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 This is a python CLI app that uses UV. Read CONTRIBUTING.md for information on how to build and test it as needed.
-Some key concepts are that it is run as a command line interface, dependes on the "ai-exchange" package, and has the concept of toolkits which are ways that its behavior can be extended. Look in src/goose and tests.
-Once the user has UV installed it should be able to be used effectively along with uvx to run tasks as needed
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+Some key concepts are that it is run as a command line interface, dependes on the "ai-exchange" package (which is in packages/exchange in this repo), and has the concept of toolkits which are ways that its behavior can be extended. Look in src/goose and tests.
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+Assume the user has UV installed and ensure uv is used to run any python related commands.
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+To run tests: 
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+uv sync && uv run pytest tests -m 'not integration' 
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+ideally after each cyange
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