I'm an interested party (building an app in Django) but have next to zero knowledge on the topic. 1. Sounds like a good idea to me, assuming it doesn't already

I'm an interested party (building an app in Django) but have next to zero knowledge on the topic. 1. Sounds like a good idea to me, assuming it doesn't already exist. 2. Do any of the existing tools have a plug-in/extension framework. Surely there's a lot of mechanical code to leverage. 3. Probably look at what the other projects use... convention will help gain support others who already have experience with similar analysis packages.