Stack Builder
Create, validate and prepare standalone ThisDamnThing stacks for publication.
Before you install · 0.2.3
What it touches, and what it needs
The author declared these for this release, and review checked them against what the stack does, including what its skills ask the agent to do. They are declarations, not a sandbox.
About
A ThisDamnThing stack for creating your own stacks. It provides authoring and publishing skills plus starter templates to turn a workflow idea into a standalone bundle with skills, a manifest, a README and registry submission notes. The builder validates the result and can gather missing details in chat or ThisDamnThing UI. The publishing skill checks contract compliance, privacy, security and release metadata, then offers a GitHub release or a manual checklist and marketplace submission guidance.
Capabilities
- Reads files
Stack source files, manifests, selected assets and Git history.
Inspect project context and prepare requested work.
Leaves your machine: Context selected by the agent may be sent to the configured model provider.
- Writes files
Stack source files, manifests, selected assets and Git history.
Create and update files requested by the user.
None.
- Runs processes
Local shell, Git, validation tools and project helpers.
Run authorized validation and development commands.
None.
- Uses the network
Configured model provider, GitHub and user-selected external services.
Perform agent work and explicitly authorized publication or integrations.
Leaves your machine: Selected context goes to the configured model provider; authorized publication sends source and release metadata to GitHub. External integrations receive only the requested content.
Prerequisites
Validate and install the stack; provide workspace commands and contracts.
Required
Run local helper scripts and providers.
Required
Inspect source history and prepare authorized commits and releases.
Required
Optionally publish an authorized GitHub release.
Executable hooks
No hooks. Nothing runs on session start or turn completion.
Supported agents
Claude Code and Codex
Release source and checksums
The ThisDamnThing CLI downloads this commit from GitHub, never a branch or a moving tag, and refuses the archive unless both digests match. A tag that moves later does not change this record.
Review notes
Reviewed pinned archive and changes from the previously approved release: version and usetdt.com link updates only. Core and website manifest/tag validation and disposable installation/removal passed on Linux with Python 3.12. Claude and Codex skill bridges verified; interactive host workflows were not retested.
- 0.2.3
- v0.2.3
- 24dee97d17bbf52db6bd07115c8b89328bb0c717454d99091d2e2ebdf332fc38
- 2c4524b1b0b67b4b0845698a5ab64a664c443b3f99b8511a14d9f9839bbbb500
- v1
Versions
Every approved version, newest first. There are no automatic updates: use tdt stack update tdt-stack-builder to inspect and approve a newer one.
0.2.3Latest
tdt stack install tdt-stack-builder --version 0.2.3 --inspectCapabilities
- Reads files
Stack source files, manifests, selected assets and Git history.
Inspect project context and prepare requested work.
Leaves your machine: Context selected by the agent may be sent to the configured model provider.
- Writes files
Stack source files, manifests, selected assets and Git history.
Create and update files requested by the user.
None.
- Runs processes
Local shell, Git, validation tools and project helpers.
Run authorized validation and development commands.
None.
- Uses the network
Configured model provider, GitHub and user-selected external services.
Perform agent work and explicitly authorized publication or integrations.
Leaves your machine: Selected context goes to the configured model provider; authorized publication sends source and release metadata to GitHub. External integrations receive only the requested content.
Prerequisites
Validate and install the stack; provide workspace commands and contracts.
Required
Run local helper scripts and providers.
Required
Inspect source history and prepare authorized commits and releases.
Required
Optionally publish an authorized GitHub release.
Executable hooks
No hooks. Nothing runs on session start or turn completion.
Supported agents
Claude Code and Codex
0.2.2
tdt stack install tdt-stack-builder --version 0.2.2 --inspectCapabilities
- Reads files
Stack source files, manifests, selected assets and Git history.
Inspect project context and prepare requested work.
Leaves your machine: Context selected by the agent may be sent to the configured model provider.
- Writes files
Stack source files, manifests, selected assets and Git history.
Create and update files requested by the user.
None.
- Runs processes
Local shell, Git, validation tools and project helpers.
Run authorized validation and development commands.
None.
- Uses the network
Configured model provider, GitHub and user-selected external services.
Perform agent work and explicitly authorized publication or integrations.
Leaves your machine: Selected context goes to the configured model provider; authorized publication sends source and release metadata to GitHub. External integrations receive only the requested content.
Prerequisites
Validate and install the stack; provide workspace commands and contracts.
Required
Run local helper scripts and providers.
Required
Inspect source history and prepare authorized commits and releases.
Required
Optionally publish an authorized GitHub release.
Executable hooks
No hooks. Nothing runs on session start or turn completion.
Supported agents
Claude Code and Codex