OK, so i got into this mess with the argparse because i was turning OFF the automatic detection of command line arguments

I was turning it off because i was calling, inside my script, the argparser from torch.distributed.run ( best way i found to run a torchrun command in the clearml-agent)

Because of torch.distributed.run , clearml was automatically tracking inexisting command line arguments, which lead to an error on the remote agent.

In case this happens to anyone else, my solution was the following:

valid_args = { action.dest:True for action in get_arg_parser()._actions }
task = Task.init(
            project_name=args.project_name,
            task_name=args.task_name,
            auto_connect_arg_parser={**valid_args, "*": False} # only consider OUR args (not torch.distributed.run's)
        )