MediaPipe is a cross-platform framework for building multimodal machine learning pipelines, primarily targeting on-device inference. It provides a graph-based execution model where modular 'calculators' process typed 'packets' through directed acyclic graphs. The framework includes a rich library of pre-built calculators for image processing, tensor manipulation, audio analysis, and ML inference, as well as high-level task APIs for vision (face/hand/pose landmarking, image classification, segmentation), text (classification, language detection), audio (classification), and generative AI (LLM inference). The architecture is layered: a core C++ framework (mediapipe/framework/) defines the graph runtime, stream handlers, and packet infrastructure; a calculator library (mediapipe/calculators/) provides reusable processing nodes; and task-specific APIs (mediapipe/tasks/) offer consistent interfaces across C++, Java, Python, iOS, Web, and C. The system relies on TensorFlow Lite (LiteRT) for model execution, OpenCV for image operations, protobuf for configuration, and Abseil for utilities. Key entry points include the Python package (mediapipe/__init__.py), the C++ task APIs (mediapipe/tasks/cc/), and the web TypeScript modules (mediapipe/web/). The codebase is large and actively developed, with ongoing migration from older API patterns to newer ones (api2/api3), and some deprecated components (legacy Python solutions, older calculator interfaces).