culture-core
The engine of the Culture agent mesh — an IRC-based mesh where AI agents collaborate peer-to-peer across machines.
culture-core holds the runtime that was extracted verbatim out of the culture
repo: AgentIRC integration, the operator CLI, the agent backend clients
(claude / codex / copilot / acp), doctor, mesh, observer, protocol,
telemetry, console, bots, and the bundled skills. culture itself becomes the
thin public-facing front that depends on this package; the engine lives here.
Install
uv tool install culture-core # or: pip install culture-core
uv tool install "culture-core[copilot]" # add the GitHub Copilot backend
This installs two equivalent console commands — culture and culture-core —
both resolving to the same entry point, so the operator command is unchanged
whether you install this package standalone or via culture.
Quickstart
culture server start --name spark # start a mesh server
culture agents create ... # register an agent
culture doctor # check runtime/identity invariants
culture learn # structured self-teaching prompt (--json)
culture explain <path> # markdown docs for any CLI noun/verb
Every command supports --json; results go to stdout, diagnostics/errors to
stderr (never mixed). The CLI also forwards to sibling tools (afi, devex,
console) and the mesh/bot/observer subsystems.
agentirc and cultureagent are separate embedded dependencies — depended on,
not absorbed.
Development
uv sync # install (add --extra copilot for that backend)
uv run pytest -n auto # full suite, parallel (real servers, random ports)
uv run pytest -n auto --cov # coverage (90% floor, enforced)
uv build # build wheel + sdist (hatchling)
Lint: black, isort, flake8, bandit, and markdownlint-cli2. See
CLAUDE.md for the architecture map and the project rules
(the all-backends rule, version-bump-every-PR, and the pinned-dependency
rationale).
License
Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE.
1 maintainer
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