Django on Brad's Blog

Embedding Claude Code SDK in Applications

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:03:04 +1100

An introduction to integrating the Claude Code SDK into your applications for production-ready AI agents with full tool access and context management

Django Custom Management Commands

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:09:50 +1100

TL;DR

Django allows custom management commands to extend the core manage.py interface, allowing easy integration with the application when building backend processes, automation scripts, and scheduled jobs (while providing access into the Django application environment, data model and functions via the same structures used to build the website).

Where to create and/or find the code

Django discovers management commands through a specific directory layout in your apps:

your_app/
management/
__init__.py
commands/
__init__.py
send_notifications.py
update_reports.py

Every command file defines a Command class that extends BaseCommand:

Django Authentication and Permissions

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:24:37 +1100

TL;DR

Django provides a complete authentication and authorization sub-system out of the box. Use @login_required to restrict views to authenticated users and @permission_required to enforce granular access control based on custom permissions defined in your models.

Interesting!

Django automatically creates four default permissions for every model (add, change, delete, view) during migrations, but you can define custom permissions in your model’s Meta class to implement fine-grained authorization for any business logic you need.