AetherGrid, an open-source distributed AI workload orchestrator

AetherGrid is an open-source distributed AI workload orchestrator that matches workloads to compute nodes by resource requirements and constraints, manages the full job lifecycle, and enforces exclusive execution ownership through time-bound leases rather than assignment flags. Its domain logic is pure Python with no infrastructure dependencies, and every route requires API key authentication. The project documents each non-obvious engineering decision in architecture decision records covering reconciliation, lease fencing, scheduling policy, and API key scoping.