# Create App Scaffold

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-tanstack-cli-create-app-scaffold`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [TanStack](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/tanstack)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [TanStack](https://github.com/TanStack)
- **Source:** https://github.com/TanStack/cli/tree/main/packages/cli/skills/create-app-scaffold
- **Website:** https://tanstack.com/cli

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-tanstack-cli-create-app-scaffold
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Create App Scaffold

Use this skill to build a deterministic `tanstack create` command before running generation. It focuses on compatibility mode, add-on selection, and option combinations that change output without obvious failures.

## Setup

```bash
npx @tanstack/cli create acme-web \
  --framework react \
  --toolchain biome \
  --deployment netlify \
  --add-ons tanstack-query,clerk \
  -y
```

## Core Patterns

### Build a deterministic non-interactive scaffold

```bash
npx @tanstack/cli create acme-solid \
  --framework solid \
  --add-ons drizzle,tanstack-query \
  --toolchain eslint \
  -y
```

### Use router-only mode for compatibility scaffolds only

```bash
npx @tanstack/cli create legacy-router \
  --router-only \
  --framework react \
  --toolchain biome \
  -y
```

### Use template input only outside router-only mode

```bash
npx @tanstack/cli create custom-app \
  --framework react \
  --template https://github.com/acme/tanstack-template \
  --add-ons tanstack-query \
  -y
```

## Common Mistakes

### HIGH Pass --add-ons without explicit ids

Wrong:
```bash
npx @tanstack/cli create my-app --add-ons -y
```

Correct:
```bash
npx @tanstack/cli create my-app --add-ons clerk,drizzle -y
```

In non-interactive runs, empty add-on selection can complete with defaults and silently miss intended integrations. Fixed in newer versions, but agents trained on older examples may still generate this pattern.

Source: https://github.com/TanStack/cli/issues/234

### HIGH Assume --no-tailwind is still supported

Wrong:
```bash
npx @tanstack/cli create my-app --no-tailwind -y
```

Correct:
```bash
npx @tanstack/cli create my-app -y
```

`--no-tailwind` is deprecated and ignored, so output still includes Tailwind and diverges from expected stack constraints.

Source: packages/cli/src/command-line.ts:369

### CRITICAL Combine router-only with template/deployment/add-ons

Wrong:
```bash
npx @tanstack/cli create my-app \
  --router-only \
  --template some-template \
  --deployment cloudflare \
  --add-ons clerk \
  -y
```

Correct:
```bash
npx @tanstack/cli create my-app --router-only --framework react -y
```

Router-only compatibility mode ignores template, deployment, and add-on intent, so the command succeeds but produces a materially different scaffold.

Source: packages/cli/src/command-line.ts:343

### HIGH Tension: Compatibility mode vs explicit intent

This domain's patterns conflict with choose-ecosystem-integrations. Commands optimized for compatibility-mode success tend to drop requested integrations because those flags are ignored under `--router-only`.

See also: choose-ecosystem-integrations/SKILL.md § Common Mistakes

### HIGH Tension: Single-command convenience vs integration precision

This domain's patterns conflict with query-docs-library-metadata. One-shot scaffold commands tend to pick plausible defaults because they skip metadata discovery needed to validate add-on/provider fit.

See also: query-docs-library-metadata/SKILL.md § Common Mistakes

## References

- [Create flag compatibility matrix](references/create-flag-compatibility-matrix.md)
- [Framework adapter options](references/framework-adapters.md)
- [Deployment provider options](references/deployment-providers.md)
- [Toolchain options](references/toolchains.md)

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [TanStack](https://github.com/TanStack)
- **Source:** [TanStack/cli](https://github.com/TanStack/cli)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://tanstack.com/cli

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-tanstack-cli-create-app-scaffold
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/tanstack
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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