/create-app, From Description to Verified Application

Orientation

Use when: building a new app from scratch -- full scaffold, design system, and feature set from a single description. Don't use when: adding a feature to an existing app (use /marshal or /archon); generating a single component (use /scaffold).

Tier Detection

Use when the user wants to create an app, add a feature, or scaffold a project. Classify the input into one of five tiers:

Tier 1: Blank Project

• Trigger: "create a blank project", "new project", "scaffold"
• Action: Run /scaffold with stack detection. No PRD, no architecture.

Tier 2: Guided

• Trigger: "I want to build...", "help me create...", description with questions
• Action: /prd → user approves → /architect → user approves → /archon
• Human checkpoints: after PRD, after architecture, before each major phase.

Tier 3: Templated

• Trigger: Describes a well-known app type ("a todo app", "a blog", "a dashboard with auth")
• Action: Load template PRD if available → /architect with template defaults → /archon
• Template detection: check .planning/_templates/app-types/ for matching templates. If no template matches, fall through to Tier 2.

Tier 4: Generated (Full Autonomy)

• Trigger: "build me [detailed description]", "create [app] and deploy it"
• Action: /prd (minimal questions) → /architect (auto-approve if confidence high) → /archon with self-correction loop
• Human checkpoints: after PRD only. Architecture and execution are autonomous.
• Safety: all Archon self-correction mechanisms active. Direction alignment every 2 phases. Quality spot-checks every phase. Circuit breakers armed.