polylith-libs

Development

Inspect third-party libraries used per Polylith project with `poly libs`. Use when the user wants to see dependency usage, audit version drift across projects, find which projects use a given library, or compare library declarations vs. the lock file. Read-only — for a CI gate use `polylith-check` instead.

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Libs Skill

Quick command

uv run poly libs

Command prefix: If you do not know the package manager, list lock files with ls uv.lock poetry.lock pdm.lock 2>/dev/null (a pyproject.toml is always present, so it tells you nothing on its own). Use uv run poly (uv), poetry poly (poetry), pdm run poly (pdm), hatch run poly (hatch), or poly (activated venv). Examples below use uv run.

poly libs reports; poly check fails the build. Use libs for inspection, check for CI (load polylith-check).

Prerequisites

A Polylith workspace with at least one project.
A lock file at the root (uv.lock, poetry.lock, or pdm.lock).

Command reference

Option	Default	Description
`--strict`	`false`	Stricter matching of names and versions across projects.
`--directory`	cwd	Limit output to projects whose path matches this directory.
`--alias`	—	Comma-separated `import_name=package_name` aliases.
`--short`	`false`	Compact view — useful for wide workspaces.
`--save`	`false`	Persist the report to a file under the workspace's output dir.

Examples

# Full library × project matrix
uv run poly libs

# Strict version-drift detection
uv run poly libs --strict

# Compact view for many projects
uv run poly libs --short

How to read it

Rows are third-party libraries; columns are projects.
✔ = the library is used by that project.
A library used by multiple projects with different versions = version drift. Fix by aligning versions in the relevant project pyproject.tomls, or by relying on a central lock file (uv workspaces).

Notes for the agent

poly libs is read-only — it never modifies pyproject.toml or the lock file.