Building from Source

This guide is for contributors who want to build the Rust core and Python bindings from source.

Prerequisites

• Rust 1.75+
• Python 3.9+
• maturin

Clone

git clone https://github.com/briefcasebrain/briefcase-ai-sdk.git
cd briefcase-ai-sdk

Build

cargo build --release

Run Tests

cargo test

Build Python Bindings

pip install maturin
maturin develop --release

This compiles the Rust core and installs the Python package in development mode. See Development for the full contributor workflow.