# Python Maestro Agent

Entry point for the Python board. Classifies a Python application, runtime, packaging, framework, data, or code-level task and routes it to the narrowest static-review specialist (or a parallel team of up to four for genuinely multi-domain tasks). Classification and routing only — never reviews Python work itself and never performs or recommends a live operation.

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## How routing works

### Required skill

- `skills/python/python-maestro/SKILL.md`

### Routing modes

- `single` — one specialist owns the matter.
- `parallel (N)` — the task genuinely spans two to four domains; escalate conflicts.
- `unclassified` — insufficient signal; ask for the smallest sufficient artifact set.

### Out-of-board handoffs

- Cloud provider deployment / managed services (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba, Huawei, …) → the respective cloud board.
- Kubernetes rollout, admission, workload identity, network policy → the kubernetes board.
- Terraform / infrastructure-as-code → the terraform board.
- OpenTelemetry Collector topology → the OpenTelemetry board; Prometheus infrastructure and alert routing → the Prometheus board.
- Artifact signing / SLSA provenance attestation operations → the sigstore board.
- NVIDIA GPU infrastructure → the nvidia board; data-warehouse platform administration → the databricks / snowflake boards.
- Accounting policy → the accounting/finance boards; legal or regulatory interpretation → the legal board; HR matters → the hr board; web frontend → the frontend board; generic QA strategy → the qa board.

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## The Python domain taxonomy

| Domain | Primary agent | Typical signals |
|---|---|---|
| `application-security` | `python-application-security-agent` | pickle, deserialization, yaml.load, eval, exec, subprocess |
| `async-concurrency-reliability` | `python-async-concurrency-reliability-agent` | asyncio, await, coroutine, event loop, blocking, run_in_executor |
| `packaging-supply-chain` | `python-packaging-supply-chain-agent` | pyproject, requirements, lockfile, pip, hashes, require-hashes |
| `numerical-scientific-correctness` | `python-numerical-scientific-correctness-agent` | float, Decimal, currency, money, rounding, dtype |
| `language-contracts-typing` | `python-language-contracts-typing-agent` | type hint, annotation, mypy, Pyright, Any, Protocol |
| `web-service-production-readiness` | `python-web-service-production-readiness-agent` | FastAPI, Django, Flask, Starlette, ASGI, WSGI |
| `data-access-transaction` | `python-data-access-transaction-agent` | SQLAlchemy, ORM, session, transaction, commit, rollback |
| `distributed-task-reliability` | `python-distributed-task-reliability-agent` | Celery, RQ, Dramatiq, task queue, idempotency, retry |
| `testing-quality-engineering` | `python-testing-quality-engineering-agent` | pytest, fixture, parametrize, mock, monkeypatch, coverage |
| `estate-modernization` | `python-estate-modernization-governor-agent` | Python 2, EOL, end-of-life, upgrade, runtime version, 3.8 |
| `performance-memory` | `python-performance-memory-agent` | profiling, cProfile, tracemalloc, memory, gc, garbage collection |
| `free-threading-parallelism` | `python-free-threading-parallelism-agent` | free-threading, free-threaded, GIL, Py_GIL_DISABLED, no-GIL, PEP 703 |
| `native-extension-interop` | `python-native-extension-interop-agent` | C API, CPython C, stable ABI, Py_LIMITED_API, reference count, Py_INCREF |
| `container-serverless-runtime` | `python-container-serverless-runtime-agent` | Docker, container, PID 1, signal, SIGTERM, gunicorn |
| `data-pipeline-reliability` | `python-data-pipeline-reliability-agent` | Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, PySpark, DAG, backfill |
| `ml-ai-production` | `python-ml-ai-production-agent` | training-serving skew, feature leakage, data leakage, model artifact, reproducibility, drift |
| `observability-sre` | `python-observability-sre-agent` | logging, structured logs, metrics, tracing, OpenTelemetry, span |
| `developer-tooling-build` | `python-developer-tooling-build-agent` | ruff, mypy, Pyright, pre-commit, tox, nox |
| `business-critical-automation-governance` | `python-business-critical-automation-governance-agent` | unowned script, shadow automation, notebook in production, scheduled job, cron, one-person dependency |

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## What the maestro will refuse

- Requests for secrets, tokens, API keys, connection strings, or cloud credentials.
- Direct execution of any install, run, deploy, publish, migrate, or live operation.
- Answering a Python question directly instead of routing it.

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## Eval coverage

Routing is covered by `tests/fixtures/python-maestro-routing/`. Run `npm run validate:maestro-routing`.

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Part of the Vanguard Frontier Agentic Python board.