PyAutoHands is the Hands of the PyAutoScientist — the executor that ships the software. When a release is dispatched it packages, tags, regenerates notebooks, and publishes the PyAuto libraries and their workspaces to PyPI. It executes on behalf of the Brain and never decides for itself: no readiness checks, no gate decisions — those belong to the Heart.
See the PyAutoHands Dashboard
for what shipped: the released library versions and
their PyPI status, the release train's recent runs, and the nightly cadence —
each actionable item carrying a one-tap 📋 button that copies a ready-made
Claude command (/release, /release rehearse, /release validate,
/build; a failed train run copies a /bug … prompt with its run link).
📦 2026.8.23.1 · shipped 2026-08-23 (5h ago) · last train run ✗ 2026-08-23 · dashboard →
- The Brain decides, the Hands execute. A release is dispatched by the
Brain's release conductor (
/release, or the nightly driver when there is new activity) — and only when the Heart's readiness verdict is GREEN. - Rehearse first.
release.ymlbuilds the five libraries, publishes to TestPyPI, installs the wheels, and runs the test + workspace validation suites against them — a full dress rehearsal before anything is public. - Then ship. On success the same workflow stamps the build tree, cuts
the
YYYY.M.D.minorgit tag on every library, and releases to PyPI. - The workspaces follow. Notebooks are regenerated from the workspace scripts, Colab URLs bumped to the new tag, and every workspace repo is tagged to match.
- The record is published. Release notes land on the libraries' GitHub Releases, Slack is told, and the release board refreshes — a past-tense record of execution, never a verdict.
Every operation is reachable through one dispatcher, run from this checkout (no pip install):
bash bin/autohands help # list every subcommand
bash bin/autohands pre_build [minor] # format, generate notebooks, push, dispatch release.yml
bash bin/autohands run_all # run the workspace validation scripts
bash bin/autohands board --md # the release board (also --html, --badge, --json)Boundary and agent guidance: AGENTS.md; the pipeline internals: docs/internals.md. The organism this repo is the Hands of is described once in PyAutoBrain/ORGANISM.md and documented in full at https://pyautoscientist.readthedocs.io.