Quarto 2

Experimental - This project is under active development. It's not yet ready for production use.

This repository is a Rust implementation of the next version of Quarto. The goal is to replace parts of the TypeScript/Deno runtime with a unified Rust implementation.

Installing

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quarto-dev/q2/main/install.sh | bash

On Windows (PowerShell):

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quarto-dev/q2/main/install.ps1 | iex

The installer downloads the release archive for your platform, verifies its SHA-256 checksum and its Ed25519 signature (minisign, required — brew install minisign / apt install minisign), and installs q2 to ~/.local/bin (override with --dest or Q2_INSTALL_DIR). The signing public key, pinned in install.sh:

RWR2A9ILpZX1kVF3Q6uk5TRus8FDM25H2F+KKKHEuqlxv+JJSLyPalvN

To verify a manually downloaded archive:

minisign -Vm q2-<version>-<platform>.tar.gz -P RWR2A9ILpZX1kVF3Q6uk5TRus8FDM25H2F+KKKHEuqlxv+JJSLyPalvN

The trusted comment should name exactly the file you downloaded.

q2 mcp (the Quarto Hub MCP server) additionally needs Node.js 24+ at runtime; release binaries come with the MCP server and quarto-hub.com connection defaults built in, so no further configuration is needed. Private hub operators can still point elsewhere via the QUARTO_HUB_MCP_CLIENT_ID, QUARTO_HUB_MCP_CLIENT_SECRET, and QUARTO_HUB_SERVER environment variables, which always win over the built-in defaults.

To register it with an MCP client, add an entry that launches q2 mcp (run q2 mcp --print-config to print this snippet):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quarto-hub": {
      "command": "q2",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}

For a non-canonical hub, append the server flag: "args": ["mcp", "--server", "wss://your-hub/ws"]. Run q2 mcp --help for the full launcher + server option list, and q2 mcp --launcher-info to diagnose the embedded bundle and Node.js discovery.

Building

Requires Rust nightly (edition 2024).

# Installs nodejs dependencies for the vite/WASM dependencies

npm install
# Build all Rust crates and binaries and test; build hub-client and its TS test suite
cargo xtask verify

# Just build everything instead (use --release for optimized binaries)
cargo xtask build-all

# Run tests (uses nextest)
cargo nextest run

Contributing

We welcome discussions about the project via GitHub issues.

Status

This is experimental software. All API should be considered unstable and may completely change.

License

MIT - See LICENSE for details.