Smarter’s production environment is a Helm release on Amazon EKS, in a VPC that Terraform builds, fed by a GitHub Actions pipeline that ships every merge to main. This post is a tour of that environment for people who run…
Smarter’s MCP server has a set of tools for the people who run a Smarter platform. A sysadmin opens Smarter Sysadmin, a chatbot in the Prompt Engineer Workbench, and asks “Is anything wrong right now?” or “Why can’t this user…
Smarter stays healthy because of four kinds of automation. GitHub Actions workflows test it, Dependabot keeps its dependencies current, pre-commit hooks check every commit, and coverage thresholds fail any test run that leaves too much code untested. The first three…
This tutorial builds a Smarter Extension, a small Python package that gives AI chatbots a new tool, using Cookiecutter and the official Smarter Extension template. You don’t need to know much Python. If you can open a terminal, run a…
Every Smarter platform runs one MCP server, the MCPServer, a Django app inside the platform itself. Two built-in MCPClients use it, and each one connects to its own collection of the MCPServer’s tools. smarter_project is public, and answers questions about…
Every morning at 09:00 UTC, a GitHub Actions workflow downloads the logs of Smarter’s production Kubernetes pods and hands them to Claude Code, running unattended. Claude reads them the way a senior engineer would, ties each problem to the line…
SAM annotations are how Smarter connects its resources to the other systems in your organization. SAM, the Smarter Application Manifest, is the YAML format that declares every Smarter resource (LLMClients, Plugins, Secrets, Guardrails and the rest), and its metadata.annotations work…
This is a how-to for a Slack bot that runs as a single pod on Kubernetes and answers questions with a Smarter LLMClient. The bot is about 200 lines of Python, it ships as an optional subchart of Smarter’s Helm…
Every Smarter platform has an MCP server built in. The Smarter MCP Server gives AI agents a working knowledge of Smarter. It reads Smarter’s source code, documentation and blog as they are today. It describes Smarter’s manifests, and checks them…
Smarter uses Calico to enforce Kubernetes NetworkPolicies that start its production namespace from deny-all, in both directions, and then admit traffic by pod label. MariaDB and Redis accept connections only from pods labelled app.kubernetes.io/application-group=smarter, the app accepts web traffic only…