Install

System Requirements

A2rchi is deployed using a python-based CLI onto containers. It requires:

• docker version 24+ or podman version 5.4.0+ (for containers)
• python 3.10.0+ (for CLI)

Note: We support either running open source models locally, or connecting to existing APIs. If you plan to run open source models on your machine's GPUs, please check out the Advanced Setup & Deployment section for more information.

Install

Clone the a2rchi repo:

git clone https://github.com/mit-submit/A2rchi.git

From the repository run:

pip install -e .

This will install A2rchi's dependencies as well as a local CLI tool. You should be able to see that it is installed with

which a2rchi

which will show the full path of the a2rchi executable.

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/mit-submit/A2rchi.git
cd A2rchi
export A2RCHI_DIR=$(pwd)

# (Optional) Create and activate a virtual environment
python3 -m venv .a2rchi_venv
source .a2rchi_venv/bin/activate

# Install dependencies
cd $A2RCHI_DIR
pip install -e .

# Verify installation
which a2rchi