Installation

AutoCarver can be installed from PyPI.

Pick your package manager below — the choice applies to every command on this page.

Light install (recommended for production)

To install core features, use the following:

uv

uv add autocarver

pip

pip install autocarver

Driving AutoCarver from an LLM (MCP server)

To run the local MCP server (so an MCP-aware assistant can qualify and carve features through tool calls), install the mcp extra:

uv

uv add "autocarver[mcp]"

pip

pip install "autocarver[mcp]"

See LLM & MCP Integration for client configuration and the available tools.

Enabling pretty printing (recommended for development)

To enable HTML outputs (nice colorful tables within jupyter), use the following:

uv

uv add "autocarver[jupyter]"

pip

pip install "autocarver[jupyter]"