generated: '2026-08-06'
method: searched
source: >-
  PyPI JSON API (https://pypi.org/pypi/qiskit-alice-bob-provider/json, 200) and the
  Alice & Bob GitHub organization API (https://api.github.com/orgs/Alice-Bob-SW, 200,
  11 public repos), cross-checked against the install instructions at
  https://felis.alice-bob.com/docs/getting_started/install_the_qiskit_provider/.
description: >-
  Alice & Bob distributes exactly one first-party client library: the Qiskit provider
  for Felis Cloud, published to PyPI from the Alice-Bob-SW GitHub organization. It is
  both the local emulator package and the remote client for the Felis Cloud REST API —
  the docs describe it as the reference implementation of the API. No first-party
  JavaScript, Go, Java, .NET, Ruby, PHP or Rust client is published; those registries
  were probed and returned no Alice & Bob package.

packages:
  - language: python
    registry: pypi
    name: qiskit-alice-bob-provider
    official: true
    url: https://pypi.org/project/qiskit-alice-bob-provider/
    source: https://github.com/Alice-Bob-SW/qiskit-alice-bob-provider
    license: Apache-2.0
    latest_stable: 1.2.0
    latest_prerelease: 1.3.0b4
    releases: 36
    requires_python: '>=3.9,<3.14'
    install: pip install qiskit-alice-bob-provider
    summary: >-
      Provider for running Qiskit circuits on Alice & Bob QPUs and simulators. Ships
      both AliceBobRemoteProvider (calls the Felis Cloud REST API with an API key) and
      AliceBobLocalProvider (local cat-qubit emulators, no account required).
    covers_api: Felis Cloud API

# Not client libraries, but first-party open-source tooling in the same GitHub org.
related_repositories:
  - name: felis
    url: https://github.com/Alice-Bob-SW/felis
    official: true
    role: Source of the Felis documentation site and the sample notebooks.
  - name: emulation-examples
    url: https://github.com/Alice-Bob-SW/emulation-examples
    official: true
    role: Example notebooks emulating cat-qubit quantum processors.
  - name: qsharp-alice-bob-resource-estimator
    url: https://github.com/Alice-Bob-SW/qsharp-alice-bob-resource-estimator
    official: true
    role: >-
      Extension of the Microsoft Q# resource estimator for cat qubits plus the
      repetition code. Distributed as source only — no published package found on
      PyPI, crates.io or NuGet.
  - name: qiskit-qir
    url: https://github.com/Alice-Bob-SW/qiskit-qir
    official: true
    role: Qiskit-to-QIR translator (fork), the input format the Felis Cloud API accepts.

registries_probed:
  - {registry: pypi, result: hit, note: 'qiskit-alice-bob-provider (200); qsharp-alice-bob-resource-estimator, alice-bob, felis-cloud, alice-bob-sdk all 404.'}
  - {registry: npm, result: miss, note: 'The npm package named "alice-bob" (200) is an unrelated RPC library by GitHub user stagas — NOT Alice & Bob. @alice-bob/sdk and qiskit-alice-bob 404.'}
  - {registry: crates.io, result: miss, note: 'Search for "alice-bob" returned no Alice & Bob crate.'}
  - {registry: maven-central, result: miss}
  - {registry: nuget, result: miss}
  - {registry: rubygems, result: miss}
  - {registry: packagist, result: miss}
  - {registry: pkg.go.dev, result: miss}