{"slug": "smarter-open-source-declarative-ai-authoring-platform-django-k8s-inspired", "title": "Smarter – open-source, declarative AI authoring platform (Django, K8s-inspired)", "summary": "Smarter, an open-source declarative AI authoring platform developed by Smarter.sh, enables enterprises to define agents, prompts, tools, and integrations using YAML manifests inspired by Kubernetes, and deploy them via web UI, CLI, API, or Kubernetes. The platform, used as an instructional tool at the University of British Columbia, requires 20GB disk storage, 4GB memory, Python 3.13, and Docker, with a first-time setup taking about 20 minutes. It includes a React-based chat UI compatible with NPM, WordPress, Squarespace, Drupal, Office 365, SharePoint, .NET, NetSuite, Salesforce, and SAP.", "body_md": "Smarter is used as an instructional tool at [University of British Columbia](https://www.ubc.ca/)\nfor teaching AI.\n\nSmarter is an open-source platform for building and running enterprise AI systems. Instead of writing orchestration code, you define agents, prompts, tools, and integrations using YAML manifests, then deploy them through a web UI, CLI, API, or Kubernetes.\n\nSmarter replaces scattered AI orchestration code with a single declarative system for defining, testing, and running AI workflows across environments.\n\n[1-click Quickstart](https://github.com/smarter-sh/smarter-deploy)deployment with Docker.- Define AI resources declaratively using YAML manifests.\n- Connect LLMs to APIs and SQL databases without writing custom orchestration code.\n[command-line interface](https://smarter.sh/cli)for Windows, macOS, Linux and Docker[rest api](https://platform.smarter.sh/docs/swagger/)- web console / prompt engineer workbench\n[SDKs](https://github.com/smarter-sh/smarter-python),[UI components](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@smarter.sh/ui-chat),[CLI tools](https://smarter.sh/cli), and[IDE integrations](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=querium.smarter-manifest)for building on Smarter- publicly accessible\n[online documentation](https://platform.smarter.sh/docs/)and self onboarding resources - open source UI components for jump starting projects\n\nThis setup uses Docker and takes around 20 minutes for first time installations.\n\n-\nVerify project requirements:\n\n[Windows](/smarter-sh/smarter/blob/main/setup/windows),[macOS](/smarter-sh/smarter/blob/main/setup/macos),[Linux](/smarter-sh/smarter/blob/main/setup/ubuntu)operating system- 20Gib disk storage capacity\n- 4Gib system memory\n[Python 3.13](https://www.python.org/)[Docker](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/),[Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/).\n\n-\nAdd your credentials to\n\n[.env](/smarter-sh/smarter/blob/main/.env.example)in the root of this repo. See the inline documentation for details on the minimum environment variables that you will need to set. -\nInitialize, build and run the application locally.\n\n```\ngit clone https://github.com/smarter-sh/smarter\nmake help           # scaffolds a .env file in the root of the repo\n                    #\n                    # ****************************\n                    # STOP HERE!\n                    # ****************************\n                    # Add your credentials to .env located in the project root folder.\n                    #\nmake init           # pulls Docker containers, creates a Python virtual environment,\n                    # installs all packages, creates and initializes a\n                    # local MySql database, preloads example AI resources\nmake run            # runs all docker containers and starts a\n                    # local web server http://localhost:9357/\n```\n\n- Login at\n[http://localhost:9357/login/](http://localhost:9357/login/)with user`admin@smarter.sh`\n\nand password`smarter`\n\n.\n\nSee these onboarding videos:\n\n**Smarter** implements a yaml manifest-based approach to managing AI resources\nthat is inspired by the [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/) project.\n\nIt provides a unified, declarative way to define, configure, and orchestrate\nthe disparate resources that are required for creating and managing AI resources\nthat integrate to other enterprise resources like REST API's and Sql databases.\nAnd it gives prompt engineering teams an intuitive workbench approach to\ndesigning, prototyping, testing, deploying and managing powerful AI resources\nfor common corporate use cases including agentic workflows, customer facing chat\nsolutions, and more. It includes a separately managed\n[React-based chat UI](https://github.com/smarter-sh/smarter-chat) that is\ncompatible with a wide variety of front end ecosystems including NPM, Wordpress,\nSquarespace, Drupal, Office 365, Sharepoint, .Net, Netsuite, salesforce.com, and\nSAP. There is a\n[Golang command-line interface](https://github.com/smarter-sh/smarter-cli),\nand a [PyPi package](https://github.com/smarter-sh/smarter-python) for\nintegrating the API functions into your own Python projects. It is developed to\nsupport prompt engineering teams working in large organizations. Accordingly,\n**Smarter** provides common enterprise features such as credentials management,\nteam workgroup management, role-based security, accounting cost codes, and\nlogging and audit capabilities.\n\n**Smarter** provides seamless integration and interoperation between LLMs from\nDeepSeek, Google AI, Meta AI and OpenAI. It is LLM provider-agnostic, and\nprovides seamless integrations to a continuously evolving list of value added\nservices for security management, prompt content moderation, audit, cost\naccounting, and workflow management. **Smarter** is cloud native and runs on\nKubernetes, on-site in your data center or in the cloud.\n\n**Smarter** is cost effective when running at scale. It is extensible and\narchitected on the philosophy of a compact core that does not require\ncustomization nor forking. It is horizontally scalable. It is natively\nmulti-tenant, and can be installed alongside your existing systems. ## Quickstart\n\nSee [ghcr.io/smarter-sh/charts/smarter](https://ghcr.io/smarter-sh/charts/smarter)\nor [Artifact Hub](https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/project-smarter/smarter).\n\nRead the Docs: [docs.smarter.sh](https://docs.smarter.sh/)\n\nPlease report bugs to the [GitHub Issues Page](https://github.com/smarter-sh/smarter/issues)\nfor this project.\n\nPlease see the [CONTRIBUTING](https://docs.smarter.sh/en/latest/smarter-framework/guides/contributing.html).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/smarter-open-source-declarative-ai-authoring-platform-django-k8s-inspired", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/smarter-sh/smarter", "published_at": "2026-08-16 22:25:17+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-16 22:40:54.270191+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Smarter", "University of British Columbia", "Kubernetes", "Docker", "Python", "React", "Golang"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/smarter-open-source-declarative-ai-authoring-platform-django-k8s-inspired", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/smarter-open-source-declarative-ai-authoring-platform-django-k8s-inspired.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/smarter-open-source-declarative-ai-authoring-platform-django-k8s-inspired.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/smarter-open-source-declarative-ai-authoring-platform-django-k8s-inspired.jsonld"}}