v0.19 added features. v0.20 is a maintenance release. Smarter’s development toolchain moves to Python 3.14, the Pinecone vectorstore backend drops three LangChain packages that blocked the upgrade, and a new platform shows its infrastructure as soon as it starts. There…
v0.16 through v0.18 added new kinds of infrastructure, namely self-hosted models, proxies, budgets and vector databases. v0.19 is about what people see. Chatbots can now show real images, write equations and draw diagrams. The web console’s resource lists can finally…
v0.17 made what already existed work. v0.18 builds on it in three directions. LLMClients can be served from your own domain. Everything that talks to the cloud now goes through one service layer, which also lets Smarter run on a…
v0.16 added four resource kinds, LLMHost, Proxy, Budget and Vectorstore. v0.17 adds almost nothing new. It is about making what already exists work, and tell you why when it doesn’t. We raised the unit test coverage of Smarter’s Django apps…
v0.15 was about describing an AI application, with one YAML manifest that wires a model, plugins, MCP servers and guardrails into an LLMClient. v0.16 is about running AI applications. That covers the models, the vector databases, the API keys and…
Build AI Applications Without Writing Code Today we’re shipping v0.15, and it’s the release where Smarter stops being a platform you write code against and becomes a platform you just describe. An AI application that searches the web, queries your…
Smarter isolates its tenants in Django with two queryset methods, with_read_permission_for() and with_ownership_permission_for(), that every lookup of a user’s resource starts from, plus a profile switcher whose choice is checked against the user on the way in and again on…
Smarter reads all of its configuration through a Pydantic Settings class, smarter.common.conf.Settings, whose one instance, smarter_settings, is built before Django’s settings module runs, and supplies it. Every environment variable that Smarter reads is typed, validated against business rules, and turned…
Smarter, a Django platform for LLM applications, keeps credentials out of its logs with four habits. Secrets are typed so they can’t print, log helpers leave out the fields that matter, tests assert that a known secret never appears in…
Smarter publishes its Helm chart to GitHub’s container registry signed with cosign, scans its container images in Amazon ECR when they are pushed, publishes its npm packages with provenance, and installs the AWS CLI for its database backups only after…