ffwf-tau

The guessable name for Tau, a programmable coding-agent harness with an optional TUI.

pip install ffwf-tau
tau

This distribution contains no code. It depends on the other Tau distributions at the same version, with the extras that make the program complete on its own, so the two commands above install tau and start it.

Why it exists

Tau publishes four distributions, and none of them is called ffwf-tau:

pip install ffwf-tau used to fail with could not find a version that satisfies the requirement, which reads as "wrong Python" or "wrong index" and is neither. It also matches the name of a command Tau already installs: the ffwf-tau executable is the prefixed spelling of tau, for scripts that need a name PyPI guarantees. One name now means one thing in both places.

Note the ffwf- prefix throughout. tau, tau-llm, and tau-ai on PyPI are unrelated projects.

What you get, and what you do not

ffwf-tau is the completionist install — everything that works on its own:

The provider SDKs and Pillow are extras on their own distributions, and each raises an error naming its extra when it is missing. That is a good failure, and still one the guessable name should not hand you.

It deliberately does not pull in [jmfts]. The JMFTS session store needs a running server, so an install that added it by default would answer a question nobody asked. Install it when you want it:

pip install 'ffwf-tau-coding-agent[tui,jmfts]'

If you want the headless agent without any interface libraries, provider SDKs or native image wheels, install the real distribution rather than this one:

pip install ffwf-tau-coding-agent

Everything else

Documentation: https://ffwfrobotics.github.io/tau/

Repository: https://github.com/jmccardle/tau

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