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Repo Loader

The repo-loading stage turns selected tool records into local source trees inside the workspace.

What happens​

  1. Resolve unique repository URLs from the matched tool records.
  2. Warm the local bare-repo cache for missing repositories.
  3. Clone each repo into workspace/tools/.
  4. Optionally install requirements.txt into the workspace venv.

Why the cache comes first​

The evaluation suite relies on a warmed cache so worker processes do not repeatedly hit the network. This keeps large build experiments both faster and more stable.

Workspace layout​

toolstorepy_workspace/
├── tools/
├── index_db/
├── .venv/
└── mcp_unified_server.py

Index download step​

Before any repositories are cloned, ToolStorePy downloads or reuses an index archive and extracts it under:

workspace/index_db/