Journey
Use when the user says "build an app", "let's start", "help me build", "I have an idea...
Install
npx skills add butterbase-ai/butterbase-skills --skill journey -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- butterbase-ai/butterbase-skills535
- Category
- DevOps
- Updated
- 4d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 1,676 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Use when the user says "build an app", "let's start", "help me build", "I have an idea for", "ship it", or otherwise signals they want to go from idea to deployed Butterbase app. Orchestrates the full guided journey (idea → plan → preflight → build → deploy → optional hackathon submit) by reading docs/butterbase/00-state.md and dispatching to the next stage skill.
Butterbase Guided Journey
End-to-end orchestrator. Walks the user from idea to deployed Butterbase app, and (in hackathon mode) on through submission. Each stage writes a markdown artifact under docs/butterbase/ in the user's project. The orchestrator reads docs/butterbase/00-state.md to know the cursor and dispatches the matching journey-* stage skill.
When to use
Invoke automatically when the user signals end-to-end intent: "I want to build…", "let's build an app", "ship this", "help me build a hackathon project". Invoke explicitly when the user runs /butterbase-skills:journey.
If the user wants to do a single stage only (e.g., just design a schema), defer to the matching standalone skill (schema-design) or per-stage command (/butterbase-skills:journey-schema) instead of starting the full journey.
Toolchain
The journey assumes two npm packages alongside the MCP tools:
| Package | Role | When to install |
|---|---|---|
@butterbase/sdk | TypeScript client for the deployed app, auth.signIn, db.from(...).select(), storage.upload, realtime subscriptions, function invocation. Works both in the browser (frontend) and in Node (functions, scripts, server-side). | Install in any frontend or any Node service that talks to the deployed app. Auto-added by frontend scaffolds. |
@butterbase/cli | Local-dev CLI, project scaffolding, log tailing, function invocation from the shell, API-key generation, schema diff preview without the dashboard. | Install globally (npm i -g @butterbase/cli) once per dev machine. Used during journey-preflight. |
The journey will prompt for both in plan (which SDK surfaces does the app need?) and preflight (is the CLI installed?). The MCP tools and these packages are complementary: MCP is for agentic / orchestration flows; SDK + CLI are for ordinary application code and the human dev loop.
