- Add configuration of agents, tasks, tools, specialist in context of SPIN specialist

- correct startup of applications using gevent
- introduce startup scripts (eveai_app)
- caching manager for all configurations

common/utils/startup_eveai.py

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+import time
+
+from redis import Redis
+
+from common.extensions import cache_manager
+
+
+def perform_startup_actions(app):
+    perform_startup_invalidation(app)
+
+
+def perform_startup_invalidation(app):
+    """
+    Perform cache invalidation only once during startup using a persistent marker (also called flag or semaphore
+    - see docs).
+    Uses a combination of lock and marker to ensure invalidation happens exactly once
+    per deployment.
+    """
+    redis_client = Redis.from_url(app.config['REDIS_BASE_URI'])
+    startup_time = int(time.time())
+    marker_key = 'startup_invalidation_completed'
+    lock_key = 'startup_invalidation_lock'
+
+    try:
+        # First try to get the lock
+        lock = redis_client.lock(lock_key, timeout=30)
+        if lock.acquire(blocking=False):
+            try:
+                # Check if invalidation was already performed
+                if not redis_client.get(marker_key):
+                    # Perform invalidation
+                    cache_manager.invalidate_region('eveai_config')
+                    # Set marker with 1 hour expiry (longer than any reasonable startup sequence)
+                    redis_client.setex(marker_key, 300, str(startup_time))
+                    app.logger.info("Startup cache invalidation completed")
+                else:
+                    app.logger.info("Startup cache invalidation already performed")
+            finally:
+                lock.release()
+        else:
+            app.logger.info("Another process is handling startup invalidation")
+
+    except Exception as e:
+        app.logger.error(f"Error during startup invalidation: {e}")
+        # In case of error, we don't want to block the application startup
+        pass