indydevtools 0.2.2

An opinionated Agentic Engineering toolbox powered by LLM Agents to solve problems autonomously.

IndyDevTools

An opinionated, Agentic Engineering toolbox powered by LLM Agents to solve problems autonomously.

Table of Contents

• IndyDevTools
  • Table of Contents
  • Usage, maintenance plan, and usage guide of this tool
  • Tool Overview
  • Principles
    • > USE THE RIGHT TOOL (AGENT) FOR THE JOB
    • > EVERYTHING IS A FUNCTION
    • > GREAT QUESTIONS YIELD GREAT ANSWERS
    • > CREATE REUSABLE BUILDING BLOCKS
    • > Prompts (Agents) are THE new fundamental unit of programming
  • Directory Structure
  • Upcoming Tool (Live, Planned, Maybe)
  • Tool Guide
    • ✍️ Simple Prompt System (idt sps)
      • Use case
      • Get Started
      • sps Commands
      • Application Flow Diagram
      • idt sps Improvements / What's Next
    • 📹 Multi Agent Youtube Metadata Generation (idt yt)
      • Use case
      • Get Started
      • yt Commands
        • yt titles Commands
        • yt script Commands
        • yt desc Commands
        • yt tags Commands
        • yt refs Commands
        • yt thumb Commands
      • Application Flow Diagram
      • idt yt Improvements / What's Next
  • The Configuration File
    • config Commands
    • Structure
  • Developer Commands
    • Deploy
    • Install
  • Video Series
  • Resources

Usage, maintenance plan, and usage guide of this tool

• IndyDevTools is a suite of tools focused on solving problems using AI agents.
• The each tool, down to the code is designed to be highly modular, and composable, so you can use the tools in combination with each other, or use them on their own to solve specific problems.
• This tool was created to solve problems utilizing agents, and to share ideas, principles, and patterns that can help you thrive in the rapidly expanding age of AI.
• This repo is highly opinionated, as it's a principle driven project designed to solve specific problems that I run into on a consistent basis.
  • If you have a solution to a problem that you think should be included, feel free to crack open a PR.
  • If you see, or think of a tool that's missing that would be beneficial to all users, feel free to crack open an issue.
  • Feel free to fork it and make it your own.

Tool Overview

• Simple Prompt System
• Youtube Metadata Generation

Principles

Principles drive decisions, decisions drive actions, actions drive results. Understanding the principles behind a tool will help you understand how to use it, and how to use it effectively.

> USE THE RIGHT TOOL (AGENT) FOR THE JOB

• Every tool in this toolbox consists of one or more agents designed to solve a specific set of problems.
• Agent > Code > Manual Input
• CRUD[:2] -> Prefer Create, and Read over Update, and Delete when using AI Agents

> EVERYTHING IS A FUNCTION

• Every tool in this toolbox is a function that takes inputs and returns outputs.
• Every function can be called on it's own in isolation, or used in combination with other functions to create a more complex process.
• By treating every critical unit of code as a function, we can create a library of reusable building blocks that can be used to solve many problems.

> GREAT QUESTIONS YIELD GREAT ANSWERS

• At the core of every product, there is a question that it attempts to answer.
• The quality of the answer is directly proportional to the quality of the question.
• IndyDevTools attempts to answer the question: "What's the best way to build multi-agent systems that can solve problems autonomously on my behalf?"
• The harsh truth is that the answer to your question is buried in questions, experiments, failed attempts, and iterations. IndyDevTools is an ongoing experiment to answer the question of how to build multi-agent systems that can solve problems autonomously on your behalf.

> CREATE REUSABLE BUILDING BLOCKS

• In the age of AI where code, data, and models are becoming a commodity, the most valuable thing you can create is a reusable building block that can be used to solve many problems.
• Build small, composable, and reusable functions that can be used together, or only one at a time.

> Prompts (Agents) are THE new fundamental unit of programming

• Just like loops, variables, and functions, we treat prompts as a fundamental unit of programming.
• In the age of AI, prompts are the most powerful way to design, build, and engineer systems that can solve problems autonomously on your behalf.
• They should be treated with the same level of respect (as time goes on, even more) and care as any other fundamental unit of programming.

Directory Structure

Upcoming Tool (Live, Planned, Maybe)

• [Live ✅] Multi Agent Youtube Metadata Generation (idt yt)
• [Live ✅] Simple Prompt System (idt sps)
• [Planned 📆] Sora video generation tool (idt sora)
• [Maybe 🟡] OpenAI Assistant tool (idt oass)
• [Maybe 🟡] Git Diff AI Peer Review (port diffbro) (idt dbro)
• [Maybe 🟡] Midjourney Image Generator
• [Maybe 🟡] Fast Notion Idea Dump

Tool Guide

✍️ Simple Prompt System (idt sps)

• This tool is a simple system to help you reuse and run your prompts.

Use case

• If you've created a great prompt and proceeded to lose track of it or forget it this tool is for you. Maybe you built a prompt that debugs code for you, writes tests, generates docs, generates marketing content, helps you ask questions about a topic, or helps you generate ideas. This tool will help you save, edit, run and reuse your prompts.
• You have a set of prompts that you use frequently and want to streamline the process of running these prompts with different variables.
• The Simple Prompt System (idt sps) allows you to define templates for these prompts and quickly execute them with custom variables, saving you time by reusing your favorite prompts.
• The best way to get started is to run idt sps prompt -a "pyq" -p "reverse a string" to see how the system works.
• Then you can run idt sps config to view the configuration file and add your own prompt templates.
• Since this is a CLI app, you can pipe the output of the prompt to a file, or to your clipboard, or right into another command. For example, you can run idt sps prompt -a "pyq" -p "reverse a string" | pbcopy to copy the output of the prompt to your clipboard and throw it into your code editor.

Get Started

1. Install IndyDevTools

   pip install indydevtools
   

2. Initialize and view the configuration file for the Simple Prompt System

   idt sps config
   

   • This will print open your configuration file in your default editor based on the file type, allowing you to view, open and edit your prompt templates.
3. Add or edit prompt templates in the configuration file as needed.
4. Run a test command to execute a prompt

   idt sps prompt -a "pyq" -p "reverse a string"
   

5. Verify the output of the prompt in the console.
6. Open the config and add your own prompt templates for rapid reuse.

sps Commands

• idt sps --help
  • View all available commands for the Simple Prompt System.
• idt sps config -p?
  • Open the configuration file to the console, creates the file if it doesn't exist.
  • Inputs
    • -p (optional): A flag to only print the configuration file to the console.
  • Outputs
    • The configuration file content printed to the console or opened in the default editor.
• idt sps prompt -a <alias> -p <prompt> -v? <vars>
  • Run a prompt using a template with custom variables.
  • Inputs
    • -a: The alias for the prompt template.
    • -p: The prompt to run.
    • -v (optional): Custom variables in key=value format separated by commas.
  • Outputs
    • The result of the prompt printed to the console.
• idt sps list
  • List all available prompt templates.
  • Outputs
    • The list of all available prompt templates.
• idt sps get -a <alias>
  • Get the prompt template for the given alias.
  • Inputs
    • -a: The alias for the prompt template.
  • Outputs
    • The prompt template.

Application Flow Diagram

graph LR
A["I want to call one of my prompts"]
AV["I want to call one of my prompts with variables"]
AA["I want to save/edit this prompt for reuse"]
AAA["I want to list my existing prompts"]
AAAA["I want to view one of my prompts"]
B["I need help with the commands"]
C["I want to view the configuration file"]

subgraph Simple Prompt System
    API1["idt sps prompt 'alias' -p 'prompt'"]
    API1V["idt sps prompt 'alias' -p 'prompt' -v? 'key1=value1,key2=value2'"]
    API2["idt sps --help"]
    API3["idt sps list"]
    API4["idt sps get -a 'alias'"]
    API5["idt sps config"]
    API6["idt config view"]
end

subgraph Output
    OUTPUT1["Response of your prompt"]
    OUTPUT2["Help information"]
    OUTPUT3["List of all available prompt templates"]
    OUTPUT4["Prompt template for the given alias"]
    OUTPUT5["Configuration file content"]
end

A --> API1
AV --> API1V
API1V --> OUTPUT1
AA --> API6
AAA --> API3
AAAA --> API4
B --> API2
C --> API5

API1 --> OUTPUT1
API2 --> OUTPUT2
API3 --> OUTPUT3
API4 --> OUTPUT4
API5 --> OUTPUT5
API6 --> OUTPUT5

idt sps Improvements / What's Next

• [] Add idt sps new -a 'alias' -pt 'prompt template' -n? 'name' -d? 'description' feature to save a new prompt template into the configuration file.

---

📹 Multi Agent Youtube Metadata Generation (idt yt)

• This tool generates the metadata for a youtube video.

Use case

• You've just finished rendering a video to upload to youtube, and you need to generate the metadata for the video. This tool will help you generate the title, description, tags, and thumbnail for the video.
• It's not meant to be a 100% replacement for your metadata, but it's meant to jump start you to 80% completion.
• The best command to run is idt yt gen-meta-auto which will walk you through key steps to generate the metadata for your video. It will
  • Transcribe the video
  • Prompt you for key information like
    • Rough Draft Title
    • SEO Keywords
    • How many iterations of the title, description, and thumbnail you want to generate
  • Generate multiple titles, descriptions, and thumbnails for you to choose from
  • The description will combine the hashtags, references, and the description
  • Generate the final metadata for you to upload to youtube
  • In addition to outputting these assets to the final/ directory, it will also output the drafts to the drafts/ directory so you can review them and make any changes if necessary.
• The goal is to make it as easy as possible to generate the metadata for your video, and to make it as easy as possible to make changes to the metadata if necessary.

Get Started

1. Install IndyDevTools

   pip install indydevtools
   

2. View and initialize the configuration file

   idt yt config (or idt config view)
   

   • This will create the configuration file if it doesn't exist and the /drafts and /final directories in the operating directory.
3. Edit the configuration file to add your openai key and path to your audio/video files
4. Run a test command

   idt yt thumb create -p "bird writing code"
   

   or

   idt yt titles create -r "Using AI Coding Assistants to code faster than ever"
   

5. Make sure the thumbnail was created in the <config.yt.operating_dir>/drafts directory
6. Run the full metadata generation command

   idt yt gen-meta-auto
   

7. See Commands for more information

yt Commands

• idt yt --help
  • view all available commands
• idt yt config
  • Dump the configuration file to the console, creates the file if it doesn't exist

yt titles Commands

• idt yt titles create -r <rough_draft_title> -s? <script_file.txt> -c? <count> -k? <seo_keywords>
  • Generate a title for a youtube video
  • Inputs
    • -r: The rough draft title
    • -s (optional): The script file to use
    • -c (optional, default 1): The number of titles to generate
    • -k (optional): The SEO keywords
  • Outputs
    • A file with the generated titles in <config.yt.operating_dir>/drafts/titles.json

yt script Commands

• idt yt script transcribe --file <video_file> --json? <create_json_file> --seconds? <duration_limit_in_sec>
  • Transcribe the audio of a video file into text.
  • Inputs
    • -f: The path to the video file to transcribe.
    • -j (optional, default False): Create an additional JSON file of the transcript with segments and word timestamps.
    • -s (optional, default 120): The maximum seconds to process.
  • Outputs
    • A transcript of the video's audio. If -j is used, a JSON file with the transcript will be created in the <config.yt.operating_dir>/transcripts directory.

yt desc Commands

• idt yt desc compose
  • Compose a description given a completed draft directory.
  • Inputs
    • <config.yt.operating_dir>/draft/descriptions.json
    • <config.yt.operating_dir>/draft/hashtags.json
    • <config.yt.operating_dir>/draft/references.txt (optional)
  • Outputs
    • The finalized description ready for youtube in <config.yt.operating_dir>/final/description.txt
• idt yt desc create -s <script_file> -r? <rough_draft_title> -c? <count> -k? <seo_keywords>
  • Create a new description for a video.
  • Inputs
    • -s: The path to the script file.
    • -r (optional): The rough draft title of the video.
    • -c (optional, default 3): The number of descriptions to generate.
    • -k (optional): SEO keywords to be included in the description.
  • Outputs
    • A file with the generated descriptions in <config.yt.operating_dir>/drafts/descriptions.json
• idt yt desc iterate <prompt> <description>
  • Iterate over the description to improve it. (Note: This command is currently not implemented.)

yt tags Commands

• idt yt tags compose
  • Compose the final set of hashtags for a video.
  • Inputs
    • /draft/hashtags.json
  • Outputs
    • Finalized /final/hashtags.txt with a list of tags to use in the video.
• idt yt tags create --title <rough_draft_title> --keywords <seo_keywords>
  • Generate hashtags for a video (list of 10 comma sep, and top three).
  • Inputs
    • --r: The rough draft title of the video.
    • --k: The SEO keywords for the video.
  • Outputs
    • Tags and top three hashtags for the video output to /draft/hashtags.json.

yt refs Commands

• idt yt refs format -r <references> -t <rough_draft_title> -k? <seo_keywords>
  • Format the references for a video.
  • Inputs
    • -r: The references (links) to format.
    • -t: The rough draft title of the video.
    • -k (optional): The SEO keywords for the video.
  • Outputs
    • Formatted references output to /draft/references.txt.

yt thumb Commands

• idt yt thumb compose
  • Compose the final thumbnail for a video.
  • Inputs
    • /draft/thumbnail_<count>.png
  • Outputs
    • Finalized /final/thumbnail.png thumbnail to use in the video.
• idt yt thumb create_from_prompt -c <count>
  • Create thumbnails from a generated prompt.
  • Inputs
    • -c: The number of thumbnails to create from a selected prompt.
  • Outputs
    • /drafts/thumbnail_<count>.png thumbnail drafts to potentially use in the video.
• idt yt thumb create_prompt -r <rough_draft_title> -k <seo_keywords> -c <count> -a <art_style>
  • Create a prompt for generating a thumbnail.
  • Inputs
    • -r: The rough draft title of the video.
    • -k: The SEO keywords for the video.
    • -c: The number of thumbnail prompts to create.
    • -a: The art style to be used in the thumbnail.
  • Outputs
    • /draft/thumbnail_prompt.json with the generated thumbnail prompts.
• idt yt thumb create -p <prompt> -c <count>
  • Create an image with the specified prompt and download it.
  • Inputs
    • -p: The prompt to create thumbnail with.
    • -c: The number of thumbnails to create.
  • Outputs
    • /draft/thumbnail_<count>.png thumbnail drafts to potentially use in the video.
• idt yt thumb rescale -f <image_file_path> -w <width> -h <height> -o <output_file>
  • Rescale an image to the specified width and height. Defaults to youtube thumbnail size.
  • Inputs
    • -f: The path to the input image file.
    • -w (default 1280): The width to rescale the image to.
    • -h (default 720): The height to rescale the image to.
    • -o (default input file path): The path to the output image file.
  • Outputs
    • The rescaled image saved to the specified output file.

Application Flow Diagram

graph LR
Z[Rendered YouTube Video]

subgraph Youtube Metadata Automation Tool
    A[Generate Youtube Metadata]
    B(Transcribe - CODE)
    C{Script Ready}
    D(Generate Title - LLM AGENT)
    E(Generate Description - LLM AGENT)
    F(Generate Thumbnails - LLM AGENT)
    G(Resize Thumbnails - CODE)
    H{Title Ready}
    I{Description Ready}
    K{Resized Thumbnails Ready}
    L[[Review for Upload - MANUAL INPUT]]
    N(Format References - CODE)
    O{References Ready}
    P(Generate Hashtags - LLM AGENT)
    Q{Hashtags Ready}
    R(Compose Hashtags - CODE)
    S(Compose Description - CODE)
    T(Compose Title - CODE)
    U(Compose Thumbnail - CODE)
end

M[Upload to YouTube]

Z --> A
A --> B
B --> C
C --> D
C --> E
A --> F
F --> G
A --> B
D --> H
E --> I
G --> K
L --> M
A --> N
N --> O
A --> P
P --> Q
O --> S
R --> L
S --> L
T --> L
U --> L
I --> S
H --> T
K --> U
Q --> R
Q --> S

idt yt Improvements / What's Next

• [] Stream text responses and print them to the console/logs as they come in.
• [] Add support for Gemini models
• [] Add support for local models (start w apis/ollama)
• [] Create 'Trending' agents to find topics that are trending based on a few keywords
  • idt yt trending -k <keywords> -n <number of results>
• [] Script SEO keyword extraction
  • idt yt script extract-seo -s <script_file>
• [] Create SEO Keyword Agent that researches related SEO keywords based on a topic or the script
  • idt yt script research-seo -t <topic> -s <script file> -n <number of results>
• [] Add logging so we can see where the log is coming from (what file + function)
  • https://chat.openai.com/c/d2ae52f4-0706-4cec-b047-3364bea3bd05
• [] Add 'tone' to description to reduce buzzwordyness
• [] Implement thumb iterate to improve an image
• [] Implement desc iterate to improve a description
• [] Implement titles iterate to improve a description
• [] Improved 'inquirer' prompts that hold terminal scroll position
• [] Make the code run in parallel, right now it's running one by one, this is inefficient
• [] Add a loader to let users know which state the application is in

The Configuration File

The configuration file is the primary source of truth for all the tools in the IndyDevTools suite.

config Commands

• idt config view [--only-print|-p]
  • View the configuration file. Use the --only-print or -p option to only print the configuration file to the console without opening it in the editor.
  • Inputs
    • --only-print or -p (optional): A flag to only print the configuration file to the console.
  • Outputs
    • The configuration file content printed to the console or opened in the default editor.

Structure

See each tool's documentation for the structure of the configuration file for that tool.

yt:
  config_file_path: <path to this config file for you to open and edit>
  openai_api_key: <your openai api key will fallback to env var OPENAI_API_KEY>
  operating_dir: <Path to your rendered video/audio, also the output path where the /draft and /final assets that will be generated>
sps:
  config_file_path: <path to this config file for you to open and edit>
  openai_api_key: <your openai api key will fallback to env var OPENAI_API_KEY>
  templates: 
  - alias: <alias>
    description: <description>
    name: <name>
    prompt_template: <prompt_template>
    variables:
    - default: <default>
      description: <description>
      name: <name>

Developer Commands

(deploy, publish)

Deploy

• Bump version in pyproject.toml: version
• publish to test pypi
  • poetry run python scripts/publish_testpypi.py
• publish to pypi
  • poetry run python scripts/publish_pypi.py

Install

• Install bleeding edge test version from TestPyPi
  • pip install --upgrade --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple indydevtools
• Install public version from PyPi
  • pip install indydevtools

Video Series

Join the discussion - watch the videos that created this tool.

• Part 1: How to Engineer Multi-Agent Tools: LLM Principles
• Part 2: Apple Vision Pro & LLMs: Proof Of Concept
• Part 3: Sora + Gemini: Building Adaptive LLM apps
• Part 4: Let Your AI Coding Assistant Write Your Docs

Resources

• IndyDevTools PyPi
  • https://pypi.org/project/indydevtools/
• IndyDevTools TestPyPi
  • https://test.pypi.org/project/indydevtools/
• IndyDevTools Repo
  • https://github.com/disler/indydevtools
• Aider AI Coding Assistant
  • https://aider.chat/
• Chat with async + parallelization + threading
  • https://chat.openai.com/c/73d1859d-fb3a-430e-9e04-be68b4d8a7bd
• Typer Docs For Multi Sub Commands
  • https://typer.tiangolo.com/tutorial/subcommands/add-typer/
• Python openai
  • https://github.com/openai/openai-python