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# RolloutClient and the Awaitable Rollout Handle
> Submit rollouts to an Osmosis rollout server and await results or track progress with RolloutHandle
`RolloutClient` submits rollout requests to a rollout server and polls for results until the rollout finishes. `osmosis eval run` uses it internally. Construct it yourself when your own code drives a rollout server, such as a self-hosted harness or a custom evaluation loop.
`RolloutClient` ships in the base `osmosis-ai` package starting with 0.3.3. Import it from `osmosis_ai.rollout.client`. The server side uses `create_rollout_server()` and requires the `server` extra. Upgrade callers and servers together; see [Upgrading to 0.3.3](/migration-guides/v0-3#upgrading-to-0-3-3).
## Run a Rollout to Completion
The client takes server connection settings and an optional admission deadline. The chat completions URL, `llm_api_key`, grading choice, metadata, and phase timeouts belong to each rollout request. This example assumes a rollout server with a configured grader and a reachable chat endpoint; set `ROLLOUT_LLM_API_KEY` when that endpoint requires authentication:
```python theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"github-dark"},"languages":{"custom":["/languages/cli.json"]}}
import asyncio
import os
from uuid import uuid4
import httpx
from osmosis_ai.rollout.client import RolloutClient
async def main():
async with httpx.AsyncClient() as http_client:
client = RolloutClient(
url="http://127.0.0.1:8000",
http_client=http_client,
admission_timeout_sec=60,
)
result = await client.run_rollout(
initial_messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What is 6 * 7?"}],
chat_completions_url="http://127.0.0.1:9000/v1",
rollout_id=str(uuid4()),
llm_api_key=os.environ.get("ROLLOUT_LLM_API_KEY"),
label="42",
grade=True,
)
print(result.status, result.sample.reward if result.sample else None)
asyncio.run(main())
```
`run_rollout()` waits asynchronously until the rollout terminates and returns the terminal `RolloutResultResponse`. Inspect `status`, `sample`, `err_message`, and `err_category` to distinguish success from execution failure. Pass `grade=False` to skip grading for that request; a graded `LocalBackend` request needs both a configured grader and a label or metadata.
Use a fresh `rollout_id` for each new attempt. `llm_api_key` authenticates to the chat endpoint, not to the rollout server. Keep the HTTP client open until all handles finish. If you let `RolloutClient` create its own HTTP client, close it with `await client.aclose()` afterward.
## Track Progress with a Rollout Handle
`await client.run_rollout_async()` returns an awaitable `RolloutHandle` after admission and starts polling in the background. Call this helper with an open client and await it before closing that client:
```python theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"github-dark"},"languages":{"custom":["/languages/cli.json"]}}
from uuid import uuid4
from osmosis_ai.rollout.client import RolloutClient
from osmosis_ai.rollout.types import RolloutResultResponse
async def track_rollout(
client: RolloutClient,
chat_completions_url: str,
llm_api_key: str | None = None,
) -> RolloutResultResponse:
rollout = await client.run_rollout_async(
initial_messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What is 6 * 7?"}],
chat_completions_url=chat_completions_url,
rollout_id=str(uuid4()),
llm_api_key=llm_api_key,
label="42",
grade=True,
)
phase = await rollout.wait_for_grading()
print(phase)
return await rollout
```
Awaiting the handle returns the same terminal `RolloutResultResponse` that `run_rollout()` returns. The handle also exposes the rollout lifecycle:
| Member | Behavior |
| ------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `await handle` | Returns the terminal `RolloutResultResponse` |
| `wait_for_running()` / `wait_for_grading()` | Return the latest status once that milestone is reached or passed, or the rollout terminates |
| `wait_for_completion()` | Equivalent to awaiting the handle |
| `status` | Latest observed `RolloutStatus` |
| `latest_result` | Latest result response after the first poll, or `None` before it |
| `done()` | Whether the polling task has finished, including an exception or cancellation |
| `cancel()` | Requests cancellation of the client-side polling task without contacting the server |
Lifecycle statuses are `queued`, `running`, and `grading`; terminal statuses are `success`, `failure`, and `cancelled`. A rollout may skip phases, and polling may miss intermediate statuses. In particular, `wait_for_grading()` can return a terminal status when grading was skipped or execution failed. Result responses omit the persistence-only `trajectory_messages` field.
## Admission, Leases, and Timeouts
The server creates a polling lease at admission and chooses the long-poll wait and lease timeout. The client sends the returned token as `X-Osmosis-Rollout-Lease` on every result request; each valid request renews the lease. You do not supply a lease token or wait duration.
* Admission retries automatically on HTTP 429. Duplicate active or retained `rollout_id` values are rejected with HTTP 409.
* When set on the client, `admission_timeout_sec` must be finite and bounds admission, including HTTP requests and retry delays. It does not limit execution after admission.
* An admission deadline that expires during an HTTP request does not prove the server rejected the rollout. `RolloutAdmissionTimeoutError` reports that admission may have succeeded. The client does not cancel automatically by ID because a lost duplicate-ID rejection could otherwise cancel another active rollout.
* If polling stops and the lease expires, the server publishes a `failure` with error category `lease_expired` and requests cancellation. This lease failure can be visible before execution cleanup finishes.
## Cancel a Rollout
`await client.cancel_rollout(rollout_id)` asks the server to cancel the rollout, with a five-second wall-clock bound on the request. Cancellation is idempotent for the built-in backends, including `LocalBackend`. The request acknowledges cancellation; continue polling to observe the terminal result after cleanup:
```python theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"github-dark"},"languages":{"custom":["/languages/cli.json"]}}
from osmosis_ai.rollout.client import RolloutClient, RolloutHandle
from osmosis_ai.rollout.types import RolloutResultResponse
async def cancel_and_wait(
client: RolloutClient, rollout: RolloutHandle
) -> RolloutResultResponse:
await client.cancel_rollout(rollout.rollout_id)
return await rollout
```
`handle.cancel()` cancels an active polling task locally. It does not send the server cancellation request; awaiting a cancelled handle raises `asyncio.CancelledError`. Use `client.cancel_rollout()` while leaving the handle polling when you need to wait for server cleanup.
## Related Pages
Choose the backend that runs the workflow behind the rollout server.
Configure in-process execution, grading, concurrency, artifacts, and errors.