Writing Python Scripts

Prerequisites

This skill extends myai's engineering-principles. Load that first. using-my-skills and engineering-principles are assumed already loaded via myai bootstrap.

For the general engineering philosophy, see myai's engineering-principles. This skill covers only Python-specific script patterns: PEP 723 inline metadata, uv run --script, typer CLI, and single-file conventions.

Single-file scripts use PEP 723 inline metadata for dependencies, executed via uv run --script. All type safety and error handling rules from writing-python-code still apply.

When to Use Single Script