agent-playground

Agent Playground

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Agent Playground is a local-first, lightweight, educational framework for understanding and debugging simple AI agents.

It combines four focused directions:

• specific multi-agent collaboration patterns
• readable agent framework code
• structured trace and timeline debugging
• sandboxed Python execution for model-generated code

The public concepts are intentionally small: Agent, ModelAdapter, Tool, Sandbox, Trace, Run, and ReviewTeam.

What This Project Is

Agent Playground is built for two vertical slices:

• Single Agent + Python Sandbox + Trace: ask an agent to produce Python code, execute it in an isolated subprocess sandbox, and inspect the trace.
• Generate -> Review -> Refine: run a fixed three-agent collaboration pattern with a shared trace and a structured reviewer decision.

It is not a RAG system, long-term memory layer, arbitrary agent graph runtime, workflow DSL, plugin marketplace, hosted service, or web dashboard.

Architecture

flowchart TD
    U["User / examples / CLI"] --> A["Agent.run(task)"]

    A --> MA["ModelAdapter"]
    FM["FakeModelAdapter"] -. tests .-> MA
    OA["OpenAI-compatible adapter"] -. real model .-> MA

    A --> PT["PythonTool"]
    PT --> SB["Sandbox"]
    SB --> SS["SubprocessSandbox"]
    SB --> DS["DockerSandbox"]
    PT --> OUT["ToolResult<br/>stdout / stderr / exit code / artifacts"]

    A --> TR["TraceRecorder"]
    MA --> TR
    OUT --> TR
    TR --> TJ["Trace JSON"]
    TR --> TV["Timeline / events view"]

    RT["ReviewTeam<br/>Generate -> Review -> Refine"] --> G["generator Agent"]
    RT --> R["reviewer Agent<br/>JSON decision"]
    RT --> RF["refiner Agent"]
    G --> TR
    R --> TR
    RF --> TR

ReviewTeam is a fixed collaboration pattern over normal Agent instances. It uses one shared trace so model calls, reviewer decisions, tool execution, and sandbox policy metadata can be inspected together.

Installation

The package name is agent-playground; the Python import name is agent_playground. The package is published on PyPI: agent-playground.

Use As A Package

Use this when you want Agent Playground as a dependency in another Python project.

If you cloned this repository to develop Agent Playground itself, skip this section and use Develop This Repository.

# uv
uv add agent-playground

# pip
python -m pip install agent-playground

Check the installed package:

python -c "import agent_playground; print(agent_playground.__version__)"

If your package mirror has not synchronized the latest release yet, use the official PyPI index:

# uv
uv add --index-url https://pypi.org/simple agent-playground

# pip
python -m pip install --index-url https://pypi.org/simple agent-playground

Develop This Repository

Use this when you cloned the GitHub repository and want to modify the framework, examples, tests, or documentation.

You do not need to install the PyPI package in this case. The commands below use the local source checkout.

git clone https://github.com/xiao-sober/Agent-Playground.git
cd Agent-Playground

With uv from the source checkout:

uv sync --extra dev
uv run pytest -q
uv run python examples/01_single_agent_python.py
uv run python examples/03_generate_review_refine.py
uv run python examples/06_docker_sandbox.py
uv run python examples/07_trace_readability.py

With pip from the source checkout:

python -m venv .venv
.\.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1
python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
python -m pytest -q
python examples/01_single_agent_python.py
python examples/03_generate_review_refine.py
python examples/06_docker_sandbox.py
python examples/07_trace_readability.py

Use Local Changes From Another Project

Use this only when a different local project should test unpublished changes from this checkout before you publish a new version.

# uv
uv add --editable G:\Agent-Playground

# pip
python -m pip install -e G:\Agent-Playground

Minimal Single Agent

from agent_playground import Agent, FakeModelAdapter, PythonTool, SubprocessSandbox

model = FakeModelAdapter("""```python
print("hello from sandbox")
```""")

agent = Agent(
    name="coder",
    model=model,
    tools=[PythonTool(SubprocessSandbox(timeout_seconds=3))],
)

run = agent.run("Write and run a tiny Python program.")

print(run.output)
run.trace.print_timeline()
run.trace.export_json("trace.json")

Generate-Review-Refine

from agent_playground import Agent, FakeModelAdapter, ReviewTeam

generator = Agent("generator", FakeModelAdapter("initial answer"))
reviewer = Agent(
    "reviewer",
    FakeModelAdapter(
        '{"status": "pass", "issues": [], "suggestions": [], "reason": "ok"}'
    ),
)
refiner = Agent("refiner", FakeModelAdapter("refined answer"))

team = ReviewTeam(generator=generator, reviewer=reviewer, refiner=refiner)
run = team.run("Create a small solution and review it.")

print(run.status)
print(run.output)
run.trace.print_timeline()

Provider Config

Real model access is configured with a local provider JSON file. The project does not automatically read .env; use the api_key field in the provider config.

Create a local config from the template:

Copy-Item config/providers.example.json config/providers.local.json
notepad config/providers.local.json

Expected structure:

{
  "providers": {
    "bailian": {
      "name": "bailian",
      "api_type": "openai",
      "base_url": "https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1",
      "api_key": "replace-with-your-api-key",
      "models": {
        "default": "qwen3.6-plus",
        "single_agent": "qwen3.6-plus",
        "generator": "qwen3.6-plus",
        "reviewer": "qwen3.6-plus",
        "refiner": "qwen3.6-plus"
      }
    }
  }
}

Run Qwen/Bailian examples:

# uv
uv run python examples/04_qwen_single_agent.py
uv run python examples/05_qwen_generate_review_refine.py

# pip
python examples/04_qwen_single_agent.py
python examples/05_qwen_generate_review_refine.py

Or call a configured model from the CLI:

agent-playground run --provider bailian --model-alias single_agent "Write Python code that prints 1 + 1."
agent-playground run --provider bailian --model-alias single_agent --sandbox docker "Write Python code that prints 1 + 1."

Trace

Every run produces a structured Trace. It records model calls, tool calls, stdout, stderr, exit codes, errors, artifacts, timeline events, team rounds, agent roles, reviewer decisions, and non-secret sandbox policy metadata.

run.trace.print_timeline()
run.trace.export_json("trace.json")

Static HTML viewer:

from agent_playground import export_trace_html

export_trace_html(run.trace, "trace.html")

CLI trace views:

agent-playground trace traces/example.json
agent-playground trace traces/example.json --timeline
agent-playground trace traces/example.json --events
agent-playground trace traces/example.json --html trace.html

For a trace-focused example:

python examples/07_trace_readability.py

The HTML viewer is a single local file with inline CSS. It does not start a server and does not require a JavaScript framework.

Sandbox

SubprocessSandbox runs generated Python in a separate process with an isolated workspace, timeout, minimal environment, stdout/stderr capture, exit code capture, and common write guards. Its policy metadata is recorded into trace tool calls so the execution boundary is visible during debugging.

It is isolated for local experimentation, not a production-grade security sandbox.

DockerSandbox is available for local Docker-based experiments when Docker is installed. It runs Python in python:3.11-slim by default, disables container network access, applies memory/CPU/pids limits, and uses a read-only container root filesystem with /workspace mounted for the task.

from agent_playground import DockerSandbox, PythonTool

tool = PythonTool(DockerSandbox(timeout_seconds=5))

Build Checks

# uv
uv run python -m build
uv run python -m twine check dist/*

# pip
python -m build
python -m twine check dist/*