prime 0.5.71

Prime Intellect CLI + SDK

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Prime Intellect CLI & SDKs

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Command line interface and SDKs for managing Prime Intellect GPU resources, sandboxes, and environments.

Overview

Prime is the official CLI and Python SDK for Prime Intellect, providing seamless access to GPU compute infrastructure, remote code execution environments (sandboxes), and AI inference capabilities.

What can you do with Prime?

• Deploy GPU pods with H100, A100, and other high-performance GPUs
• Create and manage isolated sandbox environments for running code
• Access hundreds of pre-configured development environments
• SSH directly into your compute instances
• Manage team resources and permissions
• Run OpenAI-compatible inference requests

Installation

Using uv (recommended)

First, install uv if you haven't already:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Then install prime:

uv tool install prime

Using pip

pip install prime

Quick Start

Authentication

# Interactive login (recommended)
prime login

# Or set API key directly
prime config set-api-key

# Or use environment variable
export PRIME_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"

Get your API key from the Prime Intellect Dashboard.

Basic Usage

# Browse environments on the hub
prime env list

# List available GPUs
prime availability list

# Create a GPU pod
prime pods create --gpu A100 --count 1

# SSH into a pod
prime pods ssh <pod-id>

# Create a sandbox
prime sandbox create python:3.11

Features

Environments Hub

Access hundreds of RL environments on our community hub with deep integrations with sandboxes, training, and evaluation stack.

# Browse available environments
prime env list

# View environment details
prime env info <environment-name>

# Install an environment locally
prime env install <environment-name>

# Create and push your own environment
prime env init my-environment
prime env push my-environment

Environments provide pre-configured setups for machine learning, data science, and development workflows, tested and verified by the Prime Intellect community.

GPU Pod Management

Deploy and manage GPU compute instances:

# Browse available configurations
prime availability list --gpu-type H100_80GB

# Create a pod with specific configuration
prime pods create --id <config-id> --name my-training-pod

# Monitor pod status
prime pods status <pod-id>

# SSH access
prime pods ssh <pod-id>

# Terminate when done
prime pods terminate <pod-id>

Sandboxes

Isolated environments for running code remotely:

# Create a sandbox
prime sandbox create python:3.11

# Create a VM sandbox with GPUs
prime sandbox create user-1/vm-image:latest --vm --gpu-count 1 --gpu-type H100_80GB

# Create a CPU-only VM sandbox
prime sandbox create user-1/vm-image:latest --vm

# List sandboxes
prime sandbox list

# Execute commands
prime sandbox run <sandbox-id> -- python script.py

# Upload/download files
prime sandbox upload <sandbox-id> local_file.py /remote/path/
prime sandbox download <sandbox-id> /remote/file.txt ./local/

# Clean up
prime sandbox delete <sandbox-id>

Team Management

Manage resources across personal and team contexts:

# List your teams
prime teams list

# Switch context directly
prime switch
prime switch personal
prime switch <team-slug>
prime switch <team-id>  # fallback for teams without a slug

# All subsequent commands use the selected context
prime pods list

Configuration

API Key

Multiple ways to configure your API key:

# Option 1: Interactive (hides input)
prime config set-api-key

# Option 2: Direct
prime config set-api-key YOUR_API_KEY

# Option 3: Environment variable
export PRIME_API_KEY="your-api-key"

Configuration priority: CLI config > Environment variable

SSH Key

Configure SSH key for pod access:

prime config set-ssh-key-path ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

View Configuration

prime config view

Python SDK

Prime also provides a Python SDK for programmatic access:

from prime_sandboxes import APIClient, SandboxClient, CreateSandboxRequest

# Initialize client
client = APIClient(api_key="your-api-key")
sandbox_client = SandboxClient(client)

# Create a sandbox
sandbox = sandbox_client.create(CreateSandboxRequest(
    name="my-sandbox",
    docker_image="python:3.11-slim",
    cpu_cores=2,
    memory_gb=4,
))

# Wait for creation
sandbox_client.wait_for_creation(sandbox.id)

# Execute commands
result = sandbox_client.execute_command(sandbox.id, "python --version")
print(result.stdout)

# Clean up
sandbox_client.delete(sandbox.id)

Async SDK

import asyncio
from prime_sandboxes import AsyncSandboxClient, CreateSandboxRequest

async def main():
    async with AsyncSandboxClient(api_key="your-api-key") as client:
        sandbox = await client.create(CreateSandboxRequest(
            name="async-sandbox",
            docker_image="python:3.11-slim",
        ))

        await client.wait_for_creation(sandbox.id)
        result = await client.execute_command(sandbox.id, "echo 'Hello'")
        print(result.stdout)

        await client.delete(sandbox.id)

asyncio.run(main())

Use Cases

Machine Learning Training

# Deploy a pod with 8x H100 GPUs
prime pods create --gpu H100 --count 8 --name ml-training

# SSH and start training
prime pods ssh <pod-id>

Support & Resources

• Documentation: github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-cli
• Dashboard: app.primeintellect.ai
• API Docs: api.primeintellect.ai/docs
• Discord: discord.gg/primeintellect
• Website: primeintellect.ai

Related Packages

• prime-sandboxes - Lightweight SDK for sandboxes only (if you don't need the full CLI)

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.