soothe-community 0.2.2

Community plugins for Soothe agent orchestration framework

Soothe Community Plugins

Standalone community plugins package for the Soothe agent orchestration framework.

Installation

pip install soothe-community

Available Plugins

Browser and Claude Code

Delegated browser-use and Claude agent SDK subagents (IG-415). Install with pip install "soothe-community[browser]" or "soothe-community[claude]" and enable subagents.browser / subagents.claude in config. Spec: docs/RFC-601-community-agents.md.

PaperScout

ArXiv paper recommendation agent that delivers personalized daily paper recommendations.

Features:

• Fetches papers from ArXiv based on configurable categories
• Analyzes your Zotero library to understand research interests
• Ranks papers by relevance using sentence embeddings
• Sends daily email digests with TLDR summaries

Configuration (add to your Soothe config.yml):

subagents:
  paperscout:
    enabled: true
    model: "openai:gpt-4o-mini"
    config:
      arxiv_categories:
        - cs.AI
        - cs.CV
        - cs.LG
      max_papers: 25
      smtp:
        host: "${SMTP_HOST}"
        port: 587
        user: "${SMTP_USER}"
        password: "${SMTP_PASSWORD}"
      zotero:
        api_key: "${ZOTERO_API_KEY}"
        library_id: "${ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID}"

Usage:

# Use the subagent via TUI (default)
soothe "Find recent papers on transformers" --subagent paperscout

# Or use in headless mode
soothe "Find recent papers on transformers" --subagent paperscout --no-tui

Extensibility

This package is designed for extensibility. You can easily add new community plugins:

Available Plugin Types

1. Subagent Plugins: Complex multi-step agents using langgraph
2. Tool Plugins: Simple functions exposed as tools
3. Hybrid Plugins: Both subagents and tools

Future Plugins

The package structure supports adding new plugins:

src/soothe_community/
├── paperscout/         # ArXiv paper recommendations
├── [your_plugin]/      # Your future plugin
└── [another_plugin]/   # Another future plugin

See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed guidelines on adding new plugins.

Plugin Template

Use the provided template to create new plugins:

cp -r src/soothe_community/.plugin_template src/soothe_community/your_plugin

Development

Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/OpenSoothe/soothe-community.git
cd soothe-community

# Install in development mode
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Testing

# Run all tests
pytest tests/

# Run specific plugin tests
pytest tests/test_paperscout/

# With coverage
pytest tests/ --cov=src/soothe_community

Code Quality

# Format code
ruff format src/ tests/

# Lint code
ruff check --fix src/ tests/

Documentation

• README.md: This file - overview and quick start
• CONTRIBUTING.md: How to add new plugins
• docs/RFC-601-community-agents.md: Architecture RFC for community agents
• src/soothe_community/.plugin_template/: Template for new plugins

Architecture

Each plugin follows the RFC-0018 plugin system:

Plugin Package
├── __init__.py          # @plugin, @subagent, @tool decorators
├── events.py            # Custom events (optional)
├── models.py            # Data models
├── state.py             # Agent state (if subagent)
├── implementation.py    # Core logic
└── README.md            # Plugin documentation

License

MIT