# Technology Stack: Manual Slop

## Core Language

- **Python 3.11+**

## GUI Frameworks

- **Dear PyGui:** For immediate/retained mode GUI rendering and node mapping.
- **ImGui Bundle (`imgui-bundle`):** To provide advanced multi-viewport and dockable panel capabilities on top of Dear ImGui.

## Web & Service Frameworks

- **FastAPI:** High-performance REST API framework for providing the headless backend service.
- **Uvicorn:** ASGI server for serving the FastAPI application.

## AI Integration SDKs

- **google-genai:** For Google Gemini API interaction and explicit context caching.
- **anthropic:** For Anthropic Claude API interaction, supporting ephemeral prompt caching.

## Configuration & Tooling

- **tree-sitter & tree-sitter-python:** For deterministic AST parsing and generation of curated "Skeleton Views" and interface-level memory structures.
- **pydantic / dataclasses:** For defining strict state schemas (Tracks, Tickets) used in linear orchestration.
- **tomli-w:** For writing TOML configuration files.
- **psutil:** For system and process monitoring (CPU/Memory telemetry).
- **uv:** An extremely fast Python package and project manager.
- **pytest:** For unit and integration testing, leveraging custom fixtures for live GUI verification.
- **ApiHookClient:** A dedicated IPC client for automated GUI interaction and state inspection.

## Architectural Patterns

- **Event-Driven Metrics:** Uses a custom `EventEmitter` to decouple API lifecycle events from UI rendering, improving performance and responsiveness.