django

name	django
description	> Use when this capability is needed.

Django

Use this skill to keep Django work grounded in maintainable architecture, predictable delivery, and framework-appropriate conventions.

Intent Router

Need	Load
core conventions, structure, review priorities, and common red flags for Django	references/best-practices.md
setup, migration, testing, build, delivery, and day-two workflow guidance for Django	references/workflows.md

Quick Start

1. Confirm Django and Python versions, template-driven, API-driven, or hybrid delivery, database backend, and background-task or async posture.
2. Identify whether the task is greenfield scaffolding, incremental refactoring, troubleshooting, migration planning, or code review.
3. Apply the defaults in references/best-practices.md before proposing custom architecture.
4. Prefer the smallest change set that improves clarity, safety, operability, and long-term maintainability.

Workflow

• start from the business capability that owns the code
• separate settings and infrastructure wiring from domain logic
• treat migrations and permissions as high-impact design choices
• verify manage.py test, migrations, and static handling after changes

Typical Focus Areas

• Django and Python versions
• template-driven, API-driven, or hybrid delivery
• database backend
• background-task or async posture

Outputs to Prefer

• summarize delivery model, database, and deployment constraints first
• group findings by app boundaries, models, validation, settings, migrations, and tests
• protect auth and migration safety during refactors

First Response Pattern

• restate Django version, delivery model, database backend, and async or task posture before suggesting changes
• anchor the plan at the owning app, view, serializer, form, or migration boundary
• name the verification loop up front: Django tests, migration safety checks, and one real request path through the changed behavior

Common Requests

Review this Django feature for app boundaries, model design, form or serializer flow, and test gaps.

Help refactor a Django app toward cleaner service boundaries and safer configuration.

Safety Notes

• preserve externally visible behavior unless the user explicitly requests a redesign or a breaking change
• avoid style-only churn when the current repository already has working conventions and automation

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