better-fullstack

A guide to creating and extending Better Fullstack projects, which are starter applications containing both the user interface and server-side code. It explains when to use the Better Fullstack generator, command-line tool, or MCP server.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scaffold a full-stack starter, select a project stack, add Better Fullstack capabilities, or plan a generated project before creating it.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to hand-write the initial project structure and boilerplate. It also helps choose an available generation method and avoid inventing unsupported commands.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marve10s/better-fullstack/better-fullstack
Any agent
npx skills add Marve10s/Better-Fullstack --skill better-fullstack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Marve10s/Better-Fullstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,342 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00071 $0.01342
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00671
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00134

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7ed7f318b081, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

better-fullstack scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.agents/skills/better-fullstack/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Better Fullstack

Use the Better Fullstack generator as the source of truth for starter generation. Do not hand-write a full starter when a trusted Better Fullstack interface can produce it.

Choose The Path

Use an already-available CLI by default. The benchmarked best framing is: map the stack, dry-run the CLI, then run the same non-interactive command for real.

Use MCP only when the user explicitly asks for MCP, when CLI access is unavailable, or when the request needs structured schema lookup beyond what a concise CLI command can safely express. If using MCP, start with bfs_get_guidance, then use schema, compatibility, plan, and create/add tools in that order.

Use a trusted Better Fullstack interface in this order:

  1. A local CLI path provided by the prompt or current repository.
  2. A preinstalled Better Fullstack command available on PATH.
  3. An attached Better Fullstack MCP server or tool.
  4. A command explicitly provided or approved by the user.

If none is available, ask the user for the command, service, tool, or docs source they want used. Do not invent a bootstrap command.

Default CLI Workflow

  1. Map the user's stack into Better Fullstack graph parts and flat flags.
  2. Build one non-interactive command.
  3. Run it with --dry-run.
  4. If the dry run succeeds, run the same command without --dry-run.
  5. If the CLI rejects a combination, adjust to the closest valid Better Fullstack stack and report the adjustment.

CLI Rules

  • Create exactly the requested project directory, using a relative project name.
  • Prefer create <project-name> --part ... for explicit or multi-ecosystem stacks.
  • Pass --no-install --no-git for agent-driven scaffolding unless the user explicitly asks for side effects.
  • Pass --package-manager bun when the user or project expects Bun.
  • Pass --ai-docs agents-md for reusable projects, or --ai-docs none for benchmarks and throwaway scaffolds.
  • Use none explicitly for categories the user wants disabled.
  • Do not start a dev server.

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 124 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 7ed7f318b081

Subscribe to this mod's changes

better-fullstack is a skill published in the GitHub repository Marve10s/Better-Fullstack (726 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,342 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.