Python UI toolkit for desktop, notebook, and web apps

PyWry is a cross-platform rendering engine and desktop UI toolkit for Python. One API, three output targets:

• Native window — OS webview via PyTauri. Not Qt, not Electron. Use unrestricted HTML/CSS/JS.
• Jupyter widget — anywidget + FastAPI + WebSocket, works in JupyterLab, VS Code, and Colab.
• Browser tab — FastAPI server with Redis state backend for horizontal scaling.

Build Once, Render Anywhere: Prototype interactive data apps in a Jupyter Notebook, easily deploy them as web apps, and seamlessly compile them into secure, lightweight standalone desktop executables via pywry[freeze].

Installation

Python 3.10–3.14, virtual environment recommended.

pip install pywry

Core extras:

Extra	When to use
pip install 'pywry[notebook]'	Jupyter / anywidget integration
pip install 'pywry[auth]'	OAuth2 and keyring-backed auth support
pip install 'pywry[freeze]'	PyInstaller hook for standalone executables
pip install 'pywry[mcp]'	Model Context Protocol server support
pip install 'pywry[sqlite]'	Encrypted SQLite state backend (SQLCipher)
pip install 'pywry[all]'	Everything above

Chat provider extras:

Extra	When to use
pip install 'pywry[openai]'	OpenAIProvider (OpenAI SDK)
pip install 'pywry[anthropic]'	AnthropicProvider (Anthropic SDK)
pip install 'pywry[magentic]'	MagenticProvider (any magentic-supported LLM)
pip install 'pywry[acp]'	StdioProvider (Agent Client Protocol subprocess)
pip install 'pywry[deepagent]'	DeepagentProvider (LangChain Deep Agents — includes MCP adapters and ACP)

The chat UI itself is included in the base package. Provider extras only install the matching third-party SDK.

Linux only — install system webview dependencies first:

sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libgtk-3-dev libglib2.0-dev \
    libxkbcommon-x11-0 libxcb-icccm4 libxcb-image0 libxcb-keysyms1 \
    libxcb-randr0 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-xfixes0 \
    libxcb-shape0 libgl1 libegl1

Quick Start

from pywry import PyWry

app = PyWry()
app.show("Hello World!")
app.block()

Toolbar + callbacks

from pywry import PyWry, Toolbar, Button

app = PyWry()

def on_click(data, event_type, label):
    app.emit("pywry:set-content", {"selector": "h1", "text": "Clicked!"}, label)

app.show(
    "<h1>Hello</h1>",
    toolbars=[Toolbar(position="top", items=[Button(label="Click me", event="app:click")])],
    callbacks={"app:click": on_click},
)
app.block()

Pandas DataFrame → AgGrid

from pywry import PyWry
import pandas as pd

app = PyWry()
df = pd.DataFrame({"name": ["Alice", "Bob", "Carol"], "age": [30, 25, 35]})

def on_select(data, event_type, label):
    names = ", ".join(row["name"] for row in data["rows"])
    app.emit("pywry:alert", {"message": f"Selected: {names}"}, label)

app.show_dataframe(df, callbacks={"grid:row-selected": on_select})
app.block()

Plotly chart

from pywry import PyWry
import plotly.express as px

app = PyWry(theme="light")
fig = px.scatter(px.data.iris(), x="sepal_width", y="sepal_length", color="species")
app.show_plotly(fig)
app.block()

Features

• Toolbar components — Button, Select, MultiSelect, TextInput, SecretInput, SliderInput, RangeInput, Toggle, Checkbox, RadioGroup, TabGroup, Marquee, Modal, and more. All Pydantic models; position them around the content edges or inside the chart area.
• Two-way events — app.emit() and app.on() bridge Python and JavaScript in both directions. Pre-wired Plotly and AgGrid events included.
• Chat — streaming chat widget with threads, slash commands, artifacts, and pluggable providers: OpenAIProvider, AnthropicProvider, MagenticProvider, CallbackProvider, StdioProvider (ACP subprocess), and DeepagentProvider (LangChain Deep Agents).
• TradingView charts — extended Lightweight Charts integration with a full drawing surface (trendlines, fib tools, text annotations, price notes, brushes), pluggable datafeed API, UDF adapter for external quote servers, streaming bar updates, compare overlays, compare-derivative indicators (Spread / Ratio / Sum / Product / Correlation), savable layouts, and a themeable settings panel.
• Theming — light / dark / system modes, themeable via --pywry-* CSS variables, hot reload during development.
• Security — token auth, CSP headers, SecuritySettings.strict() / .permissive() / .localhost() presets. SecretInput stores values server-side, never in HTML.
• State backends — in-memory (default), Redis (multi-worker), or SQLite with SQLCipher encryption at rest.
• Standalone executables — PyInstaller hook ships with pywry[freeze]. No .spec edits or --hidden-import flags required.
• MCP server — drive widgets, charts, and dashboards from any Model Context Protocol client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.).

MCP Server

pip install 'pywry[mcp]'
pywry mcp --transport stdio

Widget-creating tools — create_widget, show_plotly, show_dataframe, show_tvchart, create_chat_widget — return an AppArtifact: a self-contained HTML snapshot delivered as an MCP EmbeddedResource with mimeType: text/html and URI pywry-app://<widget_id>/<revision>. Clients that render HTML resources (Claude Desktop's artifact pane, mcp-ui clients, PyWry's own chat widget) show the app inline.

Each render bumps a per-widget revision. The latest revision keeps a live WebSocket bridge to Python; older revisions freeze at their last known state. Call get_widget_app(widget_id) to re-snapshot after a mutation.

See the MCP docs for tool reference and client setup.

Claude Code Plugin

Installable under claude/plugins/pywry/ as one /plugin install unit. Ships:

• MCP server — same 66 tools as above, auto-connected
• pywry-orientation skill — teaches the agent when to reach for PyWry tools
• Slash commands — /pywry:doctor, /pywry:scaffold, /pywry:examples
• pywry-builder subagent — for multi-step widget construction
• Post-edit hook — runs ruff format on touched .py files

Install:

/plugin marketplace add deeleeramone/PyWry --path claude/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json
/plugin install pywry@pywry

Prerequisite: pip install 'pywry[dev]' (or pywry[all]). Then /pywry:doctor to verify.

PyPI-bundled install (skips the GitHub round-trip once pywry is already installed):

pywry plugin-path          # prints the bundled plugin root

/plugin marketplace add $(pywry plugin-path)
/plugin install pywry@pywry

See claude/README.md for the full install-path matrix, mono-repo layout, and versioning policy.

Standalone Executables

pip install 'pywry[freeze]'
pyinstaller --windowed --name MyApp my_app.py

The output in dist/MyApp/ is fully self-contained. Target machines need no Python installation — only the OS webview (WebView2 on Windows 10 1803+, WKWebView on macOS, libwebkit2gtk on Linux).

Documentation

deeleeramone.github.io/PyWry

• Getting Started — installation, quick start, rendering paths
• Concepts — events, configuration, state, hot reload, RBAC
• Components — live previews for all toolbar components
• API Reference — auto-generated docs for every class and function
• MCP Server — AI agent integration

CI and Release Policy

• Protected branches: main and develop.
• Required PR checks: CI Required and Docs Required.
• Docs deployment: GitHub Pages redeploys only on post-merge pushes to main.
• SBOM policy: sbom.xml and sbom.json are produced during release workflows and bundled with release artifacts, not tracked at repository root.

License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.