# Has Anyone Tried Bittensor?

> Source: <https://www.bittensor.com/docs>
> Published: 2026-07-15 06:53:17+00:00

# Bittensor Documentation

Do anything on the Bittensor chain with the Bittensor SDK and CLI.

Bittensor is an open network where independent **subnets** produce digital
commodities — compute, inference, storage, prediction — and the chain pays
participants in its token, **TAO**, in proportion to the value they contribute.
**Miners** produce the commodity, **validators** score the miners, **subnet
creators** define the incentive mechanism, and **stakers** back validators with
TAO.

These docs cover the `bittensor`

Python SDK and CLI: one install gives you a
library (`import bittensor`

) and a command line (`btcli`

) that together can
perform every user-facing operation on the chain.

[Where to go](#where-to-go)

Quickstart

Install, connect, first query, first transaction — in five minutes.

For agents

How an agent discovers, previews, and safely executes any chain operation.

Transactions

Every state-changing operation, one page each, generated from the SDK.

Queries

Every chain read, one page each, generated from the SDK.

Errors

Every failure carries a machine-readable code and a remediation hint.

Concepts

The network, wallets, money, the client, and the transaction model.

Migrating from v9/v10

Exact mappings from the legacy SDK and btcli to the unified v11 package.

[Install](#install)

Requires Python 3.10–3.13. Using [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/):

```
uv venv && source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install bittensor
```

This installs both the `btcli`

command and the `bittensor`

Python package.

[Machine-readable everything](#machine-readable-everything)

If you are an agent (or building one), you never need to scrape these pages:

— index of every page;`/llms.txt`

— the entire docs in one file.`/llms-full.txt`

- Every page is fetchable as raw markdown: append
`content.md`

under`/llms.mdx/docs/...`

(linked from each page). — every transaction with its JSON schema, signer, and summary.`/catalog/intents.json`

— every query with parameters and docs.`/catalog/reads.json`

— every error code with remediation, and the full chain-error classification.`/catalog/errors.json`

- The same catalogs, live from the tool itself:
`btcli tools`

on the CLI,`sub.intents.list_tools()`

in Python.