I am not a fan of this.&nbsp; The community and design meetings have had a few discussions about tools (PyTools has been presented twice) and a few brief discussions about common patterns to build platforms but I don't think there is real alignment.&nbsp; Each "platform" has its own way of doing things.&nbsp;<br /><br />As for this patch, I don't really want to see a bunch of scripts added to edk2 basetools that are not aligned with a community agreed direction (or any clear direction).&nbsp; It has also been brought up that basetools as a python package/project is a challenge to work with and has some fundamental problems.&nbsp; Adding more in a similar design pattern is not how we start fixing it.&nbsp; &nbsp;As an example for edk2-pytools, an RFC was offered and even then it was added as its own repositories to avoid more directly to the edk2 repo.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br /><br />@Mike K - Any progress on getting a tools subtream setup?&nbsp; Any governance ideas to help align these efforts.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br />Thanks<br />Sean