django-admin-agent

An always-present chat-agent sidebar embedded in the Django admin. The agent reads your data through typed, server-side tools and drives the admin UI — filling forms, applying filters, navigating between pages — with visible animations and a confirmation modal on anything destructive.

It builds on django-ag-ui (the Django ↔ Pydantic-AI ↔ AG-UI bridge) and ships the @artooi/ag-ui-web-component <ag-ui-chat> element vendored as a static bundle — there's no separate npm install. Works with the vanilla Django admin and with Django Unfold.

• Server-side admin tools — a default registry of read-only shell.* (query / count / fetch instances) and introspect.* (model schema, admin registration) tools, derived from your installed models. Every call is typed and audited through django-ag-ui's AuditLogger.
• Frontend tool handlers — nav.* and DOM-driving tools (fill a field, click, apply a changelist filter) execute in the browser against the live admin page, with animations so the user sees what the agent is doing.
• Destructive-action gating — tools flagged x-destructive in their JSON Schema are intercepted by a confirmation modal before they run.
• Drop-in sidebar — a {% django_admin_agent_sidebar %} template tag (no admin-site swap) or a SidebarAdminSite for those who prefer to subclass.
• Themeable, with skills — configure the theme (light / dark / auto / code), density, placement, text animation, and tool-call display mode from DJANGO_ADMIN_AGENT, and surface a catalog of one-click skills as composer chips and a /-command palette. Built on django-ag-ui>=0.67 and the matching @artooi/ag-ui-web-component.
• Voice & model thoughts — set DJANGO_AG_UI["TRANSCRIPTION_BACKEND"] to add a mic to the composer (server-side transcription), and a reasoning model's streamed chain-of-thought renders in a collapsible "thoughts" region. Both ride on the re-vendored web component; voice is off until a backend is configured.
• Unfold-aware — a runtime JS shim adapts the sidebar to Unfold's chrome; any Python Unfold introspection is lazy and guarded, so Unfold stays optional.
• 100% test coverage, type-checked, Python 3.10–3.14, Django 4.2–6.0.

Full documentation: https://artui.github.io/django-admin-agent/

pip install django-admin-agent
# expose the admin tools as an HTTP MCP server too:
pip install "django-admin-agent[mcp]"

ASGI required. The agent endpoint streams Server-Sent Events, which the sync WSGI worker can't serve — deploy the admin under Daphne / Uvicorn.

Quick start

# settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    "django.contrib.admin",
    "django_admin_agent",
]

# urls.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path

from django_admin_agent import AdminAgentServer

urlpatterns = [
    path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
    # Mounts the agent server over the default shell.* + introspect.* registry.
    path("admin-agent/", AdminAgentServer(model="anthropic:claude-sonnet-4.6").urls),
]

{# templates/admin/base_site.html — override so it wins over the admin app's copy #}
{% extends "admin/base.html" %}
{% load django_admin_agent %}

{% block branding %}
  <h1 id="site-name"><a href="{% url 'admin:index' %}">My admin</a></h1>
  {% django_admin_agent_sidebar %}
{% endblock %}

That's the whole wiring: the template tag computes its own context (endpoint URL, title, auto-confirm flag, bootstrap module, route map), so the admin site doesn't need swapping. Serve it over ASGI:

uvicorn myproject.asgi:application

The model can be set per-mount (AdminAgentServer(model=...)) or globally via DJANGO_AG_UI["MODEL"]. See the docs for the full tool surface, configuration reference, the SidebarAdminSite path, Unfold support, and the [mcp] server.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.