{"categories":[{"label":"Software Development","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development/11"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"pip-chill generates a minimal requirements file listing only the top-level packages you explicitly installed, filtering out their transitive dependencies.","skillfed_tags":["requirements-management","cli-tool"],"use_cases":["Generate a clean requirements.txt for a new project by capturing only the packages you explicitly installed.","Audit and reduce bloat in an existing requirements file by removing transitive dependencies that should be implicit.","Maintain reproducible builds by pinning only direct dependencies and letting package managers resolve transitive versions.","Compare what you actually need versus what pip freeze reports, to understand your project's true dependency surface.","Automate requirements file generation in CI/CD pipelines where you want to track only top-level packages."],"what_it_does":"pip-chill is a command-line tool that reads your current Python environment and outputs a requirements file containing only the packages you explicitly installed, omitting all their transitive dependencies. Unlike `pip freeze`, which lists every installed package regardless of whether you directly depend on it, pip-chill distinguishes between top-level packages and their dependencies, producing a cleaner and more maintainable requirements file.\n\nThe tool runs as a simple console command with optional flags to exclude version pinning, exclude pip-chill itself from the output, or include verbose dependency annotations. It has no runtime dependencies and supports Python 3.10 through 3.14, making it lightweight and easy to integrate into any Python workflow or CI/CD pipeline.","worth_installing":"Yes. pip-chill solves a real problem\u2014pip freeze is too verbose for most use cases\u2014with zero installation friction, no dependencies, active maintenance, and a copyleft license that poses no practical barrier to use as a development tool. Install it if you regularly manage Python requirements files and want a cleaner alternative to pip freeze."},"id":"pip-chill","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/pip-chill","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/pip-chill.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/pip-chill/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-03-15","license_spdx":"GPL-3.0-or-later","license_treatment":"copyleft","name":"pip-chill","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Like `pip freeze` but lists only the packages that are not dependencies of installed packages."},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":247554,"position":8688,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.0.5"}