These instructions will guide you through configuring a GitHub Codespaces environment that you can use to do the labs.
1. Change your codespace's default timeout from 30 minutes to longer (60 suggested). To do this, when logged in to GitHub, go to https://github.com/settings/codespaces and scroll down on that page until you see the Default idle timeout section. Adjust the value as desired.
2. Click on the button below to start a new codespace from this repository.
Click here ➡️
3. Then click on the option to create a new codespace.
This will run for several minutes while it gets everything ready.
After the initial startup, it will run a script to setup the python environment and install needed python pieces. This will take several more minutes to run. It will look like this while this is running. (While you wait on this to complete, you can proceed with step 4 to get your Hugging Face token.)
The codespace is ready to use when you see a prompt like the one shown below in its terminal.
When you see this, just hit Enter to get to a prompt.
4. Warm-up the models in the codespace by running the warmup script.
python scripts/warmup.py
5. Set up your HuggingFace API token.
For faster responses with Hugging Face, we can use a free API token:
A. Go to https://huggingface.co and log in if you already have an account. If you need to create an account, click the Sign Up button or visit https://huggingface.co/join
B. Navigate to https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens. Click on + Create new token.
C. Select Write for the token type and provide a name.
D. Click on the Create token button and copy the token (it starts with hf_). Save it somewhere.
E. For all runs of agents in the labs, make sure the token is set in your terminal before running the agent:
export HF_TOKEN="hf_your_token_here"F. Alternatively, to make this permanent for your codespace session, add it to your shell profile:
echo 'export HF_TOKEN="hf_your_token_here"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc6. Open up the labs.md file so you can follow along with the labs. You can either open it in a separate browser instance or open it in the codespace.
Now, you are ready for the labs!
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