# Python SDK

The `avidtools` package is the official Python toolkit for working with AVID resources. It empowers engineers and developers build pipelines to export outcomes of tests in their ML pipelines as AVID reports, build an in-house vulnerability database, integrate existing sources of vulnerabilities into AVID-style reports, and much more!

### Features

* 📎 **Data models**: definition of AVID report/vulnerability schema as [pydantic](https://docs.pydantic.dev/) models
* 🏄 **Connectors**: ingestion from relevant data sources, e.g. MITRE ATLAS case studies and NIST CVEs

In this section, we'll provide overview and usage examples for `avidtools`. For more details, check out the [API Reference](https://avidml.org/avidtools).

### Installation

To install `avidtools` from PyPI, run:

```
pip install avidtools
```

To install the latest development version from GitHub, use:

```bash
python -m pip install -U git+https://github.com/avidml/avidtools.git@main
```


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