Hi @<1529271085315395584:profile|AmusedCat74> , the agent technically has two modes, daemon and execute (clearml-agent daemon/clearml-agent execute).

When in daemon mode the agent will start the docker container for example, install the agent inside and the agent inside will run in execute mode

Thanks. I am trying to completely minimise the start up time. Given I am using a docker image which has clearml-agent and pip installed, is there a way I can skip the installation of this when a task starts up using the daemon?