SkyPilot
SkyPilot
SkyPilot is an open-source framework for running workloads across cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, and others). It provides a unified interface for launching, managing, and monitoring cloud VMs and clusters, abstracting away provider-specific APIs.
Role in Autonomous Code Optimization
SkyPilot serves as the cloud execution layer for the autoresearch framework. It fans out experiments across multiple VMs so coding agents can test several optimization hypotheses in parallel. Each experiment runs on its own VM — build the project, run the benchmark, run correctness checks, report metrics — and the agent collects results via sky logs.
In research-driven agent work on llama.cpp, SkyPilot managed 4 AWS VMs (c6i.2xlarge for x86, c7g.2xlarge for ARM) at a compute cost of ~$20 for ~3 hours.