py10x-core

The Substratum of 10x Genaxy — a generative core for software, not a feature list.

🌌 Why Genaxy?

10x is about empowering engineers, researchers, and developers to become 10x more productive — not through better tooling at the edges, but by never rebuilding the same foundation twice. A genaxy is what makes that possible: a kind of system built around a small, generative core rather than assembled feature by feature. 10x Genaxy is this one. This package (py10x-core) is its substratum.

The substratum is that core: a handful of laws (principles), not a feature set. Today those are identity, dependency, persistence, and presentation; more may join them. Everything else follows from these. They aren't a checklist to memorize — they're vocabulary for describing a real-world problem, before any specific technology gets chosen.

That core is generative: you describe the entity — what it is, what it depends on, where it is stored, how it should be presented and interacted with — and the application, the report, the service you needed falls out of that description, largely for free.

Around the substratum sit subject domains — real fields of work, each built on the same core instead of reinventing it. Finance is the first (py10x-fin-base). More will follow. Domains surround the substratum the way planets surround a star — independent, distinct, but held by the same laws.

Most software is built domain-first: a finance system, a healthcare system, a logistics system — each reinventing identity, persistence, and UI from scratch. Genaxy inverts that. Build the substratum once. Let every domain grow from it.

10x Genaxy isn't the first genaxy — SecDb, Athena, and others came before it (See lineage).

In this README:

• Identity & sharing — same ID traits, same entity
• Lazy dependency graph — computed traits, tracked automatically
• Resources and persistence — seamless Traitable Store and other resources
• Credential vault — one registration, no passwords in application code
• Derived UI — Qt or Rio editors from the class

🏁 Identity and Dependency, in Nine Lines

By default, the Traitable constructor accepts only ID traits. For how the framework uses identity and storage to resolve or create instances, see How Traitables Are Created in the Getting Started guide.

from core_10x.traitable import Traitable, T, RT
from core_10x.exec_control import GRAPH_ON, CACHE_ONLY

class Developer(Traitable):
    handle: str      = T(T.ID)           # ← identity trait → global sharing
    coffee_cups: int = T(default=0)      # persistent
    energy: int      = RT()              # runtime-only (not stored)

    def energy_get(self) -> int:
        return self.coffee_cups * 20

# In-memory mode (no storage), dependency graph on.
with CACHE_ONLY(), GRAPH_ON():
    dev = Developer(handle="ghost")
    dev.coffee_cups = 5
    print(dev.energy)           # 100 ← computed lazily on first access

    dev.coffee_cups = 6
    print(dev.energy)           # 120  ← recomputed due to dependency change

    # Same identity → same object
    dev2 = Developer(handle="ghost")
    print(dev2.energy)          # 120  ← shared via global cache

Two of the four laws, in nine lines: handle is the identity, energy is a dependency on coffee_cups, tracked and recomputed automatically.

💾 Everything Is a Resource

Real systems rarely live in one database. 10x Genaxy treats every external dependency — a MongoDB cluster, a Postgres box, a DuckDB file, a credentials vault — as a Resource: addressed by a plain URI, resolved to a concrete driver through a small, pluggable registry. The Traitable Store you persist objects to is just one kind of Resource, alongside anything else your system depends on.

You define logical resources — names your code refers to, like "main" or "mkt_data" — and assign each one to a physical location (an actual URI) separately, per environment. Traitable classes associate themselves with a logical resource by name, so different parts of a system can live on different physical stores without any downstream code needing to know or care which.

Authentication follows the same shape. A user registers once: an RSA keypair is generated on their own machine, the private key is encrypted with their own master password, and everything lands in the OS keyring — never transmitted, never stored in plaintext. From that point on, every resource that user is entitled to just works, with no per-database credential wiring anywhere in application code.

Traitable Store

A Traitable Store is the Resource that persists objects. Traitable.store_from_uri opens it by URI and fills in credentials from the vault when the server requires them — no passwords in application code. MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and DuckDB are the same pattern:

from datetime import date
from core_10x.code_samples.person import Person
from core_10x.traitable import Traitable

with Traitable.store_from_uri("mongodb://localhost/myapp"):
    person = Person(first_name="Alice", last_name="Smith")
    person.dob = date(1990, 5, 15)
    person.save()

Identity still holds across the store: constructing Person(first_name="Alice", last_name="Smith") later resolves to the stored instance. Versioning, history, per-class stores, querying, and nested graphs are in Traitable Store in the Getting Started guide.

🎨 The UI Is Derived, Not Written

Presentation is the fourth law, and it works the same way: describe the shape of the thing, and the UI for viewing and editing it comes for free. A dropdown that only accepts valid values isn't a widget you configure — it falls out of typing the trait as a NamedConstant:

from core_10x.traitable import Traitable, RT, Ui
from ui_10x.examples.constants import COLOR, FONT

class StyleSheet(Traitable):
    foreground: COLOR   = RT(COLOR.LIGHTGREEN)
    background: COLOR   = RT(COLOR.BLACK,   ui_hint = Ui(flags = Ui.SEPARATOR))

    font: FONT          = RT(FONT.HELVETICA)
    italic: bool        = RT(True,          ui_hint = Ui('italic',  right_label = True))
    bold: bool          = RT(False,         ui_hint = Ui('bold',    right_label = True, flags = Ui.SEPARATOR))

    border: bool        = RT(True)
    border_color: COLOR = RT(COLOR.BLUE)
    border_width: int   = RT(2,             ui_hint = Ui(flags = Ui.SEPARATOR))

    show_me: str        = RT('This is how it will look...',  ui_hint = Ui('WYSIWYG', min_width = 50))

    def show_me_style_sheet(self) -> dict:
        return {
            Ui.FG_COLOR:        self.foreground.value,
            Ui.BG_COLOR:        self.background.value,
            Ui.FONT:            self.font.value,
            Ui.FONT_STYLE:      'italic'   if self.italic   else 'normal',
            Ui.FONT_WEIGHT:     'bold'     if self.bold     else 'normal',
            Ui.BORDER_WIDTH:    f'{self.border_width}px',
            Ui.BORDER_STYLE:    'solid'    if self.border   else '',
            Ui.BORDER_COLOR:    self.border_color.value,
        }

That's the entire program — no layout code, no widget wiring, no dropdown population logic. TraitableEditor(StyleSheet()).popup() generates the full dialog below: dropdowns, checkboxes, and a live preview that updates itself, because it's just another computed trait sharing the same dependency graph as everything else.

The same class definition renders as a native Qt desktop dialog or a Rio web view, depending only on which backend is active.

🧭 When Should You Build a Subject Domain of 10x Genaxy?

10x Genaxy fits problems with:

• Real-world entities with derived, computed state
• A need for deterministic, shared identity across a whole system
• Data that outlives a single process — persistence you don't want to hand-roll
• A UI that should never drift out of sync with the model it displays

It's overkill for a simple script, a stateless API, or pure validation logic — those don't need a substratum, they need a function. 10x Genaxy pays off when a system's state and relationships keep evolving, and keeping everything in sync by hand is the actual cost center.

🔍 How Is This Different?

Compared to dataclasses or Pydantic — objects have deterministic identity from their ID traits; the same identity always resolves to the same logical entity; derived fields are lazily computed and dependency-tracked, not just validated once at construction.

Compared to traditional ORMs — identity isn't tied to a database row, and persistence is optional and pluggable per class, not baked into one schema.

Compared to reactive frameworks — dependencies are tracked automatically, computation is lazy by default, and the same graph drives persistence and UI, not just view updates.

Documentation map

I want to…	Read
Install py10x	INSTALLATION.md
Learn the Traitable framework	GETTING_STARTED.md
Try Traitables interactively (marimo / molab)	docs/notebooks/getting_started.py
Install / use the first subject domain of 10x Genaxy (xxfin)	xx_fin/README.md
Contribute code	CONTRIBUTING.md
Cut a release / sync dev deps	dev_10x/README.md

🤝 Contact & Support

• Project e-mail: py10x@10x-software.org
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