diff --git a/docs/emane.md b/docs/emane.md
index 716d7059..bbd3b0a4 100644
--- a/docs/emane.md
+++ b/docs/emane.md
@@ -50,23 +50,6 @@ can also subscribe to EMANE location events and move the nodes on the canvas
 as they are moved in the EMANE emulation. This would occur when an Emulation
 Script Generator, for example, is running a mobility script.
 
-## EMANE Installation
-
-EMANE can be installed from deb or RPM packages or from source. See the
-[EMANE GitHub](https://github.com/adjacentlink/emane) for full details.
-
-Here are quick instructions for installing all EMANE packages for Ubuntu 18.04:
-```shell
-# install dependencies
-sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libxml-libxml-perl libxml-simple-perl
-wget https://adjacentlink.com/downloads/emane/emane-1.2.5-release-1.ubuntu-18_04.amd64.tar.gz
-tar xzf emane-1.2.5-release-1.ubuntu-18_04.amd64.tar.gz
-# install base emane packages
-sudo dpkg -i emane-1.2.5-release-1/deb/ubuntu-18_04/amd64/emane*.deb
-# install python3 bindings
-sudo dpkg -i emane-1.2.5-release-1/deb/ubuntu-18_04/amd64/python3*.deb
-```
-
 ## EMANE Configuration
 
 The CORE configuration file **/etc/core/core.conf** has options specific to
diff --git a/docs/install.md b/docs/install.md
index 604ac509..7b5014c4 100644
--- a/docs/install.md
+++ b/docs/install.md
@@ -132,30 +132,14 @@ After the installation complete it will have installed the following scripts.
 
 If you create your own python scripts to run CORE directly or using the gRPC/TLV
 APIs you will need to make sure you are running them within context of the
-installed virtual environment.
+installed virtual environment. To help support this CORE provides the `core-python`
+executable. This executable will allow you to enter CORE's python virtual
+environment interpreter or to run a script within it.
 
 > **NOTE:** the following assumes CORE has been installed successfully
 
-There is an invoke task to help with this case.
 ```shell
-cd <CORE_REPO>
-inv -h run
-Usage: inv[oke] [--core-opts] run [--options] [other tasks here ...]
-
-Docstring:
-  runs a user script in the core virtual environment
-
-Options:
-  -f STRING, --file=STRING   script file to run in the core virtual environment
-  -s, --sudo                 run script as sudo
-```
-
-Another way would be to enable the core virtual environment shell. Which
-would allow you to run scripts in a more **normal** way.
-```shell
-cd <CORE_REPO>/daemon
-poetry shell
-python run /path/to/script.py
+core-python <script>
 ```
 
 ## Manually Install EMANE
@@ -199,7 +183,6 @@ Available tasks:
   install-emane     install emane and the python bindings
   install-scripts   install core script files, modified to leverage virtual environment
   install-service   install systemd core service
-  run               runs a user script in the core virtual environment
   test              run core tests
   test-emane        run core emane tests
   test-mock         run core tests using mock to avoid running as sudo
diff --git a/tasks.py b/tasks.py
index d76bc01d..fdf147ae 100644
--- a/tasks.py
+++ b/tasks.py
@@ -469,28 +469,6 @@ def daemon(c):
         )
 
 
-@task(
-    help={
-        "sudo": "run script as sudo",
-        "file": "script file to run in the core virtual environment"
-    },
-)
-def run(c, file, sudo=False):
-    """
-    runs a user script in the core virtual environment
-    """
-    if not file:
-        print("no script was provided")
-        return
-    python = get_python(c)
-    path = Path(file).absolute()
-    with c.cd(DAEMON_DIR):
-        cmd = f"{python} {path}"
-        if sudo:
-            cmd = f"sudo {cmd}"
-        c.run(cmd, pty=True)
-
-
 @task
 def test(c):
     """