### 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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## 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.
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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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# 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.
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`
**New Tools Added**
- `docs.py`: Provides tools for Google Docs functionalities, including
creating documents and inserting text.
- `drive.py`: Introduces tools for Google Drive operations, such as
listing documents.
This PR also focuses on simplifying the error handling logic in the Google
toolkit, specifically within the Calendar and Gmail tools. The primary
change involves removing redundant `try-except` blocks that were
catching `HttpError` and general exceptions, and re-raising them as
`ToolExecutionError`. By removing these blocks, we allow exceptions to
propagate naturally, and be handled by the ``ToolExecutor``
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