🏗️ Restructure: Multi-Package Architecture + uv Migration (#412 )

### Overview
Major restructuring from monolithic `arcade-ai` package to modular
library architecture with standardized uv-based dependency management.

![arcade-ai Monorepo
(2)](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/25f102b0-bb87-4a04-9701-d227d05664b1)

### 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>

2025-06-11 16:48:17 -07:00

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Arcade AI Platform

Arcade is a developer platform that lets you build, deploy, and manage tools for AI agents.

This repository contains the core Arcade libraries, organized as separate packages for maximum flexibility and modularity:

arcade-core - Core platform functionality and schemas
arcade-tdk - Tool Development Kit with the @tool decorator
arcade-serve - Serving infrastructure for workers and MCP servers
arcade-evals - Evaluation framework for testing tool performance
arcade-cli - Command-line interface for the Arcade platform

To learn more about Arcade.dev, check out our documentation.

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Quick Start

Installation

For development, install all packages with dependencies using uv workspace:

# Install all packages and dev dependencies
uv sync --extra all --dev

# Or use the Makefile (includes pre-commit hooks)
make install

For production use, install individual packages as needed:

pip install arcade-ai          # CLI
pip install 'arcade-ai[evals]' # CLI + Evaluation framework
pip install 'arcade-ai[all]'   # CLI + Serving infra + eval framework + TDK
pip install arcade_serve       # Serving infrastructure
pip install arcade-tdk         # Tool Development Kit

Development

Use the Makefile for standard tasks:

# Run tests
make test

# Run linting and type checking
make check

# Build all packages
make build

# See all available commands
make help

Client Libraries

ArcadeAI/arcade-py: The Python client for interacting with Arcade.
ArcadeAI/arcade-js: The JavaScript client for interacting with Arcade.
ArcadeAI/arcade-go: The Go client for interacting with Arcade.

Support and Community

Discord: Join our Discord community for real-time support and discussions.
GitHub: Contribute or report issues on the Arcade GitHub repository.
Documentation: Find in-depth guides and API references at Arcade Documentation.

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