create-app

1# /create-app — From Description to Verified Application
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3## Orientation
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5**Use when:** building a new app from scratch -- full scaffold, design system, and feature set from a single description.
6**Don't use when:** adding a feature to an existing app (use /marshal or /archon); generating a single component (use /scaffold).
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8## Tier Detection
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10Use when the user wants to create an app, add a feature, or scaffold a project. Classify the input into one of five tiers:
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12### Tier 1: Blank Project
13- Trigger: "create a blank project", "new project", "scaffold"
14- Action: Run /scaffold with stack detection. No PRD, no architecture.
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16### Tier 2: Guided
17- Trigger: "I want to build...", "help me create...", description with questions
18- Action: /prd → user approves → /architect → user approves → /archon
19- Human checkpoints: after PRD, after architecture, before each major phase.
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21### Tier 3: Templated
22- Trigger: Describes a well-known app type ("a todo app", "a blog", "a dashboard with auth")
23- Action: Load template PRD if available → /architect with template defaults → /archon
24- Template detection: check `.planning/_templates/app-types/` for matching templates.
25  If no template matches, fall through to Tier 2.
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27### Tier 4: Generated (Full Autonomy)
28- Trigger: "build me [detailed description]", "create [app] and deploy it"
29- Action: /prd (minimal questions) → /architect (auto-approve if confidence high) → /archon with self-correction loop
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