python-package-development

A guide for creating and publishing modern Python packages. It covers project structure, pyproject.toml, build tools, versioning, dependencies, tests, documentation, and publishing to the Python Package Index, commonly called PyPI.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting, organizing, testing, versioning, or preparing a Python library for distribution on PyPI.
Why use it?
It helps a package work correctly when installed instead of only when run from its source folder. It also provides consistent choices for builds, releases, development dependencies, and documentation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/justanesta/claude-code-resources/python-package-development
Any agent
npx skills add justanesta/claude-code-resources --skill python-package-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/justanesta/claude-code-resources

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 727 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00051 $0.00727
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00364
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00073

Measured yesterday against content hash dbbb5479730f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

python-package-development scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/python/python-package-development/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Python Package Development

Modern patterns for building and distributing Python packages.

Modern Package Structure (src layout)

my-package/
├── src/
│   └── mypackage/
│       ├── __init__.py
│       └── core.py
├── tests/
├── docs/
├── pyproject.toml
├── README.md
└── LICENSE

Why src layout?

  • Ensures tests run against installed package
  • Prevents accidental imports from working directory
  • Industry best practice

pyproject.toml Configuration

[build-system]
requires = ["hatchling"]
build-backend = "hatchling.build"

[project]
name = "mypackage"
version = "0.1.0"
description = "A short description"
readme = "README.md"
requires-python = ">=3.10"
dependencies = [
    "pandas>=2.0.0",
]

[project.optional-dependencies]
dev = ["pytest>=7.0.0", "black>=23.0.0"]

See pyproject-toml-guide.md for:

  • Build backend choices
  • Dynamic versioning
  • Entry points

Versioning Strategy

Semantic Versioning

MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH

1.0.0 → Initial release
1.0.1 → Bug fix
1.1.0 → New feature
2.0.0 → Breaking change

See versioning-strategies.md for:

  • CalVer
  • Automatic versioning from git tags

Dependency Management

# Library - use ranges
dependencies = ["requests>=2.31.0"]

# Application - pin versions
dependencies = ["requests==2.31.0"]

See dependency-strategies.md for:

  • When to pin vs range
  • Upper bounds debate

Testing Packages

# tests/test_core.py
import pytest
from mypackage import main_function

def test_main_function():
    result = main_function(input_data)
    assert result == expected

See package-testing.md for:

  • Integration testing
  • Coverage requirements
  • CI/CD setup

Documentation

See documentation-guide.md for:

  • README essentials
  • Docstring styles
  • MkDocs/Sphinx

Building and Publishing

# Build
python -m build

# Test on TestPyPI
twine upload --repository testpypi dist/*

# Publish to PyPI
twine upload dist/*

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 141 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A dbbb5479730f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

python-package-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository justanesta/claude-code-resources (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 727 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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