bee-code-interpreter

A gRPC service intended as a backend for an LLM that can run arbitrary pieces of Python code.

Built from the ground up to be safe and reproducible.

Note

This project contains submodules. Be sure to clone it with git clone --recurse-submodules, or initialize the submodules later with git submodule update --init.

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🪑 Local set-up

It is possible to quickly spin up Bee Code Interpreter locally. It is not necessary to have Python or Poetry set up for this, since all is done using Docker.

The only requirement is Rancher Desktop -- a local Docker and Kubernetes distribution.

Caution

If you use a different local Docker / Kubernetes environment than Rancher Desktop, you may have a harder time. Many implementations (like Podman Desktop) require an additional step to make locally built images available in Kubernetes. In that case, you might want to check scripts/run.sh and modify it accordingly.

The following script will build the two containers (code-interpreter and code-interpreter-executor) and set up an instance of Bee Code Interpreter in your local Kubernetes cluster.

Caution

Ensure that you have the correct context selected in kubectl before running this command.

bash ./scripts/run.sh

Once you see the line INFO:root:Starting server on insecure port 0.0.0.0:50051, Bee Code Interpreter should now be running!

In order to interact with the service, install grpcurl. Run "hello world" with:

grpcurl -d '{"source_code":"print(\"hello world\")"}' -plaintext -max-time 60 127.0.0.1:50051 code_interpreter.v1.CodeInterpreterService/Execute

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🧳 Production setup

All configuration options are defined and described in src/code_interpreter/config.py. You can override them using environment variables with APP_ prefix, e.g. APP_EXECUTOR_IMAGE to override executor_image.

For a production setup, ensure that you have the following:

• A Kubernetes cluster with a secure container runtime (gVisor, Kata Containers, Firecracker, etc.)

  ⚠️ Docker containers are not fully sandboxed by default. To protect from malicious attackers, do not skip this step.

• A service account, bound to the pod where bee-code-interpreter is running, with permissions to manage pods in the namespace it is configured to use.
• The cluster must have the executor image available (either from a registry, or built from ./executor in this repo).
• You may check the health of the local service using python -m code_interpreter.health_check.
• The shared folder with file objects should be periodically cleaned of old objects. The objects are identified by random ids and may be removed as soon as the consumer is done downloading them. If the objects are shared through a S3 bucket, we recommend setting up an auto-deletion policy.

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🧑‍💻 Development

Install dependencies:

Use mise-en-place to install dependencies: mise install.

If you don't want to use mise, look into the file .mise.toml and install the listed dependencies however you see fit.

Afterwards, install the project dependencies using poetry install.

Run end-to-end tests:

# in 1st terminal (Bee Code Interpreter must be running for end-to-end tests to work):
poe run

# in 2nd terminal:
poe test

Publish a new version:

VERSION=...
git checkout main
git pull
poetry version $VERSION
git add pyproject.toml
git commit -m "chore: bump version to v$VERSION"
git tag v$VERSION
git push origin main v$VERSION

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Bugs

We are using GitHub Issues to manage our public bugs. We keep a close eye on this so before filing a new issue, try to make sure the problem in not already reported.

Code of conduct

This project and everyone participating in it are governed by the Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please read the full text so that you can read which actions may or may not be tolerated.

Legal notice

All content in these repositories including code has been provided by IBM under the associated open source software license and IBM is under no obligation to provide enhancements, updates, or support. IBM developers produced this code as an open source project (not as an IBM product), and IBM makes no assertions as to the level of quality nor security, and will not be maintaining this code going forward.