Connect every coding agent to Better Fullstack with one install command - #415
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Setting up Better Fullstack in a coding agent takes a different command per agent, repeated for each agent on the machine, plus a separate plugin flow for the skills. `npx create-better-fullstack@latest install` detects Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Cursor, Windsurf, and Zed and wires the MCP server and both skills into all of them in one run. Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini go through their own `mcp add`; the others get formatting-preserving JSON or JSONC edits with a timestamped backup beside each file. An ownership receipt makes re-runs no-ops and lets `--uninstall` remove exactly what was added. `--only`, `--agent`, `--dry-run`, `--json`, and `--yes` cover scripted use. Skills gain a CLI-only fallback so they work without the MCP connection. Docs get an `install` reference page; the MCP page and AI docs lead with the one-line install and keep per-agent commands as the manual fallback, with three of those commands corrected against the tools' current help.
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29-29: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winThis static import defeats the lazy-loading pattern for the install command.
Every other route imports its implementation dynamically inside the handler. This line imports
install-coreeagerly, andinstall-coreimportsexecaandjsonc-parserat module scope. Those modules then load for every CLI invocation, includingcreate, which increases startup cost.Move
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In `@apps/cli/src/commands/system/install-core.ts`:
- Around line 406-407: Align the bundled skill asset path between the installer
and build configuration so npm installations succeed. In
apps/cli/src/commands/system/install-core.ts lines 406-407, update the bundled
path used by the installer to the build output directory (for example,
moduleDirectory/skills) and remove reliance on the nonexistent published-package
fallback; apps/cli/tsdown.config.ts line 18 requires no direct change if the
installer is updated to match its existing dist/skills output.
- Around line 851-852: Move the pathExists call for path inside the existing try
block in jsonTarget, declaring exists there while preserving the current path
initialization and early-return logic. Ensure filesystem errors such as EACCES
or ELOOP are handled by the function’s existing failure/receipt path rather than
escaping runInstall.
In `@apps/web/content/docs/ai/mcp.mdx`:
- Around line 58-60: Update the OpenCode entry in the AGENTS configuration
within the MCP route to display ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json, matching the
documentation and global target path; do not alter the Cursor or Windsurf
entries.
In `@apps/web/content/docs/cli/index.mdx`:
- Line 37: Update the user-facing sentence containing “Most people need four of
these” to use the hyphenated form “day-to-day” instead of “day to day”.
In `@apps/web/content/docs/cli/install.mdx`:
- Around line 15-16: Update the installation command documentation sentence to
state that prompts are skipped with --yes, --json, or --dry-run, while retaining
the existing interactive-terminal and non-TTY behavior.
In `@apps/web/src/routes/mcp.tsx`:
- Line 603: Update the button’s aria-label near the AUTO_INSTALL_COMMAND copy
action to use a new localized message specifically describing copying the
installer command, rather than m.mcpCopyAgentConfiguration with the “Better
Fullstack” agent. Add the message to the existing localization definitions and
reference it through m so the announced action matches the button behavior.
In `@plugin/README.md`:
- Line 58: Update the wording around the shared plugin bundle to use the
compound modifier “repo-root-relative” before “source,” without changing the
surrounding meaning.
In `@README.md`:
- Line 99: Pin create-better-fullstack to an exact reviewed version or
equivalent integrity control in the documented CLI command at README.md:99,
plugin/README.md:26, plugin/skills/add-to-project/SKILL.md:40, and
plugin/skills/scaffold-project/SKILL.md:52; replace the `@latest` specifier
consistently at all four sites.
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In `@apps/cli/src/run.ts`:
- Line 29: Move INSTALL_AGENT_IDS and INSTALL_AGENT_INPUT_IDS into a
dependency-free constants module, then update run.ts and install-core.ts to
import those symbols from the new module instead of importing install-core from
the CLI entry path. Preserve the install command’s lazy dynamic loading so
install-core and its runtime dependencies are not loaded during unrelated CLI
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…te agent entries Review findings on the installer. The published package copies skills to dist/skills, but the resolver looked under dist/plugin/skills and only worked inside this repository through the fallback path. The ownership receipt could fail to write after targets had changed, leaving installs that --uninstall could not find; the state path is now proven writable before anything changes, and a late failure lists the backups it made. Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini entries are now checked against their real config files instead of trusting the receipt, so a hand-deleted entry is re-added instead of reported as unchanged. The docs command dry-run test now skips `install` like the other non-scaffold commands.
…ler copy A filesystem probe in the JSON target ran before its try block, so an EACCES or ELOOP on a config directory aborted the whole command without a receipt instead of reporting one failed target. The MCP page now shows the same global OpenCode path as the docs and the tabs, the installer copy button announces "Copy install command", and the install docs state that --yes, --json, and --dry-run each skip the confirmation.
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…s, unblock icon check Four installer findings from the second review round. A receipt write failure after targets changed now makes the run unsuccessful. Command-backed entries compare the managed command and args, so a user-edited entry is preserved on install and uninstall instead of being overwritten or removed. An unmodified older managed skill folder is upgraded and reported as updated, which lets a later release ship skill fixes without an uninstall, while a user-edited folder stays untouched. Owned JSON targets, including Zed, resolve the path stored in the receipt instead of recomputing it. The builder icon check has been failing on every branch since Xendit's site started returning 403 for its favicon; the icon now comes from the Xendit GitHub avatar, the same source already used for Gitleaks.
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In `@apps/cli/src/commands/system/install-core.ts`:
- Around line 1204-1211: Update the swap and rollback logic around
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…ord declines A Claude, Codex, or Gemini config that already held the exact Better Fullstack entry with no receipt was re-added and claimed, so a later uninstall removed configuration that predated the installer; matching unowned entries now stay unclaimed and conflicting ones stay user-owned. A zero-byte config file was treated as missing and overwritten; it is now validated and refused like any other malformed file. A declined interactive confirmation was recorded as a success in telemetry; it now reports cancelled. Skill-swap cleanup is best-effort and rollback keeps the original error.
| await writeState(environment, state); | ||
| } catch (error) { | ||
| const reason = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error); | ||
| const backupPaths = [ | ||
| ...new Set( | ||
| targets.flatMap((target) => (target.backupPath ? [target.backupPath] : [])), | ||
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| ]; | ||
| targets.push( | ||
| failureReceipt( | ||
| "state-write", | ||
| "Install ownership receipt", | ||
| "state", | ||
| `Could not save install ownership after changing targets. Backups created in this run: ${backupPaths.length > 0 ? backupPaths.join(", ") : "none"}. ${reason}`, | ||
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When the final ownership-state write or rename fails after an MCP entry or skill directory has been installed, this branch records the failure without rolling back the completed target changes. The next --uninstall has no ownership record for those changes, so it treats them as unmanaged and leaves them installed.
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In `@apps/cli/src/commands/system/install-core.ts`:
- Line 907: Update the configuration hashing flow around commandConfigEntryState
so an undefined result from parseTomlStringArray is treated as modified before
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| readding = entryState === "missing"; | ||
| } | ||
| if (!uninstall && ownership === undefined) { | ||
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Return modified when the TOML argument array cannot be parsed.
If parseTomlStringArray returns undefined, hashValue passes undefined to Hash.update, which throws. The call at line 907 is outside commandTarget’s try block, so installation can abort before generating the target receipt.
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configuration hashing flow around commandConfigEntryState so an undefined result
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hashValue or Hash.update. Preserve normal hashing for successfully parsed TOML
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This adds another hand-built clipboard button with its own state, timing, styling, and error handling even though the repository already provides copy-button/code-block primitives under apps/web/src/components. Future accessibility and interaction fixes to those shared controls will not reach this new button; replace it with the established primitive rather than duplicating the control.
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| machine. It installs the MCP server and the two Better Fullstack skills in one run: | ||
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On a fresh npm cache in an interactive terminal, this primary command prompts to download the package before Better Fullstack starts, so the documented promise that the command prompts once is false and an invocation ending in install --yes still receives the outer npx prompt. I checked the installed npm 11 npx documentation, which states that npx prompts before installing and that -y/--yes suppresses it; use npx -y create-better-fullstack@latest install in every advertised and copyable form.
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If a Claude, Codex, or Gemini config temporarily returns EACCES, EIO, or another read error during uninstall, this catch classifies it as missing; commandTarget then deletes the ownership receipt and reports the entry already absent without running the remove command. Once the file is readable again, the MCP entry remains but future uninstalls consider it unowned, so only ENOENT should map to missing and other read failures should retain ownership and fail the target.
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The synchronize event for 14b6794 produced no pull_request workflow runs, and a close and reopen fired only the pull_request_target workflows.
Take main's rewritten README, which already documents the install command.
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| targets.push(await skillTarget(definition, ".agents", state, environment, input)); | ||
| targets.push(await skillTarget(definition, ".claude", state, environment, input)); |
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When skills were installed for multiple agents, install --uninstall --agent cursor makes installsSkills true and unconditionally removes both the shared .agents copies and the Claude-specific copies. This contradicts the documented target restriction and disables skills for unselected Claude, Codex, or OpenCode installations whose MCP entries remain configured; filtered uninstall needs to retain skill locations still used by agents outside the filter.
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When a later release changes a JSON target's managed value, an existing entry can still exactly match the old ownership.valueHash, but this path passes it to addJsonEntry, which rejects every value differing from the new definition as a user conflict. Rerunning the latest installer therefore cannot upgrade—or even uninstall—an untouched older OpenCode, Cursor, Windsurf, or Zed entry; compare the current value with the recorded ownership hash and replace only that known managed version.
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On Linux, the manual setup card directs users to ~/.zed/settings.json, while the installer and the new CLI documentation use ~/.config/zed/settings.json there. A Linux user following this card can create a file Zed does not read and remain disconnected; make the displayed target platform-aware or show both platform-specific paths.
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Problem
Getting Better Fullstack into a coding agent takes a different command for every agent. The MCP page and the plugin README hand out
claude mcp add,codex mcp add, a Cursor deeplink, and a JSON block for OpenCode, and the skills come through a separate plugin marketplace flow. Someone with three agents on their machine repeats the setup three times, and most people who see the project never get that far.Solution
npx create-better-fullstack@latest installdetects the coding agents and editors present on the machine and connects Better Fullstack to all of them in one run: the MCP server and both skills.mcp addcommands, with the argument forms confirmed against each tool's current help.scaffold-projectandadd-to-projectskills are copied into~/.agents/skills/and~/.claude/skills/, which is enough to reach Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Cursor. Both skills gain a CLI-only fallback so they work without the MCP connection.--uninstallremoves exactly those entries and folders and nothing else, and a second run is a no-op.--only mcp|skills,--agent(repeatable),--dry-run,--json, and--yescover scripted and cautious use. The command never writes outside the home directory and never reads or prints secrets from the files it edits.The docs get a new
installreference page, the MCP page and the AI docs lead with the one-line install and keep the per-agent commands as the manual fallback, and the plugin and root READMEs point at it.The command is deliberately not exposed as an MCP tool: it configures MCP clients themselves, which is not something a running MCP server should do to the host.
A dry run on a real machine with six of the seven targets present planned the expected backups, commands, and writes, including a Zed
settings.jsonthat contains comments.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
installcommand that detects supported coding agents and editors, connects them to Better Fullstack MCP, and installs skills.Documentation
Bug Fixes
Confidence Score: 4/5
The PR is not yet safe to merge because a final ownership-receipt failure can leave completed installations that the uninstaller cannot identify.
The new preflight verifies that a temporary file can be created before installation, but target mutations still occur before the definitive receipt write, and the final write failure path records an error without rolling those mutations back or durably preserving their ownership.
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