Hi TenseOstrich47 ,
ClearML Agent is meant to be installed on the remote machine.
The experiment is usually initialized and defined by the experiment code, running locally on your machine - once you run this experiment (call it your "template", and you don't have to run it through, just let it start running and do an iteration or two 🙂 ), it appears in the WebApp, where you can clone it (which creates a new draft experiment, identical to the template experiment), and enqueue the new clone experiment in a queue . ClearML Agent should run on a remote machine and listen on this queue (and possibly other queues as well). Once the experiment is queued, ClearML Agent will take it from the queue, initialize a suitable running environment for this experiment on the remote machine and execute it.
This is the process in general (without all kinds of small details and various options 🙂 )
Does that answer your question?