graphrag/docs/developing.md

Development Guide

Requirements

Name	Installation	Purpose
Python 3.10-3.12	Download	The library is Python-based.
uv	Instructions	uv is used for package management and virtualenv management in Python codebases

Getting Started

Install Dependencies

# install python dependencies
uv sync --all-packages

Execute the Indexing Engine

uv run poe index <...args>

Executing Queries

uv run poe query <...args>

Azurite

Some unit and smoke tests use Azurite to emulate Azure resources. This can be started by running:

./scripts/start-azurite.sh

or by simply running azurite in the terminal if already installed globally. See the Azurite documentation for more information about how to install and use Azurite.

Lifecycle Scripts

Our Python package utilize uv to manage dependencies and poethepoet to manage build scripts.

Available scripts are:

• uv run poe index - Run the Indexing CLI
• uv run poe query - Run the Query CLI
• uv build - This will build a wheel file and other distributable artifacts.
• uv run poe test - This will execute all tests.
• uv run poe test_unit - This will execute unit tests.
• uv run poe test_integration - This will execute integration tests.
• uv run poe test_smoke - This will execute smoke tests.
• uv run poe test_verbs - This will execute tests of the basic workflows.
• uv run poe check - This will perform a suite of static checks across the package, including:
  • formatting
  • documentation formatting
  • linting
  • security patterns
  • type-checking
• uv run poe fix - This will apply any available auto-fixes to the package. Usually this is just formatting fixes.
• uv run poe fix_unsafe - This will apply any available auto-fixes to the package, including those that may be unsafe.
• uv run poe format - Explicitly run the formatter across the package.

Troubleshooting

"RuntimeError: llvm-config failed executing, please point LLVM_CONFIG to the path for llvm-config" when running uv install

Make sure llvm-9 and llvm-9-dev are installed:

sudo apt-get install llvm-9 llvm-9-dev

and then in your bashrc, add

export LLVM_CONFIG=/usr/bin/llvm-config-9