agent-lightning
Reinforcement-learning trainer of about 3,500 lines that trains models behind agents run in their own harnesses, locally or as Kubernetes jobs.
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Use cases: model-inference
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- Languages
- PythonREADME
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- kubernetesREADME
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- Last commit
- Oct 20, 2026 (9 days ago)
- Last release
- Sep 29, 2026 (29 days ago)
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- License
- MIT
- Repository
- github.com/microsoft/agent-lightning
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
- Source
- READMEgithub-graphql
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