Thank you to everyone who joined the August CHT Community Meetup! Below is a summary of the key updates and discussions from the session.
1. Squad updates
a) CHT multi-agent system
The Multi-Agent System community team is developing an AI-assisted system to support CHT development, troubleshooting and bug fixing.
The system uses a layered architecture with supervised checkpoints across multiple phases:
- Research layer: researches and retrieves relevant CHT documentation.
- Development layer: generates code and tests to address identified issues and needs
- QA Supervisor: validates the generated code and tests.
During the Meetup, @hareet showcased how the system could identify and fix a pregnancy workflow bug. The Research Supervisor can triage a reported CHT issue, query the MCP server, and generate a fully grounded GitHub issue then the multi-agent systems is able to proceed to build a fix and test it.
The beta version is now ready, it supports different AI models and can run offline.
b) Total cost of ownership reduction work
The group has continued to explore ways to reduce CHT hosting cost and improve CHT performance.
Recent and ongoing improvements include:
- Replication logs for large users, released in CHT v5.2.
- Archiving and index optimizations, which are expected to reduce disk-space requirements and improve synchronization times for CHWs.
c) Smart task prioritization.
The enhancement to support geolocation capture in contact forms is ready and will be included in the next CHT release.
The Smart Task Prioritization – Phase 2 has also kicked off. If you are interested in contributing, please consider joining the squad weekly meeting every Wednesday at 1pm GMT.
d) CHT Resources Revamp
The squad is working on improving the CHT Demo App experience by adding an ICCM use case, making it easier for users to explore CHT capabilities through a practical ICCM implementation.
2. Improving contributor experience
The community has been working on PR process improvements to provide contributors with automated, early feedback when they submit a pull request.
The new GitHub actions will help guide contributors by automatically checking whether:
- The PR follows the required template.
- The PR is linked to an existing issue.
- The PR is assigned to the author.
These checks should make the contribution process smoother and help contributors address common issues earlier in the review process.
