Poetry Core
PEP 517 build backend for Poetry, enabling dependency management and package building.
Build tools and bundlers PyPI MIT
How Poetry Core is used
Poetry Core is a dependency in 1 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 27 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 AnyIO (100.0%), attrs (100.0%), CacheControl (100.0%).
Poetry Core popularity over time
Gid Score 65: downloads 92, use in agent projects 32, GitHub stars 71, downloads trend 46 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Poetry Core
| AnyIO | 100.0% of Poetry Core projects · 67.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| attrs | 100.0% of Poetry Core projects · 144.4× more than average |
| CacheControl | 100.0% of Poetry Core projects · 2069.3× more than average |
| CFFI | 100.0% of Poetry Core projects · 155.2× more than average |
| charset-normalizer | 100.0% of Poetry Core projects · 92.7× more than average |
| Cleo | 100.0% of Poetry Core projects · 3104.0× more than average |
| distro | 100.0% of Poetry Core projects · 172.4× more than average |
From all 27 projects in our scan that use Poetry Core, including the dependency samples.
Install
| Package | pip install poetry-core |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (27) |
| Example projects | Paper2Poster/Paper2Poster, YuhangChen1/Paper2All, bingreeky/MaAS, AutoLab-SAI-SJTU/AutoPage, farzad528/mcp-server-azure-ai-agents |
Alternatives to Poetry Core
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Poetry Core 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 |
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