diff --git a/sandbox.py b/sandbox.py
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index c5c8ae38..00000000
--- a/sandbox.py
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@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# flake8: noqa
-import logging
-
-from primaite import _PRIMAITE_CONFIG, PRIMAITE_PATHS
-from primaite.game.session import PrimaiteSession
-
-_PRIMAITE_CONFIG["log_level"] = logging.DEBUG
-print(PRIMAITE_PATHS.app_log_dir_path)
-
-import yaml
-
-from primaite.game.agent.interface import AbstractAgent
-from primaite.game.session import PrimaiteSession
-from primaite.simulator.network.networks import arcd_uc2_network
-from primaite.simulator.sim_container import Simulation
-
-with open("example_config.yaml", "r") as file:
-    cfg = yaml.safe_load(file)
-sess = PrimaiteSession.from_config(cfg)
-
-sess.start_session()
diff --git a/src/primaite/notebooks/.gitkeep b/src/primaite/notebooks/.gitkeep
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index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/src/primaite/notebooks/scratch.ipynb b/src/primaite/notebooks/scratch.ipynb
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index 4e873460..00000000
--- a/src/primaite/notebooks/scratch.ipynb
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@@ -1,107 +0,0 @@
-{
- "cells": [
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "from primaite.simulator.network.networks import arcd_uc2_network\n",
-    "%load_ext autoreload\n",
-    "%autoreload 2"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "net = arcd_uc2_network()"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "markdown",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "source": [
-    "### set up some services to test if actions are working"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "db_serv = net.get_node_by_hostname('database_server')"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "from primaite.simulator.system.services.database_service import DatabaseService"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "db_svc = DatabaseService(file_system=db_serv.file_system)"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "db_serv.install_service(db_svc)"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "db_serv.describe_state()"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": [
-    "\n"
-   ]
-  }
- ],
- "metadata": {
-  "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": "venv",
-   "language": "python",
-   "name": "python3"
-  },
-  "language_info": {
-   "codemirror_mode": {
-    "name": "ipython",
-    "version": 3
-   },
-   "file_extension": ".py",
-   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
-   "name": "python",
-   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
-   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.10.12"
-  },
-  "orig_nbformat": 4
- },
- "nbformat": 4,
- "nbformat_minor": 2
-}