Orjanda

An agent-native business application framework written in Go.

Define a business entity once as a Go struct with oj tags, and Orjanda derives everything else from that single declaration — the database table, the CRUD API, the admin UI, and the AI-agent tool definitions — all enforcing the same permission rules.

Central thesis: if a Document exists in the Orjanda Registry, it is automatically operable by both a human and an embedded AI agent, with no per-entity integration code.

type LeaveRequest struct {
    schema.BaseDocument
    Reason   string `oj:"required"`
    Status   string `oj:"options=Draft|Submitted|Approved|Rejected,default=Draft"`
    Approved bool   `oj:"default=false"`
}

That struct alone gives you a leave_requests table, REST CRUD endpoints, a metadata-driven form in the admin UI, and agent tools — simultaneously, from one declaration.

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Why Orjanda

Business applications share ~80% of their infrastructure — CRUD, forms, lists, permissions, search, audit — and every Go project rebuilds it by hand (PRD §3.1). Adding an AI agent to such an app is a second, parallel engineering effort: a tool definition, an input schema, a permission mapping, and error handling per entity, which then drifts out of sync with the source schema (PRD §3.2).

Orjanda collapses this to O(1) per entity: define the Document once, get the database, API, UI, and agent layer for free (PRD §2, §8). It is the closest Go equivalent to Frappe or Django Admin, purpose-built for Go's type system and for the reality that AI agents are first-class consumers of business applications.

Key Features

• Code-first schemas — Documents are Go structs annotated with oj tags, compiled into a read-only Registry at startup. No runtime-editable metadata (PRD §8.4).
• One declaration → four layers — a single Document yields the database table, REST + RPC API, metadata-driven admin UI, and agent tools, from the same compiled schema (PRD §9, §24).
• Embedded AI Agent Runtime — a ReAct agent that calls the same document.* functions as the REST API. No separate agent backend, no separate permission path (PRD §23.1, §25.1).
• Automatic tool generation — CRUD tools are generated per Document from the Registry at startup, and permission-checked per identity (TAD §10).
• Secure by default — JWT auth, RBAC permissions, human approval gates for agent write operations, and transactional audit logging (PRD §25, §28, §29).
• PostgreSQL + SQLite — pluggable dialect adapters with a custom query builder and Atlas/Goose-backed migrations (orjanda migrate diff/up).
• Declared workflows & hooks — lifecycle hooks (before_save, after_insert, …) and role-gated state machines (PRD §19).
• Single binary — the React admin UI is embedded in the Go binary via embed.FS; modular monolith, one deployable (PRD §9.1, §17.4).

Architecture at a Glance

Orjanda is a modular monolith: one Go binary that embeds the REST/RPC API, the admin UI, and the agent runtime. The compiled Registry is the single source of truth every layer reads from.

              ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
              │            Single Go binary                  │
              │  ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐  ┌─────────────┐ │
              │  │ Admin UI │  │ REST/RPC │  │ Agent Chat  │ │
              │  │ (React,  │  │ API (Chi)│  │ (WebSocket) │ │
              │  │ embedded)│  └────┬─────┘  └──────┬──────┘ │
              │  └──────────┘       │               │        │
              │            ┌───────▼───────────────▼───┐    │
              │            │   Agent Runtime (ReAct)    │    │
              │            └───────┬───────────────▲───┘    │
              │            ┌───────▼───────────────┴───┐    │
              │            │  Document Engine (CRUD,    │    │
              │            │  validation, hooks, perms) │    │
              │            └───────┬───────────────────┘    │
              │        ┌───────────▼───────────┐            │
              │        │  Registry · Perm ·    │            │
              │        │  Audit · Workflows    │            │
              │        └───────────┬───────────┘            │
              │                    ▼                        │
              │        ┌─────────────────────┐              │
              │        │ DAL (dialects:      │              │
              │        │  PostgreSQL, SQLite)│              │
              │        └─────────────────────┘              │
              └──────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Every read and write — REST, RPC, agent tool, workflow transition — passes through the same perm.Engine (PRD §25.1). Full detail in the Technical Architecture Document.

Getting Started

Orjanda is a framework you consume, not a repository you clone. You install the orjanda CLI once, then orjanda init scaffolds your own Application — a new Go module that imports Orjanda as a dependency. You build your application on top of the framework; you never modify the framework source itself. This is the same model as django-admin startproject or bench init in Frappe.

1. go install the orjanda CLI           →  you get the orjanda command
2. orjanda init myapp                   →  your new Application (a Go module)
3. cd myapp && orjanda serve   →  your app's dev server, on :8080 (development is the default environment)

Prerequisites

• Go 1.26+
• Node.js 22+ (only if you are a framework contributor developing the admin UI — application users never need it, the UI ships embedded)

Install the CLI

Install the orjanda command once with Go:

go install github.com/orjanda-framework/orjanda/cmd/orjanda@latest

That is the only installation step. You do not clone the Orjanda repository to build an application. (Framework contributors who want to build the CLI from source should see Contributing.)

Scaffold your first Application

orjanda init myapp
cd myapp

myapp is your project — a new Go module built on top of Orjanda. This generates go.mod, main.go, app.go, an orjanda.yaml (SQLite dev defaults, with a commented auth.jwt_secret placeholder), and a migrations/ directory, with Orjanda wired in as a dependency.

The scaffold also ships an AI coding-agent knowledge skill: AGENTS.md at the project root is the entry point for AI coding agents, and a bundled skills/orjanda/ package gives them version-specific guidance on how to build and modify an Orjanda application correctly.

Add a Document

orjanda new document LeaveRequest --module=leave --submittable

Then open documents/leave_request.go and declare your fields:

package documents

import (
	orjerrors "github.com/orjanda-framework/orjanda/errors"
	"github.com/orjanda-framework/orjanda/schema"
)

// LeaveRequest is a LeaveRequest business entity.
type LeaveRequest struct {
	schema.BaseDocument
	Reason   string `oj:"required"`
	Status   string `oj:"options=Draft|Submitted|Approved|Rejected,default=Draft"`
	Approved bool   `oj:"default=false"`
}

func (d *LeaveRequest) DocMeta() schema.Meta {
	return schema.Meta{
		Name:        "LeaveRequest",
		Module:      "leave",
		Submittable: true,
		Description: "Employee leave request",
	}
}

func (d *LeaveRequest) Get(field string) any {
	switch field {
	case "Reason":
		return d.Reason
	case "Status":
		return d.Status
	case "Approved":
		return d.Approved
	}
	return d.BaseDocument.Get(field)
}

func (d *LeaveRequest) Set(field string, value any) orjerrors.Error {
	switch field {
	case "Reason":
		if v, ok := value.(string); ok {
			d.Reason = v
			return nil
		}
	case "Status":
		if v, ok := value.(string); ok {
			d.Status = v
			return nil
		}
	case "Approved":
		if v, ok := value.(bool); ok {
			d.Approved = v
			return nil
		}
	}
	return d.BaseDocument.Set(field, value)
}

Run it

Still inside your myapp directory, start your application's server:

orjanda serve

orjanda serve runs in the development environment by default — selected by ORJANDA_ENV (or the env config key) only when you set it explicitly:

• The development server compiles the Registry, auto-creates missing tables, and starts on http://127.0.0.1:8080 (SQLite by default).
• Orjanda does not create an administrator automatically. Before you can log in or use the agent, run orjanda createsuperuser to explicitly provision a System Administrator with full permissions on every Document. It prompts for an email, full name, and password (never printed or logged).
• When auth.jwt_secret is not configured, development orjanda serve generates an ephemeral dev secret (warns on startup) — fine for local exploration, but set a real secret in orjanda.yaml to keep sessions across restarts.
• For production, run ORJANDA_ENV=production orjanda serve: it fails fast on any Registry, migration, or stale-codegen error, never auto-creates tables, and requires a real auth.jwt_secret (see the Configuration section and TAD §16).
• Open the admin UI at http://127.0.0.1:8080 — LeaveRequest already appears in the sidebar with an auto-generated form and list.
• Open http://127.0.0.1:8080/agent to chat with the embedded agent, which can already query and create LeaveRequest records under the same permissions as the UI.

Call the REST API

Log in to get a JWT, then use the standard CRUD endpoints:

# Password you chose when you ran `orjanda createsuperuser`
TOKEN=$(curl -s -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/v1/auth/login \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"email":"admin@localhost","password":"<your-password>"}' \
  | jq -r '.data.access_token')

curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/v1/document/LeaveRequest \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

REST routes live under /api/v1/document/{doctype}; see PRD §14 for the full API surface.

CLI Reference

Command	Description
orjanda init <name>	Scaffold a new Application (go.mod, main.go, app.go, orjanda.yaml, migrations/, AGENTS.md, skills/orjanda/)
orjanda new document <name>	Generate a Document scaffold and register it in app.go
orjanda new module <name>	Generate a Module scaffold (documents/hooks/workflows/api/ui)
orjanda serve	Start the site. ORJANDA_ENV (or the env config key) selects the environment: development (default) auto-creates tables, warns-and-continues on Registry errors, and generates an ephemeral JWT secret if unset; production (ORJANDA_ENV=production) fails fast on any Registry, migration, or stale-codegen error and requires a real auth.jwt_secret
orjanda migrate diff	Generate migration SQL from schema changes
orjanda migrate up	Apply pending migrations
orjanda migrate status	Show migration status
orjanda console	Interactive REPL with the site context
orjanda install <app> / uninstall <app>	Run Application lifecycle hooks
orjanda test	Run application tests against an ephemeral SQLite database
orjanda agent chat	Terminal-based agent chat (great for testing)
orjanda registry list	List all registered Documents
orjanda registry describe <doc>	Show a Document's full compiled schema

Configuration

Configuration lives in orjanda.yaml (Viper), overridable by ORJANDA_ prefixed environment variables: the env deployment environment (development or production, via ORJANDA_ENV), server port/host/CORS, the database driver (postgres or sqlite) and DSN, the auth.jwt_secret JWT signing key (min 32 characters, via ORJANDA_AUTH_JWT_SECRET; development orjanda serve generates an ephemeral key when it is absent — production requires a real one), and LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint) plus agent safety limits. See TAD §1.3 for the authoritative schema.

Documentation

Document	Answers
Product Requirements (PRD)	Why and what — goals, decisions, rationale, worked examples
Technical Architecture (TAD)	Exact shape — interfaces, data flows, algorithms, contracts

Project Status

Orjanda is a pre-1.0 MVP, developed against the scope in PRD §44. The MVP feature set — schema system, Registry, document engine, PostgreSQL + SQLite, migrations, REST/RPC API, JWT auth, RBAC permissions, admin UI, embedded agent runtime, auto tool generation, approval gates, audit log, hooks, workflows, and the orjanda CLI — is implemented and covered by unit and integration tests.

Post-MVP scope (multi-tenancy, MySQL, OpenTelemetry, background jobs, MCP server, and more) is explicitly deferred per PRD §44.3.

Versioning

Orjanda follows Semantic Versioning (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH). Until 1.0, releases use 0.x.y where minor bumps may include breaking changes. The CHANGELOG tracks releases; the first public release will be v0.1.0.

License

Orjanda is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE.

Contributing

Orjanda is developed as a framework in its own repository. Application developers never clone it — if you want to work on the framework itself, welcome! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md first — it covers development setup, build/test commands, formatting, and the branch/PR workflow.

To build the orjanda CLI from framework source:

git clone https://github.com/orjanda-framework/orjanda.git
cd orjanda
go build -o orjanda ./cmd/orjanda

Report bugs and request features via the issue templates. This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant. For security vulnerabilities, follow the responsible-disclosure process in SECURITY.md.

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Orjanda — if a Document exists in the Registry, it is automatically operable by both a human and an embedded AI agent.