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+# No Django bootstrapper
+
+**Decision:** `lite-bootstrap` will not ship a Django bootstrapper. Django's size makes it the
+framework most likely to be proposed by someone who has not hit the contract below.
+
+Every bootstrapper keeps one contract: the user constructs the application, passes it in, and gets
+the same object back. Django's observability is conventionally owned by `settings.py` — `MIDDLEWARE`
+ordering, installed apps — which runs before any object a bootstrapper could be handed, so the
+contract has no natural expression there. ADR-0001 is the calibration: FastMCP was the hardest
+framework to fit and still had an application object to attach to.
+
+Rejected: **attach to a constructed `ASGIHandler` instead.** This is the shape that would fit, and
+today it means putting middleware outside `MIDDLEWARE`, diverging from every Django deployment guide
+and from what a Django user would debug against.
+
+**Revisit trigger:** a released, maintained path that attaches instrumentation to a constructed
+`ASGIHandler` (or equivalent) without going through `settings.py`.