/server-skills

name: server-skills
description: Server-specific best practices for FastAPI, Celery, and Pydantic. Extends python-skills with framework-specific patterns.
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Server Skills for LlamaFarm

Framework-specific patterns and code review checklists for the LlamaFarm Server component.

Overview

| Property | Value | |----------|-------| | Path | `server/` | | Python | 3.12+ | | Framework | FastAPI 0.116+ | | Task Queue | Celery 5.5+ | | Validation | Pydantic 2.x, pydantic-settings | | Logging | structlog with FastAPIStructLogger |

Links to Shared Skills

This skill extends the shared Python skills. See:

• [Python Patterns](../python-skills/patterns.md) - Dataclasses, comprehensions, imports
• [Async Patterns](../python-skills/async.md) - async/await, asyncio, concurrency
• [Typing Patterns](../python-skills/typing.md) - Type hints, generics, Pydantic
• [Testing Patterns](../python-skills/testing.md) - Pytest, fixtures, mocking
• [Error Handling](../python-skills/error-handling.md) - Exceptions, logging, context managers
• [Security Patterns](../python-skills/security.md) - Path traversal, injection, secrets

Server-Specific Checklists

| Topic | File | Key Points | |-------|------|------------| | FastAPI | [fastapi.md](fastapi.md) | Routes, dependencies, middleware, exception handlers | | Celery | [celery.md](celery.md) | Task patterns, error handling, retries, signatures | | Pydantic | [pydantic.md](pydantic.md) | Pydantic v2 models, validation, serialization | | Performance | [performance.md](performance.md) | Async patterns, caching, connection pooling |

Architecture Overview

server/
├── main.py                 # Uvicorn entry point, MCP mount
├── api/
│   ├── main.py             # FastAPI app factory, middleware setup
│   ├── errors.py           # Custom exceptions + exception handlers
│   ├── middleware/         # ASGI middleware (structlog, errors)
│   └── routers/            # API route modules
│       ├── projects/       # Project CRUD endpoints
│       ├── datasets/       # Dataset management
│       ├── rag/            # RAG query endpoints
│       └── ...
├── core/
│   ├── settings.py         # pydantic-settings configuration
│   ├── logging.py          # structlog setup, FastAPIStructLogger
│   └── celery/             # Celery app configuration
│       ├── celery.py       # Celery app instance
│       └── rag_client.py   # RAG task signatures and helpers
├── services/               # Business logic layer
│   ├── project_service.py  # Project CRUD operations
│   ├── dataset_service.py  # Dataset management
│   └── ...
├── agents/                 # AI agent implementations
└── tests/                  # Pytest test suite

Quick Reference

Settings Pattern (pydantic-settings)

from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings

class Settings(BaseSettings, env_file=".env"):
    HOST: str = "0.0.0.0"
    PORT: int = 14345
    LOG_LEVEL: str = "INFO"

settings = Settings()  # Module-level singleton

Structured Logging

from core.logging import FastAPIStructLogger

logger = FastAPIStructLogger(__name__)
logger.info("Operation completed", extra={"count": 10, "duration_ms": 150})
logger.bind(namespace=namespace, project=project_id)  # Add context

Custom Exceptions

# Define exception hierarchy
class NotFoundError(Exception): ...
class ProjectNotFoundError(NotFoundError):
    def __init__(self, namespace: str, project_id: str):
        self.namespace = namespace
        self.project_id = project_id
        super().__init__(f"Project {namespace}/{project_id} not found")

# Register handler in api/errors.py
async def _handle_project_not_found(request: Request, exc: Exception) -> Response:
    payload = ErrorResponse(error="ProjectNotFound", message=str(exc))
    return JSONResponse(status_code=404, content=payload.model_dump())

def register_exception_handlers(app: FastAPI) -> None:
    app.add_exception_handler(ProjectNotFoundError, _handle_project_not_found)

Service Layer Pattern

class ProjectService:
    @classmethod
    def get_project(cls, namespace: str, project_id: str) -> Project:
        project_dir = cls.get_project_dir(namespace, project_id)
        if not os.path.isdir(project_dir):
            raise ProjectNotFoundError(namespace, project_id)
        # ... load and validate

Review Checklist Summary

1. **FastAPI Routes** (High priority)

• Proper async/sync function choice
• Response model defined with `response_model=`
• OpenAPI metadata (operation_id, tags, summary)
• HTTPException with proper status codes

2. **Celery Tasks** (High priority)

• Use signatures for cross-service calls
• Implement proper timeout and polling
• Handle task failures gracefully
• Store group metadata for parallel tasks

3. **Pydantic Models** (Medium priority)

• Use Pydantic v2 patterns (model_config, Field)
• Proper validation with field constraints
• Serialization with model_dump()

4. **Performance** (Medium priority)

• Avoid blocking calls in async functions
• Use proper connection pooling for external services
• Implement caching where appropriate

See individual topic files for detailed checklists with grep patterns.