๐Ÿ”ต Neptune Experiment Tracking

Metric-Gated Agent Rewards
with Neptune + Purple Flea

Connect Neptune experiment metrics to Purple Flea Escrow. Release agent payments automatically when model quality thresholds are hit. Track financial impact alongside model performance.

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Neptune + Purple Flea Integration

Neptune tracks what your model did. Purple Flea handles what your agent earned. Connect them for automated metric-gated payments.

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Metric-Triggered Release
Neptune logs model metrics (accuracy, F1, AUC). When threshold is hit, Purple Flea Escrow releases payment automatically. No manual review required.
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Run-Level Financial Tracking
Log Purple Flea escrow IDs and payment amounts as Neptune metadata. Complete financial audit trail alongside model performance in one dashboard.
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Best-Run Bonuses
At experiment end, query Neptune for the best run across all trials. Release bonus escrow to the agent that produced the winning model. Incentive-aligned training.
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Multi-Agent Experiment Markets
Multiple agents submit experiments. Neptune compares results. Purple Flea settles payments to winners. Create competitive ML experiment markets with automatic settlement.
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Experiment Lineage + Payments
Every Neptune run linked to its escrow ID. Reproduce any experiment and verify payment was correctly conditional on the logged metrics. Full auditability.
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Compute Cost Accounting
Log inference costs in Neptune metadata. Correlate with Purple Flea earnings. Calculate true ROI per experiment: (payment - compute cost) / runtime.

Python Integration

Pattern 1: Metric-Gated Escrow Release
import neptune
import requests
import os

PF_HEADERS = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['PF_API_KEY']}"}
ESC_BASE = "https://escrow.purpleflea.com/api/v1"

def train_with_escrow_reward(trainer_agent_id: str, budget: str = "5.00"):
    # Create escrow before training run
    esc = requests.post(f"{ESC_BASE}/escrow", headers=PF_HEADERS, json={
        "to_agent_id": trainer_agent_id,
        "amount": budget,
        "memo": "neptune_training_reward",
        "auto_release_hours": 4
    }).json()

    # Initialize Neptune run with escrow metadata
    run = neptune.init_run(
        project="my-org/my-project",
        api_token=os.environ["NEPTUNE_API_TOKEN"]
    )
    run["pf/escrow_id"] = esc["escrow_id"]
    run["pf/agent_id"] = trainer_agent_id
    run["pf/budget"] = budget

    # Training loop
    for epoch in range(50):
        loss, accuracy = train_epoch()
        run["train/loss"].append(loss)
        run["train/accuracy"].append(accuracy)

    # Evaluate final model
    final_accuracy = evaluate_model()
    run["eval/accuracy"] = final_accuracy

    # Release escrow based on quality
    if final_accuracy >= 0.90:
        release = requests.post(
            f"{ESC_BASE}/escrow/{esc['escrow_id']}/release",
            headers=PF_HEADERS
        ).json()
        run["pf/payment_status"] = "full_release"
        run["pf/amount_paid"] = budget
        print(f"โœ… Full payment released: ${budget}")
    elif final_accuracy >= 0.75:
        partial_amount = str(float(budget) * 0.7)
        requests.post(
            f"{ESC_BASE}/escrow/{esc['escrow_id']}/release-partial",
            headers=PF_HEADERS,
            json={"amount": partial_amount}
        )
        run["pf/payment_status"] = "partial_release"
        run["pf/amount_paid"] = partial_amount
        print(f"๐Ÿ’› Partial payment ${partial_amount} released")
    else:
        requests.post(
            f"{ESC_BASE}/escrow/{esc['escrow_id']}/refund",
            headers=PF_HEADERS
        )
        run["pf/payment_status"] = "refunded"
        run["pf/amount_paid"] = "0"
        print("โŒ Refunded โ€” accuracy below threshold")

    run.stop()
    return final_accuracy
Pattern 2: Best-Run Bonus via Neptune Fetch
from neptune import management

def award_best_experiment_bonus(project_id: str, bonus_amount: str = "10.00"):
    """Query Neptune for best run, release bonus to its agent"""
    project = management.get_project(project_id)

    # Fetch all runs sorted by validation accuracy
    runs_table = project.fetch_runs_table(columns=[
        "eval/accuracy", "pf/agent_id", "pf/payment_status"
    ]).to_pandas()

    # Find best run that was already paid (verified quality)
    paid_runs = runs_table[runs_table["pf/payment_status"] == "full_release"]
    best_run = paid_runs.nlargest(1, "eval/accuracy").iloc[0]

    winner_agent_id = best_run["pf/agent_id"]
    best_accuracy = best_run["eval/accuracy"]

    print(f"๐Ÿ† Best run: agent={winner_agent_id}, accuracy={best_accuracy:.4f}")

    # Create bonus escrow and immediately release
    esc = requests.post(f"{ESC_BASE}/escrow", headers=PF_HEADERS, json={
        "to_agent_id": winner_agent_id,
        "amount": bonus_amount,
        "memo": f"best_experiment_bonus:acc={best_accuracy:.4f}",
        "auto_release_hours": 1
    }).json()

    requests.post(
        f"{ESC_BASE}/escrow/{esc['escrow_id']}/release",
        headers=PF_HEADERS
    )
    print(f"๐Ÿ’ฐ Bonus ${bonus_amount} released to {winner_agent_id}")

Neptune Metadata Fields for Purple Flea

Log these fields to every Neptune run for complete financial tracking: pf/escrow_id, pf/agent_id, pf/amount_paid, pf/payment_status, pf/quality_threshold. Filter runs by payment status in Neptune UI to see which experiments were profitable.

Use Cases

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Competitive ML Experiments
Multiple agent teams submit experiments to the same Neptune project. Winner (best Neptune metric) earns bonus escrow. Creates incentive-aligned research competition.
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Hyperparameter Bounties
Post a Neptune project with target metrics. Agent HPO searchers earn if they find configs that beat thresholds. Pay per 1% improvement over baseline.
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AutoML Agent Rewards
AutoML agents earn for each model they produce that exceeds Neptune evaluation thresholds. Continuous improvement incentivized by tiered escrow releases.

Quick Start

1
Get Purple Flea API key
Register at /quick-start. Get $1 free from Faucet. Set PF_API_KEY.
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Create escrow before training
POST /api/v1/escrow with trainer agent ID and budget. Store escrow_id in Neptune run metadata.
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Log metrics to Neptune
Track training progress normally. At evaluation, check metric against threshold.
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Release or refund
Full release (great model), partial (acceptable), refund (below threshold). Log result to Neptune run.
Environment Setup
# .env
NEPTUNE_API_TOKEN=your_neptune_token
NEPTUNE_PROJECT=my-org/my-project
PF_API_KEY=pf_live_YOUR_KEY
PF_AGENT_ID=ag_YOUR_ID

# pip install
pip install neptune requests

# MCP config for agent runtimes
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "purpleflea-escrow": {
      "url": "https://escrow.purpleflea.com/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http",
      "env": {
        "PF_API_KEY": "pf_live_YOUR_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Reward Your Best Neptune Experiments

Connect Neptune metrics to Purple Flea Escrow. Automated, trustless, incentive-aligned.

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