Used in agent projects
44
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#49 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
132M
PyPI, last 7 days, pathspec
GitHub stars
236
last push Oct 10, 2026
How pathspec is used
pathspec is a dependency in 44 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #49 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use Click (81.8%), packaging (79.5%), Requests (75.0%).
Often used with pathspec
| Click | 81.8% of pathspec projects · 46.6× more than average |
|---|---|
| packaging | 79.5% of pathspec projects · 70.1× more than average |
| Requests | 75.0% of pathspec projects · 14.1× more than average |
| pytest | 68.2% of pathspec projects · 26.2× more than average |
| charset-normalizer | 65.9% of pathspec projects · 53.0× more than average |
| Pydantic | 65.9% of pathspec projects · 12.9× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list pathspec as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install pathspec |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (41), Next.js (2), Other (1) |
| Example projects | bobmatnyc/claude-mpm, MarcusJellinghaus/mcp-workspace, aanno/cocoindex-code-mcp-server, mikegianfelice/Hunter, everlastingsong/whirlpool-essentials |
Alternatives to pathspec
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| clsx npm Tiny utility for conditionally constructing className strings. |
2,251 (17.7%) | 126M | 9,847 | MIT |
| date-fns npm Modern JavaScript date utility library with comprehensive formatting functions. |
1,079 (8.5%) | 97.6M | 36.6K | MIT |
| uuid npm Generate RFC9562 compliant UUIDs for unique identifiers in applications. |
454 (3.6%) | 296M | 15.3K | MIT |
| PyYAML pypi YAML parser and emitter for reading and writing YAML configuration files. |
385 (3.0%) | 239M | 2,954 | MIT |
| Lodash npm Modular utility library with methods for common programming tasks and data manipulation. |
269 (2.1%) | 162M | 61.4K | MIT |
| bn.js npm Big number library for handling arbitrary-precision integers in JavaScript. |
217 (1.7%) | 62.1M | 1,230 | MIT |
| python-dateutil pypi Extensions to Python's datetime module for advanced date and time manipulation. |
165 (1.3%) | 233M | 2,638 | Dual License |
| yaml npm JavaScript YAML parser and stringifier with full spec compliance. |
164 (1.3%) | 179M | 1,693 | ISC |