Introduction

Stanza is a shadcn/ui-style CLI for assembling modular full-stack TypeScript monorepos. Pick a framework, UI, database, ORM, and auth — Stanza vendors idiomatic code directly into your repo, with no additional runtime dependencies to maintain afterwards.

Why Stanza

• add works after init. Run stanza add on an existing project. It reads your stanza.json manifest, resolves peer constraints, and picks the right adapter for your stack — so adding auth to a Next + Drizzle app writes different code than adding it to a TanStack Start + Prisma app.
• Your code, vendored. Generated files land in your repo verbatim. There's no @stanza/runtime package to install, and nothing to upgrade out from under you — the code is yours to edit.
• Open registry. Modules are plain static JSON. The CLI ships with a default registry, but you can point it at your own host with STANZA_REGISTRY and serve custom modules.

How it fits together

You choose modules across a small set of categories — framework, ui, db, orm, auth, tooling, testing, and more. Stanza scaffolds a clean monorepo, vendoring each module's templates, dependencies, and environment variables into the right place: app shell code into your app, data and auth layers into their own workspace packages. Later, stanza add and stanza remove layer modules in and out without you hand-editing the wiring.

Next steps

• Getting started — create your first project and add a module.
• Concepts — the mental model: categories, vendoring, peers, and the manifest.
• CLI reference — every verb, flag, and environment variable.
• Agents — drive Stanza from Claude Code, Codex, or any coding agent.

Or skip ahead and assemble a stack visually with the builder.