Help & community

Hit a snag, found a bug, or have a question? Here's where to go.

Ask a question

• image.sc forum — the friendly bioimaging community. Great for "how do I…" questions and analysis advice. No question is too basic.

Report a problem

• GitHub issues — for bugs and feature requests, including the client/plugin (biopb-mcp).

Filing a good report

A little detail goes a long way:

1. What you did — the command or the request you gave your agent.
2. What happened — paste the exact error message.
3. Logs — when a server fails, the full output is in ~/.local/share/biopb/log/; attach the relevant part. For a misbehaving agent session, the kernel log is in ~/.local/share/biopb-mcp/log/sessions/.
4. Your setup — operating system, whether you're on localhost or a remote server, and (for algorithm servers) your GPU/driver.

Source & releases

• Source code: github.com/biopb
• Releases: biopb releases — the release-v* tags are the end-user ones, and what the installer pulls.
• SDK package: biopb on PyPI — the protocol SDK, for building against biopb.

Don't install biopb from PyPI

biopb's own components (biopb-mcp, biopb-tensor-server, biopb-control) are not published to PyPI — they reach you only as the wheel bundle the installer fetches from a release-v* GitHub release. The old biopb-mcp PyPI page is abandoned at a long-stale version; installing from it gets you something years behind. Use the install guide.