Starter

Starter is the minimum viable agent-native app. You get the six-rules architecture, the agent sidebar, the workspace tab, polling sync, auth, and exactly one example action. Nothing else. Build from there.

Starter scaffold with the agent sidebar and a clean blank-slate UI

Pick Starter when you're not sure which domain template fits, or when you want to learn the framework by doing — there's almost nothing to delete.

What's in it

  • Agent sidebar (<AgentSidebar>) wired into app/root.tsx. Chat, CLI, workspace tabs all present.
  • Agent chat plugin pre-configured so the chat actually talks to Claude (once ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is set).
  • Auth via Better Auth — login, signup, sessions, organizations. The same flow runs locally and in production; in development email verification is skipped so signup is just an email + password.
  • Actions directory with one example (actions/hello-world.ts) and the view-screen / navigate standard actions wired up.
  • Drizzle schema with the framework's core tables (application_state, settings, oauth_tokens, sessions, resources).
  • Polling sync (useDbSync) already wired so UI auto-refreshes when the agent writes to the database.
  • AGENTS.md with the framework-wide rules the agent reads on every turn.
  • One route at / that says hi and renders the sidebar toggle. That's it.

What's not in it

  • No domain tables (no emails, no events, no forms)
  • No fancy UI — no dashboards, no lists, no charts
  • No template-specific actions beyond the stubs
  • No integrations (Slack, SendGrid, etc.)

That's the point. Ship whatever belongs to your app, not someone else's.

When to pick it

  • Building a pure-agent app — the kind where the UI is mostly "let me see what the agent did." See Pure-Agent Apps.
  • Learning the framework — this is the smallest surface to wrap your head around.
  • An internal tool with a unique domain that doesn't match any of the other templates.
  • A prototype — ship the agent now, add real UI later.

Pick a domain template (Mail, Calendar, Content, Forms, Analytics, etc.) when there's an existing product shape that fits.

Scaffolding

pnpm dlx @agent-native/core create my-app --template starter --standalone

Or, in a workspace:

pnpm dlx @agent-native/core create my-platform  # pick "Starter" (pre-selected by default) plus any others

First edits

After scaffolding:

  1. Ask the agent: "Add a data model for notes — a note has an id, title, body, owner. Render a list of notes at /notes and let the user create one."
  2. The agent adds the Drizzle schema, the create-note and list-notes actions, and the new route. You watch it happen.
  3. pnpm dev, navigate to /notes, add a note through the UI. Ask the agent "draft a note summarizing yesterday's standup." Watch it use your new action.

That's the loop.

What's next