build(deps): bump inspect-ai from 0.3.277 to 0.3.278

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Bumps inspect-ai from 0.3.277 to 0.3.278.

Release notes

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0.3.278

• Tasks and samples can carry a description of what they ask of the agent, recorded in the eval log and in evals_df() and samples_df().
• Tool review now also reviews handoff() calls, as approval does.
• Compaction: Fixed compaction triggering early and reporting inflated token counts on OpenAI reasoning models, which counted replayed reasoning twice.
• Compaction: Removed ModelAPI.apply_redacted_reasoning_tokens_to_input() and stopped adding redacted_reasoning_tokens to assistant message metadata.
• Compaction: Overflow recovery in react() no longer forces compaction again when the retry after a forced compaction also overflows, which could resend the same request indefinitely.
• Grok: Fixed batch mode failing after a credential refresh (e.g. on an expired API key), including batches already in progress.
• Models: Setting text on a ChatMessage with a list of content now replaces the existing text in place instead of moving it after images and other media; a message with no text still gets the new text appended. prompt_template(), chain_of_thought() and multiple_choice() set text, so multimodal evals that put text before media now send the prompt in the order they wrote it, and their baselines may shift on rerun. (#4770)
• Solver: TaskState.input_text no longer raises when the last user message has no text; image-only and other non-text messages return placeholders such as [image], and an empty message returns "".
• Bugfix: Hugging Face task loading reads the Hub-delivered eval.yaml in UTF-8 rather than the locale default, so task configs with non-ASCII characters no longer crash or silently corrupt on Windows with a non-UTF-8 code page (or on a C-locale system).
• Anthropic: Support for Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5): reasoning_effort="none" disables thinking, computer use uses the computer toolset on the Claude API and Vertex, and fallback_models is ignored with a warning.
• Anthropic: With reasoning_effort on Claude 4.6+, forced tool choice (except on Fable/Mythos 5.1, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5), tool_choice="none" and parallel_tool_calls=False are now honored; forced turns skip thinking.
• Bugfix: inspect log convert --stream (and convert_eval_logs(stream=...)) no longer drops the error message and traceback from logs of failed evals.
• Fixed StoreModel skipping field validation when constructed with an empty instance string.
• Fixed the human reviewer filling in tool arguments inside tool output that contains {{{...}}} (three or more braces).
• Tools: Tools with *args or **kwargs no longer advertise required args/kwargs parameters to models; declare model-chosen arguments with an explicit ToolParams schema instead.
• Control Channel: inspect ctl model throughput now reports each model's input, output and cache read/write tokens per minute, in the table and in --json output; the table's output column is now per minute instead of per second.
• Bugfix: An approver's modify decision with no modified call now rejects the tool call instead of running the original, and the human approver no longer offers Modify.
• Deep Agent: deepagent(background=True) run from a scorer can now dispatch background subagents instead of failing.
• Anthropic: Forced web searches now work on Claude 4.6+, and web_search() now honors allowed_callers and type in its anthropic options.
• Agent Bridge: Web search from a bridged Anthropic client, such as Claude Code's WebSearch, now uses the tool version the client declared unless the eval sets one.
• Agent Bridge: A provider error delivered during a streamed response now reaches the bridged agent as an error instead of a malformed HTTP 200 success.
• Agent Bridge: A bridged Anthropic client now sees conflict, timeout, and billing errors as such instead of as generic server errors.
• Agent Bridge: Sandboxed agents now receive exhausted provider errors with their original status and error details.
• Dependencies: Require nest_asyncio2 >= 1.7.4, fixing cancel scope errors (e.g. from Mistral streaming) after Inspect is called synchronously from a notebook or another running event loop.

Changelog

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0.3.278 (09 October 2026)

• Tasks and samples can carry a description of what they ask of the agent, recorded in the eval log and in evals_df() and samples_df().
• Tool review now also reviews handoff() calls, as approval does.
• Compaction: Fixed compaction triggering early and reporting inflated token counts on OpenAI reasoning models, which counted replayed reasoning twice.
• Compaction: Removed ModelAPI.apply_redacted_reasoning_tokens_to_input() and stopped adding redacted_reasoning_tokens to assistant message metadata.
• Compaction: Overflow recovery in react() no longer forces compaction again when the retry after a forced compaction also overflows, which could resend the same request indefinitely.
• Grok: Fixed batch mode failing after a credential refresh (e.g. on an expired API key), including batches already in progress.
• Models: Setting text on a ChatMessage with a list of content now replaces the existing text in place instead of moving it after images and other media; a message with no text still gets the new text appended. prompt_template(), chain_of_thought() and multiple_choice() set text, so multimodal evals that put text before media now send the prompt in the order they wrote it, and their baselines may shift on rerun. (#4770)
• Solver: TaskState.input_text no longer raises when the last user message has no text; image-only and other non-text messages return placeholders such as [image], and an empty message returns "".
• Bugfix: Hugging Face task loading reads the Hub-delivered eval.yaml in UTF-8 rather than the locale default, so task configs with non-ASCII characters no longer crash or silently corrupt on Windows with a non-UTF-8 code page (or on a C-locale system).
• Anthropic: Support for Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5): reasoning_effort="none" disables thinking, computer use uses the computer toolset on the Claude API and Vertex, and fallback_models is ignored with a warning.
• Anthropic: With reasoning_effort on Claude 4.6+, forced tool choice (except on Fable/Mythos 5.1, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5), tool_choice="none" and parallel_tool_calls=False are now honored; forced turns skip thinking.
• Bugfix: inspect log convert --stream (and convert_eval_logs(stream=...)) no longer drops the error message and traceback from logs of failed evals.
• Fixed StoreModel skipping field validation when constructed with an empty instance string.
• Fixed the human reviewer filling in tool arguments inside tool output that contains {{{...}}} (three or more braces).
• Tools: Tools with *args or **kwargs no longer advertise required args/kwargs parameters to models; declare model-chosen arguments with an explicit ToolParams schema instead.
• Control Channel: inspect ctl model throughput now reports each model's input, output and cache read/write tokens per minute, in the table and in --json output; the table's output column is now per minute instead of per second.
• Bugfix: An approver's modify decision with no modified call now rejects the tool call instead of running the original, and the human approver no longer offers Modify.
• Deep Agent: deepagent(background=True) run from a scorer can now dispatch background subagents instead of failing.
• Anthropic: Forced web searches now work on Claude 4.6+, and web_search() now honors allowed_callers and type in its anthropic options.
• Agent Bridge: Web search from a bridged Anthropic client, such as Claude Code's WebSearch, now uses the tool version the client declared unless the eval sets one.
• Agent Bridge: A provider error delivered during a streamed response now reaches the bridged agent as an error instead of a malformed HTTP 200 success.
• Agent Bridge: A bridged Anthropic client now sees conflict, timeout, and billing errors as such instead of as generic server errors.
• Agent Bridge: Sandboxed agents now receive exhausted provider errors with their original status and error details.
• Dependencies: Require nest_asyncio2 >= 1.7.4, fixing cancel scope errors (e.g. from Mistral streaming) after Inspect is called synchronously from a notebook or another running event loop.

Commits

• b93e704 Release 0.3.278: date the CHANGELOG section (#5800)
• bd96694 Publish to PyPI automatically when a GitHub Release is published (#5785)
• 7de3f8f test: skip sentinel human tests cleanly when inspect_sentinel is absent (#5794)
• ba238b0 Let tasks and samples carry a description, recorded in the log and dataframes...
• 82c7cf8 Keep Task, eval and eval_set positional arguments in place by moving sentinel...
• 2c00282 Add experimental sentinel monitors and protocols for tool calls (#5514)
• 26b16e8 Fix StoreModel empty-instance validation and reviewer brace escaping (#5760)
• 36b8e87 Fix forced tool choice being ignored on Claude when reasoning_effort is set (...
• 0eeb778 Return early when a StoreModel field has no annotation (#5779)
• 7823135 Require nest_asyncio2 1.7.4 to fix cancel scope errors from abandoned streams...
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