Overview

SkyRL is a full-stack RL library that provides the following components:

• skyrl: Our unified library for RL on your own hardware, with support for the Tinker API. skyrl combines our previous work:

  • skyrl-train: A modular, performant training framework for RL.
  • skyrl-tx: A cross-platform library implementing a backend for the Tinker API, with a unified engine for training and inference.

• skyrl-agent: Our agent layer for training long-horizon, real-world agents. For exact reproduction of SkyRL-v0 results, please checkout to commit a0d50c482436af7fac8caffa4533616a78431d66.

• skyrl-gym: Our gymnasium of tool-use tasks, including a library of math, coding, search and SQL environments implemented in the Gymnasium API.

Getting Started

For a guide on developing with SkyRL, take at look at our Development Guide docs.

For model training, checkout skyrl to start using, modifying, or building on top of the SkyRL training stack. See our quickstart docs to ramp up!

For building environments, checkout skyrl-gym to integrate your task in the simple gymnasium interface.

For agentic pipelines, check out skyrl-agent for our work on optimizing and scaling pipelines for multi-turn tool use LLMs on long-horizon, real-environment tasks.

For a list of supported models, see our Supported Models docs.

News

• [2026/09/01] 🎉 We released an E2E recipe for long horizon knowledge work on SkyRL on the APEX-Agents dataset in collaboration with Mercor [tweet] [blog]
• [2026/08/18] 🎉 SkyRL is hosting it's first meetup at the Anyscale SF office! [Link]
• [2026/07/16] 🎉 SkyRL v0.3.0 is released [Blog]
• [2026/02/17] 🎉 SkyRL is officially integrated with Harbor! Train your terminal-use agent! [Blog]
• [2026/02/13] 🎉 SkyRL now implements the Tinker API! Run any training script written in the Tinker API on your local GPUs with SkyRL! [Blog]
• [2025/11/26] 🎉 We released SkyRL-Agent: An agent layer for efficient, multi-turn, long-horizon agent training and evaluation. [Paper]
• [2025/10/06] 🎉 We released SkyRL tx: An open implementation of a backend for the Tinker API to run a Tinker-like service on their own hardware. [Blog]
• [2025/06/26] 🎉 We released SkyRL-v0.1: A highly-modular, performant RL training framework. [Blog]
• [2025/06/26] 🎉 We released SkyRL-Gym: A library of RL environments for LLMs implemented with the Gymnasium API. [Blog]
• [2025/05/20] 🎉 We released SkyRL-SQL: a multi-turn RL training pipeline for Text-to-SQL, along with SkyRL-SQL-7B — a model trained on just 653 samples that outperforms both GPT-4o and o4-mini!
• [2025/05/06] 🎉 We released SkyRL-v0: our open RL training pipeline for multi-turn tool use LLMs, optimized for long-horizon, real-environment tasks like SWE-Bench!

Links

• 📜 Training frontier knowledge work agents: A 397B RL training guide with SkyRL
• 📜 SkyRL Ray Summit Slides
• 📜 SkyRL Meetup Slides
• 📜 SkyRL v0.3.0 Release
• 📜 Multi-LoRA Training for Continual Learning (w/ Trajectory)
• 📜 Native RL APIs in vLLM
• 📜 Train Your Terminal-Use Agent with SkyRL + Harbor
• 📜 SkyRL Brings Tinker to Your GPUs
• 📜 Fully Async RL with In-Flight Weight Updates in SkyRL
• 📜 Open Recipes on SkyRL
• 📜 SkyRL-Agent Paper
• 📜 On-Policy Distillation on SkyRL Blog Post
• 📜 Search-R1 on SkyRL Blog Post
• 📜 SkyRL-v0.1 Blog Post
• 📜 SkyRL-SQL Blog Post
• 📜 SkyRL-v0 Blog Post

Projects using SkyRL

• Biomni-R0: Using RL to Hill-Climb Biomedical Reasoning Agents to Expert-Level
• How to Train Your Advisor: Steering Black-Box LLMs with Advisor Models
• OpenThoughts-Agent: Data recipes and robust infrastructure for training AI agents
• Endless Terminals: A fully autonomous pipeline that procedurally generates terminal tasks for RL training with no human annotation needed
• CodeScout: Open-source SoTA code localization on SWE-Bench via RL
• Reinforcing Recursive Language Models: RL fine-tuning small models to behave as recursive language models
• ECHO: Terminal Agents Learn World Models for Free

Acknowledgement

This work is done at Berkeley Sky Computing Lab in collaboration with Anyscale, with generous compute support from Anyscale, Databricks, NVIDIA, Lambda Labs, AMD, AWS, Modal, and Daytona.

We adopt many lessons and code from several great projects such as veRL, OpenRLHF, Search-R1, OpenReasonerZero, and NeMo-RL. We appreciate each of these teams and their contributions to open-source research!

Citation

If you find the work in this repository helpful, please consider citing:

@misc{cao2025skyrl,
  title     = {SkyRL-v0: Train Real-World Long-Horizon Agents via Reinforcement Learning},
  author    = {Shiyi Cao and Sumanth Hegde and Dacheng Li and Tyler Griggs and Shu Liu and Eric Tang and Jiayi Pan and Xingyao Wang and Akshay Malik and Graham Neubig and Kourosh Hakhamaneshi and Richard Liaw and Philipp Moritz and Matei Zaharia and Joseph E. Gonzalez and Ion Stoica},
  year      = {2025},
}

@misc{liu2025skyrlsql,
      title={SkyRL-SQL: Matching GPT-4o and o4-mini on Text2SQL with Multi-Turn RL},
      author={Shu Liu and Sumanth Hegde and Shiyi Cao and Alan Zhu and Dacheng Li and Tyler Griggs and Eric Tang and Akshay Malik and Kourosh Hakhamaneshi and Richard Liaw and Philipp Moritz and Matei Zaharia and Joseph E. Gonzalez and Ion Stoica},
      year={2025},
}

@misc{griggs2025skrylv01,
      title={Evolving SkyRL into a Highly-Modular RL Framework},
      author={Tyler Griggs and Sumanth Hegde and Eric Tang and Shu Liu and Shiyi Cao and Dacheng Li and Charlie Ruan and Philipp Moritz and Kourosh Hakhamaneshi and Richard Liaw and Akshay Malik and Matei Zaharia and Joseph E. Gonzalez and Ion Stoica},
      year={2025},
      note={Notion Blog}
}