zuke-python

🥷 Zuke for Python: author your build as typed Python, run it on the Zuke engine.

Zuke is a code-first, strongly-typed build automation system: your build and your CI are one typed file, and your agent can run it. This package brings that authoring model to Python. A build is a class whose fields are targets, dependencies are references the type checker sees, and every tool call is a typed facade. The scheduling, the durable runs, the locks, the caching, the CI generation, the MCP server and every tool wrapper stay in the Zuke engine; this package is the thin SDK that describes your build to it and runs your target bodies when asked.

Status: in progress. The engine hosts a worker in any language since @zuke/engine 1.0.0, and this package is growing into the SDK slice by slice under #3. The worker loop, the authoring surface, the body context, the hooks, the gates and the services are in, the worker passes every conformance case of @zuke/engine 1.0.0, this repository's own gate runs as a Zuke build on that engine, and the tool facades are generated from the engine's spec. The sequencing is described in AGENTS.md.

Install

uv add zuke        # or: pip install zuke

The package has no runtime dependencies. It runs your build on @zuke/engine, which the ./zuke launcher bootstraps along with Deno; see Development for the launcher.

What it looks like

from zuke import Build, parameter, run, target
from zuke.tools.docker import DockerTasks


class CI(Build):
    tag = parameter("image tag").default("dev")

    lint = (
        target().description("ruff").executes(lambda ctx: ctx.sh("ruff", "check", "."))
    )
    test = target().depends_on(lint).executes(lambda ctx: ctx.sh("pytest", "-q"))
    image = (
        target()
        .depends_on(test)
        .executes(
            lambda ctx: DockerTasks.build(
                ctx, lambda s: s.tag(f"app:{tag.value}").file("Dockerfile")
            )
        )
    )


run(CI)

The class and its fields work today: target() carries every setting the engine schedules by (depends_on, retry, timeout, before, after, triggers, on_failure, …), parameter() has the string, number, boolean and list kinds with .value resolved by the engine, group() names a parallel batch, and run() makes the file a worker. A body gets a ctx: await ctx.sh(...) runs a command through the engine and raises CommandError on a non-zero code, ctx.state and ctx.state_of(...) read and write durable state, and ctx.outcome_of, ctx.outcomes, ctx.summary, ctx.secret, ctx.log, ctx.plan and ctx.signals are the rest of what the engine serves a body. A target may declare a .condition(...), a .cache_key(...), a .lock(...), a .waits_for(...) gate and .validate_during(...) checks; service() declares a service with start, ready and stop phases; a Build overrides on_start, on_target_start, on_target_end and on_finish for hooks; and ci() fields declare the CI files zuke generate-ci renders. zuke.tools holds a facade per engine wrapper, zuke.tools.docker, zuke.tools.deno and the rest, generated from the engine's tool spec: DockerTasks.build(ctx, lambda s: ...) sends the engine a tool.call naming the wrapper's release, the task and the setters the lambda called, and the engine runs the real wrapper with the worker's environment and directory.

./zuke test then runs the Zuke engine, which starts this file as a worker, asks it for the graph, and runs lint and test with every subprocess spawned by the engine: argv only, output captured and redacted, dry-run, cancellation and timeouts all handled once, in one place.

Development

uv is the only tool you need.

uv sync          # the locked environment
./zuke ci        # the gate: format check, lint, pyright strict, tests at 95%+
./zuke --list    # every target of build.py, this repository's own Zuke build

The gate is itself a Zuke build, build.py, run by @zuke/engine at the version zuke.json pins: the launcher bootstraps Deno, the engine starts build.py as its worker, and every command a target runs goes through the engine. ./zuke.ps1 is the launcher on Windows.

The same AI reviewers the engine repository runs review this repository's pull requests, from build.py's review target through zuke.tools.ai: the build the SDK ships is reviewed by the SDK.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the workflow and AGENTS.md for the rules this repository is built by.

License

MIT