Add local RPG-Kit template source and managed venv setup

.github/workflows/rpgkit-pre-release.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - dev
-      - "dev/**"
     paths:
       - "RPG-Kit/**"
       - ".github/workflows/rpgkit-pre-release.yml"

.github/workflows/scripts/rpgkit/create-release-packages.ps1

@@ -156,6 +156,11 @@ function Build-Variant {
     $specDir = Join-Path $baseDir ".rpgkit"
     New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $specDir -Force | Out-Null
 
+    if (Test-Path "pyproject.toml") {
+        Copy-Item -Path "pyproject.toml" -Destination (Join-Path $specDir "pyproject.toml") -Force
+        Write-Host "Copied pyproject.toml -> .rpgkit"
+    }
+
     # Copy memory directory
     if (Test-Path "memory") {
         Copy-Item -Path "memory" -Destination $specDir -Recurse -Force

.github/workflows/scripts/rpgkit/create-release-packages.sh

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]; then
   exit 1
 fi
 NEW_VERSION="$1"
+PYTHON_BIN="${PYTHON:-python3}"
 if [[ ! $NEW_VERSION =~ ^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-.+)?$ ]]; then
   echo "Version must look like v0.0.0 or v0.0.0-dev.1" >&2
   exit 1
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ EOF
 
 create_archive() {
   local source_dir=$1 archive_path=$2
-  python - "$source_dir" "$archive_path" <<'PY'
+  "$PYTHON_BIN" - "$source_dir" "$archive_path" <<'PY'
 from pathlib import Path
 import sys
 import zipfile
@@ -113,7 +114,9 @@ build_variant() {
 
   # Create empty data directory for runtime output
   mkdir -p "$SPEC_DIR/data"
-
+
+  [[ -f pyproject.toml ]] && { cp pyproject.toml "$SPEC_DIR/pyproject.toml"; echo "Copied pyproject.toml -> .rpgkit"; }
+
   [[ -d memory ]] && { cp -r memory "$SPEC_DIR/"; echo "Copied memory -> .rpgkit"; }
 
   # Only copy the relevant script variant directory

.gitignore

@@ -420,3 +420,4 @@ FodyWeavers.xsd
 # RPG-Kit release artifacts
 RPG-Kit/.genreleases/
 release_notes.md
+workspace/

README.md

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 **RPG-ZeroRepo turns Repository Planning Graphs into a control layer for long-horizon AI coding agents.**
 
-[![Paper 1: arXiv:2509.16198](https://img.shields.io/badge/Paper%201-arXiv%3A2509.16198-b31a1b)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16198)
-[![Paper 2: arXiv:2602.02084](https://img.shields.io/badge/Paper%202-arXiv%3A2602.02084-b31a1b)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02084)
+[![RPG-ZeroRepo: arXiv:2509.16198](https://img.shields.io/badge/Paper%201-arXiv%3A2509.16198-b31a1b)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16198)
+[![RPG-Encoder: arXiv:2602.02084](https://img.shields.io/badge/Paper%202-arXiv%3A2602.02084-b31a1b)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02084)
 [![ICLR 2026](https://img.shields.io/badge/ICLR-2026-blue.svg)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16198)
 [![ICML 2026](https://img.shields.io/badge/ICML-2026-blue.svg)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02084)
 [![Python 3.11+](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.11+-blue.svg)](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
@@ -21,11 +21,13 @@ The repository also includes the research code: **[ZeroRepo](#zerorepo-requireme
 
 ## News
 
-- [2026-05-15] 🔥 **RPG-Kit** is now open source for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot. It uses Repository Planning Graphs as a control layer for long-horizon coding agents, including planning, multi-file generation, repository understanding, and graph-aware updates.
+- [2026-05-15] 🚀 **RPG-Kit** is now open source for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot. It uses Repository Planning Graphs as a control layer for long-horizon coding agents, including planning, multi-file generation, repository understanding, and graph-aware updates.
 - [2026-05-01] 🎉 **RPG-Encoder** ([*Closing the Loop: Universal Repository Representation with RPG-Encoder*](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02084)) has been accepted to **ICML 2026**.
-- [2026-03-02] 🔥 We have open-sourced the **EpiCoder Feature Tree** at [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/datasets/microsoft/EpiCoder-meta-features), providing structured knowledge for repository planning in **ZeroRepo**.
-- [2026-02-27] 🔥 We released the code for [RPG-Encoder](zerorepo/rpg_encoder/) and [RepoCraft](repocraft/).
-- [2026-01-26] 🔥 [RPG-ZeroRepo](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16198) was accepted as a poster at ICLR 2026.
+- [2026-03-02] 🚀 We have open-sourced the **EpiCoder Feature Tree** at [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/datasets/microsoft/EpiCoder-meta-features), providing structured knowledge for repository planning in **ZeroRepo**.
+- [2026-02-27] 🚀 We released the code for [RPG-Encoder](zerorepo/rpg_encoder/) and [RepoCraft](repocraft/).
+- [2026-02-02] 🔥 Our paper "[Closing the Loop: Universal Repository Representation with RPG-Encoder](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02084)" has been released on arXiv.
+- [2026-01-26] 🎉 [RPG-ZeroRepo](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16198) was accepted as a poster at ICLR 2026.
+- [2025-09-19] 🔥 Our paper "[RPG: A Repository Planning Graph for Unified and Scalable Codebase Generation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16198)" has been released on arXiv.
 
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