### 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>
## Google File Picker
The Google Picker lets users select or upload Google Drive files. Users
can grant permission to your apps to access their Drive data, providing
a secure and authorized way to interact with their files.
The `generate_google_file_picker_url` returns a URL to a Google File
Picker for the user.
This tool will be useful in scenarios akin to RAG, where someone wants
to ask questions or request the production of a summary, for instance,
about a bunch of documents related to a particular topic. Currently, to
fulfill such requests, the LLM needs to first `list_documents`, then
`get_document_by_id` for each document.
We also implement a utility functions to return documents in Markdown
and HTML, since the Drive API JSON is verbose and would waste too many
tokens unnecessarily.
Limitations: the Markdown/HTML utilities do not handle table of contents
(which I think aren't really useful here), headers, footers, or
footnotes.
---
This PR deprecates `list_documents` and implements `search_documents`,
apart from `search_and_retrieve_documents`). This configuration makes it
easier for LLMs to understand when to call each tool.
Both tools had their interfaces refactored to remove Google API-specific
arguments that were confusing LLMs sometimes, such as "corpora" and
"support_all_drives". It now accepts arguments that better relate to
expected user requests.
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Co-authored-by: Eric Gustin <eric@arcade.dev>
Improved gmail toolkit. Added support for threading in draft replies,
multipart email parsing, and label management. Fixed the DateRange
parameter issue in list_emails_by_headers. Added logging and removed
print statements. Created custom exceptions for each specific google
toolkit.
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Summary of changes by @byrro:
- Fixed minor bug related to the `date_range` argument of
`list_emails_by_header`
- A few utility functions (`build_email_message`,
`build_reply_recipients`, `build_reply_body`) to centralize logic and
remove repeated code from email-sending tools
- New `reply_to_email` tool (apart from `write_draft_reply_email`,
implemented by Alex) to keep the toolkit consistent
- Evals and unit tests
- Handling of reply-to (only sender) and reply-to-all recipients
- Removed some unnecessary debug messages, which Alex had added to
replace print statements
- Removed HTML handling implemented by Alex in `write_draft_reply_email`
> I think we should either support HTML across all applicable tools or
not at all; I decided to remove it and leave this feature for a future
PR.
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Co-authored-by: Renato Byrro <rmbyrro@gmail.com>
# PR Description
* Adds/updates the following files to all toolkits:
- `.pre-commit-config.yaml`
- `.ruff.toml`
- `LICENSE`
- `Makefile`
- `pyproject.toml`
* Lint all toolkits such that they pass `make check` and `make test` (a
total doozy). This includes adding some unit tests and evals.
* Github workflow for testing toolkits before merge into main (courtesy
of @sdreyer)
* Added a QOL improvement for tool developers for when they need to get
the context's auth token.
* Minor updates to `arcade new` template.
# PR Description
This PR renames `ExpectedToolCall` to `NamedExpectedToolCall` and then
creates a new dataclass called `ExpectedToolCall`. `ExpectedToolCall`
can be passed to the `EvalSuite.add_case` and `EvalSuite.extend_case`
methods.
1. Enhance `EvalSuite.add_case` and `EvalSuite.extend_case` by accepting
a list of `ExpectedToolCall` as their `expected_tool_calls` input
parameter. This helps create a scaffolding for developers. Previously,
the expected type was `list[tuple[Callable, dict[str, Any]]]`, which is
still valid for backward compatibility.
```python
# Before (still valid for backward compatibility)
expected_tool_calls=[
(
adjust_playback_position,
{
"absolute_position_ms": 10000,
},
)
]
# After
expected_tool_calls=[
ExpectedToolCall(
func=adjust_playback_position,
args={"absolute_position_ms": 10000},
)
]
```
2. Removed any references to arcade.core in toolkits directory.
3. Some linting for import organization.
# PR Description
1. This PR adds three new tools:
- GetThread (by ID)
- ListThreads
- SearchThreads
2. This PR updates the return type for various Gmail tools from str to
dict.
3. This PR adds evals and tests for the added tools
This PR ensures that `arcade.core` does not show up anywhere in "user
space". This is crucial for helping developers understand what objects
are safe to use, and helps maintain a good developer experience.
Specific changes:
- `ToolAuthorizationContext` and `ToolContext` are now visible via
`arcade.sdk`
- `ToolCatalog` is now visible via `arcade.sdk`
- `Toolkit` is now visible via `arcade.sdk`
- `config` is now visible via `arcade.sdk.config`
This PR adds four new tools to the Google ToolKit
* `create_event`
* `list_events`
* `update_event`
* `delete_event`
I also improved an error log when tools are being registered by the
actor.
This PR also sneaks in an eval for gmail
Here is a sample conversation that shows the tools and their
capabilities and limitiations:
