I have set

export CLEARML_AGENT_SKIP_PYTHON_ENV_INSTALL=true
export CLEARML_AGENT_SKIP_PIP_VENV_INSTALL=true

in my entrypoint.sh (which runs clearml-agent daemon --queue $QUEUES --create-queue --cpu-only --foreground )

but it appears that tasks still take a long time to set up environments. I expected the whole process to be skipped and for the preinstalled python deps in the docker image (which is running this entrypoint script) to be used.

From task pickup to task "run python file" can be several minutes... which is greater than some of the tasks take themselves.