build
Simple and correct Python package builder for wheel and sdist creation.
Build tools and bundlers PyPI MIT
How build is used
build is a dependency in 10 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 262 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is setuptools (45 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Click (94.3%), NumPy (94.3%), attrs (93.9%).
build popularity over time
Gid Score 59: downloads 93, use in agent projects 65, GitHub stars 9, downloads trend 53 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with build
| Click | 94.3% of build projects · 37.8× more than average |
|---|---|
| NumPy | 94.3% of build projects · 16.2× more than average |
| attrs | 93.9% of build projects · 135.6× more than average |
| charset-normalizer | 93.5% of build projects · 86.6× more than average |
| packaging | 93.5% of build projects · 63.8× more than average |
| AnyIO | 93.1% of build projects · 62.8× more than average |
From all 262 projects in our scan that use build, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list build as a dependency.
Agent Skills for build
| build-mcp-app from anthropics/claude-plugins-official | This skill should be used when the user wants to build an "MCP app", add "interactive UI" or "widgets" to an MCP server, "render components in chat", build "MC…npx skills add anthropics/claude-plugins-official --skill build-mcp-app |
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| build-evidence-map from github/awesome-copilot | Build an auditable evidence map for a contested technical choice, research synthesis, proposal review, or consequential decision. Use when Copilot must preserv… has scriptsnpx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill build-evidence-map |
| build-figma from cursor/plugins | Use for "/build-figma", a figma.com/design URL with node-id, or "implement this Figma" into a web, desktop, or shared UI. Orchestrates Figma MCP intake, maps n…npx skills add cursor/plugins --skill build-figma |
| build-design from jakubkrehel/skills | Builds UI from a Figma file or a design image so it matches the design, using your project's existing tokens and components.npx skills add jakubkrehel/skills --skill build-design |
| build-daily-inspiration-sites from MengTo/Skills | Turn a completed daily UI inspiration capture into exactly five original landing-page builds, one per separate Codex task, using Sites. Use when the user asks … has scriptsnpx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill build-daily-inspiration-sites |
| build-parallelism from dotnet/skills | Analyze an MSBuild solution, solution filter, or Build.proj that schedules multiple project files. USE FOR: measured idle worker nodes, `-m` that does not scal…npx skills add dotnet/skills --skill build-parallelism |
Skills teach your coding agent how to use build well. Official means the pack comes from the same GitHub account as build. Read a skill before installing it: it can include scripts. All Agent Skills
Install
| Package | pip install build |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (262) |
| Example projects | Paper2Poster/Paper2Poster, apconw/Aix-DB, JasonHonKL/spy-search, YuhangChen1/Paper2All, AgnetLabs/Laddr |
Alternatives to build
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside build are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| setuptools pypi Extensible Python build backend with C/C++ extension module and packaging support. |
68 | 45 (2.8%) | 236M | 2,870 | MIT |
| Poetry Core pypi PEP 517 build backend for Poetry, enabling dependency management and package building. |
65 | 1 (0.1%) | 20M | 34.3K | MIT |
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