Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Code Interpreter in OCI Generative AI

The Code Interpreter tool in OCI Generative AI runs Python code in an isolated execution environment for analysis and computation. The environment includes 420+ preinstalled libraries and has no external network access, supporting safer execution for data processing and reasoning workflows.

For API, see Containers API.

Container Memory Limits

A total memory pool of 64 GB per tenancy is supported, allowing multiple containers with different memory sizes to match workload needs (for example, sixty-four 1GB containers, sixteen 4GB containers, or a single 64GB container).

  • Supported sizes: 1GB, 4GB, 16GB, and 64GB
  • Expansion: If a higher total capacity is required, submit a Service Request to increase the limit.

Container Expiry

  • A container expires if it's not used for 20 minutes.
  • An expired container can't be reactivated. Create a new container and upload files again. Any in-memory state (such as Python objects) from the expired container is lost.

Example

response = client.responses.create(
    model="openai.gpt-oss-120b",
    tools=[
        {
            "type": "code_interpreter",
            "container": {"type": "auto", "memory_limit": "4g"}
        }
    ],
    instructions="write and run code using the Python tool to answer the question",
    input="I need to solve the equation 3x + 11 = 14. Can you help me?",
)

print(response.output_text)

The Python tool in this example is the code interpreter.