Welcome to DuckTyper.ai — the official GitHub home of the QuackVerse.
We build open-source tools that make AI education productive, practical, and fun for developers.

DuckTyper is a terminal-based AI tutor and command-line companion designed to help developers learn, explore, and build with generative AI tools.

Think of it as your friendly CLI duck:

• 🧑‍🏫 It teaches you new skills through gamified tutorials and inline quizzes.
• 🛠️ It runs developer tools like QuackPrompt, QuackMetadata, and QuackTokenScope.
• 🔌 It plugs into QuackCore, the modular backend infrastructure powering all logic and integrations.

Whether you're analyzing tokenization, upgrading your prompt engineering, or learning how LangGraph works — DuckTyper walks (or waddles) you through it.

The QuackVerse is our ecosystem of lightweight, focused tools — called QuackTools — that help developers:

• Learn by building
• Analyze AI behavior
• Automate tedious tasks
• Ship prototypes faster

All QuackTools follow a unified plugin architecture and are designed to work both standalone and inside DuckTyper.
They’re built to stay under ~600 LOC to remain teachable, testable, and extendable.

Explore the tools:

• quacktool-template – The base template for building your own tools.
• quackprompt – Prompt engineering playground.
• quacktokenscope – Tokenizer comparison tool.
• quackmetadata – AI metadata extractor for text docs.
• ... and more coming soon!

At the heart of everything is quackcore:
A headless, service-oriented backend that handles integrations, CLI I/O, error handling, and LLM logic.

Use QuackCore if you're:

• Building your own QuackTool
• Contributing to DuckTyper
• Integrating with external APIs like OpenAI, HuggingFace, or Anthropic
• Working with teaching metadata, badges, or plugin registries

DuckTyper is more than a CLI — it’s a game-inspired AI education platform.

👾 Learn by doing: Every QuackTool is a quest.
🏆 Earn XP: Complete chapters, unlock badges, track your progress.
📦 No browser required: All learning happens in the terminal.

Whether you're a beginner or AI-native developer, DuckTyper helps you master tools by shipping real code.

1. Clone DuckTyper:

   git clone https://github.com/ducktyper-ai/ducktyper
   cd ducktyper
   pip install -e .

2. Run your first command:

   ducktyper run quackprompt --interactive

3. Or explore all tools:

   ducktyper list

🗺️ Website: https://ducktyper.ai
🧵 Threads / X: @ducktyper_ai
📺 YouTube Walkthroughs: [Coming soon]
🐤 Discord: [Coming soon]

We’re a one-duck team right now, but we’re open to contributors and collaborators.

We love PRs. Check out:

• 📚 CONTRIBUTING.md
• 🗺️ QuackTool Manifesto

Most repos are MIT. Some QuackTools are proprietary or hybrid-licensed.
See individual repo READMEs for details.

Built with ❤️ by @rodriveracom and the AI Product Engineer community.