scripts/ held the pre-marketplace MCP servers (gmail, gcal, gmaps, ssh, weather,
google_trends, whatsapp, serpapi_flights). Nothing referenced them any more:
connectors are admin-curated and installed into connectors/ from the
marketplace, and ci/package.sh never shipped scripts/ in the first place — so on
every installed box requirements.txt was pulling google-auth, googlemaps,
paramiko, trendspyg and friends for files that did not exist there.
requirements.txt now states what it is actually for: the two TTS plugins, which
spawn a bare `python3` on an embedded server script and so have no dependency
reconciler of their own. A connector's deps stay with the connector —
`ensure_installed` puts them in .pydeps/node_modules inside the user's
container, `ensure_installed_host` beside the files for a global one.
The venv itself stays load-bearing for those two plugins and for the host pip
that installs a global connector's deps, so the run/install/update scripts keep
creating it — but their "Python MCP servers will be unavailable" warning was
naming the one thing that no longer depends on it, and now says what really
breaks.
CONNECTOR_MANIFEST_GUIDE.md moves to the repo root: it was the one thing in
scripts/ still referenced (CLAUDE.md), and being under a gitignored directory it
had never been committed at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
torch and bitsandbytes pull in hundreds of MB of CUDA libraries
(nvidia_cublas ~423 MB) which are useless on headless servers
without an NVIDIA GPU like the NiPoGi.
- requirements.txt: keep only lightweight essential dependencies
- requirements-optional.txt (new): Orpheus TTS deps (torch, transformers,
bitsandbytes, snac, huggingface_hub)
- Installers and update.sh: show hint about optional deps after install
- ci/package.sh: include requirements-optional.txt in tarball
dguiducciandClaude Opus 5