plugins.spec.runtime_scratch

plugins.spec.runtime_scratch()

One scratch directory for this process, removed when it exits.

The Tesseract runtime writes a run_<uuid>/logs/ directory per endpoint call and never cleans it up. In-process that lands in an unmanaged mkdtemp; served, it lands in the server’s working directory — which is why an unconfigured tesseract-runtime serve started from a checkout fills it with run_*. This function is the one answer to both: :meth:PluginSpec.open passes it to Tesseract.from_tesseract_api as output_path, and a server should be started with TESSERACT_OUTPUT_PATH (:data:SERVED_OUTPUT_ENV) set to it or to any other path outside the repository.

Created on first use and registered for removal with :mod:atexit, so a long optimization’s thousands of run directories do not outlive the process that made them.

Returns

Name	Type	Description
	Path	The per-process scratch directory.