Summary

First of a planned set under AGX1-292. Zero-risk wins.

The published agentex-sdk wheel declares 44 required runtime deps. Audit found that 8 of them are imported nowhere in src/ and 2 more (pytest, pytest-asyncio) are only used by test files we accidentally ship inside the wheel.

Dropped (zero imports anywhere in src/agentex/**)

Tests stop shipping in the wheel

hatchling's packages = ["src/agentex"] was including 24 test files (tests/, conftest.py, pytest.ini, test_*.py) under src/agentex/lib/. Those forced pytest + pytest-asyncio into the runtime metadata. Added an exclude to the wheel target so they stop shipping; dropped both deps.

The Jinja templates at lib/cli/templates/**/test_agent.py.j2 are intentionally preserved — those render into scaffolded user projects and don't end in .py.

mcp[cli] → mcp

The [cli] extra of mcp pulls typer/rich/pyperclip for the mcp dev CLI; the SDK only uses from mcp import StdioServerParameters.

Verification

python -m build --wheel
unzip -p dist/agentex_sdk-*.whl '*.dist-info/METADATA' | grep -c '^Requires-Dist'
# before: 47    after: 40 (37 required + 3 extras)

unzip -l dist/agentex_sdk-*.whl | grep -cE '(tests/|conftest|pytest\.ini|test_[^/]+\.py$)'
# before: 24    after: 0

unzip -l dist/agentex_sdk-*.whl | grep -c 'test_agent.py.j2'
# 10 (preserved — these are templates, not tests)

Test plan

• CI builds the wheel and Validate PR title passes.
• No Requires-Dist regression in the published wheel after release.
• Downstream agentex-server install (in scaleapi/scale-agentex) still resolves — the deps dropped here either weren't used or are transitively available via siblings (e.g. temporalio brings tz data).

Follow-ups (separate PRs)

• Move ADK/server-side deps to opt-in extras ([adk], [cli], [server], [temporal], [provider-*], [observability]).
• Lazify provider imports in src/agentex/lib/adk/__init__.py so the extras split is safe.

Both tracked in AGX1-292.

Greptile Summary

This maintenance PR removes 8 runtime dependencies that have zero imports anywhere in src/agentex/, downgrades mcp[cli] to mcp (since only StdioServerParameters is imported), and adds hatchling exclude rules to stop test infrastructure files from shipping inside the published wheel.

• All removed packages (tornado, ipykernel, tzlocal, tzdata, datadog, anthropic, pytest, pytest-asyncio) were confirmed to have no direct imports in src/agentex/** — grep returns zero matches for each.
• The four from mcp import StdioServerParameters call sites are all in the core mcp namespace, unaffected by dropping the [cli] extra.
• Wheel exclude patterns (lib/**/tests/**, lib/**/test_*.py, lib/**/conftest.py, lib/**/pytest.ini) correctly cover every test file currently present under src/agentex/lib/.

Confidence Score: 5/5

Safe to merge — all removed packages are confirmed unused in src/ and the wheel exclude patterns cover every test file in the current codebase.

Every dropped dependency was verified to have zero direct imports in src/agentex. The mcp[cli]→mcp narrowing is backed by four call sites that exclusively import StdioServerParameters from the core namespace. The wheel exclude globs match all test files present under src/agentex/lib/, and the Jinja templates are correctly left untouched.

No files require special attention. pyproject.toml is the only changed file and the edits are straightforward.

Important Files Changed

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    A[agentex-sdk wheel] --> B[Runtime deps kept]
    A --> C[Deps removed]
    A --> D[Wheel build target]

    B --> B1[mcp - StdioServerParameters only]
    B --> B2[claude-agent-sdk - transitively pulls anthropic]
    B --> B3[temporalio - transitively pulls tzdata]
    B --> B4[ddtrace - replaced datadog]

    C --> C1[tornado - security pin, unused]
    C --> C2[ipykernel - unused]
    C --> C3[tzlocal / tzdata - transitive via temporalio]
    C --> C4[datadog - confused with ddtrace]
    C --> C5[anthropic - transitive via claude-agent-sdk]
    C --> C6[pytest / pytest-asyncio - test-only]

    D --> E[packages = src/agentex]
    D --> F[exclude patterns added]
    F --> F1[lib/**/tests/**]
    F --> F2[lib/**/test_*.py]
    F --> F3[lib/**/conftest.py]
    F --> F4[lib/**/pytest.ini]
    F --> G[Jinja templates test_agent.py.j2 preserved]

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