The August ClickPy report is out: overall downloads cooled over summer time, PyPI recorded 176.6B downloads in August 2026, down 4.5% from July.

The August ClickPy report is out: overall downloads cooled over summer time, PyPI recorded 176.6B downloads in August 2026, down 4.5% from July.

But MCP and AI-agent tooling are still accelerating. 🤖

Notable packages this month:

🔌 mcp-types: 11.7M → 61.3M (+425%), MCP tooling just became a 60M-download dependency ☁️ google-cloud-parametermanager: 862K → 4.82M (+459%), @googlecloud, a 5.6x jump for Google Cloud’s Parameter Manager client 🎨 skia-python: 167K → 4.02M (+2,312%), Python bindings for Google’s graphics engine suddenly went 24x 🤝 openhands: 1.11M → 2.52M (+128%), @OpenHandsDev, the autonomous coding agent has now doubled for four straight months 📈 metricflow: 4.31M → 8.11M (+88%), @dbt_labs, semantic-layer adoption keeps compounding

Full report here: https://t.co/wUeHyHZX0Z