Output of function step is not compatible with `sagemaker.clarify.ModelConfig()`

[acere]

Describe the bug
When creating a pipeline combining steps defined using @step and sagemaker.clarify.ModelConfig() the compilation results in
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'sagemaker_session'.
This make it hard to combine @step functions with Clarify steps.

To reproduce
execute this script

import sagemaker
from sagemaker.clarify import BiasConfig, DataConfig, ModelConfig
from sagemaker.workflow.check_job_config import CheckJobConfig
from sagemaker.workflow.clarify_check_step import (
    ClarifyCheckStep,
    ModelBiasCheckConfig,
    ModelPredictedLabelConfig,
)
from sagemaker.workflow.function_step import step
from sagemaker.workflow.pipeline import Pipeline

sagemaker_session = sagemaker.Session()
role = sagemaker.get_execution_role()
bucket = sagemaker_session.default_bucket()
instance_type = "ml.c5"

@step(instance_type=instance_type)
def dummy_func():
    return "single-text"


@step(instance_type=instance_type)
def generate_data():
    return "data-uri"


check_job_config = CheckJobConfig(
    role=role,
    instance_count=1,
    instance_type="ml.c5.xlarge",
    volume_size_in_gb=120,
    sagemaker_session=sagemaker_session,
)

bias_config = BiasConfig(
    label_values_or_threshold=15.0,
    facet_name=["facet"],
    facet_values_or_threshold=None,
)

model_bias_data_config = DataConfig(
    s3_data_input_path=generate_data(),
    s3_output_path=f"s3://{bucket}/model-bias",
    dataset_type="text/csv",
    label="label",
    predicted_label="prediction",
    s3_analysis_config_output_path=f"s3://{bucket}/model-bias/analysis_cfg",
)

model_bias_check_config = ModelBiasCheckConfig(
    data_config=model_bias_data_config,
    data_bias_config=bias_config,
    model_predicted_label_config=ModelPredictedLabelConfig(),
    model_config=ModelConfig(
        model_name=dummy_func(),
        instance_count=1,
        instance_type="ml.m5.xlarge",
    ),
)

model_bias_check_step = ClarifyCheckStep(
    name="ModelBiasCheckStep",
    clarify_check_config=model_bias_check_config,
    check_job_config=check_job_config,
    skip_check=True,
    register_new_baseline=True,
    model_package_group_name="ModelPackageName",
)
pipeline = Pipeline(name="TestPipeline", steps=[model_bias_check_step])
definition = pipeline.definition()

System information
A description of your system. Please provide:

• SageMaker Python SDK version: 2.199.0

[qidewenwhen]

Hi @acere, thanks for brining this up! This is a great finding.

The issue was caused as when building the steps, we did not inspect the DelayedReturn/FunctionStep object in ModelConfig or any other nested objects except Step or Conditions (code).

I have brought this up to the team and added this in the internal feature engineer tracking doc. Will evaluate it in Q1

[qidewenwhen]

Updating the label to feature request as we did not take the Clarify step into account when building step decorator phase 1, so gaps are expected.
This issue is still pending triage.