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Description

This is an unintended side effect rather than an important problem.
pydantic-ai is just a public packaging interface, with no content whatsoever, for installing other dependencies implemented in this monorepo. The reason installing pydantic-ai places the README.md file in site-packages/ is purely that any artifact is needed to just build the wheel and have pydantic-ai be a separate package. However, we can produce empty wheels with metadata only -- using bypass-selection.

See #92 for more prior discussion.

Example Code

uv venv &>/dev/null && \
    uv pip install pydantic-ai &>/dev/null && \
    tree -L1 --filesfirst .venv/lib/*/site-packages/ | \
    grep -E '(.venv/|README.md)' && \
    echo && head .venv/lib/*/site-packages/README.md

This repro outputs:

.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/
├── README.md

<div align="center">
  <a href="https://ai.pydantic.dev/">
    <picture>
      <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://ai.pydantic.dev/img/pydantic-ai-dark.svg">
      <img src="https://ai.pydantic.dev/img/pydantic-ai-light.svg" alt="Pydantic AI">
    </picture>
  </a>
</div>
<div align="center">
  <h3>GenAI Agent Framework, the Pydantic way</h3>

I'd expect there was no unrelated README file in .venv/lib/*/site-packages/ instead.

Python, Pydantic AI & LLM client version

Python 3.13, no Pydantic, no LLM client
(not relevant)