diff --git a/api/src/api/v2.ts b/api/src/api/v2.ts
index 69f6d3d..b8bd8cb 100644
--- a/api/src/api/v2.ts
+++ b/api/src/api/v2.ts
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ const SIGNALS = [
 function get_job(body: RequestBody): Promise<Job> {
     let {
         language,
+        tool,
         version,
         args,
         stdin,
@@ -159,6 +160,7 @@ function get_job(body: RequestBody): Promise<Job> {
                     run: run_memory_limit,
                     compile: compile_memory_limit,
                 },
+                tool
             })
         );
     });
@@ -291,6 +293,22 @@ router.post('/execute', async (req, res) => {
     }
 });
 
+router.post('/tooling',async (req, res) => {
+    try {
+        const job = await get_job(req.body);
+
+        await job.prime();
+
+        const result = await job.analysis();
+
+        await job.cleanup();
+
+        return res.status(200).send(result);
+    } catch (error) {
+        return res.status(400).json(error)
+    }
+})
+
 router.get('/runtimes', (req, res) => {
     const runtimes = _runtimes.map(rt => {
         return {
@@ -298,6 +316,7 @@ router.get('/runtimes', (req, res) => {
             version: rt.version.raw,
             aliases: rt.aliases,
             runtime: rt.runtime,
+            tooling: rt.tooling
         };
     });
 
diff --git a/api/src/job.ts b/api/src/job.ts
index db5d77c..86b4a1e 100644
--- a/api/src/job.ts
+++ b/api/src/job.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { spawn } from 'child_process';
 import { join, relative, dirname } from 'node:path';
 import config from './config.js';
 import * as globals from './globals.js';
+import { type Runtime } from './runtime.js';
 import {
     mkdir,
     chown,
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ import { readdirSync, readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
 import wait_pid from 'waitpid';
 import EventEmitter from 'events';
 
-import { File, ResponseBody } from './types.js';
+import { File, LimitObject, ResponseBody } from './types.js';
 
 const job_states = {
     READY: Symbol('Ready to be primed'),
@@ -42,35 +43,40 @@ setInterval(() => {
 export default class Job {
     uuid: string;
     logger: Logger;
-    runtime: any;
+    runtime: Runtime;
+    tool?: string;
     files: File[];
     args: string[];
     stdin: string;
-    timeouts: { compile: number; run: number };
-    memory_limits: { compile: number; run: number };
+    timeouts: LimitObject;
+    memory_limits: LimitObject;
     uid: number;
     gid: number;
     state: symbol;
     dir: string;
     constructor({
         runtime,
+        tool,
         files,
         args,
         stdin,
         timeouts,
         memory_limits,
     }: {
-        runtime: unknown;
+        runtime: Runtime;
+        tool?: string;
         files: File[];
         args: string[];
         stdin: string;
-        timeouts: { compile: number; run: number };
-        memory_limits: { compile: number; run: number };
+        timeouts: LimitObject;
+        memory_limits: LimitObject;
     }) {
         this.uuid = uuidv4();
 
         this.logger = create(`job/${this.uuid}`, {});
-
+        
+        this.tool = tool;
+        
         this.runtime = runtime;
         this.files = files.map((file: File, i: number) => ({
             name: file.name || `file${i}.code`,
@@ -80,6 +86,7 @@ export default class Job {
                 : 'utf8',
         }));
 
+
         this.args = args;
         this.stdin = stdin;
 
@@ -193,6 +200,7 @@ export default class Job {
                 env: {
                     ...this.runtime.env_vars,
                     PISTON_LANGUAGE: this.runtime.language,
+                    PISTON_TOOLING: this.tool
                 },
                 stdio: 'pipe',
                 cwd: this.dir,
@@ -271,6 +279,45 @@ export default class Job {
         });
     }
 
+    async analysis() {
+        if (this.state !== job_states.PRIMED) {
+            throw new Error(
+                'Job must be in primed state, current state: ' +
+                    this.state.toString()
+            );
+        }
+
+        if (!this.runtime.tooling.includes(this.tool)) {
+            throw new Error(
+                `Tool ${this.tool} does not exist on ${this.runtime.toString()}`
+            )
+        }
+
+        this.logger.info(`Tooling job runtime=${this.runtime.toString()}; tooling=${this.tool}`);
+
+        const code_files =
+            (this.runtime.language === 'file' && this.files) ||
+            this.files.filter((file: File) => file.encoding == 'utf8');
+
+
+        const output = await this.safe_call(
+            join(this.runtime.pkgdir, 'tooling'),
+            code_files.map(x => x.name),
+            this.timeouts.run,
+            this.memory_limits.run
+        );
+
+        this.logger.debug('Analyzing')
+
+
+        return {
+            output,
+            language: this.runtime.language,
+            tool: this.tool,
+            version: this.runtime.version.raw
+        }
+    }
+
     async execute() {
         if (this.state !== job_states.PRIMED) {
             throw new Error(
diff --git a/api/src/runtime.ts b/api/src/runtime.ts
index ae2c445..1072f4e 100644
--- a/api/src/runtime.ts
+++ b/api/src/runtime.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ export const runtimes: Runtime[] = [];
 
 export class Runtime {
     language: string;
+    tooling: string[];
     version: SemVer;
     aliases: string[];
     pkgdir: string;
@@ -26,10 +27,11 @@ export class Runtime {
     _env_vars?: Record<string, any>;
     constructor(o: {
         language: string;
+        tooling?: string[];
         version: SemVer;
         aliases: string[];
         pkgdir: string;
-        runtime?: any;
+        runtime?: string;
         timeouts: { run: number; compile: number };
         memory_limits: { run: number; compile: number };
         max_process_count: number;
@@ -38,6 +40,7 @@ export class Runtime {
         output_max_size: number;
     }) {
         this.language = o.language;
+        this.tooling = o.tooling;
         this.version = o.version;
         this.aliases = o.aliases || [];
         this.pkgdir = o.pkgdir;
@@ -128,6 +131,7 @@ export class Runtime {
             aliases,
             provides,
             limit_overrides,
+            tooling
         } = info;
         const version = parse(_version);
 
@@ -145,6 +149,7 @@ export class Runtime {
                     new Runtime({
                         language: lang.language,
                         aliases: lang.aliases,
+                        tooling,
                         version,
                         pkgdir: package_dir,
                         runtime: language,
@@ -160,6 +165,7 @@ export class Runtime {
                 new Runtime({
                     language,
                     version,
+                    tooling,
                     aliases,
                     pkgdir: package_dir,
                     ...Runtime.compute_all_limits(language, limit_overrides),
diff --git a/api/src/types.ts b/api/src/types.ts
index 68eb36a..73d6910 100644
--- a/api/src/types.ts
+++ b/api/src/types.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 export interface Metadata {
     language: string;
     version: string;
+    tooling?: string[];
     aliases?: string[];
     dependencies?: Record<string, string>;
     provides: {
@@ -23,6 +24,8 @@ export type Limit =
 
 export type Limits = Record<Limit, number>;
 
+export type LimitObject = { compile: number; run: number; };
+
 export type LanguageMetadata = {
     language: string;
     version: string;
@@ -37,6 +40,7 @@ export type File = {
 };
 export type RequestBody = {
     language: string;
+    tool?: string;
     version: string;
     files: Array<File>;
     stdin?: string;
diff --git a/packages/.gitignore b/packages/.gitignore
index d98ab0b..707d48d 100644
--- a/packages/.gitignore
+++ b/packages/.gitignore
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@
 !*/*/environment
 !*/*/run
 !*/*/compile
-!*/*/test.*
\ No newline at end of file
+!*/*/test.*
+!*/*/tooling.*
diff --git a/packages/python/3.10.0/build.sh b/packages/python/3.10.0/build.sh
index 00c839a..e5d415a 100755
--- a/packages/python/3.10.0/build.sh
+++ b/packages/python/3.10.0/build.sh
@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ cd ..
 
 rm -rf build
 
-bin/pip3 install numpy scipy pandas pycrypto whoosh bcrypt passlib sympy
+bin/pip3 install numpy scipy pandas pycrypto whoosh bcrypt passlib sympy flake8 mypy ruff
diff --git a/packages/python/3.10.0/metadata.json b/packages/python/3.10.0/metadata.json
index b767f8d..4ac5ce7 100644
--- a/packages/python/3.10.0/metadata.json
+++ b/packages/python/3.10.0/metadata.json
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
     "language": "python",
     "version": "3.10.0",
-    "aliases": ["py", "py3", "python3", "python3.10"]
+    "aliases": ["py", "py3", "python3", "python3.10"],
+    "tooling": ["flake8", "mypy", "ruff"]
 }