Inspect Steward

Welcome to Inspect Steward, an agent that supervises evaluations on your behalf.

Steward plays the role of the human sitting in front of a running eval. It:

Watches progress as a run unfolds
Diagnoses problems as they surface
Adjusts runtime state in response

A steward acts on behalf of someone who isn't there. That's the relationship this package models: you start a run and step away, and the steward minds it.

Concretely, Steward runs each task of an eval set in its own process — so one crash costs one task rather than the run, and CPU-bound work actually runs in parallel — and reconciles the log directory against what your definition asks for on a schedule. A timer guarantees that happens with nobody watching; what needs judgement waits for someone who can exercise it.

pip install inspect-steward

steward init my-sweep     # create a workspace
steward tasks evalset.py  # see what a definition resolves to, before running it
steward launch            # start it, arm the timer, and return
steward status            # ask how it's going, whenever you like

Steward runs on macOS and Linux. Windows is not supported: a run has to outlive the process that started it, and the detached-process, control-socket, and process-table mechanisms that achieve it are POSIX-only.

Learn more about using Steward at https://meridianlabs-ai.github.io/inspect_steward.

Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

inspect_steward-0.2.1.tar.gz (584.4 kB view details)

Uploaded Sep 6, 2026 Source

Built Distribution

If you're not sure about the file name format, learn more about wheel file names.

The dropdown lists show the available interpreters, ABIs, and platforms. Enable javascript to be able to filter the list of wheel files.

inspect_steward-0.2.1-py3-none-any.whl (672.5 kB view details)

Uploaded Sep 6, 2026 Python 3

File details

Details for the file inspect_steward-0.2.1.tar.gz.

File metadata

Download URL: inspect_steward-0.2.1.tar.gz
Upload date: Sep 6, 2026
Size: 584.4 kB
Tags: Source
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? Yes
Uploaded via: twine/7.0.0 CPython/3.13.14

File hashes

Hashes for inspect_steward-0.2.1.tar.gz
Algorithm	Hash digest
SHA256	`11602003e9c9dd919c22fd42fc6d67920e10e87fd15fe02415e7be52081a2656`
MD5	`123686386f9bce60d5c245461342a70c`
BLAKE2b-256	`f239739aee629cf10b60fe4ab2d1a7b81b825bf6f6a9e6f380ba0a7fa4d7017e`

See more details on using hashes here.

Provenance

The following attestation bundles were made for inspect_steward-0.2.1.tar.gz:

Publisher: publish.yaml on meridianlabs-ai/inspect_steward

Attestations: Values shown here reflect the state when the release was signed and may no longer be current.

Statement:
- Statement type: https://in-toto.io/Statement/v1
- Predicate type: https://docs.pypi.org/attestations/publish/v1
- Subject name: inspect_steward-0.2.1.tar.gz
- Subject digest: 11602003e9c9dd919c22fd42fc6d67920e10e87fd15fe02415e7be52081a2656
- Sigstore transparency entry: 2743277807
- Sigstore integration time: Sep 6, 2026
Source repository:
- Permalink: meridianlabs-ai/inspect_steward@8d1953f84a62a2df8dedee107011ccaff029ea9d
- Branch / Tag: refs/heads/main
- Owner: https://github.com/meridianlabs-ai
- Access: public
Publication detail:
- Token Issuer: https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com
- Runner Environment: github-hosted
- Publication workflow: publish.yaml@8d1953f84a62a2df8dedee107011ccaff029ea9d
- Trigger Event: workflow_dispatch