To contribute to this project, please follow a ["fork and pull request"](https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/contributing-to-projects) workflow.
Please do not try to push directly to this repo unless you are maintainer.
> **Note:** You can run this repository locally (which is described below) or in a [development container](https://containers.dev/) (which is described in the [.devcontainer folder](https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain/tree/master/.devcontainer)).
This project uses [Poetry](https://python-poetry.org/) as a dependency manager. Check out Poetry's [documentation on how to install it](https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation) on your system before proceeding.
This will install all requirements for running the package, examples, linting, formatting, tests, and coverage. Note the `-E all` flag will install all optional dependencies necessary for integration testing.
❗Note: If you're running Poetry 1.4.1 and receive a `WheelFileValidationError` for `debugpy` during installation, you can try either downgrading to Poetry 1.4.0 or disabling "modern installation" (`poetry config installer.modern-installation false`) and re-install requirements. See [this `debugpy` issue](https://github.com/microsoft/debugpy/issues/1246) for more details.
Now, you should be able to run the common tasks in the following section. To double check, run `make test`, all tests should pass. If they don't you may need to pip install additional dependencies, such as `numexpr` and `openapi_schema_pydantic`.
Additionally, you can run the formatter only on the files that have been modified in your current branch as compared to the master branch using the format_diff command:
```bash
make format_diff
```
This is especially useful when you have made changes to a subset of the project and want to ensure your changes are properly formatted without affecting the rest of the codebase.
Linting for this project is done via a combination of [Black](https://black.readthedocs.io/en/stable/), [isort](https://pycqa.github.io/isort/), [flake8](https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/), and [mypy](http://mypy-lang.org/).
In addition, you can run the linter only on the files that have been modified in your current branch as compared to the master branch using the lint_diff command:
```bash
make lint_diff
```
This can be very helpful when you've made changes to only certain parts of the project and want to ensure your changes meet the linting standards without having to check the entire codebase.
We recognize linting can be annoying - if you do not want to do it, please contact a project maintainer, and they can help you with it. We do not want this to be a blocker for good code getting contributed.
If you are adding a Jupyter notebook example, you'll want to install the optional `dev` dependencies.
To install dev dependencies:
```bash
poetry install --with dev
```
Launch a notebook:
```bash
poetry run jupyter notebook
```
When you run `poetry install`, the `langchain` package is installed as editable in the virtualenv, so your new logic can be imported into the notebook.
Similar to linting, we recognize documentation can be annoying. If you do not want to do it, please contact a project maintainer, and they can help you with it. We do not want this to be a blocker for good code getting contributed.