Installation

Spine ships as the synaptixs-spine package. The CLI is orchestrator; the MCP server is orchestrator-mcp. Requires Python 3.11+.

Core

pip install synaptixs-spine

This gives you deterministic, no-LLM comprehension across 8 languages and the full orchestrator CLI.

With optional extras

Spine has 16 optional extras — install only what you need.

# PDF + Word/Excel document ingestion
pip install 'synaptixs-spine[docs,office]'

# the assistant plugin server (Claude Code / Codex)
pip install 'synaptixs-spine[mcp]'

# everything above, plus SQL, Go, TUI and OpenTelemetry
pip install 'synaptixs-spine[docs,office,mcp,sql,go,tui,otel]'

Extra	Adds
`docs`	`.pdf` ingestion
`office`	`.docx`, `.xlsx` ingestion
`mcp`	the `orchestrator-mcp` assistant plugin server
`sql`	SQL data-layer parsing
`go`	Go language support
`tui`	the terminal UI
`otel`	OpenTelemetry export

Verify

orchestrator --version   # → 3.8.2
orchestrator understand .