Install

uv tool install "uclone-x[cli,http]"
ucx --help

Or uvx --from "uclone-x[cli,http]" ucx --help to try it without installing anything permanently.

The two extras are not optional in practice: cli is typer and rich, which the ucx shell is written in, and http is FastAPI and uvicorn, which the dashboard and the A2A gateway serve through. The base install is the runtime without a shell — usable as a library, and what you want if you are importing uclone_x rather than running ucx. Install without them and ucx tells you which one is missing rather than failing obscurely.

Provider SDKs and the heavier stacks are the genuinely optional extras — install what you use:

pip install "uclone-x[llm]"         # Gemini, Claude, OpenAI SDKs
pip install "uclone-x[ontology]"    # LinkML, rdflib, networkx
pip install "uclone-x[code_intel]"  # tree-sitter AST parsing; needs Python <= 3.12
pip install "uclone-x[all]"

Python 3.11 or newer. The base install is pure Python and works on 3.13. code_intel is capped at 3.12, because tree-sitter-languages publishes no wheel above it — and since all includes code_intel, uclone-x[all] carries that ceiling too. Without the extra the AST parser falls back to Python's own ast and says so.

First run

Configure at least one provider, then start a chat session:

cp .env.example .env    # then fill in one API key, or point at a local Ollama
ucx run

ucx run is an interactive terminal REPL with streaming responses, tool calls and slash commands. A local model needs no API key at all:

OLLAMA_FAST_BASE_URL=http://localhost:11434/v1 OLLAMA_FAST_MODEL=qwen3:8b ucx run

The dashboard — an agent and event-bus explorer — is a single command:

ucx ui

It serves a prebuilt interface, so it needs no Node toolchain.

What UClone-X is

An agent runtime built around a non-blocking reactive event loop rather than a blocking request/response cycle. Agents yield when idle and wake on tool returns, interrupts or messages from other agents. The same event bus carries single-agent execution and multi-agent collaboration on one machine, without an external broker.

• Event-driven agent core — a six-stage reactive state machine over an in-memory priority event bus with backpressure policies and immutable event envelopes.
• LLM-agnostic — Gemini, Claude, OpenAI and local models (Ollama, vLLM) behind one interface, with schema translation and fallback routing.
• Dynamic personas and sub-agents — agents create, supervise and terminate child agents with their own prompts and strict tool boundaries.
• Pluggable sandboxing — host, workspace, container or WASM isolation selected per tool rather than globally.
• Ontology grounding — LinkML domain schemas and a semantic graph the agent reasons against instead of inventing structure per prompt.
• OpenTelemetry native — traces, metrics and OTLP export built in.

Implementation status

UClone-X is pre-1.0 and under active development. Read this section before depending on it.

Documentation

• Architecture overview
• Event-driven agent core
• Core principles P0–P9 — the normative rules every part of the runtime is built against
• Product requirements
• CLI specification
• LLM-agnostic interface
• Dynamic persona and sub-agent interface
• Local collaboration engine
• Sandbox execution
• Ontology architecture
• Skill system
• Code intelligence (AST, LSP, SCIP)
• Telemetry
• A2A protocol specification
• Security threat model

Development

An installed build is for using the agent. To change it, work from a checkout: the development commands — setup, test, dev — exist only there, because each of them assumes the repository. ucx --help in an installed build says so rather than leaving you to guess.

git clone https://github.com/UClone-AI/uclone-x.git
cd uclone-x
uv sync --all-extras
./ucx test check      # ruff format + lint, pyright strict, pytest with branch coverage

./ucx test check is the whole gate: zero ruff findings, zero pyright errors in strict mode, and the test suite at or above 70% branch coverage. A change that does not pass it is not ready.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for how patches reach this repository, and docs/local-development-guide.md for the longer setup walkthrough.

About this repository

This repository is the UClone-X runtime and its documentation. It is published from a private development repository, in periodic snapshots rather than as a mirror of that repository's history. The evaluation suites and multi-agent build tooling used to develop it are not part of the published subset; the runtime detects their absence and degrades cleanly, so ucx eval reports that no evaluation backend is installed rather than failing to start.

License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE and NOTICE.