🐍🏠 Py Env Studio

Py Env Studio (PES) is a cross-platform Graphical Environment & Package Manager for Python: create and manage virtual environments, install and audit packages, scan for vulnerabilities, scaffold projects from templates, and expose a local, read-only MCP control plane (beta) for AI coding agents — from one desktop app and a matching CLI.

Perfect for:

• ✅ Python beginners who want simplicity
• ✅ Data scientists setting up ML/DL stacks
• ✅ Developers managing Django, Flask, FastAPI projects
• ✅ Teams who need secure, isolated environments
• ✅ Power users wanting plugin extensibility

✨ Highlights

• ➕ One-click virtual environment create, delete, activate, rename, and search
• 📦 Package management with selectable pip or uv backends (automatic pip fallback), install/uninstall/update, import/export of requirements.txt
• 🛡️ Environment vulnerability scanner with insights dashboard, plus remediation actions (Update Now, Upgrade all Packages)
• 🧩 Project templates: built-in Python Script / CLI / Package templates, your own local or GitHub templates, and GitHub Community Templates discovery
• ⚙️ Configuration center for default venv path, interpreter/runtime, package manager, project tool, template defaults, appearance, and UI scaling (the default venv path is read-only in the dialog; set venv_dir in config.ini to relocate it)
• 🐍 Official Python Install Manager integration to detect, list, install, and select official runtimes
• 🔌 Extensible plugin system with 18 lifecycle hooks
• 📟 Full CLI with progress gauge and -v / -q / --no-progress controls
• 🧪 Beta: local, read-only MCP control plane for AI coding agents (stdio transport, 8 pyenv_* tools, opt-out via enabled = false)

📥 Installation

pip install py-env-studio

Requires Python 3.12+. See the installation guide for upgrade, extras, and uninstall steps.

🚀 Quick start

Launch the GUI (no arguments opens the desktop application):

py-env-studio

The package installs three equivalent entry points — py-env-studio, pes, and pyenvstudio — for both the GUI and every CLI command:

py-env-studio --list        # or: pes --list
py-env-studio --create myenv
py-env-studio --install myenv,numpy
pes run app.py              # run a script inside a managed project
pes mcp                     # start the MCP control plane (beta, stdio)

Full CLI reference: https://py-env-studio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started/cli.html

🧪 MCP control plane (beta)

Py Env Studio can expose a local, read-only MCP server so AI coding agents (Copilot or any MCP client) consume authoritative Python environment state instead of guessing it.

• Read-only beta — 8 tools covering environments, packages, dependencies, cached vulnerabilities, project context, and an aggregate project report
• Local-first — stdio only, no ports, no network calls from MCP
• Opt-out — set enabled = false in the [mcp] section of config.ini

Setup steps for VS Code and other clients: https://py-env-studio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/mcp.html

📚 Documentation

• Documentation home: https://py-env-studio.readthedocs.io/
• Usage manual: https://py-env-studio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started/usage.html
• Release notes: https://py-env-studio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/releases/v2.1.2.html
• Source code: https://github.com/pyenvstudio/py-env-studio
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/pyenvstudio/py-env-studio/issues

🌐 Network access

PES uses public, read-only APIs (no authentication required). Ensure HTTPS access to:

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome — fork the repository, raise issues, or submit pull requests at https://github.com/pyenvstudio/py-env-studio.

⚖️ License

This project is licensed under the MIT License — see https://github.com/pyenvstudio/py-env-studio/blob/main/LICENSE.

Py Env Studio — Simplifying Python environment management for everyone with a built-in security scanner.