coloph-toolset

Declare Python tools once. Export their schema, organize them in catalogs, and run validated synchronous or asynchronous calls.

Version 0.6 adds authorized hierarchical discovery, first-use documentation gates, and terminal completion signals while preserving the declaration, catalog, CLI, runtime, HTTP, and direct Pydantic AI APIs. The application owns authorization, business dependencies, resource behavior, and model providers. The roadmap describes later adapters. The package remains on 0.x while its interfaces settle.

Install

uv add coloph-toolset

The package requires Python 3.11 or later and Pydantic 2.12 or later within major version 2. No Coloph installation, database, credentials, HTTP framework, or agent framework is required. Install the optional HTTP adapter with uv add "coloph-toolset[http]". Install the optional Pydantic AI adapter with uv add "coloph-toolset[pydantic-ai]".

Declare and validate

from typing import Annotated
from pydantic import Field, ValidationError
from coloph_toolset import tool, tool_for


@tool()
def shipping_quote(
    ctx,
    quantity: Annotated[int, "Number of parcels", Field(gt=0)],
    destination: Annotated[str | None, "Country code, or null for collection"],
    insured: Annotated[bool, "Include insurance"] = False,
) -> dict[str, object]:
    return {"quantity": quantity, "destination": destination, "insured": insured}


declaration = tool_for(shipping_quote)
schema = declaration.json_schema()
arguments = declaration.validate_arguments({"quantity": "2", "destination": None})
result = shipping_quote(None, **arguments)

try:
    declaration.validate_arguments({"quantity": 0, "destination": None})
except ValidationError as error:
    print(error.errors(include_url=False))

Validation never calls the function. Calling the Python function directly does not apply validation. The application owns execution and must use validated arguments at its dispatch boundary.

Run tools

from dataclasses import dataclass
from coloph_toolset import ToolContext, ToolRuntime


@dataclass
class Session:
    calls: int = 0


runtime = ToolRuntime(dependencies={"region": "eu"}, state_factory=Session)
result = runtime.invoke_sync(shipping_quote, {"quantity": 2, "destination": None})
print(result.raw)
print(result.output)

Use await runtime.invoke(...) in asynchronous code. The runtime awaits synchronous and asynchronous tools exactly once. Add a ResourceLifecycle when each call needs a transaction, client, or other resource.

Context and restricted arguments

The declaration expects a required first parameter named ctx. Its type is application-owned and its annotation is not evaluated. Context never appears in the argument schema.

@tool(model_hidden_args=("internal",))
def inspect_order(ctx, order: str, internal: bool = False):
    return ctx.lookup(order, internal=internal)


public = tool_for(inspect_order)
public.validate_arguments({"order": "demo"})
# An external "internal" argument raises ValidationError.
operator_schema = public.json_schema(include_hidden=True)

Hidden arguments require valid defaults. Only trusted application code can select include_hidden=True. Argument projection is not an authorization system.

Contracts and examples

• Argument contract and API
• Catalog and CLI contract
• Runtime contract
• Starlette HTTP adapter
• Pydantic AI adapter
• Hierarchical discovery and dispatch
• Standalone shipping-quote project
• Standalone task CLI
• Standalone inventory runtime
• Standalone authenticated HTTP tools
• Standalone deterministic Pydantic AI agent
• Standalone hierarchical order agent
• Development and release procedure
• Changes

Every milestone adds a project under examples/. CI runs all preserved examples against the current library.

Development

uv sync --locked
uv run pytest
uv run mypy
uv run python -m ruff check .
uv run python -m ruff format --check .
uv build
uv run python scripts/smoke_wheel.py

MIT licensed.