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Stop paying for Lovable, Bolt, v0 and Replit. Hosted builders sell the setup around the AI — rules, design and backend conventions, connection and go-live gates. Agentic Ship is that setup as a toolkit you own and drop into your own workspace, driven by the coding agent you already pay for. No app is bundled to delete — the kit directs and verifies the one your agent builds.

Install

Run it from the project directory you want to adopt it in:

npx github:moasq/agentic-ship

Keep the github: prefix — it ships from GitHub, not npm. That copies the toolkit into the current folder (existing files are skipped, never clobbered); then pnpm install and open the folder in your agent. That's it. Say what you want to build; it reads AGENTS.md and follows the rules there. Flags: --force overwrites, --merge folds the pnpm scripts into an existing package.json, --dry-run previews.

As a plugin. In Claude Code or Codex the same repo installs as a plugin — canonical skills and the pinned MCP catalog, one copy of every rule:

/plugin marketplace add moasq/agentic-ship /plugin install agentic-ship@agentic-ship

From source, to develop the toolkit itself:

git clone https://github.com/moasq/agentic-ship.git cd agentic-ship && pnpm install && pnpm verify

The agentic development stack

Every layer is chosen, pinned in skills.lock.json, and verified by gates. The kit's job is making an agent use them correctly together. The full reasoning behind each pick lives in docs/stack.md.

Layer Choice

Runtime Node 20+ · pnpm — the only runtime any script assumes

Framework Next.js 16 · React 19 · TypeScript

Styling Tailwind v4, CSS-first — tokens in globals.css, no config file

Components shadcn/ui structure · MagicUI motion · Aceternity primitives · 21st.dev sections · Lucide icons

State RSC props first, then URL state, then Zustand 5

Backend Convex — schema, reactive functions, crons, file storage; functions are the API

Auth Better Auth (exact-pinned) through the Convex adapter

Billing Stripe through @convex-dev/stripe — hosted checkout, webhook-backed entitlement

Email Resend through @convex-dev/resend — test-mode by default

Analytics PostHog behind a first-party /ingest proxy; the CSP stays closed

Fonts Self-hosted OFL faces, fetched by pnpm font, committed

Gates Vitest contracts · Playwright capture · deterministic Node checks — pnpm verify on every completion, pnpm verify:full before a release

UI gates pnpm ui:plan direction contract · pnpm ui:review visual evidence · pnpm check:ui component boundaries

Deploy Netlify — the whole path is the terminal, netlify.toml is authoritative

Delivery GitHub — gh CLI device-flow OAuth for repo, PRs, and CI

Tracking Linear — hosted MCP mirrors the work queue so people watch progress

AI hosts Claude Code · Codex · Cursor · Windsurf · Cline · Copilot · Gemini CLI · Hermes · OpenClaw

Tool catalog 11 pinned MCP servers in .mcp.json, mirrored per host

Writing Vendored docs handbook, humanizer pass, README doctrine, plain-language audit, ADRs — docs are gated prose

Stack marks are vendored, not hotlinked — provenance in .github/assets/stack/credits.md. Zustand and Playwright ship no mark in that set, so their rows stay text-only.

✅ Pinned — every version, registry, and MCP server locked in skills.lock.json

✅ Gated — pnpm verify is the definition of done on every completion, not a release ritual

✅ Consent-first — services connect through the vendor's own OAuth, and every connection is revocable

✅ Offline-first — a fresh copy verifies green with nothing connected

Not wired yet, and what a swap costs

Opinionated does not mean stuck. Every provider sits behind a seam you own, so the honest question is not "is it supported" but how much code a swap touches:

Want instead Wired today Swap cost

Vercel, Cloudflare Netlify small — the deploy seam is netlify.toml, one build command, one doc; product code never names the host

Plausible, Umami PostHog small — src/lib/analytics.ts is the only file that imports the SDK

Postmark, SendGrid Resend medium — convex/email.ts is the only sender, but the Convex component and its webhook go with it

Polar, Lemon Squeezy Stripe medium — checkout and portal are one seam; entitlement rides the @convex-dev/stripe component

Clerk, Auth.js Better Auth medium — session truth is one query behind requireUser, but the Convex adapter is load-bearing

Supabase, Postgres + Prisma Convex large — Convex is the spine; the auth, billing, and email components all ride it. Swapping it means rebuilding those seams

That last row is this kit's own lock-in, stated plainly. The difference from a hosted builder: all of it is MIT-licensed code in your repo, so the exit is a refactor you can run, not an export you buy.

How it compares

Hosted builders are real products, and the running app they put in a browser tab within minutes is a real advantage. The table shows what that convenience costs, and what a toolkit in your own repo does that a rented builder cannot.

Compared against the shipping versions as of August 2026: Lovable with Lovable Cloud and Build mode, Bolt V2 with Bolt Cloud, the rebuilt v0 platform (February 2026), Base44 under Wix, and Replit Agent 3. Where they improved, the table says so. Marks come from each vendor's public docs and product pages; if a cell is wrong or stale, open an issue — the table only works if it stays true.

✅ yes · ⚠️ partial · ❌ no

Agentic Ship Lovable Bolt.new v0 Base44 Replit

Open source ✅ MIT ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌

Cost ✅ $0 forever — MIT, drives the agent subscription you already have ⚠️ free daily credits, then paid credit plans ⚠️ free monthly tokens, then paid token plans ⚠️ free monthly credits, then paid plans ⚠️ free messages, then paid plans; export needs one ⚠️ free starter credits, then paid credit plans

Bring your own coding agent ✅ any of nine hosts, swap anytime ❌ built-in agent ⚠️ pick the model (Claude, GPT, Gemini); the agent is theirs ❌ built-in agent and model ❌ built-in agent ❌ built-in agent

Code lives in your git repo ✅ from the first commit, no platform copy ✅ two-way GitHub sync ⚠️ one-way export to GitHub ✅ native GitHub: branches, PRs, existing repos ❌ one-way push, on a paid tier ⚠️ export to GitHub

Take everything with you when you leave ✅ nothing to leave; the repo is the product ⚠️ code exports; Lovable Cloud Postgres and auth migrate by hand ⚠️ code exports; Bolt Cloud DB, auth, and hosting are rebuilt elsewhere ⚠️ standard Next.js exports clean; previews and deploys assume Vercel ❌ front end exports on a paid tier; the backend stays behind their SDK ⚠️ code exports; DB, auth, and hosting are Replit services you rebuild

Self-host anywhere ✅ any Node host ⚠️ after export ⚠️ after export ⚠️ after export ❌ their runtime only ⚠️ after export

Backend built from parts you can hire for ✅ Convex · Better Auth · Stripe, named and pinned in your repo ⚠️ Supabase, run by them ⚠️ Postgres via Bolt Cloud, run by them ⚠️ your own integrations ❌ proprietary ⚠️ Postgres and auth, run by them

Definition of done you own ✅ pnpm verify in your repo and CI: contracts, tests, visual evidence ❌ checks run in their pipeline ❌ checks run in their pipeline ❌ checks run in their pipeline ❌ checks run in their pipeline ⚠️ Agent 3 self-tests in a real browser — thorough, but in their pipeline

Security gates before going live ✅ dependency audit, closed CSP, production preflight ✅ auto scan on publish, deep scan on demand ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌

Enforced design direction per product ✅ written plan, tokens, review gates ⚠️ polished house style, no per-product contract ❌ ⚠️ strong defaults, one recognizable look ❌ ❌

Secrets stay between you and the vendor ✅ vendor OAuth, hidden terminal input ⚠️ encrypted, held on their platform ⚠️ encrypted, held on their platform ⚠️ encrypted, held on their platform ⚠️ encrypted, held on their platform ⚠️ encrypted, held on their platform

Zero install, runs in a browser ❌ needs a terminal ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅

Shareable hosted preview in minutes ❌ you deploy it ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅

Built for non-developers ❌ assumes a coding agent ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅

Native mobile output ❌ web only ❌ web only ✅ Expo ❌ web only ✅ iOS builds ⚠️ Expo via templates

Two fairness notes on cost. The free tiers are real, and fine for a weekend test — but building a product burns through them, and that is where the paid plans begin. And hosted credits include the model usage, so a builder is only a second subscription when an agent subscription already exists — which is exactly who this kit is for. The last four rows are a real recommendation: if you will never open a terminal, or you want a phone app from a single prompt, a hosted builder is the better buy. This kit is for the other case — a coding agent is already open, and the product has to outlive the demo with owned code, a portable backend, and a definition of done you can run yourself.

Works with any agent

Claude Code, Codex (plugins + native adapters), Cursor (generated agents, MCP mirror, hooks), Hermes (installable profile), and OpenClaw (repo as agent workspace). Windsurf, Cline, Copilot and Gemini CLI read AGENTS.md and the plain-markdown skills directly. One authored rule set, generated adapters per host.

Host marks above are vendored, not hotlinked — provenance in .github/assets/hosts/credits.md.

Documentation

The wiki lives in docs/ — one article per question:

What is the Agentic Ship stack? — every layer and why it was picked

How do I go from empty folder to shipped product?

How is the toolkit put together? — one rule, one home

How do service connections work? — consent, receipts, revocation

How do I see what the agents are doing? — the work queue, Linear, GitHub

How are these docs written? — the writing skills behind the prose

Reference material:

AGENTS.md — every rule and every pnpm command, in one file

.agents/skills/ — procedures: product lifecycle, connections, UI, backend, security, testing, launch

.agents/agents/ — five specialist role briefs, plus the vendor-generated Playwright trio

Visual direction — the planning procedure in .agents/skills/visual-direction/SKILL.md, its anti-slop rubric, reference sources and real-site gallery, with .agents/ui/plan.example.json as the worked plan

Visual review — the acceptance policy in .agents/skills/visual-qa/references/review-policy.md

License

MIT — built by @moasq.

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