# Configs, tags, and notes

Give each run enough identity — config, tags, and notes — to explain what
changed without rereading the code.

## Set config

Pass config at run creation:

```python
import instantml as im

run = im.init(
    project="mnist",
    name="cnn-seed-7",
    config={
        "seed": 7,
        "model": "small-cnn",
        "optimizer": {"name": "adam", "lr": 3e-4},
        "batch_size": 128,
    },
)
```

Add or update config later:

```python
run.log_config({"schedule": {"warmup_steps": 500}})
```

Use config for values that should appear in Run Detail and Compare.

## Tag runs

Use `set_tags(...)` for the tags you want the Runs list, search, and Compare
views to treat as run identity:

```python
run.set_tags(["baseline", "ready-for-compare"])
```

Use `add_tags(...)` when you want to append tag-style history:

```python
run.add_tags(["manual-review"])
```

## Write notes

Notes are searchable free text:

```python
run.set_notes("New tokenizer improved eval accuracy but increased train loss.")
```

Good notes explain what a future reviewer would otherwise have to reconstruct
from memory.

## Find them in the UI

| SDK input | Dashboard surface |
| --- | --- |
| `config` | Run Detail, Compare config rows, search/filter context |
| `tags` | Run rows, run selector chips, Run Detail, Compare, run search |
| `notes` | Runs list, Run Detail, Compare, run search |

## Put it together

```python
run = im.init(
    project="finetune",
    name="llama8b-lora-seed-12",
    config={
        "seed": 12,
        "base_model": "llama-8b",
        "adapter": "lora",
        "dataset": "support-tickets-v3",
    },
    tags=["lora", "support", "baseline"],
    notes="Baseline before adding retrieval examples.",
)
```

## Next steps

- [SDK logging](/docs/sdk/logging.md) — create runs and log metrics
- [Metrics and steps](/docs/sdk/metrics-steps.md) — metric naming and step semantics
- [Query runs and metrics](/docs/sdk/querying-data.md) — search by tag, config, and notes
- [Compare runs in the dashboard](/docs/dashboard/compare-runs.md)

## Agent navigation

- [Docs index](/llms.txt)
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### API

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**Architecture**

- [System Overview](/docs/architecture/system-overview.md)
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