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  1. thoughtflow-0.0.3/.gitignore +163 -0
  2. thoughtflow-0.0.3/CHANGELOG.md +53 -0
  3. {thoughtflow-0.0.1 → thoughtflow-0.0.3}/LICENSE +1 -1
  4. thoughtflow-0.0.3/PKG-INFO +215 -0
  5. thoughtflow-0.0.3/README.md +132 -0
  6. thoughtflow-0.0.3/pyproject.toml +144 -0
  7. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/__init__.py +99 -0
  8. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/_util.py +752 -0
  9. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/action.py +357 -0
  10. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/agent.py +66 -0
  11. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/eval/__init__.py +34 -0
  12. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/eval/harness.py +200 -0
  13. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/eval/replay.py +137 -0
  14. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/llm.py +250 -0
  15. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/memory/__init__.py +32 -0
  16. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/memory/base.py +1658 -0
  17. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/message.py +140 -0
  18. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/py.typed +2 -0
  19. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/thought.py +1102 -0
  20. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/thoughtflow6.py +4180 -0
  21. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/tools/__init__.py +27 -0
  22. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/tools/base.py +145 -0
  23. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/tools/registry.py +122 -0
  24. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/trace/__init__.py +34 -0
  25. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/trace/events.py +183 -0
  26. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/trace/schema.py +111 -0
  27. thoughtflow-0.0.3/src/thoughtflow/trace/session.py +141 -0
  28. thoughtflow-0.0.3/tests/__init__.py +7 -0
  29. thoughtflow-0.0.3/tests/conftest.py +429 -0
  30. thoughtflow-0.0.3/tests/integration/__init__.py +12 -0
  31. thoughtflow-0.0.3/tests/integration/test_anthropic_adapter.py +73 -0
  32. thoughtflow-0.0.3/tests/integration/test_llm_providers.py +492 -0
  33. thoughtflow-0.0.3/tests/integration/test_openai_adapter.py +71 -0
  34. thoughtflow-0.0.3/tests/unit/__init__.py +9 -0
  35. thoughtflow-0.0.3/tests/unit/test_action.py +421 -0
  36. thoughtflow-0.0.3/tests/unit/test_agent.py +69 -0
  37. thoughtflow-0.0.3/tests/unit/test_llm.py +469 -0
  38. thoughtflow-0.0.3/tests/unit/test_memory.py +1104 -0
  39. thoughtflow-0.0.3/tests/unit/test_message.py +122 -0
  40. thoughtflow-0.0.3/tests/unit/test_thought.py +501 -0
  41. thoughtflow-0.0.3/tests/unit/test_trace.py +175 -0
  42. thoughtflow-0.0.3/tests/unit/test_util.py +890 -0
  43. thoughtflow-0.0.1/PKG-INFO +0 -17
  44. thoughtflow-0.0.1/README.md +0 -60
  45. thoughtflow-0.0.1/setup.cfg +0 -4
  46. thoughtflow-0.0.1/setup.py +0 -40
  47. thoughtflow-0.0.1/thoughtflow/__init__.py +0 -7
  48. thoughtflow-0.0.1/thoughtflow/jtools1.py +0 -25
  49. thoughtflow-0.0.1/thoughtflow/jtools2.py +0 -27
  50. thoughtflow-0.0.1/thoughtflow.egg-info/PKG-INFO +0 -17
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  52. thoughtflow-0.0.1/thoughtflow.egg-info/dependency_links.txt +0 -1
  53. thoughtflow-0.0.1/thoughtflow.egg-info/requires.txt +0 -2
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+ # ThoughtFlow
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+ [![PyPI version](https://badge.fury.io/py/thoughtflow.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/py/thoughtflow)
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+ [![Python 3.9+](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.9+-blue.svg)](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
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+ [![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
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+ [![CI](https://github.com/jrolf/thoughtflow/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/jrolf/thoughtflow/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
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+ **A minimal, explicit, Pythonic substrate for building reproducible, portable, testable LLM and agent systems.**
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+ > *Tiny surface area. Explicit state. Portable execution. Deterministic testing.*
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+ ---
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+ ## Why ThoughtFlow?
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+ The modern LLM/agent ecosystem often evolves into abstraction swamps—hidden state, magical callbacks, and frameworks that are hard to understand, test, and deploy.
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+ - ✅ **No hidden agent runtime** you can't reason about
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+ - ✅ **No graph DSL** you must adopt to do anything serious
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+ - ✅ **No abstraction layers** whose main job is wrapping other abstractions
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+ Instead, ThoughtFlow makes orchestration logic **plain Python**: explicit inputs, explicit outputs, explicit state transitions, replayable sessions, deterministic evaluation paths.
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+ ---
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+ ## Installation
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install thoughtflow
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+ pip install thoughtflow[anthropic]
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+ # With all providers
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+ pip install thoughtflow[all-providers]
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+ ```
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+ ---
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+ ## Quick Start
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+ ```python
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+ from thoughtflow import Agent
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+ from thoughtflow.adapters import OpenAIAdapter
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+ # Create an adapter for your provider
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+ # Create an agent
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+ # Call with a message list (the universal currency)
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+ {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
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+ {"role": "user", "content": "What is ThoughtFlow?"}
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+ ```
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+ ---
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+ ## Core Concepts
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+ ### The Agent Contract
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+ ### Messages: Stable Schema, Minimal Assumptions
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+ ## Design Principles
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+ 3. **Portability**: Works across OpenAI, Anthropic, local models, serverless
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+ 4. **Deterministic Testing**: Record/replay workflows, stable sessions, predictable behavior
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+ ---
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+ ## Project Status
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+ ## Contributing
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+ ## License
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+ [MIT](LICENSE) © James A. Rolfsen
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+ ---
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+ ## Why ThoughtFlow?
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+ - ✅ **No graph DSL** you must adopt to do anything serious
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+ - ✅ **No implicit global memory** or callback chains
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+ - ✅ **No abstraction layers** whose main job is wrapping other abstractions
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+ ---
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+ ## Installation
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+ ```bash
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+ # Core library (zero dependencies)
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+ pip install thoughtflow
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+ # With OpenAI support
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+ pip install thoughtflow[openai]
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+ pip install thoughtflow[anthropic]
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+ # With all providers
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+ pip install thoughtflow[all-providers]
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+ ```python
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+ from thoughtflow import Agent
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+ from thoughtflow.adapters import OpenAIAdapter
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+
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+ # Create an adapter for your provider
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+ adapter = OpenAIAdapter(api_key="your-api-key")
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+ # Create an agent
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+ agent = Agent(adapter)
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+ # Call with a message list (the universal currency)
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+ response = agent.call([
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+ {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
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+ {"role": "user", "content": "What is ThoughtFlow?"}
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+ ])
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+ print(response)
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+ ```
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+
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+ ---
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+ ## Core Concepts
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+
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+ ### The Agent Contract
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+
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+ An Agent is something that can be called with messages and parameters:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ class Agent:
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+ def call(self, msg_list, params=None):
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+ raise NotImplementedError
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+ ```
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+ That's it. Everything else is composition.
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+ ### Messages: Stable Schema, Minimal Assumptions
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+ ```python
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+ msg_list = [
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+ {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
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+ {"role": "user", "content": "Draft 3 names for a company."},
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+ ]
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+ ```
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+ ### Explicit Tracing
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+ ```python
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+ from thoughtflow.trace import Session
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+ session = Session()
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+ response = agent.call(msg_list, session=session)
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+ # Session captures everything: inputs, outputs, timing, tokens, costs
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+ print(session.to_dict())
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+ ```
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Design Principles
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+ 1. **Tiny Surface Area**: Few powerful primitives over many specialized classes
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+ 2. **Explicit State**: All state is visible, serializable, and replayable
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+ 3. **Portability**: Works across OpenAI, Anthropic, local models, serverless
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+ 4. **Deterministic Testing**: Record/replay workflows, stable sessions, predictable behavior
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Project Status
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+ 🚧 **Alpha** - ThoughtFlow is under active development. The API may change.
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+ See the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for version history.
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Contributing
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+ We welcome contributions! Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for guidelines.
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+ ---
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+ ## License
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+ [MIT](LICENSE) © James A. Rolfsen