freesolo-flash-dev 0.2.45

Flash — managed LoRA post-training (SFT/GRPO) for Freesolo environments, driven by the `flash` CLI

Flash

Managed LoRA post-training service: SFT, GRPO, and on-policy distillation (from a Fireworks-hosted GLM teacher) on managed Flash GPUs. The allocator picks the cheapest validated managed GPU class that fits the run.

Scope

• flash train <cfg.toml> / control-plane POST /runs — submit a training job; one dedicated GPU per run, supervised server-side (stall watchdog, bounded auto-retry resuming from the last streamed checkpoint, endpoint GC).
• flash checkpoints, flash deploy, flash chat — serving for trained adapters, including deployable intermediate RL checkpoints.
• Freesolo SDK environments. Every run names a Freesolo environment id. Scaffold environment.py plus dataset/train.jsonl, upload . or another folder with flash env push --name <name> <folder>, then reference the returned id. The worker loads it through freesolo.environments. There are no built-in task environments. Single-turn and bounded multi-turn environments are supported.

Layout

• flash/catalog.py — curated model catalog (Qwen3 dense supported tier; Qwen3.5/3.6 experimental tier), VRAM-fit sizing, and each model's thinking capability (opt-in reasoning mode thinking = true)
• flash/schema.py, flash/spec.py — TOML → JobSpec
• flash/runner.py — server-side run supervisor (durable job handle, retries, cost guard, endpoint GC)
• flash/providers/ — managed GPU substrate code (pricing, GPU classes, durable submit/poll, preflight) behind the base.Provider protocol, with an allocator.py that picks the cheapest fitting managed GPU class
• flash/engine/ — the on-GPU worker (TRL + colocated vLLM rollouts; distillation scores on-policy student samples against a remote GLM teacher) and the shared recipe; SFT targets and RL rewards route through the active environment (task-specific grading lives with its example, not in the engine)
• flash/envs/ — environment machinery: registry and the adapter that loads Freesolo SDK environments onto the worker's interface
• flash env setup — scaffold a starter local Freesolo env, dataset/train.jsonl, ready-to-run configs, and a TRAINING.md playbook with common failure modes and mitigations
• flash/serve/, flash/server/ — adapter serving and the FastAPI control plane (run operator-side via the separate flash-server command)
• Dockerfile — the control-plane image (used by the repo docker-compose)
• tests/ — pytest suite (CPU-only; offline-by-default, no GPU/network)

Local commands

cd flash
uv sync --extra server
uv run pytest                           # CPU tests (offline-by-default, no GPU/network)
uv run ruff check . && uv run ruff format .
uv run flash --help
uv run flash-server                      # control plane (operator-side, run once)

The control plane owns infrastructure credentials plus the shared HF_TOKEN. The artifact repo is platform-managed and environment-scoped (runs for the same environment share one private Freesolo-Co/flashrun-<environment>-<hash> repo, written by the operator HF_TOKEN); Flash uploads code under content-addressed prefixes and only reuses completed snapshots. The repo is not a user knob and not an operator-wide env var. Clients authenticate with their freesolo API key (flash login).

Release channels

Two channels are published to PyPI from the same source, distinguished by one line in flash/_channel.py (CHANNEL):

Channel	PyPI package	CLI	Default plane	Published from
prod	freesolo-flash	flash	flash.freesolo.co	push to main that bumps [project].version (.github/workflows/publish.yml)
dev	freesolo-flash-dev	flash-dev	flash-dev.freesolo.co	push to dev whose [tool.flash-dev].version isn't on PyPI yet (.github/workflows/publish-dev.yml)

Each environment holds exactly one channel: both packages ship the same import package (flash/) with one baked CHANNEL line, so installing both into the same environment makes the later install win for both CLIs. For side-by-side prod and staging, install each channel in its own virtualenv (or via pipx, which isolates per tool). The dev build is produced by scripts/build_dev_dist.py, which renames the package/CLI and flips CHANNEL to dev before uv build. Both channels ship at the same version: [project].version and [tool.flash-dev].version must match (CI enforces this via .github/workflows/version-parity.yml), so cutting a release means bumping both together. Either CLI still honours an explicit FLASH_API_URL / the login --api-url flag; the channel only sets the default.

Serving From an API

flash chat is a CLI wrapper around the Flash control-plane chat endpoint. To call a deployed adapter from your own app, deploy the finished run once and then POST chat requests with your freesolo API key:

export FLASH_API_URL=https://flash.freesolo.co
export FREESOLO_API_KEY=fslo_...
export RUN_ID=flash-1782194170-ce1cfcff

curl -X POST "$FLASH_API_URL/v1/runs/$RUN_ID/deploy" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FREESOLO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"dry_run": false}'

curl -X POST "$FLASH_API_URL/v1/runs/$RUN_ID/chat" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FREESOLO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Write a two-sentence summary of the run."}
    ],
    "temperature": 0.0,
    "max_tokens": 256
  }'

The response uses the OpenAI chat-completions shape:

{
  "choices": [
    {
      "message": {
        "role": "assistant",
        "content": "..."
      }
    }
  ]
}

Use choices[0].message.content for the generated text. The run id is the adapter id for serving. If the run is not deployed yet, /v1/runs/<run_id>/chat returns 409 with a hint to deploy first.

Operators can also call the serving backend directly after the adapter is registered. The default serving backend is https://clado-ai--freesolo-lora-serving.modal.run, and operators can point Flash at another backend by setting FREESOLO_SERVING_URL. Use that same base URL when calling the backend directly; pass the run id as model:

export FREESOLO_SERVING_URL=https://clado-ai--freesolo-lora-serving.modal.run

curl -X POST "$FREESOLO_SERVING_URL/v1/chat/completions" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "flash-1782194170-ce1cfcff",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
    "temperature": 0.0,
    "max_tokens": 256
  }'

Prefer the Flash control-plane endpoint for user apps because it enforces run ownership and forwards per-run serving options such as thinking-mode parity.