ado

Spec sheet

Purpose

ado is a Python platform for designing computational experiment campaigns and executing them at scale.Read 4 Oct 2026 · ibm.github.io

Intended users

The user guide is aimed at researchers and benchmarkers who want to run experiments, explore parameter spaces, and analyse results.Read 4 Oct 2026 · ibm.github.io

Integrations

The documentation describes remote execution on Ray clusters and backend deployment with Kubernetes or OpenShift.Read 4 Oct 2026 · ibm.github.io

Agent workflows

Bundled agent skills can help AI coding assistants formulate research campaigns, run experiments, query data, and analyse results.Read 4 Oct 2026 · ibm.github.io

Data backend

The backend guide covers a distributed MySQL setup and onboarding projects to it.Read 4 Oct 2026 · ibm.github.io

Examples

Listed use cases include fine-tuning and inference performance benchmarking and predictive performance model creation.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Extensibility

Experiments and operators can be extended through a plugin model using Python functions.Read 4 Oct 2026 · ibm.github.io

Research workflow

Its documented workflow covers choosing experiments, defining a parameter space, configuring a strategy, executing experiments, and analysing results.Read 4 Oct 2026 · ibm.github.io

Result storage

The sample store saves measurement results and can reuse existing results through memoization.Read 4 Oct 2026 · ibm.github.io

Support and contributions

The project welcomes contributions and directs users to its GitHub issue tracker for feature proposals and bug tracking.Read 4 Oct 2026 · ibm.github.io

Team collaboration

ado enables distributed teams of researchers and engineers to collaborate, run experiments, and share data.Read 4 Oct 2026 · ibm.github.io

Validation and provenance

The documentation says ado supports validated schemas, dry runs, structured results, and provenance that records resource relationships and plugin versions.Read 4 Oct 2026 · ibm.github.io

Where Specifiction places it

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