Django is a Python natural fit for commerce. GreatCTO auto-detects both — adds the commerce archetype overlay, wires commerce-specific gates, and runs 34 specialist agents around your existing Django workflow.
GreatCTO reads your pyproject.toml / requirements.txt and detects django + commerce archetype from signals: imports, file structure, env vars, README hints.
Attaches the commerce archetype overlay: PCI-DSS scope, refund/dispute idempotency, SCA / PSD2 in EU, webhook signature verification. Override if your specifics differ; the defaults are sensible for Django-style projects.
qa-engineer runs mypy / ruff / pytest --cov; security-officer scans for SQL injection patterns common in ORMs (SQLAlchemy, Django ORM); performance-engineer profiles async patterns for I/O contention.
Bugs you've hit before in other Django projects (connection-pool exhaustion, ORM N+1 queries, retry storms) — the agent's Step 0 includes the prior detection order. MTTR drops 94 % on second occurrence (methodology).
$ cd my-django-app && npx great-cto init ✓ scanning manifests… found pyproject.toml ✓ stack: django (Python) ✓ archetype: commerce ✓ overlay: applied ✓ 34 agents ready $ /start "add cart + checkout flow" ▸ architect drafting ARCH-commerce.md… ▸ pm decomposing into beads tasks… ⚐ gate:plan — your approval needed
Approve → 3 senior-devs run in parallel worktrees → 5 reviewers fan out in parallel → gate:ship → deploy. One real run walked stage-by-stage: /proof.
No black-box "AI does it all" loop. GreatCTO is a deterministic state machine — 8 stages, 22 nodes, 2 human gates. Every node maps to a real agent on GitHub. Inspect the state machine →
$ npx great-cto init
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