Building a Full-Stack Rust Application with Agentic Continuous Delivery

An open-source book documenting the journey of building Scimantic — a scientific knowledge management platform — from scratch, structured around Agentic Continuous Delivery practices from MinimumCD.

Scimantic lets researchers pose Questions, gather Evidence, form Hypotheses, design Experiments, and record Results, powered by a dual-database architecture (Oxigraph knowledge graph + PostgreSQL app state). It's available as a hosted service or self-deployable.

Read the book: padamson.github.io/t2t

t2t/
├── app/          # Leptos + Axum application (grows with each chapter)
├── book/         # mdbook manuscript
├── infra/        # Terraform IaC
├── schema/       # LinkML data model
└── .github/      # CI workflows (app + book)

• Rust toolchain

cargo install mdbook mdbook-typst-pdf
cargo install --git https://github.com/padamson/mdbook-quiz --branch feature/mdbook-0.5-support
cargo install --git https://github.com/padamson/mdbook-admonish --branch feat/mdbook-0.5-compat
mdbook-admonish install --dir book
cargo install --git https://github.com/padamson/mdbook-listings --branch main --force mdbook-listings
cargo install --path book/tools/mdbook-quiz-pdf

mdbook-quiz and mdbook-admonish are installed from forks until upstream PRs for mdbook 0.5 support are merged (quiz #62, admonish #235). mdbook-listings tracks main while it's pre-1.0; it'll switch to a crates.io install once v0.1.0 is published. Re-run the cargo install --force ... mdbook-listings command to pull the latest main; the preprocessor refreshes its bundled CSS/JS on every build, so no separate reinstall step is needed.

brew install --cask font-inter font-jetbrains-mono font-charis-sil

cd book && mdbook serve --open

cd book && ./build-pdf.sh

Tags use v0.y.z where y = first draft of chapter y, z = fixes or revisions to chapter y or earlier. Each tag triggers a GitHub Release with a downloadable PDF. See CHANGELOG.md.