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Tvastar is a Python agent SDK with a production harness layer built in.
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silent failure detection, SSE streaming, deploy-anywhere portability).
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# Tvastar

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**Not another SDK. A lightweight Python harness with just enough framework to be useful — and knows when to stay out of the way.**

Define your agent once. Run it safely anywhere. Tvastar handles safe code execution, crash recovery, silent failure detection, and deploy-anywhere portability — without making you learn a new way to think about agents.

```bash
pip install tvastar
```

---

## What is a harness?

Most Python agent libraries give you one of two things: orchestration patterns (how agents coordinate) or model wrappers (how to call an LLM). Neither solves the problem of running agents safely in production.

A harness is the missing layer. It sits between your agent logic and the real world and handles what happens when things go wrong — code that crashes, context that overflows, silent failures, infrastructure that varies across environments.

Tvastar includes lightweight framework primitives so you have something to run (`AgentSpec`, `@tool`, sessions, workflows). But the framework is minimal on purpose. The harness is the product.

---

## The four problems Tvastar solves

**1. Running agent-produced code safely**

Most frameworks assume you have a container. Tvastar runs real code in-memory with no Docker, no setup, no external service. Switch to Docker or a remote sandbox with one line when you need stronger isolation.

**2. Agents that lie about success**

An agent says "all tests pass" over a failing run. An agent claims a file was created but nothing was written. Tvastar detects silent failures automatically and surfaces them before they reach your users.

**3. Long-running agents that crash**

A 10-minute agent run failing at minute 9 loses everything. Tvastar checkpoints transcript and filesystem after every step. Crashes resume from where they stopped, not from the beginning.

**4. Deploying the same agent everywhere**

One agent definition runs as a web service, AWS Lambda, GitHub Action, container, or serverless function. No rewriting. No framework-specific deployment config.

---

## Works with any agent or model

```python
import asyncio
from tvastar import create_agent, Harness, default_toolset
from tvastar.model import AnthropicModel

# Wrapping a raw model call
agent = create_agent(
    "assistant",
    model=AnthropicModel("claude-opus-4-6"),
    instructions="You are a helpful coding agent.",
    tools=default_toolset(),
)
result = asyncio.run(Harness(agent).run("Write hello.py and run it."))
print(result.text)
```

```python
# Wrapping an OpenAI-compatible provider
from tvastar.model import OpenAIModel

agent = create_agent("assistant", model=OpenAIModel("gpt-4o"), tools=default_toolset())
```

```python
# Local Ollama — completely free, no API key
model = OpenAIModel(model="llama3.2", base_url="http://localhost:11434/v1", api_key="ollama")
agent = create_agent("assistant", model=model, tools=default_toolset())
```

```python
# Any OpenAI-compatible provider (Groq, Together, Cloudflare…)
model = OpenAIModel(
    model="llama-3.1-8b-instant",
    base_url="https://api.groq.com/openai/v1",
    api_key="gsk_...",
)
```

The harness wraps the model. It does not care which one.

---

## See it in action: tvastar-fix

The fastest way to understand Tvastar is to watch it fix something real.

`tvastar-fix` is a CLI tool and GitHub Action that auto-fixes failing tests. Your tests fail on a PR. Tvastar runs the agent, executes the fixes in a safe sandbox, verifies they actually pass, and pushes the correction — without you touching a line.

It is the reference implementation for everything the harness provides: safe execution, silent failure detection, crash recovery, and deploy-anywhere portability in one working example.

```bash
pip install "tvastar[fix]"
tvastar-fix --test-cmd "pytest tests/" --model claude-opus-4-6
```

---

## When not to use Tvastar

- You only need a single chat completion → call the model SDK directly, Tvastar is overkill
- You need hundreds of pre-built integrations (Slack, Salesforce, databases) → LangChain's ecosystem is larger
- Your agent never executes code or writes files → the sandbox and failure detection add weight without benefit

Tvastar is for agents that do things — run code, edit files, call tools — and need to do those things safely in production. If your agent only talks, you do not need a harness.

---

## What Tvastar handles so you do not have to

| Problem | How Tvastar handles it |
|---|---|
| Code execution without Docker | In-memory sandbox, zero setup |
| Agent claims success but fails | Built-in silent failure detection |
| Crash at step 47 of 50 | Step-level checkpoint and resume |
| Deploy to Lambda, GitHub Actions, web | Single agent definition, any target |
| Agent loops on the same tool | Built-in loop detection |
| Context grows past model limit | Automatic compaction and summarisation |
| Audit what the agent actually did | Full transcript stored every run |
| Flaky network tools fail mid-run | Per-tool retry with exponential backoff |
| Run 100 prompts at once | Built-in parallel fan-out |
| Stream tokens to the browser | SSE endpoint out of the box |

---

## How it works

```
create_agent(...)  →  AgentSpec          (what the agent is — immutable)
Harness(spec)      →  Harness            (how it runs — stateful)
harness.run(...)   →  RunResult          (one prompt, one answer)
harness.session()  →  Session            (multi-turn conversation)
```

Inside every `run()` or `prompt()`, the loop looks like this:

```
User message
    ↓
Model generates response
    ↓
  ┌─ stop_reason == TOOL_USE? ──────────────────────────────────┐
  │                                                             │
  │   Execute all requested tools (concurrently)               │
  │   Feed results back to model                               │
  │   Auto-compact context if policy threshold hit             │
  │   Checkpoint to durable store                              │
  │   Loop ────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
  │
  └─ END_TURN → RunResult(.text, .messages, .usage, .steps, .data)
```

---

## Install

```bash
pip install tvastar                      # core only — zero deps
pip install "tvastar[anthropic]"         # + Claude models
pip install "tvastar[openai]"            # + OpenAI / Groq / Ollama / etc.
pip install "tvastar[serve]"             # + HTTP server (FastAPI)
pip install "tvastar[otel]"              # + OpenTelemetry tracing
pip install "tvastar[all]"              # everything
```

---

## Core concepts

| Thing | What it is |
|-------|-----------|
| `AgentSpec` | Immutable declaration: model + tools + instructions + policies |
| `Harness` | Stateful runtime: runs an AgentSpec across sessions |
| `Session` | One conversation thread with its own message history |
| `Tool` | A Python function the model can call (schema auto-derived) |
| `Skill` | A Markdown file of reusable expertise, loaded on demand |
| `Sandbox` | Where code runs — virtual (in-memory), local, or Docker |
| `RunResult` | What you get back: `.text`, `.data`, `.usage`, `.steps`, `.ok` |

---

## Tools

```python
from tvastar import tool, ToolRetryPolicy

@tool
def add(a: int, b: int) -> int:
    "Add two integers."
    return a + b

# With retry for flaky network calls
@tool(retry=ToolRetryPolicy(max_attempts=3, backoff_base=0.5))
async def call_api(url: str) -> str:
    "Fetch a URL."
    ...

# Access session context (sandbox, filesystem, memory)
@tool
async def save(path: str, content: str, ctx: ToolContext) -> str:
    "Save a file."
    ctx.filesystem.write(path, content)
    return "saved"
```

Built-in tools via `default_toolset()`: `bash`, `read_file`, `write_file`, `edit_file`, `grep`, `glob`, `list_files`.

Harness-wide retry — applies to all tools that do not have their own policy:

```python
agent = create_agent(..., tool_retry=ToolRetryPolicy(max_attempts=3))
```

---

## Sessions

```python
harness = Harness(agent)

# One-shot
result = await harness.run("Summarise this document.")

# Multi-turn
sess = harness.session()
async with sess:
    await sess.prompt("Read report.txt")
    await sess.prompt("Write a 3-bullet summary")
    result = await sess.prompt("Translate the summary to Spanish")

# Named sessions for parallel branches
branch_a = harness.session("review-api")
branch_b = harness.session("review-auth")
results = await asyncio.gather(
    branch_a.prompt("Review the API layer"),
    branch_b.prompt("Review the auth layer"),
)
```

---

## Structured output

Get back a typed object instead of raw text:

```python
from pydantic import BaseModel

class Report(BaseModel):
    summary: str
    issues: list[str]
    severity: str

result = await sess.prompt("Analyse this code.", result=Report)
report: Report = result.data
print(report.severity)
```

Works with Pydantic v2, Pydantic v1, dataclasses, plain `dict`, or any callable validator.

---

## Delegating to specialist sub-agents

```python
from tvastar import create_agent, define_agent_profile

reviewer = define_agent_profile(
    name="reviewer",
    description="Reviews code for security and correctness.",
    instructions="Report only issues with a reproducible failure scenario.",
    thinking_level="high",
    max_steps=10,
)

agent = create_agent("coordinator", model=model, subagents=[reviewer], tools=default_toolset())

sess = harness.session()
async with sess:
    result = await sess.task(
        "Review the auth package for security issues.",
        agent="reviewer",
        cancel_after=60.0,
        result=ReviewReport,
    )
```

Task delegation is capped at 4 levels deep to prevent runaway recursion.

---

## Parallel fan-out

Run multiple prompts concurrently with one call:

```python
results = await harness.fan_out([
    "Summarise chapter 1",
    "Summarise chapter 2",
    {
        "prompt": "Summarise chapter 3",
        "agent": "summariser",
        "cancel_after": 30.0,
        "result": SummarySchema,
    },
], concurrency=4)
```

---

## Extended thinking

```python
agent = create_agent(..., thinking_level="high")
# Anthropic: budget_tokens=16000  (low=1024, medium=8000, high=16000)
# OpenAI:    reasoning_effort='high'
```

---

## Workflows — durable, inspectable pipelines

```python
from tvastar import workflow
from tvastar.workflow import WorkflowContext

@workflow
async def summarise_document(ctx: WorkflowContext) -> dict:
    harness = await ctx.init(agent)
    sess = await harness.session()
    result = await sess.prompt(f"Summarise {ctx.payload['path']}")
    return {"summary": result.text, "steps": result.steps}

run = await summarise_document.run({"path": "report.pdf"})
print(run.status)   # RunStatus.COMPLETED
print(run.output)   # {'summary': '...', 'steps': 3}

for past_run in summarise_document.list_runs():
    print(past_run.run_id, past_run.status)
```

---

## Event-driven dispatch

For chat bots, webhooks, and queue processors:

```python
from tvastar import dispatch, dispatch_and_wait, observe_dispatch, DispatchInput

# Fire and forget
dispatch_id = await dispatch(
    agent,
    id="user_123",
    input=DispatchInput(text=message_text, type="chat.message"),
    on_complete=lambda r: send_reply(r.text),
    cancel_after=30.0,
)

# Fire and await
result = await dispatch_and_wait(agent, id="job_456", text="Process this report.")

# Watch all dispatches globally
observe_dispatch(lambda event: logger.info(event.type, extra=event.data))
```

---

## Context compaction

Prevent context window exhaustion in long sessions:

```python
from tvastar import CompactionPolicy

agent = create_agent(
    "long-runner",
    model=model,
    compaction=CompactionPolicy(
        max_messages=40,
        keep_last=10,
        min_messages=20,
    ),
)
# Fires automatically after tool turns. The model never notices.
```

---

## Application-level file access

```python
async with Harness(agent) as h:
    await h.fs.write_file("report.pdf", pdf_bytes)
    result = await h.run("Summarise report.pdf")
    summary = await h.fs.read_file("summary.md")
```

---

## Sandboxes

```python
from tvastar import VirtualSandbox, LocalSandbox, SecurityPolicy

# Default — in-memory, zero deps
create_agent(..., sandbox=VirtualSandbox)

# Real bash, jailed to a directory
policy = SecurityPolicy(allowed_commands={"python", "pytest"}, network=False)
create_agent(..., sandbox=lambda: LocalSandbox("./workspace", policy=policy))
```

---

## MCP — use any published tool server

```python
from tvastar import connect_mcp_server, default_toolset

client = await connect_mcp_server(command="python", args=["my_mcp_server.py"])
# or remote:
client = await connect_mcp_server(url="https://api.example.com/mcp", headers={...})

agent = create_agent("a", model=model, tools=[*default_toolset(), *client.tools])
await client.close()
```

---

## Durable execution — survive crashes

```python
from tvastar import Harness, FileStore

harness = Harness(agent, store=FileStore(".tvastar-state"))

# On restart — resume from last checkpoint
sess = harness.resume("sess_abc123") or harness.session()
```

---

## Serving over HTTP

```bash
pip install "tvastar[serve]"
tvastar serve my_agent.py:agent --port 8000
```

| Method | Path | Description |
|--------|------|-------------|
| `GET` | `/` | Agent info |
| `POST` | `/sessions` | Create session |
| `POST` | `/sessions/{id}/prompt` | Send a message |
| `WS` | `/sessions/{id}/stream` | WebSocket streaming |
| `GET` | `/sessions/{id}/stream?text=...` | SSE streaming |

```bash
curl -N "http://localhost:8000/sessions/sess_abc/stream?text=Hello"
# data: {"type": "text_delta", "data": {"text": "Hello"}}
# data: [DONE]
```

---

## Observability

```python
from tvastar import Tracer, ConsoleExporter, JSONLExporter

harness = Harness(agent, tracer=Tracer([
    ConsoleExporter(),
    JSONLExporter("trace.jsonl"),
]))
```

OpenTelemetry (Braintrust, Honeycomb, Datadog, Sentry):

```bash
pip install "tvastar[otel]"
```

```python
from tvastar import OTelExporter
harness = Harness(agent, tracer=Tracer([OTelExporter()]))
```

---

## Silent-failure detection

```python
result = await harness.run("Fix all test failures.")

if not result.ok:
    for finding in result.warnings:
        print(f"[{finding.severity}] {finding.detector}: {finding.message}")
# → [WARNING] unverified_completion: model claimed success but last tool result shows failures
```

Built-in detectors: `unknown_tool`, `schema_mismatch`, `thrash_loop`, `ignored_tool_error`, `unverified_completion`, `empty_answer`, `step_limit`.

Write your own:

```python
from tvastar.detect import Finding, Severity

def slow_run(ctx):
    if ctx.stopped == "max_steps":
        return [Finding("slow_run", Severity.WARNING, "hit the step ceiling")]
    return []

create_agent(..., detect=[*default_detectors(), slow_run])
```

---

## CLI

```bash
tvastar run   my_agent.py:agent "Write hello.py and run it"
tvastar chat  my_agent.py:agent
tvastar serve my_agent.py:agent
tvastar info  my_agent.py:agent
tvastar logs  run_abc123
```

---

## Deploy anywhere

One agent definition. Any target.

```python
# AWS Lambda
from tvastar.deploy import lambda_handler
handler = lambda_handler(agent)

# GitHub Action
from tvastar.deploy import github_action
github_action(agent, on="workflow_dispatch")

# ASGI (Uvicorn, Gunicorn)
from tvastar.serving import create_app
app = create_app(agent)
```

---

## Custom model adapter

```python
from tvastar.model import Model
from tvastar.types import Message, ModelResponse, StopReason, TextBlock

class MyModel(Model):
    name = "my-provider"

    async def generate(self, messages, *, system=None, tools=None,
                       max_tokens=4096, temperature=1.0,
                       stop_sequences=None, thinking_level=None) -> ModelResponse:
        text = await my_api_call(messages)
        return ModelResponse(
            message=Message("assistant", [TextBlock(text=text)]),
            stop_reason=StopReason.END_TURN,
        )
```

---

## Further reading

- [API Reference](docs/API.md) — every public symbol, fully typed
- [Patterns Cookbook](docs/PATTERNS.md) — 20 copy-paste recipes
- [CLAUDE.md](CLAUDE.md) — codebase map for AI assistants

---

## License

MIT
