Fix Hugging Face Space blank UI: disable SSR via env, extend startup timeout.

Remove gradio from requirements (Space pins it), lazy-load agent for faster boot, and bind server to 0.0.0.0:7860.

README.md

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ sdk: gradio
 sdk_version: 5.25.2
 app_file: app.py
 pinned: false
+startup_duration_timeout: 1h
 hf_oauth: true
 # optional, default duration is 8 hours/480 minutes. Max duration is 30 days/43200 minutes.
 hf_oauth_expiration_minutes: 480

app.py

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import gradio as gr
 import pandas as pd
 import requests
 
-from agent import BasicAgent
 from files import download_task_file
 
 # (Keep Constants as is)
@@ -32,6 +31,8 @@ def run_and_submit_all( profile: gr.OAuthProfile | None):
 
     # 1. Instantiate Agent ( modify this part to create your agent)
     try:
+        from agent import BasicAgent
+
         agent = BasicAgent()
     except Exception as e:
         print(f"Error instantiating agent: {e}")
@@ -176,29 +177,20 @@ with gr.Blocks() as demo:
     )
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    print("\n" + "-"*30 + " App Starting " + "-"*30)
-    # Check for SPACE_HOST and SPACE_ID at startup for information
+    space_id_startup = os.getenv("SPACE_ID")
     space_host_startup = os.getenv("SPACE_HOST")
-    space_id_startup = os.getenv("SPACE_ID") # Get SPACE_ID at startup
 
+    print("\n" + "-" * 30 + " App Starting " + "-" * 30)
     if space_host_startup:
-        print(f"✅ SPACE_HOST found: {space_host_startup}")
-        print(f"   Runtime URL should be: https://{space_host_startup}")
-    else:
-        print("ℹ️  SPACE_HOST environment variable not found (running locally?).")
-
-    if space_id_startup: # Print repo URLs if SPACE_ID is found
-        print(f"✅ SPACE_ID found: {space_id_startup}")
-        print(f"   Repo URL: https://huggingface.co/spaces/{space_id_startup}")
-        print(f"   Repo Tree URL: https://huggingface.co/spaces/{space_id_startup}/tree/main")
-    else:
-        print("ℹ️  SPACE_ID environment variable not found (running locally?). Repo URL cannot be determined.")
-
-    print("-"*(60 + len(" App Starting ")) + "\n")
-
-    print("Launching Gradio Interface for Basic Agent Evaluation...")
-    on_space = bool(space_id_startup)
-    launch_kwargs = {"debug": not on_space, "share": False}
-    if on_space:
-        launch_kwargs["ssr_mode"] = False
-    demo.launch(**launch_kwargs)
+        print(f"SPACE_HOST found: {space_host_startup}")
+        print(f"Runtime URL: https://{space_host_startup}")
+    if space_id_startup:
+        print(f"SPACE_ID found: {space_id_startup}")
+    print("-" * 60 + "\n")
+
+    demo.launch(
+        server_name="0.0.0.0",
+        server_port=7860,
+        debug=not bool(space_id_startup),
+        share=False,
+    )

requirements.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-gradio[oauth]
 requests
 pandas
 smolagents