Django is a Python natural fit for government / public sector. GreatCTO auto-detects both — adds the gov-public archetype overlay, wires gov-public-specific gates, and runs 83 specialist agents around your existing Django workflow.
GreatCTO reads your pyproject.toml / requirements.txt and detects django + gov-public archetype from signals: imports, file structure, env vars, README hints.
Attaches the gov-public archetype overlay: FedRAMP authorization scope, FISMA, 508 a11y, CJIS for law-enforcement. 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: gov-public ✓ overlay: applied ✓ 83 agents ready $ /start "add public records API" ▸ architect drafting ARCH-gov-public.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.
This is the shape of what senior-dev drafts for "public records API" — auth first, schema validation, and the audit line the gov-public reviewer requires before gate:ship opens.
# gov_public/views.py — drafted by senior-dev, reviewed by 5 agents
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
from .audit import audit_log # gate:gov-public: every decision logged
@login_required # security-officer: auth before handler
def create(request):
form = GovPublicForm(request.POST) # qa-engineer: form validation enforced
if form.is_valid():
result = handle(form.cleaned_data, request.user)
audit_log(who=request.user.pk, what="public records API", confidence=result.confidence)
return JsonResponse(result.as_dict())gov-public overlay.FedRAMP-scoped services with NIST 800-53 mapping.
Citizen portals with Section 508 accessibility.
Law-enforcement integrations under CJIS.
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
Free, MIT, runs locally. Built as a Claude Code plugin — install with one command.
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