Agent Skill

The Better Fullstack agent skill teaches coding agents to use the CLI instead of hand-writing starter projects. It maps the requested stack to graph parts, runs a dry-run first, scaffolds with dependency installation disabled, and reports the exact follow-up commands.

Use this when your agent supports skills and you want the fastest path from a prompt to a generated Better Fullstack project. Use the MCP server when you want structured schema lookup and tool-call planning instead.

Install

The skill lives in this repository at .agents/skills/better-fullstack. Because the repo also contains other internal skills, install only better-fullstack.

Install for Codex:

npx skills@latest add Marve10s/Better-Fullstack --skill better-fullstack --agent codex --global --yes

Install for several common agents:

bunx skills@latest add Marve10s/Better-Fullstack \
  --skill better-fullstack \
  --agent codex claude-code cursor github-copilot gemini-cli \
  --global \
  --yes

For a project-local install, omit --global from the same command. Project installs are useful when a team wants the skill version recorded with the repository.

Use

Invoke the skill explicitly:

Use $better-fullstack to create a React + Vite app with Hono, SQLite, Drizzle, tRPC, Tailwind, DaisyUI, Pino, Vitest, and Biome.

Or ask naturally. Agents that support implicit skill matching can choose the skill when the request is about scaffolding, planning, or extending a Better Fullstack project.

What The Skill Does

1. Maps the requested stack into Better Fullstack graph parts and CLI flags.
2. Runs a non-interactive CLI dry-run.
3. Runs the same command without --dry-run when the plan succeeds.
4. Uses --no-install and --no-git unless you explicitly ask for those side effects.
5. Reports the command used, any compatibility adjustment, and next install/test/run commands.

Skill vs MCP

Both paths use the same Better Fullstack generator. The skill is the lighter route; MCP is the more structured route.