manual_slop/conductor/tech-stack.md

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.

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

• 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.

Architectural Patterns

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