Aegis Stack

Aegis Stack lands in the sweet spot between a bare framework and a managed platform. It gives you production scaffolding—auth with RBAC, Stripe billing, AI agents with RAG, background workers, and a live dashboard—without locking you into a proprietary runtime. The modular component system is its killer feature: you can add Postgres, Redis, Ollama, or Traefik via CLI flags, and remove them just as easily. The `aegis update` command pulls in template improvements as diffs, so your codebase stays current without manual merge hell. Where it bites: you own the deployment. There's no Aegis Cloud—you SSH into a VPS, run `deploy-setup`, and manage Docker/SSL yourself. If you want a fully managed backend-as-a-service, look elsewhere. Also, it's FastAPI-specific; Django or Express devs get nothing. Compared to alternatives like Django CookieCutter or FastAPI best-practices templates, Aegis is more opinionated and ships more working code (payments, AI, observability). But it's heavier—if you just need a CRUD API, a simpler starter will do. In practice, we'd reach for this when building a SaaS MVP that needs auth, billing, and AI conversations day one. The built-in Overseer dashboard and CLI telemetry mean you get observability without extra setup. Just be ready to handle the ops side yourself.