source into the sandbox — keep the file plain (no top-level import extro_sim, no decorator; the base image doesn't have the package). The decorated @xtr.job + .remote() form is the SDK path and never goes through extro-sim run.

extro-sim auth                            # log in via the browser (reuses your console session)
extro-sim submit job.py --entrypoint main --tier cpu --arg 2 --arg 3 --wait
extro-sim run job.py --arg 2 --arg 3     # submit + supervise + collect in one shot
extro-sim jobs                            # list your jobs
extro-sim supervise <id>                  # stream state/progress until it finishes
extro-sim collect <id>                    # wait for + print the result
extro-sim logs <id> -f                    # follow a job's stdout live
extro-sim cancel <id>
extro-sim balance                         # credit balance + holds
extro-sim recharge 25                     # start a top-up (finish the card in the web console)

extro-sim auth opens the web console, which signs you in with Supabase (instantly if you're already logged in there) and hands the session back to the CLI; it's stored under ~/.config/extropic/credentials.json and auto-refreshed. auth status / auth logout manage it. Point the CLI at your console + API with EXTROPIC_FRONTEND_URL and EXTROPIC_API_URL (or --api-url); the edge/WAF secret must be supplied at runtime as EXTROPIC_EDGE_SECRET and is never baked into the package. --arg/--kwarg values parse as JSON when possible, else as strings.

Constraints (v1)

Functions ship via cloudpickle: closures, objects, and non-JSON args/results all work. The pickle carries interpreter bytecode, so the sandbox runs a matching Python/cloudpickle (the SDK ships both versions in the job envelope); the function's imports must exist in the sandbox image for its tier.