### Overview
Major restructuring from monolithic `arcade-ai` package to modular
library architecture with standardized uv-based dependency management.
### New Package Structure
- **`arcade-tdk`** - Lightweight toolkit development kit (core
decorators, auth)
- **`arcade-core`** - Core execution engine and catalog functionality
- **`arcade-serve`** - FastAPI/MCP server components
- **`arcade-ai`** - Meta package that includes CLI functionality.
Optionally include evals via the `evals` extra. Optionally include all
packages via the `all` extra.
### Key Benefits
- **Lighter Dependencies**: Toolkits now depend only on `arcade-tdk` (~2
deps) vs full `arcade-ai` (~30+ deps)
- **Faster Builds**: uv provides 10-100x faster dependency resolution
and installation
- **Better Modularity**: Clear separation of concerns, consumers import
only what they need
- **Standard Tooling**: Eliminates custom poetry scripts, uses standard
Python packaging
### Migration Impact
- All 20 toolkits converted from poetry → uv with `arcade-tdk`
dependencies plus `arcade-ai[evals]` and `arcade-serve` dev
dependencies. When developing locally, devs should install toolkits via
`make install-local`.
- Modern Python 3.10+ type hints throughout
- Standardized build system with hatchling backend
- Enhanced Makefile with robust toolkit management commands
- Removed `arcade dev` CLI command
- Reduce the number of files created by `arcade new` and add an option
to not generate a tests and evals folder.
This foundation enables faster development cycles and cleaner dependency
chains for the growing toolkit ecosystem.
### Todo After this PR is merged
- [ ] Post-merge workflow(s) (release & publish containers, etc)
- [ ] Release order plan. @EricGustin suggests releasing in the
following order:
1. `arcade-core` version 0.1.0
2. `arcade-serve` version 0.1.0 and `arcade-tdk` version 0.1.0
3. `arcade-ai` version 2.0.0
4. Patch release for all toolkits (all changes in toolkits are internal
refactors)
- [ ] [Update docs](https://github.com/ArcadeAI/docs/pull/318)
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Co-authored-by: Eric Gustin <eric@arcade.dev>
Co-authored-by: Eric Gustin <34000337+EricGustin@users.noreply.github.com>
Included toolkits as part of the linting process.
Cleaned up any tools that needed to be updated because of this.
This portion of the PR description was added via arcade chat!
On the last few PRs I have noticed two problems:
1. `ruff format` fails even though it seems OK on our local machines
(sometimes, not always)
2. Nate's and Sam's machines kept flip-flopping a specific piece of
formatting back and forth, indicating a subtle difference of config
hiding somewhere
3. This was reproducible by running `ruff format` in the terminal,
followed by `make check`. The former would edit files, and then `make
check` would edit them back!
This PR addresses both issues, and further standardizes our editor &
linter configs to be super stable.
Specifically:
1. The main fix for the above, the pre-commit hook was pinned to a super
old version of ruff.
This resulted in subtle differences in behavior between our machines,
and on CI.
2. Moved ruff settings from `pyproject.toml` to `.ruff.toml`
pyproject files in subdirectories (e.g. `toolkits/**`) were overriding
the main pyproject file and erasing the custom ruff config we set at the
root. This meant that our ruff config was applied to `arcade` but not to
any of the other packages.
By moving the config to `.ruff.toml` at the root, all projects will
inherit the same ruff linting & formatting config.
4. Un-ignored the `.vscode/` directory so that we can share
vscode/cursor workspace settings.
This is valuable for standardizing settings like the default formatter
(ruff) and default test framework (pytest).
However, it's important that going forward we _only_ commit things here
that should apply across all of our machines.
5. To avoid any conflict between prettier and ruff, prettier now
explicitly ignores *.py files
6. Finally, `ruff format` and `make check` agree. A number of files are
newly auto-formatted.
