gen-worker
Python SDK for writing endpoints that run on Cozy's worker pool. You write one decorated function or class; the SDK handles discovery, scheduling, model download + placement, cancellation, file I/O, streaming, and reporting back to the control plane.
Install
pip install gen-worker[torch] # for PyTorch inference/training
pip install gen-worker # plain Python (e.g. API-proxy endpoints)
Optional extras: [images] / [audio] / [video] for media I/O,
[vision] for torchvision.
Hello world
pyproject.toml — the one config value:
[tool.gen_worker]
main = "myendpoint.main"
main.py:
import msgspec
from gen_worker import RequestContext, endpoint
class Input(msgspec.Struct):
prompt: str
class Output(msgspec.Struct):
text: str
@endpoint
def echo(ctx: RequestContext, payload: Input) -> Output:
return Output(text=f"got: {payload.prompt}")
Run it locally, no orchestrator:
gen-worker run --payload '{"prompt": "hello"}'
cozyctl build / cozyctl deploy take it from here — the full path to a
deployed, billed endpoint is tensorhub docs/writing-endpoints.md.
Adding a model
Hold state in a class: setup() runs once, every public method is one
routable function. The worker downloads the binding, constructs the pipeline
from the setup() annotation, and owns device placement + low-VRAM offload —
endpoint code never touches .to("cuda") or offload config.
from diffusers import StableDiffusionXLPipeline
from gen_worker import HF, RequestContext, Resources, endpoint
@endpoint(
model=HF("stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0", dtype="bf16"),
resources=Resources(gpu=True),
)
class Generate:
def setup(self, pipeline: StableDiffusionXLPipeline) -> None:
self.pipeline = pipeline
def generate(self, ctx: RequestContext, payload: Input) -> Output:
view = ctx.for_request(self.pipeline, seed=42)
image = view(payload.prompt, generator=view.generator).images[0]
return Output(text=ctx.save_image(image).ref)
Resources declares only what the endpoint CANNOT run without (gpu,
gpu_count, libraries, strict_vram, vcpus); VRAM requirements are
MEASURED by the platform's profiling gate, not declared (vram_gb_hint is
an optional first-build placement hint only). Handlers are exactly
(self, ctx, payload); per-request state (sampler, seed, scheduler) lives
in a ctx.for_request view over shared weights — never assigned onto the
instance.
Bindings: HF(id, revision=, dtype=, subfolder=, files=, storage_dtype=),
Hub(ref, tag=, flavor=, storage_dtype=), Civitai(id, version=), ModelScope(id, ...).
The slot name comes from the models={} key or the setup() parameter —
never a constructor argument. storage_dtype="fp8" keeps denoiser weights in
fp8-E4M3 storage with per-layer upcast to the compute dtype (half the VRAM
on any card); fp8-stored #fp8 artifacts get the same treatment automatically.
Quantization itself is ahead-of-time only — a conversion endpoint produces the
artifact, never setup() (th#1803) — and flavor= is a dying axis: selection
within a tag group becomes tensor-layout-contract compatibility
(DESIGN-RULINGS §1.33, pgw#1143). See
docs/endpoint-authoring.md.
Curated checkpoint selection is a runtime payload argument: a handler declares
model: SomeModelChoice (a ModelChoice enum of Model rows, each carrying a
ModelRef binding + typed per-model defaults) and reads payload.model.defaults
typed — one generate(model=) replaces N near-identical functions. model: SomeModelChoice | ModelRef opens BYOM. Streaming = an async-generator handler.
Engine-hosted endpoints declare runtime="vllm" and get a booted,
health-checked server subprocess injected into setup().
Slot(pipeline_cls, selected_by=, family=, default_checkpoint=) is the hub-resolved
alternative to ModelChoice: the model SET lives in platform config, not
code, and the COMPONENT TREE (pipeline.unet, pipeline.vae, ...) is
derived from the pipeline class and published to the hub — parts are never
declared as sibling slots. The per-model config SCHEMA derives from the
handler's context annotation (ctx: RequestContext[SdxlDefaults], a
gen_worker.families.GenerationDefaults vocabulary); the catalog owns the
VALUES and ctx.defaults hands the resolved recipe to the handler typed.
family="sdxl" explicitly keeps a non-root/defaultless model lane inside
that architecture's binding gate; family="" explicitly marks a shared
auxiliary as family-agnostic. Omitting it preserves the compatibility
inference.
Full reference: docs/endpoint-authoring.md.
Public surface
- The decorator + bindings:
endpoint,Resources,Compile,HF,Hub,Civitai,ModelScope,ModelRef - Model selection:
Model,ModelChoice,ModelDefaults,Slot,ResolvedSlot,gen_worker.families.GenerationDefaults - Compile envelope (the declared serving region — resolutions, text lengths,
guidance, batch):
Compile,CompileAxis,AxisClass,DynamicDim,pad_text_sequence; per-request views:ctx.for_request/gen_worker.view - Contexts:
RequestContext(≤15 members),ConversionContext,DatasetContext,TrainingContext - Errors:
ValidationError,RetryableError,CanceledError,FatalError - Streaming:
BatchItemDelta,IncrementalTokenDelta,Done,Error - Value types:
Asset,ImageAsset,AudioAsset,VideoAsset - I/O codecs:
gen_worker.io
The conversion ETL (hub ingest, dtype cast / quant, clone, Tensorhub
publish) is gen_worker.convert (see docs/convert.md).
Local development
gen-worker run --payload '{"prompt": "hello"}' # one-shot in-process
gen-worker run --list # describe functions (JSON)
gen-worker serve # warm local server
gen-worker invoke <fn> prompt=hello # client for serve
gen-worker prefetch # weights only, no GPU
stdout for results, stderr for events; exit 0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 130 for success / user-exception / usage / model-resolution / SIGINT. Details: docs/local-dev.md; host contract: docs/host-integration.md.
Running tests
uv run --extra dev pytest
Plain uv run pytest would fall through to a global launcher — always pass
--extra dev. Never pip install gen-worker globally: a stale
~/.local install silently shadows the working tree (tests/conftest.py
hard-fails if gen_worker resolves outside src/).
Documentation
- docs/endpoint-authoring.md — the
@endpointreference: bindings, variants, Resources, contexts, streaming, runtimes. - docs/local-dev.md — the CLI:
run/serve/invoke/prefetch,field=valuegrammar,--offline, exit codes. - docs/dockerfile.md — bring-your-own-Dockerfile contract.
- docs/endpoint-envs.md — tenant envs/secrets.
- docs/compile-cache.md — compiled cells: the graph digest vs the declared envelope, kernel lanes, JIT intake.
Examples
examples/marco-polo/— minimal inference endpoint (sync, async, streaming)
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