add clarification on background judges

Author: jsonbailey

examples/chat_judge_example.py

@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ async def async_main():
         chat_response = await chat.invoke(user_input)
         print("Chat Response:", chat_response.message.content)
 
+        # Judge evaluations run asynchronously. Await them (e.g. with asyncio.gather) so they
+        # complete before the process or request ends—even if you don't need to log or use
+        # the results. Below we await and then log the results for demonstration.
+
         # Log judge evaluation results with full detail
         if chat_response.evaluations is not None and len(chat_response.evaluations) > 0:
             # Note: Judge evaluations run asynchronously and do not block your application.

examples/chat_observability_example.py

@@ -90,10 +90,18 @@ async def async_main():
 
         user_input_2 = "Give me a specific use case example."
         print("\nUser Input:", user_input_2)
-        
+
         response_2 = await chat.invoke(user_input_2)
         print("Chat Response:", response_2.message.content)
 
+        # Judge evaluations run asynchronously. Await them (e.g. with asyncio.gather) so they
+        # complete before the process or request ends—even if you don't need to log or use
+        # the results.
+        if response_1.evaluations:
+            await asyncio.gather(*response_1.evaluations)
+        if response_2.evaluations:
+            await asyncio.gather(*response_2.evaluations)
+
         print("\nSuccess.")
 
     except Exception as err:

examples/langgraph_agent_example.py

@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def main():
     #       enabled=True,
     #       instructions='You are a helpful assistant.',
     #   )
-    #   agent_config = aiclient.agent_config(LDAIAgentConfig(key=agent_config_key, default=default), context)
+    #   agent_config = aiclient.agent_config(agent_config_key, context, default=default)
     agent_config = aiclient.agent_config(
         LDAIAgentConfig(
             key=agent_config_key,

pyproject.toml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ direct-judge-example = 'examples.direct_judge_example:main'
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = "^3.10"
-launchdarkly-server-sdk-ai = "^0.14.0"
+launchdarkly-server-sdk-ai = "^0.16.0"
 launchdarkly-server-sdk-ai-langchain = "^0.3.0"
 launchdarkly-server-sdk-ai-openai = "^0.1.0"
 launchdarkly-observability = { version = ">=0.1.0", optional = true }