docs: simplify example agent optimization walkthrough

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Summary

Replace the long τ-Bench example with a smaller smoke-agent walkthrough of the complete Analyst and Experimentalist loop. Make the Docker Sandboxes instructions work with local and organization-managed network policies.

Changes

• Use the deterministic smoke agent and its checked-in evaluation tasks.
• Require Docker Sandboxes authentication and allow the proxy-translated localhost:8080 destination only for this sandbox.
• Copy Experimentalist artifacts to the documented host path before cleanup.

Type of Change

• Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
• Code change with documentation updates
• Documentation only
• Contributor tooling or automation
• CI, build, or test infrastructure

Quality Gates

• Tests added or updated for changed behavior
• Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
• Tests not applicable — justification: This changes only a documentation walkthrough.
• Documentation updated for user-visible behavior
• Documentation not applicable — justification:

Verification

• Pull request title follows the repository's Conventional Commit format
• Every commit includes an appropriate Signed-off-by: trailer
• uv run pre-commit run -a passes, or any blocked checks are identified below
• Targeted tests pass, or tests are marked not applicable above
• No secrets, API keys, or credentials are included

Targeted validation:

• make docs-check — passed
• make docs-broken-links — passed
• flox -q activate -- uv run --frozen pre-commit run --files docs/get-started/example-agent.mdx — passed
• Full pre-commit run -a — all applicable checks passed after toolchain bootstrap, but the repository-wide Helm docs and copyright hooks repeatedly rewrote the unchanged k8s/helm/README.md; that unrelated generated change is not included
• Runtime smoke test — sandbox creation, dependency installation, and image build passed; NVIDIA's organization-managed sandbox policy blocked the translated localhost:8080 destination and cannot be overridden by a local rule

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Changes

Smoke-agent optimization workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Platform setup and trace recording docs/get-started/example-agent.mdx	The guide replaces the τ-Bench workflow with prerequisites, NeMo Platform setup, Docker Sandbox configuration, smoke-agent environment setup, and five failing traces.
Analyst Insight workflow docs/get-started/example-agent.mdx	The guide documents trace analysis, workspace selection, Insight ID capture, and Insight viewing.
Experimentalist execution and cleanup docs/get-started/example-agent.mdx	The guide documents sandboxed experimentation, artifact copying, agent review, sandbox removal, and agent onboarding.

Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA-NeMo/nemo-platform#1147: Shares the Analyst/Experimentalist Insight workflow and Insight artifacts.

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In `@docs/get-started/example-agent.mdx`:
- Around line 119-125: After the NEMO_DEFAULT_MODEL and NEMO_FAST_MODEL export
in the model-loading block, validate that the required model value is non-empty
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