Installation

Spine ships as the synaptixs-spine package. The CLI is orchestrator; the MCP server is orchestrator-mcp. Requires Python 3.12+.

Core

pip install synaptixs-spine

This gives you deterministic, no-LLM comprehension across all 9 language front-ends and the full orchestrator CLI (55 commands, 7 areas).

The full install

pip install 'synaptixs-spine[all]'

[all] is the recommended install for the assistant plugin: every language front-end, the MCP server, and PDF + Word/Excel ingestion.

[mcp] alone is a Python-only graph

pip install 'synaptixs-spine[mcp]' installs the server but only the Python front-end — a Java, Go or C# repo then yields zero nodes rather than an error. For the assistant plugin across every language, use [all] (or [languages,mcp]).

Targeted extras

Install only what you need:

Extra	Adds
all	every front-end + MCP server + doc/office ingestion (recommended)
languages	all 9 language front-ends
mcp	the orchestrator-mcp assistant plugin server
docs	.pdf ingestion
office	.docx, .xlsx ingestion
sql	SQL data-layer comprehension + codegen
go	Go language support
php	PHP language support (comprehension only — no codegen yet)
media	opt-in image OCR (Tesseract) + media transcripts — off by default
asr	opt-in audio/video transcription (local Whisper)
otel	OpenTelemetry export

Verify

orchestrator --version   # → 3.33.0
orchestrator understand .

No credentials needed

The comprehension layer is read-only and writes nothing. You can point it at any repository without configuring tokens or secrets.