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 publishes its whole REST API as one OpenAPI 3.1 document, openapi.json, plus a JSON Schema for every manifest kind. That OpenAPI document is Smarter’s extensibility model. It’s generated from the platform’s own Pydantic models, committed to the repository, tested…
Every Smarter repository ships automatically through GitHub Actions and semantic-release, including multiple packages published on PyPI and npmjs. A merged pull request becomes a version number, a CHANGELOG, a GitHub tag, a set of built and signed artifacts, a deployment…
A list page looks like the easiest screen in any web application. It’s a table with a search box, column headers you can click, and page numbers at the bottom. But a list that is fast, correct and pleasant to…
An AI platform is mostly a catalog of resources that people make, such as chatbots, the plugins and tools they call, the database and api connections those tools use, the secrets those connections need, guardrails, MCP clients, LLM providers, vector…
Smarter’s React integration is a bridge between Django’s server-rendered web platform and modern React user interfaces. Rather than treating React as a disconnected single-page application bolted onto Django, Smarter implements React as a first-class extension of the Django runtime itself.…
Caching a function’s results sounds like a solved problem, and inside one Python process it is, because functools.lru_cache does it in one line. But a Django application doesn’t run in one process. It runs in several web workers and several…
Smarter runs on Docker everywhere and on Kubernetes in production. Those two choices, recorded as ADR-002 and ADR-003, are what let one Docker image go from a developer’s laptop to a large organization’s production Kubernetes cluster without a rewrite, a…
Smarter is a Django platform whose apps never call the AWS SDK or kubectl themselves. Every DNS record, TLS certificate, Kubernetes manifest and email goes through one service layer, smarter.apps.infrastructure, and every real backend in that layer refuses to run…