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CLI Reference

Commands for creating projects, updating generated apps, opening resources, and running AI-agent workflows.

Better Fullstack exposes a project lifecycle through the CLI: create, evolve, update, diagnose, and generate. Commands marked experimental have intentionally narrow support today.

Commands

Command	Purpose
`create`	Scaffold a new project from a stack configuration. This is the default command.
`add`	Add supported tooling, deployment settings, or stack capabilities to an existing Better Fullstack project.
`remove`	Plan and apply removal of one exact non-primary stack capability.
`status`	Summarize project health, lifecycle guarantees, and available template drift without running toolchains.
`update`	Plan or apply current template drift against the `bts.lock.json` scaffold baseline.
`check`	Diagnose an existing project for config, dependency, env, and generated check issues.
`doctor`	Compatibility alias for `check`.
`history`	Show, export, or clear local scaffold history and reproducible commands.
`gen`	Experimental: generate a TypeScript tRPC/oRPC resource router in an existing project.
`registry`	Experimental: add or list local capability packs. Remote URLs are not supported.
`recommend`	Experimental: deterministic keyword/preset recommendation from a brief.
`mcp`	Start the Better Fullstack MCP server over stdio for AI coding agents.
`telemetry`	Inspect, enable, or disable anonymous CLI telemetry.

Utility commands

These open a resource and never modify a generated project.

Command	Behavior
`docs`	Open the Better Fullstack docs in the default browser, or print the URL.
`builder`	Open the visual Stack Builder.
`sponsors`	Fetch and display current Better Fullstack sponsors.

Open the docs:

npx -y create-better-fullstack@latest docs

Open the builder:

npx -y create-better-fullstack@latest builder

Show sponsors:

npx -y create-better-fullstack@latest sponsors

Maintainer commands

update-deps scans and updates dependency versions in the generator's add-deps.ts catalog. It is for contributors working in the Better Fullstack repository, not for consumers updating a generated app. Generated projects use update.

Flag	Behavior
`--check`	Report updates without changing the catalog.
`--patch`	Apply patch/minor updates only.
`--all`	Interactive processing for all updates.
`--ecosystem`	Restrict the dependency group.
`--list-ecosystems`	Print available dependency groups.