repair_python
Repair Python
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Everything validation does, plus deterministic fixes: the corrected source comes back in fixed_code, and the original is kept whenever the fix cannot be proven safe. The code is still never run. Use it when validation failed and you want the fix rather than the diagnosis. Alternatives: validate_python when the diagnosis is enough; execute_python when the fix has to be proven to run.
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Arguments: code: the whole file, 1..200000 bytes of UTF-8 measured after encoding (empty is refused with 400, larger with 413); a fragment is fine, but line and column numbers in the answer count from 1 in what you sent. language: must be 'python'; anything else is 400, and the field may be omitted. options.max_iterations (1..10, default 3) caps the fix/verify rounds: raise it for a file with several independent faults, leave it for a snippet. options.optimize (default false) additionally folds constants and drops dead code, and is only worth setting when you asked for a rewrite anyway. options.transpile_to (e.g. 'javascript') returns a translation of the *repaired* source in transpiled, not of what you sent. fixed_code is null when nothing could be proven safe to change, so treat null as 'no fix', not as an error. options.timeout_s, options.examples and options.expected_output do nothing here: nothing is run, so there is no clock, no stdout, and no way to check an example.
Returns valid, score 0..1, diagnostics (rule, message, line, column), security findings, fixes, fixed_code and runtime; see outputSchema. The code and its verdict are retained to improve the service.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| code | string | yes | The source to check, as a whole file where possible: diagnostics carry the line and column of the text you send, and a fragment hides the imports and definitions the type check needs. A deployment may accept fewer bytes than the 200000 here. |
| language | any | no | The language of the code. A service that does not handle it refuses the request rather than guessing; the enum is shared across services, so it lists more than any one of them accepts. |
| options | any | no | Tuning knobs. Most of them only take effect in the mode that does the corresponding work; see each field. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"$defs": {
"Language": {
"description": "Source languages a validator can accept.",
"enum": [
"python",
"javascript",
"typescript",
"html",
"sql",
"solidity",
"other"
],
"title": "Language",
"type": "string"
},
"Mode": {
"description": "How much work the service is allowed to do.\n\n``static``\n Never executes the submitted code. Parsing, linting and security\n scanning only. This is the default and the only mode that is safe to\n expose without a container sandbox.\n``repair``\n Static mode plus deterministic auto-fixes and refactors.\n``execute``\n Repair plus running the code inside a sandbox to prove it works.",
"enum": [
"static",
"repair",
"execute"
],
"title": "Mode",
"type": "string"
},
"Options": {
"description": "Per-request tuning knobs.",
"properties": {
"timeout_s": {
"anyOf": [
{
"exclusiveMinimum": 0,
"maximum": 60,
"type": "number"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Wall-clock budget for running the code. Omitted means the service's own default (MSVC_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_S). Only execute mode runs anything; a deployment may cap this below the 60 the schema allows and refuses a larger value.",
"title": "Timeout S"
},
"max_iterations": {
"default": 3,
"description": "How many fix/verify rounds the repair loop may take. Ignored in static mode, which changes nothing.",
"maximum": 10,
"minimum": 1,
"title": "Max Iterations",
"type": "integer"
},
"transpile_to": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Target language for a transpiled copy, e.g. 'javascript'. The copy is made from the code as it ends up, so in repair and execute mode it translates the repaired source rather than the submitted one.",
"title": "Transpile To"
},
"expected_output": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Exact stdout the code must produce in execute mode. A mismatch is an 'expected-output' diagnostic and makes the response invalid, even when the program exits cleanly. Ignored in the other modes, which produce no output.",
"title": "Expected Output"
},
"examples": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "What the code is supposed to do, as doctest lines ('>>> f(2)' on one line, '4' on the next) or as plain assertions ('assert f(2) == 4'). In execute mode they are run in the sandbox: an example that does not hold is a 'python:example-mismatch' error and makes the response invalid, and repair searches for a single-token change that makes every one of them pass. This is the only way the service can tell code that runs from code that is right, so send it whenever you know what you asked for. Examples already written in the code ('>>> ' in any string) are used the same way without this option. Ignored in the other modes, which run nothing.",
"title": "Examples"
},
"optimize": {
"default": false,
"description": "Run constant folding / dead-code elimination. Off by default: the optimiser rewrites the program, and a rewrite is only returned when it provably keeps every effectful construct.",
"title": "Optimize",
"type": "boolean"
}
},
"title": "Options",
"type": "object"
}
},
"description": "A validation job submitted by an agent.",
"properties": {
"code": {
"description": "The source to check, as a whole file where possible: diagnostics carry the line and column of the text you send, and a fragment hides the imports and definitions the type check needs. A deployment may accept fewer bytes than the 200000 here.",
"maxLength": 200000,
"minLength": 1,
"title": "Code",
"type": "string"
},
"language": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/Language",
"default": "python",
"description": "The language of the code. A service that does not handle it refuses the request rather than guessing; the enum is shared across services, so it lists more than any one of them accepts."
},
"options": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/Options",
"description": "Tuning knobs. Most of them only take effect in the mode that does the corresponding work; see each field."
}
},
"required": [
"code"
],
"title": "ValidateRequest",
"type": "object"
}